Chapter 274
Eaten after dying of illness? Those who had just eaten meat felt waves of nausea rising in their stomachs. Looking at the meat dishes in front of them that were perfect in color, aroma, and taste, they couldn't help but close their eyes. It seemed they would only be keeping company with vegetarian food for the next few days!
Yue Fuguang stroked her small chin, thought for a moment, and said, "Wu Yong's figure is just a matter of one or two weight-loss pills. However..."
Hearing the "however," Wu Yong couldn't help but clutch the flesh on his body, while his father, Wu Yuanjing, gripped the chopsticks in his hand even tighter.
Snap, the chopsticks broke!
He also successfully heard Yue Fuguang's following words, "However, I'm afraid Wu Yong might be reluctant to lose it. After all, it's meat gained through his own eating abilities, so why should he lose it?"
[To stay alive, of course! How does Master think Wu Chengye got rid of Wu Yong back then? He fattened him up and slaughtered him like a pig!]
Fattened up and slaughtered like a pig!
Wu Yong merely trembled in fear, but the old father, Wu Yuanjing, was already shaking like he had Parkinson's. With hot tears in his eyes, he was ready to cry!
Yue Fuguang considered herself to have a heart of stone, but she just couldn't stand seeing people cry. The reason she had lost her head and jumped into the water to save someone back then was all because of tears!
Seeing the elderly Wu Yuanjing about to cry, she hurriedly said, "That is all in the past. Now that I am here, it's impossible for him to die from being fat even if he wanted to.
I remember Wu Yong's birthday is at the end of the month? I'll just give him a few weight-loss pills then. Such a trivial matter is not worth mentioning.
Little Zhu, you've digressed again. Let's get back to the Sima family."
The system, accused of digressing, felt extremely wronged and crumpled up. It was aggrieved, but it endured it!
[Actually, it's Sima Jing. Eighteen years ago, the Dongyi Imperial Princess Meizi, as part of the second batch of royal family members executing their king's plan, arrived in the capital city of Shangjing with the envoy delegation.
Meizi lived up to her name. Aside from being a bit short, because her parents were not close relatives when they married, she was born exceptionally charming and moving.
In truth, the first person Meizi set her sights on was Emperor Mingxi, who was still the Crown Prince at the time.]
Emperor Mingxi: I was perfectly fine just watching the drama, why must I be dragged into this?
Am I some sort of cheap person?
The Emperor puffed up with anger. I do not discriminate against women, but Dongyi women are a no-go!
Emperor Mingxi felt Dongyi women were a no-go, but evidently, Yue Fuguang did not think so. She continued to disgust him by saying, "So our Emperor became the secret lover of Princess Meizi?"
Emperor Mingxi tightly gripped the Empress's hand, his eyes unconsciously glancing toward Yue Fuguang. His entire body screamed rejection: I am not, I did not, don't ruin my innocence! Stop spouting nonsense JPG.
[That didn't happen. He was intercepted halfway by Sima Jing. Sima Jing was tall and sturdy, but he had a preference for petite and exquisite women.
Princess Meizi hit exactly on his aesthetic preferences, so he snatched her right out from under his good brother.]
"So, it turns out that from so early on, this cousin and study companion who claimed to share joys and sorrows with the Emperor had already started stealing things from him?
First stealing his brother's woman, then stealing his brother's empire. What a great scheme!"
A faint smile curled the corners of Yue Fuguang's mouth as she desperately plunged knives into Emperor Mingxi's heart on this highly joyous day.
The actions of the ruler and ministers of the Great Yan Dynasty were a bit too slow. If they didn't hurry up and close the net on the Sima family, it would affect her subsequent missions!
[Later, after Meizi returned to her country, she gave birth to a healthy boy for Sima Jing, named Oshima, and this boy is the older brother of these three princesses.
They are all Meizi's daughters.]
"Calculating it this way, Wei Ping and the others really are related to Sima Jing. Did Sima Jing know he had a son wandering outside?"
Wei Ping: Junior Preceptor, could you please not only call my name at a time like this?
Do Cai Xian and Huo Ying not deserve to have their names mentioned here?
Yue Fuguang: Their names burn the mouth!
[Of course he knew. His deep cooperation with Dongyi was also because that mother and son acted as intermediaries.
This Oshima and Matsuyama are cousins. Oshima later also inherited the throne five years after the founding of the Great Wei.]
"His father Sima Jing and his brother Sima Ying supported him to take the throne? Then how did the original king of Dongyi die?"
[Naturally, it was the Sima family joining hands with Meizi's faction to make the move. Oh right, Xu Qian's daughter in Dongyi is also one of Oshima's many concubines.
And that son of Zhang Tingji, Gongchang, will become a famous pirate leader along the coast a few years later, nicknamed 'Sea King'.
He is also the Sima family's most important overseas partner. In the final years of the Great Yan, the Sima family allied with Gongchang to rob merchant ships in the waters near Great Yan.
While making a fortune themselves, they also dealt a massive blow to Great Yan's maritime trade and overland commerce, directly leading to a decline in the imperial court's tax revenue.]
"The Sima family shows no mercy at all when undermining the foundations of Great Yan! Being an emperor is also a high-risk profession. One after another, they are either poisoned to death or killed by others.
Tell me, out of the emperors of these six nations, did a single one die of natural causes?"
Emperor Mingxi: That pierced my heart, Junior Preceptor! Clutching chest and vomiting blood JPG.
However, knowing that his peers also didn't meet a good end, he felt relieved!
[Uh... this... how about we talk about it later?]
Wait for my data to recover a bit more!
The system quickly changed the subject and dropped a bombshell, [Master, Little Zhu forgot to tell you. The reason the Sima family wanted to support Oshima to take the throne.
It was also because their family and Gongchang together discovered a mountain of gold and silver mines on the reefs near Dongyi.
The Sima family first used the Dongyi people to completely wipe out Gongchang, and then stirred up internal strife within Dongyi, resulting in the king dying under a hail of stray arrows.
Oshima took the throne, and the silver mine began to be excavated.]
A silver mine? The eyes of the Great Yan ruler and ministers suddenly lit up frighteningly, sparkling with golden light and silver stars.
If it weren't for the teacups blocking their faces, their drool would probably be dripping onto the floor.
However, after their excitement, everyone quickly calmed down again. They had a fair understanding of Dongyi, and it seemed they had never heard of any reef in Dongyi called Gold Mountain!
Could it be an unnamed reef that was only given a name after the Sima family discovered the silver mine?
Emperor Mingxi and his ministers couldn't help but steal glances at Yue Fuguang, praying in their hearts that it would be great if these two ancestors could say a little more.
Would Yue Fuguang grant their wish? That was obviously impossible.
Great Yan currently lacked the ability to mine it. Knowing too much and aiming too high was meaningless. It was better to properly save up resources and strengthen themselves, then take down Dongyi early on.
The mountain of gold and silver mine was the carrot she dangled in front of the donkey that was Great Yan.
She believed that for the sky-high wealth of the gold and silver mine, they would exert their subjective initiative!
To increase the weight of the carrot, Yue Fuguang continued to ask, "The Sima family had a silver mine, yet their nation perished so quickly? Was the silver mine's reserve insufficient?"
[With current technology, the silver mine's reserves are enough to be mined for one or two hundred years. The Sima family's nation didn't perish because they lacked money, but because they were too wealthy.
Their family had only mined it for a dozen years before this silver mine changed owners.
However, because the Shen family replaced the Sima family, the Shen family's dynasty had the worst relationship with the Dongyi nation during the three hundred years of chaotic times.
They got no share of the silver mine, while Dongyi used it to develop and grow.
With strong soldiers and sturdy horses, Dongyi leapt to become a powerful nation, turning into a major threat to the subsequent dynasties of the Tong family, the Murong family, and others.]
After the Crown Prince's grand wedding, as the envoy delegations from various countries successively left the capital city of Shangjing, the fact that Dongyi had a mine was still sending shockwaves through the imperial court.