Chapter 1421 - 340: Imperial Oral Edict (3)

Chapter 1421: Chapter 340: Imperial Oral Edict (3)

"I’m someone who has a habit of eating all the delicious food I encounter first, no matter what. Even if my stomach bursts, I have to satisfy my palate’s desire first."

Fanli, who was listening, mimicked my lord—no, clearly my lord had learned his signature move first—scratching his head, and said,

"I’m the same."

Li Fusheng added,

"Bursting your stomach isn’t good. The Prince just ordered me repeatedly a few days ago to take it easy and not rush forward recklessly anymore. The Prince said if I’m gone, finding someone else to suppress these brats would be too troublesome.

I am someone who always follows the rules, so I won’t let myself die carelessly."

Lord Zheng nodded.

However, Li Fusheng continued,

"But if a military order indeed comes down, then bursting my stomach is just meant to be, haha."

......

Town South Pass,

General Nian’s residence;

In the morning, West Mountain Fortress raised its smoke as usual, indicating that the Yan people’s offensive had started again.

Everyone was quite used to this.

Compared to the rapid fall of East Mountain Fortress, the performance of West Mountain Fortress was considered normal.

General Nian sat on the threshold,

holding a pomegranate in his hand, peeling it slowly and eating.

He felt like he was the pomegranate, slowly being peeled away and then consumed.

Yet he couldn’t forcibly change anything, nor dared to do anything rash.

In the rear,

The Regent suppressed all impeachment memorandums against him, commanding him to fight well at Town South Pass.

Fight, fight,

what kind of damn war is this?

"Tsk, tsk."

The pomegranate was a bit sour, but Nian Yao continued eating.

The Bai family members had died; well, it’s war, people die.

Shi Yuantang also died, another Zhuguai gone.

It’s good that he died, who told that old thing to be stubborn, always needing to charge ahead.

Well;

Next, more will die.

Many nobles with names will die, many will die...

Nian Yao licked his lips,

a few years ago, he helped the Regent campaign far and wide, capturing multiple rebellious princes, and now those princes are confined in Ing Capital City, not killed, just controlled, well-fed and cared for, even occasionally sent women, to breed.

Hehe, after all, they bear the surname Xiong, brothers to the Regent.

And those nobles were egging the princes on to rebel.

Captured them,

punished them with waiting, no fiefs, barely any executions!

The Regent once asked him, if he wished to be his Tian Wujing?

Nian Yao chuckled,

Tian Wujing now still leads an army before him against Chu; doesn’t the cunning rabbit get cooked after catching the dog and killing the donkey wear out, and after so long, hasn’t the Yan Emperor done it?

As for himself,

it’s wartime now, it doesn’t matter.

After the war,

The debts over the nobility’s private armies who died in battle, these nobles,

The account of their wartime deaths will surely fall on my head, on someone called Nian.

Your Majesty,

You said you wanted me as your Tian Wujing,

But you,

can you protect Tian Wujing?

One by one, the lists of the fallen,

What are they?

They are my, Nian’s, death warrants!

"Pah!"

The pomegranate,

smashed onto the ground,

drawing the attention of surrounding guards,

"Damn it, too sour for anyone!"

......

Central Army of Yan,

King’s Tent;

Eunuch Huang knelt inside the King’s Tent,

In front of him, on the command seat, sat Prince Jingnan, Tian Wujing.

Actually,

From top to bottom in the army, even the favorite Lord Pingye, before Prince Jingnan, always behaved properly more often than not.

And outside the army, whether among the populace or the court, toward such a renowned and fearsome Prince Jingnan of Yan, there was a deep fear.

The Earl of North Border’s residence had once been the heart of Yan dynasty’s troubles because it was already a ponderous force, thirty-six towns’ Northern Border Army, with four closer towns having reached the Eastern border of Beifeng Prefecture, if the Lord North gave a command, twenty thousand Tiger Guards could aim straight at Yanjing!

However now, although the Prefectural Lady entered the capital unmarried, the Northern Border Army has been dismantled mostly.

On the contrary, this Southern Marquis of Yan, wiped out his entire family, then on the battlefield was unstoppable, breaking nations and defeating armies, never tasted defeat, and all were grand victories.

This person was further a peak Third Rank Martial Cultivator, defeating a Sword Saint of Jin land.

Such an existence is truly terrifying.

Eunuch Huang’s knees were slightly giving out.

As a red-robed eunuch of the palace, he counted as someone who had seen the world, but in front of Prince Jingnan, he couldn’t muster spirit, almost turned to a puddle of mud.

Once upon a time, the Eldest Prince led the Eastern Conquest Army at Wang River and was defeated, the Left Army nearly wiped out, Li Bao died in battle.

The court issued an order inviting Lord Jingnan to take command, but Lord Jingnan shut himself within his residence, not seeing outside guests, causing consecutively two imperial eunuchs proclaiming the edict to crash into the stone lion at the residence’s door.

Eunuch Huang originally had this intent too, already about to charge inside, but the residence gate opened.

Because of this layer of relationship, so this time the imperial edict is once again conveyed by him.

"Imperial communication from His Majesty."

This was Eunuch Huang’s first time delivering an imperial communication while kneeling, with no third person inside the tent to assist him, so naturally, no one could support him, and he, truly couldn’t stand.

Prince Jingnan did not kneel to accept the edict either, but continued sitting there.

Yet Eunuch Huang did not feel this was any great disrespect, for the person before him was treated as a brother by His Majesty, the virtual etiquette need not be minded.

Most importantly, he didn’t dare scold this person: how dare you, not kneel to accept the edict!

"His Majesty asks: how much longer must the war continue."

Eunuch Huang repeated every word without error.

Prince Jingnan looked at Eunuch Huang,

Eunuch Huang quietly lowered his head again, lying prostrate on the ground, not daring to meet Prince Jingnan’s gaze.

Indeed, it wasn’t him Prince Jingnan was looking at.

As the imperial communication was spoken,

Before Tian Wujing,

Appeared the figure of the supreme one,

Looking at him,

And asked,

"How much longer must the war continue."

This was just a communication, not an official decree issued via the central authority, but specifically sent by a red-robed eunuch from Yanjing, to ask in person.

Here, each word required careful consideration.

But also, there was no need to consider because, very familiar.

Prince Jingnan’s lips revealed a rare smile,

You,

Are you going to die?

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