Chapter 1035 Preparation For Disgrace

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Xu Shangfeng and Lin Qingtian.

The two of them had truly known each other for many years. Not to mention when they were partners after becoming giants, Xu Shangfeng had worked with Lin Qingtian when he was still the mayor of Southwest City of the Empire.

Back then, Lin Qingtian was the mayor of Southwest City, while Xu Shangfeng was the deputy secretary of Southwest City.

Earlier, when Lin Qingtian was the deputy secretary of Southwest City, Xu Shangfeng was the organizing minister of Southwest City. The two of them had worked together for more than ten years, so they could be said to be old friends and colleagues.

Later on, the royal family and the southwest faction became enemies. Lin Qingtian was transferred to Nanyue as the provincial secretary of Nanyue. Although he entered the policy bureau, he was forced to leave the main camp of Southwest City. From then on, he was at the forefront of a fierce battle with Chen Hualou and the entire royal family.

At that time, Xu Shangfeng, who was already a member of the Empire's Central Committee, took advantage of Lin Qingtian and became the mayor of Southwest City of the Empire.

During that time, The conflict between the royal and southwestern factions had just erupted, The battle was extremely intense. In order to damage each other's morale and prestige, many of the plans of the two sides had already been implemented without careful consideration. In the autumn of the second year of the intense battle, with the dismissal of the then secretary of Southwest City and a close comrade of Lin Qingtian, the entire royal clan had established the advantage of attacking on all fronts.

It was an unusual period, but for the southwest faction, there were some who were happy and others who were worried.

Undoubtedly, Xu Shangfeng was the most delighted. He was the mayor of the southwest. The pronunciation on his head had only been removed for more than a year, and with the support of several leaders of the southwest faction, he took a step forward and became the secretary of the southwest city. He was also added to the decision-making bureau in the autumn of next year.

From then on, Southwest City fell into Xu Shangfeng's hands. There were also two forces in the southwest faction, just like the current Wang faction. Guo Tianlong and Zou Rente represented the older generation of the Wang faction, while Chen Hualou and Ye Nianlun represented the younger generation of the Wang faction. In the southwest faction, Xu Shang Feng's faction was collectively referred to as the conservative faction, while Lin Qing Tian's faction was referred to as the radical faction.

There were factions within a faction. This was a problem that any faction had to face. Sometimes, the internal strife within a faction was even more intense than the battles with other factions. Only when faced with external threats would they be able to unite with the outside world.

The southwest faction was established much earlier than the royal faction, and the internal conflicts and contradictions were naturally extremely deep. Taking advantage of Lin Qingtian's trip to South Guangdong and his close comrades' dismissal, the conservative leaders of the southwest faction directly took action, sending Xu Shangfeng to the position of secretary of the southwest city.

From Xu Shangfeng until now, Zhao Yingfei, secretary of the Southwest City, was a member of the conservative faction. However, the radical faction represented by Lin Qingtian could only expand their territory in the North City and other places.

Actually, there were some contradictions that had been triggered a long time ago. If it weren't for the fact that the threat from the outside was too fatal, the conflicts within the southwest faction would have been completely exposed from the moment Xu Shangfeng became the secretary of the southwest city.

However, due to the fierce attacks of the royal clan, the southwest faction had temporarily united together, and it had continued to this day.

The cause of the incident was also the secretary of Southwest City who had fallen from power.

Southwest City was a municipality directly under the Central Government. The secretary had always been a high-ranking member of the policy bureau. As the leader of the empire, his dismissal could affect the overall situation. At that time, the royal family and the southwest faction would clearly be fighting to the death. Catching such a big fish, how could they let go of it?

After a thorough investigation, the then Imperial Prime Minister Li Donglei personally intervened to complete the internal work of the faction. He also joined forces with the southern faction to reveal everything about the secretary and successfully linked it to the then leader of the southwest faction, Xue Zhiguo.

Xue Zhiguo.

To the young people of many empires, this was a somewhat unfamiliar name, but to some old and middle-aged people, this name was not unfamiliar at all.

In the past few decades, the Divine Continent Empire was the first Empire's Supreme Head who had not been re-elected!

Xue Zhiguo, the former supreme head of the empire, retired for physical reasons after his first term of office ended.

This was undoubtedly the result on the surface. As for how many bloody storms there were inside, no one knew if they were not the parties involved.

This incident had completely demonstrated the powerful combat strength of the royal clan led by Li Donglei, and it had even directly interrupted the perfect plan of the two successive leaders of the southwest faction to relay troops.

Xue Zhiguo was not re-elected, For the southwestern faction, This was simply a catastrophe, The imminent outbreak of internal conflict between the south-west factions had completely disappeared, At that time, Whether or not Lin Xiinan could succeed was a problem. Facing his own political life and future, Lin Qingtian personally stepped forward to integrate the voices of the conservatives and radical factions, and made enormous concessions to the conservatives. In the end, the southwest faction barely managed to stabilize their footing. After Xue Zhiguo stepped down, he became a member of the Standing Committee of the Policy Bureau.

Afterwards, in order to accumulate his prestige and momentum, Lin Qingtian said, Direct attacks on the northern factions, A faction that could influence the overall situation of the empire collapsed, While the southwestern faction was making a lot of money, Lin Qingtian had also completely unified the voices of the southwest faction and had gained the high recognition of all the elders. He had casually ascended to the position of supreme leader and led the southwest faction to fight against the Wang faction. Under the powerful threat of the Wang faction, the entire southwest faction had always been united. All of the conflicts had dragged on until today.

The martial arts forces were just a prelude, and the contradictions between the conservatives and radical factions in the southwest over the years were the key to keeping Lin Qingtian and Xu Shangfeng away.

Moreover, the reason why Xu Shangfeng did not approve of Lin Qingtian's constant compromise and the various martial arts forces' entry into the world was because of the enmity of killing his father. It was also a reason why he did not approve of the identities of the sinners of those martial arts forces. However, the most important reason was that Xu Shangfeng vaguely felt that Lin Qingtian's constant compromise was to give himself a path of retreat for the Lin Family in the southwest.

Yes, it was for himself, for the clan he controlled, not for the southwest faction.

With Lin Xuanyuan here, it was hard to imagine how difficult it would be to fight for the right to speak of the secret service system. So what if the southwest faction was lucky enough to control half of the empire's secret service system?

It was enough to barely stand, but the counterattack in Lin Qingtian's mouth?

That was simply unrealistic. At the very least, in the next few decades, the southwest faction would only be able to survive, without even thinking about counterattacking.

As for Lin Qingtian, he was currently the supreme leader of the empire. After retiring, he left such a situation for the southwest faction. It was undoubtedly very unqualified. Xu Shangfeng questioned not only Lin Xuanyuan's political ability, but also his character.

Because they had worked together for many years, he knew Lin Qingtian very well, so he thought that his speculation was correct.

This was the root cause of his opposition.

But now.

Lin Qingtian's gaze was extremely unfamiliar to Xu Shangfeng.

His gaze carried a trace of probing, a trace of inquiry, but he wasn't nervous. Instead, there was an insistence and indifference that made Xu Shangfeng extremely moved.

The two of them looked at each other.

After a long time, Lin Qingtian chuckled softly and said in a gentle tone, "What did you think of?"

Originally, Xu Shangfeng was still curious, but following Lin Qingtian's words, it was as if he had solved a difficult problem directly. Everything in front of him suddenly became clear, but at the same time, his cold sweat also covered his entire body.

He understood.

I totally understand.

Only at this moment did he truly understand Lin Qingtian's agreement and the main reason why Lin Qingtian insisted on letting these martial arts forces enter the world.

At the same time, he also understood what the current compromise meant. The current arrangement was for the sake of counterattacking in the future.

The current compromise, the current concession, and the current overall arrangement were all illusions.

It's all fake!

What Lin Qingtian wanted was not half of the Secret Service System, but the foundation of the entire Secret Service System and even the Royal Family in the future.

It would take him a few years to lay out the plan. This was what he wanted.

Lin Qingtian couldn't control the martial arts forces?

Then we're out of control.

Those martial forces are suspected of treason?

Then treason.

This was also what Lin Qingtian wanted.

After everything in front of him suddenly became clear, Xu Shangfeng's heart was filled with fear.

Cold sweat kept flowing down his forehead, and for a moment, there were signs that he couldn't stop it.

He opened his eyes and looked at Lin Qingtian. He opened his mouth, only to find that he couldn't speak at all.

"Do you understand?"

Lin Qingtian continued to look at Xu Shangfeng, his tone gentle, indifferent, calm, and resolute.

"You … are you ready to lose your reputation and be remembered for eternity?"

Xu Shangfeng finally spoke and asked with difficulty and dryness.

At this moment, all the energy on his body seemed to have disappeared, and his entire tone seemed to be moaning.