Teasing the First Dragon at the Start

Bai Su was taken aback and asked in confusion, "Your Highness... what are you doing?"

Xiao Li bit her lower lip, mustered her courage, raised her head, and looked at Bai Su: "As long as you can persuade the First Emperor to send troops to save my Yuezhi, I will repay this kindness with all my heart."

Bai Su touched her chin, her expression somewhat strange.

I only intended to ask for a trade route, but I didn't expect to gain something unexpected.

However, since Her Highness the Princess has said so, it wouldn't be appropriate to refuse directly.

"M-Sir, what are you doing?"

When Xiao Li saw Bai Su walking towards him, his voice trembled with nervousness.

"Of course, I would like to learn from Your Highness."

Bai Su stared directly at the girl in front of him. To her surprise, he pulled something out from under his clothes and smiled mysteriously: "I wonder if Your Highness would be willing to fight me for three hundred rounds?"

Xiao Li seemed to have seen something surprising, her expression froze, and she stood there dumbfounded.

Chapter 73 Playing cards is so much fun

Inside the side room.

Xiao Li's face was flushed, and her fair forehead was covered in sweat. She had been kneeling in front of the table for over an hour, and her legs were starting to ache.

She wiped the sweat from her forehead, gently put down a card in her hand, looked up, and glanced nervously at Bai Su: "M-Master, is this alright?"

Bai Su stroked her chin, looking at the chess game where the outcome was already decided, and couldn't help but smile and praise, "As expected of Your Highness, you are so skilled at cards. I have lost."

A hint of surprise flashed in Xiao Li's delicate eyes, and she hurriedly said, "So, young master is willing to help me request the First Emperor to send troops?"

She had just gritted her teeth, ready to sacrifice herself.

But to her surprise, Bai Su snorted and pulled out a homemade deck of cards called Gwent from under the bed, saying he wanted to have a good, exciting battle with her.

He said he would grant her one request if she could win just one game.

after all……

Playing cards is so much fun!

This Xiao Li truly lives up to her reputation as the apple of the eye of the Yuezhi Kingdom. She is exceptionally intelligent and has a strong learning ability. After only a few rounds, she was already able to turn defeat into victory.

Bai Su smiled and said, "Of course, I, Bai Su, never lie during the day."

He immediately stood up, walked slowly to the bookshelf next to him, and took out a black scroll.

Little Li looked down at the contents of the scroll, her face momentarily blank.

She had thought Bai Su was going to the palace to meet the emperor and ask Zheng Jie to change the decree, but she didn't expect that Zheng Jie's edict had already been placed in this study.

The Yuezhi provided the provisions and supplies.

The demands, such as the future opening of free trade between the two countries, requiring Yuezhi nobles to wear silk clothing from the Central Plains, and funding the construction of official roads, are somewhat burdensome, but given the Yuezhi's current situation, they are not unacceptable.

She slowly raised her head and looked at Bai Su with a puzzled expression: "Since you already had the treaty in hand, why didn't you take it out sooner?"

Bai Su said seriously, "You didn't ask."

Xiao Li's face flushed crimson. She grabbed her clothes to cover herself and glared at Bai Su, embarrassed and annoyed: "Since...since you just wanted to play cards, why didn't you say so when I took off my clothes?"

"I was planning to chat with you for a while before bringing out the treaty, but I didn't expect you to suddenly take off your clothes. It startled me. I thought you had some kind of fetish, so I thought I'd play cards with you to calm down."

As Bai Su spoke, she gave her a strange look.

Xiao Li was taken aback. After thinking about it carefully, she realized that she hadn't asked about the conditions for the Great Xia to send troops.

They had a preconceived notion that Bai Su was a lecherous man.

She thought that being asked to play cards in only a thin undergarment was a special order from the other party, but she never expected that Bai Su was not forcing her at all, and that it was just her own imagination.

She thought back to how, just over an hour ago, she had been playing cards in the study with a strange man wearing only a thin undergarment, and he had even mistaken her for a pervert with weird fetishes.

She felt a sudden wave of despair, wishing she could dig a hole in the ground with her toes and disappear into it.

That's so embarrassing.

"Yes, the treaty has been signed. I will inform His Majesty immediately. The army will soon march north. Would Your Highness like to stay for dinner?"

Bai Su looked at the signed treaty and nodded in satisfaction. Then she asked Xiao Li, who was standing next to her.

Xiao Li's face was already flushed with embarrassment. She avoided looking at Bai Su and said, "No...no, I have something to do, so I'll go back first."

After saying that, she dressed and left in a hurry without saying goodbye.

Outside the study.

Da Qiao walked over with wine and happened to meet the Yuezhi princess, who was disheveled and blushing.

The two exchanged a glance, then looked away.

Xiao Li bit her lip, lowered her head, and left silently.

Da Qiao placed the drinks on the table and asked with some confusion, "Master, what's wrong with her?"

When the Yuezhi princess arrived, she was so elegant and poised. But when she left, it was as if she had suffered a social death and was fleeing for her life.

"Perhaps she has something urgent to attend to."

Bai Su looked at the treaty in her hand and saw that it included three thousand more warhorses than her previous terms.

It seems that the Yuezhi princess, in her shame and anger, had no time to bargain and only wanted to sign the terms and leave as soon as possible, which unexpectedly brought him some gains.

He stroked his chin, watching Xiao Li's disheveled figure flee, and couldn't help but smile.

This Yuezhi princess was indeed quite beautiful, and it would be a lie to say he wasn't tempted. However, he never considered taking advantage of the situation to possess her.

Firstly, while this forced melon may quench thirst, it's not sweet.

As an ambitious young man, he naturally disliked doing things that forced others.

after all……

He prefers being down to being up.

Secondly, even if he had such intentions, he couldn't lay a hand on the Yuezhi princess now.

Zhengjie took this matter very seriously and kept people watching her closely. If the next day she found the Yuezhi princess walking with a limp, she would not let her off easily.

After all, as the art of war says, attacking a city is the lowest form of warfare, while attacking a person's mind is the highest.

Thinking of this, Bai Su chuckled and said, "Da Qiao, go and grind the ink for me."

Da Qiao was taken aback and asked, "What does Master want to do?"

Bai Su chuckled and said, "Now that the task His Majesty assigned me has been completed, and the imperial army is about to head north beyond the Great Wall, I naturally want to write a poem to present to His Majesty. When His Majesty is in high spirits, I can take the opportunity to ask for leave and slack off."

"Yes, sir."

Da Qiao ran out quickly to grind the ink.

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As night deepened, in the Xianyang Palace.

Just as Zhengjie was about to rest, a messenger ran in from outside the palace and reported, "Your Majesty... Young Master Bai has sent someone to deliver a letter."

Zhengjie sat upright at the table and gently put down the bamboo slips in her hand.

A smile flickered in her phoenix eyes: "He probably finalized the contract and came to present it to me for my review."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

The messenger presented the letter.

Zhengjie looked down and saw that the Yuezhi were not only willing to provide more food and fodder, but also gave her an extra three thousand warhorses. A smile immediately appeared on her face.

"I knew it. With his silver tongue, how could that little brat Princess Yuezhi be a match for him? Not bad, not bad... This kid has already done me a great service as soon as he arrived in Xianyang. He will soon become a pillar of the court."

The envoy respectfully said, "Your Majesty, in addition to sending the treaty, Young Master Bai also wrote a poem, which he wishes to present to Your Majesty."

"Oh, let me see..."

A hint of curiosity flashed in Zhengjie's phoenix eyes. She lowered her gaze and softly recited: "Long clouds over Qinghai darken the snow-capped mountains, a lonely city gazes afar at Yanmen Pass, through a hundred battles in the yellow sands, clad in black armor, never to return until the Xiongnu are defeated..."

After she finished reading it, she was stunned for a moment, her whole body frozen in place.

It felt like a thunderclap exploded in my mind, and for a moment my scalp tingled and my whole body broke out in goosebumps.

After a long while, I couldn't help but exclaim, "What a... what a beautiful poem!"

This poem is magnificent and powerful, reminiscent of a large army marching out of the border.

This Bai Su... has the bearing of a literary sage!

Chapter 74 We will not return until the Xiongnu are defeated.

The next day.

above the hall.

Whether it was the Queen Mother sitting on the throne or the civil and military officials in the court, they all had fierce eyes and "kind" smiles on their faces.

After driving out the Xiongnu in the north and expanding southward to the Baiyue, unifying the world, the Great Xia Dynasty had not taken any large-scale actions against foreign powers for several years.

This made many military officers in the court feel itchy to take action.

After all, unlike civil officials, they needed real military achievements to behead enemy soldiers in order to be promoted and ennobled. For three or four years, there was no opportunity to make meritorious contributions, which made countless people look at the moon every night and shake their heads and sigh.

Now, after several years of recuperation, the Great Xia war machine is finally about to start running again.

With the opportunity to be promoted and ennobled, everyone from generals in the court to soldiers in the army was sharpening their knives, just waiting for the Empress's order.

Through the hanging beaded curtain, Zhengjie looked at the united expressions on the faces of the people below, and her lips curled up slightly.

She took a deep breath and ordered, "Now that the treaty with the Yuezhi Kingdom has been signed, it is time to go beyond the Great Wall and launch a northern expedition against the Xiongnu. Bai Su, you are exceptionally talented in writing... you will be in charge of drafting the imperial edict to proclaim the crimes of the Xiongnu to the world. The army will march north immediately."

Zhengjie changed her usual attitude, and her whole person was like a sharp sword drawn from its sheath, exuding a fierce aura that made people afraid to look directly at her.

Since sweeping across the six kingdoms and driving the Xiongnu north, there has been no enemy in the world that can threaten the Great Xia. She has not been this serious in a long time.

Given the current national strength of the Great Xia Dynasty, its military expansion has already reached its limit.