It was a rough night.

In the early morning, Xie Chengze, who had fallen asleep due to exhaustion, woke up and asked for hot water. He cleaned himself up again and became the regent prince who was full of vigor and self-respect.

His appetite dropped severely, so Xie Chengze tried his best to stuff food into his stomach. He would eat and then vomit, and then eat again.

If Zhu Xiaobiao can endure it, so can he.

Sheng Shihuai just looked at him coldly and sneered, "What's the point of your highness working so hard? If I think about it, all your efforts now will be wasted in an instant."

Xie Chengze gnawed the steamed bun in his hand and gave him a cold look, "You are really annoying, can you please go away? You are affecting my appetite."

Sheng Shihuai shrugged, not caring about his attitude, "Your Highness, you should compromise as soon as possible. You know, if a martial artist takes too much knockout drug, his martial arts skills may be completely lost."

If he continues to be so stubborn, Wuhen and Wuji's martial arts will be wasted.

Xie Chengze finally had the reaction of a normal person. He glared at him angrily, then buried his head and continued to eat. After he finished, he spit it out again. He pushed the leftovers and the plate of vomit in front of Sheng Shihuai and raised his middle finger, which represented good meaning.

"Suck the shit out of you."

Xie Chengze remained tough for another two days.

Finally, he found Sheng Shihuai timidly, bowed his head and compromised, "I think this is not a good way to go."

He took a breath and said seriously, "Let's make peace."

Who is not an emperor? Now that Xie Jinyu has been reborn, it is hard to say whether he is the material to be an emperor.

Sheng Shihuai's political tactics were actually obvious to all. He realized that it was no longer advantageous for him to gain a foothold in the court, so he immediately cut off his tail to survive, and moved from the open to the dark to continue his planning.

In fact, many readers of that novel said that Sheng Shihuai had the potential to be a feudal emperor, but unfortunately, he met the royalist protagonist Shen Yuan.

"I can follow you, but I have a condition." Xie Chengze took a deep breath, "You can take bribes as you wish, but don't use these poisonous incense anymore."

This thing really can't be touched.

Sheng Shihuai raised his eyebrows.

Obviously, she felt that his request was a bit high.

If one wants to rebel with justification, there must be a pretext, either the emperor is a tyrant, or some existence allowed by the court threatens the survival of the people.

He originally thought that he could use the poisonous incense to open a loophole in the imperial court and use the officials to force the emperor to allow the existence of the poisonous incense. When the poisonous incense caused unrest in Jian'an, he would lead his privately-raised soldiers to fight back, kill the tyrant emperor in the name of attacking him, and then issue an order to ban the sale of the poisonous incense.

As for the people who suffered during this period?

No problem.

There will always be new people born.

It was just a small sacrifice for his dynasty.

He will compensate the new people and lead them to witness the true prosperity.

But the little guy in front of him made him give up this path.

Sheng Shihuai's fingers tapped on the table, his drooping eyelashes made it hard to see the emotions in his eyes. He seemed to be really thinking about whether this deal was worth it. After a long while, he raised his eyelids, looked at Xie Chengze and smiled, "Your Highness, what are you going to pay for it?"

Xie Chengze had already thought of a pretext, "Colluding with the Xiongnu, smuggling horses and ironware, and raising private soldiers! When the army is strong, we will use the Xiongnu to attack the palace. When the emperor dies, we will turn against them and kill the Xiongnu, and directly incorporate the prairie into our territory!"

"If you are worried about the lack of food to support the army, I can open up the northeast to become a grain warehouse! You know I have the ability to do this!"

The Northeast not only has coal, but also black soil and oil!

The modern heavy industry development zone is not a joke!

Sheng Shihuai's eyes flashed, obviously tempted.

"You used poisonous incense to infiltrate the imperial court, which is damaging the foundation of the dynasty! Why bother?" Xie Chengze said with great pride, "Instead of harming our own ministers and people, why not use the Xiongnu outside the Great Wall to reap the benefits! Then all internal and external troubles will be eliminated, wouldn't it be a joy!"

Sheng Shihuai was persuaded.

Just as Xie Chengze said, poisonous incense would harm others and not benefit oneself, it would be better to use the Xiongnu outside the Great Wall to secretly kill all the members of the Xie royal family, and then legitimately kill them with the support of all officials.

"If you think smuggling makes too little money and too slow a profit," Xie Chengze began to let himself go, "I have many other ways to make money, such as loan sharking, illegal fundraising, pyramid selling, fraud..."

These were methods that Sheng Shihuai had never heard of.

His eyes slightly changed as he looked at Xie Chengze. He didn't expect that the young man had countless ways to make legitimate money, and his ways to make illegal money were also so alternative and efficient.

It can be both good and evil.

It would be such a pity to kill him, it would be like cutting off one's own leg.

"Your Highness is able to think it through, and I am very pleased." Sheng Shihuai couldn't let go of Xie Chengze. Seeing the young man's proud look, he couldn't help but laugh, with a few traces of grievance in his tone, "I just hope that Your Highness won't lie to me again."

Xie Chengze immediately smiled awkwardly, "Don't mention the past, don't mention the past."

He took a look at Sheng Shihuai's face, and then said, "Why don't we have dinner together tonight? Prepare Lanqiao Fengyue, I'm a little greedy."

He seemed a little embarrassed, raised his hands and folded his arms, looking a little lonely, "Wine can relieve some of the pain."

Tonight is the day when the poison takes effect.

Sheng Shihuai paused, looking at the lingering blue in the young man's eyes and the broken lips that had been bitten and had never healed, and a rare trace of pity arose in his heart.

He nodded, "Okay."

At night, Sheng Shihuai brought two jars of Lanqiao Fengyue. Xie Chengze got a golden wine pot from somewhere, held the jar and poured the wine into it, then poured two glasses of wine in a proper manner.

Sheng Shihuai laughed at him, "Trouble."

He still preferred to pour directly from the wine jar. After all, his aim was good enough and he wasn't afraid of spilling the wine.

Xie Chengze glared at him lightly, "My willingness is worth more than money!"

After saying that, he handed the jade cup filled with wine to Sheng Shihuai.

Sheng Shihuai took the jade cup, but did not drink it. He stared at the glass, not knowing what he was thinking.

Xie Chengze drank it all in one gulp, and seeing that he still didn't drink, he couldn't help but wonder, "What's wrong?"

Sheng Shihuai shook his wine glass without saying anything. Seeing Xie Chengze losing his patience and rolling his eyes, he smiled and said, "Well, are you afraid that His Highness will poison you?"

Xie Chengze: ...

"You're crazy." Xie Chengze snatched his wine glass and drank it all in one gulp. "Is this okay?"

Sheng Shihuai then smiled and watched Xie Chengze pour wine for him. He drank from the rim of the glass that Xie Chengze had just touched.

Xie Chengze: ... "Sheng Shihuai, you are so disgusting."

"Your Highness is so disgusting that he is priceless." Sheng Shihuai sighed.

Xie Chengze: “…”