Chapter 17 Box Poison Needle Kill Kill Kill
There was a mansion beside Shenzheng Road in Kyoto, which was bought by Wang Qinian with one hundred and twenty taels of silver, with several formalities in between, so I believe no one can find out who the real owner is. Fan Xian frowned as he looked at the two big men in the corner who were tied up tightly, the big men’s mouths were stuffed with stinking rags, their faces were red, tears were flowing from the corners of their eyes, they couldn’t speak, and naturally, they couldn’t commit suicide by biting their tongues.
“Where did you catch them?” Fan Xian asked softly.
The four officers behind Wang Qinian bowed and responded, “Seven miles outside the city, Lord Wang found the other party’s trail, the other party wanted to argue after we blocked them, but couldn’t help us checking, so they admitted the account, after the lord left the capital yesterday, these two people have been following them, I just don’t know what method they used to notify their people of this, and I don’t know what kind of relationship they have with the Eastern Palace, actually arranging for this coincidence to happen. what relationship, actually arranging this coincidental encounter.”
Fan Xian frowned, not thinking that he had casually guessed, but really pulled out a conspiracy clue, it seems that he is not too wise, really too many enemies are too stupid, Kyoto is too dark, everyone has a black tail with a hair fork behind their ass. He also understands that his subordinate said to check, must have used torture, but since the other party admitted, what means used, naturally no one cares.
“Have you asked clearly whose people it is yet?” Fan Xian lowered his voice and asked Wang Qinian.
Wang Qinian shook his head, “The less my subordinate knows, the better, so I’m waiting for your honor to interrogate him personally.”
Fan Xian nodded, pleased with his prudence, but immediately afterward, he fell into deep thought himself. He looked at the two big men in the corner, easily seeing something else between the other’s brows. People who possessed such a resolute demeanor, yet had not been trained in punishment, firstly, they could not be from the Supervisory Court, and secondly, they could not be from the Imperial Palace, which had long since been examined not to be eunuchs.
So the most likely, or the second prince’s private force, of course, that far at the foot of the Yinshan Mountain of the great prince can not get off the suspicion. At this time, Fan Xian suddenly recalled his father Sinan Bo’s words, when you don’t know who is your enemy, don’t make enemies indiscriminately – even if you know who is your enemy so what? Assuming one asked if the second prince had done it, could one really kill his way into the royal residence? Fan Xian smiled bitterly, knowing that there were some things that were better left unasked.
“No need to ask.” Fan Xian rubbed his brow, as if there was some depression there, “Kill them all.”
“Yes.” The subordinates were all stern ghosts of the Inspectorate, so there was not a hint of surprise at this bloody order, and they calmly walked forward, pulled out the waist knife beside them, and stabbed it into the waist and abdomen of those two big men, and two puffs sounded one after another, and the two big men’s feet stomped two times in a haphazard manner, and their eyes rolled over and they were dead.
“Bury them properly.” Fan Xian commanded, making no pretense of showing a bit of grief.
“Yes.” The subordinate answered.
After leaving this courtyard, they traveled through the alleys of Kyoto for a long time before the two of them took to the main road. Wang Qinian accompanied him on his walk, maintaining the silent politeness that a subordinate should have. Fan Xian suddenly opened his mouth and said, ”When will the missions from Northern Qi and Dong Yi City arrive? The courtyard should have information on that.”
Wang Qinian responded, “Ever since we entered the country, we have been assisting the officials around the country to receive them. Looking at the date, it should arrive early next month.”
Fan Xian nodded, “Help me find out what kind of people are on the other side, and in addition ……,” he said after a brief pause, “If it’s not considered a bad rule, could you please ask the courtyard to ask the scouts in Beiqi to get some information back, and it’s best to check out , what is the bottom line of the Beiqi mission to negotiate this time.”
Wang Qinian also heard the Crown Prince’s words earlier, so he knew that Lord Fan was going to be the deputy reception ambassador, so he answered in a deep voice, and said, “The son of the four big leaders, Yan Ruohai, Yan Bingyun, has been lurking in Northern Qi for four years, and is very effective, so I guess there should be quite a lot of good material.”
Fan Xian reminded him, “This kind of thing should be talked about less in the future, or else if the people of Northern Qi know about it, I’m only afraid that Lord Yan’s son will be in danger.”
Wang Qinian smiled and explained, “As the Tisan, Your Excellency has the authority to know about this matter.”
Fan Xian also smiled, “It’s better to know less about this kind of responsibility.”
Wang Qinian looked at the gentle smile on his lord’s clean face, and then thought of the murder in the courtyard earlier, his mood was a bit strange, and asked softly, “Since it’s better not to know than to know, why do you still want to investigate, as it seems that the deaths of these two people were not necessary.”
Fan Xian calmly replied, “Although it is better not to know than to know, it is still necessary to investigate, and those two people must also die. Because I have to let others know that I know what they don’t want me to know, and the two lives are a warning for them not to come back and try to manipulate me. It seems that the Ox Barricade didn’t make those high and mighty characters tighten up a bit, and the death of my second uncle at the foot of Cangshan Mountain was again caused by the Four Gu Swords, so presumably they think I’m easy to bully?”
Although a series of know some tongue-twisting meaning, Wang Qinian slightly confused, but still gradually clear the meaning, nodded. Fan Xian suddenly curled his lips and smiled, “Don’t worry that I haven’t seen blood or dead people, you don’t know how I grew up.”
The world was peaceful in the latter days, and no one seemed to care at all about the deaths of those two nameless dudes. But Fan Xian surmised that the matter must have begun to play out. Occasionally going to the Taishang Temple to order his work, occasionally going to the Tanyu Bookstore to collect money, occasionally going to the tofu store to move his hands, occasionally going to the Chancellor’s Mansion to get closer to his future old husband, occasionally diving at night into the Imperial Residence to fall in love with love, and occasionally staying in the Fan Mansion to tell stories with his sister and to copy some books to read, was all that was left of Fan Xian’s life in these days.
This night, he washed up, ready to go to bed, his eyes fell on the black leather box thrown aside. He didn’t know what was in the box, so naturally he would be a bit curious, but he had been in the same room for a long time and the key was unaccounted for, so now he couldn’t help but be a bit numb. Of course, if he knew that Chen Pingping also cared about this box, he would have re-estimated the value of the box, and would not have thrown it in the room like rags, but would have dug a big pit under the bed and covered it with three layers of steel wrenches to hide it.
Where was the key? As if the heavens had suddenly heard the great question in his heart, a very cold voice rang in Fan Xian’s ears:
“The key is in the palace.”
Immediately afterward, a windless and silent black stick came from beyond the heavens and ruthlessly smashed into Fan Xian’s back. With a muffled sound, Fan Xian was unable to dodge and was heavily knocked to the ground, his back bursting with raw pain, and he hmmm’d twice in some pain, blowing up a few strands of ash in front of his face.
“You’ve regressed.” Although Five Bamboo’s voice was devoid of emotion, it was clear that he held a rather negative attitude towards Fan Xian’s performance.
“Uncle?” Fan Xian had been used to this kind of life since he was a child, and with great difficulty, he climbed up from the ground, the true qi in his body moving slowly to dissipate the pain in his back, and as he looked at the darkened corner, he couldn’t help but say in a low voice, “Uncle, I haven’t seen you in so many days, I’ve really been worried to death.”
Somewhat unaccustomed to the passion that flowed from his words, Five Bamboos coldly took half a step back, coldly poking through Fan Xian’s lie: “I know, you’re not worried about me.”
Fan Xian smiled somewhat bitterly, indeed he didn’t have much to worry about, a psychopathic clan-level assassin like Five Bamboos, I believe that he wouldn’t be in trouble wherever he went. But Fan Xian hadn’t seen him for a long time, and really missed him a bit, and was a bit curious, wondering what he had been doing these days. Perhaps Uncle Five Bamboo had been by his side all along, and he didn’t know it?
Five Bamboo continued, “The key is in the palace.”
It took a second repetition for Fan Xian to wake up and frown slightly, followed by a sudden realization, “So you’ve been looking for the key all these days.”
“It’s a relic of miss, I shouldn’t have listened to Chen Pingping and left the key in the capital in the first place.” Five Bamboo’s tone was still indifferent and unlike a mortal, “I searched for some days in the palace, and initially calculated three possible places.”
“Too risky!” Fan Xian lowered his voice and growled, slightly annoyed deep inside. Although Uncle Five Bamboo had the strength of a Grandmaster, but the inner palace was not a good place, not to mention that the guards were all masters, alone Fei Jie had once mentioned that the most mysterious one within the four Grandmasters had always been hidden within the palace. Five Bamboo even risked staying in the palace for so many days, if in case he was discovered, that mysterious Grand Master would naturally strike, plus the five hundred Banshi Banzhi, I’m afraid that even if Five Bamboo’s divine power was heavenly, he wouldn’t have the means to come out alive.
As if he hadn’t noticed Fan Xian’s resentment, Five Bamboos continued indifferently, “Do you want the key?”
Fan Xian calmed down, in his heart he understood the intention of Uncle Five Bamboo’s visit today, the other party had always been a person who hid in the darkness, if there wasn’t something that needed to be exchanged, Fan Xian even doubted that the other party would never meet with him for eternity, just protecting him in the shadows. And this night, Five Bamboo came to say the key thing, that must not be to ask for his opinion, but because this thing needs his participation.
Just …… Uncle Five Bamboo to take one thing in this world if it is all very difficult, what can one help? Fan Xian thought while saying softly, “What do you need me to do?”
“Those three places in the palace are very difficult to enter.” Five Bamboo said expressionlessly.
Fan Xian was a little curious about which three places they were and opened his mouth to ask.
“Xingqing Palace, Hanguang Hall, and Guangxin Palace.”
Fan Xian was stunned and laughed bitterly, inside the palace, these three places were indeed the most heavily guarded, respectively the residence of the emperor, the empress dowager and the eldest princess, not to mention the worst place to enter in the palace, it could simply be said that it was the most difficult place to enter in the whole world.
“I want you to find a way to drag that eunuch called Hong Si Itchy outside the palace for an hour.”
Fan Xian frowned slightly, “Eunuch Hong? The leader of the eunuchs in the palace, a veteran of three dynasties, I’ve heard that he’s been in the palace since the day of the founding of the country, and has deep influence, but if you’re going to steal the key from the palace, why do you want me to trick him into going outside the palace? What is the relationship between this?” He suddenly thought of something and raised his head in surprise to look at the piece of black cloth on Wuzhu’s face, and said in a trembling voice, “Could it be that Eunuch Hong is the most mysterious of all great masters in the legend?”
Fei Jie said back then that the four great masters in the world, one is the Four Gu Swords of Dong Yi City, one is the Bitter Lotus of the Northern Qi State Master, one is the Flowing Clouds Scattering Hand of the Qing State Ye Liuyun, and there is another one who is also a person from the Qing State, only that no one ever knows who he is, and with the power of the Supervisory Yuan, one can only vaguely detect that this great master should be hiding inside the palace of the Qing Garden.
Five Bamboo shook his head, “I don’t know, I haven’t fought him, but I do know that inside the current palace, the easiest person to spot me is the eunuch called Hong Si Itchy.”
Fan Xian nodded, in his mind, according to Five Bamboo’s caution, then this old eunuch Hong must be an unfathomable figure within the palace, even Five Bamboo had scruples, I’m afraid that Eunuch Hong’s identity as a Grand Master had already been called out.
With Five Bamboo’s cold temperament, even Ye Liuyun can kill, just not kill, naturally will not be afraid of any of the great masters under the sky, just last time is in order to hide their relationship with Fan Xian, so violent, but this time it is in order to steal the key, so there is a difference in the style of action.
Fan Xian pondered over the recent arrangements, linking it to the matter of the envoys from Northern Qi and Dong Yi City, and never thought of a good way to get in touch with the head eunuch in the deep palace. It was not convenient to ask his father to step in, or else he would have to explain many things he did not want to explain. Suddenly his eyes lit up, said: “Wan Er should be clear about the things in the palace, but she has been living in the palace until the beginning of this year before moving out. I’ll go walk her way tomorrow.”
Five Bamboos gave him a noncommittal “look” and said coldly, “I only need you to drag Hong Si Itchy outside the palace for an hour, and as for the method you use, that’s up to you.”
Fan Xian shrugged, “Uncle always gives me the toughest tasks.”
This was a joke. And since he hadn’t talked to Five Bamboo for some days, he seemed to have forgotten that Five Bamboo didn’t really have much of a sense of humor. He only heard Five Bamboo say very seriously, “Then I’ll go and kill Hong Si-Itch, whether I succeed or not, I’ll probably be able to consume him for three hours, and you go inside the palace and find the key.”
Fan Xian realized that he had lifted a still-hot meteorite and smashed it hard on his foot, and hurriedly said gently and with immense respect, “It’s just stealing a piece, it’s better not to be too adventurous to challenge Hong Si-Itch, I’ll go and try to make contact with him.”
After Wuzhu left, Fan Xian only remembered that he seemed unable to find the other party, so in the future, if he arranged everything, how should he inform this blind uncle? Laying back down on the bed again, the eyes that looked at the black suitcase again at this point were somewhat different. If the key is bound to be placed in the palace’s most closely guarded place, with this importance seems to be, the box must be hidden inside a very important or very scary things.
For example, the border defense map, the roster of senior spies of the Supervisory Yuan established by Lao Ma, or …… the treasure map of the Ye family?
No longer able to sleep peacefully, Fan Xian stood up and kicked the box into the bottom of the bed, as if he thought it would be much safer.
Fan Xian came to Ruo Ruo’s room with a calm face and asked her for some sewing needles and threads. Ruo Ruo couldn’t resist him and took out a few small needles from the box and handed them to him, but in her heart, she was curious and looked into her elder brother’s eyes and asked: ”This is for embroidery, is brother’s garment torn? Then just give it to the maid to do.”
Fan Xian smiled and said, “It can be much more complicated than sewing a garment.” He thought for a moment and added, “Don’t let anyone know that I took three needles from you.”
Fan Ruoruo nodded with some confusion.
With the big wedding just around the corner, the Fan Mansion had long since begun preparations.
The newlywed’s mansion is next to the Sinanbo House, just an empty garden in the past, Fan Jian from the beginning of the year began to prepare for this thing, so it has long been taken care of in a magnificent way. The back garden of the two courtyards there opened a door, so before and after the two mansions in one place, just Fan Xian after the marriage to live in the courtyard, the main door is opened in the opposite of the other street.
These days that the mansion is very quiet, the workers have long been stopped, inside the trees and wigwams have long been dealt with, just there by the sky wind and water to raise, because there is no one in, so the large yard is a little quiet awesome, no one is willing to stay more in it.
A dark shadow drifted by, and it was Fan Xian who quietly came into the courtyard, holding a piece of tofu on his right hand and three silver needles between the four fingers of his left hand. He found a secluded place and very carefully rested the block of tofu in the branches of a willow tree, the tofu had been improved by him and had become extremely tender, so it rested there trembling and seemed like it could break at any time.
Fan Xian closed his eyes, slowly raising the domineering true qi in his dantian, through the top of his head backward, converging into the snowy mountain behind his waist, forming a large and a small channel of true qi, letting his entire condition advance into serenity without a single distraction anymore.
The sound of the wind, Fan Xian whole person into a wind, blowing to the middle of the willow tree, gently touch, toes extremely strong to stop the momentum of forward leaning, swiftly, with the ability to control the body, bounced back.
Like a cunning fish teasing a fool’s fishhook.
After a long time, he slowly walked forward with his hands behind his back, squinting his eyes at the piece of tofu in the willow branch, which had three fine needles on top of it that were slightly trembling. In a flash of lightning, he had inserted the needles into the tofu in a zigzag pattern. With Fan Xian’s understanding of the human body’s structure, he thought that this maneuver would be very effective if it was used to kill someone.
He retrieved the fine needle with some satisfaction. Ever since Oxford Street, he had been looking for his most handy weapon. Uncle Five Bamboo’s weapon was a stick-like object, whether it was a wooden stick or a very simple piece of brazier, in Five Bamboo’s hands it was a sharp weapon to take a life. It was the realm that made it so. And Fan Xian knew very well that for himself, a handy weapon could save his life in many cases.
In fact, he liked the slender dagger between his boots at the moment, whether in Tanyu or in Oxford Street, this sharp treasure dagger left behind by Fei Jie had already helped himself twice, only that this dagger could not be brought in at all on certain occasions, such as – for example – the Imperial Palace.
And Fan Xian knew that since the key was in the palace, it was only inevitable that he would eventually have to break into the forbidden once with those chivalrous men in the novels of his previous life. Five Bamboos’ stick and words yesterday had given him some stimulation and rediscovered some passion. He looked at the three needles on his fingers reflecting the light under the early sun, and couldn’t help but frown and think, what kind of poison should this be coated with to make it more suitable?
After determining a goal, doing things would seem passionate. So when Fan Xian passionately touched into Lin Wan Er’s boudoir on a night when no fingers could be seen, Wan Er could not help but be a bit surprised, after all, it had not been long since the last excursion. After a make-out session, Fan Xian asked about the palace as if he didn’t realize it.
Lin Wan’er grew up in the palace, and was quite familiar with the personnel there, and wasn’t curious as to why her fiancé was suddenly interested in this, and thought that Fan Xian was having a headache about the rules of entering the palace to ask for peace in the future, so she relieved him by saying: ”The ladies in the palace are all extremely good to me, and His Majesty is not good at women’s colors, so unlike that old emperor of Beiqi who died a few years ago, he can’t look at the powder in the six palaces enough. In addition to the Empress Mother, the palace also has the eldest prince’s birth mother, Ning Cai Ren, the second prince’s birth mother, Shu Gui Fei, the third prince’s birth mother, Yi Gui Concubine, and some other concubines, so there shouldn’t be any need to go and ask for peace.”
Fan Xian thought to himself, “Those ladies naturally don’t want to offend your birth mother, the Rapunzel who is deeply favored by the Empress Dowager and has control over the inner treasury’s silver money. He moved his body on the bed so that he could hug Wan Er comfortably, and asked curiously, “Why is the Grand Prince’s birth mother just a talented person.”
Lin Wan’er explained, “Cai Ren Ning is an Eastern barbarian who was captured by His Majesty during his first Northern Expedition, and I heard that on the battlefield at that time, His Majesty was injured, and Cai Ren Ning took care of her day and night, so His Majesty helped her out of her slavery, and then entered the palace to give birth to the eldest prince. But after all, she is not Qing people, so although she saved His Majesty, and gave birth to the eldest son, but still did not manage to win the Empress Dowager’s favor, naturally, it is impossible to be established as the Empress. Moreover, she was already a noble consort, but it seems that something happened in the palace ten years ago, and His Majesty was so furious that he took away her honorary position and directly demoted her to a talent.”
Fan Xian was slightly stunned, thinking that the fights in this deep palace were really as complicated as imagined. Lin Wan’er sighed and continued, “Fortunately, the eldest brother is now fighting in the west, so Cai Ren Ning was able to keep her position in the palace, but she seems to understand many things now, and is quite peaceful in the palace. In fact, I used to go to her palace quite often to play, but it’s just that there’s been less of it in the past two years.”
Fan Xian asked some more palace secrets, and Lin Wan’er didn’t hide them from him, telling him everything. In the end, Fan Xian finally asked about tonight’s topic, and casually said, “I heard that Eunuch Hong, the head eunuch, is extremely powerful in the palace.”
“Yes.” Lin Wan’er was not a little tiger tonight, but a kitten snuggled in his arms and gently rubbed her cheeks, “That Eunuch Hong was on duty in the palace from the beginning of the founding of the country. When the late emperor was on the throne, he trusted him, and now he still retains his position as the head eunuch of the fifth grade, but he is not in charge of much as he gets older, and basically stays in the empress dowager’s palace.”
“In the empress dowager’s palace?” Fan Xian’s heart was suddenly flooded with many gloomy memories of his past life history.
“What’s wrong?” Lin Wan’er asked curiously, her two large eyes blinking.
Fan Xian tugged at the tip of her slightly cool nose and said with a smile, “Nothing, it’s just that if I want to make good relations with the palace, I always have to get this Eunuch Hong’s office in order.”
“That’s not necessary.” Lin Wan’er explained, “This Eunuch Hong just walks around the palace and doesn’t really run things.”
Fan Xian could not possibly tell the woman in his arms about his plans, so he had to smile slightly and then asked, “Recently, you left your intention to see roughly what time the palace would declare me to meet.”
Lin Wan’er was shy on one side and still didn’t forget to tease him, “I guess it will take some days, what? Are you in a hurry?”
“Of course I’m in a hurry, who wouldn’t be in a hurry when such a good princess daughter-in-law is left outside?”
Gradually the second floor of the small building of the royal family’s courtyard returned to quiet, looking at his fiancée who was sleeping in his own arms, Fan Xian subconsciously sighed, life will always have a lot more other things out, he hoped that he could deal with it.
The next day when he went to the Taishang Temple to order his hair, Lord Ren Shaoqing mysteriously pulled him aside and said in a lowered voice, “Do you know about that incident?”
Fan Xian looked at his father’s face, which was in its thirties or forties, but still had traces of the handsome face of that year, and rightly pretended to be stupid: “What is it?”
Ren Shaoqing sighed and said, “Honglu Temple sent a letter over this morning, saying that they want to transfer you over there.” The Honglu Temple was an organization in Qing that specialized in receiving foreign guests and handling matters between countries. Fan Xian was stunned, knowing that what the Crown Prince had said had begun, and with an arch of his hand, he asked, “Lord Young Secretary, why do you want me to be transferred over there? It’s only been ten days since I came to the Taishang Temple.”
Ren Shaoqing frowned, “Does Boss Fan have any connections in the Eastern Palace?”
Fan Xian knew that he was asking about his father and shook his head, “You know that my father has always rarely interacted with the palace, and even the ministers make fewer friends.”
“That’s true.” Ren Shaoqing nodded his head, Sinan Bo Fan Jian was notorious for his lack of oil and salt, relying on his special relationship with His Majesty the Emperor growing up together, in the past it was that he did not even pay much attention to the prime ministers, and he had always been even-handed amongst the several imperial princes. He thought for a moment and said, “I heard that it was a suggestion from the Eastern Palace side for you to participate in this negotiation.”
Fan Xian didn’t know how to respond, so he had to continue to play dumb and said in shock, “What negotiations?”
“The envoy from Northern Qi came to talk about the follow-up to the battle of the northern border vassal states, such as paying out silver at the discretion of the border and so on. And the East Barbarians came to envoy, is to deal with the last at the foot of the Cangshan Mountain Chancellor’s second son assassinated, I heard that brought a lot of silver beauty. The so-called negotiation is to see the court bargain with these two places.”
Ren Shaoqing, surnamed Ren Shao’an, was a disciple of the prime minister, so now he naturally regarded Fan Xian as one of his own, and cautiously reminded, “If this is done well, it’s just the icing on the cake, and anyway, the generals have fought with their lives to bring down all those territories. But if it’s not done well and doesn’t gain the benefits that His Majesty the Emperor expected, then it’s a great disservice. As for Dongyi City, the matter involves the death of the second prince, and if you are too weak, then you will not be able to answer well in front of the chancellor, but since the imperial court has allowed an envoy from Dongyi, it proves that the imperial court does not want to pursue this matter too much, and only wants to gain some benefits and leave it at that …… After all, there is still a Four Gu Swords in Dongyi City.”
Fan Xian frowned, thinking that these things were indeed a bit complicated. Ren Shaoqing then said with concern, “You have a special status, and the prime minister will soon be in a family of sons-in-law, so if you want to cater to the holy will, you will inevitably lose the will of your sons-in-law, so this is a very embarrassing situation in itself, so you need to be careful.”
Fan Xian was stunned, only to think of the joints, gratefully arching his hand and said, “The next official is new to the officialdom, simply do not know the subtleties of it …… just that this matter is somewhat complicated, and the next official is only the eighth rank of the Concordance, even if the Honglu Temple to transfer me to the Concordance, I am afraid that it is also the people who are micro-linguistic, so then stay honestly on the right side of the road. ”
Ren Shaoqing shook his head and sighed: “This time you are the deputy ambassador ah, in the tip of the storm, I do not know how many pairs of eyes are staring at you.”
“Why are they staring at me?” Fan Xian thought this in his heart, but smiled and said, “Mr. Shaoqing is overthinking it, there should be nothing wrong.”
Indeed, Ren Shaoqing was overly concerned, although he did not know that the East Palace side of the advice to let himself go to the deputy ambassador, what is the meaning of, in the end is to pull together or want to let himself obey the weng yi to lose the will of the saint, in a word, Fan Xian has done enough to prepare for the work, and also not much fear. In the afternoon, there is an official sedan chair over to pick him up, all the way on the green stone walking, but a quarter of an hour, the sedan chair will enter the Honglu Temple.
The Honglu Temple is equivalent to the diplomatic department in later times, and the Secretary of the Honglu Temple is equivalent to the role of foreign minister. Fan Xian in his previous life believed in a saying, called “weak countries have no diplomacy”, now Qing is the world’s strongest country, the Honglu Temple naturally also became a very oil and water very status of a government office. Surrounded by cypress trees, the summer heat could not penetrate into the government office, Fan Xian sat quietly in the lower part of the quiet hall, listening to the speech of the adults above.
The one who was speaking was Xin Qishu, the junior secretary of the Honglu Temple–Beijing Qi and Eastern Barbarians had come to present their documents, and in the hearts of the Qing officials who had gotten used to being the boss, it wasn’t a very big event, so the secretary of the Honglu Temple was still sleeping at home, and the premier of this matter was just a fourth-ranked junior secretary.
“Lord Fan, this time the court appointed you as the deputy envoy to receive the hold, one is to use your talent name, secondly, the matter of northern qi is after all somewhat related to you, only this should be affairs you are not familiar with, so do not be anxious, take your time.” Xin Qimo knew how strong the background of the beautiful young man sitting at the bottom was, so he spoke politely.
“Yes, yes, Your Excellency Fan’s poetic reputation is all over the capital, it’s really condescending to come to our Honglu Temple to theorize with those foreigners.” A whole bunch of officials looked at Fan Xian and unobtrusively flattered him, all the while fearing that this son of a bitch would take all the credit for the Honglu Temple, their expressions could not help but be a little awkward.