Chapter 428
Inside the Yangxin Hall, Li Fei sat alone in his seat reading the 'War Report.'
Although the ultimate winner of that great war was the Great Lan Dynasty, the process was very humiliating.
For an empire that had dominated the Eastern Continent for over five hundred years, being beaten all the way to the capital was too shameful!
And the reason why the early stage of that battle was lost so quickly and so miserably was not just because the Western Alliance army caught them off guard and the Great Lan Dynasty was unprepared for the Western Continent's high-tech weapons.
There was another more important reason: the decay of the Great Lan Dynasty itself!
The records Li Fei saw in the 'War Report' showed that from the west coastline all the way to Lanling City, there were five provinces and dozens of large cities in between.
As a result, facing the Western Alliance army's spearhead, more than half of the cities fled without a fight or even surrendered directly!
After hundreds of years of peace, princes, nobles, and local officials were mostly cowards who feared death.
More than half of the local City Guard armies and Inspection Courtyards were eating empty salaries, lacked training, had poor combat power, and even worse military morale.
Ironically, on the way the Western Alliance army advanced, the ones who truly caused them significant damage were the local Jianghu people, local powerful families, and clans.
In order to defend their homes and interests, these people erupted with stronger fighting spirit than the government!
But without unified command, these local factions were just a plate of loose sand and ultimately couldn't cause any real obstruction to the Western Alliance army.
When the Western Alliance army captured a province, the imperial court planned to urgently mobilize the 'Chilin Army' guarding the southwest border.
The Great Lan Dynasty had a total of four Imperial Camp armies with a scale of ten thousand; besides the Tianlan Iron Cavalry guarding the capital, there was also an Imperial Camp army of over ten thousand in the east, west, and north respectively.
The Chilin Army was one of them, responsible for guarding the southern border and deterring the two major desert nations.
As a result, just when the imperial court planned to mobilize the Chilin Army along with part of the southern border army to move north, the two major desert nations in the southern desert attacked at the same time!
Under these circumstances, the Chilin Army and the southern border army dared not act rashly, and the other two border armies were too far away.
Without trains and cars, the imperial court's troop mobilization speed was very slow, far unable to compare with the Western Alliance army's marching speed.
So the imperial court could only temporarily organize local manpower while sending Imperial Guards to block the enemy.
At this time, the Great Lan Dynasty still underestimated the combat power of the Western Alliance army.
They only saw the high-tech weapons used by the Alliance army but did not discover the experts hidden within the Alliance army who had not yet made a move.
After the Western Alliance army easily broke through another province, the army organized by the imperial court also arrived at the front line:
City Guard armies temporarily drawn from five provinces, as well as people from local Inspection Courtyards, Zhige Courtyards, and Zhengfa Courtyards, totaling over sixty thousand people.
There were also the defeated soldiers from the two provinces broken through by the Western Alliance army and volunteer armies organized spontaneously in various places, totaling over twenty thousand people.
Most importantly, the Imperial Camp armies of the five provinces were also concentrated, totaling over 7,000 Imperial Camp soldiers!
Of course, these Imperial Camp soldiers could at most form a thousand-man military formation; any larger, the grade of Sha Qi weapon needed would be different, and the requirements for their own strength and coordination would also be different.
So the Great Lan Dynasty only had four ten-thousand-man-level Imperial Camp armies, which could be dismantled into five-thousand-man, three-thousand-man, and thousand-man military formations.
But the Imperial Camp armies in various places could at most form thousand-man-level military formations.
But even a thousand-man-level military formation was enough to rival a Great Grandmaster!
Over 7,000 Imperial Camp soldiers could form 7 thousand-man-level military formations, equivalent to having 7 Great Grandmasters suppressing the line!
In addition, there were one hundred thousand Imperial Guards mobilized from Lanling City, and the two Imperial Guard Commanders leading the army were both Great Grandmasters.
The Zhige Pavilion sent two Vice Pavilion Masters, also Great Grandmasters.
The Zhengfa Pavilion sent two Vice Pavilion Masters, with top-tier True Person cultivation.
Below them were dozens of members from the Zhige Pavilion and Zhengfa Pavilion, commanders in the Imperial Guard with Martial Arts Grandmaster cultivation, and other experts.
An army of nearly two hundred thousand people, with experts like clouds, faced the fifteen thousand Western Alliance army!
This was the first large-scale confrontation between the two sides.
And it was precisely this battle that completely made the Great Lan Dynasty realize—the era of cold weapons had passed!
In open terrain, as long as the enemy's cannons fired and a saturation bombardment occurred, ordinary soldiers would basically lose all morale and begin to collapse and flee.
Any formation or battle tactic in military strategy was useless in front of such artillery!
As for the Great Lan Dynasty's most proud cavalry charge, facing the enemy's heavy machine guns and volley tactics, they also suffered heavy losses.
The only two things that could pose a threat to the Western Alliance army were practitioners and the Imperial Camp army.
Among them, the Imperial Camp army was the most!
Compared to individual experts, the Imperial Camp army lacked flexibility, and one died for every one lost; if the Sha Qi weapon was damaged, it was also difficult to repair, and its ability for protracted war was not as good as individual experts.
But when it came to making a final decision on a large-scale battlefield and influencing the war situation, the Imperial Camp army was absolutely the best in the world!
Once the Imperial Camp army forming a thousand-man military formation launched a charge, its speed was faster than a galloping horse, difficult for cannons to hit, and bullets couldn't break through the Sha Qi on the periphery.
When the Imperial Camp army killed its way into the enemy's ranks, it was naturally a massacre!
But the Imperial Camp army also had a fatal weakness, which was the number of people.
Once the number of people decreased to a certain level, it could no longer maintain the corresponding level of military formation, and the power of the Sha Qi would be greatly reduced.
This made Li Fei think of the battle where he faced the Imperial Camp army head-on.
At that time, he fought against more than fifty Imperial Camp soldiers; indeed, the further he fought, the lower the combat power of the Imperial Camp soldiers became.
In the records of the book in Li Fei's hand, a thousand-man-level military formation needed at least one thousand Imperial Camp soldiers to start.
After starting, once the number of Imperial Camp soldiers maintaining the military formation decreased by more than 20%, the military formation could not be maintained.
That is to say, for a thousand-man-level military formation, once the number of people was lower than 800, the military formation could not be maintained and could only be reduced to 500-man, 300-man, or 100-man military formations, with combat power constantly decreasing.
Under these circumstances, the seven Imperial Camp armies participating in the battle achieved good results in the early stage, but as the Transcendentals in the Western Alliance army successively made moves, the casualties of the Imperial Camp army also began to increase constantly. When the number of people was lower than 800, the combat power of the seven Imperial Camp armies plummeted.
Once the biggest advantage was gone, the defeat of this Great Lan Dynasty army was doomed!
The book in Li Fei's hand recorded the number of experts in that Western Alliance army:
Over eighty Marquis-level experts.
Twelve Duke-level experts.
Three Prince-level experts.
Initially, the Great Lan Dynasty did not understand the Prince-level experts of the Western Continent, thinking they were equivalent to Great Grandmasters.
Only after truly fighting did they realize that the Western Continent's Prince-level experts were actually one tier stronger than peak Great Grandmasters!
The battle at the level of top experts fell into a disadvantage, and the battle of the bottom soldiers also fell into a disadvantage, so the final outcome of this two-hundred-thousand-strong Great Lan Dynasty army was a collapse!
Both Imperial Guard Commanders died in battle, and one Vice Pavilion Master of the Zhige Pavilion also died in battle.
In addition, more than a dozen pavilion members died in battle, and of the over 7,000 Imperial Camp soldiers, less than one-third escaped in the end!
According to post-war statistics, the casualties on the Great Lan Dynasty side were nearly seventy thousand, while the casualties of the Western Alliance army were less than twenty thousand.
If there hadn't been the Imperial Camp army's charge, the casualties of the Western Alliance army would have been even fewer, and the combat loss ratio would have been even more humiliating!
The result of this battle shocked the court and the public!
The remaining three provinces completely lost the heart to resist; subsequently, the Western Alliance army drove straight in, easily breaking through three provinces without any effort, and killed all the way to the foot of Lanling City.
At this time, the number of the Western Alliance army remained at twelve thousand, and they were prepared to use bombers that had never been used before!
Many books and materials recorded the next battle:
'God of War' Wen Ren Zheng personally led the army, commanding ten thousand Tianlan Iron Cavalry to meet the twelve thousand Western Alliance army.
Won in one battle, completely crushing the twelve thousand Alliance army!
The book in Li Fei's hand had a more detailed battle record:
Just as the Eastern Continent did not understand the Western Continent, although the Western Continent had sent people to investigate the situation of the Great Lan Dynasty in detail beforehand, they still did not understand the top experts of the Eastern Continent and the strongest ten-thousand-man-level military formation well enough.
They thought the top experts of the Eastern Continent were at the same level as their Prince-level experts, and that there were only three top experts truly belonging to the Great Lan Dynasty, so there were only three Princes in the Alliance army.
They thought that as long as there were bombers dropping bombs from high altitude, even a ten-thousand-man-level Imperial Camp army could only be cannon fodder.
As a result, after the war started, Wen Ren Zheng fought three Princes alone, beheading one on the spot and seriously injuring one!
The ten-thousand-man-level military formation, with a surge of Sha Qi, could even reach above ten thousand meters in the sky!
Airplanes fell one by one, experts were beheaded, and formations were scattered.
Seeing that defeat was imminent, the Western Alliance army was desperate and chose to use airplanes to directly bomb Lanling City, attempting to force Wen Ren Zheng to return to defend.
As a result, Imperial Preceptor Xiang Yunshu led a group of Zhengfa Pavilion True Persons to fly in the air, solving all the airplanes that came to attack.
At this point, the Western Alliance army was completely defeated.
When they came, it was a sixteen-thousand-strong army; in the end, less than three thousand returned to the Western Continent alive, and more than half of the Transcendentals who went on the expedition were killed or injured!
Flipping the page to the last one, Li Fei slowly closed the book, feeling somewhat surging with emotion.
He now knew why this book was a first-class secret of the Military Council, because many of the materials recorded here were very critical.
Putting the booklet in his hand to the side, Li Fei picked up other booklets in the wooden box.
These booklets recorded more detailed battle cases of various incidents in the past, such as the defense and attack battles in certain cities and places, assault battles, etc.
What interested Li Fei were some battle cases recorded where martial arts experts were surrounded and killed.
For example, a Dao Foundation stage martial artist secretly sneaked into the Western Alliance army's camp, attempting to assassinate the commander, but after being discovered, he was eventually surrounded and killed.
In this battle, there were no Earl-level experts in the Western Alliance army who could face this Dao Foundation stage martial artist head-on; they just relied on a group of ordinary soldiers and a group of low-level Transcendentals to surround and kill him.
A Dao Foundation stage martial artist had not yet completely constructed a Dao Foundation; if there was no core-level transcendent ability, they couldn't directly absorb Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi from the outside to supplement their innate Qi, and their ability to continue fighting would be very average.
After their strength was exhausted, a bullet could possibly take their life!
Li Fei discovered that the Western Continent seemed very good at using firearms and Transcendentals to cooperate to surround and kill higher-level Transcendentals.
In these battle cases where martial arts experts were surrounded and killed, those ordinary soldiers holding firearms also played a significant role!
Once the movement of a martial arts expert was slightly restricted, the surrounding ordinary soldiers would seize the opportunity to fire.
A rifle bullet at close range, even if it couldn't break through the protective strength of a Dao Foundation stage martial artist, could still cause a certain amount of consumption.
In addition, there were some Transcendentals in the Western Alliance army who specifically practiced firearms; their transcendent abilities combined with firearms could exert even greater power.
Using multiple low-level Transcendentals to hold the opponent head-on, creating opportunities for the surrounding gunmen, constantly firing to consume, and eventually grinding an expert to death.
This was the main battle tactic adopted by the Western Alliance army to deal with martial artists below the level of Martial Arts Grandmaster.
As for Martial Arts Grandmasters and Great Grandmasters, naturally, there were stronger Transcendentals to rival them.
Through these specific battle cases, Li Fei discovered that the Western Alliance army's battle strategy was very clear, which was to accumulate advantages layer by layer from the bottom up:
Firearms and cannons were enough to crush ordinary soldiers, thereby allowing their own ordinary soldiers to cooperate with low-level Transcendentals to surround and kill Dao Foundation stage and lower martial artists.
In this way, Earl-level Transcendentals could free up their hands to cooperate with Marquis-level Transcendentals to surround and kill Martial Arts Grandmasters.
Moving up, some Marquis-level Transcendentals could also free up their hands to cooperate with Duke-level Transcendentals to surround and kill Great Grandmasters.
Compared to the Great Lan Dynasty's traditional war strategy of 'soldier against soldier, general against general.'
The Western Continent's strategy of influencing the battle between top experts to the greatest extent through the advantages of bottom-level soldiers could be considered a lesson for the Eastern Continent!
This was also why after that battle, Ye Zean insisted on pushing for the 'Mingxin Reform.'
Only when bottom-level soldiers could hold back the Western Continent's soldiers could the Great Lan Dynasty fully exert its advantages at the expert level.
Li Fei read through all the battle cases, and his biggest feeling was:
There is no truly invincible person in this world.
No matter how powerful an expert is, as long as their strength can be consumed, they can be injured, and they can bleed, there is always the possibility of 'ants biting an elephant to death'!
Even peak experts can still be surrounded and killed.
A five-thousand-man military formation could barely rival a peak expert, and a ten-thousand-man military formation was enough to threaten the life of a peak expert!
When the Great Lan Dynasty's Founding Emperor was conquering the world, a battle case occurred:
Over twelve thousand Imperial Camp soldiers surrounded and killed a Martial Saint!
That Martial Saint chose to fight to the death without retreating, eventually killing over five thousand Imperial Camp soldiers, but he himself was also exhausted to the limit and was beheaded by a Great Grandmaster who seized the opportunity!
"So, is it trying to tell me that no matter how strong individual power is, there is a limit, and what is truly great is the country's system and the power of the collective?"
After reading the battle cases in his hand, Li Fei secretly pondered the Emperor's intention.
If Xiang Yunshu hadn't made a move to guard Lanling City, and if there hadn't been ten thousand Tianlan Iron Cavalry charging, relying solely on Wen Ren Zheng, he wouldn't have been able to repel the Western Alliance army.
"Being a martial artist is not as good as integrating into the system, being a general, being a marshal?"
The Emperor finally mentioned 'bring peace to the world,' and Li Fei could understand the intention behind it.
In the past, the Crown Prince had also mentioned to him and Ming Qi: true unification of the world is the unification of the Eastern Continent and the Western Continent!
Now it seems that even though True Person Zhou Xuan's rebellion caused damage to national strength and national fortune, the Emperor still had not given up on his schemes for the Western Continent.
So Li Fei also roughly guessed the other layer of the Emperor's intention:
Even if some factions did things that were out of line, under these circumstances, it could be tolerated.
Everything for the big picture!
Thinking back to the conversation with Senior Grand Secretary Ye Zean that night, many things became clear.
Li Fei sat quietly in the hall for a moment, and finally, a smile appeared on his face.
He put all the materials back into the wooden box, then picked up the wooden box and stood up to walk out of the hall.
When he reached the door, Feng Cheng came up to meet him:
"Has Marquis Jing'an finished reading?"
"Finished reading."
Li Fei handed the wooden box in his hand to Feng Cheng, "Does His Majesty have any other instructions?"
"No, Marquis Jing'an can leave the palace at any time."
"Good."
Li Fei nodded and left the place.
After leaving the Imperial City, he returned directly to his mansion.
"Marquis."
Lu Wenxing found him immediately, "Does His Majesty have anything to say about last night's incident?"
Li Fei looked at him: "Regarding the trade with the Western Continent, even if the person behind the scenes is found, there probably won't be a severe punishment."
Lu Wenxing opened his eyes wide: "How could that be?"
Li Fei thought for a moment and did not tell the other about the imperial court secretly trading with the Western Continent.
This was a top secret, and Lu Wenxing did not have the authorization to know.
And for some things, letting the other know too much would instead harm the other.
"Then how should we count the matter of the person behind the scenes and the Westerners joining forces to plot against you, Marquis?"
Lu Wenxing saw Li Fei's hesitation and very cleverly did not pursue the question further, but changed to another question.
"Even secretly trading top-tier Dao Foundation inheritances with the Western Continent won't be severely punished, let alone the fact that the other party only intended to plot against me and didn't succeed in the end, and I didn't suffer any substantial loss."
Li Fei smiled indifferently.
In the past, the Emperor favored him greatly, even willing to write a letter to the Tianyi Tower for him, and willing to bear any conditions the Tianyi Tower put forward.
As a result, after he spent three months in the Imperial Library, he didn't listen to advice, and under the suggestion of a Martial Saint and a True Person to rebuild, he still stubbornly chose the path of cultivation with the most risk.
If it were any other monarch, they would definitely be dissatisfied.
So Li Fei was not surprised by this result.
"This..."
Lu Wenxing was both shocked and angry.
Did Li Fei mean that the imperial court wouldn't investigate this matter thoroughly either?!
"His Majesty..."
Lu Wenxing hesitated to speak.
This attitude was much more serious than not letting Li Fei see the Emperor before.
This was already a very obvious warning!
He didn't know what Li Fei had said to the Emperor in the palace before he went into seclusion.
Letting Li Fei stay in the Imperial Library for three months and choose manuals at will.
Such honor and favor, looking at the five hundred years of history of the Great Lan Dynasty, Li Fei was the only one!
Lu Wenxing didn't understand what Li Fei had done to make the Emperor's attitude toward him change so much?
Li Fei saw Lu Wenxing's worry and couldn't help but smile and comfort him:
"You don't need to worry too much; today I met His Majesty in the Yangxin Hall, and the Senior Grand Secretary and the Grand Marshal were also present..."
He roughly told Lu Wenxing about what happened in the Yangxin Hall today.
Hearing that Li Fei discussed matters in the same hall with the Senior Grand Secretary and the Grand Marshal of the Military Council, and that the Emperor finally specially mentioned 'bring peace to the world' and specially sent someone to deliver first-class secrets of the Military Council to Li Fei, Lu Wenxing breathed a sigh of relief:
"Looking at it this way, His Majesty still has high expectations for you, Marquis. You don't need to be too anxious; there will be plenty of opportunities to avenge today's grudge in the future!"
In Lu Wenxing's view, thunder and dew are all imperial grace.
Sometimes a warning is also a form of appreciation.
"No matter, as long as I know who the enemy is."
Li Fei smiled indifferently.
"Marquis..."
Lu Wenxing felt a stir in his heart, very worried that Li Fei would act impulsively.
Li Fei did not give him a chance to advise and changed the subject:
"How are the votes for the Lanxun Pavilion participants in Feng Province? How many votes can we get?"
During this time, he had been in seclusion, focusing on breaking through the art cultivation realm.
He had left the Lanxun Pavilion and referendum matters to Lu Wenxing and others, as well as the Datong Prefecture side to resolve.
Now there were only two days left until the referendum, and he also needed to understand the situation.
"Marquis, Datong Prefecture has a total of 62 votes, and we can get 53 votes. The 23 votes of Yunxi Prefecture have currently only secured 4 votes."
Lu Wenxing said.
Li Fei: "That is to say, I can get a total of 57 votes. What about the Lu family side?"
Lu Wenxing: "According to our estimates and the information we have gathered, the Lu family has also won over a few votes in Yunxi Prefecture. Adding the votes from the provincial capital and Qingli Prefecture, they can get at least 70 votes.
Currently, there are still over a dozen votes in the entire Feng Province that are neutral and wavering. If these people can cast their votes for us in the referendum the day after tomorrow, then you, Marquis, will have a chance to be elected."
"Hmm."
Li Fei nodded, not surprised by this result.
He had originally thought that if it really didn't work, he would cast the votes he obtained for the representative of Yunxi Prefecture.
He wouldn't be a member, but he wouldn't let the Lu family member be elected either.
But now it seemed that because he had to reserve at least 10 votes to ensure his qualification as a reserve member, even if all the remaining 47 votes were cast for the Yunxi Prefecture representative, the total number of votes would be hard to exceed the Lu family.
The key lay in those dozen or so neutral and wavering participants.
"Give me the information on all the participants; mark for me who is neutral and who is wavering."
Li Fei instructed.
"Good."
Lu Wenxing turned to handle the matter.
Soon, he handed a thick stack of information to Li Fei.
Li Fei read this information in his room until late at night.
February 28th.
A piece of news came back from the northern border:
One of the four Provincial Military Commanders of the Military Council, Prince Cheng Qin Shixian, led his troops to crush the Five-Nation Alliance of the Northern Barbarians, and the crisis on the northern border was resolved!
After this victory report was sent back, the court and the public were shocked, and the entire Lanling City was celebrating!
Inside the palace, the Son of Heaven was overjoyed and personally wrote a commendation document, which was sent to the northern border by telegram.
Soon, more specific news came out from the palace.
Prince Cheng wrote down the names of some outstanding generals in the victory report, asking for credit for these people, and the Emperor approved them one by one, giving heavy rewards.
Among the names of these generals, one person was named Lu Wenyao, who was the cousin of the Lu family head, Lu Wenzheng.
Among the direct descendants of the Lu family's previous generation, Lu Wenyao had always been the one with the highest martial arts talent.
The Lu family also had high hopes for him, sending him into the army to be tempered and cultivating him with focus.
After the Great War on the Northern Border broke out, Lu Wenyao was leading troops to fight in the northern border army.
In this great war, this 59-year-old 'old general' successfully broke through his realm, became a Martial Arts Grandmaster, and subsequently beheaded the enemy commander!
Prince Cheng specially mentioned this matter in the victory report, so without waiting for Lu Wenyao to return, the Son of Heaven gave him a heavy reward first:
Conferring Lu Wenyao as Earl Wu Xuan!
The Lu family already had one Marquis and three Earls, and had been operating for Lu Wenyao to also be conferred as an Earl, thereby achieving the pattern of one Marquis and four Earls.
Now that Lu Wenyao had broken through his realm and made military contributions, the matter of being conferred as an Earl finally became a matter of course.
Once this matter came out, the Lu family's reputation soared!
The Lu family was one of the 'Ten Major Clans,' with its main influence in the government rather than individual combat power.
The family only had one guest who reached the level of Martial Arts Grandmaster, which was Miao Lang, who stood out this time to run for Lanxun Pavilion member.
But a guest, no matter how good, couldn't compare to one of their own; now that someone in the Lu family had broken through to the level of Martial Arts Grandmaster, the family's foundation had improved by another notch.
And Lu Wenyao was only 59 years old; looking at the age of a Martial Arts Grandmaster, he was still very young, and there might not be no chance to go one step further in the future, relying on military contributions to be conferred as a Marquis!
In that case, the Lu family would have two Marquises, and their ranking among the 'Ten Major Clans' could also be raised.
Li Fei was practicing in his mansion and didn't learn of this news until that afternoon.
"Marquis, I asked an acquaintance in the border army, and it is said that Lu Wenyao received Prince Cheng's guidance before breaking through; I am afraid Prince Cheng's mansion contributed a lot to his smooth conferment as an Earl this time."
Lu Wenxing said to Li Fei.
"Hmm."
Li Fei was not surprised by this.
He had just slapped Prince Cheng's mansion in the face just after coming out of seclusion, so it was normal for Prince Cheng to react.
Li Tianyu was also in the northern border army; when Li Fei made a move, he naturally considered this point.
However, he knew very well that the more aggressive he appeared, the safer Li Tianyu would be over there.
Even if Prince Cheng's mansion wanted to counterattack, it wouldn't fall on Li Tianyu unless the other party wanted to completely tear off their face.
Now it seemed that Prince Cheng's mansion's counterattack had fallen on the Lu family.
Prince Cheng Qin Shixian was at the peak Great Grandmaster cultivation; guiding a Dao Foundation stage martial artist was naturally more than enough.
Coupled with his status as the Northern Border Military Commander, it was also very simple to let Lu Wenyao make some military contributions.
"This victory report came back neither early nor late, just on the day before the Lanxun Pavilion referendum; I am afraid it was also intentional."
Lu Wenxing sighed, "Now that the Lu family has been conferred another Earl and has one more Martial Arts Grandmaster, those wavering votes in Feng Province are afraid they will all lean toward the Lu family."
He actually had something else he didn't say.
The Emperor also chose to let Lu Wenyao be conferred as an Earl on the day before the referendum; this was probably also a kind of attitude.
Hearing this, Li Fei smiled, not looking discouraged:
"No matter, we will see tomorrow."
After speaking, he stood up and returned to the secret room to continue his cultivation.
On the same night, Feng Province.
Lu Mansion.
Lu Wenzheng was listening to his subordinate's report in the study.
"Family Head, the Sect Master of the Yunling Sect has already agreed to cast their vote for us tomorrow."
"The Silver Fox Gang has set conditions; if we help them take down those two mines in Hongshan City, they can also cast their votes for us."
"..."
The subordinate was reporting on the factions within Feng Province that were qualified to join the Lanxun Pavilion and possessed participant quotas.
These factions were either neutral or wavering before, waiting to demand exorbitant prices at the end; now, after the news of Lu Wenyao came back, they all made their choices.
Lu Wenzheng smiled; after the subordinate finished reporting, he calculated the Lu family's votes, which was already a sure-win situation, and couldn't help but be in a great mood:
"For those who set conditions, send someone to tell them that the Lu family no longer needs their votes; from now on, whether they are enemies or friends, let them look at it themselves!"
"Yes."
After the subordinate left, Lu Wenzheng walked to a bookshelf and pressed a mechanism.
The next second, the bookshelf moved to the side, revealing the secret door inside.
He walked into it, came to a secret room, picked up a jade pendant used for communication, closed his eyes, and contacted someone in the distance.
A moment later, Lu Wenzheng walked out of the secret room, came outside the study, looked up toward the direction of Lanling City, his eyes sharp:
"Li Fei, let's see how long you can be proud!"
48th year of Hongguang, March 1st.
7:00 AM.
Outside the Zhengyang Gate of the Imperial City in Lanling City, there was a huge square; at this time, the square was filled with Imperial Guards, and outside were a large number of onlookers.
A high platform was set up in the square, and there was a huge liquid display screen on the platform.
This was the live broadcast site for the Lanxun Pavilion's first national referendum.
Today, the twenty-three Lanxun Pavilion members representing each province would be publicly selected here.
As time passed, more and more people arrived at the scene.
Many big figures came directly from the Imperial City, including the Crown Prince, the First Imperial Prince, and the Third Imperial Prince.
Twenty-three provinces, Martial Arts Grandmasters and True Persons sent by major factions also arrived one after another, which could be described as experts like clouds!
With a commotion in the crowd, a golden figure walked into the square, attracting the attention of everyone present.
A group of experts, the Crown Prince and several Imperial Princes, and imperial court officials all looked over—
Marquis Jing'an Li Fei had arrived.
PS: This chapter is 7000+, asking for a monthly ticket~
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