Upon hearing this, the minister immediately guessed whom he meant and asked with a frown, "Eunuch Mo, do you mean the Empress Dowager?"
Eastern Lin's Empress Dowager was the birth mother of both the sovereign and the princess, making her Xia Siheng's maternal grandmother.
Back then, the person the Empress Dowager had doted on most was Xia Siheng's birth mother, the Little Princess of Eastern Lin's Imperial House.
The Little Princess must have missed her mother terribly as well.
And because of his birth mother, Xia Siheng also held familial affection for their Empress Dowager. They could absolutely use her to force Xia Siheng to withdraw his troops!
"Precisely, the Empress Dowager." Eunuch Mo arched his brows and looked at the Ruler of Eastern Lin.
His expression was coy, carrying a faint trace of coquettish charm.
The Ruler of Eastern Lin withdrew his hand with a dark expression and shot Eunuch Mo an impatient glare. Before he could speak, another elderly minister rebutted the suggestion.
Grand Tutor Peng said coldly, "What sort of rotten idea is this? She is our Empress Dowager of East Lin! We can offer up anything, but we must never lose our dignity. How is your proposal any different from trampling the Imperial Family's honor into the dirt?"
"What will others say of East Lin? That because we cannot defeat Great Xia, we are using our nation's Empress Dowager as a bargaining chip? And where would that leave His Majesty's reputation?"
Once Grand Tutor Peng spoke, the other ministers joined in a chorus of objections.
They knew nothing of the secrets within the Imperial House. Every one of them believed that the Ruler of Eastern Lin had refused the Demon God's massacre of the city back then because he was a wise ruler who cared for