"What? The Land of Light has surrendered? They are coming toward our Great Xia Empire?"

Great Xia Empire.

Imperial Capital.

Within the Imperial City, Han Xu Yang was shocked and suddenly stood up.

Then he slowly sat back on the throne, surprisingly not with joy, but rather with a look of bewilderment and helplessness.

He murmured in confusion, "This... what should I do, I... I suddenly became the Master of Blue Star? I... I am not mentally prepared yet..."

Isn't it true?

Hardly anything was done.

The Baoxue Empire fell, and the Secret Realm has almost become a branch of the Great Xia Empire...

It has been completely conquered by Xu Lingjun, especially after Han Xu Yang learned that the previous Master of the Secret Realm was female, Han Xu Yang had a completely affirmative and determined attitude towards this.

In this regard, Han Xu Yang can completely say goodbye to Guo Zheng.

And now.

The Land of Light has actually officially submitted a document of surrender to the Great Xia Empire?

They even opened permissions, allowing Great Xia Empire's forces to enter?

Of course...

This move does indeed have the suspicion of letting the Great Xia Empire take the bullet for them, but it also means that the Land of Light has completely opened the last trace of defense against the Great Xia Empire. As long as the Great Xia Empire is willing, they can hold them down and crush them a hundred times over whenever they want.

And although they permit it, whether they send troops is another matter.

In any case, the Great Xia Empire has now completely dominated Blue Star.

Humanity... finally achieved unification.

Such a grand good thing.

Yet Han Xu Yang was a bit dumbfounded.

He knows himself well and knows his own level... adequate for maintaining peace, lacking for expansion.

As a result, he inexplicably sat in this position, but this position is really too much for him to handle.

His talent does not match his position, and coupled with the reason why the Secret Realm and the Land of Light surrendered, others may not know, but he clearly does, right?

It's beyond explaining with weak monarch, strong ministers... this minister has already grown to hold territory three times the land of the monarch.

This is not a good thing.

"Qingxue."

He suddenly called out.

"What's wrong, Father?"

Han Qingxue looked at Han Xu Yang's calm face in surprise, feeling that she couldn't see the slightest bit of joy on his face.

"I remember Xu Lingjun, Sir Xu has a father, right?"

"Yes, he does, his name is Wang Tiancheng, who is now the richest man in our Great Xia."

Han Qingxue thought for a moment and said, "Oh yes, he's now the richest in Blue Star. He previously developed a large number of oil fields and gold mines in the Baoxue Empire, earning a lot of money. According to our Great Xia tradition, the rights of each citizen overseas will be maintained, so they are allowed to purchase land insurance. If anything happens to their overseas lands, our Great Xia Empire will negotiate with the Baoxue Empire and the Land of Light. If we can't protect their legitimate rights, they are compensated tenfold based on the land's value!"

Han Xu Yang: "So..."

"The Baoxue Empire has now completely fallen into a dead land, and Mr. Wang bought the highest spec of land insurance. We can't help them reclaim the land, so we have to compensate him tenfold in profits."

Han Qingxue, a bit troubled, gently scratched her temple and said, "In fact, the output of that gold mine and the oil field ranks in the whole Baoxue Empire. With tenfold compensation... during this time busy with developing the Secret Realm, coupled with the war expenses, our Great Xia Empire simply doesn't have that much money..."

"Then... what then?"

Han Qingxue said, "Mr. Wang is not only the richest man on Blue Star but also theoretically our Great Xia Empire's creditor. To pay off this debt with principal and interest, it might take another twenty years."

Han Xu Yang suddenly clutched his chest in pain.

A look of speechlessness appeared on his face.

This war wealth... who could have imagined, the Baoxue Empire was destroyed, mysterious races of the heavens invaded.

In the end, the only benefactor turned out to be a businessman?

Why does it feel like he anticipated a war outbreak in the Baoxue Empire years ago, so he laid his chess pieces there in advance?

Curse it...

If it were any other minister, this debt... he could always find a way to dodge it.

After all, possessing too much wealth is a crime; if you know some rules, these ministers would find an appropriate reason to cancel the debt by themselves, and can win the favor and friendship of the Imperial Family. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Yet this Wang Tiancheng's son... right, his daughter-in-law is also quite remarkable; it's said she's doing exceptionally well at the branch of the Zhanzheng Academy, and once back, can inherit the position of the Pavilion Master of the Zhanzheng Academy.

The son is of a different surname, and the daughter-in-law shares the same surname, this family is truly peculiar.

He painfully gasped for a while before realizing he seemed off-topic.

He took a sip of tea to calm his agitated mood and asked, "What I actually want to ask is not this. I heard Xu Qing has severed the father-son relationship with Wang Tiancheng?"

"No, not really, just for some reason, since a certain day two years ago, he stopped calling Mr. Wang his father and started calling him Uncle Wang."

Han Qingxue said, "I have a good relationship with Xu Lingjun's confidante, Su Huanqing, and during our chats, I learned something... Mr. Wang was quite hurt over this, but Commander Xu's explanation was that he wanted to protect him and didn't want to hurt him."