Peace Order

Chapter 1860 - 4: Emperor Ying Commands, All Four Directions Stir

When Wei Yiwen heard the emperor’s command, his eyes lowered, and the old Prime Minister fell silent. He wanted to restrain the emperor, but despite this emperor’s wanton behavior, he ultimately holds the power and prestige here.

Now at the front, Grandmaster Jiang Su confronts Emperor Qin Li Guanyi, the battle raging without pause.

Although there has never been a truly fierce conflict between the two sides, minor skirmishes have never ceased.

Both sides, like Martial Arts masters, keep probing each other.

Once the other reveals a fatal strike, absolute slaughter will erupt. In other words, the real battle to bring peace to the world is not far away. Wei Yiwen has expectations of this situation.

The reason the various countries could maintain balance for so long was due to the technique of Zongheng. Now there are only two countries left, both with unavoidable reasons to go to war.

Emperor Qin Li Guanyi is youthful and vigorous. As a monarch, his only problem is the lack of an heir.

Apart from that, he can almost be compared to those wise rulers recorded in history, while the pillar of Daying Kingdom, Grandmaster Jiang Su, is already old. For Emperor Qin, unifying the world and realizing his ambitions is what his heart desires.

But for Jiang Su, he can no longer afford to delay.

After Jiang Wanxiang’s passing, the nations entered an extremely unstable state of opposition, which, counting from Jiang Wanxiang’s death, would perhaps last a year or several years, but no more than ten years, before the world would inevitably be unified.

Yet, the continuous troop training with low costs at the front by Jiang Su gave Jiang Yuan an illusion, making this young emperor feel that the consumption of the ongoing battle at the front was not very significant compared to the vast expanse of the empire.

"Foolish, foolish!"

"Utterly foolish!"

Wei Yiwen’s hand clenched into a fist, angrily striking the table, causing it to shake and cups to clink lightly, and he said, "What a pity, even the incompetent rulers of the previous dynasty didn’t have your techniques. Is there no end to your desires, Jiang Yuan!"

Jiang Wanxiang had already once cleared out the entrenched noble families and forces.

But perhaps it’s precisely because this shrewd monarch cleared those away, that they would wind themselves like vines to bind and bleed the new era, treating the new king like a puppet for these old noble family regimes.

These things have emerged unpredictably, things that were once unfit to joke with the noble family portals.

Wei Yiwen even felt at this time whether Your Majesty had eradicated those old forces too thoroughly. In the past, these flunkies jumping around like grasshoppers wouldn’t even pass through the gate of a noble family.

"Did Your Majesty anticipate all of this?"

Wei Yiwen sighed.

He thought, compared to rulers completely controlled by major noble families, these ingratiating ministers lacking roots were perhaps easier to deal with.

Both Jiang Wanxiang and Wei Yiwen had personally witnessed the era of noble family dominance, deeply aware of the terrifying complexity, where even monarchs and royals were to some extent controlled by these noble families.

Alliance, marriage ties, the mother’s side of outstanding princes providing support—capture to throne struggles between princes was effectively a bitter slaughter encompassing the entire empire and family conglomerates.

The so-called shared world.

In that era, an outstanding extramarital prince of the royal family easily dissolved into insignificance.

To them, eliminating the past tangled massive forces, despite certainly inviting new troubles, was definitely necessary, so much so Wei Yiwen himself didn’t consider these floating flunkies worthy of notice.

"Let Your Majesty play, and just play along with him."

Wei Yiwen silently influenced the so-called canal excavation.

Of course, he agreed to the emperor’s request.

But with decades of experience, he subtly influenced the whole progress, excavating the canal—a complete accomplishment—would take at least twenty years. Facing the monarch, he couldn’t use force to compel.

He could only employ the tactic of [delay].

Simply hoping matters on Military God Jiang Su’s side swiftly conclude, concurrently bearing court duties, he would spend at least half a month sleeping in the office.

It was a begrudging maintenance of the operation of Daying Kingdom.

At least there were no signs of collapse.

Yet somehow, word reached Jiang Yuan’s ears, and in his anger, he shook his head, saying, "Old fool, how dare you play ignorant here with these tactics!"

Pacing back and forth, he continued, "Then a mere subordinate dares to flaunt power tactics here, overestimating himself!"

In the autumn of a Ye’s third year, Emperor Ying Jiang Yuan led three thousand riders out on an inspection of the constructed grand canal. Due to the bridge’s incompletion, he personally beheaded Capital Water Envoy Huang Gen and nine overseers.

A few days later, the bridge was completed, and the journey continued.

Proceeding onward, Governor Qiu He offered exquisite and refined food, exceptionally meticulous; arriving in Ma Yi, Ma Yi Governor Yang Kuo offered nothing, no fine food or beauty.

Jiang Yuan was furious, promoted Qiu He, and transferred Yang Kuo originally to a bleak and cold place.

Hence, along the route, those presenting gifts were particularly abundant.

Numerous ministers understood, if they did not sincerely work when executing these tasks, when the blade of the emperor descended, it was no problem to chop oneself, even endangering one’s whole family clan.

Yet once serving Your Majesty well, there was indeed promotion.

Just a simple journey, Wei Yiwen’s preparation was easily influenced. For many ministers, merely executing the emperor’s command was not difficult.