"The King of Shu enters the palace!"
A high-pitched and excited shout instantly resounded throughout the Jiaozhou Palace.
In the past few years, due to trade with Xishu and resource exchange, the original dilapidated little palace in Jiaozhou has been repaired to an extremely magnificent state.
Xu Mu walked slowly, leading Si Hu and a group of guards. As early as when he arrived in Jiaozhou, he had already heard from Li Liu that the situation of his old brother Zhao Di was no longer optimistic.
"My lord, Divine Doctor Chen has come here earlier. But King Zhao's body is probably at the end of his life, so Divine Doctor Chen can only try his best to help him survive."
"Hang your life?" Xu Mu paused.
Li Liu nodded seriously on his young face, "That's what King Zhao meant."
Xu Mu sighed and suddenly understood that Zhao Di was waiting for him. Once Zhao Di dies, with the support of Xi Shu, Zhao Dong will soon succeed to the throne. But no matter what, in the past, various things that happened in the South China Sea Alliance had some undercurrents.
Moreover, according to that little Chang Sheng's thoughts, he might take the opportunity to cause trouble.
"King of Shu, let me go first..." Zhao Dong caught up behind him and burst into tears.
"Please my dear nephew."
Zhao Dong cried sadly and nodded, taking quick steps. Looking at Zhao Dong's figure, Xu Mu slowly fell into a trance. From now on, the new king Zhao Dong will begin to become famous all over the world.
Xu Mu shook his head, stopped his thoughts, and walked quickly to the palace. As he got closer, the sad cries became louder and louder.
"Lord." Chen Que just walked out, saw Li first, and then shook his head bitterly.
"Mr. Chen, how is King Zhao now?"
"There's nothing I can do to save it. It's clear that I have contained the poison before."
"Mr. Chen, could it be..."
"I can't tell." Chen Que said hesitantly, "Pathological matters are unpredictable. I still need time."
Xu Mu silently clasped his fists and walked in without stopping for a moment.
In the palace, several Nanhai state kings, as well as a group of Nanhai civil servants and generals, were shocked and hurriedly saluted after seeing Xu Mu. Even Zhao Di's relatives did not dare to stand up and stood up one after another and retreated to the side.
Xu Mu raised his head and looked at Zhao Di on the throne. He looked extremely ill and out of breath, which made him feel sad for no reason.
"Brother Xu..." On the throne, seeing Xu Mu's arrival, Zhao Di struggled to stand up and salute as if he was looking back.
Xu Mu took a few steps closer, and together with Zhao Dong, supported the leader of the Five South China Sea States on the chair again.
"Jiaozhou...Except for Zhao Di, Zhao Fei...the rest of them, please exit the palace quickly." Zhao Di hissed, having exhausted all his strength.
Zhao Fei?
Xu Mu turned around and saw a slim figure lying on the ground crying, and vaguely guessed something.
"Brother Xu, we don't have much time, let me say it first... Dong'er, kneel down."
Hearing the sound, Zhao Dong, who was crying bitterly, quickly knelt on the ground.
"The King of Shu can be the chief witness. After my death, Zhao Dong will be the King of Jiaozhou and the leader of the five states in the South China Sea."
"Brother Zhao, don't worry. As long as I, Xu Mu, are here, there will be no problem with this matter." Xu Mu expressed his stance. Zhao Di's succession to the throne is almost an ironclad fact. If it had been another prince or another state king, Xi Shu would definitely have intervened.
There is only Zhao Dong, only Zhao Dong.
"Brother Xu, over the past few years, the five states of the South China Sea have been surrounded by crises and undercurrents. I can't remember how many times those people have persuaded me to defect to Dongling or Beiyu. But Brother Xu knows that I, Zhao Di, have only I chose Xishu.”
Xu Mu raised his hands and cupped his fists.
When Western Shu was weak, it was precisely because of the addition of the South China Sea Alliance that it was possible to conquer several states in the south of the Yangtze River step by step.
"As discussed before, one day the King of Shu will pacify the world and fulfill his contract by giving a king from another state to open up the channels between the South China Sea and the Central Plains. Everyone in the world should know that the five states in the South China Sea are not foreign states..."
"Brother Zhao, don't worry, I will always remember it."
Zhao Di showed a pale smile and slumped on the throne.
"After I die, if the dog Zhao Dong is useless, Brother Xu can take care of him. If the offense is serious, there is no harm in killing him."
Xu Mu was silent in his heart. This is equivalent to saying something ironic in front of Zhao Dong. Whether Zhao Dong will be successful in the future is another matter. But in fact, Zhao Dong means something in his words. He hopes that he can help Zhao Dong to protect the five states of the South China Sea.
You can't just agree to this. If not, a gap will remain.
"Brother Zhao is worried, and my nephew Zhao Dong is young and promising. I, Xu Mu, promise Brother Zhao that I will support Zhao Dong and guard the five states in the South China Sea."
After listening to this answer, Zhao Di's pale face finally regained its rosiness. He coughed and spoke again with difficulty.
"Zhao Fei."
After a while, the woman who was kneeling on the ground slowly stood up and approached the throne. If you turn your face from one side, you can see her unparalleled beauty.
Xu Mu guessed something.
"Brother Xu, this is my little daughter. She is seventeen years old, and she is born to be the most beautiful girl in the country... If not, just send her to the Shu Palace and become a concubine."
Xu Mu did not answer immediately. Zhao Di meant to completely tie the entire South China Sea to Xi Shu. Just like the old Huang. Zhao Di was worried that after his death, if something unexpected happened in the South China Sea and violated the taboo of Western Shu, the Zhao family might turn into smoke in one day.
But the marriage is different. No matter how you say it, it is also included in the palace of Xishu.
However, Lao Huang was obviously more experienced in this matter. He only mentioned it once at first, but when he found that Xu Mu was unwilling, he never mentioned it again for fear of making people unhappy.
"Yes." Xu Mu said calmly.
Starting from a humble beginning, he has no background. It's not like those children from aristocratic families who can easily attract a row of brothers and sisters.
Seriously speaking, outside of his family, except for Xu Changgong, whom he recognized as his clan brother, he had no other clan members. Otherwise, just drag any brother out and the marriage will be solved perfectly.
"Brother Xu, don't blame me..." After receiving Xu Mu's affirmative reply, Zhao Di burst into tears, his face extremely pale, and turbid tears kept falling down.
"I said before that without Brother Zhao's five states in the South China Sea, how would we be in Xishu today?" Xu Mu stretched out his hand and held Zhao Di, his voice a little choked.
This sentence is not an excuse. He has always been grateful for Zhao Di's original choice.
"As soon as I finished speaking, I felt weak..." Zhao Di lay on his back on the throne and exhaled comfortably.
"Zhao Dong, after you succeed to the throne, whether it is the Southern Navy or Ruan Qiu's Haiyue Army, they must obey the orders of the King of Shu and make no mistakes."
"Father, don't worry..." Zhao Dong cried even more sadly.
"Zhao Fei... you said you wanted to marry in this life, and you wanted to marry a hero in the world, so I chose it for you..."
The woman kneeling on the ground lowered her head and sobbed.
"Brother Xu, people in the world laugh at me, Zhao Di, for being weak and only knowing how to stay in the wilderness of the South China Sea. But they don't know that I went out with a sword and fought from Cangzhou to Wuzhou. I was also a hero in the world... If I had known, I should have followed Xu My brother refuses Beidi..."
"Brother Xu, goodbye."
The hand Xu Mu was holding suddenly slipped. When he looked up again, he found that it suddenly became cold in the huge Jiaozhou Palace.
Zhao Dong, the king of Nanhai, who had followed Xi Shu unswervingly for seven or eight years, had his head tilted down, his body completely paralyzed, and he could no longer move an inch.
"Father--"
Zhao Dong's extremely sad voice resounded throughout the palace.
