Liu Mingge, who was unwilling to give up, went to see Liao Fan and Tan Banshan respectively overnight. He wanted an answer.

Liao Fan was someone who shared the same sorrows as Liu Jian. Although he followed Liu Zitian under the persuasion of "Liu Mingge", judging from Liao Fan's appearance, he would have followed Liu Zitian even without the persuasion of "Liu Mingge".

"I, Liao Fan, am not an unreasonable person, and I have also stayed with Emperor Liu Jian, but compared with this emperor named Liu, Emperor Liu Jian is far behind! This Emperor Liu Zitian is kind and humble, and always considers everyone.

!Why am I talking so much? Isn’t this also your choice, Prime Minister Liu?”

"You mean, even if I didn't come to persuade you, you would still go with him?"

"Yes, this Emperor Liu Zitian was the first Emperor of the Central Plains to pay homage to our native White Tiger, and also the first Emperor to allow us to go out of the mountains to farm and live in the plains! Why not follow him?"

Liu Mingge did not expect such a reason, but when he thought about it, a local king like Liao Fan was not someone who could be bribed with gold and silver. The conditions Liu Zitian gave were called respect and equality, which was something Liu Jian had never considered.

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In the past, only the Sei people obeyed, and those who did not obey the king's rule were either killed or driven to the mountains.

Looking at the thoughtful Liu Mingge, Liao Fan smiled, "You can also think that I betrayed Emperor Liu Jian, but I did it for my ancestors and my people!"

Liu Mingge waved his hand, "You are right! You are the king of earth, not a vassal! I know your answer!"

The two people who once fought side by side had little to say at this time. Liao Fan felt that Liu Mingge was no longer the chic and humorous outsider he once was, and Liu Mingge also found that Liao Fan was no longer honest.

Maybe everyone has changed, or maybe they have never changed, but both parties are no longer as perfect in each other's eyes.

After a few words of greeting, Liu Mingge left and went to find Tan Banshan.

Tan Banshan was also waiting for Liu Mingge: "Prime Minister Liu, I knew you were coming. You would also ask me why such a pedantic and stubborn person followed Liu Zitian!"

Liu Mingge smiled awkwardly, "Master Tan, you'd better treat me to a cup of tea first. You're right, I really want to know!"

Tan Banshan took out a small jar from his pocket and gave it to the boy, "Go and make a cup of cloud tea for Prime Minister Liu. It needs to be fried with mountain spring water and charcoal!"

Tan Banshan raised his head and looked at the crescent moon in the sky: "Prime Minister Liu, I have been guarding Bajun since I was 22 years old, and now I am 48 years old and I am still the prefect of Bajun. I don't like money, I don't have good sex, and I don't want to be a high official.

This is how it will be for the rest of my life. But my only wish is to resign and return to my hometown to support my parents!"

"Since ancient times, there has been a dilemma between loyalty and filial piety. The imperial court owes you too much. You have not been promoted in twenty-six years and will not let you go back to your hometown. An honest man keeps doing things. It is also difficult for you!"

"No, no, no, I don't hold a grudge, Prime Minister Liu. I'm going home in three days. I'm tired of the decades of fighting. To be honest, I really look forward to one day ending this endless struggle.

Melee.”

"Let me ask you, what do you think about Liu Zitian? It's just you and me here, and I want to hear the truth from you!"

"I won't jump to conclusions about who he is. He took my parents from their hometown to Yiling, and gave my subordinates resettlement allowances. Those who were willing to return to their hometowns were allowed to go back to their hometowns. When we came down the river, along the road

He rescued a few fishermen, built a few bridges, and pardoned thousands of slaves, letting them regain their freedom. He did not have the majesty of an emperor, and looked like an ordinary farmer, or maybe he was a farmer in the first place.

I think Liu Chengjie knows these things better than me!"

Liu Mingge knew that explanations were useless, so he asked tentatively, "If I kill Liu Zitian, will you continue to follow him?"

"If you kill him and continue to do what he did, we have no objection. If you kill him, the free people will be captured as slaves, and the soldiers who return home will continue to be drafted. I think they have

The sword inside will make the most correct choice!"

Tan Banshan was a little excited when he said it, and he looked Liu Mingge up and down, "I have always regarded you as an expert, but what you said today frightened me and made me unable to believe my ears. Prime Minister Liu, are you?

Do you want to treat us as your playthings? Although I am stupid and don’t understand what you high-minded people think, but you can’t always treat us like we are nothing!”

Liu Mingge sighed, "Oh, it's not me, it's not me, Brother Banshan, something happened recently that I can't even explain to you. Let me tell you this, I have a brother who looks exactly like me, named Liu Boxian.

His martial arts skills are even higher than mine. He pretended to be me a few months ago, but he was discovered by everyone and ran away. I think he escaped to the land of Bashu and bewitched you!"

"Haha, Mr. Liu, I respected you before. You made up such a lie, do you really think we are three-year-old children? Are you pretending to be able to ask the sword master of the sword tower to come forward? Even if we don't know the goods, don't you?

Even the old sword master doesn’t know his stuff?”

Liu Mingge's face turned pale. What he had been worried about was indeed true. Jianlou supported Liu Boxian. Tan Banshan was right. With the ability of Sword Master Ye Yunong, there was no way he would be deceived by Liu Boxian.

Then there is only one possibility left. Sword Master Ye Yunong chose to support Liu Boxian, which also explains why Liu Mingge can no longer find the contact point of Jianlou along the way.

"Prime Minister Liu, I really don't understand. Why are you pretending to ask me, isn't this exactly what you expected? With your pale face, others must be pretending not to be like you!"

Liu Mingge took a deep breath and rubbed his temples with both hands. "Is the Sword Master also in the army?"

Tan Banshan sneered, "How long will Prime Minister Liu keep playing? The Sword Master has always been in the army, but he has been in seclusion in the past few days!"

Liu Mingge's first thought was to run away. He couldn't defeat Liu Boxian alone. Now that even the Sword Master has joined Liu Boxian's camp, Liu Mingge might never come back.

The thought of escaping immediately disappeared. Sword Master Ye Yunong appeared in Tan Banshan's study at an unknown time. "Junior Brother Liu, you are here at the right time. It is up to you to rectify the emperor's name. The land south of the Yangtze River can be announced!"

Liu Mingge was no longer afraid at this moment: "Brother Jian Sheng, the founder of Jian Tower has the ancestral precepts. We are only witnesses and do not interfere in the world's major events! How can senior brother go against the ancestral precepts and go back on his word, and now he has established a new emperor to disrupt the world! You can do whatever you want.

Find someone and ask him to memorize the genealogy of the Liang Dynasty, and you will elect him as the emperor!"

"So what? Instead of waiting hundreds of years for a Holy Son of Heaven, we might as well build an Emperor according to the standards of a Holy Son of Tomorrow! The Son of Heaven is nothing but a public weapon of the world! As foolish and loyal as you are, working for the emperor of the same surname,

Is it possible to bring peace to the world? We are witnesses, but we cannot always ignore death, and we cannot always be alone! If we don’t stand up for the common people in the world today, will there still be a place for us to stand tomorrow? "

Liu Mingge shook his head, "Senior brother, by doing this, isn't it putting yourself above the emperor and the people of the world? All laws are natural and all things are equal. Neither you nor I are the creators. We can only adapt to the times instead of forcing changes! Even if you put Liu Zitian

He was built into an eternal holy king, but he will die and you will die too. Can you still force yourself to do anything in the future?"

"You are wrong. There is the art of immortality in this world. As long as we dominate the world, we will definitely find the art of immortality in Chixian Shenzhou. At that time, the country will be forever consolidated and the people of the world will enjoy eternal peace! Junior Brother, do you know that the world is unkind?

All things are like ruts, and the sage is unkind and treats the common people as dwee dogs! The world is unified and everyone is immortal. That is the meaning of our testimony!"

At this moment, Liu Mingge suddenly understood why even people like Tan Banshan and Liao Fan were willing to follow Liu Zitian. They did not want to follow Liu Zitian, the puppet emperor, but they wanted to pursue the art of immortality promised to them by the Sword Master.

"Senior brother, you just used the art of immortality to confuse everyone and let them use it for you and my brother. But I want to tell you, if there was a true art of immortality in this world, the Emperor Shi Huang would have obtained it long ago, but after all, the Emperor is still

Dead!"

"Junior brother, no one can enter the tomb of the First Emperor so far. How do you conclude that the First Emperor has not obtained the art of immortality? The Queen Mother of the West of Kunlun Yaochi recorded in "The Biography of Emperor Mu" has the art of immortality, but no one has ever been to Kunlun afterwards.

Just found it! Junior brother, don’t be so ambitious. If you don’t want to follow us and benefit the world, senior brother won’t force you, but Liu Zitian and our sword tower will be protected to the end!”

Liu Mingge knew that he could not convince the Sword Master anymore, so he bowed to the Sword Master, "Senior brother, please take care of yourself! We, senior brothers, will end today after one fight!"

Liu Mingge turned around and left, but was stopped in place. The sword master made a move behind him and grabbed Liu Mingge with both hands.

"Senior brother, you know I can't beat you, why bother attacking you from behind?"

"I won't kill you, I want you to stay and witness our great cause! I want you to know that you are wrong!"

Liu Mingge was defeated by the Sword Master Ye Yunong and was sucked directly in. Ye Yunong did not kill him painfully. He sealed several of Liu Mingge's acupuncture points with a few moves of his fingers.

"Master Tan, I will leave my junior brother to you. You must not beat or scold him. You must not skip meat and wine for three meals a day! You must not skip kabuki performances when necessary! You still have to carry him to court every day!"

Liu Mingge closed his eyes, more painful things were yet to come. If Liu Boxian didn't show up to replace him, he would have to suffer this kind of torture forever. No one understood. When Liu Zitian's army moved eastward, Liu Jian would definitely regard Liu Mingge as a traitor.

, no matter who wins or loses, Liu Mingge will definitely bear his bad reputation!

After the sword master subdued Liu Mingge, he disappeared into the night, leaving only Tan Banshan and a few soldiers to carry Liu Mingge into the side room to rest.

Liu Mingge was hit on his mute point and couldn't speak even if he wanted to. Tan Banshan waited for everyone to leave and quietly handed a pen to Liu Mingge. Liu Mingge held the pen in his mouth and drew on the paper, and Tan Banshan also wrote down what he wanted to say.

It turns out that what Tan Banshan said before was all because the Sword Master was here. It has to be said that now Tan Banshan told Liu Mingge that there was only one way to stop the Sword Master, and that was for Liu Mingge and himself to persuade Liu Zitian to give up the throne, and regardless of whether Liu Zitian chose him or not.

If he chooses to give up, Tan Banshan will kill him and then commit suicide, ending everything in this destructive way.

Liu Mingge's eyes were wide open, and he was writing quickly and crookedly on the paper with a pen in his mouth. In Liu Mingge's view, this was trying to kill a tiger with an egg against a stone. Even if Liu Zitian and the others were dead, the Sword Master would not be willing to accept it.

Tan Banshan wrote a few words on the paper: "Medan, sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal burn people."

Liu Mingge suddenly remembered that when he was refining alchemy, he had blown up the alchemy furnace several times. The most serious thing was that the alchemy room was completely destroyed.

Tan Banshan took out saltpeter powder and sulfur powder from his arms and told Liu Mingge as long as he buried enough honey in the house.

The elixir mixed with sugar, sulfur, saltpetre, and charcoal may still give it a try.

Liu Mingge nodded and wrote down a few lines, asking Tan Banshan to give him a chance to meet the Sword Master.

The next day, before Tan Banshan could find the Sword Master, the Sword Master came first. The Sword Master opened Liu Mingge's mute point and said, "Junior brother, I will give you another chance to achieve great things with us! Otherwise!"

Liu Mingge immediately agreed, "I can promise you, but I have conditions. I won't be an official or lead soldiers. Find a place for me to make alchemy. If you can't satisfy me with these conditions, then kill me!"

"I know that you care about your reputation and don't want to face Liu Jian and Li Xiaofei and the others! Okay! Okay, it just so happens that we also need water-avoiding pills for soldiers who are not used to water!"

Liu Mingge's face changed slightly when he heard the sword master say the water-avoiding elixir. This water-avoiding elixir is made of mercury mandala and other poisons. After eating it, people will not feel as if they are walking on flat ground while the boat is bumping around. But time passes.

If it grows long, it will become poisonous and cause death.

"You don't want to refine the water-avoiding elixir? Then the fire-avoiding elixir will do!"

"Alchemy is my biggest hobby. Any kind of elixir will do. Senior brother, don't say anything and take me to the alchemy room!"

Liu Mingge got his wish and entered the alchemy room to refine elixirs. He quickly bought honey, sulfur and saltpeter, and personally wrote a letter to Liu Zitian asking them to come to the alchemy room to taste the elixirs.

On the third day of Liu Mingge's alchemy refining, Liu Zitian brought Sword Master Tan Banshan, Liao Fan and many soldiers outside the alchemy room.

The only people who entered the alchemy room were Liu Zitian, Tan Banshan and Liao Fan, the Sword Master. The rest of the soldiers were waiting outside, preparing to receive the water-avoiding elixir.

Liu Mingge looked at the four of them, and was looking for an opportunity to light a fire and die together. The sword master spoke first, "Junior brother, this honey, sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal will explode when mixed together. Senior brother discovered it thirty years ago. You are pretending to obey me."

You came here to make elixirs just to try to die with me! Haha, senior brother, go ahead!"

After speaking, the sword master jumped back and flew out of the door. "Now you can light the fire! I know you are not afraid of death! I want to see how you treat your old friends! By the way, this Liu Zitian is a kind man.

, you are kind-hearted, I also want to see how you can do it!"

Liu Mingge, who was holding a torch in his hand, was stunned, but Tan Banshan said, "Don't hesitate, light the fire!"
To be continued...