Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Chapter 381 Chu Pingsheng: Who among you, mother and daughter, will serve me?

Li Yunqian was in the eye of the storm, and his expression became increasingly gloomy.

Nuclear bomb?

This word... seems to have been mentioned by Ye Qingmei, it should be related to the temple.

"Humph, if he could beat me, he wouldn't have made a deal with me three days ago."

Chu Pingsheng looked at Emperor Qing with disdain: "If you don't believe me, you can always try."

"..."

The wind gradually died down.

The pages of the book that were randomly turned on the table on the couch slowly fell to the ground.

"Tsk." Chu Pingsheng curled his lips with disdain. "Li Yunqian, are you trying to play an obedience test with me and implant your great image of an emperor? Who do you think you are? If I didn't have extraordinary courage and determination, how could he choose me to be his apprentice among the vast crowd of people like my master? There is a famous saying in the Zhuhua tribe, like father, like son. Your sons who only know how to play power games and conspiracies are nothing more than rats in the gutter in my eyes. It's up to you on this point."

Li Yunqian's expression kept changing.

Chu Pingsheng was no longer respectful as before. "Li Yunqian, I will give you three choices. First, you must pay the price for your underhanded actions against me and honestly agree to my request. Second, if you attack me, I will let millions of people in Kyoto be buried with you. From now on, my master Bai Feng and you will never stop fighting. Third, I will leave Kyoto and go to Northern Qi. I believe Ku He will be willing to match me with his female disciple. Then... whatever territory your Qing Kingdom has taken from Northern Qi over the years, you will have to spit it out."

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Li Yunqian's slightly drooping eyes narrowed again and again. The tougher and more confident Chu Pingsheng acted, the more uneasy he became. What if Bai Feng really had the fighting power to destroy a city with one blow?
He did not doubt that there was such a powerful weapon in the world, because Ye Qingmei had told him a similar story, which opened a door beyond his cognition for him. This was also one of the reasons why he could not forget that woman.

When he was still Prince Cheng, he would have never been able to become emperor without Ye Qingmei's help. Even though he has become a grandmaster now and his awe of the temple messengers has decreased day by day, the power of the so-called "technology" is still the thing he fears most in his heart. In the face of this fear, the only thing he can do is to endure it.

Just like when I faced Ye Qingmei back then.

He watched her set up the Supervisory Council and seize power from the royal family, and watched her form the Three Great Markets and the Inner Treasury to control the economic lifeline of Qing Kingdom, until her domineering true qi was broken and then rebuilt, and she was promoted to Grandmaster. After being a puppet emperor for a while, he watched Ye Qingmei offend all the rentier classes, and only with the help of the temple messenger did he get rid of Ye Qingmei based on his understanding of Ye Qingmei.

Now this Bai Feng gave him the same feeling as when he faced Ye Qingmei that year.

Chu Pingsheng felt as if he was in his own living room. He walked to the couch and sat down. He picked up the lychees that had been rushed to Kyoto from eight hundred miles away and washed by the palace maids. He peeled off the half-green and half-red skin, took a bite of the white flesh, and spat it into the bowl with a "pu" sound, saying it was unpalatable. He picked up the clean white towel at the corner of the table and wiped the lychee juice off his hands.

"You are angry because your attempt to pressure me failed, but in fact, I am helping you by doing this. By marrying a member of the royal family to me, you not only please me, the future king of the grassland, and ease the relationship between the two sides, but also reassure my master who is watching from the dark, and through me, tie him to the chariot of Qing... It will enhance the trust between partners, and from a fundamental point of view, it is beneficial to Qing."

Chu Pingsheng flipped through a few more folded papers and took a look at them, then threw them onto the table at random, stood up from the couch, jumped to the ground, and then stood firmly on his feet.

"My master killed that old woman. My master crushed her head. You want me to go to pay my respects to someone my master killed? Li Yunqian, are you used to being the only one in charge in Qing Kingdom? Don't you know how to write the word fear? Do you think I will risk embarrassing my master to please you? But if the marriage is successful, I will be half a member of the royal family of Qing Kingdom. Even my master will not be able to find fault with me if I go to pay my respects to the empress dowager as a junior. In this way, you will look good, Qing Kingdom will benefit, I will get a satisfactory woman, and my master will be relieved to keep me in Kyoto. Li Yunqian, think about it carefully, am I right?"

Li Yunqian remained silent. If it were someone else who dared to speak to him like this, they would have been exterminated and their entire family would have been killed. But now he could only listen and actually felt that it made sense.

Putting aside the idea of ​​revenge and the anger, from the perspective of interests, this kid is really a talented person and very wild.

"It's just..." After a long while, Li Yunqian said, "I don't have a daughter, but Prince Jing has a princess..."

Chu Pingsheng didn't let him continue and waved his hand to stop him.

"Your Majesty has no daughter, but he has a younger sister."

Even an emperor as dignified and majestic as Emperor Qing was stunned by his bold and bizarre idea.

"Yun Rui? Do you know her age?"

"Thirty-five? Or thirty-six?"

Fangling is used here?

Li Yunqian felt very awkward. He didn't understand whether this boy was deliberately saying auspicious words or he was not well-educated and used words incorrectly.

"Are you sure you want to marry Yun Rui?"

"Of course." Chu Pingsheng was tossing three lychees in his hands for fun. "It is said on the grassland that she is the most beautiful woman in Qing. When I was young, many tribal leaders got drunk and threatened to rush into Kyoto and take her back to the grassland as their wife."

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He has the support of the Grand Master behind him; he dared to cause trouble during the national mourning period of Qing State and killed most of the personal soldiers of Privy Councilor Ye Zhong; he also married the most beautiful woman in Qing State, the Emperor's sister, the Princess, and brought her back to the grassland. When he returns, he will be able to become the new king of Xihu without having to show off his muscles.

Li Yunqian looked at the young man who could play so well with the three lychees, wondering whether he was ignorant of the principle that one should be shrewd and that the tallest tree in the forest will be destroyed by the wind, or whether he had absolute certainty and strong confidence in facing the crisis that might be caused by such behavior.

Back to the issue of arranged marriage, if the one getting married was Princess Roujia of Prince Jing's Mansion, there would naturally be no problem. But for the eldest princess, if she did this, it would really undermine the royal dignity!

After all, before the collapse of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the so-called princesses sent to marry were all fake princesses. Some were even palace maids who were adopted as daughters by the queen, creating a princess out of thin air.

"This matter...I need to ask Yun Rui's opinion."

"Your Majesty, Emperor Qing can summon the Princess to the Imperial Study to discuss matters, and also allow the foreign envoys to have a chance to see the Princess's beauty. And...what if the Princess makes a good impression on the foreign envoy?"

Li Yunqian pondered for a moment and took two steps toward the door: "Wait, eunuch."

"The slave is here."

"Summon the Princess to the Imperial Study for a chat."

"Yes."

Eunuch Hou took the order and left.

An incense stick later, with the shout of "The Princess is here", Li Yunrui walked into the imperial study, dragging the hem of her long white skirt, and bowed to Li Yunqian: "Your Majesty, Li Yunrui greets His Majesty."

"Stand up." Li Yunqian raised his hand casually, pointed at Chu Pingsheng and said, "This is Chu Pingsheng from the Zhuhua tribe, his master is..."

He paused, tapped his fingers a few times, and looked up and said, "Grandmaster Bai Feng."

Grandmaster?
White wind?

Li Yunrui was severely surprised. Her face, without any rouge but with only a little powder, looked less cold and indifferent.

Ku He of Northern Qi, Ye Liuyun of Southern Qing, and Si Gu Jian of Dongyi City are all well-known to the world. How come Bai Feng has appeared in Western Hu? Is he related to Ye Qingmei?
Thinking about the news just reported by Wanqiu, it makes sense.

No wonder the white ape killed almost all of Ye Zhong's personal soldiers, and the Emperor did not send troops to suppress them. Instead, he sent eunuch Hou out of the palace to pick up people and calm the situation.

It turns out that this person is a disciple of the Grand Master.

Li Yunrui didn't know what the emperor meant by asking her, a female relative, to come and see Chu Pingsheng, but she still smiled and nodded: "Chu Yongshi."

Chu Pingsheng clasped his fists and complimented: "Her Royal Highness the Princess is indeed so beautiful that she can make the moon hide in shame and the flowers ashamed, and the fish sink to the bottom of the water and the geese fall to the ground."

His words were pleasant to the ear, his smile was gentle, and his voice was very unfamiliar, but for some reason, Li Yunrui always felt that there was a hint of teasing and complacency in the way he looked at her, which made her feel uncomfortable and her back felt a little cold.

"You are too kind, Warrior Chu."

It's quite rude to compliment a woman on her beauty when you first meet her, but considering his background, he's a barbarian from the Xihu tribe, so it's understandable.

"Yun Rui, Chu Pingsheng came to my Qing Kingdom this time for one purpose of studying and another purpose of seeking marriage."

"Propose marriage?" Li Yunrui said with a smile, "Your Majesty wants me to help you find out which official's daughter in Kyoto is suitable?"

"Chu Pingsheng already has a goal."

"What's your name? Which court official's daughter is she?"

Emperor Qing said calmly, "It's you."

"His Majesty?"

Li Yunrui thought she had heard wrongly, and her charming eyes looked at her royal brother whom she missed day and night without blinking.

"I said that he is seeking marriage with you."

"I?"

Li Yunrui was furious when he got a positive answer. He was about to reject it coldly when he suddenly remembered Chu Pingsheng's identity - a disciple of Grandmaster Bai Feng.

The emperor knew about this and still asked her to come to discuss it. What did he mean? Was he going to use her to make friends with the Western Hu Grandmaster and achieve a political marriage?

"I have long been determined not to marry, and I am willing to dedicate my life to Your Majesty and to the Kingdom of Qing."

Chu Pingsheng said: "Your Highness, since you are willing to devote yourself to the Kingdom of Qing, you should agree to my marriage proposal."

"You... Chu Yongshi, do you know how old you are from me?"

"It doesn't matter. The beauty of the princess is the only one I have ever seen in my life. Even if I search the entire capital, I am afraid that there is no one who can compare with the princess."

In other situations, she would be very proud and happy, but now she only feels sad and wronged.

"Don't be so delusional. I can't possibly marry you."

Chu Pingsheng said, "It turns out that the princess's willingness to sacrifice herself for His Majesty and for the Kingdom of Qing was just a rhetoric for show."

"His Majesty!"

Li Yunrui knelt on the ground and said, "If Your Majesty forces me, I would rather die."

Ugh.

Li Yunqian sighed and looked embarrassed: "Chu Pingsheng, how about... you change someone? I remember that Princess Roujia, the daughter of Prince Jing, is 28 years old, and her appearance and talent are both excellent..."

"How much does Princess Roujia resemble the eldest princess?"

"This... one or two points..."

"One or two points is not enough, it has to be at least 70% or 80% like."

"Why are you so stubborn?"

"Your Majesty, haven't you heard of love at first sight? Unless there is another beautiful woman like the eldest princess in the royal family of Qing, otherwise... let's forget what Master and Your Majesty said. After this matter is settled, I will go to Beiqi to try my luck."

This is a threat.

Li Yunqian's face suddenly changed and his expression turned cold.

Li Yunrui's mind raced, and he suddenly turned his head: "Chu Warrior, I have a candidate. Not only does he look 90% like me, but he also has the royal blood of Qing."

Li Yunqian said in a deep voice: "You mean Wan'er?"

"Yes, it's Wan'er."

Li Yunrui explained: "Wan'er is my daughter, she is in the prime of her life. I think she and Chu Yongshi are a perfect match. What do you think, Your Majesty?"

Li Yunrui didn't want Lin Wan'er to marry Fan Xian in the first place. Now that a troublemaker has come from the Western Hu, why not make good use of him? Imagine if Lin Wan'er married Chu Pingsheng, would Emperor Qing still hand over the inner treasury to a Hu person to manage? Even if the northwest is bitterly cold, so what? Even if he can't see his daughter, so what?

(End of this chapter)