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Chapter 941

~8 min read 1,471 words

The position of the emperor, Bai Lang doesn't want to sit at all. Whether it's a faint emperor or a wise emperor, it's tiring. It's not bad to be a border king now, going out to raid for grain when there's nothing to do, and building a few Jingguans, which is much happier than sitting in the capital and approving memorials. And now the Great Wu Dynasty is in this state, the deficit is much worse than in the Ming Dynasty. Whoever goes to be this emperor is a fool—now it seems that this cheap big brother of his body has also figured it out. This Great Wu Dynasty is going to finish, so it's better to lie flat and be a faint emperor.

It's hard to be a wise emperor, but isn't it easy to be a faint emperor? Anyway, keep an eye on your inner treasury, and then try to do what you like to do. It's fine to deal with memorials and major national events according to your mood.

Bai Lang heard that the imperial court was noisy about sending troops, and the masters who paid the money all wanted to stuff their own people in to lead the army—"You haven't won the battle yet, so you started to grab merit?" Bai Lang couldn't understand their state of mind after knowing this—he of course knew that even if the battle was lost, he could fake it in the battle report, but what if Xiangpang cut off their heads? Don't you hide in the back and send the army up, and then run away when Xiangpang appears?

Or even if they died, could it bring benefits to the people behind the scenes? For example, dying heroically? Or is it various reselling of military equipment? Bai Lang estimates that he can't think of many corrupt methods, and he has no illusions about the integrity of bureaucrats at the end of the dynasty. "Let's see." Bai Lang thought so, and entered the situation of watching a good show—he is not the Prince of Qin, Yang Lin, nor is he Wen Zhong, Wen Taishi. The Great Wu Dynasty's finish is not worth a dime to him.

While Bai Lang was healing his injuries, he was also re-forging weapons. It is not impossible to turn Qi into a weapon, but the physical weapon is more refreshing to hit. The blade broke when cutting the big monster, and it couldn't be repaired. Resentment condensed, the whole material was scrapped, and the broken blade couldn't be connected. So he went to find materials—directly ran to the side of the two dead ghosts who turned into mountain ranges, and opened the mountain to find copper and iron veins.

Bai Lang raised his hand and burned with raging fire, rawly smelting the dug-out ore into metal. This person brought tens of thousands of catties of melted copper and iron back to Longcheng, and also threw the broken blade into it to melt. True Qi forged and rawly hammered it into more than a hundred iron maces. "Damn, I'll just carry a few more with me at any time in the future. How can weapons be so inconvenient? They were originally consumables! The idea that the sword is in the person is not desirable!"

Anyway, he is used to iron maces, and smashing them is the best.

Xiangpang was cleaning up the inside, and the imperial court received the news and felt that it was okay again. After the integration was completed, 100,000 troops were pulled from the Beijing camp and went south to prepare to suppress the rebellion. The leader was the Marquis of Jing'an—who had just inherited the title three years ago, and the one truly responsible for suppressing the rebellion was Wang Fenglai, who held the title of Minister of War and was the Governor of the Southwest. He was less than forty years old and was a person from the Wang family of the Jiangnan great clans.

Many of the civil officials below were children of great clans, and the military officers were mostly nobles. The Jingtai Emperor expressed that this was done well. Since they were responsible for the food, grass, and silver—he couldn't control the silver treasury of the Ministry of Revenue anyway, so let them toss it. As long as they didn't hit the idea of his inner treasury, it would be fine. In the past, the Jingtai Emperor would be very concerned about suppressing the rebellion. Now he decided to look away. He only needs to think about raiding the homes of those corrupt officials today and grabbing some silver for his inner treasury.

The emperor did this, and the civil and military officials in the court could accept it—raiding homes is nothing. The emperor raiding homes at least has a reason, and throwing out a few scapegoats is also good for everyone. For the emperor's regular pig-killing behavior, the ministers expressed that this is the norm of the imperial court, which is very normal.

"A little bit of grinding, fortunately, one place has been solved." Bai Lang's bones creaked, and the fire light rolled on his wound. From time to time, it exploded with a bang, and even turned into soldiers fighting on his wound. The opposite side also turned into lions and giant bears, all of which were small and cute. Bai Lang rarely had time to take action. Isn't it an interesting thing to watch this fight?

Now the true yuan entrenched on one of his wounds has been cut off by him, suppressed and ground away. After that, this injury can improve and even heal. Combat power has not recovered, because the power he freed up will be distributed to other wounds, shortening the time for healing. He spent some energy to forge iron maces, which is the greatest freedom. Others only go to the military camp to point out those Yeluohuo. Guiding this 1,800 cavalry with his martial arts wisdom is simply casual.

The military flag of this cavalry is like fire, and the military formation formed is like wind and fire, which is the true meaning of the military book "fast as wind, invading like fire." It is truly the strongest cavalry in the world today—no need to divide light and heavy. The war horses of these people have long been mutated, and true Qi flows in the horse body, making these war horses become demon beasts. And among them, even a small soldier has stepped into the Grandmaster realm, plus the finely crafted weapons that can communicate with the gods.

The weapons and armor are excellent, the martial arts are skilled, and the most critical thing is that the leading border king is a martial arts Celestial Expert. There will never be an opponent who can stop them in front of this army. Among the martial arts Celestial Experts practicing in the military school today, half of them have troops under their command, and the other half are lone-walking Jianghu-type Celestial Experts. And the strongest few Celestial Experts come from the Celestial Experts with troops under their command. Bai Lang is one of them, and also the most dazzling one.

And the Northern Barbarian's Queshe Guard is also cavalry, and it is also led by the Great Khan who achieved the status of Celestial Expert. It will definitely collide with Yeluohuo in the future—after all, Bai Lang's position is to face the Northern Barbarians directly. There are three Celestial Experts in the Northern Barbarians, leading the Pishi Army and the Palace Account Army, two elite troops, and the last Celestial Expert is a lone master. The Great Wu Dynasty, which faces the Northern Barbarians directly, has two Celestial Experts on the surface... Now there are three—before, there were General Xuanwu and General Fugu, who guarded the two passes and each held troops.

The Xuanwu Army is good at defending the city, and the Feihu Army is an infantry and cavalry mixed army of the Great Wu that can fight head-on with the Northern Barbarian cavalry. Now there is an extra border king Celestial Expert "Fire Virtue Star Lord" Bai Lang, who also holds a brand new elite army, Yeluohuo cavalry. It is these three Celestial Experts who form a balance between attack and defense against the four Celestial Experts of the Northern Barbarians.

Xiangpang killed people in the states and counties he occupied. In this era, nationalism has not been fully formed, and the level of education is only prenatal, so the speed of the uprising army's corruption is actually quite fast. Many people are still in the concept that it is not a big deal for fellow villagers to take some benefits, and outsiders are not good. So Xiangpang is forcibly mixing troops, promoting official language, and beheading officials who take benefits...

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