Everyone in my harem is talented

Chapter 481 Discussing South

The fourth prince Qin Mingyun looked up at the stone steps that meandered into the clouds.

The morning dew had not yet dissipated, and a wet light was shining on the bluestone. He took off his cloak and threw it to the servant behind him. The cuffs of his brocade robe were embroidered with a Qilin pattern in gold thread, which was faintly visible in the dim morning light.

"Start climbing!" The fourth prince Qin Mingyun took a deep breath and smoothed his sleeves.

"Yes, Your Highness." The servants responded in unison.

The stone steps were very steep, and the Fourth Prince Qin Mingyun slowly walked up the mountain wall. The wild peach blossoms of April were flourishing on both sides of the mountain path, and the pink and white petals fell one after another and stopped on his shoulders.

He reached out and brushed it away, and a faint fragrance stained his fingertips.

The fourth prince Qin Mingyun raised his hand to wipe away the dense beads of sweat on his forehead, and then turned a few more valleys and saw the vermilion lacquered gate of the Taoist temple in the distance. A white figure stood in front of the gate with his hands in his sleeves.

He looked like a hermit.

"We're finally here." The fourth prince Qin Mingyun let out a breath, stood up straight, and straightened his clothes.

I saw the third brother Qin Mingjin standing on a huge rock, the wide sleeves of his white Taoist robe blown up by the mountain breeze, an exquisite silver-grey whisk resting on his elbow, his eyes gazing at the sea of ​​clouds in the distance, his gaze empty, as if he was about to be blown away by the wind.

The fourth prince Qin Mingyun raised his eyebrows.

"Third brother, stop pretending to be an expert and come down."

He took two steps at a time and came under the boulder. He raised his hand and gently tugged at the sleeve of the third prince Qin Mingjin.

With a crisp "pa" sound, Qin Mingjin's hand came down heavily, and a slap mark immediately appeared on the back of Qin Mingyun's hand.

"Third brother, you're really harsh!"

"What do you mean by pretending to be a hermit? This prince is a hermit, how can I be worse than a hermit? Oh, by the way, if you have the chance, you must make me the Dao King, um... Xuan King is also fine. This king wants to lead the Dao and Xuan sects in the world and become an immortal!"

The third prince Qin Mingjin joked seriously.

"Okay, my dear, why don't you let father confer you the title of King Xuan Dao now? Ling Wei (the eighth princess Qin Ling Wei, born to Concubine Hui, and the sister of the fourth prince Qin Mingyun) was led astray by you, right? Mother complained to me that she wanted to become a nun every day!"

The fourth prince Qin Mingyun said with a half-smile as he looked at the third prince Qin Mingjin, who had hit him and then quickly withdrew his hand and put it on again.

The third prince Qin Mingjin walked down from the boulder slowly: "Don't be ridiculous, I got the inspiration to become a monk from Lingwei."

"Annan has rebelled." The fourth prince Qin Mingyun pressed his fingertips on the gold-woven Qilin on the cuffs and gently stroked the embroidery.

The third prince Qin Mingjin nodded.

"On the second day after my fifth, seventh, and eighth brothers arrived in Annan, two local powerful families came to visit us, and my fifth brother was immediately forced to rebel."

The third prince Qin Mingjin sat down leaning against the stone, raised his eyes and looked at his fourth brother Qin Mingyun with a smile: "Fifth brother is too impulsive, and the seventh and eighth brothers did not try to persuade him. He took the responsibility of starting the fire. Oh, Uncle Meng is coming back soon."

"Yeah." The fourth prince Qin Mingyun responded casually, and then said: "But does the fifth brother really trust Li Xiguang so much?"

"Why would we need trust to smash the chessboard? As long as Li Xiguang's butt isn't sitting on Annan's side, trust doesn't matter."

"However, this chaos was caused by the fifth brother. Before the fifth brother could do anything, my uncle responded quickly and cleaned up the mess and cleared Annan. The fifth brother should have understood immediately."

"It's better to be open or conspiratorial. If my fifth brother doesn't take the blame, do you think you and I should take it? Besides...it was his idea to destroy Annan and then mend it. It's nothing for Uncle Meng to borrow his chicken to lay an egg."

Annan was already rotten, and the fifth prince Qin Mingzhang sent Li Xiguang to lead people to intensify the conflicts among all parties, accelerate the corruption of Annan, and make the situation in Annan more and more chaotic.

Annan will explode if it gets touched by a spark, and after the explosion, everything will be clear and bright.

If the Fifth Prince Qin Mingzhang had been in charge of his own strategy from beginning to end, the court's evaluation of him would probably be mixed.

After all, Annan was already under the jurisdiction of Dayong, and the people of Annan were also the people of Dayong.

Now the Fifth Prince's plan has just begun, but when it comes to the end, the fruits will be reaped by the Southwestern Army led by Meng Xingye.

"My uncle said he felt guilty."

The fourth prince Qin Mingyun said with a smile.

The navy from Guangdong and Guangdong that my fifth brother contacted arrived too late, and the victory had already been reaped by the Southwestern Army.

"I'm afraid my fifth brother's impression of Uncle Meng and the Southwest Army has been ruined."

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Annan.

Meng Xingye lit the letters sent by Li Xiguang one by one with candlelight and watched the letters in the iron basin burn out.

He was the one who conquered Annan in the first place, but after he conquered Annan, this damn place was in turmoil every few days. Now it has finally been cleaned up.

However, we cannot just ignore the Fifth Prince and have to go there in person.

Day two.

Meng Xingye brought his men to the palace where the fifth prince Qin Mingzhang was temporarily residing.

This place was originally the residence of the Annan royal family, and it was the mascot before he conquered Annan.

The Nguyen and Li families, who were forced into a corner and had to rebel by the Fifth Prince this time, are the actual controllers of Annan.

"Your Highness, General Meng Xingye Meng requests to see you."

The fifth prince Qin Mingzhang stood in front of the desk, his fingertips gently running across the three kingdoms of Pagan, Siam and Lahu on the map.

"Your Highness, General Meng Xingye requests to see you."

"Send him over."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Meng Xingye lowered his eyes and bowed respectfully to the fifth prince Qin Mingzhang.

He thought he would have to wait outside the palace for an hour or two to let the Fifth Prince vent his anger.

"Uncle, please get up quickly."

The fifth prince, Qin Mingzhang, put his feet on the arms of the beauty who was kneeling at his feet, and sat on the couch with his arms and legs wide open.

"Your Highness has not seen your uncle for two or three years."

His eyes looked up and down at Meng Xingye, the second husband of his younger aunt, Princess Qin Miaoyin of Qi.

Meng Xingye frowned.

"Your Highness, I am here to discuss the affairs of the navy of Guangdong and Guangdong."

"The navy of Guangdong and Guangdong..." The fifth prince Qin Mingzhang's face suddenly turned cold, "My uncle has done me a great disservice."

"Your Highness, I, the minister of Annan's pacification, have been planning for a long time, but I never thought that I would run into the Fifth Prince."

It is easy to conquer Annan, but it is not easy to win people's hearts and minds. It requires slow and steady efforts.

If anything happened to the imperial court, Annan would immediately become independent again.

If you want to solve the problem once and for all, you have to do what the Fifth Prince did and intensify the conflict, causing Annan to explode from the inside out.

But this method will inevitably be labeled as tyrannical.

Especially when the country is generally peaceful and prosperous, the people are well fed and their hearts are soft.

He can't take the blame for this.

Just right——

"Humph! Your Highness does not want to hear your excuses."

"Your Highness, please punish me."

"Your Southwest Army is full. Your Highness invited the two Guangdong naval forces here. How can they go back without being full? You have to make sure they are full."

"What do you mean, Your Highness?"

The fifth prince Qin Mingzhang raised his toes and lifted the chin of the beauty under his feet. "This is the little princess of the former royal family of Annan. She seems to have a grudge against the Li family. She wants to seduce me and let me help her to torment the Li family."

"The Li family has been exterminated. Your Highness, when you are out, do not trust foreigners easily."

"The youngest son of the main branch of the Li family and the fourth son of the Nguyen family had already moved away from Annan with 20% of their family wealth when the general first came to Annan." The beauty looked up at Meng Xingye with burning eyes.

"Why bother with the loser who has left his homeland and is struggling to survive?"

Meng Xingye only wanted this piece of land to live peacefully under the rule of Dayong.

"Besides, you are from the Annan royal family. I, Dayong, conquered Annan. Don't you hate me?"

Seeing that she was kneeling with her back straight and her eyes firm and stubborn, Meng Xingye was willing to say a few more words to her.

"General, I'm afraid you don't know what the Nguyen and Li families have done to my royal family, so you make such a statement."

"Well, Your Highness, I don't care where the stray dogs of the Li family and the Nguyen family went. Wherever Your Highness says they went, that's where they went. The former princess of Annan entered Your Highness's backyard as a concubine, and Your Highness will seek justice for her."

The fifth prince Qin Mingzhang chuckled.

"General Meng, come here. The Li and Nguyen families bullied my concubine's parents and relatives, and fled to... Pagan, Siam and Luohu, and usurped the three kingdoms..."

The fifth prince Qin Mingzhang paused, as if he had forgotten the words.

Princess Annan immediately added: "Royalty and land."

"Yes, the royal power and the land. Even if they flee to the ends of the earth, Your Highness will catch them."

"What do you mean, Your Highness?"

"Your Highness wants you to cooperate with the two Guangdong naval forces to conquer the three kingdoms of Pagan, Siam and Rahu. The credit for expanding the territory will be shared by the three armies."

"You don't have to take my joke seriously. The reason should be more serious."

The fifth prince Qin Mingzhang stood up straight, restrained his gaze on the game, and said seriously.

"Your Highness..."

Meng Xingye looked at the fifth prince Qin Mingzhang with flickering eyes and a little trembling.