"This..." The old eunuch nodded.
"To be honest, the reason I came to the Great Wall this time is to find a road, a road from the capital to the Xiongnu."
As soon as Jiang Tian heard the old eunuch in purple say those words, he knew what they did.
Just as the rumors had said, the Great Xia Dynasty was preparing to impersonate a palace maid and marry her off to the Xiongnu.
They hoped that by establishing a marriage alliance between the two countries, they could forge a military alliance and jointly resist the Liao Dynasty.
That's like asking a tiger for its skin.
"Is it about marrying the princess?"
The old eunuch in purple was somewhat surprised when he heard this, but after thinking about it again, he was not surprised at all.
"The Great Wall has been infiltrated by the Liao Kingdom. Liao people can freely enter and exit the Great Wall. Now you are sending a fake princess out for a marriage alliance."
The Liao people had long been preparing to seize this marriage procession.
“We are the real princesses who are marrying out.”
Jiang Tian looked around and saw no one else: "You guys are kidding me. Do you think those spy agencies in Liao are just sitting around doing nothing?"
"Where did the Empress get a princess?"
Upon hearing this, the eunuch in purple robes was immediately speechless with astonishment: "His Majesty is a man, so how could there be a female emperor?"
Jiang Tian then popped two more juicy grapes into his mouth.
Do you think everyone in the world is a fool?
"this……"
"I don't have much time to waste chatting with you guys. I still have to deal with Xiao Tianzuo." Jiang Tian felt that there was no point in continuing the conversation with this chief eunuch. "You guys go do what you need to do."
“Young man,” the purple-robed eunuch said, seeing that Jiang Tian had already given him the order to leave, “I haven’t introduced myself yet. I am Lü Fang, the Grand Eunuch of the Imperial Palace.”
"Eunuch Lü, I have other matters to attend to, so I won't disturb you any longer." After saying this, Jiang Tian headed straight for the prison.
"Young man, please wait a moment. My family would like to go with you."
“You…” Jiang Tian looked Lü Fang up and down. “You can’t even walk properly. Going there will only make you suffer.”
"We just want to see Xiao Tianzuo..."
"Then please," Jiang Tian said, handing a bunch of Sunshine Rose oranges to the old eunuch.
The old eunuch Lü Fang followed Jiang Tian, with two eunuchs in red robes following closely behind.
Lu Fang picked two grapes and put them in his mouth to chew. As soon as he bit into the grapes, he was shocked.
In those days, there were no grapes in the Central Plains, let alone this kind of sweet grape with a rose fragrance.
"What is this...?" As the head of the Imperial Household Department, Lü Fang had eaten all kinds of delicious food, but he had never eaten anything so delicious before.
"My snack, grapes, is very precious. A pound of grapes costs a thousand taels of silver, and the supply still can't keep up with the demand."
“This… can you prepare 100 jin for us? I would like to take it back for His Majesty to try.”
"Sure, pay first, and I'll pay you when the goods arrive."
“It’s a deal,” Lü Fang glanced at Liu Jin behind him, “Prepare 100,000 taels of silver.”
"promise……"
...
Inside the prison.
It was pitch black, and the air was filled with the stench of decay and blood.
Rats and cockroaches were everywhere. Xiao Tianzuo was hanging from a pillar, with several rats crawling on his body.
With each step Jiang Tian took, the bedbugs under his feet quickly scattered in all directions.
"Let me go, let me go! You treacherous dogs of Great Xia, I think you all want to die."
Do you know who I am?
"Our Liao cavalry will crush the Great Xia, and I will kill you all, leaving no one alive."
"Release me immediately! The Liao cavalry are right outside the Great Wall, ready to invade at any moment. I will tear you all to pieces."
"Luo Xiaohu, slap him in the face first, beat him until he can't take care of himself."
Luo Xiaohu quickly stepped forward, raised his hand, and slapped Xiao Tianzuo's face repeatedly.
The slaps were loud and clear.
"Luo Xiaohu, are your hands very hard?"
Luo Xiaohu looked at his palms, which were already red from being hit.
Upon hearing Jiang Tian's explanation, he immediately understood.
Luo Xiaohu found a piece of iron and swung it at Xiao Tianzuo's mouth.
Snap snap snap...
The sound kept ringing out.
Xiao Tianzuo's face quickly swelled up, looking like a pig's head.
When Lü Fang and the other eunuchs saw this, they were immediately stunned.
Xiao Tianzuo and Xiao Tianyou were two fierce generals of the Liao Dynasty, and their abilities were extraordinary.
Even the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty wouldn't dare treat Xiao Tianzuo like this.
And so Xiao Tianzuo was beaten into a pig's head.
"Let me go, I'll give you money..." Blood trickled from Xiao Tianzuo's mouth, and a few teeth spurted out as he spoke.
"As long as you let me go, I'll give you whatever you want."
Xiao Tianzuo was no longer as arrogant as before; now he could only plead desperately.
“That’s more like it.” Jiang Tian walked to the stove, picked up the iron tongs, and added a red-hot iron rod. “The sooner you surrender, the sooner you give up resistance, the less you’ll suffer.”
Xiao Tianzuo nodded repeatedly. He had fought on the battlefield for so many years and never thought he would be caught off guard and suffer a setback.
"I'll grant you anything you want, just tell me."
Jiang Tian: "How much do you think you're worth?"
“I think…” Xiao Tianzuo was stunned. Jiang Tian had passed the buck to him.
If he says he's undervalued, then it means he's worthless.
If he says too much, it will be their Liao Kingdom that suffers the loss.
"I... will give you twenty thousand taels of gold."
Before Xiao Tianzuo could finish speaking, the red-hot iron rod in Jiang Tian's hand was plunged into his left hand.
Xiao Tianzuo screamed in agony and almost fainted from the pain.
"You're only worth 20,000 taels of gold?" Jiang Tian pulled the iron rod off Xiao Tianzuo's hand, and a bloody smell mixed with the smell of burnt flesh quickly hit them.
[Ding, Xiao Tianzuo's rage value +3521]
Holy crap, Xiao Tianzuo's anger level starts with 3.
"Then... how much gold do you want?" Xiao Tianzuo didn't know how to answer. He felt that no matter how much money he asked for, Jiang Tian's iron rod would come at him.
Jiang Tian beckoned to Liu Jin, the red-robed eunuch beside him: "Xiao Tianzuo is a major threat to your court. I'll give you a chance. If you can afford the price, I'll help you bury him. How about it?"
Jiang Tian's offer is quite tempting.
If we can kill Xiao Tianzuo, we will definitely get rid of a major threat to the Great Xia Dynasty.
“We’ll pay Xiao Tianzuo double whatever he offers,” Lü Fang said without hesitation, holding up two fingers.
"Spare me!" Xiao Tianzuo screamed in agony. "I'll do anything you ask if you can let me go."
Money is no problem. Besides money, you can have cattle, sheep, beautiful women... everything you could want, I'll give it all to you.
Jiang Tian handed the red-hot iron rod to Liu Jin: "Here, take this. You are a royal eunuch. If you kill Xiao Tianzuo, your emperor will surely reward you handsomely when you return."
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