Princess Promotion

At the Yan family mansion in Youzhou, as night falls, the lights in the mansion twinkle like stars in the night sky.

The atmosphere in the study was tense and depressing.

Yan Haoyu, the patriarch of the Yan family, threw the teacup in his hand to the ground, and the fragments flew everywhere, spilling the tea all over the floor.

"Look at the good students you taught. They have no integrity at all and they sell out their country for personal gain!" Yan Haoyu's voice echoed in the study, filled with anger and disappointment.

Yan Mingzhe sat on the chair opposite, looking calm, as if he didn't care about Yan Haoyu's anger at all.

He blew gently on the tea leaves floating in the teacup, then took a sip of tea, his movements graceful and calm.

"If you called me here just to scold me, then I'll leave first." Yan Mingzhe's voice was calm. He put down the teacup, stood up, and prepared to leave.

Seeing this, Yan Haoyu shouted angrily: "Stop right there!"

Yan Mingzhe stopped and turned around and asked, "Chief, do you have any other instructions?"

Yan Haoyu's face was gloomy. He took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down. "That ungrateful apprentice of yours has led his troops to our doorstep. As their master, shouldn't you show some appreciation?"

Yan Mingzhe's mouth curled up into a bitter smile: "Clan leader, the legs are on his body. If I had a way to make him go back, I would have done it long ago. Why would I be reduced to being scolded here?"

Yan Haoyu frowned and said in a low voice, "Whether it works or not, you should first ask him out to discuss and see if there is any other way out. After all, you are his teacher, so you still have to keep this favor."

A complex expression flashed across Yan Mingzhe's eyes. He slowly sat back in his chair and said after a moment of silence, "Chief, are you planning to assassinate Hongxuan?"

Yan Mingzhe is not a fool. Since the empress is determined to deal with the Yan family and is willing to send a large army to attack, even if Fu Hongxuan wants to let the Yan family go, the empress will not allow such a thing to happen.

Fu Hongxuan couldn't change anything, and Yan Haoyu asked him to call Fu Hongxuan out. Yan Mingzhe naturally guessed that Yan Haoyu wanted to get rid of Fu Hongxuan and cause chaos in the Qi army so that he could fish in troubled waters.

A murderous look flashed in Yan Haoyu's eyes as he said, "This is our last chance to survive. Once we kill Fu Hongxuan and the Qi army is leaderless, we will join forces with the Western Border Army to wipe out the enemy without a single survivor."

At the beginning, Yan Haoyu did not want to expose his strength so early. Over the years, he also knew that the biggest weakness of the Yan family was insufficient military strength.

As long as there is an emperor who is willing to bear the infamy, he can send troops to wipe out the Yan family in minutes.

Over the years, he has been secretly recruiting soldiers and building up his power, but the territory of Youzhou is too small, and even if he tries his best, he can only muster more than 30,000 troops.

Originally, these troops were enough to deal with the encirclement and suppression army of the court faction. After all, a long journey for the army is also a huge expense.

Generally speaking, troops will only be stationed on the border for a long time unless there is a foreign invasion, and there are usually only 10,000 to 30,000 troops stationed internally.

Yan Haoyu never dreamed that this empress was simply a crazy woman.

To encircle and suppress the small Youzhou, an army of 300,000 was dispatched.

How can they fight? Even if he is a genius, he cannot let 30,000 soldiers who have never been on the battlefield to fight against 300,000 veterans who have actually fought in the battlefield.

This crazy woman has absolutely no sense of martial ethics. This is no different from asking ten martial arts masters to bully an ordinary person.

The only solution now is to cooperate with the western border to deal with the Qi army together.

Yan Haoyu initially wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the fight between the two tigers, weighing the pros and cons of both sides to see which side could bring the greatest benefits to the Yan family.

Although the Western Territory is in a weak position, the promise it makes is the greatest and what Yan Haoyu wants most.

Yan Haoyu had anticipated that the Queen of Qi might try to win over the Yan family.

On one side, the risk is high and the return is high, while on the other side, the risk is low and the return is naturally low.

Nothing is absolute these days. Yan Haoyu has the ability and confidence, and the Yan family will be the most important link in this battle.

No matter which side Yan chooses, it will be a huge loss to the other side.

Yan Haoyu was just waiting for the right price, and then he could increase Yan's bargaining chips and obtain the greatest benefits.

I never dreamed that the Queen of Qi would classify the Yan family as a rebel without even talking to them, and send troops to fight them without any delay.

Just destroy all of Yan Haoyu's plans. Instead of fighting the powerful enemy in the western border, he came here to attack their small Youzhou.

The Queen of Qi is indeed a crazy woman.

Yan Mingzhe frowned and said in a deep voice, "Hongxuan's father is my sworn brother. You want me to kill his only son?"

Yan Haoyu's eyes were grim, and he suppressed his anger and said, "His father is your father. You have to get rid of Fu Hongxuan for me, otherwise the whole family will have to go down to accompany his father."

Yan Mingzhe was silent. He knew that Yan Haoyu was telling the truth and he had to make a choice.

Yan Mingzhe stood up and walked to the window, looking at the stars in the night sky, his voice tinged with fatigue: "I know."

Yan Haoyu looked at Yan Mingzhe's back, and said with a hint of determination: "Mingzhe, you'd better remember what you said now."

Yan Mingzhe said nothing more and turned to leave the study.

The night wind blew in from the window, bringing a hint of coolness. Yan Mingzhe's figure seemed particularly long as he walked under the moonlight.