How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

"Light up the lights." Relying on the fact that Sheng Shihuai would not do anything to him, Xie Chengze showed his royal arrogance to the fullest, "Put some cushions on the chairs. This palace hates cold and cannot stand the cold."

Sheng Shihuai narrowed his eyes, looking at Xie Chengze's beautiful face full of arrogance, and felt a trace of disgust in his heart.

But that trace of disgust quickly disappeared.

Well, the second prince has the capital to be arrogant.

Sheng Shihuai thought indifferently, what's more, the second prince is not the blood of Emperor Jian, so what's wrong with being a little arrogant as long as he can be used by himself?

He looked around the room but didn't find anything cushioned. He was about to reply to Xie Chengze when he saw that Xie Chengze seemed to have known what he had said and looked at his coat with burning eyes.

"This outer coat worn by Mr. Sheng looks quite soft..." Xie Chengze said with a hint of meaning, almost saying it explicitly.

Sheng Shihuai: ...

This is a fur coat that he specially asked an embroiderer from another place to fill and sew with duck down. It is very expensive, and he really knows how to choose.

Taking a deep breath, Sheng Shihuai hypnotized himself: He deserves it, he deserves it...

This is a man who can make gunpowder and hidden arrows. Putting aside his identity as a perfect puppet, this alone is worth it for him to win him over.

Emperor Jian already has the secret recipe for gunpowder and the production drawings of sleeve arrows. If he still wants to accomplish his great cause, he must get these two items to narrow the military gap between the two sides.

Therefore, Sheng Shihuai resigned himself to his fate and placed his fur coat on the wooden chair. A friendly smile appeared on his handsome young face. "It is a blessing for him to relieve your highness's worries."

Xie Chengze sat on it and rubbed it a few times on purpose, "Well, Envoy Sheng is very ideologically conscious and a good comrade. I am very satisfied with him."

Sheng Shihuai: ...

I don’t understand, never mind, I guess it’s a good word.

Sheng Shihuai kept a smile on his face, and then he looked at the food box, "Then I wonder if I will be lucky enough to taste the dumplings made by Your Highness?"

"Yeah." Although he said it generously, Xie Chengze felt pain in his heart. He opened the lunch box and took out the plate with only four dumplings left. "I'll give you one as a reward."

"In fact, I haven't had dinner yet. I'm starving right now. I wonder if Your Highness could give me a few more?" Sheng Shihuai looked at Xie Chengze's unwilling expression and felt that the anger he had just suffered was relieved. He smiled and said, "After all, Your Highness loves me like a son. Since he is willing to travel thousands of miles to save Lord Shen, he will definitely not let me go hungry."

Xie Chengze really wanted to say that there was no comparison between the two of you, but obviously he couldn't say it. He could only watch Sheng Shihuai pick up the dumplings and stuff three dumplings into his mouth in a lightning speed.

what! ! !

Xie Chengze screamed in his heart instantly, and quickly protected the ugliest dumpling. He raised his head and glared at Sheng Shihuai, "Are you the reincarnation of a starving ghost? At least leave one for me!"

Damn it, I should have poisoned the dumplings!

It would be best to poison him to death!

Sheng Shihuai took out a handkerchief and wiped his mouth, smiling very contentedly, "Your Highness's cooking skills are really good, I am so lucky."

Xie Chengze wanted to cry but had no tears.

He made ten dumplings in total! Now there is only one left, and it is the ugliest one!

"Huh? What is this?" Sheng Shihuai glanced at the egg soup in the lunch box and was about to reach out to take it.

"Stop!" Xie Chengze quickly slapped his hand away, and like a little chicken guarding its food, he quickly packed up the food box and cursed, "If you're hungry, ask the cook to cook for you! You've finished eating, what should I eat?"

"Ah, I am too hasty and thoughtless." Sheng Shihuai seemed to have just reacted, and a guilty look appeared on his face. Then he remembered something and took out a purple jade ring from his thumb. "How about giving this thing to Your Highness as compensation?"

The Second Prince has always loved treasures, so he would be tempted. It would be a good deal to use this item to establish a relationship with Xie Chengze.

Xie Chengze glanced at the jade ring, and his originally angry face suddenly changed, and his usual greedy smile appeared on his face.

"It's just three dumplings. Since Envoy Sheng likes them, just eat them." Xie Chengze accepted the jade ring happily and looked at it lovingly in the candlelight. "The jade is transparent and flawless. It makes you feel warm when you touch it. It's really a good thing!"

"As long as Your Highness likes it." Sheng Shihuai said with a smile, "When I was in the court, I always heard about Your Highness' deeds in Yizhou, and I admired you very much. Whether it was collecting silver and treasures along the way, spreading the news of Yizhou's food shortage, or providing labor and food for 30,000 refugees, or the way to control the water in the Minjiang River, they are all closely linked and indispensable, making it possible for this land of abundance to succeed..."

Sheng Shihuai's eyes fell on Xie Chengze, with admiration on his face, but his eyes were quietly sizing up Xie Chengze's expression, and his tone was a little more tentative, "Your Highness is truly a genius in governing a country. I'm afraid that even the Crown Prince cannot compare to Your Highness's ability."

"Hey, I think so too." Xie Chengze didn't seem to be surprised. While admiring the jade ring, he said proudly, "The prince is nothing. He is not even as good as one of my fingers!"

"But... Actually, I didn't have any money with me at that time. I was afraid that Yizhou was poor, so I used my status as a prince to get some money." Xie Chengze shook the jade ring and knocked it to hear the sound. He said casually, "But Shen Yuan told me that he could help me become famous and overshadow the prince, so I reluctantly lent him the money for him to use."

"Oh?" Sheng Shihuai tapped the table, "So, the solution to the flood was thought up by Lord Shen?"

"That's not the case." Xie Chengze took out his handkerchief, blew on it and began to wipe the jade ring again, and continued, "He told me to threaten the prefect Liang, and I did it, saying that if the prefect Liang couldn't come up with a solution, he would chop off his head. Hey, guess what? The prefect Liang really came up with a solution!"

"As expected, people still need to be pushed." Xie Chengze said so, and suddenly remembered something. He raised his head and looked at Sheng Shihuai with bright eyes, "Eh? If I push you too, can you also figure out how to refine fine salt, make sea salt toothpaste, and make sea salt facial mask like Prefect Liang?!"

Sheng Shihuai: ???

That's not necessary.

Sheng Shihuai's mouth twitched slightly, "It seems that the Second Prince really likes to study objects that benefit the people and strengthen the country."

Hearing this, Xie Chengze played with the jade ring and laughed at himself, "So what? I am so smart, but I can still become the Queen Mother..."

He suddenly stopped talking and coughed a few times pretending to cover up, "Ahem, since Envoy Sheng has finished eating, you should go back and rest early."

Sheng Shihuai smiled knowingly.

It seems that the second prince really wants to rebel.

However, the Second Prince had no political strategy, and even if he ascended the throne, he would be restrained by the officials. However, this made him a good candidate to be a puppet emperor. At that time, he could completely trick Xie Chengze into handing over the government affairs to him, and then let him concentrate on studying various weapons and tools for his own use.

And he could become the regent, interfere in the affairs of the court, use Xie Chengze's edict to control the court and the world, and use the weapons developed by Xie Chengze to expand the territory, enrich the people and strengthen the country -

Isn't it great? !