Chapter 312: Changli
Major revision of the last three chapters—reviewing and refreshing. Aiming to fill the plot holes by tomorrow.
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Da Wang is about to shout to exterminate the entire clan, just to see if the Cui Clan dares to jump around in front of him anymore, a bunch of fugitives!
But after Bai Li Jing heard this, he directly smashed the inkstone on the table!
Heaven has been overturned!
He instantly flew into a rage, "Exterminate the entire clan? When is it his turn?! What is his status now?! He is a rebel king!" He didn't put him in his eyes at all!
The entire hall fell silent enough to hear a pin drop.
Everyone kept pondering over these words, this Youwang wants to ascend to heaven! He even changed the title his father gave him!
Bai Li Jing being furious is nothing, just a moment of anger.
Now, it's not just a case of being unable to reach.
He issued two edicts in a row ordering the Youwang to return to the capital to explain this matter, but at the same time he also knew, the Youwang simply wouldn't pay him any heed.
The Youwang is no longer that little child who would cry after being tricked by him into going to the imperial menagerie to be frightened.
Bai Li Jing wanted to send troops to Youzhou, but as soon as he opened his mouth, a bunch of people jumped out to block him, after all he had already given Youzhou to the Xianbei.
The Grand Commandant was even more direct, he knew Bai Li Jing didn't care about the Cui Clan, killing them all would only earn applause, so he went straight to the point.
"……You've already given it all to the Xianbei, given it all away, now if the Youwang has the ability to take it back, then it's his. The situation in the south is also not optimistic, why at this time still want to exhaust the people and waste wealth to send troops to Youzhou? The old minister has to say something unpleasant, Your Highness, are you sure you can win? If those few commanderies in the north really fall into the Youwang's hands, that's still better than falling into the hands of barbarians!"
Alright, no more talking about it getting cold.
"I believe, the matter of the Cui Clan and Chen Hou is the key, Your Highness should first verify the truth of this affair. If the Cui Clan truly colluded with the Western Regions and harmed the southwestern army, then it is indeed a crime of enormous wickedness, and they should indeed be exterminated."
"Then it's not Bai Li Jing's place to overstep his authority!"
This time the old Grand Commandant fell silent, began to enjoy peace and quiet without saying a word.
Bai Li Jing hated it intensely, but could only grit his teeth and persuade himself, he hasn't ascended the throne yet, there's still half a month, just endure a bit longer.
He desperately hopes time will pass quickly, unfortunately this time things went against his wishes, troublesome matters came one after another.
Bai Li Jing's anger hasn't subsided, yet Da Wang's
Only then did Chang'an know, the Youwang actually led troops to fight all the way to the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, the former and latter Che Shi and Shan Shan were both gone!
The entire court of civil and military officials was shocked beyond words, Bai Li Jing even more so, he was nearly bursting into flames without wind.
Angry.
You think this is it? Da Wang's
Da Wang didn't prepare to hide and conceal, he also prepared to let everyone in the world know, so that the people of Beijiang who fled to the south might have a chance to see it, and then come back!
What use is an empty plot of land? Da Wang wants to populate and revitalize his land with people.
The Youwang consecutively dropped three bombshells in Chang'an, causing an uproar throughout the city, now when the people of Chang'an meet, they mention the Youwang within three sentences without fail.
"Have you heard? The late emperor's third son in the north has driven away the Xiongnu and Xianbei!"
"Heard it, what's more, nowadays everyone says he is Tai Bai incarnate!"
"How so?"
"Also passed down from the north, those northern people all say he is the reincarnation of the God of Weapons and Armor, heard he is fierce in battle, with an undefeated record."
"Isn't that formidable? He's fought all the way to the Western Regions, even destroyed several small states, the Jin Dynasty hasn't won in how many years……"
"Shh! Don't talk about this."
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"They say the north was all given to the Xiongnu, yet he even drove the Xiongnu away?"
"You don't know? The Xiongnu's Left Virtuous King wasn't all hanged by him in the imperial mausoleum?! And you tell me, the mausoleum guards at the time weren't scared to death! No movement at all at one o'clock at night, by dawn a person was hanged! My second grandfather's family has a nephew who is just a mausoleum guard……"
"When the late emperor celebrated his longevity, I saw him on the street! And you tell me, back then I already felt this child was extraordinary, imposing!" Saying smash the wine tower just smash it!
"So, now that Youwang is establishing a new state in the north, is that what this means?"
"Call it Northern Jin."
"Nonsense, they call it Beijiang!"
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Da Wang secretly killed Lan He Shen, no gods or ghosts knew, and went to hang in the imperial mausoleum, in one night silently slaughtered the entire Cui Clan household, those who can't sleep are not just Bai Li Jing.
Few in the entire court of civil and military officials can sleep soundly!
How terrifying, the Youwang's reach is so long, exterminating clans done like this is called Clean and Neat.
The Jingzhao Yin responsible for Chang'an's security and defense got busy, countless people came to him asking to strengthen guards and patrols, there's no one unafraid of death, especially those from other factions.
The discussion of relocating the capital in the court heated up again, different from before, a part of people are now not so urgent.
The matter of Chen Feng colluding with the Cui Clan and the Western Regions has been put on the agenda, the court began to investigate in detail.
Not investigating this one doesn't know, but investigating makes one unable to sleep even more.
Chen Feng led fifty thousand troops to the Jade Gate Pass, Chang'an didn't even know!
Upon further investigation, the Jade Gate Pass garrison stationed in Hanyang was gone!
This is the worst news, they followed the Youwang and ran away.
After that, Bai Jin opened Pandora's box, receiving a piece of bad news every day.
For example, the You King seemed to have a very powerful cavalry that swept through the Xiongnu and Xianbei allied forces;
For example, the Southwest Army was not successfully ambushed;
For example, Chen Feng's fifty thousand mostly surrendered, weakening Old Four's strength, but these people were recalled to Bingzhou and given to the Marquis of Dongdu, strengthening Old Three's power!
Anyone who can do a little arithmetic on Da Wang's finances will find it hard to sleep at night. Just looking at the map of Beijiang State, it's already half the size of the Jin Dynasty, and that's not even counting Changzhou, which is in the Wei family's hands—equivalent to being in the You King's hands. Now, the most insignificant person has become a serious threat.
The trusted confidant of Chang'an, Da Wang, is happily drawing prizes in Shuofang, while this guy is rolling up his sleeves, ready to get to work.
He first implemented the checkpoint in Liangzhou.
As he envisioned, the pass between the two mountain ranges, Da Wang inserted a 'Ten Thousand Li Great Wall' across it. After adjusting the details several times, Da Wang laid it down and it actually succeeded. This guy then became restless, jumping up and running around the room.
Bai Ze very much agreed with his older brother Bai's view: "……Two possibilities: one, the official has profit to gain, with a big pit ahead; two, the official truly loves you."
Da Wang: "Two-two-two! It's two!" He loudly cued the correct answer, shouting loudly enough to make it a fact.
Bai Ze: ……
It's two.
Da Wang clicked confirm to build and placed it on the map, immediately triggering a side-quest construction task.
【Side Quest Two: Construct the Liangzhou ShanYang section border checkpoint in Beijiang territory.
Official subsidy: all raw materials; all tools and equipment;
On-site technical supervisor NPCx1 (recovered after task completion); professional manpower x20000 (recovered after task completion);
Logic chain supplement: recruit Beijiang state manpower x60000;
Estimated construction period: one hundred fifty days;
Task supplies: work uniforms x60000; work meals x60000; work wages x60000x150;
Winter construction subsidy: cold-resistant tents x6000 (units)】
Da Wang exclaimed, "I've struck it rich! Sixty thousand people, wow!"
Bai Ze glanced over calmly seated, "You don't even look at how long that checkpoint is."
Da Wang took out a blank sheet of paper to calculate how much wage he could extract: 60000x150x300?
The more he calculated, the wider his grin became: "Tang Qian still needs to guard the checkpoint, so he'll take half the people to earn military pay, while the rest will be recruited from the poorest commoners. Once the project starts, the lives of Liangzhou commoners will improve greatly. As long as money circulates, the economy will revive. Even the small trinkets on the streets of Youzhou can now be sold—previously unimaginable. Even with just two wen, they'd save it up and dare not spend."
Da Wang thought for a moment, "It's time to let the Commerce Department fill Beijiang with business! Selling other things won't work, but selling grain and cotton cloth definitely will!"
Bai Ze: ……
No wonder it's you.
They haven't even made the money yet, and already they're thinking of tricking it back……
Da Wang first summoned the responsible NPC, repeated the instructions like Yu Sou did, and told him to go see Tang Qian directly to coordinate preliminary work.
After giving the instructions, Da Wang recalled this person and sent him directly to the task location.
Da Wang is not at Jade Gate Pass—how would Tang Qian be notified? Simple: no problem can't be solved with money.
Spend three thousand taels to hire Zhetian the Great to make a trip.
Da Wang wrote a generous hand letter to Tang Qian, also sending him the notice for conscripting laborers—this is something Da Wang has done countless times in Youzhou, still the same old routine.
To recruit the thirty thousand commoners of Liangzhou, first priority goes to those with family members in the military, then to those struggling financially, and finally to Liangzhou household registrants with no criminal records.
Having spent three thousand taels, Da Wang also anticipated Mengmeng's side quest, which would surely involve a full household registration survey of Liangzhou, since other regions have already done it—only Liangzhou remains to be mapped.
He entrusted this matter to Tang Qian, asking him to take charge.
The entire Liangzhou, including the three newly conquered commanderies of the Western Regions, must have detailed household registration records.
Da Wang even set a deadline for him, saying that after three months, Zhetian would come to collect the household registers.
As for getting Zhetian the Great, who only knows the Wei family of Changzhou, to open a new route?
Da Wang came up with a grand plan.
He opened the full terrain map of Liangzhou, located Jade Gate Pass, widened his eyes, and began searching for Tang Qian!
Changzhou is not his, he has no map, but Liangzhou does!
"……You see this place—does it look familiar? We stayed there for several days, Jade Gate Pass! Does it ring a bell? A big-bearded uncle was left there—just deliver these letters to him, payment as usual, you won't lose out—ah ah ah! Found it! Zhetian, look at this person—do you know him! Tang Qian, Tang Uncle! Tang Uncle!"
Tang Qian stepped outdoors, Da Wang enlarged him to maximum, already able to make out his facial features.
After a detailed explanation, Da Wang took Zhetian outside, pointed toward the western direction they came from, and Zhetian understood.
Seeing Zhetian fly off, Da Wang breathed a sigh of relief—Liangzhou's two matters settled, the rest can wait; after leaving Liangzhou, there's still time to deal with it.
Da Wang closed the gate, happily returned to continue drawing prizes.
Four A-grades, three C-grades.
"Let's draw the three third-level turntables first!"
Da Wang rubbed his already-not-fat-but-still-white-and-tender paws, ignoring Bai Ze's resistance, and stroked the person's single horn all over, then drew three C-level turntables at once.
The turntables clattered and spun, soon popping out three boxes of different colors.
Da Wang thought for a moment: "I seem to have never drawn a third-level box before, only A and B levels—Ling Yin was drawn from a B level, if I recall?"
"Your messenger is the same."
"Oh, right! Zhetian is too."
After thinking carefully, the Sun-Shooting Bow and Zhetian are both like that—these are all great things, so Da Wang couldn't help but feel a bit more anticipation. C level, just one level lower—how much worse could it be?
He extended his little finger and clicked all three boxes open at once;
Congratulations, my lord, for drawing a C-tier lower-tier prize from the roulette: Small Spring Eye x1, already placed in the warehouse, please check.
Congratulations, my lord, for drawing a C-tier lower-tier prize from the roulette: Live Sichuan Pepper Tree x100, already placed in the warehouse, please check.
Congratulations, my lord, for drawing a C-tier upper-tier prize from the roulette: Military Strategist Changli x1, already placed in the warehouse, please check.
Da Wang repeatedly looked, dissatisfied with the second opinion, "Your Majesty recalls, back then I also drew some rubber trees that couldn't survive in Youzhou, again? Your Majesty doesn't like Sichuan pepper!"
"All you know is to eat, others still use it as medicine."
"Is that so?" Wen Xue Da Wang doubted.
Da Wang also couldn't be bothered to argue about the Sichuan pepper tree, finally that upper-tier prize was so fragrant, just look at Ling Yin to know, this kind of NPC is too useful!
He realistically went to the warehouse first to pull out that Military Strategist Changli, "Although it's one level below Ling Yin, but it's fine, military strategists, they definitely know how to fight! It would be great to also bring those officials and soldiers who've stuffed their bellies with military lessons. Last time fighting Lan He, we just watched helplessly as they fled by piling up human lives, this experience wasn't great."
【Military Strategist Changli, a lifetime of warfare on the battlefield for thirty years, engaged in annihilation battles, no one surpasses him.
Producer: Wan Jie xx
Personality: Cautious, loyal.
Strengths: Veteran military strategist with scheming mind.
Service life: Twenty years.】
Da Wang exclaimed "wow~" for each item he viewed, after finishing he felt this person was very formidable, not much inferior to Ling Yin.
"So formidable, how is he in C-tier? This description isn't that of a formidable great general?"
Bai Ze seriously pondered, "A lifetime of warfare for thirty years, could he already be old?" Being called 'family', he shouldn't be too inferior.
"Ah? Like that, also fine. Unable to fight but only teach commanders experience is also acceptable, the instructors of the Study Palace are also armchair strategists and will be recycled, this one has rich experience and long service, twenty years! Longer than Ling Yin~" Da Wang was easily appeased, this guy is very good at finding shining points in anything to comfort himself, an optimistic child.
Who knew this Changli, upon being summoned, would say,
"Thirty years?"
Da Wang and Bai Ze asked the soul together, their lines were the same.
Da Wang and Bai Ze together questioned with their souls, the lines identical.
This person looks about the same age as Wei Ke, at most twenty years old.
Da Wang murmured: "Seems to know how he was rated C-tier." Not an old general, but a young soldier came.
The key is whether this person remembers his previous glorious military career? If he forgot, maybe he's not even as good as Wei Shen outside...
Changli cautiously observed his surroundings, what place is this? So shabby it doesn't resemble his mansion.
Then he looked at Da Wang and Bai Ze, immortal child and immortal beast?
"Am I old to have come to the Heavenly Palace?!"
Upon saying this, Da Wang felt relieved, he remembered.
However, "……Meng Meng didn't settle the body-selling contract with him?" C-tier after-sales service is terrible!
Chang Li's memory stopped at his deathbed, learning that now, with the spacetime shift, he had been reborn at twenty years old; the old man... no, the youngster was extremely excited, looking at his own young and powerful fists, he burst out laughing loudly.
Changli's memory stops at his deathbed, upon learning the current spacetime shift reborn at twenty years old, old man… no, the young youth was extremely excited, looking at his youthful and powerful fists, he burst into loud laughter.
Da Wang: "Cautious?"
Bai Ze: "Loyal."
Da Wang: "Alright." Loyal is good.
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