This year, relatively speaking, nothing major happened. King Cheng, who was far away in the capital, was busy consolidating his growing power, and had no chance or time to deal with Di Xin who was at the border.
Although the construction of the city in the Prairie Land annoyed him, everything was legal and reasonable, and he couldn't find anything to find fault with. The only thing he could do was to continue to delay the court's policy arrangements for the Prairie Land.
Although this gave Di Xin a large rear area, for King Cheng, the benefits of containing King Yu's troops and energy were undoubtedly greater.
And this is indeed the case.
Although Yanque Pass was relatively wealthy after the previous year, building the city was a big project after all, and Di Xin did not have much energy to do other things.
But it's not like nothing really happened.
According to the letter received by Emperor Xin from the Eighth Prince, the voices among the officials in the court for the establishment of a crown prince have become louder and louder, and some officials have even started a petition outside the palace.
And there is no doubt that the person with the highest demand for the crown prince is the eldest prince who has become the king.
Nowadays, several princes in the capital are dead or injured, and even King Jing, who is in the best condition, has lost his competitiveness with King Cheng.
Among the original Wuxun nobles, the only one who supported King Jing was Marquis Wucheng, who was also far away at the border.
In fact, if Wuchenghou was not King Jing's uncle, and both were prosperous and the other suffered losses, Emperor Xin suspected that even Wuchenghou would have changed his banner long ago.
The eighth prince's letter also mentioned that it was said that Prince Cheng had sent people to persuade King Jing to give up his desire to fight for the throne and instead join King Cheng's command, so as to avoid liquidation after King Cheng ascended the throne.
Although Wu Chenghou now controls an army of 100,000 people, if King Cheng ascends the throne, he will not have even a trace of room for resistance.
To put it bluntly, the country of Dali is surnamed Zhao after all, and all the armies belong to the emperor alone.
But Di Xin was not in a hurry at all.
From King Yu's past memories and his understanding after arriving in the Ancient Moon Realm, he had roughly figured out King Jing's character.
Irritable, irritable, arrogant, lustful.
It is difficult for such a person to accept being subordinate to others, even if that person is his half-brother.
Therefore, unless it is completely irreversible, even if it is a complete defeat, as long as there is still hope, King Jing's character will definitely continue to fight.
But it was not a certain prince in the capital that restricted King Cheng from becoming a prince.
That's right, it's Emperor Yu Xin who lives far away in the borderland.
Let’s not talk about other achievements for the time being, pacifying the Turks and reclaiming the grasslands... In just one year, King Yu fulfilled the centuries-old wish of the royal family and court officials.
Coupled with his current popularity among the people, if he hadn't been held back by the grassland incident, if he had taken advantage of the situation and returned to Beijing to fight for the throne, although he might not be able to become the crown prince immediately, it would definitely shake King Cheng's power in the court.
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The officials in the capital are the foundation of the king. If the foundation is shaken by Emperor Xin, then it is basically doomed to failure.
Now one year has passed, although King Cheng has successfully consolidated the confidence of hundreds of officials in the court, but unless Emperor Xin publicly expresses no interest in the throne, otherwise with his reputation and achievements, it is impossible for King Cheng to bypass him and become the next emperor.
A prince.
The old emperor seemed happy to see the outcome and never publicly expressed his support for either party.
In response to this, King Cheng and the forces under his command became more and more impatient, but Emperor Xin was very satisfied with the status quo.
For Di Xin, the longer it takes, the greater his advantage.
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Two hours, after noon.
In the open space outside the north gate, most of the people who passed the review this time have gathered here.
After a simple lunch, under the protection of soldiers, a group of people walked toward the depths of the grassland with their longing for the future.
There is their new beginning.
Di Xin waited until the crowd disappeared from sight before turning around and walking down the city wall.
Behind him, although Zeng Hongshen still has white hair, he looks younger than a year ago, but his originally restrained aura reveals a hint of sharpness.
The aura of the Xiantian Grand Master was not something ordinary people could bear, so when Di Xin led Zeng Hongshen down the city wall, every passing soldier would instinctively show awe.
This is the result of Zeng Hongshen's cultivation in this year.
This year, not only did King Cheng and Di Xin coordinate with each other, he also finally completely improved his own martial arts skills and developed his own unique martial arts power.
There is no trace left.
The aura that leaked out from time to time was just Zeng Hongshen's constant familiarity with his magical powers.
After personally experiencing Zeng Hongshen's move, Di Xin was basically sure that he created it for a strong person like Ashinas who was faster and more skilled than him.
Although the original prototype of Zeng Hongshen's magical power was also biased towards speed, it was biased towards his own movement speed, but now it has been changed to increase attack speed.
After using his magical power, Zeng Hongshen's already extremely fast attack speed would continue to increase sharply. If Di Xin hadn't relied on skills that far exceeded his, he might even have lost.
Although Di Xin's area of expertise is not speed, as the Realm Master, he is much faster than most people in the Ancient Moon Realm.
In other words, except for a few innate great masters who are also good at speed, unless they are the Realm Lord, no one in the Ancient Moon Realm will be able to keep up with Zeng Hongshen's attack speed.
As for the reason why he turned his magical power into this, Di Xin guessed that it was also stimulated by Ashena's thoughts in the depths of the grassland last time.
That time, because Ashinas was suppressed in terms of speed and skill, Zeng Hongshen accidentally let him get out of his fight, and then punched Di Xin.
That time was also the closest Di Xin came to death.
This is how he used various means to weaken Ashinas to the point where he was at the end of his strength.
And with this trick of disappearing without a trace, even if the enemy cannot be defeated, as long as he is entangled with him, there is no need to think about being able to escape smoothly from his fight.
Although Di Xin has now reached the second realm of martial arts and spiritual power, it is obvious that Zeng Hongshen has not relaxed his protection.
Another person who also experienced Zeng Hongshen's magical power was An Junshan.
Being able to be called a "madman", An Junshan is not only crazy in commanding operations, but also passionate in the pursuit of martial arts. Otherwise, he would not have stood out from countless wars and broken through to become a strong man in the second realm.
After reaching the second realm, there was no way forward, because Anjunshan actually fell into the same confusion as Zeng Hongshen.
The confusion about the discontinuation of martial arts practice.
But after a deep discussion with Zeng Hong, he also saw a new path to martial arts.
It turns out that not only warlocks have magical powers.