As it turned out, Prime Minister Lan was stopped in the middle when he was approaching the Inner Palace. There were another group of assassins prepared to attack him. But there were more guards outside, so they were dealt swiftly.
The number was also not as many as the number of assassin coming to get Emperor Yang Zhou.
Long Qian Xing had no intention of interfering with their methods of obtaining information. He would just let Prime Minister Lan dealt with that matter. Instead, he had some other matters that he needed to talk with Emperor Yang Zhou.
Thus, when the doctors had finished bandaging Long Qian Xing's wound, Emperor Yang Zhou asked everyone to leave and specifically reminded Lan Qiu that Long Qian Xing wanted to talk with him afterwards.
They had to warn this Imperial Guard.
Thankfully, Lan Qiu is Prime Minister Lan's son and could be trusted to a certain degree. The two father and son were quite similar to each other and the good thing was that they were both loyal.
"Your explanation from before can't fully explain the battles." Emperor Yang Zhou had found out that there were more assassins who died because of other assassins at the outer palace. It would be hard to explain what caused them to have such disagreement when they were still outside.
"You can say that you have shadow guard." Long Qian Xing arched his eyebrows.
Emperor Yang Zhou's expression was placid. "I have none who have such skill in controlling needles."
To be able to perfectly pierce the needle at the weakest point when someone was moving required extreme precision. It was not something that could be mastered without many years of practice. He naturally had shadow guards and they were also cleaning the assassins from outside.
However, they were not comparable to that Master Jiu.
Long Qian Xing could still remember the trajectory of those needles very clearly. Because he was within that Zone, he could see very clearly their movements and knew that Master Jiu was also capable of predicting the opponent's move. It was not as accurate as him when he was using the Zone, but it had reached such precision and accuracy that was extremely scary.
In that moment, Long Qian Xing was reminded of the needle that bypassed him when he visited Xia Mountain. At that time, he was sure that if the other party wanted to kill him, that person could do it.
Just moving the trajectory of the needle a little bit would have already killed him.
"What are you planning to do with that token?" Emperor Yang Zhou would just go with the flow regarding the matter of these assassins fighting each other. Since they were from different organization, he would just say that they might have grudges with each other.
No one knows the details of the inside of these organization.
"I'm going to pay a visit to their branch and see how this token is used." Long Qian Xing looked at Emperor Yang Zhou and smirked. "This time, I would require you to give me a few liangs of gold."
Emperor Yang Zhou looked at Long Qian Xing. "My life is worth a few liangs of gold?"
"Be glad that the other party accepted the payment I give." Long Qian Xing shook his head. "In that situation, I only have 80% confidence to be able to protect you without the existence of Master Jiu."
Hearing that, Emperor Yang Zhou didn't say anything more. He knew very well that because Master Jiu helped to cover the other area, Long Qian Xing could focus on half of them and not everyone.
This helped him to conserve his stamina and prevented more assassins reached Lan Qiu and Emperor Yang Zhou.
"I should have assign more shadow guards."
"There are more than 300 people in total who entered the palace today. Even if you have a few more shadow guards, it wouldn't change much." Long Qian Xing had calculated that the number of assassins they have to face was simply too much.
Those people must have thrown enough money to build a big family to be able to invite so many experts from various organization.
"Zhang Xu Kingdom and Wei Da Kingdom are both so impatient." Emperor Yang Zhou chuckled. "To think that they would pay such a huge price to send assassins to my doorsteps."
Just from the name of those organizations, Emperor Yang Zhou knew that those two kingdoms were already very impatient to have him died. They didn't want to see him for another second and directly sent a large group of assassins.
"They're not the only one."
"Who should I deal first?"
Long Qian Xing looked at the ceiling and thought for a moment. "There should be some time to deal with a few before Empress Selection, right? Deal with one of them. Another one after the Empress Selection and the rest after the inauguration."
Emperor Yang Zhou's gaze turned solemn when he heard the last sentence. His inauguration was planned to be done in this autumn. There was not much time left for him to prepare everything.
Long Qian Xing told Emperor Yang Zhou the brief layout of his plan. After hearing all of that, Emperor Yang Zhou fell into deep contemplation for some time.
"It's a shame you don't want to be an official."
Long Qian Xing was speechless.
"You can go now. Ask Lan Qiu to come in for a moment. I would like to have a talk with him."
"Alright." Emperor Yang Zhou stood up and sighed. "Rest well. I'm not going to disturb you any longer."
When Emperor Yang Zhou finally came out, Lan Qiu was called inside. He already felt that his legs turned weak when he saw the gaze that Long Qian Xing gave to him. What he had seen when he was protecting Emperor Yang Zhou was definitely top secret.
As Lan Qiu listened to what Long Qian Xing asked him to do, he didn't know whether to cry or cry even harder.