The ninth son of the emperor was demoted at the beginning. I have a famous Chinese general.

"Zhang Cheng, come here."

Then, Li Wanyue shouted to one of them.

Hearing Li Wanyue's call, a man in his thirties walked over.

"Zhang Cheng has met the young lady."

"I've met my uncle."

Zhang Cheng saluted the two respectfully.

"Well, from now on you are under my command, and you must obey my orders."

Li Wanyue ordered.

"I obey your command. I am willing to follow you till death."

Zhang Cheng's sonorous and powerful voice resounded throughout the training ground.

"Well, you go down."

Li Wanyue waved her hand.

"Yes, I will retire at the end."

Zhang Cheng clasped his fists and retreated.

"Your Highness, this guy is quite strong. He can at least take on Old Zhang for twenty rounds."

After Zhang Cheng retreated, Zhang Fei couldn't help but interrupt.

"What? Only twenty rounds?"

"Zhang Cheng is a seventh-rank official."

"Aren't you also a seventh-rank? Why......"

After Zhang Fei finished speaking, Li Wanyue was surprised.

"Ahem, my lady, the thing is, he's not actually a seventh-rank."

Ning Quan explained awkwardly.

"What? You're not a seventh-rank? Then he..."

Li Wanyue looked at Ning Quan puzzledly.

"Well, actually he is of the ninth rank."

Ning Quan explained embarrassedly.

"Ninth... Ninth rank master?"

Upon hearing this, Li Wanyue widened her beautiful eyes.

Ninth rank, how is this possible!

In the Daqian Kingdom, how many ninth-grade ranks are there in total?

"Wanyue, I was wrong about this. I didn't tell you the truth before."

"The main reason was that I wasn't sure whether our marriage would be successful."

Ning Quan said with guilt, feeling very sorry for Li Wanyue.

After all, Li Wanyue was sincere to him and helped him with all her might.

"Yeah, I understand."

"I don't blame you this time, but you must never do this again."

Li Wanyue was silent for a moment and spoke slowly.

"Well, I promise! I won't do it again."

Ning Quan quickly promised.

"Wanyue, there's something I haven't told you yet. Do you want to know?"

Then Ning Quan said again.

"Oh, what's the matter?"

Li Wanyue whispered, obviously she was still a little angry about what happened just now.

"Haha, then I'll tell you."

“In fact, not only is he ninth rank, he is also ninth rank.”

Ning Quan pointed at Zhang Fei and Lu Bu and said with a smile.

"Well, I guessed that."

Li Wanyue nodded without showing much shock.

"No, you didn't."

"In fact, there are more than just the two of them who are ninth-rank. There are five other ninth-rank officials in my mansion, and three more counselors."

Ning Quan continued.

"what?

"You still have five ninth-rank masters in your house?"

After hearing Ning Quan's words, Li Wanyue was almost petrified.

She stared at Ning Quan in disbelief.

How can this be?

There are only six people in the nine ranks of the Daqian Kingdom. Apart from His Majesty and the three princes, the remaining two are the Jiedushi of Jiannan and the general of the Anxi Protectorate.

Each of them is a famous figure.

In the entire Central Plains dynasty, there were less than thirty people of the ninth rank.

Ning Quan actually has seven subordinates?

And there are three counselors?

Needless to say, these three counselors must be extraordinary.

"How about it, a surprise?"

"Now you know why I'm so confident. I'm not afraid of being exiled to Beiting anymore, right?"

Ning Quan asked proudly.

"Well, I really didn't expect that."

"But...how on earth did you do it?"

After calming down a little, Li Wanyue asked curiously.

Li Wanyue was of course happy that Ning Quan had such strength.

What puzzled Li Wanyue was why these people were willing to work for Ning Quan?

"Haha, this is a long story. I'll tell you in detail later."

Ning Quan smiled mysteriously.

"Oh, okay."

Li Wanyue shook her head helplessly. Since Ning Quan said so, she didn't want to continue asking.

"Oh, by the way, I have a gift for you."

Li Wanyue suddenly said.

"what gift?"

When Ning Quan heard that Li Wanyue had a gift, his eyes lit up and he asked.

"Hehe, the gift is in the side yard. You'll find out if you follow me."

Li Wanyue kept the secret.

"it is good!!"

Ning Quan agreed and followed Li Wanyue to the side courtyard.

After a moment, Ning Quan knew what the gift was.

A total of two hundred war horses.

"So many war horses?"

Ning Quan was surprised.

War horses are scarce, especially in the Central Plains.

The Turks and Tibetans do have a lot, but they won't sell them.

Therefore, Daqian has not had many war horses.

Li Wanyue gave him so much at once, how could he remain calm?

"How is it, are you satisfied?"

Li Wanyue said proudly.

"Hehe, I'm satisfied. Very satisfied. Thank you, Wanyue."

Ning Quan said excitedly.

"Silly boy, we are husband and wife, why are you thanking me?"

Li Wanyue said coquettishly.

"Anyway, I still want to thank you."

Ning Quan looked at Li Wanyue affectionately and said.

Then, Ning Quan hugged Li Wanyue and kissed her hard several times.

This made Li Wanyue's face flush and she felt extremely shy.

........

A warm moment for Ning Quan and his wife.

In the Royal Study Room of the Imperial Palace.

Ning Yuanwu sat on the dragon throne with a sad look on his face.

Standing below were Crown Prince Ning Gao, Prime Minister Li Junchen, Minister of War Huang Chengyan, and General Wuwei Zhang Shijie.

Early this morning, Ning Yuanwu received an urgent report from the border.

Upon learning that the Qing Kingdom had already dispatched troops to the border and was preparing to go to war with the Daqian Dynasty, he immediately summoned everyone to discuss the matter.

"So, a war between us and Qing Kingdom is inevitable?"

Ning Yuanwu looked at the ministers and asked in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty, that is exactly what happened. I was thinking of negotiating with the Qing Kingdom before, but they simply refused to even meet with the envoy."

"Now that the Qing Kingdom has deployed troops on the border, their intentions are very clear, so we have no choice but to fight back."

Prince Ning Gao stepped forward and said.

"Well, whatever. Since there's no way to avoid it, then we can only fight."

Ning Yuanwu pondered for a moment and finally made up his mind.

"I'm asking you, are you sure you can win?"

Ning Yuanwu continued to ask.

"Your Majesty, I am only 60% sure. But if I can mobilize the troops of the Jiannan Jiedushi or my elder brother's troops stationed in Hexi, I will be 80% sure."

Ning Gao reported.

"Mobilize the troops of the Jiannan Jiedushi? Do you think that's possible?"

"That fellow Qian Shuchen has been dissatisfied with me ever since I came to power. He has long been raising his own troops. Do you think he will obey my orders?"

"And Ning Zhen's troops in Hexi. He's already short on manpower when he's facing Xixia, so it's even more impossible."

Ning Yuanwu snorted coldly.

"Yes... your son is stupid."

"How about...I beg Father to mobilize the troops from the capital?"

Ning Gao suggested cautiously.

"Mobilize the troops in the capital?"

"Well, it seems that this is the only way. What do you think, Mr. Zhang?"

After thinking for a moment, Ning Yuanwu looked at Wuwei General Zhang Shijie.