Great Wei Kyoto.
Prince Huai Ning drew a cold breath.
He really did not expect Xu Qingnian to be so crazy.
Killing and surrendering?
This was something unprecedented.
Unless it was a true Northern Expedition, how could it be possible to kill a surrender?
These foreign countries can only say that they do not respect Great Wei, just give a lesson, since they surrendered to Great Wei they should agree, and then slowly punish them, such as compensating silver for pensions and so on.
Even if it means draining the tombs, it is fine.
But killing a surrender, that’s a big no-no.
Once you kill a surrender, no one will surrender in the future.
Of course there are advantages, the advantage is that, not daring to fight you, surrender in advance, so that you may be able to escape a disaster.
“This Xu Qingnian, he is really ruthless.”
Prince Huai Ning took a deep breath, his mood was hard to calm down.
Because of this matter, the impact was too great.
Xu Qingnian’s killing of the surrender this time would most likely lead to great repercussions and would have to carry the world’s reputation.
Ever since Emperor Taizu had killed a surrender, Great Wei had never done such a thing, especially since a sage had come out of Great Wei and had lectured on the art of war.
The general meaning was that surrender should not be killed, as it would be condemned by heaven and so on.
So the world’s scholars resisted killing and surrendering.
The meaning was simple: although there was a war and two countries were at war, but since they had surrendered, they had to behave like a little gentleman, the generals were innocent and so were the people.
Just arrest the main people and punish them severely.
To kill and surrender is to create innocent casualties.
Heaven forbid.
By doing so, Xu Qingnian was almost putting himself to death.
The world’s scholars would have cursed him to death. If the Great Wei Palace had learned of this, they would have fired cannons and played music.
“Xu Qingnian! You are too crazy.”
Prince Huaining exhaled a long breath, Xu Qingnian did this, but there were good and bad things for him.
The good side is that Xu Qingnian is carrying the world’s reputation, so he can take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, for example, if a va*sal king revolts, he can have a reason to go to the capital to attend to the king and say that there are traitors in the court.
The downside is that Xu Qingnian’s prestige in the army will go straight to the top, for no other reason than that soldiers like such hot-blooded top bra*s.
If this were true, he might be able to rely on his personal prestige and convince all soldiers.
But for now, at least, it would be a godsend for himself.
“Men!”
“Inform the Great Wei Palace of Literature of this news.”
Prince Huai Ning opened his mouth and said so, this news naturally had to be told to the Great Wei Wen Palace at the first opportunity, so that the Great Wei Wen Palace could target Xu Qingnian, while he himself could free up his hands to deal with other matters.
“As ordered!”
Someone spoke out and replied loudly.
And at the same time.
Great Wei’s Kyoto.
Inside the Mandarin’s Palace.
When the messenger delivered the battle report, everyone in the entire hall froze once more.
“What did you say?”
“The Marquis of Xinwu killed and surrendered 170,000?”
“The royal lineage of the Fan Kingdom, the civil and military officials have all been killed?”
When Chen Zhengru heard this news, his entire person was struck by lightning.
There was nothing to be said about not accepting the surrender, it was fine to kill the kings of the tombs once again, but killing the surrender was a huge matter in the sky.
“Back to Minister Chen, yes!”
The messenger lowered his head and gave an affirmative answer.
“Hiss!”
Everyone was frozen in place, including the six ministers, the princes and the lords.
Killing and surrendering!
The Marquis of Xinwu had actually killed the surrender, this …… Is this an attempt to turn the sky upside down?
“Confused! Confused! Confused!”
“Marquis Xinwu, you are really confused.”
The Minister of Penalty clenched his fists as he shouted several times, his eyes filled with helplessness and anger.
“Since ancient times, a surrendered army cannot be killed ah, except in the case of a life-and-death feud. …….. Hey! Marquis Xinwu, you are really confused.”
The government has been working with the government for a long time, and the government has been working with the government for a long time.
“Marquis Xinwu should not be like this, he is not this kind of person.”
“Marquis Xinwu, how can you kill a surrender for no good reason?”
“What a treason, what a treason.”
The military officials followed suit. It was fine not to accept the surrender, and it was fine to kill the royal family, but to kill a surrender, that was a big transgression.
Originally, when Marquis Xin Wu had defeated the tombs and returned to the court, he was in a great position to win, but killing the surrender wiped out all his glory.
The Great Wei Palace of Literature would not spare him, nor would the world’s readers, and even the Tusi Dynasty and the First Yuan Dynasty would intervene and accuse Great Wei of this act.
“Lord Xu, the Marquis of Xinwu is afraid that he has lost his wits and is in a hurry to do this.
Someone spoke up, he was extremely close to the Marquis of Xinwu and was the first to speak up, wanting to say a few good words for him.
But the next moment, Xu Qingnian’s voice rang out, once again silencing the Mandarin Hall.
“I told him to kill it.”
The voice rang out, and the hall once again fell into silence.
Everyone looked towards Xu Qingnian, their eyes filled with disbelief.
This was Xu Qingnian’s instruction?
This! This! This!
“Shouren, why are you suffering?”
Eventually, Chen Zhengru came back to his senses, and he looked at Xu Qingnian with a look of helplessness in his eyes ah.
He had actually guessed a little, but it was only a little guess, and now that Xu Qingnian had admitted it, how could he not say a word.
But…
Faced with Chen Zhengru’s voice, Xu Qingnian slowly took a deep breath.
The next moment.
Xu Qingnian’s gaze was incomparably firm, and his voice was extremely loud and clear.
“Gentlemen!”
“I am only afraid that I have not yet seen the significance of this battle.”
Xu Qingnian opened his mouth, a statement that made the crowd all a little curious, they did not understand what Xu Qingnian meant by this.
“Lord Xu, what do you mean?”
Even the Duke of An did not understand what Xu Qingnian wanted to say, so he could not help but ask.
And Xu Qingnian did not look at any of them, but instead, he looked into the sand table.
“This battle! It is not the so-called battle of national prestige, nor is it the so-called battle of dignity.”
“This battle, the battle to defend the country.”
“Great Wei was founded seven hundred and twenty-five years ago, and has endured countless storms, especially in recent times, when the Northern Expedition battle defeated Great Wei and emptied the treasury.”
“As a result, Great Wei has declined year after year.”
“If this were not the case, how could Great Wei have been provoked by some mere foreign nations?”
Xu Qingnian spoke out, his voice deafening, especially this sentence, the battle to defend the country.
It was even more shocking to the crowd.
This was clearly a battle of national prestige, how did it turn into a battle of defending the nation again?
Sensing the curious gazes of the crowd, Xu Qingnian’s voice continued to ring out.
“The seven hundred years of the Great Wei rivers and mountains are today, in this day and age, full of sores, only because you all always like to stick to the rules.”
“Fear of the rebellion of the va*sals! Fear of the reemergence of the Northern Expedition! I am afraid of the first Yuan! I am afraid that the people will not be able to live!”
“Two hours ago, when the tombs surrendered, I pondered whether to surrender or to kill them, but for the greater good, I accepted the surrender!”
“But for Wei, it is to kill.”
“All of you, it is time for Great Wei to make a change.”
“Instead of being held back by the enemy, we should take the initiative.”
“War to feed war!”
“Kill to feed the kill!”
“Use public opinion to raise national prestige.”
“If a va*sal king dares to move, kill him!”
“If the foreigners dare to move, kill them!”
“If the northern barbarians dare to move, kill them!”
“The barefooted are not afraid to wear shoes, it is true that Wei cannot fight and cannot afford to fight, but what if this is a battle to destroy the country? With the will to destroy the country, Wei will gamble on it completely.”
“Let’s see if the Tusi Dynasty is afraid! Let’s see if the Chu Yuan Dynasty is afraid! Let’s see if these va*sal kings still dare to do anything! Let the world see the might of the Great Wei! Let the world see that the pride of the Great Wei is still there!”
“Gentlemen! Do you dare to fight?”
Xu Qingnian spoke at length, and his words left the court speechless and deafening.
The Hall of Mandarin was quiet.
It was so quiet that a pin drop could be heard.
It was because Xu Qingnian’s words were too crazy.
If he won, Wei would complete a qualitative transformation, but if he lost, Wei would cease to exist.
This is a shocking gamble.
How could they not be shocked?
The crowd was quiet, so quiet that even the sound of breathing was lost.
The military officials were also shocked by Xu Qingnian’s words. They had been shouting about the Northern Expedition before, not because they really wanted to go there, but because they wanted to prepare for the Northern Expedition, because they knew that Great Wei could not afford to go there.
They knew that Wei could not afford to go north, and that the country’s current strength could not sustain a long war.
But what they didn’t expect was that Xu Qingnian didn’t want to go on a northern expedition, but wanted to start an all-out war to bring down the Sudden Evil Dynasty and the First Yuan Dynasty.
Yes.
Even though Wei could not defeat the Sudden Evil and Primordial Yuan Dynasties, Wei could still bite off a piece of their flesh, and it would be no problem at all to seriously damage the two dynasties.
It is even possible for them to die together, so that all of them will die in the end.
If that were to happen, the Chu Yuan Dynasty and the Sudden Evil Dynasty would certainly have to bleed heavily, and no matter who was made to bleed heavily, the other side would be extremely happy as they sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight.
When Wei is gone, and the other dynasty is in a weakened state, the feat of unifying the mountains can be accomplished.
Who, may I ask, would dare to take on the Great Wei in such a situation?
Who would dare to provoke a madman? Who would dare to mess with a madman? The rich and powerful would not dare to mess with him.
Xu Qingnian’s plan was so crazy that they really did not know what to say.
Looking at the sand table.
Xu Qingnian looked calm.
This was his real plan.
Because right now, an insoluble deadlock had formed.
More than a hundred countries were formed together, and even if Great Wei could sweep everything away, the problem was that internally there were va*sal kings watching over them, and externally there were the Sudden Evil Dynasty and the First Yuan Dynasty constantly supplying resources.
The tombs were taken by raid, and the countries behind them will certainly be very careful, and every battle will be a hard battle.
Every battle will be a hard battle, a battle to the extreme.
To put it bluntly, it is a heap of lives, and once it cannot be pushed across, then it will be a long war.
Once you get into a long war, then all the woes come into play.
The war outside, the internal turmoil, the civil palace is still not honest, at that time, slowly consume you to death, even if you are extremely clever, it is useless, three-way checks and balances.
The only result will be that the va*sal kings will ascend to the throne, the foreigners will divide up the territory, and the Sudden Evil Dynasty and the First Yuan Dynasty will demand all kinds of benefits. There is only one Wei left.
And for these va*sal kings, they didn’t care about the cession of their lands, because each of them considered himself to be the son of heaven and thought that sooner or later he would get them back.
After all, for them now, what they sacrificed was nothing more than a blank sheet of paper, and the fact that they had not yet become emperor amounted to nothing more than taking someone else’s stuff as a favour.
Expecting this group of va*sal kings to see the situation clearly? Are they all a bunch of people who want to rebel and have benevolence and morality?
Therefore, this battle is not a battle of national prestige.
Rather, it is a battle to defend the country.
Use this madness of faith to shock the world.
If you are not crazy, then once the chess game is dead, you will really be powerless.
Xu Qingnian’s meaning was understood by all.
But the civil and military officials really did not dare to answer.
They didn’t have the courage to gamble with the big Wei.
They did not have the courage to do so.
If they won, there would be unimaginable benefits, but if they lost, Great Wei would be completely lost.
However, at that very moment, a voice resounded through the Mandarin Hall.
“I!”
“Agreed!”
The voice was not loud, but it resounded in the Mandarin Hall.
At this moment, the civil and military officials all turned their gazes towards each other.
It was the empress.
She was personally present in the Mandarin Hall.
“We all see Your Majesty.”
The civil and military officials knelt towards the Empress.
Xu Qingnian also bowed towards the Empress, while he did not expect that the Empress would appear in person, not only in person, but also unconditionally support his own ideas.
“The Great Wei Dynasty, a change that has not been seen in seven hundred years, if we continue to stick to the rules, we will still end up in death.”
“What Aiqing Xu says is true, every word is true, instead of waiting for death, we should take the initiative to attack.”
“Raise the prestige of the Great Wei!”
The Empress spoke, she supported Xu Qingnian unconditionally, while her gaze fell on the sand table, after a while, she looked at Xu Qingnian and said.
“Aiqing Xu, in this battle, how certain are you that you can stabilise the mountains and rivers?”
The Empress asked.
“Back to Your Majesty.”
“If the civil and military officials, do their best to cooperate with me, there is a fifty percent certainty.”
“If the civil palace is suppressed, I am seventy percent sure.”
“If there is help from heaven, I am 90% sure.”
Xu Qingnian replied.
“What about the other ten percent?”
The empress asked.
“The people of Great Wei.”
Xu Qingnian said calmly.
But once this was said, the Empress instantly understood that Xu Qingnian was ten percent sure.
Thinking of this, the empress no longer had any more nonsense.
“Pa*s on my decree, this battle is the battle to defend the state of Great Wei, the people of Great Wei down to the nobles and princes, all listen to Xu Qingnian’s orders, those who disobey the orders, beheaded!”
The empress said in a domineering manner, as she chose to trust Xu Qingnian, she would not harbour any selfishness.
It was not only because of Xu Qingnian’s unparalleled talent, but also because of what Xu Qingnian had said, every word, every word, had reached her heart.
Wei was too defensive.
Ever since she ascended to the throne, everything she encountered was a matter of trying to find a solution and turning danger into peace, time and time again.
But the more defensive she was, the more people came to provoke her.
Attacking is the best defence.
The Great Wei dynasty has one last breath left in it to fight to the death, and it is not at that point of dying yet.
It has the capacity for a fight.
But just this one battle, and it has to be favoured, otherwise it will be a real crisis.
The voice of the empress resounded through the Hall of Mandarin.
At this moment, the military officials clasped their fists in unison and bowed towards the Empress.
“My subjects obey the decree!”
At this moment, the six ministerial officials and other civil officials were also completely and utterly firm in their inner thoughts.
Xu Qingnian was right.
The Empress had also agreed.
They, as courtiers, had also done all that they should say and do.
Great Wei!
Indeed, they did not fear a battle.
Rather than dying a chronic death, they should fight to the death and fight for a clear and bright future.
“I obey the decree!”
The six ministers and others had completely opened their hearts.
At this moment, there was no more fear in their hearts, and no more scruples.
Want to kill, right?
Then we will kill with you to the end.
“Lord Xu, should we take control of the Palace of Literature directly now?”
At this moment, Lord An stepped forward and asked Xu Qingnian if he wanted to directly suppress the Palace of Literature, lest it build up momentum.
“No need!”
“I have my own decision on the matter of the Wen Palace.”
Xu Qingnian waved his hand, he still needed to use the Palace of Literature for a while.
“Aiqing Xu, I’ll leave the rest to you.”
When finished looking at the sand table, the empress didn’t say anything more, she was going to attend to her own business and didn’t need to stay here.
For here, Xu Qingnian alone would suffice.
“Greetings, Your Majesty.”
Xu Qingnian bowed towards the Empress.
All the ministers also bowed in unison towards the Empress.
The Empress, however, looked towards the civil and military officials, and her voice slowly said.
“Gentlemen.”
“Great Wei is in your hands.”
She finished these words and left the Hall of Wenhua.
After the Empress had left.
A new intelligence war opportunity appeared.
It was a battle report from the Second Army’s Marquis of Sheyang and the Third Army’s Marquis of Qu Zhou.
The Marquis of Sheyang had arrived at Tang, Amuta, the tribe of Tuliang.
The Marquis of Qu Zhou had also arrived in the western region and was setting up camp.
“Pa*s on the order that the Second Army will leave 100,000 men in camp and wait, while the Marquis of Sheyang will divide his troops into three directions and raid the Amuta and Tuliang tribes, and take the country’s city within ten days.”
“As for Tang, send messengers to warn that Tang is one of the branches of the Great Wei, if the other side is willing to surrender, they can accept, Amuta and Tuliang, will not accept surrender.”
“Pa*s the order that the Third Army should set up camp and rest, waiting for the transportation of provisions.”
Xu Qingnian opened his mouth, as did Marquis Xinwu, and told Marquis Sheyang to go straight to the Yellow Dragon.
But the Marquis of Qu Zhou was different, they had to set up camp and sort out the logistics, because the Marquis of Qu Zhou was facing all the foreign countries in the west, there were no strong countries, but they were all small elite countries, it was a protracted war, it was difficult to push across all the way, so the logistics had to be done properly.
Otherwise, things could easily go wrong.
“Obey the order!”
The two messengers left at great speed, galloping their horses and heading to the camp to report.
And at that very moment.
Si Long Wang Palace.
When the news of Xu Qingnian killing and surrendering was conveyed, the entire Si Long King’s Palace completely exploded.
At first, the crowd was shocked that the Tomato Kingdom had been defeated overnight?
Secondly then after learning of the surrender of the Tomato Kingdom, the Marquis of Xinwu killed and surrendered.
The two events appeared at the same time, leaving them dumbfounded.
It was not a shocking event that the Tomans had lost, it could only mean that Great Wei was strong.
But killing a surrender was different, it was a different matter altogether. Victory and defeat are commonplace in the military, and losing is normal.
Killing and surrendering is rare, especially when the Wei dynasty kills and surrenders, which is even more incredible.
“Surrender! How dare the Great Wei kill the surrender? Have they gone mad?”
“The king of the tombs, was he killed?”
“Ruthless, ruthless, too ruthless, we were only provoking a little, but Wei is so ruthless? To destroy the state of Fan?”
“That’s impossible, absolutely impossible, Great Wei is not that stupid, they raided the Tom Kingdom, I believe that, but to kill and surrender? That’s absolutely impossible, it’s not Wei’s style.”
“Yes, how could Wei kill and surrender?”
At the Si Long Palace, when the amba*sadors from various countries learned that Xu Qingnian had killed the surrender, their reactions were completely different.
Most of the first reaction was disbelief, and there were some amba*sadors from warlike countries who were filled with anger.
There was also a portion of the incoming amba*sadors who were silent.
When Great Wei killed and surrendered, they definitely had to condemn it, but the question was what was the point of condemning it?
Right now they realised one thing.
Great Wei was serious.
Before killing the surrender, they all thought that this was a normal reaction from Great Wei. After all, the big guys had teamed up and provoked the Great Wei dynasty, and as the Great Wei dynasty was above the upper kingdom, they naturally had to send troops to suppress it.
Whether it was a formality or a pretence of a fight, sending troops was definitely the way to go.
Only the emissaries all thought that it would be better to play two showdowns, without too many deaths, and then negotiate while fighting, and when it was almost done, with mutual concessions and mutual satisfaction, that would be the end of it.
But now it’s different.
They have already killed and surrendered, and they are still joking with you here? And the exhibition match? Brother, wake up, it’s a real game, it’s going to destroy the country.
For a moment, I don’t know how many messengers from small countries panicked, they were completely panicked inside.
Don’t look at them as a group, as a team, but the problem is, you’re not going to concentrate all your troops on our country, so what if we can’t beat them? Watch yourself get your country slaughtered?
“Gentlemen!”
At that very moment, King Si Long’s voice rang out.
At a glance, he could see what was going through the minds of the messengers of the various countries, and immediately spoke out.
At once, all eyes looked towards King Si Long.
“Great Wei has committed a heinous crime by killing the surrender, the world’s readers will not spare the chief commander Xu Qingnian, nor will they spare the Great Wei Dynasty, which is a good thing for us.”
“Moreover, do you know why Great Wei is killing surrender this time? They are afraid, they are afraid of us gathering together, so they are killing the chicken to make an example of us.”
“Therefore, we must never let him succeed in his plan, the more he kills the surrender, the more it means they are weak and they are afraid.”
“Now, all we have to do is to unite and defend against Great Wei, as long as we can slow down Great Wei’s advance, Great Wei will be in chaos within itself.”
“Also, don’t presume to try to surrender, Great Wei kills surrender, is it useful to surrender now?”
King Si Long opened his mouth and said something that silenced the group of incoming envoys.
In fact, when the tombs were destroyed, the first reaction of the amba*sadors was indeed to want to surrender, they were indeed afraid.
They thought that they had gathered together to put pressure on Wei and force it to back down, either they would go independent or pay compensation in silver.
But I didn’t think that the knife would really move.
Fighting and not fighting are two different things, and no amount of shouting is as direct as touching.
No one wants to become a dead soul under the iron horses of the Great Wei.
But King Si Long was right, they had already killed and surrendered, which meant that they had already torn their faces.
“King Si Long, what should we do next?”
“Yes, Dragon King, give us an idea, we’ll listen to you.”
“Yes, listen to King Si Lung.”
Many people spoke up and pushed King Si Long.
And King Si Long did not have any refusal, he directly stood up and came to the sand table and said.
“I have received information that the Second Army of Great Wei, is camped in Tang, Amuta and Tuliang respectively, Tang is also a branch of Great Wei in the end, unlike us foreigners in general.”
“Therefore, I expect that Xu Qingnian will attack Amuta and Tuliang, and will not attack Tang for the time being, but will go to persuade surrender.”
“But Xu Qingnian thought wrongly, Tang is one of the ten kingdoms, and they have long wanted to be independent.”
“Therefore, Tang will not persuade surrender, and will even take the opportunity to raid the Second Army of Great Wei. At this time, Yan, Jingtu Tribe and Youan Tribe, do their best to support Tang.”
“Cooperate with Tang and attack the Second Army of Great Wei, if we are lucky, we will be able to hit the Second Army of Great Wei hard, even if we are not lucky, we can still make the Second Army of Great Wei suffer a big loss.”
“What do you all think, what do I think?”
King Si Long knew Great Wei extremely well, and he completed his judgement instantly, certain that Xu Qingnian would not attack Tang, but would only attack the Amuta and Tuliang tribes.
After all, the Tang Kingdom was only a branch.
“This is a wonderful plan, King Si Long is very talented.”
The Tang envoy rose, his face full of joy.
The rest of the envoys from the foreign countries also nodded in agreement.
But King Si Long continued to speak, “There is one thing that must be noted.”
“In the first battle, there was a key point why the Tomato Kingdom surrendered so quickly; the Tomato Kingdom’s ruler let the tribes of the nations rush ahead, wanting to preserve his country’s strength.”
“This is the root of the demise, and the king of the Tomato Kingdom deserves to die, all of you must inform your kingdoms of this matter.”
“Reinforcements are not sent to die for nothing, so in every battle that follows, the main force of your country must go first, and reinforcements second, to ensure determination.”
“And be open to friendly troops, never be suspicious of each other, our only enemy at the moment is Great Wei, if we can’t hold back Great Wei, will any of those present survive?”
“At this point, don’t take any more chances, whoever does this again, when the war is over, slaughter this country, got it?”
King Si Long deliberately brought out this matter to speak out, he sent out 10,000 elite iron hors*men and only a dozen of them came back.
How could he not be angry that 10,000 elite iron hors*men had died in Great Wei for nothing? What made him even more angry was that he had sent his men there with good intentions, and this was what he got in return?
It is true that there is strength in numbers, but there are many minds in numbers, so he had to make it clear that whoever still acted in such a reckless manner would have their country slaughtered when the time came.
“We obey the order!”
“We obey the order!”
The messengers spoke up one after another, King Si Long was right, since they were united, if they were still suspicious of each other, they would undoubtedly be asking for trouble.
One had to know that the enemy one was facing was the Great Wei Dynasty, and not some small country.
At that moment, King Si Long’s gaze could not help but fall in the sandbox.
Tang, it had to be won.
It was one thing to beat or not to beat, it was necessary to slow down the advance of Great Wei.
This step of Great Wei is too good to kill. If this knife is killed, the world will be frightened, and these foreigners will not have the guts to fight and kill.
He can only hold the situation steady.
So thought King Si Long in his heart.
The reason why he was able to take charge of the situation was not because of his talent, nor was it because of how strong the SiLong clan was, but because he had someone behind him.
The instructions from above were simple: stall in the early stages, chaos in the middle, and kill in the late stages.
This was the big picture arrangement from above, the front had to stall Great Wei, if it didn’t, there was no hope of winning.
As long as Great Wei was stalled in the early stages, there would be a lot of problems in the middle stages, such as the rebellion of the feudal kings, the rebellion of the civil palace, and the rebellion of the people.
In that case, when Great Wei is in internal turmoil, they can really put out their swords, and at that time, they will be able to repay wrongs for wrongs and revenge for revenge.
At the same moment.
Great Wei’s Palace of Literature.
When word spread about Xu Qingnian killing the surrender, the entire Great Wei Palace of Literature was completely abuzz.
No one had expected that Xu Qingnian would give this order.
Killing and surrendering!
This was a matter of heavenly justice.
“Xu Qingnian, you are really heartless.”
“Since ancient times, killing and surrendering is an omen of bad luck.
“Once you kill and surrender, every battle that follows will cost Great Wei blood, tens of thousands of innocent lives will be sacrificed in vain because of Xu Qingnian.”
“I want to write an article, I want to write an article, Xu Qingnian, you have no Confucian benevolence ah.”
The Great Wei Palace of Literature was already boiling over, with curses everywhere.
Some people were indeed truly angry.
Only this anger was followed by sighs, by regret, by helplessness.
But most of the Confucian students, on the other hand, were kind of ecstatic, inwardly ecstatic, because Xu Qingnian had finally done something wrong, a heavenly wrong.
The great Confucian scholars of the Great Wei Palace of Literature wrote frantically, and some of them, even with a group of Confucian students, headed directly towards the Imperial Palace.
“Go! Let’s go to an audience with His Majesty and impeach Xu Qingnian!”
“”Xu Qingnian’s actions are outrageous to the gods, go to the Great Wei Imperial Palace and meet the Emperor.”
The voices of the great Confucians rang out.
In the Palace of Literature, however, Peng Ru did not speak, appearing incomparably calm; he did not make any remarks, but neither did he stop these great Confucians from going to the imperial palace to impeach.
Within a short time, several hundred Confucians arrived outside the Great Wei Palace, and five great Confucians asked to meet the Holy Emperor, but were met with refusal.
The empress would not see them.
For a moment, the five great Confucians looked a little red in the face.
“If Her Majesty does not see her, we will sit here and not leave.”
“Xu Qingnian killed the surrender, which is against benevolence and morality, and against the humane way, so please condemn Your Majesty and remove Xu Qingnian from his post.”
“Since ancient times, killing a surrender is considered unknown, Xu Qingnian has destroyed my Great Wei’s national fortune and ruined its foundations.”
Several great scholars had voices like thunder, shouting outside the palace, rebuking Xu Qingnian and insulting him.
Everyone inside the palace could hear them clearly, but no one paid any attention to them.
The next moment, some great scholars pressed their voices and told the scholars to call for people to come and gather all the scholars in Great Wei’s Kyoto to come and petition outside the palace.
In the Hall of Mandarin.
Xu Qingnian handed seven letters to the messenger and asked him to send them to the Marquis of Sheyang with a fast horse.
And outside the palace, the curses of the great scholars rose and fell from one another, disturbing people’s minds.
“These old things, they keep making noise, Shouren, give an order, I’ll arrest them all.”
He had been listening to the shouting of the Confucians for almost half an hour.
He had been listening to the shouting of the Confucian scholars for almost half an hour and felt that it was too noisy.
Anyway, the situation is clear now, Wei is gambling on the country’s luck, so he is still afraid of your bullSh*t Confucianism? To put it bluntly, it is very likely that the Great Wei will be lost.
Is it as noble as the Great Wei Dynasty?
If you’re desperate, can you really kill the Confucians?
“There is a great use for them.”
Xu Qingnian waved his hand, what these great Confucians had done was entirely within his expectation.
He did not target them, not because he was afraid, but because Xu Qingnian needed them to make a scene like this.
The bigger the fuss, the better.
About four hours later.
The battle report from the Marquis of Xinwu came in again.
This time there were many battle reports.
And the messenger unfolded the battle report and said, “Lord Xu, the Marquis said that he wanted his subordinates to read it out loud.”
This messenger said so.
Xu Qingnian nodded, and he probably guessed what war report the Marquis of Xinwu had sent.
“My subordinate, Marquis Xinwu, has been ordered to count the war goods of the tombs.”
“One hundred and fifty thousand war horses.”
“Four and a half million stones of grain stored in the Tombs, and eight and a half million stones of grain aided by the various countries.”
“The state treasury has 120,000,000 taels of silver, and other gold and silver jewels are estimated at 50,000,000 taels.”
“Two hundred thousand sets of war armour, 150,000 war swords, forty siege weapons, and ten giant basalt iron crossbows and arrows.”
“The above are the things that were scavenged and inventoried during the four hours, and there are still a large number of resources that have not been checked.”
“Please ask Lord Xu to count and collect.”
When the voice rang out, within the Mandarin Hall, the crowd froze once more.
Especially the Minister of Household Affairs, Gu Yan.
He had never thought to his dying breath that a mere tomato country would be so rich? Richer than the Great Wei?
This is really ……. It was unexpected.
The amount of grain stored was 4.5 million koku, and the countries supported 8.7 million koku, adding up to 13.2 million koku of grain.
This is too F**king rich, right?
One stone is equal to 100 catties of grain.
A normal soldier can eat about ten catties in a meal, but a full meal can last ten days of hunger.
In a war, the basic ration allocation is one catty a day, which means that one stone of grain is enough to feed a hundred soldiers for a day.
For an army of 300,000, the basic ration for one day was 3,000 stones of grain.
That’s only 90,000 stones a month.
13.2 million stones of grain, enough to feed an army of 300,000 for twelve F**king years.
Plus so much gold, silver and jewellery, and all kinds of benefits, such as the labour force of the tombs, the mines of the tombs, and so on.
Gu Yan was a bit dizzy.
He couldn’t calculate this account.
This was more profitable than killing many merchants.
Didn’t it cost money to fight the war? Why did it feel like he was making a lot of money?
This was a lot of silver for fighting one country!
If we finish fighting a hundred countries, won’t Great Wei ……. If we were to finish fighting the hundred countries, wouldn’t Great Wei have to go back fifty years?
Not only was Gu Yan dizzy, but who in the room wasn’t?
This is only a portion of the money that has been raided?
How much silver would it take to raid all of them? How much food? And so much labour?
What the hell!
I can’t even think about it.
“Pa*s the order down, the treasury will pay out five times the amount of silver to the First Army of the Great Wei, and those who have children and parents will be supported until they reach adulthood and can read and write, all at the expense of the Great Wei.”
“Those who are seriously injured or disabled will also be supported by Great Wei for the rest of their lives, and 10% of the national treasury will be directly rewarded to the army.”
Xu Qingnian opened his mouth, he was full of money.
The treasury of the Fan Kingdom was around 200,000,000 taels, counting gold, silver, jewellery, antiques and paintings, etc. The First Army had 300,000 men, minus those who died in battle, almost 275,000.
According to the treasury’s 20%, that means that each person who survived would receive a reward of 1,000 taels of silver.
This was a great boon.
They were paid one tael a month for military service, a thousand taels a person, a silver that would be difficult to earn in a lifetime.
If it weren’t for the pension and the support of their offspring, Xu Qingnian would even be willing to simply give away the entire 200,000,000 taels, for no other reason than to motivate the three armies.
There is nothing more tempting than silver for nothing.
But what Xu Qingnian understood even more was one thing: when silver is available, one can be greedy for life and death, so Xu Qingnian placed most of the silver on those who died in battle.
Let these generals understand one thing.
You are dead!
Your sons and daughters, wives and parents will be supported by Great Wei.
You are seriously wounded and disabled.
In your lifetime, you will also be supported by Great Wei.
Only in this way will the generals be able to defend their country without reluctance.
Indeed, when Xu Qingnian opened his mouth like this, the military officials collectively did not know what to say.
Xu Qingnian was too generous.
So generous that they didn’t know what to say.
Contrast this with Gu Yan.
Xu Qingnian was the one who truly loved the people and the soldiers.
“Go, inform Marquis Xinwu of this matter and have him announce the army.”
Xu Qingnian spoke, and then his gaze was still locked on Tang in the sandbox.
The first battle was over.
Immediately, it was the second battle.
Xu Qingnian knew very well that he had to fight quickly in the early stages, and absolutely could not be held back.
He had to fight fiercely.
Fight until the foreign nation was completely and utterly afraid.
Only then would there be a turnaround.
Great Wei must maintain an invincible stance and push all the way across.
Only then could the enemy be deterred.
It is useless to rely on words.
And it was the following day.
The dawn.
An article that appeared in many county lands of Great Wei.
[Kill and surrender as unknown! Xu Qingnian has destroyed the fortunes of our Great Wei! Destroying the foundations of Great Wei!
It was an article in the Great Wei Confucian newspaper.
In other words, it was the only article that was published in the entire Great Wei Confucian newspaper.
Its content was nothing more than a long list of explanations around the reason why ‘the surrendered army must not be killed’.
It said that Xu Qingnian was brutal and immoral and had killed 170,000 innocent lives.
The whole article was so impa*sioned that it cursed Xu Qingnian up and down.
It did indeed attract much discussion among the people.
The main author was Zhang Ning.
At once, many rumours emerged among the people.
Some rumours said that Xu Qingnian had become a demon, that he had practised a foreign art and that he had become a mad demon.
Some rumours said that Xu Qingnian had collaborated with other countries and deliberately killed surrenderers to destroy the foundations of Great Wei.
Not only that, but almost immediately, va*sal kings from all over the world wrote letters of praise and insulted Xu Qingnian, and some of them even asked the empress to give him death.
This led to various controversies.
In particular, the scholars were all sorts of cursing.
They wrote petitions asking His Majesty to remove Xu Qingnian from office and even to give him death.
Outside the Great Wei Palace.
There were tens of thousands of Confucian students outside, and every now and then, the sound of firmness came.
“Xu Qingnian killed the surrender, heaven forbid, please Your Majesty, be clear and punish the treacherous minister severely.”
This voice was the one that rang out once every quarter of an hour, and it was indeed distracting.
However, although the people of the world were controversial, everyone was waiting to see how Xu Qingnian would respond.
After all, Xu Qingnian’s prestige among the people was simply too high.
For the time being, the people did not make too many comments, but were curious as to how Xu Qingnian would respond.
Finally.
It was the following day again.
The dawn had not yet arrived.
A carriage drove into the major county towns, prefectures and counties.
A copy of the Great Wei newspaper was distributed to the people for free, without charging a single penny.
The people scrambled for them.
When they got their hands on a copy of the Great Wei newspaper.
The shocking text caught their eyes.
[Those who offend us will be punished from afar].
Eight simple words.
It was Xu Qingnian’s strong and powerful response.
It was Xu Qingnian’s response to the killing of the surrender.
At this moment, the people were shocked.
And at the same time.
Inside the Great Wei Palace of Literature, Xu Qingnian’s gaze, too, slowly fell on the Great Wei Palace of Literature.
The time was ripe.
He was going to make his move.
“Come, men!”
In an instant, Xu Qingnian’s voice rang out.
