Chapter 1057: Admonition

"Gaoli has currently followed Great Song from top to bottom; even the royal edicts I give to Gaoli officials are written in Great Song characters, so please rest assured, Your Highness." The King of Gaoli glanced sideways at the other kings and spoke first.

Zhao Xu looked at the humble-looking King of Gaoli and revealed a satisfied expression, "That is very good."

The King of Gaoli's eagerness was within Zhao Xu's expectations.

Moreover, Gaoli was only five or six hundred li away from the Great Song Capital City, Yancheng; the Navy's warships could reach the Gaoli capital in two or three hours.

If he, this King of Gaoli, had any aspect that made Great Song dissatisfied, his time as king would be at an end.

Great Song would not allow any unstable factors to appear in a place so close to the Capital City.

"Your Highness, in our Yuqian, the promotion of Great Song characters and such in the north is proceeding smoothly, but in the south, where the former southern feudal lords were located, we have encountered some resistance and even caused some disturbances. However, I am currently suppressing the chaos and will absolutely not delay Your Highness's orders," Beitiao Chuanqing said with a look of shame.

In this point, he was indeed inferior to Gaoli; Gaoli's ability to trim their sails from top to bottom was perfected.

"We have encountered a similar situation," said Ono and the other two.

Hearing this, Zhao Xu frowned.

He had never expected the plan to unify characters and industrial standards in the Dongtu region to be smooth sailing.

These kings and their forces he had personally appointed were loyal to him, but there were always people within their countries who sang a different tune, and some even harbored hostility toward Great Song.

It was only because they understood that Great Song was extremely powerful that they chose to submit on the surface.

But when they encountered things they were unwilling to do, such as the promotion of characters and industrial standards, they began to reveal their true colors.

"If you hesitate to act when you should, you will suffer from the chaos; this has been true since ancient times." Looking at the four, Zhao Xu gave a reminder, his tone very heavy.

Beitiao Chuanqing and the other three were currently his subjects.

If they did not do their jobs well, they naturally had to be admonished.

"This time when we return to Dongying, we will order the northern troops to move south; those who violate Great Song's legal decrees will be killed without mercy," Beitiao Chuanqing said hurriedly.

Although Yan Wang had only slightly raised his tone, he was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat.

During this period of time,

he had also come to understand this Yan Wang.

It truly lived up to a traditional Great Song saying: those who submit will prosper, those who resist will perish.

As long as they were loyal to Great Song, this Yan Wang was naturally amiable, but if there was the slightest disloyalty, he feared they would be buried without a place to rest.

He admitted that in dealing with the southern opposition to the promotion of Great Song characters and industrial standards, they had harbored some wishful thinking.

They had been ambiguous toward the voices of opposition in the south, thinking it was not worth mobilizing troops over this matter.

But clearly, Yan Wang did not think so.

"We are the same," Ono and the others followed up, their expressions fearful.

"I hope you will not disappoint me again," Zhao Xu said indifferently.

"We absolutely would not dare," Beitiao Chuanqing wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Now he already regretted not having taken decisive measures to handle this matter.

This time, leading them on this trip, Yan Wang had made him see Great Song's true strength clearly; how could he still have the slightest courage to go against Yan Wang's wishes?

From now on, even if it were just a casual word from Yan Wang, they would execute it to the end.

After Gaoli and Dongying, Luzon and the Southeast Five Nations also successively introduced the situation of promoting the characters to Zhao Xu.

Among them, Luzon, Funan, and Nanzhang were proceeding very smoothly, while Jiaozhi and Piaoman had encountered situations similar to Dongying.

The north of Jiaozhi was easy to talk about because they were all Central Plains people who had migrated there historically, while the south was the sphere of influence of the Jiaozhi Jing tribe, which had low recognition of Great Song and was currently only subdued by Great Song's might.

As for Piaoman, it was naturally the Mian tribe, the clan whose ruling position had been taken down by Great Song.

Regarding these situations, Zhao Xu naturally ordered Jiaozhi and Piaoman to use iron-fisted means just like Dongying.

But he also understood these situations.

Back then, when Qin Shi Huang unified the six states, standardizing the tracks of carriages and the writing of characters, he still encountered fierce opposition from the nobles of the six states, causing constant rebellions.

The difficulty of him standardizing the writing and the tracks of carriages throughout the entire Dongtu region could be imagined.

However, one could not stop promoting it just because it was difficult; even if the completion rate could not reach one hundred percent, achieving eighty or ninety percent was still good.

Furthermore, he was still very young and had plenty of time to handle this matter.

After all, by the time he was old and frail, this world would basically have entered the end of the modern era.

It would be too late to do these things by then.

After discussing this matter, Zhao Xu ordered everyone to return and wait for the holding of the Abdication Ceremony.

In two more days, he would ascend the throne and officially become Emperor.

Calcutta.

While Zhao Xu was making the final preparations for the Abdication Ceremony,

the Governor of Tianzhu Bolt, the Britain Army General Wesley, the Frank Army General Gaole'er, and the Admiral Ma Fu'er, along with other high-ranking officers of the Western Lands Allied Forces, all appeared at the port destroyed by the Great Song fleet.

Because today was a very important day.

The reinforcements they had been longing for day and night had finally arrived.

At this moment, the warships on the sea outside the port looked from afar like a wall pressing toward the port; just the warships they could observe numbered over a hundred, not to mention the many more warships blocked by others.

"The Parliament and the Queen have finally taken the opponent Great Song seriously," Maluofu looked at the massive fleet, feeling inspired in his heart.

The humiliation of defeat had lingered in his heart until now.

Now, he finally had the opportunity to take revenge on Great Song.

This time, he would take revenge on the Great Song Navy!

"It should have been like this long ago; it is a pity that we mistakenly underestimated this opponent the first time, otherwise we would not have lost Malacca so easily," Wesley clenched his fists, his hatred endless.

Bolt also let out a heavy sigh of relief, and he said: "At least we have held onto Tianzhu; with Tianzhu as this forward fortress, we can retake the Southeast Five Nations, Australia, Luzon, and Java."

Everyone nodded one after another, and the decadent mood caused by the defeat at Malacca was swept away.

What remained was only a strong desire for revenge.

After waiting for half an hour, the fleet arrived at the port, and one Warship after another docked at the harbor.

Because there were too many Warships and not enough berths, many Warships could only remain at sea.

The officers and soldiers had no choice but to take small boats to reach the shore.

This time, the reinforcements were likewise composed of soldiers from many countries.

The officers and soldiers from the various countries of Tianzhu immediately recognized the men sent by their own nations and hurried forward to welcome them.

After meeting, some familiar officers and soldiers immediately embraced and wept bitterly, talking about the comrades who had died in the war.

This caused the officers and soldiers of the second batch of reinforcements to fly into a rage, cursing the Great Song incessantly and swearing to exact a blood debt from the Great Song army in the next war; some soldiers even shouted slogans, prompting the supporting officers and generals to join in the shouting.

"Destroy the Great Song, avenge the dead soldiers!"

"Destroy the Great Song, take revenge for the dead soldiers!"

"..."

The shouting continued for a long time without ceasing.

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