The emperor's words stopped Li Xiangyou from asking. Li Xiangyou paused for a while and replied: "I wonder if your Majesty is talking about that dynasty on the vast land between the east and the west?"
The emperor was a little curious: "Heavenly Court, this dynasty has disappeared for countless years. Even our royal collection only knows a little about him. I don't know where Aiqing learned about it."
"Let's start with the general I sent to the Western World. On his way back, he encountered the ghost of a legion that was destroyed by Heaven. Their entire army was destroyed by Heaven's army. After death, they turned into ghosts. They are still alive today.
remain on that land.
According to them, there are eight legions like theirs on the land, and each legion has several ghosts who are equivalent to great masters. One of the legions wants something from us, so we get some from them.
information."
Li Xiang knew that the vast and boundless continent between the Eastern and Western worlds could not be hidden from the world.
Anyone who has gone there will know about the ghost army it contains.
If you can't hide it, it's better to say it openly, which will appear more generous.
"Nine ghost legions?" The emperor really didn't understand the news: "I wonder if they have any explanation. What world do they come from?"
Li Xiang shook his head: "I haven't really asked about this yet. Although I don't know much about ghosts, I wonder if your majesty has anyone who studies ghosts? You can send them over there to ask."
Many practitioners want to go there to dig for treasures, but little do they know that all the treasures on that land have been occupied by those ghosts!"
Li Xiang shook his head helplessly as he spoke: "At first I also wanted to dig up some treasures, and then I thought about the tens of millions of ghosts. Not everyone can suppress it."
"Not long after the vicious beast was suppressed, this ghost army appeared. Our northwest is in trouble."
Ghosts will not stay in one place forever. It is estimated that after they figure out the situation, they will send troops to the east or west.
They won't appear during the day, but at night, it's all ghosts.
After some of the ghosts reach the first-class level, they can appear even during the day. Ghosts that have reached the Grand Master level are actually no different from humans.
The appearance of ghosts has advantages and disadvantages for Xiliang. The advantage is that those ghosts can suppress the practitioners who rush to the northwest region.
Why do practitioners want to dig up treasures? The treasures that can be saved on the battlefield have already fallen into the hands of these ghosts. Will the ghosts release the things they get?
The most likely thing is that the two sides will fight on that vast land. As the owners of that land, the ghosts have lived for thousands of years. Will they be afraid of the new practitioners?
Therefore, practitioners will suffer a loss. They are also in the wilderness of the northwest. There is not much food and drink in that area. If you want to get food and drink, you can either continue to the north, rush to the ferocious beast snow forest, and then return to Xiliang
in the city built.
The Ferocious Beast Snow Forest is the home of the Ferocious Beast Clan. There are countless powerful Ferocious Beasts in it. If a practitioner enters the Ferocious Beast Snow Forest, he or she will most likely be hunted down by the Ferocious Beast Clan.
It's like a ferocious beast entering the northwest and being hunted by the northwest cultivators.
Because of the danger, how could those practitioners return to the city built by Xiliang?
Li Xiang could take advantage of this opportunity to make a lot of money and put elite troops in the city. Anyone who dared to cause trouble would be directly killed and hung on the city wall.
This is the method that Li Xiang and Li Yi came up with. Only in this way can those daring practitioners be restrained.
At the same time, he also asked those practitioners to explore the fighting power of the ghosts for him.
Li Xiang was very keen on that vast land. There might not be much change in Daqian in the next ten years.
The emperor focuses on the Chaos World. With the Chaos World as a huge transit place, he can rely on the Chaos World to train an army.
He trains troops in a chaotic world, and people from other forces cannot affect him at all. He stores a large amount of food, gold, silver, and cultivation resources in the imperial capital, and his subordinates control the Zhili region.
There are nearly a billion civilians in the Zhili region, accounting for 1/10 of the world's population. It is a legacy left by the old emperor to the emperor. As long as he works steadily, relying on these nearly 1 billion civilians, he can train an army no matter what. Elite troops.
The Zhili area was exclusive to the emperor, and those who could control the Zhili area were the emperor's cronies. Other princes were extremely keen on the Zhili area, but it was a pity that they had no choice but to prevent them from having that status.
As long as the emperor huddles in the Zhili area and controls the Imperial Forbidden Army in his hands, no one else in the world dares to approach, and no one wants to touch the Forbidden Army, the first legion in the Eastern world.
The name of the Forbidden Army is not blown out, but fought out, but their enemies are usually demons from outside the territory, and only a few are forces within the mysterious world.
There are also the best masters in the world, the emperor, and the grand master. The masters are very strong, but the emperor can pay a certain price to kill the grand master. He is carrying the destiny of the Great Qian. Even if the power of the Great Qian is weak now, the area he can control is still in his hands. Only Zhili.
When other places still belong to Daqian in name, and luck is higher than national luck, the emperor can use national luck to kill the great master at a certain price.
This is why within the imperial capital, the great masters and masters are relatively stable and will not cause any trouble.
"It is only through many disasters that you can show your ability!" The emperor said with a smile: "Have you never thought about expanding your territory? Bringing the outside of the pass into the territory of Daqian?"
"I have thought about it, but I dare not implement it." Li Xiang picked up the wine glass and took a sip: "The pass is different from the pass. There is flat land in the pass. The climate is such that even in the cold winter, the heavy snow will not fall too much. After all, there are There are so many mountains blocking it."
Things are different outside the Pass. After leaving Xiliang City and rushing to Binghu Lake, once you get there, you will see a vast wilderness. Whenever winter comes, there will be heavy snowfall there.
There is only one color left between heaven and earth, and that is white. Going west along the wilderness, it is all plains. In the past, there were various time and space cracks everywhere. Now, after the time and space cracks disappear, there may be only plains left.
Basically no living things can survive on this plain, because there is no grass, no trees, and even if there are some streams, they disappear in the middle of the conversation.
If you go a little further north and get closer to the Fierce Beast Snow Forest, there is a lot of life there, but once we humans enter the Fierce Beast Snow Forest, it is like a primeval stone appearing in the crowd."
"Now that the cracks in time and space have disappeared, the ghost army hidden deep in the ground has appeared. If you want to imagine the expansion of territory over there, the first thing you will face must be those ghosts and ghosts.
To be honest, I don’t know much about how to deal with those ghosts now. I only know how to use the fierce power of the army to stop them. Your Majesty, I may not be able to help you much next!"
There was a bit of decadence in Li Xiang's voice, as if he had lost his former heroic spirit due to the appearance of the ghost.
"Those ghost legions are very powerful. Each legion has at least one Grandmaster level monster, many of which are first-rate and can walk during the day.
I may have to adjust the direction of the army!"
"Every ghost legion has a grand master-level ghost?" The Navy Commander frowned: "In this case, they might build a ghost kingdom on land!
If we really let them build a ghost kingdom, we will be in trouble!"
As the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, he encountered many monsters on the sea, including many powerful ghosts, and even established a country on the sea.
Once a ghost kingdom is established, it will attract surrounding ghosts and form a dark cloud in the sky, blocking the power of the sun. From then on, ghosts can walk on the earth unscrupulously.
"Captain, have you ever seen the Ghost Kingdom?" Li Xiang looked at the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy with some curiosity. He was a powerful man with the least presence in the Daqian Empire, and his navy army was also deliberately ignored.
But on the sea, just like the forbidden army on land, they are everywhere on the sea.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Navy said: "Since I became the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, I have encountered four ghost countries on the sea. Each of them brought great losses to our Water Lion Legion, but every time they were wiped out.
, and also got a lot of good things.
The ghosts in the ghost country generally existed tens of thousands of years ago or longer. Once they establish a ghost country, they will have a complete system like the country established by living creatures.
At the same time, a kind of ghostly dark cloud will form in the sky. If ordinary people enter the earth shrouded by such dark clouds, they will become seriously ill or die directly, and their souls will be pulled into the ghost kingdom.
At the same time, the souls of the creatures that died in the surrounding areas will be pulled into the ghost kingdom. If left unchecked, the ghost kingdom will continue to expand, and the dark clouds in the sky will also expand."
The Commander-in-Chief of the Navy looked at Prime Minister Li with some regret as he said this: "It seems that I can no longer fight alongside Governor Li!"
The Commander-in-Chief of the Navy has a lot of information on Prime Minister Li. Recently, he has targeted a group of rebels. His Majesty allowed him to enter the Tongtian River, so he wanted to wipe out that group of rebels.
However, this requires the cooperation of the army. The first thing the army general thought of was Prime Minister Li, who happened to be in the imperial capital.
Anyway, Prime Minister Li is not allowed to send troops. He only needs to help lead the army to launch the attack. Unfortunately, the problem of this ghost domain needs to be solved as soon as possible. Prime Minister Li cannot stay in the Central Plains any longer.
The emperor did not expect that there would be such serious ghosts. When the Daqian Dynasty was first established, such creatures were everywhere. Countless people died due to endless melees.
Ghosts have even formed in some mass graves. These ghost kings are like frontier officials, controlling the situation in a place, and all living creatures must pay tribute to them.
In order to deal with these ghosts, the ancestors directly dispersed the army to various places and used the fierce power of the army to kill the ghosts. This continued for thirty years before the ghosts were slightly suppressed.
When Daqian's national fortune was prosperous, the ghosts were suppressed by the national fortune, and then those ghosts were destroyed.
Now that the national fortune is declining, ghosts should also appear in various places.
"Yes. Next, our army must make every effort to guard against the ghosts in the northwest." Li Xiang grasped the key point of the Navy Commander: "I wonder which side the Commander can fight against the rebels?"
"They are those water thieves who are entrenched on the edge of Luoyang." The Navy Commander took a sip of wine and said, "There are no tigers in the mountains and monkeys are kings. How dare they block the northwest shipping and not destroy him? They really think that
There is no one in our navy."
As he spoke, the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy also looked at a prince. The one who is loyal is the emperor, and the person standing behind the traitor is if there is a prince.
"I was thinking of asking Governor Li to help lead the army, but I didn't expect that the ghosts in the northwest were so serious."
"Army leader?" Li Xiang thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty has high-quality generals at your disposal, so why should the Governor-General sacrifice the near and seek the far?"
"All the generals in my hands are sent from abroad!" The emperor said with a smile on the side: "Xifeng and I talked about annihilating the Luoyang water pirates. For the remaining army generals, the best choice is you."
"But this battle may not start until next year, and you are busy going back to the northwest to defend against the ghosts."
"Your Majesty, don't you still have a young general in your hands?" Li Xiangzhong recalled with a hint of silk: "I remember that guy's name seems to be Song Cheng. We had fought outside the customs back then. He should have just led the army at that time, and his leadership skills were very good.
good.
If the Grand Governor has no generals available, he can be given a try. I personally feel very good about it!"
"Song Cheng?" The emperor felt that the name was a bit familiar, and there was not much conversation around him. Zhou Hangjie said: "The Song family in the Northeast was with me outside the customs. After returning, you were sent to the Qingdong Peninsula to suppress bandits. In
Three months ago, the gangsters in the Qingdong Peninsula were eliminated, and I just returned to Beijing to report on my work a few days ago."
"That's it!" The emperor nodded slightly: "Since Li Aiqing recommends Xifeng, why not recruit him into your army."
Song Cheng was a signal of the Song family's loyalty to the emperor. However, this kind of loyalty was average in the eyes of the emperor, because Song Cheng was not the best son of the Song family.
Every prince of the Song family had one or two such disciples as gifts, but the fact that Song Cheng was remembered by Prime Minister Li showed that he had something special about him.
"Then let's give it a try!" Xifeng, the commander of the Navy, nodded, and then asked: "The world calls Xiliang Navy, the second navy of Daqian. I don't know how Li Jishi built it in the northwest.
This naval force?"
Everyone else listened with their ears pricked up, this was related to the secret of Xiliang Navy.
"Because of Xuanshui Lake, I was besieged by other major forces outside the pass. I didn't have enough troops, so I had to find a way from the lake. It happened that some of the people who came to me were shipbuilders, and at the same time I got some from the west.
They had the blueprints of the ship, so they asked them to combine Chinese and Western styles.
They have built various ships that are now used by the Xiliang Navy. As for the Second Daqian Navy, they are just praised by others. Although the Navy has not experienced a war so far, and the only ones that have followed it are some small wooden planks.
Boats, for those who are not boats, are just bamboo raft-like teams.
If defeating this can be called strong, then I don’t know what to call the Royal Navy, which can intimidate people both inside and outside.
Moreover, if the Grand Governor’s subordinates randomly send out any detachment, they will be able to defeat them."
Li Xiang made the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy very happy. Compliments from ordinary people would not make him feel anything, but Li Xiang was different.
Li Xiang is the leader of a force, a feudal official, with hundreds of thousands of troops under his command, and he is also a master at the level of a grand master.
For such a strong man, how could he be unhappy?
Others looked at Li Xiang strangely. They did not expect that Li Xiang would say such a thing.
Zhou Hangjie pulled out several strands of his beard. This was different from the Li Xiang he knew!
