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

The young eunuch who delivered the message quickly stood up and handed over the two letters.

Emperor Jian looked at the two thick stacks of letters in his hands, and the depression in his heart finally eased a lot. "It seems that my Chengze also misses me very much. He actually wrote so many."

Maybe he sent back all the letters from the past two months? He hadn't received any letters for a long time, and he thought the child didn't miss him as a father.

Emperor Jian turned around and sat back on the dragon throne. There were two letters, one of which was written "From my father personally", and the other was written "Secretly from my father". Emperor Jian could not wait to open the letter "From my father personally", and then the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

This ugly word is exactly the same as when I was a child.

Let him see what interesting content his little Chengze has written.

Emperor Jian leaned back on the dragon throne, slowly deciphering the words on it, and from time to time he made amused noises, which attracted the curious looks of all the officials. They wondered what on earth the Second Prince had written that could make Emperor Jian, who was just furious, laugh like this.

However, as Emperor Jian laughed, his expression became serious again. He frowned slightly, not knowing what he was thinking about. Then he opened the second letter, and the more he read, the more his brows furrowed.

The officials couldn't help but feel nervous again.

What on earth did the Second Prince write? Seeing how many pieces of paper there were, what could have caused His Majesty's expression to be so unpredictable?

All the officials stole glances at the person on the dragon throne, trying to guess what the expression on Emperor Jian's face meant. As he watched, Emperor Jian began to laugh again, and finally asked the eunuch who delivered the letter, "When did this letter leave Yizhou?"

The young eunuch quickly said, "Your Majesty, it was two months ago."

Two months ago, this meant that his little Chengze might have already opened a gunpowder factory in Yizhou.

What a great act of acting first and asking for permission later! After going out for a while, I became more opinionated!

However, the gunpowder mentioned in his letter seemed to be extremely powerful. If it could be used in border wars, the Huns would be nothing to be afraid of!

This gift from Xiao Chengze comes at the perfect time!

Emperor Jian carefully put the letter into his arms, then waved his hand lazily, mockingly, "What a bunch of good-for-nothings, they are not even as good as a hair of my Chengze!"

After saying this, he dismissed the court and left the hall.

The officials were suddenly confused.

No? What do you mean they can't even compare to a hair of the Second Prince? The Second Prince hasn't done anything great, so why can't they compare to him?

Didn't we just write a letter to flatter you? Are we inferior to him? If we didn't disdain flattery, we would definitely praise him more than the Second Prince!

……

There were three princesses in the Jian'an Dynasty, two of whom were eligible to get married. One was the second princess born to Concubine Xi, Princess Anhe Xie Ping'an, and the other was the third princess born to Concubine Da, Princess Zhaohe Xie Shu.

Both princesses were unmarried. When they heard that the court wanted them to marry the King of the Xiongnu, they were so frightened that they hugged each other and cried.

Xie Pingan cried almost to the point of breaking her heart, "Third sister, I am the elder sister, I should sacrifice my life for the court, but I am only nineteen years old! I haven't even had a passionate love affair with the third place winner, and now I have to marry the old Xiongnu as a concubine. I am so sad -"

Two years ago, the third place winner in the imperial examination was executed at the Wumen execution ground because he angered his second brother. She was waiting to have a love affair with the third place winner who was always the most handsome after the imperial examination next year. But the damn Huns invaded the border at this time, forcing the court to negotiate peace through marriage!

Can't they attack again next year!

Xie Shu was also howling like a ghost, wiping tears from her nose, "Forget it, second sister! At your age, it's too suitable to get married right away. In order not to marry you to the King of the Xiongnu, Concubine Xi will definitely find someone to marry you off right away! Unlike me, who just turned sixteen, it's the best age to be as beautiful as a flower——"

"Xie Shu! You called me old again!" Xie Ping'an stopped crying and glared at me in anger.

"What's wrong with scolding you for being old? I'm about to marry the Hun king and die on the prairie. Can't I scold you again? No one will scold you when I'm gone! Just cherish it, woooo--"

"Wuwuwu sister, then you can continue to scold me——"

The two sisters knelt on the ground, hugging each other and crying bitterly. Next to them, Emperor Jian, who was sitting on a stone bench in the pavilion reading a letter, stroked his forehead silently.

How dare he send these two little ancestors out to marry? As soon as he sent them out, the Xiongnu king would probably send them back with a look of disgust, or just kill them with a knife to get peace.

"Okay, why are you crying? Did I say I would send you to marry?" Emperor Jian said helplessly.

Xie Ping'an and Xie Shu continued to cry, "Father, there is no need to say more. Our mother has already said that the national treasury is empty and we can't defeat the Huns at all. If we want to save the lives of the soldiers and the people and protect the stability of our Jian'an Dynasty, we have no choice but to marry. Wuwuwu——"

Emperor Jian: ...Don’t make rumors, don’t believe rumors, and don’t spread rumors.

"Okay, I won't send you to marry. Your second brother has already figured out a way to deal with the Huns." Emperor Jian knocked on the stone table and said helplessly.

"Second brother?" Xie Ping'an and Xie Shu stopped crying immediately, raised their big watery eyes, and asked in confusion, "It's the second brother who always likes to oppose the crown prince in the court and emptied mother's private money a few months ago. Is that the beautiful second brother?"

Emperor Jian: ... "Yes, that's him."

Xie Pingan wiped his tears and said distrustfully, "What can he come up with? Wait, is he saying——"

Xie Ping'an's face was shocked. He covered his mouth and trembled all over. "Could it be that Second Brother decided to marry for us?"

Xie Shu was also shocked, and couldn't believe it, "Second brother... actually cares so much about us?!"

As far as I can remember, my second brother seldom communicated with them, and they rarely met my second brother as they lived in the harem. The only time when they were climbing over the wall as children, they treated my second brother as a little girl and played with him a few times. Later, they were taken home by their mother and warned in a loud voice not to get close to my second brother again.

They thought their relationship had already become estranged, but they didn't expect that their second brother loved them so much after just playing with them a few times when they were young, and was willing to make such a huge sacrifice.

“Wuwaaa——” The two sisters hugged each other and cried again, “Second brother——you have suffered, it’s all because of the incompetence of the court and father!”

Emperor Jian: ...

Emperor Jian couldn't help but start to wonder if the customs of the Jian'an Dynasty were too open, to the extent that both the officials in the court and the princesses in the harem felt that the second prince's marriage was unexpected but reasonable.

My heart is so tired.

Every time this happened, Emperor Jian missed the deceased Concubine Hua very much.

If Imperial Concubine Hua were still here, she would definitely say, "Your Majesty, if you can't help it, just go crazy! Kick all these incompetent ministers to the ground, and kick them on their buttocks. There's a lot of flesh there, and it won't kill them, but it will vent your anger."

Alas, it’s another day of missing Xiao Chengze.