After leaving Yuan Tiangang’s home, Qin Mubai went straight to Wu Meiniang’s residence in the city.

This used to be the residence of Crown Prince Chahar Mon of Kang. After the prince was killed in the rebellion, the New Moon Queen set aside a large sum of money to renovate the building in accordance with the architectural style of the Great Tang Dynasty, and then rewarded it to Wu Meiniang as the official of her first assistant minister.

The Crown Prince’s mansion was already incomparably magnificent and luxurious. After the renovation, it was like a palace of the Great Tang. It was magnificent and amazing, and it was the most eye-catching building in the city built by Samuel.

Qin Mubai chose a hundred confidant soldiers from the Yi Manor’s Snow Condor Army and sent them to serve as guards for Wu Meiniang. Now, they had become Wu Meiniang’s retainers and personal guards, guarding her safety at any time. With Su Dingfang’s troops stationed outside the city and guards protecting Wu Meiniang, Qin Mubai was relieved to leave Samojian.

The current Wu Meiniang was no longer a merchant girl, but the prime minister of the Great Tang Empire, and she would become the king of Zhaowu Kingdom in the near future. As the feudal marshal of the Tang Dynasty, it was reasonable for Qin Mubai to give her a guard.

When Qin Mubai arrived, Wu Meiniang was meeting with a few City Lords who had come to bid farewell in the official’s office. Qin Mubai did not alarm them. Instead, he quietly entered and sat alone to drink tea. After a long time, it was already late. Wu Meiniang sent these noble city masters away. Only then did she know that Qin Mubai had arrived and hurriedly came to see him.

“Mother Mei, I’m here to say goodbye.” Qin Mubai said.

“I know.” Wu Meiniang, who had worked hard all day, sat down opposite him and heaved a sigh of relief. “I’m really tired! Actually, I really want to go back to the Central Plains with you. I miss mother and child very much.”

“Even if we just opened a restaurant, it’s still very tiring, let alone building a state?” Qin Mubai smiled and said, “Mother Mei, you are really capable. If it were me, I would be too busy.”

“How can I be as capable as you?” Wu Meiniang also smiled and said, “The Anxi Protectorate and the nine Governor-General’s Mansions have all been newly established, but you can still talk properly in your spare time, and your subordinates will be able to handle all of them for you. You, the Protector-General, are really easy to handle!”

“Why don’t we swap?” Qin Mubai smiled.

“Stop!” Wu Meiniang laughed angrily, and her expression immediately dimmed. She whispered, “Mubai, we’ve been together for a few years. Now that we’ve just reunited a few days, you’re leaving again. Samuel Jian is more than 12,000 miles away from Chang’an. It’ll take him more than half a year to walk back and forth. I wonder when we’ll meet again.”

Qin Mubai held her hand and smiled, “Today’s separation is also for the sake of staying together forever. Trust me, I will definitely come back as soon as possible. And when I return, I will bring all the family members back. At that time, we will be able to reunite as a family and never leave each other again!”

“Mm” Wu Meiniang nodded softly and said with a faint sadness, “I miss our child so much. He was only one year old and I left him …”

“Don’t worry, with Chen Yan and the Tantai sisters taking care of him, Ying’er will be fine. Next time I come, I will bring him over.” Qin Mubai suddenly thought of a question, “Oh right, you don’t want Ying’er to become the future Crown Prince of Zhaowu Kingdom, do you?”

Wu Meiniang blinked her eyes and smiled craftily. “Don’t tell me you don’t want to? The current Zhaowu Kingdom is different from the Kangju Kingdom. Even the City Lord is hereditary, let alone the King.”

“Then … that won’t do!” ‘”Ying’er is my eldest son. He will inherit my title and family business in the Great Tang in the future!” Qin Mubai purposely said with a stiff face.

“You are not ordinary, and you have learned the tricks of the old masters of the Central Plains? Don’t forget, you are a concubine of the Qin Family, humph!” Wu Meiniang chuckled, “Besides, you’re thinking too far. Shouldn’t we just have another child? Why don’t we let Little Lou’er succeed me as the second Queen of the Great Zhaowu Kingdom in the future? They’re all family anyway, and the Great Tang of the Central Plains doesn’t pay as much attention to bloodline descent as the Great Tang of the Central Plains.”

“Haha! You’re already thinking of establishing the Crown Prince before you can become the king of Zen. This is outrageous!” Qin Mubai laughed loudly. Suddenly, his expression changed. He looked at Wu Meiniang in a daze, “What did you just say?”

“What did I say?”

“You say … we have another child?” Qin Mubai stared at Wu Meiniang and said, “How about now? When I come back from the Central Plains, I’ll have another son!”

“Bah, what do you think I am?” Wu Meiniang was both angry and funny, “Stop messing around. I have something to tell you.”

“Then say it! After that … we’ll have a son!”

“Be serious!” Wu Meiniang glared at him angrily and said, “Today, the Queen gathered all the City Lords and officials to discuss business. She said that Zhaowu Kingdom is new and must send people to the Central Plains to pay respects to the Emperor of the Great Tang Sect. We all agree that in order to express our sincerity and respect, it would be better for the Queen to go personally.”

“Yes, that’s right. There are many precedents for kings of the kingdom to go to the Great Tang to receive the title of Heavenly Khan.” Qin Mubai nodded. “However, if you want to accompany me, it would be inconvenient! First of all, I am the leader of the army, so the journey is not easy. I’m afraid that I can’t take care of the Queen. Furthermore, the situation in the Great Tang is troublesome, so it’s not suitable for the Queen to enter the capital at this time.”

“That’s true” Wu Meiniang nodded. “Then what do you plan to do?”

Qin Mubai thought for a moment and said, “When the time is ripe, I’ll send someone to welcome the Queen and escort her all the way to Chang’an Mian Sheng.”

Wu Meiniang suddenly smiled. Her smile was not mysterious, and there was even a bit of contempt.

“What are you laughing at?” Qin Mubai rolled her eyes with a confused expression.

“I said you, you really can put on airs!” Wu Meiniang mocked, “Pearl is willing to travel with you all the way because she wants to spend more time with you.” Of course, it’s also intentional to free up time and space so that I can slowly take over all the real power of Zhaowu Kingdom. When she returned, the time for abdication would probably be ripe. “This is a public and private policy. Why are you pretending to be in front of me?”

Qin Mubai chuckled, “Aren’t I afraid that you won’t be happy?”

“Forget it. I’ve been used to it for so many years and I’ve thought about it.” Wu Meiniang helplessly shook her head and smiled, “Even if you don’t have Mingzhu accompanying you, aren’t you still playing around on the road?” If you can’t hold back your loneliness and provoke a few more girls into the door, wouldn’t I get even more headaches? Rather than that, why don’t you let Mingzhu accompany you? … No matter what, she treats me very well, just like a biological sister. Although I know that she is not Yao’er, I often feel that she is Yao’er. They were just as gentle and kind, generous and selfless. Mubai, take it as helping her! “She is really tired of sitting on that throne every day, feeling terrified.”

Qin Mubai smiled and said, “So there really are people in this world who look down on fame and wealth like clouds. Mingzhu’s personality really resembles Yao’er …” “Did I have the nerve to refuse even if you said that? Alright, I’ll personally enter the city tomorrow to welcome the Queen’s Treasure Carriage to the Central Plains together!”

“Alright.” Wu Meiniang nodded and smiled contemptuously, “Looking at you pretending to be reluctant, you really deserve to be scolded! Do you think I don’t know that you’re already in high spirits?-You unscrupulous lackeys!”

“Haha!–Have you finished? The lackeys are going to have a son with you!”

…

The next morning, Qin Mubai, dressed in military uniform, led a hundred men to the Kang Kingdom’s palace to welcome the Queen of Zhaowu Kingdom, Mian Sheng, to Chang’an.

Mingzhu had already made all the preparations and was waiting in the palace. Along with nearly a thousand guards of Gong E and various craftsmen and servants accompanying her, she brought along a large number of treasures from the Western Regions to the Great Tang as a gift to the Emperor of the Great Tang. Just these precious and exotic treasures alone contained more than a hundred cars. The Queen’s Pearl was also dressed up. The Divine Pattern Shadow Robe Golden Crown Scepter was graceful, dignified, and holy. It had a unique charm.

Even though Qin Mubai had seen the pearl many times since that night, she had only seen it in public and never interacted with it privately. When Mingzhu left the palace and boarded the car, she put her hand on Qin Mubai’s wrist and looked at him deeply. She even used some dark force to pinch Qin Mubai’s elbow.

Qin Mubai’s heart skipped a beat. Was he blaming me for neglecting her? … Well, along the way, I have to offer some Yin Qing. I do seem a little emotionless. Although more than half of her commitment was for political reasons, she, a Muslim, had always been under great secular pressure, and she was Yao’er’s sister …

“Alright, let’s not talk about Yao’er for now!” Qin Mubai thought to himself, “I promised her that I would treat her well. It has nothing to do with Yao’er, let alone treat her as a substitute for Yao’er. This kind of thing is extremely unfair to anyone!”

The Queen’s convoy left the palace and headed out of the city. Hundreds of thousands of people in the city cheered, and their momentum shook the heavens.

In the eyes of the people of the nine kingdoms, the unification of the nine kingdoms was indeed a great thing. However, establishing diplomatic relations with the Great Tang was of even greater significance. This meant that Zhaowu Kingdom had the greatest backing from now on, and could enjoy eternal peace and stability.

That was why hundreds of thousands of people had sent the New Moon Queen off to pay their respects to Khan in the Great Tang.

Outside the city, Qin Mubai had already assembled his men and was ready to leave. After Su Dingfang’s troops returned from the Sam River, Qin Mubai had reorganized his troops and the troops left behind in Bow Moon City. Apart from allocating a portion of the troops to the nine governors, Qin Mubai now had an army of 300,000!

This included the troops that Su Dingfang had brought out and the 200,000 troops that Qin Mubai had personally led to the expedition to Guanxi Army, as well as the troops that had been recruited from the tribes of the Western Turkic Tribes of the Northern and Southern Tribes and the Hu Lu Tribe, and a small number of the chiefs of the nine Zhaowu countries who had sent cavalry to Dawan for the sake of giving them good horses. Originally, there were nearly 500,000 people!

This force, along with Pang Fei’s remaining troops in Lanzhou, was close to the combined forces of the Tang Dynasty and the Central Plains!

This was a little sensational.

As a result, Qin Mubai had greatly reduced the number of his troops. Currently, out of his 300,000 troops, more than 60% were elite cavalry. Most of them were originally Guanxi Army’s elite Yue cavalry and nomadic cavalry. They were extremely mobile and their combat strength was quite formidable!

Once, Qin Mubai thought that when he came to the Western Regions, he would fight against Ni Shuchuo, who was known as the War God of the Western Regions, in an unprecedented battle. He hadn’t expected that he would be so vulnerable.

This has proved that times have changed, and that Guanxi Army has inadvertently grown stronger than it used to be. Qin Mubai once thought that if he were to fight against Gaer Qinling’s Kunlun Cavalry with his own strength, his chances of winning would increase by at least 30%!

Unfortunately, such an idea was meaningless. Right now, Qin Mubai felt that Gaer Qinling had died too early, giving him the feeling of being a “lonely expert”.

The Tang army and the Crescent Moon Queen’s ceremonial battles began to move towards the northeast. The first stop was Bow Moon City. There, Xue Rengui had already organized her troops to join forces with Qin Mubai and return to Lanzhou. Incidentally, Qin Mubai could also test how well the Anxi Protectorate in Gongyue City was being built. Former Nanting Khan Bo Bu and Field Marshal Ni Shuchuo were invited by Qin Mubai to temporarily administer the Turkic lands. Now, they would also follow Qin Mubai to the Central Plains to receive the official pardon from Great Tang Tian Khan.

The days of marching were boring and exhausting. Fortunately, there were quite a few capable subordinates who helped Qin Mubai share most of the military affairs, so they weren’t burdened.

As for the leisure time, Qin Mubai spent it in the New Moon Queen’s boudoir.

Facts had proved that a woman like Mingzhu was like an iceberg on the outside and a blazing fire on the inside. When she wore the Queen’s robe and veil to cover her face, everyone seemed to be unparalleled and holy. They could only watch from afar and not play with her. No matter who she was with on any occasion, she would always be Wen Xiwan’s reserved self.

However, after the night she lingered with Qin Mubai and pierced through the window paper, it was as if she was a different person in private. She was as passionate to Qin Mubai as paint, like all first love girls. Her heart was completely on Qin Mubai and she forgot herself.

Especially since she had married a long time ago, but had always been a widow. Now that she had first tasted the fragrance of human flesh, the desire and passion in her bed surged, causing Qin Mubai to be greatly shocked!

He really answered that sentence. He was a noble woman when he went out, and a prostitute when he went to bed.

At this time, Qin Mubai had no choice but to praise Wu Meiniang for her “wisdom”. She always thought to herself, “With the Pearl by my side, even if I have the heart, I can’t go outside to look for flowers and willows anymore!”

Therefore, Qin Mubai’s journey home this time was brilliant and boundless, all the way fragrant and romantic.