Chapter 1137: Is It Reasonable?

The officials who had achieved some success in Suiren were wanting to take their findings back to Huaxia first for a look, especially the doctors; they had discovered many Chinaberry Trees, and this thing was somewhat important for Huaxia, so they were thinking about whether they should bring a portion back to Huaxia first, and then ask the King what kind of development method should be used for the Chinaberry Trees in Suiren.

At the same time, they also calculated that many artisans in Suiren, especially those primarily focused on crafting Bronze, were paying extra attention; there were also people from the Ministry of Works who went to scout for mineral deposits, but the location of their Bronze mines was very far away, which resulted in them still not being able to receive news, nor had they seen anyone return, and for a time, other people in Huaxia thought they might have had an accident, only Baoxi thought it was likely just that the journey was too long, resulting in them not being able to return yet.

As for the young people the artisans had taken a fancy to, because the number was not large, Baoxi only needed to speak casually, and these few young people could only resign themselves to their fate and head to Huaxia; they also had feelings of hatred toward Baoxi for the first time, thinking that Baoxi was not a good Tribal Chief.

It was a pity that Baoxi knew that only after they went to Huaxia would they gradually change their views, and they would also know how good he was; now, wanting to change his image in Suiren, he had to wait for those who had already gone to Huaxia to return and recount their lives in Huaxia, and only by letting them tell it themselves could they convince the other people of Suiren.

Baoxi thought this day would be very, very far off, but what he did not expect was that Huaxia was already preparing for an action.

After Chengqie received that document, he had been having thoughts of wanting to go and ask about it carefully, and now Changle had left Huaxia again, and his own gift had not yet been fulfilled, which was not very appropriate.

So, hearing that Sanxin was the smartest among the current Nobles of Huaxia, he took the document and went to find Sanxin, saying he had questions he wanted to ask Sanxin; Sanxin thought it was just simple questions about daily life or studies, so he enthusiastically received Chengqie, only he did not expect that Chengqie's first sentence would make him very hard to keep a straight face.

"Uncle Sanxin, could you help me see what this document means? I don't know many characters, I can't understand it."

After Sanxin's eye twitched, he still took the document; he opened it and took a look, finding it somewhat familiar, flipped through it casually, and asked with some confusion: "Chengqie, how did you get this document? You shouldn't have come to Huaxia yet when this document was issued."

Chengqie told the truth: "This, it was when I wanted to write a gift list, I found someone from the Ministry of Rites to write it for me, and then he told me a bit about what I should give Changle as a gift, and as he was talking, he got to this matter, and then he gave me this document to let me go and take a look."

"So it was the Ministry of Rites."

Sanxin looked at the document in his hand and felt that the reason Chengqie gave was very reasonable; after all, what Chengqie was giving were Slaves, which could indeed be related to this document, but why would an official of the Ministry of Rites have this document in his hands? At most, only Zhigui in the entire Ministry of Rites could get it, and Zhigui's Nobility rank was very low and his fief was small, so this document had almost nothing to do with him, so these matters had never involved Zhigui, then why would the Ministry of Rites have it? Could it be that this belonged to Zhigui?

Sanxin's thoughts wandered; he flipped to the last page and discovered the stamped red seal, which was nothing, as everyone had them, but the sharp-eyed Sanxin discovered that the signature next to the seal was handwritten by Baifeng!

Such mass-produced documents usually used a seal for the signature, not a personal signature, but this one was a personal signature!

This discovery made Sanxin tremble involuntarily, while Chengqie was urging him somewhat anxiously: "Uncle Sanxin, help me read it, explaining what it means is fine too; I don't know many characters, I just can't understand it."

Sanxin could explain clearly what this document was even without looking at it, because after he took a glance at it the first time, he was a bit scared and did not dare to think about this problem, did not dare to touch this; he had not dared to attend the subsequent Noble gatherings, but that did not mean he was not tempted.

Now, such a document appearing in Chengqie's hands, although the process was very reasonable, the person who handled it was wrong, and the signature was also a bit wrong—not wrong, but too special; plus, Chengqie's identity was also too special, one could even say that Chengqie was the key to this document.

Sanxin thought carefully, and suddenly he had a surprising and bold idea: this document was meant for them to see by Baifeng from the very beginning, because Chengqie himself also said that the person from the Ministry of Rites said that if he didn't understand it himself, he could take it to show them, these Nobles.

Then, didn't this just bring together the two important components of the matter mentioned in this document that were intended to be implemented? This signature was enough to prove everything.

It seems the King could not say it directly, so he wanted to use this method to facilitate this matter; before, they were afraid and did not dare to act because they were too greedy, and had made some adjustments and demands regarding their fiefs; although the King was a bit dissatisfied, he had resolved them for them, and afterwards, he proposed this matter; although the document came out, it felt to them like a kind of threat, asking them, these Nobles: "How about it? You weren't wanting more benefits, more advantages? I am giving you a better opportunity here, allowing you to obtain more benefits."

"But, if you really dare to do this, then you will be finished; you are truly too greedy."

Sanxin, who was already a bit panicked at the time, had his legs go weak with fright when he saw that document, thinking it was just Baifeng's intimidation of them; he did not expect that looking at it now, he really had thought too much, it was purely scaring himself, Baifeng had not thought that way at all.

Now it was fine; because of his own cowardice, this matter did not succeed; Baifeng probably did not even think of why it did not succeed, thinking that they, these Nobles, were dissatisfied and it was not easy to force them; it just so happened that Chengqie came now, so couldn't he take this opportunity to secretly tell them that this matter could be done, and to do it quickly—I have even brought the people to you!

Sanxin was sweating profusely thinking about this; he had really delayed Baifeng's major affair himself; he hurriedly wiped the sweat on his forehead again.

Chengqie saw that Sanxin had not spoken for a long time, so he said with some confusion: "Uncle Sanxin, do you also not know characters? If you don't know characters, I can go find someone else to look at it."