This night, Jade Capital City was destined to be sleepless. Within dozens of miles around the Ren Family, countless riders whipped their horses through the night, delivering wine and food to the Ren Family square and Great Courtyard.
The entire Ren Family was brilliantly lit, looking exactly like a great military camp celebrating a victorious battle. It gave many soldiers the feeling of the old days again—eating meat in great chunks and drinking wine from huge bowls.
And wherever Ren Jie went, hundreds or thousands of soldiers around him would erupt in fervor.
Most of these people were no longer in the army, but they were veterans who had survived a hundred battles, an absolutely formidable fighting force. With them present, the other great families would surely find neither sleep nor appetite. Back when Ren Tianxing sounded the war drum, what a sight it had been when a hundred thousand troops gathered at once.
One had to know that among those hundred thousand were generals who commanded troops, Imperial Court officials, and even people who possessed vast private businesses.
The influence of these people exceeded a million, and that was only within Jade Capital City. In the many years since Ren Tianxing had disappeared, the other great families had quietly and tacitly worked together, and had nearly dissolved this influence.
Originally, they only needed to wait a few more years. Especially since the Bright Jade Dynasty had enjoyed peace and prosperity in recent years, and though there were battles at the borderlands, they would not spread into the country. Yet at this very moment, Ren Jie had sounded the war drum again...
"Behave yourself. Don't think that just because I... drank... drank wine, you can run away. If you dare run... I'll... I'll kill you." Tied to a pillar at