lcionline Chapter 296 Tang Xinyi's Secret Mission
Chapter 296 Tang Xinyi's Secret Mission
"Big head? What big head?"
"I just heard about it too. I heard that our Southern King extorted a lot of money from Kun Country. Now Kun Country is probably trying to raise money."
"Okay, go ahead and do your work. I'll go ask him."
"Got it."
Shen Changgong led everyone back to the general's tent and saw King Nan sitting on the general's chair reading a book. The generals were looking at the map, analyzing how to deploy troops during the battle.
"I heard that you dug up someone's ancestral grave and extorted a lot of money?"
Shen Changgong sat directly next to King Nan and asked with interest.
King Nan nodded calmly and recounted what happened yesterday.
He first described what happened, but did not explain why he did it.
Shen Changgong's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said,
"Great! Boiling a frog in warm water, squeezing them bit by bit, constantly forcing their psychological defenses to give in, forcing them to fight their own people, becoming deserted by their friends and family, and eventually, Kun Country will collapse on its own.
At that time, civil unrest will surely break out, and the army may even mutiny.
When the people have no money left, they will ask for military expenses. The princes and nobles will certainly be reluctant to pay, and then civil unrest will break out.
Either the people rebel and the army suppresses them, or the army also mutinis and kills the emperor, empress, princes and nobles.
In the end, they had no leader and had to surrender.
He defeated the enemy without fighting and captured the capital of Kun Kingdom without bloodshed.
Brother Nan Wang's move is truly brilliant, I hadn't expected it."
Hearing Shen Changgong's sincere praise, a rare smile appeared on the corner of King Nan's mouth.
He looked at the generals around him and said,
"What did I say yesterday? If Shen Changgong were here, he would have seen through my plan and plot at a glance and would have strongly supported it.
Looking at you all, not a single one of you, the generals in this room, understands what I am thinking."
Su Wuan smiled and said,
"Why else can we only be generals, and you two be princes? You can never learn enough from princes in your lifetime."
Facing such flattery, the Southern King said,
“I only thought of this idea yesterday after seeing that person wanting to negotiate peace. If Prince Shen were here, he would definitely think of this idea as well.
The key is that Kun State must have the idea of negotiating peace before this can be done.
If they fight to the death, we, the Yan army, can't possibly propose peace, right?"
"Alright, stop being so modest. Brother Nan Wang has impressed me greatly."
"I'm your uncle."
"Hahaha……"
Shen Changgong was in a good mood.
I also talked with Ma Ling about the next plan.
"King Nan, our army should not rush to attack. The longer we block the enemy outside, the more panicked they will become.
The so-called one blast, then decay, and exhaustion.
If we attack directly and face the battlefield of national destruction, the Kun army will definitely be determined to die. Even if we can defeat them, we will suffer heavy casualties.
First, we should temper their tempers and make them live in fear all day long. Then, when the news of their court negotiating peace and paying indemnities comes, they will certainly feel even more that they are no match for our army.
They will hate us, but they will also hate the civil and military officials in the court even more.
We kept asking them for money, and when they ran out of money, we asked for people, food, and weapons, until they couldn't bear it anymore and started to mess up.
When the time comes, we can just sit back and watch the show."
Zhang Han suddenly asked,
"What if we push those Kun soldiers too far and they come to attack us?"
Shen Changgong smiled and said,
"Isn't that better? Even if we have artillery, fighting on flat ground is more advantageous than attacking a city.
What's more, 600,000 versus 300,000, the advantage..."
Shen Changgong suddenly didn't say the last two words. At the critical moment of the national war, he still couldn't add any negative BUFF to himself.
"We have a stronghold as our support. If the enemy attacks, we can just bombard them from inside the stronghold and then outflank them from both wings.
Moreover, all the civil and military officials in Kun Kingdom are cowards who are greedy for life and afraid of death.
The imperial court has not ordered an attack, and we are relying solely on the soldiers and generals below. Without a commander-in-chief to unify the army, they are a mess. Do you think they can defeat our army?
Isn’t that wishful thinking?”
Everyone laughed.
……
The next morning.
The Kun Kingdom went to court early.
Tang Xinyi sat on the dragon throne, looking at the civil and military officials below, and said with a stern face,
"We spent the entire day yesterday collecting gold and silver, and even searched the entire palace, but we only found gold, silver, and jewelry worth ten million taels of silver. This is far from the amount the Yan army is demanding. Does anyone have any good ideas?"
The ministers remained silent, looking at each other.
Tang Xinyi continued,
"Why? Why are all the civil and military officials in the court silent? Tomorrow is the date requested by the Yan army. If you don't gather enough, your heads will be hung on the city walls."
An official stood up and said,
"Your Majesty, I have a plan. We can post notices in the city to encourage the people to donate money to compensate the Yan people. What do you think?
There are a million people in the city, and if everyone contributes a hundred taels of silver, we can almost make up the difference."
Tang Xinyi looked at the official as if he were an idiot and sneered,
"My dear minister, this is a good idea. Each person should give 100 taels, and each family will be counted as having five people.
Do you think that the common people in Dakun are already so wealthy that every family has a deposit of 500 taels of silver?"
"Ah? Can't ordinary people even come up with five hundred taels of silver?"
The official was surprised.
He looked at Tang Xinyi, his eyes full of clear stupidity.
Tang Xinyi was too lazy to pay attention to this stupid behavior of "Why not eat meat porridge?"
She came from the common people. Although her family was not poor and could be considered wealthy, she still had a good understanding of the monthly income of an ordinary family.
"Forget it, just post the list. It's better than nothing."
Tang Xinyi waved her hand and said,
"Feng Chang, load all this gold and silver onto the cart and take it to the Yan army camp today. By the way, please ask the Yan army for some time to allow us to collect the gold and silver."
"Let's disperse."
The ministers obeyed the order and dispersed.
Old Fengchang came to Tang Xinyi with a sigh.
Before he could speak, Tang Xinyi said,
"Everything in the palace has been loaded onto the trucks. How are the preparations for the National Treasury and the Inner Treasury going?"
"Your Majesty, everything is ready."
"Well then, let's prepare the carriage."
"Yes, ma'am."
Feng Chang sighed, turned around and walked outside.
He sighed as he walked.
Oh, forget it, forget it. I don’t know how much insults and difficulties I will suffer this time. Those ferocious Yan people look like they want to eat people. This time, I might have to stay and pay off my debts.
Alas, what should I do?
He walked to the square in front of the palace, boarded the carriage and entered the carriage, but the next second, the curtain of the carriage was lifted.
The Queen also followed.