Chapter 80 - The Crisis of Closure

Now the news of the outside world can only be transmitted secretly through the secret agents of the Xuanyi Women's Army, and Princess Rongle Bu Lian has no way to get the most effective information in the first place, which is very unfavorable to her at present.

At this extremely critical time, the return of the Holy Emperor Zheng Junchao also affected her authority and status in the court, and she was also very reluctant to take a back seat and temporarily returned to her palace to take care of her son in person.

For Zheng Yi, who is not yet five years old, Princess Rongle Bu Lian is also sorry. Her two children, whether it is her daughter Bu Yuehan or her son Zheng Yi, she can't be by their side, and she is not a responsible mother from the perspective of being a mother.

But her status is too special, and she is not a woman who can live in the deep palace and teach her husband and children with peace of mind. Her background and personality have determined her from all aspects, and Princess Rongle is not that kind of woman.

For this point, whether it is her husband Saint Emperor Zheng Junchao, or her eldest daughter Princess Liuli Bu Yuehan knows very well, even her five-year-old son Zheng Yi has been ignorant many times to ask the husband and maid who take care of her, and she also has a certain understanding of her mother.

After the Holy Emperor Zheng Junchao returned to take charge of the court, Bu Lian did not have a good reason to continue to stay in the court. She didn't have a grudge against her husband, she just wanted to find a way to prevent him from continuing to unite with the Dark Legion.

In the eyes of Princess Rong Le, such a so-called "cooperation" with the Dark Legion is tantamount to conspiring with the tiger, and they also have some understanding of the strength of the Dark Legion, whether it is the Dark Evil God himself, or the two Mingyi envoys under his command, their abilities seem to be stronger than the Dark Evil God, not to mention that the Dark Legion is now in full swing and in a situation where the momentum is flourishing, and it is really not a wise move to talk about unrealistic cooperation now.

Princess Rong Le persuaded her husband many times, hoping that he could completely abandon these unrealistic ideas and fantasies, and that it was the key to enhance his own strength more carefully and appropriately, if he really wanted to help the Dark Legion occupy the entire Hanhai Demon Spirit Continent, their fate might not be very good.

Perhaps the Holy Emperor Zheng Junchao still had some illusions in his heart, and as far as the situation in front of him was concerned, the Dark Legion had no time to take care of their existence for the time being. It's just that the current feudal country is like a dragon trapped in the water, unable to find a way forward.

There is no other way to adjust and recruit troops on a large scale, the current military strength of the feudal state is really a little weak, the remaining army in the city is less than 50,000, this army can not be effectively replenished from all over the country, and the army that is temporarily recruited now cannot become a soldier in charge of the army without serious and cruel training.

This is also what the Holy Emperor Zheng Junchao is most worried about at present, he will not be able to replenish the source of troops, even if he forcibly recruits the army, he will suffer from the disgust and rejection of the people, this is not a wise choice and move. In addition, the forcible recruitment of young and strong men is not very strong in combat, and it is not enough to succeed without training.

Princess Rong Le Bu Pian, for this reason, also persuaded her husband that he should be ready to completely break off the dark army before this, otherwise once the dark army turns its face and does not recognize people, they will fall into a situation of no return, and lose all the helpers that may exist, once they continue to help the dark army, whether it is Qi country, the white-clothed heavenly girl force or leaving the country, they will never cooperate with them again, this is what Princess Rong Le knows very well.

During the period when the Holy Emperor had to retreat and meditate to get rid of the influence of the dark forces, Bu Lian secretly united some civil and military officials through the opportunity to participate in the court meeting in the court as a help to support his idea. The thoughts of these officials coincided with that of Princess Rong Le, and they were also resolutely opposed to reuniting with the Dark Legion, because they knew that uniting with the Dark Legion was tantamount to conspiring with the tiger, and they could not win any effective benefits for them at all.

Of course, among these civil and military officials, there are still some of them who were secretly persuaded by Bu Lian, thus changing their initial thoughts. These officials, at first, didn't care whether to unite with the Dark Legion, they were more concerned about their own vital interests, they had not yet felt the danger of the Dark Legion in Zhongcheng, and naturally they would not oppose or agree, they took more and just waited and saw the situation.

As Princess Rong Le Bu Lian talked to them under various different pretenses, the mentality of these people has changed slightly, and they are no longer as unpredictable as they were in the past.

Although they didn't fully express their stance and clearly supported the idea of Princess Rong Le's Bu Lian, their inner thinking was still somewhat affected. The key to this change is that their families, or generals, were ambushed by the Qi State in Ruocheng, resulting in being trapped in the city and finally dying.

The gossip has been passed on, and the dark army has been involved to some extent, although until now, neither the Qi State nor the secret agents of the Sealed State have passed on the accurate news. But for the feudal people, the Qi State was their old enemy, and the hatred between them could not be eliminated after hundreds of years of fighting.

For the Qi State, they will not have any illusions, the soldiers are designed to be ambushed, the result will inevitably be death and martyrdom, if the army of the Qi State is one day besieged by their feudal army, they will not hesitate to annihilate them in one fell swoop.

But the Dark Legion was already in an alliance state at the beginning, but they didn't care about this feudal army at all, and when they knew that the Qi army was going south to attack Huicheng and was fully prepared for an ambush, they actually let them go to death, which is really difficult to accept.

Princess Rong Le took advantage of this opportunity to successfully mobilize this group of civil and military officials with a subtle attitude and successfully pulled them to her side. After gaining the support of at least half of the courtiers, she wanted to find an opportunity to join forces with these officials and put pressure on her husband, the Holy Emperor Zheng Junchao, to finally abandon those unrealistic illusions and cut ties with the Dark Legion.

Just yesterday, the secret agent of the Xuanyi Women's Army outside the city quietly sent the latest news to the hands of Princess Rongle Bu Lian, even if she is now living in the palace, she can also quietly get the latest news from the outside world in time, she will record these news on bamboo slips and store them in the library in her palace.

In the past few days, in addition to accompanying her son Zheng Yi to study, the most frequent place for Princess Rongle Bu Lian to appear is the library in her palace, she hopes to find more important information from these external messages that she has transcribed, or perhaps forgotten by her at the beginning.

However, after two days passed, Princess Rong Le Bu Lian found that she had almost carefully recorded the news transmitted from the outside world, and she had only written down after careful consideration, and there was almost no information that she had ignored.

The two things she is most worried about now are that after her husband Saint Emperor Zheng Junchao returns to take charge of the government, a group of generals in the court, led by Yue Ji, who resolutely support the alliance between the feudal kingdom and the Dark Legion, will gain the upper hand, and they will persuade the Saint Emperor to continue to cooperate with the Dark Legion, and then sweep away other forces on the Hanhai Demon Spirit Continent.

Bu Lian didn't know whether these officials, who were still supporting the cooperation with the Dark Legion, were motivated by the interests of the feudal kingdom itself or had unspeakable selfish desires, so they had been insisting on cooperating with the Dark Legion. Bu Lian was very worried that once these people succeeded in persuading their husbands to make the Saint Emperor Zheng Junchao, who was still struggling with what to do, make up his mind, then the officials who had worked hard and painstakingly to unite would inevitably have a change in their attitude due to the change in the attitude of the Saint Emperor Zheng Junchao.

From the beginning, the Holy Emperor Zheng Junchao entered the Zhongcheng, and now a long time has passed, more than ten years, with Zheng Junchao's ability, it is not difficult to replace most of the original courtiers with his own henchmen. With the passage of time, the main important officials of the current Fengguo Imperial Court are all former backbone members of the Fengzhan Society, or from the very beginning, since the Holy Emperor entered Zhongcheng, he has turned his head to him, and gradually become some of the officials of the royal family that he trusts.

Bu Lian is very worried, because her husband still has a glimmer of illusions about the dark army, although he has been expelling the dark power, he has gradually realized that the dark evil god is not so simple to help him, but completely wants to use him as his puppet, and even wants to take away his body directly, I have to admit that the dark evil god is indeed very dangerous.

However, during a period of close contact outside the city, the Saint Emperor Zheng Junchao was very clearly aware of the power of the Dark Evil God, with his excellent and superb soul cultivation ability, it was not worth mentioning in front of him, and the Dark Evil God could easily defuse his offensive and turn the disadvantage into the upper hand.

It is precisely because of the fear of the power of the dark evil god that Zheng Junchao swayed back and forth, not knowing what to do. Until now, he also had some illusions, he didn't think that they would be able to defeat the Dark Legion, rather than die without a place to bury them, it would be better to turn to the arms of the Dark Legion now, at least not to be destroyed as soon as they came up.

In the battle of Xuancheng, the Holy Emperor Zheng Junchao also received a more detailed report afterwards, which was also the first time that he had learned more carefully and thoroughly about the combat effectiveness of the Dark Legion. It was precisely because of this incident that Zheng Junchao also had a fear of the Dark Army, and afterwards, when the Dark Evil God asked him to jointly send troops to attack Huicheng, he knew that he wanted him to seal the army of the War Society to send him to death, but he did not dare to refuse, so he could only lead the army forward.