But on the surface, he could only pretend to be deaf and dumb, showing that he did not understand the deeper meaning of this sentence.

Concubine You Guifei next to Emperor Chen has been paying attention to him.

Concubine You put her hand on Huang Chen's clenched hand and held it gently.

Concubine You seemed to be the elixir that could ease everything. Chen Huang's clenched hand gradually relaxed after she squeezed it...

Emperor Chen turned his head slightly and glanced at Concubine You. Concubine You also looked at Emperor Chen and secretly shook her head.

Chen Huang took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

When Chen Huang opened his eyes again, a smile appeared on his face.

"Haha, your envoy reminded me well. This is a matter that I and Emperor Liang have discussed together. The rest of us don't need to say anything, just abide by it! King Jiangdu..."

When Chen Huang looked at King Jiangdu, his face was almost distorted.

This bastard tricked him again.

If possible, he really wanted to teach him a lesson.

However, King Jiangdu was his biological brother, so it was inconvenient for him to take action, lest he get the bad reputation of being a disrespectful brother.

Furthermore, the King of Jiangdu held a large number of troops and garrisoned Yangzhou, and his prestige in the army was very high...

"Brother Chen is here!"

King Jiangdu is quite calm, but with a cold face, he is not even afraid of Liang Guo. To Emperor Chen, he is even more like a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water.

"King Jiangdu, you are disrespectful to the envoys of the Liang Kingdom and openly defy the common will of me and the Emperor of Liang... I will fine you a salary of three years and lower your rank by one level. After the military test, you will return to Yangzhou immediately without my order.

You can’t even step out of Yangzhou!”

As soon as Emperor Chen saw King Jiangdu, he was so angry that he blew his beard and said, "You are not allowed to step out of Yangzhou even half a step." He added it on a whim.

He is annoyed when he sees King Jiangdu now.

"Brother, I obey!"

King Jiangdu's voice was cold and hard. He glanced sideways at Li Jiye, snorted coldly, waved his sleeves and left. He actually left directly.

"Haha, I wonder if your envoy is satisfied with how I handled it?" Chen Huang looked at Li Jiye with a smile on his face.

"Your Majesty, a foreign minister is always a foreign minister. It is inconvenient to comment on your country's affairs. Your Majesty, if there is nothing else to do, the foreign minister will go back and continue to observe the military exercises." Li Jiye handed over his hand.

"Okay, please excuse me!"

Li Jiye turned around and came back, sat down on the chair next to Zhu Xiuyuan, and then without any expression, just stared at the school field below without squinting...

The matter settled just like that.

The melon-eating ministers all patted their chests and breathed a sigh of relief.

Only Emperor Chen, who was sitting high on the throne, looked livid. Concubine You comforted him for a while before Emperor Chen recovered.

The first martial arts test was not interrupted because of this incident, but continued one after another...

…

Let's talk about the King of Jiangdu. After leaving the martial arts school in large strides, he went straight back to his mansion in the city.

Snapped!

boom!

Snapped!

In the living room, there were more than ten cups broken by King Jiangdu, and there were ceramic shards on the floor.

After throwing so many cups, King Jiangdu seemed to be relieved.

He sat down on the chair, rested one elbow on the small table next to the chair, lowered his head slightly, and fell into a state of contemplation.

After a while, a servant suddenly ran over. As soon as he entered the living room, he saw so many ceramic shards on the ground. The servant immediately knew that the prince was probably angry.

"Come in and talk, what's the matter?"

King Jiangdu caught a glimpse of the servant, and although his tone was cold and hard, his expression had softened a lot.

"Your Majesty..." The servant walked into the living room respectfully, avoiding the ceramic shards on the floor, and said cautiously, "The concierge came to report that two people came from outside the house, namely King Linhuai of Haozhou and King Shanyang of Chuzhou.

Yes, please see the prince, saying that we have something important to discuss."

"oh?"

King Jiangdu was stunned for a moment, then his two sword eyebrows stretched out, and a strange light shone in his eyes.

"Please come to the front hall to meet our guests!"

King Jiangdu gave the order casually, got up and prepared to change his clothes, and then went to see the two men.

…

King Jiangdu was stationed in Yangzhou. Yangzhou and Runzhou, where the capital was located, faced each other across the Yangtze River and were close together.

Therefore, Yangzhou is Fanping in the north of Beijing.

As the younger brother of Emperor Chen, King Jiangdu was stationed in the Yangzhou camp and had 50,000 elite troops under his command. It could be said that he held a high position of power.

His prestige in the army is very high. Although it is far less than King Zhongshan, it is much higher than King Poyang, King Zhenze and other kings.

The capital is located in Runzhou, and to the west is Hezhou.

Hezhou is also an important place for garrisoning. Further west from Hezhou is Luzhou, and further west from Luzhou is Shouzhou, which belongs to the Yan Kingdom.

Below Shouzhou, there is Shuzhou, which also belongs to the Yan Kingdom.

I remember that at the beginning, the Yan State had promised to use Shouzhou and Shuzhou as pledges in exchange for Chen Guo's divine thunder formula and Liang Guo's friendship.

Those are the two states.

Going up from Hezhou, that is, going west from Yangzhou, is Chuzhou.

To the north of Chuzhou and Yangzhou are Haozhou and Chuzhou.

The two visitors that King Jiangdu is about to receive are people from Haozhou and Chuzhou.

Haozhou borders Chuzhou, and Chuzhou borders Yangzhou.

At the same time, these two states are also the boundaries between Chen State and Yan State, and they are border states.

To the north of the two states is Sizhou on the Henan Road of Yan State.

As border states, Haozhou and Chuzhou did not border the capital, but they bordered the Yan State. Therefore, each of the two states had a prince stationed there.

Haozhou was garrisoned by the King of Linhuai, with an army of 50,000. His responsibility was to guard against the Yan army from going south and ensure the safety of Yangzhou and Runzhou in the south.

In addition, the King of Linhuai in Haozhou was a rare king with a different surname in the Chen Kingdom. His surname was Fang and Qing.

Chuzhou was garrisoned by King Shanyang and had an army of 50,000 men. Its strategic role was the same as that of Haozhou.

The Shanyang King of Chuzhou was also a king with a different surname, Zhao Mingguang.

…

Time passed quickly. When the sun was setting in the west and evening was approaching, the two people who came to Prince Jiangdu's Mansion to pay homage to Prince Jiangdu secretly left the mansion through the back door.

At the martial arts school five miles outside the city, a whole day of preliminary martial arts examinations was over!

More than 10,000 people were divided into 20 teams, and each team conducted the preliminary test, which lasted a full day.

The results of the preliminary examination were quickly calculated. Among the more than 10,000 martial arts candidates, there were only more than 200 advanced ones.

They will get a spot in the next martial arts competition.

As for the remaining 9,800 people, half of them were not shortlisted and were taken away from the school during the initial examination.

These people are traveling in vain.

The remaining half met the conditions, but Zhu Xiuyuan couldn't afford that much, so these people received compensation for their travel expenses and left today.

Of course, during this process, dozens of violent incidents occurred, but they were all suppressed by the Jinwu Guards borrowed by Zhu Xiuyuan, and many people were arrested...

Emperor Chen and Concubine You drove back to the palace, and the civil and military officials in the VIP seats also left in their cars.

People in the ordinary audience seats were cursing and saying that they were cheated. They spent so much money to buy "tickets" and what did they see in the end?

So boring to watch!

The general audience booed, saying that tomorrow was not coming...

For Zhu Xiuyuan, today's first martial arts test was very successful.

As the organizer of the martial arts examination, everyone left, but he stayed to arrange the general affairs of the martial arts examination school.

The most important thing is that he has to accommodate more than two hundred advanced martial arts candidates.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, these advanced candidates are not allowed to meet with outsiders.

Zhu Xiuyuan had already made arrangements. He supervised the construction of a marching camp outside the Shenlei Army camp, which was enough for the two hundred people to stay temporarily.

They stayed there temporarily to get used to the life in the camp in advance.

At the same time, he also ordered the Shenlei Army Camp and Shenlei Square to strengthen guarding to guard against accidents.

As expected, generals at all levels in the Divine Thunder Army will be born from these two hundred people.

However, the Divine Thunder Army is too important, and it is inevitable that there will be some trickster among these people.

After the martial arts competition is over, Zhu Xiuyuan will have to conduct "interviews" with them one by one, and a series of tests are waiting for them.

In addition, Zhu Xiuyuan also asked Kou Wanwan to help, secretly investigate the details of these people, and try to remove all the tricks among them.

After finishing these things, it was already dark, and Zhu Xiuyuan returned home.
Chapter completed!