The dragon-bone wine tasted good.
Cup after cup, Ji Hao's body was filled with warm streams of power. The multicolored flame flickered quickly, and Ji Hao's entire body was soaked in sweat. His pores were opened by the great heat, and wisps of white mist puffed out of his pores, condensing into a small cloud above his head.
Ji Hao's physical strength was soaring. After he swallowed a pot of dragon-bone wine, his physical strength had been raised by more than a hundred percent.
Just like Ji Hao, Emperor Shun and the others had been gulping down the wine as well. Si Xi's eye corners twitched intensely, and he nearly cursed out loud. The main ingredient of this dragon-bone wine was extremely hard to find, and he didn't have many vats left.
Did they all come here to discuss something important? How come they all became drunkards, only focusing on pouring wine into their stomachs?
"Eh, Earl Chong … no, Marquis Chong's' tiger bone wine 'is indeed top-notch." Emperor Shun picked up the long bamboo spoon, scooped out the last spoonful of dragon-bone wine from the pot, poured it into his cup, and carefully tasted it.
While sipping the wine, he raised his head, grinned and said, "Let's discuss, these people, these things, how should we deal with them?"
Discuss? Discuss how?
Two maids carried over a large pot, which was filled with snake soup. The meat of five-flowered viper was tender and juicy, cooked with tens of kinds of rare herbs, the snake soup had a great aroma, and was highly nourishing.
Ji Hao picked up a large bowl, poured himself a full bowl of snake soup, then buried his head in the bowl and began wolfing it down. As he ate, he kept praising the deliciousness of the snake soup. Si Xi's two maids were quite good at cooking, and the food they made was very beautiful. The milky white soup and the white and tender snake meat were trembling like translucent crystals. Just by looking at it, one would have a good appetite.
Yu Mu's food tasted great, but the appearance was far worse than this bowl of snake soup. Ji Hao had seen the snake soup made by Yu Mu. The soup was colorful, and the whole snake or centipede was soaked in the soup, just like living creatures. Timid people wouldn't even dare to eat it.
Everyone was full to their heart's content. They cleaned up the snake soup and the fish slices made from the two big white fish, wiped the juice off their faces, and breathed a sigh of relief at the same time with satisfaction.
Glancing at each other, everyone laughed out together, then Si Wen Ming abruptly said, "Ying Yunpeng and those elders have committed serious crimes, they have to be executed. Not only them, but even their relatives must be reduced to slaves. "
"Then, what about the warriors of the other tribes?" Emperor Shun said in a deep voice, "They turned around and launched a counterattack in Evil Dragon Bay and nearly destroyed the Chi Ban Mountain defensive line, nearly plunging our humankind into a disaster. These warriors … their sins … "
"How should we convict them?" Si Wen Ming looked at Emperor Shun, gave a bitter smile and helplessly spread his hands.
Emperor Shun gnashed his teeth and remained silent for quite a while.
The alliance of human clans was merely an alliance of clans. Emperor Shun was known as the human emperor, but in fact, he was the leader of the alliance of clans. Tens of thousands of human clans, different sized clans and families would unite together and elect a virtuous, reputable, and trustworthy human emperor. This human emperor would rule all kinds of disputes and deal with all kinds of conflicts.
However, the restriction of the human emperor was limited, and the power of the human emperor wasn't as supreme as people imagined.
Many times, some powerful clans and forces were unwilling to follow the orders of the human emperor for their own benefits, and Emperor Shun couldn't do much to them.
Just like Wuzhi Qi.
Emperor Shun sentenced him to a hundred years of house arrest, not allowing him to come out into the world. However, during the Chi Ban Mountain War, he showed up in broad daylight, and after the war, he even boasted about how many military credits he had made, which was more than enough to offset all his previous crimes. What could Emperor Shun do to him?
"Those warriors …" Si Xi murmured hesitantly as well.
Those warriors all turned around and joined the alliance only because of the betrayal of Ying Yunpeng and the other elders. From the standpoint of the entire humankind, these warriors had committed serious crimes, and all of them had to be beheaded in public. The best result would be that they would all be reduced to slaves.
However, from the standpoint of their clans, they didn't do anything wrong.
Ying Yunpeng and the other elders were their elders, and on battlefields, they had to follow all orders given by Ying Yunpeng and the other elders. Therefore, when Ying Yunpeng told them to turn around and attack human warriors from other clans, they followed Ying Yunpeng's orders, and they didn't do anything wrong!
On the battlefield, if these warriors disobeyed the orders of their elders, then they would have committed a heinous crime. They and their families would no longer be able to have a foothold in the clan, and would definitely receive the cruelest punishment of the clan.
"Reduce them all to slaves?" Ji Hao raised the large bowl and said a bit hesitantly.
"Their leaders and elders would never agree." Emperor Shun helplessly shook his head and said, "For this, I have argued with them for many times. But … so many clans have joined hands to resist … those warriors are all elites of their clans. If they were reduced to slaves, the powers of their clans would be greatly weakened as well. They would never agree. "
Emperor Shun was quite helpless. Looking at Emperor Shun, Ji Hao felt helpless as well.
If it was a mistake made by a single clan, such as Ink Ape Clan doing something stupid like looting captives, Emperor Shun would only need to give an order to reduce over a hundred thousand Ink Ape Clan warriors to slaves. With Emperor Shun's power, he could do this.
Because Ink Ape Clan had violated the interests of all clans, all clans would support Emperor Shun. Facing the pressure from all clans, even Gong Gong Wuyou couldn't save those Ink Ape Clan warriors from being reduced to slaves.
However, those warriors who had betrayed Emperor Shun at the last moment were all from powerful clans in Pu Ban City, and their clans were extremely powerful. Emperor Shun wanted to punish these rebellious warriors, but with so many clans joining hands, even Emperor Shun couldn't suppress them.
Besides, the leaders and elders of those clans had their reasons as well. Those warriors had followed the orders given by their elders on battlefields, what was wrong with that?
Ying Yunpeng and the other elders had betrayed Emperor Shun. They had ordered their warriors to betray Emperor Shun, and those warriors had only followed the orders given to them. The ones who were wrong were Ying Yunpeng and the other elders. However, those clans were willing to hand these elders over and punish them severely!
Since the main culprits had already been punished, these warriors should just go back to their own clans!
"I don't have to punish these warriors." Emperor Shun knitted his eyebrows and said in a deep voice, "I just want to set a rule. There has to be a rule … Our humankind is a humankind. Warriors from different clans can't only listen to the orders of their elders. "
Ji Hao held the clay bowl in his hand and slightly spun it. He raised his head and glanced at Emperor Shun, then glanced at Si Wen Ming.
"Then, we shall learn from those non-humankind beings. Didn't they build a Yu Dynasty? A unified, highly centralized … country! "
The atmosphere in the room suddenly fell into a deathly silence.
Cold sweat ceaselessly flowed down from Emperor Shun's forehead.
A unified, highly centralized country, like the Yu Dynasty built by the Yu Clan? Make the human emperor a true 'king', instead of just the leader of an alliance of clans?
Seize the powers of the leaders and elders of those large clans, and concentrate most of the powers in the hands of one person?
Emperor Shun's entire body was covered in cold sweat, because he was frightened by Ji Hao's words.
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