The rulers of Shiguo basically only have the surnames Ju and Yang, and for decades, Ju is the king and Yang is the minister, and there has never been a deviation, and now, this road is about to come to an end.

The wind and rain are coming, and it will be an unprecedented rain of destruction, Prime Minister Yang Dou is worried about this, the power in his hands and the life and death of the family depend on the operation in the next few days, success, the Yang family will still control the government of the Shi Kingdom, failure, probably even the Shi Kingdom itself will become a memory that will quickly disappear.

Yang Dou is about to be sixty years old, and he took over the position of prime minister from his father, and he has experienced several storms and waves during this period, and none of them have made him feel helpless like now.

More than ten years ago, the old king of the Ju family died, the younger brother usurped the throne, the Yang family stood on the side of the tyrant king, expelled the young prince, and soon, Yang Dou found that the new king was not the ideal puppet, and after a few years of forbearance, the tyrant died mysteriously, no one knew the details, and he would never go over the old things again.

Yang Dou personally went to Biyu City to welcome the prince back to China, and he remembered that experience vividly.

The crown prince was a disappointing loser, and he was reckless and ignorant, not at all aware that governing the country required a lot of compromises, and before he ascended the throne, he had already planned to avenge his expulsion, and he harbored undisguised resentment towards the Yang family.

Yang Dou decided to take precautions, and his wish came true, and the crown prince was killed in a brothel, and his reputation plummeted, while the second prince, a clever man, quickly reached a private agreement with him in exchange for the throne with major concessions.

In the following years, Yang Dou ascended to the pinnacle of his life, which was also the peak of the Yang family for decades, with a monopoly on power and a status comparable to that of the regent.

It was a protracted war of attrition, in which the Ju clan, as a royal family, fought each other for the ridiculous puppet throne, and the people withered, so that for the first time, there was a sad situation without an heir.

The second prince was very weak before he ascended the throne, which is one of the main reasons why he was willing to give up most of his power to the prime minister, he was bent on giving birth to a son for the Ju family, but unfortunately the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, four years, the queen did not see the pregnancy, and even those women who were secretly accepted into the palace, none of them came to the result.

This should have been a great opportunity for the Yang clan to meet in a hundred years, but Yang Dou didn't expect that this opportunity was too tempting, and several fierce beasts came to follow the taste, each of which was much stronger than the Yang clan of Shiguo.

Today, he is going to meet these beasts.

He had to put all his energy up, and if he dealt with it properly, he might have a chance to keep the independence of the Shi Kingdom and the status of the Yang family, and maybe even send away these suitors who coveted the throne of the Shi Dynasty, which would be a huge victory for the Yang family.

Yang Dou immersed himself in the beautiful fantasy for a while, and then sighed, he knew very well that the only choice for the Yang clan was to choose a less ferocious master among the several fierce beasts, divide the scraps, and resume the struggle between the Yang clan and the royal family.

The guests arrived one after another, Yang Dou threw away his illusions, made the posture that a country's prime minister should have, and went out to greet him.

The first guest was Prince Kang, a rude-looking young man with a very bad face, and Yang Dou invited him into the council hall with a smiling face, because he understood that Kang Guo's anger was justified.

Xiaoyaohai is a big lake, surrounded by five small countries of Shi, Kang, An, Sha and Hui, the mountains and rivers of the five countries are connected, the same qi and branches, according to the convention, the royal family should intermarry with each other, and the current Shi King Queen is from the Hui country.

It can be imagined how dissatisfied the other four countries were with the choice of a son-in-law for the princess in the entire Western Regions, especially Kang, among the countries, only the prince of Kang was of the right age and unmarried, he had already regarded the princess of Shiguo as his fiancée, and regarded the throne of Shi as a bag, and never expected that he would compete with a large group of people, several of whom did not even have real royal blood.

"Prime Minister, when will the Xiaoyao Sea Royal Clan be mixed with despicable blood?"

"Your Royal Highness is angry, our country is also a helpless move, the five countries have been intermarried for many years, and it is a good thing to be close to each other, but His Royal Highness is the princess's own uncle, this ......"

"So what? The king of Anguo has even married his own aunt, so why can't I marry my sister's daughter?"

"It's not always a good thing to be closed, and Your Highness is not without a chance......"

"This is an insult to Kangguo, and it is also an insult to the five royal families of Xiaoyaohai, Prime Minister, you don't need me to remind you, the alliance of the four countries is stopped at the border, and I must marry a princess. ”

Yang Dou still had a smile on his face, but his heart was full of contempt for Prince Kang, among the many fierce beasts surrounding Shi Guo, even if Kang Guo was not the weakest one, he did not have the strength to compete with the strongest, the Four Nations Alliance, I am afraid that they are also the same as Shi Guo, using the money of the Meng clan in Biyu City, and hiring the swordsmen of Jinpeng Castle.

Yang Dou tried his best to appease Prince Kang, but did not tell him the truth, let this unenlightened young man learn a lesson by himself.

The second and third guests arrived almost at the same time, chatting at the door for a while, hand in hand.

As soon as Yang Dou saw the envoys of the Central Plains and the Northern Court, his heart tightened, they were the giants of the beasts, and it was because of the intervention of these two great powers that Shi Guo was in a dilemma, and he felt that there was too few princesses.

What made Yang Dou feel unfair was that if any of the two countries sent a prince to propose, it would be considered a happy event, and no one in the other four countries would dare to oppose it, but the two countries would rather hide behind the scenes, each supporting a highly controversial force on one side, and sandwiching Shi Guo in the middle.

The biggest disaster for a small country is to be targeted by a big country, just like now, when the envoys of the two countries enter side by side, Prime Minister Yang Dou doesn't even know which one to greet first, so he can only stretch out his arms, pretend to be ecstatic, and use the tone of an old friend to break the rules of diplomacy with such irregular means, so as not to offend either side.

Unlike Prince Kang, the envoys of the two countries had already been in contact with Yang Dou in advance, and the words that should be said and the threats that should be made have been completed, and today, the two of them are more like referees and supervisors of the competition.

Even if the prince of Kang faced the envoy of a great country, he refused to show a good face, looking at everyone like a villain who robbed the princess, which made Yang Dou secretly worried that after Shiguo, the second country to fall in Xiaoyaohai was probably Kangguo.

The next few guests were easier to deal with, they were all young people who came to propose, there were three princes from distant countries, Yang Dou couldn't even figure out how they knew the news, the sons of the chiefs of the five nearby tribes, compared to them, the prince of Kang immediately looked gentle, and several sons of wealthy merchants, they were not so much here to propose, but to take the opportunity to see the princess's beautiful face, as a talking point.

These people are like dancers in the Colosseum, making the bloody scenes seem less barbaric.

The Nine Young Masters of Jinpeng Fort arrived, and Prime Minister Yang Dou greeted this unusual suitor with mixed feelings.

Jinpeng Fort used to be the best ally of the Yang clan of Shiguo, although Yang Dou hated the killer business, but the few collaborations made him very satisfied with the black-clothed man of Jinpeng Castle.

At that time, Jinpeng Castle looked very professional, and it seemed that he only did things for money, and he didn't think anything out of the ordinary.

It wasn't until King Dubu sent someone to reveal his intention to marry the princess as his daughter-in-law that Yang Dou understood that his partner for many years had turned against him, and what Jinpeng Castle wanted was not only money, but also a real crown.

Even if Jinpeng Fort did not have the support of Beiting behind it, Shi Guo could hardly refuse this marriage proposal, Shi Guo only had a guard force of less than three hundred people, one-third of which was provided by Jinpeng Fort, and the large expenses of the Ju and Yang families were all guaranteed by Jinpeng Fort and borrowed from the Meng family.

Now, Shi Guo has to pay the price for his greed and short-sightedness.

In all fairness, Yang Dou preferred to choose the Nine Young Masters of Jinpeng Fort among many suitors, which could not only solve the huge debt problem at one time, but also introduce a big backer to Shi Guo, Yang Dou was familiar with the rules of Jinpeng Castle, and believed that the Yang family could still survive under the wings of the Dubu King.

The only problem is that Shangguan Fei is not very enthusiastic, he doesn't seem to be very interested in Shi Guo's concubine and the throne that will come sooner or later, and he is dumb and dumb when he meets several times, and he has almost nothing to say except to convey his father's will.

It is said that the Nine Young Masters are cowardly and incompetent, and Yang Dou is a little convinced.

Walking into the conference hall, Shangguan Fei was like an outsider, he greeted the envoy of the North Court, and sat in his position in a daze, his face expressionless, and Prince Kang glared angrily, as if he hadn't seen it.

He is finally not ugly and worthy of being a princess, Yang Dou comforted himself.

The last guest arrived.

Yang Dou once thought that the Dragon King would never reach the Stone Kingdom, in that case, he would not have to be in a dilemma, but this sudden suitor was only a few days late, not only came, but also with a murderous aura, it is said that he and a female guard, slaughtered nearly a thousand robbers in the desert, unscathed.

The Xiaoyao Sea and Biyu City are separated by a desert, but the news has never been interrupted, and the legends of the Dragon King have been rendered layer by layer, and when they arrived in the Stone Kingdom, they have already brought an incredible layer of terrifying masks.

It is said that the Dragon King has killed tens of thousands of people in just three years, and this alone is enough to make the people of the Stone Kingdom tremble, because the population of the Stone Kingdom is only forty or fifty thousand, which seems to be not enough for the Dragon King to plug his teeth in the next few years.

It wasn't until more and more real news came that Yang Dou remembered that he had a few relationships with the Dragon King, that is, he solved the case of the murder of the eldest prince, which not only made the murderer who directly used the knife to punish him, but also saved face for all parties.

Yang Dou was deeply impressed by this, but he never expected that the young man who looked very smart would become the enemy of Jinpeng Castle.

But Yang Dou is still unwilling to let the Dragon King marry the princess, the Great Snow Mountain is an emerging force, the future is uncertain, and the stone country is tied to it, and it will take a huge risk.

Because of this, Yang Dou is more enthusiastic about the Dragon King than any suitor, and if someone must offend the Dragon King, he hopes it is not himself.

Gu Shenwei walked into the conference hall, his eyes swept over everyone, and everyone quieted down, looking at the legendary killer demon king together.

Gu Shenwei didn't care about the others, and only nodded at the Central Plains envoy.

Everyone thought that Nakahara was the backer behind the Great Snow Mountain, and only he knew that Nakahara had just planned an assassination of the Dragon King.

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