The morning light is faintly dewed, and the earth reveals a peaceful and peaceful atmosphere, since the beginning of winter, the climate on the Demon Spirit Continent is still very stable, and there has been no sudden drop in temperature. More often than not, the people would change their clothes according to the temperature they felt when they went out every morning, and most of them were very simple farmers anyway, and winter was the only time of the year for them to rest. At this point in time, they don't need to do anything other than occasionally look after their farmland. During this time, these simple people began to prepare for the next year.

Of course, the situation on the entire Demon Spirit Continent is not all like this, but most of the people do it. The people had to think about life for themselves, and there were some officials who didn't need to worry about this, so naturally, their attention stayed on other things again.

Xuancheng, the capital of Qi State, the cold of winter could not prevent the prosperity of the city, although most of the people and officials living in this Xuancheng can rarely see them on the streets at ordinary times. Recently, however, there is a festival to be celebrated in the Qi Kingdom, which is called the Winter Veil Festival. Every time this festival comes, the whole Qi country, whether it is ordinary people or officials of the empire, will celebrate this day together, and this day has a deep affection for them.

According to historical records, more than 300 years ago, when the State of Qi was established, it was on a snowy winter night, and Tian Xuan, the founding emperor of the State of Qi, was originally a general in the Nine Domains, and the army he led was also an elite army near the royal city of the Nine Domains. Some time before the ups and downs of the Nine Domains, he accepted the order of the imperial concubine Phantom Moon and went to the Demon Spirit Continent to pacify Bu Qingyun, the founder of the feudal kingdom who had already established himself. Back then, Bu Qingyun had already occupied basically the entire Demon Spirit Continent, and had already won the support of a large number of local forces, and the momentum could be described as in full swing, but he only led the army to engage Bu Qingyun's army once, and he had already received the news that the Nine Domains had disappeared to the north of the Demon Spirit Continent. At the beginning, Tian Xuan, the founding emperor of Qi State, originally wanted to lead his army to the north to observe the situation. Unexpectedly, he met an unknown Wu clansman, after being reminded by this Wu clansman, he sent troops to other areas of the Demon Spirit Continent that had not yet been pocketed by Bu Qingyun, and successfully gathered these forces that were still loyal to the Nine Domains, and successfully established a force that could confront the feudal state at that time, and officially named it "Qi State".

The annals of history record the grievances and hatred between Tian Xuan, the founding emperor of Qi State, and Bu Qingyun, the founding emperor of the Feng State. Bu Qingyun led Mr. to show his ambitions, he commanded his army to go south to the Demon Spirit Continent, taking advantage of the civil strife in the Nine Domains to encourage the people on the Demon Spirit Continent who were under the pressure of high taxes, and won the support of countless forces on the Demon Spirit Continent and finally ascended the throne as emperor. And Tian Xuan's power is obviously much weaker in comparison, he first took advantage of the fact that many people still miss the Nine Domains, and successfully occupied an area in the east of the Demon Spirit Continent. Then, after the founding emperor's lifelong efforts, the pattern on the Demon Spirit Continent was basically the same as today, and the feudal state was slightly stronger than the Qi country, but it also did not have the ability to destroy the Qi country. The two countries are in this confrontational situation, which has continued until now.

In the past three or four years, the state of Qi has been closed because of a major battle some time ago, and now the two countries have not continued to use swords against each other. However, the open and covert rivalry between the two countries is far from stopping, whether it is domestic trade or guarding against each other. Even now, due to the change in the celestial phenomena, a new continent has been merged into their Demon Spirit Continent, and all the attention on the Demon Spirit Continent has been attracted by this Xuanling Continent, Li Dan, the ruling prime minister of the Qi State, is thinking about another matter.

He sat on the dragon chair on the Liuyun Palace, and the imperial book in front of him was stacked with the memoranda of officials from all over the country and in the court, but he had no time to review it now. He was discussing something else with a young general in dark gold armor. There was something else that annoyed him but didn't seem to have a solution for it, so he was going to hear the general's opinion.

Some time ago, just when his eldest son Li Fu led 50,000 elite Qi troops to the Xuanling Continent, in the vacuum period when the number of troops within the Qi State was not large, in this case, their army now has no other counterattack combat ability, but another thing that made them feel extremely annoyed suddenly happened, the feudal country relied on the fact that they still have a relatively sufficient army to assist in the battle, even if they have sent 70,000 troops north to the Xuanling Continent, but their army still has a rich number, it is this advantage that makes the feudal country take advantage of the time when the army of the Qi State has no time to look south, The Holy Emperor ordered his henchman Wei Xu to dispatch 30,000 troops stationed in Dream City, and occupied the Haiyan town in the south of Qi and dozens of surrounding county towns without blood, which is also the reason why the Huicheng garrison was not much, so it fell in an instant in a short period of time.

It is clear that the army dispatched by the Feudal State has gained the upper hand in battle for some time. Even, in this short period of time, Qi State is now unable to spare enough troops to recover this Huicheng, they can take this opportunity to buy people's hearts, maybe they will become a more tricky thing to recapture Huicheng, this is what makes Li Dan feel very aggrieved in his heart, but he can't think of any good way for a while, which makes him feel more and more helpless, and now the situation is very serious, he can no longer sit still.

It was in this kind of opportunity that Li Dan found Zhang Lingyi, the governor of the southern part of the Qi State, and ordered him to enter Xuancheng, the imperial city of the Qi State, in a short period of time and meet him here. Li Dan is indeed eager to understand the key to this problem from the general's body and mouth, and perhaps now, this is what he is most concerned about. With such a change in the southern part of the Qi State, how could Zhang Lingyi, as the governor of the southern part of the Qi State, not know the seriousness of the situation? It's just that his own wishes actually didn't really want the Qi State to rashly send troops to recapture this capital city, and how could he, as the governor of the southern part of the Qi State, not want to be able to recapture the capital city, but now this has become an unrealistic possibility. The biggest problem facing Qi now is the shortage of troops.

However, after receiving this news, Zhang Lingyi naturally did not dare to slack off, he immediately packed his bags and directly led dozens of his entourage to Xuancheng, the capital of Qi State. In a short period of time, he didn't have time to do other things, so he simply entered the Imperial City of Qi directly to meet the current Prime Minister of Qi Li Dan, but heard a lot of bad news from him. Of course, as the governor of the south of Qi State, he must also explain every word and everything realistically.

"Prime Minister, I feel that the situation on the Xuanling Continent is not clear now, and even the army of the feudal state of Qi is likely to break out at any time, if we want to recover the city from the feudal country now, it is basically impossible, the only thing we can do now is to send troops to hold the line of Ruocheng, and at the same time guard against the invasion of other armies of the feudal country, this time it is negligent and negligent, and all the 30,000 horses originally stationed in the city were transferred, and only 5,000 troops were left to garrison It is really less. However, now the humble position can guarantee that as long as the army on the front line of the city is not dispatched now, the humble position will be able to resist this feudal army, and wait for the situation on the Xuanling Continent to become clear, and then we will consider whether to recapture the city. After all, the logistical pressure on us now from the 50,000 troops expedition to the Xuanling Continent is actually quite large. If we continue to fight here, what awaits us is the boiling of resentment among the people. Prime Minister, we must be worried!"

Li Dan sighed secretly, how could Zhang Lingyi's reminders not understand him as a person who has been in the officialdom for decades? Only now, he is indeed under pressure from all sides, not only ordinary people, but also many officials have positively expressed their disapproval of his two-sided war, which consumes too much finance, and it is very likely that the treasury and the people will not be able to support it. Rather than this, it is better to hold Ruocheng and wait for the situation on the Xuanling Continent to become clearer before talking about other issues.

Although Li Dan was reluctant to do this, he now understood that there was no better choice than that. Maybe it will take some time and effort to accomplish what you want to accomplish, and now is not the time. The situation on both fronts was dire, and he was not in a position to think about those things.

"General Zhang, then in that case, I will hand over the heavy responsibility of guarding Ruocheng to you, how much food do you need Just ask, I will let the people below allocate it to you, but try not to start a war with the feudal country, I want to see what the Holy Emperor wants to do." ”

"I understand that I will never live up to the expectations of the prime minister!"

Zhang Lingyi left, Li Dan stood alone in front of the window of the Liuyun Hall with his hands behind his back, looking at the sunshine in front of him that was gradually sinking westward, Li Dan couldn't help but sigh slowly. It seems that the person who sits in this position is really not easy to behave and do things. After thinking for a while, Li Dan walked back to the side of the imperial book case and wrote a letter to his eldest son Li Fu, maybe this can change the current predicament.