Chapter 961

"Your Majesty is a person of Heaven's mandate; how would this guilty subject dare to act against Heaven? Those so-called petty tricks to deal with Your Majesty were merely to swindle rewards from the Emperor of the Great Tang." This Yuan Tiangang was quite adept at trimming his sails to the wind.

Qin Mu nodded, his face expressionless.

"Then can you tell fortunes? Or are you just grandstanding?"

Yuan Tiangang licked his lips, looking somewhat embarrassed.

His cracked lips showed that he had likely suffered quite a bit on this journey.

He smiled at Qin Mu with a hint of sycophancy.

"Fortune-telling is this subject's specialty, so I am capable of it. It is just that I cannot calculate the fate of a person of Heaven's mandate like Your Majesty."

Qin Mu understood Yuan Tiangang's psychology; he was worried that he had no utility value.

He was establishing a persona for himself as someone who was both valuable and non-threatening.

He was indeed a crafty old fellow.

"Then calculate what Li Chunfeng is doing right now."

This was a difficult problem posed to Yuan Tiangang.

Yuan Tiangang did not even bother to count on his fingers, and the smile on his face became even more awkward.

"Your Majesty plans with strategic foresight; the moment my junior fellow apprentice made a move, his tracks were discovered by Your Majesty.

Now, I can no longer find where he is.

Presumably, he has been locked up by Your Majesty."

"Good!"

Qin Mu clapped twice.

Being able to deduce that Li Chunfeng had already been captured proved that Yuan Tiangang indeed still possessed ability.

Only Qin Mu knew about this matter.

No one else knew the true identity of the person in the imperial prison; they only thought he was the Daoist Huang Xuanzi.

His true identity was Li Chunfeng.

"Yuan Tiangang, since you have ability, then tell me, what must be done to exempt you from your death sentence?"

Qin Mu gave the power to set the terms directly to Yuan Tiangang...

If he could help Great Qin accomplish some highly beneficial things, perhaps he could consider sparing his life.

Qin Mu had already made his words very clear.

As for whether it could be done, that depended on Yuan Tiangang himself.

This was a hope!

No matter what, Yuan Tiangang still hoped that he could survive.

"Your Majesty, this subject has a poisonous scheme that can cause the Great Tang's empire to face misfortune in all things and accelerate its decline!"

"Speak!"

Qin Mu was not actually moved by Yuan Tiangang's words.

The decline of the Great Tang was the general trend. Using his poisonous scheme would merely be adding flowers to a brocade.

Even if nothing were done, based on the comparison of the two nations' strength, the Great Tang would continue to decline. Seeing that Qin Mu remained unmoved, Yuan Tiangang became even more anxious in his heart.

This was the tactic he was using to buy his life!

If he could not attract the attention of the Great Qin Emperor, then the probability of him buying his life would become much smaller.

Matters having reached this point, Yuan Tiangang could only grit his teeth and embellish his plan.

"The dragon vein of the Great Tang is in Longcheng. This place is now already Great Qin's territory.

One can arbitrarily tamper with the Great Tang's dragon vein to manipulate the national fortune of the Great Tang."

Qin Mu did not believe this at all.

If a country is governed well, what use could manipulating a dragon vein have?

Furthermore, the Great Tang's territory is in Jiangnan; shouldn't the dragon vein also be within the Jiangnan territory?

"Yuan Tiangang, do not be too clever by half!

After the Great Tang moved its capital to Jiangnan, there should be a new dragon vein. How could tampering in Longcheng affect the fortune of Jiangnan?" Yuan Tiangang felt a chill in his heart.

If he helped Great Qin do such things, how could he ever dare to return to Jiangnan?

"Your Majesty, Longcheng is after all the place where the Li Tang rose to power; the ancestral graves of the Li family's successive generations are all buried there. Tampering with it will certainly have an effect!"

These words made sense.

But Qin Mu could not bring himself to dig up someone's ancestral graves.

"In that case, Yuan Tiangang, you go to Longcheng and set up a feng shui formation.

Absorb the wealth of the Li family and the Wang family back to Longcheng.

If you can achieve this, it will count as a great merit, and your death sentence can be exempted!"

Yuan Tiangang was very excited; he had finally obtained an opportunity to avoid death!

He immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Qin Mu.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your great grace! This guilty subject will go to Longcheng right now to set up this great feng shui formation!"