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Chapter 56 The Crown Prince of Dongzhou Kingdom’s Difficulties
  The Crown Prince of Dongzhou coughed three times in one step and wasted some time on the road. When they arrived, the hall was already full of people.

Emperor Nanchen is already sitting on a high throne. On his left is the gentle and charming Concubine Zhou, and on his right is the righteous Prince Rui.

Prince Dongzhou and Princess Anping came forward to pay their respects.

Emperor Nanchen smiled and excused the two of them, "Prince Wangchen and Princess Anping, please take a seat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty Nanchen."

Chu Wangchen and Gongsun Qiao were led by the palace servants and sat in the distinguished seats specially prepared for them.

Li Youwei, Nalan Ling and others also took their seats.

Originally, according to the official position of the Li family, Li Youwei should sit near the door, but because she is now responsible for receiving the envoys of Dongzhou Kingdom, she and Nalan Ling sat under the crown prince of Dongzhou Kingdom and others. first position.

When everyone arrived, Emperor Nanchen announced the start of the banquet.

"Ahem, Your Majesty Nanchen, before the banquet begins, I would like to present you with the gift I have prepared for you."

Emperor Nanchen was most afraid of war. He just wanted to enjoy the peaceful and prosperous age left to him by his ancestors for a long time.

As long as Dongzhou Kingdom no longer takes the initiative to invade Nanchen Kingdom's territory, everything will be easy to negotiate.

So this time he paid special attention to Dongzhouguo's proactive overtures.

"Prince Wangchen is interested, please."

Chu Wangchen clapped his hands, and the envoy from Dongzhou Kingdom stood in the middle of the hall carrying a tray.

There was an exquisite wooden box placed on the tray. It was unknown what treasure was inside. Everyone was waiting for Chu Wangchen to answer their questions.

The ladies from aristocratic families who admired him took this opportunity to look at him blatantly.

Chu Wangchen stood up from his seat and walked to the wooden box in one step.

The jade hand with clear joints picked up the box and explained to everyone with a smile.

"Ahem, what is in this box is the largest shark bead in Dongzhou Kingdom in ten years. It was personally prepared by my father for His Majesty Nanchen."

Even an ordinary shark pearl produced in Dongzhou is worth practicing, let alone the largest one.

Concubine Zhou pulled Emperor Nanchen's sleeve and said coquettishly.

"Your Majesty, I like it very much."

Emperor Nanchen was willing to do anything as long as he could make the beauty smile. Seeing that she was satisfied with the gift, he immediately burst out laughing.

"Okay, okay, thank you Emperor Dongzhou, I like it very much."

The eunuch serving beside Emperor Nanchen hurriedly and respectfully wanted to take it from Chu Wangchen, but he shook his head.

"Your Majesty Nanchen, such a beautiful bead must be appreciated by everyone. Please send someone to open it."

As soon as Chu Wangchen said these words, everyone present understood that the crown prince of Dongzhou Kingdom was starting to provoke.

If Nanchen Kingdom cannot open this box, it will lose face in front of Dongzhou Kingdom.

As a good-looking Emperor Nanchen, naturally he would not allow such a thing to happen. He looked at Prime Minister Nalan.

The prime minister is the head of the civil service, so he is naturally the best at such mind-numbing matters.

"Master Prime Minister, the next step is up to you."

There was a hidden threat in Emperor Nan Chen's words, which seemed to say, if you can't open this box, you just wait to be punished.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Prime Minister Nalan took the box from Chu Wangchen's hand and tried to find the location of the lid.

But after searching around, I found that this was not an ordinary box, but a mechanism box, so the usual method of opening the box could not be used.

He rubbed the box carefully again, and finally found that only one bulge on the box could move.

He tried turning it a few times, but nothing happened.

Everyone in the hall focused their attention on Prime Minister Nalan and the box in his hand, but everyone had different thoughts.

Prime Minister Nalan's enemies naturally hoped that he would be punished if he couldn't open it, but Nalan Ling and others were worried about him.

Chu Wangchen stood watching with a smile all the time, coughing a few times from time to time, which made some young ladies feel distressed.

A quarter of an hour passed quickly, and Prime Minister Nalan was also sweating profusely. Chu Wangchen took a step forward and reminded him in a deep and deep voice.

"Master Prime Minister, you have ten more chances. If you fail to open it the last time, this box will be destroyed automatically."

Chu Wangchen's words immediately caused an uproar. If the box was destroyed, the priceless shark beads inside would also be destroyed.

Concubine Zhou was anxious, and she pulled Emperor Nan Chen's sleeves to act coquettishly.

"Your Majesty, such a beautiful thing cannot be destroyed. Moreover, if the Prime Minister cannot open it, it will bring disgrace to our Nanchen Kingdom."

After Concubine Zhou finished speaking, she looked provocatively at the seat of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Nalan Ling's face turned pale immediately. She knew that the imperial concubine was avenging the flower viewing feast that day.

Li Youwei held Nalan Ling's hand to give her strength.

"Don't worry, there will be a solution."

"Master Prime Minister, I order you to open the box within ten times, otherwise you will not be able to bear the consequences."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

The Prime Minister raised his sleeves and wiped the sweat from his head. Even though he had always been strategizing, he was now a little panicked.

Prince Rui saw the Prime Minister's dilemma and made a proposal to Emperor Nanchen Wen Sheng.

"Your Majesty, why not ask everyone in the main hall to help, so that the solution can be solved faster."

As the saying goes, one cobbler is worth three Zhuge Liangs. The more people they have, the more powerful they are. It is impossible that the huge Nanchen Kingdom does not have even one person who is good at mechanism skills.

Emperor Nanchen didn't want to lose face in front of the Crown Prince of Dongzhou Kingdom, so after hearing Prince Rui's proposal, he immediately agreed.

With Emperor Nanchen's permission, those ministers, young ladies, and young ladies who had been curious for a long time all joined in.

"You Wei, do you have any idea?"

In Nalan Ling's heart, she always felt that Li Youwei was omnipotent.

"I'm going to look at the box first."

Li Youwei stood up from his seat and walked towards Prime Minister Nalan.

Before she could step forward to look at the mechanism box, someone grabbed her arm.

"Sister, dad asked you to go back. This is not a good job. If you go wrong, the entire Li family will suffer."

Li Yaozu lowered his voice and spoke to Li Youwei.

Li Youwei moved slightly, and Li Yaozu's hand was thrown away.

"This is about the honor and disgrace of Nanchen Kingdom, and my brother should also do his part."

Li Yaozu blushed a little. Although he said that, that was not how things happened.

In fact, Li Youwei didn't just do it for Nanchen Kingdom's face, she didn't want Nanchen Kingdom to lose a good prime minister.

By the time Li Youwei walked over, seven more opportunities had been used up under the chatter of others.

In other words, there are only three chances left.

Seeing Li Youwei, the smile in Chu Wangchen's eyes deepened.

"Miss Li, your crossbow is very well modified. Why don't you try this mechanism box?"

After hearing Chu Wangchen's words, everyone looked at the two of them in unison. They also did not expect that the crown prince of Dongzhou Kingdom would take the initiative to talk to Li Youwei.

Prime Minister Nalan also looked at Li Youwei.

"Youwei, would you like to try it?"

Concubine Zhou came down from the high platform at this time.

"Wait a minute."

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