Xuan Tianming's army set up camp ten miles outside Shaping City and officially settled down. At the same time, a part of the soldiers were stationed in Shaping City. Although the Shaping government office has not been taken over yet, the officials in the government office have been replaced by Dashun soldiers. It can be said that Shaping City has become the world of Dashun inside and out. Xuan Tianming even promised the people of Shaping that Dashun officials will be stationed here in a month to replace the Dashun household registration for the people of Shaping. After the replacement, trade will be officially resumed without any procedures, because Shaping has become Dashun, and the two sides are basically one country.
Dashun also welcomes and accepts people from Shaping who want to live in Dashun, but they have to bear all the expenses themselves. Of course, there are also people from the southern border who want to come to Shaping to make a living, and they are also accepted here. In short, Shaping is no longer a city of ancient Shu, but has been incorporated into the territory of Dashun, but it has not yet been incorporated into any provincial government. Xuantian meditates that he will readjust all the cities of ancient Shu in the future, build a new provincial government, and assign people to govern it.
The 300,000 troops left by the Eighth Prince Xuan Tianmo were not transferred to Shaping. They remained in Biannan, but some of them were called to help Shaping repair the city wall. They purchased blue bricks from Lanzhou and transported them to Shaping City by camels.
Those people didn't think anything of it at first, but as they were repairing the city wall, they discovered that something was wrong! Xuan Tianming's army was only responsible for supervising and providing construction plans, and all the work was done by the people on the Biannan army. Why?
Some people were tired of working and simply threw down their tools and pointed at Xuan Tianming's army and shouted, "Why aren't you working?"
The people on Xuan Tianming's side asked in confusion: "Aren't we working on it? Without our proposal, do you know how to build this wall? Work is not just physical work, there is also something called mental work, and the people on our side do mental work. Build it quickly, the general said that if it can't be built this high before this evening-" He gestured with his hands, "You won't be given food tonight."
"Why?" The Biannan army exploded. "We work in such hot weather and we don't get any food. Why?"
"He is the Ninth Prince! If you have any opinions, you can raise them to His Majesty the Ninth Prince. As for whether His Majesty is willing to take care of it, and the consequences of raising such opinions, you should think carefully. Don't blame us for not reminding you, these tasks were assigned by His Majesty the Ninth Prince himself."
The Biannan army was drooping. His Highness, that was the Ninth King of Hell. Who would dare to argue with him? But they were unwilling to repair the city wall in the hot sun!
The people of the Royal Army presented them with facts and reasoned with them: "How many years have you been stationed in Biannan? Have you made any progress in the war with Ancient Shu? Have you played any role in promoting it? We just arrived here and we took down Shaping City in one fell swoop. Did you put in any effort? Go out and ask who can stand shoulder to shoulder with our general with such a record? You have seen the power of the thunder, right? If you are given three more lifetimes, can you make that kind of thing? With your brains at this level, what else can you do if you don’t come to repair the city wall?"
These people didn't know whether they were confused by the sun or by the twists and turns, but they felt that what he said made sense! So they stopped bluffing and started laying bricks. They also had to endure the pointing and criticizing from the Royal King's army from time to time, which was very humiliating.
But when it comes to the thunder of that day, not to mention the ancient Shu soldiers, even the Biannan army of Dashun would feel terrified. Could it really be thunder? As the soldiers were stacking bricks, they thought about the thunder that day and night, and they couldn't help but speed up their movements. The Ninth Prince couldn't be provoked, this was the unanimous thought in everyone's mind.
However, the soldiers who built the city wall accepted their fate, but the deputy general of the Biannan army did not. Jiang Xuan was the first person under the command of the Eighth Prince Xuan Tianmo. The 300,000 Biannan troops were forced to obey Xuan Tianmo, and Xuan Tianmo handed over the 300,000 troops to him after returning to Beijing. The soldiers swore in front of Xuan Tianmo that no matter who would lead the Biannan army in the future, the hearts of the 300,000 people would always be with the Eighth Prince.
That afternoon, after careful consideration, Jiang Xuan finally rushed from Biannan to Shaping City to ask for an audience with Xuan Tianming. Xuan Tianming met him in a tent in the southern suburbs of Shaping City. At that time, the ghost doctor Song Kang was tinkering with injections in his big tent. The needle tube with the needle was standing upright. He pushed with his thumb, and some medicine dripped from the tip of the needle, which made Jiang Xuan's facial muscles twitch. But since he had already come, he couldn't be scared away by a military doctor, so he gritted his teeth and saluted Xuan Tianming, knelt down, and greeted him, but he didn't hear the other party calling him.
Xuan Tianming was not only a general, but also a prince, a prince. He didn't dare to stand up unless he was called, so he had to continue kneeling. This big tent was built in the desert. The ground inside the tent was basically sand and it was scorching hot. He felt very uncomfortable kneeling, frowning, wondering what the Nine Hades meant.
Xuan Tianming was reading a letter from his wife. The letter mentioned the mining disaster caused by Lao Ba, which made him very angry. However, he was also very pleased to hear that the governance of Ji'an County was good now. As he said, his wife was the most capable one. She could pacify the whole world wherever she went. Even if there were people who were stirring up trouble, they would be dealt with in an instant.
After reading the letter, he turned his gaze to Jiang Xuan, but he didn't pay attention to the greeting he gave when he knelt down just now. So he asked again: "Who do you say you are?"
Jiang Xuan was even more upset, but he didn't dare to get angry, so he said again: "I am the deputy general of the Biannan Army, Jiang Xuan."
"Oh, the deputy general of the Biannan Army." Xuan Tianming nodded, "You came to see me, is there something?"
Jiang Xuan frowned and said, "Isn't this nonsense? You took over the military power of Biannan and came here with the military token. How many days have passed? In addition to constantly sending people to repair the city wall for you, have you done anything else? You just left us there without paying any attention. If I don't come today, are you going to leave us there like this forever?"
Jiang Xuanxin was complaining in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it out loud. However, he said with some resentment: "Your Highness, we are also soldiers. We have been stationed in Biannan for so many years. Since the general returned to the capital, this 300,000-strong army has been without a guard. We finally waited for Your Highness to come, but we didn't expect that Your Highness attacked Shaping City without discussing it with us, and ignored us after conquering the city. The soldiers are very puzzled, so I can only come here with a thick face to ask, what arrangements and plans does Your Highness have for our Biannan army?"
He felt that what he said was very reasonable and that he was completely right. He couldn't help but raise his head, looking very unconvinced.
But Xuan Tianming still leaned lazily on the bamboo chair, staring at him with a pair of evil eyes, without saying a word, just looking at him, but Jiang Xuan was sweating in the hot weather. "Since the general has taken the military power, he should treat everyone equally." He gritted his teeth and squeezed out another sentence, as if he had used up all his strength. It was not until now that Jiang Xuan realized that the Ninth Prince was much more scary than the Eighth Prince. He didn't even need to get angry, just looking at him was enough to make him drink a pot.
Finally, Xuan Tianming spoke, but he asked him back, "Are you talking to me? You call the retired old man "General", but you only call me Your Highness, the current general. Since you don't regard me as a general, why should I regard you as soldiers? You are just a bunch of decorations who eat military pay!" He slid deeper into the chair and found a more comfortable posture. "Besides, when is it your turn to interfere in my work? When is it your turn to decide who I should use and who I shouldn't use, who I should pay attention to and who I shouldn't pay attention to?"
Jiang Xuan shuddered at this question, and realized that his angry words had been found fault with by others. Although he did say that on purpose, he did not expect that the Ninth Prince was so good at picking words, and pointed it out directly without any mercy, which made him a little embarrassed. But... "But the Eighth Prince was not like this before." He felt that what he said was reasonable, "When the Eighth Prince was the commander-in-chief, he treated the soldiers equally."
"Since you miss your Eighth Prince so much, then go find him. Go now! Someone—" Xuan Tianming suddenly shouted, and soldiers immediately came in from outside the tent. He continued, "Bring this guy who claims to be the deputy general of the 300,000-man army of Biannan, his name is Jiang something... drag him out to me, remove him from the organization, and send him back to the capital. Make sure to send him to the Eighth Prince, so that the master and servant can recognize each other properly and cry bitterly. It will not be in vain for my sympathy for the soldiers of Biannan."
"Your Highness! No, General!" Jiang Xuan was at a loss for words. He kept waving his hands and said, "General, you can't do this. This is unfair! I have been a deputy general for so many years. How can I be dismissed just like that?"
Xuan Tianming still shook his head, "Fair? There is no fairness here. This world is inherently unfair. If you want fairness, you should establish your own world. Unfortunately, you don't have this opportunity. Establishing your own world is rebellion. I don't know if you want to rebel or your master, Lao Ba, when you said this. I have to write a memorial and send it back to the capital so that my father can investigate it carefully."
Jiang Xuan's forehead was covered with cold sweat. Why was the Ninth Prince like this? Why couldn't he speak clearly? He didn't play by the rules at all! He felt like he was talking to a piece of stone that would automatically reflect back. Every time he said something, the other party would say something back, which made his heart and lungs hurt.
Seeing another person coming in from outside the tent, and the one who came in earlier holding him on both sides and trying to drag him out, Jiang Xuan became anxious and shouted loudly: "Ninth Prince! You will not win the support of the 300,000 troops in Biannan by doing this! Even if you hold the military power, it is just an empty title, and no one will listen to you willingly! If you do this, you will be a failed general!"
He was shouting with all his might, his hatred for Xuan Tianming was overwhelming, but in the end, he only got a nonchalant shrug from the other party...
(I’m sorry, everyone. There is a loophole in Chapter 851. I have corrected it in the backend of this website. The synchronization with third parties such as iReader will be delayed for a few days. I’m really sorry. Feng Jinyuan didn’t know that Xuan Tianming took over the military power of the Southern Realm. The Eighth Prince deliberately concealed it. I’m sorry again. I’ve been stupid and brain-dead lately and keep making mistakes. Alas)
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