The tenth princess looked at Peng Ze in surprise and wanted to go into the prison, but Gu Hui stopped her: "Your Highness, be careful."
Yan Mo also came over and stopped her: "Xiang'er, please don't go in. The ground is damp, and it might soil Your Highness's clothes. Your Highness has already seen the general of the Great Zhou. Why don't you let Murong accompany Your Highness to leave?"
The Tenth Princess shook her head. Although she stopped and didn't go in, she had no intention of leaving. She looked at Peng Ze and asked, "General Peng, how did you know that I am the Tenth Princess?"
Peng Ze lowered his eyes to avoid looking at the Tenth Princess, so that he wouldn't see Gu Hui. He said in a deep voice, "The winter before last, I sneaked into the capital of the Goddess Kingdom and saw the Tenth Princess traveling."
The Tenth Princess immediately recalled the events of two years ago. The guards had indeed discovered a spy from the Great Zhou, but they hadn't expected that the spy was actually a general of the Great Zhou. If they had known, they would have captured him no matter what.
The Tenth Princess stopped dwelling on the question and asked Peng Ze, "Why does the General call the Crown Prince Yan Mo? Why does he say that the Crown Prince has betrayed the Great Zhou?"
Yan Mo looked calmly at Peng Ze.
Peng Ze had calmed down by now and looked up at the Tenth Princess outside the cell: "The Crown Prince of Southern Xinjiang is Yan Mo, a famous general of the Great Zhou. How could the Tenth Princess not know this? In the Goddess Kingdom, women hold power and men are in charge of the home while women are in charge of external affairs. The fact that the Tenth Princess would marry a man who has lived in the Great Zhou for more than 20 years is truly an eye-opener for me!"
The Tenth Princess smiled and said, "I know that, but I'd like to know how your Great Zhou found out? The original plan was flawless."
Peng Ze was taken aback.
The Tenth Princess continued, "General, you are wrong about one thing. Just because he has lived in the Great Zhou for more than twenty years does not mean that he is a citizen of the Great Zhou. It is not that I am going to marry a man who has lived in the Great Zhou for more than twenty years, but that I am going to marry this man from the Southern Frontier who has lived in the Great Zhou for more than twenty years."
Peng Ze immediately realized: "You had this planned all along? Your Goddess Kingdom's seclusion in a corner of the world was just a facade?"
The Tenth Princess smiled even more brightly: "That's right! The Crown Prince already knows the defense layout of other cities in the Great Zhou, except for Kun City. It's a pity that General Zhou suddenly appeared and disrupted the plan, which is really a shame! General Peng, why don't you hand over the defense map of Kun City? After he succeeds in conquering my Goddess Kingdom, your Peng family, regardless of gender, will all be meritorious officials. Men and women will be equal, and you can do whatever you want. What do you think of my proposal?"
Peng Ze laughed loudly: "Hahahaha, you're dreaming! The Great Zhou's major borders, your mere Goddess Kingdom, actually think you can take their place?"
The Tenth Princess stopped laughing and raised an eyebrow at Peng Ze: "What if we add Chuyun, Shashen, Langge Kingdom, Xingluo Kingdom, Shangxing Kingdom in the southeast, and Yunjiang Kingdom in the northeast? If several countries send troops at the same time, it will be easy to divide up the Great Zhou. General Peng is right. My small Goddess Kingdom can naturally not swallow up the great Zhou. We only want Jiangnan."
Peng Ze's smile vanished.
He looked at Yan Mo, who had joined the army at the age of twelve and had spent more than ten years in the camps of the Great Zhou Dynasty before being stationed in the southern border a few years ago.
If what the Tenth Princess said is true, even if the defense map of Kuncheng was not leaked, the enemy has already grasped the layout of the other cities, which is a bit dangerous.
On second thought, if there were really danger, the other countries would have already taken action. Yan Mo had been guarding the southern border for several years, so they should have obtained it by then. Why didn't they attack?
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