All the civil and military officials in the Qing Kingdom are unwilling to accept the defeat and want to defend the last city of Xizhou, but the Holy Academy doesn't give them any chance!
The Holy Court directly modified the rules of the state-taking battle. If one side has too great an advantage, all the provisions regarding holding on to a city will become invalid.
There is no need for Qing Kingdom to vote, as the other nine countries all voted in favor and the new rules were implemented directly.
Before the people of Qing could react, Xizhou was completely lost.
The scholar from Qi State was furious and ran to the discussion board to start accusing other countries like a mad dog, but was then hit back by Zhang Poyue with just one sentence.
"Instead of cursing, you should think about how to defend the next state."
The people of Qing then realized that Jing was the party that passively accepted the war to seize the state, and in the next three years, they could launch unlimited wars to seize the state from Qing.
The people of Qing were immediately silenced.
Xinqingjing, the old imperial palace.
The young Emperor Qing still did not attend court. Only the Queen Mother Qing sat behind the curtain, wearing a black veil on her face, like a clay sculpture or a wooden carving, motionless.
"Who can tell me where those new mechanisms come from?" Zong Ganyu took the magic medicine again, but this time it failed to completely suppress his illness.
His hands were shaking, his eyes were flashing with dancing flames, and there seemed to be a violent beast hiding behind his voice.
Wen Zong Zong Ganyu was once again on the verge of losing control.
The first time he lost control was at the Yueyang Tower Literary Gathering, where he watched his grandson die.
The second time he lost control was outside the Holy Temple on Daofeng Mountain, where he was frightened to death by Fang Yun's Semi-Saint Leader.
The ministers remained silent.
These days, they have been questioning their subordinates, the military, and Qing State's intelligence department.
"Grandpa, please calm down." Zong Wuyan gently patted Zong Ganyu's shoulder.
Zong Ganyu took a deep breath slowly and finally controlled his emotions.
He glanced at all the Qing officials present with disappointment and even contempt. He knew that these people were laughing at him.
The one who proposed the battle to seize the state was none other than Zong Ganyu.
But, not to mention him, even the Sage did not discover those new mechanisms!
Because the original body of the Saint was sealed in the Old Peach Mountain by Fang Yunjian, only his clone was outside.
After Fang Yun was canonized and returned to Jing Kingdom, he used his holy power to clean Jing Kingdom from top to bottom several times, just like sweeping the dust from a room. No matter how powerful the incarnation of the saint was, it would be discovered.
Therefore, from the beginning to the end, no one knew where Jingguo’s new mechanism came from.
Zong Ganyu sighed and said, "The failure of the war to seize the state is a fact. You can't blame me no matter what. What we have to do now is to trace the source and avoid failure in the next war to seize the state! We must figure out the source of the new engineering technology, otherwise, there is no chance of winning. Zhang Poyue has said in person that he will launch a war to seize the state against us."
"The source of the new technology, without a doubt, could only come from that person."
The people of Qing have become accustomed to using "that person" instead of Fang Yun, because no matter whether Fang Yun, Fang Sheng, or even nicknames like Fang Zhenguo are mentioned, Fang Yun will naturally detect it.
"Nonsense, everyone knows it must have come from that person. The key now is, where did that person's technology come from? Was it Dragon City?"
"It can't be Dragon City! We have contacted the abandoned Lei family and even secretly bribed the Dragon King of the West Sea Dragon Palace. We have received confirmed information that the Dragon Clan definitely does not have these new technologies, because this is technology that completely surpasses the Dragon Clan!"
"We have searched all the worlds, but we have never found such technology. The dragon clan doesn't have it, the ancient monsters don't have it, and the monster barbarians don't have it either! When the news came from the monster world, the monster saints were scratching their heads anxiously. They were sure that even the most mysterious imperial clan or the primordial clans didn't have this power. This kind of power can only exist in the future, not in the past."
"Is the speculation about that person circulating in the family true?"
"Are you talking about the man who used the tributaries of the ancient galaxy to reach the future? I didn't believe it before, but now I do!" said Dai Lang, the head of the Daisheng family.
Hearing Dai Lang's words, all the civil and military officials in the hall were stunned.
This kind of news had originally only been circulated secretly among aristocratic families. They had never heard of it at all. At most, someone might have said it as a joke, and no one would have taken it seriously. But now that it had actually come from the mouth of the head of a semi-saint family, the possibility of it being true had greatly increased.
"Now that I think about it, it's really possible! In fact, before he became a semi-saint, although he was a genius, he was also limited. At most, he had a long-term vision and was a genius, probably one or two hundred years ahead of the human race. But after he was canonized, he was really terrifying. He killed Gu Xu, slew the three sea dragon saints, slaughtered dozens of demon barbarians and semi-saints, and forced the rat clan saint to retreat. He has far exceeded his original level. Therefore, it seems to make sense that he entered the future before he was canonized and obtained powerful cultivation methods and powerful engineering technology."
"Then the question is, where did he get so much magic iron?"
"This... might have been obtained in Dragon City."
"Even if the scholars of Jingguo started preparing since that man returned, it's too fast to create so many new mechanisms. It must be the great scholar who did it!"
"We have investigated. Not only did the great Confucianists take action, but the Zhang Heng family and other engineering families also dispatched the semi-saint treasures of the engineering family to directly build a large factory! Originally, they joined forces with the Holy Academy's Engineering Hall, but in the gap between when we launched the war to seize the state and when the Holy Academy confirmed the war to seize the state, the Engineering Hall and Jingguo terminated their cooperation, and a large number of scholars from the Engineering Hall changed countries and suddenly became Jingguo citizens! The Holy Academy confirmed that the great Confucianists only built the factory and the main organs. After the war to seize the state began, all production was carried out by non-great Confucianists. If even using the factory built by the great Confucianists is illegal, then our Qing country is also illegal, because some of the organs we use to manufacture weapons are also made by great Confucianists. Therefore, these new organs are actually the joint product of the Engineering Hall and Jingguo!"
Inside the hall, all officials sighed.
The loss was not unfair. Who could have thought that Gongdian would dare to make such a heavy bet? Who could have thought that Fang Sheng had such powerful skills.
"We, the Qingguo Gong family, have repeatedly watched the images on the discussion board and confirmed one thing. All new mechanisms, remember, all of them, have flaws! Whether it is the talent cannon, the flying mechanism or the armored mechanism, there will be slight errors in the process of fighting, and the connection parts of the components are very rough. This means that these mechanisms require at least great scholars or semi-saints to perfectly build them, or in other words, they require particularly skilled university scholars. Now, these mechanisms are flawed and can't last long! We still have a chance!"
"Yes, our intelligence also shows that after the battle of Yueyang City, all the new mechanisms were deployed in turns, and some were even pulled forward by wooden oxen and flowing horses, which obviously reduced losses. These mechanisms can only last until the battle of Xizhou! Next, as long as they dare to launch a battle to seize the state, we can gather all the scholars and cultural treasures for a full defensive battle, and constantly use defensive war poems to resist their attacks. Once we can't stop them, we will surrender immediately!"
"Yes! Their talent light balls are not infinite, and they will definitely be used up! Without the talent light balls, their new machines are no different from scrap metal! We can even take advantage of the opportunity to launch a sneak attack, seize a few new machines, and then copy them!"
The hall was bustling with activity. The ministers offered suggestions one after another. They became more confident as they spoke, as if they saw the dawn of victory.