At that time, Xue Ye just told him vaguely: Sea God Island came to Peak Douluo with unfathomable strength. The other party intended to jointly establish a large-scale duty-free trade zone with the Heaven Dou Empire in Purple Pearl Island, a lawless land, and open up new sea routes.
Now, the other party needs Heaven Dou Empire to contribute money and efforts to build that dilapidated desert island.
In return, Heaven Dou Empire will naturally take this opportunity to establish a substantial interest hub with the mysterious and powerful Sea God Island, thereby using Sea God Island's supreme prestige to deter and compete with the aggressive Spirit Hall.
From Ning Fengzhi's perspective, he has no idea about the real situation of the ocean.
As for the place Purple Pearl Island, in his inherent impression, it was a completely vicious pirate den with no credibility at all!
Even though the opponent was using the banner of Sea God Island, he even showed the overwhelming strength of Peak Douluo.
However, in the face of such a huge investment with only a few empty words and no substantive contractual guarantees, as the helmsman of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, he carefully questioned the risk control and asked the other party to give some specific safety commitments...
Isn't this a normal and responsible business negotiation process?!
What's the result?!
Demon God Douluo clearly explained all these safety cards and sincerity to Xue Ye yesterday!
But Xue Ye deliberately concealed these most critical information, and watched helplessly as he got into trouble like a greedy fool who was always willing to spend money and money in front of that eccentric and powerful man!
What is this?!
Are you using Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as a weapon, or are you just looking at his Ning Fengzhi jokes?!
"Ning Fengzhi, I..." Xue Ye opened his mouth, a trace of embarrassment flashed across his old face, wanting to explain something.
But Ning Fengzhi just looked at him with an extremely cold look. Although his heart was extremely angry, his exquisite heart with seven orifices was spinning very fast.
In just a few breaths, he had roughly guessed the dark and dark calculations in the old emperor's heart.
The emperor's mind, the way of checks and balances!
Xue Ye You are guarding against him!
Sea God Island's thigh was so thick that it made Xue Ye feel deeply afraid and insecure.
The old emperor was not only worried that the powerful Sea God Island would usurp the throne, but he was also worried that Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, who was extremely wealthy and had a huge reputation in Soul Master World, would put aside Heaven Dou Imperial Family and directly wear the same pants as Sea God Island's Demon God Douluo!
If Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect relies on its huge financial resources and chamber of commerce operation capabilities to fight fiercely with Sea God Island, or even join forces...
In this three-party cooperation, Heaven Dou Imperial Family, who is the weakest and has few trump cards, may be completely ignored at any time and reduced to a dispensable puppet!
Therefore, Xue Ye deliberately created such a disgusting information gap!
The purpose is to directly dig a hole for him to Ning Fengzhi jump into at the negotiation table when they first meet.
As soon as he came up, he had a very unpleasant encounter with Demon God Douluo, who hated business politeness and had a domineering personality.
From the very beginning, the senior gave him, Ning Fengzhi, and the entire Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, a negative label in his mind of being "greedy, timid, and always willing to pay for every penny."
In this way, today's extremely bad first impression has been made. Even if Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect really spends a huge amount of money and wants to please and develop further in-depth cooperation with Sea God Island, Demon God Douluo will definitely guard against him and be wary of him!
And as long as Sea God Island does not completely trust Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
In this game facing the powerful Sea God Island and the terrifying ocean, the isolated Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect naturally had to continue to be tied to the same chariot as Heaven Dou Imperial Family and obediently obey the political agenda of Xue Ye.
Otherwise, you will just end up with a person who is not human at both ends!
Although in my heart I have scolded Xue Ye for his dark imperial scheming, Ning Fengzhi is after all the leader of a sect who has been in a high position for a long time and has great power in the city.
He knows very well that it is far from the point of breaking up with the Heaven Dou Imperial Family yet.
Ning Fengzhi closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened his eyes again, the sullenness in his eyes had completely subsided, and he put on the gentle, elegant, yet somewhat alienated mask again.
"Your Majesty, there is no need to say more. What happened today was just too abrupt."
Ning Fengzhi did not try to expose the old emperor's tricks, but bowed slightly, maintaining the most superficial politeness and dignity. "Ning really knows nothing about overseas affairs, which is why he offended the demon senior, and almost missed the important matter of the empire's cooperation with Sea God Island."
"I hope your Majesty can find a suitable opportunity to apologize to Senior Demon God on behalf of someone like Ning and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect."
Ning Fengzhi straightened up and said in a calm tone, "As for the allocation of funds and materials for Purple Pearl Island's construction, we will make arrangements immediately after returning home. We will discuss the specific details another day."
"Farewell."
After saying that, Ning Fengzhi stopped staying, and with Sword Douluo Chen Xin, whose sword energy around his body had not yet completely recovered, turned around and left the imperial study room in large strides.
Seeing Ning Fengzhi's slightly stiff back disappear outside the hall, Xue Ye leaned weakly on the dragon chair and let out a long sigh.
He knew that after what happened today, a deep crack had inevitably appeared in the unbreakable trust between the Heaven Dou Imperial Family and Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
But in order to prevent the imperial power from being completely eliminated in this three-party game, he had no choice.
Walking on the bluestone road leaving Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, there was no one else around except the patrolling guards.
Chen Xin, who had been silent all this time, finally couldn't bear it anymore. He frowned and directly used Sound Transmission's Soul Power voice transmission to ask Ning Fengzhi:
"Fengzhi, Xue Ye, what is that old guy doing so crazy today?! What is he trying to do?"
There was suppressed anger in Chen Xin's voice. "The core information of route safety was deliberately concealed from us, making us Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect look like that in front of that Demon God Douluo He's like a clown who can't get off the stage! Aren't he afraid that what we just said really pissed off Little Monster and completely messed up this important matter related to the fight against the Spirit Hall?!"
"Not to mention!"
Chen Xin recalled the terrifying pressure that made him feel suffocated just now, and said with lingering fear, "That's Level 98 from overseas. Peak Douluo! He has a weird temper and is moody! Xue Ye really pisses him off. If he turns his back on the spot and even kills people directly in the study room... Can his Heaven Dou Imperial Family imperial guards stop him? What kind of unending situation is that?!"
Hearing Chen Xin's voice transmission, Ning Fengzhi shook his head helplessly, with a bitter sneer appearing at the corner of his mouth.
"Uncle Jian, you think Xue Ye is too simple."
Ning Fengzhi also used Soul Power to reply, "The reason why he dared to do this is simply that he was shocked by the absolute strength shown by the demon senior yesterday. He found Sea God Island's thigh is so thick and powerful that it even makes him feel... In this game of poker against the Spirit Hall, our help from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect has actually become 'dispensable'."
"However, he did not dare to completely trust a Sea God Island that was unfamiliar and uncontrollable. Therefore, he had to use huge funds to force us Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect into this overseas game, and let us be the pawns to check and balance Sea God Island and share risks, so as to maintain his Heaven Dou Imperial Family's poor sense of security and political balance."
"As for what you said about messing things up...Xue Ye is very clear about my bottom line and propriety in doing things. He knows that no matter how much I try and ask for security, there is absolutely no way I can act like a shrew and yell at a Peak Douluo in the imperial study room and directly break my skin."
"At most, I just asked some stupid questions because of lack of intelligence, as I did just now, and left a bad impression on the senior that he was greedy, timid and afraid of getting into trouble. But it will never get out of control to the point where everyone can't stand down at the negotiation table, or even get into a fight."
"So, didn't you notice? When the senior demon god was scolding me just now, that old fox Xue Ye was sitting on the throne, but he didn't say a word the whole time, not even a word to smooth things over!"
Ning Fengzhi snorted coldly, "He was just watching the show quietly, watching me lose face and my goodwill in front of this overseas strong man!"
Chen Xin frowned even deeper after hearing this analysis. "Since you have seen through his plan a long time ago, why didn't you expose him face to face just now?!"
"Expose him? Then what?"
Ning Fengzhi stopped and looked up at the sky above Heaven Dou Imperial Palace that was cut into squares by high walls. There was a deep sense of powerlessness in his tone:
"Uncle Jian, let me tell you the most unpleasant truth. Even if today's matter really comes to an end because of Xue Ye's calculations, is it possible that we Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect can immediately turn against us and completely draw a clear line with the Heaven Dou Imperial Family?"
Ning Fengzhi turned his head, looked at Chen Xin, and said with a bitter smile, "No way!"
"Now that Spirit Hall is gaining momentum, their butcher's knife may fall at any time. In this precarious situation, Heaven Dou Imperial Family and us, Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, are like two dead trees tied to each other in the strong wind. We rely on each other and hold each other together for warmth. At this critical moment of life and death, no one can truly leave the other!"
Ning Fengzhi withdrew his gaze and continued to walk forward. His back looked a little desolate:
"So, even if I am like Ming Jing in my heart and have clearly seen this disgusting emperor's plan, I can only pretend to be stupid and choose to swallow this bad breath tacitly."
"After all, breaking up now will not do any good to any of us except for making Spirit Hall laugh."