Ming Lanruo laughed and clapped her hand: "How can you not get accustomed to the local environment after being here for a few months?"
Chu Yuanbai said: "Well..."
Ming Lanruo put down the cup and said calmly: "Actually, I am not very noble. I am no different from people like Duoning and Mu Kai. I also care about the people's support."
However, she knew better that water can carry a boat or capsize it.
If you want people's support, you have to use your sincerity to win it.
Instead of just doing superficial things.
"It's not wrong to care about the people's hearts. To be a king is to be a king. Who doesn't need the people's hearts and minds? In my case, Ajie treats my people as human beings, so she is more worthy of trust and reliance than Duoning!"
Chu Yuanbai looked at her steadily and said: "I say this as the King of Jingnan, not as your blood contracter."
In this world, there are too many people in this world who do not regard their subjects as human beings, but only as things to be consumed.
Even if my sister is trying to win the hearts and minds of the people in the southwest, she is trying to kill the 300,000-strong army.
What's not to do?
Ming Lanruo was stunned, looked at him, and said softly: "Xiao Bai, maybe one day, I will involve you in the flames of war. At that time, do you still think I am reliable?"
Chu Yuanbai chuckled softly: "If it weren't for Sister, the new emperor would have taken action against my Jingnan Palace sooner or later. Shangguan Hongye is not a deposed prince."
He initially chose to support the deposed prince.
Is it because he likes the deposed prince?
Of course not, but because although the deposed prince is suspicious and ruthless, he has no military power. Once he ascends the throne and becomes emperor, he will also encounter checks and balances from courtiers and generals.
Even if the deposed prince ascends the throne, he will not dare to casually cut down the vassal vassal and disturb the three southwestern provinces.
But Shangguan Hongye was different. He was born as a general, and he was decisive in killing and brave.
Moreover, under the influence of the late emperor, he has never been satisfied with the isolation of the three southwestern provinces, such as——
The late emperor was very angry that the three southwestern provinces were not allowed to set up Jinyiwei guard posts.
The three southwestern provinces are now barely in harmony with their ethnic groups, and he is of Miao and Han descent.
Therefore, the chieftains and chieftains of all tribes recognized him.
But how could the ambitious new emperor allow someone like him, Chu Yuanbai, who could unify the people of the three southwest provinces, to exist?
A divided southwestern province will not threaten the rule of the new emperor!
Therefore, after Shangguan Hongye ascended the throne, once the situation stabilized, the first place he started to reduce vassal vassals was the three southwestern provinces.
Is he going to give up his power, kneel before Shangguan Hongye, and grovel?
But for people like Shangguan Hongye, even if Chu Yuanbai kneels down, it will be useless.
Chu Yuanbai raised his glass to Ming Lanruo calmly and said: "I am just like my father who chose the late emperor. This time, I choose to place my bet on you, all for the sake of self-protection."
Listening to Chu Yuanbai's analysis, Ming Lanruo once again understood clearly——
The person in front of me was never the lively and innocent young man in front of me.
At the age of fourteen, he took over the Jingnan Palace and governed the three southwestern provinces.
He is a king who is very good at strategy and has insight into people's hearts.
Ming Lanruo smiled slightly and raised the teacup in her hand: "I won't let you lose. Who told me to be your sister?"
The two clinked their glasses, drank it down, and looked at each other with a smile.
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Baishui City, Tusi Mansion
"Bah!" Duoning angrily looked at the soldiers on the ground with his whip.
"You bunch of losers, weren't you asked to go to Tucheng Village and join forces with Hu Dan to deal with Ming Lanruo? Why is it that Hu Dan now calls her a saint instead?"
Damn it! This is completely different from the result she wanted!
She saved so many people in Tucheng Village, but he was so ungrateful that he dared to call Ming Lanruo a saint in his reply!
