Jin Dongxing would have loved to tear that idiot Jin Tiancheng apart with his bare hands, but he knew perfectly well that whether this alliance came off or not, it would enrage Ning Chen.

What's more, just going to negotiate would amount to admitting that sixty thousand Great Xuan troops had died in the Gaoli Kingdom.

An alliance with Nanyue would say that Gaoli had a guilty conscience and was afraid.

Jin Dongxing spoke earnestly. "Old Third, seeking an alliance with Nanyue isn't a wise move.

Ning Chen took even Nanyue's imperial city......"

Jin Tiancheng gave a cold laugh. "If we hadn't let him through, could Ning Chen have taken the Nanyue imperial city?"

Jin Dongxing was taken aback. Some people's brains really were built differently. Every time he talked to Jin Tiancheng, he got the urge to strangle him.

He swallowed his anger. "It's precisely because we let Ning Chen through that Nanyue lost three cities and its imperial city fell... What does that prove?"

Jin Tiancheng said, "It proves that without our Gaoli Kingdom letting him through, Ning Chen could never have taken the Nanyue imperial city... So of all the spoils he grabbed, at least half should rightfully have been ours."

Jin Dongxing: "..."

He fixed Jin Tiancheng with a piercing stare. "So you admit it. You murdered sixty thousand Great Xuan troops for those spoils."

Jin Tiancheng sneered. "I have no idea what you're talking about, Your Highness."

Jin Dongxing couldn't hold his fury in any longer. "Idiot!" he roared. "You still don't see how serious this is.

Yes, we let Ning Chen through. But he broke three Nanyue cities one after another. That proves he's terrifying, far beyond anything we can afford to provoke.

And you think Ning Chen took three Nanyue cities because we let him through, so the credit is ours... But we've been Nanyue's neighbors for a hundred years, with Qimu City right in front of us. How come nobody's ever led an army in and taken Nanyue's Qimu City?"

"That... that, that......" Jin Tiancheng had nothing to say.

Seeing that, Jin…