Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 615

[Chapter 615 Is Imminent]

“What? The soldiers and horses of the Qi State have withdrawn from Leling City and Pingyang City?”

Zhao Xu looked at Chang Wei in the palace meeting hall, showing a puzzled look.

“Yes, Your Highness.” Chang Wei nodded, “After the last general conquered Pingyuan City, he was preparing to attack the two cities of Leling and Pingyang according to His Highness’s intention. Unexpectedly, the detectives who went to investigate the two cities before the army was dispatched So he brought back the news that the soldiers of Qi State had withdrawn from the two cities.”

“To prevent fraud, the final general ordered Qin Shan and Guan Tong to lead the troops to the two cities respectively. Unexpectedly, the two cities turned into empty cities. , now Qin Shan and Guan Tong have taken over two cities.”

“So, all three cities on the north side of the Jinhe River have been taken down.” Zhao Xu frowned, thought for a while, and nodded slowly. “Some people in Qi State are still

sober -minded. They must know that defending these two cities will only make Qi State suffer more.” Don’t let the two cities fall into our hands, there is no need for more soldiers to sacrifice their lives.”

Chang Wei also laughed, thinking of something, he said again: “By the way, Your Highness, we captured Han Qi in this battle, and we still have to pay for it.” There is a Japanese general, this Japanese general seems to have a higher status, and he should know a lot.”

Zhao Xu was overjoyed for a while, the last time the Japanese general he caught was interrogated by the Fourth Court, he poured out everything he knew.

What disappointed him was that there was not much useful information in it, and it was basically what he had already mastered.

If the general captured this time can learn more about the inside story, it will be more beneficial for him to grasp the intelligence of Japan and the Western Lands.

“Give them directly to Xu Ke.” Zhao Xu didn’t bother to see Han Qi and this Dongying general.

Chang Wei replied yes, and continued: “Your Highness, the three cities of Ping’an have been captured, do you want to take the opportunity to go south and attack Qi?”

Zhao Xu was silent for a while. At the beginning, his plan was to take down the three cities and take advantage of the opportunity to attack Qi.

But now the situation has obviously changed, and the state of Qi does not know what means it has used to win over other powerful clans.

If troops are sent south at this moment, they will inevitably be resisted jointly by the seven powerful clans.

And this fell into the trap of Dongying and Beidi people.

After all, he was fighting to the death with the powerful people, and Dongying and Beidi gave them blood transfusions.

In the end, both he and the Shizu will suffer.

Dongying and Beidi will take the opportunity to pick the fruits of victory.

Therefore, as he said to Ma Han, after taking these three cities, Yanzhou will have a natural moat.

With this natural moat, he can prevent the powerful clans from burning the flames of war to Yanzhou, and ignore the conspiracy and tricks of the powerful clans for the time being.

At the same time, he wants to cut off the blood transfusion channels for Beidi and Dongyingxiang clan.

After that, turn around and deal with powerful clans, and the war will be much easier.

Thinking of this, he shared his thoughts with Chang Wei again.

“Your Highness is thoughtful, and the general admires it. Beidi has just been defeated, so he will not dare to fight us to the death in Qinzhou and Yongzhou. It should not be a problem to win these two states.

” Trade routes on the sea.”

“That’s what it means.” Zhao Xu looked to the south, “But you can’t take the powerful clans lightly. During this time, you still have to focus on the three cities you just won. In addition to defense, we also need to build forts at important ferry crossings to prevent the powerful clans from taking the risk of crossing the North Expedition.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Chang Wei bowed.

After saying some more things, Chang Wei bid farewell and left. When

Chang Wei’s figure disappeared, Zhao Xu had someone call Mi Wen over.

Just now Chang Wei told him about the captives.

Different from previous wars, this time he captured quite a lot of Qi soldiers, more than 50,000 soldiers.

All the fifty thousand captives are now in Pingyuan City.

Originally, according to the captive policy of the royal family’s pro-military forces, these captives were basically released, and those who voluntarily stayed were kept.

But because the number was too huge this time, Chang Wei decided to report the matter to him before making a decision.

Faced with so many captives, Zhao Xu was naturally reluctant to send them back to Qi.

Just forcing them to stay will definitely lead to the failure of the captive policy.

So he decided to ask Mi Wen to brainwash these Qi soldiers, trying to get more Qi soldiers to defect to Yanzhou willingly.

After a while, Mi Wen arrived at the palace.

Zhao Xu said: “This king entrusted you with a task. Select a few people to go to Pingyuan City to sing a play for the captured Qi soldiers.”

“Sing an play?” Mi Wen showed a puzzled look.

Zhao Xu nodded slightly.

The powerful clan relied on the support of the powerful clan to fight against him, while he relied on the support of the common people to fight against the powerful clan.

Now that the powerful family has won the support of the powerful families in the world, he naturally has to find a way to get the support of the people in the world.

Some time ago, he asked Mi Wen to prepare for the publicity of Qi people.

After winning these three cities, he felt that he could officially start.

And whether more Qi soldiers can be won is a way to test whether the propaganda method is effective.

Thinking of this, he said: “This play is very simple.”

While speaking, he took up a pen and wrote a story himself.

This story imitates “The White-haired Girl”, but the landlord Lao Cai in it is replaced by a wealthy family, and the names are changed.

But the core of the story is the same, that is, the people would rather die than live under the oppression of the wealthy clan.

After the story was written, Zhao Xu handed it over to Mi Wen.

After just reading it once, Mi Wen’s expression was moved, his eyes turned red, “This story is indeed wonderful, if it is read to these Qi soldiers, they will definitely hate the noble family deeply and love His Highness.”

Zhao Xu shook his head, “It’s not for letting You read, my king said, this is a play, you have to choose a few people to perform it.”

Then, he told him how to choose actors, how to rehearse the play and other trivial matters.

Mi Wen’s eyes widened.

In Dasong, operas are generally sung, and operas have never been performed like real life.

King Yan opened his eyes.

“Interesting, since I went back, I have arranged this matter.” After finishing speaking, he couldn’t wait to go back.

Zhao Xu gave a wry smile, and he knew that this is the best thing about Mi Wen, a literary and artistic youth.

After sending Mi Wen away, Zhao Xu looked in the direction of Pingcheng.

The training of the Ma family’s soldiers and horses has been done.

The only thing that matters now is the matter of the twenty-four warships.

For him, it is imminent to control the maritime hegemony of the East.

Otherwise, Japan will continue to support the Dasong clan through sea routes.

Even if he destroys Qi State, there will be Xie family and Nanliang next.

What’s more, in addition to Dongpu, there are also countries in the West, so it is hard to guarantee that they will not be involved in the civil strife in Dasong.

Therefore, in order to avoid more and more forces transfusing blood to powerful families through the sea.

He must take decisive action.

(end of this chapter)