【Kuan Xin】Snake and Venom

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was shocked, and Yuan Boji was even more shocked. He hurriedly took Yuan Zhongxin's hand, and asked nervously, "When did you get poisoned? Can there be a solution?"

Yuan Zhongxin nodded with a solemn expression: "About years ago, there was indeed a detoxification method, but now is not the best time. I must ensure that there is no one in Kaifeng who can threaten us before detoxifying, otherwise the poison will be treated at this time." If it’s solved, it won’t help.”

Yuan Bofin felt Yuan Zhongxin's palm was icy cold, he was terrified: "How does that poison affect you?"

Yuan Zhongxin looked sideways at Yuan Bofin, silent and didn't know how to speak.

Yuan Bofin said in a panic: "Yuan Zhongxin, tell me the truth!"

Looking at Yuan Bo's tense and flustered expression, Yuan Zhongxin felt like a lump in his throat, and his heart felt sour, he said as usual: "Once the incubation period of half-life and death is over, my senses will begin to degenerate, and I will not be able to see everything, and I will not be able to hear all kinds of things. The sound, I can't taste sweet and bitter, I can't smell any smell, not only will I vomit blood every now and then, but my whole body will be in severe pain like being lingering..."

Until the moment of death, Yuan Zhongxin will live in pain.

When Yuan Zhongxin knew that the consequences of half-life and death would be like this, he also laughed at himself and said that the poison really had the right name, the most important sense organs of people are abolished, and life is worse than death. The pain of life is like this, isn't it half living and half dying.

But at this moment, he looked at the sad and guilty Yuan Bofin, but he couldn't laugh at himself no matter what. He wanted to say something to comfort him, but before he could speak, a figure appeared in his mind. Suddenly, he couldn't imagine if Wang Kuan Knowing that he was poisoned, how would he react.

With just that slap from Chang Yi, Wang Kuan could lose his mind and go berserk. If something happened to him, what would Wang Kuan do?

All of a sudden, Yuan Zhongxin was exhausted physically and mentally, and his heart was full of grief. At this moment, he wanted to see Wang Kuan very much, thinking like crazy.

Yuan Bofin never thought that Yuan Zhongxin was silently enduring such severe pain alone, he felt powerless, obviously Yuan Zhongxin was his most cherished younger brother, but he was helpless when he needed help the most.

Yuan Zhongxin recovered his slack mind, smiled and patted Yuan Bo's hand, signaling him to rest assured, then raised his eyes to look at the silent Fan Zaizhi, although his face was slightly pale, but his face was still calm, his eyes Unusually firm, he said: "Fan Zaizhi, I don't need to play tricks with you, it won't do me any good, believe me, I have a way to deal with the problems that arise in the Great Xia and the Great Song Dynasty, but the premise is that you You must tell me what you know."

At this moment, Fan Zaizhi re-examined the young man in front of him. He was clearly poisoned, but he had no fear. Suddenly, he remembered what Yuan Bofin said about Yuan Zhongxin in the military camp. Chu Ge has a delicate mind, is smart and bold, and when I saw him tonight, he really is.

Wei Zhuoran said suddenly: "Lord Fan, I implore you to trust Yuan Zhongxin once."

Wang Shenzheng also helped to speak: "Master Fan, the situation is urgent, we have no choice."

Prince Zhao sighed in his heart: "That's right, Lao Fan, just trust him once, now, do you still have someone who can take on this great task?"

Fan Zaizhi was shaken in his heart, rubbed the center of his brows, sighed, and asked after a while: "General Yuan, what do you think?"

Yuan Bo was stunned, with a complex expression on his face, he gritted his teeth, concealed the grief in his heart, and said with difficulty: "Master Fan, I hope you can trust Zhong Xin."

Fan Zaizhi looked at Yuan Zhongxin who was calm and calm, closed his eyes heavily, gave up struggling, and told the truth that had been dusted in his heart for a long time: "Yuan Zhongxin, do you know what a servant is?" Army plan?"

Yuan Zhongxin was stunned, and couldn't help but read it again: "Mercenary plan?"

Fan Zaizhi nodded slowly: "Yes, that's right, it is the mercenary plan. This plan has been circulated in the Song Dynasty for a long time, but very few people know its inside story, and it was only after I became Zaizhi that I really realized it." When you come into contact with this plan that only lives in rumors—who created it and when it was created, no one knows, it can be said that since the beginning of the Song Dynasty, this plan has been passed down by word of mouth.”

Yuan Zhongxin frowned tightly: "What is this mercenary plan for?"

"The mercenary plan is mainly to serve the cultivation of Song Dynasty elites. We will select very ordinary people in the family to become mercenaries, then deprive them of their identities, train them secretly, and then send them to every place we need to monitor and lurk. In some places, some of the mercenaries will become secret agents, some will become killers, and some will become cannon fodder, their roles are ever-changing, and what kind of people the Song Dynasty needs, they will be trained in any direction."

"Mercenaries are not limited to men, women, young or old. No matter their origin, age, or personality, they are all completely different. The only thing they have in common is their ending."

Yuan Zhongxin said to himself in a daze: "Deprived of identity, born without a name and surname, returned home without a home, died without a grave, just like..."

Just like the 36 people in Qinghe Town.

The mercenaries are actually a group of discarded pieces. Black and white double chess stands on the board, and there is a time to take back the chess box, but the mercenaries can't, even if they are only released overnight, the rest of their lives are already ruined, and there is no possibility of returning.

Yuan Zhongxin only felt chills in his tarsal bones, and his heart trembled unbearably: "Aren't you afraid of rebellion by mercenaries?"

Wei Zhuoran chuckled mockingly: "Would those people not have thought of this? Otherwise, why do you think Chao Nei chooses those who have families as mercenaries?"

Want to rebel?

Yes, unless you're prepared to have your family wiped out.

Fan Zaizhi was speechless and lamented, and it took him a while to continue: "Because of the implementation of the mercenary plan, the late emperor's generation lost a lot of popular support, so this plan was put on hold by the late emperor for a long time until the current emperor ascended the throne. At the beginning, Ouyang Yi, the current deputy governor, brought it up again. At the time when the Great Song Dynasty and the Great Xia were fighting in the most dire straits, the Holy Majesty was unable to summon our high-ranking officials to discuss overnight. Divided into two factions."

Yuan Zhongxin looked solemn: "Supporters and opponents?"

"No, supporters and abstainers."

With the current national crisis, they couldn't just watch the Great Song Dynasty continue to lose miserably, so they had to let the mercenary plan see the light of day again. However, some officials still couldn't pass the test in their hearts, so they had no choice but to abstain.

But at the beginning, there was only one person who stood up and resolutely opposed the mercenary plan, and that person was Cheng Su. He tried his best to write a letter, explaining the various loopholes of the mercenary plan, but one person could not become a faction, and no one listened to it What he said, even the brutal massacre of the Cheng family was inseparable from this incident.

Yuan Zhongxin sighed weakly, and his tone was difficult: "How many people did you send to Daxia?"

The mercenary plan had been implemented for eight years, but he didn't believe that there were only 36 mercenaries in Qinghe Town.

Fan Zaizhi looked helpless, and his tone was full of remorse: "There are more than 800 people just on record."

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere was suppressed to the extreme, and there was a dead silence.

More than 800 mercenaries were sent, which means that in the past eight years, more than 800 people have been completely destroyed and have nothing.

Yuan Zhongxin felt disheartened, and murmured in despair: "You guys are really crazy."

Fan Zaizhi looked directly at Yuan Zhongxin, with sad and hopeless eyes: "Yuan Zhongxin, you can't imagine how dangerous the situation in the Song Dynasty was at that time. If the country was really destroyed, let alone more than 800 people, the number of casualties would be huge." How many, you can't even imagine."

"You say we're crazy, but we're cornered."

"There are so many people in the country. In comparison, the sacrifice of more than 800 people is really nothing——Yuan Zhongxin, in fact, didn't you make the same choice back then?"

Hearing this, Yuan Zhongxin drooped his eyes dully, his heart trembling.

Fan Zaizhi was right. Yuan Zhongxin chose the latter immediately between the lives of An Lijiu and Jiu Mingzuo. Although An Lijiu was rescued safe and sound later, his choice seemed to be a success. Knowing the facts, Yuan Zhongxin can deceive others, but he will never be able to deceive himself.

The reality is so cruel. To preserve the overall situation, someone has to make a sacrifice. Regardless of whether the sacrifice is voluntary or not, his fate is fixed, and he can only accept it.

Desperation filled every corner of Yuan Zhongxin's heart. He suddenly felt dizzy and took a deep breath to calm his excitement. It took a long time before he spoke with difficulty: "Later, what happened to the mercenaries of Song Dynasty?"

"After the mercenaries were sent to Da Xia, the situation of Da Song's repeated defeats has indeed improved, but since Da Song used the dungeon as an excuse to threaten Da Xia to negotiate peace, our mercenary plan seems to have been leaked. We investigate After nearly half a year, it was found that officials colluded with Daxia Xizuo in the Song Dynasty, and most of the officials who secretly cooperated with Daxia Xizuo were supporters of the mercenary plan back then."

"Because of this incident, the mercenary plan was forced to suspend, but our people were completely exposed. The Song Dynasty is now in chaos. Except for a few familiar people, no one can say whether the rest of the officials are trustworthy or not."

Yuan Zhongxin frowned and pondered: "Who is it that told you to find the dungeon?"

Fan Zaizhi replied: "Your Majesty today."

"Why?"

"The dungeon is a rumor of Daxia. No one knows what is inside. Since we have a map, he will naturally not let Daxia or even Daliao go first."

The underground city is located at the junction of the Great Xia and the northern border of the Great Song Dynasty, and the place where Fan Zaizhi and others are stationed happens to be close, so they ordered Fan Zaizhi to lead the troops to explore the underground city, but because the current relationship between the Great Xia and the Great Song Dynasty is still Talking about peace, in order not to tear face, Bing led by Fan Zai lingered at the entrance of the dungeon for more than three months, but still did not dare to venture in at will, so he had to return to Kaifeng first.

Yuan Zhongxin squinted his eyes when he heard the words, and had a sudden thought: "You said that today's sage issued an edict, but the edict was issued in black and white on brocade cloth?"

Fan Zaizhi was amazed at Yuan Zhongxin's intelligence and sensitivity, he shook his head: "No, there is only a verbal will."

Yuan Zhongxin suddenly realized and sneered.

Since the Great Song Emperor cared so much about the face of the two countries, even though he was thinking about the treasures in the dungeon all the time, he would never leave any clues behind him. The current Holy Majesty must have a guilty conscience, he will not admit anything, and he may even execute Fan Zaizhi and the others directly for the crime of treason and deception in order to appease Da Xia.

If it is really the person in power, he has exhausted his organs, worked hard, is treacherous and selfish, just to satisfy his own selfish desires.