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Hearing the words "dare you?", whenever another woman asked him this question, even if it meant asking him to slay a dragon, Jiang Hong would dare to answer, "Of course I dare!"

But the person who asked him was Princess Ling, and the task she asked him to do was a million times more difficult than slaying the dragon. In the past, the two of them had cooperated to do business and make money.

This time he was allowed to lead pirates to the Japanese island! This was really shocking.

I am just a businessman. Even though I followed Prince Ling in the Northern Expedition, I never killed many Tartars.

Jiang Chong felt that Princess Ling thought too highly of him, and at the same time he felt guilty for letting the princess down.

Jia Si beside him was much more excited than him, and said excitedly: "Princess, why don't you let me go! I will lead an army, pretend to be from Jiang's trading company, and land on the Japanese island from the south sea."

Jiang Hong looked at Jia Si with admiration, "You generals who have been with Princess Ling for a long time are so brave!"

But Shen Dongsu rejected Jia Si's proposal: "No, the prince asked you to guard Youzhou, and you go to the sea, what will happen to Youzhou?"

Jia Si had a painful expression on his face. He was probably wondering why he was not Sun Wukong and couldn't split himself into two.

Shen Dongsu asked Jiang Hong again: "Do you think the risk is too great? I am just daydreaming. The Jiang family is just a business after all. How could they do such a thing!"

"Just pretend I never mentioned it. I will still lend you the warship. It would be great if you could kill more Japanese pirates on the South China Sea route!"

These words instantly aroused Jiang Hong's fighting spirit. Even if I can't beat the Youzhou Navy, can't I beat the pirates?

If pirates can go ashore and launch a surprise attack, why can't I? He straightened his back suddenly and shouted:

"Princess, I am willing to accept the challenge!"

The sound was too loud. Shen Dongsu leaned back and said, trying not to laugh:

"Don't get excited. This princess is not someone who doesn't know how to sympathize with others. This mission is too difficult. Your Jiang family already has a title. There is no need for you to take risks."

Jiang Hong pondered for a moment and said, "No, this is not a risk. This is to prevent the South China Sea from being invaded by Japanese pirates and to expand the Jiang family's maritime business."

"Princess, please let me try!"

Jia Si's mouth twitched. He used to think Jiang Hong was very calm, but now it seems that he was overthinking. The princess just encouraged him a few words, and you rushed forward.

But think about it again, if Jiang Hong was a timid person, he would not have followed the prince to the northern expedition.

It seems that this guy is very ambitious. He is no longer satisfied with being a last-minute waiter, but wants to raise the Jiang family to a higher position.

Since Jiang Hong wanted to give it a try himself, Shen Dongsu would of course fully support him.

He immediately got a new nautical chart, which was the route to the southern waters of Japan.

At the same time, he gave Jiang Hong a helper: "General Jia Si cannot accompany you, but Jia Shi Ba can. You go from Guangzhou and take Jia Shi Ba with you."

"Also, for the first batch of people to land on the island, don't use our own people. Spend more gold to recruit pirates and let them land on the island first."

"No matter how many Japanese you kill on this trip, as long as you successfully land on the Japanese island, it will be considered a success."

After talking with the princess, Jiang Hong was very nervous. Fighting with Japanese pirates on the sea was completely different from fighting on the Japanese mainland.

But when he was taken by Li Nianyu to the new warship and looked at the guns and gunpowder, his nervousness turned into excitement and he could not wait.

It seems like we are going to the South China Sea and attack Japan soon!

Shen Dongsu personally wrote a letter to Jia Shiba, saying that Jiang Hong did not have the talent to lead troops. Managing people in a trading company was completely different from managing crazy pirates and soldiers.

There must also be a general who can shock the situation, and Jiang Hong’s trip will depart from the Minzhou port.

With the official warship, we also need someone who can deal with the official. To meet these two needs, Jia Shiba is just right.

Shen Dongsu was trying to find a way to open up a second battlefield to relieve Ling Moxiao's pressure. Ling Moxiao still had no news, and even Mr. Pang had no news.

However, Jia Si said that no news is good news. After crossing the river and entering Goryeo, it would be difficult to get news back.

Shen Dongsu had no other options except pretending to remain calm and sending more people to Dandong to deliver supplies.

In this era of difficult communications, it is very normal to lose contact as soon as you go to the battlefield.

What she has to do now is to guard Youzhou City so that Ling Moxiao has no worries.

She was also worried about another thing, that is, the emperor would send another letter to urge Ling Moxiao to return to Chang'an, or send an imperial envoy to deliver a formal imperial edict.

In that case, Ling Moxiao would have to go back.

However, what Shen Dongsu did not expect was that the emperor had indeed written the imperial edict, but had not been sent out of Chang'an.

It should be said that even the imperial palace was not sent out because it was intercepted by the King of Wu.

The King of Wu dared to intercept the imperial edict, so he must have had a thorough plan.

Since the conversation with Mo Xiujin that day, King Wu also realized who was the biggest enemy preventing him from ascending to the throne?

It’s not Prince Ling, but the Emperor!

He secretly investigated the emperor's condition and found that it was much more serious than what the emperor had shown or what the Imperial Medical Bureau had disclosed.

It seems that during the incident when the crown prince forced the emperor to abdicate, although the emperor killed the crown prince and the queen, he himself was also seriously injured.

When the King of Wu found out, he couldn't help sneering. The Emperor was so seriously ill, but he insisted on not appointing a crown prince. As expected, he had never thought of making himself the crown prince.

He was waiting for Ling Moxiao to come back! He was actually used as a stepping stone for Ling Moxiao by the emperor!

He worked so hard to become the prince, but ended up making things difficult for Ling Moxiao.

How could he be willing to accept this? If the emperor had not given him a chance from the beginning, he would have been willing to be a rich and powerful prince.

But the emperor gave him opportunities, promoted the officials he recommended, allowed him to form factions, allowed him to oppose the prince, and repeatedly embarrassed the prince for him.

The emperor even told him personally that he was very disappointed with the prince and that the country and people of Daxia must not be handed over to the prince.

At that moment, King Wu felt that he had finally gained the recognition and support of his father. The people of Jiangnan could only rely on him!

Unexpectedly, all of this was a lie created by my father! He was just a grindstone!

Even so, the King of Wu did not make up his mind to force abdication. With the experience of the Crown Prince, all the loopholes in the palace had been filled, making it much more difficult to force abdication.

Besides, he didn't want to be branded as a murderer of his father. He was waiting until the emperor was critically ill and Ling Moxiao couldn't come back in time. At that time, he would be the only one by the emperor's side.

What else can we do if we don’t make him the crown prince?

But when he saw the edict of succession and the imperial decree to be sent to Youzhou, King Wu's last glimmer of hope was shattered.

Your Majesty, has this made up your mind? Will you just hold on until Ling Moxiao returns?

King Wu sought consultation with Mo Xiujing again, and this time, he decided not to wait!

Mo Xiujing strongly supported King Wu's actions and gave him advice, including transferring the guards from the palace, changing the emperor's edict, and most importantly, stealing the imperial edict that the emperor was going to give to King Ling.

The King of Wu was full of confidence. He brought his cronies to force the emperor to abdicate. He personally gave the seriously ill and dying emperor some poisoned wine and rang the bell for the national mourning.

Just as he summoned officials and read out the edict of succession.

Overnight, a rumor spread wildly in Chang'an City that the King of Wu had killed the king and poisoned the emperor.

The emperor's edict was to pass the throne to Prince Ling!

King Wu was shocked. He searched for the source of the rumor while looking for Mo Xiujing. He was determined to destroy the imperial edict.

As a result, he discovered that the Mo residence was deserted, and there was another secret passage there, which did not lead to the Prince of Wu's Palace, but to the chaotic North City District.

King Wu immediately ordered a full-scale hunt for Mo Xiujing and to silence him!

At the same time, he sent people to Gwangju to secretly imprison Princess Ling's family.

At the same time, Mo Xiujing guessed King Wu's plan, and sent someone to Guangzhou to deliver a letter, while rushing to Youzhou with the imperial edict.

Although they were escorted by the personal guards of Prince Ling's Palace, there were too many pursuers sent by Prince Wu, and they were in danger of death along the way.

If Mo Xiujin had not planned carefully and found several routes in advance, and had not secretly assisted the Jiang family, they might not have been able to escape back to Youzhou alive.

At the end of September, Shen Dongsu finally received a letter from Ling Moxiao, saying that he had already reached the Goryeo royal court, but both Silla and Japan had sent additional troops.

It will take several more months of hard fighting to completely end the war.

Ling Moxiao did not mention the news sent by Mr. Pang at all, and Shen Dongsu did not ask any further questions.

Perhaps Ling Moxiao also felt that the emperor was too casual. How could he recall the commander-in-chief in the middle of a battle?

Of course, it is more important to quickly destroy Goryeo than to return to Chang'an.

But in Mr. Pang's opinion, he really couldn't understand why the prince was so anxious to destroy Goryeo?

Of course, we should hurry back to Chang'an! The emperor obviously wants to make the prince the crown prince. As long as the prince returns to Chang'an, he can enter the East Palace.

He repeatedly advised that things have different priorities. Although destroying Goryeo was important, even if we gave Goryeo a few more years to catch its breath, our navy would become strong and we could still destroy it.

But if you make even the slightest mistake, you’ll miss out on that great position!

But Ling Moxiao completely ignored his advice, saying that this war would not only destroy Goryeo, but also Japan and Silla.

He will not return to the court until the three Japanese countries are destroyed.

Mr. Pang felt that he increasingly couldn't understand the prince's behavior. Why did the prince become more warlike after getting married and having children?

How could he know that deep in Ling Moxiao's heart was a secret that could not be told, something more important than the emperor's secret letter and the position of the Eastern Palace.

What he feared most was that Dong Su would reveal the secret. If the Japanese were not destroyed as soon as possible, what would happen if she was punished by God?

Well, that's right. At that time, Shen Dongsu joked, showed him the world map, and said with a smile that he was indeed carrying the mission assigned by heaven and earth, which was to destroy Japan.

Even Shen Dongsu herself thought that if she couldn't do it, she would let her children do it, and if her children couldn't do it, she would let her grandson do it.

In any case, we must make the destruction of Japan a top priority for the family. We cannot give up on this important matter just because Japan shows weakness and acts in a low profile, or because we think the cost of destroying Japan is too high and that such a small country is not worth a fight.

She didn't expect that Ling Moxiao would take her joke so seriously. Not only did he want to destroy the Japanese as soon as possible, he was also worried that if he was a step late, she would encounter something unexpected.

After reading Ling Moxiao's letter, seeing that he did not mention the emperor's secret letter at all, Shen Dongsu was planning to write another letter to inform the emperor about the war in Goryeo.

Then, a bolt from the blue came: the emperor was dead!

Just like the death of the crown prince, it was so sudden that it was hard to believe.

But the source of the information is Brother Xiao Pan, so it can’t be wrong.

Jia Si personally led his troops to support Mo Xiujing, killed the pursuers sent by King Wu, and brought Xiao Pan Ge, who was as thin as a bamboo pole and covered with scars, back to Youzhou City.

Brother Xiao Pan took out the blood-stained imperial edict from his arms, said with a smile that he had fulfilled his mission, and then fainted.

Sister Ayuan burst into tears, and so did Shen Dongsu. She knew that Brother Xiaopan's trip to Chang'an was very dangerous, but when she saw him in person, she realized that it was a million times more dangerous than she had expected.

It was not easy for Brother Xiao Pan and Sister A Yuan to get married. They went through so many hardships before they finally saw the light of day.

Brother Xiao Pan almost died in Chang'an!

Shen Dongsu was very angry. She was angry at King Wu for hunting down Xiao Pan'ge and also angry at King Wu for killing the king.

And there is no need to think about it, the next step of King Wu will definitely be to kill Ling Moxiao. In order to cut the grass and root it out, she and the children can't even think about surviving!

Even at this point, she kept praying that the chaos in Chang'an would not spread to Youzhou, giving her a little more time to develop.

But just like Goryeo's sudden attack, the enemy will never act according to your wishes.

After she sent someone to deliver the letter to Ling Moxiao, she hurriedly summoned the officials who stayed in Youzhou to discuss how to deal with the King of Wu's next move.

Mo Xiujin attended the meeting with bandages all over his body. His advice was that it was better to take the initiative than to sit and wait for death.

While the emperor's coffin was still lying in state and the King of Wu had not yet officially ascended the throne, he launched a campaign to purge the court of evil officials and took the lead.

If we wait until King Wu ascends the throne before taking action, no matter what the reason is, we will be suspected of rebellion.

But before that, it was to avenge the emperor and prove the King of Wu's guilt of murdering his father.

Everyone's eyes were on Princess Ling. It would take time to wait for the prince to come back or even for him to send back a message.

If we delay for another day, the situation in Chang'an will become more uncertain. If we follow Mo Xiujing's plan, we must come up with a countermeasure immediately without any delay.

Shen Dongsu quietly looked at the blood-stained imperial edict, looked at the twins, a boy and a girl, who were less than two years old, and then looked at the letter that Ling Moxiao had just sent back.

After a few breaths, she made up her mind.

He issued a letter of surrender to purge the emperor's entourage and announced to the world that the King of Wu had killed the emperor.

Jia Si led the army to Chang'an to sacrifice the emperor's spirit with the blood of King Wu!

When the news spread, the whole Youzhou city was in an uproar.

Shen Dongsu took the imperial edict to the army and showed the entire army that the throne was passed to Prince Ling.

The King of Wu killed the emperor and seized the throne for this very reason. We must avenge the emperor and restore order to the Great Xia court.

No matter the King of Wu or the people of the world, no one expected that Prince Ling was not in Youzhou, and Princess Ling would be so decisive to take the lead in sending troops.

Of course, the King of Wu did not admit that he had murdered the king. He even pinned the blame on Mo Xiujing.

The imperial edict in his hand is the real one, the imperial edict from Youzhou is fake.

At the same time, he urged the people sent to Gwangju to capture Princess Ling's family alive. He didn't believe that Princess Ling would ignore the lives of her own parents!

What he didn't expect was that his men arrived in Gwangju at the fastest speed, and the news of the emperor's death had not yet spread.

But it was still too late. All the Shen family members disappeared, and the villagers said that they had gone far away to visit relatives, and it seemed that they went to Yangzhou.

When King Wu's men arrived in Yangzhou, they learned that Yu Dayu, a relative of the Shen family in Yangzhou, was also missing.

There were only some servants left in Guangzhou by Prince Ling, and these people could not threaten Princess Ling at all.

King Wu couldn't figure out how Princess Ling's family got the news in advance and escaped?

But soon, he thought of Mo Xiujing's cold face and hated himself secretly, thinking that he had been led by this man from the very beginning!

Naturally, he had already prepared for the incident in Gwangju and had moved Princess Ling's family away.