Chapter 58: Battle on the Border
Not enough resources!
Lu Changjing had already realized that after breaking through to the fourth-order grandmaster level, many resources would be insufficient, especially the resources needed for physical and spiritual cultivation.

The reason why Lu Changjing's body refining skills have been able to advance so rapidly these days is mainly due to the silver dragon blood. Now, there are only about ten drops of the dozens of drops of silver dragon blood left, which can only help him improve his body refining skills to the fifth-level master level at most.

As for the main treasure for improving spiritual cultivation, or the only treasure, the Calming Pill, it was used up completely without leaving any behind.

There are only a small amount of spiritual stones, elixirs, and various spiritual wines that can improve his Qi Refining skills left, which should be able to help him reach the level of a sixth-rank master.

Looking at the Blue Sky Divine Ring which was already half empty, Lu Changjing felt a little helpless.

Next, whether it is to calm down, strengthen his physique, or for the sake of resources, he must slow down.

However, before his physical fitness reaches a high enough level, Lu Changjing also needs to find a way to obtain some resources and treasures. Otherwise, even if his physical fitness improves, he will not be able to continue to make rapid progress.

Perhaps he should take some risks for this. While Lu Changjing was thinking about ways to earn resources and treasures, the figures of Tan Qingyun, the daughter of the richest man in Longjiang, Lin Yixin, the daughter of King Heluo, Rong Xiyao, the only daughter of King Southwest, and Tang Qingyi, the daughter of the prime minister, flashed inexplicably in his mind.

"No, no, I've already eaten enough of this free food, I can't eat any more!"

Lu Changjing quickly shook his head and swept these figures aside. During this period of time, he had obtained too many resources and treasures from the concubines, which was almost half of their wealth.

Especially since Rong Xiyao even gave him the only Blue Sky Divine Ring, how could Lu Changjing still have any ideas about Rong Xiyao?

Forget it, I should think about it carefully again. It will take a long time to improve my physical fitness anyway, so I just need to find a suitable method before that.

Since he didn't dare to make rapid progress anymore, he should spend more time and energy on combat skills and secret arts. Now the level of his combat skills and secret arts was still too low.

Every day's time will definitely not be wasted, it's just that it cannot be used to improve your cultivation.

In the midst of his busy schedule, Lu Changjing paid little attention to what was happening outside. He just hid in the imperial study, concentrating on his own practice and love.

But things were not calm outside. The negotiations between the Ministry of Rites and the Shanman envoys were still going on. At present, the demands of the Shanman envoys had been lowered from Imperial Noble Consort to Noble Consort.

Afterwards, the ministers of the Ministry of Rites were specially summoned by Prime Minister Tang Zhongzhi. Although nothing was said, the ministers of the Ministry of Rites immediately understood what Prime Minister Tang meant.

Therefore, in less than three days, the Shanman envoys' requirements for the position in the harem were lowered again. All they needed was to make the Seventh Saint Lady of the Shanman tribe one of the ten main wives.

However, as a condition of concession, the Da Ning Dynasty must immediately send troops to attack the Blood Barbarians together with the Mountain Barbarians, and by the way plunder the blood beasts that appear in the Blood Barbarians' ancestral land.

In addition, the Mountain Barbarians also reduced their share from 91% to 73%.

That is to say, the Mountain Barbarians took 70% of the hunted Blood Beasts, and the Daning Dynasty took 30%.

As for the issue of military expenditure, it must be paid by the Daning Dynasty itself.

However, the empty secret treasury and national treasury obviously did not allow the Daning Dynasty to provide its own dry food to send troops to fight the Blood Barbarians, so they could only continue negotiations.

However, what was unexpected was that before the negotiations came to a conclusion, news was received that another group of blood beasts had escaped from the Zama Blood Forest, and not only fled into the Fulong Mountains, but also fled into the southwestern region of the Daning Dynasty.

In order to capture these precious blood beasts, the Blood Barbarians once again sent a large number of troops to break into the Fulong Mountains and the southwestern region of the Daning Dynasty to hunt these blood beasts. The unprepared Mountain Barbarians suffered heavy losses again. In addition to the captured blood beasts, the Blood Barbarians also plundered a lot of resources and treasures.

As for the southwestern region of the Daning Dynasty, it was similar. However, when it was about to leave the Daning Dynasty, the King of the Southwest took action in time, severely taught the Blood Barbarians a lesson, and brought back a lot of blood beasts.

As expected of a powerful man who has ruled the southwestern land of the Daning Dynasty for a hundred years, the Blood Barbarians, who had made the Mountain Barbarians helpless, also suffered at his hands.

If it weren't for the useless emperor Ning Zhongyu, and if it weren't for the fact that the previous emperor was not a tough person, the Da Ning Dynasty would not have been bullied by the mountain barbarians for so long.

After receiving the news, the Shanman envoys were dumbfounded. They did not expect the Blood Barbarians to be so rampant.

They had just robbed them before, and only a few months had passed, and they actually broke in again. They were really going too far, thinking that the Fulong Mountains were their own territory.

Especially when compared with the Southwestern King's victory over the Blood Barbarians, the originally arrogant Mountain Barbarian envoys immediately became obedient.

The Daning Dynasty only dispatched a Southwestern King, but he caused the extremely domineering Blood Barbarians to suffer a great loss.

The Mountain Barbarians were nothing like them. They had been beaten black and blue by the Blood Barbarians twice. Not only did they have to eat the blood beasts that ran over from the Zama Blood Forest, but even their own territory was destroyed.

Perhaps there is no need for the Da Ning Dynasty to take action. The King of the Southwest alone is enough to cooperate with them to teach the Blood Barbarians a lesson.

As a result, the bottom line of the Shanman envoys plummeted, and they changed from demanding that the Emperor of Daning lead the army in person to simply asking the King of Southwest to take action.

However, this bottom line has not been revealed yet, and the two sides are still negotiating based on the previous conditions.

The mountain barbarian envoys became honest, but Cao Wenzhen became dishonest.

"What is the King of Southwest doing? He can just let the Blood Barbarians take the blood beast, why does he have to stop them by force and provoke the Blood Barbarians?"

"The Mountain Barbarians are already a headache for us. If we provoke the even more difficult Blood Barbarians, will our Daning Dynasty be able to live in peace in the future?"

"No, we must denounce the King of the Southwest for his behavior to prevent him from taking more extreme actions. At the same time, we must make it clear to the Blood Barbarians that we, the Daning Dynasty, have no intention of going to war with them."

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Looking at Cao Wenzhen who was furious in the imperial study, Lu Changjing inexplicably thought of the Qing Dynasty in his previous life, as well as Qin Hui and others in the Song Dynasty.

Presumably, they were just like Cao Wenzhen now, vigorously suppressing those national heroes who resisted foreign humiliation, always bowing and scraping, with only their own interests in their hearts, and no regard for the interests of the country and the nation at all.

Ning Zhongyu has become such a bad emperor that he can no longer be described as a waste. It is not an exaggeration to call him a traitor.

Although he had never seen this guy, he could tell from Cao Wenzhen's performance that with such a confidant, how could Ning Zhongyu be any better?

Soon, Cao Wenzhen issued an imperial edict in the name of Emperor Daning to reprimand the King of Southwest. Not long after, Imperial Noble Consort Rong Xiyao came to the imperial study in the Qianqing Palace.

(End of this chapter)