vrcanaries Chapter 357: Driving the tiger and swallowing the wolf
Chapter 357: Driving the tiger and swallowing the wolf
During the ten years when Quan Ming returned to the deep sea to give birth to his offspring, war broke out in the territory of Xiliang.
From time to time, there would be all kinds of real and fake droughts and floods, and from time to time, the blood of court officials would be splattered in the court.
Liang Zhao was becoming increasingly overwhelmed, and constant setbacks were undermining her ambitions.
She even lost herself among all the handsome men in the harem.
Her laziness and negligence in government affairs also caused problems in her control over the court.
"Your Majesty, the drought..."
"You tyrant...you tyrant..."
"Why kill me? Doctors are not subject to punishment..."
"Unworthy of the position... a tyrant..."
She increasingly didn't want to hear the cold and direct criticisms from the imperial censors, because there were only people who raised questions in the court, but no one who could solve them.
Those who do not belong to the aristocratic family camp and are capable of solving problems will either be solved by the aristocratic family through various means, or be absorbed into the aristocratic family and the problem will be solved internally.
Liang Zhao suddenly had an idea and used the magical props left to her by the Mermaid King.
She sneaked into a night banquet held by a minister in the court.
He saw more courtiers than when he was in court, and more exquisite dishes than when he was entertaining ministers.
"Hahaha, Yunbin, this is your first time here, hahaha, now that you've married a girl from the Xie family, you're also one of us,
Come and try what it means to be a golden peacock and a silver unicorn. It is better than your previous miserable life with your wife."
"That's right, Master Chen, we will be brothers-in-law from now on."
Liang Zhao saw that the poor student he promoted had become the son-in-law of a noble family.
The impassioned speeches and the patriotic speeches were all fake.
"That idiot Liang Zhao still trusts you. He directly appointed you as the Imperial Censor even though you skipped three levels. Hahahaha."
"Ask the Ministry of Revenue to release the flood relief funds quickly. Recently, several families have been building Wanghai Tower. We should act early to grab a good spot. Once the funds are released, we can start working."
"The Sea View Tower is for viewing the Endless Sea, right? Will the Mermaid King come again? If he finds out about our arrangements, wouldn't it be..."
"Relax, the mermaid has a lifespan of 300 years. Our Queen of Xiliang is just someone who was inspired by something. This is a special game.
Where does such deep affection come from? We are not even the same species."
"Hahahaha, that's brilliant,"
Everyone raised their glasses to agree with him.
"Live three hundred years? How can they live so long? Aren't people with mermaid blood the same as ordinary Xiliang people?"
"You are talking about Banjiao, right? He can live to be 100 years old. For people in Xiliang, it is rare for them to live to be 70 years old. This is something that people aspire to have."
"Ban Jiao? There were indeed many Ban Jiao who joined the Queen of Xiliang during her years of fighting, but why are there no Ban Jiao in the court now?"
"Ban Jiao came to help at the order of the Mermaid King. How could he look down upon the small court of the Queen of Xiliang?
Even for us noble families, we built the Sea View Tower to gain the favor of the Mermaid King.
Magical means and long lifespan, this is a living god.
It is said that the real blood of mermaids can bring the dead back to life and revive the dead.
If anyone wins the favor of the Mermaid King, he might be able to become a king."
"Real blood of mermaids? Is it so magical?"
"According to legend, mermaids have special abilities.
Rumor has it that real blood must be given willingly to be useful.
Which mermaid would be willing to give out real blood? Such magical real blood might be very important to the mermaid himself."
"Liang Zhao is ambitious but incompetent, and her control over the court is weak. Why doesn't she rebel against her? This should be a piece of cake for the noble families."
"Of course, it's still due to the strength of the Mermaid King. Once she returns to land and sees that her big toy has been killed by us, all of our families will be doomed."
"I'm taught. I'm taught."
Liang Zhao was trembling all over, but she still endured it and returned to the bedroom before she collapsed.
She always thought that she had only accepted partial help from the Mermaid King, but she didn't expect that the ministers in the court believed that her succession to the throne was just a whim game of the Mermaid King.
Hahahaha, game,
So is it possible to ignore her for so long?
Ban Jiao did not enter the court, and retired after accompanying her to conquer the world. Is it because he does not consider himself a citizen of Xiliang?
She wants to ask for clarification.
As her mental illness worsened, she eventually made herself sick.
The disease is in the liver and kidneys and cannot be cured.
The director of the Imperial Medical Bureau who made this diagnosis has been executed by her, even though she knows that the imperial physician was telling the truth.
She blew the horn left to her by the Mermaid King.
In the end, the mermaid king did not come, but only asked the mermaids from the coastal area to visit her.
He sent me a bottle of medicine, saying it could cure the disease, but the effect was slow and needed to be taken continuously.
He also told her that the Mermaid King had been in seclusion for many years and could not come to see her.
She was full of surprises. Her illness could not be cured by just taking some medicine. What she really needed was the real blood of the mermaid. However, she could not say it to the mermaid messenger because the mermaid messenger was not the Mermaid King who was tolerant towards her.
Not long after the mermaid who delivered the letter left, visitors from outer space arrived.
Accompanied by gray fog, the alien spaceship landed directly on her palace.
They attacked her right away as she sat on the throne, but the shield of light that floated around her blocked the attack.
Outsiders couldn't understand her methods, so they became much more polite next time.
They got off the spaceship wearing heavy armor and expressed their intention of simply establishing diplomatic relations.
When she learned that these aliens were immortal, she politely expressed her forgiveness. There was nothing she could do if she didn't forgive them, as her protective shield only had a few uses left. This was the shield that Quan Ming gave her before she ascended the throne and was always facing assassinations.
The aliens' requests were simple: to establish diplomatic relations and allocate a piece of land for them to settle down.
In return, the outsiders were willing to treat her illness. In their opinion, the cure for this disease was just to remove the diseased liver and kidney. They used technology to grow a new kidney for her and then installed it.
She didn't even lose consciousness throughout the whole process, and in less than an incense stick of time, she recovered.
As for the aliens' requests to collect biological information, she felt that was no big deal.
After she recovered, she could continue to linger in the harem.
She threw the horn given to her by the Mermaid King into the box and stopped blowing it every day.
Less than ten years later, her illness relapsed.
The aliens from outer space said that the price for treatment would not be the same as before, and they would need a large number of people.
The Queen of Xiliang looked at these outsiders who were carrying breathing equipment.
They are not afraid of having to wear such bulky equipment even for their daily activities.
So she agreed and asked the noble families to provide slaves to the foreign Fusheng aliens.
If they don't agree, she will give the family's territory to the Fusheng people. Anyway, they are all hyenas coveting her territory, so she will just let the tiger devour the wolf.
The noble families did not want their own strength to be damaged, so they could only plunder the population to make up for the loss.