Chapter 1163

Hughes put down his cup and spat the stem of the tea he had drunk into his mouth. Since he arrived in this land, he has fallen in love with drinking tea. At the beginning, he thought it was the most difficult drink in the world. It was astringent and bitter at the first sip. But the lingering fragrance between his lips always made him want to stop.

Up to now, he has been able to easily distinguish the quality of tea, new tea or old tea.

The climate in the south of eastern Xinjiang is very suitable for growing tea, but there has been no particularly famous tea. Compared with the famous tea in Jiangnan, the tea in Dongjiang is plain, but the taste is not bad.

What shurens drinks now is the most expensive rock tea in eastern Xinjiang.

"I underestimated MOX."

The old man who played a great role in the rise of the opru Empire looked a little lost. Sitting on a seat covered with white tiger skin, the expression on his face made people look at it and his mood became depressed. Over the years, even the Lyman emperor dared not erase his credit in the East and West expedition of the opru Empire, but now he got a sense of frustration on a back he despised.

"Am I really too old?"

He muttered to himself.

Outside, a man in a general's uniform came in quickly and bowed deeply to Hughes: "Sir, the situation in the front battlefield seems strange."

This man's name is modolik. According to the military level, his status is high enough. But in front of Hughes, he still maintained enough humility and obedience. He was promoted by Hughes. He was not of noble origin, and even had nothing to do with the Hughes family.

But shurens regarded him as a disciple, and he also regarded shurens as a teacher.

Perhaps what shurens is smarter than others is that he knows how to keep some people loyal to himself. One of the most important ways is to promote some really talented people from very poor backgrounds. These people know how to be grateful. Unlike those guys from noble backgrounds, they feel that they deserve whatever they get. People like Murdoch have the quality of being a teacher for one day and a father for all his life, as the Han people say.

"What's the matter?"

"My dear little Mordor lik, I don't want to hear more disappointing news now than being calculated by MOX," Hughes asked

Murdoch's face was not very good. He stood in front of Hughes and replied respectfully: "my lord..."

"I still like you to call me teacher."

Hughes interrupted him with a wave of his hand.

"Teacher"

After changing his name, Murdoch continued, "I've been quietly mixing with MOX's people to observe the war situation these days and found a very strange thing. For four or five consecutive days, the Chu people's army has not stopped and has been attacking, but there is no progress. Not only that, every time the Chu people fail to attack, a large number of soldiers will be captured by the black flag Army..."

"God!"

Xiurensi fiercely stood up: "order, all teams into combat readiness. Modolik, I want you to take your team to deploy defense in front immediately. No matter who attacks the camp, stop it immediately."

"Teacher"

Mordor lik knew that Hughes had understood what he meant, and his reaction was his anxiety at this time: "what if it was MOX's team? What I'm worried about now is that if MOX didn't notice, he might be defeated by the United Sui and Chu people. If MOX lost, it would be his own people who hit our camp first..."

"Whoever it is"

After a moment of silence, Hughes said, "as long as you hit the camp, you can shoot."

"Yes"

Murdoch answered immediately, "I'll arrange it now."

"And"

It was obviously not only this that worried him "If nothing unexpected happens, the war warden sent by your majesty will arrive in a few days. If the war warden knows this, he will not help me explain it to your majesty. This is a rare opportunity to defeat my family. There are too many people in the Empire who envy me over the years. As long as they seize the opportunity, they will push my family into the abyss."

"What should I do?"

Murdoch's face turned white.

He is not a member of the shurens family, but based on his relationship with shurens, once shurens falls, he will be doomed. Modolik knows the ugly faces of the so-called aristocrats in the Empire very well. As long as shurens falls, he has no backer - scenery. He is either willing to be another family's dog, and he is an untrusted dog. Or... The end is inexplicable Wonderful delisting.

The war of internal interests of the empire is far more tragic than the battle on the battlefield.

"Kill him."

Hughes took a deep breath: "no matter who the commander came, he must die in an accident. It can't hide from his majesty, but his majesty won't do anything as long as there is no evidence. Now I can only place my hope on kirkberg. If he is not old enough to be completely confused, he should know that if my family falls, he will become very lonely."

"I hope so."

Murdoch sighed and turned away.

......

......

When Hughes saw the man in front of him, his face looked ugly as if he had just eaten a mouthful of shit... No, it was worse and disgusting than eating a mouthful of shit.

Kirkbo

The war inspector sent by Lyman the great was kirkberg.

When the two old people, who had a high status in the power center of the opru Empire, looked at each other, they had to smile bitterly. Of course, the smile on the corner of the latter's mouth is also a little schadenfreude.

"I bet you're a cruel old man."

Without being polite to shurens, kirkberg went to the chair and sat down: "if I follow the expected schedule, I'm already dead on the way. The respected Archduke shurens doesn't want to see any warlord appear and see his ugly face, right?"

Hughes seemed to have been emptied of all his strength and looked so depressed: "it seems that his majesty really thinks that you and I are useless. He sent you as a war inspector, obviously not just for me."

"No, no, no"

Kirkberg shook his head and smiled and said, "my situation may be much better than you. I successfully avoided the assassination arranged by you. Then as long as I do things fairly, at least I can live a few more years after seeing your family fall. If I am willing to give up my rights, I can even die naturally."

"Why?"

Thurence's face began to show anger: "why?!"

"You actually know."

Kirkberg smiled, but there was nothing really happy in it.

"Yes, I know..."

Hughes sat down dejectedly, his eyes a little lax: "my family has also made great benefits in the process of the expansion of the Empire. Now, your majesty thinks I have got enough."

"No, not your majesty."

Kirkberg said, "thurence, why are you confused?"

Hughes was slightly stunned, and then woke up: "Yes, I'm confused. Too many people in the Empire are jealous of my current position and everything I've got over the years. During my absence from your majesty, there must be too many people trying to bring me down. They will collect all kinds of things against me and weave all kinds of lies... But this is not the most sad. The most sad thing is that your majesty believes them."

"Blame yourself!"

Kirkburg Road: "If you didn't do anything unusual yourself, how could your majesty believe lies? Since your majesty believed some of these words, it means that they are not lies. You should know very well, your majesty, no one in the world can deceive him. Including you, Hughes! You are old, but you are becoming more and more arrogant. You think everything you do outside can be God knows no ghost I didn't realize it, but I forgot what kind of emperor it was! "

Thurence was silent.

Kirkberg sighed: "In fact, I understand you, and so do I... you know that you are old, and you can be called an important minister in front of your majesty day by day. Once you leave the center of power, your family interests will shrink or even be hit. Therefore, you want to seek the greatest interests for your family when you still have power, I understand, and I will do the same 。”

He poured himself a cup of tea and looked at the floating tea: "but xiurens, you shouldn't despise your majesty. Whoever despised Lyman the great in this world will come to no good end."

"You may not be much better than me."

Hughes looked up at kirkberg: "Your Majesty sent you. Don't you want to take the opportunity to get rid of you?"

He sneered: "Your Majesty can't guess. I'll get rid of the war warden he sent. So he chose you. You know what it means. It's a pity that you won't do it according to your Majesty's arrangement."

"My time of death has not come yet. Death will not come to me."

Kirkberg said, "you're right. Your majesty also wants me to die. He knows better than anyone that the fiercest fight within the empire is between me and you, and behind this is inseparable interest cooperation. He knows that you and I are mostly acting. So at the moment he wants to get rid of you, he has decided to get rid of me first."

Kirkberg smiled and said, "so he appointed me commander because he guessed that you would get rid of the commander. In this way, I would die... Vaguely."

He used such a word.

"Then, he will let someone spread the news that you assassinated me. I don't think anyone will be surprised when the news spreads. Because they all know that you and I are not friends but enemies for so many years. It's normal for you to kill me. Your Majesty's wisdom is that when I die in your hands, my family will not lose their loyalty to the emperor ... but this is where I end up better than you. "

"Because you killed me, my family can be saved. If you kill me, your family will be destroyed!"

Kirkberg's tone suddenly became heavy, and Hughes's face immediately became very pale.

"Thurence, am I right?"

He asked.

Thurence didn't speak for a long time, because he knew that kirkberg's speculation was correct. Lehmann obviously doesn't want to allow him and kirkberg to control power anymore. He wants to reshuffle his cards.

"You are such an idiot."

Kirkberg drank all the water in the teacup in one gulp, regardless of the fact that the water was still hot: "You deliberately delayed the war in eastern Xinjiang, and then deliberately pushed one young general after another to death. Do you think you're airtight? You're such an idiot... You think your majesty will make him feel that he must not live without you, and the war in eastern Xinjiang must continue with you... But you really angered him, so he came in person. He thought What I tell you is that the rise of the Empire depends not on you, but on himself. "

"What should I do?"

Asked Hughes.

The tone is begging.

"You've crossed the line. I can't help you."

Kirkberg sighed: "just as I know I will die, I can only decide whether to die a few days early or a few days late. Nothing can change."