"Is it right this time?" Fu Nian asked indifferently, looking at the civil and military officials of the Chu Kingdom.
When Chu Guoman and Chao Wenwu saw Fu Nian's eyes turning towards him, they all shrank their necks, not daring to look at Fu Nian.
Everyone is worried that they will become the next one. If they are not the next one, how can they not have some dandies in their family?
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Therefore, it is better to send this plague god away quickly!
"Yes, yes, this is Chen Xian!"
"Yes, yes, this is Wu Rui!"
Everyone in the Chu State Court without any hesitation firmly admitted that those were the heads of Chen Xian and Wu Rui. Anyone who dared to say otherwise would be killed by them!
"Just make sure you kill me right this time!" Fu Nian nodded seriously, and then left the Shouchun Palace with his Confucian disciples.
"There are hundreds of schools of thought, who can be a good person? If we want to take advantage of them, we must be prepared to be hurt by them!" King Chu Wangwan was originally very angry.
But after seeing the confession that Fu Nian threw out, the target of his anger shifted. The ones who really deserved to be grudged were these officials and nobles who were just sitting on their bodies.
"Who can give me an explanation?" King Chu looked at the ministers below.
He was really going to be furious.
When Huang Xie was here before, these people kept telling him how greedy Huang Xie was.
Then when Huang Xie died, he said how wise Huang Xie was.
Later, Chen Xian and Huang Xie were also said to be corrupt officials, and they were thrown into remote places such as Dongting and Jiujiang.
Looking at it now, good guys, those who were thrown out were all quite prestigious and famous in the local area, but those who stayed in the hinterland were really more greedy than the last.
Before the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty could react, they thought they were talking about the hegemony of Confucianism.
So everyone started to support Fu Nian for killing innocent people indiscriminately.
King Chu watched the crowd's performance quietly and realized that Chu State was really hopeless.
Those who truly care about the State of Chu will die, those who will be imprisoned, and those who are idle at home will be idle at home.
Among them, the blame for the defeat was placed on Xiang Yan, Yingbu and Ji Bu. Ji Bu was imprisoned, and Xiang Yan and Yingbu were stripped of all their positions and were asked to reflect at home.
"When I went on the expedition, I asked you to come up with money and food. Everyone said that they were short of money and had no breath in their sleeves. Who can tell me what this is!" The King of Chu didn't want to listen to the nonsense of this group of people anymore, so he directly left what Fu Nian had left behind.
The confessions of those who were killed were angrily thrown in front of everyone.
Zhaorong served as the governor of Kuaiji County for ten years. He seized three thousand hectares of land by force and embezzled millions of money and goods, including ten thousand taels of gold.
Qu Cheng served as Zhonglang General for eight years. He misappropriated two million yuan of Kuaiji Navy's food and salary, leaving him with as much as three hundred thousand empty salary.
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"Where is the money? Tell me, where is my money!" King Chu was very angry.
He was still wondering that despite the huge amount of food and salary allocated to the Kuaiji Navy every year, he had never seen the Kuaiji Navy being mobilized to fight in a battle. He kept shirking it every time there was a war.
Now he understood that all the money was gone before it even entered the Kuaiji Navy Office. He even doubted whether the Kuaiji Navy now had 30,000 people.
No, there is no need to doubt it, absolutely not!
Only then did the civil and military officials of the Chu State realize that their king was not angry at the defeat or Fu Nian, but at the nobles like them!
However, everyone collectively remained silent and entered the sage mode, not caring about any anger of King Chu.
The King of Chu finally vented his anger, but there was nothing he could do to deal with these people. This is the current situation of Chu State.
The Chu royal family gave these nobles too high rights and autonomy, so now they can no longer govern even if they want to.
The nobles with a high degree of autonomy would not pay attention to the royal family at all. If before this battle, because of the power of the royal army, they would still listen to some, strong men cut off their wrists and cut off some flesh, but now...
They all looked at their noses, noses and hearts, waiting for King Chu to finish venting, and then everyone went back to their homes, eating and drinking when they should, without taking anything to heart.
King Wan of Chu, as the last wise king of the Chu Kingdom, naturally knew what these people were thinking, so he could only sulk and leave the court.
And soon, the chariot of King Chu Wan also appeared on the bank of Wujiang River. He was going to see Xiang Yan, the leader of the Xiang clan, who was beaten to the end after the defeat.
"Why did the king come in person?" Xiang Yan was still reviewing the reasons for this defeat.
But no matter how they reviewed it, there was only one result, and they had no chance of winning!
Whether it is morale or the quality of its soldiers, the coalition army is several orders of magnitude worse than the Qin army.
Then there is the command. He thinks that his command is not bad, but compared with Li Mu, he completely loses, which is a kind of helplessness that is difficult to compare with.
"The only one I can count on is the general!" King Chu looked at Xiang Yan and was about to kneel down.
Xiang Yan trembled and hurriedly helped King Chu up, not daring to let him really kneel down.
"Your Majesty, why are you doing this?" Xiang Yan helped King Chu Wan up and pulled him into the living room of the Xiang family. He asked King Chu Wan to take his seat while she sat beside him.
"I need a general to reorganize the Tenglong Army, the Thunder Leopard Army and the Shadow Tiger Army, including the Kuaiji Navy. I would like to make the general the Great General of Chu and the Lord of Wu'an!" King Chu was also afraid that Xiang Yan and the Xiang clan were just like other nobles.
He was complicit, so he made a heavy promise.
Xiang Yan was shocked. The general of Chu State was in charge of the three armies and the Kuaiji Navy. This weight was not ordinary.
Before Xiang Yan could react, the people of the Xiang clan around him were breathing rapidly. This meant that the three major legions in the future would be almost entirely filled with their people, as well as the Kuaiji Navy. Everyone knew that it was the famous Chu Kingdom.
The foundation of the world is that there is no opponent.
"Your Majesty, you still want to compete with Qin?" Xiang Yan did not agree directly, but looked at King Chu and asked with a frown.
"Competing with Qin is a matter for the future. I need generals to take back Jiujiang and Dongting!" King Chu said.
He went through several alliances, all of which opened up and expanded the territory of Chu State and achieved certain achievements. However, he did not expect that when he was about to die in old age, he would become a defeated king.
Therefore, he did not think about defeating Qin, but only wanted to take back the land of Chu.
"Huh~" Xiang Yan also breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he didn't have to fight Li Mu again. He just had to take back Jiujiang and Dongting and fight against the disorganized group of mud-legged rebels.
"I am willing to follow your Majesty!" Xiang Yan finally accepted the King of Chu's request.
"You are the only one I can count on!" King Chu left the general sword and seal to Xiang Yan, turned around and walked out of the Xiang family.
It was only then that everyone discovered that at this time King Chu was no longer the high-spirited king he once was, but an old man whose edges had gradually been worn away by time.
"The old man is dying!" Xiang Yan looked at King Chu's leaving figure and wondered why he thought of such a word.
But looking at the general's sword and seal in his hand, he will definitely take back Jiujiang and Dongting!