Happy Little Scholar

Qi State, capital.

Prince Heng's Mansion.

Zhao Zheng kept pacing in the palace, with a gloomy look on his face, and complained: "What on earth do you think, father? Are you confused? I am allowed to supervise the country, so why do you need Zhao Yi to supervise it? Let him and his accomplices spend all day trying to make trouble for me and make me embarrassed in front of the courtiers!"

"Why should His Highness care about this?" Behind him, a young man smiled and said: "As long as His Highness is the Crown Prince, he will be more respected than the third prince. Your Majesty allows him to supervise, and he is only supervising. Your Highness means that your Highness is the sword, and Zhao Yi is just the whetstone. Otherwise, the third prince will be in charge of the country, not His Highness. "

"Until the last moment, no one knows what my father is thinking!" Zhao Zheng looked bored. He suddenly looked at the young man behind him and said, "Protector Fang, I know your empress has great powers. As long as you can help me fight for After winning the throne, I will promise you that after I ascend the throne, I will support the Holy Religion as the state religion!"

Fang Yu's eyes flashed, but she did not rush to agree, but smiled and said: "Your Highness, don't worry, between the Third Prince and Your Highness, since the empress has chosen Your Highness, she will definitely try her best to help..."

Zhao Zheng looked at him and said: "It's not about trying your best, but about being determined. Does Protector Fang understand what I mean?"

Fang Yu was silent for a moment and said, "I still need to discuss this matter with the empress..."

"Your Highness, Fang takes his leave..."

"I have some matters to attend to, so I won't send Protector Fang away..."

…

After Fang Yu left, an old man came out from the back of the palace, walked to Zhao Zheng, bowed, and asked suspiciously: "Your Highness, are those people really so powerful?"

"Don't underestimate them." Zhao Zheng looked outside the palace and said slowly: "The power of this holy religion is far beyond our imagination. I suspect that they also have someone hiding in the palace, and they are my king's Not all of the people in the palace belong to me..."

The old man pondered for a moment and said: "Your Highness, please forgive me for talking too much. This holy religion is so powerful, and it must have a plan to do this. Your Highness must be extremely careful when joining forces with them..."

"I know." Zhao Zheng nodded and said: "No matter what their plans are, the most important thing now is to get to that position first. As for the others, it will not be too late to settle the matter in the future..."

In the main hall, the voices of conversation gradually became quieter.

Fang Yu left Prince Heng's Mansion. Two men in purple were already waiting outside. The three of them walked through several streets and alleys. After twisting and turning, they came to a small courtyard. He gently opened the door and waited for a while. Son, just pushed the door open and entered.

After crossing the yard, he came to a room. The door was open. Fang Yu walked in. The middle-aged Taoist nun was meditating on the bed.

He looked at the middle-aged Taoist girl and asked tentatively: "Madam, Zhao Zheng is already a little impatient. Are we..."

The Taoist nun opened her eyes, as if she could see through his thoughts, which made Fang Yu's heart feel cold.

After a long time, she finally said: "It is not our purpose to help Zhao Zheng rise. How did you do what you were asked to do?"

Fang Yu lowered his head and said, "In the past few years, thanks to the efforts of several purple envoys, 30% of the officials around Zhao Zheng have been infiltrated."

"Thirty percent?" the Taoist nun repeated with a calm expression.

Fang Yu paused, then said with difficulty: "Two, two percent..."

"Only 20%..." The Taoist nun closed her eyes and said, "I have told you a long time ago not to be impatient when encountering problems. Do you still remember what our ultimate goal is?"

"I know." Fang Yu nodded and said: "Empty King Heng, help him ascend to the throne, secretly control Qi, and when the time is right, let him send troops to Jingguo to avenge our Fang family..."

His face was calm, but his eyes were shining.

In the battle for the throne of Qi State, the reason why they chose Zhao Zheng instead of the more advantageous third prince was because he was the prince and had great righteousness, and the second reason was that he was stupid.

Compared to the extremely smart third prince Zhao Yi, Zhao Zheng is more suitable to be a puppet emperor.

It is a very fulfilling thing to support a puppet emperor who has been ignored and to be the secret controller of Qi State.

However, how can supporting a puppet emperor be as fulfilling as being the emperor yourself?

Rather than being the secret controller of Qi, it seems better to be the controller on the surface, right?

Jingguo is so powerful now. Even if Qi and Zhao join forces, they are no longer their combined enemies. In the past, the King of Shu was their glimmer of hope. Now that the King of Shu has been caught because of his carelessness, how easy is it to overthrow Jingguo?

If he can ascend to a high position and stand above millions of people, what does it matter if the Fang family's revenge is not avenged?

Of course, he could only keep these thoughts in his heart and not let his sister, the Queen of the Holy Cult, know about them.

"It's good that you know." The middle-aged Taoist nun looked at him and said, "When 50% of the officials around Zhao Zheng have penetrated, the emperor will die..."

Fang Yu bowed and said, "I understand."

The Taoist nun nodded, "Go down..."

"My subordinates, please retire!" Fang Yu bowed and left.

…

After walking out of the room, crossing the yard, and walking outside, Fang Yu let out a long sigh of relief.

A man in purple came forward and said in a deep voice: "Dharma protector, news just came that Liuzhou believers can no longer be contacted..."

"What!" Fang Yu's expression changed drastically and he said angrily: "Another state!"

After a while, listen to the envoy in purple finish telling what happened.

"It must be her, it must be her!" Fang Yu's face was furious, and he even looked a little crazy.

The followers of the Holy Church were spread all over the states of Qi State, and they would pass on various news to the capital every month, but since the beginning of the year, they had lost contact with more than a dozen states one after another.

The battle for the throne between Zhao Zheng and the third prince had reached the most critical moment. The queen could not go out, so he sent the yellow-clothed envoys and the blue-clothed envoys one after another, and all of them never returned, as if they had evaporated from the face of the earth, and they had completely lost contact.

This made him dare not send the purple-clothed envoys over. Each purple-clothed envoy was trained with great difficulty, and every loss would be a huge loss for them.

However, the consequence of this was that every half a month, he would receive news that a certain state had lost contact..., and now there are more than a dozen states.

This situation was exactly the same as when they were in Shuzhou.

Later, he discovered that it was not just Shuzhou, but the believers of the entire Jing State, they could not contact them.

Who else could do this except another "queen" of the Holy Church?

Since they started to publicize that there were two queens in the Holy Church, the matter was irreversible. No one, including the queen, thought that this unintentional action would be the source of the division of the Holy Church today!

The other party not only has a "Queen of Heaven", but also a left envoy. If they continue to ignore it, their foundation in Qi will be destroyed...

Fang Yu turned around and said in a deep voice: "I will tell the queen, please make the decision!"

In the room, the middle-aged Taoist nun who was sitting cross-legged in meditation opened her eyes again, pondered for a moment, and said: "He is coming..."

...

Liuzhou, outside the city gate, several carriages slowly drove in.

Xu Zheng and his team came to Liuzhou a month ago and completely took over the Holy Church branch here. In the past few months, every time they arrived at a place, the first thing they did was to take over the Holy Church believers in this state. Although they would encounter some stubborn and unreasonable people, they would try to reason with them after Lao Fang punched them.

If the Taoist nun had not come in person, they could even use this method to reunite the Holy Church.

However, half a month ago, Ruoqing found out that she was pregnant, so they had to slow down their pace and find a place to rest.

Lao Fang sat outside the carriage and turned around and said, "Son-in-law, we are just ahead of Liuzhou City."

Outside the city, Li Yi got off the carriage, took a few steps forward, and extended his hand to the woman waiting outside the city.

"Long time no see."