Chapter 621 Northern Wasteland
After the capture of Nanyue City, the soldiers of Wu State all felt a little dazed.
In fact, most people know that it is a very difficult task to capture Nanyue City.
Basically, no one holds out much hope, and everyone believes in their generals first and then questions them.
So when Nanyue City was really attacked, everyone felt dazed.
I didn't expect that I could actually do it, and in such a short time.
It felt like a dream, but looking at the bodies of the fallen enemies and comrades around them, and the strong smell of blood in the air, they knew in their hearts that this was not a dream, but something really happening in front of them.
Many generals suggested that Wu Zejiu should pursue immediately, as this might allow him to capture King Ningnan alive.
This was definitely a fatal blow to the State of Qi.
After all, King Ningnan’s reputation is too high.
Wu Zejiu was also very moved by the soldiers' proposal.
But Wu Zejiu finally refused.
First of all, there are still a lot of elite troops around King Ningnan, and the number is still not small, which is probably more than his current general. The other party may have set traps on the road, waiting for him to fall into the trap.
You have to know that this is within the territory of Qi State. The geographical advantages and human harmony are on the other side. He knows exactly where an ambush can be set up and where not.
Don't wait until you have worked so hard to gain some advantages, only to lose them in vain and even find yourself in a desperate situation. That would be a loss.
Secondly, after a day and night of fighting, most of the soldiers were already very tired, the taut string had gradually loosened, and their combat effectiveness was greatly weakened.
Finally, he had just captured Nanyue City, and Nanyue City was a city of Qi after all.
It is unknown how long Qi State has been operating in Nanyue City.
There is no doubt that the people of Nanyue City are on the side of Qi State, but now they are intimidated by the military force of Wu State and dare not say a word.
The important thing now is to appease the people and let them know that Wu Guo is not a bandit and that their lives have not changed much compared to before.
In fact, many years ago, there was only one country in China. It was only because of the collapse of the Zhou royal family that the princes fought for hegemony for a thousand years. Finally, after constant evolution, the current pattern was formed.
The famous slogan of the Wu State is that it claims to unify the entire Central Plains and make it just one country again. In such a unified country, no matter how high the realm of the cultivator is, they must abide by the laws of the Wu State!
You’re not even to mention.
When this slogan was shouted, everyone felt more or less in agreement with it.
The previous resistance is no longer so repulsive.
In particular, the Wu Kingdom did not interfere with their lives too much, and they actually lived pretty much the same as before.
The level of psychological acceptance is also higher.
In fact, this is often the case.
For most ordinary people in this world, what they care about most is their own lives and they just hope that they can survive.
If you let the people survive, everything will be fine.
But if you make it difficult for the people to survive, they will fight you to the death.
Therefore, the first thing Wu Zejiu did when he took control of Nanyue City was to appease the people of Nanyue City.
Wu Zejiu strictly prohibited the soldiers of Wu State from harassing the people of Nanyue City.
Wu Zejiu immediately sent people out to deal with the corpses on the street to avoid the outbreak of plague.
Of course, after Wu Zejiu gave the order, he immediately rushed to the granary.
As a result, the granary was intact, which surprised Wu Zejiu.
He was even worried that King Ningnan would directly set the granary on fire, destroying millions of grains.
But King Ningnan did not do so.
Wu Zejiu knew that this did not mean that King Ningnan had not thought about it.
It is impossible that King Ningnan did not think of this. He is a veteran who has fought in many battles and no detail on the battlefield escapes his eyes.
Wu Zejiu guessed that King Ningnan wanted to send a signal - to let the army of Wu treat the people of Qi well.
Finally, as for the handling of gold and silver.
I have to say that Jin Dayin really played a big role this time.
But a person like this, who betrayed his country and sold out his country for personal gain, will be despised wherever he goes.
What Wu Zejiu wanted was to kill Jin Dayin after the matter was accomplished. After all, he was no longer of any use to him.
But not now.
After that, the Wu State also had to recruit a lot of people to surrender.
This gold and silver is a signboard.
If Jin Dayin is killed at this time, what will the others who want to surrender think? So for now, we can only keep Jin Dayin.
If there are other generals who want to surrender to the Wu State at that time, Jin Dayin will be a good signboard.
Of course, Wu Zejiu would definitely not let Jin Dayin stay on the front line.
God knows when he will sell himself out.
Wu Zejiu has already written a letter to Wudu, and it won’t be long before His Majesty’s edict will arrive in Nanyue City.
Your Majesty will definitely reward a large amount of gold and silver to an idle prince, and then let him return to the State of Wu and stay anywhere he wants.
As for whether he lives or dies after this battle, it depends on the mood of Your Majesty in the future.
Three days after the capture of Nanyue City, everything in Nanyue City was back on track. Wu Zejiu held a celebration banquet and after rewarding the three armies, Xu Ming was also preparing to leave.
Although this time Xu Ming was just acting as a thug.
But they also knew that if Xu Ming had not pinned down Qi's high-end combat power and even driven away the immortal-level cultivators, they would never have been able to take over Nanyue City so easily.
In this night attack on Nanyue City, Xu Ming definitely made great contributions.
With these military achievements, Xu Ming could obtain a high official position and rewards.
But in the end, Xu Ming said that if His Majesty had any rewards, he hoped to convert all of His Majesty's rewards into silver, and then buy some things to reward his brothers.
When the soldiers of Wu State learned of the decision of the top scholar, they were deeply moved.
But think about it.
For the top scholar in his own family, even the emperor belongs to him.
What other rewards does the number one scholar need?
Generals Wu Zejiu and others personally saw Xu Ming off.
After Xu Ming left Nanyue City, he went straight to Beihuang.
It would take about half a month to reach the border town between Qi State and Beihuang.
During this half month, Xu Ming also stayed in some towns in Qi State for a while.
It has to be said that the cultural atmosphere of Qi State is indeed stronger than that of Wu State.
No wonder the State of Qi called the State of Wu barbarians, there is some reason for this.
But it was these barbarians from the State of Wu who forcibly broke through the borders of the State of Qi.
The news of the fall of Nanyue City spread throughout the territory of Qi at a rapid speed. Everyone was extremely shocked by the loss of Nanyue City, and for a moment they all suspected that it was false propaganda by the State of Wu.
When they learned that King Ningnan had retreated to Crescent City and confronted Wu Zejiu, they knew that all this was true.
The first city in the south was destroyed just like that.
A tense atmosphere permeated the towns of Wu State.
But this is no longer Xu Ming’s business.
Xu Ming came to the border of Qi State.
In fact, it is not impossible for Xu Ming to go directly from Wu State to Beihuang.
However, the Northern Wilderness is quite large, with many checkpoints. The place Xu Ming wanted to go was relatively close to the checkpoint of Qi State, so Xu Ming simply chose this route.
Arriving at this small border town, Xu Ming could already see many monks wearing Northern Wilderness costumes in the town.
Most of the clothes in Beihuang are based on animal patterns, and it is popular to wear animal fur.
Compared with the Ten Kingdoms in the Central Plains, the Northern Wilderness does not attach much importance to literati.
The Wu State emphasized the advancement of cultural relics and so during this period, the Wu State had actually been strongly supporting the development and training of domestic literati.
But the Northern Wilderness is different.
The Northern Wilderness emphasizes force and force.
Therefore, it is not without reason that the Northern Wilderness has always been called the "Northern Wilderness Barbarians".
The first thing Xu Ming did when he arrived in this "South-North City" was to go to the Fengdie Pavilion in "South-North City" to buy some information.
In a border city like this, there are more intelligence agencies than brothels.
And this intelligence agency called "Phoenix Butterfly Pavilion" is the largest intelligence agency in "North and South City".
Although compared to other intelligence agencies, the price is relatively expensive.
But being expensive also has its advantages. The intelligence agency of Fengdie Pavilion is authentic and well-informed, and has intelligence that most intelligence agencies do not have.
All these things were told to Xu Ming by Wu Zejiu.
Wu Zejiu’s previous job was to infiltrate the Northern Wilderness, and he often dealt with the Fengdie Pavilion.
Xu Ming found Fengdie Pavilion without any code words.
He just needed to say that he was here to buy information, and someone would come out to receive Xu Ming.
The host asked Xu Ming what kind of information he wanted to buy.
Xu Ming only mentioned the six words "Chen Suya" and "Yunlei Sect".
The girl who was in charge of receiving Xu Ming was stunned for a moment, then bowed and said, "I'm very sorry, sir. The information you requested may require my superior to contact you. To see our superior, you must first pay fifty mid-grade spirit stones."
Xu Ming didn't waste any words and directly threw a high-quality spirit stone to the employee in charge of reception.
"The rest is your tip. Introduce me someone reliable." Xu Ming said in a deep voice.
"Please rest assured." The host nodded, "Please follow me, young master."
The receptionist took Xu Ming into a room and said, "Sir, just wait here for a moment. Miss Que will be here soon."
After she finished speaking, the woman retreated.
Xu Ming and Lin Xingluo waited in the room.
Not long after, the woman named "Que" walked in.
The woman wore a veil, had cat-tail makeup on the corners of her eyes, and was dressed in Hu Ji's clothing. Her white and tender belly was exposed, which gave her a very Western flavor.
Que sat in front of Xu Ming, rolled up his sleeves, revealing his white wrists, and poured a cup of tea for Xu Ming: "Sir, do you want to know the information about 'Chen Suya' and the Yunlei Sect?"
"That's right." Xu Ming took a sip of tea and said calmly.
The woman's lips curled up: "May I ask your name, sir?"
Xu Ming put down his teacup: "As far as I know, anyone who sells information will not ask the customer's name, right? You are breaking the rules by doing this, girl."
"Sorry, sorry, please forgive me, sir." Que stood up and poured another cup of tea for Xu Ming, but when Que leaned forward, Xu Ming could see the snow-white area at the woman's collar.
It was as if this woman wanted to apologize to Xu Ming and deliberately let Xu Ming see it.
Que sat down again and explained, "My lord, you don't know that Chen Suya and the Yunlei Sect are now shining brightly in the Northern Wilderness, and are now fighting against the Wilderness God Sect in the Northern Wilderness.
There are very few people who want to find out about Chen Suya, so I accidentally couldn't help my curiosity and I apologize to you here.
If you don’t want to reveal your identity due to your salary, this is naturally possible.
I wonder what you want to know about Chen Suya and the Leiyun Sect?"
"all."
Xu Ming took out a box from his storage bag.
Lin Xingluo opened the box and found that it was full of top-grade spirit stones.
"Take as much as you can from this box of spirit stones." Xu Ming looked like a rich second-generation.
But you know what, Que was really intimidated by such a domineering guest.
Que has been receiving guests for at least 20 years, but has never seen anything like this.
"In that case, I will tell you everything I know."
Que first took out a medium-grade spirit stone from the box.
"Chen Suya is from Wu Country and has a son named Xu Ming. She is actually the leader of a sect in Northern Wilderness. However, due to some reasons, most likely because of King Shan, Chen Suya went to Wu Country and hid her identity, and sealed her personality.
After arriving in the Northern Wilderness, the first thing Chen Suya did was to establish the Thunder Cloud Sect and summon some of the former sect leaders. "
Que took out a few high-quality spirit stones from the box and continued.
“After the establishment of the Leiyun Sect, the sect expanded rapidly, and Chen Suya’s realm was very high, and she completely recovered to the Ascension Realm. Chen Suya took revenge one by one.
In the revenge for the extermination of her clan, Chen Suya spared no one.
In just two years, Chen Suya has slaughtered countless sects."
Que took out a few high-quality spirit stones from the box.
She held different spirit stones according to the importance and content of her intelligence.
“The Northern Wilds advocate the use of force, so the Northern Wilds monarch is naturally very happy that such a sect has appeared within his borders. But now, this sect is going to fight against the number one sect in the Northern Wilds—the Wilderness God Sect.
The war between the two sects has lasted for half a year."
(End of this chapter)
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