Emperor Phoenix Policy: Feng Qingtian

Chapter 317 Trap
On the night of February [-]th, Zhong Yi, the third-rank Anyuan General, was assassinated and seriously injured.

On the night of February [-]th, Luo Tao, the fourth-rank guard general, was assassinated, seriously injured, and unconscious.

On the night of February [-]th, Wang Kun, the fourth-rank Guangwu general, was assassinated and was seriously injured, dying.

On the night of February [-]th, Deng Zitong, the fourth-rank Guangwei general, was assassinated, seriously injured, and his life was hanging by a thread.

The prime minister's mansion was covered with dark clouds, Li Yi's dark face was gloomy, and he shouted angrily, "It must be the queen's good deed!"

Master He murmured shyly, "Maybe it's just a coincidence?"

"Coincidence? Is there such a coincidence? As soon as Master Xiang made a move, all the generals under my men who could fight were assassinated one by one? All of them were seriously injured? Needless to say, it must be the Queen's hidden guards! It is for the emperor to get rid of people who get in the way!"

Li Yi was in a fit of anger, four of them were all famous generals under his command, if one or two was a coincidence, but there were four of them, one happens to be one every night, what a coincidence!

The brothers under him had accidents one by one, and Li Yi's eyes were red with anxiety.

Pei Xiu pursed her thin lips tightly, her expression was cold, her eyes were deep, cold and heavy, the atmosphere in the study was cold and stiff, Li Yi kept losing his temper, Master He kept persuading him to calm down.

A sharp and sinister light flashed in Pei Xiu's eyes, "There's no need to argue, she did it."

"I knew it was her! This woman is too ruthless! Even if these people belong to Lao Tzu, they are also generals of the Great Zhou. All of them are fierce generals who can lead troops to fight. She can kill as she pleases?"

"She didn't kill, she made us retreat!"

Pei Xiu said coldly, and Li Yi was furious, "When did Xiangye become so affectionate? Even if Xiangye likes her, he can't speak for her like this! She obviously..."

Li Yi's voice stopped abruptly, Mr. He's eyes blurred, and he saw Li Yi kicked out of the door by Xiang Pei, and with a 'bang', he hit the yard heavily, dust everywhere.

Pei Xiu didn't ask him to go back to the study, and didn't pay attention to him, she just sat back in the chair gracefully, thinking about something on her mind.

Li Yi came back disheveled, and stood quietly in front of Pei Xiu, not daring to say a word, Pei Xiu raised his eyelids, and glanced at him coldly, "Calm down?"

Li Yi gave a low 'hmm', and Pei Xiu said again, "Have you thought it through?"

Li Yi looked at Pei Xiu in confusion, "What did Xiangye say?"

"The queen's intentions."

Li Yi glanced at Pei Xiu cautiously, not daring to speak, for fear that Pei Xiu would kick him out again in a fit of anger.

He was born in the army, and his body is very good. It's not because he's afraid of being kicked, but because he's afraid that the Prime Minister will get angry and kick him out of the Pei Party.

Although he is the Minister of the Ministry of War, and although the Ministry of War is his Ministry of War, many of the generals in the Ministry of War are loyal to him because of Pei Xiangcai. Those people belong to the Pei Party first, and then they are his generals.

Without Mr. Xiang gathering the entire Pei Party faction, he would not be able to make trouble at all, and he would not be able to get everything he dreamed of.

Not only that, if Xiang Ye kicked him out of the Pei Party, he would lose the protection of the Pei Party, and the Empress might be the first to take him out, and by then the Li clan might no longer exist in this world.

"Say!"

Pei Xiu's tone was a bit cold, Li Yi frowned, and said in a low voice, "Your official doesn't understand what the queen has in mind."

"is it?"

Pei Xiu hooked her lips, and a sneer appeared on her lips, which made Li Yi's scalp numb from the laughter. As for Mr. He, he tried his best to suppress his sense of existence, for fear that the fire at the city gate would affect the fish in the pond.

"The lower officials just think that the empress just wants to get rid of the generals who can lead troops to fight in the hands of the lower officials. She wants to kill all our generals one by one, so that there will be no one to lead the army."

"She won't."

Li Yi was puzzled by Pei Xiu's determined tone, "Is Xiangye so sure?"

"If she wanted to kill her, she would have killed them early. Otherwise, why would four people be seriously injured in a row? In terms of the secret guard's ability to kill and exterminate a family, it is understandable to miss once, but would miss four times in a row? She did it on purpose, and she was warning us."

Li Yi is not stupid, he turned the corner after thinking about it, "Master Xiang, what should we do now?"

"After all, she is still reluctant to part with these generals, that's why she spared their lives. She wants us to retreat in spite of difficulties, otherwise..."

"Otherwise, the next general who has an accident will not be seriously injured, but killed?"

Pei Xiu responded in a low voice, Li Yi's face was ashen as hell, and he gritted his teeth and said, "This woman is too vicious! I don't believe she can really kill all my people!"

"You don't need to kill them all. Killing two or three is enough to shake the morale of the army."

Pei Xiu said coldly, with a gloomy expression, and her long black eyebrows were tightly frowned, "Now that four of them have been seriously injured, someone in Pei's party has already been shaken."

"They're all cowards!"

Li Yi said angrily, Pei Xiu snorted coldly, said nothing, and lightly clasped the armrest with his fingers, wondering what he was thinking.

"Then Xiangye, what are we going to do now?"

Master He finally stopped shrinking, and asked cautiously, Pei Xiu didn't speak, and didn't respond, but Li Yi snorted heavily from his nose, "What else can I do? Go all the way to the end! Carry on!" "

"But, but..."

Mr. He hesitated for a long time, but did not say why, Li Yi was irritable and shouted impatiently, "Speak if you have something to say, and fart if you have something to say!"

Master He looked at Pei Xiu, and Pei Xiu took a deep look at him, "Say!"

"However, judging from the general involved in the accident, His Majesty seems to have made arrangements long ago, so that he can strike so quickly, fast, ruthless, accurate and vicious."

Pei Xiu's face was gloomy, and he said after a while, "From the accident of Zhong Yi, the third-rank Anyuan general who had an accident first, the truth was guessed a little bit, and the truth was confirmed after the accidents of Pei Dang's generals one after another. .”

"Guess what?"

Li Yi asked anxiously, but Pei Xiu didn't speak, and his expression was frighteningly gloomy.

"Tell me, Mr. Xiang, what's going on?"

Pei Xiu was sitting in the chair, her shoulders were still straight, but her momentum was visibly slumped, and after repeated questioning by Li Yi, Pei Xiu said quietly, "This is a trap, a huge trap, a trap aimed at the truth! "

Li Yi's eyes widened, and he subconsciously looked at Mr. He, but he saw that Mr. He's old face was also a little depressed, a kind of decadence that was over.

Li Yi was horrified in his heart, and there was a bit of a look on his face. He looked at Pei Xiu in shock for a moment, and forced a smile, "You don't have to be disheartened, Mr. Xiang, it's just a temporary defeat. Although the dark guards come and go No trace, but as long as the subordinate officials gather and protect the remaining generals, the hidden guards will not be able to do anything."

"Protect?"

Pei Xiu sneered, with a sarcastic expression, "Who will fight?"

Li Yi was speechless, tongue-tied, "But, you can't just watch His Majesty kill them all."

"Your Majesty doesn't need to kill them all. There are already people in the Pei Party who are wavering. Your Majesty only needs to kill two or three, and there will be more wavering people."

"Going forward is death, retreating is also death, it is better to fight!"

Pei Xiu smiled coolly, and said quietly, "I'm afraid, I don't even have a chance to win."

Li Yi frowned and stared at Pei Xiu, "Mr. Xiang, why does he build up other people's ambitions and destroy his own prestige?"

"Li Yi, the truth has said that this is a huge trap. From the very beginning, we fell into the trap. Your Majesty already knew everything we did and had countermeasures. She is waiting for us Let's do it."

"That's impossible! She's sick..."

"It's just acting."

The smile on Pei Xiu's lips became colder, and his eyes were dark and irrelevant, "Your Majesty has really worked hard to deal with the truth. A scene has been on for half a year. When did it start? From..."

Pei Xiu's voice stopped abruptly, and he suddenly thought of something, something related to him.

"What's the matter, Mr. Xiang?"

Pei Xiu made a gesture to signal Li Yi to shut up, and he began to recall all the things that happened before.

His Majesty's illness started from the time he asked Zi'er to deliver the altar of medicated peach blossom wine, and it kept coming and going, getting worse and worse, until finally he became seriously ill, and he went to the warm south of the Yangtze River to recuperate on the advice of Imperial Physician Zhang.

If this was a trap aimed at him, then His Majesty already knew that there was something wrong with Peach Blossom Brew.

She is very angry!That's why she set up such a trap to lure him out. If he couldn't bear the temptation and rebelled, everything she had arranged was waiting for him to wipe out Pei Dang.

If he has been well-behaved, then this is the last chance the queen gave him, and he will continue to sit comfortably as the Prime Minister of his country.

Pei Xiang slumped down in the chair, as if all the energy and spirit in his body had been sucked out all at once.

He is going to die, the Pei family is going to die!

That painting and that letter probably aroused the queen's greatest anger, so she used such a fierce method of assassinating the generals to make them retreat. With the queen's nature, if she hadn't completely angered her, she would Not so, if the assassination of a general is caught as evidence, it will be a big stain on her career as an emperor, and she will always be attacked by historians and Yushitai.

She does everything well, if she is not extremely angry, she will not use such a method of killing one thousand enemies and harming herself eight hundred.

Seeing Pei Xiu's ashen face, Li Yi felt uneasy, "Master Xiang, did something happen?"

Pei Xiu remained silent, her fingers firmly gripping the armrest of the chair, so hard that the veins on the back of her hand bulged.

"Master Xiang."

Li Yi yelled several times in a row before Pei Xiu seemed to come to his senses, and glanced at him with dark eyes, "You guys step back first, I'm tired of the truth."

Master He lifted his feet and walked out after hearing this, Li Yi was reluctant to leave, Pei Xiu stared at him coldly, "Do you have anything else to do?"

"Master Xiang, what should we do about raising troops? Now this is really a trap set by the empress. If you raise troops, you will die, and if you don't fight, you will die. Why don't you fight! There is still a chance if you fight!"

Master He also stopped after hearing this, "Now that things have come to an end, why don't you cooperate with King Jiangdong?"

Li Yi's eyes flashed, "That's right, we will join forces with King Jiangdong, and we will definitely win. When the big Monday is divided into two, Xiangye and King Jiangdong will each occupy half of the country."

Pei Xiu fell into silence, and Li Yi said anxiously, "Master Xiang, we can't hesitate anymore! The queen's knife was already hanging above our heads, and it fell down at some point and cut off our heads. Think about it, Mr. Xiang." , the empress has already moved her hands, which shows that she knows our affairs clearly. When she returns to the imperial capital, does Xiangye think she will let the treasonous people go? I am afraid that both the Pei family and the Li family will be punished by the nine families Already!"

Pei Xiu was still silent, and Li Yi was so anxious that he was about to jump his feet, "Mr. Xiang hesitates any longer, and if he wastes time, all the people in the lower ranks will be killed. If Mr. Xiang doesn't make a decisive decision, there is really no chance!"

"Yes."

Master He also echoed, "The longer we delay, the less bargaining chips we have with King Jiangdong, and the more King Jiangdong can raise the price, Mr. Xiang, you should stop and let it mess you up!"

Seeing that Pei Xiu remained silent, Li Yi's dark face was flushed with anxiety, and he was walking around anxiously in the study. He suddenly slapped his head, "If Xiangye is afraid that King Jiangdong will be too powerful and will not be able to suppress him in the future, If you don't want to cooperate with the King of Jiangdong, why not..."

Pei Xiu raised her eyelids, "Why not?"

(End of this chapter)