The doctor suffers from amnesia, but not complete amnesia.

Cai Yan's doubts were answered, but the emperor became somewhat worried.

In his view, this was a case of the central government interfering in the territory of a certain vassal king, which aroused the dissatisfaction of other vassal kings—if this were recorded in the history books of the Great Yan Dynasty, it would be the script for the War of the Eight Princes in the blink of an eye.

In particular, the Emperor of Naletania seemed to be a decisive person. After receiving the request for help, he immediately took action and made the matter a fait accompli. There is no room for maneuver now. We can only wait and see who will back down in front of everyone.

"Your Majesty can rest assured that as long as the Duke of Wellington does not march west, but keeps his presence constantly in sight, then Letania will not descend into chaos—in the end, it will be the Electors who will back down first."

Surprisingly, it wasn't Qiao Yelan who said this, but Cai Yan.

“Your Majesty, Letania is different from my Great Yan. Both its political structure and political thinking are extremely different, so we cannot use the experience of my Great Yan to draw conclusions. For the nobles, they all have the potential to become emperor, so they are both allies and rivals.”

Cai Yan sneered, revealing a look of contempt.

"This rabble is afraid to risk their lives for great things, and forgets righteousness for small gains. Now, with external forces eyeing them covetously, the lingering effects of last year's Ursus invasion still present, and Wellington's demonstration this year with a sword hanging over their necks, they don't have the guts, nor the large enough army, to truly turn against the Emperor of Letania."

"Since we can't turn against each other, once the matter of the Lungmen Coin begins to move forward, those who are not threatened will surely be blinded by greed and abandon their principles. Then this so-called anti-imperialist wave will naturally collapse. Therefore, we don't need to care about this matter. My Great Yan can just carry out the plan."

Seeing that Cai Yan had incisively exposed the situation in Letania, Qiao Yelan admired his insight and chimed in with a few words of agreement.

“What the Prime Minister says is absolutely right. Why should our Great Yan care about these tiny states? When they were collectively known as Letania, they could still participate in the situation on Terra. Now that they are Electors, they can no longer stir up any waves.”

The emperor then nodded in relief.

He didn't care whether Letania was chaotic or not; what he was really worried about was whether it would interfere with his money-making.

Since both of them say that Letania cannot be an obstacle to LMD, then there will naturally be no problem.

"What if those electors really turn against their emperor and launch a joint attack on the capital of Letania?"

Chen Fan suddenly spoke up.

"If that is the case, then I shall once again bear the name of the Great Yan and visit Ursus and Victoria."

Qiao Yelan revealed a playful smile.

"What do you mean by that?"

Chen Fan was somewhat puzzled.

"Naturally, we should join forces with Ursus and Victoria to take advantage of the chaos in Letania and divide it up."

Cai Yan also revealed a cold smile.

"Surrounded by powerful neighbors, and with the Witch King Helhunzoren already dead, yet still daring to stir up trouble and conflict, this is a path to certain death. In the past, the War of the Four Emperors brought prosperity to Ursus, Letania, and Victoria. If we have another chance, how can our Great Yan not take a share of the spoils?"

Just as Chen Fan was about to ask why the Great Yan Dynasty didn't do the same thing last year, he suddenly remembered what the situation was like in the Great Yan Dynasty last year—

At the time, he and Cai Yan were wielding absolute power in the court and were also taking advantage of the chaos in Longmen to secretly smuggle goods and make money. How could they possibly have the mind to start a war against foreign powers?

Wouldn't that be giving the emperor face and prestige?

No, no, let's make money first.

Now that the situation in the court has been settled, the emperor has regained control of the discourse, and Longmen has been completely pacified and can be used as a forward base, the Great Yan now has the reason and the ability to start a war.

Chen Fan quietly wiped away his sweat and quickly changed the subject.

If you keep asking, I'll end up with half a million.jpg

The emperor nodded with satisfaction.

Good, good, good, good! Minister Cai and Minister Qiao's brains are truly on my XP.

It perfectly matches his past imagination of the emperor.

Please forgive an emperor who only attended a crash course for a few months for having to rely on vernacular novels to imagine how an emperor should be—he might as well go and persecute Wei Yanwu to his heart's content.

Qiao Yelan took in everyone's reactions.

Cai Yan's abilities and teamwork were indeed somewhat unexpected, but this also proved the value of the late emperor's judgment.

Chen Fan revealed his own limitations, but his comments on the Longmen coin were enough to show that he was still firmly in his position as Minister of Revenue.

As for His Majesty the Emperor...

Qiao Yelan pondered, "Perhaps I should treat Lao Wei a little better."

Who knows, we might really have to help this person rise to power in the future.

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(37 chapters still owed)

Chapter 133 The Selection of Personnel for the Scale

Qiao Yelan put down her pen and sealed the last letter into an envelope.

He wrote two letters, one to Triinttelme and the other to Ursus.

The first letter instructed Helena and Ivigna to act freely without worrying about any actions or measures taken abroad.

The second letter instructed Nikolai to pay attention to the changing situation in Letania, suggesting that there might be an opportunity to replicate last year's actions.

This is his fuse for the situation in Letania.

As for Victoria, the Duchy of Wellington has already made enough of a fuss.

Qiao Yelan then used another letter to get Nikolai involved as well—actions that would be noticed by others.

In the Great Yan Dynasty, the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Revenue immediately dispatched a large amount of supplies to Longmen for the issuance and minting of Longmen coins.

The Great Yan court's reasons, both externally and internally, are the same—but what if we consider them in conjunction with the two events mentioned earlier?

Less than fifty years have passed since the Four Emperors War, and the Letanians, as one of the participants, have not forgotten it completely.

Ambitious people never hesitate to assume the worst about the ambitions of others.

Therefore, the electors dared not, and could not, unite against the Empress's decision to send troops to garrison the territory of St. Tong—they feared that their Letania would suffer the same fate as Gaul.

Therefore, Qiao Yelan specially wrote the first letter to Triinttelme – he wanted to inform Ivignad to prevent her from thinking that the three surrounding countries really intended to attack Letania.

"Use the special channels of the Tower of Babel to send the letter out as quickly as possible."

"clear."

Ace took the letter and left in a hurry.

Qiao Yelan turned her gaze back to the intelligence report concerning the Grand Commandant of the Great Yan Dynasty.

He didn't rush to confront the Grand Commandant or directly reveal to the Emperor that the Grand Commandant was hiding something from His Majesty—after all, such an action would mean there was no going back.

He was pondering whether the Grand Commandant's plan to conceal the true actions of the ministers was his own idea—or whether Qiao Yelan had helped him come up with it.

PRTS's memory bank contains no information on this matter, and its communication with the Grand Commandant is basically limited to the Battle of Blood Peak, unlike the Grand Tutor, who gave the other party a basic understanding of him.

He wouldn't normally care so much—but during this trip abroad, he was so badly burned by his past self that he no longer trusts databases.

The recorded information is quite accurate, but there seems to be an absurd amount of information you haven't recorded.

Since that day at court, the emperor had not summoned Qiao Yelan again. Qiao Yelan was happy to have some free time. After claiming illness, he didn't even go to court for roll call. Instead, he stayed in a mansion in the capital that Chen Fan had given him, pondering the question of the year's phases.

Unfortunately, he found no benefit in the Grand Commandant's actions.

"So, this matter was handled by the Grand Commandant on his own initiative?"

Qiao Yelan pondered with some hesitation.

He wasn't insecure; rather, he was overconfident—he believed there was no reason he wouldn't have noticed the Grand Commandant's subtle actions.

However, the Grand Commandant has remained in his position to this day, and is even continuing his attempts to conceal the signs of aging.

Isn't this a bit...?

Patting his forehead, Qiao Yelan stopped his self-reliant, closed-door approach to research.

If you can't find the answers to some questions, you might as well go out and ask someone outside the situation.

Who should I ask...?

Who around me isn't char siu?

Qiao Yelan stroked his chin, lost in thought.

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The Grand Tutor was holding a stack of performance reports in his hand, looking at them with a grimace.

Can anyone tell him how those hardworking and efficient officials in the Court of State Ceremonial suddenly became a group of corporate slaves who just clock in, slack off, and take sick leave?

What happened?

Previously, the emperor had sent people from the Ministry of Rites to work with the Ministry of Revenue's negotiation team to visit the emperors and vassal kings of countries such as Victoria and Letania, in order to reach a genuine agreement on the circulation of Lungmen currency as quickly as possible.

The Grand Tutor had previously thought that since there was no need to trouble two people with one matter, why not just grab someone from the Court of State Ceremonial to do the work?

Does he really need to get involved in such a trivial matter?

As a result, Ning Shilang, who had always served as his deputy, came to him with a worried look on his face. The officials of the Court of State Ceremonial were mostly sick, and there was no manpower available. Moreover, the Imperial Hospital was so frightened that it submitted three memorials in succession, fearing that this was a plague brought back from outside.

The Grand Tutor was initially worried, after all, plague is really hard to deal with. But when he received the report and took a closer look, he found that the imperial physicians were prescribing only mild tonics.

Upon further inquiry, it was learned that the Minister of the Court of State Ceremonial had fallen ill first, and then, just after news of another overseas visit spread, the members of the newly returned delegation began to fall ill one after another.