Chapter 314: Preparing for war.

There is sea water on all sides, and this big ship is floating alone on the sea.

Li An was fishing at the bow of the boat with a fishing rod in his hand.

Everything is ready, everything is waiting for the actors to be in place
"Sir, can you catch fish with this? It's okay to use a straight hook, but you don't even put in any bait and just fish hard?" Haitang Duoduo was cracking melon seeds nearby, her legs dangling on the bow, the melon seed shells in her hand flying into the sea.

As early as half a month ago, they met on the coast of Dadong Mountain.

Except for Haitang Duoduo and Langtao, Wang Shisanlang did not return according to the opportunity. It is thought that he is still following Si Gu Jian.

"Is there any news coming back?" Li An asked softly.

"It will be half a month later."

Taoist He on the side responded softly.

"We'll move up the time!" Li An thought for a moment and then made a prediction, "They won't proceed according to the original schedule."

Taoist He had no doubts and nodded in agreement.

"Sir, don't we need soldiers? This time, the Qing Kingdom will be deposed by the Great Dongshan, and the Imperial Guards will definitely accompany us. Add to that Chen Pingping's Supervisory Council and the Fan Mansion Tiger Guards you mentioned. Even if we can succeed, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to escape unscathed!"

Yan Xiaoyi was silent for a long time before he asked.

It's not that he is afraid of death, but the eldest princess is still alive and he has not been able to avenge himself. How can he be willing to die in the chaos of war?

Perhaps Li An and Ku He, as grand masters, are not afraid, but it is questionable how many of them, the ninth-rank people, can come back. What's more, there are also the powerful explosives covering the entire mountain.
Li An had a blank expression on his face, staring intently at the fishing rod. He simply replied softly, "It's too late. If we mobilize troops now, we won't be able to catch up with this incident. If we bring soldiers here from the beginning, there will be too many people, and it will be difficult to hide our tracks."

"Relax, this time, we are only responsible for Emperor Qing. As for the others, there will naturally be people to deal with them!"

Yan Xiaoyi looked curious, thinking about the master's miraculous foresight, and asked, "Have you contacted Chen Pingping?"

"You'll know after you read on!"

With a laugh, Li An watched the waves hitting the boat, while in the distance, the rising sun was in sight.

What a magnificent scene between heaven and earth!
There was a sound of birds flapping their wings. Everyone present was very sharp-eyed and sharp-eared, so they knew that there was new news. "Report! News from Kyoto, Emperor Qing has set off!"

"Hahaha! The fish is hooked!"

Li An Tianyi's true energy circulated, and with the help of the hidden power of Lingxi Divine Finger, a fat fish swimming in the water seemed to have lost control of itself and crashed into the fishhook.

With a strong pull on the fishing rod, a big fish broke out of the water, raising waves!
Haitang Duoduo curled the corner of her mouth. Is she trying to fish here with all her energy?

"The time is in seven days, everyone, get ready!"

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Go back to a month ago.

Kyoto, Chen Garden.

Fan Xian sat on a stone bench at the side. Chen Pingping gently held his hand. After feeling it carefully, he found that the palm of the old man in front of him was uneven and full of wrinkles.

Different from the touch in his hand, Fan Xian, who was proficient in medicine, sensed Chen Pingping's weak pulse.

The old man in front of me doesn't have much time left.

I am old, and my legs were crippled at an early age, which damaged my basic energy. As the saying goes, when the oil runs out, the lamp will go out. This is the law of the universe and the cycle of all things.

Even so, Fan Xian felt very uncomfortable.

"What are you worried about?" Chen Pingping sighed. "I don't know what to do next." Fan Xian looked at Chen Pingping's face, and an irrepressible sadness rose in his heart, and his mood became even lower.

"In fact, you have been doing very well in the past few years! Unexpectedly well!"

Although Chen Pingping's voice was a little hoarse, it was obvious that he was in a good mood.

"I will accompany your Majesty to see the young lady."

Fan Xian remained silent.

He had already anticipated Chen Pingping's plan.

"Have you investigated everything?"

Looking into his eyes, Chen Pingping said softly, "Now that you are older and have started a family, there are some things I have to remind you of."

"If you are a member of the Fan family, you don't have to take sides in your life. Because they have always stood in front of His Majesty. This is also the reason why the Fan family has stood until today and has never made any mistakes."

This sentence contains countless meanings, and it is naturally the words of a subject.

This is a statement that has been proven over time in Qing State, and it also applies to Northern Qi and other countries.

But Fan Xian, who had experienced another world, did not think so. He understood that things proven by history would often be overturned by the future in the end.

"But if you were a prince, even if you didn't fight, others would make you fight!" Chen Pingping looked at Fan Xian with soft eyes. His eyebrows and eyes were really similar to those of the young lady! If the young lady hadn't appeared, he would never have had any extra thoughts in his life, right?

"Just like this time, I suspected Your Majesty long before. After so many years of investigation, I have confirmed most of it. In the end, all the evidence was handed to me by Li An!"

"I'm dying, but I can't stop worrying about you."

"Our emperor is a suspicious person. He has long been worried about me, Fan Jian, and even less about you! You have become a threat to him!"

"Even if we don't take action this time, he won't let me die of old age afterwards."

When did Emperor Qing begin to have doubts about Chen Pingping?

The deep relationship between Emperor Qing and Chen Pingping as monarch and subject came to an end the moment Ye Qingmei passed away.

Although the Taiping Villa murder planned by Emperor Qing seemed flawless, Chen Pingping still did not find any conclusive evidence against Emperor Qing after more than ten years of secret investigation.

The cause of Ye Qingmei's death is so mysterious. Emperor Qing and Fan Jian traveled west to conquer the grassland together, and Northern Qi suddenly invaded. Chen Pingping led the Black Cavalry to block it. Ye Zhong was unexpectedly transferred to Dingzhou, and Wu Zhu was also taken away by the messenger of the temple.

It all feels unexpected and uncertain, as if it were a dream.

Although after the incident, Emperor Qing returned to Kyoto with Fan Jian and quickly put down the rebellion. In just a few years, he found out all those responsible for it, and brutally killed the Queen Mother and the Queen's family, resulting in thousands of heads being beheaded, and held a grand funeral for Ye Qingmei.

But so what?

The dead will never come back!
As Conan Doyle once said: "If a person cannot find the criminal when a crime is committed, then the person with the greatest interests behind it is likely to be the criminal."

After careful observation, Chen Pingping realized that Emperor Qing had gained almost all the benefits in the bloody incident at Taiping Villa.

The Ye family's business was renamed the Imperial Treasury, and the Censorate was transformed from an institution originally responsible for supervising the emperor to the emperor's exclusive spy agency.

Fan Jian's power was reduced to the minimum, and the Tiger Guards were taken in as private armed forces by Emperor Qing. Wu Zhu, the only person in the entire capital who could threaten the emperor's life, was also exiled to Danzhou.

The foreign relatives force that Emperor Qing admired the most and posed the greatest threat to imperial power throughout the ages was completely eliminated in the bloody incident at Taiping Villa.

Everything went too smoothly.
(End of this chapter)