Yang Rongrong was shocked: "Your Majesty, please think twice. Ziyuan and Daxia have already formed an alliance. They are brothers who share the same fate!"

Zhao Jie: "Since we are brothers, why is it that when brothers have demands, he, as the younger brother, doesn't respond at all? Is this reasonable?"

Lin Xian'er also smiled and said: "Yes, sister, how can you expect to gain benefits without paying anything? His Majesty only asks you for such a small thing.

Aren't you satisfied yet? You must understand that trust is the most important element in cooperation between our two countries.

"If the Ziyuan Empire hadn't voluntarily withdrawn from the competition, would the position of alliance leader have fallen to the already battered and bruised Great Xia?"

Yang Rongrong was completely bewildered, and had only a vague understanding of the current situation.

She just naively believed that husband and wife should be in harmony with each other, and she would do whatever Chu Sheng asked her to do, and never had any messy thoughts.

But asking Yang Rongrong to sleep with an unfamiliar old man was something she could never accept in her traditional thinking.

Just then, someone came to report: "Your Majesty, the Great Xia Kingdom has sent three thousand female concubines, intending to engage in the pleasure industry within our territory."

After speaking, the person handed a book to Zhao Jie.

These women from Daxia were all forced here by Chu Yang, and this had been mentioned a long time ago.

A civil war broke out between Chu Yang and Chu Sheng, and the fighting lasted for a whole year without stopping.

Although Chu Yang ultimately emerged victorious, this civil war depleted the national treasury, left the country heavily indebted, and even caused delays in paying the salaries of military generals and cultivators.

It is said that the compensation for the families of the fallen soldiers of Guangda Xia is already so high that it will take twenty years to pay off.

In order to stabilize the situation, Chu Yang had to continue to borrow money from various countries, and at the same time "increase revenue" by forcing prostitutes and decent women in the country to go to other countries to sell their bodies and earn "foreign exchange" to make up for the deficit.

Little did they know that once this anthropomorphic decree was issued, unprecedented unity would be formed among all social classes in the Great Xia Dynasty, which had previously been at odds with each other.

Without a word, they immediately took their families and started profiting, instantly making bachelors everywhere in the Great Xia Kingdom, and even the price of prostitutes increased a hundredfold, leading to widespread public discontent.

After reading the contents of the register, Zhao Jie smiled and said to Yang Rongrong, "Look, your husband has asked me for a favor, and the letter says that you should try your best to satisfy me."

"Impossible! I don't believe it!"

"Then you can see for yourself."

Zhao Jie handed the book to Yang Rongrong.

After she finished reading the contents, her face turned ashen.

Chu Yang, is this really how you treat me?! Are we even husband and wife?