Chapter 145: A Chivalrous Spirit

Who knows?

Bai Xiaosheng's words made Pei Xuanjing more certain of his guess.

Taoist Qingxu didn't want to continue this topic, so he asked, "What about the second one?"

"The second one is Maitreya." Bai Xiaosheng said.

"Maitreya?" Taoist Qingxu frowned.

Obviously, he didn't like Maitreya.

Zhenwu Sect is not only a big force in martial arts, but also a holy place of Taoism. As the leader of Taoism today, it is naturally on the opposite side of Maitreya.

Pei Xuanjing combined his own information and said, "What is Maitreya's layout in the northwest road?"

"Huh?" Bai Xiaosheng looked at Pei Xuanjing with some surprise. He never thought that Pei Xuanjing knew so much.

Even though he knew that Pei Xuanjing and Maitreya had a lot of grievances, the other party also destroyed a small force of Maitreya in the northwest road.

But you have to know that Maitreya is a professional rebel. In the entire territory of the Ming Dynasty, they support countless small forces.

"It seems that he has another source of information?" Bai Xiaosheng had a guess in his mind.

Pei Xuanjing wanted this purpose, to add a touch of mystery to his identity.

Although Bai Xiaosheng had many guesses in his mind, he did not stop. He nodded and said: "Yes, Maitreya has a layout in the Northwest Road. According to the information I have now, Maitreya has invested a lot of experience in the Northwest Road and dragged a lot of people into the water, preparing to start a riot in the Northwest Road."

"Sure enough!" Pei Xuanjing thought in his heart.

In this way, everything can be matched.

In his initial simulation, the robbers he had encountered and even the riot that swept the Northwest Road were all instigated by Maitreya.

However, just when Pei Xuanjing had determined that the riot in the Northwest Road was caused by Maitreya, he did not expect Bai Xiaosheng's next words to surprise him even more.

"Originally, Maitreya's doing this kind of thing seemed very common to me, nothing at all, and I almost ignored it. But later, I found something and continued to investigate, and found that there was a strong force behind Maitreya." Bai Xiaosheng had a solemn look on his face.

Originally, in his opinion, it was natural for Maitreya, a professional rebel, to do such things, after all, they just eat this bowl of rice.

It was just a chance that he found that a supreme elder of Maitreya suddenly came out of retreat and went to a place that no one could think of.

"Who?" Taoist Qingxu asked.

Pei Xuanjing was also a little curious.

He originally thought that Maitreya was the last instigator of Northwest Road, but he didn't expect that there was someone else.

"Yangzhou, Ning Fan." Bai Xiaosheng spit out two words.

"It turned out to be him!" Taoist Qingxu's face was moved.

He never thought it would be this person.

Bai Xiaosheng thought Pei Xuanjing didn't know, so he explained for him.

Yangzhou, Ning Fan.

It refers to a person and also a force, the Ning Wang Mansion, the current vassal Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao who guards Yangzhou.

Ning Fan, the original Ning Wang was the seventeenth son of Emperor Taizu.

Later, Emperor Taizong raised an army to quell the rebellion, and Ning Wang followed suit by chance. After Emperor Taizong ascended the throne, he changed his fiefdom to Yangzhou and became the Ning Fan who guarded Yangzhou.

However, due to the majesty of Emperor Taizong, even though he was the nominal lord of Yangzhou, the first generation of Ning Wang never intervened in the affairs of Yangzhou and lived his life cautiously.

The current Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao, in terms of seniority, should be the uncle of the current emperor.

He is frivolous and undignified by nature, but is good at self-decoration with literary conduct; he greedily accumulates money and has political ambitions; he excludes dissidents, frames and attacks; he seeks fame and pursues pleasure.

It can be said that he has the bad habits that others have, and he also has the disgusting things that others do not have.

In short, the current Ning Wang has the worst reputation among the vassal kings.

However, because he is good at pleasing the emperor and is a vassal with great power, his position is also very stable.

"It's just a foolish dream!" Taoist Qingxu said coldly.

Even if the emperor has no descendants now, he may choose someone from the royal family to inherit the throne in the future, but it will not be his turn. However, even Taoist Qingxu could not have thought that this person actually wanted to rebel.

Bai Xiaosheng smiled and said, "But this King Ning not only dreamed, but also took action."

The reason why his expression was solemn just now was not because of how powerful King Ning was, but because of the combination of the two.

The people of Maitreya plus the strength of King Ning, once such an action caused a rebellion, how much impact would it have.

Pei Xuanjing also frowned slightly: "Is there no way to stop it?"

He had no feelings for King Ning, and he had no good impression of the emperor.

Even for him, who would be the emperor had nothing to do with him.

But even if Pei Xuanjing killed people without mercy, he still had a trace of compassion.

He could also imagine how big a mess it would cause if Maitreya started a riot, and Prince Ning rebelled, and how many people would be displaced and killed.

Moreover, he and Maitreya were not on good terms, so he would certainly try his best to stop what Maitreya wanted to do.

"Although I know about this, I don't have enough evidence. Even if I pass the news to the Ming court, I'm afraid it won't attract attention." Bai Xiaosheng shook his head and said.

Originally, his status would easily make the Ming court wary. In addition, there was no solid evidence for the Ning Wang incident, so even if it was passed on, it would fall on deaf ears.

It would even cause a backlash and alert the enemy.

According to the clues he collected, the two parties should have been colluding for a short time, and many things were not ready yet. There was still some time before the real turmoil.

And now the Ming court still has the trouble of the Tatar invasion. If it alerts the enemy at this time, it will force the other party to raise troops and start a riot.

If these two things collide, it will be fun.

I am afraid that with the promotion of some people with ulterior motives, it will soon become a sweeping trend and spread to the entire territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Taoist Qingxu also understood his concerns and could only sigh helplessly.

"In this case, why not catch the thief first and let me kill him, so that the problem can be solved directly from the source." Pei Xuanjing suddenly said coldly, with a cold murderous intent bursting out of his body.

Since the problem cannot be solved, it is better to solve the person who caused the problem.

If killing this ambitious Prince Ning could eliminate a disaster, then Pei Xuanjing thought it was a good deal.

Killing one person and saving ten thousand people is a good deal.

He killed Prince Ning not for the damn Ming emperor, but for those innocent people. He didn't want to see them fall into war and die innocently.

"Master Pei really has the spirit of a chivalrous man!" Bai Xiaosheng couldn't help but praise him.