I Became the Villain After Being Invincible

"His Highness Michelle doesn't like to drink black tea?" Lei Ming asked.

"Yes, but I like to have a few cups of black tea at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and in the evening, I like to drink some red wine, because red wine helps sleep."

"Bob, please prepare a bottle of high-quality red wine." After asking Bob, Lei Ming said, "Your Highness's sleep quality is not good?"

Michelle nodded with a smile, "It's a bit shallow, because the current situation in the empire no longer allows me to fall asleep listening to lullabies like I did when I was a child. In recent years, sometimes at two or three o'clock in the morning I have been dealing with government affairs and some trivial matters of people's livelihood."

"Your Highness has worked too hard. I suggest that Your Highness not put so much pressure on yourself. You should properly delegate power and hand over some unimportant government affairs to your close ministers. It's like trivial matters of people's livelihood. This kind of thing is completely fine. Hand it over to your vassals."

Those in power seem to have unlimited prosperity, but in fact their sufferings are only known to them, especially the successors like Michelle, who are facing internal and external troubles of the empire. Those feudal nobles who want to be independent, the kingdom is eyeing the outside world, and they all want to take a few bites of meat from the empire when it is weak.

Facing such a situation of internal and external troubles, it is reasonable to be stressed, and it is normal to sleep late.

This is also one of the reasons why he is unwilling to 'steal the country'. It is too troublesome to be a ruler, so let his son do this kind of thing.

Ok?

It seems that a strange idea came out.

"You are right. My close ministers can indeed help me with some government affairs, but there are very few close ministers who can really help me. Most of them are opportunistic and incompetent people. They are good at fighting for power and profit. Let them do something for the people of the empire. , I’m afraid they don’t even have the desire to look down at the people of the empire.”

"This empire is already full of decay. The incompetent and power-hungry nobles ignore the poverty of the empire's people and only care about expanding their own family power wildly. This kind of person is not worthy of the word 'Imperial Minister'."

In the last sentence, Michelle gritted her teeth. She hated those incompetent nobles who only cared about their own families, but she had nothing to do with them, and even had to win them over.

"So, His Highness came to me tonight to pour bitterness on me?"

Bob brought over the high-quality red wine that had been awoken, and took two wine glasses by the way. Lei Ming took the red wine and glasses from Bob, got up and poured a glass of red wine for Michelle himself.

When he bent down to pour himself red wine... With a plop, Alisa, who was sleeping on his neckline, accidentally fell into the wine glass he placed on the coffee table...

Lei Ming: "..."

Michelle: "...."

The cold-faced female knight's mouth twitched indiscernibly.

Caroline was taken aback for a moment, and then the corners of her mouth curled up into a beautiful arc.

Bob heard the sound, but because of his vision, he didn't see Alisa falling into the wine glass.

Natalie, who had brewed a pot of black tea, licked her lips when she saw this scene. Wouldn't it be delicious to steam a bat that fell into a wine glass?

Apoof——

Alisa, who fell into the wine glass, grabbed the mouth of the glass with her claws on her wings, climbed out of the wine glass, opened her mouth and sprayed out a mouthful of red wine, "I seem to have sucked a mouthful of blood that smells like wine, it's so hard to drink... "

Hearing this, Lei Ming decisively picked up the wine glass and looked at Natalie, "Natalie, I can't take this silly bat anymore, please throw it away for me, don't throw the wine glass, it can still be used after washing."

Natalie took the wine glass from Lei Ming's hand and walked away excitedly.

Bob brought Lei Ming a wine glass again, Lei Ming poured red wine for himself, smiled apologetically at Michelle, and said, "It's a harmless episode, let's continue."

"..."

Michelle was a little speechless. She was already getting better, but the little episode just made her a little sad and laughed.

"Sorry, I was a little rude just now."

"It's okay, I understand. The nobles you mentioned are indeed not qualified to be called 'Imperial Ministers'."

"So, these years I have continuously promoted young and promising officials and young generals. So far, their performances have satisfied me. Now there is only a stage for them to perform."

From a very early age, she began to promote those young and promising officials and young generals in the empire. Through these years of experience and observation of them, Michelle has determined that they have the ability to ban those nobles who stand still.

It's just that there has been a lack of a stage for them to perform on stage.

It's different now, Lei Ming's appearance has given her and them such a chance, it depends on whether she can win Lei Ming over.

"You are right. The future of this empire does not lie with those veteran nobles, but with those young people in the empire."

Hearing Lei Ming's words, Michelle took a deep breath, put down the wine glass in her hand, and said in a deep voice, "So, Lei Ming, are you willing to form an alliance with me?"

"Alliance?"

"Yes! Form an alliance! I promise you that when I become the new emperor, the northern border will no longer belong to the empire, but an independent kingdom. If you don't believe me, I can sign a contract with you."

Michelle stared at Lei Ming with burning eyes. When she came to Lei Ming tonight, she was ready for a showdown. The current situation in the empire has no time for her to focus on internal friction. She must end the selection in a short time The battle of heirs, become the new emperor!

Even if she split the northern border from the empire for this, she would not hesitate!

Even, she can give the northern border more territory, as long as the northern border helps her.

"The northern border has always belonged to the empire, it..."

"No! Lei Ming, you and I are well aware of the current situation of the empire. The center of the empire has completely lost control of the northern border. I don't want to deceive myself, so from the very beginning, I regard you as a partner, not a partner. Servants of the imperial family."

Lei Ming gritted his teeth, this was too straightforward, but it also proved that Michelle was indeed a resolute princess.

"Your Highness has already said this, so what else can I say, I am willing to form an alliance with His Highness, after forming an alliance, how does His Highness want the Northern Territory to help you?"

"Help me send troops to suppress the rebellion."

"Huh?" Lei Ming couldn't believe what he heard, sent troops to put down the rebellion?It seems that no noble in the empire has raised the rebellion flag yet, right?

"To be precise, I would like to ask the northern border to send troops to help me wipe out those nobles who have independent hearts. Of course, I will not let the northern border send troops in vain. Every time I capture a noble's fief, I will give those fiefs [-]% Fifty percent of the tax is allocated to the northern border, and the duration is one hundred years."

Michel stared into Lei Ming's eyes and said sonorously.