Chapter 545

To be the fisherman who reaps the benefits.

"Speak quickly, what is the strategy?"

Fang Fang Xuanling had not originally wanted to use such a damaging tactic to deal with the aristocratic families.

After all, his wife was also from the Lu clan; he was also a son-in-law of an aristocratic family.

But his feelings for the aristocratic families were far inferior to his heart of loyalty to the monarch.

After much thought, he ultimately presented this plan to Li Er.

"Your Majesty, we only need to send a letter to Pei Ji, letting him leak the conspiracies of Master Bianji and the aristocratic families in Tianzhu to the Great Qin side.

Borrowing the hand of Great Qin, we can strike at the aristocratic families first."

Li Er was very willing to borrow the hand of Great Qin, but he was not quite sure what the final result of doing this would be.

"Fang Xuanling, Great Qin and the aristocratic families have always been enemies.

If we leak such a conspiracy, will Great Qin take action against the aristocratic families?"

Fang Fang Xuanling nodded.

His title of "Fang's Strategy" was not earned in vain.

Especially regarding matters that others found difficult to see through, he could see them clearly and thoroughly.

"Your Majesty, this is a sensitive period, and Great Qin's reaction will be even more intense.

Furthermore, Master Bianji is stirring up trouble in Tianzhu; it is impossible for Great Qin to be completely unaware.

It is just that Great Qin has not taken him seriously.

Now, we need to manufacture an incident that threatens Great Qin and frame Master Bianji for it.

In this way, Great Qin will definitely take action against the aristocratic families!"

Hearing this analysis from Fang Fang Xuanling, Li Er deeply agreed.

He had never seen anything that could be hidden from Great Qin!

"Then what incident would be most appropriate to frame Master Bianji for?"

Fang Fang Xuanling had likely been preparing a backup plan from the very beginning, when he laid out the chess piece of Pei Ji.

He answered without hesitation.

"Master Bianji inciting the Tianzhu people to rebel only provides Great Qin with an opportunity to capture prisoners of war, which is why Great Qin ignores him.

However, what if Master Bianji touched Great Qin's forbidden zone?

For example... smuggling high-quality ironware..."

Li Er immediately applauded.

"Good, let's do it!"

While Li Er was troubled by the affairs of the aristocratic families, Master Bianji, far away in Tianzhu, was living quite happily.

Although he also came from an aristocratic family, when he was young and ignorant, no one had ever taken him seriously.

Opportunities to truly come into contact with the upper echelons of the aristocratic families were very rare.

It was only after his family was wiped out and he took the alias Master Bianji that he began to gradually come into contact with the core of the aristocratic families.

Yet in the eyes of the aristocratic families, he remained merely a tool.

However, now, everything had changed.

The two great assistants by his side: one was Wang Jing, the head of the Longcheng Wang family.

Having fled Great Tang to come to Tianzhu to seek refuge with Master Bianji.

He could only follow by Master Bianji's side, devising strategies for him.

The other was Pei Ji, sent by the imperial court to cooperate with Master Bianji.

The Hedong Pei family, although not comparable to the four great aristocratic families, was still a significant clan.

What was even more rare was that Pei Ji had once been the head of all officials.

In the imperial court, he had been below one person but above ten thousand, enjoying that status for ten years.

Now, he had also come under Master Bianji's command, becoming his other strategist.

With these two assisting him, Master Bianji felt exceptionally satisfied.

Finally, through his own struggles, he had successfully elevated his own status.

If he had followed a normal official career, he would have found it difficult to have such an opportunity.

"Wang Jing, Pei Ji, in a few days, the Tianzhu people in this vicinity are going to stage another uprising.

We cannot stay behind and accompany them to their deaths.

Pack your bags, and we will leave with me in a while."

He had said these words many times already.

At the beginning, Pei Ji and Wang Jing had felt a bit awkward.

Completely tricking others into dying, doing things that had no hope at all, and then abandoning them to run away themselves.

Strangely, the Tianzhu people seemed to never learn their lesson.

They were deceived by Master Bianji time and time again, but as soon as Master Bianji incited them again, they would become impassioned and continue to go to their deaths in the direction Master Bianji pointed.

It was absurd!

Wang Jing, Wu Li Ke Master Bianji, bore the blood feud of his family.

A couple of days ago, he heard that all his family members had been dragged to the city gate tower of the South Gate of Changancheng and beheaded as a public warning!

The Longcheng Wang family, once noble among the four great aristocratic families, had been completely wiped out.

This caused Wang Jing's anger to surge.

At this moment, it erupted.

"What is the use of us doing these things here?

We cannot even injure a single hair of Great Qin!

Master Bianji, you claim to be a genius, can you not think of a better method?"

This was actually also Pei Ji's thought.

It was just that he was here merely to drift along, so he did not act as the one to stick his neck out.

Master Bianji, however, laughed dismissively.

"Wang Jing, do not look only at the present when viewing matters; your vision needs to be long-term.

On the surface, you think the Tianzhu people rebelling has no impact on Great Qin.

But in reality, these people are captured by Great Qin, and their homes are raided, which will accumulate a vast amount of wealth.

With such a large amount of wealth placed before them, the generals of Great Qin will definitely have internal strife!"

Was this Master Bianji's goal?

Wang Jing and Pei Ji were both somewhat speechless.

If these benefits were in Great Tang, they would definitely cause internal strife.

But in Great Qin, one had never heard of any Great Qin official starting internal strife because of an uneven distribution of benefits.

Master Bianji saw their expressions and knew this reason could not convince them.

He coughed twice and changed the subject.

"This time, we are going to secretly infiltrate Yizhou.

The high-quality ironware smuggled out last time inspired me.

I have decided to personally open up a smuggling route.

Think about it, if this high-quality ironware were sold back to Great Tang, what a massive profit that would be?"

Speaking of profit, Wang Jing and Pei Ji immediately perked up.

If they could smuggle high-quality ironware back to Great Tang, that would also be a great achievement!

Pei Ji thought about achieving a great merit and striving to gain promotion and titles for his son.

While Wang Jing thought about transporting this ironware to Lingnan to forge excellent weapons and arm the private armies of the aristocratic families!

On the matter of opening up a smuggling route, the few of them were rarely in agreement.

The group packed their things and prepared to set off.

Just at this moment, a messenger disguised as a commoner quietly found Pei Ji.

He took out a secret imperial decree and gave it to him.

Pei Ji opened it and saw that it was the Emperor Li Er, ordering him to frame Master Bianji by saying he was smuggling high-quality ironware.