Chapter 168 Unifying the Northern Frontier (1/2)

The tax is not enough after all. Feng Tianzong originally wanted to use the remaining tax to improve the puppetry. The third-level primary puppetry is not enough. It is not impossible to refine the third-level primary puppetry of the copper spirit puppet.

However, if Feng Tianzong wants to refine a puppet that is more powerful than the ordinary copper spirit puppet, he needs to learn more puppetry.

The same copper spirit puppet, the most basic copper spirit puppet, the most basic template, only integrates a magical seed, and only has some basic abilities, which is only the combat power of the early Jindan period.

The same is called copper spirit puppet, the combat power of the puppets refined by different people is also different. As long as the puppetry is proficient enough, by transforming the formation inside the puppet and integrating more magical seeds, the combat power of the copper spirit puppet refined in the end may reach the peak of the Jindan period.

Of course, Feng Tianzong can refine the puppet and then spend time to consume mana to sacrifice, which can also achieve the same goal.

But relatively speaking, improving puppetry is the most cost-effective way.

Having defeated the powerful, expanded the territory, increased the population, and greatly improved the strength, Feng Tianzong was in a good mood.

"Auntie Lan, I'm going to Chunhua Palace to take a bath. Send someone to notify Jin Jinyun and Xiang Yijing to come and serve me." Feng Tianzong ordered.

"Yes, sir, you haven't seen the new maids who entered the palace this year. Do you want to take this opportunity to invite them to meet?

The girls are diligent in learning dance, practicing chess, calligraphy and painting every day, isn't it to make you happy? No matter how busy you are, you should give the girls a chance to show themselves." Auntie Lan persuaded with a smile.

Feng Tianzong nodded. He was in a good mood today. It was just right to see if there were any girls who were new to the palace this year. "Then meet them. I will grant you an audience in Huaqing Palace."

Xiang Yijing and Jin Jinyun, the two concubines, were waiting in Huaqing Palace early.

There is a huge pool in Huaqing Palace. It is not a natural hot spring, but a pool specially built when Feng Tianzong established the Twelve Yuanchen Tianguang Disha Great Array. The great array provides energy for the pool, so that the water in the pool is at a suitable temperature all year round, and it has the function of automatic purification.

Compared with the great array covering a radius of 100 miles, the energy consumed is insignificant. Of course, with Feng Tianzong's current cultivation, he does not need to take a bath, and his body is naturally clean.

It's just that taking a bath is a habit and a hobby. This Huaqing Palace is also named by him, taken from the spring cold granting a bath in Huaqing Pool, the hot spring water washes the condensed fat, and the maid helps her up weakly, which is the time when she has just received the grace.

He thought about the days when the king would not attend the morning court from then on. Why do you work hard to cultivate immortals? Isn't it just for this carefree life that you wouldn't even exchange for a god?

"Meet my husband!" Jin Jinyun and Xiang Yijing, one on the left and one on the right, saluted Feng Tianzong with a smile.

The two of them naturally knew that their husbands had unified the northern border. Marrying a chicken follows the chicken and marrying a dog follows the dog. Now that their husbands have risen in status, their status will naturally rise with the tide.

"Haha, get up!" Feng Tianzong stretched out his hand and held the two concubines in his arms on the left and right.

Behind him were five personal maids, spring breeze and autumn moon, poetic and picturesque, and the light Yu Lian who could dance on the palm.

"Husband, I will help you change clothes." Walking all the way to the side of the pool, Jin Jinyun stretched out her hand to take off Feng Tianzong's clothes.

The pool, which is about 100 square meters in area, including the pool wall and the bottom of the pool, is all made of white jade, with formations engraved on it, which can gather spiritual energy in the pool. Not only can it delay aging and make the skin smooth, but it can also replenish life energy. Long-term immersion in it can prolong life.

In this pool, I dare not say anything about others, but at least it can keep the skin and appearance of several concubines and personal maids at the level of eighteen or nineteen years old.

The spiritual energy gathered in this pool is not inferior to that in the Puppet Sect's mountain gate. After all, it gathers spiritual energy from a hundred miles around, and can absorb the three lights of the sun, moon and stars in the sky into energy.

But for Feng Tianzong's cultivation, it is no longer effective. But for mortals, this pool is an absolute treasure land.

"My husband has now raised an army to unify the northern border. The Great Xia court will definitely not recognize it. Does my husband want to go further?" Jin Jinyun said to Feng Tianzong with watery eyes while taking off his clothes.

"It's all empty names, it doesn't matter." Feng Tianzong said indifferently.

He is still the Liaoyuan Marquis of the Great Xia Dynasty in name. Although he actually split the northern border, the court is now the new emperor who has just ascended the throne, and the status is still unstable. At the same time, there are many riots in various parts of Great Xia, and there is no energy to pay attention to him.

"My husband, if the name is not right, then the words will not flow, and if the words are not flowing, then the things will not work. Now that my husband has unified the northern border, it is time to break away from the Great Xia Dynasty and take a step further. Only in this way will more talents come to join my husband." Jin Jinyun said with shining eyes.

"Why, you don't want to be a concubine in the Marquis's Mansion anymore, and you want to be a concubine in the Prince's Mansion? Or even a concubine?" Feng Tianzong stretched out his hand to pinch Jin Jinyun's chin, looking at the pretty face that has been with him for ten years.

"I naturally hope that my husband will take a step further. And I believe that it is not just me, but even the civil and military officials under my husband's command, who also hope that my husband will take a step further.

Only when my husband takes a step further, they will have the opportunity to be promoted." Jin Jinyun did not lie, and directly admitted it openly.

Feng Tianzong is not afraid of women having ambitions. For him, it is better to have ambitions. It just so happens that he is still worried and does not want to deal with political affairs. If someone is willing to help him deal with it, he will be even more eager.

Now Feng Tianzong has completely let Wang Mingyuan handle those political affairs. For him, letting Wang Mingyuan or letting his concubine make little difference.

"My husband, I have a different opinion. I think it is not the right time to go further. Although there are undercurrents in the Great Xia Dynasty, no one has really jumped out to rebel directly.

If my husband directly claims to be king and emperor, the court will not want to pay attention to us, but it will inevitably be forced to send troops to conquer us.

Marquis is Marquis, it's just a matter of title. It's okay for my husband to use any ceremonial weapons in private. We just need to enjoy the benefits. False reputation is not important." Xiang Yijing persuaded calmly.

Xiang Yijing has always been a practical person. When she was forcibly abducted by Feng Tianzong at the Lantern Festival in the capital of Daxia, she took the initiative to ask for a wife instead of a concubine.

It can be seen that this woman is wise. She knows that she is destined to be Feng Tianzong's woman in this life when she was forcibly abducted. She can quickly see the situation, fight for her own interests, pay attention to reality, and do not value false reputation, instead of just crying like ordinary women.

Both concubines looked at her with burning eyes. Obviously, these two women did not represent themselves at this moment.

When Feng Tianzong sent them to the county government to help govern the local area, they gathered some subordinates under their command, and naturally represented the interests of a group.

Don't look at the past ten years. The relationship between the two has always been very good on the surface. Many times, they even resisted him, the big devil, on the united front with deep sisterly affection and slept on the same bed together.

But behind the scenes, it is not so harmonious.

Jin Jinyun was born in the northern border. Her father was the commander of the Zhenyuan Army. Naturally, some officials from the northern border were gathered under her command.

These people, because they have little to do with the Great Xia Dynasty, are mostly the earliest veterans who followed Feng Tianzong. Naturally, they hope that Feng Tianzong will go further, and they are not afraid of the anger of the Great Xia court.

They think that the Great Xia Dynasty is now too busy to care about the affairs of the Northern Frontier. For so many years, the Northern Frontier has been hit by natural disasters and man-made disasters, and the rebels have continued, but the Great Xia court has not sent troops to suppress them. It can be seen that the Great Xia Dynasty is already strong on the outside but weak on the inside.

Xiang Yijing was born in the Duke of Yun’s Mansion in the capital. In recent years, the trade route between the Northern Frontier and the interior has always been controlled by her. At the same time, some officials from the interior have gathered under her command. For example, General Zhang Weiyu is a distant relative introduced by Xiang Yijing, and now he is already a big banner in the army.

Many of these people still have families in the interior, so naturally they don’t want Feng Tianzong to directly raise the flag and rebel. At that time, they will really be in a dilemma.

This is not a matter of bringing family members over. Rebellion will kill nine clans. It is not a matter of a few people, but a matter of a big family.

On the surface, this matter is just a disagreement between two concubines. A deeper point is the factional struggle under Feng Tianzong.

Feng Tianzong actually doesn't care about this kind of struggle. The great power belongs to himself. Even if all these people rebel against him, he can suppress them all with a wave of his hand.

"We'll talk about this later. The northern border has just been pacified. Now there are a lot of things to do. When the rule is completely stable and the army is strong, it won't be too late to change the title. Anyway, it's just a title." Feng Tianzong said indifferently.

His current reputation has already risen in the entire cultivation world. No matter from which aspect, the forces under his command are actually the first to come out.

Whether the title is changed or not, their northern border will inevitably be targeted. This of course includes the Great Xia Dynasty and the Wanfa Sect behind it.

The Wanfa Sect also wants to compete for the dragon, and they also want to live a second life. It's just that it's not certain whether the emperor will still be the current one at that time.

So Feng Tianzong is now called the king, and it doesn't matter. It's completely fine, it doesn't matter.

The views of the two of them are just ordinary views, which are actually correct, but they are just standing at a low position. They can't see so comprehensively.

Feng Tianzong has come to a conclusion, and the two concubines no longer look at him eagerly, and continue to take off his clothes, as if what happened just now was just a casual question.

In fact, Feng Tianzong is also well aware of the factions under his command. The two concubines are each a faction, and Wang Mingyuan himself is also a faction. As the head of the civil servants under Feng Tianzong, who helps Feng Tianzong to handle government affairs with full authority, it is really normal for someone to be willing to follow him.

Moreover, many officials were selected by Wang Mingyuan. For these things, Feng Tianzong just let go.

"Sir, the new girls who have entered the palace are here. Should we let them in?" Aunt Lan said with a look.

"Let them in, play music, and dance." Feng Tianzong ordered.

As he spoke, he walked into the pool. There was a lounge chair for him under the pool. He lay in it, his whole body submerged in the water, leaving only his head above the water.

The two concubines and personal maids beside him also took off their outer clothes and entered the pool wearing close-fitting bellybands.

They naturally understood the effect of this pool, but when Feng Tianzong was not here, they could not come here by themselves.

The water surface was very shallow, only more than one meter deep.

Soon, a group of young girls in gauze came in with various musical instruments. Then came the girls in dance costumes.

The previous incident with Yu Lian gave these girls hope that as long as they danced well, they could get the favor of the Marquis.

Feng Tianzong looked at these girls with light dancing steps, and then looked at the musicians who were also young and beautiful and playing beside them.

Suddenly, he remembered that when he had just returned to the mortal world and saw Zhou's family, he thought in his heart that if there was a chance in the future, he would let a group of beautiful girls play in the pool wearing bellybands.

"What's the point of dancing like this? Come, take off your outer clothes and dance in the pool. The musicians should also take off their outer clothes and play in the pool." Feng Tianzong ordered.

At the command, a group of Yingying and Yanyan did not dare to refute, but took off their outer clothes shyly, and walked into the pool wearing only bellybands.

These women entered the palace to please Feng Tianzong, so they naturally did not mind Feng Tianzong looking at their bodies, but shyness was still inevitable.

It's easy to play the flute and the flute, you can play them while sitting in the pool, and it's also easy to play the pipa, but it's a little more troublesome to play the piano, you need to set up a table in the pool.

Red, green, pink, purple, colorful bellybands compete for beauty, most of these bellybands are embroidered by the girls themselves.

Feng Tianzong then discovered that many girls also wrapped their breasts. The so-called breast wrapping is to prevent the breasts from growing too big, so they wrap them with cloth in circles, just like foot binding, the purpose is to prevent the breasts from growing too big.

Feng Tianzong really didn't expect that there was such a bad habit under his rule, which was simply intolerable.

"Auntie Lan, pass the order down, breast wrapping is not allowed in the entire Northern Frontier sphere of influence in the future. All parents who violate it will be heavily fined." Feng Tianzong ordered angrily.

"Yes." Auntie Lan didn't take it seriously at first, but when she saw that Feng Tianzong was really angry, she said solemnly.

Aunt Lan would carry out all Feng Tianzong's orders without compromise. To her, Feng Tianzong was her heaven. Although she didn't think that breast binding was a big deal, since Feng Tianzong opposed it, anyone who dared to bind their breasts would be her enemy.