Dragon's Origin

All three nations knew that the current emperor had prepared three imperial decrees for each country. One was to enfeoff the ruler of the country as a duke, one was to enfeoff someone as a count, and the last was to enfeoff someone as a viscount. Except for the first one, the names and fiefs on the other two were blank.

However, despite being blank, there were restrictions. The two names had to be people from within their respective vassal states, and the fiefs had to be their own territories. It was up to the ruler to decide whether or not to issue these two decrees and to whom.

The Xia State planned to establish a vassal state on this annexed territory, with a Xia State elder serving as the ruler, enfeoffed as a count, and this territory would be the fief. As for what to do with the other viscount title, no one knew.

The Feng State, however, planned to use this annexed territory to exchange for a piece of land bordering the Shi State that could connect to the Feng State. But the specifics of how to exchange and distribute it would require negotiations between the Feng and Shi States.

Although their methods of handling the land differed, this did not prevent the three nations from opening their jaws and dismembering the Triumph State. Regardless, the tangible benefits had already firmly entered the bellies of the three nations.

Then there was the matter of rewards for the emperor and Wang Sheng. The emperor's was easy to handle, as it was already clearly marked on the decree, a total of ten billion gold coins, which could be offset with goods or paid in gold coins.

What else was there to say? The three nations, according to their agreed-upon proportions, began to cough up this sum of gold coins. They had no choice, because if any of the three nations dared to cheat on this matter today, the emperor would tell the other five nations that the three nations were disrespectful to the emperor. The example of the Triumph State was not far off. The five nations were now eyeing the three nations covetously, and none of them wanted to follow in the footsteps of the Triumph State.

However, everyone was a little troubled about the compensation for Wang Sheng. What should they give Wang Sheng? Convert it into gold coins? But everyone knew that Wang Sheng genuinely didn't lack gold coins, and giving him gold coins would be insincere.

Wang Sheng was the one who allowed everyone to act with confidence this time, and he also had to nod his head regarding matters inside the Thousand Despair Land in the future. They couldn't make Wang Sheng feel unhappy. But giving him other things, everyone was a little unwilling, especially the Triumph Palace's inheritance. Those were all good things to leave to future generations, how could they easily reveal them to Wang Sheng?

Someone came up with an idea for everyone to consider, giving everyone a direction. The direction for reference was still in Worry-Free City.

Sister Rose was the person in the Assassin's Hall of Worry-Free City who specifically served Wang Sheng. At the same time, Sister Rose was also a chess piece placed by the Triumph Palace in Worry-Free City. The previous cooperations between the Triumph Palace and Wang Sheng were facilitated by Sister Rose.

This time, the Triumph Palace targeted Wang Sheng's industries and was countered by Wang Sheng. Sister Rose weighed it slightly and decisively joined Wang Sheng's side, without hesitation informing Wang Sheng about the Triumph Palace dispatching law enforcement disciples.

To the Triumph Palace, Sister Rose's actions were outright betrayal, but to Wang Sheng, this was a favor, this was gratitude. Therefore, as soon as something happened in the Triumph State, Wang Sheng notified Worry-Free City to bring Sister Rose to Wang Sheng's mansion for protection. If Sister Rose helped Wang Sheng, Wang Sheng would definitely protect her life.

Of course, Worry-Free City had spies from various countries. After seeing this situation, they no longer continued to pursue Sister Rose. Anyway, Sister Rose was only one person, and her cultivation wasn't very high, not enough to become a threat to the three nations. They could also happily do Wang Sheng a favor, why not?

However, this gave the higher-ups of the Xia State a hint. It should be known that from the time everyone learned about Wang Sheng until now, over the years, only the Xia State had successfully placed the female assassin A'Qi by Wang Sheng's side. The other exception was Proprietress Mei'er of Baoqing Surplus Hall. Strictly speaking, the only woman who could make Wang Sheng actively speak up to take in seemed to be Sister Rose.

Sister Rose's age wasn't very old either, in her early thirties, a mature woman, in her prime. Moreover, Sister Rose's appearance wasn't bad, above average, but because she usually served in the Assassin's Hall, facing all kinds of people, she had also developed a kind of pungent and smooth way of doing things, with a rather unique charm.

Could it be that Wang Sheng didn't particularly like inexperienced virgins like A'Qi, but liked mature and charming older women like Sister Rose?

Regardless, as long as Wang Sheng liked it, who cared what style. Anyway, after destroying the Triumph State this time, many female disciples of the Triumph Palace were captured, as well as the Triumph State's ruler's harem, and the families of those high-ranking officials, each and every one of them were beauties handpicked from a hundred. Their ages varied, some were mature, some were fresh, encompassing almost every possibility.

Keeping these women was also a disaster, and killing them would be a pity. Originally, the three nations planned to make a deal selling people. After all, these women all had a certain level of cultivation, and some were even experts. Selling them to others as guards would also be a great income. Since the compensation for Wang Sheng was a bit difficult, why not send these people over? As long as Wang Sheng liked one or two of them, the three nations would make a huge profit.

The Xia State's representative received the suggestion from their ruler and immediately discussed it with the Tang and Feng State's representatives. When the Tang and Feng States heard this, what was wrong with that? They were just some women, anyway, they were originally going to exchange them for gold coins. Instead of giving gold coins in the end, it would be better to send this batch of women to Wang Sheng's side. As the Xia State said, as long as Wang Sheng took a fancy to one or two of them, he would have to remember the three nations' favor, wouldn't he?

The three parties hit it off immediately and finalized the matter. To prevent any unforeseen events, they immediately sent people to escort this batch of roughly six hundred women, along with the gold coins for the emperor, to the capital.

Now, the emperor got the gold coins he wanted, Wang Sheng got a batch of female experts, the three nations got most of the benefits of dividing the Triumph State, and even the other five nations got a little soup, and the cost of hiring experts was also a small profit. Overall, it looked like a win-win situation.

The news spread to the capital and reached the emperor's ears. Upon receiving the news, the emperor was both happy and angry. He was happy that a large sum of gold coins was in hand, and he also planted seeds for future conflicts among the lords. He was angry at what the Tang, Xia, and Feng States were trying to do.

"What are they trying to do? What are they trying to do?" The emperor was simply furious. He was sharing happiness with the empress when he suddenly heard this news and immediately flew into a rage: "What are they trying to do by sending so many women? Are they trying to compete with Mei'er for favor? And what's going on with that Rose from Worry-Free City? There's already a long-legged female assassin, and now they want to send a Rose. Why hasn't anyone killed her?"

"Your Majesty doesn't need to mind it!" Compared to the emperor, the empress was much calmer: "Even if they send ten thousand women to Marquis Changsheng's side, could any of them compete with Mei'er?"

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