Chapter Twenty-Three: Father and Daughter Have a Long Talk
In the end, Dazai Zhi woke up under the medicinal power of this snow pill, and this court meeting ended hastily because of this emergency.
After returning to the Juyi Palace, Cheng Mingci was very depressed, and as the supreme ruler of the empire, the emperor wanted to give his daughter a gift.
At this time, the chamberlain came to report that the eldest princess asked to see her, although it was not yet canonized, but the chamberlain already thought that the title of the eldest princess Cheng Xiuyi was certain.
As soon as Cheng Mingci heard his daughter's request to see him, he hurriedly ordered Cheng Xiuyi to come closer, and Cheng Xiuyi gave a salute after seeing her father.
Cheng Mingci waved his hand, let his daughter sit opposite him and asked: If the child has something to tell his father, tell his father if he needs anything, and his father will definitely satisfy you.
Cheng Xiuyi looked at her father, who already had a trace of gray hair on her temples, and felt a lot of emotion in her heart, but she had to tell her father what she said today, otherwise she would feel that she would go crazy.
Because on the way back to Shangjing, she saw too much ugliness, too much unfairness, too many wives were separated, and if she didn't tell her father about these things, she wouldn't be able to forgive herself.
So Cheng Xiuyi told Cheng Mingci that she had some political affairs to tell her father, and Cheng Mingci quickly gathered her mind as soon as she heard her daughter talk about political affairs with her.
When he heard his daughter finish what he had seen and heard along the way, he nodded and said, "Emperor, how did you not know about these fathers and emperors?
It can even be said that these hidden dangers already existed when my Xia Yuan was founded, and your imperial grandfather was the master of Zhongxing in my Xia Yuan, opening up hundreds of thousands of kilometers of territory for my empire.
But the emperor, the war needs money, but at that time, the country was abundant, and these problems were not a problem at all.
In addition, there are more than a dozen saint-level powerhouses to help in the war, when our country goes to war with the enemy country, these powerhouses work together to destroy those small countries, and the imperial army is simply conducting an armed parade.
But the countries that were destroyed were poor countries with no resources at all, and the empire spent a lot of silver taels and other resources for this war.
However, these problems have not been seen by the entire empire, from your imperial grandfather to the ordinary people of the empire.
What I said above is not the most important thing, the most important thing is the beast demon clan outside the Eagle Sorrow Pass.
The beast demon clan is actually an alien race like the elf race, and their ancestors are a hybrid of orcs and western races from the western continent.
The culture of the Western continent is very different from us, what we value is the sense of cultural identity, we pay attention to the Xia Yuan when we enter the Xia Yuan, and the Yi Di is the Yi Di.
The Western continent attaches great importance to blood, and they believe that the union of male and female of the two races is very unlucky, and the mixed race produced by this union is not as good as pure-blooded humans and orcs in terms of physical condition and intelligence due to the impure blood.
But this kind of thinking is obviously biased, the mixed race of the two races is very good in terms of intelligence and physical condition, so I Xia Yuan doesn't pay much attention to blood.
There are even some aspects that are better than purebloods, such as the Eastern Beamon Beast Demon and the Western Beamon Behemoth, the Eastern Beamon Beast Demon is only taller than normal humans when they are not stimulating the power of the Beamon Behemoth in the bloodline.
They are also closer to humans in appearance, which makes it easier for them to hide themselves when hunting and marching to war.
And the Beamon giant beasts in the West have an average height of about one hundred and twenty-three meters, which brings them great inconvenience.
Therefore, the beast demon clan in the east, basically under normal circumstances, their racial characteristics are not obvious, while the orcs in the west, although they have a human character in their name, but to be precise, they are just a group of beasts that can walk upright.
This is also one of the reasons why the orcs in the West have not yet established a decent country.
They are just tribes based on their own bloodline, although the humans in the west do not have a unified country on their continent, but the orcs still can't compete with those countries established by humans.
It is that they are too different from humans in intelligence, so the orcs were driven by humans to the Fisher Plateau, and the orcs also called it the Hunger Plateau.
They have difficulty entering the rich human settlements, and do you know why the orcs call the Fisher Plateau the Hunger Plateau?
Cheng Xiuyi shook her head, and looked at her father intently, Cheng Mingci looked at her daughter and continued: That's because the average altitude of this plateau is more than 5,000 meters, and the wind and snow are all over the year, the vegetation is scarce, and there is even less edible food.
And the beasts of the plateau are more ferocious, cruel and cunning than the beasts of the plains, because they also need to survive on this plateau.
Therefore, the orcs are rivals for food, and they will not show mercy because of their blood proximity.
Moreover, among the beasts on the plateau, it is easier to produce wind type magic beasts and water type magic beasts, and ice and snow type magic beasts.
Therefore, among the orcs, there is such a saying, that is, whoever can let the clansmen enter the warm land is the beast emperor of the orc clan.
Unfortunately, there hasn't been one yet.
Although they wage war against the human kingdom every two or three years, they are calculated by the humans every time.
As a result, there are only two ways for orcs who wish to enter the warm land to enter the human realm, and that is to become mercenaries or slaves.
The final result of these two paths is death without exception, and those half-breed orcs with a certain high IQ are excluded by both races.
So all the half-blood orcs decided to leave the Western Continent and find a continent that could accept them, and finally they came to the Eastern Continent one after another.
Now, after tens of thousands of years of integration and fighting, they have begun to have the rudiments of a unified country.
Moreover, two thousand years ago, there was a great beast demon leader who united these tribes, and also threatened my Xia Yuan Empire.
However, at that time, although my Xia Yuan Empire had just been founded, it was thriving in all aspects, and more than a dozen sages joined forces to defeat the army led by that beast demon hero.
And use all kinds of resources to split the beast demon clan into various tribes again, but now as long as a great person appears in the beast demon clan again to integrate the beast demon clan, then it will be difficult to compete with them with the national strength of the Xia Yuan Empire now.
And according to the information sent back by the personnel I sent, there is now a great hero named Namur Dozhen in the Golden Wolf Clan within the Grassland Tribal Alliance.
He used his influence in his own clan to unify the wolf demon clan and marry the princess of the fox demon clan.
Moreover, the Beast Demon Clan and the Wolf Demon Clan are traditional allies, and the Fox Demon Clan is a powerful sacrificial race of the entire Beast Demon Clan, and the leaders of each tribe are willing to invite the Fox Demon Clan's clansmen to serve as the sacrifice and guest secretary of the tribe.
Because the fox demon clan has influenced the entire beast demon clan with its transcendent status in the previous tribal battles.
And Namur Dozhen married the princess of the fox demon clan, so it is possible for him to use this relationship to unify the beast demon clan.
After hearing this, Cheng Xiuyi asked suspiciously: Father, then why didn't I, Xia Yuan, send a large army to eliminate Namur before he really unified the beast demon clan?
After hearing this, Cheng Mingci shook his head and said: "The child's father didn't think about it, but now my dynasty doesn't have the strength to take the initiative to attack the beast demon clan.
If that's the case, not only will it not kill Namur Dozhen, but on the contrary, it will accelerate the pace of his unification.
After hearing this, Cheng Xiuyi gritted her teeth and said: What about assassination?
Cheng Mingci looked at his daughter and said: I have tried many times, but they all ended in failure.
Because Namur is really resourceful, and his wife is an unpredictable woman, and these two people, one is strong in martial arts and the other is superb in magic, the combination of the two can be said that ordinary assassins can't hurt them at all.
In addition, they are meticulous every time they travel, and it is difficult to capture their whereabouts.
Son, I have heard all this from your imperial grandfather, and all kinds of problems have arisen when your imperial grandfather ascended the throne.
However, your imperial grandfather was not originally raised as the heir to the throne, so your imperial grandfather, like your father, went from being an idle prince to suddenly becoming the ruler of the empire.
Many of his policies inevitably arose with problems of one kind or another, but when your imperial grandfather became aware of these problems, your three imperial uncles began to fight for the throne again and again.
So your grandfather's energy was focused on quelling these disputes, but in the end these disputes inevitably turned into a palace coup.
So my father was forced to become the crown prince of the empire, but when your grandfather tried to teach me how to become the ruler of this vast empire, his health was no longer good.
I can only ascend to the throne when your grandfather dies, but my father was just an idle prince like your grandfather.
I don't know how to be a good emperor at all, I just want to be an idle prince and live that adventurous life with your mother.
When we've had enough adventures outside, we'll go back to the Elven Empire and live that uncontested life.
But fate played a big joke on me, I became the emperor of the empire, but I lost the love of my life.
I know you don't want to forgive your father, but at that time, as the crown prince of the empire, the future emperor of the empire, I had to shoulder my due responsibility.
So after I ascended the throne, at the behest of the court minister and your imperial grandfather, I had to break up with your mother, and she returned to the Elven Empire, and I became the emperor of the empire, and married a new empress.
When Cheng Xiuyi heard this, she finally couldn't help but shed tears, in fact, she also knew her father's pain in her heart.
But at that time, she was still young, and her mind was not very mature, and in her impression, the emperor of mankind had the supreme right among human beings, and he was the ruler of the entire human world.
As if they were claiming their own authority, they ruled over the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, and all creatures under his control.
He is the most favored son of God, and people call them the Son of Heaven, so why can't he keep his wife when he is so authoritative?
It must be that his father changed his mind after becoming the emperor, and he doesn't want his mother anymore, so can he still like himself?
And when she saw that her father had married another queen, the wedding was unusually grand.
The emperor's wedding was a major event in the empire, so on the day of her father's wedding, she decided to leave the palace, so she left the palace in the chaos.
Using a magic weapon given to her by the master at that time, she left the palace and went to Sanqing Mountain.
However, as she grew older, she slowly began to understand her father, and finally forgave him under the continuous teaching of the two masters.
When she descended the mountain and saw the people of the Empire living in such hardship, she finally decided to return to the capital of the Empire, and she wanted to use the abilities she had learned to help her father change the country.
So when her father suddenly wanted to canonize her as the eldest princess in charge of state affairs, in terms of her tranquil character, she didn't want to do this state affairs in her heart, but she didn't refuse.
Because she knew that this was the responsibility she had to shoulder, when Dazai Zhi publicly opposed her becoming a prisoner, if it were to change to her in the past, she would not refute it, she would just leave quietly.
But she didn't flinch when she was in the court, she refuted Dazai in public, because she wanted her ministers to know that she, the eldest princess, was not a cowardly person in charge of state affairs, and she wanted to make the empire rich and strong from a new one.