Chapter 347

"Young Master, Young Master! Wang—"

"Shh! Keep your voice down, didn't I say, don't call me Young Master here for now."

"Uh? If not Young Master, what should I call you?"

"....... You can call me Lord Yue."

Xin Yi's eyes lit up:

"Wow! Lord Yue! What a majestic title! Is it the same as the divine messenger Lord Wang Yang?"

Baoyue's eyes drifted to the side, and she said vaguely:

"About the same."

Xin Yi was excited and admiring, her voice full of amazement:

"So amazing! I originally thought only he was amazing here! It turns out Young—Lord Yue is also so amazing!"

This is true. The two of us were calm in the face of danger, joined forces to subdue the Yidu tribe, and as prisoners, became the masters of the barbarians. Can we not be amazing?

Baoyue straightened her back and said calmly:

"It's alright, I guess..."

"Lord Young Yue, don't be humble! Even if Xin Yi were captured, I might not be able to become Lord Xin or Lord Divine Messenger!"

Baoyue rolled her eyes: "What might not be able to, you simply have no chance at all, okay... And what Lord Young Yue, it's Yue—"

"Lord Yuenü! This bowl of wine is for you! I'm a rough person and don't know how to talk much, so I wish Lord Yuenü to always serve by the divine messenger's side..."

A leader of the Cheng village held a wine bowl with both hands and babbled on.

Xin Yi's little mouth opened into an 'o' shape.

Baoyue's face burned, wishing she could drill into a crack in the ground...

Baoyue was exposed again and was unhappy seeing Wang Yang and Chen Qingshan, naturally depressed, and out of place with the happy atmosphere of the banquet.

Equally depressed and equally out of place was Ang Ta.

From the moment he sat down, he drank cup after cup of sullen wine. Even when Wang Yang was talking about future business plans and the tent was boiling, he just hung his head, shaking his wine bowl with little interest.

Wang Yang had comforted Ang Ta before. Seeing this, he came over to comfort him a few more times, but Ang Ta's wine strength came up, and his chatterbox couldn't be stopped at all.

"...... Young Master, some words, hiccup, I originally shouldn't have said... but if... hiccup! I don't say them! My heart is blocked!" Ang Ta's drunken eyes squinted, rubbing his heart fiercely, looking like he was uncomfortable to death.

Wang Yang took Ang Ta's wine bowl:

"I know everything, stop drinking—"

Ang Ta directly picked up the wine pot, tilted his neck and poured it down, then sprayed wine breath, his red eyes filled with water:

"Young Master, just let me finish! I, Ang Ta, dare to swear to Pan Wang! At that time, I really didn't think about fighting with the Young Master! If I wanted to fight, I was born of a Great Da Ju Yu! Am I a motherfucking idiot to offend the Young Master! It was all that someone, hey, I won't mention her name, the Young Master knows—"

Wang Yang patted Ang Ta on the shoulder:

"Isn't this matter already explained—"

Ang Ta became more excited as he spoke, gesturing while talking:

"Just that Xiao woman! I motherfucking advised her so much, but she wouldn't listen! I asked her, saying you fight and then make up, then what do I become? She stood there with her eyes wide open and said 'How is that possible,' and also said I was worrying about the sky falling. This little vocabulary she used, saying I was worrying about the sky! I worry about a Great Da Ju Yu's sky! And now she's here 'Divine Messenger Lord,' 'Divine Messenger Lord.' Isn't this playing with people! Taking our Yongning tribe to play, and pulling what public grievances and political enemies, this is not taking our Yongning tribe's life as a life!!!"

"On this point, I'll say a fair word. She really wanted to fight me before, and it wasn't intentionally playing you, but she was beaten into submission later, and that's why—"

Ang Ta lowered his head, covering his eyes, his voice with a sobbing tone:

"Pity my brothers! I have failed them!"

The movement was not small, and several people at the neighboring table looked over.

Wang Yang glanced at them, and they immediately looked at their noses and hearts.

Wang Yang sat closer, patted Ang Ta on the back, lowered his voice, and said sincerely:

"Alright, alright, regarding this matter, although you also have the responsibility of listening to one side, it is ultimately her fault. Don't worry, I will make the decision. Once Le Luo Luo goes back, I will let him release all the Yongning prisoners captured, not one less, and return them all to you! And let Lady Xiao send you a silk shop as an apology. I will pick the location myself; it must be a large shop in a prosperous area of Jiangling City! You don't have to worry about anything, just send someone you trust to be responsible for checking the accounts, and leave the other business staff and so on to her. You just sit comfortably and collect the money..."

Wang Yang had always been serious about letting barbarian leaders have industries in Han territory. Of course, it was also to buy people's hearts, but he hadn't thought about whether this matter should be paid for by the imperial court or Xiao Baoyue, anyway, it wasn't him paying.

Ang Ta suddenly raised his head, not only the crying intent but even the drunkenness disappeared a bit!

"This... is this appropriate? Can she... can she agree?"

Wang Yang raised his eyebrows and said with full confidence:

"Why is it not appropriate? This is what she should do! Who told her to stir up trouble! Don't worry, I have everything!"

Barbarian tribes have always had the winner as the king and the loser as the bandit; after being defeated, who cares about this or that. Before Ang Ta saw Wang Yang, he was worried that the business route would be destroyed by himself! Even more seriously, it might bring the disaster of extermination to the Yongning tribe! He regretted it until his intestines turned green. Later, Wang Yang personally said that everything would remain the same, and the previously negotiated affiliation and business routes would not be delayed, so the big stone pressing on his heart finally moved away a little, but the resentment hidden in the bottom of his heart did not completely dissipate. Having been used as a gun like this, should it just be forgotten?

But what can be done if it's not forgotten? Can he go to that woman to ask for an explanation? Not to mention the imperial family and Jingzhou background of this Han noble girl, just because she is Wang Yang's woman, for the sake of the Yongning tribe's overall situation and his own interests, he had no way to vent this anger.

"Uncle, you keep your money with me. When you sell the incense burner and get the money back, I'll return your money to you."

Ang Ta was trembling with excitement, wanting to perform a great ceremony to Wang Yang, speaking incoherently:

"Young Master, I, I... you not only don't blame me but also help me so much... I really don't know..."

Wang Yang immediately supported him, not letting him bow down:

"Oh, among our own people, where is the need for this!"

Ang Ta wanted to take the wine bowl again:

"Young Master, I will toast you another bowl—"

Wang Yang covered the wine bowl:

"You are drunk, how about this, let's save this bowl for next time..."

"No, no! I have a word I want to say to the Young Master. If I don't drink, I really don't have the courage to say it."

Wang Yang smiled helplessly and let the Holy Guards take his wine cup:

"Fine, then I will drink a cup with you."

Wang Yang himself was not good at drinking, and he had to drink a little when socializing, just to fit the scene. Now that he was in charge, he symbolically raised three cups at the beginning of the banquet, and then started drinking fruit juice. Who dared to pick half a fault?

Now that he took the initiative to drink with him, Ang Ta immediately felt flattered. He held up the wine bowl, clinked it solemnly with Wang Yang's wine cup, then tilted his head and drank it all in one gulp, and then, as if every word was dug out from his lungs, said:

"Don't look at Lady Xiao as an imperial woman and beautiful, but I must say one thing today—that the Young Master can accept her is a blessing she has cultivated for several lifetimes!!!"

Wang Yang coughed several times, almost choking!

Baoyue felt something, narrowed her apricot eyes, and looked over...

The banquet was not over when another report came, saying that an envoy from Jingzhou had sent a letter.

Wang Yang opened the letter, which said that as long as the royal family of the Great Qi was released, a thousand taels of gold would be offered, and if he did not comply, a large army would be sent to level the Yidu tribe! Wang Yang showed the letter to Baoyue, and Baoyue was overjoyed, knowing that her people had arrived, and carefully begged Wang Yang to let them in.

This group was more than thirty people! More than twenty horses! More than the entire Yidu tribe's horses! There were martial maids and attendants, murderous, all experts.

A group of people led by Lian San, after several journeys, dusty and tired, finally breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Baoyue was safe! All of them knelt on the ground to plead guilty! Some people's hands were shaking, not acting, but clearly knowing—if the young master had really had an accident, none of them would have lived.

The barbarians were shocked to see these murderous, clearly elite Han warriors perform such a great ceremony to Baoyue, with such a humble posture! Even the servants around the divine messenger were so capable, so how unfathomable must the divine messenger's own power in the Han land be!

Wang Yang had Lian San led to another tent, and met with Xiao Baoyue, Xin Yi, and Chen Qingshan. Unexpectedly, Lian San's first sentence was shocking!

"The Prince of Badong has rebelled."

"What?!!!"

Wang Yang and Baoyue were both shocked! Both knew that the Prince of Badong hid the intention of rebellion, and both guessed that the Prince of Badong might rebel, but both felt that this possibility was not very high. Even if he really rebelled, it was not now. After all, from the perspective of the Prince of Badong, the situation was not bad enough to rebel at all!

Wang Yang sent people to Jingzhou to inquire about news after he entered the barbarian territory and sent it to Wenyang Gorge. This was mainly to see Jingzhou's reaction to the mission being attacked, especially to see the Prince of Badong's attitude toward his death news, and whether the Prince of Badong would rebel only occupied a very small part. Baoyue was the same; she was eager to find evidence of the Prince of Badong's communication with the barbarians, which was why she had this barbarian trip. If she had known the Prince of Badong was rebelling, she wouldn't have been looking for evidence!

Just as Li Jingxuan said: "Today, everyone feels that I should not rebel suddenly, and the enemy also expects that I should not rebel suddenly." The Prince of Badong's rebellion was really unexpected, so much so that both of them began to think about whether there was any accident that stimulated the Prince of Badong? For example, would Wang Yi have done anything? But even if both of them racked their brains, they would never have thought that it was the identity and secret letter forged by Wang Tai for Wang Yang that made the Prince of Badong make the final decision.

Not to mention the two of them, even Wang Tai himself couldn't have thought of it!

Because he didn't know at all that the Prince of Badong used Wang Yang to communicate with the barbarians with brocade, only thinking that Wang Yang was a pawn that could be manipulated and very suitable to be framed on the Crown Prince. He wanted to use Wang Yang as a pawn with no proof of death to smear that the Crown Prince had already attacked the Prince of Badong, thereby letting the Prince of Badong and the Prince of Jingling join forces to counterattack, and there were follow-up moves, but the follow-up moves were not his responsibility.

So in Wang Tai's eyes, his use of Wang Yang was just one move in a chain of moves, but who knew he accidentally became the last straw that broke the camel's back!

The Prince of Badong was already suspicious of the failed interception, and now knowing that Wang Yang might be the Crown Prince's person, Wang Yang's approach might have been a trap from beginning to end! Once the evidence of his communication with the barbarians was obtained by the Crown Prince, would the Crown Prince let go of this opportunity? Whether he would die or not was not certain, but being dismissed from the state was certain, and being deposed and imprisoned was also very likely, so would the Prince of Badong sit still and wait for death? He simply rebelled directly!

Lian San suppressed his fatigue and continued to report:

"...... The Prince of Badong followed the wisdom of Emperor Gao of Han, led his confidant cavalry, galloped into the Changhu camp at dawn, seized military power, let the soldiers attack, and broke Wang Yi!"

"Then he didn't stop, went straight into the hinterland of Yongning County, personally led the cavalry to charge, and broke Zhang Jue's army again!"

"Now Yongning has entered the trap of the rebel prince! The officials of the counties and counties passed by either surrendered or left, and no one dared to touch his edge! Within Jingzhou, no one can resist!"

The people rumored: 'The Badong Tiger, shakes Jingchu, breaks cities like breaking bamboo, destroys enemies like destroying rot!'"

"Now the Prince of Badong is gathering troops in the name of pacifying the barbarians, and has blocked all border roads! Young Master—"

"Run quickly!"

"If you don't leave, it will be too late!!!"