On the Plains of Marne, while the turbulent Eighth Route Army began to quickly gather towards the Eighth Route Army Commander-in-Chief, far away in the Imperial Palace in the Chinese Imperial Capital, the Imperial Regent Prince was talking to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
"Zhang Qing, you have been the Minister of Foreign Affairs for many years, and you must know the people of the Western and Southern Continent best. Please analyze, in such a situation, what should the empire do? Which one is more beneficial for the empire to choose? What will happen to it?
How do people in Xilu react? The quarrel between President Meng and Chief Zhu is so loud that it hurts my ears... Every time there is a meeting, Chief Zhu objects to notifying Xie Ning and the others, and at the same time advocates letting the National Assembly discuss it collectively. Chief Meng is even more tit for tat.
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The eldest prince looked at the foreign minister in front of him and said slowly, with a wry smile on his face.
"Your Highness...this matter...everyone has their own opinions. Chief Meng and Zhu Shoufu are both for the good of the empire..."
The Foreign Minister also smiled bitterly.
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Immediately, there was a strange look in his expression: "But there is one sentence that I have been holding back in my heart. I don't know...should I say it."
He said leisurely.
"Oh? What are you talking about? Zhang Qing, it will take at least a month for the barbarians to arrive at the mainland bridge. It's urgent at this time. Is there anything else you can't say?"
The eldest prince immediately looked over and said dissatisfiedly.
"Haha, Your Highness, what I want to say has little to do with the difficulties we are facing now, but it can also be said that it is... closely related. And it is also closely related to you..."
The Foreign Minister smiled lowly, his eyes full of mystery.
"Speaking."
The eldest prince said solemnly without realizing it.
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"Let's start from the beginning..."
The foreign minister smiled.
"You know, I have always been very friendly with Your Highness, but I have always supported you in inheriting the throne after Your Majesty a hundred years from now."
But he started talking about an unrelated topic.
"This...this has nothing to do with the problem we urgently need to solve now...of course...of course...for this, I am extremely grateful to Zhang Qing."
The eldest prince's expression changed, and he smiled awkwardly.
"But Your Highness, the third prince is so dazzling in the Daling River. You must have felt the crisis because of this..."
The Minister of Foreign Affairs didn't seem to hear the objection raised by the eldest prince, he said leisurely.
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"This... is a bit... too."
The eldest prince's face was even more embarrassed.
"However, the third prince died heroically in order to protect the goddess in the final battle. The moment you received the news, you were grieved and at the same time, you must have been lucky?"
The Minister of Foreign Affairs said again. He looked at the eldest prince strangely, with a mysterious smile in his eyes.
"Qing Zhang... I have always been friendly with the major nobles in the empire... and I even advocate that the rights of the nobles should not only be limited to the military. They should also play a greater role in the affairs of the imperial government. You know this and agree with it -
-This is also a bridge of friendship between us, um...like-minded people."
"I have nothing to say sorry to you...What exactly do you want to say? You might as well say it bluntly."
The eldest prince seemed to be a little angry, he said impatiently.
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"hehe……"
The Foreign Minister laughed again.
"Your Highness, I just want to know your true thoughts. What I said is from the bottom of my heart. I also want to analyze for you from another aspect... how you should... decide on the current matter."
He said with a mysterious face.
"Oh? Please speak."
The eldest prince's expression became serious again.
"You know, His Majesty the Emperor has only been interested in you and the Third Prince before. However, the Third Prince is not very capable of fighting demons and prefers military affairs. And you... are always expanding the rights of the nobility, and it seems that you are in conflict with His Majesty.
Out of place.”
"That's why Your Majesty has been slow to decide on a candidate for the crown prince. He also feels that since he is in his prime, there is no need to decide so early."
"Now, His Majesty is still in his prime. Although this serious illness has come violently, thanks to the Eighth Route Army... there is no chance of any problems with His Majesty's health. At the same time, it seems that the person who will succeed His Majesty a hundred years from now will
There is only one choice left for you...a golden avenue. It seems to be right in front of you, right?"
The foreign minister said softly and looked at the eldest prince with a smile.
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"This is also...lucky, lucky. In fact...the third brother refused to give it to me, but I didn't expect that he...alas, died young."
The eldest prince sighed immediately, his brows filled with joy.
The Foreign Minister smiled: "But Your Highness, you may be thinking too simply - in my opinion, you have no chance of becoming the emperor."
He said decisively.
"How can it be!"
The eldest prince stood up suddenly. He looked at the foreign minister in surprise, but then slowly sat down again.
"Zhang Qing, what exactly do you want to say?"
He said in a deep voice.
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"Your Highness, please don't forget that the third prince also has a child. That child seems to have completely inherited the wisdom of his father and grandfather. He is a precocious young man and has been praised by His Majesty as the great horse of the future of the royal family. Even when he is ill,
Zhong Ye is always by my side to teach, he is very friendly and has high hopes for me."
"But how is it possible... he is still just a child, how could the father... the imperial power is not a big deal now, it has always been passed down from generation to generation, how could the father be separated from another generation..."
The eldest prince's expression suddenly changed, and he murmured.
"But you have always hoped that the imperial power would not be greater...and your Majesty has always firmly disagreed with this."
The Foreign Minister smiled again.
"That doesn't mean you should give up on me... isn't it passed down from generation to generation... Even though my father is at his peak, it will take at least ten or more decades before he passes the throne. My nephew will also be old by then...
…It is indeed possible to accept the throne…but the throne is not as important as before…isn’t it passed down from generation to generation…”
The eldest prince murmured.
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"But Your Highness, have you forgotten? After the victory parade, among the power classes of the empire, there was an existence that stood almost alongside the royal family at the top of the imperial nobility?"
The Foreign Minister said calmly.
"You mean... the heroic Xie family? No, the northernmost Xie family of the imperial family?"
The eldest prince's expression suddenly changed.
"But they are not so boring that they will affect the change of the throne..."
Then, he murmured in confusion again.
"Your Highness, you are wrong again."
The Foreign Minister smiled secretly again.
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"Have you forgotten again, for whom His Highness the Third Prince died? It is said that after King Yong and his wife paid homage to their father that day, they immediately paid homage to His Highness King Qi and His Highness the Third Prince. This made their three
My son, I will recognize His Highness the Third Prince as my righteous uncle, in order to fulfill the fraternal relationship between the founding marquis and His Majesty Taizong since the founding of the empire."
"This is really God's will... Many years ago, the founding hero of the Republic of China saved Taizong and the Xia family with his life in danger, and his soul has been damaged ever since, and severely damaged the heroic Xie family, but he succeeded in creating the Jibei Xie family.
Today, many years later, the third prince, who has the same name as Taizong, lives up to the heroic spirit of his Xia ancestors, repaying his kindness with his own life."
"Two righteous uncles, two lives, two heroes - this is certainly a beautiful story, and it is also a sign that the Xia family and the Xie family are inseparable and as close as one family. But haven't you ever thought about this in the empire?
Who will the Xie family of Huanghuang Jibei support in the future change of imperial power?"
"And what impact their words... will have on His Majesty and even the Empire... how deep will they be?"
Foreign Minister Youyou said, but the eldest prince's expression changed drastically.
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"And your Highness, don't forget that the Xie family in the far north is in the empire's power map. Although they are still only a royal family, their influence on the royal family and the empire is now almost equal to that of the royal family!"
"One of them is the only imperial goddess in the sky and on earth. Without her, the empire may have perished long ago! The other is a rare double legendary star in the ages, the only human controller of the top-level magic space, and led the Eighth Route Army to save the world.
Before the empire falls!"
"If they support the Third Highness's child to become the grandson of the Emperor... what are your... chances of winning? And will they... give their full support to protect the mistress of the Xie family in the far north with their lives, and now the third Xie family in the far north?
Where are Uncle Ziyi's... His Highness the Third Prince's children?"
He said repeatedly, but the eldest prince's face was extremely trembling.
"What you said makes sense...it makes sense...you are right...what should we do...how is it possible...by the way, you must have a way. Since you raised this point, there must be a way!"
He murmured in panic, and suddenly looked at the Minister of Foreign Affairs as if looking at a life-saving straw.
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Foreign Minister Natsusu smiled.
"Your Highness, you are right. Since the veteran raised this issue, he must have a countermeasure."
"At the very beginning, I was very confused because of you, but there was nothing I could do about it. The situation has become established, so what can I do?"
"But now...the barbarians in the west have given us a God-given opportunity!"
There was a hint of sinisterness in the Foreign Minister's eyes, and he said slowly.
"You mean..."
The eldest prince's expression was already pale, and he asked extremely sincerely.
"Your Highness, think about it, the barbarians have barbarian gods, and it is impossible to destroy them in the short term - so, if we let them go back, will the empire suffer any losses?"
The Minister of Foreign Affairs looked around and asked in a low voice.
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"It seems not...we can't fight it now anyway. Once we can fight it, the troops we put back will probably be old...These troops...it seems that they can only pose a threat to Hope East Island?"
The eldest prince murmured, he seemed to have thought of something.
"Yes, the East Island of Hope, the East Island of Hope for His Highness King Yong's blood-sworn allies, the East Island of Hope for His Highness King Yong's Eighth Route Army. It is also... it will make it impossible for His Highness King Yong and even the entire Xie family in the far north not to do it.
If we work hard to protect them, we may not even have time to take into account the internal affairs of the empire, and we may even be disappointed and dissatisfied with the entire mountain and sea. From then on, in a rage, we will never interact with us again——Hope Dongdao!"
The foreign minister said calmly, and the eldest prince's eyes became extremely bright.
"But...how can we..."
He then murmured again, with a look of great struggle on his face. (To be continued...)