From the fake emperor to the concubine

This is because in the Cang Yan Realm, the Zhao family has ruled this world for too long. In their perception, the Zhao family's rule will continue to exist.

In the entire Cang Yan Realm, no one and no force can threaten their Zhao family.

If it were placed in the Dayu Immortal Dynasty.

As early as the Wanxian Sect began to preach, Zheng Yi must have received the news and responded quickly, completely destroying the Wanxian Sect in its infancy.

However, Zheng Yi's methods are definitely not as fierce as those of the Zhao family.

Regardless of whether they are followers of the Wanxian Sect or not, anyone present at the scene will be killed without distinction as to whether they are right or wrong.

Zhou Ming gritted his teeth and said, "How dare the damned imperial court murder the followers of the Wanxian Sect at will? If I, Zhou Ming, don't avenge this, then the gods will send down heavenly fire to burn me to ashes without a complete corpse."

……

Zheng Yi felt a little awkward for some reason. Was Zhou Ming getting too immersed in the role?

And the god you believe in is me.

Swear in front of me, even if you really don't keep your word, can I really burn you to death?
Although the Wanxian Sect is now very large, Zheng Yi is very clear about one thing: compared with the Zhao family, they are not even as big as a firefly.

Although the Wanxian Sect is expanding rapidly, the actual number of followers is not as large as imagined.

After all, due to various restrictions, only the followers of the Wanxian Sect in the Eastern State can receive food subsidies on a regular basis.

Although the other three states also have food, they can only raise food locally, so they can only give some subsidies occasionally.

In this situation, many people's faith is not that devout.

After all, for ordinary people, what is more important is to fill their stomachs rather than any belief.

Then there are not that many followers of the Wanxian Sect.

For example, the incident in Xishun City this time.

Just one surprise attack almost destroyed the foundation of the Wanxian Sect in Xishun City, and more than half of its believers were lost.

It is not impossible to gain some advantage by confronting the Zhao family head-on.

But for their Wanxian Sect, this has no benefit at all except making the Zhao family more clearly aware of the scale and harm of their Wanxian Sect.

"I understand how you feel, but now is not the time for revenge."

"Although we have been vigilant before, it seems that the Zhao family has realized the seriousness of the matter."

"From today on, all missionary activities will be changed to secret operations carried out by small groups according to our previous plan, so as to avoid official tracking as much as possible."

Seeing Zhou Ming's depressed look, Zheng Yi comforted him, "Doing this does not mean that the development of our Wanxian Sect will stop. On the contrary, the current situation is actually more conducive to our development."

"People are very curious. If you put some things out in the open, they may not even be interested in taking a look at them."

"But if you hide this thing very carefully, as if it were the most precious treasure in the world, and others are not allowed to even take a look at it, they will instead become endlessly curious."

"Now you can spread the word that the reason why our Wanxian Sect was suppressed is because we want to create a world where everyone can have enough food and clothing."

"As for the Zhao family, they occupy the best places and enjoy the best resources we provide them, but they only know how to suck blood from us like termites."

"The reason they are targeting the Wanxian Sect is because they are afraid that our presence will prevent them from continuing to be blood-sucking insects on the common people."

"That's the general idea. As for how to spread it effectively, I'll leave it to you."

In this regard, Zhou Ming's talent is truly rare in the world.

He can process and polish these words in many ways. Even though what he said is not so straightforward, he can make people think in this direction unconsciously.

As a time traveler, Zheng Yi naturally knew that this was exactly taking advantage of a person's tendency to firmly believe in his own speculations.

Those who commit fraud basically use this trick.

Zhou Kunshan said puzzledly: "My Lord, I think now is a good time for us to start an uprising. After training for so long, the morale and strength of our people in the mine have improved significantly."

"I dare not say anything about other subordinates, but I believe we will not lose in a head-on battle with the prince of Dongfangzhou."

Zheng Yi looked at Zhou Kunshan and asked, "And then?"

Zhou Kunshan suddenly said with a lack of confidence: "What...what then?"

"Like you said, if we fight against the army or monks from the Eastern State now, we won't lose. After all, they don't know how powerful we are now."

"But after the battle, what are we going to do?"

"Right now, we only have about 300 people who can actually fight. In terms of quality, we should be able to surpass the ordinary army of the Eastern State."

"Even if those ordinary masters come, I am now able to fight."

"But fighting is not something that can be done overnight. Once this battle begins, there will be no chance of stopping. Either they die or we die. Only in this way can we stop."

"Even if we can win once or twice, it won't hurt the entire Eastern State."

"They can mobilize an endless supply of troops and monks. By that time, we will simply be swallowed up by endless enemies."

Zhou Kunshan’s face turned paler and paler.

In the past few months, his own cultivation has increased rapidly, and the cultivation of those miners has also improved by leaps and bounds.

The rapid expansion of his strength gave him an illusion.

Zhao family.

That's all.

As a result, just as his ambition began to expand, Zheng Yi poured a bucket of water on him, completely chilling him down.

"But my lord..." Zhou Kunshan said unconvincedly, "Are we just going to wait here forever?"

"Sooner or later, the Zhao family will find us."

"Especially the most recent time, I felt that the way the special commissioner looked at us was very strange. Their people have gone deep into the mine for inspection several times."

"Thanks to our preparations in advance and our communication, we didn't find any problems."

“But I don’t think this situation will last long.”

Zheng Yi nodded slightly: "Yes, you are very observant. I guess their patience should be almost exhausted."

"The death of the Zhao family is no less devastating to those of us in charge of the investigation than the sky falling."

"The Zhao family is pressing us to do this. They also want to catch the murderer as soon as possible."

"At this time, our mine happened to undergo a special change, which made us a sitting duck for blame."

Zhou Kunshan also knew that this matter was a bit tricky, but after listening to Zheng Yi's analysis, he realized that it was so troublesome.

"My lord, because of this, shouldn't we be prepared in advance?"

Zheng Yi shook his head again: "The more you prepare in advance, the easier it is for others to notice something is wrong in advance."

"Our best option now is to wait for the right time."

Zhou Kunshan was extremely puzzled: "My Lord, what are we waiting for?" Zheng Yi looked up at the sky: "Waiting for someone."

Southern states.

It is also a volcanic rock mine.

In this Cang Yan Realm, volcanic rock mines seem to be everywhere. No matter how you mine, you can always dig out more ore.

However, the scale of this volcanic mine is hundreds of times smaller than the volcanic mine where Zheng Yi and his team are located.

From time to time, in several small mines, dusty miners would carry out a few pieces of igneous rock.

Not far from the cave entrance, a man who looked like an official sat under a parasol, watching the miners work impatiently.

"Why are these damn peasants so slow?"

"The masters above only gave the mining task to our county because I am the county magistrate of Zhenyang County."

"If this mine is run well, it will benefit our county. Don't they know that?"

The lawyer with a mustache next to him respectfully made tea for the county magistrate: "What the county magistrate said is right. It is because of you, the great magistrate, who came to Zhenyang County that the igneous rock mine was discovered here."

"This igneous rock mine won't run away. None of the county magistrates before discovered it, but you came and discovered it."

It was obvious that the county magistrate was very pleased with the flattery. He raised his chin proudly and said, "Of course. I have been well-read since I was young. Look at the mountains here..."

Before the county magistrate could finish showing off, the crisp sound of a whip was heard.

Snapped!
The two looked in the direction of the sound.

It turned out to be a guard, who was angrily beating a miner who was about forty years old.

"The master has told me so many times that this is an urgent matter and you peasants should hurry up and don't delay the master's work."

"But you useless people not only don't obey, but you even dare to be lazy. I will beat you to death today!"

Some miners nearby looked distressed when they saw this.

Even so, they didn't dare to stop.

After all, there were no less than fifty soldiers around, watching them work.

If anyone was found to be a little slow, he would be whipped.

At this time, a man who had just walked out of the mine carrying volcanic ore dropped his bamboo basket and ran over to kneel down and begged, "Sir, please have mercy on me. Please have mercy on me. My brother is not lazy. He just caught a cold by accident yesterday."

"Don't worry, we promise not to delay the work. I will do more for him."

The soldier didn't listen to the explanation at all: "Who the hell are you? How dare you teach me how to do things?"

The soldier lashed the man who was begging for mercy with his whip again.

The man did not dare to resist and could only help his brother and use his back to block the other party's whip.

How can a flesh and blood body withstand the power of weapons?

In a short while, the man's back was covered with blood and his clothes were torn.

Just as the two men were breathing out more than breathing in and were about to die on the spot, a dark shadow suddenly rushed out of the woods.

With his wrist raised, a silver light flew over and instantly penetrated the soldier's wrist holding the whip.

The soldier screamed in pain and the whip fell to the ground.

"Enemy attack!"

Some soldiers with quick reactions had already reacted and called the police, then rushed towards the location of the black shadow with their rifles in hand.

But the dark shadow did not tangle with them. Instead, it rushed to the soldier with the injured wrist, grabbed his arm and pulled out the dagger.

This time, the soldier screamed like a pig being slaughtered.

The shadowy figure grabbed the soldier's arm and threw him towards the soldiers chasing him from behind.

With a tiptoe tap, he rushed in front of the county magistrate in the blink of an eye.

It seems a long time to say, but in the eyes of the county magistrate, all this was discovered in the blink of an eye.

An assassin rushed out of the forest, pierced the soldier's arm with a flying knife, rushed to the soldier, drew the knife, and ran straight towards him.

"save……"

He had barely uttered a word when the assassin's dagger was already at his neck.

Feeling the cold and sharp blade, the county magistrate almost peed his pants.

He tried hard to suppress his fear and said in a dignified manner, "What do you want to do? Don't you know that I am an official appointed by the court? To dare to attack an official appointed by the court is equivalent to rebellion, which is a serious crime punishable by the execution of nine generations of the clan."

"I'm really sorry." The assassin's voice was very gentle, not at all like the kind of vicious person who would hurt others: "Of my nine clans, I am the only one left."

The county magistrate was devastated. Is this even possible?

While they were talking, the soldiers had already surrounded them.

The master used all his limbs and crawled away for a long distance before looking back.

He heaved a sigh of relief when he found that the soldiers had surrounded the assassin sent by the county magistrate, with the tips of their spears pointed at the assassin.

He stood up and slowly dusted himself off, as if he was not the one fleeing in such a panic.

"You daring traitor, why don't you release the county lord? Otherwise, I will give the order to have your head and body cut off."

The assassin exerted a little force on his hand, and the blade pressed against the skin of the county magistrate's neck, frightening him so much that his face turned green, and he hurriedly shouted, "Stop, no one is allowed to move without my order."

After saying this, he glared at his master fiercely.

There had been rumors before that this master wanted to take over his position, but he had never really believed it.

But now it seems that this is really possible.

Otherwise, this guy wouldn't have angered the assassin so much. He was simply trying to use the assassin to kill him.

The county magistrate's fierce look made the lawyer want to cry but could not.

God bless him, he really didn't have such an idea. Even if he had had such an idea before, when he knew that this county magistrate had a relationship with a big shot in Zhongzhou, he completely gave up the idea.

I only hope to serve for three years and then get rid of this county magistrate with a strong background.

If I'm lucky, maybe I can let him fill this gap.

Now that I have offended the county magistrate, let alone being able to get a job, I'm afraid I'll be kicked out after today.

The master, who had lost his goal and whose entire soul seemed to have been sucked away, was soon forgotten.

Among the soldiers, a captain in full armor looked at the assassin coldly.

"If you dare to hurt the county lord, I guarantee that you will not be able to leave alive today." (End of this chapter)