Gongsun Zhi was actually a kind emperor, but he always made people feel terrible.
This is mainly related to the fact that he is too invincible on the battlefield. Anyway, he is just such a 'monster' trained by Jiang Sibai.
The Zhou army stayed in place for two days. After they released all the captured farmers, they continued to march.
However, what is surprising is that many farmers who were released chose to return to the Zhou army after walking for a while.
They prayed in front of the army that the Zhou army could take them in.
This is not only because they can have enough to eat in the Zhou army, but there is also an extremely important reason: they can rarely sleep well in the Zhou army's camp!
There are monsters running rampant in the wilderness.
Even in the city, there are big and small monsters causing trouble, and no one can sleep peacefully.
Many people have even experienced long periods of insomnia!
But they were able to sleep well in the Zhou army's camp.
The monsters that originally tortured their spirits seemed to be unable to touch this military camp at all.
Even the middle-aged general was like this.
He was a prisoner and should have been unable to sleep.
However, in this military camp, he felt a sense of security that he had not seen for a long time, so much so that he fell asleep without realizing it, and was only woken up at midnight.
"Your Excellency General, the great Emperor is waiting for you. Please wash up quickly and don't keep His Majesty the Emperor waiting for too long."
The middle-aged general was sleeping dazedly. Suddenly his expression turned cold. He looked at the young waiter beside him and asked, "Why do you speak the language of the Eastern Continent?"
The young waiter said: "Because I was originally a commoner in the Eastern Continent, trusted by His Majesty the Great Emperor of Zhou, and became one of his entourage this time."
When he mentioned His Majesty the Emperor, his expression flushed with excitement, as if he was worshiping a god.
The middle-aged general snorted coldly: "You have betrayed your homeland!"
The young waiter said: "No, Your Excellency General, my relatives and I have passed through the Devil's Strait by luck. We are now the subjects of His Majesty the Emperor. I have never betrayed my family, because every one of my current family members
Everything is going well, much better than before.”
The middle-aged general was not surprised when he heard this. He asked: "I am very curious about what kind of benefits this terrifying devil-like monarch has given you so that you can speak for him like this."
The young waiter had a strange expression on his face and said, "Your Majesty has given us the treatment that normal Zhou people should have."
The middle-aged general was stunned.
"We have to leave quickly!"
The young waiter urged, and then seeing that the Eastern Continent general was unmoved, he said: "It's just the same tax quota, the same trade, the same learning opportunities, and the same laws to abide by, that's all."
All four are the same and look very simple.
But the middle-aged general knew that this was definitely not simple.
He fell silent, no longer standing still, and just followed the waiter to Gongsun Zhi's military camp.
He saw Gongsun Zhi standing silently in front of a huge sand table.
"You came?"
Gongsun Zhi said hello, and then said: "By the way, what's your name?"
Apart from the first sight of the huge sand table, the middle-aged general's eyes were firmly fixed on the back of the man in front of him as if attracted by a magnet.
In his eyes, the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty was like the most dazzling existence in the world, making him unable to take his eyes away.
"My, my name is Daofu."
Gongsun Zhi nodded and said, "Hello, General Daofu, can you tell me how many human city-states there are in the Eastern Continent now?"
Daofu looked at Gongsun Zhi. The powerful pressure from above made him unable to have any different thoughts even though he had different insistences in his heart.
A cold sweat broke out from his back, but he stuttered: "I...I don't know, I only know...there are only four cities to the west of Ghost Mountain."
Gongsun Zhi nodded, and then said: "In that case, General Daofu, please mark the locations of these four cities on the sand table for me."
Only then did Inao look at the sand table in front of him.
However, I saw that this sand table was extremely exquisitely made, and it actually included the entire terrain of the Eastern Continent in detail.
In his eyes, the area he was familiar with, that is, the area west of Ghost Mountain, was only a very small area on this sand table.
Daofu was greatly shocked, but he still quickly pointed out the four cities.
Then he couldn't contain the worry in his heart, but asked in a rather humble tone: "Your Majesty, may I ask you what's next..."
Gongsun Zhi said calmly: "Next, I will send four generals with 10,000 troops each to attack these four cities."
"And I will lead the Chinese army to station under this ghost mountain and reclaim the wasteland."
“It’s such a shame that so much good land has been abandoned.”
"And your city is too crowded. I will build two more big cities to divert the people from these four cities."
Daofu saw that the Zhou emperor had begun to plan the land and population of his home honestly and unceremoniously, and felt extremely depressed in his heart.
He said: "I'm afraid the four lords won't be willing to listen to you."
Gongsun Zhi said: "They don't need to obey. Even I want to find an opportunity to kill them all!"
At this point Gongsun Zhi said angrily: "These four are all trash!"
"The people here support them so much and are willing to be squeezed by them, but they don't even do anything useful. They only know how to stick to their own city and drain the blood of the people to feed private soldiers to protect their own safety."
"A bunch of idiots and cowards!"
Gongsun Zhi cursed twice.
Obviously there was nothing too intense in the tone, but it sounded like thunder in Inao's ears, making him fearful.
It is said that the king's power is as powerful as thunder, right?
Gongsun Zhi saw the rice man trembling and sweating all over his body. He calmed down a little and said, "But these are just angry words. I will not deprive these wastes of their wealth, as long as they hand over the land and population they control."
That’s fine.”
"The remaining property they have collected over the years is enough for them to live a rich life."
Daofu was silent for a moment, then asked: "Won't Your Majesty kill them?"
Gongsun Zhi asked: "Why did you kill them? I thought you didn't want to see me killing them."
Inao said: "It's just that we are used to the winner judging the loser."
Gongsun Zhi shook his head and said: "It's not necessary. According to the laws of the Zhou Dynasty, they can have a good death as long as they honestly hand over their population and land."
At this point, he suddenly changed his tone and said: "But this is only about whether they can die well. What happens to them after death depends on the number of crimes on the condemnation monument."
Daofu's expression was suddenly shocked, and he asked: "Your Majesty actually knows about the guilty monument?!"