Everyone was waiting, so time passed quietly while waiting.
One month, two months, half a year, one year.
Remaining calm, a year passed like this.
The Buddhist Kingdom laid out its layout in Yongzhou, only doing missionary work but not invading force, and then waited for the internal conflicts within the Zhou Dynasty to ferment;
Taixue sent more manpower to help Zhong Shenxiu rebuild Liangzhou, and then waited for another conflict between the factions of the eldest prince, the second prince and the eldest princess;
The eldest prince and the second prince are both in hibernation for the time being, focusing on performing the Dao Fruit, trying to advance to the fourth rank, and then waiting for the Buddha Kingdom to advance eastward. Jiang Li and the eldest princess are busy dealing with it;
The Fairy Queen is simply waiting for the war with the Buddha Kingdom to begin.
Waiting, waiting, waiting! Everyone is waiting, no one knows that others are waiting, but as time goes by, some people begin to get impatient.
Fight, you should fight quickly, why don't you start fighting?
Shendu, Shangcheng District, Meng Mansion.
In the clean garden, a young man dressed in light blue attire sat under the shade of a tree, looking at the vibrant scenery in the garden and listening to the crisp sound of orioles, but a look of irritability gradually appeared on his face.
"Don't fight yet!"
The young man smashed the stone table next to him with one palm, and the wind swept across the palm, causing the tree behind him to shake violently, "Why don't you start a war?"
The eldest prince could hardly conceal his impatience. If one palm was not enough, he would use another palm to vent the fire in his heart.
"What are they waiting for?"
Violent Qi was brewing in the palm, and light cyan scales emerged. Just as he was about to destroy the surrounding scenery with one palm, a light cough sounded.
The faint sound wave directly broke the strength of the palm, and the young man slowly lowered his palm like a deflated rubber ball and looked at the source of the sound.
Meng Jun, the old head of the Meng family, walked over with a solemn face and said in a low voice: "To achieve great things, the most important thing is to remain calm. How can you still think about ascending to the throne of emperor with such consideration? You are already fifty years old, and you are still like this."
I can’t hold my breath anymore.”
"Grandpa."
The young-looking eldest prince saluted somewhat dejectedly, and then said in a low voice: "Nan Tiansi's spies are everywhere in the palace, and my aunt even openly sent an imperial doctor to check my cultivation and grade on the grounds of good health.
Their foundation in the government is getting more and more stable, and if we wait any longer, I'm afraid I won't be able to resist."
Once a prince is promoted to the fourth rank, he will be able to accommodate the Emperor's Dao Fruit, and then start to take action, so the eldest princess must always keep abreast of the princes' ranks and cultivation.
If this kind of thing was done secretly, it might be blocked, so the eldest princess simply inspected it openly so that the princes could not hide or avoid it.
As a result, the eldest prince, who had been promoted to the fifth rank a long time ago, is actually almost perfect, but he has never dared to advance. The situation with the second prince is not very clear, but I think it is similar.
Originally, he wanted to wait for the war between the Kingdom of Buddha and the Great Zhou Dynasty. The eldest princess was distracted by the war, so that she could seize the opportunity to be promoted, but she did not expect that the war would never start. The eldest prince lived like a year, even though he was already over fifty, he was a little tired.
Can't wait any longer.
After hearing the eldest prince's words, Meng Jun understood his situation and sighed: "We won't be able to fight in a short time."
He took out a jade slip from his sleeve and handed it to the eldest prince, "There is news from the Immortal Palace. Up to now, the Buddhist Kingdom has only sent people to travel around Yongzhou to preach, and has no intention of starting a war."
"They don't teach the Dharma anymore?" The eldest prince was stunned.
After waiting hard for more than a year, he was finally told not to fight. How could the eldest prince accept this?
If this continues, there's no telling when he will be removed. My aunt may be soft-hearted, but the hands of that traitor are stained with the blood of the royal family.
King Lu, the fourth prince, and the previous generation Zong Zheng, these members of the royal family all died in his hands. One more eldest prince is not too much.
"No."
Meng Jun shook his head and said: "Besides Yongzhou, the Buddhist monk soldiers have been stationed for several months and may march at any time. We still have to fight, but we can't say when."
"Now the person in charge of spreading Buddhism to the east of the Buddhist Kingdom is Tan Wuwei, a traitor from the Mo clan. This person is well aware of the situation in the court and knows that it is difficult for us and Jiang Sikong to coexist. She should be waiting for chaos to break out in the Great Zhou Dynasty."
The eldest prince was a little dumbfounded.
Our side is waiting for the Buddha Kingdom to attack, and the Buddha Kingdom is waiting for our side to launch the attack first, and then it will be embarrassed.
"Then let's..."
He wanted to say how about we take action? But then he thought about it, what if there is no response from the Buddhist country?
Changing places, if the eldest prince is from the Buddhist country and sees the civil strife in the Great Zhou Dynasty, he will definitely not start a war directly, but let the arrows fly for a while to make the civil strife more intense. Moreover, who knows that this civil strife is real
Yes, it was the one who deceived the Buddhist country first.
The situation has been calm for a year. If there is a sudden change, the other party will definitely not believe it rashly.
Although the eldest prince was annoyed and irritable, he was the eldest son of the emperor after all, so he would not lose his mind and act without thinking.
"We can't do anything."
Meng Jun shook his head with a wry smile, and then continued what the eldest prince said: "Even if the Buddhist monks and soldiers marched, we can't take action rashly. Since we can see the situation, Tan Wuwei, the Momen traitor who was born in Kyushu, can also see it.
According to the situation, the Buddhist Kingdom’s advance at this time may be an attempt to induce civil strife among us.”
When the civil war broke out in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Buddhist Kingdom suspended the war.
This is very likely to happen.
This is also the source of the embarrassing situation, as neither party can trust the others.
If you don't move, I won't move either. If you move, you may be taken advantage of.
You move, but I still can't move, because you may be cheating and want to eat my human blood steamed buns.
If the war had started directly from the beginning, it would have been possible for all parties to move together, but after waiting for a year and seeing the situation clearly, they became more scrupulous and did not dare to act rashly.
The eldest prince could understand the meaning of Meng Jun, the current prince, but it was precisely because of his understanding that he became more and more irritable.
"Then we can only wait to die?" He said in a manic tone.
Jiang Li, the rebellious minister and traitor, basically stayed in seclusion in the Dinghu sect this year. Occasionally he came to the divine capital, but he only stayed for a day or two and then left.
This actually made some thoughtful people in the court feel relieved. They thought it was a good thing that Jiang Sikong had no time to take care of both the court and the sect. But now it seems that this is not a good thing.
Jiang Li is retreating violently, and with his talent that can be called a monster, his strength has definitely improved a lot. However, even if these people in the court are also in retreat, they cannot make progress as fast as Jiang Li.
The longer time passes, the stronger Jiang Li becomes, while our side can only remain in a stalemate in the quagmire of trouble.
Isn't this just waiting to die?
"Even if I am waiting to die, I can only wait."
Meng Jun said in a low voice: "Taking rash actions will lead to a dead end. Only by waiting can we have a chance of success. We can only wait."
The wrinkles on his old face trembled slightly, which showed that the old man was not untroubled, but he still made such a seemingly negative decision.
--wait!
"We are not the only ones who wait for someone to break the deadlock, wait for someone to take action, and don't want to see that person continue to improve."