Demoness, Where Are You Fleeing To?

Although Li Xuan slapped his chest loudly in front of Mrs. Xue, when he came out of Jiangnan Medical Center, he was helpless.

He has no clues available right now. Queen Ba Snake refuses to speak, and the same goes for Huang Junhuang Wuhuan.

Huang Jun thought that it was one thing to lead Xue Yunrou and the others to rescue people, but it was another thing to betray the location of the Xuanlu Demon King.

At this time, Li Xuan's only recourse was to castrate King Xuanheilu's magical power, the 'Five Qi Calming Method'.

For King Xuanheilu, this should be a very important magical power, a matter of life and death.

Also, Queen Ba Snake has something crucial to King Xuanhei Deer.

Li Xuan guessed that this deer would not be willing to leave like this.

But if you want to find out its whereabouts, you still have to ask Jiang Hanyun to take action.

While waiting, Li Xuan was not idle either. His second soul was working on the expansion of Shenji Zuoying. While Li Xuan was deploying and searching for the whereabouts of the Xuanhei Deer King, he occasionally ran to help.

Li Xuan believed that the area near Beijing was not a good source of troops, so he chose the area around Baoding Prefecture and Hejian Prefecture to recruit troops.

He discussed with his deputy general Wang Yuan to specifically select the second sons of poor families, whose age should be no less than fourteen and no more than fifteen years old.

Just because after the age of fifteen, it is very difficult to achieve success in martial arts. But if you are too young, you won’t look right.

Recruit them into the army, raise them with good rice, good vegetables, good fish and good meat, give them enough protein, prepare some elixirs, and then hire military attachés and instructors with real skills to teach them how to sharpen their muscles and bones, and practice some exercises that will produce quick results. Quick external skills. Their height will quickly increase and they will develop strong tendon muscles.

As for the officers, it is even simpler. Li Xuan, the middle- and high-level general of Shenji Zuoying, cannot fully make the decision due to the system of "big and small" system, so he can only exert his efforts among the grassroots officers.

At this time, all the elite servants supported by Uncle Chengyi's house were taken away by him.

But it doesn't matter, Li Xuan can also ask his close uncles for it.

Duan Dong, the Marquis of Zhendong, passed a letter through a flying talisman, promising to provide him with thirty elite servants, almost all of whom were above the fifth-level building and proficient in battle formations, who could be used to serve as hundreds of households and general banners in the army.

These distinguished ministers are actually happy to see a way out for their subordinates. .

Then there are the ordnance. The Ministry of War did not make any trouble. Except for the 'rune rifled flintlock' that Li Xuan needed, the rest were all allocated.

However, Shang Hong, a bachelor who also served as the left minister of the Ministry of War, was impatient with him and promised to provide 8,000 flintlock muskets to Shenji Zuoying within five months. He was also forced by Li Xuan to sign the official document.

This is because the autumn harvest is coming, and although there are endless floods and droughts in the north and south of the Jin Dynasty this year, the main grain-producing areas are ripe and can be expected. The imperial court also made a lot of money by cleaning up the salt policy, and the national finances were in a state of decline. To relax.

At this time, the price quoted by the Artifact Alliance has also been greatly reduced. It was originally one thousand two hundred taels of silver and a musket, but now it has been greatly reduced to six hundred taels, which is directly halved.

This is not the black heart of the Artifact Alliance in the past, but Leng Yurou's Peacock Villa not long ago successfully trial-produced the blast furnace and converter "designed" by Li Xuan, and also mastered the method of making coke.

They used coke and blast furnaces to make iron, and converters to cast steel billets. This reduced the cost of steel making in the Artifact Alliance by more than half.

Leng Yurou asked him to go to her place when he had free time before, just to show him the results of blast furnace steelmaking.

Then, the cost of firearms processing in Peacock Villa also dropped dramatically with the completion of various hydraulic machine tools.

The most difficult part of a rifled flintlock gun is drilling and rifling the barrel, which are the most labor-intensive tasks. But now with the hydraulic boring machine, it can be done easily.

Of course, the price of 600 taels is still very expensive. Together with the other equipment of Shenji Zuoying, it means that the imperial court will have to spend nearly 5 million taels of silver just for Li Xuan's Shenji Zuoying this year.

But the power of these 'rune-rifled flintlock guns' is real. Within a hundred steps, they are a great threat to those martial arts practitioners who have cultivated to the third level.

A martial artist who doesn't practice superb escape techniques will have a hard time avoiding it, and a martial artist who doesn't practice horizontal and vertical body training will be unable to resist.

The key is that Yu Jie is still very interested in the new weapons and new tactics proposed by Li Xuan, and thinks it is cost-effective to spend five million taels to try it out.

Li Xuan held the emperor's will and had the support of Yu Jie, the junior security guard, so even Shang Hong and Xiao Ci, the Minister of Household Affairs, could only hold their noses and accept this huge expenditure.

At this time, the turmoil in the court was getting worse.

The Golden Knife case has not yet been concluded, but it has already caused heavy damage to the Queen Mother's party.

At this time, both the Empress Dowager Sun and the Emperor were under house arrest in the palace, and many ministers in the court began to deliberately distance themselves from King Yi and his uncle Sun Jizong.

Wang Wenze, the Grand Scholar of Jinshen Palace and the Minister of Civil Affairs, was like thunder. In just two days, he transferred more than a dozen civil servants below the fifth rank to leave the capital for various reasons.

The appointment and removal of officials at this level do not require cabinet discussion. Wang Wen, as the 'Heavenly Official' of the current dynasty, could directly decide where they would go.

Originally, among the officials, there were still two ministers on the left and right who were holding back.

But due to the Golden Knife Case, both of them remained silent on this matter.

And in the court, with "Prince Xiang" as the crown prince, the proposal to ask the emperor to establish the emperor's uncle gradually gained momentum and began to spread throughout the court and the public.

At this time, not only was the "dispute over the throne" gradually becoming unbalanced, but the situation in the cabinet was also changing drastically. The impeachment memorials for Gao Gu, Shang Hong, and Xiao Ci both inside and outside the court came one after another.

Even Zuo Daoxing, the commander-in-chief of the Xiuyi Guard, felt tremendous pressure.

One time he met Li Xuan and complained to him, saying that a group of clans had gathered in Prince Xiang's Mansion and wrote three consecutive letters to the prisoner Yu Hongshang to plead for mercy.

They also found Zuo Daoxing and asked him why he imprisoned Yu Yunhuang, the princess of Changning County. Is there any solid evidence? If there is no evidence, can the person be released as soon as possible?

Then the Metropolitan Procuratorate was also paying attention, and several censors came one after another to check on Yu Yunhuang's situation.

Because the matter of King Xiang's succession has been discussed publicly in the court, it has become a high probability event. Every word or word of this wise king can create great momentum in the court.

Zuo Daoxing only had Emperor Jingtai in his eyes and didn't care what King Xiang thought of him.

But the problem is that the people below him cannot bear the pressure, and not everyone dares to offend a future emperor.

This led to a further decline in his control over Xiu Yiwei's imperial edicts.

What surprised Li Xuan slightly was King Yi Yu Jianshen.

The former prince showed amazing resilience. He did not give up and continued to work tirelessly on the Golden Knife Case.

Even some ministers who originally wanted to alienate him were moved by King Yi and moved closer to the former prince again.

As a result, a consensus gradually formed in the entire court - if the "Golden Knife Case" were not presided over by the champion Hou Lixuan, any result would be difficult to convince the public.

This made the voices calling for Li Xuan to take over the "Golden Knife Case" getting louder and louder.

Especially the cabinet, it is said that Gao Gu, Shang Hong and others were moved by it while being fiercely impeached.

Li Xuan was troubled by the case and did not want to get involved.

If he proves the innocence of the Emperor Zhengtong and the Queen Mother Sun, he will feel unhappy; but if he crucifies Emperor Zhengtong, it seems that it will give King Xiang an advantage.

Just when the battles in the court intensified and gradually affected government affairs, Jiang Hanyun finally returned to the capital.

Her natal escort, the 'six-tailed spirit fox' Xiao Lei, walked around the place where the Xuanhei Deer King had been, sniffed at Li Xuan's 'Dragon Cutting Knife', and then rushed out.

It first ran six hundred miles east of Beijing, and then reversed back. UU Reading www.uukaｎshu.ｎet led Li Xuan and the others to a place that surprised Li Xuan slightly.

"Together with the North Hall?"

Li Xuan looked at the pavilions and pavilions in front of him and couldn't help but be surprised: "Are you sure he is here?"

The "Huitong Pavilion" was a place where the imperial court specially used to accommodate feudal vassals and foreign guests. It was divided into Huitong South Pavilion and Huitong North Pavilion.

The Huitong Beiguan is next to the ‘Ten Princes’ Palace’ and the ‘Princes’ Palace’ where the royal family princes and feudal princes were housed.

It is less than five miles away from the Forbidden City.

Also, Queen Ba Snake and the former ‘Prince Anbro’ Dejiyangzong and King Jinping lived in Huitong Beiguan.

Jiang Hanyun stepped directly in and said, "Xiao Lei said that he had been tracking all the way and the aura of the Xuanhei Deer King had entered here."

Li Xuan couldn't help but be dumbfounded, thinking that it was really dark under the light. He never thought that Xuanhei Deer King would hide in the residence of Queen Bashe.