Matsushita, having paid the price of a boatload, didn't stand on ceremony and immediately asked, "Prince Qi, may I ask where the author, Yan Ke, is? Could you please introduce me?"

Xie Yu didn't keep them in suspense and said, "I have already met with the smoker and persuaded him to meet with you."

Matsushita was extremely excited and hurriedly asked, "Can we see her right away?"

Xie Yu glanced at Zhou Shaoyu, who was holding Xiao Heng'er's hand and staying close to Zhao Zhao in the distance, and said with a smile, "I will call him over a little later."

Three people under the tree and one person under the pine tree rehearsed what they had to say to the ancestor.

The two waited anxiously under the pavilion, their necks almost breaking from looking, until finally, Xie Yu and Zhou Shaoyu arrived together.

The three people under the tree and the one under the pine tree panicked. What was King Qi doing bringing Emperor Chen here?

Three figures beneath the tree bowed respectfully: "Greetings, Your Majesty Emperor Chen."

Zhou Shaoyu looked down at him, his gaze slightly lowered, and asked, "I heard you wish to see me?"

Shushita Sanjo and Matsukata Ichika were stunned, and involuntarily said, "Your Majesty, I did not say that..."

Xie Yu frowned and said, "Didn't you want to see the author, Yan Ke?"

Three people under the tree stared wide-eyed: "Is His Majesty Emperor Chen a smoker?"

Zhou Shaoyu nodded: "Yes, I will use the pseudonym Yan Ke."

Three under the tree: "..."

Matsushita Ichi: "..."

How could a smoker be Zhou Shaoyu?

They immediately realized it was a scam; King Qi and Emperor Chen had conspired to cheat them out of their boat!

"Impossible! How could His Majesty be a smoker? Impossible!" Three-Tune Under the Tree vehemently denied it. "Smokers are women!"

Xie Yu: "The Smoker is indeed His Majesty. You didn't expect that, did you? To be honest, everyone in the capital has been guessing who the Smoker is these past few days."

Zhou Shaoyu looked at them again and asked, "What business do you have seeing me? Why do you say that smokers should be women?"

Poor Shushita Sanjo and Matsukata Ichika, their minds were a complete mess, and they couldn't even remember what they wanted to say.

The smoker should be their ancestor, how could it be Emperor Chen, a grown man?

"Your Majesty, how did you come up with the idea of ​​how people will live a thousand years from now?" Matsushita asked, still unwilling to give up. "It's all truly unbelievable."

Zhou Shaoyu countered, "Is there a problem?"

Matsushita was getting a little frustrated. "Of course there's a problem. Why are you a man?"

"Your Majesty, those carriages are all made of iron? I mean, how can they move on their own?"

Zhou Shaoyu: "Because there is a type of engine that burns oil, pushes pistons, generates power, and drives the wheels to turn."

Matsushita felt he was right again!

Indeed, the Secret History Records seem to mention it briefly, but not in as much detail as His Majesty Emperor Chen.

Emperor Chen sounds more reliable.

However, historical records indicate that the ancestor was a woman.

Matsushita couldn't help but say, "Your Majesty, how come you are a man?"

Zhou Shaoyu's eyes narrowed.

Matsushita was so frightened that he immediately knelt down: "Your Majesty, I'm sorry, I was talking nonsense."

Zhou Shaoyu turned and left.

Three people under the tree watched Zhou Shaoyu leave and cried out anxiously, "Your Majesty, you can't leave!"

He spent the price of a boat and five million taels of silver just to meet the "opium addicts," and they dismissed him with just a few words.

no!

Zhou Shaoyu gave him a cold look and said authoritatively, "Does the Third Prince intend to threaten me?"

The three under the tree said anxiously, "No, no, that's not what I meant. I just wanted to ask Your Majesty, were all the 'Millennial Dreams' written by you personally?"

"So what if it is?"

How did you come up with these ideas?

"Should I explain this to you?"

"No, no, no, I just wanted to ask if you will continue writing 'A Thousand Years of Imagination'?"

"Not necessarily! The dream of a better future is the dream of all the people of Yulong Kingdom, and everyone can dream about it. If the Third Prince has any ideas, he can also submit them. The newspaper has a special submission box, and if your article is selected, you will be paid according to the regulations."

The three under the tree are anxious. Why the hell am I submitting this article? If I wanted to know what would happen a thousand years from now, why would I be causing trouble in the Jade Dragon Kingdom?

Seeing Zhou Shaoyu slowly walking back, he immediately chased after him, and Matsushita also caught up.

"Your Majesty, how do you think people will buy things a thousand years from now?"

“Of course you have to pay for what you buy—” Zhou Shaoyu glanced at them and, seeing their eager eyes, said, “But we don’t use cash. We just scan the other party’s payment account, and the money will be transferred.”

Xie Yu thought to himself: His Majesty is openly treating the people of Dongli like fools.

But Matsushita, the "fool," didn't think it was a joke and hurriedly asked Zhou Shaoyu, "Then how will they draw the portrait?"

"Instead of drawing portraits, a machine scans the person and captures their image, voice, and smile, forever..."

"Your Majesty, do you remember your connection with Dongli a long, long time ago?" Matsushita silently counted in his mind: one, two, three…

"I have always maintained friendly relations with Dongli." Zhou Shaoyu looked at them as if they were idiots, and said to Xie Yu, "Prince Qi, please entertain the Third Prince and the Imperial Preceptor Song Yi. I must excuse myself."

Three people under the tree and one person under the pine tree trembled with excitement. They were certain that this was their ancestor, even though he was a man.

They prefer that Guan Ying be reincarnated as a woman rather than as Zhou Shaoyu.

This image, this charisma—he's practically the best emperor they could send to Dongli to unify the world!