The emperor walks in grandly as usual. The six of them corrected their posture and kowtowed towards the king.

"This subject greets the emperor."

The emperor smiled. "So you have all arrived. Please take a seat."

The emperor sits down first before the 6 of them dare to sits down. The emperor eyes have long locked unto Jun Min. He has long heard about this boy, but seeing his appearance, he feels a bit strange. The kid didn't look any different with most of teenagers on the streets so how could he have so much accomplishment?

The emperor didn't show his curiosity and instead started to talk calmly.

"I call you all here to help me in constructing a strategy. There's a certain riot in the Jin Village started from 3 days ago. This is the map of the area and I wanted to know your thoughts about it."

The eunuch comes forward and presented the map. They have marked the position of the enemies and the troops they had in the city nearby. The number is not great, but if they need reinforcement, it will take some time before the capital could send any more people.

"How much time we have?" Soujin asks first.

"It's better to resolve this riot quickly in order to avoid any disturbances."

Lan Ping face scrunched a bit. He has just wanted to propose to cut the supply chain for the village in order to weaken the force there. The position of the village is quite remote so it will be easy to block them, but with the emperor wanted them to resolve it quickly, there's no way he could propose it.

"What is their demand?" this time it's Jun Hua who asks.

The eunuch steps forward. "They ask for a new official sent there because they don't like the previous official. According to our report, this official is a good one and there shouldn't be any need to change him."

"So they turned hostile just to change the official?" Jun Hua raised her eyebrows. "Then you should just switch the official with the other city near them. It should solve the problem if there's not more demand."

The eunuch is stunned. Jun Hua straightforward answer is actually the same with the one their strategist said. It's just the official has some backing and somehow they don't want to allow this official to change the position. The strategist thus chooses a different method, and that family has to accept.

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Soujin closes his eyes. "But the official has some backing so makes it difficult to change. If I'm not wrong, you have already deployed people to forcefully shift that official job to the neighboring village that's about the same size and some money to coax that family."

The problems have been resolved? This is the first time Lan Ping heard about it and all of his war strategy he wants to propose soon disappear. If it's like this, why does the emperor asks them to come here early in the morning?

The emperor is not too surprised with this development. He had already anticipated that Soujin would have some news beforehand since the Nanglong family is indeed strong. The unexpected thing is how quick Jun Min proposes his ideas even before he knows the entire situation on there.

"It's just some warm up. The real challenge is this one."

Another eunuch brings them another map. This is the map of Ming Kingdom and some areas which still 'free'. There're a lot of small villages and kingdoms around the few big kingdoms and on some occasion, they will try to take them in. The map the emperor presented to them has three small kingdoms marked by the emperor.

"There're three small kingdoms on the West that has been growing in power. I wanted to subdue them with using small number of soldier. There's already 5000 soldier with their general waiting for order on the border. Your task is to subdue these kingdoms in less than 2 months."

Jun Hua stared at the map and calculated inside her mind. Even with horse, she could only reach the border in 5 days, which is if she sprinted all the way without sleeping. Then she needs to organize the soldier and march towards the enemies. All in all, it requires around 1, 5 month at the very least.

Soujin stared at the map for a moment. The task is not impossible, but 2 months are highly arduous. If they didn't have any trouble, they should be able to finish it in time, but if there're a lot of problems, it will take much longer.

Lan Ping looks at the map and tries to remember all of it perfectly. He wants to show them all that he's a brilliant general.

"Now, choose among these three kingdoms which one will you pick?"

The three old men wait on the back patiently. For a kingdom to strive, they require strong and talented people. It's only normal that the emperor wants to test them, but Jun Zhenxian knows that this emperor would undoubtedly make their Jun family task even harder.

Jun Hua eyes sweep across the three kingdom and countless strategy appeared within her mind. Soon she smiled slightly, she has managed to find a suitable strategy which will allow her to conquer the kingdom swiftly, but there's a big risk there.

"Who wants to choose first?"

The three of them looks at each other. Seeing that the two of them are still probing, Jun Hua raised her hand.

"Which one, Jun Min?"

"Al Kingdom."

Soujin brows creased at Jun Hua choice, but he doesn't really mind it. He let Lan Ping choose and pick the last one they didn't take.

The emperor only says good luck before retreating to the back, leaving the three of them in the hall. His last message is 2 months starting tomorrow.