Rebirth: The Journey of an Heiress novel Chapter 1434

Chapter 1434: Chapter 1429: Extremely Unfavorable

King of Hancheng nodded after hearing Lu Fenglang’s words: "Good! Then I must trouble Minister Lu to make a trip! I will assign two skilled men to accompany Minister Lu!"

Lu Fenglang saluted King of Hancheng, took two navy soldiers as guards, and headed towards the fleet of Dongyi Kingdom again in a small boat.

Very soon, Du Yulang saw the envoy he had dispatched returning, accompanied by the only woman in the Zhou envoy delegation... Lu Fenglang.

Du Yulang heard that this woman... was the granddaughter of the Commandant of the Zhou Dynasty.

Accompanied by two Zhou navy soldiers, Lu Fenglang boarded a military ship of the Dongyi Kingdom.

Upon meeting Du Yulang, Lu Fenglang saluted and said: "I heard that this General chased our Zhou envoy’s ship all for the Seventh Prince of the Dongyi Kingdom?"

"Is this a rhetorical question from Minister Lu?" Du Yulang’s attitude was not very friendly.

Lu Fenglang maintained her composure and smiled calmly: "It seems we have all been deceived by the Empress of the Dongyi Kingdom! It was only when the General sent people to ask us for the Seventh Prince did I realize! The Empress of the Dongyi Kingdom intended to elevate her own flesh and blood, the Seventh Prince, to power. When I was presenting treasures on behalf of Zhao to the Empress, she said if the Zhou Dynasty was willing to support the Seventh Prince at the right time, the Empress would surely reciprocate! Our Zhou has no interest in the internal affairs of the Dongyi Kingdom, only wishing for peace along the coast with the Yan Kingdom at bay – this, our envoy Fan Yugan also told the Second Prince."

Seeing Du Yulang’s thoughtful expression, Lu Fenglang understood that this close aide of the Second Prince... was probably already aware of the Empress’s plan to ally with the Zhou Dynasty.

This gave her confidence, and she continued: "A few days ago, the Empress sent someone to our posthouse, falsely claiming to Minister Liu that... the Second Prince initiated a coup d’état, and that he had been beguiled by the envoy from the Yan Kingdom and the Monarch of the Tianfeng Kingdom to kill our Zhou envoy and declare war on us; our envoy Minister Liu, being worried, told us to leave first, while he stayed in the capital of Dongyi to deal with the newly enthroned Emperor. I imagine the Second Prince must have visited the posthouse and seen that Minister Liu was still in the Capital."

"But in fact, the Empress had long sent away the Seventh Prince and informed our Zhou in advance about the Second Prince’s planned coup, intimidating us with the threat of killing our envoy! All of this was merely to deceive the Zhou envoy into leaving Dongyi overnight, luring in the pursuers of the Second Prince... to buy time for the Seventh Prince to escape the Dongyi Kingdom!" Lu Fenglang’s voice was slow and continued in somewhat faltering Dongyi language, "Now, if you consider the timeline, if the Zhou were truly intent on supporting the Seventh Prince, by the time the Second Prince initiated a coup and the plan failed, fleeing with the Seventh Prince, the Dongyi Kingdom’s navy would have caught up with us long ago; they would not have taken so many days to catch up."

Du Yulang raised his eyes to look at the composed Lu Fenglang, lips pressed in silence.

"General, think again, if not for the Empress’s assistance, how could we have prepared the ship so quickly to escape? This Empress is more formidable than I imagined—from summoning our Zhou envoy she probably had already planned the regicide and prepared a backup plan, involving our Zhou in it!" Lu Fenglang sneered and turned to look at her own naval troops, "Consider, if this time... the Dongyi navy relies on superiority in numbers and harms our Zhou navy, the Dongyi would then have enmity with our Zhou! Thus... would our great Zhou tolerate this? Even if we endure today for the sake of the nation, whether we win or lose thereafter, this enmity will be avenged!"

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