Priceless: A widow with a baby asks the prince to marry again

The emperor suddenly waved to Xu Jin.

This meant dismissal. Xu Jin understood that the emperor had something to say to Prince Duan in private, so he immediately signaled the palace maids and eunuchs serving in the imperial study to leave together.

The door of the imperial study was closed, leaving only the father sitting and the son kneeling.

Suddenly he asked with a smile: "Have you heard of the sheep-leading ceremony?"

Chu Shiyu was stunned for a moment, then nodded. It was recorded in history books that the royal family of the previous dynasty in the Central Plains had suffered such a great humiliation.

The emperor asked indifferently: "If this is used on Liu, what do you think?"

"Father!"

Chu Shiyu immediately stood up and glared at him! There was a strong warning and confrontation in his eyes!

"Kneel down." The emperor said calmly.

Chu Shiyu stood still, looking at the emperor with inquiring eyes, as if trying to see clearly the emperor's intentions.

But the phoenix eyes with fine lines on them remained calm, and they looked calmly into the pair of similar but younger angry eyes.

"kneel."

The emperor's voice was not loud, but it was filled with irrefutable authority.

Chu Shiyu barely suppressed his anger, thought rationally for a moment, and knelt down again unwillingly.

"Ha." The emperor laughed contemptuously and said, "You can't even tolerate a mere hypothesis? This is a real thing that happened, and there are countless humiliations in the world that can be compared to it."

"I will never let this happen to her!"

Although he was kneeling, Chu Shiyu still showed cold anger towards the emperor.

"What if you die?" the emperor asked calmly.

Chu Shiyu did not answer, but narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the emperor, obviously not believing it.

The emperor sneered, "People make mistakes and horses stumble. If you hadn't been attacked in the southwest and nearly died, how would you have gotten to know Liu?"

Chu Shiyu paused... He has learned his lesson now and will not act rashly again, but sometimes, fate is unpredictable...

"Or if you die, you won't care what happens to Liu?"

The emperor thought to himself that if this was the case, he wouldn't have to worry about Chu Shiyu any more. Just let Chu Shiyu have fun for a few years, and he would get used to it when he got bored.

But how could Chu Shiyu just ignore it? He never wanted to hide his feelings for Liu Rusi.

"I will make plans for her!"

The emperor sighed at the trouble, leaned back and continued this rare conversation between father and son.

"You are indeed smart. Since you were young, you have been able to seize everything you can to strengthen yourself. In just six years since you left the palace and set up your own residence, you have already gained a lot on your own. You are not inferior to what your other brothers have accumulated through several generations of their mother's family."

"You are behind the largest private escort agency in Daxia, and the escorts scattered across the country can be used as your weapons at any time, right?" the emperor asked calmly.

Chu Shiyu was slightly stunned. Although this matter was not top secret, he was also very careful. Including his subordinates, no more than ten people knew about it. His father actually knew...

The escort agency was founded when he was sixteen for his first disaster relief. The Ministry of Revenue was extremely stingy towards those outside the eldest prince's faction and only gave a small amount of money and food. During the transportation, they were exploited by others until they were less than 30%.

In order to raise grain as quickly as possible, Chu Shiyu bought a security guard agency that was on the verge of bankruptcy. He purchased grain from other provinces where grain prices were balanced and transported it to the disaster area. He was afraid of being interfered by others, so he only did it in secret. On the surface, the security guard agency was still the property of the original owner.

After the disaster relief, he found that these escorts who traveled all over the world were well-informed, so he expanded his business. Now it has spread all over the country, and even has business in neighboring countries...

"And Xu Jin is in charge of my spies. In order to obtain more intelligence smoothly, he cooperates with your escort agency privately. In exchange, you can also obtain my intelligence to a certain extent, right?" The emperor calmly revealed another secret.

Chu Shiyu was really surprised. Did his father always know about it, or did he notice it in the past two days?

The emperor chuckled and asked, "Do I look stupid? Or do you think you are extremely smart?"

The emperor had not paid attention to these things before. When managing a country, his energy is limited and it is impossible to take care of everything.

However, Chu Shiyu's overthrow of the Minister of Rites made the emperor suspicious. In order to set up a dragnet for the entire court, a powerful intelligence network was needed, and the strongest intelligence network in Daxia was in the hands of the emperor!

So Chu Shiyu either established an intelligence network as powerful as his, or used his intelligence network!

Following the map, I naturally found clues...

In other words, Chu Shiyu still revealed his flaws because of Liu!

"As long as you are given a chance, you will be able to bring it to the extreme. Therefore, when you fight in Myanmar, I believe that you will gain far more than what you see on the surface..."

"Perhaps you have other reasons that I don't know about, so you are confident and I can't do anything to you!"

The emperor said frankly: "Daxia is at a critical juncture, and I will not do anything to you for the time being."

"But you have to think clearly! If Daxia fails and Tatar and Oirat take over the Central Plains, do you think you can enjoy yourself in Myanmar?!"

The emperor's face was stern again. "One thing is that the lips and teeth are interdependent, but more importantly, your birth destined you to be a member of the royal family of Daxia, able to call on the heroes! Even if you declare that you have drawn a clear line with Daxia, will the Tatars believe it?"

"Once we take down Daxia, you will be the next one! With such an absolute advantage, no matter how smart you are, what good does it matter?"

The emperor said quietly, "I'm afraid by that time, the sheep-leading ceremony won't be that far away..."

Hearing this remark that was similar to Liu Rusi's, Chu Shiyu frowned slightly and argued: "Daxia is at its peak! The Tatars cannot shake Daxia's rule!"

"Heh, Dingsheng..."

The emperor laughed contemptuously and said, "Qin conquered the world and exerted the remaining strength of six generations, but it fell in the second generation. Daxia is now at its peak, then what?"

"For a country to be strong and prosperous, it needs to accumulate and strive for progress from generation to generation, but for it to fall, perhaps one incompetent ruler is enough!"

Chu Shiyu lowered his eyes slightly. Just like he and Liu Rusi said, he didn't give up completely... He just thought that when his father was in power, he could go to Myanmar and be free and easy, while also accumulating strength and then wait and see what would happen...

However, the emperor never believed that Chu Shiyu could completely lose his ambition. This ambition was either dormant or hidden, but no matter which one it was, it could not be allowed to go!

"Let's assume that after you go to Myanmar, the future of the world will be no more than three situations."

"First, as I just said, the Tatars and other foreign tribes are strong and will bring disaster to Myanmar. Second, if we maintain the current situation, Daxia will be controlled by the north and will have no time to care about Myanmar. Third, Daxia will be at its peak and will annex the northern grasslands!"

"However, in the second and third situations, Myanmar needs me to be here before I die in order to be safe!"

"There's no need to talk about the third one. If we want to achieve great unification, you will be the first one to bear the brunt! If it's the second one, someone is afraid of your brother ascending the throne and ignores the overall situation. I'm afraid he will have to fight against foreign enemies before he can resist them! By then, the entire Great Xia will be dragged down!"

"Your surname is Chu, and you are my son! I let you go to Myanmar, which is nothing more than a different kind of fiefdom!"

"You provided disaster relief at the age of sixteen, passed the imperial examination at the age of seventeen, and then won the battle against Myanmar! You showed your talent! Everyone was afraid of you!"

The emperor said in a thunderous voice: "Just because you say you don't want to fight anymore, can you stop fighting?!"

Chu Shiyu paused, then looked up at the emperor and said seriously: "I wish my father a long life."

Chu Tianming's voice suddenly froze...