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Chapter 861 Heaven-Bestowed
Sheng Hualan is now more than three months pregnant, so it is naturally no longer suitable for her to stay by Suning's side and serve him. The reason why Suning asked Sheng Hong to go to Youyang to pick up Sheng Shulan was that he wanted to see what the mentality of Sheng Hong, who had no bottom line, was. In addition, he really had not figured out how to use him for the time being.

Sheng Hong's personal talents are quite good, but he has always been cautious and timid. He is afraid of wolves in front and tigers behind when doing things. He will never be able to become a high-ranking official or a prime minister in his lifetime, so how to use Sheng Hong specifically is also a headache for Suning.

"Your Highness, this is my niece Sheng Shulan. The Sheng family has brought some gifts to congratulate Your Highness on receiving the emperor's decree to confer the title." Soon, Sheng Hong returned to Jiangning Mansion with a boat full of generous gifts, and then pointed to a girl next to him and introduced her to Su Ning.

"Lord Sheng, you have done very well this time. It seems that I will really consider re-employing you." Su Ning was very satisfied with Sheng Hong's attitude at this time. He knew what to arrange Sheng Hong to do.

"Your Highness, as long as I can serve you, it will be my blessing." At this time, Sheng Hong looked at Su Ning with a flattering face and said.

"Lord Sheng, I'm sure you should have noticed long ago that this former Jiangning Prefecture government office is far too small and unsuitable for the future Prince Ning's Palace. Therefore, I order you to immediately find a suitable site to build the new Prince Ning's Palace."

"Yes! Your Highness, I will start looking up information and inviting Feng Shui experts. How about expanding it on the site of the former Southern Tang Imperial Palace?" Sheng Hong immediately accepted the appointment with surprise and also put forward his own suggestion.

"No! It's too unlucky." Suning refused without thinking. The name of the group Hou Tang was really too unlucky.

"Your Highness, Jiangning Prefecture conflicts with your name. I suggest we return to the old city of Jinling." Seeing that his first suggestion was rejected, Sheng Hong quickly talked about another matter, which showed that he was very motivated now.

"Well, you can! But it's not appropriate now. After all, we can't stimulate the emperor and the eunuchs in Bianjing too much." Su Ning was also a little surprised by Sheng Hong's high enthusiasm at this time, and then he patiently explained it a little more.

"Yes! Your Majesty."

"Go! You must choose the most suitable location. After all, this concerns the fate of our Daning nation."

"Yes! Your Majesty, I will definitely do it properly."

"Well, Madam Hua will come back to visit the Sheng family the day after tomorrow. Lord Sheng might as well go home and make some preparations first." Then Su Ning instructed Sheng Hualan about her upcoming visit to the Sheng family to visit relatives.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your mercy."

Seeing Sheng Hong complete the task he assigned to him so exceptionally well, Suning knew that this guy was determined to follow him, so he naturally gave him the most important task of building the Prince Ning's Mansion. After all, this guy was indeed very cautious in doing things, and would not do the kind of reckless things that Su Ning was worried about.

After Sheng Hong happily left the temporary Prince Ning's Mansion, Su Ning looked at the uneasy Sheng Shulan beside him. He felt that the sixteen-year-old Sheng Shulan looked much plumper. Perhaps her figure had always been quite hot since she was a child. "Lift your head."

"Yes! Your Highness." Sheng Shulan, who was about to bloom, raised her head slowly and shyly. Just as she met Su Ning's fiery gaze, she couldn't help but lower her head shyly again. She looked like a frightened little white rabbit.

Su Ning smiled slightly and lifted Sheng Shulan's chin with his finger. Only then did he see clearly the girl who looked like Zhang Hanyun. "Are you afraid of me?"

"Ah? Shulan doesn't have it."

"Oh?" Su Ning picked up the frightened Sheng Shulan with a wicked smile, and then walked straight into the inner bedroom of the temporary Prince Ning's Mansion.

"Ah..." Sheng Shulan screamed at this moment. Naturally, she knew what was going to happen next. She closed her eyes in panic and anticipation and said, "Prince, please have mercy on Shulan."

Sheng Shulan had naturally been informed by her mother of what was going to happen next, but she did not expect it to happen so soon. Originally, Sheng Shulan closed her eyes and thought that Su Ning would be very rude, but slowly she found that Su Ning was gentle beyond her imagination. She could not help but reveal a look of joy and relief. After all, she was also worried about meeting a frivolous person.

Two or three hours later, looking at the young man sleeping next to her, Sheng Shulan smiled sweetly and kissed him. She felt that she had become the most perfect woman this time. She also decided in her heart that no matter how many women Su Ning had in the future, she would never change her mind about the man next to her.

"What's wrong? Are you hungry? Why don't you rest?" Su Ning, who was woken up by Sheng Shulan, turned around and looked at her in confusion and asked.

"Your Majesty, Shulan just wants to look at you quietly."

"Haha, there will be plenty of time to see me later, don't rush it now."

"My Lord, will you always be so compassionate to Shulan?"

"Of course! As long as you behave yourself, I will continue to love you as always."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Shulan, then we will..."

"what"

This is not the first time that Suning has traveled to ancient times, but he is still not used to the "waist-length hair" of the ancients. If he does not wash his hair for three days, he will feel smelly all over. Therefore, Suning asks his maids to wash his hair every day. Naturally, he also thought about shaving his hair into the short and messy hair of later generations, but this is an era that emphasizes "the body and hair are inherited from parents", and sometimes he really can't be too unconventional.

Naturally, his personal maids could not be only the two sisters of the Sheng family. The wealthy families in Yangzhou City and Jiangning Prefecture would naturally offer many beauties to Su Ning. Washing his hair while surrounded by beauties was a very enjoyable thing. Then Su Ning's big hands began to touch him randomly, teasing the maids who had not been favored by Su Ning and made them scream.

"Ah, Prince!" A personal maid cried out repeatedly while dodging Suning's clutches, feeling that the Prince Ning in front of her was too evil.

"Haha, help me dry my hair quickly. I have to go out to greet our guests." Suning slapped the maid's butt hard with a funny look, and then urged the maid.

"Yes! Your Majesty."

Soon the maids helped Su Ning dry his wet hair, and then put a bun on his hair in the style of an ancient handsome man. Then they helped Su Ning put on the royal robes of a county prince bestowed by the Song Dynasty government. So the old emperor of Bianjing was very stingy. He only conferred the title of a county prince on Su Ning, a first-rank title, when there were two higher titles above it: the heir king of the first rank and the king of the first rank.

First, he looked through a large ancient bronze mirror and saw a handsome man who made even he himself drool. Only then did Su Ning walk out of the inner chamber of the temporary Ning Prince's Mansion with satisfaction, and then came to the main hall of the temporary Ning Prince's Mansion to entertain the guests who came from Bian Jing. "My dear, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for so long!"

"Ah? Your Highness Prince Ning, I dare not." Prime Minister Shen hurriedly pretended to salute. Everyone knew that he was known as an old fox in the court.

"Haha, Mr. Shen, we are already acquaintances, so let's not worry about so many formalities. Please take a seat!" "Thank you, Your Highness Prince Ning."

"Shen Da Xianggong, I have arranged for the Ningyuan Army to organize a military parade tomorrow. It would be a good opportunity for you to take a look and give me some advice."

"Military parade?" Lord Shen looked at Suning in front of him with a twinkling eye, realizing that this unfamiliar term must be very complicated.

"Exactly! Then, my Lord, you can experience for yourself the sharpness of our Ningyuan Army's firearms, and when you return to Bianjing, you can also take a ride on our ironclad ship."

"Thank you, King Ning! I will be honored to decline your offer."

Grand Chancellor Shen naturally knew that Suning wanted to show off his martial arts to him and the Song Dynasty court, but the Grand Chancellors in Bianjing and the old emperor were indeed very curious, so they naturally accepted Suning's arrangement without any hesitation. "Your Highness Prince Ning, I'm not sure if I should ask you something?"

"Mr. Shen, please speak." Su Ning nodded indifferently.

"Your Highness Prince Ning, I have witnessed you growing up with my own eyes. You were just a playful boy in Bian Jing. Why did you choose to rebel against the court when you came to Yangzhou?" At this time, Prime Minister Shen finally couldn't help but ask the biggest question.

"Haha, Lord Shen, were the entire Gu family of Ningyuan Marquis executed?" Su Ning looked at Lord Shen and asked instead of answering.

"You" Lord Shen was immediately stunned by Su Ning's question. There have always been rumors in Bian Jing that Su Ning chose to rebel in order to have the Gu family wiped out. It seems that the rumors in Bian Jing are not without basis.

"My dear, perhaps in your eyes the affairs of the former dynasty and the empire are the most important, but the struggles within the inner chambers and among the women that you cannot see are no less dangerous than those on the battlefield. Many high-ranking officials in Bianjing have been murdered due to their lax household management."

"Hmph! The three members of the Gu family have been imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison. His Majesty has no time to deal with them at the moment. When I return to the capital this time, I can report to the emperor and pardon them."

"No thanks! I have to repay this favor and the emperor's grace in the end. It's really not worth it." At this time, Su Ning decisively rejected the proposal of Prime Minister Shen, and would rather let the Gu family be imprisoned forever.

"Huh? Prince Ning, Marquis Gu and the others are your closest relatives?" Seeing Su Ning openly rejecting and disliking the Gu family, Lord Shen was a little bit confused.

"Master Shen, the Gu family has already expelled me from the family tree. I heard that even my biological mother, Bai, was not spared. Naturally, I no longer have any connection with the Gu family."

"Ah? This"

"Also, my real name is now Suning, and the emperor has given me the title of Zhao Ning. Naturally, there is no Gu Tingye in this world."

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In fact, the reason why Great Prime Minister Shen came to Jiangning Mansion on his own initiative this time was to help ease the relationship between Suning and Ningyuan Hou Gu's family. After all, Suning only needed to ask the emperor to pardon the Gu family. It was a pity that Suning had a deep resentment towards Ningyuan Hou Gu's family, and the emperor and great prime ministers in Bianjing chose to ignore the Gu family in the Sky Prison, so these people in the Gu family might still be very miserable in the future.

"Prince Ning, since you have accepted the title bestowed by the emperor and the court, you should stop attacking other places in Jiangnan as soon as possible. The emperor and the court are extremely angry now." Seeing that Su Ning did not want to talk about the Gu family's private affairs, Prime Minister Shen informed him of the emperor and the court's requirements for the Ningyuan Army.

"My Lord, let's make a compromise. All military affairs south of the Yangtze River will be assigned to me. Next, I will destroy the Dali and Jiaozhi Kingdoms. I believe the Song Dynasty will support us."

"What? Destroy Dali and Jiaozhi?" Lord Shen immediately widened his eyes in shock, feeling that Su Ning in front of him was too presumptuous.

"That's right! Shulan, bring me the map." Su Ning smiled noncommittally at first, then gave instructions to Sheng Shulan who was standing beside him.

"Yes! Your Majesty."

Soon, Sheng Shulan produced Su Ning's map, and Su Ning slowly unfolded it under the astonished gaze of Grand Chancellor Shen. "Grand Chancellor Shen, please look! This is a map of Jiangnan that I commissioned. My Ningyuan Army is preparing to attack Dali and Jiaozhi by sea and land. We must eradicate these two pseudo-regimes."

"Prince Ning, the Ningyuan Army is indeed confident." Minister Shen could only say this sentence after holding it in for a long time. He felt that the young man in front of him must have gone crazy, because he knew Dali's strength clearly.

"Haha, in the eyes of our Ningyuan Army, all enemies are just chickens and dogs."

"Okay! Your Highness, Prince Ning, I will speak to Guan Jiaxiang when I return to Bianjing. So please temporarily stop attacking Song territory."

"Yes! Next, the Ningyuan Army also needs to intensify its preparations for war. Although Dali and Jiaozhi are both very weak, we must remember that even a lion will use all its strength to fight a rabbit."

"Ugh." Looking at Su Ning who was pretending to be so powerful in front of him, Shen Da Xianggong wanted to smash Su Ning's head with a teacup. It took him a long time to calm down his depression. "Prince Ning, since you have become a registered prince of the Song Dynasty, you naturally need to consider the matter of the princess."

"Huh? Isn't this something the emperor and the court need to consider? They say parents' orders are final, matchmaker's words are final. Since the emperor and the queen are my adoptive father and mother, then let them consider this matter."

"Prince Ning, aren't you worried that the emperor and the queen will choose an ugly one for you?" Seeing that Su Ning was so indifferent to the princess's affairs, Lord Shen felt a little confused at this time.

"Is it important? Right now, I just want to quickly destroy Dali and Jiaozhi, and then head north to fight against the Liao and Xixia. You know, my Song Dynasty has been frustrated for too long, and the people of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun have also been waiting for too long."

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Looking at the high-spirited and brave young man in front of him, Lord Shen, who was used to the ways of the world and had experienced many vicissitudes of life, couldn't help but feel confused. This was not the unruly and dissolute young man in his impression. Of course, he came to Jiangning Mansion this time to inspect Su Ning with his own eyes, but the actual result shocked Lord Shen.

"Prince Ning, could you tell me how you obtained those powerful firearms and large iron ships? You should know that the imperial court does not believe that they can be obtained by sea transportation alone." Then, Great Prime Minister Shen forced himself to restrain his inner restlessness, and looked at Su Ning in front of him with some doubt and asked.

"It's a gift from heaven." Suning looked at Mr. Shen in front of him with a smug look on his face and explained.

"what?"

(End of this chapter)