Chapter 371

Annan Town, Regional Commander's Mansion.

Xue Gui narrowed his eyes slightly and said slowly:

"His Majesty has ordered the mission to go to the Wu Kingdom; this time, the one leading the mission to the Wu Kingdom is Vice Minister Wang of the Ministry of Rites."

The several deputy generals and miscellaneous generals below had different expressions.

Crusading requires a famous teacher.

If the Yu Kingdom wants to crusade against East Wu, it cannot bypass the Wu Kingdom's imperial family; visiting is inevitable, otherwise, it is an unrighteous war.

It damages the national fortune.

Don't look at this as if it doesn't seem important; on the contrary, it is crucial.

I don't know how many dynasties have proven this point at the cost of destruction.

Diplomatic affairs have always been presided over by the Ministry of Rites, but generally, it is enough to send an official from the Ministry of Guest Affairs or the Court of State Ceremonial to visit; this time, Vice Minister Wang is leading the team personally.

It shows the Emperor's importance to East Wu.

A sharp light flashed in Fu Tao's eyes.

Visiting is a major event, especially visiting the Wu Kingdom, which must be reported directly to the Emperor.

Vice Minister Wang's visit certainly needs people to guard.

The candidates for these guards will likely come from Annan Town.

If one can participate in this visit, it is a great merit.

It is a good opportunity to seek fame.

All are establishing merit, but only by establishing merit in front of the Emperor is the most effective way to get promoted.

Xue Gui: "This is a major event; Provincial Military Commander Zhou specifically ordered us to fully cooperate with Vice Minister Wang's visit and not let any mistakes happen."

"Yes."

The several deputy generals and miscellaneous generals nodded in unison.

Li Rui saw all this in his eyes.

It was called each having their own ghosts.

Eight out of ten are already thinking about how to hook up with that Vice Minister Wang.

The crowd dispersed.

Li Rui, Nie Siming, and Yuan Xiong left the Regional Commander's Mansion.

"Two brothers, no thoughts?"

Li Rui smiled and looked at the two.

Nie Siming shook his head: "Eighth Brother and I don't need any merit; we'll just listen to our foster father's arrangements when the time comes."

Li Rui nodded: "Makes sense."

Nie Siming asked back: "Li Laoge, don't you want to try?"

Li Rui just chuckled.

It was somewhat different from Nie Siming and the other two.

Although the three of them could be counted as people of Marquis Yuan's faction, the difference was huge.

Nie Siming and Yuan Xiong were Marquis Yuan's foster sons; that was a relationship of glory and loss together; wanting to get promoted depends entirely on Marquis Yuan alone.

Others are useless, and establishing merit is useless.

But Li Rui is different.

He was a guest official before, but now because he was enfeoffed as a Viscount, he completely broke away from the relationship with the Marquis's Prefecture.

At most, it's just a good relationship with the Marquis's Prefecture.

Wanting to get promoted, besides having a hard enough backing, one must also have solid achievements.

His achievements when he was a Military Advisor were good.

But when he reached Assistant Regional Commander, the foundation was too poor.

Otherwise, even if someone wanted to promote him, they couldn't find a reason, right?

"We'll see."

Returned to the mansion.

Happened to see Elder Tiekuang, who was cooling off under the tree with Liu Tiezhu.

"Senior."

Li Rui walked up and bowed.

Elder Tiekuang rolled his eyes; seeing Li Rui was truly depressed.

Ever since that day.

He had never had the upper hand in sparring.

Li Rui's ability was getting bigger and bigger; if he still hadn't figured out that Li Rui had broken through and was at the same level as him, then he was truly stupid.

"Don't call me Senior in the future; we martial artists have always discussed by realm; in the future, you call me brother, and I'll call you brother."

Elder Tiekuang said loudly.

Li Rui was stunned, blinking his eyes.

Elder Tiekuang was a full hundred years older than him; let alone calling him Senior, calling him ancestor would be no problem.

Now actually want him to call him brother?

"Tie... Brother Tie."

Li Rui called out tentatively.

Elder Tiekuang pointed to the recliner on the side: "Brother, sit."

Li Rui laughed hehe.

He sat down decisively.

Elder Tiekuang looked to be in a good mood and said: "Thanks to you kid, I felt the bottleneck loosen these days; in a few days, I will be able to break through, and then we will compare again."

Li Rui was pleasantly surprised: "Senior is going to break through?"

"Hmm."

Elder Tiekuang nodded.

Although he neither won nor learned the Great Henglian.

But the sparring time and time again still gave him some insights.

Plus forging two immortal weapons made his thoughts clear, which was why he got the opportunity to break through.

"Congratulations, Brother Tie."

Li Rui called him brother familiarly, without any awkwardness at all.

Elder Tiekuang glanced at Li Rui:

"You kid probably had this thought long ago, otherwise how could you call it so smoothly?"

"Brother Tie must have misunderstood."

Elder Tiekuang was angered into laughter: "If you kid can practice to Second-Rank and slaughter that old scoundrel Blood Shadow, I'll call you grandfather."

"Breaking through is also truly meaningless." "This hatred is afraid there's no chance to report it."

Elder Tiekuang said leisurely.

Although he said so, Li Rui could see that Elder Tiekuang's intention to report the hatred had never been broken.

Before learning about the Purple Gold Palace, he specifically found Li Rui to ask about the Blood Shadow Xueying Laozu's situation.

When he heard that even Liu Qing failed to kill the Blood Shadow Xueying Laozu, he locked himself in the blacksmith room in the backyard for a long time.

Li Rui: "What if I practice to become a Land Immortal in the future? I'll definitely chop that old scoundrel."

Elder Tiekuang glanced at Li Rui: "That's not expected."

Even though he valued Li Rui, it didn't mean he felt Li Rui would definitely become a Second-Rank great expert.

Second-Rank, one can enter the top hundred in the world martial arts evaluation.

Which genius dares to assert that they will definitely squeeze in?

Things are impermanent, and there are too many dangers on the road of martial arts climbing; one might fall into the abyss.

In the blink of an eye, a month passed.

!

This day.

A luxurious and gorgeous carriage drove slowly on the street of Qinghe, and passersby all avoided it when they saw it.

Just because the one guarding this carriage was actually the Xuanjia Army of Annan Town.

Some busybodies followed until they were in front of the Annan Town camp before leaving.

The carriage finally stopped in front of the Regional Commander's Mansion.

A middle-aged man in a Confucian robe got off the carriage.

On the other end.

In the courtyard of the Li Mansion.

Nie Siming, Yuan Xiong, and Li Rui sat under the pavilion.

Looking at the big pit on the drill ground not far away, they knew that a great battle had just been experienced.

Both of them recognized Li Rui's combat power.

This matter was no small matter.

The two of them were Yuan Dingting's foster sons and were the most prominent wave among Primordial martial artists; for Li Rui, a Primordial in the heart-refining pass, to be recognized by them showed his fierce combat power.

Nie Siming laughed loudly:

"Li Laoge, don't think about hiding in leisure this time; Vice Minister Wang specifically named you to go together."

He had quite a friendship with Vice Minister Wang.

So before Vice Minister Wang came to Qinghe, he had already received the news and knew the list of people accompanying the visit from Annan Town.

The three people in the courtyard were all on the list.

Li Rui was dumbfounded.

He knew that Fu Tao had run around a lot for this matter.

But the quota fell on him.

Although he had long known that he would definitely enter the list of the mission.

Because He Qiannian had long informed him.

While being promoted to Assistant Regional Commander, he was actually being promoted in another place.

From Mountain-Seeking Envoy to Mountain-Fixing Envoy.

Yang Bing wanted him to enter the mission to secretly investigate the situation of Transcendent Immortals in the Wu Kingdom, so he had already greeted him when he was in the capital.

Of course, in the eyes of outsiders.

They thought it was Li Rui who gained Vice Minister Wang's appreciation when he was in the capital.

Yuan Xiong: "This visit, the Wu Kingdom might value it even more than us; there won't be any mistakes."

Li Rui nodded:

"I heard that the Fourth Prince's Consort has great prestige in the Wu Kingdom; with her coming forward, it shouldn't be difficult to accomplish."

Just as the three were chatting.

A gate boy ran in, panting: "Master, Regional Commander Xue is here."

Hearing this.

Li Rui stood up hurriedly, Nie Siming and Yuan Xiong followed, and walked quickly to the door.

They saw Xue Gui standing at the door.

Besides Xue Gui, there was another person standing side by side, precisely Vice Minister Wang of the Ministry of Rites.

"Lord Xue, Lord Wang."

Li Rui hurriedly welcomed the two into the mansion.

Vice Minister Wang saw Nie Siming and Yuan Xiong also there and laughed: "I came at the right time; since Lord Nie and General Yuan are also here, we can discuss it, saving the trouble of running around."

The few came to the main hall.

Xue Gui then said: "For this visit to the Wu Kingdom, you three will lead thirty elites to accompany; Mr. Liu will follow in secret."

"Remember, do not tarnish the prestige of our Yu Kingdom."

"Yes!"

The three of Li Rui said in unison.

Sure enough, as Nie Siming just said.

Vice Minister Wang laughed: "How could it be as serious as Regional Commander Xue said? The Wu Kingdom is a great country and will not lose its etiquette; the three lords need not be nervous."

Visiting is a major event concerning the face of the imperial court.

Not to mention that this time it was he, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites, visiting personally; of course, he had already consulted with the Wu Kingdom's imperial court.

Once they arrived in the territory of the Wu Kingdom, there would be Wu Kingdom experts guarding them.

There won't be any mistakes.

Regarding the safety on the road, he actually didn't worry.

What he was truly worried about was the matter after arriving at the Wu Kingdom's imperial court.

Although this matter was promoted by that Third Princess of the Wu Kingdom, now the Fourth Prince's Consort.

But according to what he knew.

The interior of the Wu Kingdom was not united, and many martial generals insisted on not letting the Yu Kingdom intervene.

If they couldn't talk it out, by then, he, the envoy, would certainly be fixed with the impression of incompetence by the Emperor, and this official path would be at an end.

It was not as relaxed as it looked to others.

Vice Minister Wang looked at Li Rui with a smile:

"Lord Li, I heard that you have quite a way in the Wu Kingdom?"

(End of chapter)