Ji Xia woke up from his mind and found that the celebration banquet held to celebrate the defeat of the dove dog was still going on, he sat at the top, Lu Yu, Ji Qianqing, Zhaoqu, and two middle-aged people in long clothes sat side by side, and below, there were Taicang Baiguan who had just been released from the secret prison.

These Taicang officials were worried in the dark prison, for fear that the Taicang country would be destroyed, and now that they know the news of Taicang's great victory, they are all overjoyed, and the resentment caused by being indiscriminately imprisoned in the secret prison by Ji Xia is gone.

said that it was a banquet, but in fact, it was just a gathering of hundreds of officials and a decent meal.

In addition to the area where the two cities of Taicheng and Cangcheng are located, the other areas in the Taicang Kingdom are either arid deserts or extremely humid rainforests, which are not very suitable for human habitation.

This kind of extreme geographical difference does not conform to common sense in Ji Xia's memory, but this is not the earth, and everything in the infinite wilderness is full of this treacherous and unreasonable, so there may be a path between this completely contradictory geographical environment.

On one side of the trail is desolate and hot, rocky and rocky, while on the other side is a sea of giant trees, clouds and lush vegetation.

On the one hand, these strange natural environments allow the Taicang people to gather in Taicheng and Cangcheng, and on the other hand, the material conditions of Taicang are extremely bad.

Food shortage, poor production, and low quality of life are the most intuitive impressions that Taicang gave Ji Xia.

As the crown prince, the person with the highest status in the Taicang Kingdom at present, what was placed on the stone table in front of him? a plate of dark green dishes that he couldn't name, a plate of red animal meat, a bowl of clear soup, and a bowl of rice.

The stone table in front of the other hundred officials was even more miserable, most of them only had one dish and one soup in front of two or three people, they divided the dishes and soup on top of their own rice, feasted on it, and the happy appearance couldn't help but make Ji Xia swallow his saliva.

"Is it really that delicious?" he looked at the dish in front of him, not only looking forward to it, but slowly took a piece of green vegetables and put it in his mouth.

At the beginning of the mouth, there was a slight bitterness permeating the taste buds, but after carefully chewing it, the aftertaste was suddenly born, which surprised Ji Xia.

"I thought it would be unpalatable, but I didn't expect it to be good. Ji Xia's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly picked up another piece of beast meat, which tasted very good.

"I didn't expect that Taicang's property was so scarce, and the things he made could still be in his stomach. ”

A smile just appeared on his face, and his face suddenly froze, and he took a bite of rice in his mouth, but he didn't expect that an extremely indescribable taste immediately filled his mouth.

This taste is like chewing a hundred-year-old wood, bitter, astringent and woody, difficult to swallow!

"This rice, how does it taste like this? Ji Xia endured the discomfort, swallowed the rice in his mouth, and gently pushed the bowl.

It's not that he's picky, the taste of this rice really makes him accept incompetence.

"Maybe it's a problem with the variety of rice, I just saw that there are spiritual rice seeds in the first layer of the forbidden god tree, and if there are more spiritual seeds in the future, I will exchange them for a try, and I have been eating this kind of rice on weekdays, and it is too difficult. ”

Ji Xia secretly thought about it, a middle-aged man in a long robe sitting under him, ate the food in front of him, elegantly took out a square towel from his arms, wiped his mouth, stood up, and said loudly: "Today's victory is the blessing of the gale, and we will salute the gale!"

Several burly sergeants carried a huge statue from the side, this statue was carved from stone, one foot high, still a dragon's head and a human body, stepping on the continent's gale totem.

Everyone stood up violently, saluted their chests to the gale totem, and shouted: "Gale, gale!"

Ji Xia buried his head in eating, and was startled by the sound of everyone shouting, and sensed the eyes of the summoning song album staring at him, so he quickly stood up and shouted to the crowd.

After saluting, the gale totem was carried away by the burly sergeant, and the middle-aged man glanced at Ji Xia, who was at the top, and said: "Now that the first lord of the country has collapsed, the Taicang country cannot be left without an owner for a day, and there must be a new lord to succeed him." “

Everyone was silent, quietly looking at the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man faced Ji Xia again, and Shi Li said, "What does Your Highness think?"

Ji Xia wiped the corners of his mouth and said disapprenosingly: "Where is Zaili?"

Among the hundreds of officials, there was a gray-haired old man who slowly stepped out of the queue and bowed down to answer.

"Lord Changfeng, as the Taicang Palm Ceremony, you are in charge of all the ceremonial matters, I ask you, who will succeed you when the lord of the country collapses. “

"Back to His Royal Highness, the lord of the country went to the court of the heavens, and the state decree was naturally in charge of His Royal Highness the Prince. ”

The white-haired old man looked drooping and decrepit, but his voice was extremely energetic, and there was no sense of ambiguity in his speech.

Ji Xia nodded with satisfaction and said to the middle-aged man: "Uncle Qing, did you hear that?"

The middle-aged man was Ji Xia's third-ranked uncle, named Ji Qing.

When Ji Qing heard Ji Xia's words, a trace of worry flashed in his eyes and said: "Your Highness, you are the only heir of Shang, in normal times, you should naturally succeed to the throne and take charge of the Taicang State Order, but now that Taicang is worried about internal and external troubles, there is no room for mistakes, please consider it carefully......"

Ji Xia was stunned, and when he heard the true feelings in Ji Qing's tone, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded: "It turns out that my third uncle is worried about Taicang, and I thought this was a seizure of the throne." ”

He was about to speak, another middle-aged man with majestic eyebrows and a calm face also stood up and said to Ji Xia: "Xia, what Qing said is that you are still too young to understand the difficulties of a country's government and government, and now is the most difficult time for Taicang, and we can't make any mistakes."

Besides, you are now walking for the gale, even if you do not ascend to the position of the lord of the country, the whole cang, no one dares to disrespect you, you can rest assured. “

This is Ji Xia's uncle, named Ji Ze, as soon as he spoke, the hundred officials immediately whispered.

The reason is that this was originally the prince of the previous generation, and the previous generation of lords died, and Ji Ze was supposed to be the lord of the country, but he resolutely decided to give up the lord of the country to his second brother, that is, Ji Xia's father.

Baiguan stopped, and he said loudly: "The gap between me and my brother Shang is like a surging river, he is upstream of the river, and I am downstream of the river." ”

"If there is no great enemy around Taicang, if the people of Taicang are rich and healthy, if the human race is not the weakest race, of course I am willing to sit on the throne of the country, but the situation of Taicang, the situation of the human race is obvious to all. ”

"I ascend to the position of the lord of the country today, and he will be destroyed in the future, but if it is a business brother who takes on a big responsibility, then my Taicang still has a little breathing room between the two kingdoms of Gugu and Zhou Qing, so I am willing to resign from the position of prince and give up to Shang brother!"

Ji Xia was silent for a while, stood up, saluted Ji Ze, and asked, "Uncle Shang, then who do you think can take the position of the lord of the country." ”

Ji Ze looked at the children of the royal family who were mixed with hundreds of officials in the court, and was silent for a long time before he said: "Since the day the lord of the country died, I have already sent my subordinates to find your seventh uncle. ”

Ji Xia nodded and agreed: "Uncle Seventh is resourceful and strong, if it is him, he is enough to assume the position of the lord of the country." ”

A sigh came, and Lu Yu slowly got up: "But Senior Minister Ji Su (Note 1) has been out for more than five years, and I'm afraid I won't be able to find it in the short term." “

Everyone was silent, now the royal clan relatives, there are only Ze, Shang, Qing, Su four veins, the other three veins are all dead because of the perennial battle, the Shang vein is only Ji Xia, the Su vein is only Ji Xia Seventh Uncle one, and Ze, Qing two veins are scarce but there are more than ten people.

It's a pity that no one is up for the job.

Ji Xia looked at these sad ministers and royal families, and once again felt the unity and pressure of Taicang.

In less than two days after he came to Taicangtai, he had seen too many sacrifices made by the people of Taicang in order to defend their homes and defend the country, and his heart was full of a sense of identity with this weak country.

"There's no going back. Ji Xia suddenly seemed to have an understanding: "I am now the prince of Taicang, and Taicang is my home country." ”

"If I don't agree with this land, where can I go? The nearest human kingdom is 3,300 miles away from Taicheng, and the situation there is not much better. The whole boundless wilderness is boundless, and it is said that only the human race in the Jihuang Kingdom, far to the east of the heavenly abyss, can live like a person. “

"Even if the legend is true, the Jihuang Kingdom is far away in the abyss, even if I can live for a thousand years, I can't go there, all I can do is to make Taicang strong and let myself live. “

Ji Xia figured out the joints, only to feel that the knot in his heart in the past few days had been opened, and his thoughts gradually became clear, he stood up and walked off the throne.

All the royal family, Lu Yu, Ji Qianqing, and Baiguan all looked at him when they saw his strange behavior.

He slowly came to the middle of the court, took a deep breath, and with a thought, an ordinary gourd appeared in his hand.

Ji Xia gently took off the lid of the gourd, and a breeze blew out of the gourd, gently blowing to the entire court, the entire palace, and then blowing out of Taicheng and blowing to the entire Taicang.

"Scorching the soul of the merchant, returning to the Zang Si Gu, scorching the soul of the merchant, pitying the old, scorching the soul of the merchant, returning to the ancestral land!"

A strange spell came out of his mouth, resounding throughout the court, and was sent around by the breeze, and in an instant, his shout seemed to have a response, and wisps of light continued to fly from the sky, flying into the palace, and coming to Ji Xia.

Countless rays of light converged into a figure cast of light, this figure had clear eyebrows, handsome and extraordinary, and exuded a faint green glow all around it.

"Lord of the country!" Lu Yu knelt down, and hundreds of officials rushed to kneel and salute first, they were full of tears and grief.

Ji Qianqing cried silently, and the figure of her father in her mind gradually coincided with this light figure.

But the shining figure looked at Ji Xia, Ji Xia smiled lightly at the figure and asked, "Father, can I be a big man?"

The figure of light suddenly laughed, the laughter shook the sky, and then his face was no longer solemn and worried, he raised his right hand to everyone kneeling with a smile, and said, "Hundred officials, please get up!"

Baiguan got up, and the figure gradually turned into a point of light and flew into the spirit gourd, but his words of relief resounded throughout the court: "My son Ji Xia is enough to take on a great responsibility and be the lord of the Taicang Kingdom!"

The hundred officials knelt down again and congratulated loudly: "Congratulations to the first lord of the country, welcome the crown prince to succeed to the throne!"

Ji Xia walked to the top step by step, sat on the throne, raised his hand gently, and said, "Hundred officials, please get up!"

Shangyin Luyu, Zuo Ji Zhaoqu, and Zai Li Chang Feng glanced at each other, as if they were in the lord of the country, and saw the shadow of the previous lord of the country!