Chapter 569 8.87 The Truth (3)

Chapter 569 87 The Truth (3)

After this investigation, the legalists have basically locked on to the possibility that the initiator of this conspiracy is the Illuminati, which was exposed by the Viking lord "Loki Starrag"!

First of all, among all the outer gods in the world, only the lizardmen from the Illuminati can wear human skin and disguise themselves as humans to mingle among the crowd.

This can explain why An Lushan was still wearing the same skin after entering and leaving Luoyang, but his personality had changed dramatically.

You know, it is not easy to mingle in the political arena.

This is not like poetry, songs, mathematics, addition and subtraction, which can be solved by memorizing.

This requires a long time in the officialdom, suffering a lot of losses, paying a lot of tuition fees, and even a lot of talent and luck to be thick-skinned and black-hearted, and to control people with a good face.

There are many ordinary mortals who have been in the officialdom for more than ten or twenty years without getting the hang of it. There are even more who have made a wrong step after thirty or fifty years and ended up with their entire family being executed.

An Lushan was a Western Hu who started out as a sheep thief.

Even Tang officials had to pass the imperial examination to obtain official titles. The only thing the mixed-blooded rogue could show off was the Hu Xuan dance inherited from his biological mother and some Western witchcraft.

He could not even recognize a few characters, not to mention the poems and songs popular among Tang Confucian scholars, and the various unspoken rules of the officialdom that could not be discussed openly.

The legalist mentor believed that the Hu general who was about to be beheaded before entering Luoyang was his real self.

After sitting in the death row for a few days, the real An Lushan was dead.

A lizard man who had lived for an unknown period of time put on his human skin and returned to the Western Regions under his name.

After figuring this out, he then kept taking out gold and silver from his pocket, and naturally had the answer.

For the officials of the East Land, An Lushan said when he bribed them: "This is the ill-gotten gains from the monsters in the Western Regions."

Most of the civil servants who had not experienced real wars took it for granted that what the honest Hu general said was true. No one would choose to refuse the silver ingots in front of them.

Most officials put the silver into their pockets and never asked about it again.

But all this could not escape the eyes of the Legalist mentor.

60 years later, when looking back on all this, the most confusing thing was the large amount of gold and silver that appeared out of thin air in An Lushan's pocket after returning from Luoyang.

He did accumulate some wealth by launching wars, but all the gold and silver were used to build the army or reward his subordinates.

The reason why An Lushan's army was invincible in the Western Regions was first of all well-equipped.

All his subordinates were equipped with Damascus steel knives from the Arab Empire and fine steel chain mail made in the "Mohist Machinery Camp". All officers and soldiers, regardless of their official positions or backgrounds, were first issued a set of equipment when they entered the camp.

Holding strong weapons and wearing thick armor.

Not to mention combat skills, the equipment of this Hu army alone was not inferior to that of the regular army of the Tang Dynasty.

Secondly, his army was the only one among all the Hu mercenaries outside that had a Tang Dynasty alchemist.

It is true that An Lushan could not hire a strong swordsman. But he could find a few registered disciples of the "Zongheng School" and the "Taoist School" to train his troops in a few defensive formations.

All of this requires a lot of money to support it.

The poor countries in the Western Regions that he defeated could not afford the expenses of this army, not to mention that he never extorted soldiers' salaries.

Every time he won a battle, he rewarded the whole army.

Even if the extra knowledge in his mind can be explained by the occasional "soul crossing" on this continent, the large amount of gold and silver that appeared from the air cannot be explained in any way.

According to the precise calculations of the Legalist mentor, from the time An Lushan returned to the Western Regions from Luoyang in AD738 to the outbreak of the An-Shi Rebellion in AD755, in just 17 years, he spent at least 5 million taels of silver.

This is equivalent to the expenditure of the Youzhou Protectorate for 5 years.

And his salary for the third-rank military rank was only 61 taels of silver per year.

Even if he was a spy of the Abbasid family, the Arab Empire would never have the guts to make such a gamble. Such a large amount of gold and silver is enough to build three or five new cities, or to arm a 100,000-man army.

The Abbasid family does not have the guts to put such capital on an ordinary general.

The only one who can accomplish all this is the Illuminati, who regard money as dirt.

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After determining the direction of the investigation, new doubts followed.

The Illuminati lizardmen wear human skin and hide in human civilization. Their main purpose is to secretly control the kingdom, collect gang members, accumulate wealth for the gang, and explore some ancient gods and foreign lands along the way.

According to their normal formal logic, subverting the regime and causing killings are obviously not in their own interests.

He stayed in An Lushan's body and secretly bribed several royal officials and court officials. When the power of the dynasty changes, he supported his own puppet emperor, killed him at the right time, and replaced him with human skin.

This is what the Illuminati leaders considered doing.

Why did they launch the An-Shi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty in the East, causing tens of millions of casualties among the people and the army?

The Legalist teacher continued to look for the answer, but the subsequent investigation did not go smoothly.

On the one hand, the whereabouts of the leader of the Illuminati were extremely difficult to track down, and most of the peripheral members could only meet the leader once in a few years, and the meeting place was also ever-changing.

On the other hand, the outer believers of the Illuminati each have their own tasks. Most of them are completely indifferent to the history of this secret society and have no idea what other members are doing.

Even if there are legal mentors who successfully infiltrate the Illuminati as secret agents, they mostly perform some tasks exclusive to the outer members of the Illuminati.

The intelligence obtained by the legal mentors is still very limited.

Changes occurred 5 years ago.

This year, the legal mentors welcomed a crucial member-Sophie Starrag, who walked out of the Black Desert for the first time.

So far, they finally know what is happening in the underworld on the other side of the Temple of Anubis.

The legal mentors finally got the answer they have been looking for for a long time.

It turns out that all of this is because the Illuminati needs to resist the invasion of the Aesir in the underworld.

Create a grand war in the East Land and send 30 million East Land dead souls into the underworld to fight the Aesir.

In this way, the pressure on the Egyptian Hades "Osiris" can be greatly reduced.

The person who planned all this is called "Lord of Dusk" Sardin.

Based on all these reasons, the action of Xue Fei's team was carried out.

On the surface, they wanted to join the Illuminati.

The real intention behind the scenes was to assassinate the culprit of the Anshi Rebellion, "Lord of Dusk" Sardin who was hiding in the underworld.