Yang Qingzhi remained calm and asked again, "Tell me your conditions."
"First, you should selectively forget what you've seen when you get back. You've never met any young prime minister, and I, Zhao Cheng, have never been to this Ling Mountain."
"Can."
Zhao Wu, still holding his knife, said, "Master, his words are not enough!"
“This kind of thing can only be a gentleman’s agreement,” Yang Qingzhi explained. “I know the young prime minister’s concerns. The Jingguo court has been suppressing the right prime minister, and the young prime minister doesn’t want to be too high-profile, lest it arouse suspicion from Changsui.”
"For my family and Southern Weekly, we do not want the Right Chancellor to fall."
Zhao Cheng asked, "Do you really expect my father to help you move the mountain of Champion King?"
"That's something we wouldn't dare to hope for. But with the Right Chancellor around, there's always an element of uncertainty surrounding the Jingguo Court for us."
Zhao Cheng smiled bitterly: "Look at the state my father is in... Not only is he suspected by the emperor of his own country, but even the emperors of other countries are suspicious of him!"
"Young Prime Minister, please rest assured. Putting that aside, I, Yang Qingzhi, will never break my promise."
Yang Qingzhi clasped his hands in a fist and said, "Let me state the second condition."
Zhao Cheng walked up to Yang Qingzhi and said condescendingly, "You have quite a few spies in the thirteen cities of Jingdong, don't you?"
Yang Qingzhi sighed, looked up at Zhao Wu, and said, "Let's do it."
They were having a good conversation when Yang Qingzhi suddenly blurted out something that completely baffled Zhao Wu.
"Master, he..."
Yang Qingzhi said seriously, "Don't even mention the condition of exchanging your life for the betrayal of the heroes of my Southern Zhou."
"When did I say I wanted you to betray them?"
What's the rush?
Didn't your father teach you to listen to what people have to say?
Zhao Cheng glanced at Yang Qingzhi with annoyance and said, "What I mean is, since you have so many spies in the thirteen cities of Jingdong, hurry up and contact them to raise the ransom for you!"
"What? Ransom... ransom??" Yang Qingzhi looked bewildered, thinking he had misheard.
"That's right, pay the ransom, and it's a clean break! I, Zhao Cheng, am a man of principle. As long as you have enough money, I will let you go unharmed!"
Upon hearing this, Yang Qingzhi was completely horrified!
"You asked me about the spies in the thirteen cities of Jingdong, and you're not asking me to take them out, but to ask them to raise money for you?"
"You... the dignified young prime minister of the Right Prime Minister's residence..."
"They actually asked me for money???"
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