Chapter 642: The Eve of Departure
"Sure enough...... Still doesn't work?"
In the back garden, the bejeweled Ying Yuhua leaned against the railing and threw the bait in his hand into the water, attracting a large group of ornamental fish to compete for food.
She turned her head and stared at Mu Shang with a cold expression, her eyes like a poisonous snake that chooses people to devour.
Mu Shang recounted the incident in a trembling voice, and beads of sweat from his forehead kept dripping onto the beautifully patterned floor tiles.
He went to see Zhao Xinglan with a generous gift this time, but the result was still in vain, especially aroused the vigilance of Ying Hao's side, which means that as long as there are no accidents in the future, Ying Yuhua's people will basically have no chance to fight that indigenous girl's idea, and it is even more impossible to get the mother queen.
Ying Yuhua was silent for a while before he said indifferently: "Since that's the case, then what's the use of me keeping you?"
Mu Shang's eyes were dark, and he only felt chills all over his body, as if death had grabbed his neck, and pleaded with a crying voice: "Your Highness, for the sake of serving you for many years in the past, will you give me another chance?"
"Opportunities don't always come there. β
Ying Yuhua said coldly: "One miss can be forgiven, and if there is a second time, this palace will never agree." You...... Pack up and go where you need to be. β
Two grim-faced, heavily armed men walked in silently, dragged Mu Shang, who had collapsed to the ground like a dead dog, and left without looking back, and the sound of desperate and helpless pleas was heard far and wide.
No one ever saw the poor steward since.
Ying Yuhua was silent for a while, and scolded in a hateful whisper: "Usually one is more loyal than the other, but at critical moments, they are a bunch of unscrupulous wastes, and they spend so many star yuan in the palace every year, it is better to raise a group of dogs than to raise you!"
"I'll just say why the always neutral Grand Duke Qilong suddenly accepted the congratulatory gift from the old seventeen when he celebrated his birthday a few days ago, it turned out that it was because of the mother emperor, if he was really pulled over, wouldn't the bastard have a greater advantage?
Grand Duke Qilong has a heavy army, and he has a very strong voice in the court, and his protΓ©gΓ©s are all over the empire, and his potential power should not be underestimated.
"Go, bring Mr. Xiao to me. Ying Yuhua pondered for a while with a gloomy face and commanded.
Not far away, a maid left silently, and after a while, she brought back a plain-looking, ordinary-fashioned white-bearded old man, with the breath of some fairy wind and bones, and those eyes were deep and bright, as if she could see through the bottom of people's hearts.
This old man is from Ying Yuhua's maternal family, and has served the family for several generations, and is highly respected and meritorious in the clan. When Ying Yuhua was still an adult, she was assigned by the head of the family to teach this royal noble, and at the same time had the responsibility of assisting her in ascending to the throne, and is now her number one adviser.
After seeing him, Ying Yuhua didn't hold it up, a smile appeared on his face, and he said politely: "Mr. Xiao is here, please sit down and talk." β
Mr. Xiao nodded reservedly and sat down calmly, and the maid next to him immediately respectfully served the teacup.
"I've been in trouble lately, and I don't know how to decide, so I'm asking for advice. Ying Yuhua said to him.
"Oh, Your Highness, let's hear it. Mr. Xiao's eyes flashed and said lightly.
"Here's the thing...... "Ying Yuhua told the story about Zhao Xinglan.
Mr. Xiao changed color slightly: "It turned out to be the mother emperor, and it also involves the seventeenth prince, no wonder His Royal Highness will bother with this." It's a big deal. That Zhao Xinglan...... Well, what is the background of the origin, and why do you have such a treasure?"
Ying Yuhua said cautiously: "According to the investigation of the palace, the mother queen seed originally belonged to the Grand Duke of Qilong, and was later 'won' by that one in a secret gamble, so there was the ...... of the next thing."
"Now that she is guarded by the people of Old Seventeen, this palace feels a little tricky. β
Mr. Xiao frowned slightly, and said, "I see, is she the heir who was specially chosen to cultivate? If this is the case, things are indeed not easy to handle." β
The mother queen is not a cabbage, and in the human world, super forces like the Qingqiong Empire will not have many of them, and as the princes and princesses who have not yet ascended the throne, they have no chance to count on it. Therefore, even the seventeenth prince who is temporarily the first heir in line to the throne attaches great importance to this thing, which is a key bargaining chip that can affect the future ownership of the empire.
Now that Zhao Xinglan has such a mother emperor in his hands, and there is a shadow of that great existence behind him, he will naturally be co-opted by all forces in the future, and it is simply impossible to use tough means, so Mr. Xiao feels more difficult.
As long as she expresses her closeness to which side she is close to in the future, it is very easy to change the current balance of power between the many heirs of the royal family.
Ying Yuhua shook his head and said: "This palace doesn't think that he would randomly choose an indigenous woman from Yuanxing as his heir, not to mention that he didn't mention this matter to anyone, including his father, afterwards, so this matter can't be concluded for the time being." β
"Is that so?"
Mr. Xiao groaned, and his face gradually softened: "If that's the case, things will take a turn for the better." β
"I wonder what Mr. plans to do?" asked Ying Yuhua.
Mr. Xiao smiled slightly, and whispered about his plan: "Aren't there some students and disciples in the sea of stars? Many of them want to become the successor of the teacher's mantle, and when they learn that their teacher has chosen an indigenous woman with no background, I am afraid that something happy will happen next." β
"And this is an internal struggle between students, even if the dead are not related to us, so if nothing else, Zhao Xinglan will definitely be more auspicious, and the seventeenth prince will no longer be able to get the mother emperor, Your Highness, as long as you manage it carefully, you still have a chance." β
Ying Yuhua's eyes lit up and he thought carefully.
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The meeting was not very long, and when the Hongqi car drove out of the gate again, it was not yet lunchtime.
ββ¦β¦ How about it? What did you talk about with the No. 1 leader? Can you tell me about it?" Xie Xuan asked with interest, grabbing her.
Zhao Xinglan said with a smile: "It's nothing, I just hope that after I leave, the government will help me take care of my relatives, and this stall on the earth." Besides giving a few more things, nothing else. β
Xie Xuan blinked his beautiful eyes, and wisely did not continue to ask. If it is more serious, Zhao Xinglan may not be much smaller than those old men now, so the talks between the two sides must also involve some extremely confidential things, and ordinary people are naturally not qualified to know about it.
She changed her tone and said, "Qin Yuanjun just sent a message to let us go to his house for lunch, what do you think?"
"There was a free meal, of course. Zhao Xinglan said disappreciatively.
The next few months were uneventful, and nothing happened.
After reaching an agreement with the country's top leaders, at least some of the bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods in the country who still don't give up seem to have disappeared overnight. As for the ill-intentioned pretenders abroad, of course, there are still some pretenders, but it is a pity that they cannot affect the situation in China at all.
Zhao Xinglan, who had no worries, was able to arrange everything with peace of mind, and transferred another 10% of the shares of Xinglan Group to the state, keeping only 10% in his hands, that is, 160 billion US dollars. Combined with the shares of several other companies and two charitable foundations, the total assets under her name are about $200 billion.
Xinglan Group has become the world's No. 1 pharmaceutical giant and the largest corporate consortium in terms of market capitalization, with more than 100,000 employees and a strong R&D team.
It is foreseeable that the value of this group company will further increase, and it will not be a problem to surpass the GDP of most countries.
Zhao Xinglan had already sorted out a complete set of technical materials for the national genetic weapons project and handed them over to the ultimate line of defense, and then specially selected 200 senior experts in the field of biological genes to give them a two-hour lecture every day for a month, imparting to them a lot of advanced technical knowledge in this field. After he leaves, these seeds will take on the important task of leading the development of Huaguo Biogene Technology.
The general election on the island of Madagascar has ended, Ramka has successfully become president, and the leadership of key institutions such as the parliament, the military, and the judiciary has also fallen into the hands of the intelligent splitters, and the island country has become a de facto private domain of Zhao Xinglan.
Immediately, under the instruction of Zhao Xinglan, a large number of international investors patronized, began to comprehensively upgrade the infrastructure of Madagascar Island, bridges, railways and highways, power stations, transmission grids, schools and hospitals and a series of large-scale projects related to the national economy and people's livelihood, with a total investment of hundreds of billions of US dollars, all commercial contracting contracts were basically entrusted to construction companies from China.
She does not expect to build this island country into the first place in the world, at least it is not a problem to improve the living conditions of tens of millions of local people and make them live better.
To this end, in addition to commercial contracts of astonishing value, the newly inaugurated government has also placed a total of $200 billion in national defense procurement orders with several military giants in China, involving the main equipment of the navy, army, and air force.
In return, the Chinese government signed a high-level military cooperation agreement with Madagascar, comprehensively upgrading two ports and an airport on the island, and then leasing them to China's navy and air force for a period of 30 years.
This means that this island nation has been sheltered by one of the five hooligans of the United Nations, and even if other countries want to fight its ideas in the future, they will have to think twice.
In the depths of several mountain ranges in the middle of the island, the Mother Emperor's Engineer Detachment Legion has built more than ten large-scale secret bases, some important biochemical bases have been relocated here, and one of the largest mountains has been hollowed out, and in the future, after the Mother Emperor completes the ninth stage of transformation, the location of the Space Star Gate will be set up here.