The strategic bombing of the French ended in the evening, and the original twenty-four hours of bombing lasted only twelve hours before Gong Cheng's goal was reached, which was fear.

For a whole day, the indiscriminate bombing did not dare to say that it was almost the same as letting the Ryukyu family bring filial piety, and more than 10,000 houses were destroyed in this bombing of Naha, and no less than 50,000 people were killed and wounded.

King Chantai stood at the entrance of the deep valley and saw that the valley was full of fleeing people, women and children were crying, adults were sighing, the wounded were wailing, the bereaved were in pain, and all their faces were filled with deep fear.

Many military doctors and nurses in white coats were walking back and forth in the crowd, many of them were tired and shaking but still holding on, and the families of the injured looked at them as if they were gods.

There are more soldiers in military uniforms, some of them are distributing rations, some are caring for the wounded, some are cleaning up the corpses, it is the scorching heat, all the dead must be buried in time, if there is a plague, it will be terrible.

Every time a corpse was carried out of the crowd, friends and relatives would erupt in a wolf's howl, and King Sangtae's heart would break every time he heard such a miserable cry.

"Your Majesty, you can drink saliva......" Jin Changsen came over with a porcelain bowl with a broken ballast, and before His Majesty could take it, he lowered his voice and said, "Your Majesty, I just watched on the hillside, the French didn't fire a shot at Shuri Castle this day, the palace is still safe, and now it's getting dark, Your Majesty, go back......"

King Shangtai shook his head: "The people are bleeding, do I want to enjoy happiness in the palace? When the national disaster is over, I don't have the ability to go into battle to kill the enemy, can't I accompany the people to endure hardships?"

After speaking, King Shangtai took the water in Jin Changsen's hand, turned around and handed it to a wounded man beside him.

"Your Majesty Xià......" The wounded and the people around them subconsciously wanted to kowtow, but they didn't expect King Shangtai to hold them down, "Don't, don't...... Don't move, don't move...... It's because I'm incompetent that I can't protect this country, and the sin is mine..."

"Woo woo woo...... the crowd cried bitterly, "Your Majesty, don't say that, Ryukyu has not heard of an emperor who endured hardships with the people for hundreds of years, and the Central Plains has not heard of a king who survived the war with his people for thousands of years...... You are a holy king..."

King Shangtai smiled bitterly, and regardless of the dirt on the ground, he sat down with his ass, "Don't kneel, what kind of saint am I? Seeing that the people are bleeding, I can't do anything, what kind of saint am I?"

The king, who shook his head and sighed, said very lonely, "I have already thought about it, if we continue to win the Ryukyu Kingdom this time, if we can survive this catastrophe safely...... I decided to join the army, I also went to military school, I want to start as a big soldier, I will no longer be the emperor......"

"Can't..." Jin Changsen and the civil officials around him fell to their knees, they looked at King Shangtai in horror, they heard clearly, just now King Shangtai said that it was me, not me.

Heavens, what did King Shangtai think? He actually wanted to join the army and become a big soldier? Is this to abandon literature and military affairs? Is this to abandon our Confucian ministers?

I have to say that since the Song Dynasty, the problem of Wenwu Shutu has been left in the hearts of Confucian disciples, and even these feudal ministers who have been deeply influenced by Confucian culture have also been infected with such problems.

The emperor wants to join the army? This is worth it, the tradition in East Asia since ancient times is to use literature to control martial arts, isn't King Shangtai going to collapse the sky by doing this? The military ministers are in charge, and although Xiao Letian leads the troops, he also holds the title of a prime minister, and this group of old ministers does not talk much behind their backs.

"Woooooooooo......oo Your Majesty, the son of a daughter can't sit down, you are the hope of a country in the Ryukyus, if you have half an accident, this country will be destroyed..."

King Shang Tai was not annoyed, nor did he flinch, he smiled faintly and helped all the kowtowing Confucian ministers up, "Don't say that, the sage has long said that the people are the most important and the king is light, don't I strictly abide by the words of the sage?"

"What is the foundation of the Ryukyu state? It's not that I, King Sangtai, am not there, nor is Shuri Castle collapsing, but whether the people have a sense of identity with this country in their hearts, as long as the people have Ryukyu in their hearts, even if the country is broken, the mountains and rivers are still there, and the people's hearts can still be restored in us......

"This is the country and nation that the prime minister said, I only seemed to understand it before, but today I understand it completely......

Just when these Confucian ministers were still trying to persuade them, a loud voice suddenly came from outside the valley: "Your Majesty is right, what is the path of civil and military affairs? Those are all the remarks of the corrupt Confucians in the past who harmed the country and the people, and they are all good men who stand in the world and the world, why don't they be all-round talents in civil and military affairs? What is the use of separating the differences? Everyone is a slave when the country is broken..."

Everyone looked up and saw that it was General Liang Kun who spoke, and the general was already injured at this time. His forehead was bandaged with a white cloth, and two soldiers were lying on it carrying the stretcher general, with a bullet penetrating wound to his left leg.

"General, are you injured?" King Sangtai and his ministers rushed over at once.

"I'm ashamed that the minister failed to complete the task...... encountered the artillery bombardment of the French on the Beishan path, but Guotou Village still did not take it......" Liang Kun lowered his head regretfully.

How could King Shangtai blame the right-hand man of the Ryukyu army, and hurriedly went over to support him, "General, don't be annoyed, this is not a crime of war, and it is indeed difficult for the French to resist the strength of the ships and guns...... But don't worry, as long as we are all united, I firmly believe that this Ryukyu can be defended..."

Liang Kun seemed to know the young man in front of him for the first time, he couldn't help but provoke a thumbs up in his heart, and said in his heart that this King Shangtai really let the prime minister give the ** out, and what he said and did in a day today was impressive.

To put it mildly, the order of the refugees has not collapsed under such a frantic bombing by the French today, and he really owes more than half of this to him.

Night had fallen, the stars were beginning to blink overhead, and the French bombardment was finally over when the last rays of the setting sun in the west disappeared over the sea.

When the sound of the cannon stopped ringing out, when the calm returned to the people, all the survivors were still a little uncomfortable, and it took more than half an hour for people to think of today's dinner.

King Shangtai, General Liang Kun and the ministers sat on the big bluestone and chatted, the bonfire in the refuge valley was lit, and after a while, the fragrance of cooking porridge began to diffuse, and the people's feelings finally improved.

Just as dinner was about to be cooked, there was a sudden sound of messy footsteps outside the valley, followed by the light of the jumping torches rushing into the valley.

"It's General Cai Mao...... The general is out of the fort!" A large group of soldiers hula surrounded them.

Cai Mao was so tired that he couldn't speak at this time, and he didn't know if it was the smoke of gunpowder or the fire in the past two days, his voice was extremely hoarse, and his face was blue and dark.

"陛xià...... There are also General Liang, Jin Shangshu, and Lin Shangshu...... Let's take a step to speak...... "Cai Mao raised his hand, and a group of soldiers ran over and surrounded a cordon in the middle of nowhere, enveloping all the powerful factions in the current Ryukyu Kingdom.

"Your Majesty, the minister made a long story short, just now a Chinese claiming to be an envoy came from the beach at the foot of Qixing Mountain, and he said with a white flag that he wanted to negotiate with us......

"Well, negotiating, the French are going to negotiate with us?" Lin Yuanmiao asked differently, and Liang Kun shook his head on the spot, "Impossible, the French have not suffered no casualties in the past four days, let alone thousands of casualties, how can they negotiate? Even the negotiation conditions will be very harsh." ”

Liang Kun was born in the Heavenly Army, and he naturally distrusts foreigners, and it is normal to have such an extreme view, but Cai Mao, Jin Changsen, and Lin Yuanmiao are natives of Ryukyu after all, and now when they hear that the French are going to negotiate, they are suddenly a little relieved.

King Shang Tai frowned, "Since the envoy has come, then we have no reason not to see, and we have to listen to their conditions if we succeed or not...... General Cai, haven't you touched the details of this Chinese envoy?"

King Shangtai's question made Cai Mao sigh, "Your Majesty, I'm here now...... The messenger said that his boss was ......" Cai Mao hesitated for a moment, and finally a person came out with a name.

Gong Cheng...... Gong Banlun..."

"Ahh Is it him?" everyone present was dumbfounded, to say that they may not have known who Gong Cheng was before, but in Xiao Letian's small class for more than a year, he has used this guy as a negative teaching material.

"The one who burned the Old Summer Palace with the Anglo-French forces? The one who quarreled with Prince Gong and said that his father didn't become a Hanlin so he took revenge? The one who went to four and a half of the five Lun, and only half of the Lun was left? The one who took the British's commission and was at ease in the Shanghai Concession?"

"That's what Prime Minister Xiao Cheng said, there is no bottom line in life, and the one who is not as good as a beast?"

The people present, look at me, I see that you don't speak, if it is Gong Cheng and Gong Banlun who come forward to negotiate, this negotiation will be difficult, on the one hand, although this person's morality is corrupt, he is definitely an old fritter with a super high IQ, and it must be difficult to deal with.

On the other hand, Xiao Letian has expressed his disgust for this traitor more than once, if everyone does not nod from the prime minister and talks with this kind of person alone, how will they meet the prime minister in the future?

Liang Kun was lying on the stretcher, and he sat up angrily, "No, absolutely not... This is the enemy of the Chinese in the whole world, don't stand in front of Lao Tzu, as long as you dare to show up, I will kill him with a knife......"

Jin Changsen saw that Liang Kun's excited forehead gauze was oozing blood, and hurriedly supported him and persuaded him, "Rest your anger, the general is angry... Gong Cheng didn't come ashore, it was just one of his subordinates who sent a message, let's just listen, it's definitely not a negotiation, you can relax and heal your injuries......"

Saying that, Jin Changsen gave King Shangtai a look, and King Shangtai hurriedly squatted beside the general and said with a pleasant face, "I regard the prime minister as Shang's father, how can I go against the will of the prime minister?

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