"I dare not."

Xing Shi's face looked ugly. He knelt down with an unpredictable expression and was about to speak again.

Deputy General Zhang Jian, standing beside him, saw the rage in Yuan Sanlang's eyes and realized something was amiss. He immediately spoke up, "Your Highness, please calm down. The general was simply upset by the heavy casualties suffered by the soldiers this time. Please forgive me."

Yuan Sanlang had a cold face and stared at the two people kneeling on the ground without saying a word.

Xing Shi is an honest, straightforward, and loyal person.

But this loyalty was not to him, but to Zhongshan State and this land.

Thinking of this, he felt a little unhappy. Coupled with the hot weather, it seemed as if there was a flame stuck in his chest, unable to sink or spit out.

If he hadn't had any concerns, Yuan Sanlang really wanted to order the killing of a chicken to scare the monkeys and establish his authority in the army.

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became tense.

The four maids behind him felt nervous, fearing that they would be implicated, and they even breathed more lightly.

At this moment.

At the door, an attendant announced, "Your Highness, Mr. Hu requests an audience."

Motosaburo's expression softened, "Please come in, sir."

Soon, a middle-aged man with a goatee entered the hall.

He bowed and said, "Greetings, Your Highness."

Mr. Hu saw Xing Shi and Zhang Jian kneeling in the hall, and he understood.

"Sir, please stand up." Yuan Sanlang sat at the top, his face expressionless, and he extended his hand to support him.

Mr. Hu is an old acquaintance of his biological mother. He contacted him privately five years ago. The reason why he was able to successfully succeed to the throne this time was also because of Mr. Hu's efforts in winning over the hearts of the people and cultivating his confidants for him over the past five years.

Yuan Saburo used to trust and rely on him very much.

As for now?

The entire Zhongshan Kingdom has been taken into his hands, and even the most trusted adviser around him is just a slave in name only.

Mr. Hu said in a perturbable tone, "I came here to ask Your Highness to order the granaries to be opened and the troops to rest."

Yuan Sanlang's face immediately darkened. One after another, they came over, questioning his decision. When he distributed the food and fodder, no one objected. How come after so long, everyone rebelled?!

He could no longer suppress the nameless anger in his heart, and with a wave of his hand, he swept everything on the table off the table.

The plate landed on the thick carpet without making a sound, and the snacks inside spilled all over the floor, with crumbs all over the floor.

The four maids were so frightened that they dared not even breathe, let alone stop fanning.

Mr. Hu's expression remained calm, as if he hadn't noticed his anger. He said calmly, "Your Highness, please listen to me for a moment."

"The world is in chaos right now, monsters are rampant, and the court has been silent for a long time. I think the imperial city is in great danger. Your Highness has a full complement of troops at his disposal, so this is a good time to reorganize them."

The rest is self-explanatory.

If Yuan Sanlang was an ambitious person, he would never be content to stay in the small Zhongshan Kingdom.

At the very least, we should occupy Yizhou and expand our territory.

What they lack now is labor and food for the people below. Only by continuously expanding their territory can they absorb enough people.

The weather was freezing cold in the early days, but now it is dry and hot, and the troops have been kept inactive because Zhongshan State has been in civil strife.

Now most of the rebels have been killed, and only a guard battalion has escaped from Zhongshan.

But those few hundred people are nothing to be afraid of.

Xing Shi was shocked when he heard this. Is Mr. Hu instigating His Highness to rebel?

"Your Highness, absolutely not!" Xing Shi said heartfeltly, "The people's survival is already difficult enough. Your Highness should first stabilize Zhongshan and restore people's livelihood."

There are monsters everywhere outside, what's the point of rebelling?

Yuan Sanlang was still thinking about what Mr. Hu said. He came back to his senses after hearing this and looked at Xing Shi coldly, "Are you teaching me how to do things?"

"I dare not."

Yuan Saburo waved his hand impatiently, "Alright, this won't happen again. You two can leave first."

Xing Shi was unwilling to give in. Before he came in, he had already made up his mind that even if it cost him his life, he would have to make His Highness open the granary and release the grain today.

As a result, the purpose was indeed achieved.

It was not so that the soldiers could have enough food, but so that they would have enough strength to fight.

In Zhongshan, except for the nearby county town, no rescue was launched in other border areas, but instead the focus was on the imperial city. This seemed absurd to him, but His Highness refused to listen to a word he said.

Zhang Jian noticed something was wrong and stopped Xing Shi, who was about to speak, and bowed respectfully to the leader. "I'll take my leave."

At this time, they could not provoke His Highness any further, for fear of losing their lives.

Xing Shi was almost half-dragged and half-pulled out of the main hall by Zhang Jian.

It’s easy to imagine, after the two of them left.

His Highness will definitely have a detailed discussion with Mr. Hu, and they can all guess what they will talk about.

Xing Shi's face looked very ugly. There were too many people in the palace and it was not a good place to talk.

The two men were in extremely low air pressure, and they came out one after the other and returned to the camp outside the city along the same route.

The sun had already set, but the temperature did not drop and it was still extremely hot.

The camp was almost as it had been when they had left it.

Some soldiers were lying half-dead on the ground. Some soldiers on duty could not bear the high temperature and passed out with blurred consciousness. They were immediately dragged to a shady place and had a little water poured into their mouths.

Whether they can survive depends on their own will to survive.

When Xing Shi saw the scene before him, he felt infinite sadness in his heart.

Zhongshan is about to perish!

………

The army in the distance was looming.

The border area of ​​Zhongren County is decorated with countless chevaux de frise to prevent monster invasions.

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