Dynasty Call: Low-key Struggle for Hegemony

Three days later, they passed by another city, Jingze City of Lingyun Mansion. The city lord and heads of various families greeted Li Yuan's arrival at the city gate.

"Alas, I am just doing it for the people, but I feel ashamed of my soldiers. They spent too much along the way. They have merit, but I cannot reward them!"

In the palace of the city lord, there was singing, dancing and laughter. The local city lord and the heads of various families in the city gathered together to congratulate His Royal Highness the King of Chu on his arrival.

In the lobby, facing the compliments of various family heads, Li Yuan, who was sitting on the right, showed a very ashamed and worried expression.

The songs are no longer beautiful, and the dances are no longer pleasant.

After hearing what His Highness King Chu said, how could these family heads not know what he meant.

The first person to speak was the Lord of Jingze City on the left. He stood up and said respectfully:

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu cares about the people. We are deeply moved. We have always been worried about the banditry in the area. Unexpectedly, His Highness is not only worried about us. The soldiers under His Highness are benevolent and righteous teachers. How can we not reward them for their merits? I am willing to sponsor His Highness fifty thousand taels." silver!"

Li Yuan quickly took the fat hand of the Lord of Jingze City and said with emotion:

"The Lord of Jingze City understands the great righteousness, I will definitely inform my father and commend the Lord of the City!"

"Your Highness, you don't have to be like this!" The Lord of Jingze City trembled and said quickly:

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu has a long journey, and we have already neglected our duty to make His Highness worry about banditry. How can we bother His Highness anymore with our affairs? I am willing to add another fifty thousand taels of silver, for a total of one hundred thousand taels of silver to contribute to Your Highness!"

"The city lord is righteous!"

Li Yuan shouted.

Immediately the head of the family on the left stood up and said:

"Thank you very much, Your Highness, King Chu, for helping us suppress the bandits. Our Lian family is willing to assist His Highness with one hundred thousand taels of silver!"

The head of the family on the right immediately stood up and said:

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu has taken care of us, and I, the Huang family, are willing to assist His Highness with one hundred thousand taels of silver!"

Soon the owners behind them stood up one by one with gritted teeth and said:

"I am willing to assist His Highness with ninety thousand taels of silver!"

"I am also willing to assist His Highness with ninety thousand taels of silver!"

"I am willing to assist His Highness with eighty thousand taels of silver!"

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"I am willing to assist His Highness with 65,000 taels of silver!"

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"I am willing to assist His Highness with 60,000 taels of silver!"

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"I am willing to assist His Highness with fifty thousand taels of silver!"

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When Li Yuan heard the heads of the houses below him stand up to help him one by one in order of seating, his depressed mood disappeared, the wine became more fragrant, the songs became more pleasant, and the dance became more beautiful.

Li Yuan raised his wine glass high and praised everyone:

"I am very pleased to see all the righteous heroes today!"

Everyone stood up, raised their glasses and said respectfully:

"It is an honor for us to have a drink with His Royal Highness the King of Chu!"

"Come on, let's play music and dance!"

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In the midst of the lively scene of singing and dancing in the city lord's mansion, a large mountain stronghold seventy miles away from Jingze City had just experienced a battle and was in a mess.

Many soldiers were cleaning the battlefield, and there were corpses of bandits on the ground.

Chu Qingyan's beautiful face was covered with a layer of plaster, making her look a little sloppy.

"I'm reporting to you, Miss Second, that this village is really rich, with more than 200,000 taels of silver!"

Qingyan ran over quickly and shouted to Chu Qingyan happily.

"Hehe, okay, let the soldiers clean up the battlefield and have a night's rest. Tomorrow we will continue to move forward and clear out the stronghold!"

When Chu Qingyan heard that she had earned more than two hundred thousand taels of silver, her eyes narrowed into crescent moons, and her red lips slightly raised, revealing her flawless white teeth.

"yes!"

Qingyan hurriedly ran up the mountain.

"Your Highness, what should we do with these prisoners?"

one of the captains asked.

"The old method is to ask anyone who wants to join us, and kill those who don't!"

"yes!"

"Second Miss, this is our next target."

Qiu Ya picked up a simple map and pointed to a cottage road a hundred miles away.

"Okay, we can reach it tomorrow."

When Chu Qingyan saw that she would have another amount of money, her smile deepened.

Hee hee, I didn’t expect that, King Chu, I have more and more money and more and more people under my command!

Chu Qingyan turned her head and looked back. She hadn't paid attention to Li Yuan for a few days. She had been suppressing bandits. She thought Li Yuan was still camped out somewhere.

The next morning, Li Yuan and a group of well-fed and drunk soldiers prepared to leave amid the warm farewell of the city lord and family heads.

"Thank you for your kindness and kindness, and for allowing me to take some souvenirs with you!"

Li Yuan sighed to everyone in Jingze City.

"It is an honor for us to be able to meet with His Highness. I wonder when we will have such an opportunity again?" The Lord of Jingze City also sighed.

"That's right, His Highness's heroic aura makes us intoxicated!"

"I wonder when I can see His Highness!"

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu is wise and mighty..., woo woo!"

A bunch of house owners flattered him for free, and some even had tears in their eyes, as if Li Yuan was his father.

These are caring and benevolent people. Li Yuan looked sad and suddenly felt reluctant to leave them.

"I've sent you thousands of miles away, but I'll have to say goodbye eventually. I will miss you!"

"We will miss His Highness too!"

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"Gentlemen!"

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"Your Highness!"

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Suddenly a family head was moved and said: "Why don't you, Your Highness, stay a few more days?"

Li Yuan's eyes lit up, "Why don't I stay a few more days, there's no rush!"

The city gate is silent!

The heads of each house stared at the head of the house who had just said the wrong thing like dead fish eyes.

The head of the family did not expect that Li Yuan would actually accept his kind words. He was speechless and said with a smile:

"Your Highness understands the righteousness and needs to suppress the bandits. How can we delay it?"

"That's right, that's right, His Royal Highness King Chu, go quickly!"

"Farewell to His Royal Highness the King of Chu!" one of the family heads said quickly.

In this way, Li Yuan left with their warm farewell.

At the cottage, Chu Qingyan and others were also ready to go, and they rushed to the next cottage location in a dusty journey.

After being introduced by Zhou Wanting, Li Yuan continued to the next city.

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In this way, Li Yuan, Chu Qingyan and his party arrived at the border of Lingyang Mansion after ten days in a row.

In the past ten days, Chu Qingyan marched quickly and visited more than a dozen mountain strongholds along the way.

And Li Yuan was walking slowly behind. Anyway, every time he arrived at a city, his team would lose a third or half of the people from time to time, as well as the city lords and big dogs who greeted him...

Wherever he passed, all the local people learned that the King of Chu was very righteous, generous and kind, and even killed a group of bandits for them.

Some people didn't believe it at first, but they boldly went to the place where they had encountered bandits, only to find that the bandits were really gone!

Then some "bold" people led a group of people to the cottage to have a look, and sure enough they found that the cottage was in ruins!

hiss!

His Royal Highness the King of Chu really understands the righteousness, and we admire him!

I admire you wherever you go!