Wang Dong was different.
The biggest difference was the Sky Peng Horizontal before Zong Rulin's eyes!
Of all Wang Dong's words, the one that had shaken Zong Rulin the most was: "Only by demonstrating sufficient strength can we end the New Song Kingdom's internal turmoil and the crises from beyond our borders."
What counted as sufficient strength?
The Death Starship before him was sufficient strength!
Zong Rulin had no doubt about it.
If the New Song Kingdom possessed a Death Starship, its current internal and external crises would be resolved with ease!
But this Death Starship did not belong to the New Song Kingdom. It belonged to the Black Stone Kingdom.
Zong Rulin couldn't have failed to understand what Wang Dong was implying.
Although Wang Dong had not said it outright,
everything he said, and the way he said it, hinted at the same thing to Zong Rulin.
If they wanted to end the New Song Kingdom's internal turmoil in a short time and ward off the external crisis that would follow,
the best solution was for the Black Stone Kingdom to quickly annex the New Song Kingdom, consolidate their strength, then rely on the Sky Peng Horizontal, a Death Starship, to deter threats from within and without!
Zong Rulin's reason had to admit that this was indeed one way to solve the problem.
But his emotions made him unwilling to think along those lines!
Because it would mean that the New Song Kingdom, a nation that had held the dominant position in the Changpan River System for many years, would soon vanish into the river of history!
For Zong Rulin, who had grown up in the New Song Kingdom and spent nearly two centuries fighting for it,
that was simply too cruel.
So he hesitated.
For a long time,