When Qiguan Rang and the other two arrived at the meeting hall, most of the people had already arrived.
The three of them saluted and took their respective seats. Wei Ci was still absent-minded, his face slightly pale.
Jiang Pengji frowned slightly. If there was nothing important, Wei Ci's sense of responsibility would not be distracted in an official setting.
She looked around and confirmed that all her confidants were present. Jiang Pengji then cleared her throat and told them the reason for the emergency meeting.
"We received an urgent secret letter from Nansheng this morning. The alliance army of Nansheng has conquered the hinterlands of the four tribes and captured more than a million people. After a discussion among the alliance's feudal lords, they unanimously agreed to massacre the barbarians of the four tribes. "Jiang Pengji's gaze was calm, as if she was talking about an insignificant matter.
Everyone had heard rumors before they came, but when they heard the news from Jiang Pengji, even Yang Si and the others were visibly moved. In troubled times, human lives were like grass. People would always die in war. They were mentally prepared, but to massacre a million people at once …
Li Yun probed, "A million strong young men?"
Jiang Pengji said impatiently, "The population of the four tribes of Nanman is small. After ten years of chaos, how can there be a million strong young men? If there were a million strong young men, they would have wiped out the alliance army of Nansheng long ago. Most of the million people are elderly, women, children, and babies. Perhaps the women's fetuses are also included. The alliance army of Nansheng is venting their hatred for the annihilation of their country. They are really ruthless … "
The four tribes of Nanman had been fighting for years. The depletion of the young men could not keep up with the speed of replenishment. In addition to the epidemic last year, their combat power was seriously affected. If the weather had not turned cold soon after the outbreak of the epidemic, which more or less suppressed the epidemic, more people would have died from the epidemic.
In ancient times, the medical standards were poor, hygiene awareness was poor, and medical resources were lacking. Once the epidemic broke out, the casualties would be more tragic than the earthquake in Shangjing. Was it a lie to say that nine out of ten rooms were empty? According to Jiang Pengji's knowledge, there were a few large-scale epidemics in this era that affected a wide area. The number of deaths and injuries from each epidemic was in the millions. One must know that the entire population of Dongqing was only slightly more than 20 million!
Qiguan Rang frowned and said, "Even if it's the hatred for the annihilation of the country, the method of massacring the entire tribe is really ruthless."
Hundreds of years ago, wars and massacres were common, but with the passage of time, massacres were no longer common.
No one would say how many people were killed during a war, but after many victories, very few people would continue to kill captives, unless they ran out of rations. Under normal circumstances, the victorious side would demote the defeated captives into slavery and sell them as human slaves or use them as cheap labor.
Most of the captives mentioned above referred to soldiers who had participated in the war but had been defeated. However, the captives that the Nansheng Alliance had slaughtered were mostly the elderly, the weak, women, and children.
"Don't say who is ruthless. In my opinion, the Nansheng Alliance and the four factions of Nanman are jackals of the same tribe." Jiang Pengji snorted and said, "When the four factions of Nanman massacred the people of Nansheng, I didn't see them show any mercy. Similarly, in the early days of Nansheng's establishment, in order to prevent Nanman from rebelling, they captured hundreds of thousands of Nanman tribesmen to be forced into servitude as soldiers. More than 200,000 died of exhaustion and in battle. Nansheng also claimed to be the suzerain of the four tribes of Nanman. They used their powerful troops to force the other side to pay tribute. They collected nine out of ten taxes and sent troops to suppress them several times. They slaughtered no less than a hundred thousand Nanman people. This is all bad debt! "
In the early days of Nansheng's establishment, how many gentry relied on the blood of the four tribes of Nanman to enrich their own pockets?
They forcibly captured them as slaves and gave them the least amount of food to do the heaviest work.
They didn't treat them as humans, but as beasts that could talk!
Wasn't the hatred that the four tribes of Nanman had for Nansheng also forced out by these people?
After the four tribes of Nanman became powerful, they destroyed Nansheng. The feudal lords of Nansheng then joined forces to counterattack Nanman until they decided to slaughter millions of people and exterminate their entire tribe.
I don't mind exterminating an entire tribe, but don't use the righteous banner of revenge. Do you really think that you are so clean?
Among the feudal lords of Nansheng's alliance, how many of their ancestors had enjoyed the sweetness of the blood of the four tribes of Nanman?
Jiang Pengji felt that this group of people was also interesting. They were very good at using double standards.
War was war. Murder was murder. Extermination of an entire tribe was extermination of an entire tribe. Stop finding messy excuses to whitewash peace.
"Those who kill should be prepared to be killed!"
Seeing that Jiang Pengji's words were getting more and more out of line, Qiguan Rang and Wei Ci coughed in unison.
The two of them looked at each other from a distance and quickly looked away.
Jiang Pengji rubbed her head. She had no choice but to stop talking and deal with the content vaguely.
It wasn't that she was afraid. It was just that the trivial matter between Nansheng and Nanman was not the main topic of today's discussion. There was no need to waste time.
"Nansheng is our neighbor, and Zhangzhou is ruled by Yang Tao, the feudal lord of Nansheng. If Yang Tao is ambitious, Zhe, Hu, and Hu counties will be easily lost without the protection of natural barriers. My lord has to be on guard. " Yang Si stood up and changed the topic. "If Nansheng is not threatened by external aggression, it will only take three to five years of recuperation to recover its strength. When that time comes, it will become a great threat. In my opinion, we need to make countermeasures as soon as possible. "
This wasn't taking advantage of the situation, it was taking preventive measures!
Who asked Yang Tao to occupy Zhangzhou?
Zhangzhou was a great hidden danger to Zhe County, Hu County, and Hu County.
Because there were no safe natural barriers.
If Yang Tao sent his troops from Zhangzhou, it would be extremely difficult to defend these three places. Who would feel at ease?
Unfortunately, the three counties were more fertile places under Jiang Pengji's rule. Hu County was a large producer of grain. Once it was lost, the loss could be said to be fatal!
Anyway, Nansheng had already destroyed Nanman. If Jiang Pengji chose this time to send her troops, the world could not blame her.
"Jing Rong's worries are exactly what I'm worried about," Jiang Pengji said. "Regarding this, do you have any opinions?"
Even if Jiang Pengji's God-Slaying Sword was already unbearably thirsty, she still had to go through the necessary procedures.
War was not something that could be fought on a whim. Before fighting, she had to rack her brains to find a proper excuse.
She could not possibly say, "I suspect that Yang Tao will beat me in the future, so I want to strangle him now," could she?
She and Yang Tao were not considered friends, but they were not enemies either. They had even worked together twice. It seemed like there was no reason for them to have a conflict.
Jiang Pengji had an excuse, but she needed her subordinates to cooperate with her to dig up old scores.
Feng Zhen was quick-witted and understood.
An excuse to start a war?
Coincidentally, there was one! Last year, when his lord dealt with Madam Tao, Madam Tao played a suffocating trick in an attempt to incur enmity between her and Yang Tao. However, this matter was suppressed by his lord. Yang Tao was also busy with the battlefield in Nansheng, so he did not give any response.
Feng Zhen's mood changed, and he immediately had an idea.
While Jiang Pengji was sharpening her sword, Yang Tao, who was far away in Nansheng, was completely unaware.
Not only that, but he had also fallen slightly ill. After a few days, he had lost a lot of weight.
As Yang Tao's close friend, Yan Lin naturally knew where the root of the illness was.
To put it bluntly, Yang Tao was still too kind.
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