Dynasty Summons: Low-key Hegemony

Chapter 209 Preparing to Leave Beijing
"Brother Huang, if there is a first time, there will be a second time, and a third time... countless times." Li Heng sighed, "You can do it yourself, and hope to see the high-spirited brother Huang in the future."

Li Heng left with a dejected and lonely expression.

Li Yuan watched the back of Li Heng leave with a trace of solemnity in his eyes.

This old six can't be really old six.

"Your Highness, is it because I am too popular that you made a mistake in your layout?"

At some point, Ah Qing had already come behind Li Yuan, Li Yuan turned his head to look, and saw that Ah Qing had a look of annoyance on his face.

Ah Qing just heard what Li Heng said to Li Yuan in the lobby, and suddenly felt that she had made a big mistake.

Today, I felt comfortable with myself, but I didn't think about His Highness's thoughts. If Yaohuang was afraid of His Highness again because of her own reasons, and the situation in Lingzhou changed. colleagues.

"It's okay, just listen to Li Heng's words and you'll win, but if you take it to heart, you'll lose." Li Yuan smiled, turned and walked back to the lobby.

"Then what should we do now?" Ah Qing asked.

Hey, Li Yuan looked at Ah Qing in surprise. Before, Ah Qing would never ask him what he was going to do, but now it was her who asked him what he was going to do next.

It seemed that Ah Qing was really nervous, and felt that she had done something wrong.

What a kind Aqing.

"Ah Qing, don't worry, the king and Li Xiang have expected this matter a long time ago, and have prepared a countermeasure." Li Yuan strode to the desk, smiled and revealed a little plan to Ah Qing.

"Really?" Ah Qing's eyes lit up.

"Of course." Li Yuan nodded seriously, picked up the brush and lowered his head to write a letter on the desk.

With Li Yuan's confirmation, Ah Qing's mood improved a lot.

"Ah Qing, didn't you say that there is something in the East that attracts you? You and I have been with me for so long, so we shouldn't drag it on."

"Ah? Isn't your Highness now in Lingzhou when you need me the most?" Ah Qing frowned slightly. She was calm by nature, but that didn't mean she was stupid. Chaos was imminent in Lingzhou, and His Highness urgently needed top-notch combat power.

"No problem, do you think you will be able to come back after three months?" Li Yuan wrote a letter without raising his head and continued to ask.

"Three months, I will definitely be back!" Ah Qing said with firm eyes.

"Okay, Ah Qing, you have a rest tonight, and leave for Lingzhou from Kyoto tomorrow, give this letter to Li Xiang, and then you can find your chance."

Li Yuan picked up the pen and put it down, waved his palm, and the true energy blew through the letter, drying the handwriting instantly, and gently folded it up and handed it to Ah Qing.

Ah Qing took the letter, with a blank expression on her face: "Your Highness, I will leave alone first? What about you?"

"This king can leave after three days, you go back first."

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Prince Heng's mansion, Li Heng has already returned to the mansion.

At the Lake Pavilion in Houfu, a man in his thirties in a light blue robe was fishing leisurely.

This person's name is Dong Ke, and he is a counselor Li Heng found by chance. In just half a month, he has been reused by Li Heng.

Li Heng strolled up behind him, looked at the empty basket with great interest, without a single fish, shook his head and said with a smile: "Dong Ke, the fish in the lake here are fed every day, so you may not be able to catch them in one day." A few fish."

"Your Highness was joking, as if I could catch it even if I go fishing by the river." Dong Ke said with a calm mind and a very frank smile.

Seeing Li Heng coming, he put down his fishing rod and saluted.

"Your Highness sees King Chu again today, how do you feel?"

"Fifth brother has changed a lot." Li Heng's smile gradually disappeared, and he sighed.

"That's natural. The King of Chu was able to win Lingzhou beyond everyone's expectations, so it should not be underestimated." Dong Ke's smile remained unchanged, but a hint of solemnity flashed in his eyes.

King Chu is the most peculiar prince among the four kings of the Dayu Dynasty.

"Your Highness, do you think you can win over King Chu?"

"Difficult, Gu, the Fifth Brother, is a master who doesn't see the rabbit and doesn't scatter the eagle. How can it be possible to make him fall to Gu with these few words."

Li Heng shook his head and smiled lightly. He repeatedly checked the information on Li Yuan's victory over Lingzhou, and he had a certain understanding of Li Yuan.

"Oh? Looking at His Highness's expression, it seems that we don't need to separate the relationship between King Chu and Emperor Yao." Dong Ke saw Li Heng's expression, and his eyes flashed brightly.

"Haha, of course you don't need it. Dong Ke, do you know what Li Yao said to Fifth Brother today?" Li Heng looked at Dong Ke with a smile.

Only a few people knew that Li Yao was going to announce Li Yuan as Governor of Huanzhou when Li Yuan left Beijing, and the time was so short that it was impossible for the news to leak out.

I only got the news on the way to the Chu Palace, and it was at that time that I temporarily changed my original purpose.

Li Heng wanted to test the great talent he had tamed.

Dong Ke's eyes moved slightly, and he fell into deep thought. He didn't even pay attention to the slight movement of the fishing rod in his hand. After pondering for a while, he looked up at Li Heng with a hint of surprise:
"Could it be that Emperor Yao made King Chu the governor of Huanzhou in advance?"

"It shouldn't be, Yaohuang is demented, but Lin Xiang and Lu Shangshu can't be like this!" Dong Ke frowned even deeper. "Now that the imperial army is preparing to attack Qingzhou, why make the King of Chu angry?"

Dong Ke thought for a while, and overturned this idea, but felt that it was wrong, because only this matter would easily annoy the King of Chu, otherwise he would not have let the King of Chu give Ah Qing to Emperor Yao.

"Dong Ke, you guessed right, Li Yao did just that, and just now."

"Gu was shocked when he got the news, and he was thinking about it too." Li Heng looked at the palace with a look of caution. He was not afraid of Li Yao, but Lin Xiang was an old fox who counted ten steps at a time.

It's a pity that he was only one step away from being able to win over Lin Xiang.

"How is King Chu feeling?" Dong Ke asked.

"Even though Fifth Brother has tried to hide it again and again, you can still see the gloomy loneliness in his eyes."

"Your Highness, for a while, I think we need to continue to lie dormant and make a decision when Li Yao's real purpose comes out."

"Of course, Gu also thinks so."

Li Heng faced the lake and stood with his hands behind his back, letting the breeze blow his sleeves.

"Second brother, third brother, they hope that Gu can bring trouble to Li Yao, drag Li Yao instead of solving Li Yao, and sit in that seat, so they most want to see me as a prince who is as stupid as Li Yao! "

"And the fifth brother is the same!"

"Then why don't I do what they want!"

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On the second day, in the square of the imperial court, hundreds of civil and military officials gathered, and the arena was still there, with pens, ink, paper and inkstones set up, as if preparing for a literary battle.

Li Yaogao sat on the dragon chair, as if he didn't know that the imperial mission was planning to admit defeat.

Yining was standing on the ring, about to announce the start of Wendou.

The audience around were also looking forward to it, with smiles on their faces and great confidence.

"Master Yi wait a minute!"

Inside the imperial mission, a voice suddenly sounded.

Everyone looked, only to see a tall, yellow-haired figure of the Mead dynasty standing out.

Everyone in the other missions seemed to have expected it, and watched him appear quietly.

But An Zhe could hardly hide the pride in his eyes, he looked straight at Li Yao, looking like you are all garbage.

Seeing An Zhe's expression, Li Yuan shook his head, it was too unprofessional.

How did this acting skill survive in the palace.

Not to mention anything else, let's just say that Master Pu, my own envoy, just died yesterday, and the body may still be hot... Uh... No, the body is gone.

It's fine if you're not sad, and if you still put on this look of being a villain, isn't it just telling others clearly that I want to bully you?
"What else is there for you?" Yining looked back at Dynasty Mead and said with a frown.

You interrupted yourself at the beginning, was it because you wanted to make trouble?

The envoy of the Mead Dynasty smiled and said: "We and the missions proposed this competition with your dynasty, just for the purpose of exchanging ideas, and there is no other intention. There have been four competitions. I really don't want to cause trouble to your dynasty."

Baiguan frowned when he heard the words, didn't want to cause trouble to me?Doesn't the meaning of this saying mean that you don't want to compare?

Especially the civil servants, all of them stared angrily!

What do you mean, the four martial arts competitions have been compared, why don't Wen Dou fight!
If we don't fight, how can we pretend...how can we promote our literary talents!

"Shut up!"

The children of the family in the auditorium naturally obeyed Meade's message and booed one by one.

Especially for the well-dressed and handsome literati today, they originally thought that if the contestants sent by the imperial court could not answer today, they would have the opportunity to answer the difficult questions, then they could be like Lu Junyi, Zhu Yang and others in the previous few games. The world is over.

The most important thing for a literati is fame!

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
Gone!

I didn't expect to admit defeat directly.

unlucky!

It's so damn unlucky, especially the literati who bought the front row at a high price just to win a one-in-ten-thousandth chance to play. Their faces flushed and they shouted angrily:
"Why, you are no match for the missions of the dynasties, so you want to admit defeat?"

"Wen Dou and Wu Competition are all proposed by you first, and you should start and finish things!"

"A literati should be proud. If you can't compare, just admit defeat. Wouldn't you laugh your ass off!"

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Seeing the angry eyes of the white-clothed literati in the auditorium of the Dayu Dynasty, the members of the missions shrank back.

Fortunately, fortunately, they took the initiative to admit defeat.

Even some people who didn't want to admit defeat before saw the angry expressions of the literati of the Dayu Dynasty, and they were grateful.

If they admit defeat, they must be unhappy, and scold themselves for not being able to admit defeat. Just from this kind of character, we can see how noble the spirit of the literati in the Dayu Dynasty is. .

The first four martial arts competitions had already wiped out the confidence of the imperial delegation. Facing the Dayu Dynasty, they could not have the confidence to win.

Facing the angry literati in the audience, Meade's envoy smiled and said: "Winning or losing is actually not important. This competition is for exchange and learning. If you have to decide who is better, you have lost your original intention." .”

"Hehe, you guys keep losing, of course it doesn't matter whether you win or lose."

"Since victory or defeat is not important, why don't you compare?"

"Cut! I'm not afraid anymore!"

Meade's face froze.

Yining on the ring had already received Li Yao's response, swept towards the group of missions, and finally looked at Meade's messenger and asked in a cold voice:
"So what do you want now?"

The Meade envoy swallowed, looked back at a young man in the Meade envoy, and saw him nodding firmly to himself. The angry voices of the surrounding literati still rang in their ears, but it was difficult to speak.

They originally thought that Dayu Dynasty would be very happy if they voluntarily surrendered, and then they took advantage of the situation to propose a condition.

But anyone can see the anger of the Dayu Dynasty, and still ask for conditions?
How dare you!

"Huh? What do you want?" Seeing that he didn't speak, Yining's face turned cold.

"This..." Cold sweat broke out slightly on Meade's forehead.

"Your Majesty Yaohuang, our missions have already seen the power of the Dayu Dynasty. We are ashamed of ourselves. We admit defeat and leave the Dayu Dynasty immediately!"

A young man stepped out of the Mead Dynasty mission, walked up to the top of the ring, and bowed to Li Yao and the officials.

He was the one who came up with the problem, which was conceived by his master, the most prestigious wise man of the Mead Dynasty, and he believed that no one else could solve this difficult problem except his master.

With confident eyes, the young man said to Li Yao again:

"However, our dynasty mission has a small request, and I hope that the noble Yu Dynasty can agree."

"Oh? What's the condition?" Li Yao's eyes revealed a hint of teasing. He fully cooperated with their performance today.

Seeing Li Yao speak, everyone in the square fell silent.

When the young man saw Li Yao open his mouth, his eyes lit up, and he said hastily:
"We have a large number of missions, and we have spent a long time in the capital, and we have exhausted all our money. We only ask His Majesty the Emperor to give us some food so that we can go back."

"Then how much food do you want?"

Li Yao changed his sitting position and raised his eyebrows at Li Yuan who was beside him.

The young man didn't notice Li Yao's movements, the Meade envoy beside him had already drawn sixty big grids on the ring.

He pointed to the large grid and said, "Your Majesty Yaohuang, the mission does not need much food, as long as His Majesty Yaohuang sends someone to put food in these grids, put a grain of rice in the first grid, and put a grain of rice in the second grid." Two grains, put four grains in the third grid, and each grid thereafter is twice the size of the previous grid, and so on, only need to put the No.60 four grids. "

"That's it?"

Sure enough, after all the officials listened, Qiqi looked at the young Mead.

Tsk tsk tsk, this is looking for a step down.

The dynasties have been planning this competition for an unknown amount of time, but now it has ended hastily, it seems that they are afraid of our Yu Dynasty.

If they really go back with 64 grids of food, they will starve to death before it arrives, right?

This is the first thought of many people, thinking that the missions of various dynasties are just to find a step down, so they make a decent request at will.

Li Yao did not reply immediately, but looked at the surrounding officials.

"What do you think?"

Many officials didn't take it seriously. Although some officials suspected that the mission was fraudulent, they couldn't see any tricks when looking at the 64 grids.

Isn't it just a few bags of grain?
However, many officials did not speak, because they had already noticed that Li Yao's eyes were on Chen Hai, the servant of the household department.

Sure enough, the next moment, Li Yao directly asked Chen Hai:

"Chen Aiqing, what do you think?"

Li Yuan raised his eyes, Chen Hai and Li Heng are too close.

When Li Yuan looked into the distance, it turned out that Li Heng was frowning and looking at the 64 grids.

Chen Hai heard the words, glanced at the 64 grids on the ring, and said:

"I tell your Majesty, since the missions are so short of food, we naturally cannot refuse, and we must not let the missions starve. This is not in line with etiquette, and I think it is okay to give."

(End of this chapter)