Dragon's Origin

Steward Zhou couldn't recall the last time the Emperor had personally apologized, or to whom. The only thing he was sure of was that whoever had received an apology from the Emperor was likely long dead, not even bones remaining.

But now, the Emperor was actually apologizing to Wang Sheng. Because Wang Sheng had threatened the Emperor, then scolded him, and finally hummed a rustic tune that was neither elegant nor in accordance with musical principles. And then the Emperor actually apologized to Wang Sheng.

Steward Zhou, of course, heard the lyrics Wang Sheng hummed, but he wouldn't dare sing them. The lyrics were far too treasonous, to the point where anyone but the Emperor would be committing a capital crime by singing them. Even though Steward Zhou remembered them perfectly after hearing them only once, he didn't dare sing them in front of the Emperor.

Having been by the Emperor's side for many years, Steward Zhou understood that the Emperor had completely stopped being wary of Wang Sheng. However, he didn't understand how Wang Sheng had managed it, just with that one song?

After all, Steward Zhou was just a steward eunuch. No matter how high his cultivation, he didn't have such great ambitions and couldn't understand how Wang Sheng's song had scratched the Emperor's itch and boosted his spirits.

The Emperor was the Emperor. From Wang Sheng's casual humming, he could tell that Wang Sheng had never had any thoughts of conquering the world. Of course, even if he did, he wouldn't stand a chance; that wasn't a game a powerless and uninfluential assassin from Worry-Free City could play.

As the Emperor, his cultivation technique was one of clarifying the mind and increasing wisdom, and what he learned was the skill of controlling people's hearts. Qin Shi Huang's song made the Emperor suddenly alert. When he suddenly jumped out of the circle of being misled by the authorities, he would suddenly realize that he had actually done something very stupid.

Wang Sheng was never a threat to the Emperor. Whether from the perspective of possibility or from the perspective of profit, Wang Sheng was not the Emperor's enemy.

From the very beginning, it was the Seventh Prince and those few important ministers who wanted to plot against Wang Sheng. These few useless fellows completely forgot that Wang Sheng was still a talent the Emperor was trying his best to win over. Yes, now the Emperor remembered that a long time ago, he had already arranged for an undercover agent in Worry-Free City to win over Wang Sheng.

Such a shrewd talent was actually pushed to the opposite side by his own son and a few fools. Those pig-like things deserved to die!

Of course, he himself was like a pig, constantly wanting to test Wang Sheng. Wang Sheng never intended to do anything to him, nor did he intend to deal with him, but he took the initiative to control him and even eliminate him. On the other hand, those who really had the ability and motivation to kill him but didn't do it for various reasons were never guarded against by the Emperor.

From this point of view, the Emperor realized that he was really a pig, a bigger fool than his stupid son. Someone like this should be won over and befriended, not guarded against and turned into an enemy. What else could he be but a fool?

So the Emperor apologized decisively, and it was a very sincere apology, not the kind of apology where he apologized now and waited to settle the score later. Although he said it in a tone that sounded very plain, this was the most appropriate tone he could think of.

"Okay! I accept!" Wang Sheng also sincerely accepted the Emperor's apology, also saying it in a very plain tone.

Steward Zhou, listening from the side, almost stumbled and fell to the ground. The Emperor apologized like this, and you just accepted it so brazenly? He really didn't know if Wang Sheng was truly arrogant or truly stupid. In short, he was different from anyone he had ever met.

"Steward Zhou!" The Emperor suddenly called out to Steward Zhou.

Steward Zhou, who was wandering in the sky, almost didn't react. It was Wang Sheng who casually made a sound that the Emperor couldn't hear, and the spiritual energy vibrated, waking Steward Zhou up. Steward Zhou realized what had just happened and hurriedly bowed to the Emperor, waiting for instructions. While bowing, Steward Zhou was extremely impressed by Wang Sheng's ability to remind him without making a sound, and he was also grateful for Wang Sheng's reminder.

"Report to the Madam, just say that the little brother next door has come to eat, let her prepare." The Emperor said to Steward Zhou with a warm smile on his face, then turned to Wang Sheng and asked, "Is this arrangement okay?"

"Not bad, not bad!" Wang Sheng's face also showed a satisfied smile: "Just like that. I'll call you Old Brother, and you can call me Little Brother. Those other messy things are actually quite meaningless. You probably haven't experienced the life of a real businessman in these decades. Come and feel it often, and you'll definitely have different feelings."

"Oh? What feelings?" The Emperor originally just wanted to get closer to the other party. Hearing Wang Sheng say this, he immediately asked, as if he had forgotten that Wang Sheng had simply ignored his question and told him to find the answer in his dreams. As the Emperor, sometimes he had to have a thicker skin than anyone else in the world.

"Businessmen value buying low and selling high." Unexpectedly, Wang Sheng actually answered: "Anyway, summing it up, it's that someone will do a business that risks their head, but no one will do a business that loses money. Sometimes the measurement is that simple, more simple and crude than your ministers, fathers, and sons scheming, but the principles are the same and can be learned from each other."

"Just a small trick to earn some gold coins." The Emperor subconsciously retorted. It wasn't that he was targeting Wang Sheng, but that was his perception of businessmen. Although he immediately realized that it was inappropriate, the Emperor wouldn't apologize again, but instead extended his hand in a gesture of invitation, naturally resolving the awkwardness.

"You're wrong about that." Wang Sheng also stood up and followed the Emperor to the backyard, saying as he walked: "The business world is like a battlefield. You haven't carefully studied the previous dispute between Yu Baozhai and Baoqing Yutang. If you have time to think about it, it's definitely a master-level masterpiece. They are much stronger than most of the freeloaders in your court."

"The business world is like a battlefield?" The Emperor heard a term he had never heard before from Wang Sheng's mouth. After thinking about it, he suddenly remembered the contemptuous look on the faces of those old guys in his court when they talked about merchants. He couldn't help but feel a movement in his heart. Perhaps Wang Sheng was right, and there were indeed many freeloaders in his court who couldn't do anything right and were more likely to spoil things than accomplish anything.

Wang Sheng didn't know that the Emperor took what he said casually to heart. Even if he knew, he would still say it. What was important now was to fool the Emperor. Next, Mei'er and the others' business in the capital would probably go much more smoothly.

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