The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1287: gambling
Chapter 1287 Gambling
I didn’t expect that the plan I had made with my sister to prepare for a rainy day… to weaken the Great Zhou’s military strength before destroying Xiliang, to take advantage of the Great Zhou emperor’s weakness, and to assist the State of Yan, would turn out to be such a complete failure.
“I have been thinking hard about a strategy that can help Yan survive. After much deliberation, I have decided… to send an envoy to Great Zhou to discuss the two countries with the Emperor of Great Zhou… The winner will be determined by which country’s national policy can make the people richer and stronger, so that the two countries can be merged into one country!”
Before Murong Li finished speaking, there was shock in the Yan court.
Murong Li looked at the ministers with their eyes wide open in shock, and clenched his hands tightly in his sleeves. The road that Sister Bai had paved for the merger of the two countries was almost paved under his feet. He could not be afraid or retreat at this moment.
He forced himself to calm down and finished his words: “This is a huge gamble for both our Yan State and the Great Zhou. For our Yan State… besides being a huge gamble, it is also a chance to survive! Otherwise… if the Great Zhou marches westward and the main force of the Yan State cannot come back to help, our Yan State will be the next country to perish after Xiliang.”
“Your Majesty!” Xiao Rongyan raised his eyes and looked towards Murong Li. His voice was serious and full of reprimand, “Your Majesty is reckless!”
“Uncle Jiu…” Murong Li bowed solemnly to Xiao Rongyan who was sitting on the chair, “Uncle Jiu, please give Ah Li a chance and let Ah Li finish speaking!”
“Your Majesty, please don’t do this! Your Majesty!” Zhong Xingxiao was the first to kneel down, crying and kowtowed to Murong Li, “Your Majesty, please think twice!”
Following Zhong Xingxiao’s cries, all the ministers, whether they were from the Queen Mother’s party or the Regent’s party, knelt down, kowtowed and shouted, “Your Majesty, please think twice!”
“I… have not only thought about it three times, but also five and six times…” Murong Li paced slowly on the white jade platform, speaking in a sonorous voice, “If not, who among you has any way to make the Great Zhou withdraw its troops? The outcome of the two countries will be determined by national policy, and the two countries will be merged into one country… This is the only chance for our Yan country to turn things around!”
Seeing that the court officials were still discussing and their voices were gradually getting louder, Murong Li raised his voice again: “Or do you court officials really have so little confidence in our Yan State’s national politics that you are afraid that our Yan State, which has been implementing national policies for decades and can effectively make the people rich and strong in a short period of time, will lose to the Great Zhou State, which is still in the exploratory stage of its new policy when it has its first emperor?”
“But what if…what if we send an envoy to the Great Zhou and the emperor and court officials of the Great Zhou disagree? What if they agree, then when the agreed date comes, our Yan State wins, but the Great Zhou is unwilling to submit to our Yan State?” A court official raised an objection.
“Everyone, let’s not talk about whether the Emperor of Great Zhou and the officials of Great Zhou can keep their words. But what is imminent right now is our Yan State, not Great Zhou!” Murong Li seemed to be debating with the officials of the entire Yan State court. “Only in this way can our Yan State postpone the impending danger of national extinction and use three years… or even five years to recuperate. I believe that our Yan State’s national politics will surely make the people rich and strong! In this way, even if Great Zhou loses in three years and refuses to surrender to our Yan State, we will still have room to fight Great Zhou!”
“Your Majesty is a child after all. Your words are too childish!” Xiao Rongyan still sat steadily on the chair, looking up at Murong Li with cold eyes. Everyone could hear the suppressed anger in his voice. “My Yan State has come to this day with great difficulty. It is the result of the efforts of the people of Yan and the previous emperor. We have finally accumulated such a fortune, but Your Majesty wants to use our fortune to gamble with the Great Zhou. Your Majesty… you really have a big gambling nature!”
“Yes, Your Majesty! What the Ninth Prince said makes sense!” Zhong Xingxiao agreed with Xiao Rongyan again and again, “This is a gamble with our entire country. If we really lose, our Yan State will be lost, and we will all be sinners of Yan State!”
“Since Uncle Jiu and Uncle think this method is inappropriate, then what methods do you two have to deal with the Great Zhou?” Murong Li’s eyes were calm. He pushed Xiao Rongyan and Zhong Xingxiao to the same front and asked loudly, “Or can the court officials of Great Yan come up with a better method than what I said?”
“Everyone!” Murong Li walked to the front of the high level, his eyes swept over the courtiers of the Yan court, “Our Yan State is now the meat on the lips of the Great Zhou. Either… let the Great Zhou take it now! Or use this method to buy our Yan State a few years to recuperate, and in the future… either unify the world without bloodshed, or have a legitimate excuse to fight with the Great Zhou and fulfill the ambition of our Great Yan emperors to unify the world! Although it is a gamble, it is also a way out for our Yan State with no choice!”
Although Murong Li was young, after he proposed this idea, the court officials thought about it seriously and realized that it was indeed as Murong Li said. Judging from the current situation between the Great Zhou and the State of Yan, the State of Yan was at a disadvantage. If a real war broke out, the main force would be trapped in Xiliang, and the State of Yan would be at the mercy of the enemy.
Moreover, Yan State betrayed Great Zhou State first, so Great Zhou State had every right to send troops to attack Yan State. In addition, Great Zhou State had always taken care of Great Yan State and shared more of the spoils of war with it. Therefore, Great Zhou State had the support of the people even if it attacked Yan State.
If they don’t want to resolve this matter in the way proposed by the Emperor of Yan, then in order to give an explanation to the Great Zhou… I’m afraid they will have to hand over the Queen Mother of Yan, which… will be a great shame and humiliation for Yan.
“But Your Majesty, even if our Yan State’s national policies and laws are more mature than those of the Great Zhou, it is also a fact that the Great Zhou is stronger than our Yan State. If our Yan State loses in the end, do we really have to hand over our Yan State to the Great Zhou?”
“If the national policies and laws of the Great Zhou are not as mature as ours, and the national strength is not as strong as our Yan State, will the Great Zhou agree to use national policies to determine victory or defeat and merge the two countries? If so, our Yan State does not need to propose this strategy today to buy time.” Murong Li frowned, “Everyone… I still say the same thing, don’t forget, it is our Yan State that is in urgent need now, not the Great Zhou! I don’t think the Great Zhou will agree to this strategy I proposed. Now it is our Yan State that has to find a way to get the Great Zhou to agree!”
All the court officials in Yan court were silent.
They all understood that what the little emperor standing on the platform said was true, but no one could take the lead to stand up and agree with the little emperor’s ideas.
“You can’t do this! I absolutely don’t agree with the emperor’s absurd behavior!”
Queen Mother Yan had been listening outside for a long time. She was so frightened that her legs almost weakened and she could not stand.
She had not expected that her temporary cooperation with Xiliang to betray the Great Zhou would cause such a huge mess for the State of Yan.
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