The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1291: Naru Eternal
Chapter 1291: A Name to Last Forever
“Moreover, I think the Queen Mother should also have confidence in Your Majesty!” Zhong Xingxiao’s voice softened, and he changed the way he addressed Murong Li. “Ali has never been a child without sense of propriety. He is precocious and wise, bold and careful. We know all this! Besides, since the Great Zhou began to implement the New Deal, people have been sending copies of the Great Zhou’s new policies to Ali every day. I heard from the eunuchs who serve Ali that Ali reads every copy carefully.”
Queen Mother Yan nodded: “I know this too.”
At the beginning, the Queen Mother saw that Murong Li was working too hard and tried to persuade him, saying that the Great Zhou was just repeating what others had said and that Murong Li did not need to study the national policies of the Great Zhou so carefully, as long as the State of Yan did its own thing well. However, Murong Li always agreed verbally and would still study the national policies of the Great Zhou carefully in the future.
“So, Ah Li must have studied the national policy of the Great Zhou and found it cannot compare to that of our Yan State, so he dared to send envoys to the Zhou State and wanted to make such a bet with the Emperor of the Great Zhou to save our Yan State.” Zhong Xingxiao smiled, “It’s just that Ah Li is young and is suppressed by the Regent in the court. In addition, in order to protect his mother, the Queen Mother, there are some things that cannot be said openly, and it is even more difficult to say them when he is anxious.”
Queen Mother Yan tightened her grip, and her heart was deeply moved. Although A-Li had never spoken to her since their last quarrel, A-Li was the one she gave birth to after ten months of pregnancy and she almost lost her life. A-Li still had him as a mother in his heart.
Ali came up with this idea to protect himself.
Queen Mother Yan swallowed her tears, turned to look at her brother and said, “I understand. I will go see A Yan and persuade A Yan to accept A Li… Let the national policies of the two countries determine the outcome, and merge the national policies of one country. Who knows… this time A Li can obtain the vast and rich land of the Great Zhou for our Yan country without fighting, and recapture the capital city for our Yan country without bloodshed! This… can be regarded as a thing that will go down in history!”
“Even if it is possible to conquer the Great Zhou without fighting, we in Yan still have to make preparations for both scenarios!” Zhong Xingxiao spoke slowly, “I, your humble servant, have no say in the matter with the Ninth Prince. If the Ninth Prince agrees to your Majesty’s plan, please ask the Queen Mother to persuade the Ninth Prince to make early preparations in terms of military strength for your Majesty and for Yan.”
Queen Mother Yan looked at Zhong Xingxiao’s sincere and loyal face, and felt touched. She whispered, “Brother has been wronged! A Yan and A Li are both young and always don’t trust brother, but I know… brother is really doing this for the good of Dayan!”
When Zhong Xingxiao heard his sister’s words, he thought that his sister was just because of the late Emperor Murong Yu. She naively believed that the Ninth Prince Murong Yan was the same Murong Yan who had appeared in front of Murong Yu. He didn’t want to argue with his sister too much for fear of causing her to be disgusted. So he put on a good attitude, quickly stepped back three steps, bowed to Queen Mother Yan, and pretended to be choked with sobs when he spoke…
“It is my duty to serve the State of Yan with loyalty! As long as the Queen Mother can trust me… I will die without regrets!”
“Brother, please stand up quickly!” Queen Mother Yan hurriedly helped her brother up. “I know your loyalty and helplessness, and I also know that A Li and A Yan are wary of you. In the future, I will definitely persuade A Yan and A Li more and let them know that brother is a good person!”
Zhong Xingxiao waved his hands repeatedly: “How can one always say this to others when being loyal? I only hope that if one day I am slandered and framed, it doesn’t matter if I die alone. I hope the Queen Mother will help me and save our Zhong family.”
“Queen Dowager, there is one more thing…” Before the Queen Dowager could say anything else, Zhong Xingxiao stood up and said to her, “Queen Dowager, you should persuade the Ninth Prince to agree to your Majesty’s strategy sooner rather than later. Otherwise… if the court officials who follow the Ninth Prince have other ideas and secretly encourage the court officials to support the Ninth Prince to ascend the throne, I am afraid that the relationship between your Majesty and the Ninth Prince will be hurt!”
Zhong Xingxiao knew his sister, the Empress Dowager, best. The Empress Dowager was willing to protect Murong Yan from the bottom of her heart, so even if he wanted to sow discord between them, he could not openly say anything bad about Murong Yan. After all, Murong Yan was the late emperor’s younger brother, and the Empress Dowager had a deep affection for the late emperor, so naturally she would love Murong Yan as well.
Therefore, Zhong Xingxiao’s strategy has always been to not speak ill of the Ninth Prince in front of the Queen Mother. In this way… the Queen Mother will feel that he does not want to sow discord between the Ninth Prince and the Queen Mother, and will listen to her in everything.
“Brother, you always think about A Li and A Yan, but these two children…are always on guard against you.” Queen Mother Yan looked at her brother with distressed eyes, “Brother, don’t worry, I will go to see A Yan in person tomorrow and persuade A Yan to agree with A Li’s strategy against Zhou.”
Zhong Xingxiao smiled and nodded: “In this case, I am relieved!”
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As soon as Xiao Rongyan returned to the Regent’s Palace, he sent people to spread the word… Today Murong Li has sent an envoy to Zhou, intending to propose to the Great Zhou that the two countries bet on whose national policy can make the people rich and strong, and merge one country. The losing country will be incorporated into the winning country. As a result, the Regent was furious.
Afterwards, Emperor Murong Li of Yan even threatened that he had only informed the regent and court officials, and that he had already sent envoys to Zhou to discuss the matter in detail with the Emperor of Zhou. Even if the regent and court officials disagreed, it was too late, unless they deposed him as the emperor and announced it to the world…his words as Emperor Murong Li of Yan were no longer counted.
The Regent was so angry that he left in anger.
The reason why Xiao Rongyan had people spread the news that Murong Yan threatened to depose the emperor if he did not agree was just to force the “Empress Dowager Party” and the Empress Dowager, so that the Empress Dowager would be unable to sit still and come to him to persuade him.
In this way, the Queen Mother could dispel her doubts about Xiao Rongyan and would not suspect that Xiao Rongyan would interfere in order to hand over the Kingdom of Yan to her two children.
Naturally, Xiao Rongyan would insist on not agreeing for some time. The longer he refused to give in, the less his sister-in-law would doubt him.
Just as Xiao Rongyan had expected, the Queen Mother became restless when she heard that Murong Yan threatened that if she did not agree, he would ask them to depose him and appoint a new emperor.
In addition, Zhong Xingxiao sent people to gather several important officials of the “Regent Party” together without the Regent’s knowledge, fearing that they were going to discuss how to support the Regent to take the throne. The Queen Mother finally lost her patience, left the palace with light luggage, and quietly entered the Regent’s Palace under the cover of night.
News was delivered to Bai Jintong one after another. Bai Jintong sorted out all the news and learned that Murong Li actually wanted to determine the fate of the two countries based on the national policies of the two countries. Although he was shocked, he also felt that this was Yan State’s last chance to survive.