Dad, open the door. I'll bring your mistress back for you.

"Sister Aning, you have always been the best to me since I was a child. No matter what I need, as long as I ask you, you will help me without hesitation, right?" Xiao Yuanyi's face was full of anxiety, his eyes fixed on Shen Chuning, and he asked earnestly.

Shen Chuning slowly raised her eyes from the book she was reading, glanced at him casually, then gently closed the book and placed it on the table beside her.

She opened her red lips slightly and said calmly, "I have tried to persuade those old ministers to retire and return home, but in the end, I was powerless."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yuanyi shook his head vigorously, frowning, his expression revealing a hint of anger. He said indignantly: "Humph! Those old guys, if we kill a few of them to scare the monkeys, they will surely behave themselves. Sister An Ning, there is no need to worry about this matter. The matter I came to discuss with you today is not such a trivial matter..."

At this point, he suddenly became hesitant and seemed to be hesitant to speak. After hesitating for a long time, he still couldn't say what he wanted to say smoothly.

Seeing him like this, Shen Chuning couldn't help but frown slightly, and said with a hint of dissatisfaction: "Since Your Majesty hasn't thought about how to say it yet, why don't you return to the palace first? It won't be too late to talk to me when you have thought it through."

However, at this moment, Xiao Yuanyi seemed to have made up his mind. He took a deep breath and finally summoned up the courage to speak loudly: "The Nanzhao army is now at the gates of the city, and our Dayong army is truly unable to resist!"

In fact, Dayong’s military strength has always been strong.

But King Hao is in the northwest, and the Zhou family is in the north.

It would cost a large amount of silver to mobilize troops from these two places. Now the treasury was empty, so he secretly ordered people to take some silver from the previous emperor's tomb to make up for the overdue military expenses.

Nowadays, there is really no extra money to deploy troops on a large scale.

Besides, he didn't trust these two people.

The remaining generals could still resist an enemy force of 30,000 to 50,000, but he was not sure about resisting an army of 100,000.

That's why we sent people to negotiate.

Upon hearing this, Shen Chuning was stunned for a moment, then sneered. A hint of mockery flashed in her beautiful eyes, and she responded coldly, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid you've found the wrong person. My Shen family has always been composed of civil servants, and we know nothing about leading troops in battle. Moreover, now that all the male members of the Shen family have been exiled, I'm the only one left, a weak and helpless woman, in the capital. I really don't know how I can help Your Majesty."

At this moment, Xiao Yuanyi slowly pulled out a letter from his bosom. He lowered his head slightly and said in a low and hesitant voice, "The monarch of Nanzhao Kingdom wishes to marry the Princess Jianing of Dayong. If you agree to go and marry her, Nanzhao will withdraw its troops immediately..."

Hearing this, Shen Chuning couldn't help but look at the letter.

When she caught a glimpse of the eye-catching word "羽" in the lower left corner of the letter, her tense heartstrings instantly relaxed.

It’s the master!

Her master Bai Yu is the young prince of Nanzhao. Previously, because the eldest princess of Nanzhao was autocratic and controlled the government, in order to ensure his own safety, he had to wander outside for a long time.

When he first arrived in Dayong, he met Shen Qingyuan, the fourth son of the Shen family.

By chance, he was invited by Concubine Hui to enter the palace to teach the princesses how to play the zither.

Later, with the strong support of the intelligence held by Shen Qingyuan and the huge wealth in the hands of Shen Chuning, Bai Yu finally succeeded in returning to Nanzhao and regained the throne in one fell swoop.

Nanzhao was the escape route Shen Chuning left for herself.

She originally thought that Xiao Yuanyi would not agree to this easily.

Unexpectedly, the master first sent a large army to approach the border to create a coercive force, and then proposed the conditions for marriage after Xiao Yuanyi sent people to negotiate.

"Your Majesty, don't you know what kind of situation the person who marries the foreign prince will face?" Shen Chuning asked with a stern face.