Chapter 519: The Great Purge

Compared to the sharp edges of other high-ranking officials in the Xiangfu, Granny Long has actually always maintained the gentleness that has been passed down from her teenage years.

Compared to the distinct conservatives and radicals in the Xiangfu, she has always been drifting with the flow.

This has nothing to do with ability, but depends on personality.

This is Lou Ji's fault.

During Long Xinling's teenage years when her personality was formed, Lou Ji's company made her calm from being jumpy, but her behavior of silently helping her deal with all the dangers and trivial matters around her made Long Xinling indecisive.

She is a good person, and among the high-ranking officials in the Xiangfu, she seems to be a person who relies on Lou Ji to get to the top.

And this is exactly where the problem lies.

If Granny Long really relied on Lou Ji to get to the top, Xu Yinhe would have spared her life even for Lou Ji's sake. But the reality is that Granny Long became a high-ranking official in the Xiangfu because of her noble bloodline.

To this day, if you want to subdivide the huge Xiangguo Mansion, it can actually be divided into five parties.

The new nobles group promoted in the past few decades, the original Jingjiang Xu family, the Beijing Feng family, the local families conquered by various means, and the Dijing Long family.

Needless to say, the first three are all firmly controlled by Xu Yinhe, and the local families that have been conquered are scattered all over Da Yan, and because of the deliberate division of the Di'an Xiangfu, even if these families are willing to form an interest group in the Xiangfu, it is difficult to unite and twist into a force. The only exception is the Di'an Long family.

The Xiangfu has experienced two periods of rapid expansion, and these two periods were built on the corpses of two thousand-year-old families.

The prince and the eldest daughter of the Feng family took the lead in the rebellion and seized their father's power. This power was in the hands of Xu Yuan's mother, but after Xu Yuan's mother passed away, because Feng Jiuxuan was the hands-off shopkeeper, this power was naturally handed over to Xu Yinhe.

The relationship between the Di'an Long family and the Xiangfu is actually very complicated. The meaning of cooperation is far greater than annexation. The time when the Long family saint passed away was unfortunately stuck in the most turbulent period of the change of imperial power.

This was originally nothing to the Long family. As one of the few thousand-year-old families in Da Yan, they have experienced too many similar situations, and the family's foundation is enough for them to stand aside in this turmoil, but the head of the family at that time supported the former prince because of personal relationship and the other party's promise.

It was the elder brother of the emperor who was very similar to Li Yunqing.

The result is obvious. In that political catastrophe, not long after the death of the Long family saint, the head of the Long family also died with Li Yaoxuan's elder brother, the prince.

The death of the two backbones and a series of strategic decision-making errors made the situation of the Long family precarious. After the death of the head of the family, the internal fighting among the five heirs directly caused the originally powerful Long family to be dismembered and divided almost overnight.

In this environment, Granny Long's brother connected with Xu Yinhe, who had already ascended to the position of Prime Minister of Dayan, through her relationship with Lou Ji.

The man has feelings, and the concubine has intentions.

The cooperation started naturally.

With the help of Xu Yinhe, Granny Long's brother won the internal fight of the Long family as expected and became the only patriarch of the Long family.

The Long family became a close partner of the Xiangfu.

However, even the closest cooperative relationship will always change with the change of time and interests.

In the tenth year when Granny Long's brother was in power in the Long family, at the Xiangfu banquet that year, the patriarch of the Long family and Xu Yinhe had a violent conflict.

Shortly after the unpleasant parting, he suddenly fell ill, very seriously ill, and inexplicably ill.

As a semi-saint, he died so quickly in that serious illness.

After that, a new round of internal fighting broke out in the Long family.

This internal struggle came without warning and was extremely fierce. Almost all the direct descendants of the Long family died in this internal struggle, and the huge Long family was completely dismembered.

However, the strong inertia of the thousand-year-old family still made the power of the Long family not disperse. In the past few decades, they gradually surrounded Long Xinling, the only remaining direct daughter of the Long family.

It has nothing to do with cultivation, it is the nobility of blood.

Just like after the death of the ancient emperor in Xu Yuan's previous life, the ministers below would definitely find a royal family from the side branch to be the emperor.

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A little snow fell on the purple gauze, and Lou Ji's eyes looked a little lonely:

"She actually had no intention of restoring the Long family. She was more of a person who was put in that position by those people without authorization. However, there are a few ambitious people among her descendants. They have already contacted many former officials of the Long family."

As she spoke, Lou Ji lowered her eyes and said with some self-mockery:

"But in fact, even so, she can survive."

Xu Yuan looked at her fair face and asked in a low voice:

"Kill your own descendants to show your loyalty?"

Lou Ji shook her head:

"This is just one of the ways. Your father is very generous. As long as we don't violate the bottom line, his tolerance for us is almost unlimited."

Xu Yuan pondered for a moment, and then understood the meaning behind Lou Ji's words.

The old man did not reject the fact that his subordinates had too much power.

Is Lou Ji powerful?

If you think about it carefully, the Black Scale Guard is already a little scary.

The Black Scale Guards are almost spread throughout the entire territory of Da Yan, and their single-line organizational structure makes the Black Scale Guards almost independent of the power of the Prime Minister's Mansion. In addition, Lou Ji controls many channels to make money.

This is an organization similar to the Jinyiwei in the previous life, but in order to control and eliminate the power of the Jinyiwei, the emperor in the previous life directly castrated them and turned them into eunuchs. However, Xu Yinhe did not care about these, and even turned a blind eye to their private channels for making money.

The old man never minded giving up power, but the premise was that you had to hand in the letter of surrender.

The blood debt caused by the Black Scale Guard almost made the world's sects hate it, and this was the letter of surrender that Lou Ji gave to Xu Yinhe.

You, Long Xinling, want to restore the Long family, yes, but what about the letter of surrender?

Lou Ji said in a low voice with a hint of helplessness:

"Your father waited for Xinling for a long time, but she didn't respond. I was afraid that she didn't understand, and even reminded her privately, but she still didn't respond."

Xu Yuan looked a little puzzled:

"Why?"

This is already an open-book exam, oh no, open-book exams are a bit conservative, this is already putting the answers in front of you and asking you to copy them.

Even if Granny Long couldn't bear to do something to her own offspring, it was okay to do something to the sect.

If Granny Long had this intention, given her friendship with Lou Ji, Xu Yuan believed that even if it was inconvenient for this elder sister to do it herself, she would let her subordinates, the Black Scale Guards, provide her with intelligence convenience.

Lou Ji exhaled a breath of white mist that dissipated in an instant in the snowy night:

"Taking action on the sect will implicate many old ministers of the Long family, and those old ministers are loyal to her."

"But won't the results be the same?"

Xu Yuan whispered: "If she doesn't do it, the Xiangfu will do the same after her death."

"Due to her temperament, she can't take action against her own people."

Lou Ji raised her eyes and looked at the sword light that was gradually dissipating in the sky, as if she saw the girl who was trembling timidly when she spoke to her when they first met.

Biting her lip, Lou Ji gently clenched her fists:

"If I was just assisting at that time, letting her handle those things by herself, making her temperament more cold-blooded, perhaps the results now would be a little different."

Granny Long died of her gentle temperament and died of "trying" to restore the Long family.

Although this may not be her original intention, she must die.

After she finished speaking, Lou Ji did not want to talk for a while, so Xu Yuan accompanied her to the outside of Xiangqin Pavilion.

The female guests in Lou Ji's direct line had been dealt with, and the next step was to go to Xingjing Pavilion where the male guests were.

However, Lou Ji's mood adjusted quickly. When the two arrived at Xingjing Pavilion, she smiled and chatted with Xu Yuan.

She talked to him about the female guest named Sister Lou Ji.

What made Xu Yuan laugh and cry was that the reason why his father ordered the death of this sister was because of love brain.

She had a husband, and this husband was a waste in all aspects except his appearance and poetry.

He liked to make friends with some dignitaries and liked to show off in front of them.

Just like Xu Yuan used to steal internal references from his father's study because he was short of money and sold them for money, Lou Ji's sister's husband often leaked some confidential information because of those "friends".

But the difference between the two is that his wife is just a high-ranking member of the Black Scale Guard, while Xu Yuan's father is the owner of the Xiangfu.

His actions will lead to serious consequences, while Xu Yuan can do so without any consequences - if being hung up and beaten by Xu Changge is not a consequence.

Before tonight, Lou Ji had warned the adopted sister who was picked up in the dark alley more than once, but there is no hope for love brain. She forgot after a few days and continued to indulge her husband.

So she died tonight.

After arriving at Xingjingxuan, the white snow on the ground that was dispersed by Feng Jiuxuan's sword had piled up again. Xu Yuan just accompanied Lou Ji in Xingjingxuan while walking and killing people.

They all knew what they had done. Some of them chose to be decent, while others completed the decent with the help of Lou Ji.

But what made Xu Yuan a little helpless was that those dishonorable guests were all targeting him when they took action.

Like the great father wandering around with a flaw.

While killing people, Lou Ji also told Xu Yuan the reason for killing these people.

Some people betrayed directly, some compromised with the sect privately, and some stopped making progress after their power stabilized.

In addition, Xu Yuan met two old acquaintances on the way to kill people with Lou Ji.

The two old men Jiang He and Hua Hong.

After the Xiangfu formation was opened, people without soul keys would fall into the chaos formation and could not use their spiritual sense to explore the outside world.

The two old men, each with two black-robed men with deep breath, knocked on the door one by one.

When he was hesitating whether to say hello, the two old men had already snorted coldly and passed by the two.

It seems that he is not in a good mood.

Killing his own direct line by himself will naturally not be happy.

Xu Yuan thinks this is probably a kind of surrender.

Coming out of the last courtyard, Xu Yuan sighed lightly:

"This is really a big purge"

Tonight, Xu Yuan accompanied Lou Ji to kill a total of eleven people.

A rough calculation shows that one is suspected to be a mortal, three are suspected to be the origin, four are suspected to be grandmasters, and four mortals.

If we count the people that Hua Hong, Jiang He and other core members of the Xiangfu dealt with themselves, this number should be several times higher.

And when the aftermath of this purge spreads outside the Xiangfu, the number of people involved will probably increase by a hundred times.

"It will be painful to remove the tumor, but this is the only way to continue on the road."

Lou Ji used the spirit powder to dispose of the corpse and said softly: "Don't worry, your father has prepared a plan for everyone killed tonight. Tonight is the beginning and the end. There will be no big turmoil in the Prime Minister's Mansion."

Xu Yuan smiled slightly:

"hope so."

Lou Ji's beautiful eyes curved, she patted the remaining spiritual powder on her hand, and said with a chuckle:

"Now that everything has been dealt with, should Chang Tian return to the inner courtyard tonight, or should he stay and talk to his sister?"

Xu Yuan glanced at Lou Ji's smiling expression and shook his head gently:

"I think you would rather have some quiet time by yourself than talk."

Lou Ji raised her hand and touched Xu Yuan's head:

"Changtian, you really understand me."

Xu Yuan raised his hand to open Lou Ji's hand, turned around and walked towards the inner courtyard:

"I'm going back first. So many things happened tonight, and Xinyao didn't know anything about it. She should be very worried if she stays alone in the inner courtyard."

"I'll give it to you."

"Need not."

"Do you want to pass under Ran Jianli's nose?"

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"Zhihu——"

When Xu Yuan returned to the inner courtyard and opened the main courtyard door, he saw the beautiful figure pacing back and forth in the main hall where the family was dining.

The sky was like an aurora, the brilliant sword light completely dissipated, the sky returned to darkness, and amid the swaying wind and snow, the inscription lamp illuminated the lobby clearly, reflecting the anxious look on the girl's face.

The moment she heard the movement at the door, a flash of surprise flashed in the girl's eyes, and she immediately rushed forward and asked eagerly:

"Third brother, what happened outside?"

Xu Yuan smiled softly at her and said softly while walking towards the lobby:

"A piece of good news and a piece of bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

Xu Xinyao was stunned when she heard this, and then stamped her feet angrily:

"Brother! Stop showing off!"

Entering the lobby, Xu Yuan took out his chair and sat down, crossed his legs idly, looked at the fourth sister who was like a follower, and said with a slow smile:

"The good news is that we found the Boundary Sky Stone."

"What?"

Xu Xinyao was slightly startled, and then she reacted quickly.

As a formation master, she is very aware of the value of an artifact like the Boundary Sky Stone that can be engraved with a teleportation formation.

She asked tentatively:

"What happened outside is because of the Jie Kong Stone?"

"You can say that."

Xu Yuan nodded and whispered: "But the bad news is that we failed and the cooked boundary stone flew away."

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Xu Yuan did not tell Xu Xinyao the whole night, but briefly recounted the night's events from beginning to end. Just as he was about to make some jokes to lighten the atmosphere, he suddenly caught a glimpse of an additional figure in the courtyard outside the main hall.

Together, a figure raised his head.

It's Feng Jiuxuan who's back.

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