"It's just!" Oliel paused slightly, then frowned.

"Are you worried about Ed?" Seeing Oriel's appearance, the sixth prince immediately guessed his concerns.

"This kid's expansion speed is really too fast! This time on the surface, he is asking for credit for himself, but in fact, everyone understands that he is taking the initiative to take responsibility, and he has won a more impressive impression from your father and everyone else!"

"Don't look at his age, but he is shrewd like an 'old fox'!"

"Although he tried his best to avoid contact with the generals of the Southern Legion this time, since Fred successfully became the deputy chief of staff of the Southern Legion, the 'big cake' of the Southern Legion will inevitably belong to him!"

"We also have to speed up our movements, and while the training of the Southern Legion is not over, we will install our cronies in it as much as possible!

"This matter is already underway, but the results are not yet obvious, I believe there will be a breakthrough in the near future!" the sixth prince smiled and responded to Oliel.

"Bob is ostensibly the commander of the northern army, but in fact the northern garrison generals are relatively independent, and it is difficult for Bob to effectively check these generals in non-war times, and his influence in the north is even less than that of Ed. We must urge him to strengthen his ties with the generals and not to always be busy with his one-third of an acre of land. Oliel pointed.

"During this time, there was almost no cessation of reports about Bob's embezzlement, empty pay, whipping of soldiers, etc., and I struggled to suppress them. This time, I will take advantage of his return to Beijing to report on his work, and I will remind him well. He must not be allowed to indulge like this. The sixth prince nodded.

"Also, I have one more thing that I hope my uncle can give me an idea. The sixth prince said and looked around for a moment. Then he lowered his voice.

"I've just been told that Ogden's defender, Demps, actually committed suicide by poisoning. He's alive!"

"But as far as I know, it seems that Ed never mentioned it in his correspondence. I suspect he's going to keep Demps for himself, do you think I should report this to my father?"

"And this?" Oliel was also startled when he heard the news, but then his face softened again.

"This kid's guts are really not small!" Seeing the sixth prince nodding, Oliel sneered.

"Are you sure your father really doesn't know about this?"

"Because of the importance of Ogden, all the official documents that came from there were directly delivered to my father, and I learned about the contents of the official documents through secret channels. It's just that the person who gave me the message can't guarantee that he has seen all the official documents!"

"Let's put this matter aside for now! At this time, even if Ed didn't report this matter to your father. It's not a big deal. As long as he returns to Beijing and brings Demps to your father, all problems will be solved. ”

"We might as well wait and see what happens in this matter, if Ed really has the intention to hide it, it will be a good thing for us!"

"You're saying we might be able to use this to get some advantage from Ed?"

"Before the eldest prince completely falls, I think we should find a way to cooperate with Ed!

"Actually, I'm most worried that Ed deliberately leaked the news that Demps is not dead!"

"If he has other purposes, we will be so hasty to tell this matter, and once your father has achieved it, he has already received a report from Charity. We're not human inside or out!"

"Do you suspect Ed of using this to tempt us?" the sixth prince asked, startled, looking at Oliel.

"If Ed really had such thoughts, his target would not only be you, but also the fifth prince who had drifted away from the eldest prince!" Oliel thought for a moment.

It was during this time that the Six Princes and the Oriel Sword Master were discussing. The fifth prince also got news of Demps.

"Is this news true?" the fifth prince asked Cecil, his intelligence chief, with a gloomy face.

"Back to the prince, this is true! Demps is indeed not dead, he is now under house arrest by the Grand Duke of Edlaide in the mansion of Nogan City and Mantejo. ”

"Hiding and capturing an enemy general is not a trivial matter. Should we report this to Bixia?" Cecil bowed to the fifth prince for instructions.

"Ed and I are siblings, and our private relationship is irreversible. How could I do something to betray him?" Although the fifth prince said this, Cecil still saw a little hesitation on his face. Apparently. He was not entirely indifferent to Cecil's proposal.

"Lord, no matter how good your relationship with the Grand Duke of Edlaide is, it is also a private matter, and it is righteous for him to conceal the fact that Demps is still alive!"

"I think the Grand Duke was also confused for a while, and you told Bixia the truth, which can help him correct this mistake. I believe that the Grand Duke will not only not blame you in the future, but he will also thank you for stopping him in time and preventing him from going further and further down the wrong path!" Cecil said with a clever tongue, and the fifth prince became more and more moved.

"You go down first, let me think again!" the fifth prince frowned and waved his hand at Cecil, he wanted to be quiet.

"Wait, how did our people get this news?" a thought suddenly flashed through the fifth prince's mind, and he asked as he called out to Cecil.

"By chance, a Shimla provincial official attached to us came to visit Mantejou and ran into him preparing to deliver food himself. ”

"With Mantejou's current status, this situation is so strange! This also aroused the official's suspicions. Through bribery, intimidation and other methods, he finally found out that there was a couple hiding in Manteqiu's mansion. Based on multiple verifications, he concluded that the couple was Mr. and Mrs. Demps!"

"I see!" said the fifth prince with a faint smile on his face.

"Lord, do you want our people to act?" Cecil asked, thinking that the fifth prince had already made a decision, and turned to his desk.

"Leave me honestly and stay with me! Don't leak a word about Demps to the outside world, and don't mention it again from now on!"

"Say no more, I've made a decision!" the fifth prince stopped Cecil from continuing, and waved him out of the room.

"Brother, it turns out that you don't feel at ease with your brother!" the fifth prince looked at the south side, smiled and said to himself.

While others were disagreeing about Edlaide's new territory, the Prime Minister's Office, which was most closely related to him, deliberately avoided the topic.

"When Ed returns to Beijing this time, he's going to marry you, shouldn't he also send the bride price?"

"Why are people embarrassed to take the initiative to mention this to him?!" Winnie said shyly, thinking that her father was teasing her.

"What's so embarrassing about this! I raised you to such an old age, could it be that he wanted to marry you away without paying anything?!

"In the next two days, you will write him a letter and tell him what I mean. Alec instructed Vinnie very seriously.

"You're not kidding me?" asked Winnie, who couldn't understand her father's intentions.

"Can you joke about marrying a daughter?!You ask him to send me the gift slip as soon as possible!" Alec seemed anxious about the bride price, urging Winnie vigorously.

"And what gifts does he need to prepare?" Winnie seemed to understand what her father meant.

"I don't ask for this, but I want to remind him: too little, not too much! Our house has been poor for many years, and we can't let him go easily!" Alec threw down the sentence and turned to leave Winnie's room.

Winnie looked at her father's back for a moment, then her eyes flashed with a look of understanding, and she turned her head to look at the two clay figurines that had been put back on the table, and at this moment, her face showed an extremely sunny and bright smile.

Li Zijun, who was waiting at the border to greet Princess Gladys, couldn't help but be stunned when he received Winnie's letter asking for a bride price. For a moment, he could not understand how Winnie could send him such a letter with such a different personality from hers. What he couldn't understand the most was that Winnie repeatedly mentioned in her letters that this was what Prime Minister Alec meant!

Just when Li Zijun was puzzled, the court's reward for him was promulgated, and the three cities of Kunsai, Dongwa, and Simba were all included in his name and became his new territory!

At this time, Li Zijun suddenly realized, and he immediately understood the intention of Prime Minister Alec to ask for a bride price!

Prime Minister Alec's title was seriously unequal to the territory he owned, and even with the addition of these three cities, it was far from the upper limit of his territory.

Although Li Zijun avoided the embarrassment of becoming a king with a different surname, the two territories in the north and south, coupled with his relationship with the Yaksians, would still cause Virgil Bixia to have scruples sooner or later.

If he gave these three cities to Prime Minister Alec in the name of bride price and turned them into Prime Minister Alec's territory, this would also dissolve those threats in Virgil Bixia's heart without harming anyone's interests!

At this moment, Li Zijun really realized the benefits of having Alec's father-in-law! No wonder the eldest prince and the ninth prince are so desperate to get rid of Vinnie, this woman is so important to him!

After figuring out all this, Li Zijun immediately summoned all the think tanks around him to study the details. Soon, a gift list specially prepared for marrying Winnie was successfully 'baked', and the names of the three cities of Kunsai, Dongwa, and Simba also appeared on this gift list.

Edlaide gave Prime Minister Alec his new territory as a bride price for marrying Winnie, and the news quickly spread throughout the Dongyu Empire. (To be continued......)