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Chapter 141 Finally there is someone who can understand me! (Please subscribe and give me a monthly ticket)
"Hu Yanlan? Ask him to come to the imperial study."

Li Chen has been very busy recently and almost forgot about this person.

Huyan Lan is a powerful man from the Ice Bear Tribe, with 100,000 men under his command.

He has always been upset because his position as clan leader was taken away from him, and he is also an ambitious person.

I still remember that Hu Yanlan seemed to have said that he wanted to be Li Chen's vanguard. This guy was ready to be a dog. Li Chen wanted to see what his abilities were.

Not everyone is qualified to be Li Chen's dog.

When he arrived at the imperial study, Li Chen saw some memorials on the table.

This should be the war report from the north when I left.

Li Chen sat on the dragon throne and opened a few memorials at random to check them out.

After a while, a few people walked in.

In addition to Hu Yanlan, there were several palace maids, led by the head maid.

She asked the other palace maids to put the two "gifts" in the imperial study and then waited for orders.

"Your humble servant Hu Yanlan pays respect to Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty."

As soon as Hu Yanlan came in, he kowtowed directly, and his kneeling was so quick and clean.

He was in his forties, had a very calm aura, was tall, and when he knelt on the ground he looked like a giant bear crawling.

Li Chen put down the memorial and looked forward, and found two unconscious women lying in the imperial study.

The things that the palace maid just carried in were probably from them.

The two women seemed to be in their early thirties, and were wearing clothing from the Northern Royal Court. The fabrics and workmanship were both top-quality, and they seemed to be of high status.

The key point is that even when they are lying down, their breasts are full and firm, and they are constantly rising and falling with their breathing.

Even lying down has this scale, which is enough to show how big it is, and it is indeed very tempting.

Because the gift is a living person, and is presented by a foreign envoy, it cannot be brought into the palace casually. The maid in charge needs to conduct a comprehensive inspection, so it takes a certain amount of time.

These are the rules of the palace.

Generally speaking, it might not be so strict, but now their emperor is Li Chen, and they don’t want anything to happen to Li Chen.

As long as Li Chen is good enough, everyone around him will be nice to him.

"What is this?" Li Chen asked puzzledly.

"Your Majesty, this is the gift I prepared for you."

According to Hu Yanlan's introduction, these two women are the wife of Hu Yanyu, the current chief of the Ice Bear Tribe, and the mother of Snow Eagle Wang Ting Khan.

He captured these two people and handed them over to Li Chen to show his determination to serve and leave no way out for himself.

After listening to Hu Yanlan's explanation for a while, Li Chen finally understood.

Huyan Yu, the chief of the Ice Bear Tribe, has only one beloved wife, and this woman was even Huyan Lan's former sweetheart. His action shows that he is willing to give everything for Li Chen.

The Khan of the Snow Eagle Royal Court is a sex-hungry ghost with many concubines. Capturing one of his concubines will not have much impact on him, but he only has one mother.

So in order to show his loyalty, Hu Yanlan captured the Khan's mother.

In this way, the Khan of the Snow Eagle Royal Court will definitely not let him go, so he hopes to take this opportunity to join Li Chen's army and serve Li Chen as his dog.

Under normal circumstances, it would be difficult to catch them because these people live in the city. Even if they were caught, there would be no way to bring them out, let alone bring them to the Tiance Dynasty.

But the war had already started in the north, and the royal court had a tradition that once a war broke out, if the enemy was strong, women and children would be sent to a safer place far away from the battlefield.

This will allow the soldiers to have no worries, and even if they fail, they will still have a spark.

The so-called safer places are those cities in the Great Snow Mountains.

Huyanlan was originally from the north and was well aware of this. He and his men could also withstand the cold in the north, so he kept placing people there and waiting for an opportunity.

Finally, when these people were migrating, Hu Yanlan took the opportunity to intercept and kill them.

This was only after he had set a trap in advance and lost 10,000 cavalrymen, that he was able to successfully capture the two key figures.

Now he is wanted by the entire Snow Eagle Royal Court, and the remaining troops are waiting for deployment in the border city of the Tiance Dynasty. He brought these two gifts to present to Li Chen.

Anyway, he couldn't go back now, so he placed all his bets on Li Chen.

If Li Chen wins, he will be the new Khan of the North. If Li Chen loses, he will lose everything and even die a miserable death.

Because if Li Chen loses, the Northern Khan will definitely ask Li Chen to send him back.

This is a big gamble. At his age, he is no longer able to turn the situation around on his own, so he can only take this one chance.

"Why did you choose these two as gifts?" Li Chen asked thoughtfully.

"Your Majesty, when you first ascended the throne, you told the envoys of the Snow Eagle Royal Court that there was a vacancy in the harem and that you needed about 500 beauties from the northern tribes, preferably royal blood relatives. My ability is limited now, and I can only collect these two. When I take charge of the royal court for Your Majesty in the future, I will definitely make up for what is owed." Huyan Lan replied respectfully.

There was something else behind his words, and Li Chen could hear it.

Hu Yanlan mentioned that "I will take charge of the royal court for Your Majesty one day", which means that the purpose of his loyalty this time is to become the new king of the royal court.

This is not a big problem as long as he really sells the royal court and helps the Tiance Dynasty quickly resolve the issue in the north.

So what if Li Chen rewarded him with the title of Khan? He is still Li Chen's dog anyway.

Li Chen was very satisfied with Hu Yanlan’s previous words. Finally, there was someone who could understand him.

This guy is very sensible!
In the court, those generals said one by one that they would capture the Khan of the Northern Royal Court and present him to Li Chen. Li Chen was speechless.

I have stated my conditions clearly, do you really think I am joking?

Is it too much for me to ask for this? The Northern Royal Court has been asking for it for years, and the most I can do is to get it back with interest.

Just because other emperors don’t dare, doesn’t mean I don’t dare.

Li Chen also looked at the history of the past few hundred years. There was an emperor who, when meeting with envoys from various countries, sent them some treasures back. His idea was to show off the wealth and generosity of the Tiance Dynasty.

When they go back, they will speak nicely and be grateful.

This way the emperor will have face and the reputation of the Tiance Dynasty will also spread.

After receiving rewards and returning home, envoys from other countries would also bring tribute in return the next time they came.

But the northern royal court's tribute did not increase but decreased. They just brought some things as tribute and waited for rewards.

The emperor was also very concerned about his reputation, so he prepared something for them.

At first, they just gave away some gold, silver and jewelry, which was harmless.

Later, the envoys from the Northern Royal Court were naturally embarrassed. Sometimes they felt that the amount was not enough and actually asked for more.

The reason is very simple. It is said that Your Majesty has given a lot, which demonstrates the prosperity of the Tiance Dynasty.

The emperor, who was very concerned about his reputation, naturally gave it to him.

Li Chen didn't even want to name who it was.

What happened next was that the royal envoys came empty-handed and returned fully loaded.

If Altai and Attard brought a lot of tribute to Li Chen during the court session one day, Li Chen would not be so decisive.

These two guys came here with their bare hands and asked for it right away. They are giving you face, right?

Li Chen doesn't indulge them.

It appeared later that before the Khan of the Northern Royal Court even felt angry because Li Chen refused the marriage alliance, the notice of declaration of war had already been delivered to his face.

Only then did he realize that he had awakened the sleeping dragon.

"I'm curious about one thing. How powerful is the Khan of the Snow Eagle Royal Court?" Li Chen thought about this question after seeing one of the two gifts.

"Your Majesty, the Khan is in his early twenties and took office not long ago. He is blessed by the Snow Leopard God and possesses extraordinary powers. He is known as the 'Immortal Fujiri'. However, Your Majesty is extremely powerful and he is still far behind." Hu Yanlan replied immediately, and by the way, he also learned to flatter.

Fujiri is the "messenger of God" in the north, and the Snow Leopard God is the sacred beast that guards the Great Snow Mountain.

If he can gain the favor of the Snow Leopard God, then he can naturally become Khan.

No one knows how powerful this young Khan is, but since he can obtain the blessing of the Snow Leopard God and use divine power, his cultivation must be very high.

Not only the Khan, many warriors of the Snow Eagle Royal Court possess divine power, which is the main reason for their rise.

It seems that Khan is still very young, and Li Chen now understands why his mother looks so charming.

If the young Khan and Li Chen were arguing with each other, and Li Chen said that swear word, it would be really disgusting.

"Okay, I accept your sincerity. You go to the border and wait for my orders." Li Chen has already recruited him into his team.

"I obey your command." Hu Yanlan finally succeeded in taking sides and felt that all the efforts were worth it.

After he left, Li Chen took a look at the two tempting gifts and asked the maid in charge to take them away and hand them over to the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother should know how to deal with them. That is, put them under house arrest. The palace has a special set of procedures.

Li Chen felt that he couldn't believe all of Hu Yanlan's words. What if this guy learned from Yao Li, played a trick of self-torture, and then did something to these two women? Wouldn't he become a stepping stone for him to become famous forever?

Li Chen didn't want to die like the previous emperor, unclear and with no way to investigate.

Let's keep these two gifts for now until we get the "Emperor Dragon Bible".

As for Hu Yanlan, Li Chen believed that Guo Poyun would use him better than him.

Li Chen also read the battle report from the north. Guo Poyun did not like fearless sacrifice.

Therefore, they did not directly attack the big city where the Ice Bear Tribe was located. That big city gathered the elites of various northern tribes and relied on the weight of the city to defend.

After being frightened by the defeat, the northern tribes learned their lesson and began to build cities and train heavy infantry, making their city defense force very powerful.

But Guo Poyun also knew how to learn. While he was besieging the capital of the Ice Bear Tribe, he sent young generals like Xu Zifeng and Liu Hao to lead cavalry to bypass the tribe and use the method of fighting to support the war to attack other tribes with weaker defenses.

Isn’t this the tactic the Northern Royal Court used to harass the Tiance Dynasty in the past?

Now the offense and defense have changed, so let's do the opposite.

No one knew whether it was Guo Poyun's tactics that were good, or Xu Zifeng's luck and strength were just incredible, but it was said that Xu Zifeng almost reached Snow Eagle Ridge.

However, his army was very small at the time and the Snow Eagle Ridge was heavily guarded, so he just passed by without taking any action.

As for why Xu Zifeng fought so quickly, it was because Zhaoyuan Hou Peng Zhao had stayed in the north for four full years, and on the new map he drew, many terrains were marked very clearly.

This meant that the northern soldiers didn't have to explore the way and could just follow the route.

In addition, Xu Zifeng has very high military talent points, and with the help of Ma Hei, he is like a fish in water.

The most outrageous thing is that when Xu Zifeng was fighting in the north, he went to the place mentioned by his cellmate Attard to "check in".

Anyway, he has led his troops deep into the hinterland and has lost contact with the central military camp. This kind of general can make his own judgment, and no one knows what he wants to do.

As a young general, Liu Hao, assisted by the deputy general sent by his father, was also advancing steadily in his conquests.

Here he met Altai. They had conflicts and contradictions in the imperial capital in the past.

The two armies fought fiercely, and both threatened to chop off the other's head.

As the emperor, Li Chen naturally had no need to get involved in such a small scene.

Only if Khan Wang Ting takes action, or if the army arrives at Snow Eagle Ridge, will Li Chen head north.

Saints generally do not appear on the battlefield, because the army's harmonic pulse formation is very terrifying.

The human cultivators in this world practice pulse techniques. As long as they practice to a certain level, pulse gates will appear, which is the kind of halo that Li Si Ning is practicing now.

The meridian gate can resonate with other cultivators, and thus a harmonious meridian formation appears.

The Harmonic Pulse Formation is so powerful that it can even overturn giant beasts.

If a Saint wants to take action, he also needs to activate his meridians to fight. The more powerful the skills he uses, the more the consumption of his meridians will be.

Even if you are at the Saint level, you cannot keep fighting.

After a battle, you need to rest for a while before you can fight again.

If you force yourself to fight, not only will it not be very effective, it will also damage your meridians and greatly reduce your strength.

This is also why, even if Dingtian Shangren wanted to deal with Li Chen, he could only choose to start somewhere far away from the city.

Because there are so many powerful people in the city, and all kinds of treasures and restrictions are everywhere, he can be dragged to death.

However, these are not the issues that Li Chen needs to consider for the time being. Even if he is strong, there is no need for him to do everything by himself. Otherwise, what is the point of having so many subordinates.

After leaving the imperial study, Li Chen met Xia Qing who was passing by.

"Why did you come back so late today? Are you working overtime?" Li Chen asked.

"Your Majesty, I actually came back a long time ago. I just stopped by to check on how Li Si Ning was doing with her homework. Now I'm going to go back and rest." Xia Qing replied.

She was quite serious and responsible in doing things, and Li Sining was her first 'disciple', so naturally she had to observe him carefully.

In her opinion, Li Sining has good talent, but she just doesn't work hard enough.

But cultivation cannot be forced, and completing the exercises appropriately is also a good choice.

What surprised Xia Qing was that there was a strange fire in the alchemy building of Xinhuo Combat Academy.

As long as the strange fire matures and separates into fire seeds, fire-type cultivators can absorb the strange fire.

The dean said that she could get it first, but Xia Qing still felt that she had to work hard and make contributions, otherwise everyone would think she was the kind of person who relied on connections.

Li Chen supports her approach, as long as you are happy.

After chatting for a few words, the two said goodbye.

On the way back to the bedroom, Xia Qing felt that Li Chen was quite easy to talk to, and not as serious as her father said.

But everyone in the palace thought she was Li Chen’s future concubine, which gave her a headache.

When Li Chen returned to his bedroom, he found that Ji Lianyu had been waiting there for a long time.

She has been in the palace recently, so she was able to help Li Chen calm down in time.

However, her main purpose of coming today was not this, but to discuss some things with Li Chen.

"Your Majesty, this is a list of the positions held by our Ji family in various cities in the south."

As she spoke, she handed Li Chen a list.

While Li Chen was looking at the roster, she peeled Li Chen's favorite fruit and fed it to him.

It can be said that among so many women, she is indeed the one who is best at taking care of others, and her gentleness and thoughtfulness are undoubtedly displayed.

According to Ji Lianyu, the patriarch of the Ji family seemed to be persuaded by her and began to show goodwill to Li Chen.

They also said that they would send representatives to celebrate during the national celebration in a few days.

Anyway, no matter who wins or loses between Li Chen and King Zhennan, they both have a place to stand.

This surprised Li Chen. He didn't expect that this woman also wanted to help him.

Just like the Fairy Youlan, she can take the initiative to help him solve many problems.

When Li Chen looked into Ji Lianyu's eyes, he noticed that her look was very similar to Li Sining's, both of them looked like they really wanted Li Chen's approval.

Perhaps she did these things more to get Li Chen's praise and make Li Chen feel that she was useful.

Li Chen remembered that the emperor of the previous dynasty achieved this by practicing special skills. Could he do it directly?

In fact, he did not feel that the King of Zhennan posed any threat at all. At least from the perspective of a saint, he could not sense any danger.

However, he wanted to see what Ji Lianyu would do next, so he kept praising her for her ability, which made her feel very excited.

As the saying goes, 'water doesn't lie', her body's reaction does show that she is very satisfied now.

The next day, when Li Chen was leaving the morning court, the commander of the imperial guards, Li Sixing, came up again to report.

"Your Majesty, someone else entered the forbidden area last night. According to the people of my clan who fought with him, the strength of this intruder should be a cultivator at the peak of the Heavenly Abyss Realm, and his cultivation path is still unknown."

This made Li Chen a little puzzled. What exactly did this person want to do? And how could a Tianyuan Realm cultivator dare to set foot in the royal forbidden area?

Of course, Li Chen was the only one who thought so. In the eyes of most practitioners, the peak of the Tianyuan Realm was already very terrifying.

According to Li Sixing, this person seemed to have just been constantly testing the outer area and had not entered any restricted areas. Moreover, his martial arts skills were extremely unique, so he was able to escape unscathed.

Since this kind of thing has happened, under normal circumstances, Li Chen should go there in person.

Li Sixing seemed to mean the same thing, but he didn't dare to say it directly.

He only has the right to provide information to Li Chen, but he dare not let Li Chen guard the forbidden area.

But Li Chen felt that it was not that simple. What he was thinking was that for someone who was living in the imperial capital and was practicing at the Tianyuan Realm level, it was impossible for him not to know that the emperor of the Tiance Dynasty was at the Saint Realm.

He deliberately showed up in the forbidden area, perhaps to attract Li Chen over and achieve his own goal.

Now that the war in the north has begun, the forces hidden in the dark should not sit still.

Unfortunately, Li Chen also knew a Saint-level thug.

He told Li Sixing not to pay attention to it for the time being, and sent someone to call Fairy Youlan over, and also Fairy Yuehua.

Perhaps in a few days, we will know who sent this daring guy.

Li Chen had said before that if you show your head, you will be killed instantly. If you can't hold back, just wait for your entire clan to be implicated!
At the same time, Xiao Ming from the Ministry of Justice discovered traces of fighting in an area in the west of the city while continuing to investigate the prince's guard Fan Kuai.

Judging from his master's experience, these marks were definitely caused by a master of swordsmanship. Without the Tianyuan realm, it is impossible to produce such power.

(End of this chapter)