Forgotten Legend of the Bloodied Flower

“Your Majesty, Prime Minister Lei’s strategies managed to hold Fei Yang Kingdom’s soldiers from entering deep into our territory. Whilst there are no victories report, there hadn’t been any losses report either,” another official stepped forward, defending Prime Minister Lei.

It was easy to guess that he was one of the few people who definitely supported Prime Minister Lei. After so many years in Zhang Xu Kingdom, Prime Minister Lei didn’t only active on the frontline but also had a lot of people who supported him on the court.

“But in this defense tactic, we couldn’t push the soldiers from Fei Yang Kingdom out of our territory,” Another official interjected in dissatisfaction.

“What other methods would there be aside from defense? There are not enough manpower to be sent to invade Fei Yang Kingdom even if we want to,” the fourth official finally spoke up.

These officials were all from different factions.

They all had their own little opinions and wished that their methods could be used and that other people’s methods were of little use. But it was clear that every method had its own advantage.

It was not easy to clearly pick one.

If the deadlock between Zhang Xu Kingdom and Fei Yang Kingdom were to be broken in advance, would it result in their loss or their win?

No one knew.

And they didn’t actually dare to put forward the tactics while saying that it would definitely succeed because they themselves didn’t know.

“Prime Minister Tan, is there anything you want to add?” Emperor Zhang Hou Tian finally turned his head to the prime minister at the side. There were a total of two prime ministers in Zhang Xu Kingdom, one of them was Prime Minister Lei who were more active at the frontline while the other one was Prime Minister Tan who stayed on the court most of the time.

Different from Prime Minister Lei who had made his name on the battlefield through countless achievement, Prime Minister Tan was a scholar thorough. But it was his intelligence that made Emperor Zhang Hou Tian appreciated him.

But the two prime ministers were often having different opinion from one another.

“The strategy of defense will indeed keep our current territory intact, but it wouldn’t last long. This minister hopes His Majesty could come up with a different idea in order to kick those barbarians of Fei Yang Kingdom out!” Prime Minister Tan cupped his fist.

Emperor Zhang Hou Tian nodded.

“Your Majesty, this minister thinks that while it was true that we need to kick those barbarians out, we couldn’t do anything hastily!”

“Your Majesty, Zhang Xu Kingdom needs to keep its stability…”

“Your Majesty, this minister thinks that Prime Minister Tan is right and that we need to figure out a method to kick those barbarians of Fei Yang Kingdom out!”

The officials began to echo each other, spouting their opinions.

Emperor Zhang Hou Tian rubbed his forehead. He also wished that they could kick Fei Yang Kingdom soldiers out of their territory, but so far, there hadn’t been any good tactic that could be used.

For this reason alone, he felt conflicted.

Not to mention, the reason why he could rise to become the Emperor was also due to the contribution of Prime Minister Lei. How could he possibly abandon Prime Minister Lei’s tactics?

It was not like this tactic couldn’t work.

“Let’s wait for now.” Emperor Zhang Hou Tian raised his hand to calm the officials down.

The officials looked at each other.

Some were dissatisfied, some were concerned, some were relieved, and so on. But no matter what emotion they felt, they all replied in unison.

“Yes, Your Majesty. Your Majesty is wise!”

They had to agree on the surface.

Emperor Yang Zhou waved his hand. “Now, proceed with the things that happened on the frontline.”

“Yes, Your Majesty. On the South border…”

…

<Zhang Xu Kingdom’s Capital City, inside a certain Inn>

Si Bai, Si Mo Fan’s son, had been staying in Zhang Xu Kingdom for a period of time. Ever since Nan Hua suddenly asked for him to come to Zhang Xu Kingdom and infiltrated here, he hadn’t been able to go back home again.

If he had to say, he liked Xia Mountains more than Zhang Xu Kingdom.

But he didn’t want to disobey Nan Hua’s order. Not to mention, he did find that there were some interesting things here.

“Young Master Si, from the recent report of the officials on the court stated that His Majesty is still keen on supporting the right hand.”

The right hand was the term they used for Prime Minister Lei.

After all, they couldn’t possibly state publicly that they were discussing the matter of Zhang Xu Kingdom in this small inn.

Si Bai frowned and nodded. He murmured in a low voice, “It’s really hard to shake his position out of His Majesty’s heart.”

Prime Minister Lei’s contribution to help Emperor Zhang Hou Tian to become the Emperor was crystal clear. For them to pull Prime Minister Lei down, they could only do that slowly.

It was really hard to pull this Prime Minister Lei down.

His backer is technically the biggest backer in the entire Zhang Xu Kingdom.

The servant looked at Si Bai and shook his head. He only said another matter, “Young Master Si, Madam Si is waiting for you at home.”

“Ah?” Si Bai was stunned and quickly stood up.

After coming to Zhang Xu Kingdom, he assumed the identity of a small merchant and traveler. By coincidence, he met with Lu Family’s second daughter and fell in love with the other party.

One way or another, the two of them got married.

So far, Si Bai hadn’t had the chance to introduce his parents to his wife….

Though, he was sure that his father would surely break his legs for getting married without informing them.

*cough*

His position in Lu Family was somewhat embarrassing, but it has been pretty good so far. Anyway, being in Lu Family allowed him to stay in the Capital City without anyone being suspicious, so it was good.𝒐𝑣𝓁xt.𝗇𝓔t