Two days later.

As the capital of an empire, the climate of Heaven Dou City has always been very suitable, although it is now considered a cold winter, and there is only light snow in the air, leaving a thin layer on the ground, and the weather is not very cold.

The weather is wonderful, and it would be nice to have a stove lit in the house and a book on a lounge chair.

Xue Qinghe was enjoying such a good time, he had just finished dealing with half a day's political affairs, and he enjoyed a moment of leisure during this lunch break, and he didn't have to worry about being disturbed by other people at this time.

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Today, however, it was someone who came to disturb his leisure.

"His Royal Highness the Prince! Northern Fortress Urgent! Please take a look." A knight in armor rushed in, knelt down on one knee in front of his chaise longue, and presented a document.

Xue Qinghe was taking a nap, but he was suddenly disturbed, but he didn't get angry, he just stood up, took the document bag from his hand, and said helplessly: "Lin Yun, how many times have you said that to be my knight captain, you must have a bearing and a city government, and you are always like this."

Since the beginning of Star Dou Town, she has naturally replaced the original Knight Chief, and by the way, she has also changed the blood of the entire Knight Order, and now the hundred people under her command are basically civilian geniuses, promoted from the bottom.

For the traditional aristocratic class, this is undoubtedly a not very good signal, so as the crown prince, he is not sought after by the nobles, but the avalanche of the four princes, although it is a waste, but it is very mixed with the aristocratic class, so many nobles are looking uncomfortable with Xueqinghe, hoping to use this to pull Xueqinghe into the water, so that Avalanche, an easy-to-handle waste, can take the position.

Xue Ye is not a faint monarch, he knows all these things, so he chooses to give Xue Qinghe more rights, and at the same time puts him under more pressure, it seems that he is ready to train him in this way, find a balance among the various classes, instead of blindly taking care of the civilian class for the sake of the simple 'Mingjun dream'.

Almost everyone understands this truth, so most of the knights who were promoted by Xue Qinghe were extremely loyal and willing to die.

Therefore, Lin Yun didn't dare to refute Xue Qinghe's words, but just said in a muffled voice: "I'm sorry, Your Highness, the situation is urgent, I'm afraid it won't be long before Your Majesty should convene a meeting to discuss it."

"Alright, let's go down." Hearing this, Xue Qinghe knew that this matter had reached a very serious level, so he waved Lin Yun away, took out a few pieces of letter paper from the file bag, and began to check it.

Soon, her brows tightened, and then she let out a long breath and muttered helplessly, "Sister Xiyue... You're really giving me a *** annoyance..."

Seeing this, Xue Qinghe didn't dare to slack off, hurriedly put on his clothes, didn't even have time to play the umbrella, called a staff member and went to the palace.

When Xue Qinghe came to the main hall of the palace, people from various forces had already come here, and the military generals of Wenchen had almost arrived, and Xue Qinghe was almost the latest to come.

"His Royal Highness the Prince." Seeing Xue Qinghe walk into the main hall, the crowd that was originally whispering suddenly froze, and then saluted together, as for how much sincerity there is, it is not yet known. ….

The Snowy Night Emperor was sitting upright on his throne at this time, listening to Leng Xiyue's enthronement speech, his face cloudy and uncertain - a rare sight on the face of a king known for his benevolence.

"I, Leng Xiyue, am here to announce to the world that the northern provinces will be completely independent and be called the Kyushu Empire..."

"I want my people to be far superior to other empires in every way, and to stand proudly on the top of the continent..."

"We are confident that we will let any invaders die on our soil, and like the uncivilized scum of the Star Luo Empire, we will never negotiate with them..."

These words also reached the ears of everyone present, and the crowd was subtly divided into two piles, and many people had realized what was going to happen next, so they first went to find those like-minded people to get together, and after a while, it was temporary

of organizations.

Although the voice in this speech was very immature, the words were extremely stern and firm, and these external words undoubtedly revealed three signals in the eyes of these Tiandou people.

First, in the northern provinces, Tiandou didn't want to go back through conventional means in this life.

Second, this new Kyushu Empire is very ambitious, and even wants to develop to the top of the continent, and the existing territory is obviously impossible to support this new empire to accomplish such a feat, so this means one thing, their tendency to expand is extremely serious, and they may come to fight at any time.

Of course, this doesn't actually happen, if Tiandou and Xingluo are compared to agricultural countries, then the Kyushu Empire is preparing to become an industrial country, this span is no longer simply measured by territorial area, not to mention that the existing territory is already relatively bloated, and the products are extremely rich, even if they develop for decades, they can't reach the standard of expansion, and it is a troublesome stupid thing to rashly invade Tiandou to occupy these non-core territories.

But from the perspective of these powerful people in the Heaven Dou Empire, this does show a belligerent tendency.

The third is to show their thoughts and confidence, it sounds like they still intend to have friendly exchanges with the Heaven Dou Empire to fight against Xingluo, but this signal that sounds like a symbol of peace and the second one sounds a bit conflicting.

In any case, this means that the original northern provinces have nothing to do with Tiandou at all, and they are no longer part of Tiandou, which is a huge blow to the majesty of the empire, and at the same time, the benefits that the original Governor's Mansion can provide to these nobles will also be gone, in this slave trade chain, many nobles have benefited from this, and even the royal family has a part of their income from here, but Xue Ye deliberately spends it with peace of mind as if he didn't know the source of the money.

So, the question arises, in the matter of dealing with this nascent empire, should it be the main war or the main peace?

After listening to Leng Xiyue's speech, the Snowy Night Emperor silently glanced at the Manchu Dynasty civil and military below, and then spoke: "Ladies and gentlemen, I think you have already heard that our indifference to the situation in the Northern Province has caused today's result, and the Northern Province, which was originally loyal to the Empire, has suddenly split up, and I hope you can come up with a proper solution to this matter."

They were not unaware of the secession of the northern provinces in the previous two years, and they discussed it at the time, and finally came to the conclusion that there was no need to interfere, and when the strength of the Governor's Palace was consumed somewhat, the empire could gain more initiative in trade there.

After all, 'loyalty, this thing, just listen to it.

Yehua's heart is clear