Qin Hao carefully played with the sword in his hand, then smiled and said to the beautiful woman in front of him: "Xiuning, you are not trying to deceive me with fakes, are you?"
Seeing that Qin Hao actually doubted himself, Li Xiuning's eyes flashed with anger, and he snorted: "Humph, it can't be fake if it's true, it can't be true if it's false, you can just go and test it!"
Qin Hao looked at Xiu Ning jokingly, and after a few seconds he laughed and said, "I'm just kidding you, I know it's true."
Seeing this, Li Xiuning felt powerless. This feeling of wanting to get angry but not being able to do so was really frustrating!
At first, Dong Zhuo sent Li Xiuning as an envoy to Luoyang to negotiate with Qin Hao, and negotiated to use the remaining three counties of Sizhou in exchange for Li Shimin. However, the negotiations broke down because both Qin and Liang armies increased their troops, but Li Xiuning, as an envoy, did not
leave.
Li Xiuning has been trying to rescue her brother Li Shimin since he was captured alive. However, because she has no idea where Li Shimin is being held, and the power she controls is not strong enough, forced rescue is simply not feasible.
It is possible to rescue people only through negotiation.
Li Xiuning tried to contact the Taoists, hoping to gain Taoist support to use Taoist power to put pressure on Qin Hao. However, due to the death of Guangchengzi, the relationship between the Taoists and the Baijia became increasingly tense, and they had no time to help Li Xiuning.
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Since the emergence of the first great master, there has never been a precedent for a person to die in battle. However, the Taoist school now has two great masters, Zhang Daoling and Guang Chengzi, and the leader of Shushan, Dugu Yuyun, has also disappeared after the fall of Luoyang. He has also disappeared to this day.
Don't know whether to live or die.
Every great master is precious, not to mention that Taoism has lost three in a row, which naturally makes the Taoism's senior officials extremely angry.
Nowadays, the relationship between hundreds of schools is extremely tense, and a life-and-death war may break out at any time, so the Taoists naturally have no spare power to save Li Shimin.
Li Xiuning met with disgrace in the Taoist family, but she did not give up. Instead, she approached her second grandfather, Taoist Taiqing.
But the unfathomable second grandfather just said "I understand" in a nonchalant manner, and then stopped talking to Li Xiuning. This also made her seriously doubt whether the Taoist family had given up on the second brother.
Just when Li Xiuning was at his wits' end about the rescue, he learned that Dong Zhuo had decided to exchange the land of three counties for his brother, and this moved Li Xiuning for a while.
After that, Li Xiuning went to Luoyang alone to negotiate with Qin Hao, but ultimately failed due to various reasons, which made Li Xiuning feel extremely disappointed.
Without the land of the Three Counties as a bargaining chip, the only thing in Li Xiuning's hand that might make Qin Hao's heart move is probably the dragon-slaying sword, one of the keys to Tiangong's treasure.
Li Xiuning knew that the second brother also valued the Tiangong treasure very much, but Luoyang had been completely occupied by Qin Hao, and the second brother had no chance to get the Tiangong treasure, so he might as well trade the key for his life.
The huge wealth contained in Tiangong's treasure is worth more than the three counties of Sizhou. No prince in the world does not want to get it.
But after all, Li Xiuning only has one key in her hand, and she still doesn't know the specific location of the treasure, so she is not sure whether the value of a key can be used to get her second brother back.
But this is already Li Xiuning's last hope, so she must try it no matter whether it succeeds or not.
What Li Xiuning didn't know was that due to the asymmetry of information, she had missed the best opportunity to rescue Li Shimin.
Before the allied forces of the princes retreated, if Li Xiuning could know the location of the treasure, he might be able to use coercion and inducement to do so. Maybe he could force Qin Hao to let Li Shimin go.
Although Li Xiuning placed all her hope of getting Li Shimin back on the key to the treasure, she would not stupidly take the key to find Qin Hao to replace him.
After a series of negotiations, Li Xiuning discovered that although Qin Hao was very interested in the key, he felt that a key was not valuable enough to exchange for Li Shimin, so he decisively rejected her offer to exchange the key for someone else.
Qin Hao wanted to get two keys at once, but Li Xiuning really only had one in his hand. After persuading him to no avail, Li Xiuning could only try to snatch the second key.
The dragon-slaying knife in Li Xiuning's hand was obtained from the thief god Ji Wuming, and Ji Wuming was good friends with the thief saint Bai Zhantang, and the two often committed crimes together.
Therefore, Li Xiuning judged that the possibility of Yitian Sword being in Bai Zhantang's hands was extremely high, so he mobilized all the forces of bad guys to hunt down the thief Bai Zhantang.
Bai Zhantang's strength is not that strong, but his ability to escape and counter-reconnaissance is unparalleled in the world. The clues that the unscrupulous people caught after him were quickly cut off, and no trace of Bai Zhantang could be found.
Li Xiuning's plan to hunt down Bai Zhantang once again reached a deadlock, but he couldn't find Bai Zhantang, couldn't get the Yitian Sword, and couldn't get his second brother Li Shimin back, which made Li Xiuning feel a little desperate.
Time passed very quickly, and while Li Xiuning was chasing Bai Zhantang, a series of major events occurred, including Dong Zhuo's death, the Liang army's retreat, and the Southern Allied forces' march south.
Li Xiuning was in charge of the bad guys and part of the Liang Guards, so he could naturally get the news of Dong Zhuo's death as soon as possible. When he learned that Yang Jian had unified the Liang army and retreated to Guanzhong, Li Xiuning's first thought was that Yang Jian was going to seize power.
After Yang Jian united Sizhou Liang's army, the strength he controlled has undoubtedly surpassed that of the Li family. If he returns to Guanzhong at this time, it will be difficult to compete with Yang Jian with the strength in the hands of his father Li Yuan.
As soon as he thought of this, Li Xiuning became more and more impatient to rescue Li Shimin. After all, Li Shimin was not only Dong Zhuo's son-in-law, but also Dong Zhuo's designated successor. Once he returned, he would definitely gain the support of all the Liang generals, and then the strength of the Li family would also increase.
The Yang family will once again surpass Yang Jian.
But at this moment, Qin Hao came to Li Xiuning and said that since the Qin army could only obtain Sizhou through war, it would be useless to keep Li Shimin, so he decided to execute Li Shimin.
Qin Hao's words frightened Li Xiuning. Now she was no longer thinking about rescuing Li Shimin, but how to prevent Qin Hao from killing her second brother and temporarily save her second brother's life.
Li Xiuning had no choice but to reach an agreement with Qin Hao. She asked Qin Hao not to kill Li Shimin temporarily on the condition of offering the dragon-slaying knife. After she found and presented the Yitian Sword, Qin Hao released Li Shimin.
Li Xiuning knew that this agreement had no binding force on Qin Hao. If Qin Hao didn't want to abide by it, she had no choice but to trust Qin Hao's credibility and character, so she finally handed over the dragon-slaying knife.