After Defeat, the Empress’s Negotiating Chip Turns Out to Be Me

Chapter 344

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"As long as Lady Liuli likes eating them, I'll make them for you every day!"

"That's not necessary. You just need to serve Mo well in the future."

The Little Princess glanced at He Yan.

Since Maid Xiao Xi had taught He Yan to make the snacks she usually loved most, that meant Maid Xiao Xi didn't just want to train He Yan as an ordinary maid to serve her in the palace, but wanted to train He Yan to become her personal maid!

"Yes."

Maid He Yan nodded slightly.

The Princess actually wanted her to serve well in the future!

This was really... so wonderful!

Didn't that mean in the future she could become the Princess's personal maid just like Senior Yu Xi!? Suddenly falling into the joy of being pre-selected from an ordinary maid to become the Princess's personal maid, she hadn't come back to her senses for a moment.

"He Yan, pour me a cup of tea."

"Yes!"

...

After finishing the snacks, the Little Princess began to consider what she should do this afternoon. Should she go out for a stroll?

But her current identity was very attention-grabbing. Whether because of her white hair, or the information she had spread out through Xiao Xi, "His Majesty the King's illegitimate daughter from outside, Lady Liuli has emerged from the deep palace," there were definitely many officials and nobles who wanted to try to establish connections with her now, including members of the Glaze Royal Family as well.

If she went out, she would absolutely be surrounded until not even water could leak through, then madly courted with olive branches.

Although her current identity was her cheap Father the King's illegitimate daughter from outside, even so, she still counted as Glaze Royal bloodline, counted as a royal family member.

A royal family member who hadn't been recruited by any faction would inevitably be fought over. At that time, whether she joined one faction or not, she would be subject to others' schemes. If she didn't join any faction and chose to remain aloof, there was a high probability she would suffer secret attacks from all sides like when she was fourteen.

After all, the idea that "if you can't obtain something, you must destroy it to prevent it from becoming your enemy in the future" was a thought everyone harbored.

"Lady Liuli?"

"Mm... He Yan, which royal family members are currently still in Glaze Royal Palace?"

She needed to ask about which royal family members were still staying in Glaze Royal Palace to decide her plans going forward.

"There are the Fourth Prince, Fifth Prince, Seventh Prince, First Princess, Fourth Princess, and Sixth Princess. As far as I know, aside from you, these are the only royal family members currently still in Glaze Royal Palace who haven't gone out."

"Very good..."

She was relatively at ease with Fourth Royal Brother and Seventh Royal Brother. Fourth Royal Brother hadn't done anything out of line from beginning to end, and had no thoughts about the position of heir to the throne. He just liked to slack off, so she didn't need to worry much about him.

As for Seventh Royal Brother, he was truly a younger brother, naive all day long, constantly fooling around outside with her Fourth Royal Brother.

The existence of these two posed no threat to any faction. They had already been acknowledged by her cheap Father the King as two royal family members who had already decided to give up the throne.

But the other few were a bit more complicated.

After the First Prince died, the First Princess directly began plotting to compete for the throne herself. Even if she couldn't compete for it, she would assist a prince to rise, thereby increasing her own power. The other two princesses belonged to the Fifth Prince's and Sixth Prince's factions respectively.

What worried her more was still her Fifth Royal Brother and Sixth Royal Sister's side. These two were both in Glaze Royal Palace. If they wanted to recruit her when she went out as "Liuli," and then tried to make a move on her because they couldn't recruit her, that would definitely ruin her originally planned scheme.

First, it would ruin her initial plan to fish out the people behind that chain of interests, not to mention the vest of Liuli would also be scrapped. This vest still had great use for her. She didn't want this vest to be "permanently banned" yet.

"He Yan, help me get a hat, preferably the kind that can completely conceal my white hair."

She still wanted to go out once, mainly to inspect what exactly Glaze City was like now.

The policies she had initially implemented had been abolished once by the First Prince. After that, because she had to return to Scarlet Phoenix Nation to find the Empress, she hadn't conducted any field inspection.

Now, after her cheap Father the King gradually modified all the policies back, she also hadn't conducted a field inspection, so she now planned to make an incognito visit to inspect things while she had time.

"But if you wear that kind of hat, it will be very ugly, you know?"

"It doesn't matter. My purpose is to not let too many people notice me. What do I need to look good for?"

"Well... we don't have that kind of hat, but if Lady Liuli is worried your hair is too eye-catching, you can use dye to temporarily dye it black, you know?"

"Temporarily dye it black?"

In Glaze Nation, the proportion of people with black hair was higher, including all members of the Glaze Royal Family who were also black-haired people. If she could temporarily dye her hair color, which was nearly unique in Glaze Nation, black, it could greatly reduce others' attention.

"Then tell me how to temporarily dye it black?"

"Just use dye specially formulated for temporarily changing hair color! After dyeing the color on, you can easily wash it off with water, and the damage to hair quality is close to none."

"Someone actually researches this kind of thing?"

How could someone specially research dye for temporarily changing hair color? Could the domestic demand for this kind of dye in Glaze Nation be quite high?

The problem was, aside from thinking of one use for disguise, she couldn't think of any other uses. Just what kind of demographic needed this kind of dye?

But she didn't plan to dwell on this. First, get it in hand, then talk.

"He Yan, where can I buy the kind of dye you mentioned?"

"In a small alley over by the market street in South City. Nobles go there to patronize and purchase this kind of dye every day!"

Nobles, huh...

In that case, she could understand that nobles specifically needed this kind of dye? The question was, what did they need this kind of dye to disguise as?

She couldn't think of a reason, so she simply didn't think about it anymore. At worst, she could carefully inquire later herself. There was no need to rack her brains here.

"He Yan, come here. I'm going to assign you a task."

"Lady Liuli, please feel free to command."

He Yan walked to the Little Princess's side and said softly.

"This gold coin should be enough to buy some of that dye. Use this entire gold coin to buy that kind of dye and bring it back to me."

"Okay, He Yan understands."

He Yan nodded.

This one gold coin was indeed enough to buy some of that temporary coloring dye, probably about three barrels. Because it was something supplied in small quantities for noble use, there wasn't a complete supply chain. Not only were production costs relatively high and labor more expensive, but the process was also rather troublesome, so the price of these three barrels of dye could sell for one gold coin. This was already an astronomical price that ordinary people absolutely couldn't afford.

But none of this mattered. This small amount of money was nothing at all to the Glaze Royal Family. A mere one gold coin for three barrels of dye was completely no problem.

"Then go ahead."

The Little Princess patted Maid He Yan's shoulder.

...

After Maid He Yan left, the Little Princess began to feel somewhat bored and simply returned to her bedroom to flip through books, beginning to browse content about institutional reform in the books. She needed to understand this content herself before she could implement it in Glaze Nation.

First, before institutional reform, all obstacles blocking the reform must definitely be leveled to open a path for reform. This was a prerequisite that must be done before reform.

Emmm... she personally felt there was no need to completely sweep everything away. She just needed to sweep away the main resistance blocking the reform. The remainder afterward would pose no threat at all.

"Xiao Xi, what do you think?"

The Little Princess turned her head to look at Maid "Xiao Xi" beside her and inquired.

"I think Princess's idea is correct. As long as you crush the main force, the remaining remnant forces will have no way to continue stopping you from carrying out institutional reform."

The most powerful resistance has already been eliminated. Do the remaining ones still need to be worried about? This is like someone constantly worrying about being bitten to death by mere ordinary ants!

"Mm..."

Receiving Maid "Xiao Xi's" affirmation, the Little Princess also relaxed.

"Princess, are you really planning to go out incognito?"

"Of course, otherwise what? If I don't go confirm the situation, when problems arise later, it will be too late."

Just like getting cancer. If early-stage cancer is detected when it's not yet so serious, treatment can be carried out. Although after successful treatment one can't say it will be as healthy as at the beginning, at least life is saved. The rest can slowly recover afterward.

But if it's late stage, even if detected, there's no solution. At most, death can be slightly delayed, and one can go more comfortably. Late-stage cancer really is beyond even immortals' rescue, unless a miracle descends.

The reason she wanted to make an incognito visit was also because of this. Early detection, early treatment. Who knew what kind of consequences this policy being suddenly abolished for a period then re-implemented would cause? What if the merchants who originally benefited from this policy and chose to stay in Glaze City to do business all began withdrawing from Glaze City or even Glaze Nation because of this upheaval? That would be disastrous.

Glaze Nation and Glaze City were originally developed through commerce. Commerce was the foundation of Glaze Nation. If even the foundation supporting Glaze Nation and Glaze City's continuous development was gone, what development could even be discussed?

"Alright then, but Princess, you must be careful about your safety..."

"I know that!"

Of course she knew to be careful about safety. Otherwise, why would she think of ways to conceal her current white hair?

But even if she encountered danger, it didn't really matter... after all, she had many layers of protective magic blessings on her body. She wasn't afraid at all of anyone wanting to assassinate her.

If she really encountered any danger, she believed Cecilia would definitely rush over to protect her before she truly received harm!

The title of Scarlet Phoenix Nation's Guardian wasn't just for show. She could absolutely rush over at the first moment to protect her well.

Even if she couldn't beat the opponent, she could directly use Folding Space Magic to take her and run! Not to mention, there were very few people on the entire continent who could beat Cecilia.