The first county magistrate in history

Chapter 314 The Old Fox Might Really Win

The note read: Xia Tianjiao and Xia Jinzhong are the bloodline of the late emperor and must not be killed! Upon receiving this letter, you are strictly prohibited from leaving the palace. Immediately activate your ultimate trump card, Emperor. I will explain everything when I return!

Wu Xiaoyou was confused.

Inside the inn, Qin Zheng frowned and muttered, "Why would Xia Bitu try to stop the Fifth Prince? He's hoping the Fifth Prince will succeed. This, bloodline fratricide, is exactly what the old fox wants to achieve."

After all, the Fifth Prince was a royal relative and Xia Mochu's uncle. If Xia Qiming used sweet words, Xia Mochu would definitely fall for it and recruit him into the palace. And the Fifth Prince only needed to poison the woman, and she would surely die.

If the twins were Shabitu's biological children, how could he have arranged it this way?

However, Xia Bitu knew I had a trump card, that even 300,000 soldiers would be mere cannon fodder, yet he still attacked. Perhaps it was time for him to use his ultimate trump card. The Empress's true trump card was the Jinyiwei, also known as the Emperor's Guards, a group of supremely skilled warriors dedicated solely to protecting the Xia Emperor. For Xia Bitu to dare to attack, he must have cultivated a cadre of supremely skilled warriors. They either outnumbered the Emperor's Guards or possessed superior martial arts skills. However, if the Five Elements Sect's Grand Elder intervened, everything would be resolved.

Xia Bitu is so cunning and treacherous. Ever since he met me, he's been playing coward, just to flatter me and kill me. But now he's actively challenging me to a duel, even after knowing that I'm the leader of the Five Elements Sect and the Lord of the Boundless Palace.

This is not a question of courage. He knows that this is like a moth flying into a flame and courting his own destruction, but he still does it and dares to do it. Is it worth it?

He was simply trying to divert my attention and conceal his true purpose. He was using these clues he had deliberately laid out to disrupt my reasoning or lead me astray, thus preventing his plan from being ruined.

Of course, the old fox dared to take action, but he was determined to die. If he failed, he would become a benevolent person. After all, the Four Realms King had relapsed, and he would never have such an opportunity again.

Anyone might think that I am doing this to seize the Daqian Kingdom, but the old fox will never think so.

He knew I wouldn't let him succeed, that I would stop him, but why did he still risk everything? Even if there was no chance, even if he put his life at risk, how could the old fox make such a worthless sacrifice?

It seems that there are some things I still think of.

Or it was ignored.

He is indeed an old fox. If he doesn’t strike, it’s fine. But when he strikes, it’s thunderous.”

Qin Zheng started from the initial investigation, verification, analysis, and unraveling.

He was sure that the old fox's cards were definitely not just what he could deduce.

However, Qin Zheng discovered that there were no omissions.

Qin Zheng simply relaxed his mind and let his imagination run wild.

He could only feel regret over the ending of Ningguta.

No matter what the purpose of the Fifth Prince and the Fourth Princess was, the Ningguta's Changsheng Sect harmed people, and the hoarding of grain in Fenghua City killed countless lives, so they should be killed!

They can rebel, but they cannot kill the lives of the people.

Although Empress Xia Mochu would not oppress the people, she was indecisive and lacked the talent to govern the country. It was time for her to abdicate and let someone more capable take over.

Hongtong County should have developed her antidote.

Mo Ning didn't want to be emperor, but he had to.

Because, neither Xia Tianjiao nor Xia Jinzhong is suitable to be emperor.

Qin Zheng is a little worried now because he is too far away from the imperial capital.

Remote control will inevitably lead to omissions.

He was worried that the empress would not listen to his advice, and that the eunuch An Dehai's loyalty would lead to bad things.

But if there is an accident, it can only be God's will.

Qin Zheng had no choice.

Of the people around the empress, Qin Zheng was certain that Yuan Shiqing was absolutely loyal. However, apart from his loyalty to the imperial family, he was also loyal only to Xia Mo Ning. His loyalty to Xia Mo Ning even surpassed his loyalty to Xia Mo Chu. This was due to emotional factors.

But no matter what, Yuan Shiqing would not do anything bad to Empress Xia Mochu.

The eunuch An Dehai is too suspicious and likes to be clever, but he is also absolutely loyal.

If he had any second thoughts, he could have replaced Empress Xia Mochu long ago.

As for Li Qiuhan, he almost died for the empress, and his loyalty is evident.

That time when Li Qiuhan was protecting the emperor, he was indeed going to die. Without the medical skills of Hongtong County, he would have died.

Li Qiuhan is not a fortune teller, so he couldn't predict that he would be rescued. Therefore, he was not pretending that time.

That eliminates the suspicions of the three people who are closest to the empress.

There is another person who can get close to the empress, the Grand Tutor Wei Xuelin.

Back then, Old Man Wei was just an old scholar obsessed with academics, so he can also be excluded.

Then, who else can get close to the empress?

Don't get close to killing Xia Mochu.

If Xia Bitu's plan was not killed, the empress Xia Mochu would only be half successful, but not completely successful.

The answer is no.

Since there was no such person, Qin Zheng was certain that Xia Bitu not only wanted to kill Xia Tianjiao and Xia Jinzhong, but also wanted to kill the empress.

What will the old fox do?

Send an expert into the palace to assassinate?

However, An Dehai and the Imperial Guards, the Imperial Guards, the Imperial Guards, and the Embroidered Uniform Guards combined formed a dragnet, and after the last incident, the protection measures were inevitably even stricter, so the chances of success were low. Because before Qin Zheng left the imperial capital, the Five Elements Sect's Grand Elder had already entered the imperial capital... His mission was to protect the empress.

In this case, unless the masters cultivated by Xia Bitu are stronger than the masters of the Five Elements Sect.

However, the Wujie Palace controls the world. If Xia Bitu really has such a group of masters, the Wujie Palace would not be unaware of it.

At this moment, Qin Zheng already had the answer in his heart.

There is only one possibility, Xia Bitu is absolutely sure that he can kill Xia Tianjiao and Xia Jinzhong, even if they are killed by Qin Zheng!

Although he was unable to confirm the identities of Xia Jinzhong and Xia Tianjiao, he had always included them in the list of people to be protected for fear that they would be killed by mistake.

However, protection wasn't personal protection, as that wasn't possible, and Xia Bitu wouldn't agree to it. Furthermore, Xia Bitu would naturally send someone to protect the two. But now it seemed more like surveillance than protection.

Qin Zheng was helpless. It wasn't that he had just seen through the old fox's intentions, but he had never been sure. If he were in the imperial capital, everything would be under control. But he was thousands of miles away. As the old fox said, even if he grew wings and flew away, distant water could not quench his immediate thirst.

There was one thing that Qin Zheng did not expect. Xia Bitu, who was as cunning as a fox, was actually gambling with his life and luck in the duel!

And there is a real chance of success.

The person who took the lives of Xia Tianjiao and Xia Jinzhong might be Andehai or Ningguta, but definitely not Xia Bitu.

All Xia Bitu had to do was add fuel to the fire and stop Qin Zheng from taking action.

Given the hatred between Ningguta and the late emperor, Xia Tianjiao and Xia Jinzhong must be killed, even if there is only a hint of suspicion that they are the crown prince.

Xia Bitu was out of control. According to the principles of the Five Princes, how could they really let Xia Bitu go? So even if he was killed by mistake, he had to be killed!

Andehai's self-righteousness and his habit of the empress's indulgence meant that if Xia Bitu showed signs of rebellion and attacked the imperial capital, he would surely kill Xia Jinzhong and Xia Tianjiao, the two uncertainties. Even if Xia Bitu succeeded in his rebellion, he would have no successor.

Qin Zheng was sure that it would be An Dehai who would kill Xia Jinzhong and Xia Tianjiao in the end, because only An Dehai could force Xia Mochu to death.

As long as Xia Tianjiao and Xia Jinzhong were dead, and were killed by An Dehai, Xia Mochu, as the empress, would have killed her half-brothers with her own hands, and could only atone for her sin with death!

Qin Zheng was sweating just thinking about it now. Since the old fox wanted to use this strategy, it was obvious that he had been planning it for a long time.

Presumably, the news that the Fifth Prince went to the imperial capital must have been deliberately leaked by the old fox.

The old fox knew that Qin Zheng had a secret method to transmit information, but he didn't know what it was. But why didn't such a shameless old fox spend money to buy his secret method? Even if it wouldn't work, he shouldn't have ignored it, right?

There was only one possibility. The old fox guessed that it was a pigeon that delivered the message because he raised pigeons himself.

So, now, their pigeons will definitely not be able to fly out of the town.

Moreover, Qin Zheng suddenly felt a chill on his back.

He seemed to have overlooked one move: in order to prevent the empress from apologizing with her own death, An Dehai had only one solution: he would die, apologize, and kill Xia Mo Ning. Because only by doing this could Xia Mo Ning not die, because if she died, Daqian would be gone, and the surname Xia would no longer exist.

This time, the old fox may really win.

Qin Zheng suddenly strode out of the room.

He had to leave the town and spread the news. Return to the imperial capital as soon as possible. Perhaps he could change the course of the war!