Chapter 90

It's no wonder that Xu Ren turned pale with fright, because this was really unexpected! At this time, Cai's country should be panicked. With consecutive defeats, loss of soldiers and generals, Cai's country is now very empty. Fu Minghui does not need much military wisdom, as long as he goes forward bravely, he will surely win an unimaginable victory.

You know, these 30,000 soldiers are the Imperial Forest Army! Even though the Great Xia Kingdom is now decayed, the Imperial Forest Army is still the Imperial Forest Army; the emperor of the Great Xia Kingdom has not yet completely lost consciousness.

However, Xu Ren would never have expected such a result, such a disastrous defeat, one out of ten.

And this disastrous defeat also disrupted Xu Ren's many plans; such as the negotiation with Cai Guo, such as obtaining enough political capital for Li Xian, such as Li Xian's business dumping plan!

The guards who sent the letter started to tell a little bit, because these things are no longer secrets in the imperial capital, and they have been spread long ago; but the specific situation is not very clear.

The general situation is that the Northern Expedition will pass through the area controlled by the First Prince; the First Prince, who is now the Crown Prince, wants to win over Fu Minghui because of his precarious status. As a result, Fu Minghui directly rejected the eldest prince's solicitation. Fu Minghui was the head of the emperor's bodyguard, and he could be called the number one person around the emperor, so naturally he couldn't express his opinion casually.

At first the eldest prince didn't say anything; Fu Minghui didn't take it seriously either. According to the plan, 20,000 servants, chariots, etc. were recruited from the eldest prince, and a full 20,000 shi of grain was transported to the north to attack.

Just after entering the territory of Cai State, the situation was as Xu Ren expected, and the situation was overwhelming; he ran five hundred miles in one day and one night, conquered a county in a day, and achieved brilliant results. However, when preparing breakfast the next day, Fu Minghui was dumbfounded!

The servant army conscripted from the eldest prince disappeared without a trace overnight; and the 20,000 shi of food turned out to be all "green food"—all moldy!

The lonely army went deep, without food and grass, so the result needless to say. And Cai Guo "accidentally" learned of the news, so naturally he desperately counterattacked. Under such circumstances, Fu Minghui had to break out in embarrassment.

But the fighting ability of the Royal Forest Army is strong after all. Even in such a situation, more than 20,000 soldiers still broke through to the border of the Great Xia Kingdom. However, at this time, the border of the Great Xia Kingdom was actually closed! The border general refused to switch on the grounds that Cai's army could not be allowed to enter the country.

In this way, Fu Minghui and the Yulin Army were besieged by more than 100,000 troops from Cai State under the border defense wall of the Great Xia Kingdom; in the end, only less than 3,000 people managed to escape by climbing the city wall. 27,000 people died, but nearly 50,000 casualties were brought to Cai Guo!

But the funniest and most angry thing is that none of the 20,000 servants sent out by the First Prince did not run away, and they were all caught by Cai Guo!

"You bastard! You're such a bastard!" Beichen Yuqing was furious.

Xu Ren waved back the guards of the Li Mansion, turned slowly and looked towards the west, looking at the location of Wuyang City, the capital of the Great Xia Kingdom, and suddenly sighed: "Great Xia Kingdom, it's over! This battle will take Li Yulong and the young master as the leader of the Great Xia Kingdom." The ten-year national fortune and respite that I have fought for have been completely ruined!"

Beichen Yuqing was still trembling with anger: "He is the eldest prince, how could he do this! The country is gone, and he can only be a subjugated slave!"

Xu Ren was not angry, but was planning seriously. Suddenly, Xu Ren actually smiled, with a cold smile: "Alright, so I can let go of my hands and feet. Beichen, now you do one thing, let our people spread rumors in Cai Guo, and say that the two prime ministers The defeat in the first battle was because they took advantage of the Kong family, but in the end they were used by the Kong family.

Rumors don't need to be too detailed, just a few sentences are fine. Pay attention to the families of those dead and wounded soldiers. "

"Hey, I've been planning to do this for a long time." Beichen Yuqing immediately turned and left.

Xu Ren still looked at the western sky. After a long time, he finally decided to go to Qingyun Valley in person.

Li Xian was still in the research room. After hearing that there was a breakthrough in Lingshi research, the relevant personnel were all overwhelmed with excitement. Everyone started discussing with each other.

Hu Juncai, who is in charge of smelting black iron, is the most active: "How high is the pressure required to inject spiritual energy into the spiritual stone? We have measured that the atmospheric pressure here is about 100,000 Pa, which is equivalent to the pressure of a water column at a height of 10 meters.

However, the current process of smelting black iron requires about 100 times the atmospheric pressure. How about we try using the black iron smelting device first? "

"This method is good!" Everyone immediately agreed.

"But how to collect spiritual energy? Just relying on the little spiritual energy gathered by the spirit gathering array is really... useless!" Some people objected.

"We should build a machine that can collect and compress aura." Everyone has been trained by Li Xian, and they immediately thought of inventing a machine when encountering problems; instead of being helpless.

"But what machine to use?" Everyone was at a loss.

Li Xian smiled, it's my turn to play! "There is a machine called a compressor. With a compressor, a gas can be compressed all the way to a liquid state. By the way, with a compressor, there must be other pumps. These machines have the following structures, including axial flow type, centrifugal type, piston type...

By the way, the compressor is slightly expanded, which is the centrifuge.

Probably the structure is like this, so go study it. "

After Li Xian finished speaking, he clapped his hands and left, shaking hands with the shopkeeper in a very chic way.

When Li Xianhuang arrived at the office, Fang Shijing also arrived; Li Xian immediately prepared to hold a small technical seminar. But when everyone gathered, Xu Ren also hurried over with a serious expression: "Master, things have changed! This is a letter from the master."

It was rare for Li Xian to see Xu Ren look so serious; he immediately opened the envelope and took a look at ten lines.

"How is it possible! Please take a look, sir." Li Xian handed the letter to Xu Ren; Li Yulong's information was more detailed, even involving many secrets. For example, the frontier general was secretly a member of the Wang family! In other words, this defeat is not the responsibility of the eldest prince alone, but everyone's delay!

"It's wonderful!" After reading the letter, Xu Ren had a strange expression on his face. The biggest reason for this defeat is not just the eldest prince's reason; the real reason is - the battle for the prince has reached a fever pitch!

His Majesty the Emperor doted on the young and beautiful concubine Hua Gui, and the alchemist Ge Zhengfeng said that the prince did not have the fate of an emperor, so he wanted to make his youngest son the prince.

The personnel headed by the prime minister naturally disagreed, and everyone tried their best to protect the eldest prince; however, after such a thing happened, the eldest prince was considered finished. Then the prime minister and the others prepared to support the second prince as the prince according to the rules.

What's funny is that after Li Xian put forward the slogan of rejuvenating the country through industry and commerce, the merchants of the Great Xia Kingdom were more powerful than ever, so the second prince with merchant blood came from behind, completely overshadowing the first prince.

The folks are still calm, but the court is already raging; all the struggles have surfaced, and it looks like a bloodbath.

The Great Xia Kingdom is already in turmoil, yet it even got involved in a dispute for the crown prince—the biggest political turmoil! It's no wonder that Xu Ren wanted to comment on a "really wonderful".