Chapter 118 The weak-footed son-in-law awakens

To be honest, Rong Zongshun began to regret from the moment he married his only daughter to Ning Zhongyu.

Even though his daughter's position was that of Imperial Noble Consort, second only to the emperor and even almost becoming the empress, he still took the initiative to ask his daughter to be Imperial Noble Consort instead of the empress.

However, judging from what Ning Zhongyu did after he took over, he was not a wise ruler, and could not even be called a qualified emperor.

Pushing and shoving, being submissive and procrastinating... He is exactly like the old emperor Ning Tianbao. He has grasped the essence of the peace faction and is even better than his predecessor.

This made Rong Zongshun, who always advocated iron-blooded methods, extremely disdainful. He often cursed himself, the emperor's son-in-law, in his mansion, despising him for being worse than a woman.

And his daughter is always with Ning Zhongyu, and she doesn't even try to help him change his temper. As an emperor, the ruler of a vast territory, how can he be so cowardly?

The mountain barbarians are attacking... ask for peace!
The Blood Barbarians are attacking... ask for peace!
The Song Dynasty is attacking...seek peace!
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Damn it, even when the natives of the Chou Tribe attacked them, they actually asked for peace with them. Is there any justice and law in this? Do they think the generals and border kings of the Da Ning Dynasty are wimps?

Do you really think we can't defeat you, or do you think we will only hinder you, or consume your military funds and supplies? This is simply outrageous.

Is Rong Zongshun a wimp? No!
Is Qi Pinghai a wimp? No!

Is Yue Yunfei a wimp? No!

……

We, your humble servants, are holding golden spears, ready to take down the enemy's heads and present them to Baiyujing. Why does Your Majesty let us act like cowards?

It would have been fine if Ning Tianbao had died, but I didn’t expect that the new Ning Zhongyu would be so incompetent.

It was a pity that she had married her most beloved only daughter to Ning Zhongyu, but this is how he repaid her father-in-law. In order to practice the art of hiding his yang, he even stayed away from the harem for so many years, making his daughter suffer.

Fortunately, the cowardly son-in-law finally woke up, and he became so tough all of a sudden that it was a little hard for him to believe.

Not only can they steal the blood beasts of the Blood Barbarians, but they can also take advantage of the situation and teach the Mountain Barbarians a lesson. This is a world of difference compared to before.

It's a pity that it wasn't the daughter who persuaded him, but according to what she said, something must have happened, and it seemed to be related to the minister entrusted by the late emperor.

This makes sense. Ning Zhongyu must have been constrained by the ministers entrusted with the care of the young emperor, and had to be coerced by them in everything. Now he has finally found a chance to take down some of the ministers entrusted with the care of the young emperor, so he dared to make a decision that is completely contrary to the national policy of peace talks.

It seems that this cowardly son-in-law of mine is not so useless after all. I should change the name I use from now on.

Thinking of this, Rong Zongshun smiled slightly, and decisively led the army toward the area where blood beasts appeared most frequently according to the intelligence.

Although he had not attacked the Blood Barbarians in recent years, it did not affect his ability to plant spies in the Blood Barbarians. Thanks to the help of these spies, the Southwest Palace knew everything about the Zama Blood Forest. As soon as the blood beasts came out from underground, the Southwest Palace received the news and secretly sent people to hunt them, still using the identities of the Blood Barbarians.

Now he can lead a large army in to hunt blood beasts as much as he wants. That is much more convenient, even more convenient and casual than the mountain barbarians. Even the information and data the mountain barbarians possess are far less than theirs.

Otherwise, why would Rong Zongshun deliberately make a big deal out of this matter and part ways with the Shanman tribe? Only in this way can they gain more benefits.

Soon, wherever Rong Zongshun's army passed, raging fires broke out, and large tracts of centuries-old and thousand-year-old trees were burned one after another. The Blood Barbarians who were monitoring and ambushing nearby were so frightened that they no longer cared about monitoring and ambushing, and hurried out to put out the fire.

At the same time, they also focused most of their hatred on the mountain barbarians. After all, the troops of the Da Ning Dynasty were invited by the mountain barbarians.

Originally, the other side had no intention of going to war with them. It was only because of the intimidation and inducement of the mountain barbarians that the King of Southwest led the Tiger and Leopard Army into the Zama Blood Forest.

Now the Tiger and Leopard Army is wantonly destroying and killing people in the Zama Blood Forest. It is clearly at the instruction of the Mountain Barbarians, otherwise how dare they be so unscrupulous.

It has to be said that the peace policy of the two dynasties of the Daning royal family played a great role in confusing the people. The Blood Barbarians also did not believe that the Daning royal family, which had always been kind to others and on good terms with various forces around them, would do such an "unwise" thing.

In addition, they also heard that the treasury of Daning was empty and the royal family was extremely poor, and they could not even raise military expenses. The reason why they were able to send troops to Zhama Xuelin this time seemed to be that even the military expenses were provided by the mountain barbarians.

Under such circumstances, the Blood Barbarians naturally blamed everything on the Mountain Barbarians, and beat them up. However, they did not send enough men to Rong Zongshun, and they were unable to stop the well-trained Tiger and Leopard Army.

This also allowed the Tiger and Leopard Army to advance steadily and clear one area after another. Wherever they passed, blood beasts, herbs, rare woods, minerals... were all plundered by the Tiger and Leopard Army, leaving nothing behind.

As for the looted items, they were sent back to the Southwestern Palace as soon as possible and were not kept by the king at all. Even if they were kept, they were only worthless things to avoid a 50-50 split among the mountain barbarians.

The progress on the Southwest King's side was also quite smooth, in no way inferior to that on the Pinghai Army side. Rong Zongshun could finally vent out the anger and ambitions that had been accumulated for a hundred years openly, and he no longer had to hide in several prefectures in the southwest like before.

Lu Changjing was also quite surprised after receiving the news. He did not expect that although the two weak emperors gave birth to a large number of weak and peace-loving ministers, they also created a large number of good generals and famous commanders who were willing to work hard and prepare for war.

Fortunately, the Ministry of War is still in the control of the pro-war faction. If the Ministry of War also falls, I am afraid that Daning will be doomed.

Of the six ministries of Daning, four were dominated by the peace faction before this, and only the Ministry of War belonged to the pro-war faction, while the Ministry of Works was still neutral. One can imagine how difficult life was for the pro-war faction before.

With Lu Changjing's support, the war faction will finally have an easier time, but relatively speaking, the forces around Daning will not have it so easy.

Not long after the Pinghai Army and the Southwest Army reported good news, Lu Changjing also received good news. That is, under the effects of the Immortal Demonic Body and the Five Elements Golden Body Technique, Lu Changjing's physique suddenly broke through a new bottleneck, which was also a bottleneck that Lu Changjing had not thought of before.

A thousand times more physique!
When a new day came and his physical condition increased again, Lu Changjing was preparing to go to the Millennium Jade Spring to soak in it and rest, when he suddenly felt a rumbling sound coming from his body and his whole body was changing.

(End of this chapter)