Chapter Ninety-Six: The Poor Old Confucian

This year, there was a news that shook the world!

The land of the West Pole has been completely unified! Except for the retreat of the West Pole Buddhist Sect to the rivers and lakes, all the other sects and dynasties are all under the orders of the West Pole Empire! This news is like two pairs of wings, and it has quickly spread to the world's Kyushu.

At this time, the West Pole Empire can be described as unprecedentedly powerful, claiming to have tens of millions of elite soldiers and horses under its banner! This kind of powerful national strength has surpassed the West Pole Empire of all dynasties, and even surpassed any empire that has appeared in the history of Kyushu under heaven!

This is because from ancient times to the present, there has never been a dynasty that has been able to truly unify a territory as large as the Land of the West Pole! The West Pole Empire can be said to be a precedent! However, the credit for this can be said to be indispensable to the Demon Ancestor of the West Pole.

On the other hand, the Northern Wilderness, the Southern Barbarians, and the Eastern Regions have not yet completed their unification at this time, and they all seem to be far away.

The Northern Wilderness has the Fire God Temple and the Ice God Palace joining forces, and the Southern Barbarians have the most powerful tribe - the barbarians - resisting, although the demon ancestors of the Northern Wilderness and the Southern Barbarian have led their clansmen to assist the Terran Empire, but the effect is not very significant. The Eastern Empire was led by Fan Wuqin, the son of the military department, to raid the forward troops of the Southern Alliance, although it was successful, but the effect was not very significant, but it strengthened the intention of many dynasties in the Southern Alliance! The gap between the various large and small dynasties in the south was almost healed at this time, and they obeyed the orders of the old masters of those big families in Yangzhou City, unlike before, they were just perfunctory, only shouting slogans and not making efforts, or not making every effort.

The Northern Wilderness is the least tragic, because most of the dynasties in the Northern Wilderness are subservient to the Northern Wilderness Empire, and the main forces of resistance are the many major sects led by the two super sects of the Ice God Palace and the Fire God Temple. The Northern Wilderness Empire only needs to explain some reasoning and give more benefits, after all, when it comes to fighting Zhongzhou, the people in the sect are often the second main force, and the first main force is those elite armor soldiers. Therefore, the most casualties will only be those large and small dynasties, as for those sects, the major empires have promised that only let them contribute half of their strength and send half of the masters, so that they will not be wiped out. Therefore, the Northern Wilderness seems to be far away at this time, but in fact, anyone who cares will see that the ** taste between the two sides is obviously much less.

The Southern Barbarians are purely looking for trouble on their own, so as a reason, they provoke the Southern Barbarian Empire to release their blood, which is a means of tempering. The Son of Heaven of the Southern Barbarian Empire had a word of suffering, because at the beginning, he did not intend to make the barbarians submit to him, he just prayed that this powerful barbarian would not come to his own business. But those barbarians seemed to be "ignorant", and at this time they took the initiative to "exercise" him with the armor of the Southern Barbarian Empire, which made him very aggrieved and annoyed. He swore that after unifying Zhongzhou and expanding the power of his empire, he would have to rectify the barbarians and let him know what the imperial heritage was. It's just that now his empire doesn't have the slightest confidence to defeat the barbarians. Therefore, we can only resist the provocation of the barbarians and remain silent at the same time.

Therefore, the Northern Wilderness, the Southern Barbarians, and the Eastern Regions, the three places that have not been unified by the Empire, the Eastern Regions are the most tragic. The East Pole Empire's million elite soldiers had already lost more than 100,000 troops! However, the front had only advanced thousands of miles, breaking through the two lines of defense of the Southern Alliance—and these were only two of the nineteen fronts that had been deployed or were being deployed by the Southern Alliance.

Although no one in the Eastern Pole Empire has raised any objections from all over the country, they still have great fighting spirit and self-confidence, but many high-ranking members of the empire know that if this continues, even if the Southern Alliance is defeated in the end, they will no longer be able to join forces with the other three empires, because the vitality of the Eastern Antarctic Empire at that time has been greatly damaged and it is no longer qualified. There are even many long-term people who think that when the time comes, the three empires will first divide up their Eastern Pole Empire, and then go to unify Zhongzhou.

Outside Chang'an, the imperial city of the Eastern Antarctic Empire, there was an old Confucian who looked extremely poor, wearing tattered clothes, holding a wine jug in his hand, and walking swaying while drinking from the sky.

Chang'an City in spring, the willows are still around, the warblers are flying and dancing, the wind is harmonious, and the color of the south of the Yangtze River is not lost at all.

It gathers the largest number of people, the largest number of celebrities, the largest number of masters, and the most powerful and wealthy people in the entire empire and even the entire Eastern Regions.

The poor old Confucian was drinking and walking, while looking at Chang'an City, which he had not seen for many years, and its prosperity came into his eyes, he did not have a trace of excitement and pride, but only some nostalgia in his eyes.

He looked at the prosperity of Chang'an, the cigarette paper was blurred, and then he thought about the tragic war in the middle of the Eastern Regions, and the life that passed all the time, so he took a sip again.

"My Eastern Pole Empire, crisscrossing the Eastern Regions, invincible, just with his shrimp soldiers and shrimp generals of the Southern Alliance, how can he stop the pace of my million dragon armor god army?"

"That's right! There are so many great generals and famous generals in my Eastern Antarctic Empire now, and there are so many rising generals, hey! His Southern Alliance, even if hundreds of dynasties join forces, what about it?"

"This brother Tai is right, my East Pole Empire pursues peace on weekdays, once it is powerful, who can stop it in Kyushu in the world?!"

At the door of a tavern on a busy street, a few young people who had just finished drinking and were about to leave, at this time they were talking loudly, so that some passers-by stopped and laughed and listened to their talk.

The poor old Confucian shook his head slightly when he heard this, "The government is in the people." Take people as their own. Self-cultivation to the Tao. Cultivating the Tao to man. Gou is not to de, to the road is not condensed. ”

Among the young people who had just finished drinking, one of them had practiced martial arts and had excellent ear power, and when he heard the poor old Confucian talking to himself, he couldn't help but sneer.

"Heh! Sour Confucianism can only say something like 'benevolence' and 'morality', and the real battlefield is as tragic as you can imagine?

The young man had obviously seen some scenes on the battlefield, and he was constantly taunting at this time.

The poor old Confucian didn't get angry when he heard this, but just shook his head again, "Benevolence and morality are indeed not higher than war, but they are better. It would be best if we could use benevolence and morality instead of war. Just as the Tao runs parallel but does not contradict each other, and all things are nurtured and do not harm each other, they all follow the truth, even if it is a war of rivers of blood and eternal dryness, it also follows certain truths, as long as the context of those truths is roughly understood, the cocoon is peeled back, and the source is traced, and many unnecessary 'bad consciences' or 'bad results' can often be avoided. ”

The young men and many passers-by around them who heard such words laughed when they heard this, and many of them pointed at the poor and sour old Confucian with a look of disdain and disdain.

The poor old Confucian just looked at everyone calmly.

At this time, the whole street suddenly stopped the noise, and the crowd retreated to both sides of the street. Many people who did not react were pulled aside by their companions or friends on the side of the street, and everyone saluted in unison and shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

At the end of the street, a middle-aged man in a golden dragon robe came, followed by hundreds of civil and military officials, none of these hundreds of officials were lower than the fourth grade, they were all big men who could usually enter the palace hall.

Hundreds of them were dressed very formally, making people look as if they were going to court and then suddenly leaving the palace.

In fact, it is. The Son of Heaven of the Empire was listening to the tragic battle report from the front, and then suddenly heard that that person had returned to Beijing, so he immediately interrupted the early dynasty and led the civil and military officials who were in the upper court to come here.

In the puzzled eyes of the people around him, the Son of Heaven of the Eastern Pole Empire led the civil and military officials to the poor old Confucian student.

When he was ten steps away from the poor old Confucian student, the emperor of the empire stopped, and the civil and military officials also stopped.

In the shocked gaze of the people around him, the Imperial Son took three steps forward alone, slightly tidied up the wide sleeves of the dragon robe, and bent down deeply with his hands.

"Student Li Xuanji, led the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty to welcome the emperor back to Beijing!"