Zheng Jiu said immediately: “Your Highness, please rest assured, the Zheng Kingdom will provide half a million deniers of food for the soldiers of your country to eat on their return journey.”

“There is still the travel expenses.” Su Mu said.

Zheng Jiu was mentally prepared and said: “One hundred thousand gold taels.”

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Su Mu nodded with satisfaction and said: “So, Ben Gong will immediately issue an order for all soldiers to evacuate, and the Ninth Prince will also send a letter to your father, so that he can take all the officials in Shengzhou back.”

Zheng Jiu looked at Su Mu with a puzzled expression: “Why?”

Su Mu looked back at Zheng Jiu with a look of confusion, and said, “Because Shengzhou has been incorporated into the territory of the Qing Kingdom.”

“You…..you have gone back on your words!” Zheng Jiu stared at Su Mu angrily and said.

The money was collected, the grain was collected, and even the land was not let go! Although Shengzhou was not the best land in the Zheng Kingdom, it was also very important land! If Shengzhou was taken away by the Qing Kingdom, the Zheng Kingdom would be like a beast that exposed its soft belly under the sharp dagger of a hunter!

Su Mu didn’t even have any interest in looking at Zheng Jiu one more time, so he lifted his foot and got off the dragon chair.

The eunuch’s high-pitched voice resounded in the Taihe Hall: “Morning assembly dismissed…..”

The hundred officials bowed, “Respectfully seeing off Your Highness.”

After the Crown Prince’s footsteps completely disappeared, Liu Xi raised his head among the kneeling officials, and looked at the young man in the hall with a malicious smile at the corner of his mouth.

The Crown Prince didn’t even look at him.

Liu Xi stood up and said to Zheng Jiu, who was trembling with anger: “Is the Ninth Prince intimidated by His Highness? Why do you stand there motionless?”

I am intimidated by the shamelessness of your Crown Prince!

Zheng Jiu turned around and said to Liu Xi: “I want to see your Crown Prince alone.”

Liu Xi turned the white jade ring on his index finger, tilted his head slightly, and said to Zheng Jiu: “His Highness is busy every day, and there is no time to meet idle people.”

At the same time, Su Mu, who had already returned to the Imperial Study, suddenly felt a little distracted. Those light golden eyes always appeared in his mind, making him unable to calm down.

Throwing down the memorial, Su Mu rubbed his temples and instructed the eunuch beside him: “Go and call Zheng Jiu.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” The old eunuch silently exited the Imperial Study.

A strong desire to take the owner of those light-colored eyes as his own appeared in his heart, and Su Mu felt that something was wrong.

But it was the first time he saw Zheng Jiu, and under the eyes of everyone and with such a distance between them, Su Mu did not notice anything unusual about the other.

“Zheng Jiu…..” Su Mu’s eyes looked forward without focus.

Outside Taihe Hall, Liu Xi swaggered out like a proud peacock with the smile of a winner. At this time, an old eunuch suddenly hurried over.

Liu Xi recognized that this was the eunuch serving the Crown Prince. After stopping the person, Liu Xi asked with some doubts: “What happened, Qian Gonggong, running over in such a hurry?”

Qian Gonggong bent over and said, “Greetings to Liu Gongzi, His Highness has said that he wants to see the Ninth Prince of the Zheng Kingdom in the Imperial Study.”

Liu Xi immediately widened his eyes.

The young man’s proud voice came from behind, “Thanking this Gonggong for bringing word to me.”

Qian Gonggong stretched out his hand to lead the way for Zheng Jiu, saying: “This way please, Ninth Prince.”

When Zheng Jiu came to the entrance of the Imperial Study, he saw the very beautiful Crown Prince of the Qing Kingdom sitting in a daze before the desk, and a bright light flashed in his light golden eyes. Zheng Jiu followed Qian Gonggong into the Imperial Study.

Qian Gonggong whispered in Su Mu’s ear: “Your Highness, the Ninth Prince is here.”

Su Mu startled: “En?”

“Paying respects to the Crown Prince.”

Zheng Jiu’s voice came into his ears, and Su Mu felt that it was very pleasant sounding. He returned to look at Zheng Jiu, and saw the sunlight casting a golden outline behind him. Su Mu’s expression was gentle as he said: “The Ninth Prince doesn’t have to be so courteous.”

Su Mu said to the old eunuch behind him: “Bring a seat for the Ninth Prince.”

Surprise flashed in Qian Gonggong’s eyes, and then he ordered his eunuchs to move over a stool for the Ninth Prince.

“Thanking the Crown Prince.” Zheng Jiu thanked him and sat down, then looked at Su Mu who had been staring at him with some bewilderment, “Your Highness, is there anything on my face?”

Su Mu shook his head in confusion, he couldn’t see Zheng Jiu’s face clearly, only the light golden eyes were very clear, which had a strange attraction.

Standing outside the door, Liu Xi looked at Su Mu and Zheng Jiu, nearly crushing the white jade ring in his hand. Seeing Su Mu looking at Zheng Jiu “obsessively”, the sour vinegar in his heart almost submerged the entire imperial city.

Then, he saw that the Ninth Prince actually took His Highness’s hand. The seduction in his eyes was obvious to everyone, and what was even more infuriating was that the Crown Prince did not refuse.

Unable to bear it anymore, Liu Xi gritted his teeth and walked into the Imperial Study. He bowed his head and said: “Your Highness, the weapons sent by Lord Wu have already equipped the guards battalion. Would you like to go personally…..”

“Leave.”

The familiar voice came from the top of his head, and Liu Xi suddenly fought a cold shudder. He raised his head in disbelief, and his eyes met the Crown Prince’s bottomless and emotionless eyes. Liu Xi felt like he had fallen into an ice cellar, and everything that was beautiful burst like bubbles.

Those horrible images swept over him and chilled hom down to his bones. It was clearly a very warm day, but he felt like he was in the dark of mid-winter.

“Yes…..Your Highness…..”

No thoughts of resistance could rise and Liu Xi left the Imperial Study on weak legs. He then ran out of the Crown Prince’s Palace desperately, rushed into the imperial medical college and grabbed Huang Xuan who was dispensing the medicine, and said anxiously: “Quick…..go and see His Highness.”

Huang Xuan, who was about to get angry, was immediately distracted when he heard the words “His Highness”. His expression became a little uneasy, “What’s wrong with His Highness?”

That icy cold gaze and an expression that contained no human emotions, Liu Xi never wanted to see them a second time. He closed his eyes and threw the picture out of his mind, and gasped: “I don’t know, His Highness became strange after he met the Ninth Prince of the Zheng Kingdom, as if he had gone back to three years ago!”

Three years ago! Huang Xuan trembled all over, and his black pupils dilated suddenly. He hurriedly walked out of the counter without even noticing that the medicinal materials on the counter had been pushed to the ground. He hurried to the Crown Prince’s Palace with his medicine box.

Before entering the Imperial Study, a strong smell of blood passed into the nasal cavity of the two of them.

The guards around the Imperial Study stood straight and stern, like poplars standing tall, but Huang Xuan noticed the fear in their eyes.

The two walked hurriedly and came to the door of the Imperial Study, and they happened to meet a pair of murderous and tyrannical eyes.

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Huang Xuan saw Zheng Jiu, who was covered in blood and grapsed in the hands of the Crown Prince. He cautiously whispered: “Your…..Your Highness…..”

“Bang” “Bang”

One sound was the sound of Zheng Jiu being smashed on the wall, and the other sound was the sound of Zheng Jiu falling to the ground.

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The Imperial Palace, Imperial Study.

Liu Xi stood in front of Su Mu’s desk, and a shrewd light flashed in those seductive eyes. He said directly to Su Mu: “Your Highness, I suspect there is a problem with this Ninth Prince of the Zheng Kingdom.”

Su Mu put down the memorial and looked at Liu Xi, “Tell me.”

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“As far as this official knows, the mother of the Ninth Prince is of the Yi ethnicity of the Western Regions, and the Ninth Prince has not been taken seriously from birth.” The prince who was forgotten by the emperor in the harem did not have the best life. As the crown Prince, he knew this very well.

The Ninth Prince was described as very “outstanding”, but where did the pride and confidence of this Ninth Prince come from?

Su Mu’s eyes narrowed slightly, as if looking at an unknown place through the void, “Do you suspect his purpose is impure?”

Liu Xi nodded, and then said: “This official feels that there is someone behind him…..” He paused and said, “Your Highness, the former Qing Kingdom imperial palace was completely under Shi Ran’s control.”

By implication, the Zheng Kingdom could not be spared.

A light flashed in Su Mu’s eyes, and he nodded lightly and said, “Just leave him there for a few days, treat him with hospitality.”

Liu Xi replied respectfully: “This official, will definitely treat him with ‘hospitality’.”

Aftering the servants were dismissed, an unremarkable person came to Su Mu from the dark and passed the collected information to Su Mu’s hands.

After taking a glance, Su Mu suddenly squeezed the paper into a ball in his hand, and an astonishing killing intent burst from his eyes, causing the person in front of him to take a step back.

“Shi Ran, it really is you again!”

How did a prince who grew up in the cold palace and had barbaric blood suddenly became famous in the Zheng Kingdom and entered the eyes of the Emperor of Zheng?

“I didn’t find trouble for you, yet you made a move against me first!” Su Mu suppressed his almost erupting murderous intent, and shouted to the door: “Call Yun Feiyu here.”

The person with a weak sense of existence in front of Su Mu disappeared silently. After half a cup of tea, Yun Feiyu, dressed in blue-green robes, appeared in the Imperial Study.

“Paying respects to Your Highness.”

There was still a cold light in Su Mu’s eyes, which made Yun Feiyu’s heart tighten. Su Mu was not interested in observing Yun Feiyu’s expression now. Now, he just wanted to kill Shi Ran!

He asked Yun Feiyu: “How is the matter with the canal?”

At the beginning, Yun Feiyu suggested that the Qing Kingdom should cut off the flow of the Xijiang River to contain the Shi Kingdom. Now was the time he needed to make use of this chess piece.

Yun Feiyu said: “Reporting to Your Highness, it will take about three months before the water from the Xijiang River can flow into the Gu River through the canal.”

The large flow of the Xijiang River was the lifeblood of the Qing Kingdom, and it was also the main stream of the Baihe River, the largest river in the Shi Kingdom. The flow of rivers was never unchanging. Following the changes to the terrain, the Xijiang River had also changed its flow direction several times.

The Gu River channel selected by Su Mu was very close to the Xijiang River on the upper side, but far away from the Baihe River in the Shi Kingdom on the lower reaches. The original Gu River channel had formed a large fertile plain in the alluvial area of the ​​Shi Kingdom, and one fifth of the grain production in the Shi Kingdom was from here.

Su Mu said to Yun Feiyu in a cold voice: “Shorten the time for me. I want to see the water from the Xijiang River flow into the Gu River in a month.”

Yun Feiyu was slightly surprised in his heart, but his face was calm as he replied: “Yes, Your Highness, this official departs.”

“Wait!”

When Yun Feiyu was about to cross the threshold, he was stopped by Su Mu from behind. He turned around and lowered his head in front of Su Mu and asked, “What are Your Highness’s instructions?”

Su Mu’s eyes were cold, like a sharp blade covered by frost, and even his voice was icy cold: “All of you will not make contact with Zheng Jiu, have someone tell Liu Xi to stay far away from Zheng Jiu.”

Su Mu’s solemn tone made Yun Feiyu become cautious, and said: “Yes, Your Highness.”

In the morning assembly, Su Mu sat on the dragon chair, his eyes sweeping across the officials, and said: “Summon the Ninth Prince of the Zheng Kingdom.”

The eunuch next to him immediately withdrew from the Taihe Hall and proclaimed loudly: “Summoning the Ninth Prince of the Zheng Kingdom for an audience with His Highness, the Crown Prince…..”

The early morning light sprinkled on the ground, and a thin-clothed teenager walked in against the light, underneath the thin robes were lean and powerful muscles. No matter how one looked at him, he should be a beautiful young man, but when Su Mu’s gaze saw that terrible face, he silently turned his head.

“Paying respects to Your Highness the Crown Prince.” Zheng Jiu walked into the hall and knelt respectfully, his brown curly hair hanging down onto the cold floor.

And hiding his surprise.

The Crown Prince who dared to sit on the dragon chair blatantly before even ascending to the throne, the Crown Prince who presided over the political affairs, was not actually a fierce, abominable, and large muscular man, but a handsomely beautiful young man! This handsomely beautiful appearance was totally inconsistent with his brutal reputation!

Su Mu did not immediately ask him to get up. He watched the young man unabashedly, tapping his index finger lightly on the gilded armrest of the dragon chair without making a sound.

That posture of his was placed very low.

“Rise.” After a long while, Su Mu’s voice came into the ears of the young man.

“Thanking Your Highness.” He got up from the floor, put his right hand into his pocket and took out a sealed letter. He said to Su Mu: “Your Highness, this is a letter written by my Fu Huang. We hope Your Highness can take into consideration that our two countries have been neighbors and friends for generations, and therefore please calm your anger and call back your troops.”

He was also quite daring.

Su Mu took the letter and glanced at it, and then threw it carelessly into the hands of the eunuch. He said to the young man standing in the hall: “When the Zheng Kingdom and other countries allied to besiege our country, why didn’t you think that our two countries have been neighbors and friends for generations?”

Zheng Jiu was not surprised. It seemed that he had been prepared for Su Mu not to agree easily, and he calmly defended: “Your Highness, Fu Huang was also deceived by the villain, please investigate this…..”

He raised his head, his light golden eyes were full of wildness like a young cheetah, and people couldn’t help being attracted by that arrogant expression and excellent fur.

Su Mu frowned as he looked at the young man’s wild eyes. He actually felt a desire to conquer this young man!

Although this feeling often appeared when he faced Gu Yunzhou, Yun Feiyu and the others, Su Mu still felt that something was wrong.

Didn’t the intelligence say that he was skilled in the strange poisons of the Western Regions? Was the information wrong or incomplete?

Su Mu’s heart became alert, and a sense of crisis emerged spontaneously. He looked at the young man in the hall without a change in expression, and said: “It’s not impossible to ask Ben Gong to cease the war, but…..”

The young man revealed joy, and his pupils widened.

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But Su Mu’s next words made the smile on his face freeze in place.

“The soldiers of our kingdom are exhausted from fighting for days, and they can’t get enough to eat or dress warmly. They don’t even have the energy to come back…..”

Su Mu leaned on the dragon chair and looked at Zheng Jiu with a silent smile.

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Liu Xi was born with an extremely outstanding alluring appearance. When he was very young, except for that lump between his legs, no one would see him as a boy.

At that time, the three of them, mother and sons, had not been taken into the Liu Manor by Liu Yuanhua. Because of this appearance, not only girls disliked him since he was a child, he also attracted boys and bullies.

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He hadn’t heard that word for a long time, but Liu Xi’s resentment and anger had not diminished at all. However, the overpowering anger caused his mind to become crystal clear instead. With a slight smile, he walked to Zheng Jiu and said: “The Ninth Prince has come from afar, and Liu has been amiss with hospitality. I would like to make apologies with water instead of tea. I hope the Ninth Prince won’t be offended.”

“It’s good that you are sensible.” Zheng Jiu sneered at Liu Xi, then turned and walked towards the bridge over the moat.

Liu Xi looked at Zheng Jiu’s back, with a sneer at the corner of his mouth. A very small diamond-shaped hidden weapon appeared on his white fingertips.

“The Ninth Prince.” Liu Xi suddenly called out.

“En?” Zheng Jiu turned around and saw a hidden weapon that flashed cold in the sunlight, flying towards him quickly.

There was a burst of brilliance from the light golden eyes. Zheng Jiu lightly avoided Liu Xi’s hidden weapon, and said to Liu Xi with a mocking look: “Petty tricks.”

“Really?” Liu Xi’s voice came from around him.

There was a bad premonition in Zheng Jiu’s heart, and when he turned his head, he saw a large number of hidden weapons in Liu Xi’s fingers. He glared and said with a look of anger: “I am a Prince of the Zheng Kingdom, how dare you!”

Liu Xi relentlessly responded: “You’re just a tool, what prince!”

An extremely sharp gaze suddenly burst from those constantly seductive eyes, and countless silver hidden weapons flew out from between Liu Xi’s fingers, and towards Zheng Jiu at a very fast speed. These hidden weapons were very small and thin, and Zheng Jiu couldn’t even see the trace of these hidden weapons’ trajectory under their fast speed.

But the hair that was blown back from his forehead and the hairs on the back of his neck that stood upright told him that the hidden weapons that the other could turn him into a sieve had not disappeared, but were approaching him at a very dangerous speed.

Behind him was the moat, before him was a hail of hidden weapons. He could only dodge to the side.

Dozens of hidden weapons shot into the moat with a succession of “bang, bang, bang”, causing little splashes of water.

So close!

Zheng Jiu’s heart was beating uncontollably fast.

However, just when he had just avoided the hidden weapons and was not yet able to stand steady, he was suddenly kicked in the back. Before he could react, he fell into the moat.

Liu Xi calmly retracted his foot, and said without a hurry, “The Ninth Prince shouldn’t have been in such a hurry, look, you have accidentally fallen into the water.”

Accidentally! Everyone with eyes saw you kicking the Ninth Prince of the Zheng Kingdom into the moat! You call this an accident?

Wang Taimin stood in the back with a stiff face, and he simply didn’t know what to do. He knew that Liu Xi, the head of the scourge, coming to greet the envoys would be nothing good, but he didn’t expect Liu Xi to dare to kick the Ninth Prince of the Zheng Kingdom into the moat so blatantly in public!

Too arrogant!

No matter how bad Zheng Jiu was, he was also the prince of a country! Aren’t you slapping the Emperor of Zheng in the face in front of everyone?

Different from Wang Taimin’s quietness, the leader of the Zheng Kingdom envoy team, Zhong Mingyi, almost fainted from his anger at Liu Xi. The blue veins on his forehead popped and he furiously pointed at Liu Xi with an angry trembling finger: “You, you, you…..”

He was breathing quickly, almost unable to inhale his next breath and falling to the ground in a faint. Fortunately, the guards following him helped him in time.

Zhong Mingyi panted harshly, and yelled: “His…..His Highness…..hurry up…..Go!”

The Zheng Kingdom’s guards responded well. Just as Zhong Mingyi finished speaking, several accompanying guards had already plunged into the river water. The rest of the people from Zheng Kingdom all stared at Liu Xi with eyes that wanted to eat his flesh and drink his blood.

Liu Xi was completely unaffected. He lookrd at Zheng Jiu who was rescued by the guards with a smile on his face, and slowly said: “Pathetic, wet, chicken…..”

Wet brown curly hair fell on both sides of his face, and his light golden eyes glared at Liu Xi like an angry little leopard, possessing a wild kind of allure.

Looking at Zheng Jiu who was pulled to the shore, Liu Xi was even more vigilant, but the smile on his face became brighter, and the words he spoke no less vexing.

“Ninth Prince, the taste of the Qing Kingdom’s water is not bad, right.”

If it wasn’t for the fear of attracting the target’s attention in advance, if I don’t torment you to death hundreds of times, I would not be surnamed Zheng!

Zheng Jiu looked at Liu Xi’s eyesore of a smile and wished to cut him to 108 pieces immediately, but after thinking about the purpose of his coming here, Zheng Jiu tried to bear it again and again…..and still he could not bear it!

Zheng Jiu jerked away from the guards who supported him, and ran to the entrance of the gates of the city desperately. While running, he shouted backwards: “Sissy! Sissy! Yinyang person! Yinyang person!” (TN: yinyang person=hermaphrodite)

In the middle of the night, there was a brutal and inhumane howling in the Qingxi Courtyard where the Ninth Prince of the Zheng Kingdom lived.

The next day, the Zheng Kingdom envoy team saw their handsome prince walking out with a face that might not even be recognized by his mother.

“The Qing Kingdom…..the Qing Kingdom is too much!” Zhong Mingyi first slapped the table angrily, and then said to himself with some uncertainty: “What should be done? What should be done?”

The Ninth Prince was the person offered to the Crown Prince of the Qing Kingdom by His Majesty. But now he has become like this. If he failed to complete the task, he would be hacked to death after returning to the Zheng Kingdom!

Zheng Jiu looked completely uncaring and continued eating and drinking. Although he hated the person who dared to do this to his face, he had to say that the other had given him a great convenience.

He didn’t believe that the Crown Prince of the Qing Kingdom would be interested in such a face.

When he thought of being pressed under by a man and had this and that done to him, Zheng Jiu didn’t even have the appetite to eat.

At this time, an attendant walked up to Zheng Jiu with his head down and a tray in his hands, and said, “Ninth Prince, this is your dinner.”

Zheng Jiu’s eyes looked through the swollen eyelids and fell on the attendant’s hands. The attendant put all the food on the table in front of Zheng Jiu without fail, and then turned and left.

After eating a few dishes, Zheng Jiu’s chopsticks came to the plate of peas that the attendant put down on the table. After eating two bites, Zheng Jiu put down his chopsticks and went back to the room to rest, and then washed up for the night as usual.

In the dead of night, Zheng Jiu hid under the covers, took out the pill that had been hidden in the peas, and smelled it lightly.

Mind dizzying fragrance…..

A smile appeared at the corner of Zheng Jiu’s mouth. He closed his eyes and breathed evenly. He quickly calculated how to administer the medicine to the Crown Prince of the Qing Kingdom in his mind.

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In Qionghua Pavilion, Liu Xi, wearing a thin layer of robes, leaned on the couch, and asked the man in black standing in front of him: “Has Zheng Jiu acted?”

The man in black stared straight ahead and answered: “No.”

Liu Xi sat up and said, “Continue to keep a watch on him.”

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Outside the imperial city, Liu Xi wore a jade crown on his head and gorgeous black and red formal robes, which gave his beautiful looks a more dignified appearance.

Standing on the wall of the city gates, Liu Xi looked at the Zheng Kingdom’s long and snsking envoy team in the distance, and sneered: “It is said that the ninth prince of the Zheng Kingdom is of barbarian ancestry, and his looks are extremely outstanding?”

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The magnetic voice sith a trace of murderous intent sounded in the ears of the accompanying official beside him. The middle-aged official tried to shrink into a ball to reduce his sense of existence, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said: “Rumors are not credible. Besides, in terms of appearance and aura, how can he compare to Gongzi?”

Liu Xi sneered and snorted, and said with a flick of his big sleeve: “Go, we shall go meet this ninth prince of the Zheng Kingdom.”

Looking at this unrestrained and arrogant aura with an expression of one looking for trouble on his face, the official following behind Liu Xi said with a bitter smile to his colleague next to him: “Say, why was this lord sent to welcome the foreign envoys out of everyone? His Highness wouldn’t happen to have no plans to negotiate at all, would he?”

His colleague leaned in his ear and said: “The Zheng Kingdom sent such a ‘outstanding’ prince, which is clear that they want to use treasure and beauty to persuade His Highness to cease the war.”

He quietly pointed at Liu Xi’s back with his finger, and whispered: “Don’t make a sound later, just watch on the side. I’m afraid this one got the instruction from His Highness to come and knock the envoys of the Zheng Kingdom down a few pegs.”

It had to be said that the veteran officials who could work under Su Mu for so long were quite good at speculating about the monarch’s thinking, but what they didn’t know was that Liu Xi took the initiative to take the job even before Su Mu gave him any instructions.

The few existing men of the Crown Prince already made him itch with hatred, and now someone actually still wanted to give another man to the Crown Prince!

Liu Xi, whose flashed with more than a hundred kinds of torture scenes, smiled and waited under the city gates like a poppy in full bloom.

The officials of the Qing Kingdom who escorted the envoy team saw that flamboyant beauty under the city gates from afar, a very  wantonly beautiful but vicious-hearted male pet of the Crown Prince.

Feeling his scalp go numb, when he arrived outside of the imperial city of the Qing Kingdom, he dismounted and said to the Zheng Kingdom official next to him: “This is our Qing Kingdom’s imperial city. Lord envoy, please dismount.”

The 30 meter tall round waterwheel in the wide moat was turning slowly and tirelessly; the tall city wall was made of blue bricks, and the soldiers on duty on and under the city wall stood straight and at attention with spears in their hands. The spears were sharp, but not like new, which proved that the weapons in their hands were often used.

Through the wide-open city gates, they could see the crowds walking on the wide and clean streets, most of them dressed in neat and fine clothes, possessing an energetic vigor on their faces.

Before the envoy of the Zheng Kingdom even entered the city, he was already awed in his heart. He walked to the carriage and said to the person inside: “Your Highness, we have arrived at the Qing Kingdom imperial city, please exit the carriage.”

Liu Xi squinted at the motionless carriage curtain, and his white thumb gently turned the white jade ring on his index finger.

The voice of a young man in the carriage came: “We are just at the gates of the city and you want me to get off, are you asking me to walk inside?”

The Qing Kingdom’s accompanying officials glanced at the carriage a little unhappily, thinking that you, a prince of a defeated country, actually dared to act arrogant here? Wang Taimin showed a tactful smile on his face and said: “Ninth Prince, anyone who enters the imperial city of the Qing Kingdom must be checked. This is also for the safety of all of us.”

The young man’s voice came from the carriage again: “Does Lord Wang actually suspect that there is something dangerous hidden in my carriage?”

Wang Taimin smiled and said, “Of course not, Your Highness. Isn’t this because we are afraid that bold and audacious people will hurt the Ninth Prince?”

“If something like this happens in the Qing Kingdom, isn’t it because the Qing Kingdom has not done a good job at supervising safety? Daring to behave badly towards foreign guests and envoys, the governance of the Qing Kingdom, heh…..”

We give you an inch and yet you actually take a mile! Wang Taimin was so vexed his gums itched. He glared at the carriage but it was not appropriate for him to curse directly. At this moment, in the corner of his eye, a flamboyant figure led a large group of people in their direction, expression extremely arrogant.

There was a good show!

Wang Taimin stepped aside in silence, bowed his hands and said: “Greetings to Liu Gongzi.”

Liu Xi didn’t even spare him a look. He strode to the front of the carriage and stopped. He raised his flawless jade-like arms and pointed at the carriageway with slender fingers: “Take it apart for me.”

What!

Not only were members of the Zheng Kingdom envoy team in disbelief, even Wang Taimin looked at Liu Xi in shock.

“Yes!” The soldiers behind Liu Xi immediately drove the people around the carriage away, then lifted their feet and began kicking the carriage.

“Bang, bang…..” The carriage was kicked and swayed from the left to the right. After the parts were loosened, the soldiers actually reached out and removed the wooden planks!

The leader of the Zheng Kingdom envoy team had blue veins popping on his forehead, and his eyes were also bloodshot as he glared at the soldiers taking apart the carriage.

Liu Xi’s smooth chin lifted slightly, and he snorted coldly. The simple syllable was like a delicious fish bait thrown into the lake, and all the nearby fish were involuntarily attracted by him.

Wang Taimin’s thin body shook, and he silently moved away from Liu Xi, thinking: No wonder His Highness would dote on this one, forget his figure and face, just his voice almost made him, a man who only liked women, go hard!

“Stop!” An angry voice came from the carriage that was about to collapse, but the soldiers who were dismantling the carriage did not stop. It was not until Liu Xi gave them a look that these soldiers returned tacitly behind Liu Xi.

A honey-colored arm lifted the curtains, and a beauty with high eyebrows, slightly deep eye sockets and a straight nose jumped out of the carriage. His hair was not black and straight, but brown and curly.

This was a teenager who was only fifteen or sixteen years old. His light golden eyes looked at Liu Xi hostilely, containing a wild and vigorous beauty to them, like a young leopard on the prairie that had not yet matured.

“Who are you?” The young man looked directly at the overly gorgeous man before him.

There was a hint of surprise in Liu Xi’s eyes. He did not answer his question, but carefully looked up and down at this “out of the ordinary” young man. To be honest, the appearance of this young man did not conform to Liu Xi’s aesthetics, but it was hard to guarantee that the Crown Prince would not want to “have a change of taste”.

After all, the Crown Prince had done so many things with no morals and no lower limit.

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After pushing the boy to the position of his imaginary rival, Liu Xi felt even more displeasure at the boy. “Not even introducing yourself first, don’t you even understand the most basic etiquette? Are the people of the Zheng Kingdom so boorish and rude?”

Liu Xi had already thrown away the matter of dismantling other people’s carriages as soon as he arrived.

The young man sneered, looked at Liu Xi with contempt in his eyes, and slowly said: “You, damn, sissy…..”

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Su Mu slowly nodded, and said to the twelve people in front of him: “It will be implemented as you said. The specific regulations will be listed by the twelve of you. Each item requires at least four of you to agree to pass before it can be approved. Confirm that it is complete then give it to me for review later.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Everyone said in unison.

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The soft white gauze hung down over her chest, the slender figure like a white orchid. Yun Feiyan’s soft eyes moved from Yun Feiyu’s figure to Su Mu on the main seat, and a silver bell-like voice sounded: “Your Highness, the Zheng Kingdom has sent a prince to ask for peace, is this true?”

The eyes of Yun Feiyu, who had been sitting quietly at the bottom left of Su Mu, instantly condensed, and a sharp light flashed in the depths of his clear water-like eyes.

Su Mu avoided Yun Feiyu’s gaze with some guilty conscience, and said, “Ahem…..the Zheng Kingdom has sent their Ninth Prince.”

The right corner of his lip curved up in a pleasant arc, and Yun Feiyu looked at Su Mu’s evasive eyes. He took a sip from the teacup on the table and asked unhurriedly, “Your Highness is going to see him?”

The Zheng Kingdom’s intention in sending over a prince could be deciphered with just one’s toes. After all, the Crown Prince of their Qing Kingdom used to snatch men as a hobby.

Su Mu touched his nose and said: “The Qing Kingdom is fighting against six kingdoms, and although our momentum is unstoppable, there is pressure from the shortage of personnel following the victory against Jin and Chen. I want to temporarily form a truce.”

Lin Siyuan agreed: “What Your Highness said is very true, but since Chen and Jin have been conquered by our country, their names should also be changed.”

The next topic shifted to the name change and the division of administrative regions.

At the same time, a guard of honour with more than 100 people on the border of the Qing Kingdom was currently making their way to Qing Kingdom’s imperial city.

Shi Kingdom, imperial palace.

Princess Hongyun looked at Sun Hongyu, whose martial arts skills had been sealed, with a look of guilt, and whispered: “I’m sorry, brother, I have implicated you.”

Sun Hongyu’s gaze fell on the seemingly quiet courtyard wall, but he knew that the guards outside must have formed a strong iron-like sentry, but there was no despair of being a prisoner to be found in his eyes, and he still maintained the noble bearing as befit his crown prince status.

“There is nothing to be sorry for between siblings.” He retracted his gaze and showed a fond smile at Sun Hongyun.

Sun Hongyun shook her head and said, “It’s my fault. I didn’t expect that Su Mochi would be so ruthless, not even leaving himself a way out, and would rather fall out with us.”

Sun Hongyu’s eyes suddenly became deep. It seemed that they could see through the distant space, and at that ruthless and decisive person. He sighed softly: “It is inevitable that the Qing Kingdom will side with the Shi Kingdom. There is only interest between countries. Incorporating personal feelings is irresponsible to the common people.”

Dong Dongdong, who had been guarding beside Sun Hongyu, clenched his fists and said, “But we helped him. When the Qing Kingdom faced civil strife, if we hadn’t promised to lend him soldiers, the Qing Kingdom would have long since disappeared.”

“We helped him, and he made his payments.” Sun Hongyu said.

Dong Dongdong looked at the pair of siblings who didn’t seem to be anxious at all, and a trace of doubt flashed in his mind. He asked Sun Hongyu: “Your Highness, shouldn’t we think of a way to return to the Wu Kingdom?”

Sun Hongyu picked up the wine flask and filled the cup in front of him, and said nonchalantly: “Let Lao San, Lao Qi, and Lao Jiu as well as the other people fight to their satisfaction first.” Sun Hongyu chuckled, “My brothers, they have large ambitions and impressive methods. I’d better avoid the storm and spend a few peaceful days.”

“Clap, clap……” There was the sound of applause. Shi Ran’s tall and muscular figure appeared at the gate of the courtyard, his brown eyes like that of an eagle, “Your methods have grown a lot after not seeing you for so many years.”

Sun Hongyu looked at Shi Ran walking towards him, and said with a smile: “Emperor Shi looks to be very leisurely. It seems that in the eyes of Emperor Shi, the Qing Kingdom should not be a problem.”

“Aren’t you afraid that I will kill you after I finish using you?” Shi Ran looked at Sun Hongyu.

Sun Hongyu asked, “You alone can suppress that little guy?”

After a pause, Shi Ran sat opposite Sun Hongyu and said, “As a reward for letting you go back to the Wu Kingdom, join me in capturing the Qing Kingdom. Su Mochi will be mine.”

After a pause, Sun Hongyu looked at Shi Ran and said, “My brothers’ vie for the throne has come to an end?”

Shi Ran said: “Very soon. In addition, the Qing Kingdom has annexed the surrounding six countries, and the chaotic land is about to be unified.”

A sharp light flashed from the bottom of his eyes, and Sun Hongyu said: “The speed of the Qing Kingdom’s rise is too abnormal. The Qing Kingdom must be destroyed first.”

“It’s just what I want.” Shi Ran nodded, then turned and left.

Looking at Shi Ran’s back, Dong Dongdong asked suspiciously, “Is Emperor Shi helping us?”

Sun Hongyun retracted her gaze from Shi Ran and said: “He wants royal brother to return to the Wu Kingdom and fight to the death with the victor. After two fights for heirship, the power of the Wu Kingdom will be greatly weakened.”

Both Sun Hongyu and Sun Hongyun could think that this was the method the Shi Kingdom planned to use to weaken the Wu Kingdom, but this was also something that can’t be helped. In the past few years, Emperor Wu’s health had been deteriorating, and his brothers had long been unable to hold themselves back.

Qing Kingdom.

Su Mu had a rare moment of leisure, drinking tea in the pavilion and admiring the flowers, but was interrupted by a sober Ye Qingfeng.

“Darling, I haven’t seen you for so long, don’t you miss me at all?” Ye Qingfeng leaned against the railing in an unrestrained posture, his eyes boldly wandering over Su Mu’s figure.

It gave Su Mu the illusion that he was being stripped bare by him. Su Mu, who was holding a small dish in his hand, glanced at him before grabbing the fish food in the dish and sprinkling it on the pond outside the pavilion. A group of brightly colored koi immediately swarmed over to the food that had fallen into the water.

“If you are very free, then help me do something.” Su Mu put the dish on the stone table, and a charming smile appeared, which he directed at Ye Qingfeng.

“What about the reward?” Ye Qingfeng didn’t ask what it was, but looked at Su Mu meaningfully and said ambiguously.

Su Mu ignored Ye Qingfeng’s question and continued: “The princes of the Wei Kingdom have been fighting for so long without a result. Go and give them a result.”

Ye Qingfeng was startled, “Do you want to set up an enemy for the Shi Kingdom and the Wu Kingdom?”

“No, I want to give these two hungry wolves a piece of meat.” Su Mu’s lips showed a sinister smile: “Poisonous meat.”

Ye Qingfeng was a person of jianghu who was not very clear on the twists and turns in politics so he directly asked: “How to do it?”

“Except for the 13th prince of the Wei Kingdom, injure all the others to the point they are unable to take care of themselves. Take my message to Wei Shisan. The payment is to allow the Qing Kingdom’s merchants to pass unimpeded.” The Shi Kingdom and the Wu Kingdom had both banned the importation of Qing Kingdom’s goods, and Su Mu had to find new markets. But in any case, he had already bitten off a few large pieces of meat from those two countries already. So Su Mu was not at all upset. It could not be expected that the insightful people of the two countries would not be able to discover the crisis concealed within for an entire lifetime.

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The thirteenth prince of the Wei Kingdom? Ye Qingfeng remembered that when he wandered around the world, he seemed to have heard that he was the most incapable son of Emperor Wei.

Ye Qingfeng did not understand the purpose of Su Mu doing this, but this did not prevent him from completing the things Su Mu had tasked him with. A wicked smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Ye Qingfeng stood up and picked up Su Mu in his arms: “Pay the deposit first.”

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Su Mu frowned and didn’t know how to comfort him. It must definitely be his reason why Ye Qingfeng won’t marry the woman surnamed Qin. Ye Haolin must have driven Ye Qingfeng out of the house because he was with him.

Su Mu lowered his head and kissed Ye Qingfeng’s lips, and said, “Just wait until he calms down before going back and admitting your mistake.”

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Ye Qingfeng nodded vaguely, and kissed Su Mu’s lips back.

However, at this moment, there was suddenly a knock on the door, and the mild voice of Yun Feiyu traveled into the room like ripples on the surface of water, and passed into Su Mu’s ears.

“Your Highness, the Chen Kingdom has sent a peace agreement.”

Su Mu, with a guilty conscience, hurriedly pushed off Ye Qingfeng and got up from his lap. He then straightened his clothes and stepped forward to open the door.

When Yun Feiyu, who was standing outside the door, first came and saw that Su Mu had the door closed despite it being the day, he knew that it was not for anything good. The right hand holding the peace agreement clenched subconsciously. He prevented the eunuch from announcing his arrival, and stepped forward himself to catch…..send the peace agreement.

When the door was opened, the first thing Yun Feiyu saw was Su Mu’s red lips, and the flush on his face that had yet to fade. A faint alcoholic scent traveled over, and Yun Feiyu immediately understood who the vixen inside the room was.

His eyes darkened for a moment, but then he immediately returned to normal. Yun Feiyu handed the peace agreement to Su Mu and said: “The imperial city of the Chen Kingdom was besieged by our army the day before. And this is the peace agreement from the Emperor of Chen. Your Highness, please have a look.”

Su Mu instantly switched back to “work mode”, and after taking over the peace agreement in Yun Feiyu’s hand, he began to read it. It was nothing more than cessation of land and compensation. Su Mu lost interest after a glance.

Su Mu said: “Inform Shangguan Hao, capture the imperial city as soon as possible.”

What cede 19 cities, offer a million taels of gold and silver. After conquering the Chen Kingdom, wouldn’t everything just be mine?

“Yes.” Yun Feiyu’s eyes swept across the inner room without a trace, and said softly to Su Mu: “Your Highness, Jin Kingdom has also been completely captured. How shall we deal with the aftermath, and should we invite other cabinet members over for a discussion?”

Su Mu nodded and said, “Go and call everyone over, and I’ll arrive at the meeting room immediately.”

“Yes, this official departs.”

After Yun Feiyu left, Su Mu immediately ordered the attendant outside the door: “Go in and clean up Ye Qingfeng.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

In the meeting room, all the twelve members were present, and Hu Yuan said to Su Mu with a smile of joy: “Paying respects to Your Highness, this time our Qing Kingdom has won a great victory, and is all due to Your Highness’s wisdom!”

However, Su Mu did not have a look of complacency on his face. Instead, he showed a more serious expression: “If there were no weapons such as gunpowder and firearms, the Qing Kingdom might not be able to win.”

To be honest, the Qing Kingdom really had few talented generals. At present, only Shen Wei and Shangguan Hao were the only capable generals in Su Mu’s hands. If there was no advanced weaponry, the Qing Kingdom would not be an opponent of these countries at all.

Lin Siyuan said, “Your Highness has spoken very true.”

Su Mu sat on the chair with a serious face and said: “There was a report on good news yesterday. The Jin Kingdom has been captured and the royal family members have bowed their heads. The Chen Kingdom is also in the bag. On the matter of taking over Jin and Chen, what are your views?”

These people had already been informed by Yun Feiyu that the Jin Kingdom had been captured, and their ideas had already been drafted thousands of times. As soon as Su Mu asked this question, Yin Han said: “Your Highness, more than half of the officials from the two countries have surrendered to the Qing Kingdom. We can temporarily use them to continue to manage the two countries. After all, we don’t have that many officials yo send to Jin and Chen.”

Another person also agreed: “Brother Yin has spoken the truth. We are not familiar with Jin and Chen at all, and there are differences in language and customs, so letting the original officials of the two countries continue to manage the two countries will be able to stabilize the situation more quickly. Your Highness only needs to send a small number of officials to monitor them.”

These two people did not observe any expressions of satisfaction or dissatisfaction on Su Mu’s face, and they were slightly disappointed in their hearts.

Yun Feiyan looked at the two people with disapproval and said: “Most of the original officials in the two countries are from noble families. Behind each official is a clan or clique with shared interest. The cliques in the Qing Kingdom have been shattered and dispersed by His Highness so how can we tolerate cliques outside the Qing Kingdom? Moreover, these officials have more or less connections with the royal families of the two countries. If we continue to use these people how can we ensure that they will not have traitorous thoughts? How many are even good officials if they submitted to the enemy country?”

Hu Yuan looked at Yun Feiyan who was covered by the white gauze veil: “But the language and the customs are different. This is a fatal disadvantage. Not to mention that the Qing Kingdom does not have so many reserve officials.”

Su Mu nodded his head but still did not show a satisfied look on his face. He turned his head and looked at Yun Feiyu, who had not spoken, and asked: “What about you?”

Yun Feiyu raised his head, his gentle gaze enveloping Su Mu’s whole body, causing him to feel as if he was immersed in warm spring water and making him unconsciously relax. The voice that was neither high or low was like rain, falling drop by drop over Su Mu’s heart.

Yun Feiyu paused and glanced around before he said: “Through the seed sowing method, we can sow a small number of seed officials to various places, so that they can promote a large number of officials up the ranks as quickly as possible. Of course, those who have just been promoted might not necessarily be qualified, but as long as the Qing Kingdom can smoothly transition the governance of these two countries during this period, we can quickly spread the governance model of the Qing Kingdom.”

Hu Yuan asked: “Is there any difference between this method and letting the original officials of the two countries continue to govern?”

Lin Siyuan said: “The thinking is different. The mindset of the officials personally promoted by His Highness are very different from the thinking of the old officials of the Qing Kingdom.”

The people present thought about it for a while. It was no wonder that that group of old fuddies didn’t like them. Of course, that group of old fuddies was even less pleasing to their eyes. The officials before Su Mu began governing and the officials after Su Mu began governing had formed two very distinct groups that each targeted each other, but Su Mu did not take action to suppress either side.

That group of self-righteous old fuddies needed to be taught a lesson, and this group of idealistic young people also needed to be tempered.

Yin Han said: “It still doesn’t work. When the officials of the Qing Kingdom go to the local area, don’t they also have to waste time to familiarize themselves with the language and writing? Otherwise, how will they communicate with others. Not to mention the issue of differing customs as well.”

“Why study the languages ​​of other countries?” Yun Feiyu’s eyes were like a clear spring flowing into the big sea, causing a wave of waves, “The Qing Kingdom is the victorious country.”

“But if we follow the example of Wu and Shi, if we first determine the official language and then guide the citizens, it will not only be a lot of work, there also won’t be enough time.” Yin Han said with a frown.

Yes, the ancients were not stupid, and what the later generations could think of might also be thought of by the predecessors. The Wu Kingdom and the Shi Kingdom were vast and difficult to rule, especially with language barriers. Therefore, Wu and Shi had long established an official language and written word.

Yun Feiyu observed Su Mu’s expression with a soft gaze, and said without any hurry: “First, Chen and Jin are just small countries, and the territory is not as big as that of Shi and Wu so it will be much easier to implement; second, the Qing Kingdom’s text have been modified by His Highness and has become much simpler than the original text, making it easy to learn and easy to remember; third, the Wu Kingdom and the Shi Kingdom had not been thorough enough.”

Lin Siyuan couldn’t help but look at Yun Feiyu curiously when he heard this, and asked curiously: “How is it not thorough enough?”

Yun Feiyu said mildly: “Behind every language and written word, there is a clique with shared interests, such as those scholars and elders in the Shi Kingdom who used their deaths as threats when Shi Ran first promulgated a national doctrine on a common language and written form.”

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Lin Siyuan widened his eyes and said in surprise: “You mean…..”

“It is forbidden to circulate, print, and sell books other than the written language commonly used in the Qing Kingdom, and it is forbidden to teach languages ​​other than the common written language ​​of the Qing Kingdom.” His voice flowed steadily, like a trickling stream, but in just a few lines of words, countless people were drowned to death.

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