Chapter 313

"I didn't expect that one day I would be as old as Su Nan."

The monarch Ning Yuanxian groaned.

His hair was originally a little white, but now it is about half of it.

Not only that, he has been eating very lightly this month, and he has lost almost ten pounds.

With some deliberate dressing up, the whole person seems to be twenty years older.

He's in his fifties, he looked like he was in his thirties and now he looks like he's in his seventies.

There is no way, people in the world only believe what they want to believe.

Whether it is the common people or the officials, they all firmly believe that Ning Yuanxian had a stroke, and it was a stroke on a woman's belly, and he will probably die soon.

Because the stroke is easy to recur, once it recurs, there is no doubt that it will die.

At this time, even if Ning Yuanxian stood up and said that the widow was fine, it would not help.

In this case, he simply acted to the extreme,

Appears to be extremely weak.

In the past month, he has never been to the court, and he is still the crown prince supervising the country.

Of course, important matters still had to be done by Ning Yuanxian himself.

"Hey!" Ning Yuanxian put down the memorial in his hand.

He was no longer angry at this time, otherwise he would have almost died of anger.

People in this world are so realistic, whether they are ordinary people or officials.

A few months ago, because he annihilated the Su Nan rebellion and won the battle of Wu and Yue, what kind of glory did he, Ning Yuanxian, have?

What is the peak of reputation?

So when did his reputation start to take a turn for the worse?

It was because of Lan Lunatic and those ten beggars.

At that time, Ning Yuanxian allowed them to take the Enke civil and military examinations, which caused a lot of uproar.

Every day there are censors and ministers of civil and military madness, saying that he treats the imperial examination as a child's play. On the surface, he is attacking Shen Lang, but in fact he is pointing at him, the monarch.

The results of it?

Lan Lunatic High School Xie Yuan.

All ten brothers of the Lan family were named on the Gold List.

Facts have proved that the monarch of his is not a foolish monarch, but a wise man.

Ning Yuanxian slapped the whole world in the face at that time, and it was very cool.

That's when his reputation got worse.

This group of civil and military ministers were clearly wrong, so they were beaten in the face, and countless scholars were also wrong.

But people don't care about right or wrong at all.

It was precisely because they were wrong that they hated the ruler Ning Yuanxian even more in their hearts, even hostile.

Of course, Ning Yuanxian was a king after all, a scholar in the world, and some civil and military officials were helpless even if they were hostile to him.

But people can ruin your reputation.

And it was at this time that Ning Yuanxian fell ill.

In an instant, countless rumors broke out.

The monarch has a wind immediately, and the monarch has five daughters every day.

There are even more unbearable people who say that the reason why the monarch loves Shen Lang is entirely because he is handsome and has a secret relationship.

Between the king and his ministers, there is an eternal enemy.

This is the eternal truth.

In this world, it's not the ministers who manipulate the king, or the king who manipulates the ministers. Of course, more often they are interoperating.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a master manipulating courtiers, the Jiajing Emperor.

He completely manipulated his subjects to the point of death, and he did not know how many powerful subjects were manipulated to death by him.

But after he was a little old, after the lackey Yan Song was killed, it was his turn to be manipulated by the courtiers, and he could not get a good posthumous title after his death.

Suzong was probably better than Emperor Yang, but he was also middle and lower. It means that you are a very mean and unkind person, very bad.

The monarch Ning Yuanxian was also a master at manipulating his subjects. In the past 20 years in his reign, he did not know how many subjects he manipulated to death, and he was definitely mean and unkind.

But he is stronger than Emperor Jiajing in one point, how does he basically move the important ministers of the country.

No matter how big the trouble is, it will never move the foundation.

Shangshutai, several imperial pillars of the Privy Council, has always been stable. Of course, Su Nan was an exception, he had already rebelled.

But now, that foundation has also loosened a bit.

The foundation on the side of the civil servants is the prime minister Zhu Hongzhu, and the foundation on the side of the military generals is the Taiwei Chongyao.

Two months ago, on the surface, the prime minister, Zhu Hongzhu, completely stood on the side of the monarch, suppressing the candidates who failed to make trouble, and stagnating a drastic change in the bud.

But it also sends a signal. He wished Lord Hong to speak out, like a tiger roaring in the mountains.

As a result, many civil servants have attached to it.

"Lan madman, Lan's ten brothers, Enke, took the high school entrance examination, so these civil and military officials have offended them." The king, Ning Yuanxian, sighed: "But the funny thing is that it is clearly their own fault, but they have to blame them. On the head of the widow, is it difficult to see that talents are not selected? Is it possible that they want to monopolize the civil and military examinations?"

"That's what they mean." The great eunuch Li Xun said in his heart, but he didn't say it, and eunuchs were not allowed to engage in politics.

"The widow is only ill and hasn't fallen yet. These courtiers can't wait to find new support?" The monarch sneered: "Look at the neutral faction in the court before, which accounted for a full one-third, now what? Like birds and beasts scattered, they all went to take refuge in the new master."

"What did the widows do? Let them hold such grudges and curse me so?"

And the people who hurt the monarch the most were the crown prince and the third prince, Ning Qi.

Even if there was a fight between the two before, it was completely secret, and the fight was not broken. It could be regarded as a kind of healthy competition.

And now?

After Ning Yuanxian fell ill.

The fight between the two was instantly fierce.

I don't know how many officials have been sent to prison, or how many people have been exiled, for the position of the governor of the western province.

This signal is actually very dangerous.

Once the country enters into a partisan struggle, it will enter a vicious circle.

Any development, any diplomacy, will all be affected or even put on hold.

Fierce partisan disputes will devour everything like a black hole.

At that time, there will be no right and wrong, only the same parties and differences.

And now with Ning Yuanxian falling ill, the party struggle has begun.

Not only that, the party struggle is a kind of contempt for the monarch Ning Yuanxian.

The healthy competition between the prince and the third prince can be said to be a constant performance, and let Ning Yuanxian be the arbiter to see who is better and who is more suitable to be the heir of this country.

But now the two sides are fighting directly and fiercely, almost directly throwing aside Ning Yuanxian, the arbiter.

The two of us fight directly, and whoever wins will inherit the throne.

Does that mean that I, the monarch, are also watching from the side?

Of course it's not there yet, but there are already signs.

The two sides raised the case of reselling military rations, and the case of embezzling military expenses in Mexico was not only the beginning of the party dispute, but also a test for Ning Yuanxian.

Let's see if Ning Yuanxian can hold back.

And once the monarch chooses to suppress and completely quell this struggle, it also requires great prestige.

Otherwise, it will definitely become a pot of raw rice, which is considered incompetent and muddy.

Therefore, Ning Yuanxian felt desolate in his heart.

He had just fallen ill and was so neglected, attacked and slandered.

He suffered a stroke on the belly of a woman, and in order to please the King of Chu, he signed a contract to humiliate the country, and ceded the interests of the country of Yue in the name of a ridiculous border hunting.

Isn't this a dizzy gentleman, what is it?

And at this time, what did he use to suppress the two young and ambitious princes?

Lack of sufficient authority.

If you forcefully suppress it, it will definitely become muddy, which will make people even more ridiculed.

Thinking of King Wu in the north, the Great Purge is in full swing.

Ning Yuanxian couldn't help feeling envious, it's nice to be young.

But Ning Yuanxian was also a ruthless man.

Don't you think widows are old? Already sick and weak?

The widow will show you the old and the weak.

When the Frontier Society Hunter Shen Lang's army soars into the sky, it will be the moment when the widow returns to its peak.

At that time, Ning Yuanxian will once again appear in front of the world in a heroic manner. He is not sick.

And at that time, the world's doubts about him Ning Yuanxian will all vanish.

Everyone will be dormant again under his lewd power.

In this world, either the east wind prevails over the west wind, or the west wind prevails over the east wind.

Ning Yuanxian sneered: "After the sudden death of King Arugang, not only did no one investigate the cause of his death, but no one even paid attention to his corpse, and let it stink on the table. The sons of the widow are not much better."

Li Xun still didn't answer.

At this time, a person could not help but appear in the king's mind.

The fifth son, Ning Zheng.

This son is firm and kind, isn't it better?

God is pitiful, this is the first time Ning Yuanxian has faced Ning Zheng in his heart.

"Your Majesty, Lord Yan E."

Father Rean's voice sounded outside.

After a while, Yan E, the governor of Heishuitai, entered and knelt down on one knee.

"Your Majesty, I... failed again."

What failed?

Of course, it was to assassinate Jin-jun.

The monarch Ning Yuanxian tried almost every means to prevent Jun Jin from uniting the sand barbarians.

Alienation, money bribes, assassinations, etc.

All means have been used.

But the power of Heishuitai in the sand barbarians is still too small, who would go undercover in that ghost place if they have nothing to do.

So these measures have little effect.

There were eighty but eighty assassinations of Jin-jun.

All fail!

Even the great master Yan Nanfei took action himself.

still fails.

Jin Jun himself was very skilled in martial arts, and there were countless sand barbarian masters around him, as well as Da Jie Temple masters, almost all the assassins sent by Heishuitai were dead.

It is too difficult to change the general trend through assassination.

Shen Lang was assassinated many times.

He even asked Sword King Li Qianqiu to assassinate Su Nan, but he failed.

The only time that came close to success was probably Ku Tou Huan's assassination of Jin Zhuo.

But now that Jin Zhuo has the protection of the old snow mountain demon, it is almost impossible to assassinate him.

The old demon of Snow Mountain has decided to move the Snow Mountain Palace to Raging Tide City. Because life is more comfortable there, you don't have to worry about food and clothing, and you can show off your power.

Of course, what would happen to the Snow Mountain Palace without snow mountains? do not mind the details. As long as the old demon of Snow Mountain is there, even Flame Mountain can be called Snow Mountain Palace.

Yan E, the governor of Heishuitai, said: "Your Majesty, let's prepare for war. You can't stop Jinjun by abnormal means."

Ning Yuanxian closed his eyes and began to recall Jinjun.

I really didn't expect that this adopted son would go against the sky to such a degree.

When he was in the capital a few years ago, how docile and elegant he was?

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be such a hero.

Get ready for battle!

Two months ago, Zhang Chong said that he needed to increase troops in Nanou, and he would increase troops by 150,000 at a time.

It sounded alarmist at the time, but it doesn't seem like an exaggeration now.

But where did Ning Yuanxian get an army of 150,000 people?

Even with all he had, he could only send another 80,000 troops to the Nanou battlefield.

Moreover, with these 80,000 troops, the entire northern front is left with the Bian Xiao army, the Zhenbei Hou Nangong Ao's army, and the tens of thousands of troops under the command of the third prince Ning Qi, all of them will go south.

Not only the northern line is empty, but even the national defense will be empty.

Once that time is reached, the 100,000 army in Bian Xiao's hands will face the hundreds of thousands of Wu's army.

Thanks to Shen Lang, he killed Su Nan early.

Otherwise, the rebel army of Su Nan, the army of Qiang country, the army of Wu country, the army of Chu country, the army of Jinjun, and five powerful enemies will besiege Yue country, then it is really in danger of subjugation.

Shen Lang and Zhang Chong solved the troubles in Su and turned the Qiang kingdom into allies. Bian Xiao and Jin Zhuo joined forces to defeat Wu State.

Now that it is full of calculations, there are only two enemies left in the entire Yue Kingdom, Jinjun and Chu Kingdom, and maybe another Wu Kingdom.

Su Nan is really bad luck. He originally wanted to wait until King Jin unified the Shaman tribe, recaptured the Nanou Kingdom, and swept the southern part of the Yue Kingdom before raising an army to rebel. But it was forced by Shen Lang to act in advance, and as a result, the entire army was destroyed, and the entire family was destroyed.

"If I vacate all the troops on the northern front, will King Wu's army go south?" Ning Yuanxian asked.

Yan E was silent for a moment and said, "It's definitely not now, but once King Jin unites the sand barbarians, retakes Nanou, and the army goes north, King Wu will not miss this opportunity, he is now rejecting Chu's covenant request. , but not because of the credibility of our country, but just because the time is not enough, the fire is not enough."

Ning Yuanxian said, "You said that if the widow handed over the entire northern defense to Duke Bian Xiao, would he be able to stop him?"

Yan E was silent for a while and said, "I don't know, but Duke Bian Xiao is good at attacking and not good at defending."

Ning Yuanxian faced a huge problem.

Once the 50,000 troops of Nangong Ao are transferred away, who will guard the defense line of Tianbei Province?

"Once the Nangong Ao army enters Nan'ou, who will be in charge of the Zhenbei General's Mansion?" Ning Yuanxian asked, "Yan E, who do you think is suitable?"

Today, the governor of Tianbei Province is a civil official, and he is also a royal family, Ning Gang.

This can be considered a legendary figure, a generation older than Ning Yuanxian, who has been guarding Tianbei Province for ten years.

Let him do the logistics, and the internal affairs are absolutely top-notch.

But defending the city, he really can't.

But for the position of the general of Zhenbei, Yan E, as the governor of Heishuitai, really has no right to be elected.

But Ning Yuanxian was like this, and he was very casual when questioning.

Ning Yuanxian said again: "Chong E, Xue Che, and Ning Qi, who do you think is more suitable?"

All three of them belong to one faction.

Yan E still didn't speak, no matter which one of the three he recommended, it was even more inappropriate.

Ning Yuanxian said: "Have the Privy Council, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household been calculated? If 80,000 troops are transferred into Nan'ou, how much military expenditure will be required?"

The eunuch Li Xun immediately found the relevant memorial and handed it to Ning Yuanxian.

Ning Yuanxian opened it and glanced at it, and suddenly his hand shook violently.

An army of 80,000 people, such as Nan'ou, needs food, weapons, war horses, military salaries, etc. to be converted into military expenses, plus the expenses of Zhu Lin's tens of thousands of troops, the total will exceed 3.5 million gold coins.

Almost more than Vietnam's annual tax.

Of course, it will be the end of the year soon, and taxes will be collected from all over the country.

But the money is useful.

I have to borrow from Yinyuan Society again.

But the old debt has not been repaid, and the new debt is owed?

"Your Majesty, Princess Ning Jie asks to see you." Outside, I thought of Eunuch Li's voice again.

The monarch waved his hand, and Yan E retreated.

Ning Jie enters.

"How much is Yin Yuanhui willing to borrow?" Ning Yuanxian asked bluntly.

Every time he took a loan, he first sent his confidantes to negotiate, and after the negotiation, Shang Shutai signed a contract with the Ministry of Households.

This time, the person who was sent to talk to Yinyuan for a loan was Princess Ning Jie.

"Yinyuan Club is willing to borrow 3.5 million gold coins." Princess Ning Jie said.

Suddenly Ning Yuanxian couldn't believe it.

No way?

Can Yin Yuan be so generous?

He had already owed Yinyuan Club an astronomical amount of debt before, and he had just borrowed more than two million gold coins a few months ago, and he still hasn't paid it back.

Not only that, in order for Wu State to capture Raging Tide City, Yin Yuanhui paid Wu State more than one million military expenses in advance, and this money was completely lost.

Facing the aggressive Tiandao Society, Yinyuan Society has had a hard time recently.

Princess Ning Jie said again: "However, the elder of the Yinyuan Society, Shu Botao, wants to talk to you in person."

Ning Yuanxian frowned, then nodded.

After half an hour.

Yin Yuan will enter the palace of Shu Bo Tao, the boss of Yue State.

"Meet Your Majesty." Shu Botao respectfully knelt down and bowed.

This person is in his seventies, and has been in charge of the Yinyuan Association's branch in Yue for more than 20 years.

Back then, Earl Jin Yu was even killed by him.

King Ning Yuanxian raised his hand and trembled slightly: "Elder Shu, please, you are a dozen years older than me, I can't afford it."

When asking for help, the monarch will always call me.

Shu Bo Tao still knelt down meticulously, and after the salute, he didn't want to sit down, but stood humbly.

Ning Yuanxian said: "I heard that the Yinyuan Society is willing to lend us another 3.5 million gold coins, the widow is really grateful."

Shu Botao said, "Although I am not from the Yue Kingdom, but I have stayed in the Yue Kingdom for too long, and I completely regard myself as a Yue minister, and it is only natural to be loyal to Your Majesty."

Ning Yuanxian said: "Then I don't know what the conditions of Yin Yuan will be for this loan?"

Shu Botao said, "The recipe for the glass mirror."

This person is very straightforward.

Hearing this, Ning Yuanxian's eyebrows twitched.

Shu Botao said: "Your Majesty, Shen Lang is extremely loyal to you, and fate is in your hands. If you open your mouth, he will definitely give the secret recipe to the glass mirror. As long as I get the secret recipe, my Yinyuan Society will not only be willing to borrow three hundred and fifty percent interest-free. One hundred thousand gold coins, and I am willing to forgive the previous two million gold coins of debt."

What a great handwriting.

King Ning Yuanxian closed his eyes.

Shu Botao said: "This matter does not require Yue Guo to pay any price, nor does it require His Majesty to pay any price, why not do it?"

The king sneered in his heart.

It doesn't cost anything on the surface, but free is the most expensive.

What I paid for was the trust between me and Shen Lang.

In the eyes of the monarch Ning Yuanxian, the trust between him and Shen Lang far exceeded three million gold coins.

The monarch's face suddenly became cold, and he said lightly: "Then there is no need, thank you Elder Shu for seeing off the guest."

Shu Bo Tao didn't say much, bowed and saluted and left.

After he left, the monarch Ning Yuanxian said with a desolate sneer: "I all feel that the widow is getting old, and I all feel that widowhood is no longer enough, and everyone will come to oppress me. Go and tell Shen Lang, let him do his best, lest we two being looked down upon."

Eunuch Li listened to this and immediately set off to go.

"Forget it, you don't need to tell him specifically, he understands it very well."

Ning Yuanxian stopped again.

"Li Xun, plan to let Nangongao gather fifty thousand troops and be ready to go south to the Nanou battlefield at any time!"

"Yes!"

Shen Lang is Ningzheng, the few people are waiting for you to make a blockbuster and shake the world.

By that time, the widow was roaring in the mountains again.

………………

Beiyuan hunting ground.

Astronomical amounts of grain and meat are consumed here every day.

After this group of zero bloodline people were transformed with bloodline, their food intake became bigger and bigger.

There is no way.

The daily training volume is amazing, almost five times more than the normal army.

Each person eats two catties of grain, three catties of meat, and five catties of vegetables and fruits every day.

And eat in the stomach, basically no meat.

I used to be skinny, but I still look skinny now.

But as long as you touch it, you know that everyone's muscles are like iron blocks.

Now the long-handled sword in everyone's hands has exceeded 260 pounds.

The vast majority of soldiers couldn't lift it, let alone swing it. No one would be so perverted and use such a heavy knife.

And these bloodline metamorphosis people have to slash 20,000 times a day.

Of course, now it's finally time to change positions.

It used to be a straight cut from top to bottom, but now there are also diagonal cuts and top picks.

Now not only training during the day, but also training for three and a half hours at night.

Evening workouts are easier.

Climbing with weights.

With a load of 350 catties, in three and a half hours, he marched back and forth for 150 miles.

Average twelve kilometers per hour.

This exercise is endurance.

This kind of training intensity is simply unprecedented.

The training is not a soldier, but a devil.

Without absolute willpower, it is simply impossible to accomplish.

but……

Of the more than 2,300 people, not a single one was left behind.

Almost using self-mutilation, completed weight training again and again.

Then Shen Lang consumed not only food and meat, but also countless medicinal materials.

After training every day, I have to soak the medicine soup for half an hour to restore the muscles and veins.

So this army is basically made of gold.

These people don't want military pay, but these days of crazy training, Shen Lang spends an average of more than 2,000 gold coins per day.

After three months, it would cost nearly 200,000 gold coins to train more than 2,000 people.

And the equipment on them, whether it is a super sword or a super heavy armor, is forged with the top steel, and each piece requires a high cost.

This is not just the most powerful army, but it must also be the most expensive.

Shen Lang is so rich that he can only afford to support a few thousand people at most.

………………

The bloodline transformer Wang Da.

Some sleepless nights.

Not because I'm too tired, but because I'm too excited.

No matter what he does, he is extremely focused, and the same is true of practicing swords.

There are only three moves in total, and he has practiced it a million times.

But it seems that every time, there is a new perception.

A new perception of power, speed, and angle.

Even in his mind, he can form the relevant blade light trajectory, as well as the power and speed of the blade in every place.

Not only that!

He and all his brothers are still learning about the structure of the human body every day, learning about various metal densities, hardness, and warhorse structure, bone hardness, and so on.

Everything you learn has a purpose.

How to split the enemy in half with the fastest speed and the least force.

Split the enemy's warhorse in half.

Now the daily training time exceeds nine hours.

Supposedly exhausted.

But when he was sleeping, he couldn't help but practice over and over again in his mind.

If it were someone else, such boring training would have been impossible for a long time, let alone comprehending the true meaning of battle in simple moves.

But this group of bloodline transmuters can.

They used to be able to watch all day long just by looking at the changes in the clouds in the sky.

Not to mention knives!

Why!

It would be nice if people didn't need to sleep.

Then I can train all the time, I'm so stupid, my grades are so bad.

………………

These guys are doing really well.

A real leap forward.

Compared with the time when the bloodlines just changed, each of them has made great progress.

And it's not like the genius-like leaps and bounds of the Lan's Ten Brothers, but a very solid progress.

One step at a time, full of blood and sweat progress.

The ten brothers of the Lan family will train hard under the whip of Ku Tou Huan.

And the more than 2,300 bloodline transformers are completely fighting against themselves and competing against themselves.

Kutouhuan needs to suppress them all the time.

Otherwise, this group of people will try so hard not to sleep and just keep practicing.

In the eyes of others, they are like fools, and they can practice hundreds of thousands of times without getting tired of it.

Although only three months.

But their training volume exceeds the two years of the ordinary army.

Even after the bloodline transformation, they are still not geniuses, but they are definitely the most desperate group of people.

………………

Time flies, time flies.

The days when you can't be forced will pass quickly.

Three months have passed.

There are only a few days left until the frontier meeting.

The training of the more than two thousand bloodline transformers in the Beiyuan hunting ground is coming to an end.

Today is the last day!

All have to face the final examination.

The content of the test is very simple!

Everyone chops down trees with a 100-pound super Mok knife.

A tree about a foot in diameter.

Cut diagonally, cut in two.

Everyone has only one chance.

"This time, we will only send 2,000 people to participate in the border hunting, and more than 300 people will be eliminated, so we won't be able to win glory for the country."

"Each of you has only one chance. As long as you don't cut down a tree with a diameter of one foot, you will be eliminated even if you fail."

This test is very strict.

A tree with a diameter of one foot, want to cut it down with one knife?

How difficult is it?

This has the highest requirements for strength, speed, and angle.

And if you can cut off a big tree with one knife.

Then no matter what the enemy, no matter what the war horse, can definitely cut in two.

In three months, this group of people wielded a two-hundred-pound super sword and slashed more than one million times.

Now is the time to test the results.

Wang Da's first assessment.

Raise the sword and take a deep breath.

"Bah!"

Cut down sharply.

Flowing clouds and water.

Cut in two!

A large tree with a diameter of this foot was directly split into two sections.

The second player to play is Li Gouzi.

"Bah!"

Cut in two!

The third, the fourth, the fifth...

In a few hours!

Shen Lang was completely stunned!

More than 2,300 people, all of them succeeded, and they were cut in two.

I... my day!

This group of people is so outrageous!

This time the border will be hunted, and I really have to win with my eyes closed!

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