She walked back to her bedroom unhappily from the main hall of the so-called temporary imperial residence.
Zong Shou still felt a little stuffy in his chest. However, moments later, he burst out laughing.
His plan had been completely seen through by that damned old man.
When the Buddhist Sect was at its peak, they occupied 5% of the Cloud World and had billions of people.
However, the scale of the Taoist Faction wasn't any weaker than that. During these years, they had been prosperous and didn't suffer any losses.
Along with the incense money, at least 5% of Donglin's annual production went to them. It was really unbearable for him to see that.
Although he chased away Lingyun Sect and many other sects in Donglin, he didn't deal much damage to the Taoist Temples under his rule.
He originally didn't want Daoling Vast Habitat to be in such a bad state. However, since they had already turned on each other, then there was no need for him to be polite.
He could allow sects to exist but he definitely wouldn't allow them to be strong. Now that the Taoist Faction was the strongest, even if he couldn't totally wipe them out, he had to tear them apart.
He casually took out a few battle reports and flipped through them. After the battle with the seven thousand Purple Qilin Flame Spear Cavalry. After the battle with the Purple Flame Qilin, he went into secluded meditation to heal up until today.
Who knows what the situation was like at the various places …
After roughly reading a few memorials, a smile appeared at the corner of his lips.
At this moment, 90% of the Night Demon Army west of Seven Cloud Mountain had been wiped out by Kong Yao, Ren Tianxing, and the others. Only a little over a thousand escaped into the deep mountains and forests to hide.
These were the true elites of the Night Demon Army. If they chased into the forest, they would instead give the enemy a chance.
This was why Kong Yao only used the army to lock down and didn't go in deep.
Those fleeing Huizhou people also started to return to settle down.
In a short 10 days, Renbo had already transported billions of stones of grain to Huizhou.
It was enough for the people here to eat for over 100 days.
Based on what Zhang Huai said in the report, they might not be able to arrange everything properly but they could ensure that everyone would have enough food to survive the autumn and winter seasons.
At the end of the 8th month, they could still plant grain for one more season. They were trying their best to restore the land, especially those numerous mines in Huizhou.
What happened next made Zong Shou raise his eyebrows.
Zhang Huai had already taken over the land west of Huizhou. At this moment, the imperial decree said that these fields could be distributed to the families of the soldiers who died in Seven Cloud Mountain as compensation. As for the rest, they could be sold.
It wasn't that he didn't like Zhang Huai's decision, but he was rather surprised.
This move could really be said to be vicious! Once this plan was implemented, Gantian Mountain would be able to digest the entire Huizhou in a short few years.
However, from now on, Zhang Huai's image in the Senate Hall would be completely destroyed.
Although the people of Gantian Mountain didn't have much connection with the nobles of Huizhou, they would still be worried. He knew very well what those fellows were thinking.
He couldn't help but sigh. What he liked the most was officials who didn't care about reputation and were willing to take the blame for him.
Unlike Ren Bo, who went against him every day.
However, with a flick of his finger, he turned the document into ashes. Then, he took out a piece of silk and wrote an imperial edict according to the drawings of a cat and a tiger. Then, he stamped it with his seal.
I treat the Ruler as my trusted aide, so the Ruler should treat me as a brother.
He flipped open Zhang Huai's second document, it was to ask him to stop corruption. Not only did it target Huizhou and Donglin, but it also included the Meeting Hall.
He instantly felt more comfortable. As expected, Zhang Huai knew what he was thinking. If he didn't beat those people up, how could he be happy?
During these few days, some people were getting more and more out of hand.
Since Zong Shou followed the rules he set, then naturally, he wouldn't allow others to do as they wished outside of his rules!
Ren Bo might be working with these people, so it was best if he didn't catch anything this time.
The last document came from Navy Admiral Gu Liekong. There wasn't much at the start, just that the Night Demon Navy had fled.
The last few lines surprised Zong Shou. It said that Shi Ruolan led 20 three-tooth turreted ships to lead the few Night Demon ships into the Oblivion Cloud Ocean. Then, for some reason, they managed to capture a small half of the Night Demon ships. One of them was perfectly fine. The other two could still be used after some repairs.
Zong Shou instantly opened his mouth wide, unable to close it.
These were the spaceships of the Night Demon Race! They weren't made to conquer the Cloud Ocean, but they were giant beings that could travel through space!
This was why just 20 of them could cause Gu Liekong's thousand ships to be unable to deal with them.
Even if half of the Night Demons were on land. However, there was no lack of experts on the ship.
If they couldn't win, they could choose a weak spot in the space barrier and consume large amounts of mind stones to tear open space.
He really didn't know how Shi Ruolan did it …
Was this the first battle of the top general of the navy for the next few decades?
Shaking his head, Zong Shou only felt that it was unbelievable.
Unfortunately, Gu Liekong only roughly wrote about the battle situation in the document.
He only said that Shi Ruolan led the enemy ships to where the demon mist wrapped around and led the beasts to attack. She also borrowed the strength of a few barbarian races below the Cloud Ocean. This was a small victory over the Night Demons. As for the specific situation, it didn't go into detail.
Zong Shou's eyes squinted. Compared to the Cloud Continent, Shi Ruolan was probably more suited to the area below the Cloud Ocean.
Using her strengths to counter the enemy's weaknesses? From this document, one could see that Shi Ruolan made use of the right time, place, and people.
… Three spaceships, each one along with the war equipment on it was worth three thousand grade-9 mind stones.
When she returned, he would reward her with a bag of candy. No, Ruolan had already grown up, so it was better to change to something else …
After reading the document, next was the letter of credence. The most important one was naturally from Taishang.
First, he admitted that Weihai and Kong Xuan's actions were against the morals of the Taishang Emperor and that he had punished them. Then, he changed the topic, expressing his gratitude before starting to scold him. Even if Weihai and Kong Xuan were guilty, they should be handed over to the Taishang. Zong Shou's actions were a little inappropriate, taking matters into his own hands. However, the two countries were brothers, so naturally, there was no need to be so calculative about such a small matter.
The last few sentences were hinting for them to send an envoy to Taishang to apologize and give them a way out.
However, the entire document only had one meaning. They weren't willing to fall out with Donglin at such a time.
Zong Shou burst out laughing. As he had expected, they really treated him as Nanbatian.
There were also other letters from the powers of the few islands near Huizhou to express their greetings to their new neighbor.
Most of them were fawning and trying to get on his good side. Only one of them was expressionless with a little bit of scolding.
Nanfeng Yue Dynasty?
Zong Shou's eyes settled down and then he tossed it aside, not bothering about it.
So what if he occupied Huizhou? Could the Great Yue Dynasty Ruler run over to bite him?
Thinking about it carefully, speaking of which, the current situation of Gantian Mountain was really good and not just a small one.
Zong Shou couldn't help but be startled. Since everything was settled, he could relax and break the Heaven Barrier. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to qidian.com to vote for me. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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