Wang Dong, however, was different.
The greatest difference was the Sky Peng Horizontal before Zong Rulin's eyes!
What had shaken Zong Rulin most in Wang Dong's words was the line, "Only by demonstrating sufficient strength can we end the civil strife in the New Song Kingdom and the crises from outside."
What was sufficient strength?
The Death Starship before him was sufficient strength!
Zong Rulin had no doubt.
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 understood Wang Dong's implication.
Though Wang Dong had not said it outright,
everything he said hinted at the same thing to Zong Rulin.
The best way to end the New Song Kingdom's civil strife in a short time and stave off the crises from outside that would follow
was for the Black Stone Kingdom to swiftly annex the New Song Kingdom, consolidate their strength, and then use the Sky Peng Horizontal, a Death Starship, to deter enemies at home and abroad!
Zong Rulin's reason forced him to admit that this was indeed one way to solve the problem.
But his feelings kept him from wanting to consider it!
Because it meant that the New Song Kingdom, a nation that had dominated 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 fought for it for nearly two hundred years,
that was simply too cruel.
So he hesitated.
For a long time, he said nothing.
"Your Highness, King of Cizhou, please believe in my sincerity.
The Sky Peng Horizontal has fine tea aboard, personally