Bang bang…
With a dull thud as the wooden stick struck his body, Li Sanxing immediately screamed in agony…
"Ah... Father... I was wrong... I really know I was wrong..."
Li Sanxing was being beaten so badly that he jumped up and down like a monkey, but he still couldn't escape his father's stern blows. His screams were almost as loud as a pig being slaughtered.
Li Sanxing, who was beaten without any chance to fight back, suddenly rushed to Li Zhu, grabbed Li Zhu's leg, and wailed.
"My lord, I was wrong. Please forgive me. Just tell me what you need, and I'll do it right now. I guarantee you'll be satisfied. If you stay, I'll even call you grandpa..."
Hearing Li Sanxing's words, Li Zimu almost fainted from anger. "I asked you to apologize, not to change my father. Do you have no backbone at all?"
"Before Uesugi Kenshin arrived, you swore that I was a fake messenger of the gods. Even your father wasn't sure, so why were you so sure?"
Li Zhu looked at Li Sanxing with a puzzled expression and questioned him. He knew the kid was being used as a pawn, but he still wanted to know who was holding the gun…
"this…"
Li Sanxing hesitated for a moment. After all, this was his second uncle. He couldn't bring himself to betray his own family like this, something that went against his conscience...
"Fine, if you don't want to tell me, I already have a guess. I was just confirming it. I'm leaving now. You two can continue your loving father-son relationship..."
Li Zhu stood up to leave, not intending to waste time arguing with the father and son; after all, time was precious…
"It was my second uncle...it was him...it was him who told me that the Divine Messenger was a fake..."
Seeing that Li Zhu was still going to leave, Li Sanxing could no longer hold back and blurted out that he had sold out his second uncle. He figured it was better to sacrifice his friend than himself, so he would save himself first. To appease Li Zhu, his father beat him to a pulp.
Upon hearing Li Sanxing's words, Li Zimu's face immediately darkened. His second brother was truly a terrible teammate, actually using his son as a pawn. Why didn't this bastard use his own son?
"Oh, I see. Young Master Li, you heard it too. It seems your family isn't very harmonious. But I think your second brother can still be saved; he's probably been bewitched by Zhu Yougui..."
Li Zhu smiled and said this, then turned and went back to his guest room to rest, leaving the Li father and son standing there bewildered. Seeing that Li Zhu did not insist on leaving, they breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that they had finally appeased the divine messenger...
"Father, I can't get up..."
Li Sanxing sat there, looking aggrieved. He had been beaten so badly that he only felt the pain now that things had stopped. He grimaced and looked extremely pitiful…
"Aren't you going to escort the young master back to his residence to rest..."
Li Zimu scolded the servants beside him. The servants were terrified; in just a short while, they had been on a rollercoaster ride, going up and down...
Uesugi Kenshin knelt there, unsure whether to get up or not…
Finally, Li Zimu came to his side and said...
"I just heard Takeda-kun say that he had a message for you. Why don't you go in and ask what the message is?"
Uesugi Kenshin hesitated for a moment, and in the end didn't dare to actually get up. However, he wasn't foolish enough to do nothing. After listening to Li Zimu's words, he spoke loudly.
"My lord, Uesugi Kenshin requests an audience..."
Even though they had just met, Li Zhu closing the door already spoke volumes; he simply didn't want to deal with Uesugi Kenshin…
He was unaware of another reason: Li Zhu was a time traveler who harbored a deep-seated loathing for the Japanese pirates of Japan…
"My lord, look, Uesugi-kun has been kneeling for so long..."
Little Baka looked at Li Zhu cautiously and said, afraid that Li Zhu would beat him up at the slightest provocation...
"What? Do you want to kneel for him for a while? Or do you want to go out and kneel with him for a while?"
Li Zhu looked at him coldly and asked!
Little Baka immediately fell silent. He didn't want to choose either of the two options, but his gaze towards Uesugi Kenshin was somewhat sympathetic!
"Alright, go and call him in..."
Although Li Zhu didn't want to give the Japanese pirates a friendly look, his army was now at the city gates, and every day that passed brought more uncertainty. In order to take over Jin as soon as possible and then pacify Youzhou...
Little Baga immediately bowed respectfully to Li Zhu and praised him.
"Hey... Your Excellency is indeed a kind person..."
Little Baka pushed open the door and spoke to Uesugi Kenshin, who was still kneeling there.
"Uesugi-kun, the divine messenger summons you..."
"Hi…"
After replying, Uesugi Kenshin quickly stood up and went into Li Zhu's room...
"Uesugi Kenshin greets the Divine Messenger..."
Seeing Uesugi Kenshin's unusually respectful demeanor, Li Zhu simply nodded casually, then asked...
"How many ronin can be gathered in Jin now?"
"Reporting to the Divine Envoy, it's hard to say exactly, but it should be no problem for over a thousand people..."
Uesugi Kenshin replied proudly, expecting Li Zhu to praise him, but seeing Li Zhu's disappointed expression made him feel insecure. He wondered to himself, "Does the divine messenger not take such a powerful force seriously?"
"If we let them cause trouble in Taiyuan Prefecture, to what extent can they do it?"
Li Zhu looked at him and asked, "To reduce losses during the siege, collusion between insiders and outsiders is the right choice..."
Uesugi Kenshin looked at Li Zhu blankly, not understanding why Li Zhu was asking this question.
However, he quickly realized he shouldn't have asked those questions, and hurriedly and cautiously said...
"If it's just simple sabotage, it wouldn't be a problem to tie down ten times the manpower of Taiyuan Prefecture..."
Li Zhu nodded. It was already quite good that more than 10,000 people were tied down by just over 1,000. After all, the military strength of Taiyuan Prefecture was not very large at the moment, and losing more than 10,000 people would greatly reduce the pressure of attacking the city.
"My Lord... you wouldn't... be planning to attack Taiyuan Prefecture, would you?"
Uesugi Kenshin wasn't stupid; he immediately realized the purpose behind Li Zhu's question...
"The world is not at peace right now; a stable environment is needed to resolve the hidden dangers..."
Li Zhu said meaningfully!
Uesugi Kenshin looked somewhat bewildered, and the little idiot next to him quickly explained.
"Uesugi-kun, we saw people from Miao territory in a city not far from Luoyang..."
"What does that prove?"
Uesugi Kenshin asked blankly!
"After the Miao people left, the entire city's nearly 100,000 inhabitants were reduced to skeletons, and a massive altar was left behind..."
Upon hearing the little bastard's words, Uesugi Kenshin's expression changed drastically, and he immediately realized the danger involved...
"Someone is performing a human sacrifice..."
Uesugi Kenshin exclaimed in shock!
“That’s right. The whereabouts of these Miao people are currently unknown, and no one knows whether there are any other cities in the world that have been sacrificed. War will only give these rats hiding in the shadows an opportunity to fish in troubled waters, so the world needs to be pacified…”
Little Baka recounted everything he knew in detail…
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