Awaken Chapter 184

One word for killing.

It shocked the entire Chen Kingdom.

It also shocked multiple powers.

The Sudden Evil Dynasty.

It was one of the three great kingdoms in the Central State.

Along with the Primordial Yuan Dynasty.

In the past, the Sudden Evil Dynasty and the Primordial Yuan Dynasty were the enemies of the Great Wei, and it was only when the two dynasties united that they were able to resist the Great Wei.

Now that the Great Wei has fallen, the two dynasties each have first-rank martial artists, just fewer in number than the Great Wei, with only two of them combined.

In other respects, the Sudden Evil Dynasty and the First Yuan Dynasty crushed Great Wei, on all fronts.

If not, why did the Tombs, Tang, Amuta, Tuliang, including Chen, have so much food and supplies for this war? Why were there so many weapons and armour?

If these two countries said they had no a*sistance, Xu Qingnian would not believe them even if he died.

It was a foregone conclusion that the Wei of today could not defeat the Sudden Evil.

No one can change that.

However, if it really came down to it, Wei would be able to bite off a piece of flesh from the Sudden Evil Dynasty.

And a big chunk of flesh with blood on it that would make the Sudden Evil Dynasty scream.

If this happens, the biggest beneficiary will be the Primordial Dynasty, which will do nothing and watch the Great Wei and the Evil Dynasty fight.

However, whether it is the Sudden Evil Dynasty or the Primordial Dynasty, or even the kingdoms, they all know one thing: Great Wei will not fight.

Great Wei did not dare to fight.

This time, Great Wei is even kind of hardened, and this is still a battle to pacify the civil unrest.

If they dared to continue the war, Wei would surely die.

Would Wei dare to do so?

Would the top bra*s of Wei be willing to do so? And would Wei be willing to do so?

They are not willing, and they do not dare.

This was the strength of the Tusi dynasty.

But what I didn’t expect was that when the Sudden Evil Dynasty stepped in, Xu Qingnian should have been more restrained and Great Wei should have been more restrained.

But what was unexpected was that Xu Qingnian would do so.

Still want to kill?

How dare he kill?

This was a real slap in the face to the Sudden Evil Dynasty.

But who was the most shocked?

It was the ruler of Chen, all the officials of Chen, and the people of Chen.

At this point in time, the Sudden Evil Dynasty had stepped in, but Xu Qingnian still dared to kill? How dare Xu Qingnian still want to kill? Are you a human being or not? Are you still a human being?

The people were shocked, not daring to imagine what kind of person Xu Qingnian really was. Is this a madman? The Great Wei had even appointed a madman to be the Young Secretary of the Overseer.

“Xu Qingnian!”

“You are truly a madman, you are a madman, a complete and utter madman.”

The ruler of the State of Chen roared in anger.

He was furious.

He had thought that the emergence of the Sudden Evil Dynasty would be able to suppress Xu Qingnian’s anger.

What he hadn’t expected was that Xu Qingnian would be like this.

This ……. This ……. This!

He was so angry that he was about to faint, so angry that he was about to die violently on the spot.

And outside the Eleventh City, the Great Wei army did not hesitate any more, still killing, mercilessly killing.

Since Xu Qingnian had an order.

Then let’s follow Xu Qingnian’s order.

“All generals, follow this marquis and kill!”

The shout of killing washed away the clouds in the sky, and the bright moon was scared back by this murderous aura.

It was dark and oppressive, weighing down on the people of the State of Chen, with a heavy heart, ah.

This moment.

King Si Lung’s palace.

When King Si Long was informed of this battle report, everyone in the great hall did not know what to say.

For a moment, they suddenly realised that the enemy they had met this time was not a man, but a madman, but it was this madman who made them unable to use their strength.

All the plans.

All the layouts.

All that confidence, all that dignity, all that pride, in Xu Qingnian’s eyes, it was as if it was worthless.

Even though the Sudden Evil Dynasty had stepped in, he would not stop killing them. This kind of bravado, this kind of verve, was rare in the past and present.

“No!”

“Xu Qingnian, he will definitely die.”

“He’s digging his own grave, offending the Tusi Dynasty, he’s trying to bring about the downfall of Wei.”

“Great Wei will never tolerate such an existence from him, absolutely not.”

King Si Long let out a roar, a terrifying roar.

He didn’t believe it.

He did not believe that the Sudden Evil Dynasty could not suppress Xu Qingnian, and he believed even more that Xu Qingnian was already dead, yes, he was already dead, a man who was about to die.

It did not matter if he had offended the Chen Kingdom!

It did not matter if he had slaughtered the people of Chen.

But if Xu Qingnian had offended the Sudden Evil Dynasty, then even if the gods came, they would not be able to protect Xu Qingnian today.

The shock he felt before was a shock to Xu Qingnian as a person, not a shock to Xu Qingnian’s methods.

By offending the Sudden Evil Dynasty, Xu Qingnian was destined to die.

The Great Wei Dynasty would not risk offending the Sudden Evil Dynasty because of a Xu Qingnian.

This was an absolute impossibility.

At the same moment.

The Great Wei Dynasty.

Inside the Hall of Mandarin.

Everything seemed to have come to a standstill.

Xu Qingnian had openly disliked the Sudden Evil Dynasty, something they hadn’t really expected, even though Xu Qingnian had previously said that this battle was a battle to defend the country.

But when it happened, it was a completely different mindset.

Could Wei defeat the Sudden Evil Dynasty?

It couldn’t.

Not unless the First Cla*s was used.

And by that time, it would already be the time when the mountains and rivers would break up.

For individuals, it’s possible to be hot-headed, you want to fight someone, and basically, if you can’t beat them, you can at most seriously injure them.

It’s just a matter of fighting for a breath of fresh air.

But for the country, the interests of the nation are greater than anything else. No matter what disgrace the Great Wei Dynasty has suffered, and no matter how unfairly it has been treated, they do not want to go to the extent of a war of death.

What’s more, at the moment, Great Wei is flourishing, clearly seeing the hope of success and looking to slowly rise back to the top.

They would not want Wei to fight to the death and start a real war.

Back then, when the barbarians invaded, Great Wei didn’t even mess around, but only attacked in the north, not daring to involve other countries, because the country was the main focus.

But now, Xu Qingnian openly dislikes the Sudden Evil Dynasty, this is considered to worsen ah.

It’s a complete and utter falling out.

This is not good for Great Wei, extremely bad ah.

“Shouren, it’s time to call it quits.”

“Shouren, it’s almost time to call it quits.”

“Shouren, if we fight with the evil, it will really be the end of my Great Wei.”

At this moment, it was not the civil servants who spoke up, but the military officials who spoke up in unison.

Duke An was the first to speak out, he advised Xu Qingnian to call it quits, having fought up to this point, Great Wei had already won, and with these spoils of war alone, plus the various benefits, it was indeed possible to call it quits.

At this point in time, as long as the civil servants were sent to negotiate with the other side, Great Wei would be able to get its various benefits, and although it had paid a certain price, for the whole, Great Wei had won.

In war, it is not about how many people you kill, but how much you get out of it and whether you achieve your aims.

The purpose of this conquest by Great Wei was simple.

Firstly, to promote the prestige of Great Wei.

Secondly, to shock the foreign states.

Thirdly, to accomplish the above two things at a fraction of the cost, and to feed the war with the war.

Wei has done all three of these things: Tang, Fan, Amuta, Tulliang, and after this battle, Chen will have to pay the price.

Although they knew that with the intervention of the Tusi dynasty, Wei would also pay a price, but on the whole, Wei did not lose.

In that case, it was perfectly fine to call it quits and start developing their own country’s economy.

This battle has also proved to the world that Great Wei is strong enough to call it quits, and it is time to do so.

The military officials who persuaded Xu Qingnian could be said to be somewhat comical, after all, they had started out as military officials who had been shouting for a northern expedition and a declaration of war.

But now they were not afraid, but they feared that if things went on any longer, they would reach an irreversible state, and that by then Great Wei would have to fight even if it didn’t.

And yet.

In the face of the military officials’ persuasion, Xu Qingnian closed his eyes.

The crowd did not dare to disturb Xu Qingnian, hoping that Xu Qingnian would be able to be quiet and able to think for a while.

But after a while.

Xu Qingnian opened his eyes, and he slowly spoke.

“This battle!”

“Only advance, no retreat.”

“Great Wei, there is no longer a way to retreat.”

Xu Qingnian spoke, this was his meaning, very direct and very certain.

In this battle, there was no longer a way back for Great Wei.

“Shouren, there is a way back, there is a way back, how can there be no way back?”

“As long as we collect our troops and have our generals garrison the ten cities of Chen first, we can talk to Chen, and on the other hand, we can also talk to the Tusi Dynasty.”

“How can there be no way back if we strive to talk about a mutually satisfactory outcome?”

Duke An hurriedly spoke out and explained with Xu Qingnian.

But Xu Qingnian shook his head.

His opposite gaze, fell on top of the sand table, and then slowly spoke.

“The bottom of a great nation’s conversation is always swords and blood.”

“If we withdraw our troops, it is a small matter to encourage the foreigners’ anger.”

“The morale that Great Wei has managed to gather will dissipate with it.”

“If the army is withdrawn, the future can all be counted out by Xu.”

“The Sudden Evil Dynasty has used the ten cities of the State of Chen as a reason to lash out at Great Wei, demanding all kinds of compensation from Great Wei, compensation for the State of Chen.”

“Human life is greater than heaven, the amount of compensation is negotiated by the Turkic Evil Dynasty, if the negotiation is good, its compensation should be all the spoils of war of Great Wei this time, plus a few hundred thousand thousand taels of silver.”

“If the negotiations are not good, then it will be millions of taels of silver, and even the Tusi Dynasty will demand that Wei cede the land for compensation, and if Wei is unwilling to agree, then the Tusi Dynasty will retreat and ask the foreign country to secede from Wei.”

“Just because of this ma*sacre, these reasons, are perfectly sufficient.”

“And in that case, even if Great Wei did not cede the land, it would definitely compensate for the silver, which, coming out of the treasury, would also come out of the people of Great Wei.”

When Xu Qingnian said this, he stopped slightly and glanced at everyone, and none of the hundred officials said anything, because they knew that what Xu Qingnian said was not wrong at all.

As long as Great Wei now closed its hands, then the rest would be a matter of negotiation between Great Wei and the Sudden Evil Dynasty.

And the Sudden Evil Dynasty would definitely seize on this point of the ma*sacre to make a big deal out of it, because this was something that Great Wei had indeed done wrong.

“Everything that Xu has said is still ideal.”

“As long as Great Wei agrees, the Hundred Kingdoms secede and compensate for the silver, it may seem that Great Wei has not broken any bones, but will the Primordial Yuan Dynasty step in?”

“The Sudden Evil Dynasty got what it wanted to take, wouldn’t the Primordial Yuan Dynasty want a piece of the pie?”

“From the moment Great Wei set out on the expedition, there has been no way back for Great Wei.”

“My lords, do I need to tell you this?”

Xu Qingnian spoke out, and he said every word with a resounding voice.

Withdrawal?

If the State Dukes did not know what would happen if they withdrew their troops, he, Xu Qingnian, did.

When was it the turn of the Tusi Dynasty to interfere in the internal affairs of the Great Wei? And when did it become the turn of the Tusi Dynasty to impeach?

If he agrees to withdraw his troops, his morale will be lost, and the Tusi dynasty will immediately send reinforcements and then make all sorts of unreasonable demands, will Wei agree or not?

No? How will you resolve the ma*sacre? Even if Xu Qingnian is allowed to die, what can be done? Does he care about Xu Qingnian?

What they want is for the hundred kingdoms to secede, for all of Wei’s spoils of war to be returned, for Wei to compensate for the silver, and for Wei to be suppressed in a different way.

This is why the Sudden Evil Dynasty stepped in at this time, they had calculated everything.

When these words were spoken, the military officials were completely silent, not that they could not think of this place, but they did not think about it for the time being.

At this moment, Duke An’s gaze looked at Chen Zhengru, while the latter did not speak, but the meaning of this was clear, what Xu Qingnian had said, not a word of it was wrong.

The great hall fell into silence.

“Shouren, what do you mean!”

Duke An looked at Xu Qingnian as he asked what exactly Xu Qingnian meant.

“Wait.”

Xu Qingnian spat out this word.

The word wait.

The crowd frowned, not knowing what Xu Qingnian wanted to wait for.

But no one asked too much, instead they waited quietly.

Since Xu Qingnian said to wait, then they would wait, after all, the current situation was still under control.

Meanwhile.

Far away in the sky.

Sudden Evil Dynasty.

The Sudden Evil Imperial Palace.

The magnificent palace was far superior to all the foreign countries, its extravagance was no less than that of the Great Wei Palace, and with hundreds of newly built palaces, this was something that the Great Wei could not match.

Inside the palace halls.

The civil and military officials are gathered.

The Emperor of Sudden Evil, sitting on the dragon chair, is a middle-aged man, dressed in black, without a crown, his gaze looking askance, swallowing the mountains and rivers with supreme dominance.

The Emperor of the Sudden Evil, Amujin.

A true emperor, he had ascended to the throne since he was a young boy, and had secured the internal affairs of the Sudden Evil Dynasty.

And just then, a voice rang out.

It was the Minister of War of the Sudden Evil Dynasty.

“Your Majesty!”

“The Great Wei slaughtered the city of Chen, and the gods were outraged.

“I never imagined that the Great Wei Dynasty, Xu Qingnian, would continue to act as he did, commanding the Great Wei army to ma*sacre the city and kill the general.

The Minister of War spoke up, and he told the story.

In fact, who among the civil and military officials did not know about this matter? We all knew it by heart, but we were only saying it openly to discuss a result.

After all, when the Tusi dynasty issued a decree, they didn’t even care, so they had to play hardball.

“What do you think, dear ministers?”

Amujin spoke.

He spoke in a calm tone and asked the court full of civil servants, not angry over this matter.

Once this was said, the sudden evil military general was the first to speak up.

“Your Majesty.”

“Great Wei has been in decline for many years, but now it is somewhat on the rise, although it is not enough to be a problem, we should not underestimate it, moreover, among the foreign countries, there are many of my Sudden Evil people, especially in the Chen country, there are many Sudden Evil merchants.”

“Now, because of the civil war in the Great Wei, my people have been slaughtered, without this revenge, how can the Tusi Dynasty lose face?”

“I would like to ask for orders to lead an army of one million men to aid the Kingdom of Chen, and if necessary, to declare war with the Great Wei, so that they may know the power of my Kingdom, and so that they may know the power of your Khan.”

This was the great general of the Sudden Evil, and he knelt before the Emperor of Sudden Evil with some impa*sioned words.

“Your Majesty, I support Great General Yuta.”

“My subjects support Great General Yuta.”

In an instant many military generals knelt down and agreed with what General Youta had said.

And Amujin’s gaze could not help but fall on these civil servants, when at that moment the Prime Minister of Sudden Evil spoke up.

“Your Majesty.”

“I believe that what General Youta said is correct, the Great Wei Dynasty is the greatest enemy of my Sudden Evil Dynasty, bar none.”

“If it wasn’t for the Northern Expedition back then, I’m afraid we wouldn’t have been able to obtain the country’s fortune at all, this battle of the Great Wei Dynasty was a battle to pacify civil unrest though.”

“But the Great Wei should not have ma*sacred the city, which in turn gave us the opportunity to intervene.”

“According to Chen’s war report, Wei has already slaughtered 12 cities.”

“If we don’t stop it in time, there is a high possibility that the State of Chen will surrender.”

“I also hope that Your Majesty will prepare a decree, and there is no need for any reinforcements, just declare war on Great Wei.”

The Prime Minister of Tusi was even more ruthless, directly asking the Emperor of Tusi to declare war on Great Wei.

When this was said, the court was in uproar.

Although the Great Wei was no longer viable, there was still the Primordial Yuan Dynasty. If the Sudden Evil Dynasty declared war on the Great Wei, wouldn’t that ……. If the Tusi Dynasty declared war on Wei, would it not be to their disadvantage?

Indeed, the sudden evil emperor Amujin frowned, hearing the word declaration of war.

But he only frowned.

“What if Great Wei answers the war?”

Amujin asked.

However the latter shook his head and looked at Amujin and said.

“Please rest a*sured, Your Majesty, that Great Wei will not respond to war, nor will it declare war.”

“According to my understanding, Great Wei has just made a northern expedition and is currently in a state of recovery, and it is indeed developing well today, which is the hope for the future of Great Wei.”

“The people of Great Wei, all wish to stop the war and recuperate, even the hundred officials of Great Wei, the Empress of Great Wei, do not wish to rise to war again, if they dared to answer the war, then the Northern Expedition would have started long ago.”

“Neither for the Great Wei Dynasty nor for the people of Great Wei would Great Wei dare to answer the war.”

“We are not really declaring war either, we are just scaring Great Wei, in this way, we can also get the support of the Hundred Foreign Kingdoms, and when the time comes, the Hundred Foreign Kingdoms will most likely become the territory of my Sudden Evil Dynasty.”

“And once war is declared, in less than three days, Great Wei will send people to beg for peace, and at that time, whatever benefits are demanded will all be what I, the Sudden Evil Dynasty, say.”

“They will give whatever they are told to give, and as we all know, the Great Wei Palace of Literature are all a bunch of soft bones, and as they are now at odds with Great Wei, we can also communicate with them and force them to put pressure on Great Wei.”

“Once this happens, our dynasty will do nothing, and we will be able to take back all the troops and provisions that we aided before, and even double them, while also gaining the support of many foreign nations.”

“A real winner!”

“And if war is not declared, I fear that the Primordial Yuan Dynasty will jump ahead of us, which is not a good thing for our dynasty.”

Prime Minister Tuo Xie carefully analysed the situation, he believed that Great Wei would not dare to respond to the war, and definitely would not do so.

Indeed, he was not speaking nonsense or with inflated confidence, but through various circumstances, the Great Wei Dynasty indeed did not dare to answer the war, unless it did not want to live.

They would not dare to fight unless they did not want to live.

But is that realistic? Even if you want to kill them all, will the people of Wei agree to it? Will the va*sal kings of Wei agree?

This is how confident they are.

As soon as the Prime Minister said this, the civil ministers also agreed.

“I support the Prime Minister’s words! I implore Your Majesty, declare war on Great Wei!”

“Your Majesty, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that must not be missed, I implore Your Majesty to declare war on Great Wei.”

“I implore Your Majesty to declare war on Wei!”

All the ministers spoke up.

On the dragon chair, Amujin pondered for a long time.

A declaration of war between kingdoms could never be so casual.

But looking at the attitude of the court full of civil servants.

Together with his own analysis.

In the end, Amujin spoke up.

“In that case, I, for one, agree to declare war.”

“Draw up a holy decree to announce to the world that war has been declared on Great Wei and reinforcements are being sent to Chen.”

Amujin spoke.

He agreed to do so.

He was not afraid of declaring war on Great Wei, because Great Wei did not dare to answer the war.

Or rather, for the sake of the country as a whole, Great Wei would not choose to answer the war, which was not as simple as a fight.

If it didn’t work out, it would end in the destruction of the country and the family.

“Your Majesty is wise!”

“Long live my emperor!”

The next moment, the court full of civil servants spoke in unison.

Then, an imperial decree was proclaimed from the Imperial Palace of Tusi.

“The Imperial Decree says that the Great Wei has been brutal, slaughtering cities and destroying countries, and that the Gods of Heaven are outraged and humanity will not allow it.

When the decree was issued, the entire Central State was in an uproar.

No one would have thought that the Sudden Evil Dynasty would declare war on Great Wei.

This was a matter between two major dynasties.

It was no longer a battle between small nations, but a real battle between great nations.

If it didn’t go well, it wouldn’t be as simple as a river of blood, but rather a red land of ten thousand miles and no light in the sun or moon.

When the news came out, the Central State was in an uproar, and then the world was in an uproar.

Everyone in the world knew that there was bound to be a battle between the Great Wei Dynasty and the Sudden Evil Dynasty, including the Primordial Yuan Dynasty.

After all, the three dynasties would eventually be unified, but it was hard to say when the battle would take place and who would win.

But what was unexpected was that this war would come so quickly.

It took less than half an hour for the declarations of war from the Sudden Evil Dynasty to reach the Great Wei.

Since the Sudden Evil Dynasty had declared war on Great Wei, it was only natural that Great Wei would be the first to learn of the declaration of war.

Inside the Hall of Mandarin.

When the declarations of war from the Sudden Evil Dynasty rang out.

Everyone was stunned.

The matter had reached a point where it was difficult to control, and if one more step was taken wrongly, it would really lead to a great deal of trouble.

No one said a word, everyone seemed incomparably quiet, and everyone’s eyes were all looking towards Xu Qingnian.

Sensing the gazes of the crowd.

Xu Qingnian did not look any different, his gaze was still clear and firm.

It was just that the declaration of war between dynasties was not something that he could decide.

It had to be responded to by the Empress of Great Wei.

“Your Majesty has decreed that you will declare, all officials to enter the hall.”

At this moment, voices rang out, the Empress stepped in, and at this point, it was impossible for the Empress not to step in.

“Gentlemen, let’s go.”

At that moment, Xu Qingnian moved, he called out to the lords, and then was the first to walk out of Wenhua Hall.

The State Dukes and Marquises, the six ministries, and all the civil and military officials of the court were silent, but their bodies still followed Xu Qingnian to the Great Hall.

The Hall of Mandarin is not far from the main hall of the imperial court.

After a period of time, they came to the Great Hall again.

The mood of the officials was completely different.

If it was said that conquering the foreigners, this was hot blood and backbone, but now the declaration of war by the Sudden Evil Dynasty was like a bucket of cold water that doused all their hot blood and made them calm down.

And the reason for calming down was the people of Great Wei, the fortunes of the Great Wei nation, not the might of the enemy.

Soon, a hundred officials entered the court.

Xu Qingnian, as the overseeing Young Secretary, walked first and also appeared in front of Chen Zhengru.

“My subjects, I pay my respects to Your Majesty, long live my emperor.”

The hundred officials all worshipped in unison towards the empress on the dragon chair.

On top of the dragon chair, the empress waved her hand.

“All beloved ministers, please excuse yourself.”

With her usual nature, the Empress was silent and let the hundred officials speak first, but today, the Empress took the lead and spoke.

“What is the opinion of all the beloved ministers on the declaration of war by the Sudden Evil Dynasty against Great Wei? Is it war or peace?”

The empress opened up directly, without so much as a euphemism.

When she said this, Chen Zhengru was the first to speak up.

“Your Majesty.”

“The Great Wei Dynasty, after the Northern Expedition, the people are poor, this war, in my opinion, is best not to fight.”

Chen Zhengru supported Xu Qingnian, but if it was a choice between the people of the world and Xu Qingnian, he would choose the people of the world.

It was not that he did not trust Xu Qingnian, but he did not dare to gamble with the fate of the Great Wei.

“My ministers, too, believe that peace is precious.”

“I agree.”

“I also agree!”

One by one, the civil ministers opened their mouths, the six ministers, all of them, like Chen Zhengru, it was not that they did not support Xu Qingnian, but they did not dare to gamble.

If they lost, they would really lose everything.

Faced with the answers of the six ministers, Xu Qingnian was not angry at all, on the contrary, he admired the ministers even more.

Their choice was made from the perspective of the people, not from their personal perspective.

“What are the views of the State Princes again?”

Knowing what the civil ministers thought, the empress turned her gaze back to the Great Wei State Princes.

“My old minister!”

“Agree with the Prime Minister’s words!”

The Duke of An was silent for a moment, but in the end he had the same attitude, that it was best not to fight.

The rest of the State Dukes and Marquises also took a stand and supported Chen Zhengru.

In the next moment, the empress fell her gaze on Xu Qingnian.

Her face was calm as she looked at Xu Qingnian and said.

“Aiqing Xu, all the civil and military officials of the dynasty have agreed to make peace, what do you think?”

The Empress looked at Xu Qingnian and asked thus.

Hearing the Empress’s question.

Xu Qingnian bowed towards the empress, and then bowed towards the civil and military officials before finally speaking.

“It is a blessing for Great Wei to have you all here.”

“I admire you all.”

“But I have something to say, and I hope that Your Majesty, and I hope that your Excellencies, will not mind being long-winded.”

Xu Qingnian spoke out.

And then he continued to speak.

“The Great Wei Dynasty, for more than seven hundred and fifty years, since the founding of the country by the Great Ancestor, has been blessed with good weather and five generations of benevolent rulers, making the people of Great Wei live and work in peace and happiness, the nation is strong, the country is strong, and is known as the top country, and is worshipped from all directions and respected by the whole world.”

“However, with the disaster of Jingcheng, Wei was reduced to a hell on earth, a hundred years of shame, engraved in the bones, the wound of Wei will never be forgotten.”

“Emperor Wu’s Northern Expedition raised the prestige of our country, strengthened the heart of our army, and established the bones of Wei.”

“But after the Northern Expedition, starving corpses were everywhere and children were eaten together.

“Minister! Xu Qingnian! I believe that the pain of Great Wei does not lie in the emptiness of the state treasury, nor does the wound of Great Wei lie in the hunger of its subjects.”

“The real pain of the Great Wei is that the Iron Riders have broken the mountains and rivers.”

“The real wound of the Great Wei is that the nation is spineless.”

“My lords.”

“Close your eyes, can you hear the cries?”

“My lords.”

“When you sleep, can you see the god of despair?”

“This battle!”

“I, I implore Your Majesty, answer the battle!”

“Gather the soldiers and people of Wei and declare war on the evil.”

“How can we tolerate the accusations of foreigners in our great Wei?”

“This war!”

“This is to awaken the hearts of the people of Wei.”

“This battle!”

“To show the world that Wei is never afraid.”

“Your Majesty!”

“Great Wei Dynasty, why do you hesitate to fight?”

“To fight, is to not fight.”

“To kill, is to not kill.”

“My Lord! Xu Qingnian, I implore Your Majesty, to declare war on the Sudden Evil.”

At this point, Xu Qingnian bowed deeply towards the empress, a bow Xu Qingnian did not make for any, no selfishness, but for the people of Great Wei.

If not for the war.

For Great Wei, it would be nothing more than chronic death.

If one fights.

At least for Great Wei, there is a chance of survival.

Inside the Great Hall.

There was complete silence.

Xu Qingnian’s words had left them at a loss for what to say.

They were silent, they were speechless.

In the end, Chen Zhengru took a deep breath as he looked at the empress and also made a deep bow.

“Please, Your Majesty, make up your mind!”

“Whether we fight or not, I accept the decree!”

At this moment, Chen Zhengru had nothing to insist on, let Your Majesty choose.

And as Chen Zhengru opened his mouth, the voices of the hundred officials also rang out.

Yes.

Xu Qingnian was right.

How can the pain of the Great Wei be due to an empty treasury?

The Great Wei is hurting because of the barbarians’ invasion, a war that has wiped out its national fortunes.

If you don’t have enough to eat and wear, at least you can still have a bite to eat and at least you can still have a shirt to wear.

The barbarian invasion almost wiped out the national fortunes of Great Wei and broke the backbone of Great Wei.

Xu Qingnian’s words were so eloquent that each sentence was like a knife, cutting into the hearts of all the officials.

The crowd was quiet.

And on top of the dragon chair, the empress did not answer, but took out a copy of the zhengfu.

“These are the documents of the va*sal kings from all over the world.”

“The va*sal kings of Great Wei are now impeaching you.”

“Saying that you have put the Great Wei’s rivers and mountains in flames because of your own selfish desires.”

“How do you answer this, my Lord?”

The empress spoke out, and the va*sal kings’ zheng, written with extreme vehemence, because at this point, it was impossible for them not to be vehement.

But the empress did not care about the words of the va*sal kings.

It’s just that she, Xu Qingnian, answered, and this answer was not for her, but for the people of Great Wei, and for the va*sal kings everywhere.

Because, Xu Qingnian was gambling with the luck of the Great Wei.

If he won the bet, Xu Qingnian would become the most successful minister of Great Wei.

If she loses the bet, from now on, there will be no more words of the Great Wei Dynasty.

Your Highness.

Faced with the impeachment of the va*sal king, Xu Qingnian did not show any surprise, nor did he hesitate.

Instead, he spoke directly.

“Your Majesty, during the battle to pacify the chaos, I happened to have a feeling and composed a poem for the soldiers of Great Wei who died in battle, I wonder if Your Majesty would like to listen to it?”

Xu Qingnian asked.

“I, for one, am all ears.”

The empress opened her mouth, and in one sentence, she revealed the importance she attached to Xu Qingnian.

The civil and military officials also looked at Xu Qingnian, their eyes filled with curiosity.

He wondered what kind of poem Xu Qingnian had composed.

Feeling the gazes of the crowd.

Xu Qingnian turned around and looked at the mountains of the Great Wei beyond the main hall.

“A scripture of the hard times, a dry and scattered ten weeks of stars.”

“The mountains and rivers are shattered and the wind is drifting, the world is sinking and the rain is beating the weeds.”

“The head of the beach of fear speaks of fear, and in the ocean of zero ding sighs zero ding.”

“No one dies in life since the beginning of time, leave your heart to shine.”

Xu Qingnian slowly spoke out.

He had changed only one part of the poem, and that was the change of the four stars to the ten stars, because the battle of the Northern Expedition was exactly ten years away from now.

As for the sighing in the zero-ding ocean, Xu Qingnian did not change it, as it could be used as a metaphor and was not a big deal.

And as Xu Qingnian recited this poem.

In an instant.

Like rivers of talent rushing through, it poured into the entire Great Wei Imperial Palace.

The poem became a thousand years old, reflecting on the capital of Great Wei.

“No one dies in life since the beginning of time, leave your heart to shine.

The civil and military officials were frozen.

At this moment, even the empress froze.

Xu Qingnian actually had such an idea.

To reflect her patriotic heart in the history books.

At this moment, no one dared to impeach Xu Qingnian for her patriotic heart anymore.

The words would be a thousand years old.

Once again, this great talent stunned everyone.

But what really shocked everyone was the last line of the poem.

“No one dies in life since the beginning of time.

Xu Qingnian had no fear of life or death. Everything he did was for the people and the people of the Great Wei.

At this moment.

On top of the dragon chair, the empress looked at Xu Qingnian’s back in a daze.

After a while.

Her voice rang out.

“Prepare the decree!”

“The Great Wei Dynasty, founded seven hundred years ago, has weathered the storms.

“In the past, the Tusi dynasty wanted to kill the heart of Wei again, but although Wei has declined, its pride remains and its soul is still intact.”

“Great Wei, why would we hesitate to fight?”

“Seven hundred rivers and mountains, why should we fear a battle?”

“From now on, Great Wei will conscript its troops to fight against the evil forces at all costs and to conquer the barbarians in the north.

“This battle will be a battle of life and death for Great Wei, from the princes and nobles down to the people.”

“If we lose this battle, I will be the first to die, and I will never live.”

“This battle will be led by Xu Qingnian, the Young Minister of the Great Wei, with the six departments of the Great Wei and the hundred generals of military officials as supporters, to fight against the evil.”

“I hope that the people of the world will understand my will.”

This was the empress’ response.

It was full of hegemony

The Sudden Evil declared war, and Great Wei answered.

It was righteously next.

Even more, what is truly shocking is this.

This war.

Great Wei does not make peace!

This battle.

If it is lost, the Empress of Great Wei will be the first to die and will not live on.

It is too overwhelming.

The great empress of Wei’s supremacy was on full display at this moment.

Xu Qingnian turned back around and he looked at the empress.

It was this moment that he saw something different.

It was the light.

The radiance of the Empress.

Ten thousand fathoms of infinity.

The radiance of the Empress.

Dazzling and dazzling.

And the hundred officials, at this moment, also bowed towards the Empress and said.

“If this battle is lost.”

“I would like to be martyred along with Your Majesty.”

They spoke, their voices categorical.

At this moment, Xu Qingnian looked at all this, and for some reason, he was momentarily speechless.

Moved by this scene.

A truly powerful nation has a single heart of rulers and ministers.

Great Wei had done it.

He took a deep breath.

He bowed deeply towards the empress.

“I, Xu Qingnian, receive the decree!”

“This battle, my minister, must not be unwinnable.”

“This battle, minister, do your best.”

“In this battle, if I am defeated, I wish to die with my life.”

Xu Qingnian gave his reply, and he received the decree.

And with Xu Qingnian’s words, at this moment, everyone’s eyes, changed.

No longer was there hesitation.

No longer were they torn.

Instead, they were determined.

A different kind of determination than usual.

Great Wei, what is the point of a battle?

Who is the master of the Central Plains?

If you offend us, you will be punished!

It was at that moment.

A decree floated in front of the empress.

All the words spoken earlier were transformed into golden words and branded on the decree, irrevocable.

In an instant, a beam of golden light, like a whirlwind, coalesced in front of the Empress, appearing unusually marvellous; this was the Great Wei National Fortune.

And then, as the national fortune coalesced, a golden dragon jade seal emerged.

At this moment, the empress held the jade seal in her hand and heavily stamped it on the holy decree.

Since then.

Great Wei shall fight!

And at that very moment, as the holy decree was sealed.

The voice of the Empress resounded throughout the entire Central State, a blessing of the Great Wei’s national fortune that reached every part of the Central State.

Great Wei!

Declare war!

Fear nothing!

After the decree was issued, the whole of Great Wei exploded.

The people clenched their fists, their bodies trembling with excitement.

Were they afraid?

Yes, they were afraid!

But they were not afraid of war, they were afraid that their families, their loved ones, everything they had would be taken away from them by the enemy.

But, more than that, they did not want that they were living on their knees.

What they wished even more was that they were dying standing up.

At this moment.

When Great Wei was once again facing a crisis.

The Empress did not choose to retreat.

She did not choose to back down.

She wanted the people of Great Wei to die standing up, not live on their knees.

The people were seething.

They cheered and one burst into tears.

Some were in awe! But even more were thrilled.

This time.

Great Wei, in its waning days, chose to rebel!

This time.

Great Wei has chosen to resist, forsaking all else!

This time.

Let all the people of the world see and behold how Great Wei has been able to stand firm for seven hundred years.

This holy edict infected every one of its people.

Especially the words of the empress.

If we lose this battle, I will be the first to die in the name of my country.

The Son of Heaven guards the gates of the country, the King dies for the country.

Even the Emperor did so, so what reason did they have to refuse?

At this moment, the public opinion of Great Wei had climbed to an extremely terrifying height.

It was also at this moment that a cry of alarm rang out.

“Look, look what’s in the sky!”

“Hiss! It’s a true dragon! It’s a real dragon!”

“It’s …… It’s …… It’s the Dragon of Public Opinion!”

Countless cries of astonishment and shock rang out from the

Above the dome of the Great Wei sky.

An unparalleled true dragon shadow had actually coalesced.

This was the Dragon of Great Wei’s Public Opinion.

It represented the imminent arrival of the heyday.

It represented the unanimity of Great Wei’s public opinion, at this moment.

This was a vision that had not even appeared in the Northern Expedition.

And when the va*sal kings everywhere saw this Dragon of Public Opinion again, they all sat dumbfounded in their seats.

For the public opinion of Great Wei had completely and utterly sided with the empress.

They were utterly desperate.

If, at this time, they attempted to cause civil unrest by starting a war, then it would definitely be them who would die.

For the people of the world would not spare them.

But the real despair was not theirs.

Rather, it was the State of Chen.

It was all the foreign states within the territory of Great Wei.

The king of the state of Chen, the king of Si Long, the kings of all the nations, all listened to these words in fascination.

Great Wei ……. Great Wei …… Great Wei ……. Great Wei had even declared war?

Xu Qingnian continued to slaughter the city, they thought that this was Xu Qingnian making a fool of himself, Xu Qingnian was a madman.

They are not afraid, after all, Xu Qingnian no matter what, there is still someone above who can suppress Xu Qingnian.

And that person was the Empress of Great Wei.

But now, the Great Wei Empress was even accompanying Xu Qingnian in her madness.

This was simply… turning all imaginations upside down.

The Empress had even declared war.

Then what else was there to say?

Great Wei would enter a period of complete war, and even First Grade Martial Artists would be deployed to truly kill each other.

No room for error, reckless killing.

Once that happens, what bullSh*t Chen Kingdom, what bullSh*t Si Long Kingdom, what bullSh*t Hundred Kingdoms.

Under the iron hors*men of the Great Wei, they would all be nothing but dogs and cattle.

There was no need for a First Grade Martial Artist to fight, just a few Second Grade Martial Artists would be able to clean them all up.

“This can’t be! This can’t be!”

“Why would the Great Wei Empress declare war? How can she declare war? Isn’t she afraid that Great Wei will be gone?”

King Si Long trembled, his entire body trembled, and this time he truly felt fear, felt panic.

For whether Great Wei could win or not, the Si Long Kingdom, would surely be destroyed!

The same was true of the ruler of the State of Chen, who sat paralysed in his dragon chair.

He knew that he was finished, he was completely and utterly finished.

He was remorseful, incredibly remorseful, why did he have to provoke Great Wei, why did he have to impeach this Xu Qingnian ah.

Now, now, the state of Chen was really finished, and he was finished as emperor.

It was originally just a not particularly big matter, but no one expected that it would go so far.

So did the emissaries of the Hundred Kingdoms, who were even in the mood to commit suicide.

When Great Wei declared war with the Sudden Evil.

Then they were all ants, true ants.

Their fate was destined to be extinction, there was no second possibility.

The rulers of the foreign nations were also completely silent, especially some of the foreign nations, they hadn’t even fought, but they saw the result, an irrevocable result.

The Empress’s voice carried far and wide.

The Sudden Evil Dynasty.

In the middle of the imperial palace.

When the Empress’ unmistakable voice rang out.

The Chancellor of Sudden Evil froze in place.

The civil and military officials instantly changed their faces.

In particular, the Emperor of Turkestan, Amujin, revealed a shocked look.

Great Wei!

Surprisingly, it had answered the war?

And with such a resolute attitude.

Issued by a holy decree of the state, this was definitely not a scare, this was a real war.

Boom!

Amujin slapped the dragon chair, and many objects in the great hall all burst and broke apart.

His face was gloomy, he really couldn’t suppress his anger.

The Great Wei had declared war.

He was not afraid at all.

But the problem was that Wei had only declared war on the Tusi Dynasty and the barbarians.

What does this mean?

It meant that Wei would do its utmost, even to the last minute, to hold on to the Tusi Dynasty.

And the price of doing so was that it would allow the Primordial Yuan Dynasty to rise up and pick up a big bargain for nothing.

He was angry!

What he was angry about was not the declaration of war.

He was angry at himself for declaring war.

Why hadn’t the Primordial Dynasty declared war first?

Originally, the declaration of war was to push Wei to the brink.

But what I didn’t expect was that Wei would respond in such a way that it would push itself into a desperate situation.

The main reason for this was that the Empress of Wei had declared war with an imperial decree, not just an ordinary decree.

If it had been an ordinary decree, he would not have been afraid at all, it would have been a tentative declaration of war by the Wei dynasty, and it was possible that after one round of fighting, the Wei dynasty would have given up and ceded its land and made reparations.

But now such a declaration of war meant that Great Wei was not afraid of itself and would fight him to the end.

A fight to the death.

Yes, it’s true that Wei can’t!

It is also true that it cannot defeat its own Tusi Dynasty.

But Wei can bite off a piece of flesh that will break its own bones, and even more than a piece of flesh if it really follows this crazy idea.

When the time comes for the country to be broken, the First Grade martial artists of Great Wei will have to make their appearance, and at that time, the Sudden Evil Dynasty will have to pay at least a heavenly price to stop the war.

It was extremely likely that the Sudden Evil Dynasty would be the next Great Wei, the one with a decaying state, an empty treasury and all sorts of calamities.

So if that were the case, what would the Primordial Yuan Dynasty do?

The Primordial Yuan Dynasty would not hesitate to choose to annex him, the Sudden Evil Dynasty.

There would be absolutely no mercy.

He would kill all the people of Sudden Evil in one day, occupy Sudden Evil, and become the only dynasty in the Central State.

This would be the outcome if he answered the war.

There could never be a second outcome.

So this is what makes the Sudden Evil Dynasty so angry.

Why did they declare war?

Why would one take the initiative to declare war?

“Yuta! Yelimu, the two of you, you have misled my sudden evil ah.”

Amujin let out a roar, a terrifying aura, causing the two men’s qi and blood to tumble, directly spitting out a few mouthfuls of blood, their faces instantly pale.

Yuta was the proposed great general.

Yelimu was the Prime Minister of the Sudden Evil Dynasty.

It was the confident arrogance of the two of them that had led to the disadvantage and desperate situation in which the sudden evil was clearly at an advantage, but was now in.

“Please forgive me, Your Majesty.”

The two men were extremely hard to bear, yet they still knelt on the ground and pleaded for Amujin’s forgiveness.

Amujin took a deep breath.

He looked at the two men, his gaze incomparably cold, and said.

“Sudden evil, no war!”

“I, send the two of you, on your own initiative, to Great Wei to make peace on this matter.”

“If necessary, a price can be paid.”

“Until a second First Grade is born, the Sudden Evil must not go to war with the Great Wei, who are mad dogs, they are poor and desperate, and want to drag down my Sudden Evil before they die.”

“This! Impossible!”

“I, too, will never let them succeed in their treacherous plan.”

Amujin spoke, word for word, and he chose to make peace, taking the initiative to do so.

But when this was said, Yelimu could not help but say with a trembling voice.

“Your Majesty, then Chen Guo and the others.”

He asked Amujin.

“Whatever happens to them, it is none of my business if they all die.”

“That group of foreign nations, themselves deserve to die, if I didn’t have to use them, this group of beasts who betrayed the main clan nation, do you really think I would care about them?”

“If necessary, one can promise Great Wei to join forces and slaughter them as part of the price of peace talks.”

Amujin spoke up.

For the greater good.

He chose to make peace talks.

To endure the humiliation.

But it was also clear that A Mu Zhen was a ruthless man and would not do anything ……. risky thing.

And within the great hall, everyone knew three things.

Xu Qingnian ……. How fierce!

Great Wei …… Winning, a great victory.

The Foreigner Kingdom …… Eat well, drink well and prepare to die!