35 Strategy against the northern coalition first half (2/2)
”You, You already knew?”
Zhu Wushang chuckles a little.
”No father-in-law, I didn't know anything beforehand, That's why I ask you all those questions. Therefore what I will say next is my hypothesis if there's anything that's not making any sense, Please tell me.”
Zhu Wushang going to speak but he just making a face like he just remembers something important.
”Oh! How rude of me. Please sit.” He produces the chair and table set of a tea ceremony from his storage ring and places it on the floor.
”I'll prepare the best tea I had in my stock for all of you. Lan'er, please entertain our In-law for a moment.”
Zhu Wushang then goes to prepare some tea at the corner with the tea brewing set. His tea brewing set is unlike any other tea set that people would see in regular days his teapot made from some unknown metal that sent sweet tea aroma around the room.
Unlike any other tea, this tea also has a sweet fragrance with a strong spirit qi densely concentrated on its aromatic fragrance alone.
In a moment the tea is finish. When Zhu Wushang slowly pours the tea into a white porcelain teacup set the sweet aromatic fragrance made all the people in the room gulping their saliva except Tian Xiulan because she already tasted it when she's alone with Zhu Wushang at night back then in the Zhu manor.
He serves the tea to Zhu Yinbing first then the emperor and empress which is his father and mother-in-law, then Tian Xiulan and to both of his servant Fatty and Azanah.
When they first tasted the tea the spirit qi in their spirit pool stir and benefit from it, their eye opens wide in shock. This tea is a supreme grade spirits tea!
”Ok, I'll continue from Where I left off” Zhu Wushang don't wait for them about this tea origin that he got from the Black merchant home back then. He starts to explain his hypothesis.
”Duke Tian Dong is someone who had great influence, He had the connection with the upper realm, He had spies all over the empire a lot of them even held some important position within the court, And he also can manipulate the northern barbarian to attack the great Phoenix empire. And he was hell-bent on destroying this empire.”
He spoke until now and looking at the emperor who has some sweat on his face. He suspects that the reason why Duke Tian Dong is hell-bent on destroying this empire is the secret of the nation and might be a taboo topic if he asks, so he deliberately ignores it.
”If I knew the reason why he's like this I would come up with more plan that I can deal with him, but unfortunately I don't.” He tells the Emperor in a roundabout way that he's not going to ask, but he might not come up with the most effective method to deal with this Duke Tian Dong.
”First, the northern barbarian outside of their food problem that they'd let the border town survive their raid is to leave them to do the farming, and they would come back to plunder them.”
”Second, They might possibly get manipulate by Duke Tian Dong in to believe that we are some kind of antagonist in their perspective. Duke Tian Dong might send someone to do the audacious thing within their border. This is the reason why they are so pissed and destroy some of the border towns including its garrison troops in revenge.”
”These two problems, I have the effective solution for that. But you must kill or send your military advisor team away first. It's no use if we had the solution to this problem in the morning and Duke Tian Dong knows it in the afternoon.” He straightly tells his suspicious to the military advisor team of his father-in-law.
”You mean…”
Zhu Wushang nodded and tell the Emperor the truth.
”Yes, Your military advisor team might have some spies. This might include everyone that knew about the attack plan and deployment plan of my mother and Lan'er. Otherwise those bastard from upper realm can't set the correct formation to fight against both of them in advance.”
This hypothesis of his made the emperor can't breathe loudly it's not feeling good at all because of his ignorance might cost him his daughter and his Grand General, He's underestimate the connection of Duke Tian Dong too much.
But he still doesn't want to believe it that the people whose hand pick by him would betray him.