Except for the army of the Han Dynasty to garrison in the royal capital every year, pay taxes to the central government every year, and have the court transfer a certain number of outstanding young children from the Xiao clan every year, all affairs in the fiefdom were managed by the Xiao clan themselves.

In addition, Liu Xie promised to make Xiao Zhan the king, and then hereditary replacement, guarding the northwest of the Douqi Continent for Liu Xie's generations.

Now Liu Xie urgently needs to expand his strength in the Douqi Continent and get a bigger territory, so this time he is very generous, and he put forward conditions that the Xiao family cannot refuse. For him, it was cost-effective to exchange the Empire for the entire Douqi Continent.

Moreover, Liu Xie's so-called annual transfer of young children of the Xiao clan in the conditions is ostensibly to send talents to the empire, but in fact, it is not to weaken the power of the Xiao clan, and take these children as hostages, so that the Xiao clan will not have any dissent and be a barrier in the northwest of the Douqi Continent with peace of mind.

Xiao Zhan and the three elders knew about the restrictions in Liu Xie's conditions, but the conditions given by Liu Xie were indeed too tempting, and the current Xiao family was just one of the three major families in Utan City, but Utan City was just a small border city in the Gama Empire, and it was like a drop in the ocean in the entire Douqi Continent.

But Liu Xie was able to promise to make the Xiao family the royal family of the kingdom, how could the four people in charge of the Xiao family not be moved? Moreover, it was a common strategy of kings to properly clamp down on the vassal king, and for the Xiao family, this was Liu Xie's conspiracy, and he had long expected that the Xiao family would never refuse such a good thing, so he would add all kinds of restrictions to the conditions.

Sure enough, several leaders of the Xiao clan almost did not hesitate, and agreed to submit to the Han Dynasty. The Xiao family's secret chamber force, Xiao Zhan's father and son, and the three elders immediately gave Liu Xie a courtesy.

"The ministers knock on the emperor, may the emperor live forever, and the Han Dynasty will be forever. ”

"Everyone, get up, I still have something to say to a few of you. ”

"Now, I have come to the Douqi Continent alone, and the main force of my Han is still in the main realm, and the top priority for us at the moment is to quickly expand the territory. Open the way for the main force of my Han to come to this world. ”

After saying that, the four heads of the Xiao family looked embarrassed, and Liu Xie also understood their worries, and reassured, "I also know the current situation of the Xiao family, with the current Xiao family, it is indeed difficult to overthrow the Yunlan Sect and the Gama Empire behind him, but-" Looking at the ring in Xiao Yan's hand, Liu Xie smiled slightly.

"First, in the two years that Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran were preparing for a decisive battle, I had a way to make the Xiao family's strength quickly surpass that of the Yunlan Sect, and secondly, I still have a lot of time, two years, I can afford it, oh yes, Yao Lao, you can come out and meet the elders of the Xiao family. ”

"Obey. After saying that, Yaochen's soul body came out of the ring, and Liu Xie introduced the card medicine elder to everyone in the Xiao family.

"This is Yao Chen, the medicine venerable who dominated the Douqi Continent back then, the top alchemist on the Douqi Continent, and Xiao Yan's real teacher, and I also learned the alchemy technique from him. ”

"Now, he is a courtier of my Han like you, so you should get to know each other first. ”

After Yaochen and the four leaders of the Xiao family exchanged salutes, Xiao Yan continued, "In the past two years, the Medicine Venerable will take Xiao Yan to cultivate all over the world, and before that, I will let him refine the various elixirs cultivated by the children of the Xiao family, and teach some high-level martial arts and fighting skills to the children of the Xiao family, so as to ensure that the Xiao family can wrestle with the Yunlan Sect in two years. ”

"Of course, the real identity still has to be kept secret, and it should not be exposed to the world too early, do you understand?"

"My true identity is only known to you for the time being, and externally, I am still an alchemist of the Douqi Continent, and I stay in Utan City as a guest of the Xiao family as a teacher Xiao Yan. Within a year, you just need to let the children of the Xiao clan cultivate with peace of mind and work hard to increase their strength. ”

"After a year, when the Xiao family dominates Utan City, we can change the banner of our Great Han, continue to prepare for strength, and in the next year, that is, after the battle between Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran, raise troops to destroy the Yunlan Sect!"

"The ministers obey the order!" After receiving the order, everyone present bowed to Liu Xie again.

"In addition, in the past two years, I will go to various places in the Douqi Continent to find the strange fire, Yao Lao, that burning recipe you can rest assured and boldly let Xiao Yan cultivate, with my help and the blessing of the national fortune, when Xiao Yan devours the foreign fire, he can be guaranteed to live without worry. ”

"When I find all the top few alien fires on the Dou Qi Continent, I can use the power of national fortune to raise Xiao Yan to the peak of the Dou Sheng, and then my great man will be invincible in this Dou Qi Continent!"

"I understand. Hearing what Liu Xie said, Yaochen took out the burning recipe from the ring and handed it to Xiao Yan. And Liu Xie also set his sights on Xiao Yan.

"Of course, the alien fire can't be found in all two years, Xiao Yan, the battle with Nalan Yanran two years later is a battle related to your dignity in this life, in order to ensure fairness and not be truthful, I will not exert any external help to your cultivation within two years, if you want to regain the glory, everything depends on you to learn from Yao Lao, and I am also thinking about you. ”

Xiao Yan patted his chest when he heard this, "If the minister can't defeat Nalan Yanran by his own efforts in two years, what kind of face will he have to serve in front of the emperor, and the eldest husband will continue to improve himself, and the minister will naturally defeat Nalan Yanran with his own strength and regain his glory!"

Liu Xie clapped his hands when he heard this: "Okay, you are worthy of being my courtier, two years later, I look forward to your performance!"

After Liu Xie finished arranging everything, the monarch and ministers dispersed, and outside the conference hall, Xiao Xun'er, who was waiting for Xiao Yan, watched the two leave side by side, Liu Xie smiled and said to Xiao Zhan: "The son of the Xiao patriarch has met a good girl." ”

Xiao Zhan was a little sad when he heard this, "The emperor doesn't know, that girl's background is not ordinary, and it is difficult for Yan'er to combine with her." ”

"Isn't it the Gu family?" Liu Xie looked at Xiao Zhan's surprised expression and smiled, "You don't have to be surprised, I knew that she was a member of the Gu family when I saw her golden eyes. It turned out that such an expression was strange on Xiao Zhan's face, but of course Liu Xie's words were fake, and he wouldn't tell Xiao Zhan that he had seen it from a book.

"You don't have to worry, after I overthrow the Gama Empire, you will be the king of the northwest of the Douqi Continent, the strong people under the command of the Xiao family will emerge in an endless stream, and Xiao Yan will also become a strong Dou Sheng, when the time comes, will you still be afraid that the son of your Xiao family is not worthy of the daughter of the ancient clan?"

After that night, the Xiao family in Utan City got the news that a senior alchemist had also collected the Xiao family's waste son as land in the northwest of the Gama Empire, and the two-year contract between Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yan also spread to all corners of the Gama Empire.