Huo Lin was startled when he heard this, then glanced at Xia Caiyue in the crowd, and said with a sinister smile: "Hehehehe, can't you afford the money to compensate? It doesn't matter. Then let Princess Caiyue go with me.
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"How about using her as a hostage, and after the Great Xia Kingdom is conquered, the prince will use the money to redeem her?"
Before King Huainan could speak, Xia Caiyue's pretty face sank, her teeth opened slightly, and she spat out three cold words: "You're dreaming!"
"Haha, the princess is a lady, but she has quite a temper."
Huo Lin smiled sinisterly and said, "King Huainan, there are only two options for you now: either hand over someone or give money."
"Oh no, you still have another way, which is to deny both human and financial resources, and then completely break up with me, the traitor. What do you think?"
Xia Chunqiu breathed heavily, frowned, and did not respond to the other party immediately.
The young prince Xia Yufeng said anxiously: "Father, Caiyue cannot be handed over under any circumstances!"
People say that the Tian family is ruthless, and this is certainly true.
If Xia Caiyue was just a beautiful vase, neither Xia Chunqiu nor Xia Yufeng would mind handing this girl over to the Tai Kou as a pledge.
As long as he can conquer half of the country south of the Huaijiang River, let alone a daughter who cannot succeed to the throne, if the King of Huainan still has a son, he will choose one of them to take as a hostage to the Taikoo. This old guy will not even frown.
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But Xia Caiyue is different.
This green-haired and blue-eyed girl is not only a charming person, but also a wise person.
Xia Chunqiu had had the ambition to swallow Xia up and become an orphan for a long time. The reason why it was delayed until now was partly because the timing did not allow, but most importantly, it was because Xia Caiyue helped him make plans.
Since the age of twelve, Xia Caiyue has shown amazing courage and strategy.
When she was thirteen years old, she made a plan for her grandfather and tricked three members of the Xia royal family into hiding in the high-level offices of Huainan. The whole thing was done so flawlessly that even the King of Xia himself thought it was an accident.
When he was fourteen years old, about two and a half years ago, the Tai Kou Navy built a plank road in secret and secretly attacked Chencang. On the surface, they were attacking pirates in the East, but in fact, they smuggled across the Southeast Asia, disguised themselves as pirates, and wanted to invade the three ports of Huainan.
At that time, the plan of the leader of the Taikou Kingdom was to divide his troops into three groups: one to attack the city, one to intercept the reinforcements, and the other to defend the gold mines and transport a large amount of gold mines back to the Taikou.
But the operation had just begun, when Xia Chunqiu was discussing with a group of think tanks, Xia Caiyue, who was observing military affairs, noticed something strange.
At that time, the girl only said one sentence, which enlightened the brains of the room: "If the pirates are really just destroying pirates, why do they need to equip the three-winged giant ship with horses?"
Yes, if you just wipe out pirates, then it is a naval battle. Why do you need to install so many war horses in the warship?
Most pirates do not have a formal territory. Even if they do, they only occupy the island and become king.
On a mere island, except for the beach where horses can be mounted, the rest is either tropical dense forest or undulating mountains. Where is the need to equip war horses? Wouldn't it be more advantageous to leave that space to mount more soldiers and Xuanjing Cannon?
None of the think tanks noticed a detail in the letter sent back by the spies, but Xia Caiyue pointed it out.
As a result, the King of Huainan took precautionary measures in advance, and when the Taikou Navy was approaching, he launched a brilliant ambush!
It was after that battle that the Taikou Kingdom was so badly beaten that their king began to think of forming an alliance with Xia Chunqiu.
Today, two years later, the two sides have already reached a consensus - to conquer Daxia and share the benefits equally.
To put it bluntly, it was precisely because Xia Caiyue saw through the massive sneak attack by Tai Kou that the King of Huainan, who had previously had ambitions but lacked opportunities, found a powerful ally to realize his ambitions...
Now, Huo Lin actually wants to use Xia Caiyue as a hostage? Not to mention Xia Chunqiu, even the senior officials of the royal palace present would not nod.
Sure enough, after a few breaths of silence, Xia Chunqiu waved his hand and poured out nearly a hundred Xuan-level Xuan Weapons, dozens of boxes of Five Elements Spiritual Stones, and a pile of various materials from his Space Xuan Ring.
Another pile.
Even the king-level low-grade Xuanjing took out ten pieces: "Take these things and leave!"
Huo Lin curled his lips: "I may not like these things? Can you be sincere? Come up with more and let me pick and choose?"
Xia Chunqiu's old eyes flashed with sternness: "I offer you things in exchange for money, not based on what you want, but based on what I have!"
"Either you take these things and get out, or we start an all-out war, and I will be the first to chop off your head and sacrifice it to the flag!"
Huo Lin was stunned for a moment, and his arrogance was released. He rubbed his neck and said: "Give me a few space profound rings. How can I carry so many things?"
Xia Chunqiu winked at his subordinates, and someone immediately emptied the contents of his Space Mysterious Ring, erased the soul imprint, and threw the ring to Huo Lin.
At the same time, Xia Chunqiu waved his hand and put some of the materials back into his mysterious ring: "These are the credits you asked me to pay for the space mysterious ring!"
Huo Lin rolled his eyes fiercely and said nothing more. After receiving the Xuan Rings one by one, he picked up many items and turned to leave.
After Huolin rode the griffon beast into the sky, Xia Chunqiu said sternly: "Check every inch of the treasury carefully to see if there are any suspicious footprints or other clues."
"yes!"
Two hundred guards respectfully accepted the order.
"Father, the only outsider who has come in here is Master Tianqi Pavilion. Do you think it could be him..."
Before Xia Yufeng finished speaking, his daughter Xia Caiyue interrupted: "It's impossible. His every move in the treasury is under everyone's surveillance, and grandpa is by his side. Even if he is a five-star Xuanwang
It's impossible to do anything under Grandpa's nose."
"Before he left, the rest of the items in the treasury were still displayed in their original places."
"When he escaped from the water pavilion in the center of the lake, he used the Thousand Miles Escape Talisman, so naturally there was no way he could be teleported into the treasury."
Xia Caiyue is very smart, but her vision is limited after all.
Let alone a girl in her early sixteen years, even Xia Chunqiu, who has lived for more than a hundred years, has never heard of a mysterious skill that can secretly change things in front of a group of mysterious kings and masters.
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After hearing what Xia Caiyue said, everyone couldn't help but nodded.
"Alas!" Xia Chunqiu sighed heavily: "Compared with the theft of the secret treasure treasury, I am more worried about whether the master of Tianqi Pavilion will report to Xia Yuanlong about my association with Taikou Kingdom?"
"No. That's not his style."
Xia Caiyue said firmly: "Without any evidence, even if he goes to say it, Xia Yuanlong may not believe it. Instead, he will think that Master Tianqi Pavilion is instigating him. He will definitely not do such a stupid thing..."
Although this blue-haired and blue-eyed girl has only met Master Tianqi Pavilion twice, well, to be precise, she has never even seen each other's "face".
But for some reason, she seemed to feel extremely familiar with that mysterious man...