Chapter 3: Undercurrents

Information from all over the mainland has been continuously summarized into Tianlai City, and Huanqi has always been very busy. He and Ivy have never had children since they got married, because they don’t have much time to get together. Although they are in the same city, there are very few opportunities to meet every day.

Kong Ming personally taught Yingyue the arithmetics of various formation mechanisms every day, and also taught Yingyue some magic knowledge.

The development of Tianlai City has been on track, and everything is developing in an orderly manner. The smooth trade route and the small commodity production sites that have become famous in the mainland have made Tianlai City's economy develop rapidly.

However, it was a turbulent time in the imperial capital. Due to the coveted eye of the Light Empire, the empire was tense. On the one hand, the Light Empire dispatched troops and deployed its troops on the border area. On the other hand, it sent a delegation of Light to the Light Empire to ease the tension between the two countries.

In the Divine Dragon Empire, there are also undercurrents, and the relationship between the factions is complicated. Due to the alliance between Prince Bit, Marshal Hongdu and Prime Minister Kukor, many neutral families have turned to Prince Bit.

After several years of development, Prince Bit's power has become increasingly stronger. He has secretly supported many nobles and controlled several economic and commercial cities. In terms of government affairs, Prince Bit has temporarily suppressed Pitts due to the help of Prime Minister Kukor.

After Prince Daer welcomed Princess Nina to the imperial capital, he devoted all his strength to pursue Princess Nina, which also made Princess Nina finally choose Prince Daer.

King Guti decided to marry Prince Dal and Princess Nina next year, and the Dragon Empire and the Kaile Empire are about to form friendly allies and sign a friendly allies when the two are married.

It is precisely because Prince Dahl is busy pursuing Prince Nina that Prince Bit has time to develop his own power. After the wedding date was determined, Prince Dahl suddenly discovered that Prince Bit's power was different from the past.

Prince Dahl spared no effort to pursue Princess Nina. With the strong support of the Kaile Empire, the benefits outweighed the disadvantages for his ascension to the throne. Prince Dahl, who has already confirmed his marriage date, finally had time to compete with Prince Bit.

The two major forces spared no effort to support the nobles, and they were also spared no effort to win over neutral family forces. In terms of courage, Prince Dahl was obviously much more ruthless than Prince Bit. Prince Dahl secretly suppressed and assassinated many of Prince Bit's confidants, and also secretly put pressure on and induce him to give up supporting Prince Bit.

For a time, although the imperial capital was calm on the surface, it was undercurrents and crises everywhere. People were often investigated and investigated for no reason, or ambushed in the dark night.

Originally, King Guti did not interfere with the competition between the two princes, and even had the intention of acquiescing the two princes to compete for the throne. In this continent, strength is the most respected. If a country wants to become stronger, it must have a courageous monarch. Therefore, the competition between princes is the time to test their courage and strength.

However, after several more important ministers were ambushed, King Guti finally couldn't sit still. Although the competition between princes could lead to survival of the fittest, it was only allowed without hurting the empire's fundamentals.

King Guti had no choice but to issue a series of appointments to remove the confidants whom the two princes secretly supported, in order to restrain them. This was telling them that King Guti knew their every move.

However, the two princes were already in a storm for throne and could not extricate themselves, and they were still constantly chaotic. At this time, it happened that the time for the stolen library of the Empire was stolen. King Guti ordered Prince Dar to investigate thoroughly at this time and must recover all the stolen items. If the stolen items were not recovered, the throne would not be inherited.

King Guti's purpose is to calm down temporarily between the two princes, to ask Prince Dahl to do his best to investigate the stolen things, and temporarily give up the bloody battle with Bit.

However, Prince Dahl became suspicious of King Guti, believing that King Guti favored Bit and wanted to deprive him of the right to inherit the throne. At the instigation of Peters, Prince Dahl arranged personnel to continue to suppress Bit, and on the other hand, he personally investigated the theft of the Imperial Library.

Under the unfavorable circumstances, Prince Dahl personally led a 10,000 guards to clear out all the thieves in Shenlong. He also took this opportunity to frame Prince Bit's confidants and eliminate Prince Bit's confidants one by one in several economic cities.

Within a year, Prince Dahl's iron hooves almost swept across the entire Shenlong Kingdom, almost eradicating all the thieves in the country, causing the thieves in the Shenlong Kingdom to disappear within one year. From then on, the thieves in the Shenlong Kingdom changed their positions one after another, making the profession of the Shenlong Kingdom almost extinct.

Prince Bit's confidants in the city were almost wiped out by Dahl. He found some crystals and framed them at their homes, and massacred them all on the spot.

Prince Dahl caused a bloody storm in the country, which made everyone's confidants of Prince Bit of the Dragon Kingdom in danger, and also caused King Guti to be very angry.

King Guti quickly retrieved Prince Dar back to the imperial capital and ordered him to personally prepare for all matters of marrying Princess Nina. King Guti did not pursue the mistakes he made too much, but just temporarily deprived all his rights and waited for the marriage to Princess Nina before handling it.

Although Prince Dar's actions made King Guti angry, he still believed that such a prince was the best candidate to inherit the throne. Although Prince Dar was cruel and ruthless, King Guti always believed that a powerful country was not afraid of a tyrant to inherit it, but was afraid of an incompetent emperor.

Prince Dar did not understand King Guti's intentions. He had a barrier against King Guti, believing that King Guti was interested in favor of Bit and wanted Bit to inherit the throne.

Dahl took advantage of the wedding and had frequent exchanges with the messengers of the Kaile Empire. He wanted to obtain the support of the Kaile Empire and put pressure on the empire so that he could regain his rights in the future.

Although the political affairs were temporarily suppressed by Prince Bit, Prince Dahl began to make money by taking advantage of the opportunity of preparing for a wedding. He forcibly raised the tax rates in various places and leveraged the treasury reserves.

In the past year, Prince Dahl spent countless money and wealth crystals to marry Princess Nina, most of which fell into his personal pocket.

The king of the Dragon Kingdom, Guti, issued an order to all cities, and ordered the lords of the territories of the city lords across the country to go to the empire to congratulate Prince Dar on his wedding and witness the alliance celebration of the Dragon Empire and the Kaile Empire together.

After half a year left after the prince's wedding, Kong Ming and his father, Earl Howard, both received invitations. This time, the city lords and lords of various cities were invited so grandly, one for the sake of alliance between the two countries. The other was that Prince Dal took advantage of this wedding opportunity to make money and make the treasury empty. King Guti thought of asking city lords and lords from all over the country to attend the ceremony, and also to take the opportunity to increase income for the treasury.

Before leaving, Kong Ming called Sophid and others, asking Sophid to manage the city on his behalf, and gave Sophid and Huanqi a gift each, asking them to open it on the day of Prince Dal's wedding. He also told them that if the emperor had changed, they must guard the Shuangshan Mountains and Tianlai City of Dingkai, and should not act rashly before he came back.

Kong Ming spoke a heavy tone when he told the two, his expression was serious, which made Sufid and Huanqi feel that something would definitely happen to Prince Dar's wedding this time. But neither of them asked much. Since the city lord expected it, he must have made complete plans and they just follow the order.

Tianlai City is now strong, and Kong Ming did not have much concern about Tianlai City. Tianlai City is united, and almost everyone of Tianlaicheng is on the list. Any person added to the city will be personally verified by personnel officials, and even spies will follow and investigate.

After arranging all the affairs of Tianlai City, Kong Ming and his group set off for the imperial capital. This time they went to the imperial capital, Kong Ming also took Yingyue with them and asked her to return to the imperial capital to visit her mother.

Since this girl came to Tianlai City, she has never missed her home. She has regarded herself as Tianlaicheng's person and spent all day in her magic laboratory. The current magic laboratory is almost her private place, and no one dares to use magic laboratory with her, because that requires risking her life.

Others are not as versatile as hers. They are all pure magicians with thin bodies and cannot withstand the dangerous attacks of Yingyue's Magic Laboratory. Yingyue is even more bold because she is wearing the soft armor specially created by the dwarves and the advanced swordsman who relies on her rapid advancement in the formation. And there is also an Ivy to treat her, so Yingyue's experiment on magic is almost crazy.

Kong Ming took advantage of the opportunity to go to the imperial capital to pull Yingyue out of the magic laboratory and ask her to go home to see her. Yingyue was pulled out of the magic laboratory by Kong Ming, and then he realized that he had not been home to visit his mother for several years.

This time, Kong Ming did not bring too many people, but only brought Yingyue, Yali, the sixteen personal guards of the hidden troops. The eighteen Iron Cavalry led by Ioria, who were all elites among the warriors and were ordered to take care of Kong Ming's safety along the way. These eighteen people were carefully selected by Sophid from the warriors, and each of them was close to the intermediate great sword master. Such eighteen Iron Cavalry are no less than a thousand-person guard regiment.
Chapter completed!