Su Xin's sudden words stunned everyone present, especially Ji Xuanyuan.
Ji Xuanyuan, in particular, frowned at Su Xin.
In Ji Xuanyuan's opinion, he had already compromised by doing so. In the end, Su Xin was still pestering him. He was not being considerate of the bigger picture.
Su Xin sneered in his heart. He could guess what Ji Xuanyuan was thinking. The so-called consideration of the bigger picture was actually asking him to take a step back.
When he went to ask the Suo Nanche to help, Ji Xuanyuan told him to be considerate of the bigger picture. However, the so-called consideration of the bigger picture was only sacrificing his own interests to ensure the interests of the Zhou Kingdom.
Su Xin had no sense of belonging to the Zhou Kingdom. Since Ji Xuanyuan was playing along with Su Xin, Su Xin naturally did not need to be polite with him.
Ji Xuanyuan frowned and said, "Lord Su, I didn't say that you killed Han Jiangli. This matter is not confirmed yet."
Su Xin said calmly, "Although it is not confirmed, rumors are fearful. If I don't completely clear this suspicion, I reckon many people will think that I killed Han Jiangli. In the end, this suspicion will become a complete certainty."
"Then what do you want?"
Su Xin said in a deep voice, "It's very simple. Go and gather the soldiers who were on the battlefield in the Central Plains. They were in trouble with Han Jiangli. They could see whether I made a move or not.
At most, I'll just make this matter public. I'd like to see who has evidence of me killing my colleagues! "
"No!"
Ji Xuanyuan didn't even think before directly refusing.
It would be fine if this matter was brought up in the future, but it must not be blown up now.
They had just expelled the Golden Horde Kingdom, and Su Xin was regarded as an object of worship by the entire Zhou Kingdom. He was definitely a role model of the Zhou Kingdom.
At this time, if the matter of Su Xin killing his colleagues was exposed, even if it was just a suspicion, then Su Xin's reputation would be ruined, and the one who would lose face would still be the Zhou Kingdom. Of course, it would not be a problem if they waited until the limelight was over, but now, it was absolutely impossible.
Ji Xuanyuan took a deep look at Su Xin. He knew that Su Xin was tricking him.
Su Xin could give up his reputation, but at the same time, the face of Zhou Guoguo would also be lost, and it would be a big loss.
After a long while, Ji Xuanyuan said, "If there is no evidence, we can just listen to it. Don't bring it out and make a fool of yourself.
When Lord Su was in the Central Plains, he was focused on how to unite the Seven Gangs to fight against the Golden Horde Kingdom. How could he kill Han Jiangli?
So this matter is simply nonexistent. There is no need to talk about it anymore, and it is forbidden to discuss it in the future! "
Upon hearing this, Gongsun Du's face suddenly became a little ugly.
However, since Ji Xuanyuan had spoken, he could not say anything more, so he could only drop the matter.
However, since this matter had been dropped, it was time to talk about Su Xin's reward. The problem returned to what Ji Xuanyuan had been struggling with previously.
After a long silence, Ji Xuanyuan said, "Lord Su's contribution this time is obvious to all, so the imperial court is going to confer the title of King of the Northwest on Lord Su. Does anyone have any objections to this?"
As soon as this was said, everyone present suddenly burst into an uproar. Ji Xuanyuan actually suggested that Su Xin should be conferred the title of King. Was he crazy?
It should be known that there were many Master Yis in the Zhou Kingdom. In the Ji Royal Family, as long as one was a direct descendant of Ji Haodian, he was qualified to be conferred the title of King. Moreover, other warriors with royal blood were also qualified to be conferred the title of King as long as they reached the Yang Spirit Realm.
Therefore, there were now more than 20 Master Yis in the entire Zhou Kingdom. However, the only thing these people had in common was that they all had the surname Ji, and none of them had the surname Ji.
This was because the Zhou Kingdom was worried that the foreign officials were too strong, so it had long set the rule that the opposite sex could not be conferred the title of King.
Otherwise, if they could be conferred the title of King according to their contributions, Tie Ao, Xue Zhenyue, and the others would have been qualified to be conferred the title of King.
Now, Ji Xuanyuan actually wanted to break the rule that Ji Haodian had set in the past for Su Xin, which was the reason why everyone was surprised.
Of course, Ji Xuanyuan had no choice but to do this. Su Xin had made great contributions, and it would not be appropriate to give him a small reward. However, if the reward was large, it would be unacceptable for the Zhou Kingdom to give Su Xin some power in the Zhou Kingdom or give him a piece of land. Therefore, he could only give Su Xin the title of King.
In fact, Su Xin's power in the northwest was no different from that of the Northwest King. Now that Ji Xuanyuan had given Su Xin the title of Northwest King, it was only to confirm this matter.
This time, Su Xin did not say anything more. He directly cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty. Thank you, Master."
After that, Su Xin turned around and left. From today onwards, there was already a crack between him and the Ji Royal Family. Everyone present could see this.
After returning to his residence, Su Xin directly looked for Qi Long and asked him to carefully investigate who Gongsun Du was and why he would target him on such an occasion.
Although Qi Long was now Su Xin's man, he was also Su Xin's spokesperson in Six Fan School. At least, he still had some connections in Shengjing City.
After receiving Su Xin's order, Qi Long only took half an hour to send the information to Su Xin.
Looking at the information, Su Xin could not help but shake his head and sneer.
This time, he did not offend someone, but the two groups, the Imperial Worship Hall and the Ji Royal Family.
Although there was no evidence that Han Jiangli had been killed, anyone with a discerning eye could definitely see that Su Xin was definitely the biggest suspect.
Although Gongsun Du and the other royal consecrators had nothing to do with Han Jiangli, and even they hated Han Jiangli's character, they were all from the Royal Consecrator Hall after all. Naturally, they should be on the same side. Su Xin killing Han Jiangli was indirectly looking down on the Royal Consecrator Hall and provoking their dignity.
Of course, if it was only the people from the Imperial Worship Hall who were dissatisfied with Su Xin, they would at most not have a good attitude when they saw Su Xin, or did not cooperate when they cooperated with Su Xin. It was absolutely impossible for them to jump out and plot against Su Xin like today. In fact, there was actually someone behind them, and it was the Ji Royal Family.
Apart from Ji Xuanyuan, Su Xin had rarely seen the Ji Royal Family. Most of the Ji Royal Family warriors were in seclusion, as the last force to protect the Zhou Kingdom.
However, with Ji Haodian's death, some of the Ji Royal Family warriors had some other thoughts. They wanted to come out of seclusion and take power.
Ji Xuanyuan was loyal enough to the Zhou Kingdom, so when Ji Haodian was around in the past, he basically would not take action. However, now that Ji Yancheng could not bear the throne, Ji Xuanyuan came out of seclusion to assist him.
However, in this way, the other Yang God Realm warriors among the Ji Royal Family also had some other thoughts. If Ji Xuanyuan could come out of seclusion and take power, they could naturally do so too.
Ji Wuling, the Great Ancestor of the Ji Family, knew about this, but he would not care. Even if Ji Xuanyuan knew about it, he could not do anything about it. Those people were all from the Ji Royal Family, and they were at the same level as him. Even if he wanted to, he could not do anything about it.
However, if these Ji Royal Family people wanted to take power, their only obstacle was the military, Six Fan School, and other military organizations, because right now, the power of the Zhou Kingdom was in their hands.
This time, it was also Ji Xuansi, the Su King of the Ji Royal Family, who instigated Gongsun Du to take action. He targeted Su Xin because he did not dare to touch the military and other forces. Moreover, Su Xin was the weakest among these people, so he seemed to be the easiest to bully.
If the Ji Royal Family wanted to take back the power of the Zhou Kingdom, Su Xin was a very good breakthrough.
He had only taken over the Northwest Road for a few years, and the Northwest Army and the Shadow Guard under him were nominally under the jurisdiction of the imperial court. In their opinion, no matter how high Su Xin's prestige was in the Northwest Road, it was impossible for him to run the entire Northwest Road so well.
They could not get the power of the military and Six Fan School, but it was not a problem for them to get the power in Su Xin's hands for the time being.
Therefore, this time, when Gongsun Du came forward to target Su Xin, they had no evidence to prove that Su Xin killed Han Jiangli. They just wanted to use this to weaken Su Xin's prestige. They did not expect Su Xin's attitude to be so strong that he even dared to go against Ji Xuanyuan. In the end, they failed.
After reading the information, Su Xin sneered in his heart.
Ji Haodian's death was still a little too hasty, causing all kinds of bad people to appear.
Ji Haodian was the one who decided that the Ji Royal Family would not be in power. Although it seemed a little unreasonable, it was actually good for the Zhou Kingdom.
As a dynasty, it should be inclusive of the world. Whether it was the Righteous Path or the Evil Path, as long as it could enhance its strength, it should be recruited.
And if the Ji Royal Family had too much power, then the country would become the world of one family. This was definitely not a good thing.
Of course, Su Xin did not want to care about these things, and he did not need to.
However, if someone stretched their claws into his territory, then Su Xin would kill one. If two came, then Su Xin would kill a pair!
He had worked hard to develop the Northwest Path, but in the end, the Ji Royal Family came to pick the fruits of his labor. Would Su Xin give it up? He was not that loyal to the Zhou Kingdom.
After nightfall, the Zhou Kingdom began to hold a celebration ceremony.
Su Xin was not interested in this kind of formality. He just stayed for an hour and then left.
In this celebration banquet, Su Xin did not see Gongsun Du, nor did he see the other Ji Royal Family members. He did not know if they had been rebuffed by Su Xin and learned a lesson, or if they had been reprimanded by Ji Xuanyuan, so they did not dare to act recklessly again.
After the celebration banquet, Su Xin directly brought his people back to the Northwest Path and prepared to go into seclusion.
Su Xin had absorbed two-thirds of Mo Ge's blood, but Su Xin was not in a hurry to absorb this blood. He needed to go into seclusion for a long time to carefully refine it. This way, he could avoid some of the drawbacks of the Spiritual Blood Transference Technique and not waste any blood Qi.
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