In order to ensure the smooth progress of the assassination plan, the planners not only arranged assassins, but also used a renegade grenade trainer.
However, the defense in Xihewan was too tight. As soon as the assassin approached the village, he was discovered by the patrolling bodyguard and was killed without even entering the village.
The rebellious grenade coach was in the village and got close to Princess Ninth and Guan Xiaorou as he wished. Unfortunately, his mental quality was not good enough and he did not dare to assassinate them in front of them. He just found that they had entered the health center and threw the grenade in.
The courtyard of the health center is relatively large, and neither Princess Ninth nor Guan Xiaorou was killed.
The assassination plan failed, so the counselors launched a backup plan and sent people to spread rumors in the village that Princess Ninth wanted to seize power with Guan Xiaorou in order to divide the village.
However, the Ninth Princess saw through their trick and chose to avoid it, and the counselors' backup plan also failed.
But this does not mean that the counselors have no other strategies.
In fact, ever since the soaps and black knives made by Jin Feng have been selling like hotcakes in the capital, the powerful have been eyeing Xihewan and have been sending people to infiltrate the area, hoping to obtain the manufacturing techniques of the soaps and black knives.
Unfortunately, the terrain of Tin Can Mountain where soap is made is too complicated, and the female workers are absolutely loyal. The powerful people have been busy working for almost a year, but they have been unable to succeed. Zuo Feifei even found out several spies.
The iron smelting workshop is not as difficult to penetrate as the Iron Can Mountain, but the production process of the black knife is extremely complicated and involves too much knowledge. It is also an assembly line operation. It is useless to buy one or two apprentices individually.
But the powerful were not discouraged and instead invested more manpower and resources.
The battle of Damanang Slope exposed the grenades, and the powerful became even more crazy and sent out many elite secret agents.
After seeing the power of grenades, the powerful no longer looked down on soap, salt and black knives. Their goal was grenades.
Later, Jin Feng used hot air balloons in the capital, and the dignitaries set their sights on hot air balloons again.
There are a few greedy powerful people who have set their sights on Jin Feng and want to take back Jin Feng for their own use.
This is also the reason why the handyman on the ship could have killed Jin Feng but did not take action directly.
It has to be said that the plans formulated by the counselors are closely linked, and no matter how they develop, they will all be beneficial to them.
Although the assassination and beheading plan failed, the dignitaries' goal of disrupting Xihewan was achieved.
In order to avoid suspicion, the Ninth Princess took the initiative to avoid various management matters in Xihewan.
In this way, the fourth prince seizes the throne in the capital, and the ninth princess cannot mobilize her bodyguards even if she wants to attack him.
Things were exactly as the counselors thought. When she learned that the fourth prince had seized the throne, the ninth princess's first thought was to send troops to the capital.
But he took the initiative to avoid it, saying that he would not compete with Guan Xiaorou for power, and he had to mobilize a large number of people to ensure that he would definitely implement what he said.
The Ninth Princess thought about it again and again, and finally gave up.
Chen Ji has been forced to die, and the most important thing now is to stabilize Xihewan.
As long as there is no chaos in Xihewan, she will have plenty of opportunities to settle accounts with the Fourth Prince.
The counselors naturally knew that the Ninth Princess would think so, so after the fourth prince seized the throne, they immediately accelerated their rebellion activities in Xihewan.
In fact, ever since the powerful men sent people to infiltrate Xihewan, one of the most important tasks was to instigate rebellion.
It's just that this work is carried out very secretly, and sometimes it is difficult for even the parties involved to detect it.
For example, the secret agent who instigated Wei Laosan's rebellion was a small businessman from out of town who came to Xihewan to purchase goods.
When Wei Laosan was still burning kilns, the undercover began to contact him. The reason was that his father was also a kiln maker, and he felt friendly when he saw Wei Laosan.
Burning kilns is hard work, and Wei Laosan is well versed in speaking skills, and almost every sentence he speaks speaks to his heart.
After several contacts, the two became good friends.
However, the hidden line did not mention the instigation of rebellion at all, and did not reveal any intention in this regard. It seemed that he really wanted to be friends with Wei Laosan sincerely.
Every time the small businessman comes to Xihewan to purchase goods, he will bring some small things for Wei Laosan's child.
They are not particularly valuable, just some gadgets and snacks that are not available in the village.
In the twelfth lunar month of last year, Wei Laosan took his family and relatives to the county town to purchase things. After the small businessman learned about it, he entertained a group of them very warmly, allowing Wei Laosan to show his face in front of his relatives.
Mountain people don't have any scheming ideas. If others treat them kindly, they will immediately take care of them.
After that incident, Wei Laosan regarded the secret agent as his brother in his heart.
Until then, the secret agent still did not mention anything about instigating rebellion, but invited Wei Laosan to visit the county government from time to time, and took him to restaurants and brothels to see the world.
Wei Laosan had lived in the mountains for half his life, and soon his eyes were dazzled by the colorful world.
If it were a general hidden line, he could take action at this time, but this hidden line still did not take action, but instead targeted Wei Laosan's nephew.
Wei Laosan's nephew was one of the first batch of villagers to join the escort team with Liu Tie. He worked hard and was not shy when encountering bandits. However, his biggest problem was that he liked to drink.
Food in Dakang was expensive, and wine was also expensive. Wei Laosan's nephew spent more than half of his monthly wages on wine.
It's okay to drink some wine when he's not at work, but when he drinks, he doesn't care about anything else.
When the Escort Agency was first established, the escorts were given priority to join, but on the day of the assessment, he was so drunk that he almost shot a veteran who was watching when he was testing his crossbow.
Zhang Liang was very angry and immediately canceled his qualifications and asked when he would stop drinking and when he could join the escort agency.
Zhang Liang said this originally because he wanted to force him to quit drinking. Who knew that this guy didn't appreciate it at all. Instead, he went around saying that the escort agency had too many rules and he didn't want to participate.
Then Wei Laosan's nephew became a professional warrior, traveling around with the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce every day, drinking wine and eating meat.
It is easy to cause trouble when you drink too much. The undercover took advantage of this and deliberately found people to provoke your nephew when he went to Jiangnan.
Being drunk and cowardly, Wei Laosan's nephew beat him half to death and was imprisoned by the local government.
In the feudal era, it was very troublesome to get involved in a lawsuit. Wei Laosan himself had no son, so he always regarded his nephew as his own son. When he got the news, he immediately went to find someone to settle the matter.
Jin Feng and Zhang Liang were not in Jinchuan at that time, so Wei Laosan found Zheng Fang and wanted Zheng Fang to coordinate with the local officials to release his nephew.
In order to prevent the bodyguards from developing a domineering character, Zhang Liang has always emphasized that the bodyguards and Lifu should abide by the law when walking outside. If something goes wrong, the bodyguard bureau will not help.
Wei Laosan's nephew beat someone half to death, so Zheng Fang naturally wouldn't help him.
Wei Laosan had no choice but to go to the undercover to complain.
So the hidden line pushed the situation along and agreed to help smooth things over.
In order to appear to be working harder, the undercover also hired many people to help with the acting, pretending that they were squandering their wealth in order to make money for others, but did not want Mr. Wei to know about it, and then secretly arranged for someone to "accidentally" tell Mr. Wei
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When Wei Laosan found out, he was so moved that he burst into tears.
Until this time, the hidden line layout was mostly successful.