I transmigrated to ancient times and became a king with a title equal to mine.

"Forget it, let's ignore it." Long Bin said calmly, "Don't tell His Majesty about this, and don't tell Lord Lan either."

"Weichen knows."

"Old Lu, go and call Lord Yu over here."

"Oh." Lu Yuan patted his forehead and said, "Your Majesty, yesterday morning we received an urgent letter from Prefect Song, reporting that the imperial court had dispatched many troops north of the Yellow River."

"After receiving the report, Lord Yu led five thousand elite troops to southern Henan."

Long Bin nodded and said, "Long Yingkun is a master of serial killings. He poisoned me, crippled my martial arts, and sent troops to retake the Huanghuai region."

"Old Lu, send a trusted confidant to catch up with Yu Hongtao and get him to his destination. Then, use this opportunity to announce that I have been poisoned to death. At the same time, keep those spies of Lady Xiao under control and prevent their carrier pigeons from flying out of Lishui."

"I will do it right away."

Lu Yuan turned back at the door, looking worried, and asked, "Won't spreading this false information cause panic among our ranks?"

"Everything has two sides. Good things may have the shadow of bad things, and bad things will definitely have good things. Just like the tall buildings in Xiamen have shadows behind them, but the sun will always shine on them in front of them."

"There are shadows behind the tall buildings in Xiamen, but the sun must shine brightly in front of them?" Lu Yuan kept repeating this sentence as he opened the door and walked out of the room. He didn't understand the meaning of this sentence because he had never seen tall buildings.

Despite the Nanwang Mansion's best efforts to suppress the news, the news that Long Bin had been chased and assassinated by his own princess still spread throughout Licheng.

Lu Yuan and the others felt very guilty and knelt down in front of the King of the South.

"Get up, don't lose faith in yourselves," Long Bin said in a low voice. "You've all been fooled. This must have been a message that Lan Yue spread before she left."

After hiding deep within the palace, King Long Yunfu secretly entered the Lishui region and, after more than a month of incognito travel, sent someone to inform Long Bin.

Long Bin settled his father on Niang'er Island, one of the three islands of Lihu.

Because this is Long Bin's naval camp, and there is a training camp on Niang'er Island, it is very convenient here.

Lan Tianpeng secretly disappeared here to keep His Majesty company.

"Your Majesty, the Southern King has replied to this message." Lan Tianpeng knelt before the King and kowtowed repeatedly, saying, "My family has a daughter who is disloyal, unfilial, unkind, and unjust. Lan Tianpeng deserves to die a thousand deaths."

"Your Majesty, please allow me to sneak back to the capital. This sinner will surely kill Lan Yue to avenge the Southern King!"

Seeing that Lan Tianpeng had aged considerably in an instant, Long Yunfu sighed and said, "Don't blame yourself. This must have been the work of my unworthy son. Perhaps Yue'er had her own reasons."

"Get up, it won't look good if someone sees this."

Just as Lan Tianpeng stood up, Hao Fang, the Grand General of the Golden Guard, walked in.

"Your Majesty, the Regent has mobilized 200,000 troops to the northern section of Henan on the north bank of the Yellow River, and at the same time has transferred 100,000 troops from the Jincheng direction to advance into southern Henan."

Long Yunfu raised his eyebrows and sighed, "He's eyeing the bumper harvest in the Huanghuai region this year."

"Sigh... He doesn't even think about how this bumper harvest came about."

“Yes, even the old ministers by the Southern King’s side don’t know where those mysterious seeds came from. Even if he takes back Huanghuai, so what?” Lan Tianpeng sighed bitterly.

Long Yunfu stood up and looked out the window at the training on the lake, then asked in a low voice, "Do you know how the situation is in the occupied Jiangnan area?"

Hao Fang said excitedly, "There's a saying among the people of Jiangnan: 'If you want food, go to Daxia; if you want to be full, go to Tianbao.'"

"Who is Tianbao?" Long Yunfu asked, puzzled.

"The King of the South didn't appoint himself as a marshal, he only appointed himself as the Heavenly Treasure General." Hao Fang said, "The Heavenly Treasure General provides food, and this slogan is more impressive than anything else."

Lan Tianpeng said worriedly, "The Regent ordered the Prince of Nan to provide supplies, but the Prince of Nan refused. The Second Prince will definitely have a backup plan."

"A backup plan?" The king frowned and asked, "They've already sent assassins and amassed 300,000 troops. What other backup plan do they have?"

"Your Majesty, I suspect the Second Prince will issue an edict to the world: stripping him of his title of King of the South and demoting him to a commoner of Gan."

"he……"

Long Yunfu remained silent for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn before saying to Hao Fang, "Make arrangements; we'll detour through Jindong back to the capital."

He added, "With pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, I will personally write the imperial edict."

Long Yunfu wrote the imperial edict stroke by stroke, his characters neat and vigorous.

Lan Tianpeng and Hao Fang were deeply shocked after reading it.

The original imperial edict read: "My ninth son, Long Bin, is indifferent to fame and fortune, and wholeheartedly devoted to the country and its people. I am very pleased and hereby bestow upon Long Bin the title of 'Prince of One Character and Shoulder to Shoulder,' and the title of 'Grand Marshal of the Heavenly Treasure Era,' with the fiefdom being the region south of the Yellow River."

Long Yunfu packed the imperial edict and handed it to Lan Tianpeng, saying, "Whenever the imperial edict arrives in Licheng, or when Bin'er is unable to control the situation, you may read the edict aloud at an opportune moment."

Lan Tianpeng paused for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, I want to go back to the capital with you."

Long Yunfu knew that he wanted to return to the capital to kill Lan Yue as a sign of loyalty.

"Minister Lan, your loyalty and that of the Lan family are beyond reproach, there's no need for such formalities. I'm keeping you here so that you can protect Bin'er and tell him that if I'm in danger, he and the Seventh Prince can join forces to protect me. But you must prevent the country from splitting apart and the people from suffering."

"The minister obeys the order!"

King Long Yunfu left behind a thousand Golden Guards and returned to Licheng with Lan Tianpeng.

Just as Lan Tianpeng set off by water, he received a message by carrier pigeon: the Southern King is coming to the island.

Lan Tianpeng returned to the island, but Long Bin stood in a daze in the room where his father had lived for more than a year.

"Your Majesty, Lord Lan has returned," Lu Yuan said.

"He didn't accompany the emperor back to Beijing?" Long Bin asked in surprise.

Lu Yuan didn't know what was going on either, when Lan Tianpeng's voice came from outside the door.

"Your Majesty, I, the guilty subject Lan Tianpeng, beg forgiveness!"

Long Bin turned around and saw his father-in-law kneeling outside the door. He quickly took a few steps forward, grabbed his hands, and said, "Father-in-law, why are you doing this?"

"This sinful subject dares not accept the title of father-in-law. I have raised an unkind, unjust, disloyal, unfilial, and rebellious daughter, and I feel I deserve to die a thousand deaths."

Long Bin tried to pull him up, but the old man refused to get up. Despite his injuries, Long Bin said in a low voice, "Father-in-law, once I was your son-in-law, you will be my father-in-law for life. I am injured, so please get up and speak."

Lan Tianpeng sighed and got up, telling him that His Majesty had secretly gone to Jindong to stop the punitive army.

Long Bin turned and looked westward, his heart filled with emotion, tears streaming down his face, and he murmured, "Father, I have caused you trouble."

"Lord Lu, immediately dispatch the Women's Special Forces Team 3 to escort His Majesty to the Jin Dong military camp. Instruct them to act secretly and bring plenty of hand grenades."

"Yes!"

After a stick of incense had burned, the eleven members of the Women's Army Special Forces Team 3, disguised as horse traders, set off.

Inside the room, Lan Tianpeng relayed His Majesty's decree to the Southern King: "If I am in danger, you and the Seventh Prince can join forces to protect me. However, you must prevent the country from splitting apart and the people from suffering." "Thank you for your support! Please like! Please follow! Please tip!!!"