Forgotten Legend of the Bloodied Flower-Chapter 2533 - 2535: The Discussion of the Emperor and Prime Ministers (5)

But the fact that the death rate was at all time high still remained.

It was just, no one cared.

In war, the winner takes all and they could determine any condition for the loser. Those who had lost could not say anything and could only follow this arrangement.

There were also things worse that happened.

But Emperor Yang Zhou had no intention to address them.

He gave enough freedom for the people under him to go to war and fought for Fei Yang Kingdom. And it was only because they were allowed to act by themselves and given enough freedom that they remained loyal to Fei Yang Kingdom.

Otherwise, they might not even want to serve him.

Emperor Yang Zhou knew very well that for him to make these generals loyal to him, he had to give incentives and also punishment when necessary.

Thankfully, most of the generals of Fei Yang Kingdom right now were not people who would kill ordinary people at will or use them unreasonably. But those who dared to raise their weapons against them, they had to be prepared to either die or become war prisoners.

"Yes, Your Majesty," Prime Minister Xian and Prime Minister Lan cupped their fists.

They also knew that this arrangement would be for the best. After the war with Fan Yi Kingdom, the number of war prisoners had increased again and there were still many war prisoners that Great General Long caught in the past year.

These people could be used.

"Is there anything else?" Emperor Yang Zhou asked.

Prime Minister Xian was looking at the map in front of him thoughtfully. These cities were all connected by road, but the road had to circle over some areas because of the terrains.

But these areas…

"Is it possible to build walls that could connect the soldiers and also block the advance of the northern tribe?" Prime Minister Xian suddenly asked.

A wall?

Hearing this suggestion, Prime Minister Lan frowned. "It’ll be difficult to build such a long wall…"

"I don’t mean to build a completely new wall but to connect the existing defense wall," Prime Minister Xian said.

If it was a completely new wall, the resources they had to pour would be too massive. Making the road so far has been quite difficult and it took them a long time to make the road barely passable and easy to cross.

If they had to build such a long wall…

Prime Minister Xian couldn’t imagine how much money and resources they have to spend to do it.

The current Fei Yang Kingdom definitely couldn’t afford such a massive project. Even the road that they planned to make would have to be done within the next few years. There was no longer any urgent need to build road, so they had to save more resources.

One of them was the fact that they would need to focus on farming again in the next few years or the reserve grain would be completely consumed.

There were still a long way to go for Fei Yang Kingdom to truly stabilize the entire kingdom.

"That’s not impossible." Emperor Yang Zhou’s eyes flashed when he watched the map. "However, I would need you to make the proper design and arrangement for the building."

Right now, it was nothing more than an idea.

If they were to implement it rashly, Fei Yang Kingdom might face the crisis where they lacked resources.

This was not allowed to happen.

Prime Minister Lan had served Emperor Yang Zhou’s grandfather as a general in the past and knew very well the importance of enough resources.

"Yes, Your Majesty. We’ll make arrangement. For the time being, we’ll build the road and also select some soldiers to start training," Prime Minister Lan quickly said.

If they truly wanted to go further to the north, they would need capable soldiers.

Right now, the existing soldiers were barely passable and Prime Minister Lan felt miserable when he thought about them. The cold temperature had made many soldiers’ fighting capability decrease.

How could they compete with the northern tribe, then?

As for their battle against Fan Yi Kingdom some time ago?

They didn’t go deep to the north until the temperature was warmer, which brought the advantage back to Fei Yang Kingdom. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for them to win against Fan Yi Kingdom so quickly.

"Yes."

After some specific arrangements were done, the two prime minister left.

Only Emperor Yang Zhou stayed in the room and he looked at the report in his hand. "It seems that it’s time for some people to be reused."

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Fei Yang Kingdom needed more talented people, so he could only let these people who had submitted to Fei Yang Kingdom to start working. But before that, he had to read how their evaluation was.

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<Long Qian Xing and Nan Hua’s side>

While Emperor Yang Zhou was busy with the matter of Fei Yang Kingdom, Long Qian Xing and Nan Hua were on their way to the north.

Considering that this was only the middle of winter and there was still some time for Emperor Yang Zhou to start his inauguration, the two of them were not in a hurry and walked around the area.

To be exact, the carriage was slow and they kept on stopping in the cities.

And their first stop was Yi Shang Temple that was located not far from Cheng City. The main reason was to find Yan Jin Nian and Gu Xia Mo.

However, Long Qian Xing was surprised to find that the two people had left.

"They left nearly three months ago?" Long Qian Xing asked and then his eyes narrowed. If he was not wrong, two months and two weeks ago was the time when they received signal from the <world consciousness>.

So Gu Xia Mo and Yan Jin Nian might have already guessed that it was a signal and then chose to depart.

But where?

For a moment, Long Qian Xing thought about the north.

After all, he and the other two were all there.