Chapter 777: The Situation in the Night Country

And although Ling Zimo has been in the army for a while, after returning home, he still has no interest in many things as before. When he came back this time, Ling Zimo mainly wanted to confirm the current situation of the Ling family. Since everything is fine with the Ling family, Ling Zimo will no longer have any scruples on the battlefield in the future, and he can try his best to catch up with Lin Xuanzhong's pace.

In addition to dealing with those family members, they finally came to the Ling family, Fang Qing and Ni Youbin naturally wanted to go to the Ling family's forbidden place to reminisce about the feeling when they broke through.

A few months later, the progress of the two is clearly visible, although they still can't get past the first hurdle, but it's not much worse. Because there were not many opportunities, the two of them deliberately looked for the Ling Ziqing sisters to fight, but the two sisters were bullied, and the two were naturally ridiculed. Originally, both of them felt that they had made great progress, but what they didn't expect was that the two sisters seemed to have made greater progress, and in desperation, the two could only admit that they were insufficient.

Time flies, a few days have passed in the blink of an eye, and before they can enjoy it much, there is already a message from the night army for them to return to the camp.

stayed at Ling's house for three or five days in a row, and when they left, Ni Youbin and Fang Qing were reluctant to leave, but Ling Zimo was different. Only in the army could it be possible to catch up with Lin Xuanzhong as soon as possible, so after receiving the news, Ling Zimo began to pack his luggage on the same day, regardless of how many days the letter said.

The deadline given by the army is relatively lenient, Ni Youbin and Fang Qing knew that it was a privilege given by the army to wounded soldiers, and both of them wanted to stay for two more days, but because Ling Zimo was leaving, they thought of Zhang Jiutian's fierce rival again, and they couldn't live that comfortable life, so the two simply packed up their things and left with Ling Zimo.

On the day he left, Fang Qing did not hesitate to express his intentions to Ling Ziqing again, but unfortunately the result he got was to talk about it next time. Since he didn't know if there was a chance to come back, Fang Qing didn't force it. As for Ni Youbin, although he has the same thoughts, he can't do it like Fang Qing.

On the second day of Lin Xuanzhong's departure, the group rode directly to Yefan City, and Zhang Daring also went out to Yicheng on this day.

Five days passed in a flash, and when Lin Xuanzhong and the others rushed to the outside of Fossil City with their ordnance, Lan Ce finally received a reply from the four countries including the Thunder Country and the Purple Cloud Country.

The reply of the four countries was unified: they were willing to make Lan Ce the sole ruler of the country, but they also wanted to guarantee their status. The way to secure their status was to establish a body similar to the House of Elders, and each lord would henceforth exist as an elder, sitting with the emperor and having the right to vote against or approve of the emperor's decisions. To put it simply, they recognize the supremacy of Lan Ce, but at the same time want to weaken Lan Ze's real power and thus improve their status.

Lan Ce has the right to decide political affairs as the lord of the country, but they also have the right to decide political affairs as elders, in other words, they will bow down to Lan Ce, but they also demand that Lan Ce recognize their status, otherwise the matter of the Five Nations Alliance will continue to be debated.

The establishment of the House of Elders in the Four Kingdoms is a bold idea, but it has profound practical significance. Looking at the entire Beiming Continent, regardless of the size of the family, the role of the Elders' House is obvious. The lord of a sect often has the right to make decisions, and the House of Elders has the right to judge whether the suzerain's decision-making is correct or not, and its power can be said to directly divide the imperial power into two, but if you want to sit on the position of the leader of the alliance without blood, the proposal of the lord of the four countries is worthy of Lan Ce's consideration, and Lan Ce can't ignore it.

Therefore, after receiving the reply of the four countries, Lan Ce directly convened the ministers to hold a supreme military and political council, and made the conditions of the alliance of the monarchs of the four countries public. At the meeting, there were different opinions, the Beiming Continent has always paid attention to the imperial power, although there is occasionally a regent, but it has not yet developed to the extent that the world has power, and now the requirements of the four countries are nothing more than to consolidate their own positions by weakening the imperial power, and they are still not sincere in forming a five-nation alliance.

After some heated debate, the ministers were finally divided into two sides, one side agreed, the other side opposed, and both sides held their own opinions and argued endlessly, and finally handed over the right to decide the matter to Lan Ce. Because of the importance of the matter, Lan Ce could not make a choice alone, so he shared part of the decision-making power to Zhao Wu and Zuo Xiang.

Because the right minister has been outside, the left minister has long been the head of the civil officials, and Zhao Wu is the head of the military attaché, a word from the two can change most people's decisions, and it is precisely because of the identities of the two that Lan Ce invited the two to discuss together. On the other side, the Night Kingdom has come to this point, and the two of them are now duty-bound.

As the head of the generals, Zhao Wu's main opinion was to expand military power, collect all the military strength of the five countries into one party, and coordinate and command was the most important. As the head of the civil officials, the Zuo Prime Minister's intention is mainly to protect the status of the people in the night country, so the status of Lan Ce must be ensured first, so the left minister is not so happy in agreeing to the requirements of the four countries, but the conditions proposed by the four countries are indeed the direction they consider.

Under the influence of various issues, the original military-political conference eventually turned into a simple dispute over conditions. Since the four countries can make conditions to them, they can also make conditions to the four countries, and the night country is now eligible to make conditions.

Now that the Night Country and the Lai Kingdom have reached a stable alliance relationship, since the incident at the Blue Moon Pass, the Lai Kingdom has no way out, and from now on it can only live and die with the Night Country, so the power of the Lai Kingdom is the power of the Night Country, plus the Night Country's annexation of the Snow Country and the occupation of the Wing Country, the overall national strength of the Wing Country is equivalent to the other four countries, and now it is expanding to the Yang Kingdom. Once the Yang Kingdom is captured, the strength of the Night Kingdom will definitely increase again. With the country's strength growing stronger, the night country has the strength to make conditions to the four countries.

However, he has just captured the Wing Country, but Zhao Xu has already sent troops to conquer the Yang Country, although it is forced by the times, it is still regarded as a quick success, in the case of the situation in the former Wing Country is not stable, the smooth or not of the expedition to the Yang Country may lead to the aggravation of the situation in the east at any time, in order to ensure the stability of the situation in the east, Lan Ce must do something, combined with the current situation, if he can control the military strength of the Lei State as soon as possible to launch a full-scale war against the Gu State, so as to ensure that the night army will not interfere with the Gu Country when the Yang State is conquered, and add chaos to the night army.

In addition, Yang and Gu are sandwiched between the Wing Country and the Thunder Country, and it is inevitable to capture Gu Country, and the expansion of territory urges Lan Ce to decide on the Five Nations Alliance earlier, otherwise the longer it drags on, the more problems there will be. Under the pressure of the situation on all sides, Lan Ce had no choice but to negotiate with the four countries as soon as possible.

After follow-up discussions, Lan Ce and the ministers felt that since the five countries were in the same vein, it was not necessary for the other four countries to establish the House of Elders and discuss the government with the king, but they had one condition, the other four countries must hand over all their troops as soon as possible, and the Night Kingdom would bring the capital to the Purple Cloud Country so that they could sit in the center. The above two items are the preliminary conditions that the night country wants to put forward to the four countries, as for some specific matters still need to be discussed, and the final situation remains to be verified by time.

Putting aside the local situation in the night country, Luo Tianguo's side, after receiving the news of Qiu Sanjie's defeat last time, the whole country was shaken, and the Qiu family was cut off from the position of the clan, and the clan was not allowed to be an official from now on, it can be said that the entire Qiu family was implicated because of Qiu Sanjie alone, and a public family was directly demoted to an ordinary family, and the reason for this was not that Qiu Sanjie was defeated, but that Luo Tianguo was disgraced.

After the soldiers of the Night Country bloodlessly disintegrated a million-strong army with the banner of the Luo Tian Great Power, the medium-sized countries around the Luo Tian Great Power that had been staggering finally showed signs of resistance. In the western region of the Northern Regions, not only the people of the Great Kingdom of Luo Tian are bloody and strong, but also the people of many countries are tenacious and unyielding.

For many years, many countries have been living under the oppression of the Luo Tian Nation, and always feel the mighty Tianwei from the Luo Heaven Nation, although most of them have a surrender mentality, and have always been in awe of the Luo Heaven Nation, but the Battle of the Blue Moon Pass opened a prelude to resisting the oppression of the Luo Heaven Nation, so that many countries understand that the Luo Heaven Power they have always feared is not as invincible as they imagined, invincible, and mighty.

After knowing that the Luo Tian Great Power could also be defeated, the current situation of the Luo Tian Great Power is somewhat similar to that of the Daqi Principality in the south, although there is no rebellion of the internal princes, but many countries outside have set off a revolution, and one by one they have united with each other to form a large army to confront the Luo Tian Power head-on.

The rebellion intensified, and in two months, more than a dozen principalities, large and small, had joined forces to build a barrier between the Night Kingdom and the Luo Tian Kingdom. Because the rebel forces are still expanding, those organizers also invited the Night Kingdom to initiate, hoping that the Night Kingdom can join them and then deal with the Luo Tian Great Kingdom together.

They have no grudge against the Night Kingdom itself, but the Night Kingdom has a grudge against the Luo Tian Nation, so uniting the Night Country is their strategy, and before uniting the Night Country, they already have the strength to confront the Luo Tian Nation head-on. If they can unite to complete the Night Kingdom of the Five Nations Alliance, their total strength may exceed that of the Luo Tian Great Power. In any case, the revolution against the Luo Tian Nation was an abrupt reversal for the Night Country, and the invitations from those countries became a problem for the Night Country now.

In fact, the so-called alliance is completely a muddy water, the situation of fighting for power in the alliance can be seen everywhere, and it is clear that it is on the same front but still has to be divided into high and low according to the national strength of each country, so that some small country lords have no right to speak, even if such an alliance is strong on the surface, whether it can stand the test in the end is always a key issue, it is not easy for the night country to get to this day, Lan Ce does not want to bring the increasingly powerful night country to the road of destruction because of this trip to troubled waters.

After undergoing the various tests of the five-nation alliance, the night country categorically did not dare to accept the invitation of those countries again, so in terms of dealing with those countries, the night country can slow down, and it can't slow down and categorically can't join that alliance, although those lords regard Lan Ce as the hero, Lan Ce and the ministers still decided to observe for a while before talking, but this issue did speed up the process of the five-nation alliance.