C141 Nadir
"Achoo …" Achoo... A... "Achoo …" Xiao Letian sneezed three times in the autumn wind. Although it was spring all year round in glume, the sea breeze of late autumn morning was still a little chilly.
"Do you want to call the royal physician? Or ask Dr. Barker to show Prime Minister... Oh right, I know that there is a secret hot spring in the back of the mountain. "Wrong, wrong, my chef is an expert in the Japan hotpot, Prime Minister would like to eat the hotpot, naturally he would be covered in sweat …"
Xiao Letian had only sneezed three times, but Wu Tie from glume only sneezed three times. Xiao Letian did not have time to pay attention to them. He put on the cape that Dragon Lord handed over and looked at the Japan Ship Closure that was getting further and further away.
Today, he came to see Ban Benlongma off. After half a month of arduous negotiations, more than a month after the end of the Tyrant Rebellion, King of the Glazed Ball and the envoy from the Shimadzu had finally signed the latest 'The Tyrant secret agreement'.
When is the best time to negotiate? Now that Xiao Letian had completely taken control of the situation in the glume, and with the military power in his hands, it could be said that the glume was the strongest in the past thousand years, there was no room for negotiation in the Shimadzu.
However, what was strange was that Xiao Letian actually made a concession on a lot of details. It was so big that Ban Benlongma was dumbfounded. Xiao Letian actually allowed the Shimadzu to keep a thousand man team in the glume, and the Shimadzu's tax collection could still take a portion of the team.
At that time, Ban Benlongma was stuttering, it was no different than before the war. If this agreement was shown to the Shimadzu, it would definitely make vassal lords stunned.
However, Xiao Letian had his own conditions. There was a principled condition in the "Heavenly Mystery Treaty", and that was that Master of the Island had to personally write a Memorandum that had secretly occupied glume for two hundred years.
From how the Shimadzu took over the glume two hundred and fifty years ago, to how the Shimadzu exploited Glazed Ball People all these years, it had to be written out in detail. Finally, they had to admit that the glume Kingdom was an independent Country.
"Dracunculide, this Memorandum, if possible, can it make your Celestial Emperor sign it? If Celestial Emperor is willing to sign it, I promise to offer him two hundred s produced by USA as well as two hundred thousand silver dollar s, to help Celestial Emperor regain back the core of his power … "
Ban Benlongma immediately understood that Xiao Letian wanted to completely sever the connection between glume and himself from international law. Once this Memorandum appeared, it would be difficult for him to swallow the glume.
"Dracunculide, this is my bottom line. As long as you agree, I can let you keep a certain amount of military power, and I can also let you get a portion of the tax. Of course, it won't be as much as it used to be, but I can leave a fifth for you guys …"
"Think about it, think about it, I can even give Hua Shanliyuan and Zhu Zhongjingshang a way out, let them safely return to the Japan, and see how sincere I am …"
"Don't force me, if you really force me to start a massacre and then expel all Japanese, would Shimadzu still have any dignity left? Hadn't the Southwest Four Soldiers always been led by the Shimadzu? Would he still be the vanguard of the campaign to reverse the curtain? "Dracunculide should carefully consider these issues …"
There was no way to refuse Xiao Letian's conditions. Even though he knew that this was a rice ball mixed with a chronic poison, the current Shimadzu did not have the strength to refuse. The news of the glume's rebellion had already reached the inner parts of Japan. The Mu Clan of Dechuan was now furious and requested for an investigation.
The secret character of the "Tyranny's secret agreement" could represent everything. Under the private consultations of Ban Benlongma and Xiao Letian, as well as the unconditional cooperation of the glume Kingdom, a huge lie that was filled with loopholes was officially born.
In the official version, the bully's uprising was not a battle for independence at all, but just a massive disturbance. The reason was not because of the independence of the glume Kingdom.
On that moonless and windy night, when the rascally E Balang of Japan attempted to rob Chinese of his property, a serious conflict broke out between the two tribes after a fierce resistance. In the chaos, the glume was also captured, and the general of Japan, Shan Benqing, misjudged the situation and decided to send his troops to fight. In the end, there was a fight with Chinese and the glume.
On the surface, the File were doing their best to suppress the situation. The number of Soldiers who was stationed at Shimadzu had increased to a little over 800. The reason they were stationed at glume was only to protect the interests of Japan Trader.
As for the position of prime minister conferred by King Chantale, it was also because of the admiration given by King to the scholars of the Upper Kingdom. Xiao Letian had only acted for a few days just to negotiate, he would definitely be dismissed before returning to the country.
Xiao Letian and Ban Benlongma were both wise man, they knew that they had to fabricate a lie to gag the mouths of the Dechuan's Mu Manor and the Manchu's. Only then would they be able to successfully escape and this matter would be able to continue.
Of course, they knew that this lie was full of holes. As long as someone was interested, they would definitely be able to find out what the problem was. However, statesman and the rest were not judges, they only wanted excuses, not strict. As long as they had the glume Kingdom as a witness, they would be like a horse and a deer, even if they hardened their heart to not be shameless, then their political enemies would not be able to do anything.
Politics was like this. They paid attention to balance and not truth or falsehood. No one expected that they would be able to deceive their opponents. As long as they didn't give them an explanation for the war, it would suffice.
What did you say? Xiao Letian brought a hundred thousand Chinese Blood Warrior for an entire night? He even personally launched a charge? You must be fascinated by the play. Xiao Letian is a scholar, how could he possibly fight? Even if you want to fight, you can't do it yourself.
What did you say? Xiao Letian massacred more than 10,000 Japanese? It was really bullshit. On that night, the official statistics, Chinese, amounted to more than two hundred deaths, Indigenous, more than a hundred deaths, Japanese, less than three hundred deaths, adding up to less than a thousand. We, the officials of glume, did not acknowledge what you said.
What did you say? The starship was at Xiao Letian's command? And they even fired ten thousand cannons at once? Is your brain filled with water!? That was King of the Glazed Ball's request for help, for him to have to pay a few hundred thousand soldiers' fees, that's the official accounts of the glume's treasury, look, I have all these accounts.
What else do you want to say? That Xiao Letian was practicing his Private forces? Bullshit, this grandpa will beat you to death … That is our glume, Prime Minister only has a few ideas.
You still ask? Why the heck are you asking? Oh, I understand, you are Enemy's spy. Men, throw the guy with this problem into the sea and feed him to the sharks.
History can be so funny, politics can be so simple, but didn't Japanese say that they had lost a few Japan soldiers in the 7/7 crisis?" This kind of lame excuse would not hinder them from waging war in the slightest. And Second Opium War, the death of a priest and a few other believers, it became one of the excuses to start a war. It could be seen how shameless the political figures were.
Xiao Letian was Traveller who knew three of these things well. To these Middle Age s, face was more important than anything. In this era, without Newspapers, radio, and television, there was no way the network existed. The Asia did not even have a single Newspapers, so the so-called news industry did not even exist.
Under this kind of political mode, as long as you give them enough face, and let them still be arrogant in front of the ignorant Popular, they won't have the mood to probe further, nor will they take the initiative to tear apart that layer of paper in the window. They will only hide your lies in their hearts, and then when facing the scene, they will give you a knife.
They would say, "You bastard, you didn't pay in the brothel, I will judge you on behalf of justice!" In his heart, however, he would ruthlessly say: Back then glume, didn't you play a great game? No one can touch you. Even I have to give in and kill you today.
Xiao Letian had already seen through this kind of thing in his previous life, so he was very clear that even if the Manchu wanted to deal with him, they definitely wouldn't use the incident in the glume as an excuse.
Xiao Letian looked at the gradually disappearing Ship Closure, rubbed his nose and looked at Zhu Zhongjingshang: "Alright, I don't have much time, what should have started already, I still want to go back and rest …"
Zhu Zhongjingshang's life was saved, and he had officially become the highest commander of glume's Thousand People Team. Today, he would be the one to manage all the arrangements.
"Ha!" Zhu Zhongjingshang bowed deeply, then turned his head and shouted, "Pass Prime Minister's order, execute..."
At this time, the wharf was already filled with crowd who was watching the show. It was just that no one dared to make a sound under the pressure from the Prime Minister Hu Wei.
"KILL KILL KILL..." "Kill these executioners …" Amidst the thunderous roar, the criminals from Japan were pushed forward one by one. E Balang, Fog Concealed Ghosts, the officers at the bottom level who did not make it in time, and the Japan mob who took advantage of the chaos to kill Chinese.
These criminals who had gone through rigorous judgement and selection were pushed to the side of the wharf with ashen faces. Soldiers raised his foot and kicked towards the pit of his knees. "Fuck, kneel down, brothers, today we'll use you to test our sabre …"
As he spoke, the new recruits who had never killed before began to take their positions. Xiao Letian's plan to train his courage officially began. The young men were all pale. After all, they had never killed anyone before. Even though they were trembling a little while gripping their ghost blades, Liu Tie had already said that if they didn't make a move today, they would have to scram.
Nobody wanted to leave the glorious Forces nouvelles. They were the most proud of the Navy's Marine Corps, and if they were fired, they wouldn't be able to hold their heads up for the rest of their lives.
"Time's up …" First Row... "Kill!" With a command from the executioner, ten bright ghost sabers were sent chopping down with the wind towards the neck of the prisoner on death row.
These ten death prisoners were all felons. They kneeled at the edge of wharf and would directly push their corpses to the sea after decapitating them. At this time, they didn't have any concept of environmental protection, so burial at sea was a common occurrence.
Xiao Letian was too bad. A recruit who had never killed anyone had beheaded him personally. Wasn't this waiting for trouble? In this group of people without experience, only three heads were directly chopped off from the blade. Blood gushed out for more than three feet as the corpse fell into the sea.
This was considered lucky, but the remaining seven were unlucky. The ghost head knife was stuck in the cervical vertebra, and just spitting out blood meant death! Those new recruits stomped their feet in anxiety and tried to pull the knife out, but it was stuck in the crevices of their bones and they couldn't pull it out even after a few tries.
This group of prisoners were in so much pain that their faces were distorted. They opened their mouths to scream, but they were unable to utter a single word. The most unfortunate of them all was E Balang, who was being tortured by Boss Mi's little Buddy, who was also a soldier. He didn't know if it was due to nervousness or it was intentional, but before the blade even hit his neck, it had already hit his shoulder. Even his shoulder had been chopped off.
E Balang was in so much pain that his crotch was like a wolf's howl. The young lad didn't know what to do, so he picked up the knife and chopped at it again.
The remaining death row prisoners who were queuing up for death were all scared silly. Some of them were even scared to death. What a terrifying scene, a recruit holding a ghost blade was hacking at the neck of a condemned prisoner like a meat bun, the most ridiculous one was actually hacking off his head 18 times in a row.
"Don't, don't torture us like this, I beg you, please give me a quick death …" The criminals who were lined up to die were lying on the ground wailing in pain. They were so regretful that their intestines were turning green.
Xiao Letian sneered as he looked at them for a while, turned around and left, "Kill them, kill them all. I will make you, Japanese, remember this massacre for a hundred years!"
Behind Xiao Letian, the supervisor's voice sounded again, "Push up the second row …" The time has come... "Kill!"