Facing the excited Moon God, Concubine Yan was silent for a moment, then her tone returned to a calm tone and she replied, "I have my own sense of discretion, I don't need you to worry about it."
"No need...ha!" Luna gave a sarcastic sneer and replied nonchalantly, "If you hadn't dragged me into the water, I would still be able to hear this, but now...hum!"
"You can quit at any time." Concubine Yan replied calmly.
Luna just sneered, but stopped broaching the topic with her and said back to Xinghun:
"If you can't be sure that the woman in Sakura Prison will not cross the line, then you might as well kill Xinghun directly."
"The Star Soul is dead. At most, the ship will be in chaos for a period of time. The mirage has penetrated deep into the East China Sea. Unless there is force majeure, it will not sail back anyway."
"But if that woman dies..."
"I have my own plan." Concubine Yan did not give Luna a clear response, she just said something vague and perfunctory, and then left.
At the same time, the cabin at the bottom of the mirage is where Tianming is imprisoned.
This place has now become a ruin.
The door specially made to close Tianming and the thickened and reinforced walls collapsed. The whole house seemed to have just been demolished, with broken tables, chairs, benches, wooden boards and stone bricks everywhere.
Tianming sat alone in the ruins, looking up at the roof...or rather the floor above, with sadness and heaviness written all over his face.
But soon someone came and interrupted his solo emo.
Xinghun looked at the mess in front of him and Tianming, who was sitting in the ruins with no thought of escaping, and couldn't help but wonder:
"You did all this?"
Tianming restrained his inner emotions, returned to his usual careless self, and replied angrily:
"You ask me who I ask?"
"I was lying down and getting dressed, and then a layer of white mist came over me for no reason, and then I passed out. When I woke up, I looked like this."
"I said, how did you sail the boat? Did it sail to some weird place!?"
Not only did Tianming refuse to admit his fault, he even blamed Xinghun - but in fact, the mess in this place was indeed his fault, but he did it because he was not very sane.
Xinghun looked at Tianming suspiciously, "You mean, you passed out immediately after coming into contact with the mist?"
"Yes." Tianming nodded and replied without blushing or out of breath, "Is there any problem? Isn't that fog the poisonous gas you put out?"
Xinghun felt that Tianming was lying to him, but there was no evidence to expose him, so he could only suspend his suspicion for the time being and replied coldly:
"The fog was just an accident."
"That's right." Tian Ming curled his lips disdainfully, as if you believe it, and then asked, "Now that this place has become such a virtuous place, I can always change my cell, right?"
Xinghun waved his hands with a gloomy face and said, "Just wait."
Then he left directly.
Tianming didn't care about this either. He cleared a clearing in the ruins and lay down directly, with a completely happy-go-lucky and muddle-headed attitude.
After Xinghun left, several times more manpower was deployed to keep an eye on Tianming, and then there was no more action.
It's not that he refuses to change Tianming's cell to a new one, but the cell can't be changed just by saying.
In fact, after talking to Gu Xun, Tianming immediately made this request to the Yin and Yang family.
The Yin and Yang family also agreed - they really didn't dare to push Tian Ming too hard, and they would usually try their best to satisfy any demands that could be met.
Although this request was a little over the line and there was a certain risk that Tianming would escape control, they still compromised after Tianming expressed his decisive attitude.
But there are no extra special cells in the mirage, not to mention that Tianming has quite a lot of requests this time.
The Yin and Yang family can only arrange for someone to rush out a room on a temporary basis.
There is no doubt that this house will not be renovated in a short time, not to mention that they still had the big problem of mirage to solve at that time, and there was no way how many people could be allocated to this matter.
Now that the mirage has been resolved, people can concentrate on solving Tianming's demands, but his old cell couldn't wait to be blown up first...
The star souls are now one and two in size.
Fortunately, Tianming seemed to have given up on the idea of escape, and really just wanted to stay in a place with a better environment, which saved Xinghun a lot of trouble.
But he still had to think about how to arrange Tianming.
If the renovation progress of the new cell could be made in time, he would not bother and let Tianming survive on the ruins for two days and then directly 'move to a new home'.
If the renovation of the new cell was slow, he guessed that he would still have to find a place to house Tianming temporarily.
This kid won't run now, but if he is left in the ruins all the time, he will have to run if he doesn't.
Although Xinghunjia sent people to keep an eye on him, it was unrealistic to expect these people to stop Tianming.
Tianming knew nothing about Xinghun's troubles and had no interest in knowing.
He is thinking about his own affairs.
The fog spit out by the mirage also had an effect on him, so after the mirage was shrouded in fog, he fell into an illusion like the Moon God and others... Strictly speaking, he was not as good as the Moon God, and closer to the ordinary people on the mirage.
But unlike those who were induced to go crazy and die by illusions, he fell into a serious illusion - some plausible scenes that were familiar yet unfamiliar to him.
The scene in the fantasy and the people in the scene seemed familiar to him, but he had no memory of those places or those people.
The time he spent in the illusion was short.
Tianming, who was already confused, quickly lost all consciousness and fell into a coma - so he didn't lie to Xinghun. He was indeed unconscious, but the coma was short-lived.
When he regained consciousness, his cell was in ruins.
There is no doubt that it was him who demolished the house, although Tianming himself didn't know how.
He didn't care about this matter, it wasn't once or twice anyway.
Since there is nothing uncomfortable about your body, there is no need to worry about it.
He was more concerned about the illusion he saw.
Although he had never been to those places in the fantasy world, and he had never seen those people, Tianming guessed the truth.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! That should be his 'memory' before he can remember anything.
This sounds a bit contradictory. If you don't remember things, you shouldn't have memories. If you have memories, you should remember things.
However, Tianming has become accustomed to all kinds of anomalies in his body, and his thinking is very jumpy and bold when he makes guesses.
Although it is a guess, in Tianming's own opinion, it is basically a fact.
But what makes Tianming very melancholy is that the illusion is like a dream. When you are indulging in it, everything seems real and perfect, but after you wake up, only some vague impressions remain.
No matter how I think about it in the morning, all that appears in my mind are blurry pictures - blurry scenes, blurry faces.
If he could see the exact same scene in reality, he might be able to get it right, but if not...these pictures have almost no value.
If nothing unexpected happens, these blurry scenes all happened more than ten years ago, and the chance of reappearing before dawn is zero...
But Tianming still refused to give up and recalled the images in the fantasy over and over again.
Because a woman - she is the one who appears most frequently in the vision.
Even if he couldn't recall the woman's appearance at all, Tianming could feel the deep sadness and delicate tenderness in her just through the blurry picture.
If he guessed correctly, that woman should be... his mother.
Tianming recalled the memories in the illusion over and over again, trying with all his strength to break through the fog that shrouded his memory, just to take a look at his mother.
Although he could no longer undo everything in the past, he still wanted to see his mother...even at any cost.
Sadly, it seems that he can do nothing even with this pitiful little prayer.
Tianming, who was lying in the ruins, opened his closed eyes and stared blankly at the dark and dim space. There was no sadness or anger. He just sighed and closed his eyes again.
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While the mirage broke through the fog and successfully embarked on the journey to seek immortality, everything in the empire continued to advance in an orderly manner.
There are four cores in the Farmer’s Dize 24, which are spring and summer, autumn and winter.
This is not only the core feature of the Dize Formation, but also the basic characteristic of the four seasons.
As time comes to the end of autumn, the temperature throughout the empire has basically dropped, and life in nature has also become extinct.
Before the "winter extinction" completely arrives, it is the time for many animals to collect and store winter supplies.
For humans, this is almost true.
In order to obtain enough supplies for the winter, the nomadic tribes outside the northern border began to attack the empire's borders in wave after wave, plundering all the supplies that could be plundered.
For them, a successful robbery can increase supplies and allow more people in the tribe to survive the winter; a failed robbery can also consume the excess population, allowing the remaining people to survive the harsh winter - of course , they prefer the former.
The latter can only focus on the present, and life will be difficult for the tribe after spring next year.
The nomadic tribes in the north are having a hard time, and the people of the empire are also having a hard time.
Although the time is approaching the New Year (the tenth month of the Zhuanxu calendar), the people of the empire do not have the time or leisure to prepare to celebrate the New Year.
As the saying goes, cold comes and summer comes, autumn harvests and winter stores.
Generally, in winter, all living things in nature tend to go silent, waiting for the beginning of spring next year.
It's the same for people, they have to do as little trouble as possible in winter and recuperate until the cold winter subsides and spring returns.
But the empire is different.
When winter comes, corvée labor often intensifies.
The reason is also very simple - whether it is the Great Wall, the Straight Road, the Epang Palace in Xianyang, and many other projects, work does not stop in winter.
If the project doesn't stop, someone has to work, but if you work outdoors in the dead of winter, you may suffer from frostbite or freeze to death in severe cases.
The number of laborers serving is reduced, but the progress of the project cannot be slowed down. Naturally, we can only recruit new manpower and mobilize more people to serve.
The only good news is that the Ling Canal project in the south has finally come to an end. The construction is basically completed and can be put into use.
This freed up a lot of manpower.
But there is no need for people to work on this project, but soon after the war in Lingnan restarts, more people are needed to transport military supplies - the weather in Lingnan is warm, and even if it is close to winter, it is not like the cold wind that penetrates the bones like in the Central Plains. The army can Act as usual.
Fortunately, now that there is the Ling Canal, the difficulty of transporting supplies by water is vastly different from that by land before, and the number of civilians required is also greatly reduced.
If the conditions were still the same as during the First Lingnan War, at least 300,000 civilians would have to be mobilized to barely ensure the supply of logistical supplies.
Given the current situation of the empire, if hundreds of thousands of strong laborers are spared, there will probably be no people left to farm the land in the coming year.
Lingqu not only reduces manpower requirements, but more importantly, improves the stability of supply lines.
During the First Lingnan War, the empire's supply lines were cut off every few days, and the logistics kept sending people and supplies in waves, but the troops on the front line were always lacking in various difficulties.
In a sense, in this state, hundreds of thousands of troops were able to fight against the Baiyue ministries for such a long time, which also proved the strength of the imperial army.
Let’s talk about this Lingnan War.
Ying Zheng once again mobilized an army of 100,000, and gathered more than 200,000 troops from Lingnan, for a total of 300,000 troops. With Ren Xiao as the chief general and Zhao Tuo as the deputy general, he marched into Baiyue again.
This time, the imperial army's attack was overwhelming.
It is not only the stable logistical support brought by the opening of Lingqu Canal, but also the personal abilities of Ren Xiao and Zhao Tuo.
The two men perfectly absorbed all the mistakes made by the general Tu Sui in the First Lingnan War. They no longer blindly advanced or violently suppressed the local tribes and indigenous people, but instead implemented a gentle policy.
Of course, the First Lingnan War had turned the Central Plains and Baiyue into an everlasting feud.
Such a short time is not enough to resolve this blood feud.
Simply relying on Huairou cannot help Ren Xiao and the others stabilize their rear.
This small chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! So they wrote to the emperor, 'Send all the deceased people, son-in-laws, and Jia people as soldiers.'
The so-called "exiled people, adopted sons-in-law, and Jia people" refer to people who intend to flee, adopted sons-in-law, and businessmen.
These people are low-class in the empire and are second-class citizens with no human rights. As long as there is dirty work, they have priority.
Sending them as soldiers does not mean that they can be used as cannon fodder, but that they can be used as immigrants.
Every time Ren Xiao and Zhao Tuo went to a place, they left enough people to serve as immigrants and stabilize the rear.
Because of the First Lingnan War, Baiyue suffered serious population losses, and these immigrants were enough to suppress them.
For the sake of their own lives, these merchants who were the sons-in-law of deceased people also tried their best to develop Lingnan. They could build infrastructure, develop farming, and run commerce.
It is certainly unrealistic to expect them to immediately change Lingnan Baiyue, but they did greatly stabilize the Qin army's rear strongholds. At the same time, they could also urgently capture a wave of strong men when the army's manpower was severely depleted.
Under the steady attack of Ren Xiao and Zhao Tuo, Xiou, South Vietnam, which had suffered heavy losses in the First Lingnan War, was no longer able to resist and could only be eaten away by the imperial army bit by bit.
Only Luo Yue still has some resistance, but it is alone and unable to recover. When Xiou, South Vietnam is completely destroyed, its end will be settled.
The battle in Lingnan went smoothly, and it seemed to prove to the world that the empire was still an empire, and that the empire still had the power to conquer everything.
However, it is hard to say whether this is proof that the empire's military strength is strong and its heritage is still strong, or whether it is the last afterglow of the empire before its sunset.
