Chapter 35: Kind father and filial son, Meng Po offers advice! Luoyang, Chaoyuan Hall."Your Majesty, Meng Po has arrived." The shrill voice of the eunuch on duty sounded. Zhu Wen, who was playing with his daughter-in-law Zhang on the dragon chair, stopped immediately. Looking at the disheveled Zhang in his arms, he said, "You go down first." Zhang leaned on Zhu Wen with seductive eyes and said, "Yes, Your Majesty." Seeing this, Zhu Wen couldn't help but pinch the beautiful woman's delicate buttocks in his arms, causing Zhang to laugh repeatedly, "Haha, Your Majesty, stop making trouble, otherwise your daughter-in-law will be wet again..." Zhang's coquettish appearance made Zhu Wen furious. He could not help but touch her on the dragon chair in a ridiculous way before waving his hand and saying, "Let Meng Po in." creak... The palace door opened wide, and a short figure walked in slowly. Meng Po leaned on her cane and bowed, saying, "Meng Po greets Your Majesty." Zhu Wen, who felt a little sore in the waist and knees, leaned back on the dragon chair and glanced at Meng Po and said, "You have been following me for thirty years. Is the Xuanming Sect still the same as it was back then?" The Xuanming Sect was a knife in Zhu Wen's hand. Now the knife fell into the hands of his son Zhu Yougui. With a sharp weapon in hand and murderous intent in mind, Zhu Wen felt somewhat uneasy sitting on the throne. Meng Po's hoarse voice slowly sounded, "Your Majesty, I have been monitoring the Dark Emperor for many years under your orders. Now the Dark Emperor has become increasingly dissatisfied with you because of the issue of establishing a crown prince. After being taught a lesson by you in Chongde Hall that day, the Dark Emperor returned to the Xuanming Sect and lost his temper. He even cursed at you and threatened... threatened..." Zhu Wen frowned and suppressed his anger, saying, "What are you threatening? Go on!" This time Meng Po seemed to have mustered up all her courage and lowered her head and said, "The Dark Emperor threatened to kill the king, saying that he should rule the world." “Hahaha…” Zhu Wen sneered three times, then laughed loudly, “How dare you?” He propped up his fat body, put his hands behind his back, and sneered, “Tell him to go out of the city to capture Li Xingyun, but he repeatedly claimed to be sick and refused to go out. Sure enough, he is unwilling to do so!”
"Meng Po, Li Zhen should have told you that the Xuanming Sect must have a major change of personnel. Now we need to find a way to get rid of him. What do you think we should do?" Meng Po bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the Dark Emperor has been practicing evil skills and his mind has changed. If he is provoked now, he will probably fight to the death with Your Majesty. So Your Majesty should appease him first. What if you grant him the title of Crown Prince? Threaten him with the title of Crown Prince and let him go out of the city to capture Li Xingyun. Then, Your Majesty can regain control of the Xuanming Sect. By then, no matter how powerful the Dark Emperor is, what can he do?" Zhu Wen narrowed his eyes slightly upon hearing this, and then nodded slowly. He really didn't like Zhu Yougui, but he couldn't help but acknowledge the ability of his weird son. Over the years, Zhu Yougui relied on Xuanming Sect to do a lot of dirty work for Daliang. Zhu Yougui also gradually won over a group of followers who spoke for him in the court. Without a good excuse, Zhu Wen couldn't directly use military force against Xuanming Sect, otherwise it would definitely chill the hearts of those old ministers. "Just do as you say." Zhu Wen's decree also indicated that the father-son relationship between him and Zhu Yougui had come to an end. However, as an emperor who had just slept with his own daughter-in-law, he probably did not take this bit of family affection seriously. Meng Po bowed and said, "Yes, Your Majesty." As Meng Po retreated, the sound of "puchi" could be heard from time to time in the hall. It must be from one of the concubines or daughters-in-law. The lewdness involved was not to be told to outsiders. …… The headquarters of Xuanming Sect. The Hades' dwarf-like body was shaking with righteousness at this moment, and a harsh voice rang out from his mouth, "So, this old fellow is determined to fight me to the death?" Meng Po on the side sighed and said, "The Hades worked hard for your majesty, but I didn't expect that he would end up like this. I feel sorry for the Hades." "He forced me to do this. If he wants to die, don't blame me!" The Hades' eyes glowed red and a ball of black internal force condensed in his hands. The dark aura made the temperature around him drop a few degrees. "The Emperor of the Underworld has great ambitions. I will be the first to support you as the emperor, but you cannot fight with His Majesty directly." Meng Po said this sincerely, and the Emperor of the Underworld could not help but turn around and asked, "Oh? What do you mean?" Meng Po bowed and said, "With your ability, it is not difficult to kill one person, but the difficult part is how you can legitimately sit on the throne of the emperor. His Majesty has many sons. If you are labeled as a patricide, who in the world will obey you? How can those adopted sons of His Majesty who hold heavy troops obey you? Even if the strongest ghost king among His Majesty's many sons has been imprisoned by you, there are still people like Zhu Youzhen outside who will not give up the throne so easily." The Hades nodded slightly upon hearing this and said, "Go on!" Meng Po then bowed and said: "I have three plans to make the Hades Emperor sit on the throne openly and honestly!" "The first plan is to kill someone with a borrowed knife! Didn't His Majesty force you to capture Li Xingyun by using the position of Crown Prince? You just go with the flow and go out of the city to find Li Xingyun, but not to capture him, but to cooperate with him. Now everyone in the world knows that Li Xingyun is the tenth son of Emperor Zhaozong of the Tang Dynasty. If you want to talk about who has the strongest desire to kill His Majesty, it must be Li Xingyun! As long as you agree to let Li Xingyun sneak into Luoyang smoothly, he will surely not refuse such a good opportunity. At that time, you can use Li Xingyun's hand to get rid of His Majesty, and then you can kill Li Xingyun. You will kill two birds with one stone, and the world will also praise your reputation for avenging his father. Why not do it?" The Dark Emperor paced back and forth, waved his hands and said, "It sounds good, but Li Xingyun doesn't have the ability to break into Luoyang. Luoyang has a hundred thousand defenders. Even if I take him into Luoyang, he can't break into the palace. Tell me about your subsequent arrangements." Meng Po smiled and said, "Yes." "The second strategy is to sow discord! There are 100,000 troops stationed in Luoyang, and 80,000 of them are stationed in the camp 20 miles outside the city. There are only 20,000 defenders in Luoyang City. The most powerful of them are the 5,000 Iron Spear Army under the command of Wang Yanzhang, the Jinzi Guanglu Doctor. After Li Xingyun enters Luoyang, I will arrange for Wang Yanzhang and Li Xingyun to meet. By then, the news in the city will reach your majesty's ears. With your majesty's current suspicion, Wang Yanzhang will definitely not escape the disaster of imprisonment and dismissal! At that time, you will help him. The Luoyang defenders will have their hearts in your hands." The Dark Emperor frowned and said, "Wang Yanzhang is a loyal and brave general, but he is loyal to the old man. However, I am afraid that Wang Yanzhang will not bow to me."
Meng Po laughed and said, "Have you forgotten that His Majesty likes other people's wives? Let your wife Zhang whisper in His Majesty's ear and send Wang Yanzhang's wife Lu to the palace. Then you can secretly rescue Lu. After that, you can personally tell Wang Yanzhang about His Majesty's absurd behavior. With Lu as a witness, do you think Wang Yanzhang will still be loyal to His Majesty?" The Hades' eyes lit up, as if he was interested, and continued: "And I can also take this opportunity to gather the Iron Spear Army. With Wang Yanzhang's prestige in the army, I can also smoothly obtain the military power of the 100,000 Luoyang garrison! But..." The Hades glanced at Meng Po slightly: "But gathering military power can only be done after that old man dies. The key to the success of this plan is that Li Xingyun must succeed in the assassination, but I'm afraid that Li Xingyun can't deal with it with just the palace guards." Meng Po said with a puzzled look, "This is the third plan I proposed, which is to replace the pillars with the beams! Doesn't Li Xingyun have the assassin organization Bad People left over from the previous dynasty? Li Xingyun can't kill His Majesty by himself, but what if he has three thousand Bad People?" As Meng Po spoke, she slowly turned around and faced the Dark Emperor's confidants, opened her arms and said, "Dark Emperor, look at your three thousand elites, are they similar to the bad guys under Li Xingyun?" Instantly, all the elite members of the Xuanming Sect knelt on one knee, raised their scimitars and shouted excitedly, "Long live the Dark Emperor! Long live the Dark Emperor! Long live the Dark Emperor!" "Substituting one thing for another, hahaha, what a good substitution, hahahaha, good, good, Meng Po, it turns out that old ginger is still wise!" The Hades laughed loudly, and his gloomy face looked somewhat innocent and cute because of the smile at this time... The Wuhu and Luoyang story is about to begin!
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