"Hahaha, how ridiculous! How ridiculous!"
Empress Dowager Xin, ignoring the knife held to her neck, couldn't help but sneer.
Looking at those ministers, each of them felt a chill.
"You are all confused. You keep saying that he is my son and that you have hurt the concubines in the harem, but have you ever thought about who is responsible for this situation?"
"If you weren't so greedy for wealth and glory, would you have sent your daughters to the palace? Would you have pushed your children into the fire?"
"His Majesty never intended to hold a selection of concubines. It was only because of your repeated pressure that he agreed to allow you to send your daughters into the harem. Before the Empress entered the palace, His Majesty was always diligent and never set foot in the harem, nor did he touch your daughters in the slightest."
"His Majesty even issued an edict asking the concubines who were willing to leave the palace and live the life they wanted, but what were your answers?"
"Once a child is married, she is like water spilled from a cup. We will no longer accept her back home. The Emperor did not say anything and continued to raise her in the harem."
"But what do you mean by this? Are you joining Grand Secretary Liu in this nonsense?"
Upon hearing the Empress Dowager's words, the ministers all lowered their heads. Some ministers had lost their previous anger, and were now only ashamed and embarrassed.
"Shut up, you old hag, it's not your place to speak here." Seeing that the ministers were making a move, Tong Chunfang increased the pressure of the dagger in her hand, making the wound on the Empress Dowager's neck even deeper.
Upon seeing this, Li Qishang became extremely agitated and, disregarding everything else, used his lightness skill to fly towards Tong Chunfang.
"Your Highness~" Seeing that her prince had already started to make a move, Shang Yao called out and flew over there.
Su Xu was speechless. Why didn't they discuss it with each other? Were they just going to confront each other head-on?
He then joined the melee himself. Seeing the fighting break out, the ministers all scattered and hid, creating a chaotic scene.
Half of Ji Shang's secret guards had left, while the other half remained in the palace to protect the Emperor and the Prince. Now, they all jumped out and began to hack and slash at the treacherous officials.
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Guan Zhiyue and the others were unaware of the turmoil in the capital. Now they were in a real predicament. The Japanese had actually destroyed all their ships, so they could not go out to sea and could not send troops to attack the Japanese directly.
"Damn it, these Japanese pirates are truly despicable and vile, resorting to such underhanded tactics."
Upon hearing the report from his soldiers, Li Qiji clenched his fist and then whispered, "Repair the ships as soon as possible, and also go and buy ships from merchant caravans that have them."
"Yes, I'll take care of it right away." Chen Jianjun left.
Guan Zhiyue frowned. These Japanese didn't want them to attack their country. Without ships, they couldn't go to the other side of the sea and could only wait for the Japanese to come. Wouldn't that put them in a very passive position? That was unacceptable no matter what.
"Little Tuantuan, can we buy a warship?"
Guan Zhiyue asked directly. She didn't want to wait any longer. These humiliations needed to be released as soon as possible. They had dragged it out for so long, they couldn't delay any longer, they had no choice but to take a gamble.
"Hmm, sure, Master. But what do you have in exchange?"
Rosamund Kwan: ....
What do you want?
Little Tuantuan thought for a moment and said, "I don't know, then why don't you buy it yourself, Master?"
"Okay, how much do you want?"
Xiao Tuantuan nonchalantly rolled over in the space, then pulled up the price list of the warships and placed it in mid-air.
Guan Zhiyue saw the introduction floating in mid-air in her mind.
Warships with more than three thousand people cannot sail far and their equipment is not very sophisticated, but they are equipped with a large number of people and cost five million taels.
Warships with more than two people cannot sail far. Their equipment is of medium condition, but they can carry a considerable number of people and cost 3.5 million taels.
A warship with over a thousand crew members, excellent equipment, and an extremely long launch range, but with a small crew and high stability, costs eleven million taels.
A precision warship with over 900 crew members, excellent equipment, long range, long firing range, sophisticated weaponry, and strong stability, priced at 29 million taels.
...
Guan Zhiyue instantly felt that this wretched space was taking advantage of her misfortune, trying to kill her on the spot. Did she have that much money? Even the Emperor didn't seem to have that much money, right? Wasn't this just sending someone to their death?
"How about it, Master? Do you want to buy more than 900 people? Little Tuantuan can recommend that you buy it together with a set of 3,000 people."
"However, the stability of those three thousand people isn't great, I'm just worried..."
Guan Zhiyue quickly raised her hand to stop him. She wasn't even ready to leave yet, and this kid was already saying unlucky things. Wasn't that making her very upset?
"This is too expensive. It's like you're trying to suck people's blood. You're exploiting us too much. You need to make it cheaper right away."
Xiao Tuantuan: "..." It's really hard for me to make money too, you know.
Guan Zhiyue was pacing back and forth in the tent when Li Qiji walked in from outside. He saw that Guan Zhiyue was still wandering around. She was wandering around before he left, and she was still wandering around when he came back.
"Yue'er, why don't you rest for a bit? What are you wandering around for?"
Guan Zhiyue sighed and said, "I was thinking, weren't our ships destroyed? Where are we going to buy so many ships? Those merchant caravans definitely won't sell their ships; they're their tools for making money."
"After all, we still have so many people to support."
Li Qiji frowned. He didn't have a good solution either. After all, the navy was a newly formed force, so he was still somewhat helpless when it came to the problem of the ship.
"How much money can the national treasury take out? We can buy high-quality iron-made warships in space, the kind that are equipped with cannons, and then we can just bomb their country and shut them up."
The little Tuan Tuan inside the space said, "Master, if that's what you're thinking, you might as well just buy fighter jets. Anyway, you're going to blow everyone up, whether they're civilians or soldiers, so you might as well just wipe them all out at once."
Guan Zhiyue's lips twitched upon hearing Xiao Tuantuan's words. This was a move to eliminate all traces of the problem, leaving no one alive.
Li Qiji noticed that Guan Zhiyue was constantly frowning, then relaxing her brows, and he didn't know what she was doing. It was like she was performing a theatrical show, changing her expression every now and then.
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