Feng Xue sat in the City Lord's Mansion of Shihuan City, listening to the battle reports of her subordinates.

"Your Highness, our army has captured nine vassal kings of the Flame Country, is it according to tradition?" asked Gongsun Ce.

When Ma Shi heard this, he immediately retorted: "General Gongsun, according to tradition, aren't you joking?"

Clearly, the two represent two different ideas.

Not to be outdone, Gongsun Ce said: "For hundreds of years, the defeated side, the big states surrendered, and the small states were vassals, but there has never been a king killed! Your Majesty, this disaster can't start from the country of Feng." ”

Feng Xue was like this, quietly watching them quarrel. He knew that the king who had been defeated for hundreds of years could be redeemed by ransom, land cession, compensation for the population, etc., but could this way work?

This time, the country of Yan was defeated, the vassal soldiers collapsed, and more than 30,000 people surrendered, and in less than a day, the surrender letter around him gathered the nine vassal states of the country of Yan.

In this matter, the Yan army of 40,000 horses fought against the country of Feng, and the country of Fengzhi only sent a thousand cavalry, and the rest of the men and horses were outside to help the war and did not intervene.

But the Yan army will collapse at the first touch, of course, there is an advantage in cavalry, but how many other reasons?

Hongsun Ce said stubbornly at this time: "Your Majesty, in fact, our vassal kings of the Maple Country are also talking behind their backs, and they are afraid that Your Majesty will cut down the grass and eradicate the roots like these vassal kings of the Flame Country. With that, he immediately fell to his knees.

The faces of the people were originally full of joy at winning the battle, but most of them were also dispersed at this moment, and they were replaced by anger.

What is your Gongsun Ce's identity? He is a military general of the Maple Country, and the person you should help is the Maple Country, His Majesty; And not those vassal kings, and even less those vassal kings of enemy nations.

Everyone's eyes became sharp, a person who couldn't even tell who was his own king and who was his own majesty, what else did such a person want him to do?

Without leading everyone to speak, Feng Xue took the lead in speaking: "What are you doing kneeling? Which vassal kings are the people who are talking about me behind my back, and they are not your Gongsun Ce, get up, I Fengxue is not a mean person." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty. Gongsun Ce understood. His Majesty did not blame him, perhaps because of the great feats he had made on the battlefield. Or maybe it's about the past.

But his majesty also asked him to draw a good line, after all, the people who were talking outside were those vassal kings, not his Gongsun Ce!

After Gongsun Ce sat down again, Feng Xue said, "As long as I don't betray the Feng Kingdom, how can I do it to the allies and vassal countries." As for those rich and yong kings of Yan Guo, they turned against them when they saw that things were not good, and they were just disloyal and untrustworthy, so they got out of the border of the country of my wind. ”

"Your Majesty is merciful. Gongsun Ce hurriedly agreed.

Then the route of the attack on Yancheng was planned, and the generals retreated, but after a while, Ma Shi came in again.

"Your Majesty, don't you understand? Why let go of those enemies, after they get out of our country, it is very likely that they will go to the country of Yan, as well as our vassal countries, before the war has already been written to the country of Yan to surrender, if it is not for His Majesty to arrange 10,000 horses to be stationed beside them, and the rash cavalry defeated the country of Yan in one fell swoop, these vassal countries are very likely to defect before the battle, and what is even more infuriating is that they desperately captured prisoners after the war, but did not hand them over, it is very likely that they want to bring in their own state and add an extra young man to their own state. ”

Feng Xue took out a map from his side, spread it out and pointed at it, and said, "Ma She, do you know that in addition to those savages and barbarians, there are about 700 states on this map, of which more than 600 are small states, and there are only more than ten countries. But this is a real country, and it is not something that we can call a country with one city and one pool. The weakest of them can send 100,000 troops, all of them can be soldiers in iron armor and armed with iron swords, and even the citizens can reach 3 million. ”

"Iron?" Ma Shi wondered.

"That's right, iron! I bought it from the wandering merchants at great expense, and with the financial resources of my country alone, I could only buy more than a thousand pairs of armor, but I equipped all these armor with cavalry, and I defeated 40,000 enemy soldiers with only 1,000 cavalry. ”

"Therefore, if I want to become a real country, I must be able to have enough warriors, enough armor and weapons, and enough population!

"But isn't this the opposite of becoming a real country?Aren't those people we let go of just fueling the forces of the Flame Country?Especially those vassal kings, once they are killed, someone in the city will respond!"

"Let these people flee in order to proclaim through their mouths that all those who surrender will not be killed, and that all the enemies we encounter in the future will not fight for our life and death. Feng Xue explained.

Ma Shi reacted and immediately said: "Your Majesty, I was stupid before, but now I understand, thank you for Your Majesty's teachings." ”

Feng Xue pointed to a small city-state on the map and asked, "This is the small city-state that refused to join our army before, and it is said that he joined the Ling Kingdom not far away. Ling was a country with many slaves. This time, after we destroy the Flame Country, our next target is the Ling Kingdom. ”

Feng Xue thought about it again after speaking, shook her head, and said, "No, I'm afraid they will come to the rescue of the Flame Country!"

Ma Shi was puzzled again: "Rescue, Your Majesty." The population of Ling Country is only less than half of that of my Feng City. The rest were slaves, unclothed and hungry. You may not be able to hold a knife. I'm afraid I don't have much combat power?"

Feng Xue also smiled: "Yes, but half of these big countries have a country, and they are countries with many slaves, they call them slave countries, and generally slave countries often have an extremely strong army to suppress the slave rebellion, but I am afraid that Ling Country should not be underestimated!"

"The minister understands, I must send more spies to find out the information of Lin Guo. Ma Shi responded.

Feng Xue snorted, but seeing that Ma Shi hadn't left yet, she asked with some confusion, "What's wrong?"

"No, nothing, just. The minister took the liberty of asking?" Ma Shi asked cautiously.

"What is there to say directly, why should I bother with it?" Feng Xue said kindly.

"Your Majesty, since half of them are slave countries, what about the other half? Your Majesty said before that they all have nearly 100,000 troops, wearing iron armor and holding iron swords, what kind of country does Your Majesty want us to become?"

Feng Xue was taken aback when she heard Ma She's question, and after a little thought, she replied: "A slave country is not advisable, a feudal country will definitely defeat a slave country!"