Chapter 271: What the hell, Imperial Lord, who are you?!!

Lu Yuan really startled Gu Qingwan.

Gu Qingwan's first reaction felt it was true—how could the Southern Exchange Dynasty really be like Lu Yuan?

But after thinking it over, it wouldn't be.

If that were the case, he would have said it last night in bed—why wait until now?

Moreover...

This little thing looks all aggrieved, and the hand clinging to my thigh... is dishonest.

Rubbing back and forth here.

Fortunately, the table blocks the view, so Kang Linfei, kneeling behind Lu Yuan, sees nothing.

Gu Qingwan just let Lu Yuan have his way.

After Gu Qingwan came to her senses, she put on a blank face and feigned severity, saying:

"What on earth is going on? Get up and speak."

Lu Yuan also didn't get up—if he got up, how could he keep touching his wife's thigh?

Lu Yuan began to blubber, recounting the situation in the Southern Exchange Dynasty.

Meanwhile, Kang Linfei behind him looked at Lu Yuan sprawled on the Imperial Lord's thigh, feeling dazed.

No……

Lu Yuan and the Imperial Lord... are really this close……

Sprawled on the Imperial Lord's thigh, the Imperial Lord actually says nothing, just letting this guy cling and lie there??

That is……

After Kang Linfei watched for a while, he suddenly blinked.

Hmm……

The Imperial Lord's belly…… how……

While listening to Lu Yuan's words, Gu Qingwan also turned her gaze to Kang Linfei behind Lu Yuan.

At noon, Lu Yuan didn't return to the palace for lunch, so Gu Qingwan guessed her husband must have run to Qingbei University.

Of course, that's exactly the case.

Originally I wanted to have lunch with my husband, but the cafeteria was crowded, and I couldn't pull him out of the crowd to eat with me.

After all, the people at Qingbei University were asking about major national livelihood issues; one couldn't afford to delay.

So Gu Qingwan simply waited in the office.

Now Gu Qingwan doesn't want to do anything; she just wants to be with her husband.

Gu Qingwan never expected…… how Kang Linfei came together with her husband.

After about three or five minutes, Lu Yuan finished explaining the situation in the Southern Exchange Dynasty.

He spoke with tears and snot flowing, speaking of his grievance.

But…… the more he spoke with tears and snot, the more grievance he expressed.

What he was saying…… seemed to be not even half a sweet potato, let alone a potato.

Whether it's a sweet potato or a potato, Lu Yuan himself can't remember.

Moreover, it seems Lu Yuan himself went to look for it.

But neither Gu Qingwan nor Kang Linfei are fools—could they not know what kind of person Lu Yuan is?

To Gu Qingwan, Lu Yuan is her husband, and she knows all too well what kind of person he is.

As for Kang Linfei, needless to say, his current predicament is entirely thanks to Lu Yuan.

This brat is up to no good.

Moreover, he's definitely not the type to throw a tantrum and hang himself.

This sudden behavior.

What Lu Yuan intends to do, for a moment both Gu Qingwan and Kang Linfei have a rough idea.

Lu Yuan…… could he be thinking of launching two wars at once……

Kang Linfei blinked, pondered, and felt that Lu Yuan indeed meant that.

Before, Kang Linfei would never have agreed; he would definitely have stood up and spoken out.

But the Flowing Gold Dynasty's affairs still aren't settled.

And now suddenly we have to deal with the Southern Exchange Dynasty?

Moreover, these two dynasties, one in the far north, the other in the far south.

This is all-out two-front warfare.

The span is too great—how to coordinate?

This move is really inappropriate.

Anyway, that's what Kang Linfei thinks, but he now dares not say anything.

I'm nothing now, and I don't want to walk into the line of fire.

This living King of Hell says what he says, and Kang Linfei doesn't utter a sound.

And Gu Qingwan also guessed what her husband intends to do.

As for this move, Gu Qingwan doesn't have much opinion—whatever her husband says, that's what they'll do.

After Gu Qingwan waited for her little husband's ostentatious performance to finish, she calmly said:

"So……"

Immediately, Lu Yuan put away his ostentatious performance and said:

"Of course, we must punish it at once—this little Southern Exchange Dynasty, burning, killing, looting in South Asia, and daring to offend our Celestial Empire."

They haven't even unified the South Asia subcontinent yet; if they do, wouldn't they be riding on top of our Great Zhou Dynasty even more?

So we must seize the moment and give the Jiaonan Dynasty a good lesson.

Now that the Great Zhou Dynasty is so powerful, we ought to maintain peace in the surrounding regions!!

When the Great Zhou Dynasty sends troops to South Asia subcontinent, does Lu Yuan really need to put on such a ostentatious performance?

Lu Yuan felt it was necessary, and indeed very necessary.

First, the Jiaonan Dynasty and the Gilded Dynasty are different.

The Gilded Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty are mortal enemies, having fought for hundreds of thousands of years!

One could say that when the Gilded Dynasty wasn't called the Gilded Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty wasn't called the Great Zhou Dynasty, these two places have always been at war.

More simply put, this is a struggle between nomadic and agrarian civilizations.

The Great Zhou Dynasty sending troops against the Gilded Dynasty goes without saying.

Whoever it is, they are wholeheartedly supportive.

Ask the dog at the east end of the village, even that dog supports it.

But the Jiaonan Dynasty is different.

The Great Zhou Dynasty and the Jiaonan Dynasty have no prior grudges; if we want to send troops against the Jiaonan Dynasty, we must have a just cause.

Even if we don't talk about here, speaking of ancient Earth, they also place the utmost importance on having a just cause.

Especially for the Great Zhou Dynasty side, the people actually despise war the most.

Because the Great Zhou Dynasty has just escaped from the turmoil of war.

They've only just had enough to eat for a few years, right?

Life has just become bearable, and people's clothing has just become a little warmer.

As a result, the Jiaonan Dynasty hasn't provoked or offended you, yet the Great Zhou Dynasty wants to go to war against it—can the common people possibly agree?

How would people speak of you behind your back?

Of course, Lu Yuan doesn't care about being called a warmonger behind his back.

Anyway, right and wrong will be judged by posterity.

But Lu Yuan doesn't care; just because he can wait centuries doesn't mean others don't care, and they can wait centuries too.

Speaking of those soldiers who will go forth to battle in the future.

What are these people?

Are they heroes?

Or are they executioners?

For soldiers who die on the battlefield, is it flowers or dung at their graves?

Lu Yuan may not care about fame, but he wants to give those who go forth to battle a reputation.

We are going on a peacekeeping mission.

We are heroes.

So Lu Yuan's ostentatious performance is still very necessary.

Of course, if it's just for Gu Qingwan, it's useless.

Between the two of them, no performance is needed.

Lu Yuan is performing for Kang Linfei.

And this is merely a prelude; later, Kang Linfei will have to help himself put on the act.

From now on, Lu Yuan can't just go around crying to everyone he meets, can he?

Lu Yuan is busy.

After Lu Yuan finished speaking, the already-understanding Gu Qingwan immediately nodded and said:

"Good, since that's the case, I will first have the Cabinet draft an edict……"

As for the specifics, Gu Qingwan will ask herself this little man again in the evening.

Anyway, the reasons, why, the causes—this little man will certainly make it clear to himself.

Furthermore, once this little man says it, she will certainly agree as well.

So she will first agree to it.

Kang Linfei, standing aside, listened to their conversation, blinked, and remained silent.

One who is not in the position should not meddle in its affairs.

Kang Linfei merely felt…… that His Majesty really dotes on Lu Yuan too much.

Lu Yuan just casually said a couple of lines, and His Majesty agreed without asking for anything more.

This deployment of troops is a major matter.

His Majesty didn't even summon the Ministry of War personnel to discuss it.

He bypassed the Ministry of War and the Cabinet, simply nodding his approval.

This goes to show…… that His Majesty truly trusts Lu Yuan to the utmost.

Of course, that's also the case.

Given the current state of the Great Zhou Dynasty, whoever is His Majesty, upon encountering a capable minister like Lu Yuan, would act the same way.

As for whether it conforms to the rules……

Kang Linfei is no longer a Vice Premier of the Cabinet, and he absolutely won't utter a word.

Just as Kang Linfei was preparing to play dead to the end, then taking advantage of His Majesty's inattention to slip away.

Lu Yuan, kneeling before Kang Linfei, then embraced his wife's plump, beautiful leg, looked up with a grin, and said to his wife:

"Why bother looking for the Cabinet? We already have a ready-made one right here."

Lu Yuan finished speaking, and Kang Linfei's body trembled.

Kang Linfei really wanted to cry.

Damn it, I knew getting involved with this thing would definitely be no good!!

This emperor basically wasn't even looking at him; Kang Linfei had thought that after Lu Yuan finished speaking, he could leave soon.

As a result, that sentence immediately dragged him out.

Gu Qingwan then looked at this little man of hers somewhat strangely and said:

"Him?"

Lu Yuan looked at his second wife and nodded, saying:

"Yes, although Grand Secretary Kang is now in the Hanlin Academy, he used to be a vice premier, so drafting an edict is nothing difficult."

"Just write it here, and after it's done, have Grand Secretary Kang send it directly to the Cabinet—wouldn't that work?"

Gu Qingwan roughly understood what her husband meant, and immediately nodded along with his words, saying:

"What is Grand Secretary Kang waiting for?"

Having said that, Gu Qingwan coldly glanced at Kang Linfei kneeling on the ground.

Kang Linfei now dared not refuse; he wiped the sweat from his forehead and immediately knelt down, saying:

"Yes... Your Majesty..."

Afterwards, Kang Linfei got up, went to another table, took out a steel pen from his coat pocket, took out a sheet of paper, and began to write with his head down.

Meanwhile, Gu Qingwan looked at Lu Yuan kneeling on the ground, embracing her thigh, and felt a bit heartbroken, saying:

"Why are you still kneeling? Hurry up and get up."

Lu Yuan then grinned and said:

"Since the emperor is upholding justice for me, I as a subject naturally ought to kneel a bit more."

It's not that Lu Yuan wants to kneel; it's just that... his second wife's belly has really gotten big.

It's been almost three months now, and it's starting to show a bit.

Standing or wearing loose clothes it's not noticeable, but once seated it's really quite apparent.

I can still block it here, but don't let Kang Linfei see.

Gu Qingwan froze for a moment, blinked her eyes, then glanced at her own belly, and thus understood what her husband meant.

Nor did she say much more; she merely glanced at Kang Linfei drafting opposite her.

She then extended her jade hand and affectionately pinched her husband's cheek.

The love in Gu Qingwan's eyes was practically about to overflow.

I had thought my husband wouldn't be back for more than a month.

Who could have imagined he'd suddenly return last night?

Soon, Kang Linfei finished writing, a total of seven large pages.

He tremblingly handed it to Gu Qingwan.

Gu Qingwan took it, glanced at it twice, and then directly handed it to her husband.

Lu Yuan took it and examined it carefully.

He was very satisfied.

Look!

What is called professionalism!

This is professionalism—this wording, this sentence construction, it's truly too professional!

Things like "rebellious against the Celestial Dynasty", "deserving punishment", "punishing traitors", "maintaining peace", etc.

All the central ideas of Lu Yuan's plain-spoken words were fully incorporated by Kang Linfei's writing, and it was written excellently.

Moreover, Kang Linfei well understood what it means to avoid the essential and focus on the trivial.

Lu Yuan said that the Southern Exchange Dynasty had stolen half of his sweet potato, but that was actually just a joke.

After all, you can't really say that because the Southern Exchange Dynasty stole half of his sweet potato, we should go to war over it.

That sort of thing is just something we say among ourselves behind closed doors; an edict definitely couldn't say that—it would be too childish.

Kang Linfei therefore wrote that it was something the Great Zhou Dynasty gave to the Lingnan Dynasty, which was then seized by the Southern Exchange Dynasty.

And also that the Great Zhou Dynasty could not bear to see the peoples of the South Asia Subcontinent suffering.

Then he began to furiously write about the heinous, unjust deeds the Southern Exchange Dynasty committed in the South Asia Subcontinent.

What the Southern Exchange Dynasty actually did in the South Asia Subcontinent, Kang Linfei surely doesn't know.

But Kang Linfei can make it up; besides, in war, anyway, those are the sorts of things—whenever there's war, there's always some inhumane element involved.

Just pile those things on heavily in the writing.

Lu Yuan knelt on the ground, looked at it for a while, and then sincerely sighed:

"Grand Secretary, you really know how to spin a tale."

Kang Linfei: "????"

"No... I..."

Immediately, Kang Linfei wanted to curse, "Damn it, wasn't it you who started the tall tale?"

"You're the one who's spinning tales; if I don't, can this matter just pass?"

Before Kang Linfei could explain anything, Lu Yuan grinned at him and chuckled:

"Don't rush, Grand Secretary, this is praise for you."

Kang Linfei: "..."

Afterwards, Lu Yuan rose to his feet and directly said:

"Your Majesty, we'll go straight to the Grand Secretariat now and submit this."

Gu Qingwan had wanted to say a bit more, but seeing her husband so eager, she didn't rush to say it, deciding to wait until they got home tonight to speak.

At once, Gu Qingwan nodded and then said:

"Okay, go quickly."

Then Lu Yuan pulled Kang Linfei and left directly.

And Kang Linfei was a bit confused—"Isn't… the Your Majesty waiting for you at Qingbei Daxue? Shouldn't you first ask what the Your Majesty wants with you?"

Kang Linfei couldn't figure out what was going on between those two, so he could only follow Lu Yuan out.

When the two were heading to the parking lot to drive, on the way Lu Yuan put away the imperial edict, glanced at Kang Linfei beside him, and said with a grin:

"Grand Secretary, these days haven't been too easy at the Hanlin Academy, right?"

Kang Linfei startled, then gave an embarrassed smile and said nothing.

Although he enjoyed being idle, … he still felt a bit of a sense of loss.

One moment he was a top official, the next he was semi-retired.

Nobody truly doesn't care at all.

And Lu Yuan said with a smile:

"Grand Secretary, from now on, don't go to the Hanlin Academy; after you go to the Grand Secretariat, you'll continue serving as Vice Grand Secretary."

Kang Linfei looked at Lu Yuan, completely bewildered.

Is this something you can decide?

It's what the damn Your Majesty says that counts!!

Before Kang Linfei could say anything, Lu Yuan continued with a smile:

"I'll tell the Your Majesty later; you just go take up your post now."

Kang Linfei: "???"

No, what exactly is the Your Majesty to you!!

You just need to say it, damn it?

And you'll say it later??

(End of chapter)