Chapter 1480
The Decisive Battle, Agreement to a Marriage Alliance
Chapter 1480 The Decisive Battle, Agreement to a Marriage Alliance
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Bang bang bang! Qu Tongzhi, Jiang Qianshi, and the various commanders slammed their fists on the table in fury, pointing at the enemy's official letter and cursing, "Provocation! This is a blatant provocation against the prestige of our Great Wei! They want our Wei army's commanders to go and make peace through marriage? These enemy beasts are not worthy!"
"Damn it, I'm going out of the city right now and chop the enemy soldiers to pieces! How dare they humiliate our Great Wei general!"
"Calm down, don't act impulsively and ruin things," General Chu said, stopping them.
"Calm down my ass! The enemy has already humiliated us like this, are we still going to put up with it? Let's go and mess with their ancestors, let them know that our Great Wei is not something they can do whatever they want with!" The commanders who had fought alongside Jiang Dalang were furious and could not tolerate this humiliation.
"A bunch of brutes," Qi Tianshi said sarcastically, his voice cold and sharp.
All the military officers in the room stared at him in unison: "..."
If it weren't for His Majesty's sake and the sake of those twenty-two strong eunuchs, they would have given Qi the angel a good beating.
"You should all think about what the enemy's purpose is in suddenly proposing a marriage alliance? What kind of result does the enemy want to achieve by proposing a marriage alliance?" Qi Tianshi looked at them: "When something happens, stay calm, figure out their purpose, and you can destroy their outcome."
Qi Tianshi said, "Instead of going out of the city to fight the enemy and vent our anger, which would result in a lose-lose situation, we might as well take advantage of the enemy's proposal of a marriage alliance to restrain the enemy, rob the enemy, destroy the enemy's marriage alliance plan, and cause the enemy to fall into internal strife due to the failure of the plan and the losses."
The generals: "..." He seemed to be right when he said that. Compared to his brain, we are indeed quite reckless.
"What brilliant idea does Angel Qi have?" General Chu asked.
Qi Tianshi said, "I am not knowledgeable about warfare, so the strategy should be determined by General Chu and the other military officers."
"What I, the angel, must do is prevent the enemy from using the marriage alliance to create chaos in the city, and to deal with the traitors within the city who want to betray the country because of the enemy's proposal of a marriage alliance!"
Bring it on!
If he could help His Majesty eliminate a group of traitors before he died, then his death would have been worthwhile.
"Hey, hey," General Chu tapped the table and looked at his generals, "Gentlemen, show us your skills in outmaneuvering the enemy. Tell me how you're going to outmaneuver these beasts this time."
"Make the enemy retreat a hundred miles to show sincerity. What kind of person comes to propose marriage but then besieges the city of their future in-laws? They have no manners!"
"Since you're asking for marriage, and even asking for two, how much will the betrothal gifts be?"
"Return the betrothal gifts? The enemy is raising plagues for fun, do you, Lao Fan, dare to accept the betrothal gifts they offer?"
"We can choose not to bring the betrothal gifts into the city, but they must pay double the amount. We'll have them transport the gifts to the poisoning site and then burn the supplies! This way, we can deplete a batch of the enemy's supplies, comparable to burning down their granary!"
The officers and even General Chu and the Qi envoy were shocked.
"I didn't realize you were such a madman inside, Lao Fan, you're usually so honest and unassuming."
"Tsk, it's such a waste to burn such a perfectly good betrothal gift."
"No, we're discussing betrothal gifts here. Have we considered how Commander Jiang and Master Qin feel? They both have fiery tempers," Commander Gao reminded him, feeling a bit apprehensive, afraid of being bombarded by the two. Qi Tianshi said, "No need to worry. Commander Jiang and Master Qin are both highly capable individuals. Great talents have always been broad-minded and wouldn't care about such mundane matters."
"What Angel Qi said is very good, we will listen to Angel Qi!" The commanders were very happy, secretly thinking that if Qin Jiang and her partner got angry, they would blame Angel Qi and let them settle accounts with him.
Because General Chu and Qi Tianshi wanted to use the enemy's proposal of a marriage alliance to cause trouble, they did not block the news.
The following day, the seventh day of the tenth month, everyone in the capital city knew about it.
The Wei people were shocked: "The enemy army is really shameless; they even want men!"
"This kind of thing is nothing new throughout history, and the enemy's behavior is eccentric and different from ordinary people. I'm afraid they just like this kind of thing."
"Besides, although Commander Jiang is a military officer, he is handsome. I've seen him from afar, and he's even more beautiful than a girl. His figure is also exceptional, with broad shoulders, a wasp waist, and long legs..."
Even with the outbreak of the plague, the villagers remained as gossipy as ever.
The powerful clans and their servants also mocked Jiang Dalang and Qin Xiaomi: "Ha, even if Qin and Jiang make great contributions, they will still be abandoned by the Great Wei soon!"
But what they were more concerned about was: "Have the King of Ye and Qin Jiang agreed to the marriage alliance? Have the spies who infiltrated Mushan sent back any news? Have Qin Jiang and the Guan family caused any trouble? Is the King of Ye willing to risk the wrath of the world to protect these two young people?"
That's right. Powerful families have many half-slaves and a lot of money. It's too easy for them to bribe hundreds or thousands of good citizens to act as spies.
So far, their people haven't been able to get deep into Mushan, nor have they been able to get to the core of the weapon, or even reach the threshold of Fang Qing's gun and cannon manufacturing workshop.
The Twilight Mountain Weapon Workshop is relatively safe.
"No news has come back yet... It happened too recently, we have to wait and let things develop."
"What are we waiting for? The capital city is experiencing a major plague outbreak, and it's about to spread to our western city residences. We can't wait. We must spread the word immediately that Qin and Jiang have refused the marriage alliance. We must tell the people of Wei to stop their plague prevention and isolation measures and to all go out into the streets to kneel and beg Qin and Jiang and the King of Ye to give all the people of Wei a way to survive and allow Qin and Jiang to go on the marriage alliance to lift the siege of the capital city!"
"If we agree to a marriage alliance, the enemy will surely retreat; only when the enemy retreats can those of us in the city who are not infected leave the capital to escape the plague!"
This?
The scions of powerful and influential families, the semi-slave owners who had been sent out to work, and the chief stewards could no longer contain themselves. After devising a plan, they immediately sent people to carry it out.
But they valued their lives and were afraid of being implicated, so they didn't make a scene themselves, but instead spread rumors and encouraged honest Wei citizens to cause trouble.
Fear of death is human nature; sacrificing others to save one's own life is also human nature. Therefore, they were certain that as long as the news was spread and further guided, Wei Min would definitely cause trouble!
Therefore, on the seventh day, in addition to the military news that "the enemy troops outside the city retreated another twenty miles and sent two thousand warhorses to the capital city to show their sincerity in seeking a marriage alliance," there were also rumors that Qin Jiang and her husband refused to marry and were determined to fight the enemy to the death to cut off the survival of the Wei people in the city who were not infected with the disease.
Despite the strict measures taken to prevent the rat plague, this incident still caused a great uproar. Some Wei citizens were crying out in their homes: "Please, Commander Jiang and Lord Qin, for the sake of the nation's peace and marriage alliance, give the Wei citizens in the city who have not been infected a way to survive! My family has thirty-two members, and my great-grandson is only two years old. We cannot let them all perish in this calamity!"
Elderly righteous men and Wei soldiers patrolling the streets and alleys would hear this and remember which house it was, and would even put a red note on it, so that they would keep a closer eye on it during their next patrol, lest it do anything harmful.
On the seventh day alone, over a thousand households of registered Wei people in the city had red slips posted on their doors.
When the news reached Mushan, not only Qin's grandfather, Qin's second uncle, Qin Cunquan, and others, but also the craftsmen and artisans in the cannon-making workshop were furious: "Commander Jiang and Master Qin risked their lives to fight the enemy and protect the city, yet they are clamoring for these two capable men to go and make peace through marriage. They are not only heartless, but also brainless!"
"They really have no brains. If the enemy gets hold of Commander Jiang and Qin Dongjia, they'll have acquired gun and cannon technology. They won't hold back at all and will bombard Great Wei directly!"