Chapter 25 [Five Years Later]

five years.

Passed by.

"yawn!"

Li Chengqian woke up slowly and sneezed.

"Your Highness."

A woman pushed the door open and walked in, with a faint fragrance on her body.

She held hot water in her hands, the temperature was just right.

With her slender hands, she gently stirred the water in the basin, wet the handkerchief, wrung out most of the water, walked to Li Chengqian, bowed slightly, and wiped his face.

The movements are delicate, gentle and extremely skillful.

Li Chengqian had four personal maids, namely Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum.

Plum blossom in spring, orchid in summer, bamboo in autumn, chrysanthemum in winter.

The person in front of me is Chunmei.

That was Chunchan at the beginning, but the name was changed later.

Five years later, Chunchan has become an eighth-rank master.

Among the four daughters, Mei, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum, Qiuzhu is already of the ninth rank, and the other three are all of the eighth rank.

For the past five years, Li Chengqian has been busy building his own power and has almost never stopped.

Fortunately, he only needs to be the person behind the scenes, making plans and strategizing, and does not need to do everything himself.

The six rates of the Eastern Palace are divided into six rates for men and six rates for women.

Three thousand guards and three thousand female soldiers.

Among the six thousand soldiers, the lowest level ones are all sixth-grade warriors.

Each and every one of them is loyal and has no regrets, whether in life or death.

Three thousand female soldiers, all of them are young.

At the beginning, he racked his brains for soldiers.

Finally, he set his sights on the Jiaofangsi.

Here, there are many girls whose fate is ruined because their homes have been confiscated and their families have been exterminated.

For this reason, Li Chengqian gave them a chance to escape from their suffering.

In addition, there are the women in Zuixianju who can also join if they have the qualifications.

In five years, each of the six thousand guards was a brave and skilled fighter with unique skills.

However, everyone practices the art of concealing their breath, so it seems that their strength is average.

There are twelve eunuchs beside Li Chengqian, and each of them is at least at the eighth level.

Among them, three have broken through to the ninth level.

Li Chengqian himself had already broken through to the Grand Master level five years ago.

Three years ago, Li Chengqian left the capital on behalf of Emperor Qing to inspect the Jiangzuo area.

He also took this opportunity to plant his own pawns outside of Kyoto and establish an intelligence network and underworld forces.

With the help of the Life and Death Pill, everything seems to be easy.

When passing by Danzhou, he met Fan Xian.

After washing my face, it’s time for breakfast.

Now, he has a deep understanding of how to enjoy life.

If you have this opportunity to live your life again, it would be a pity not to enjoy it.

"Your Highness, the Second Prince has sent a message to invite you to go hunting at the Royal Villa today."

Xia Lan walked closer, squatted down beside Li Chengqian, massaged his legs, and reported.

Li Chengqian opened his mouth and ate the grapes that Dongju handed over. "Well, reply to him, I will definitely go."

"Your Highness, I'm afraid the Second Prince has invited you with bad intentions." Chunmei said, pinching his shoulders.

"That's fine. I want to see if he has made any progress in the past five years."

Over the years, in order to reassure Emperor Qing and also to maintain checks and balances, Li Chengqian did not uproot the Second Prince.

Moreover, when necessary, we will lend a helping hand and strengthen the forces around them.

If he killed the second prince, Emperor Qing would definitely become suspicious, and in order to maintain a balance, he would definitely support another second prince.

At this time, two figures appeared from above the palace wall.

The long sword in his hand was pointed directly at Li Chengqian's face.

Unfortunately, before they could get close, two figures suddenly flew backwards, hit the wall, and spit out blood.

The long sword in his hand has been broken.

The two eunuchs who were sweeping the floor swept it away slowly with a broom, and it fell into the garbage truck over there, and they pushed the truck away.

Then, two eunuchs came running with buckets of water and cleaned the bloodstains on the ground.

The twelve eunuchs were hiding around the East Palace.

There were people sweeping the floor, cooking, fetching water, standing guard, and passing on orders. Each of them looked inconspicuous.

Over the years, the Second Prince has sent out experts to assassinate him more than once, but they always failed to return.

Moreover, these people were killed before they even entered the inner courtyard.

Silently and without leaving any trace.

"Your Highness, it's time to turn over the cards." Qiu Zhu brought over a blue wooden box with gold threads and half-knelt in front of Li Chengqian.

"Qiuzhu, you need to smile more. It's better to smile like this. If you keep a cold face all day, people who don't know will think that I owe you money."

Hearing this, Qiu Zhu smiled gently.

"See, this is the right way."

Li Chengqian glanced at the sign covering the box and said:

"This time, you will turn it for me."

"Me?" Qiu Zhu was stunned.

She was wearing an ancient Chinese costume with bamboo leaf carvings on it, which was very charming like a woman in ancient costume.

Dongju, however, was wearing black stockings.

It’s a waste not to wear black stockings on such long legs.

"Ministry of Justice, the Second Prince's Ministry of Justice." Qiu Zhu said, looking at the sign in his hand.

"Ministry of Justice?" Li Chengqian took the sign and pondered for a moment.

After a moment, he said, "Chunmei, send a message to Zuixianju and ask Si Lili to be prepared and proceed as planned."

"Yes!"

Qiu Zhu put the box away and stood up to put it away.

The Second Prince's Palace.

"Your Highness, news has come from the East Palace that the Crown Prince has agreed to go." The scholar strategist bowed slightly.

"Good, very good!" The second prince said good repeatedly.

"This time, I want him to never come back!"

As he said this, he smiled coldly, "The prince was hunting and died from a giant python and a tiger. This has nothing to do with me."

Over the past five years, the Second Prince has been almost driven crazy by the Crown Prince.

He used various methods, but the prince was always able to handle it with ease.

Now, we have to resort to this desperate measure.

This is a very bad idea!
If the prince dies, he will be implicated.

But he's gambling!

I bet that even if Emperor Qing can see through everything, he will still choose him.

The prince today is no longer the same as before.

His countless methods had no effect at all on Li Chengqian.

Not to mention other things, just the assassins who were sent out, so far, no one has returned alive.

Failure would have been fine, but he didn't even see the assassin's body.

The people sent out seemed to have evaporated into thin air.

Three years ago, the prince left Beijing. What a great opportunity that was.

He seized the opportunity decisively and put all his efforts into suppressing the prince's power in Kyoto to the point where he could hardly breathe.

However, after the prince returned to the capital, he turned the situation around in just a few days.

All his efforts were wasted and destroyed in an instant.

It has been five years, and the second prince feels really depressed.

Sometimes he felt that he should be grateful to the prince for not killing him.

This feeling is very strange, but it is real.

Finally, he realized that he was no match for the prince.

The prince kept him around just to provide a check and balance and to reassure Emperor Qing.

However, once Li Chengqian ascends the throne, this balance will be completely broken.

Seeing that his life was in danger, the second prince finally could not sit still anymore.

So, he had to take a risk!
Take risks at all costs.

As long as Li Chengqian dies, all problems will be solved.

To this end, he did not hesitate to set up a trap just to kill Li Chengqian.

“Bi’an, when the time comes, you will do it yourself!
There are no experts around the prince except a bunch of women.

Kill him first, and then slowly deal with the rest."

"Okay!" Xie Bian said coldly, holding the sword.

(End of this chapter)