Bai Shier, who had been waiting for a night outside the market where Wu Jian was, finally returned empty-handed.

It was already midnight when the pigeon flew away. He originally thought that after receiving the news, even if Xuanwu did not come in person, at least a confidant should have sent to take over the matter of Wu Jian's agreement to cooperate with him.

But it was obvious that he underestimated Xuanwu's prudence or timidity.

The carrier pigeon was caught and eaten by a bird of prey like a goshawk or night owl. He had no news from the carrier pigeon until the winter sun shone with light, dispelling darkness, and a small part of the chill, and there was no movement around.

Even though he was wrapped in a coat made of mink and a hat of a sea dragon on his head, he was still feeling uncomfortable after enduring the middle of the night. So, seeing that the sun had already come out, he no longer wanted to stay here.

He just wanted to go back now, find a soup pool, soak it well, and then eat some water radish and have a good sleep.

Young people don’t know how to take care of their bodies, and they are full of illness when they are old.

Bai Shier didn't want to wait until he was fifty or sixty years old, and whenever it was cloudy, rainy and cold waves hit, his joints and bones were sore.

...

I didn't know that Bai Shier would actually stare at Wu Jian outside for a night. His mood at this time had become much more stable than before Bai Shier came to tell him the result.

Many times, this is true for people, and they are undecided when there is a choice.

But when there is no choice and there is extremely huge pressure outside that forces you to do it, even if you know that what you want to do will be extremely difficult, and you may even face the threat of death at any time, you still have the courage to move forward.

That's why there is such a helpless saying that is very "connotation".

People are forced out.

This is how Wu Jian was forced. He knew that he had no way out. The only thing he was thinking about at this time was how to make Xuanwu "escort" him as much as possible, so as to avoid the fact that he had been ordered by King Ning to be cut off his head or buried alive before he had entered the Ning Palace before he could enter the Ning Palace.

In this regard, he felt that he could still trust Xuanwu. After all, Xuanwu was even more urgent than him because of the difficulties facing Xuanwu now.

Because if he was directly ordered by King Ning to chop his head or buried alive, it would only cost his life that should have died in Yingtian City a few months ago. What Xuanwu had to face was probably more than ten years of hard work - the two major organizations of Beiji Tian and Diting collapsed and destroyed. Even if Xuanwu himself did not die, he would be worse than death.

Therefore, from the perspective of the results and losses, Xuanwu and him must be on the same mind in this matter.

‘If that is the case, do I need to raise the price to make Xuanwu more convinced that I am working with him wholeheartedly?’

After thinking about this, greed grew wildly in Wu Jian's heart like wild grass and bamboo shoots after the rain.

Even though he had found a seemingly reasonable excuse for himself in his heart, it was obvious that he thought so, more because of the wealth that Xuanwu had promised to give him before.

A dead person and a bird approaches the sky, and it will never die for thousands of years.

If, this time, if he dies in the Ning Palace, everything will undoubtedly be over. But if he really sneaks into the Ning Palace and escapes by chance in the end, then he will undoubtedly have a chance to join the Jinyiwei, Dongchang or Liushumen. No matter which yamen he joins, if he joins, he will have a wealth that will be enough for him to eat and drink for the rest of his life, and even two generations, which will have a very positive and significant impact on his future "official career" and his future life.

...

Xuanwu didn't know that Wu Jian was ready to discuss the many details of cooperation with him, and he was politely talking to him. At this time, he was weighing which sect or organization he should find to act as the intermediary between him and Wu Jian.

It was easy to convince Wu Jian before, but now it is obvious that it is not that simple when it really goes downward.

Because this middleman must first have a certain weight, otherwise Wu Jian will definitely not trust him. Maybe one of them did it on purpose to fool himself and eventually lose that money.

But on the other hand, Xuanwu, who did have this idea in his mind, still wanted to find a gang or organization that was not so strong and would have a good relationship with him, so that he could leave a remedy when there was a mistake in Wu Jian's plan.

However, given that Tianyan Sect had been secret operations before and even its name was rarely known to the world, Xuanwu wanted to find a gang or organization with good relationship with him, it was a fantasy.

In addition to this "small" problem, there is another bigger problem, which also makes Xuanwu want to scratch his head.

That is the amount of money discussed with Wu Jian and the source of the money.

Wu Jian was thinking about increasing the price, but Xuanwu was thinking about it naturally minimized it.

However, no matter how you reduce it, you must have at least 10,000 taels of silver.

After all, if you want to rebuild the huge Dongjitian, thousands of taels of silver are probably just sprinkling water.

The reason why Zhongjitian attracted the attention of the Jinyiwei before was that Zhongjitian's branch in Quanzhou Prefecture had more than 100,000 taels of treasure sealed.

And this treasure worth more than 100,000 taels is just a branch of Zhongjitian, and the number accumulated over several years.

Even if Dongjitian is not as strong as Zhongjitian, it is at least much stronger than Zhongjitian's sub-division hall.

When he could save more than 100,000 taels in a few years, he only provided 10,000 taels of silver for the reconstruction of Dongjitian. Whether Wu Jian could satisfy him was not sure.

The amount of money was enough to make Xuanwu a headache, and what made Xuanwu even more trouble was that even ten thousand taels of silver was a great burden for him at this time.

Beijitian is in the capital city. Perhaps the source of money is not as rich as that of the richer Jiangnan area where Dongjitian was before, but it is also considered a few relatively wealthy prefectures.

Therefore, the source of money in the Arctic Heaven has always been rich and rich.

But if you earn more, you will spend more.

Take the destroyed Dongjitian as an example. Compared with Qinglong, whose only Dongjitian needs to pay, Xuanwu's subordinates have a larger stall in addition to Beijitian.

Even though Di Ting's staff is very simple, there are only thirty or forty people in each division, but there are really many divisions.

Moreover, these branches are scattered in various prefectures in the states and prefectures.

Moreover, these Diting have always only spent money, not made money.

Under such circumstances, even if Beijitian can bring a lot of gains to Xuanwu every year, he still can't resist Di Ting and pulling out his wallet every moment.

Not to mention, this year's situation is worse than in previous years.

Before a series of bad news was reported back, Liangjiangtang had to gather in Hongdu Prefecture City to test the Ning Prince's Mansion, and at the same time, they had to deal with various relationships and spy on intelligence in the city. It had already cost several percent more than in previous years.

Now that bad news comes, the money is undoubtedly wasted. In order to calm people, the remaining people have already put up the Liangjiangtang erectile stylists as soon as possible and continue to do things, and they still need to spend more budgets.

I won’t talk about spending too much. What’s even more unlucky is that my income has been reduced a lot this year.

The Jinyiwei, Dongchang and Liushemen three major yamen have been inspected and inspected for more than a month, causing heavy losses to the Beijitian. Including the impact of panic and difficulty in recovering quickly, Beijitian was affected for a period of less than half a year, and now it is basically supported by the income of the first half of the year.

It is almost time to reach the end of the year, and the income from the first half of the year is about to bottom out.

Under the circumstances of "opening up the flow and saving the source" during this period, Xuanwu was naturally very limited in his money tree that could be used to allow Wu Jian to "rebuild" Dongjitian.

Even in Xuanwu's opinion, eight or nine out of the money he took out would still return to his hands in the end. But at this moment, he obviously could not take it seriously and just write an IOU for Wu Jian, but had to let Wu Jian see the money in real money.

Otherwise, why could he make Wu Jian tempted? How could he let Wu Jian stand firmly on his side after he went to Hongdu Prefecture instead of "surrendering" directly like King Ning?

Therefore, the reason why Xuanwu did not go to see Wu Jian immediately and did not let Wu Jian come to see him was that in addition to being the "cowardly mouse" cursed in Bai Shier's heart, he was actually helpless.

He had to raise at least 10,000 taels of silver before he could have enough confidence to meet Wu Jian and make a thorough cooperation plan with Wu Jian so that Wu Jian could set off to Hongdu City immediately.

...

Over the whole day, Xuanwu almost racked his brains and tried every means, but in the end he was only able to find five thousand taels of silver.

This includes hundreds of taels of broken silver, and several pieces with a denomination of thousands of taels, but their true value is less than one percent.

Although he only collected half of the silver, and was half the distance from the amount that Xuanwu thought was enough to make Wu Jian tempted, he was in no time. Xuanwu, who had spent nearly a day on such things, had no patience in his heart and continued to spend time collecting silver.

Liangjiangtang, which was originally an urgent letter every three or five days, has almost 10 years old and has not heard any news.

This external information channel was cut off, and I became completely blind and deaf. It felt so bad that I stayed in the dark room without any sound.

Because you don’t know when, maybe a dagger will silently pierce out of this dark ball, pierce your liver, spleen and kidneys, pierce your heart and lungs, or cut your throat.

And even at the moment of death, you still have no power to fight back.

...

Since the night a few days ago, after learning about the relationship between King Ning and Tianyan Sect from Bai Shier's mouth, the emperor's expression has been a little solemn every day in the past few days.

Even when dreaming at night, I would dream of the scene where King Ning, like Emperor Taizong, raised an army to "clear the king's side", then won consecutive battles, and went straight to the Forbidden City, and came to the front of him.

As an emperor and a king who is called a lonely king, although he is not as good as the other late emperors, deep down he is still full of doubts about his ministers and others.

But that night, when Bai Shier said the word "King Ning" to him, he immediately believed Bai Shier in his heart.

Of course, this is not because of the "relationship" between Bai Shier and Zhu Jinxuan, but because he knew clearly in his heart that the Ning Wang lineage was indeed full of jealousy for their lineage from the moment Taizong succeeded to the throne.

If news comes one day and King Ning causes trouble, he will not feel strange at all.

This is also a rare reminder from his father who had a complicated feeling about him.

Moreover, if the Ning Wang lineage still had no movement before he passed the throne, he would continue to pass on this kind of advice.

Although he was prepared for the matter of King Ning, he was still angry after hearing the detailed description of the matter involving Prince Ning’s Mansion in Tianyan Sect after Bai Shier had already described the various things he had involved in the Tianyan Sect.

However, without any evidence, he could only buried these things in his heart and could not tell anyone, even his queen.

Although the prince is a good choice, the prince is still young and has always been naughty, so he dare not tell the prince. Otherwise, he was afraid that he had just told the prince in the morning and told him not to spread it easily. In the afternoon, many people in the palace knew about it...

He did not forget what Bai Shier said before when he asked Mo Bin to send a message:

The palace is not safe, there are eyeliners everywhere.

At that time, the prince will spread the news randomly, and the palace's spies will spread the news to King Ning's ears. If King Ning is afraid and really rebelled directly, wouldn't it be a disaster?

Therefore, he has been able to keep these things in his heart for the past few days, only dare to think about them alone, and dare not reveal a word to anyone else.

Safety is safe enough, but it is just too boring.

Moreover, if you cannot discuss this with others and can only think by yourself, you can easily get into the blind spots of your thinking and worry in your heart. The final result is that you are awakened by nightmares from time to time at night, and your spirit is getting worse day by day.

...

The same is true today.

After seeing the question book handed over by the official from the Jiangxi Provincial Administration Office, the emperor couldn't help but think of King Ning, who was also in the Jiangxi Provincial Administration Office. He was already in a state of distraction, and he was immediately confused and could no longer calm down to review the question book.

Seeing this, the eunuch who saw that he was in a bad mood these days but did not dare to ask more questions, he suggested that he go to the imperial garden to relax.

After thinking for a while, the emperor who finally nodded in agreement stood up to relax.

Before he could arrive at the Imperial Garden, he heard a familiar and crisp laughter.
Chapter completed!