The meeting hall of the four major families.
The four clan leaders began to taste the tea with great trepidation, but pretended to be calm on the surface.
After Ye Rongjun gulped down two cups of tea, he couldn't help himself and asked:
"Do you think our envoys will be able to negotiate with Jiang Chiling smoothly this time? Are the manpower we have prepared sufficient? I heard that Dagan has a terrifying shadow guard who kills people without being seen."
"Hahaha, why are you panicking? Here, we have the final say." Blind Zhao smiled proudly.
Liu Ji put down his teacup, glanced outside the door, and said in a deep voice:
“I’m back!”
Sure enough, a group of people rushed in hurriedly from outside the door. They were the group of "ambassadors" who went to negotiate!
As soon as they arrived at the meeting hall, they knelt down immediately, kowtowed, and spoke at once.
Jian Ru poked the crutch, and an angry look appeared on his old face. He shouted:
"Speak one by one! Speak clearly!"
"Yes, yes, we've already gone to meet that Jiang Chiling. She's very powerful, and she brought with her a large number of soldiers. It looks like there are over a hundred thousand of them, and every one of them is fully armored..."
"Also, they had two great scholars with them. One of them wrote a poem for Jiang Chiling, and the sky changed color. It turned red, like blood. It must be the legendary crimson war poem."
At this point, the four clan leaders raised their eyebrows, their faces filled with shock.
"What? The Crimson War Poem?"
"Did you see it clearly? It's really a crimson war poem?"
Several emissaries patted their chests and assured, "It was the crimson war poem. We saw it correctly. When the poem was completed, it exerted a powerful pressure. We barely withstood the pressure and did not bring shame to the four major families. However, when we were thinking of going up to negotiate with Jiang Chiling, they had already led their troops to the Great Wall of Fortune..."
Liu Jimang slammed his palm on the table: "So, you didn't even get to talk to her, right?"
"Chief, at that time, at that time..."
"Useless! A bunch of useless people! Sending a bunch of spineless people like you to negotiate is a disgrace to our four major families. When have we ever bowed our heads?"
Liu Ji was furious and waved his hand: "Come here, drag him out and chop him up!"
"Ah... Chief, please spare me. Please spare me!"
"Don't kill us, let's go now, find Jiang Chiling now..."
But no one cared about these so-called messengers. If they didn't kill them, they would think that the four major families were afraid of Jiang Chiling.
Killing them is to tell everyone in the four major families that if they dare to retreat and be timid, the end will be death.
Crack, crack! !
The group of messengers were dragged to the door and hacked to death on the spot, their heads falling off...
"Chief, Chief—"
Just at this moment, Manager Zhao Ke ran in in a panic:
"A few Shadow Guards came outside, saying they were here to convey Jiang Chiling's order to summon the four clan leaders!"
The four clan leaders' expressions changed again, and they bravely stood up.
Blind Zhao said angrily, "What are you panicking about? You worthless fellow! Go out and tell them we're busy."
"But, but the clan leader. They said that we must go see Jiang Chiling immediately, otherwise, otherwise..." Manager Zhao Ke thought for a moment and finally used a relatively calm word:
"Otherwise, you will suffer the consequences."
Ye Rongjun thought for a moment and said, "We still have to face it eventually. Why not go meet this Jiang Chiling and see what she wants to do?"
"Hmph, what else can you do? Isn't it just food?" Liu Ji hit the nail on the head.
During this period, they hardly sold any food to the Great Wall Army.
Now that Jiang Li has arrived at the Great Wall of Fortune, the first thing he must do is to solve the food problem.
Jian Ru chuckled, "Everyone, as the saying goes, a new official starts with three fires. What's more, this is the dignified Empress who has come here. If we really want to confront her head-on, we will suffer a little loss. But what if we have no food? Can she really eat us?"
Everyone understood immediately. Blind Zhao's single eye shone with a sharp light as he said loudly:
"That's right. When the time comes, we can also become a king of a different surname without bloodshed. I've even thought of a title for him: the King of Grain! Haha!"
"Everyone, let's go back and prepare some things before going to see the empress. Humph, can a little girl really turn the world upside down?" Jian Ru whispered a few more words, and the other three listened and praised her.
Not long after, the four clan leaders took their things and went to meet the Shadow Guard.
When they saw the powerful aura emanating from those Shadow Guards, the four clan leaders felt a little timid.
"Let's go!"
The Shadow Guards didn't say much, just followed orders and took the four of them to see His Majesty Jiang Li.
Along the way, the four clan leaders once again saw the Shadow Guards and the Imperial Guards, and they were suddenly glad that they did not start a war immediately.
Finally, they were brought to the top of the mountain where the sky defense was located.
There was layer upon layer of white snow, the north wind was howling, and the cold was biting.
Jiang Li's tall figure stood on the edge of the cliff, her beautiful eyes gazing at the Great Wall of Destiny in front of her.
Most of the original white mist has dissipated, and now the outline of the Great Wall of Fortune can be seen. The towering Great Wall stands tall and majestic, like a giant dragon lying across the sky.
The four clan leaders were brought to a place ten meters away from Jiang Li. They looked at each other nervously, not knowing whether they should salute.
Looking at Jiang Li's beautiful, independent figure, the four clan leaders were stunned for a moment, and then felt ashamed of themselves.
"The four clan leaders—"
Jiang Li suddenly turned around, his beautiful eyes emitting the sharpness unique to an emperor, and he said coldly with imperial majesty:
"When will the Great Wall Army's food be delivered?"
Plop!!
Jian Ru was the first to kneel down and said in pain, "Your Majesty, it's not that we don't want to sell to the Great Wall Army, it's just that we don't have any food."
"Yes, yes, yes. These years, we have been tightening our belts to make ends meet. We have to offer our crops to the Great Wall Army even if we don't eat them ourselves. But there has been no harvest at all in the past two years." Blind Zhao also knelt down and spoke.
Seeing that both of them knelt down, Ye Rongjun and Liu Ji didn't dare to stand anymore and knelt down as well.
"Your Majesty, you've seen it too. It's a desolate place with snow all year round. It's really impossible to grow any food."
Jiang Li frowned and interrupted, "Don't act so pretentiously in front of me. The Great Wall Army is fighting on the front lines, defending our country. You're taking the food and raising the price. Are you courting death?"
"I'll give you one day! Send the food here, or I'll personally send soldiers to your mansion to take it!"
The four clan leaders lowered their heads and looked at each other.
Jian Ru took something out of her arms tremblingly, and when she opened it, she found it was an imperial edict.
"Your Majesty, we, we have been pardoned by the late Emperor of Dagan. We are not the people of Dagan."
"If you're going to force your way through this to seize grain, are you unwilling to obey the late emperor's decree? Is Dagan a government that doesn't keep its word?"
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