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The Great Therapist's face works better than expected. In the afternoon of the same day, the owner of Dragon City, the third imperial capital of the kingdom, the Grand Duke of the Red Dragon, Sarod Maris, came to the Prime Minister's Office.

Chen Xing received the other party in the living room. In fact, it is very close to the Red Fort. If a legendary powerhouse is willing, he can arrive in a few minutes.

But in fact, it took a long time for Archduke Salod. He rode in the large carriage drawn by eight dragon-blooded horses—because the ordinary carriage could not accommodate the sturdy size of Archduke Salod, which was said to weigh more than 700 kilograms.

The carriage departed from the King's Hall in the Red Fort, passed through the castle gate and moat, passed through the entire King's Square, and came to the aristocratic residential area where the Prime Minister's Office is located.

"Boy, I heard you were looking for me?"

The other party sat down with a knife, and the leather sofa creaked under the extraordinary weight. Then he used his characteristic loud voice to ask questions, with rude words and a contemptuous attitude, calling the Prime Minister "boy", without the slightest sense of meeting his superiors.

Compared to the previous situation when Marquis Hongsang and Marquis Norton came to ask for a meeting, they were completely two attitudes. The former is a high-ranking official to inspect the local area, and the latter is a normal subordinate seeing a superior.

However, the Red Dragon Principality has a special status in the kingdom. It is one of the four major principalities in the south, south, and northwest. Its territorial area and national strength are not comparable to those of medium-sized duchies like Hongsang and Norton. Naturally, the status of the lord cannot be compared.

The lords of small and medium-sized duchies generally only have the title of marquis, up to the top of the duke. Only the lords of the four major duchies can obtain the title of "grand duke".

Grand Duke, referred to as "Grand Duke" for short, is the highest hereditary noble title under the royal family, and its number is extremely rare. For thousands of years, the Malan royal family has a total of four canonized monarchs, and there are only four, and the Maris royal family is one of them.

Therefore, Archduke Salod's attitude was a little arrogant, and Chen Xing didn't take it seriously.

However, since the other party pretended not to buy his account, Chen Xing did not intend to go around the corner and said straight to the point, "I asked you to come today because there is something I want to discuss with you."

Chen Xing's wording is also quite particular. First, he does not take honorary titles and does not address the other party as "Grand Duke Sarod". Second, he emphasizes that "I asked you to come", not "you want to come".

"Discuss what?"

Archduke Salod leaned forward, casting a shadow on Chen Xing's position. That 700-pound, over two-meter-five giant body is like a sloping iron tower, very oppressive.

As early as in the last life, when he was a courier in Longshi Town, Chen Xing had heard that Sarod had an amazing appetite and could eat an adult bull in three days.

Chen Xing knew that the other party wanted to use his physical advantage to threaten him and told him, "I can crush your bean sprouts at any time!"

But who is Chen Xing? As a human being for three generations, what kind of storms have you never seen before? The four-meter-high Balrog has already ridden it, so are you still afraid of this big wild boar?

"I want to talk to you about the inheritance of the Maris royal family." Chen Xing said.

Archduke Salod's eyeballs shrank violently, and he couldn't help shouting, "What did you say!"

"I mean, I want to talk to you about the separation of your family." Chen Xing repeated, his expression lighthearted, as if he was talking about a trivial matter.

"Ha ha!"

Touching the taboos of the royal family, Archduke Salod felt that he was greatly offended, and his hair suddenly became angry, and his anger burst into the crown, but the next second, he calmed down, laughed in anger, and squeezed out a few words from his rattling teeth. , "The last person who raised this topic, the body has been air-dried on the city wall."

"That's a pity..." Chen Xing spread his hands, not threatened by the other party at all, looked at the other party's copper bell-like eyes, and said in a flat voice, "We are going to repeat this again today, which makes you feel very unpleasant. topic."

Archduke Salod burst into cold light, leaned forward, and gradually approached Chen Xing, his clenched fists made violent noises.

"You do have a set of ways to deal with women..." The furious giant man suppressed the anger in his chest and said slowly, "But don't forget..."

"A wild wolf in the countryside, no matter what tricks he uses to climb to what position, what title does he hold? Under that fur, there is still a wild wolf."

"One bite of the dragon's breath can turn it into ashes!"

The coercion belonging to the legendary powerhouse spread out, as if the whole house was trembling. The maids around were frightened and squatted down with their heads folded, curled up into a ball.

Chen Xing condensed his mind and urged the spiritual energy in his body to resist the pressure of the spirit, his face remained calm, and his voice said calmly, "If such a thing happens..."

"Tomorrow, the Maris royal family will be wiped out by the double anger of the Destruction Legion and the Succubus Legion!"

"You are delusional!" Grand Duke Sarod shouted with wide eyes, "Just a court jester, don't take yourself too seriously!"

Facing the furious Grand Duke, Chen Xing sneered and made a "please" gesture, "You can try."

Archduke Salod was furious, and all the hair on his head and face stood up like a lion with fried fur.

Chen Xing was not afraid at all, eye to eye, needle to blade tip, and did not give in.

The two faced each other for a while, although the two big iron fists of the red dragon were rattling, they finally let it go.

I saw him slamming heavily, and the whole house shook, then snorted coldly, turned around and strode away.

"I know, you all look down on me..."

There was a voice behind him, but Grand Duke Honglong ignored it and strode forward.

"I think I'm just a little white face who cheats on women."

"So no matter what achievements I make, in order to protect your fragile self-esteem, you will pretend not to see it, or find some other excuses to convince yourself that it is not that you are too incompetent, but that others are too shameless."

"Is that so? Sarod of the Red Dragon Family!"

Grand Duke Honglong stopped, looked back at Chen Xing, and said, "I don't agree with you, not because of what you did, but because I felt..."

"You are a man without honor!"

"Really?" Chen Xing smiled, "A person who has no sense of honor broke through the Seventh Mountain with two hundred people."

"And those of you who have a sense of honor have lost tens of thousands of soldiers, but you can't even break the first layer, and you are still making a sour evaluation. It's all because of luck!"

"Then the person who has no sense of honor in your mouth has conquered the Duchy of Silver Claws again."

"But when it comes to your mouth, it's still because of luck."

"Then, he took down the three principalities of Tianqin, Hongsang, and Norton."

"Maybe you have found a new reason to say that the girl from Bai Ye's family is commanding the army. He is just looking for fun in the back, waiting for the **** of luck to come."

"It's like in the old folk tales, the soldiers fought bravely on the front line, and the battlefield was full of blood, but a group of aristocratic masters with full stomachs hid in the back, pointing and criticizing the soldiers, but also thought that they were not working hard enough and had no sense of honor ."

"Is that so? Archduke Salod!"

Facing Chen Xing's questioning and his burning gaze, Salod felt a little hot and argued, "I, I never thought about it that way."

"Do you dare to swear?" Chen Xing said loudly, "You dare to say in the name of the ancestor of the Red Dragon family that you have never thought of it this way!"

Salod was silent.

Chen Xing did not continue to attack, returned to the original position, and sat down to drink tea.

After a long time, Archduke Salod returned to the hall and sat down again.

"Tell me, Mr. Prime Minister, what do you think?"

Next, Chen Xing repeated to Archduke Salod what he had analyzed with Ye Yang Bailiu before, and the stakes involved.

The overall meaning is to let Sarod make a choice early and seal out one of the eldest son and the eldest daughter. According to the tradition of the feudal aristocracy, unless the heir dies, the party who is enfeoffed is equivalent to withdrawing from the battle for kingship.

As long as the dust settles and everyone has nothing to fight for, they will naturally focus their energy on expanding territory and gaining military exploits. Instead of watching each other and losing the chance of victory in the internal friction.

As Chen Xing analyzed, Archduke Salod was very entangled at this moment. He is indeed tossing between the eldest son and the eldest daughter in the selection of the heir.

In fact, he also knows that this is not good. It is an invisible harm to the country's long-term future. However, one side is the orthodox heir, and the other side is talented and has an infinite future.

However, as Chen Xing said, when the interruption is continuous, it will be chaotic. Days like this should end.

It's just that as a father, son and daughter, his palms and backs are full of flesh, no matter who he treats badly, it will make him feel guilty and sleepless.

After hours of silence and thinking, Salod finally gave Chen Xing an answer after dinner.

The original words are like this, "As long as you can persuade Lacey, do as you say."

As expected of an old lizard, although it has the face of a rough man, it is a cunning and cunning man on the inside, and it kicked the ball back all at once.

But this is also what Chen Xing expected. Between his son and daughter, Grand Duke Honglong will definitely not sing this black face.

This bad guy, let him do it.

He is still very experienced in dealing with the eldest princess.