The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1501: seek skin with a tiger
Chapter 1501 Seeking the Skin of a Tiger
“Even the court officials can’t tell whether the Seventh Prince is real or fake. Could it be that this palace, a biological mother, can’t tell whether her own son is real or fake?” The Queen picked up the teacup beside her and smiled lightly. “But the Regent… has been wearing a mask for a long time and has never shown his true face. Even if we are meeting in person today to show our sincerity, I really can’t tell whether you are the Regent of Yan State or not!”
“It doesn’t matter if they can’t tell whether I’m the regent of Yan State or not, as long as the Yan State court recognizes the regent seal on my waist!” Xiao Rongyan also picked up the teacup, “Just like it doesn’t matter if the court officials can’t tell the seventh prince. Queen, if you say the person in the Dongyi Palace is the seventh prince, then he is, and if you say he is not, then he is not!”
The queen pretended to drink tea with her head down, pondering Xiao Rongyan’s words carefully, guessing… Xiao Rongyan meant that he wanted her to follow the example of Da Zhou and use another person’s trick after Da Zhou left. The queen’s mind suddenly became active.
Yes… She said the one now is the Seventh Prince, so he is the Seventh Prince. If she said he is not, then he is not!
After the Emperor of the Great Zhou left, she had the child tied up… and kept him well guarded to prevent him from hurting himself. The same would apply if someone else became the emperor.
However, the Emperor of the Great Zhou will certainly arrange people around that child, and it will be a very difficult matter to deal with at that time.
The Queen raised her eyes and glanced at Xiao Rongyan. She thought that she could make use of the Yan State. After she put down her teacup, she asked, “So the Regent came here today to sign an alliance with our Dongyi State?”
“Of course!” Xiao Rongyan used the lid of the teacup to press down the leaves floating in the tea, and said, “Yan State has sent people to Da Zhou to rescue the Seventh Prince. If the Seventh Prince can be rescued, the Queen will no longer have to be constrained by Da Zhou. At that time… if the Queen needs it, the Yan State’s garrison in Dongyi can also be dispatched by the Queen to help the Queen!”
This meant that they, the Dongyi Kingdom, would cause troubles for the Great Zhou. The queen laughed in her heart. The Great Zhou wanted the Dongyi to cause troubles for the Yan Kingdom, and the Yan Kingdom wanted the Dongyi to cause troubles for the Great Zhou. In the final analysis, it was all for the sake of gambling for the country, and this… was indeed the only value of the Dongyi now, and the only reliance of the Dongyi Kingdom.
“Then, how many troops should Yan State keep?” asked the Queen.
“On the surface, of course, are the three thousand troops that I brought with me, and there are another five thousand troops that can serve as the queen’s backup.”
“This is also Yan’s backup plan. If Dongyi is disobedient and follows the Zhou to provoke Yan, these five thousand troops… can march straight to the capital of Dongyi and destroy Dongyi. At worst, Yan and Zhou can share the benefits equally!” The Queen of Dongyi laughed, “Whether Dongyi is with Yan or Zhou, it’s courting disaster!”
“Dongyi, you have no choice but to accept it!” Xiao Rongyan turned to look at the Queen of Dongyi, with a calm and indifferent smile between his eyebrows. He looked calm, but it was frightening. “Even if Yan sent troops to destroy Dongyi today, Da Zhou would not really fight with Yan for Dongyi. At most, Yan would give the land of Dongyi to Da Zhou, but it would save Yan from the trouble of Dongyi harassing Yan in the future when the country is in chaos!”
The Queen of Dongyi clenched her fists. Yes… Dongyi could not afford to offend either Yan or Zhou.
“The Queen of Dongyi is an ambitious person. I can see that she is unwilling to be controlled by the Great Zhou. She is helpless because her son is controlled by the Great Zhou. So…” Xiao Rongyan put down the teacup in his hand and rubbed his fingers. “I will not make it difficult for the Queen. The Seventh Prince… We in Yan will help the Queen to save him! In three years, Yan will send the Seventh Prince of Dongyi back safely regardless of winning or losing. Yan will not ask Dongyi to cause trouble for the Great Zhou. As long as the Queen is willing to negotiate for Yan in the court and prevent Dongyi from causing trouble for Yan in these three years, how do you think?”
“Yes, but if Yan State fails to rescue my son, and Great Zhou wants to embarrass Yan State, we Dongyi will have no choice but to obey. Then, please bear with Yan State.” The Queen’s eyes were gloomy. “The Regent must understand that for me… my son’s safety is more important than the Dongyi State!”
“Of course, but… when the Dongyi Kingdom obeys the arrangements of the Great Zhou and causes trouble for the Yan Kingdom, please send someone to inform us in advance, so that our Yan Kingdom will not have worked in vain for the Queen to save the Seventh Prince.” Xiao Rongyan picked up the mask next to the teacup, played with it in his hands, and stood up. “Does the Queen have any other requests? If not, I will leave first.”
The Queen calmed herself down and looked up at Xiao Rongyan, saying, “There is one thing that I do need the Regent’s help with. I heard that… the Sihai Pavilion on Luopan Mountain in the Great Zhou had a mother-child Gu. The Great Zhou Emperor gave the child Gu to the fake Seventh Prince and gave the mother Gu to me. If the fake is damaged in the slightest, the damage… will be transferred to me twice as much. If the fake dies, I will die for the fake and let him live! If the Regent can find the mother-child Gu and a way to cure it, we Dongyi will be at the disposal of the Yan State!”
The queen first had to obtain the mother-and-child Gu and use it on the people around her, and then she would remove the mother-and-child Gu. If the method really worked, she would dare to use it on her own son.
The queen was very clear-headed. No matter whether the Great Zhou or the Yan State won over the Du State in the future, the mother-child Gu in her son’s body was a scourge that must be removed. Otherwise, when the time came, Yan State and the Great Zhou would become one country. In order to control the Dongyi people, even if she exchanged her son back, as long as she held the fake with the mother-child Gu in her hands, it would be equivalent to holding her son’s life in her hands.
In this world, nothing is more important than her son’s safety, and the same goes for the Dongyi Kingdom.
Xiao Rongyan was stunned when he heard this, and then he said, “Mother-child Gu? I’ve never heard of it. Queen… have you tried it?”
The queen raised her bandaged hands and said, “Otherwise, how do you think the wound on my hand came from? How can the Great Zhou be assured of leaving a little kid in Dongyi to be the king of Dongyi? So… Regent, this mother-child Gu is not solved, and I am often helpless! Before solving this mother-child Gu… Please understand, Regent, it’s not that I don’t want to cooperate with Yan State, but I have to be controlled by the Great Zhou in everything. I’m afraid that even whether Yan State is allowed to station troops in Dongyi State needs to be consulted by the Great Zhou. However, I will do my best to fight for Yan State! But where I am unable to do so, I hope the Regent can understand my difficulties.”