"I'll count to three. If you still don't release the Prime Minister, I will kill you and your whole body!" Xiao Ce had already made sufficient preparations. After taking Lin Jinghan and Mu Wenyao away, he secretly detained everyone in the Lin's Glass Shop!
"No need to count!" Lin Jinghan smiled mercilessly.
"Tell me, which is more valuable, the Prime Minister's life or their lives? If my friend dies, I can just find another one. If I die myself, it would be too much of a loss!"
Lin Jinghan suddenly put away the smile on her face and stabbed Lin Jingshan's arm. The blood instantly soaked his official robe red.
"Every time you threaten me, there will be another hole in the Prime Minister's body! Every time you hurt one of my people, there will be one less thing in the Prime Minister's body!"
Comparing ruthlessness with her? If it were in the past, maybe she would still be timid, but now, she has already seen the bloodshed like a river, and now he doesn't care about this little fight!
"In that case, I'll start with your brother." Xiao Ce waved his hand, and someone came over holding Lin Lixuan.
Lin Jinghan took out a golden needle and pricked Lin Jingshan to make sure he couldn't move, then took out a medicine bottle.
"Commander Xiao may not know that I not only sell colored glass, but I also used to sell medicine. This bottle of poison is enough to kill everyone in this passage! I advise Commander Xiao to carefully consider whether he wants everyone here to go to hell with us ordinary people!"
Xiao Ce looked at the medicine bottle in Lin Jinghan's hand cautiously. He didn't quite believe what she said in his heart, but he didn't dare to gamble. He was about to be promoted, and it would be too unprofitable for him to fall into the hands of a businessman at this time, not to mention that the other party had the prime minister in his hands.
"What do you want?" Xiao Ce compromised.
"I don't care about anything. I just want to run my business peacefully. You claim my official endorsement is fake, so please produce evidence and conduct a public trial, rather than abusing lynching. If you really don't want a public trial, that's fine too. Just release us and clear our name, and don't interfere with my business in the future. Otherwise, you can have the person who ordered you to frame me come out to face me."
Lin Jinghan looked helpless, took out another medicine bottle, and forced the Prime Minister to take a pill.
"But you better hurry up, the Prime Minister only has three hours left."
The official recognition of the fraud was just an excuse for them to close the Lin’s Glass Shop. Xiao Ce looked at Prime Minister Lin, who nodded. Xiao Ce left immediately and went straight to the palace, telling the emperor exactly what Lin Jinghan had said.
"Oh? Did he really say that? Interesting..." The emperor signed a peace treaty with Nanzhao just after taking office. He was so proud and in a good mood that he actually left the palace directly and went to the Beijing Defense Camp.
Lin Jinghan dragged Lin Xiang to the main hall of the Beijing Machinery Defense Camp and saw the emperor sitting at the top.
Ouyang Ji looked honest and simple, but the eyes he looked at her were very deep and hard to understand. It was obvious that he was a scheming man who pretended to be a pig and was actually a tiger. Lin Jinghan pushed Lin Jingshan to a chair beside her and bowed seriously.
"Your Highness."
Kneeling was impossible for her, so she just bowed and then stood up. Her attitude was even more perfunctory than when she dealt with the prime minister. After all, the prime minister was the biological father of this body, and she had no psychological burden to bow to him. But the emperor was just a stranger to her. She had no idea of imperial power in her bones. We were all human beings, so why should she kneel to him?
"You caused a big disturbance in the Beijing Defense Camp, kidnapped and harmed the Prime Minister. Give me a reason not to kill you." The emperor did not care about her rudeness. Instead, he was more curious about how she got the courage to let the emperor come to see her.
Yes, the emperor firmly believed that the businessman in front of him had long known that it was he, the emperor, who was in charge of all this.
Lin Jinghan did not answer him directly, but asked:
"There are four great nations in the Profound Sky Continent—Donglin, Xiqi, Nanzhao, and Beijiang. Your Majesty, what do you think of Donglin's national strength compared to these four nations?"
The emperor became more interested. "What do you think?"
Lin Jinghan was tired of standing, so she simply chose a chair to sit down.
"Your Majesty, this is what you asked me. If I say something unpleasant, you can't kill me for that reason!"
"Okay, I pardon you." The emperor actually looked forward to her answer.
"Excuse me for being blunt, but in terms of combat power, Nanzhao's poison technique ranks first, Xiqi's supernatural power ranks first, and Beijiang's witchcraft ranks first. Although we have many warriors in Donglin, we can only count the Martial Saints on one hand, right? So, in terms of combat power, Donglin ranks fourth.
"In terms of financial resources, Xiqi has the most rare treasures; Nanzhao Liuli is the best in the continent, and its unique medicinal herbs are sold to various countries at high prices; Beijiang's production of various minerals ranks first in the entire continent; although our Donglin is also very rich, its overall financial resources are probably at the bottom.
"This is why we suffered repeated defeats in our wars with Nanzhao before Sikong Zhan became King of Jingnan."
"Go on." As the emperor of Donglin, when he heard others say that Donglin was inferior to other countries in every way, the emperor was not angry, but looked forward to what she would say next.
“If we want to change the situation where Donglin is at the bottom, we must find ways to undermine the advantages of other countries while strengthening our own national strength.
"However, combat power cannot be accumulated overnight, so our changes can only start with financial resources."
Lin Jinghan poured herself a cup of tea, drank it slowly, and waited for the emperor to speak.
"You want to increase our country's financial resources by selling colored glaze." The emperor said in an affirmative tone.
Lin Jinghan nodded, and without any concealment, she took out a jade slip from the medical space, and then used her inner strength to hold it in front of the emperor.
"This is the cooperation plan I drafted with the Donglin government. Your Majesty, please review it."
Just as the Pingnan Marquis Mansion once asked Lin Jinghan, it is impossible for the court not to intervene in something as profitable and special as Liuli.
So she had thought about this step from the beginning, because she didn't know what kind of person the new emperor was. For this reason, he had prepared several different versions of the cooperation plan:
If the new emperor is a foolish, incompetent, and hedonistic person, then she will talk to him directly about money, give him a few more percentage points of profit in the cooperation plan, and then promise to build her a magnificent palace with colored glaze.
However, she naturally would not allow herself to suffer losses. She would tamper with the account books so that the apparent profit was not high, and the emperor's share would naturally be less.
If the new emperor is mediocre and incompetent, only suitable for defending the country, then she will exaggerate the threat posed by Nanzhao to Donglin, making the emperor feel a sense of crisis, and then package herself as a conscientious businessman who cares about the country and the people, and encourage the emperor to agree to his development of Liuli into a national treasure of Donglin, so as to suppress Nanzhao.
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