The next day, Rong Yuan, who successfully left Gu Lingzhi in bed and accompanied him for a day and two nights, finally released him satisfied.

It was too early, Rong Yuan didn't mention the matter of serving tea to his in-laws, the two of them washed up, and went directly to the imperial study.

At this moment, there are a lot fewer people in the imperial study than before Rong Yuan got married. The envoys who had no intention of forming an alliance with Bactria had already returned to their homeland. What was left behind all indicated that they were going to stand on the same line as Xia Guo.

His eyes swept over a few messengers who had taken refuge in Beiqiu, but were mixed in with the alliance. Rong Yuan pulled Gu Lingzhi into the innermost part of the imperial study.

There, Rong Han has been waiting for a long time. Seeing them coming, the most sincere smile on his face in the past two days appeared: "I can be regarded as willing to get up." Your mother is still muttering in the morning, if you don't get up today, you will send a pot of perfect tonic soup. ”

Gu Lingzhi's face turned red when he heard this, and he lowered his head and looked at people embarrassed. Rong Yuan smiled generously and said, "It's still the concubine who thinks thoughtfully, and you can find someone to send a pot over later, just to make up for the spirit." ”

After speaking, Gu Lingzhi screwed his back hard. It hurts so much that he grins his teeth. The people next to him couldn't help but chuckle when they saw it.

After a while of laughter, Rong Yuan asked about the matter.

"Father, have the envoys who don't want to ally with us already returned?"

Rong Han pondered for a moment: "Most of them have already gone back." There are only a very few who are still waiting in Chiyang City, and it has been a matter of the past two days to want to leave. ”

Rong Yuan nodded, and secretly counted the number of envoys left behind, and found that the number had increased slightly compared to before they became married, and there were actually nineteen countries that had decided to form an alliance with Great Xia.

Of these countries, four are from North Hill. They are the Kingdom of Yunlan, the Kingdom of Qiyun, the Kingdom of Qi and the Kingdom of Sanna.

Among them, the strength of Sanna Country is the strongest, and it is on a par with Great Xia. The remaining three are not a cause for concern. If you use it well, you may be able to have an unexpected effect.

In a moment's effort, Rong Yuan had already measured the forces in the imperial study and sat on the seat reserved for him and Gu Lingzhi.

"Third prince, I solemnly apologize to you for the incident that day, I really didn't expect that Beiqiu would be so vicious and do such a thing, I am really confused!"

As soon as the two of them sat down, Lu Xueqin, the envoy of Yunlan Kingdom, said with a look of regret. The look of apology and indignation on his face made people intuitively believe that he really regretted it.

Unfortunately, intuition is not the truth. Regarding his superb performance, Rong Yuan only replied without being salty: "Ah, did Lord Lu say that he helped Pan Wen slander me that day? ”

Although he forgot it, anyone with a discerning eye could see that Rong Yuan's words were wrong, and he was still holding a grudge.

In this regard, Lu Xueqin could only secretly scold the small-bellied chicken intestines. There was a smile on his face: "Even if the third prince forgets, I can't help but apologize for the mistakes I made." I also hope that the third prince will not go to his heart. After all, we will have to work together for a long time in the future. You can't hurt your peace for a little thing, you say, right?"

Listening to Lu Xueqin's words of apology, Gu Lingzhi frowned. This Lu Xueqin is worthy of being an envoy of a country, and he speaks without leakage. On the surface, it is an apology, but secretly it is implying that Rong Yuan and the two countries are forming an alliance, and it is not good for anyone to have a stalemate.

"What Lord Lu said is, after all, it will be a long time coming. Rong Yuan said this meaningfully, then turned his head and asked Rong Han: "Father, where did you talk about before?"

"It's just to understand the armed forces of each country and see how to arrange the best way to fight Beiqiu. Rong Han didn't seem to feel the secret rivalry between Rong Yuan and Lu Xueqin before. With a calm face, he picked up a stack of papers from the table in front of him and handed it to Rong Yuan: "This is the basic data of the armed forces of various countries, what do you think we have a chance of winning against Beiqiu?"

Rong Yuan took a cursory glance, his gaze focused on the force value written behind the countries that had taken refuge in Beiqiu for a few seconds, and then put down the paper, did not express any opinions, but looked at Xie Jianyu who was sitting on the other side and said, "I don't know what Prince Yi thinks?"

Hearing this, everyone subconsciously looked at Xie Jianyu, but they did not express their dissatisfaction with Rong Yuan's natural inquiry. In fact, from the time they came to the Xia Kingdom and expressed their willingness to form an alliance with the Xia Kingdom, there was a faint trend led by the Xia Kingdom.

Coupled with the strength of the Xia Kingdom itself, the envoys of other countries have nothing to be dissatisfied with, after all, it was Rong Yuan who exposed the conspiracy of Beiqiu in the first place. Now it is logical to take Xia Guo as the leader.

Asked by Rong Yuan alone, Xie Jianyu was slightly surprised, and muttered: "Judging from the current force of various countries, there is still a good chance of winning against Beiqiu and his vassal countries. But this is all on the basis of the fact that there are no internal ghosts among us, and we are united with the outside world. ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and subconsciously glanced at the envoy of Minglan Kingdom. Before I remembered him, I said that the Lan layer had taken refuge in Beiqiu. It may not be that there will be no other people who have taken refuge in Beiqiu among them.

A trace of unnaturalness flashed on the faces of the four envoys who had taken refuge in the Beiqiu Kingdom, and they pricked up their ears to listen to Xie Jianyu's next words, for fear that he would say something shocking again.

"Yes, since Beiqiu can let so many countries choose them. It may not be that any of us will defect to Beiqiu in the future, and Prince Yi's worries are not unreasonable. ”

Rong Yuan was not surprised at all that Xie Jianyu was able to tell the truth hidden in the shadows with a sharp point. Even by naming him to speak, he also had the intention of using his mouth to knock the envoys of those countries. Xie Jianyu didn't disappoint him, so he agreed with satisfaction.

"I don't think any country will be stupid enough to turn against the water when the ambitions of the wolf son of Beiqiu are exposed, right?" the envoy of Sanna Country sneered. Intended to divert attention.

Rong Yuan glanced at him and said leisurely: "This may not be, maybe there are those fools who seek skin with the tiger, thinking that they will have good luck?"

Seeing that the envoy of Sanna Kingdom was gloomy by his own words, Rong Yuan ignored him. Just plant a seed of vigilance in the hearts of others. Something is better to keep him dangerous.

"As Prince Yi said, although on the whole, the strength of our alliance is stronger than that of Beiqiu, but Beiqiu is the number one power in Tianyuan after all, and no one knows how deep their heritage is. If he is unfortunate enough to guess it, there really is an inner ghost in Beiqiu among us, so who loses and who wins...... It's really hard to say. Therefore, I think it is better for everyone to prepare a few more roads in the face of Beiqiu......"

With Rong Yuan's voice, everyone's attention was also on his words, carefully analyzing the feasibility of his words.

"In terms of troop deployment, I think we should take advantage of the existing advantages, stretch the battle line into a line, and advance towards the north hill little by little. ”

Speaking of this, Rong Yuan took a map and pointed to the locations of the nineteen countries of the alliance above, "Look. Although our countries are somewhat scattered, they are connected by borders, and even a few countries overlap on the same line. It just encloses the north mound in a semicircle. ”

When everyone heard his words, they followed the route he had drawn by his hand, looked at the distribution of the countries in the alliance on the map, and found that it was really as he said, nineteen alliance countries, which exactly surrounded the north hill in a semicircle.

And on the opposite side of this semicircle is the most vast, terrifying and boundless sea area of the Tian Yuan Continent.

No one knows how the boundless sea came to be. I only know that since the disappearance of the Spirit Race, it suddenly appeared on the periphery of the entire continent. The whole continent is enclosed in the middle.

This means that as long as they can grasp the battle situation and advance the battle line little by little, they can slowly force Beiqiu to the edge of the boundless sea. Let them be forced to face the danger of the boundless sea, on the contrary, if Beiqiu masters the battle, they can also force them into the boundless sea on the other side.

It's a close race, and whoever pushes someone to the brink first wins.

There is no need for Rong Yuan to explain, looking at the very obvious dividing line, everyone also understands what Rong Yuan means. The purpose of this cane competition is to see who takes the lead first.

Rong Yuan quietly glanced at the thoughtful envoy of Sanna Country, the calculation in his eyes flashed, and he said casually: "Although from the perspective of the terrain, we have the upper hand a little, and the national line is relatively long, completely surrounding Beiqiu. But here, here, and here are somewhat weak, and some men should be sent from other countries to strengthen the troops. ”

The three places Rong Yuan was referring to were the three countries with the weakest forces in the alliance, including the Kuiyun Kingdom, which had long been subordinated to Beiqiu.

"Then according to the opinion of the three princes, how should we strengthen the troops?" The envoy of Fengdu State, one of the three weak countries, who spoke, looked at Rong Yuan with anticipation in his eyes.

Rong Yuan's brows furrowed, as if he was embarrassed. After a while, he said: "In my opinion, we can send some troops from a few countries with slightly stronger troops to garrison it. This will not only ensure the security of the battle line, but also increase the friendship of various countries, what do you think?"

"That's it, I think it's good. The envoy of Sanna almost couldn't wait.

Although he didn't know if there were any other countries in the alliance besides Sanna Country that had taken refuge in North Hill. But being able to send some men to invade another country in a bright and open way is definitely a good thing that cannot be desired.

The envoy of the country of Kuiyun was not very happy, and looked at Lu Xueqin with a worried expression, hoping that he would take the initiative to promise to send troops to support Kuiyun. Otherwise, in other countries, his eyelids are low, and he will not be able to do anything.

Receiving his request for help, Lu Xueqin only hesitated for a moment, and then said tentatively: "Our Minglan is not bad. It's better to support the force of the clouds, and let's let us Minglan come out. ”