Chapter 124 The Truth Comes to Light

With a slight raise of his hand, the roaring of the mountains and the sea suddenly stopped. Li Qing nodded slightly and then smiled, "Good! Good! You! You are worthy of being my soldiers! I am fortunate to have you! Great Shang is fortunate to have you!"

Whoosh!

Following Li Qing's words, hundreds of thousands of soldiers immediately knelt on one knee, shouting, "We will serve Your Majesty even if it means death! We will serve the Great Shang even if it means death!"

Li Qing laughed heartily and raised his hand, saying, "I know what you are thinking! Everyone, get up!"

After saying that, he put his hands behind his back and strode towards the snow demon.

“Boom.”

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers suddenly stood up.

"Your Majesty, from now on, the Snow Clan will share honor and disgrace with Ding and the Great Shang, and we will never betray them again!"

Seeing Li Qing coming, the Snow Demon spoke respectfully and seriously.

Xueqi glanced at her granddaughter, then at Li Qing, her eyes filled with complex emotions. After a moment, she slowly knelt down and said in a deep voice, "Leader of the Snow Clan, Xueqi, pays respect to His Majesty the Human Emperor! Long live His Majesty the Human Emperor, long live His Majesty, long, long live His Majesty!"

During this period of time, Xueling naturally told Xueqi everything that happened to her in the extremely cold purgatory, so Xueqi's mentality changed a little.

Unexpectedly, this Human Emperor did not kill his granddaughter. Instead, he rescued her from that terrible place with great difficulty.

Why is that? He doesn't seem like the kind of fool who would repay evil with kindness.

Li Qing glanced at Xue Ling first, grinning at her, then raised his hand and said, "Get up. Your clan's affairs are indeed caused by reasons. I failed to investigate at the moment, but I must tell you the cause and effect. In fact, your clan's taxes were secretly collected by the Western Zhou State. They instigated the Liang soldiers to rebel, hiding it from me, and levied heavy taxes on your clan, causing your clan to hate the Shang Dynasty and rebel. Therefore, all of this is due to the Western Zhou State."

At this point, Li Qing sighed and said, "The Western Zhou Dynasty was ambitious. Its ruler, Ji Chang, had been dormant for decades, and its national strength was already comparable to that of the Shang Dynasty. However, they wanted to replace the Shang Dynasty, but they needed a legitimate excuse. That's why they secretly slandered me and constantly sowed discord between the various vassal states and the Shang Dynasty. In the end, the Shang Dynasty became a lawless country, and I became a lawless and incompetent ruler. Only then would they have an excuse to launch an attack on the Shang Dynasty."

"Brother Tyrant is not a ruthless and incompetent ruler! Those Xiqi people are all bad people! They use treacherous schemes and conspiracies! They are the real bad guys, the country without justice!"

Li Qing had just finished speaking when Xueling suddenly screamed, waving her little fists and said with an indignant look on her face.

"That's right! Your Majesty is the Emperor of Heaven and Earth, how could he be without justice?"

There was another scolding, but it was Shiji, and she also spoke seriously.

Xueling and Shiji immediately looked at each other, and they felt that they were kindred spirits. It seemed that they had found common ground.

Xueqi, upon hearing what Li Qing said, looked up and said bewilderedly, "Your Majesty, are you saying this is all a conspiracy by the Xiqi Ji family? You haven't issued an order to levy heavy taxes?"

"Of course I don't."

Li Qing said calmly, "In the Snow Plains of the North Sea, the Great Shang Dynasty has not collected a cent of tax for over a hundred years. I just didn't expect that your Snow Tribe would pay taxes for over a hundred years. What a pity! Countless cattle, sheep, and other precious materials have now become the national strength of the Western Zhou Dynasty."

"Xiqi! Ji!" Xueqi heard this and suddenly roared, "So he was lying to me!"

When Li Qing heard this, his eyebrows immediately raised and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Three years ago, an envoy from Xiqi came and persuaded the seventy-two tribes of the North Sea to unite, claiming that the Shang King was unjust and that the world was about to fall into chaos! This allowed our tribes to unite and break through the Beibing Pass in one fell swoop..."

Xueqi just gritted her teeth, with hatred in her eyes. Well, she and all the people from the seventy-one tribes in the North Sea were used as guns by the Western Zhou Dynasty!

"I see. I was wondering before that the 72 tribes of the North Sea were constantly feuding with each other, and it was a miracle that there was no civil war. It's amazing that you can unite. It turns out that someone is mediating between you."

Hearing this, Li Qing sneered, shook his head and muttered something. After that, he stroked his beard and asked again: "But who is that person, do you know?"

Xueqi frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "That man, who claims to be Taoist Lu Ya, is very powerful. No, he's extremely powerful! Terribly powerful! He might just need to move his fingers to destroy me."

"Lu Ya?"

When Li Qing heard the name, the corners of his mouth curled up and he revealed a cold smile.

This is an extremely vicious, shameless, and shameless quasi-saint.

Oh, it is said that he was the tenth son of Donghuang Taiyi. What a pity, why didn’t Houyi shoot him to death back then?

It turned out that he was the one who was causing all this trouble.

After pondering for a while, Li Qing nodded and said, "I understand. This Taoist Lu Ya is not very famous in the Three Realms and Six Paths. I will have my own deal with him in the future."

When Lu Ya first appeared in the Investiture of the Gods, many people didn't recognize him. It was obvious that this guy was very good at hiding.

"How despicable! The Western Zhou used treacherous schemes to pit my Snow Clan against the Great Shang, causing millions of lives to be destroyed! My Snow Clan! From today on, we will be irreconcilable with the Western Zhou!"

Xueqi snorted again, turned her head to look towards the southwest, and said hatefully.

"Western Zhou, I will certainly not let them go. Sooner or later, I will send troops to conquer them. As for you, the Snow Clan, just manage the North Sea Snowfield well."

Upon hearing this, Li Qing smiled, then put his hands behind his back, looked towards the vast snowfield and said, "The Snow Clan obeys my orders."

As soon as these words came out, Xueqi and Xueyao were stunned, but then Xueyao replied first: "Your Highness is here!"

Xueqi then quickly knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, I am here."

Xueling giggled and knelt down, saying, "Ling'er is here."

Xue Zhan, Xue Zheng and the others looked at each other, then turned their heads and knelt down reluctantly, saying, "Here."

As the Snow Clan leaders knelt, others like the commander and captain also slowly knelt down and replied in a voice neither too loud nor too low: "Here."

Li Qing naturally didn't care about their attitude. He simply waved his hand calmly and said, "Since you have abandoned the dark and joined the light today, I will wipe out the past! But! All seventy-two tribes in the north, with the exception of the Snow Tribe, will not be forgiven! You listen to my command! Join my army! Within half a month! Sweep the entire snowfield and wipe out the remaining seventy-one barbarian tribes! No one will be left alive!"

"promise!"

In an instant, hundreds of thousands of Shang Dynasty soldiers shouted in response.