Jiang Chi showed no sign of panic, and said calmly: "As the saying goes, a strategist first considers people, then things. If I don't understand the three princes clearly, how can I choose the prince who is worthy of my support?

Furthermore, if His Royal Highness Prince An wants to secure his position as Crown Prince, he must know the weaknesses of Prince Jin and Prince Rui. If I don't know anything, how can I give advice to His Royal Highness Prince An?"

Lin Luoling was a little nervous. Although what Jiang Chi said was correct, he was too blunt. Such behavior was tantamount to prying into the secrets of the royal family. If Emperor Deshun knew about this, he would not tolerate Jiang Chi.

When she was about to speak up to help Jiang Chi out, she suddenly saw Jiang Chi's hands hanging under the table, secretly waving at her, the meaning was obvious, he didn't want her to get involved.

Prince An raised his eyes with a faint look, glancing at Jiang Chi in a seemingly calm manner, but he took back the secret letter that he had handed to the Silver Feather Guard, stroking his fingers without taking out the letter.

Seeing this, Jiang Chi remained calm and fanned himself without changing the rhythm, looking at Prince An with sincere eyes.

After a long while, they heard footsteps outside the door. Prince An and Jiang Chi then looked at the butler Gu Shun who pushed the door open.

Gu Shun bowed to Prince An and said, "Your Highness Prince An, the female director of the Nanxiang State's Ministry of Property could not bear the severe punishment, so she confessed something useful for you to review."

Gu Shun took out three pieces of rice paper covered with words from his sleeve pocket and placed them on Prince An's desk.

Prince An read it carefully and said, "It is only 50% true at most. For the time being, do not feed her with flower petals or give her a sip of water."

As he spoke, Prince An stood up and walked to the round table, handing the three pieces of rice paper to Lin Luoling and Jiang Chi.

After seeing this, Lin Luoling and Jiang Chi were both extremely shocked.

They learned from the female director of the Nanxiang Kingdom's Siwu Department that hundreds of years ago, the female monarch of Nanxiang Kingdom had discovered that the place they were in was too strange. Although they could live for 200 years and remain forever young, no one in Nanxiang Kingdom gave birth to a baby boy since then, and all were baby girls.

In addition, as early as when the Nanxiang Kingdom first entered that strange place, the men were responsible for fishing and building houses, and the women were responsible for picking mushrooms. Apart from these, there was no other food.

Due to the scarcity of food, there will naturally be competition for survival.

During the scramble, a man was seriously injured and died. The people of Nanxiang, who had not eaten meat for a long time, cut him into pieces and roasted him, and ate his bones. They smashed them and buried them in the soil. They found that the color of flowers could be changed by using bone meal.

After that, men continued to die while fighting for food. Due to overfishing, only a few small fish were left in that place, and all the mushrooms were picked.

They had no choice but to send beautiful women out to lure men into the houses so that the unmarried women could have fun with them and then eat the men.

Gradually, no man was left in the Nanxiang country. Because bone meal was used to cultivate flowers and plants in that place, the trees and flowers changed, but the women's looks remained unchanged and they lived long lives.

The eldest princess of Nanxiang Kingdom inherited the throne, and the country became a veritable country of women.

As early as six or seven hundred years ago, the monarch of Nanxiang Kingdom had the ambition to migrate out of that strange place, expand the territory and establish himself as king.

However, the people of Nanxiang Kingdom were all women, so the female monarch of Nanxiang Kingdom began to encourage women to practice martial arts and make weapons.

Five hundred years ago, the queen of Nanxiang sent her second daughter to lead three thousand female soldiers in the name of recovering Nanxiang, in an attempt to retake the former land of Nanxiang.

The result was a disastrous defeat, with no one surviving.

For the Nanxiang Kingdom, which had a population of less than 8,000, they could only hide in plain sight, order the maids of the Siwusi to go out and seduce men, encourage the women of Nanxiang Kingdom to get pregnant, and let some women with better bones go out to practice martial arts.

When the Tianqi Kingdom was first established, there were more than 9,000 people in the Nanxiang Kingdom.

The female monarch of Nanxiang Kingdom had sent beautiful women to Tianqi Kingdom countless times to serve as concubines of high-ranking officials or nobles, or as maids in their palaces.

According to the confession of the female director of the Siwu Department, she knew that there were at least twenty women from Nanxiang Country who were serving as concubines of high-ranking officials or maids in their palaces.

She also mentioned that not only the Lin Mansion had the Three-Day Soul-Turning Plant, but at the beginning of this year, she took out hundreds of Three-Day Soul-Turning Plant seeds from the Nanxiang Kingdom. Not only was there Three-Day Soul-Turning Plant in the Imperial Palace, but there was also Three-Day Soul-Turning Plant in the Prince Jin's Mansion. It was clearly recorded that she knew that some ministers' mansions also had Three-Day Soul-Turning Plants planted.

When Lin Luoling saw the three words "He Shaofu" on the list, a raging fire seemed to burn in her eyes.

Prince An turned to look at Gu Shun and asked, "Didn't she reveal who the little princess of Nanxiang Kingdom, Nan Qiuzhi, married?"

Gu Shun replied: "She said that Dong from the Rui Palace was Nan Qiuzhi, but I thought she was lying, so I didn't write it here."

Jiang Chi whispered in Lin Luoling's ear: "Dong is the singer that Prince Rui brought back from Sinan Prefecture."

Lin Luoling asked: "Why do you think she is lying?"

Gu Shun replied, "When I interrogated them before, they mentioned that Nan Qiuzhi, the little princess of Nanxiang, ran away from Nanxiang more than ten years ago, and that Prince Rui brought Dong back home three or four years ago. There is a difference of ten years in between. When I questioned her, she said that she was afraid before, so she naturally did not dare to tell the truth.

Moreover, I interrogated Mrs. Sun alone, and from her, I learned that the female director of the Siwu Department was over 140 years old. I felt that she must have extraordinary qualities to be appointed as the female director of the Siwu Department in Nanxiang Country. She has lived for more than 100 years, so what kind of storms must she not have seen?

Why are you so scared just after being caught?"

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