When Su Xunli heard Li Yuan's strange expression, he was neither anxious nor annoyed, and even placed the chopsticks in front of the two of them in a very polite manner.

Then he turned to Zheng Xiu and said, "The wine sacrifice told me a few days ago that if I want to take a further step in the arts, I need to learn from you."

"When I arrived at your house yesterday, you had already rested, so I was waiting outside the door."

"Later, when I saw the spies from the aristocratic family, I wanted to follow my master and learn how to behave in the world."

After Su Xunli finished speaking, his disciple Li waved towards Zheng Xiu.

But there was no change in Zheng Xiu's face.

Offering wine? Jixia Academy? Zheng Xiu knows this place.

My predecessor also wanted to study there before, but because he had no connections and didn't have that much money, he was eventually turned away.

Now, I didn't expect that there would be people from Jixia Academy who wanted to take the initiative to learn from him.

Li Yuan on the side was not too surprised. After all, he was the owner of Dongchang and was well-informed.

Although Su Xunli was just an insignificant little guy, he still had some impressions.

But since they are from Jixia Academy, it is really hard to offend them. After all, the current court needs these people.

Li Yuan thought for a while, then waved to Zheng Xiu, and then said to Su Xunli: "I have something to tell him, so please step back some distance first."

After seeing Su Xunli, he respectfully retreated outside.

Li Yuancai turned his attention to Zheng Xiu again.

"Some words come out from me and go into you. No third person can know these words."

Zheng Xiu nodded. He knew what Li Yuan meant. What he was going to discuss next would involve risks.

"I have already said the first thing. The Empress will not embarrass you over trivial matters, especially now that the Empress is short of manpower."

"The second thing is more important, that is, the person who committed the crime a few days ago has confessed."

When Li Yuan said this, he first looked around, and then used his eyes to signal Zheng Xiu to activate "Drawing the Ground as a Prison".

Zheng Xiu also understood what he meant, and directly transferred the two people's minds to his own Wen Dao secret realm.

The environment inside is exactly the same as outside, with the same tables and the same food, but other places have been shrouded in darkness.

"Those people are all dead soldiers, and they are all dead soldiers who have taken poison in advance."

Dead soldiers? Can Daxia hide so many dead soldiers? He thought they were dead soldiers from other countries.

"I know you may not believe it, but I can tell you responsibly that as the owner of Dongchang Factory, I have met too many people."

"This group of people must be dead warriors, and they are dead warriors trained using Daxia's methods. I can tell this from the scars on their bodies."

"Although these people have been fully prepared, relying on our many years of interrogation experience, we can still get a lot of useful information."

Most of them are dead warriors trained by famous families, and most of them are sons of those famous families, so their loyalty is unquestionable.

The main task of these people this time was to rescue some people, because these people also hid some money in some places and did not have time to transport it away.

Those aristocratic families want to use this money, I really don't know what they think, they must touch the empress's brow.

As for their other mission is to kill you, although these people misjudged your strength, they are still a group of forces that cannot be underestimated.

More importantly, this will definitely not be the last time, especially after you refuse the solicitation of aristocratic families, they will definitely send more people to assassinate you.

It's easy to hide from open guns, but hard to guard against hidden arrows. It's okay if the opponent is in the open, but if the opponent chooses endless assassinations, it will be too tiring.

After Li Yuan said this, he looked at Zheng Xiu's expression very seriously.

If Zheng Xiu was in trouble, he would immediately use his personal connections to ask some people to protect Zheng Xiu and avoid further trouble.

After Zheng Xiu, who was opposite Li Yuan, thought for a while, his face suddenly showed a hint of joy, because he discovered that this was not a bad thing.

If the other party would really send so many people to kill him, wouldn't he be able to directly become the Emperor of Merit?

Li Yuan, who was opposite him, saw Zheng Xiu looking a little happy, and he was confused for a moment. He even thought that it might be because his reminder was not in place.

But when he thought of Zheng Xiu's fighting ability that day, he didn't say much.

After all, even a fourth-level master was easily restrained by Zheng Xiu. Those whom he could use personal relationships to understand may not be more powerful than Master Zheng.

By then, if those people from aristocratic families are really capable of being above the third level, they will definitely be discovered by Qin Tianjian as soon as possible, so there is no need to worry too much.

Of course, although the first two things were dangerous, they were not troublesome. It was the third thing that really gave him a headache.

"I heard that Your Excellency made a bet with His Majesty? Is it about natural disasters?"

When Zheng Xiu heard this, he immediately changed his previous attitude.

After all, if I had just boasted about Haikou and bet against natural disasters, what if something unexpected happened immediately in Daxia?

Then the grievances of the adult who brought the potatoes back would have no chance of being redressed.

"My father-in-law said so, but what happened recently?"

Zheng Xiu looked at Li Yuan opposite him very seriously, fearing that the other party would tell him where the disaster was.

Li Yuan nodded first, then shook his head.

"There hasn't been any trouble recently, but there are some things I want to tell you. I hope you can prepare in advance."

As Eunuch Li spoke, he took out a volume of bamboo slips from his arms.

It contains dense records of the recent natural and man-made disasters that occurred in Great Xia.

In the spring of 150, there were heavy rains and floods burst the banks, drowning tens of thousands of people.

In the summer of 150, there was a severe drought, the land was bare for thousands of miles, and tens of thousands of people were resurrected from the dead.

In the autumn of 150 in the Great Xia Dynasty, there was a great epidemic, corpses littered the fields, and nine out of ten houses were empty.

………………

Disasters were recorded one after another, and tens of thousands of people died each time. If they were to die like this, even Daxia would not have a few years left.

Zheng Xiu looked over it bit by bit, and finally saw a turning point in Daxia 157.

In the autumn of 157 in the Great Xia Dynasty, there was a locust plague. The national master used this method to communicate with the locust god to avoid large-scale damage and more than ten thousand deaths.

In the winter of 160 in Daxia, it was extremely cold. The state master used this method and contacted Zoroastrianism to prevent ordinary people in Daxia from freezing to death.

………………

The further you go, the greater the distance between the dangers that Daxia has experienced, and the smaller the harms it has suffered, and these records are all related to one person without exception, and that is the National Preceptor.

"What your father-in-law means is that you want me to communicate more with the Imperial Guards and prevent natural disasters as much as possible?"

Zheng Xiu asked with some uncertainty.

But as soon as he said these words, Li Yuan across from him sighed.

"I might have said this before, but I just got the news that the Imperial Master seemed to want to sacrifice you to heaven."

"Sacrifice me to the heavens? Father-in-law, are you joking? I don't seem to have offended this national master, right? Why are you sacrificing me to the heavens?"

"I don't know, but it is indeed true, but the empress rejected it. I hope Master Zheng will be more careful. I know that you are dedicated to the people, but you also have to be wary of other people. Some people want you dead, and it may have nothing to do with you.
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