"There are too many people involved. Especially my uncle and aunt... Alin, you have to understand."

Wulin's heartbeat speeds up because the anxiety caused by anger flows in his blood vessels: "They occupy things that should belong to you, especially the land and population. Have you forgotten all this?"

"Of course not." Hu Yaoxian's expression was a little unnatural. It was more of an explanation than an explanation: "They have asked me and wanted to reconcile."

"Reconciliation?" Wu Lin's muscles twitched slightly: "How to reconcile? Are they willing to hand over all the land and slaves?"

"Half, or two-thirds, the specific numbers are still being discussed." Hu Yaoxian said in a very general way: "I think this is good, there is no need to be so tough, and we can take care of more people. Change does not necessarily require bleeding, we can take a more gentle approach."

Wu Lin's face was stunned. He opened his mouth and his lips trembled in shock: "...What do you mean?"

"Let's stop here!" Hu Yaoxian thought for a few seconds and made a decision. He comforted the national teacher: "Alin, I know you have suffered a lot of grievances during this period, especially your family... To be honest, you fight each other and it's very uncomfortable to me in the middle. So, everyone takes a step back and don't pursue your family's affairs. As for their side... I will order them to stop now."

Deep fear came over like a mountain. Wu Lin bit his lips hard, his skin broke and blood was leaking. He slowly opened: "So you knew it long ago?"

Hu Yaoxian did not reply directly, and he looked serious: "I have to take into account everyone's thoughts."

"I...my family is all dead." Wu Lin let out a hoarse and roaring growl with anger: "It was them who were instructing me behind my back, and everything was done by them. Now... you actually asked me to stop?"

"Then how do you want me?" Hu Yaoxian increased the volume impatiently, especially the pronunciation of the word "I": "Do you want me to kill them and hand over their heads to you to make a bone bowl?"

Wu Lin stared at Hu Yaoxian, and bloodshot quickly filled his eyes, forming a sharp contrast with his pale skin.

Hu Yaoxian has already expressed his true thoughts on this reform.

He needed land and population, so he stood opposite the royal family members and other powerful nobles from the beginning.

The king's will is irreversible, and with the national teacher Wulin, the entire plan was implemented from top to bottom.

They were afraid and chose to surrender.

No matter who is forcibly deprived of half or even most of his wealth, he will feel unwilling to do so. However, no one has the ability to provoke the Tiger King. The nobles who have suffered losses can only regard Wulin as their target and vent their anger.

"You got the benefit, but I became your victim." Wu Lin smiled and shook his head. His whole body seemed to have been removed in an instant, and he sat softly on the chair: "Do you remember how you promised me? We want to make the tiger tribe stronger and unify the entire north."

"You have got enough." Hu Yaoxian's face changed a little. He could not tolerate anyone's authority in person: "It is this king who made you the national teacher. You are now below one person and above ten thousand people. What else is there to be dissatisfied with?"

"Is family that important?" His cold words followed made Wu Lin's angry thinking stagnate: "The old man will always die, either today or tomorrow. With your current status, you have any kind of woman you want. As long as you want, you can give birth to dozens of children at will."

Wu Lin suddenly looked up and looked at Hu Yaoxian with incredible eyes.

The Tiger King also felt that the words blurted out just now were not suitable. He slowed down his tone and whispered: "Alin, be careful. Things have happened, and people cannot be resurrected. Listen to my advice... forget it!"

In Wu Lin's heart, a tall building that has been built many years ago and has been constantly adding bricks and tiles collapsed.

Passion, youth, beliefs, ideals... everything is wiped out.

What followed was ice rain and flames, and the abyss that suddenly appeared at your feet and could not be crossed.

"...Forget it?" The national master opened his mouth and spit out these two dry syllables from the deepest part of his throat, as if the dying person was moaning uselessly.

Hu Yaoxian looked at him coldly, and his words were like a knife to slash Wu Lin's heart: "If you continue like this, the entire Tiger Clan will become panic. After all, the civilians are not nobles, and they cannot understand our ideals. Only by obtaining the support of the nobles can more government orders be implemented. Think about it, our Tiger Clan has more than 3 million people, and there are nearly 4 million cities and villages, can you and me control it? Even if the people below express their obedience in person, but privately disobey, what should we do then? The people will only take this account on us."

Wu Lin's face was bloodless, and his lips trembled: "Switch them away... We have discussed this before, and there are many people who are more suitable than them."

Hu Yaoxian did not answer. His gloomy face was like a rock, extremely hard.

After a long time, he said slowly: "You should take a break for a while!"

This sentence was like a cardiotonic agent, which stimulated Wu Lin's pupils to shrink instantly: "What do you mean?"

"You are tired, let go of your business during this period and deal with your family's affairs. This king will order a comprehensive control of Blood Claw City, and no one will do you any more bad for you." Rather than persuasion, Hu Yao first issued an order in an indifferent tone: "There will be someone to hand over to you later. Leave the things you are currently in charge to him."

Wu Lin felt a sense of enlightenment. He was no longer angry, but a stronger bitterness and sadness surged from the depths of his mind, pouring into his whole body like toxins.

"You want to replace me?" Wu Lin smiled miserably: "No wonder the plan I arranged on the border was disrupted, no wonder the Blood Claw City was everywhere during my departure, no wonder the suppressed nobles jumped out one after another... It turned out that all this was your command behind your back?"

"I don't!" Hu Yaoxian was angry. He was furious and shouted sternly: "I have been protecting you. If I hadn't forced myself to suppress you, you would have been dead now!"

"Is that?" Wu Lin laughed weakly: "I really don't know when you returned the control of the army to them. Thinking about the time when we finally replaced those commanders. Do you still remember the ancient proverb? "Destroy the Great Wall by yourself." What is the difference between what you are doing now?"

"Destroy the Great Wall?" Hu Yaoxian put away the anger on his face, shook his head and sneered: "I don't think so."

"We have been good friends since we were young. I admit that you have always been very smart and smarter than me. But our identities can never be reversed. I am the king of the tiger clan, and you are the national teacher."

"Actually, I have never doubted your loyalty. You won my trust with your practical actions. But... the situation changed later. People only knew your name. Many people saluted you in public, saying that you won more benefits for them and that you became their benefactor. Haha... Alin, have you explained this? Why don't you explain it clearly in front of them? Whether it is the land or slaves, the additional rations in winter, and the fabrics distributed in summer are actually the result of repeated discussions with you and you and forming plans. In the end, they only know that you are the greatest benefactor. But what about me? Who would keep me, the king, and respect me all the time like you treat you?"

Wu Lin's heart suddenly tightened. He wanted to defend himself, but in fact he had never had any idea of ​​betrayal. He felt a potential danger from Hu Yaoxian, and was gradually revealing a sharp spearhead from the fog.

"I have been persuading myself to give up such thoughts. However, the living reality taught me a lesson." Hu Yaoxian's eyes flashed with a dangerous light, and he said slowly: "This example is the Niu tribe. The Niu King died, leaving behind two sons and one daughter. Wu Peng, the great master of the Niu tribe, is a real sage. He was recognized by everyone from all over the Niu tribe and then took control of the power of the entire tribe. According to the clan rules, when the former king did not designate heirs, the male heirs of the royal family competed with each other and selected a new king a year later. But as a result, Niu Weizhan and Niu Weifang were both dead."

"It's funny, right? I think it's a big joke. There must be a conspiracy in it, but why are the two princes who died, not the national teacher himself?"

"Look back and see, if all the heirs of the throne are dead, who will be the biggest beneficiary?"

Wu Lin was stiff all over and sweated profusely on his back.

Hu Yaoxian stared at him with cold eyes, rather than sighing, and moaning: "As long as Wu Peng wants, he can become the king of the cattle clan. But he is not a member of the royal family and has no royal blood. He is just an outsider... an outsider!"

Wu Lin's heart was filled with bitterness, and his words and voice were pale and powerless: "I have never had such an idea. I... Everything I did was to make the tiger clan stronger."

"I know."

Hu Yaoxian said it calmly: "So you have always been my national teacher. But nothing will last forever. If you stay in this position for a long time, it is difficult to guarantee that you will not have any other thoughts."

Wu Lin's whole body trembled violently, and he suddenly understood many questions he had previously had: "So...so...so if you propose to trade war horses with other tribes, I'm the only responsibility?"

"I'm helping you." Hu Yaoxian's lips bent slightly upward, and a trace of contempt was floating, and he smiled with a sense of superiority: "You are an excellent national teacher, with excellent abilities and sharp eyes. But you have to understand that people who are too good will attract jealousy. As the king of the tribe, I must play a balance between this. Alin, you can't always be right, you can't always act so perfect when guiding and dealing with problems. You make others feel frustrated like this, and I can't always stand on your side to help favoritism."

Wu Lin suddenly felt ridiculous: "Are you jealous of me?"

"You should ask the civilians outside the palace in this case." Hu Yaoxian looked calm: "When they encounter problems, they will only think of you as the national teacher, and they will not think of asking me, the tiger king, for help."

"No, you misunderstood." Wu Lin smiled bitterly on his face: "I am the executor of your will and the executor of your order."

"I have to change this." Hu Yaoxian turned a deaf ear to this: "So you have to make some mistakes, and it is the kind that cannot be forgiven by most people. In fact, we all know that after the Battle of Red Moon City, the war horse trading of foreign races is imperative. But there must be a person with enough weight to dominate it. This is destined to bear eternal infamy, so from the moment you accept the order, I know you are still loyal to me."

Wu Lin fell into silence. He had guessed what Hu Yao was going to say next, and had no interest or strength to continue to defend himself.

"Loyalty alone is not enough." Hu Yaoxian's tone restored his strength and majesty: "I must let others see you being suppressed, and only in this way can they gain their allegiance. As I said before, the tiger clan is very big. I cannot rule and manage the entire clan by relying on you alone. One to ten, maybe even one to one hundred... Alin, I have no choice."

"So you acquiesced to them kill my family?" Wu Lin felt his heart bleeding.

"I have to comfort them and let them see that you are losing my favor." Hu Yaoxian said with a high sound: "You have done a lot for me, you have opened up a way out, and it is better to hand over the next work to others. I will give you enough wealth, and you will always be my most trustworthy friend. I promise that at some point in the future, I will continue to enable you, and I will also be the national teacher."

When he left the palace, Wu Lin felt that he had completely lost his soul. His steps were staggering and slow, as if he had suddenly become dozens of years old.

Muran and dullness control the brain, like a walking zombie.

The guards surrounded him through the streets and returned to his mansion.

Sitting in the living room, I heard noise and chaos coming from outside from afar.

Wu Lin knew that Hu Yaoxian sent troops to appease the people and maintain order.

Stand up from the chair, step out of its stiff legs, walk to the unrecognizable brother's body, and hold the vague flesh and blood tightly in your arms.

He didn't cry, and kept murmuring softly.

"I'm so stupid."

"I'm so naive."

"I swear to the gods that I will avenge you."

The voice was so low that the bloated lips were very small. No one except Wu Lin himself knew what he was saying.

The body is getting colder and colder.

His heart was full of fanaticism, and there was a blazing flame.

...

The territory of the Cow Tribe, Bailu City.

The God of Spring returns to the earth and drives away the cold.
Chapter completed!