In the Yeyue Imperial Capital, on the Jinluan Palace, Li Tianyou was trembling all over his body while holding a copy of the book, and the ministers below didn't dare to say much when they saw this, and they all stood there like good babies, silent.

After a long time, Li Tianyou's body moved, took a few deep breaths, suppressed the emotions in his heart and slowly spoke: "Uncle Huang unfortunately died in battle, tens of millions of soldiers are loyal to the country, the fourth worship of Taishang has been severely injured, and he is missing, even the second worship has also been severely injured, and a total of more than ten strong people in the realm of life and death have been killed or arrested, including top powerhouses such as Bei Niangzi and Yin Yang Jun!" ”

Wow~~~~ This remark is tantamount to throwing a boulder on the calm lake, which makes the ministers in the main hall explode at once, and all kinds of discussions instantly fill the audience.

After a while, Wu Tong stood up and said, "Your Majesty, did the newspaper say anything about the specific battle process?" ”

Li Tianyou also seemed to be in no mood to get angry, threw down the piece, and said weakly: "See for yourself." ”

Wu Tong picked up the recital, quickly read the tens of thousands of words of the recital, and couldn't help but set off a storm in his heart, and after all the important officials had read the recital, Wu Tong spoke: "Your Majesty, Fang Lin's wolf ambition has been fully revealed, and he has accumulated enough power to threaten the empire, the minister thinks that he can't give them any more time and opportunity to develop, otherwise, the future will be endless!" ”

When Li Tianyou heard this, his whole mood was as if a volcano that had been accumulating for a long time suddenly erupted, and he smashed the imperial case in front of him with a slap, and roared wildly: "Fang Lin, Fang Lin, this is this Fang Lin, this time I have been bad again and again, this time I actually killed my pillars, so that the entire empire has suffered immeasurable losses, Fang Lin, Fang Lin, I will kill you!! ”

At this time, the right prime minister stood up and said: "Your Majesty, please stop the wrath of thunder, the most urgent thing we need now is not to deal with Ling Huazong, but to stabilize the domestic situation first, and there are also new situations in the Eastern and Western Regions, which is the urgent need." ”

Li Tianyou's chest rose and fell fiercely a few times before he said coldly: "According to Xiangguo's meaning, Ling Huazong's threat is not big, you can ignore it, let it develop, let it grow, and when he is strong enough, he will destroy the empire in one fell swoop!" ”

The ministers were all cold in their hearts when they heard this, but in an instant, someone snickered in their hearts: "This old guy, thinking that he can rely on the old and sell the old by virtue of his identity as the elder of the three dynasties, actually dares to touch the head at this time, I'm afraid that he, the prime minister, doesn't want to do it." ”

In this regard, Prime Minister Right was very calm, and said: "Ling Huazong is indeed a huge threat and must be eliminated, but Your Majesty, this is not something to be done immediately. ”

Li Tianyou was about to speak, when a yin and yang strange voice came out: "Oh! Lord Xiangguo, now is not the time, when is the time, is it possible to wait until Ling Huazong has grown up completely, and even the empire has nothing to do with him? ”

The right prime minister doesn't need to look to know that this is Ji Mingxiong, a scholar of Denglong Pavilion and a squire of the military department, these two have always been at odds, and they will attack each other as long as they have the opportunity, as if they are a pair of undying enemies.

At that moment, the right prime minister snorted coldly and said to Ji Mingxiong: "Hmph, then according to Lord Shilang's intentions, let's attack Linghua Sect now, so, now the old man wants to ask, even Marshal Huben was defeated in Fang Lin's hands, may I ask who is the handsome at present?" Otherwise, your Lord Ji will make a military order, and then lead the troops to go, Lord Ji will be able to succeed immediately. ”

"You ••••••" Ji Mingxiong was almost choked with a sentence, but at this time, Li Tianyou said impatiently: "When is it, you court officials still have the leisure to fight here, what kind of system has become!" ”

When the two of them heard this, they stopped talking at the same time, Li Tianyou glanced at the two of them lightly, and said: "Prime Minister You, say everything you want to say, don't sell it, I'm not in the mood now." ”

The right prime minister also stopped talking nonsense, and said directly: "Your Majesty, according to the situation of this battle, I am afraid that the information we obtained before was not the most authentic information of Ling Hua Sect, it is very likely that Ling Hua Sect deliberately showed it to us, so it led to a serious error in our estimation of them, otherwise the third marshal would never have died at the hands of Fang Lin!" ”

The three marshals are the name of Li Xianzong by the ministers of the court, because the imperial family has three marshals, Li Yan is the generalissimo and Li Xiaofeng is the second marshal, but they are all called the generalissimo outside or in their own army.

When Li Tianyou heard this, his body was shocked, he turned his head, and a pair of cold eyes stared at Lu Xiong's face, and said with murderous aura: "Lu Xiong, give me a satisfactory explanation!" ”

Lu Xiong was so frightened that he was covered in a cold sweat, and immediately knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, the minister has been wronged, in the past two years, we have collected a lot of information about the Ling Hua Sect, including the number of their army, the quality of the generals, the development history of the sect and other aspects, and we have also planted a lot of spies in it, and one of them has successfully entered the level of elder. ”

Speaking of which. He swallowed his saliva before continuing: "Before the war began, we had already sent all the basic information of the Ling Hua Army to the Third Marshal, and the Marshal replied that he was measured, and the ministers did not dare to say much about the Marshal's decision!" ”

Li Tianyou was about to say something, but the right prime minister turned his head and glared at him angrily, and shouted: "Linghua Sect has a powerhouse in the virtual realm, why didn't you inform the third marshal of such news?" ”

When Li Tianyou heard this, his eyes were completely sharp, Lu Xiong's back was already dripping with cold sweat, and his throat rolled before he spoke: "Your Majesty, the Void Realm powerhouse belongs to the absolute core secret of a force, even if it is in the Empire, as the Purple Star Pavilion Lord, if it weren't for His Majesty talking about it today, the ministers wouldn't know that we still have the existence of the Taishang Worship, let alone the Void Realm powerhouse of the Ling Hua Sect." ”

Immediately after, without waiting for a question, he continued to add: "Also, the spies we sent out cannot be too high in the cultivation realm, even if the powerhouses of the Void Realm show their strength in front of them, as long as they don't specifically explain it, they will at most regard the other party as a powerhouse in the realm of life and death, it's not that we are disadvantaged, but that our strength is insufficient, Your Majesty." ”

This time it made the right prime minister, Li Tianyou and the rest of the ministers have nothing to say, and the facts are indeed as Lu Xiong said, Li Tianyou adjusted his mood and said: "Right Prime Minister, you talk about it, what should we do next." ”

"First of all, we have to increase the intelligence collection of Ling Hua Sect, Lao Chen suspects that Ling Hua Sect still has many things that we don't know, and it is definitely not a simple matter to be able to subdue a fourth-level spirit beast, and it can never be explained by luck." The right prime minister spoke.

Li Tianyou nodded when he heard this, he finally calmed down reluctantly now, and said: "You just talked about the domestic situation, as well as the situation in the Eastern and Western Regions, let's talk about it, what's going on." ”

The right prime minister replied respectfully and said, "Recently, due to the fact that we have transferred a large number of domestic troops to reinforce the other three battlefields except for the Southern Regions, especially the heavy losses in the Huanhua Wetland, the Wu State and the Nanyue Kingdom, our encirclement and supervision of those hidden martial arts families, sects and underground forces have been relaxed a lot, and they are ready to move again. ”

When Li Tianyou heard this, he showed an angry look and said: "These rats who can only cower in the shadows, relax a little bit about them, and they will come out to make trouble, the Criminal Department, the Military Department, it is your responsibility to arrest the thieves, and now that something like this has happened, you are guilty of dereliction of duty!" ”

When the military department Shangshu heard this, he immediately went out and said: "Your Majesty, the old minister has something to say, the recent domestic transfer of troops has reached 13.5 million, and they are all elite troops, but there are very few people who have returned, which directly leads to the serious shortage of our city defense forces and patrol forces, originally, the defensive strength of our town should be 10,000 people, but now there can only be 5,000 people, and the quality of the soldiers is pitifully low, and the defensive strength of the city is less than half of the original, as for the patrol army, now below the county town, there are no more, and the bandit army has become a gimmick, in this case, even if we work hard, it will be difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. ”

When Li Tianyou heard this, his brows furrowed, and he asked: "Raising soldiers for a thousand days, using them for a while, and the army is transferred out, as the secretary of the military department, don't you know how to recruit new soldiers and train troops?" ”

"Your Majesty, how can the minister not know about such a thing, at present, we have recruited six million recruits, and the recruitment is still continuing, but the current recruits are ordinary people, and their training time is probably not a matter of one or two years, if they want to reach the level of the elite of the empire, it will take at least ten years." The military department is still the book.

When Li Tianyou heard this, he rubbed his eyebrows a little irritably, and said, "Is there no martial artist anymore?" ”

The ministers didn't say anything when they heard this, they lowered their heads and didn't dare to look at Li Tianyou, His Majesty the Emperor seemed to realize something, so he changed the topic and said, "Those families and forces haven't done anything big recently, right?" ”

The criminal department Shangshu said: "The Northern Regions, the Southern Regions and the Western Regions have not had any major incidents due to the suppression of the three major families and the Shangyuan Sect, but the trouble in the Eastern Regions is a little bigger, the three county towns have been captured, and the thieves have looted the treasury and scattered in a hurry, so that we can't move troops to encircle and suppress, and the county towns and towns that have been ransacked by them are countless, and the number of soldiers who died has reached more than 200,000, just yesterday, the military salary and baggage transported by the imperial court to the border pass of the Eastern Regions were robbed by a group of unknown warriors, All the escort sergeants were killed! ”

Li Tianyou was furious when he heard this, and smashed the armrest of the dragon chair with a click, and shouted: "What about the defenders of the Eastern Regions, what are they doing to eat, after Beitangmo died, there will be no more marshals, and besides, isn't Taishang Er worshipping there, why didn't he make a move!" ”

The right prime minister sighed and continued: "Hey, this is the trouble of the Eastern Regions that the old minister wants to say, since the defeat of Beitangmo, the loss of more than half of the army, and the retreat to Lanyue Pass, the army has been in a state of no marshal, and the eastern country is like a rainbow, attacking again and again, causing heavy casualties to our army, until some time ago the old marshal Shan was ordered to be in danger and with the deterrence of the Taishang Five Offerings, the situation is better, but it is still not optimistic, because there is also a strong man in the virtual realm, and therefore, The border army and the Taishang Er worship can't pull away. ”

Li Tianyou fell silent when he heard this, there was a dead silence in the hall, and he didn't even dare to let out the atmosphere, and only after a long time did he slowly speak, and his tone was a little low: "Let's talk about the Western Regions, it won't be that Ximen Changli is also defeated." ”

"That's not true, but it's a little strange that just yesterday, Ximen Changli unexpectedly sent troops out of the customs to attack the Three Kingdoms Alliance once, although they successfully destroyed a large military depot, but the two thousand Feng Yiwei elites who carried out the mission were all killed, which made General Feng Yiwei extremely angry and had a big quarrel with Ximen Changli." Right Prime Minister said.

"Hehe, I finally have a little better news, it seems that Ximen Changli is not cowardly, is there anything else?" Li Tianyou's tone seemed to soften a little, and said.

"There is also the transmission of Taishang's worship, Dongfang Li's cultivation seems to have improved again, although he is not the opponent of Taishang's worship, but joining forces with another person has been able to completely contain Taishang's worship, it is estimated that after a while, he will be able to be on a par with Taishang's worship." Right Prime Minister said.

Surprisingly. Hearing this news, Li Tianyou didn't get angry on the spot, but his silence was even more trembling, and after being silent for a long time, Li Tianyou raised his head and said in a somewhat difficult tone: "Is there anything new over there in the Southern Regions?" ”

The right prime minister shook his head, Li Tianyou smiled bitterly, and said: "Maybe this is the best news I heard, is there anything else, if not, let's disperse the dynasty, as for the treatment of Ling Huazong and the northern country, we will discuss it another day!" ”

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Qi Yuan City Marshal Mansion, when the rest of the Yeyue Army was swept away, the Northern Alliance Army and the top leaders of Ling Huazong finally sat together.

After some politeness between the two sides, Fang Lin said directly: "Marshal Yelu Zongzheng, we don't talk darkly, the reason why my Linghua Sect sent troops is, of course, to kill Li Xianzong, and in addition, it is for our huge interests, in other words, it is for this half of the Qi country, so my idea is very simple, the land of Qi country, half of our family!" ”

A touch of surprise flashed in Yelu Zongzheng's eyes when he heard this, and he said in his heart: "Although we thought that Fang Lin would ask for half of the land, we didn't expect that he would be so direct, and many of the words that we would prepare for the next thing have come to naught, which is really powerful." ”

However, there was no show on his face, and he still said with a smile: "Hehe, Sect Master Fang should know that this land does not belong to my Northern Alliance Army at all, but belongs to the Qi State, more than three years ago, the Qi State was attacked by the Yeyue Empire, which led to the destruction of the country, but the royal family of the Qi State was not extinct, they went to our Bulqi Department and asked for the help of our Department, and we also agreed to their request and cooperated with it, so this land belongs to the royal family of the Qi State, Our Northern Coalition has no authority to dishonor them. ”

His words were extremely beautiful, but everyone knows that since the destruction of the Qi and Song dynasties, they have completely taken refuge in the Burqi Ministry, that is to say, they are already the people of the Burqi Ministry, and Yelu Zongzheng said this is to bring the entire Qi State into the bag of the Burqi Ministry.

Everyone in the Ling Hua Sect was a little angry when they heard this, but Fang Lin was silent, and said with a smile: "The so-called Qi State has long since perished, that is already history, if they themselves have the ability to take back the entire country from Li Xianzong's hands, this sect has nothing to say." ”

Speaking of this, Fang Lin's voice suddenly paused, and then his voice suddenly raised, and he shouted: "However, what did their Qi royal family do in this war, except for running errands behind the ass of your Northern Coalition Army, they didn't do anything, and such a thing can be done even by any soldier, that is to say, they are just doing what a small soldier should do, and they are not qualified to come to a meeting of our level to make a big statement!" ”

These words were sharp, and they did not save any face for the royal family of Qi State, and they also strongly excluded it from the game, which made Yelu Zongzheng's plan to make a fuss about the royal family of Qi State in vain.

At this time, Ji Yulong smiled and said: "Sect Master Fang's words are wrong, the royal family of Qi has been running Qi for hundreds of years, and the people in this land have already recognized them, we all know the strength of the Yeyue Empire at the beginning, to tell the truth, the Qi State is indeed not the opponent of the Yeyue Empire, so they can't be completely blamed for the destruction of the country, and now that they have returned, then this land should be dominated by them." ”

As soon as these words came out, they immediately received the support of many big figures in the Northern Alliance, especially the representatives of the royal family of the Qi State next to them, and their faces were full of gratitude and excitement, however, everyone on Ling Huazong's side had gloomy faces and anger in their eyes.

Li Haoran sneered, looked at Ji Yulong and said: "This general, I want to ask a question, as we all know, the founding of the Qi State has indeed been around for hundreds of years, so a few hundred years ago, this land did not belong to the Qi State, so how did they get this land?" ”

This sentence made everyone dumbfounded, but at this time, the representative of the royal family of Qi State spoke: "That's because the ruler at that time was cruel and unkind, which caused the heavens to be angry and resentful, and my royal ancestors obeyed the heavens and won the support of the people in this land, until now." ”

Li Haoran nodded and said, "That means that your ancestors still took it from other people's hands through war, because it is impossible for others to give you away, right?" ”

The representative of the royal family immediately became anxious when he heard this, because anyone could guess what Li Haoran was going to say next, as long as he let the other party say it, it would be extremely unfavorable to him, so he said: "That's because they refuse to hand over the land, they want to take it for themselves forever, and they want to enslave the people all the time, that kind of war is just and should be sung through the ages!" ”

Li Haoran ignored his words, but grasped the key point and said: "No matter what you say, the fact is that you used the war to take it from the hands of others, that is to say, this land is actually not yours, hehe, the so-called world is the world of the people of the world, and only the virtuous live in it!" ”

Speaking of this, Li Haoran paused, glanced at the royal representative, did not give him a chance, and continued: "Your ancestors were supported by all the people at that time, and became the masters of this land, and they were virtuous, but you abandoned the country and fled when the Yeyue Empire attacked, that is to say, you have taken the initiative to give up this land, for those who have lost their morality, and since they have lost their morality, how can they be the masters!" ”

The latter words are basically roared at the representative of the royal family, making the representative pale, unable to speak in sentences, and unable to reach the meaning; At this time, Fang Lin smiled and said: "There is no free lunch in the world, everyone, what you want, you have to fight, fight, and win, killing Li Xianzong is our full contribution, blocking the strong of the Yeyue Empire, and we are also responsible for it, we have sacrificed nearly two million soldiers and wiped out more than six million Yeyue Army, everyone, what are we for, is it for a royal family of Qi that has nothing to do with us, hehe, Generalissimo Yelu, do you really think so." ”

For Fang Lin's straightforward words, Yelu Zongzheng really had no way to deal with it, and said in his heart: "It seems that it is impossible for us to annex the Qi Kingdom alone, we can only ask for more land and force Ling Huazong to the corner of the west." ”

Taking a deep breath, Yelu Zong said: "In this battle, your sect has indeed made a lot of efforts, if there are not enough benefits. That's really unreasonable, but if you open your mouth and ask for half of the land, Sect Master Fang is a bit of a lion opening his mouth. ”

"Oh? According to Marshal Yelu's words, then we can't even get half of the land? At this time, Dongfang Tianxiao's voice sounded, and he looked at Yelu Zongzheng playfully and said: "Generalissimo, we are all soldiers, and soldiers are to speak with military merits, presumably now you should all understand Li Xianzong's scheme, and later you should also know Li Xianzong's strength, I just want to ask, if there is no reminder from our army in front, will you want to get Li Xianzong's means of transferring flowers and trees?" If it weren't for us, would the strength of your army be able to hold off the powerhouses of their realm? If it weren't for us, would you be able to take down Li Xianzong alone? ”

After speaking, his playful eyes swept over every general of the Northern Alliance, and seeing that no one answered for a long time, he continued to speak: "If you can't, then how can you divide the land, according to military merits, even if we ask for two-thirds, it is not too much. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the Northern Alliance Army was angry, and immediately someone stood up and pointed at Dongfang Tianxiao's nose and scolded, and the people of Ling Huazong were naturally not far behind, and for a while, the entire hall turned into a vegetable market for shrews and scolding streets.

After a long time, perhaps tired of scolding, the hall gradually quieted down, and it was only at this time that Yelu Dingkun, who had not spoken before, opened his mouth and sneered: "Hmph, I said that everyone of Linghua Sect, we have no result if we continue to quarrel like this, and the distribution of this Qi country is actually very simple, that is, it depends on strength, if the strength is not enough, even if your military achievements are great, it will be in vain, because you can't hold it at all, right?" ”

When Fang Lin heard this, he raised his eyebrows, and said very simply: "What His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said, Fang Mou agrees with it very much, since it is necessary to compare strength, I don't know how His Royal Highness is going to compare?" ”

Yelu Dingkun laughed and said, "Haha, these are all things that a discerning person can see, do we still need to compare!" Speaking of this, he raised his chin proudly and said: "My Northern Alliance Army is formed by the union of the eighteen most powerful tribes in the Northern Kingdom, that is to say, in terms of national territory, our Alliance Army is several times larger than your Ling Huazong, secondly, our army, how many do you Ling Huazong have now, and my Northern Alliance Army is now more than three million here, and you, can you still have two million, if the two armies are facing each other, I'm afraid your army has no chance of winning, third, our strong man, hehe, please forgive me, You Linghua Sect is a sect, it is impossible to have more masters than my eighteen alliances, so, from these three points, I wonder if the sect master still thinks that his strength is stronger than ours? ”

After this speech, it seemed to be reasonable, which made everyone in the coalition army feel a little complacent, but everyone in the Linghua Sect looked at them with a strange look, and after a while, Yin Yunxi shook his head and said: "I really don't know where this highness the crown prince came from, indeed, your eighteen alliances, the combined land area is probably no other country other than the Yeyue Empire can compare with it, but the large land area does not represent everything, The population is the key factor, second, I don't know if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has heard a saying, called 'soldiers are expensive but not expensive', your army is indeed more than us, but what about your combat effectiveness, we used two million troops to kill Li Xianzong's nearly six million troops, and your army, it took eight million troops, and it turned out to kill more than 4 million opponents, and you also lost 5 million, excuse me, what do you compare with us? Third, as for the words of the strong, quantity is indeed very important, but Your Highness, don't forget, quality comes first, may I ask, can you take the strong people who come out of the virtual realm? ”

Speaking of this, Yin Yunxi shut up, and there is no need to say anything about the next, however, the people of the Northern Alliance Army showed various different forms, some showed shocked and frightened looks, such as Ji Yulong and the old man behind Yelu Zongzheng, some showed a thoughtful look, such as Ashina Simo, and some were confused, such as Yelu Dingkun.

After a long time, someone in the coalition couldn't help but speak: "I've been listening to you talk about the strong in the virtual realm, the strong in the virtual realm, Lao Tzu wants to see and see, what kind of powerful method is the strong in the virtual realm, is it much more powerful than the realm of life and death?" ”

As soon as he said this, he immediately attracted the contemptuous eyes of everyone in Ling Hua Sect, which made the expression on his face stiffen, but on the coalition side, a curious look flashed in the eyes of most of the people.

Seeing this, Fang Lin just smiled lightly, waved his hand, and the monkey win standing behind him took a step forward, and the momentum on his body exploded instantly, enveloping all the people of the Northern Alliance, and then he heard a sound of spurting blood, as well as a creaking sound of overwhelmed bones, and a burst of gasping sound!

After a breath, Monkey Win retracted his momentum and stood behind Fang Lin again, at this time the coalition forces breathed a long sigh of relief, but the horror in their eyes could not be concealed no matter what, you must know that none of the coalition forces present had a cultivation level lower than the Nai He realm, however, they were spurting blood and kneeling under the pressure of that momentum, which was not at the same level as the return to the realm of life and death!

After a while, Yelu Zongzheng slowly calmed down and said dejectedly: "Sect Master Fang, we completely agree with your previous proposal, so •••••• next?"

As soon as his words came to this, Fang Lin suddenly interrupted and said coldly: "Lord Marshal, all conspiracies and calculations need to pay a price, so, Qi Country, I Linghua Sect wants two-thirds, if you don't agree, then we'll see you on the battlefield!" ”

"You, Fang Lin, you are the master of a sect in vain, and your words don't count!" Yelu Dingkun pointed at Fang Lindao angrily.

"Hmph, who said just now that everything has to rely on strength to speak, why, now that I have shown my strength, you have to rely on reason again, hehe, what do you think of us, puppets for you to fiddle with, His Royal Highness the Prince, this sect will send you another word, all kinds of calculations, all kinds of plans, that all need the corresponding strength to support, otherwise, everything is empty talk!" Fang Lin said in a bad tone.

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