He was so worried about money that he was going bald, and then a gold mine came along!
After the emperor cleaned up the tea stains, he immediately promised Hua Jing that he would definitely send a telegram to the Western Regions. However, he frowned. The Western Regions still had to be second in line. After all, the small Liang Kingdom was now a small Liang County of the Great Jin Dynasty. As the saying goes, he couldn't just ignore his own people and go to develop a foreign tribe first.
The emperor's words did not mean that he wanted the Western Regions to be incorporated into the Great Jin Dynasty. Well... he did have that idea, but not now.
The Western Regions are in a rather chaotic state, and the Great Jin Dynasty is currently too busy focusing on development to have the energy to deal with them.
Hua Jing was somewhat disappointed, but since the Great Jin Dynasty had many vassal states, ranking second was not bad.
After watching Hua Jing leave, the emperor sat there sighing. Now that he no longer had to worry about money, he began to worry about the country's strength.
If he had ample weapons and a brave army, he wouldn't have to worry about the chaos in the Western Regions. He could have used the electricity to bring the Western Regions under his control. Sigh.
The emperor sighed deeply; the world was a constant source of worry for him.
However, before he could even worry for two days, he felt an earthquake while he was in the palace. At that time, he was playing with the little princess in the empress's palace. He was so frightened that his two old, cold legs ran at the speed of a hundred-meter sprint. He held his little daughter in one hand and pulled the empress with the other, leaving the eunuchs who came to help him far behind.
Once outside, the earthquake stopped. The little princess blinked her innocent eyes under the emperor's arm, while the empress asked breathlessly, "What happened?"
Everyone looked towards the north outside the palace. When they saw the mushroom cloud rising there, the emperor's narrowed eyes suddenly lit up. He remembered that the northern suburbs outside the city were where the manufacturing camp tested new weapons!
He immediately sent someone to inquire, but the person who went to inquire met the manufacturing battalion commander who was coming to report on the matter on the way, and the two returned together.
Upon seeing the visitor, the emperor asked hopefully what the sound had been!
The manufacturing battalion commander, a middle-aged man with a black beard, was now so excited that his beard trembled. "Tang Fengxing and Chuanwu have developed the big package! That was the sound of the cannon being tested just now!"
"How was the result?"
The emperor asked nervously.
The manufacturing battalion commander was right there during the experiment, and recalling the scene now, his heart was still pounding, and his voice became even more excited: "The range is within a kilometer, and the power can shatter mountains and rocks!"
The emperor's tension turned into excitement, and he almost dropped the baby from his hands, only to be caught by the empress.
Upon receiving this good news, the emperor couldn't sleep that night, partly out of joy and partly because he was thinking about how to expand his territory.
However, before he could even make a move the next day, Hua Jing came to him, saying that he was willing to become a part of the Great Jin Dynasty like the Little Liang Kingdom, but that they must be the first to send a telegram to the Western Regions in consideration of their contribution of a gold mine.
The emperor did not agree immediately. He frowned and thought, "Even if it's to get electricity as soon as possible, is it really necessary to abandon the country?"
Something's definitely fishy going on here!
Hua Jing was a little embarrassed. This morning, she received another urgent secret letter from her elder brother, the Emperor. The letter said that the northern horse tribe had harassed them again, and had abducted many of their people, cattle, and sheep. They had fought the enemy five times, but had only won once. In the most recent battle, they suffered heavy losses, and in this final battle, her little nephew was kidnapped by a spy secretly infiltrated by the horse tribe!
So at this time, they wanted to latch onto the powerful Jin Dynasty. After all, being invaded by the Ma tribe meant either death or a fate worse than death, while joining the Jin Dynasty meant not only avoiding death but also enjoying many benefits.
Although Hua Jing was heartbroken—in other words, this meant the fall of the kingdom—their tribe's fighting strength had been greatly diminished after the previous internal strife. Given how things had developed, a decision had to be made.
So, despite the heartache, Hua Jing was helpless.
However, she still used a little trick: before the emperor agreed to accept them, she did not reveal the plight of the Western Regions, so that she could also secure more benefits.
However, at that moment, someone outside requested an audience, saying that the military general stationed in the Western Regions had sent an urgent secret letter.
Hua Jing frowned. After suffering heavy losses before, the Western Regions had never invaded the Great Jin. Why would they send an urgent secret letter?
She wasn't stupid. The Emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty received the secret letter at the same time as she did, and it must have been about the same thing. How could the Great Jin garrison know so much about the Western Regions?
There's only one possibility: besides the spies from the Ma tribe, there are also spies from the Great Jin Dynasty infiltrated into their Western Regions!
The emperor was a little embarrassed, but he still had someone present the secret letter. Anyway, Hua Jing couldn't come over and take the letter to read. As long as he didn't say anything, the secret would remain unbroken.
Besides, he did plant spies in the Western Regions, but didn't the Western Regions plant spies in the Great Jin? Putting aside everything else, this Hua Jing in front of us is a blatant spy!
Thinking of this, the emperor read the secret letter without any psychological pressure. After reading it, he understood why the Western Regions were so eager to curry favor with the Great Jin Dynasty.
Now Hua Jing was in a bit of an awkward position. He wanted to get more benefits from them, but now he didn't have the chance. So he revealed the situation in the Western Regions in its entirety, which made him seem open and honest.
After saying this, the emperor agreed that Hua Jing could immediately send troops to the Western Regions, and that because they had donated a gold mine, they could be the first to help the Western Regions after the Great Jin Dynasty completed its construction.
Hua Jing was a little surprised, and the emperor said, "Fei'er is not only a prince of your Western Regions and your nephew, but also a descendant of the royal family of our Great Jin, my grand-nephew!"
Hmph! How dare they kidnap his grand-nephew! He'll show that horse tribe why flowers are so red!
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