Chapter 496: Poisoning

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At the same time that Wufeng Island and the Liang and Han families were planning to encircle and annihilate the Black Shark Sea Bandits.

Mule Hongzhen arrived here from the Khan Court.

Exhausted in body and mind from the battle in the northwest of the Great Song, he had rested at the Khan Court for over half a month.

At this moment, Wulanba suddenly sent a message, saying he had found a way to kill Yan Wang.

Thus, he could not wait to arrive at Yancheng.

To him, Yan Wang was like a nail driven into his eye.

If it were not removed for a single day, his heart would feel as if it were being roasted on a fire.

Once, he believed the plan to march south would be the fatal blow of the Beidi against the Great Song.

The Beidi would enter and rule the Central Plains, and the Great Song would perish under the iron cavalry of the Beidi.

However, the plan he deemed flawless was ruined at the hands of Yan Wang.

Even Enke, his nephew, died at the hands of Yan Wang, and the Snow Wolf Royal Tent under Wulanba's command was completely wiped out.

Such heavy losses were something he had never experienced since inheriting the position of Khan.

Next, if he could not kill Yan Wang, he feared his supreme authority would also be questioned.

"Yan Wang, no matter what price I must pay this time, I will kill you!" Mule Hongzhen suddenly gripped the reins in his hands tightly.

As the party arrived at the gate of Jincheng, Wulanba immediately came out to greet them.

His Snow Wolf Royal Tent was gone.

Now he was responsible for governing the Xiliang people who had migrated to Ningjin Dusi.

And at Wulanba's side was Ivan in a black robe.

"Khan, Wulanba respectfully welcomes your arrival." Wulanba walked up to Mule Hongzhen and kissed his boots.

Mule Hongzhen could no longer wait to know what method Wulanba had to deal with Yan Wang.

Getting down from his horse,

he helped Wulanba up, "Tell your Great Khan quickly, what method have you thought of?"

In front of others, Mule Hongzhen would never be so intimate with his son.

But now, he could not care about anything else.

At the Khan Court, he had racked his brains day and night, yet could not think of how to break through Yanguan and the fortresses in Yanshan.

Wulanba said he had a brilliant idea, so he was naturally full of anticipation.

"Great Khan, this matter must be kept secret." Wulanba gave Mule Hongzhen a look.

Mule Hongzhen understood.

There were many people with many opinions, and Yan Wang had been infiltrating Ningjin Dusi.

For such a major matter, naturally, the fewer people who knew, the better.

They arrived at Wulanba's residence in Jincheng.

Mule Hongzhen waved everyone away, and Wulanba likewise dismissed the guards, leaving only Ivan by his side.

"Him?" Mule Hongzhen looked toward Ivan and frowned.

"Great Khan, this idea was suggested to your son by Ivan." Wulanba explained.

Ivan was someone he had captured, and during this time, he had interacted with Ivan the most.

In their exchanges, he had learned many things from Ivan that he had never heard of before.

For example, the Ouluoba Dalu, and that the Ross country was a nation on the Ouluoba Dalu.

There were many other countries on the Ouluoba Dalu.

As early as over two hundred years ago, Europeans had operated their warships to sail around the world.

They first discovered the New Continent, and then arrived at the seas south of the Great Song.

And because the Ross country had conflicts with the countries of Ouluoba and lacked an outlet to the sea, they chose to explore eastward.

Wulanba only half-understood these things.

However, when Ivan mentioned that in the New Continent, some European countries sent items carrying Smallpox and malaria to the natives, causing the natives to contract the plague and nearly die out, a flash of inspiration suddenly struck his mind.

"Smallpox plague; as long as the soldiers at Yanguan are infected with Smallpox, Yanguan, Yanzhou, and even the entire Great Song will fall without a fight." Wulanba's eyes widened, his face twisted.

His Snow Wolf Royal Tent had all been buried in the sea, and he had been imprisoned by Yan Wang in a place full of rats and the stench of excrement, eating things that even pigs would not eat.

Compared to his Great Khan, his hatred for Yan Wang was a hundred times deeper.

Therefore, as long as he could kill Yan Wang, he could sacrifice anything and use any strategy.

It did not matter if this strategy was devoid of conscience or deserved to be struck down by heavenly lightning.

Immediately, he leaned into Mule Hongzhen's ear and whispered a few words.

"Nonsense, wouldn't that mean my Beidi would be the first to be infected with Smallpox?" Mule Hongzhen said sternly.

He naturally understood the severity of a plague like Smallpox.

If such an epidemic spread through the army, this army would basically be finished.

Wulanba's proposal was indeed tempting, but it was clearly a double-edged sword.

"Great Khan is overthinking it; if I did not have absolute certainty, how would I dare to disturb the Great Khan." Wulanba smiled eerily, "Ivan has a way to resolve this matter; he says that in Ouluoba, there is a very good method for preventing Smallpox."

He paused, then continued: "However, Ivan says he has one condition: if we annihilate Yan Wang, he hopes we can let him go back."

Mule Hongzhen's eyes shifted; at this moment, he only wanted to focus on dealing with Yan Wang and seizing the Great Song.

The firearms of the Ross country were just as powerful as Yan Wang's.

Yan Wang was only one person, and yet he was already so difficult to deal with.

But the Ross country was a nation; if they fought for a long time, the Beidi would only end up facing two enemies at once.

In fact, when Wulanba suggested he send envoys to the Ross nation, he had been somewhat tempted, only he could not bring himself to do it for the time being.

Taking advantage of this incident, he could just send Ivan back to ease relations with the Ross people.

"As long as he can help us spread the epidemic to Yanguan and the other fortresses of Yan Wang, and also prevent smallpox from spreading among the Northern Di army, I will agree to his terms," Mule Hongzhen said.

Upon hearing this, Ivan was overjoyed.

He had long since had enough of this barbaric place and did not want to stay here for even a moment.

Now, he had finally obtained this opportunity.

"Great Khan, I will do my utmost," Ivan said.

Then he added, "God, forgive me; in order to return to my homeland, I have no choice but to do this."

Although he said this, there was not a trace of pity in his eyes.

Currently in Europe, Eurocentrism and white supremacy were in full swing.

Over two hundred years of enslaving the indigenous people of the New Continent had led them to believe that the indigenous people of other continents belonged to an inferior race, or were even just humanoid animals.

Europeans were the only pure race.

Therefore, even when newspapers published the extermination policies of the New Continent government offering bounties for indigenous scalps, they treated it as mere after-dinner gossip.

The minor matter of relying on European medical technology to spread plagues to the indigenous people could only occupy the corners of the newspapers.

Influenced by what he saw and heard, Ivan naturally felt no sense of guilt regarding helping the Northern Di create a plague.

After all, in his view, these yellow-skinned monkeys were no different from the indigenous people of the New Continent.

He was merely participating in this struggle between yellow-skinned monkeys.

Then the three of them discussed the details further.

The smile on Mule Hongzhen's face continued to widen.

"Great Khan, we only need to have people search the Grassland for those who have contracted smallpox," Wulanba said, "When we attack the city, we will take the opportunity to transmit the epidemic to them; in this way, without wasting a single soldier, we will cause the majority of Yan Wang's soldiers to die or be injured."

Mule Hongzhen nodded slowly, his smile growing even more intense.

For him, this was truly a blessing in disguise.