"Why are you here?" When he returned to the small courtyard where he lived, he saw an old man dressed in white with a white beard sitting quietly under the flower stand of Ye Xi Minghua, waiting for him quietly, Ah Zhai couldn't help frowning, how much he respected this old man before, and now how much he wanted to stay away from the old man in front of him.

"Jin, I'm waiting for you." Elishya blinked, he naturally knew how much the disciple in front of him rejected him, he had no children for so many years, and naturally regarded the person in front of him as his own child, he took care of him, taught him, and helped him...... He did what all fathers should or could do for their children, and he did what he did to let his children try to grow up, and this child did not disappoint him, he respected himself, loved himself, was close to himself, and they used to get along like real father and son, however, he never thought that one day they would have such hostility and antagonism.

"It's all over today, what else do you ask for, or what are you worried about?" Ah Zhai waved his hand and waved away the group of slaves, he stood ten steps in front of the other party, but he was no longer willing to come in front of the other party.

"I hope you can convince Your Majesty to marry the Median kingdom." Elishya folded her hands on her knees and made a gesture of wanting to have a long talk.

"Why me again?" Ah Zhai sneered, "I've already promised you and the damned Popalasa that I'll never accept Oia's feelings, and if I don't respond, I'll never tell him, why don't you still let me go?" ”

"The marriage with the Median kingdom is for His Majesty." Elishya looked at the young man in front of him calmly, for a moment he thought he was back many years ago when the man in front of him was a child, when he was still grieving for his recently deceased father but was forced by his mother to leave the home where he had been living, and when he went to pick him up from the temple after his evening class, he saw a small hedgehog that had gathered himself up, vigilant and sensitive, obstinately refusing to be approached by anyone.

"For him, hah, can you speak better?" Ah Zhai showed a sneering expression on his face, "I don't see anything he needs to marry!" ”

"You know we have a strong army, but we are surrounded by equally powerful enemies, and we need to join forces with our allies against our enemies." Elishya looked up slightly at Ah Zhai's cold and painful face, and sighed, "The best way to form an alliance with an ally is to marry. ”

"Oia's mother is also a princess of the Median kingdom, why should his marriage be sacrificed?" Ataku looked sideways at Elishya's face, and there were snow-white petals floating on the other party's long beard, which were almost indistinguishable from the color of the beard.

"The Median kingdom has changed kings, and the young king has no close relationship with our elderly princess, and it can even be said that when our princess got married, he was still a baby in swaddling clothes, and it can be seen from the spies' report that he is an ambitious king, if it weren't for the strength of the Median kingdom weaker than ours, maybe there would be a war burning on the border early." Elishya spoke calmly, his breezy expression making him look as if he was talking about today's weather.

"I don't think that an ambitious king would give up his 'ambition' and shake hands with his brother-in-law in order to marry his sister far away!" Ah Otaku snorted coldly.

"But at least we gave him a reason why he couldn't go to war directly." Elishya agreed.

"I don't think we can't defeat the Median kingdom." A house hard to drop a sentence, these years he is not a vegetarian in the temple, the temple has many craftsmen, a house just described the waterwheel he saw when he traveled in his previous life, although he didn't understand the principle but these ingenious craftsmen quickly studied the real thing, and Babylon's glass technology has always been at the forefront of the world, a house just put forward a more life-like such as the idea of using it to make windows, shrewd merchants will naturally open up trade routes, plus slightly purified wine, Babylon's tax revenues have tripled now compared to a decade ago.

At the same time, Ah Zhai turned more attention to the army, and an accident surprised him to find that people here had actually domesticated cotton, he actually didn't know how to farm, and never had the opportunity to try, but he at least understood that the same field could not be planted with the same plant continuously, and needed to be fertilized, after he set up a special agricultural bonus, there would always be smart people to study, after the cotton yield was raised, he began to order people to try to study cotton nails, This thing is not only much lighter than the iron armor, but also has the same efficacy, so he set up a research institute under the temple to improve the relevant armaments.

The most important thing is that he admires frugality as much as Elishia, he has always known that upward and downward effects are something that exists in any era, and this is no exception, of course, he has always been very clever in this regard, he understands that he and Elishia can be said to be a benchmark for Babylonian high society, and when he shows kindness to the nobles who live frugally and do not waste money, naturally some people rush to follow suit.

Therefore, after ten years of hard work, he believes that Babylon's strength should be far better than that in the original book, plus he has never despised the surrounding countries for so many years, and the scouts he sent have the relevant information early, so he believes that if Babylon wants to conquer the Medes, although it will take some effort, it should not be a difficult thing.

"Jin, I think we can reach a consensus on this aspect." Elishya couldn't help but sigh when he looked at the young man's stubborn appearance, "Whether you or me, we all value Babylon as very important, and what we have done over the years is also for the betterment of Babylon, but why are you unwilling to ...... now?" You should know that no matter what, Your Majesty is always going to get married, even if it is not Princess Metis of the Median Kingdom, it will be someone else. ”

"I care more about Oia's happiness than Babylon, if he wants to, then I will support it, but if he is not happy, why should I wronged him and wronged myself?" Ah Zhai knows that he is lying, he is still a selfish person in the end, for Oia's unwillingness to marry the princess of the Median kingdom, I am afraid that the whole Babylon will not find a happier person than him, of course, he also knows that Oya will get married sooner or later, but so what, at least not now, maybe by that time he will be able to accept it calmly.

"Jin, Your Majesty is still a child." Elishya watched the young man silently.

"Just because I'm older than him, all the wicked want me to do it, right?" Ah Zhai rubbed his eyebrows tiredly, in so many worlds, he never thought that one day their relationship would be opposed by the elders, "I care more about whether he is happy or not than making him a famous king for future generations." ”

"But his status determines that everything about him is related to Babylon, Jin, you can't be so willful." The old man shook his head disapprovingly.

"If I were really willful, I would have taken him with me a long time ago!" Otaku sneered.

"You won't, and neither will he." Elishya said calmly, "You are a disciple I taught, no one knows you better than me, you are not the kind of person who does not care about the overall situation for the sake of his own selfish desires; And His Majesty, in his veins flowed the noblest blood of Babylon, and he was taught by you, and I never feared that you would lead him down the wrong path. ”

Ah Zhai folded his hands and turned his head sideways not to look at the old man.

"And His Majesty is very restrained, you and I both know, even the first king knows, he loves you, but he doesn't dare to say to you and chooses to restrain himself, on the one hand, he is worried that you will dislike him, on the other hand, he is worried about bringing you an unfavorable impression, in turn, do you have to do something for him?" Elishya has always known how to hit others in the soft underbelly, "Actually, I don't think there is anything wrong with your relationship like the previous king, but it is clear that His Majesty has a tendency to give up marriage for you, so we have to eliminate him from the beginning." ”

“…… I understand, I'll enter the palace tomorrow. "But I don't necessarily want him to marry the princess of the Median kingdom, and I firmly maintain his choice on this point." ”

"Teacher, did you come to the palace to see me today?" The day after the sacrifice, the young king was unexpectedly apprehensive when facing his master, although he still maintained the basic etiquette in a serious manner, but God knows that his red ears leaked his master's thoughts early, and he couldn't remember exactly what happened at the top of the Qiyao Tower, but that dream made him recall it repeatedly, too real but too beautiful, in the dream he had the audacity to kiss his master almost unscrupulously, and made those movements that made people blush when they thought about it, After waking up, he blamed himself for a while, but there was a secret joy in his heart, if the gods of the Seven Yao Pagoda allowed him to have such a sweet dream, then did it mean that he actually still had a great chance to be able to join hands with the person he loved.

"Your Majesty, you need a queen." More than ten years, from the other party is a short and small little fat man who can reach out and hold in his arms, to a young man who draws a tall strip and goes to the battlefield alone, and then to the king who is now tall and straight, and is about to become an adult, in all the years that have passed so far, he has been looking forward to his days occupying two-thirds, which is the most important time in a person's life, and they can be together, so Ah Zhai is more and more reluctant to say persecutive words.

“…… Was it the old priest's idea or yours? Do you want me to choose a marriage with the Kingdom of the Medes? In the end, he was young and vigorous, the young king laughed angrily, as if a blunt knife had been stabbed in his heart one by one, the wounds were glued together and the flesh was blurred, and as soon as he had a luxury in his heart, the other party poured a basin of ice water down, "Only an incompetent and cowardly king would choose to marry - this is what you taught me." ”

"I'm not asking you to marry Medes, I just think you need a queen, and your father was already married to a princess at your age." A house hard said.

"Am I like a fool in your eyes?" Nebuchadnezzar laughed.

"Of course not, you are my best disciple!" Ah Zhai shouted in surprise, "It's just that the man should get married and the woman should get married!" ”

"your disciple!" The fire in his heart burned more and more violently, and Nebuchadnezzar faced his division commander and his sweetheart with a sharp attitude that he had never felt before, "It's not so much that I need a queen, but that I need a son, ha, are you worried that I will die in battle and have no heirs that day!" ”

"Smack!" Ah Zhai slapped him angrily, "Are you still a child?" Do you still need someone to coax you? Don't you understand that your existence is related to the comfort of all Babylon, to the thousands of people of Babylon, and never to curse any life and death! Your life is never yours alone. ”