In the palace of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xingchen, who had washed up under the service of Liu Jixiang, no longer had the embarrassment he had when he ran away in a hurry, but the anger and murderous intent on his face still showed that he was in a very bad mood now.

Until this moment, Liu Xingchen still couldn't accept the reality that he was defeated by a junior like Xia Fan.

Especially when I thought that I had heard Long Teng say that Xia Fan was severely injured by him, I thought of taking advantage of his sharp decline to kill this disaster and then dealing with Ying Potian with all my strength. Unexpectedly, Long Teng's intelligence made such a mistake. Judging from the situation where he fought with him at that time, he did not seem to have been seriously injured. Later, he was able to break through to the Grandmaster realm and defeat himself in an explosion. If Long Teng had not helped him block the fatal blow, if there was no Lao Thirteen who said he could stop him, maybe he...

"Long Teng, a thing that is not enough to make a fortune, is simply insane, and it really ruined my big deal!" Thinking of this, Liu Xingchen couldn't help but hate Long Teng. If Long Teng hadn't been dead, Liu Xingchen would definitely not have spared him lightly.

Liu Jixiang stood beside him with his head down, not daring to look directly at Liu Xingchen, feeling the breath surging on his body. Obviously, he was in an extremely bad mood at this time. Liu Jixiang, who was worried that he would be vented out of anger, said nothing and regarded himself completely as a wooden man.

After following Liu Xingchen for so long, Liu Jixiang knew Liu Xingchen quite well. He knew that this king had extraordinary talent and great strategies, and his power and strategy were not inferior to that of the kings of all dynasties. However, he also had the violent and unrestrainedness that most emperors had, especially when he was in a bad mood, no matter who angered him, he would be furious. At this time, Liu Jixiang didn't want to get him upset.

"Hu..." After a long silence, Liu Xingchen breathed a long sigh, as if he exhaled all the depression and anger in his heart. Although he was the emperor of the Han Dynasty, with many soldiers and many strong people, he actually knew very well that some things were not something he could do. Especially in the current situation of internal and external troubles, what he really had to do was to deal with the enemies from the grassland, rather than putting too much energy on Xia Fan. After all, as the emperor who controls this huge dynasty, he often had to consider the overall situation, and could not just act arbitrarily because of his personal likes and dislikes.

Because of this, after sending two groups of Qianlong Guards to kill Xia Fan, they failed to kill Xia Fan, even though Liu Xingchen was already furious and his desire to kill Xia Fan was extremely fierce, he did not continue to send Qianlong Guards, because he knew very well that no matter how many of the sects were, it would not be of much use. Instead, the battle situation against the original enemy in the grassland would be affected by the large losses of Qianlong Guards.

But the anger in his heart was hard to relieve, and he felt that letting Xia Fan survive would cause great trouble, so he decided to go and kill him in person. But the result made Liu Xingchen even more annoyed.

Although Liu Xingchen's murderous intent towards Xia Fan was even stronger, he finally suppressed the idea of ​​issuing an order to send troops to attack, because although doing so could destroy Xia Fan and his power like sweeping the cave, it was extremely unfavorable to the current overall situation. For the current Han Dynasty, although there were many soldiers, they were all useful. He could not waste his precious troops on Xia Fan, otherwise major problems would arise in other more important places.

"Huh..." He exhaled again, and Liu Xingchen said: "Sorry Geng Qingping to speed up the speed of quelling the rebellion, and then lead his troops to suppress the border of Lan Yu Kingdom. At appropriate times, you can attack Xia Fan. Then order the troops from all provinces to cut off the business roads to Lan Yu Kingdom. No iron or weapon is allowed to enter Lan Yu Kingdom. Qianlong Guards stationed in various provinces must also move. They find that someone dares to smuggle weapons and supplies to Lan Yu Kingdom, and kill them without any hesitation."

"Abide by the order." Liu Jixiang nodded quickly.

Then Liu Xingchen said some oral instructions casually, except for some of them targeting the original enemy on the grassland, the others were targeting Xia Fan's strength.

As the emperor, of course he had to think about the overall situation, but he was unhappy but would not be dull. Instead, he made more people unhappy or even died. This is the reason why the emperor was angry and buried in a million corpses and blood flowed into a river.

After giving the order, Liu Xingchen said again: "I will be in seclusion for a few days. There is nothing particularly important to do. Don't disturb me."

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After returning to Yunhuanhu, Xia Fan's first thing he did was to take over all military and political affairs and began to deal with some extremely important matters that he could not decide, such as the strategic direction and the official documents submitted by Lu Chuan to request Yunhuanhu to assist food, weapons and other house supplies...

Since Xia Fan was not here before, no one was qualified to decide these important things, so they had to be temporarily accumulated, but these things were exactly the most important.

While looking through the backlog of official documents, Xia Fan processed the documents, and soon all the piles of official documents were processed. Then the officials who were responsible should have taken away the official documents and implemented them according to Xia Fan's handling opinions. However, now these matters are done by the Thirteenth Prince.

"Senior Brother, I really didn't expect that you would be an expert in handling official duties. If it were me, facing so many complicated military and political affairs, I would be very troublesome." Of course, the Thirteenth Prince did not have to take away the numerous official documents, but put them directly into the Qiankun bag and raised his thumbs to Xia Fan with admiration.

"This is nothing. I don't care about everything. Just make the summary." Xia Fan looked at the Thirteenth Prince and said, "Don't always think about practicing or helping me do these errands. These are all the officials below should do. If you do it, they will be blamed for robbing their jobs."

"I want to be closer to the senior brother and be more advised." The Thirteenth Prince smiled disapprovingly.

"If you really want to learn something, just learn how to deal with government affairs. My territory is getting bigger and bigger, and I will leave it to you to take care of it in the future." Having said this, Xia Fan waved his hand and asked the Thirteenth Prince to sit down, and said earnestly: "My territory is to expand, and one day I will face the Han Dynasty. As a prince, do you have no idea?"

"I just want to practice and have no interest in the throne or something. What ideas can I have?" The Thirteenth Prince shook his head.

"It wasn't possible before, but now you should think about it." Xia Fan stared at the Thirteenth Prince and said, "You have seen it before. He will not let me go, nor will I let him go. This is something that cannot be changed. If he dies, I hope you will take over this Han Dynasty."

Xia Fan could not directly say Liu Xingchen's name in front of the Thirteenth Prince, and naturally he did not want to call him the emperor, so he referred to him.

The Thirteenth Prince certainly understood who Xia Fan was talking about, but was shocked by Xia Fan's words and changed his face: "No need to do this, right?"

"Of course it's not needed now, but it will be difficult to say in the future." Xia Fan patted the Thirteenth Prince's shoulder and said, "So you have to prepare in advance. I said something, he may not believe it, but you should understand my ambition. Although the Han Dynasty is good, I don't like it very much, and I didn't think about usurping the throne and becoming the emperor. So it's the best choice for you to take over the Han Dynasty, and what I want to do is to conquer a higher world."

"I will consider it." The Thirteenth Prince nodded, then stood up and left. He needed to hand over the official documents to the corresponding officials and let them execute them one by one. Uploading and downloading is what the Thirteenth Prince has been doing recently.

Seeing the Thirteenth Prince leave, Xia Fan couldn't help but sigh. He also knew that the Thirteenth Prince might not be willing to be the emperor, but some things really don't do that.

Especially recently, Liu Xingchen has made various small moves. In addition to mobilizing troops to deploy on the border to continuously put pressure on Xia Fan's power, he has also cut off many trade routes. This has caused a lot of materials that were originally required to be obtained from the Han Dynasty to be reduced suddenly. Even if some can be obtained through some secret channels, the quantity is not large, and the price has also risen sharply, which makes Xia Fan's side, who is using a large number of troops, suddenly feel great logistical pressure.

Although Xia Fan had not seen Zhao Wei and Liu Yulinglong recently, when he sent a message to them, he did not hear Zhao Wei scolding him very unhappy. Every time he mentioned Liu Xingchen, he did not say a good thing.

In addition, the Holy Dragon Kingdom passed many secret spies who had long sneaked into the surrounding small countries spreading various news that were not conducive to Baishi City, saying that Xia Fan angered the Han Dynasty and would soon be attacked by the Han Dynasty and be completely destroyed only in a short while.

At the same time, many officials in these countries who had been swept by the Han Dynasty began to incite the king to send troops to deal with Baishicheng, which was to gain benefits and show goodwill to the Han Dynasty.

When similar remarks were rampant, some of the kings who only saw small profits were really interested. Some did send troops, but they came under the banner of helping Lan Haolin restore the country, while others simply made it clear that the carriages and horses were going to help the Han Dynasty fight against the rebellion. Some did not dare to directly be enemies with Baishicheng, so they used secret tricks, most of which were to block the border and cut off trade routes.

This made the logistics supply, which was already not very good for Xia Fan's side, suddenly worse. Especially now it is still September, the short autumn of the Lanyu Kingdom is about to pass, and relatively long winter is coming, and there is still a big gap in the winter clothes of the soldiers. If such a problem cannot be solved quickly, when the ice and snow come, it will inevitably cause a large amount of freezing and frostbite, which will make the situation even worse.

In addition to the chaos and complexity of the external situation, there were also many rumors inside Xia Fan's territory.

There are all kinds of rumors. Some say that Xia Fan and the Han Dynasty will inevitably be defeated by the army soon. These words are even more confident that he has seen the army of the Han Dynasty garrisoned on the border. Some people say that Lan Haolin, the king of Lan Yu Kingdom, who is about to be remembered, is still fighting against foreign enemies and has received support from the Shenmu Kingdom. He can quickly turn defeat into victory, thus defeating Xia Fan's army in one fell swoop and then recapturing Lan Yu Kingdom.
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