Chapter 374 The Princess Wakes Up
Chapter 374 The Princess Wakes Up
Three days later, the envoy from Liuli Kingdom came to Dama's tent with a woman.
King Ling looked up and down at the woman in front of him with a smile.
Apart from being similar to the eldest princess, this woman has nothing to do with her in any other way.
“Your Highness, Prince Ling, Concubine Qiao is here, you two siblings should have a good reunion.
Later, I will come to take you back to the palace."
King Ling didn't say anything. Ambassador Liuli couldn't figure out what he meant and was so frightened that his voice trembled.
Legend has it that although this spiritual king is handsome, he is decisive and cold-blooded.
I guess he doesn't have the rule of not killing the envoys.
This was simply too scary, and he wanted to leave this dangerous place as soon as possible.
Thinking so, he did just that and turned and ran.
But King Ling did not do as he wished.
Just as he reached out to pull open the door curtain, a cold voice sounded behind him.
"Messenger, please stay..."
The ambassador's heart was about to jump out of his throat. Could it be that the Spiritual King had discovered something?
“Ambassadors, they are all our own people.
I'm reminiscing with my elder sister, so there's nothing wrong with that. Why don't you just sit in and listen?"
The Spirit King stood up from his seat and walked down the steps.
The Glass Messenger felt a chill on his back and was almost frightened to death.
Now that the Spirit King has spoken, it would be difficult for him to leave.
He turned around, his face a little pale, pulled the corners of his mouth, and nodded nervously.
"well……"
King Ling walked up to the woman with a smile on his face.
The woman's whole body was shaking like a sieve. Every time he took a step closer, she took a step back.
"Eldest sister, are you afraid of me?" Although King Ling was smiling, his voice was as cold as a poisonous snake.
The woman quickly raised her hand and waved it anxiously.
"No, no, no... It's just that we haven't seen each other for many years. I feel a little strange and I'm not used to it yet."
"Oh..., so that's how it is." King Ling pulled off a jade pendant from his waist and handed it to the woman.
"Eldest sister, when my sister and I were born, our mother sent someone to make a jade pendant like this for each of us using the finest mutton-fat jade.
When two jade pendants are put together, they can reveal a pair of dragon and phoenix.
It has been a long time since I have seen two jade pendants put together.
How about, elder sister take out the jade pendant and we put it together again?"
The woman looked terrified and her lips trembled constantly.
The cold sweat on the messenger's forehead was oozing out like soybeans.
"I, I, I forgot to wear it today. I'll do it another day, another day."
King Ling held the jade pendant in his hand and turned to look at the Glazed Messenger.
"Messenger, what do you think of my appearance?"
The Glass Messenger raised his sleeve and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
"Ling... His Royal Highness the King of Ling is naturally very good-looking."
"Oh..." The Spiritual King nodded, turned around, and suddenly drew out his sword and put it on the messenger's neck.
The messenger was so frightened that his legs went limp and he fell to his knees on the ground.
"When two countries are at war, they do not kill envoys. Your Highness, what is this for?"
"Heh..., you Liuli are really going too far. You actually used a fake to deceive me?"
"This, this, this..." The messenger was already stuttering and didn't know how to argue.
King Ling placed the jade pendant in his hand in front of the messenger and said, "This jade pendant is the only one in the world, there is no other one.
Also, when you wanted to find a substitute, did you do it with your eyes closed?
If you haven't seen my elder sister, has it been possible that you haven't seen me either?
How does this woman look like me? "
"Ling, Your Highness King Ling, we, we..."
"Humph, since you Liuli have no sincerity, let's fight each other."
The Spirit King put away his sword and yelled at the messenger, "Get lost..."
The messenger and the woman he brought with him rushed out of the tent frantically as if they had seen a ghost.
"Your Highness, since Liuli dared to tease us like that, why don't you kill them?" Han Fan said angrily.
"Didn't you hear what the envoy said? When two countries go to war, envoys will not be killed.
Besides, he was just a messenger and errand boy, why kill him?
As for that woman, she was merely coerced by their emperor, so her crime does not deserve the death penalty.
Get ready, and tomorrow morning, we will attack Liuli Imperial City."
"Yes, Your Majesty..."
In the imperial study of the Glazed Palace, the new emperor slumped in his chair after listening to the ambassador's report.
This was completely over. He had originally wanted to find someone to impersonate him and buy some time to find Concubine Qiao.
But who would have thought that the Spiritual King was so smart that he could tell in no time that the person coming was not the eldest princess.
It was obvious that King Ling had been away fighting and he hadn't seen what his sister looked like for at least ten years.
How could they be so sure that the person they sent was not Concubine Qiao?
It’s over, he might be the emperor with the shortest reign in history, right?
The next day, just after dawn, the sound of war drums rang out outside the city.
The shouting outside was like a raging tide, rising and falling.
Inside the palace, reports of the Manchu army's conquests and plundering of cities were coming in one after another, and the palace had already been in chaos.
By the time King Ling led his generals into the palace and pushed open the door of the Council Hall, the new emperor had already committed suicide while sitting on the dragon throne.
It can be said that Daman's battle was not too easy.
Just as the abbot of the White Horse Temple said, King Ling would not kill innocent people indiscriminately.
During the attack on Liuli, King Ling really did not harm any of the people in the city.
The battle was over, but he did not clean up the aftermath. Instead, he waited for the people from Daman to come and take over, and then he took Han Fan and rode back to Daman at full speed.
He was worried that Luo Huiru would act up again if he was not with Zuo Zixuan, and he was also worried about the eldest princess's illness.
He returned to Daman alone and was reprimanded by the Daman emperor again.
But it was just a few words that were not very meaningful. After all, we had won the battle, so it was just a token of our appreciation.
The emperor was also afraid that he had spoken too harshly and would upset King Ling. After all, the kingdom of Daman still depended on him to protect it.
King Ling won the battle, and his brothers were overjoyed.
The more vast the territory, the more fiefdoms the royal children may be allocated.
Even if I can't become a great emperor in the future, I can still be a small emperor when I return to my fiefdom.
But the wise king didn't think so.
He thought that no matter how much territory King Ling conquered, it would all be his, and even if he became emperor in the future, he would not let his brothers get any benefit at all.
King Ling returned victoriously and happened to encounter a visit from a neighboring country.
The main reason these countries came to visit was because they heard that Damian had launched an uprising against Liuli for unknown reasons, so they came to test the waters.
Although Liuli is a vassal state of Daman, its strength should not be underestimated.
Damman suddenly launched an uprising against Liuli. Was it because he had a grudge against Liuli, or did Damman want to expand his territory and start a war for no reason?
If it's the latter, then they have to prepare in advance.
Daman was already a big country in the south, and now it has taken over Liuli. In the future, I am afraid that none of the surrounding countries will be able to rival them.
At the banquet to welcome envoys from various countries, the ambassadors used all kinds of temptations.
The emperor was trying to make excuses, but King Ling said frankly, "I will not offend others unless they offend me."
This is very clear. Damang will not initiate a war, but if anyone comes to him seeking death, he will crush him to death.
The neighboring country had no preparation for an invasion, so it immediately promised that it would never go to war with Daman.
After this diplomatic experience, the emperor finally understood the situation.
Whether other countries will invade or not depends on whether King Ling is around.
When the spiritual king is around, all countries can behave themselves. If he is not around, that’s another story.
The emperor understood it, and the princes naturally saw it clearly as well.
They were glad that they stopped early, otherwise, if King Ling had not sat in that position, no one would have been able to hold on to the throne.
Of course, what the ambassadors said was half true and half false, and it was indeed true that they were afraid of the Spirit King.
But if there is an opportunity to defeat Daman, who can keep any promise?
Of course, interests come first.
However, after they returned home, they completely gave up the idea.
When the envoys from various countries left Daman, King Ling gave each of them three gifts.
A bottle of hemostatic powder, a bottle of bruises medicine, and a bottle of Baiduqing.
Various countries took their products and conducted experiments, and the results were simply miraculous.
They never imagined that Daman's medical skills had developed so advanced.
After returning, the spy reported that Daman had invented a kind of pasta that could be brewed with boiling water.
It is light and won’t get moldy. You can enjoy hot soup noodles anytime and anywhere as long as there is boiling water.
They also managed to get some to try, and it was indeed convenient and delicious.
The point is that there is not just one flavor, there are several flavors.
I also heard that they are currently conducting some experiments on the farmlands around the imperial city, claiming that they aim to double grain production.
It is said that the breeding farms have also expanded to several more.
At first glance, it seems that Daman is making preparations for war.
But this made the surrounding small countries very anxious. They always felt that the Spiritual King was going to attack them, so they were on high alert every day to prepare for defense.
After the eldest princess was rescued, she was in a coma for three days before waking up.
She was in a coma for several days, and the queen stayed by her bedside for several days.
"Mother, how come you are in the underworld?" The eldest princess had just woken up and was still in confusion. She asked weakly.
"My son, this is the Palace of the King of Spirits, not the underworld." The queen burst into tears.
How much suffering did I endure to get this girl?
They all thought they were dead.
"Prince Ling's Mansion? My brother's mansion? Am I going back to Daman?" The eldest princess asked sobbingly, tears streaming down her eyes onto the pillow.
"Yes, yes, you are not dead. Your brothers went to Liuli Country and secretly took you out of Liuli Palace.
Then it was your third brother and sister-in-law who saved you.”
The queen touched the eldest princess' head with heartache and cried with tears in her eyes.
"Wow, wow, wow..., I'm finally back at Daman." The eldest princess cried loudly.
"Silly child, you have suffered so much, why don't you write back to tell your mother?"
"Oh, writing a letter?
Not one of the letters you have received was written by me myself.
Liulidi hired someone to imitate my handwriting. "
"That damn old thing deserves to be cut into pieces by your brother." The queen said angrily.
"Is Emperor Liuli dead?" The eldest princess turned around and asked in shock.
The queen nodded, sniffed, and said, "Your brother cut her into pieces."
"Hahahaha..., that old beast finally died, what a good death..."
The eldest princess seemed to be smiling, but tears were pouring out like a flood.
Zuo Zixuan, who was standing nearby and watching the scene, felt really bad.
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