Noticing that the atmosphere of the meeting had been deviated, Xia Zhe felt quite bored.
After giving these instructions, he stood up, yawned, stretched, turned around and walked out of the hall.
Lillian followed closely behind, keeping pace.
The high priest followed closely, having something on his mind.
In the blink of an eye, the three disappeared, leaving only the ministers and guards in the meeting hall.
The three generals stood up in fear, looked at each other in silence, and left silently.
Several ministers who had just criticized the Prime Minister also left in embarrassment.
The remaining few gathered around the Prime Minister, whispering to each other, explaining that if the king didn't express his opinion, they would respond to the high priest.
However, the Prime Minister did not pay attention to what everyone said.
He just stared at the door through which Xia Zhe left, with a complicated expression, muttering to himself.
"Perhaps, I am truly wrong. My king is truly unfathomable!"
When I returned to the study, it was already noon.
Lillian brought two maids to prepare lunch for Xia Zhe.
Stoby is a small town, so there aren't many good places to eat. Lillian placed the plate of wheat cakes in the most prominent position.
Suspecting that the wheat cakes were poisonous, Xia Zhe certainly wouldn't eat them.
He would rather eat a lot of things cooked with either butter or mutton fat, even though the taste was not very good.
Before they finished their meal, the high priest came in.
"My king, I have something important to report!" The high priest went straight to the point.
"Go ahead." Xia Zhe replied.
Although he was in a bad mood, he was still quite satisfied with the high priest Xia Zhe.
In the meeting hall this morning, if the high priest had not spoken out in support, it would have been much more troublesome to protect the traitorous Prime Minister.
"Three days ago, our army defeated the bandit group and captured dozens of prisoners. After day and night interrogation by this old minister, we found that the identity of one of them was extremely unique. If we can win him over, perhaps he can bring reinforcements to our city in the future to fight against the Macedonian threat together!" said the high priest.
Hearing this, Xia Zhe's face darkened.
Reinforcements?
I'm begging to be removed from office, why do I need reinforcements?
It would be best if the small town of Stobi surrendered directly when the Macedonian army attacked in the future.
To prevent myself, who had become a civilian by then, from being accidentally injured.
Noticing that Xia Zhe did not show any joy, the high priest did not dare to delay and immediately clapped his hands three times.
Then, two guards came in, leading a young barbarian.
"I was just careless for a moment, which is why I capsized in the gutter! I can't possibly form an alliance with a lowly, trashy force like you! Stop dreaming!"
Before Xia Zhe could say anything, the barbarian youth spoke proudly.
He was clearly a prisoner, yet he exuded an intimidating aura.
On the contrary, the two guards who accompanied him, and even the high priest, lacked the dignity of a victor.
"Second Prince, this is the king of our city! Three days ago, it was he who personally devised the magical tactics to send the scattered soldiers into the woods and defeat you!" The high priest pointed at Xia Zhe and introduced him.
The tactic of skirmishing into the woods that he personally decided on?
Upon hearing this, Xia Zhe and the barbarian youth were stunned.
Just now, Lillian said that she had defeated the enemy three days ago, but Xia Zhe did not think about it carefully.
At this moment, the high priest brought up the old matter again, and Xia Zhe suddenly remembered.
When I first arrived in your territory, it seemed that you were indeed at war, and I did offer a few tactical suggestions.
However, my mind was not clear at that time, and what I said was clearly my gaming experience.
After waking up for the second time, I felt extremely embarrassed every time I thought about it. I wanted to find a hole in the ground to crawl into!
Could it be that those nonsense words really worked?
"The scattered soldiers went into the woods and disrupted my infantry phalanx! It turns out that this unconventional style of play was arranged by you! I admire you so much! As the saying goes, all is fair in war. I admit defeat after losing to this strange plan!" The young barbarian sighed.
After being harassed by the high priest for three days, the barbarian youth never even looked at the high priest once.
But when he heard that he was defeated by Xia Zhe, his arrogance obviously subsided.
"My king, please listen to my introduction. This noble young man is not the leader of the bandit army. He is the second prince of the Little Maitali tribe, which controls three cities in the north. He is very likely to become the future king of the tribe! This time he is traveling with the bandit army just to subdue this group of bandits and expand the strength of the tribe!" The high priest introduced him to Xia Zhe again.
"Hahaha, thank you for the compliment! Let's be frank. My Little Maitali's military strength is more than ten times that of your rubbish little city! It's impossible for us to form an alliance with you! If you know what's good for you, let me go quickly, and I can let you go! Otherwise, it will be easy for me to flatten this little broken city of yours!" The Second Prince laughed and continued.
Upon hearing this, the high priest's face changed.
What the Second Prince said was exactly what he was most worried about.
Therefore, after finding out the identity of this person, the high priest only dared to provide him with good food and drink, and did not dare to let him lose a single hair.
The second prince of the barbarian tribe!
Ten times the military strength of my city!
Hearing this, Xia Zhe was excited.
The opportunity has come again, right?
Don’t those ministers not support the Prime Minister and praise me for my wisdom and bravery?
If I caused a big mess, such as crippling this arrogant and annoying Second Prince, it would further deepen the crisis in my city.
Can you guys finally wake up and unite to remove me?
Thinking of this, Xia Zhe subconsciously looked around.
When I saw the plates on the table, I had a plan in mind.
"It turns out to be the Second Prince. My apologies! Since you are here, please have some snacks first. We can talk slowly later." Xia Zhe said.
As he spoke, he pointed to the most conspicuous plate on the table.
Inside were the wheat cakes that Lillian had made.
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