Mystery Makes Me Strong

"Okay, you are very brave. Come here and give me a bottle of the Fountain of Youth." Granny Lu sat behind the curtain expressionlessly and dictated.

Immediately, there was an eunuch in attendance, holding a wooden plate, and gave a bottle of spring water of immortality to Bingke to Shizhong Yanfeng IX.

Yan Feng IX immediately thanked him, but there was nothing to say about the appointment of the official and the expedition.

He felt that he was not good enough in cultivating his mind and was seen through by the Queen Mother.

Fortunately, this result is still together.

It’s just that next time, I’ll still go to the monks and Taoist priests to learn more meditation methods, so that there is only one thought in my mind.

In the moment of excitement just now, the thoughts in my heart came to the fore.

At this moment, a report came from outside the door.

"The Empress Dowager Qizuo, there is an envoy from the Dasu people stationed in Beijing outside the door, asking for an audience."

"Xuan."

Soon everyone saw a white man with brown hair and blue eyes, tall nose and broad eyes, walking up to the hall with an attendant.

"Sir Clensor, the messenger of the Dasu people, has seen the heavenly pilgrimage." The white man cupped his hands and said.

"Messenger, if you don't kneel down, don't be disrespectful in front of the hall." The etiquette officer reminded.

"No, no, we Westerners only kneel to God, not to the king." The Dasu envoy shook his head.

"But the envoy of Da Yaren has already knelt down."

"They are losers and incompetent people, so they can kneel at will, but we are the winners." The Dasuren envoy glanced at the Dayaren who was kneeling on the ground with disdain.

Lu Zhi was so angry that his seven orifices smoked.

Only then did she truly understand that the insults and filth that she had considered before were nothing at all in this formal court.

This kind of solemn sense of ritual, the humiliation she suffered in a very formal occasion was more real and more intense, far exceeding the humiliation she thought she had when she was in the second year of middle school.

Just like a child feels greatly insulted, but adults think about where to go, different perspectives form a barrier to communication.

She had lived for hundreds of years, and just a hundred years ago, the Dasu people's envoy came here just like other envoys, kneeling three times and kowtowing nine times.

Now it really is thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi!

Naturally, she didn't know that the Dasu people were the group of people who knew best what kind of strength should match what kind of treatment.

"The war has just started, do you think you have won? Tell you, we will impose an embargo on you from the fountain of youth! We will also drive you all out of the land of the Celestial Dynasty, and prohibit you from living here and reincarnating!" Minister of Rites took the lead in attacking.

"Huh, we have already occupied several southern islands, and those who are capable will drive us out! And we have already hoarded the Fountain of Youth for thirty years, but I don't know if your dynasty can support it for thirty years. War!" the Dasu envoy said without fear.

Everyone was amazed, and then it suddenly dawned on why the envoys of the Dasu people dared to start a war.

It turned out that they had already made preparations.

Someone glared at the Da Yaren envoy. The other party didn't say such important information, obviously with ulterior motives.

They have forgotten that such information should be collected by themselves, not by foreign envoys.

Of course the Dayaren envoy knew the news, he didn't say it, he just wanted to make a time difference, so that the relationship between the two sides would deteriorate sharply.

It was only then that Lu Zhi realized how ridiculous he was. It turned out that the other party already had a comprehensive plan.

Da Yaren is not a good thing either.

It's all nonsense to use barbarians to control barbarians.

The Da Ya people had ulterior motives and deliberately gave wrong suggestions in order to further aggravate the conflict between the two sides.

The feudal bureaucrats couldn't think of a trade embargo for a while, but the people of Daya brought it up, but they didn't say that the people of Dasu had already prepared for it.

China's imposition of a trade embargo will only intensify the war and make it irreconcilable.

But now, only because of the attitude of the other party, it is impossible for Lu Zhi to give in.

After all, she is not a qualified politician and has a personal temper.

I am the possessor of mysterious power, how could I bow my head to you group of people who have been fooled by me casually?

It's ridiculous!

She directly ordered: "Push it out, cut it!"

The demeanor of a feudal old lady is vividly reflected.

"Queen, no!"

Shoufu immediately stood up and persuaded.

"The two countries are at war, if the envoy is not beheaded, even if the envoy from the Dasu people offends him, he is considered an outsider, so please be a little lenient."

"Insiders can't be lenient, but outsiders can be lenient? Cut!" Lu Zhidi was born in the modern Dongzhou, and he didn't have the soft bones inside and outside, so he shouted immediately.

Immediately there were guards in front of the palace, dragging the envoy out.

"I, I kneel, I kneel!" The Dasu envoy panicked immediately, and the other party did not follow the routine.

He suddenly realized that the seemingly civilized Eastern court was essentially a barbaric feudal place, not their parliamentary meeting place, nor a place of enlightenment.

"It's too late to kneel, chop!"

After one hour and three quarters, Zhengshi's head appeared ferociously above the hall.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

The assistant envoy of the Dasu envoy was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.

"Hmph, declare war on the Dasu people!" After Lu Zhi finished speaking, he drove back to the palace.

All the ministers knelt down to send them off.

When the queen mother left, the important ministers spontaneously stayed for a small meeting.

"The empress dowager killed the envoy, so there is no turning back, we can only fight on." Shoufu sighed.

"Da Ya people's strategy is not easy to use. We can only fortify the wall and clear the country first. They come from a long way, and they are unfamiliar with the place, so they will definitely not last long." Cifu followed.

"But in this way, foreign invaders are raging, people's livelihood is dying, and the port is sealed. Even if the imperial court has money, it will not be able to buy things in the long run." Huang Xiong VI was worried when he heard the words.

Thanks to Tosi, the feudal bureaucrats have studied a series of business-oriented books such as the theory of national wealth, and finally understand that there is another term called "inflation"...

Silver is just a commodity. If the market is in decline, the more silver there is, the worse it will be.

"We are backed by the inland, and we still have grassland and border trade, and we can still maintain one or two. Now we must quickly appease the grassland and the west, and don't face the enemy on both sides." Sansuke reminded.

"We did it separately, each wrote a statement, and immediately ordered the customs in various places to be on strict alert."

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The huge and sluggish Eastern court finally turned slowly.

The news of the killing of the Dasu people's envoy had already spread to the Dasu people's fleet.

Originally, they hadn't planned to go north. They only wanted to fight a few battles in the south where supplies were easy, and threatened the court to hand over the real fountain of youth and its location.

In the end, the other party killed the envoy, which was obviously a proof that he would never admit defeat.

Then what else is there to say, go to the capital!

The mighty, mixed fleet of hundreds of steam ships and large sailing ships headed north all the way.

One month later, the large fleet appeared near Fuhai City, which was only three hundred miles away from the capital.

"The Dasu people have landed!"

The news spread wildly throughout the capital.

For a while, people's hearts fluttered and the market was chaotic.

Businesses closed and the rich fled westward.

The wealthy class of the people has a more sensitive sense of smell than the imperial court.

They knew the fineness of the imperial navy, and they would never be able to beat the Westerners.

Everyone finds it strange that they have studied western learning for hundreds of years, but the big guys are satisfied with learning a little, as long as they are enough.

Of course they don't know that this is the nature of feudal bureaucrats. As long as you deal with the queen mother well and get rewards, who cares whether you are really advanced or fake?

After all, they have no survival pressure, no bottom-up competitive pressure, and of course no motivation for self-innovation.

They are not aliens who can see the whole world.

The aliens are under pressure to survive. If they don't evolve, they will be killed by their opponents. Of course, they must do their best to evolve.