"I understand, Ninth Uncle. If I wish to see Ninth Aunt... at least on the surface, it should be as two emperors meeting, rather than me going rashly. Otherwise, if someone with ill intentions finds out, they might make a big issue out of it."
"Especially since..." Murong Li tightened the fist resting on his knee, "I’ve come out this time as an emperor controlled by the Regent Prince, who covers the sky with one hand and has a grip on the court. There’s no way he’d take me to see the Emperor of Zhou."
Murong Yan nodded. He raised his hand to touch Murong Li’s head, "Don’t worry. This time... you will definitely see your Ninth Aunt."
Murong Li nodded his head; he had just been childish.
"Is Ninth Uncle going?" Murong Li looked up at his Ninth Uncle.
"Of course, I will go," he nodded lightly to Murong Li, "Yan and Zhou already intend to form an alliance. Last time, the envoy was sent to our Yan Kingdom. It was very clear. I am the Regent Prince controlling the Yan Court, and naturally, I must first meet with the Empress of Zhou at the start of the Four-Nation Alliance to discuss the details of the alliance, and let Tianfeng Kingdom and Xiliang know that Yan and Zhou are united."
As Murong Yan said, when the Ninth Prince of Yan led a troop to Pingyang City, within less than two hours, the news reached the Emperor of Tianfeng’s tent.
In the tent, the fire basin burned red-hot, emitting the cracking sound of sparks, "crack pop." Li Tianfu, having replaced Li Tianjiao as the new Emperor of Xiliang, knelt by the small table, tightly gripping the cup in her hand.
"I don’t care whether Yan and Zhou have already united. When you imprisoned my sister and released me to replace her as the new Emperor of Xiliang, I made it clear that Xiliang can listen to you. But you must help me destroy Zhou; otherwise... don’t expect me to obey you anymore!" Li Tianfu stood up, left the tent without looking back.
"This Emperor of Xiliang!" A commander from Tianfeng Kingdom slammed the table and stood up, "I’ll go bring her back!"
The Monarch of Tianfeng, sitting on a chair covered with white tiger skin at the head, stared coldly at Li Tianfu’s angry back as she left. He rubbed the jade cicada in his hand, gestured for his commander to sit down, and then lazily leaned back in his tiger-skin chair, "This woman seeks momentary satisfaction, while we seek the future. The goals are different, so why bother with her as long as she listens."
Upon hearing his Monarch say this, the commander from Tianfeng Kingdom restrained his anger.
"To aim for the future successfully, first... we need Tianfeng Kingdom to gain a foothold here. We don’t have land in this place, and we face major countries like Zhou and Yan, whose actual strength is still unclear. We can only proceed step by step, slowly eroding," said the main disciple of the Great Shaman.
"Our ancestors in Tianfeng Kingdom waged war to sustain our battles, fighting until land and slaves were acquired and killing those who disobeyed, retaining the obedient ones for use. In this way, Tianfeng Kingdom remains powerful. Why make it so complicated?"
The commander from Tianfeng became increasingly enraged as he spoke.
"Now we must buy grains at high prices from these lowly breeds! Not only are they giving less and less, but the prices keep rising! Why not let our Elephant Army trample these inferior breeds to death and seize their grains!" another commander from Tianfeng proposed furiously, "We, the Tianfeng tribe, are strong! How can we bow to inferior breeds?"
Thinking of the attitudes of merchants from Zhou and Yan, they were eager to kill these inferior breeds immediately.
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