trustee of the gods

He knew his own strength, even Xie Bi'an, the only ninth-rank expert under him, couldn't catch one of his moves.

Unless Li Chengze can find the four great masters to kill Fan Xian, or use more than 3000 elite soldiers to besiege the imperial city.

Besides, wanting to kill Fan Xian under Li Yi's protection is basically fantasy.

Li Chengze neither has the ability to mobilize the army, nor is it absolutely impossible to invite the four great masters to help.

He wanted to kill Fan Xian only when Li Yi was not present.

It must be the time when Fan Xian's protection is the weakest. It would be countless times more difficult to kill Fan Xian in the Fan Mansion.

The relationship between Sinanbo Fan Jian and His Majesty is extraordinary, Fan Jian even has the Emperor's personal army to protect him, and to kill Fan Xian in the Fan Mansion is no less difficult than inviting the help of the Four Great Masters.

So the conditions are very harsh, since Li Chengze wants to kill people, he will never leave any loopholes or lies.

Therefore, the place and time of the banquet became the top priority.

Chapter 145 What's the deal?

"At noon the day after tomorrow, listen to Xuelou." Li Hongcheng took a sip of tea and said softly.

"Okay. You tell Your Highness, I will definitely be on time for the appointment." Li Yi calculated in his mind, and later tried to find a way to get a map of Kyoto to study.

In the original book, the second prince and Fan Xian made an appointment at Zuixianju, because he changed to another place to hear where Xuelou was in the capital.

Li Yi chatted with Li Hongcheng for a while, and then watched him leave.

"Go and get me a map of Kyoto. I need more details." Li Yi ordered to the servant.

"Yes." The servant nodded after hearing that, bowed his waist and exited.

Li Yi looked at a large and well-made map of Kyoto in front of him, and began to examine it carefully. This map was drawn in quite detail.

It can be said that except for the imperial palace that was not drawn, all the other places were clearly drawn, and even some alleys and paths were recorded on it.

Even the residences of many princes and ministers are marked, of course, only for marking.

As for the internal structure of those courtyards, someone may know, but it is not on this map.

Li Yi dotted on the bright yellow map with one hand, and muttered to himself, "This is Fan Mansion."

He stretched out another hand and nodded on the other side, "This is where I live now."

Take out a teacup and cover a square building marked on the map, "This is Tingxue Building!"

Swipe two fingers, if he and Fan Xian want to go to Tingxue Tower, there will be no meeting.

The two people are one-way streets and will never meet at all. One is in the north and the other is in the south.

If Li Chengze wanted to kill Fan Xian, he would definitely choose a time when he was not present. If he was there, it would be almost impossible for him to kill Fan Xian.

To be precise, it was to kill Teng Zijing, the guard next to Fan Xian. Li Yi's priority protection target was Teng Zijing. As for Fan Xian, he was just protecting him incidentally.

When he and Fan Xian go to the banquet, Li Chengze will find a way to assassinate him on the way.

Li Yi just thought of this and was rejected in an instant. There is no such possibility. Li Chengze is a smart person, and he knows that he has a good relationship with Fan Xian.

Inviting Li Yi and Fan Xian to the appointment is more likely that the two will get together and go together.

It is not impossible for the two of them to act alone. Li Chengze's meticulous work will not leave such obvious flaws.

Could it be that the time is wrong, he asked Fan Xian to go tomorrow, and asked me to go the next day to make a time difference.

The moment that idea came up, it was immediately rejected. As long as he communicated with Fan Xian, this kind of thing would be exposed immediately.

Li Chengze is not a fool, he will never do this.

Could it be that he was monitoring Fan Xian right now, and was ready to strike when Fan Xian left.

This is not impossible, but very difficult.

After all, Fan Xian has strengthened guards around him now, and besides Teng Zijing, he asked his father, Fan Jian, for an eighth-rank guard.

Fan Xian's own strength is not weak, and he is proficient in using poison.

Unless Li Chengze was a master of the Ninth Rank, it would be extremely difficult to quickly take down Fan Xian in a short period of time.

Don't think that ninth-rank masters are as easy to find as cabbage on the street. The number of ninth-rank masters in Nanqing does not exceed ten.

Eunuch Hong Sixiang, Xie Bi'an, Ye Zhong, the current head of the Ye family, Yan Xiaoyi under the eldest princess's subordinate, and the shadow of Chen Pingping of the Procuratorate, there may be one or two in the army.

On the surface, there are only a few ninth-rank masters in Nanqing, and none of the prince's subordinates has a clear ninth-rank master.

But Li Chengze was able to recruit one, which was why Li Chengqian was afraid of his second brother.

However, the masters of the ninth rank can still be piled up to death, even the masters of the ninth rank and the peak of the ninth rank can be killed by the pile of people.

Great masters are different. One person can defeat a country, and one person can stop thousands of troops. This is not just talk, but a great master can really do it.

As for the hidden nine masters, there may be two or three, and the number will definitely not be too many.

Nanqing is so big, only in Kyoto can we find so many ninth-rank masters.

There may be a little more masters of the ninth rank in Northern Qi, but definitely not too many.

The place with the most ninth-rank masters in the world belongs to Dongyi City, and Si Gu Jian's disciples have thirteen ninth-rank masters.

This is also the reason why Nanqing is so afraid of Dongyi City, a Sigu sword is enough to give Nanqing a headache.

If one of Si Gu Jian's disciples breaks through to become a grand master, Dongyi City may become a serious problem for Nan Qing.

It's just that Li Yi knows that it is absolutely impossible for the four great masters to have one more, because of Ye Qingmei, there are only masters in the world.

Since the death of Ye Qingmei, there has never been a single grandmaster in the world.

It is unlikely that Li Chengze would use a ninth-rank expert to kill Fan Xian. After all, although Fan Xian was a hidden danger, he would not use a ninth-rank expert.

There are only a few ninth-rank masters in Nanqing, and the weapons used by each of them are well known by many warriors. Once they make a move, they will definitely leave traces. If they follow the traces, it will be easy to catch the real culprit behind the scenes.

Unless the ninth-grade master committed suicide immediately after finishing his hand, he should pay attention to the body not being discovered by others when committing suicide.

After death, you can't be suspected by others. Then you can save the person behind you when you kill Fan Xian.

Now it seems that none of the ninth-rank masters can do this. Even if Yan Xiaoyi, a licking dog, is willing to commit suicide for the eldest princess, he will definitely be discovered by others.

After a little thought, this matter is inextricably linked to the eldest princess.

What kind of cards did Li Chengze have? If he dared to kill Fan Xian the day after tomorrow, he wouldn't have transported two ninth-rank masters from Dongyi City.

Even though Northern Qi had two more ninth-rank masters than Nanqing, they still had one radish and one hole, and if any one was missing, others might find out.

Moreover, the Procuratorate is very concerned about the movements of the ninth-rank masters of the Northern Qi Dynasty. If two ninth-rank masters are brought in, Chen Pingping will not know.

Then he, the head of the procuratorate, should not do it anymore.

Li Yi believed that Chen Pingping absolutely knew about Fan Xian's assassination.

The reason why he didn't do it was just because Fan Xian would not die, Teng Zijing's death Chen Pingping did it on purpose, maybe he expected it, maybe he didn't.

It's just that Teng Zijing's death prompted Fan Xian to stay in the capital to investigate. This situation is definitely what Chen Pingping wants to see.

Li Chengze only found ninth-rank masters from Dongyi City, even if the nine-rank masters in Dongyi City were not all monitored by the Procuratorate.

But sending them to the capital of Nanqing would definitely not be able to hide it from Chen Pingping's eyes and ears.

Therefore, it is impossible for Li Chengze to find other ninth-rank masters, and Xie Bi'an will definitely be exposed.

Li Yi now only feels a headache from thinking about what Li Chengze's purpose is, and what cards he has to assassinate Fan Xian.

"Don't think about it anymore, just go to Fan Xian's house and squat down. Soldiers will come to block you, and water will come to cover you." Li Yi sighed for a long time.

This is the most labor-saving way. Li Yi will go to Fan Xian's house and stay at Fan Xian's house. Don't go out anyway, and wait until the day after tomorrow to see what Li Chengze is up to.

1Chapter 16 Go to Fan Mansion

The Fan Mansion was almost built on the basis of the imperial city. Li Yi wondered if Emperor Qing had someone build the Fan Mansion when he was building the imperial palace.

Although the street where I lived before was very close to the imperial city, it was still outside the imperial city anyway.

And the Fan Mansion has almost reached the imperial city, it can be said that it was built close to the city wall of the imperial city.

Apart from the mansion of Fan Mansion, there is no other mansion here that can win this honor. From this, it can be seen that Emperor Qing and Fan Jian have a very close relationship.

The Fan Mansion is not a large building, and the exterior decoration is not very luxurious. On the contrary, it has a kind of elegant atmosphere of literati.

Although Fan Jian is the Minister of the Household Department, he can be recuperated by the Minister of the Household Department.

Fan Jian can be said to be in control of the entire household department, and all the money and food in the world can be said to be in his hands.

That's why both Li Chengze and Li Chengqian wanted to win over Fan Xian. As long as they win over Fan Xian, they would be able to indirectly control the household department and directly control the internal treasury. With this money and grain, it would be much easier to fight for the throne.

It's a pity that all the plans now are different from what they thought, and Li Chengze is very likely to be ready to do something against Fan Xian.

Li Chengqian should choose to do nothing, and to be his own prince honestly. For him, doing nothing is the best way.

Do more and make more mistakes, do less and make less mistakes, it's not bad if you don't do it, Li Chengqian just needs to wait for his succession honestly.

In front of the gate of Fan's residence stood two young servants, tall and strong, dressed in soap-colored linen clothes.

Seeing Li Yi's high-spirited appearance, no matter what he was wearing or his body, the servant hurried forward to him with a smile on his face.

"My lord, what do you want to do in our Fan residence?" He was neither humble nor overbearing, and he was not obsequious at all. Even though he was a servant, he did not put his status too low.

"Inform Fan Xian for me, and say that a friend is visiting."

"Yes."

"I said, why do you have the intention to come here on purpose today?" Fan Xian's face was full of ridicule. You must know that every time for so long, he ran over to find Li Yi on his own initiative.

It was the first time that Li Yi came to visit him today. Fan Xian rushed over in a hurry after knowing that Li Yi was coming.

"There is business, let's talk inside." Li Yi's face was gloomy, and until now he hadn't figured out what the second prince's real purpose was.

Seeing Li Yi's appearance, Fan Xian probably understood that he had something important to discuss with him, so he also put away his laughing and joking appearance.

"What's going on?" Fan Xian asked Li Yi who was on the side while walking on the alley in Fan Mansion.

"It's very important, and I won't be able to say it clearly for a while. There are too many people here, so it's not convenient to say it." Li Yi still had a gloomy expression.

Fan Xian's heart tightened immediately. At this time, he also knew that this matter was absolutely important. Otherwise, Li Yi usually talked to him happily.

Today is so serious, obviously something big happened.

And things are very difficult, even Li Yi is not so easy to solve, otherwise he would never be like this.

"Yo! Fan Xian, you brought your friends back."

Before Li Yi saw him, he heard a distant call, and he knew who it was without even wearing his head.

It was Fan Sizhe who waved a pair of scissors at the gate of Kyoto last time.

Fan Xian had a look of helplessness on his face. He was really ashamed of his younger brother for being so daring. Last time, he wanted to change identities with Teng Zijing because he gave 50 taels a month to Teng Zijing, the guard by his side.

Let Teng Zijing be the young master and be his own bodyguard.

If that time really comes, it's not Fan Sizhe who protects himself, but Fan Sizhe himself.

"We have something important to discuss, so hurry up and go back." Fan Xian turned around and said to Fan Sizhe.

"What's the matter? You're keeping it from me." Fan Sizhe squeezed to Fan Xian's side with a smile like an idiot on his face.

It was only now that Fan Sizhe saw Li Yi clearly, he immediately knew that this person was the one who sued Fan Xian last time, and last time he said he looked like a fool.

When Fan Sizhe thought of this, he felt unhappy, and the other party even said that he was stupid.Where did he see that he was stupid.

Fan Sizhe thought that if he wasn't extremely intelligent, he could be considered extremely intelligent, but since Fan Xian came,

Except for his sister Fan Ruoruo, Fan Xian and Li Yi, everyone said he was stupid.

"I told you to go back quickly." Fan Xian glared at Fan Sizhe angrily.

"Ah!" Fan Sizhe felt hairy after being stared at by Fan Xian. He still listens to Fan Xian's words now, and it can be understood that he has a little fear of Fan Xian.

Fan Sizhe smiled awkwardly, "Talk, talk." After speaking, he smiled awkwardly again.

Fan Xian looked at Fan Sizhe who was leaving, and sighed softly. His father was not stupid, and even his aunt was also very smart and alert. How could it be so stupid for two people to have a son.

Li Yi had just approached Fan Xian's courtyard, and it had to be said that Fan's mansion was quite large, and Fan Xian had an independent small courtyard here.

This independent small courtyard was actually three points larger than the one where Li Yi lived.

"A friend here?" A man wearing a black armor and a weapon, walked over with a stern face.

Li Yi knew at a glance that this person was Teng Zijing, the guard next to Fan Xian, and the person he entrusted to protect this time.