Chapter 433: Don't you know where my seat is? (Seeking subscriptions, seeking...)

"Your Majesty, do you want me to directly announce your identity?"

A follower of the King of the Bai Fan Kingdom said quietly; he is the captain of the King's Imperial Guard.

He saw that the King was very fond of this Heavenly Strategy merchant and wanted to take this merchant as his subordinate.

But this merchant came to this place and actually hadn't discovered the King's identity, nor did he salute.

The captain of the Imperial Guard felt that maybe they should confess.

"No need. The best way to make people convinced is to convince them with virtue. This is what my teacher taught me."

The King of the Bai Fan Kingdom was very confident. He had expanded such a small Bai Fan Kingdom to dozens of times its land area, and its influence among the southern kingdoms was huge.

He wanted to make this Heavenly Strategy merchant convinced of his ability, not yield to his status.

On this point, when he was studying at the Xinhuo Combat Academy of the Heavenly Strategy Dynasty as a prince, the old Emperor taught him.

If this person follows you because he knows your status is extremely high, it means he follows your status, not you as a person.

In other words, if someone else reaches your status, he can also follow them.

But if he admires your other abilities, and you always maintain these abilities, then he is your loyal follower.

The old Emperor often traveled incognito and obtained some good talents without revealing his identity. These good talents were all loyal.

The reason the King of the Bai Fan Kingdom has such achievements is largely because of what the old Emperor taught him.

He can get so much military equipment, which also has something to do with the old Emperor; who let him be the old Emperor's "student."

In order to conquer the merchant in front of him who was outstanding in all aspects, the King of the Bai Fan Kingdom began his performance.

While taking Li Chen to visit, the King of the Bai Fan Kingdom pretended to be humble and said: "It's shameful to say, my family business was very small before, but after these years of operation, it has expanded dozens of times."

After speaking, he stole a glance at Li Chen, expecting to see a surprised expression on the other side.

However, Li Chen just said lightly: "Okay."

The King of the Bai Fan Kingdom coughed lightly, thinking: It seems that merchants are well-informed and are used to expanding family businesses.

So he changed the subject: "Actually, what I am most proud of is not the industry, but the connections. At first, I only had a few loyal subordinates, but now my people are all over every corner of this country."

After speaking, he was secretly proud: This is powerful enough, right?

Li Chen nodded: "Not bad."

Still this kind of lukewarm praise, the King of the Bai Fan Kingdom was a bit anxious and decided to show his trump card.

He straightened his back and said proudly: "To tell you the truth, my cultivation has reached the Heavenly Abyss Realm, the strongest in my family's history."

While speaking, he deliberately activated his pulse technique, and a terrifying energy surged around his body.

He thought: This time I should be stunned, right? A Heavenly Abyss Realm expert, even in the Heavenly Strategy Dynasty, is a rare existence!

However, Li Chen still did not change his expression: "It's okay."

The King of the Bai Fan Kingdom completely collapsed, and cold sweat seeped from his forehead.

He had never encountered such a difficult "merchant."

Wealth, connections, strength, actually couldn't move the other party?

The captain of the Imperial Guard, who was pretending to be a servant, was speechless. I told you to negotiate directly, but you insisted on showing off. Now you didn't show off successfully, did you?

The routine that the King of the Bai Fan Kingdom had always used was not moved by this Heavenly Strategy merchant.

This made the King of the Bai Fan Kingdom even more determined to take him under his command.

Saying this, the King of the Bai Fan Kingdom indicated that he was going to change his clothes and then prepare a welcome banquet for Li Chen and Zhu Zhuying. For the next period of time, he let his servants take Li Chen and Zhu Zhuying to stroll around here.

The King of the Bai Fan Kingdom intended to put on his dragon robe, gather the civil and military officials of the Bai Fan Kingdom, and give Li Chen a "surprise."

Since hints don't work, I will directly expose my identity and look forward to your expression at that time.

"Then you go get busy first." Li Chen said lightly.

Anyway, he came to the southern kingdoms mainly for visits and inspections.

The captain of the Imperial Guard respectfully led the two to visit this temporary palace.

In order not to reveal his identity, he also just said it was a courtyard of his master, wanting to improve the King's status, but Li Chen still had no expression.

I saw that the palace was carved with railings and jade, magnificent, showing exotic customs everywhere.

Li Chen looked at the murals and sculptures on the wall with interest, while Zhu Zhuying explained softly from the side: "This statue looks very old, but the position is very new. It should have just been moved here. As far as I know, this is the guardian statue of the Bai Fan Kingdom. In legend..."

As a person from the southern kingdoms, Zhu Zhuying has a certain understanding of these.

The guardian statue has been moved here, and there are many Heavenly Strategy construction merchants. It seems the Bai Fan Kingdom is really prepared to build this place into its own territory.

About half an hour later, the captain of the Imperial Guard respectfully invited: "Two distinguished guests, the evening banquet is ready."

When Li Chen stepped into the banquet hall, the civil and military officials of the Bai Fan Kingdom were already gathered.

The King of the Bai Fan Kingdom was wearing a gorgeous dragon robe, sitting high in the main seat, with an empty seat specially left beside him.

He thought to himself: When this merchant knows my identity, and then sees the full court of civil and military officials, and is invited to sit beside me, he will definitely be grateful.

This is the art of governing people that the King of the Bai Fan Kingdom learned from the old Emperor of Heavenly Strategy before.

As soon as Li Chen came in, he became the focus of everyone in the banquet.

The ministers were all curious about which Heavenly Strategy merchant could get such favor from His Majesty. They couldn't sit in the seat beside His Majesty.

But it was this look that made one person in the group of ministers scared silly on the spot.

Isn't this the Emperor of Heavenly Strategy! Those who can recognize Li Chen are naturally envoys from small countries!

The moment Li Chen stepped into the hall, this envoy stood up from the seat with a "thump" and knelt on the ground: "Your subject pays respects to Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty!"

The whole hall was silent. The ministers of the Bai Fan Kingdom looked at each other: What is this envoy going crazy about? Which country's subject are you, why are you kneeling randomly?

They didn't understand why the envoy knelt, and the envoy didn't understand why they dared to sit.

Seeing that everyone was still stunned, the envoy shouted anxiously: "What are you still sitting for? This is the Emperor of Heavenly Strategy!"

"Clang!" The sound of wine glasses falling came one after another.

Some ministers rolled off their chairs directly, crawling and kneeling on the ground.

Others were in a hurry, kneeling directly on the stool, then feeling something was wrong, and rolled to the ground to kneel.

The oppressive atmosphere of the ministers just now was washed away by Li Chen alone.

The King of the Bai Fan Kingdom was even paler, hurriedly getting up from the dragon chair and kneeling at the foot of the steps: "Your subject pays respects to Your Majesty! I didn't know Your Majesty had arrived, I deserve to die!"

He suddenly realized: No wonder this "merchant" had no reaction when seeing the dragon robe; it turns out the other party's status was far above his own!

Just now he was thinking about taking this one as a subordinate; fortunately, he didn't say it out loud, otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Li Chen walked slowly to the vicinity of the main seat, looked at the ministers of the Bai Fan Kingdom kneeling all over the floor, and smiled lightly: "The King of the Bai Fan Kingdom prepared this banquet well. I don't know where my seat is?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 434 =====