The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1409: the bottom line
Chapter 1409 Bottom Line
“Ouch! Brother, stop pulling… my ear is about to fall off! Help…”
Hearing his master’s wailing, the attendant bowed towards the courtyard gate again, hoping that Master Yuanqing would see the wound on his master’s butt and be more lenient and be gentler.
In the front hall of the Lu Mansion, having just seen the most promising child among his grandchildren, General Lu finally put the bad thing about Lu Yuanpeng behind him. He was just about to pick up the teacup and drink tea comfortably when he heard a report from outside that an angel had come to the palace… His Majesty invited General Lu to enter the palace.
General Lu quickly stood up, ordered people to prepare official uniforms, changed his clothes and hurried into the palace.
When entering the palace, General Lu happened to run into Bai Qingyu and Bai Qingqi. After the three of them exchanged greetings, General Lu hurriedly asked, “King Zheng, King Hu… I wonder what the emperor has urgently summoned you to the palace for?”
“It seems to be about the old place in Daliang. Let’s go…you’ll know after meeting my elder sister!” Bai Qingqi made a gesture of invitation to General Lu.
As soon as the three arrived, Bai Qingyan handed the memorial sent by King Hancheng to the three for them to read.
“It hasn’t been long since the King of Hancheng arrived at the old place of Daliang, and he’s already asking for troops…” Taiwei Lu raised his head and looked in the direction of Bai Qingyan, “Your Majesty, I’m afraid there’s something wrong, we have to be on guard!”
As soon as General Lu finished speaking, the tightly closed door of the hall was pushed open, and Bai Jinzhi popped her head out: “Eldest sister…”
Bai Qingyan looked up and saw Bai Jinzhi grinning, squeezing into the hall, closing the door, and running towards Bai Qingyan, Bai Qingyu, Bai Qingqi and General Lu.
“Sister, Eunuch Wei didn’t stop me!” Bai Jinzhi said, and after bowing to General Lu and her brother, she sat down next to Bai Qingyu and stretched her neck to look at the secret letter in Bai Qingyu’s hand.
Bai Qingyan originally thought that Xiao Si was impulsive, so it would be better not to let Xiao Si know about this for the time being. Now that Xiao Si is here, it would be nice to let her take a look.
Bai Qingyu handed the memorial to Bai Jinzhi and asked her to read it slowly.
Xiaosi is not young anymore, and it is time for her to start learning to share the burden with her elder sister and take care of her younger sisters.
Seeing Bai Jinzhi frowning as he looked at the memorial, Bai Qingyan continued to speak to General Lu: “No matter what, the fact that the King of Tianfeng Kingdom, Sar Khan, stayed at the Dongyi Kingdom is indeed a signal that we should be vigilant about. We didn’t originally lock Sar Khan up in the Great Zhou because we didn’t want to cause trouble during the gambling period. But Sar Khan is not afraid. I guess he is thinking that our Great Zhou and Dayan are busy gambling, so he is frequently testing the bottom line of our Great Zhou…”
“As for Tianfeng Country, we might as well push our Great Zhou’s defense line a little further in the direction of Tianfeng Country!” Bai Qingyu’s eyebrows were cold and his hoarse voice sounded, “It can also be regarded as a warning. Send envoys to Dongyi Country again, and use coercion or inducement. In short, we must make Dongyi Country’s skin tense a little. What do you think, elder sister!”
Bai Qingyu’s original intention was that he was unwilling to go to war when the two countries were gambling. According to the signed alliance… once the war started and taxes were raised, then… the taxes in the gambling country and his own territory would generally also be raised, which would be of no benefit to their Great Zhou in winning the bet.
Fight, you can! But you have to wait until the gambling country wins, otherwise you will be doing the work of others, why bother?
“No, elder sister!” Bai Jinzhi was the first to get angry. “This King of Hancheng is clearly up to something. He has just arrived at the coast and he is asking you for soldiers! If he wants soldiers… he must want food and supplies, and then he will definitely rebel!”
Bai Jinzhi threw the memorial aside and said, “Elder sister, although the Third Prince of Daliang appears fat and honest, he must be a very decisive person in his heart, otherwise he would not have come out of the city with the national seal in his hands to surrender to me!”
“Sister, such a person… Xiao Si thinks that General Cheng, General Shen, General Liu, Lu Yuanpeng, and Sima Ping are right to worry, and the military power should be taken back!” Bai Jinzhi solemnly clasped his fists and said to Bai Qing, “Xiao Si is willing to ask for the order to go and bring King Hancheng back alive!”
Bai Qingyan looked at Bai Jinzhi’s red face and chest beating violently with anger, and turned to look at Bai Qingqi: “What do you think, Qi?”
Bai Qingqi rubbed his fingers lightly, and spoke after a long while: “I have never met King Hancheng, so it is hard to speculate, but… Ayu’s method is feasible. Push the defense line to Tianfeng Kingdom as a deterrent, and then send envoys to Dongyi Kingdom to hold down this flea. Didn’t the little emperor of Yan Kingdom send envoys to contact Dongyi Kingdom? It’s nothing more than… secretly providing weapons and food to Dongyi Kingdom, so that our Great Zhou will be plunged into war. This time, sending envoys can also test the strength of Dongyi Kingdom and see what attitude Dongyi Kingdom will have when facing our Great Zhou head-on, so that we can make preparations.”
Taiwei Lu waited for Bai Qingqi to finish speaking, and then said to Bai Qingqi, “If this is the case, Your Majesty can put the memorial from King Hancheng on hold until the envoys to Dongyi return with a message, and then make a decision.”
Bai Qingyan shook his head: “King Hancheng wants troops, give them! At the same time, send envoys to the Dongyi Kingdom, which can be regarded as putting pressure on the Dongyi Kingdom.”
Taiwei Lu was a little confused. He glanced at Bai Qingyu and Bai Qingqi, carefully considered his words, and then slowly spoke to Bai Qingyan: “Your Majesty… do you trust King Hancheng so much?”
Bai Qingyan smiled and said, “This King Hancheng was once oppressed by the old King Liang. In fact, he has no ambition for the throne, but he really wants to make some achievements. This time I give him this opportunity, he will do his best to do his best! King Hancheng… will not fight against the stone with an egg.”
“Your Majesty, when you asked King Hancheng to lead the navy, there was actually a heated discussion in the court. Now you are sending troops to King Hancheng again, and it is at a time when the country is in danger…” Taiwei Lu pursed his lips and thought for a while before saying, “Right now, for our Great Zhou, the country is the top priority! I am afraid that the court officials will be worried and think that Your Majesty only listens to King Hancheng!”
In fact, there were many officials in the court who disagreed with Bai Qingyan’s gambling with the country.
It was just that after Bai Qingyan ascended the throne, it seemed that no matter how much they opposed the decisions he made, they would still be successfully implemented. After the implementation, they found that… Bai Qingyan was indeed right. So this time Bai Qingyan decided to gamble the country, and the ministers in the court were gradually convinced and believed that Bai Qingyan, the emperor who made many impossibilities possible, could really unify the country peacefully in this way.
The generals later began to compromise, thinking that winning would be the best, but if they really lost, the worst that could happen was that they would deny it and then conquer the State of Yan. It has always been the case that the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit.
Only Lu Xiang and other ministers whom Bai Qingyan deeply trusted knew that Bai Qingyan truly put the people first. However, if these words were to be spread out to people who did not understand the Bai family, did not understand Bai Qingyan, or whose minds were not as broad-minded as Bai Qingyan’s, they would probably not be able to understand.