"Isn't that right? You could heal Princess Eliza, but you required the family to sign that agreement. Keith and Gause found out. Keith said if the royal family didn't sign, it proved they didn't value family bonds. A princess raised by such a family would likely lack humanity. The Grace family wouldn't want such a person."
Yan Aohan smiled as he replied, "You can imagine. The Y Kingdom royal family has ruled this long because intermarriage within the royal family is crucial. The Grace family is an old, established clan. If such a family despises them, the Y Kingdom would suffer great losses. Therefore, Eliza must be saved. They pressured Pete to immediately agree to all demands and sign the agreement, begging you to heal Princess Eliza."
Zhu Yanyi listened and understood slightly. "Even so, this shouldn't have much to do with you. Why have you been so late these past few days?"
Yan Aohan ate his breakfast and said, "I thought since things had reached this point, it would lower your status if you appeared directly. So I arranged for others to negotiate with Pete." He paused. "As for why I was late, it’s mainly because some issues arose within the family, and I had to handle them."
"Within the family?" Zhu Yanyi was slightly stunned. "The Zheng and Yang families have been destroyed. Is there still something else?"
Yan Aohan smiled faintly, not troubled by Zhu Yanyi's curiosity. "Although the Zheng and Yang families are gone, it doesn't mean there are no issues. Do you still remember the Sage Academy?"
"I wouldn't forget. I’m going to take their entrance exam at the end of next year," Zhu Yanyi said with a smile.
Yan Aohan nodded slightly and began to explain. "Besides the Sage Academy, there are other similar forces. These forces are currently unstable and have internal problems, so some fled to our side. I naturally had to handle it, otherwise, our people couldn't deal with them. Besides, this is also a responsibility of a family that protects the nation."
Although Yan Aohan didn't explain explicitly, Zhu Yanyi understood roughly. Those forces likely came from somewhere else, a place isolated from here. Since those forces shouldn't belong to ordinary human society, they shouldn't appear before the public.
Now, due to their internal issues, they wanted to enter this world, so they had to follow the laws of this world.
However, the laws of each world differ. Their world respected the strong. Although this world also respected the strong, there were not many martial experts. This happened to be their advantage, which is why Yan Aohan had to go out and settle it.
"Did you settle it?" Zhu Yanyi asked with concern.
"It’s settled," Yan Aohan nodded slightly. "So, wife, there might be some special guests when we get engaged."
"It doesn't matter who comes, as long as they don't cause trouble at our engagement banquet," Zhu Yanyi waved her hand slightly.
An engagement banquet is meant for more people to share the joy, which is good. But if someone caused trouble, the joy of the banquet would be ruined. This was something Zhu Yanyi could not tolerate.
"Rest assured about this. Not only you, but I also won't allow anyone to cause trouble at my engagement banquet." A sharp light flashed in the depths of Yan Aohan's eyes. If anyone really tried to disrupt it, he wouldn't hesitate to kill.
Although Yan Aohan was known as the Venerable Yanluo of the capital, his true methods had never been revealed in public. If those people really tried to cause trouble, Yan Aohan didn't mind suppressing them directly.
"Then it’s settled." Zhu Yanyi finished her last bite of steamed bun. "You handle Pete’s matter for me. I’ll give you the agreement. Have your people give it to Pete and make her sign it.
After she signs, I can’t go save her immediately. I’ll wait until after our engagement ceremony and when I return to work. Then I will naturally heal Princess Eliza."
Previously, Pete was unwilling to sign the agreement, and seeing her required catching her when she was free. Now, Zhu Yanyi wouldn’t press her warm face against her cold rear. Besides, Eliza’s condition wouldn’t change much in a short time, and she wouldn’t die.
Instead, Zhu Yanyi wanted Pete to know that if you offend someone, inviting them back requires paying various costs, including the cost of time.
After handing Pete’s matter over to Yan Aohan, Zhu Yanyi stopped worrying about it. She had many other things to do.
Now that the clothes were made, she naturally had other tasks. On the surface, she was busy with other engagement matters, but mostly she was researching a new medicine—a medicine to change human constitution. It was better than those Peiyuan Pills, fundamentally changing human constitution.
From any perspective, Zhu Yanyi knew that a strong nation must have a strong military.
Not to mention others, just look at that madman. He knew to build a team of people with special abilities. Although he failed, the idea wasn’t wrong.
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. This was also a great man’s saying, and its meaning is clear: to strengthen the nation, one must first strengthen the people.
How to make the people strong? First, they need healthy bodies.
However, Easterners differ from Westerners. Perhaps due to dietary differences, Easterners are not as tall as Westerners, which has caused Easterners to suffer to some extent.
So Zhu Yanyi planned to cultivate strong physiques through后天 (acquired) means.
Zhu Yanyi certainly didn’t want to build a team of people with special abilities. Such abilities were too beyond nature, and their existence might not be good. However, a strong military was very necessary.
To make an army strong, one must focus on several aspects: quality, physique, and weapons.
Quality and character can only be judged through daily life, but for physique and weapons, Zhu Yanyi believed she could help.
Especially regarding physique, she could definitely help.
The medicine Zhu Yanyi wanted to create was called Tai Po Physical Pill. The effect of this pill was to change a person’s physique. If adults took it, their bodies would become healthy from weak. If children took it, they would become stronger and stronger. If fetuses took it, they would be born with naturally strong physiques.
Of course, if she used herbs from the Ruyi Space to refine it, the pills would be ready quickly. But Zhu Yanyi wanted to use herbs that could be found on this planet, so she still needed to constantly experiment, searching for herbs or seeds.
While busy with herbs, Zhu Yanyi also discussed weapons with Yan Aohan.
Yan Aohan listened to Zhu Yanyi’s plan. "Do you really intend to hand over the weapon blueprints from the Gusi Lan ruins?"