The Bad Guys: Playing the Fake Li Xingyun at the Beginning

It can only be him!

His heartbeat suddenly quickened, and the hand holding the pen trembled slightly. He felt the long-lost fear and excitement. After waiting for so long, he was finally here.

Immediately, he put down the red pen, stood up, and looked around, "Who is it? Come out!"

Although he had already guessed who it was, in order to protect Meng Po and the others, Su Ming could only pretend not to know.

After a moment, a familiar and hoarse voice sounded in his ears, "I didn't expect that even after becoming an emperor, he could still be so alert, not bad!"

In an instant, Su Ming's eyes blurred and a dark figure appeared in front of him out of thin air. He didn't even see clearly how Yuan Tiangang appeared.

His pupils shrank, and his face showed undisguised shock and fear. After a pause, he quickly saluted, "Greetings, Marshal!"

When Su Ming was surprised, he didn't know that Yuan Tiangang was also surprised. The young man in front of him was wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, had a short beard, his eyes were bright and seemed to be glowing, and there was an aura of majesty between his brows.

In a trance, Yuan Tiangang seemed to think that he had seen the young Emperor Xuanzong.

However, the character that has been cultivated over three hundred years cannot be taken lightly.

He was distracted for a moment before recovering, his eyes becoming calm again, "No need to be polite, you are the emperor of the Tang Dynasty now, how can an emperor bow to his subjects?"

Su Ming smiled faintly, "Others don't know my identity, but does the Marshal know it?"

"Sometimes the truth can become false, and the false can become true!" Yuan Tiangang stared at him, his voice as hoarse as ever, without the slightest emotional fluctuation.

Su Ming smiled again, but did not answer. Instead, he asked a different question, "The Marshal is here today. What instructions do you have?"

"I dare not give you an order, but there are two things I would like to ask Your Majesty to hand over." He called himself a subject, but his words were not polite at all.

"Oh? What?"

Although Su Ming knew it, he still played dumb.

Yuan Tiangang stared at him for a few seconds, then continued, "Longquan Sword, Longquan Treasure Box, these two items should be in your hands. Now, they should be returned to their original owners."

Hearing this, Su Ming's humble expression suddenly changed. He sneered, "The Marshal said that the property should be returned to its original owner. Who is it returning to?"

Seeing Su Ming's unruly appearance, Yuan Tiangang couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It was so similar. More than two hundred years ago, Li Longji, the Prince of Linzi who had not yet become emperor, was also so unruly and ambitious.

"Why do you ask when you already know the answer? Wouldn't it be a good thing for you to hand it over earlier?"

Su Ming put his hands behind his back, stared into Yuan Tiangang's eyes, and said lightly, "Oh? Good news? How come I didn't know."

Seeing that Su Ming was still trying to smooth things over, Yuan Tiangang showed a trace of impatience, "I don't need to explain the truth that a man is innocent but guilty of possessing a treasure. Some things are not something you can covet. Without further ado, hand them over quickly!"

Su Ming looked at him and chuckled again, "Okay, then it's as the Marshal wishes!"

After saying that, he walked to the screen in Qianqiu Hall, opened the mechanism, took out a box from under the screen, and handed it to Yuan Tiangang.

Yuan Tiangang took a quick glance and realized that this was the real Longquan treasure box. He stretched out his hand and grabbed it. The invisible suction force pulled the treasure box into his palm, "What else?"

"The Marshal is too impatient. If I hand it over now, I'm afraid my life will be in danger. The Longquan Sword should be handed over to its true owner."

After saying that, he stared at Yuan Tiangang again, "Marshal, what do you think?"

Provocation, naked provocation!

For a moment, Yuan Tiangang almost wanted to laugh out loud. It had been so many years since anyone dared to provoke him like this!

If we count the monarchs after Xuanzong, they either kept their distance from him or used him but were on guard against him, or they were afraid of him, fearing that their power would be lost, so they dared not treat him with contempt or humiliate him, and even spoke softly in front of him in an attempt to win him over.

Only the person in front of him dared to challenge him openly!

At this moment, Yuan Tiangang had never felt so regretful. Why wasn't he the one chosen back then?

At the same time, he was glad that he had saved him in a moment of thought, which led to the Tang Dynasty today.

He immediately laughed out loud, his hoarse voice arrogant and wanton, "I have to say, you really surprised me. You actually dared to hide the Longquan Sword!"

The next moment, Su Ming's eyes blurred and Yuan Tiangang appeared in front of him. He only had time to cross his arm to block in front of him before he was knocked away by a huge force and hit the pillar of the hall.

The enormous force immediately penetrated Su Ming's protective Qi and paralyzed his internal organs. Fortunately, he had decades of internal strength, so he was not seriously injured. He lay on the ground for a while before getting up.

However, as soon as he stood up, a big hand grabbed his neck and lifted him up.

Yuan Tiangang was standing in front of him, staring at him coldly with his deep eyes under the mask, "Hand over the Longquan Sword, and I will spare your life!"

Then, he exerted a little force with his fingers, and Su Ming found it very difficult to breathe. At the same time, a strong internal force was released from this hand, paralyzing his nerves and making him unable to resist.

"General, you really did it." Su Ming said intermittently, "I had guessed that you would attack me, so I made preparations in advance and hid the Longquan Sword."

"Through Li Wentong's information, I guessed that the Longquan treasure was set up by you. The Longquan treasure box must contain the map of the Longquan treasure, and the Longquan sword is the key to open the Longquan treasure."

"Without the treasure box, you can easily create a new map, but without the Longquan Sword, I wonder how long it will take you to collect materials to build a new Longquan Sword that is exactly the same as the previous one."

Chapter 205 What do you want?

Yuan Tiangang listened to Su Ming coldly, his eyes remained calm, "Is this your backup plan? If this is all you have, I am really disappointed."

"I have waited for more than two hundred years, so I am not in a hurry. If I don't have the Longquan Sword, I can just spend a few more years to forge one. I can find the materials and craftsmen as long as I look hard."

"You don't have much information, but you can guess the general information of Longquan treasure with it. It's smart. Unfortunately, the plan is not well thought out and is not appropriate."

"Do you have anything else to say?"

Su Ming gasped for air and forced an ugly smile on his face, "Does the Marshal want to kill me?"

"Killing you is a piece of cake. I just want to know if you have any other means."

"Does the Marshal really want to know?"

Yuan Tiangang stared at him with his gloomy eyes, and the meaning was self-evident.

"After I die, the empress will return to Qi. She will have the emperor's edict of guilt and abdication in her hands. The commander should be familiar with these two things."

Just as he finished speaking, the hand pinching his throat tightened a little, making it more difficult for him to breathe, "Ahem..."

"Are you serious?" At this moment, Yuan Tiangang's eyes were filled with murderous intent. If that was really the case, if he killed him, even if he helped Li Xingyun to that position, it would become a joke.

The abdication decree has been issued, so where are you still sitting? Do you still have any shame?

"You must be joking, Marshal. Sometimes the truth can become false, and the false can become true. Who knows?"

"Pfft!"

Yuan Tiangang withdrew his hand, and Su Ming fell to the ground, gasping for breath. Fresh air entered his lungs through his nostrils, as if a drowning man had reached the shore.

Su Ming sat on the ground with disheveled hair. No one knew where the golden crown on his head had disappeared. His long black hair hung in front of his eyes. He lowered his head with a smile on his lips.

He knew that he had passed the test.

The "false" edicts immediately hit Yuan Tiangang hard, preventing him from acting rashly, because the two edicts could be true or false.

It can be in the hands of the empress, in the hands of Li Wentong, in the hands of Li Siyuan, and in the hands of any vassal state in the world.

The intelligence capabilities of the Bad People are indeed strong, and they are omnipresent in all parts of the Central Plains, but the two edicts are lost in the vast sea of ​​people, and even the most powerful intelligence may not be found.

What's more, now is a time of chaos, with refugees fleeing everywhere. Trying to find the person who carries the imperial edict is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and is simply unrealistic.

This is Su Ming’s real back-up plan. As for whether the edict is true or false, or whether it really exists, it is no longer important.

Yuan Tiangang looked at him, and for the first time, his dark eyes showed some fluctuations. "Well, you really impressed me. Now that you have guessed my thoughts, tell me, what do you want?"

Su Ming stood up, his hair draped over his shoulders, and with the bright yellow dragon robe, he inexplicably had a gloomy temperament, "Marshal, I don't want anything, I just want to live."

"It's not easy to be the emperor. I've been in this position before. No one knows better than me what it's like to be in this position. It's a career that you may not be able to achieve in your entire life."

"Back then, I wanted to replace Li Xingyun and revive the Tang Dynasty, but since I took that position, I suddenly realized that reviving the Tang Dynasty is far from as simple as I imagined. I can even say that it might be an illusory dream."

"Revitalizing the Tang Dynasty is your obsession, but it is not my goal. With Li Xingyun here, the Marshal can paint and realize this dream by himself, and I will just pretend that I have never appeared."

This is Su Ming's strategy of retreating in order to advance, and it is also what he really thinks. To be fair, without the help of the Bad People, it is too damn difficult to revive the Tang Dynasty.

Zhao Kuangyin was able to establish the Song Dynasty and end the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, but that was accomplished because of the chaos in the Central Plains and the bullying at the hands of the Khitan for a while. This was only possible because he usurped the Later Zhou Dynasty and took over the most powerful vassal state at that time.

So, what does the Tang Dynasty have now?

Perhaps the most valuable things now are only the name of orthodoxy and the peace agreement with Khitan. There is no money and no people. The only territories that can be controlled are probably the counties around Luoyang, and the emperor's edicts cannot leave the palace.

You want to tell me that you can rebuild the prosperous Tang Dynasty when the imperial court can't even maintain its own safety?

Putting aside the organization "The Bad People", his current situation is better than Zhu Yuanzhang's, but it is not much better. At the very least, he can't survive, because as soon as he makes any movement, all the princes in the world will definitely keep an eye on him.

'Once the Tang Dynasty shows signs of prosperity, it will inevitably face suppression from the surrounding military governors. There is no need to guess.

"Oh? You want to leave?"

"Now that we've come to this point, are you still unwilling to let me go?"

"How would I know whether your edict is true or false? I have seen too many cases of going back on one's word." Yuan Tiangang's eyes turned cold again.

"So, what does the Marshal plan to do with me? Will Li Xingyun ascend the throne and then kill me to silence me?"

Looking at this face, Yuan Tiangang's hesitation flashed away, and he said coldly, "No, considering your contribution to the restoration of Tang, I can spare your life, but I cannot spare your face. In the future, you can transfer to the Bad People and give advice to His Majesty. This is the only way for you to survive."

Su Ming nodded expressionlessly. He knew that Yuan Tiangang still had no intention of letting him go. He would never allow someone who posed a threat to Li Xingyun to live in the world, even if he had lost his identity and his face.

Since retreat as a means of progress doesn't work, let's just use a delaying tactic.

"Marshal, I promise you, but I want to participate in the Longquan treasure. After finding the Longquan treasure, I can directly hand over the throne to Li Xingyun. Without my cooperation, even with the support of the Marshal, I think he will not be able to sit on the throne safely."

Hearing this, Yuan Tiangang immediately guessed that this was a delaying tactic.

However, he did not want to push Su Ming too hard, lest he really end up in a desperate situation. The restoration of the Tang Dynasty once did not mean that it could be restored a second time, and the remaining power of the empire had almost been exhausted.

"Okay, I promise you, when Li Xingyun arrives in Luoyang, you will hand over the Longquan Sword. When we find the Longquan treasure, you can abdicate."

……

A breeze blew in the hall, and Su Ming stood there alone, as if waking up from a dream.

Yuan Tiangang finally left. He let out a long breath and wiped the sweat from his forehead. This time it was too dangerous. If he was not careful, he would be clamped by him and would not even have a chance to resist.

Fortunately, he bought time, and once he found the Longquan treasure, it would be time for him to show his true colors and fight with all his might.

At that time, life or death will depend on God.

Chapter 206: I am talking about Li Xingyun, not him!

Not long after Yuan Tiangang left, Su Ming sent someone to invite the empress. He had passed the most difficult hurdle. The next step was to communicate with them and together they would confuse Yuan Tiangang and make him let down his guard.

If Yuan Tiangang is not allowed to think that the situation is under control, how can he be so arrogant and ignore other people?

Although people like Su Ming are weak and are pawns in his eyes, they are not puppets that can be controlled at will. People have emotions and likes and dislikes, and no one wants to have their fate controlled by others.

Yuan Tiangang, who has lived for three hundred years, holds the Bad Guys in his hands and has absolute military power. With his domineering personality, who would he care about?

The empress, who was in the Prince of Jin's Mansion, received a report from the eunuch and realized that the situation was urgent. She quickly changed her clothes and followed the eunuch into the palace.