Immortal and Demon Cultivation

The human world, the capital.

The imperial city, night.

The Hall of Supreme Harmony.

All day today, His Majesty the Emperor and the civil and military officials in the court have been discussing a sensitive topic.

The Grand Marshal of the Army of the World.

All the generals who led troops to fight were salivating over this position.

Especially in this catastrophe, this position is even more popular.

Maybe he will be infamous for thousands of years, but if he leads the human world to win the catastrophe, then he will be as famous as Li Tielan.

More than ten years ago, when the Kuiniu drum was struck, the choice of the Grand Marshal of the Army of the World began to be debated in the court.

During the first wave of catastrophe ten years ago, the emperor did not decide who would be the Grand Marshal.

He only appointed Zhao Shiqu as the General Manager of the Jiannan Road, commanding all the troops in the five roads and sixty-three states of Jiangnan, including Yang Zhentian, Zhao Xianfeng and others, all under the control of Zhao Shiqu.

He was considered the most powerful and most powerful military general in the human world at that time.

Now, the second wave of catastrophe.

The court divided the entire world into several war zones, such as the Western War Zone, the Southern War Zone, the Capital War Zone, the Central Plains War Zone, the Northern War Zone, etc.

In these war zones, the court correspondingly appointed several marching generals, such as Zhao Zian, Xu Kai, Li Xianjing, etc.

Among them, the youngest Zhao Zian has the largest territory. Guanzhong Road, Beiting Road, and Longyou Road are all under the command of Zhao Zian.

So everyone subconsciously thinks that Zhao Zian is the current military marshal of the world.

Of course, this is just a feeling.

His Majesty the Emperor has never conferred this title on Zhao Zian.

Where there are people, there are struggles, and this kind of struggle is the rivers and lakes.

The struggles in the court are more intense than those in the rivers and lakes.

Now the court seems to be peaceful, but in fact there are many undercurrents inside.

The hawks, led by the crown prince Zhao Shiyu, advocated the use of heavy punishments in troubled times, and strengthened the punishment in the criminal law. In the military, they recruited passionate young people as middle and high-level generals to fight the enemy to the death.

This force is privately called the prince party by the people.

Conservatives, led by Prime Minister Pan Hexiang, think that the heaven is powerful and it is not appropriate for the human world to fight it head-on, so they should focus on negotiations.

This force is called the Sanjiang Party by the people, and some call it the traitor party.

There are also the royalists, led by Xu Linjun, the Minister of Revenue, Yan Sili, the Minister of Rites, and Li Chungang, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet. They advocate the removal of the tentacles of the cultivators from the court, and the affairs of the mortal world are decided by His Majesty the True Dragon Emperor, and no one else can interfere.

This force is called the anti-immortal party or the royalist party by the people.

These three forces are intertwined and involved in the court.

They are all jealous of the position of the Grand Marshal of the Army of the World.

To put it another way, no matter who becomes the Grand Marshal, he cannot be someone from the other two forces.

His Majesty the Emperor is actually quite satisfied with Zhan Ying. The young man who just emerged does not belong to the three major factions of the court.

Although Zhan Ying and Ye Xiaochuan have known each other for a long time and may be Ye Xiaochuan's man, His Majesty the Emperor does not really care in his heart.

If it were not for the worry about Yu Jizi, His Majesty the Emperor would have announced Zhan Ying as the Grand Marshal of the Army of the World.

Li Ziye and Xuanying have been sitting beside the Emperor. The two women came in the morning and are still here now, which shows that the two of them really want to push Zhan Ying to the top.

In the morning, the two women would occasionally say a few words to the civil and military officials of the court, but now they rarely speak.

Li Ziye turned into a little glutton and kept eating.

It is estimated that she ate all the snacks in the imperial kitchen.

As expected of a Xumi strongman, she ate dozens of plates of snacks, but her stomach was not bulging at all. It is estimated that she would be fine if she ate dozens more plates.

Xuanying ate very little, she was drinking.

His Majesty the Emperor brought out the royal collection of fine wine to entertain them, and Xuanying drank one cup after another.

Zhanying was not in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, but outside the hall, blowing in the cold wind.

His passion had been extinguished and his edges smoothed in his ten years of stone-breaking career. He did not care about the arguments of the civil and military officials of the court about his appointment as the Grand Marshal of the Army of the World.

Zhanying was a smart man. He knew that the person who could really decide the Grand Marshal was definitely not in this Hall of Supreme Harmony.

But on the tall mountain in the far southwest border.

In fact, he knew very well that when he said that he and Ye Xiaochuan were old acquaintances and that Ye Xiaochuan had discovered him a while ago, the matter became complicated.

However, he did not regret it.

He always claimed to be a thousand-mile horse, and Ye Xiaochuan was his Bole.

If the court or the old immortal on Cangyun Mountain did not use him because he and Ye Xiaochuan were old acquaintances, it can only be said that they had no vision.

Sooner or later, they would regret it.

However, Zhan Ying did not move Ye Xiaochuan out just because Ye Xiaochuan was his mentor.

There was another reason.

He needed Ye Xiaochuan.

To be precise, he needed to rely on the secret weapon in Ye Xiaochuan's hand.

Black gunpowder.

In the whole world, only Tiannu Kingdom and the five tribes in southern Xinjiang had black gunpowder.

Although the power of the black gunpowder imitated by the court was a little greater than before, it was still far behind the black gunpowder of Tiannu Kingdom and the five tribes in southern Xinjiang.

This was a weapon that could change the direction of the war, and Zhan Ying had to keep the black gunpowder firmly in his hands.

He believed that if he created the impression that he was Ye Xiaochuan's man, Ye Xiaochuan would give him black gunpowder.

While Zhan Ying was daydreaming, the crown prince Zhao Shiyu came over.

Zhan Ying saluted, with his right arm across his chest, palm facing down.

He said, "Your Highness."

Zhao Shiyu smiled and said, "No need to be polite."

Today in the hall, the crown prince strongly supported Zhan Ying to be the Grand Marshal.

He had met Ye Xiaochuan once in Mount Tai, and the two had a long talk.

They both felt that they had met too late.

In fact, the two had reached an agreement in Mount Tai to cooperate secretly and jointly protect the human world.

Since Zhan Ying was Ye Xiaochuan's man, Zhao Shiyu naturally supported him.

Zhao Shiyu took out a secret letter from his arms and handed it to Zhan Ying, saying, "The court is discussing the candidate for the Grand Marshal, and the generals from all directions have already known about it. This is a secret letter from Zhao Shuai from Yumen Pass. Take a look."

Zhan Ying hesitated for a moment, but still took the secret letter.

The letter was very long, as many as eight or nine pages, and it was a private letter to Zhao Shiyu.

The content was roughly that Zhao Zian heard at Yumen Pass today that there was a young man named Zhan Ying who was recommended by Xuanying and Li Ziye as the Grand Marshal of the Human Army, and he also heard that Zhan Ying was the descendant of Li Tielan.

The battle in the Western Regions was secretly commanded by Zhan Ying, which allowed the battles of Longmen and Longbei Mountain to proceed smoothly.

Zhao Zian asked Qu Jiuyuan, and through Qu Jiuyuan confirmed that in the battle of Yingzui Cliff ten years ago, it was also Zhan Ying who sent out a surprise force to reverse the situation and let the Yingzui Cliff defenders annihilate the heavenly army.

Zhao Zian admired Zhan Ying's attainments in military tactics.