Zhang Valve, Mansion.

Zhang Kuchan was reading a book in the study, and he couldn't help frowning when he learned that Xiao Ke's steel war group defeated the zombie army in Bai Ze City, killed a corpse emperor again, and that His Majesty had spread the battle report to the whole empire.

Staff member Zhou Xuanji said cautiously: "Pavilion Elder, Your Majesty is obviously coming for us by doing this." We refused to rescue the Lands of Lawlessness, and now that Xiao Ke has won a great victory in the Lands of Lawlessness, His Majesty has conveyed this news to the entire empire, obviously showing off his martial arts to us, slapping us in the face, and burning us on fire! Now the entire empire is talking about Xiao Ke's heroic deeds and ridiculing our inaction. ”

Zhang Kuchan frowned for a short time, at this time he had regained his composure, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with refusing to rescue the Lawless Land, after all, the Lawless Land had been abandoned by the Empire. There is only a group of barbarian aborigines who hate the empire, and the rest are robbers, black market vendors, war lackeys and mercenaries who chase the smell of money and are willing to do anything, etc., in Zhang Kuchan, if the empire is a human body, then the lawless land is carrion covered with viruses, and there is no pity to cut it, I don't know how to spend a lot of money to heal, and in Zhang Kuchan's opinion, it can't be cured at all.

Zhang Kuchan had argued with His Majesty several times before, and His Majesty was desperate to send troops to the land where he could not act. But Zhang Kuchan and several other pavilion elders unanimously refused.

The Cabinet's refusal to rescue the Lawless Lands is due to another reason, in addition to the fact that the Lawless Lands are worthless.

That is, the imperial family headed by His Majesty has been making frequent small moves, and even cleaned up Zhang Kuchan's protégé Qiao Zhennan. His Majesty the new emperor is obviously unwilling to become a puppet in the hands of a few cabinet elders, and obviously wants to revive the imperial family and return the imperial family to the peak of power.

Since ancient times, the power of the monarch and the power of the prime minister have been opposed to each other, the king is strong and weak, and the strong is weak.

In recent decades, the cabinet basically controlled the empire, the imperial family declined, when the previous emperor died, the first emperor had no direct prince, so Zhang Kuchan and a group of cabinet elders selected the young Jiang Ning from a group of princes of the imperial family, and supported Jiang Ning to the throne.

The reason why Jiang Ning was chosen in the first place was because Jiang Ning was not too old or young, he was a teenager, and he was suitable for control.

In addition, Jiang Ning's personality is out-of-the-box, and he is very playful, and at first glance he does not have much potential to plot the city, and Jiang Ning will definitely not have much talent when he becomes His Majesty, and it will not threaten the status and interests of the cabinet and the Pinshi clan. Moreover, if there is any major problem with such a playful and unserious Majesty, the cabinet can also put the responsibility for the problem on His Majesty.

However, it is now the fourth year of Jiangning.

Zhang Kuchan also realized that his group of old guys were deceived by this Jiang Ning, who loves to play on the surface, but in fact, he is very calm in his heart, has a lot of ideas, and can even be said to have great ambitions.

These can be seen from Jiang Ning's desperate support for his own strength in the past year, supporting Xiao Ke and the steel battle group.

Zhang Kuchan and others saw all the ambitions that Jiang Ning had slowly shown recently, so they began to guard against Jiang Ning, this time they naturally would not send troops to rescue Xiao Ke in the landless land, and at the same time, they also wished that Xiao Ke and the steel war group would be destroyed, they wanted to give Jiang Ning a thunderbolt from the sky, so that Jiang Ning would be sober and sober, and now the empire is the cabinet, not the imperial family.

But what Zhang Kuchan didn't expect was that although Jiang Ning's ambition was immature and immature, Xiao Ke's performance made the impossible possible again and again, when Xiao Ke put down the rebellion, Zhang Kuchan had not yet put Xiao Ke in his eyes, and it was so that Xiao Ke killed the corpse emperor twice, Zhang Kuchan was shocked to find out: Your Majesty, who is stunned, has inadvertently raised such a vicious beast as Xiao Ke!

Zhang Kuchan listened to the words of his staff member Zhou Xuanji, and said half-loudly: "We didn't do anything wrong, Your Majesty didn't do anything right, and the reason why it has become like this now is entirely because Xiao Ke, a young man, is really powerful, alas, the pride of the sky, probably talking about people like him!" ”

Zhou Xuanji: "Pavilion Elder, Ye Xuan, Fu Tianlong and several other pavilion elders and pavilion members have all sent people to ask you, what should you do now?" ”

Zhang Kuchan said lightly: "Unchanged, in response to all changes!" ”

Zhou Xuanji's eyes widened: "Ah, now that the prestige of the imperial family has skyrocketed, and the prestige of His Majesty and Xiao Ke is increasing day by day, we won't do anything?" ”

Zhou Xuanji's meaning is obviously that he can't sit idly by, and he wants to suppress the arrogance of His Majesty and Xiao Ke.

Zhang Kuchan was very calm: "Although Xiao Ke won a great victory in Bai Zecheng, this battle, compared to the war of the Dead Country's attack on the landless, is just a small battle, the main army of the Dead Country is still a million people, and there are 10 of the 12 corpse pillars, Xiao Ke's current glory is not to mention whether it can continue, and it is difficult to say whether he can withstand this catastrophe, so let's wait and see, I am not optimistic that Xiao Ke can survive this war." ”

Zhou Xuanji was stunned when he heard this, and immediately thought: Yes, although Xiao Ke has a small victory now, but this war has just begun, how long Xiao Ke can laugh is still a question, why should everyone be in a hurry, why bother to mess up, and look at him first.

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Xiao Ke first killed the Asura of the Death Country's advance team, and this time he killed the Black Cutter, and he had already beheaded two Corpse Emperors in a row.

In fact, the impact is still very large, the most obvious is the zombie army of the dead country, after learning that the Black Corpse Emperor was killed in battle, they immediately slowed down the pace of attack, and the ten corpse pillars were discussing, Bai Zecheng's strength was stronger than they imagined, and they needed to reformulate their strategy.

And Bai Zecheng was also able to breathe for two days, during these two days, Huanglong City, Teng Snake City, Phoenix City, and Chongming Bird City all sent representatives to form a team headed by Jiang Ruoxu, the powerhouse of Huanglong City, and arrived in Bai Zecheng to meet with Xiao Ke and discuss providing assistance to Xiao Ke.

Xiao Ke's injuries have not healed at this time, and he is relatively weak.

But he was in good spirits, and he led the crowd to meet Jiang Ruoxu and others in the council hall of Bai Ze City.

The two sides met, and after a polite greeting, the guest and host sat down, Jiang Ruoxu did not hide it, and said directly to the point: "City Lord Xiao, first of all, congratulations to you on the victory in the first battle of Bai Zecheng, and you also killed a corpse emperor." We are here to share your hatred and provide you with support to fight against the zombies. ”

Xiao Ke nodded: "I don't know how much aid you are going to give us Bai Zecheng?" ”

Eugen, the representative of Tengsnake City and an important member of the Wind Family, spoke: "Each of our cities will support your 20,000 warriors who are fully armed, a total of 80,000 warriors, as well as a full set of weapons and equipment, supplies, and food. However, there are conditions, and the condition is that you must support the main force of the zombies, so that the main battlefield has been around your Bai Ze City, and the main army of zombies must not spread on a large scale towards several of our urban areas. ”

Xiao Ke was still looking forward to it, but after listening to Eugen's words, he couldn't help but sneer: There are millions of zombie troops, and there are 10 corpse pillars, and there are only 80,000 reinforcements, so I want to ask Bai Zecheng to hold the main force of zombies and prevent the war from spreading to several other cities.