Chapter 11 The War Caused by Elopement

Everyone rushed to the Lanjing Royal Academy. At this time, the outside was already packed to the rafters. However, people were only able to watch from a distance because of soldiers guarding the area. "This academy is really gorgeous. The gate of it is built with such exquisite style, so the house inside must be more luxurious, isn’t it?" exclaimed a black-cloth scholar who looked like someone from the countryside. He seemed to come to the capital for the first time and surprisingly caught the buzz. "Mr. Mo doesn't need to lament it. With your talent, sooner or later, you will be able to enter inside for further study." Another scholar said with a smile, and his tone was also filled with envy. "The chance is not big! Mr. Shen shouldn't be discouraged. Let's work together. Every year, there are sixty nationwide folk places to enter, aren't there? There will always be a chance if we try our best." The scholar named Mo comforted. "Yeah, that's right. Mr. Shen, listen. Others are talking about it. I wonder which boy it is. How dare he took the princess away? Haha! How interesting it is!" The scholar surnamed Shen laughed. "Shh! Be careful. The trouble comes from the mouth, and don't talk about it casually." The scholar named Mo hurriedly signaled to stop it. … However, in the Maplewood Valley of the western suburb of Luo City, Mu Qianmei sat on the balcony of the third floor of the Beggar Gang headquarters, with the secret report in hand, reading it while not being able to resist the urge to laugh out loud. "Interesting! Now the Yugu Continent should be lively. Qin Siyong, this name is good. Is it really able to be forever? It seems like the ancient Qin Shi Huang in our history!" "If he was born in the twenty-first century, he would probably be a very famous director." Mu Qianmei looked at the secret report in her hand while smiling to herself as if it had a lot to do with her. When viewing the earthworm-like handwriting on the report, Mu Qianmei could not help shaking her head and smiling bitterly. The network of inquiring information was quite good, but the overall cultural quality was no high. In addition to the poor writing, contents of the report neither caught the main point nor were simple or unambiguous enough! Suddenly she saw several words that "Lanjing Royal Academy" on the secret report. Mu Qianmei suddenly came up with an idea, why did not our Beggar Gang also start an academic institute? If it was done well, it might be more famous than Lanjing Royal Academy. "Huh. Good idea!" Mu Qianmei could not help laughing and said. "What's the good idea, little girl? Why are you there alone giggling to yourself?" Ouyang Bo just walked in and heard the words of Mu Qianmei, so he asked with a curious smile. "Oh, I was thinking that the overall cultural quality of our Beggar Gang is not high, so why don't we also start an academy? We should strive to do even better than that so-called Lanjing Royal Academy. Do you think it's feasible?" Mu Qianmei asked in a consultative tone. "Ah? Are we going to even run a school? You are only too daring to think. But you have a point. As we are beggars, we must be the learned beggars." "Just... when becoming educated persons, will they continue to be beggars?" The old Taoist had doubts again. "If we make beggars not be beggars, isn't it also great merit? Look at the writing, it's like an earthworm, and just a few sentences of things, they write a long piece, isn't it in urgent need of improvement?" Mu Qianmei handed the old Taoist priest a secret report and said with a smile. "Little girl, are you really only thirteen years old? How come you have so many strange ideas all day long? Now we have already made a small success in buying and selling information, and there are quite a few people who are willing to spend money buying information from us!" "And your 'Pretty Clothes' has already opened six branches. They're still so busy. They're still so busy that they have to finish two-or-three-month work right now. How on earth did you come up with the idea to design those strange clothes?" "The most incredible thing is your Beggar Chicken. Now the streets are full of branches, and our income is as much as flowing water. It's so unexpected!" "How many ideas do you still have without saying, little girl? At this rate, beggars really don't have to beg for food anymore in the future. The days are better than those of the ordinary people. Many people now are reluctant to cultivate the land but to make a fuss about joining the Beggar Gang, do you know that?" The old Taoist priest was unable to stop a round of exclamations. "Hehe! These is just the beginning. In this world, there are so many things that can be done. However, we also have to take one step at a time. After all, a hundred-year plan is based on education. We still have to run the academy first." "By the way, the old Taoist priest, what is the name of the place where we visited Doctor Ye last time? I felt that the environment there is very nice." Mu Qianmei asked suddenly. "There? The environment there is indeed good. It is called Lingyin Mountain. Why do you ask about the place?" The old Taoist priest wondered. "I want to run the academy there, because it's a beautiful place with fresh air, and it's most suitable for study and cultivation. What do you think of it?" Mu Qianmei inquired after stating her idea. "It's good, then when the old guy comes back, let's figure it out together. It should be no problem." The old Taoist priest said. As this side was preparing for organising the academy, the Dongqin side was already gearing up to wage war. The Princess who escaped and eloped was the little sister of the current Dongqin Emperor, Qin Siyue. She had been spoiled and pampered since childhood and had a lively and capricious personality. She attended the Lanjing Royal Academy and met Wu Mingjie, a young prince from the Zhongwu Kingdom. These two liked each other and actually fell in love secretly. How could the princess of a large Dongqin kingdom marry the prince of a small country? This led to the anger of Qin Siyong and his firm opposition. But the capricious princess Qin Siyue was unwilling to give up on this. This little princess who dared to love and hate took advantage of the night and eloped with Wu Mingjie. Now that would be a huge problem! The princess eloped, and where would the face of the royal family be? It really became a big joke in the Yugu Continent. In a fit of anger, the Emperor Qin Siyong of Dongqin sent troops to besiege the capital of Zhongwu, the Frostless City, and ordered Zhongwu to hand over the princess within three days, or else he would attack the city and wipe out Zhongwu. The fire of war was about to ignite, and the world was about to undergo a great change. It was not expected that the elopement of a princess should have to cause a war affecting the overall situation of the world. Countries held emergency meetings on this matter to discuss the responses. The academy of Beggar Gang was under construction. Mu Qianmei remained at the headquarters of Beggar Gang, looking at a stack of secret reports on the desk in front of her, and she fell into meditation. When a war broke out, the world would be in chaos, and who could be spared? The Beggar Gang was almost possible to be involved in such a general environment. At this moment, both the old Taoist priest and Feng Tianyu stepped in together. Their faces, devoid of the usual playful expressions, were serious and worried. "Little girl, how do you see the situation of the Yugu Continent at this moment? How will it develop?" Feng Tianyu firstly asked. "Old Taoist priest, please help us analyse it. About the whole continental situation, you know much more than we do, so we want to hear your opinions!" Mu Qianmei said sincerely. "In my view, this war is definitely going to be fought. This seems to be a coincidental event, but as the first major kingdom of the Yugu Continent and the most powerful country, the young emperor Qin Siyong is somewhat ambitious. He also intends to unify the Yugu Continent in his time and achieve his hegemony for a thousand years!" "It's just an excuse he's been waiting for, and he has finally gotten around to it. The three-day appointment is just a time for him to deploy his troops and line up." "And in the Yugu Continent, the southeast and northwest quadrants are respectively the four major countries of Dongqin, Xichu, Nantang, and Beihan, and the four countries surround the three small countries of Shangyan, Zhongwu, and Yunyu in the middle." "The three small countries of Zhongwu, Shangyan and Yunyu are located on the same continent in the Central Plains. If one is in danger, the other two small countries should come to support them." "And these three small countries are all in front of the other three big countries as their barriers. If the three small countries are destroyed, several other big countries will be in danger, so I think that they may also enter the war." The old Taoist priest looked at the entire Yugu Continent and spoke eloquently about his thoughts. "If we allowed Qin to break them one by one, none of the other six countries could stand up to them, right?" Mu Qianmei questioned. "Yes, it's easy to break down each one." The old Taoist priest also said worriedly. "What if the six kingdoms unite against Qin?" Mu Qianmei then asked. "The six countries unite against Qin? That would be possible to fight with it, and with proper planning, it would be possible to defeat Qin!" The old Taoist priest was immediately attracted by the words "six countries unite against the Qin", but he found it difficult to do so after thinking about it. A united team would have selfishness, so how could they fight well? As considering this, he suddenly asked Mu Qianmei, "Little girl, if you were the Dongqin Emperor, how would you fight this war?" "Horizontally fighting from afar and attacking from near is good!" Mu Qianmei answered subconsciously without even thinking about it. After saying that, she explained with some blushing, "Huh... I was just blurting it out!" "Just blurting out?" This was fine without explanation, but an explanation instead made the old Taoist more surprised. Randomly blurting out could show such a way to break it, was this still a child? Then he wondered in heart why he could see others' future in general, but he could not see the future of this girl. "Then how will our Beggar Gang respond to it?" Feng Tianyu spoke up and asked. He was most concerned about the fate of the Beggar Gang, but he did not care much about the war between other countries. "Our Beggar Gang had better not get involved in this war and resolutely not take military information trading. Other business can still be carried out." The old Taoist priest looked at Feng Tianyu and Mu Qianmei and slowly replied. "Well, I agree with this decision and will keep running our academy. What do you think, old guy?" Mu Qianmei inquired with a faint smile. "These things, I listen to you guys. Haha!" Feng Tianyu felt extremely happy that he did not require to use his brain. But after three days. Qin Siyue and Wu Mingjie remained no answer. The siege began as scheduled. The good thing was that Zhongwu also had three days to prepare in Frostless City. The city walls were reinforced, troops were deployed, and weapons were reinforced, so it could still be defended in a short time. But how long would they hold out?