Myriad Realms Summoning System

Xiao Chen came over and helped Wang Yue, who was still kneeling on the ground, up, and said with a smile: "You two don't have to be so polite, I still have something to explain!"

The two smiled awkwardly, then sat back in their seats and listened carefully to Xiao Chen's words.

Xiao Chen said to Jia Xu: "Wenhe, you know, I came to Luocheng to take back the throne, but there have been too many things to do recently, and the progress has been a bit slow. Now I want to speed up the progress! I wonder if you have any good ideas!"

The five great magic kingdoms in the Northern Territory are likely to be the enemies he will face next. As the three great magic giants of the Iron Blood Dynasty, the Heavenly Snake Cult definitely has the ability to mobilize the five kingdoms.

The strength of the five kingdoms is far less than that of the super sects, and the cultivation of the soldiers is also extremely low, but when millions of soldiers unite their morale and launch military formations, the combat power they unleash should not be underestimated.

Even if hundreds of warriors faced an army of millions, they would probably have no choice but to run for their lives.

After hearing what Xiao Chen said, Jia Xu smiled and said, "Sir, I have actually been thinking about this issue for a long time. I have already come up with a basic idea. I will implement it as soon as you nod your head."

"Oh, sir, you already have a solution?" Xiao Chen looked delighted.

Jia Xu said: "Sir, we previously let General Yuwen and Master Yanqing infiltrate the Imperial Guards in order to let them slowly gain control of the two camps of the Imperial Guards. However, since you want to speed up the process, we can only use unconventional means."

Xiao Chen frowned and asked, "What unconventional means? Also, even if we get the military power of the two camps of the Imperial Guard, there are only 20,000 of them, which is not much compared to the 200,000 Imperial Guards. If a conflict really occurs, Luo City will still be in turmoil."

At this point, Xiao Chen couldn't help but glance at Jia Xu. During the Three Kingdoms period, after Lu Bu killed Dong Zhuo, Prime Minister Wang Yun planned to eliminate the remaining followers of Dong Zhuo.

As a result, the rumor that Wang Yun wanted to kill all the people in Liangzhou spread like wildfire. Since Jia Xu was a former subordinate of Dong Zhuo and a native of Wuwei in Liangzhou, he was naturally in great danger.

At that time, Li Jue, Guo Si and other former subordinates of Dong Zhuo were feeling uneasy and were planning to flee separately. So Jia Xu jumped out and used the sinister plan that had plagued the Three Kingdoms for four hundred years, and turned back to attack Chang'an.

After Li Jue and Guo Si occupied Chang'an, the four became suspicious of each other and eventually fell out and attacked each other. The originally prosperous Guanzhong region was devastated and the population dropped sharply.

The four fought fiercely. Li Jue and Guo Si were even more unscrupulous and started fighting directly in Chang'an City. Chang'an, the capital of the two Han dynasties, was completely destroyed.

Although letting Li Jue return to attack Chang'an was Jia Xu's life-saving strategy, which was understandable personally, Jia Xu did join forces with four bandits to capture Chang'an, causing countless disasters.

Therefore, Xiao Chen was very worried. If he only had 20,000 imperial guards under his command, when Xiao Tianci was killed, the remaining 180,000 imperial guards might rebel again. By then, Luo City would probably be filled with endless bloodshed.

Is it possible that the tragedy caused by Jia Xu in the previous life will be repeated in Luocheng?

This is not what Xiao Chen wants, otherwise he would not have been so hesitant as to kill Xiao Tianci until now.

Jia Xu certainly didn't know that Xiao Chen's thoughts had flown to the catastrophe he had caused in his previous life, because he himself had no memory of his previous life.

After hearing Xiao Chen's doubts, Jia Xu just smiled mysteriously and said, "Sir, in my opinion, controlling 20,000 imperial guards is enough."

"Why do you say that?" Xiao Chen asked puzzledly.

Jia Xu smiled and asked, "Sir, how many confidants do you think Xiao Tianci has in the military?"

Xiao Chen pondered for a moment, and said uncertainly: "There should be no less than dozens of people!"

Jia Xu nodded and said, "My Lord, you are right. Xiao Tianci does have dozens of close confidants in the military, and they all hold high positions."

"But the Great Zhou Kingdom has nearly a million soldiers. How much military power do you think a few dozen cronies can control?"

Xiao Chen asked hesitantly: "What does Wenhe mean..."

Jia Xu said: "Before Xiao Tianci usurped the throne, although he was nominally the Grand Marshal of the Kingdom's army and controlled nearly half of the Kingdom's troops, there was actually a lot of water in it."

Xiao Chen thought about it carefully and felt that what Jia Xu said made sense.

Among the one million soldiers of the Great Zhou Kingdom, 200,000 were the Luocheng Imperial Guard, another 200,000 were local troops from counties across the country, and the remaining 600,000 were the kingdom's most elite border troops, responsible for guarding the surrounding borders.

Among these 600,000 border troops, the largest and strongest were those in the northern border, with a total of no less than 300,000 deployed to guard against the barbarians on the grassland.

And Xiao Tianci's so-called control of half of the Great Zhou's troops was, strictly speaking, only the local troops from various counties, the Luocheng Imperial Guards, and a hundred thousand border troops on the southern border.

The border troops are different from the local troops. The border troops in all directions have always been responsible only for guarding the territory and will not intervene in the power disputes in the court. As long as the court supplies sufficient food and wages on time, they have no objection to who sits on the throne.

Therefore, except for the southern border troops, the 500,000 border troops from the other three parties were only nominally under the command of Xiao Tianci. In fact, no one would listen to him. This is why Jia Xu said that the military power controlled by Xiao Tianci was very watered down.

Jia Xu continued, "The southern border army is Xiao Tianci's base, and most of his confidants are concentrated there. As for the Luocheng Imperial Guard, to be precise, only the senior generals of the twenty Imperial Guard camps will fully obey Xiao Tianci's orders. So I think that if the generals of the twenty Imperial Guard camps are killed at the same time, I don't know..."

Jia Xu did not continue speaking, but looked at Xiao Chen meaningfully.

Xiao Chen looked at Jia Xu in surprise. Was this guy planning to kill all the imperial guards?

He thought he had been cruel enough by destroying the Yan family, but he didn't expect that Jia Xu, a scholar, was no worse than himself. He was indeed a vicious scholar!

Xiao Chen did not have much resistance to the idea of killing the general of the imperial guards. However, once this matter was leaked, even if Xiao Chen regained the throne in the future, the ministers would be on guard against it. The emperor and his ministers would be in a state of disharmony, which would be extremely detrimental to the government.

Jia Xu knew Xiao Chen's concerns, so he advised: "Sir, you don't have to worry so much. As the saying goes, if the emperor wants his subjects to die, they have to die. Not to mention that these people are all Xiao Tianci's confidants, even if they are not, as the emperor, if you kill a few generals, no one will dare to say anything, and it may even help to establish your authority. But if you really have concerns, why not kill someone with a borrowed knife?"

Perhaps Xiao Chen really had not yet adapted to how to be an emperor, so when he heard Jia Xu say that he could kill someone with a borrowed knife, he became interested and asked, "How do you kill someone with a borrowed knife?"

Jia Xu said, "There is an Assassin's Guild in Luo City that can accept any assassination missions, and it is completely anonymous. Why don't you post the missions in the Assassin's Guild and ask them to assassinate those imperial guards."

Xiao Chen thought about it and felt that this method was indeed feasible. Besides, he had just made a lot of money at Lingyun Commercial Bank, so he didn't have to worry about money.

Xiao Chen nodded and said to Wang Yue: "Wang Yue, take the spirit crystal to the Assassin's Guild and issue a mission to assassinate twenty Imperial Guards generals. Remember, you must act in secret and never let the news leak out."

"Yes, I'll do it right away," Wang Yue said, then turned and left the room.