"You and I have thought of the sa thing!" Bai Qingyan nodded with a smile, leaning slightly closer to Bai Qingjue as she spoke, "Send soone to set off for the Dongyi Kingdom tonight. In the capacity of a representative sent by the Shopkeeper, see the Vice Minister of Revenue of the Dongyi Kingdom and have him et with the Empress. Tell the Empress that this ti, if Zhou sends troops, they will surely dethrone the Second Prince, and the Seventh Prince can take the throne. But the Empress cannot just take advantage without contributing. When Zhou’s army attacks the Imperial City of Dongyi Kingdom, we hope the Empress can ensure the gates of the Capital are opened wide in welco, otherwise it will be the destruction of the country, not the establishnt of a puppet!"
Indeed, the words to convince the spies were said by the Empress herself, and the Seventh Prince was hidden by them. Bai Qingyan had never t the Seventh Prince of the Dongyi Kingdom, nor were these words sent by Bai Qingyan to the Empress of the Dongyi Kingdom.
"Is there any token on the Seventh Prince, to bring when eting the Empress..." Bai Qingyan’s eyes turned fierce, "Since they dare to use Zhou, they must be able to bear the price of using Zhou."
"I understand!" Bai Qingjue nodded after speaking, expressing concern to Bai Qingyan, "Eldest Young Lady, you have been working hard for so long, it’s ti to rest."
Looking at her brother’s gentle smile, Bai Qingyan put down the teacup in her hand, "Are the people outside?"
Bai Qingjue nodded, "They are waiting outside!"
"Do you value these four people so much?" Bai Qingyan chuckled, "Well, for my seventh brother, it’s worth eting them!"
"Trust , Eldest Young Lady, these four people...will accomplish great things in the future!" Bai Qingjue stood up with Bai Qingyan, hands behind his back as they stepped over the threshold.
The imperial guards were pressing four scholars to kneel under the corridor not far away. Seeing Bai Qingjue following Bai Qingyan out, the four scholars glanced at each other, before they could react, feeling a sharp pain in their knees, they knelt heavily.
Although all four of them had pride, they weren’t so proud as to not kneel before the Emperor. They just didn’t expect that the Emperor of Zhou would look like this and were stunned.
Even with just a distant glance, the four could sense the Emperor of Zhou’s extraordinary grace.
Soon, the four saw Bai Qingyan’s cloud-pattern embroidered deerskin boots appear in front of them and beca even more terrified, bowing their heads lower, not daring to even look at Bai Qingyan’s deerskin short boots.
"Are you the four who ca up with ideas for the butcher’s wronged wife, letting that big sister use public sentint and anger to force the Official Governnt to bring justice to the butcher and retrieve the corpse of Hancheng King?" Bai Qingyan stood with hands behind her back, looking down at the four scholars, speaking extrely slowly, "Do you think, the Zhou Dynasty...and I, the Emperor, would abandon Hancheng King and the coastal people?"
The four lowered their heads and remained silent.
"Who wrote the statent?" Bai Qingyan asked.
"Your Majesty..." A scholar in a blue robe spoke, his voice sowhat stuttering, hastily kowtowing, "I wrote the statent without imagining that Your Majesty would disregard the nation’s affairs, co to the coast, or that Your Majesty would...as a certain lord said, want to annihilate Dongyi to relieve future worries for the coastal people! I...I calculated the ti, Your Majesty ca so quickly, it seems you set off imdiately upon receiving the battle report, traveling day and night. I...I misjudged the noble, caused trouble for Zhou and Your Majesty! I...plead guilty!"
The scholar in the blue robe didn’t misspeak. Today, having seen that young lord, upon hearing that the Emperor would co to the coast to annihilate Dongyi, and when summoned to et the Emperor, they calculated Bai Qingyan’s ti of arrival was faster than the normal ti from Dadu City to the coast, clearly indicating Bai Qingyan wasn’t forced by public sentint but had already decided to send troops to annihilate Dongyi after receiving the battle report, to retrieve Hancheng King’s remains.
Although the Emperor was a woman, her courage and fortitude commanded respect, and she indeed treated the old coastal citizens of Daliang as her own, refusing to let her people suffer insult or fright.
"Your writing is excellent, knowing to use public sentint to pressure the court, you are indeed a talent, but don’t use others next ti. If you can do it yourself, I will hold you in higher regard!" Bai Qingyan glanced at Bai Qingjue again, "Loyalty King values your talent, and I appreciate your actions for the coastal people, Hancheng King, and the butcher’s noble soul, so let this matter go unntioned! With your talents, why not participate in the imperial examinations to serve the country, heaven grants talent to you, and having co to this world, do not fail yourself."
After speaking, Bai Qingyan signaled Bai Qingjue to take the people away, only taking Wei Zhong back to rest.
Bai Qingjue stood in place, making a deep bow to send off their Eldest Young Lady, "Eldest Young Lady, take care..."
Upon hearing this, the scholar in the blue robe suddenly raised his head, eyes wide, looking at the gentleman with comndable character, sending off the Emperor with a deep bow.
It was only then that these four realized the gentleman who bet with them was the Loyal King of Zhou, no wonder he was so certain the Emperor would return, as he already knew the Emperor had arrived, even accompanying her.
Prior to this, they assud Bai Qingjue was just another nobleman who leveraged his family’s connections to hold a position.
The Bai family’s children were required to experience the battlefield at ten, and when the Emperor ascended to the throne, she didn’t enfeoff her siblings, but after conquering Xiliang and they had made ritorious achievents, she enfeoffed them as kings.
These details, these scholars indeed knew.
After seeing Bai Qingyan off, Bai Qingjue straightened up, looking at the four with varied expressions, his smile deepening.
Facing Bai Qingjue again, they adopted a different attitude, imdiately showing respect.
An hour later, Xie Yuchang indeed brought back the Seventh Prince from the east of Jinguan City, along with the Seventh Prince’s accompanying guards.
Xie Yuchang returned with injuries; the Empress’s Hidden Guards were too troubleso. Bai Qingyan had ordered that these Hidden Guards must not escape, so Xie Yuchang personally led the interception, only then did he suffer so injuries.
Wei Zhong quickly had soone support Xie Yuchang to dress his wounds but didn’t disturb Bai Qingyan, who had just rested for less than an hour. During these days of constant travel, Bai Qingyan had accomplished many things along the way, and she was very tired. Wei Zhong was unwilling to disturb her.
After all, it was just a Prince of a soon-to-be-destroyed small country already in their grasp. Wei Zhong had the discretion not to disturb Bai Qingyan and only had Xie Yuchang send the token from the Seventh Prince to Loyal King.
Bai Qingyan awoke after resting for two hours, and while she washed up, Wei Zhong inford her that the Seventh Prince of Dongyi Kingdom had been "invited" back, and the token was already acquired: "Your Majesty, do you wish to et the Seventh Prince of Dongyi Kingdom?"
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