Peace Order

Capítulo 1658: Chapter 45: The World Stirs, Northern Expedition, Northern Expedition!

Mr. Wen Qingyu cheerfully said: “At this moment, Daiqing must be feeling relieved and delighted because I’m not in the Heavenly Strategy Mansion. Ah, I truly hope to see the expression change on his face.”

Mr. Po Jun shook his head, thinking this guy is simply problematic.

He raised his head, looking at the thick heavy clouds being stirred by Military Evil Qi, disrupting the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, densely pressing down. The strategist’s eyes held a profound iron-like gleam, slightly frowning for a long time.

Lord, the grand situation has commenced.

The matters afterward are in your hands…

The next day.

The great battle at Xiyi City commenced, Chen Country and Ying Country each deploying over a hundred thousand troops. The accumulated tensions and conflicts of recent times erupted in this manner, the sound of weapon clashes roaring from morning until night.

The setting sun was as red as blood.

……

“What, the battle at Xiyi City has started?!” Right Minister Feng Yuning was about to paint when he heard these words. He showed a look of concern for the country and its people, waved his hand, and let the person reporting the news retreat.

Finally, he finished the painting, gazing at the Map of Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers. Every stroke carried great skill, a result of his years of diligent study, worthy of a great master, grand in spirit, with delicate touches. Although ancient masters could not be compared to it.

“Indeed, this world is turbulent, the situation has reached this extent. It would be strange not to fight.”

“Our Great Chen truly is on the brink of perishing.”

The Right Minister remained silent for a long time but still wrote a letter, sending out a trusted aide. After a while, the aide returned with a slap mark on his face. Feng Yuning asked: “What is the Ministry of War doing?”

The trusted aide kowtowed, crying out: “They refuse to hand over the items.”

“Refuse to hand over the items?!”

Feng Yuning sneered coldly, sweeping his robe sleeves, saying: “Those filthy Qiu Ba, with the country in peril at this time, they are still drawing empty salaries, still embezzling military funds, while fighting on the front lines, they are enjoying themselves in the rear!”

“I shall certainly file a report against them!”

“This money, giving it to me, is naturally better than giving it to those scoundrel Qiu Ba!”

Feng Yuning was extremely furious, yet in the study, he wrote furiously, determined to file a report against the Minister of War and the Assistant Minister of War. His son knew of these matters and tried to persuade:

“Father, at a time of national crisis, withholding the frontline’s military funds, no matter what, it is somewhat excessive…”

Feng Yuning frowned, turned, and slapped his son’s face, scolding:

“Foolish!”

“The fate of the nation, what does it have to do with us?!”

“Have you gone stupid from reading books?!”

Feng Jingxiu was stunned.

Feng Yuning frowned, this learned scholar, famous for writing compassionate poems about farming in his youth, lowered his voice, saying: “Our Great Chen is about to fall, our family depends on you and me. If you and I fall, impacting nine generations, these thousands, tens of thousands of people, aren’t they all to be slaughtered?”

“How can there still be a life like this?”

“Son, you want to uphold a single person’s reputation, sacrificing the lives of nine generations; or bear some evil notoriety, yet protect your blood relatives?”

Feng Yuning’s eloquence, his arguments left Feng Jingxiu speechless.

Right Minister Feng Yuning also relaxed his expression, revealing a look of sorrow and regret: “Besides, it’s because His Majesty wouldn’t heed the advice of scholars and great philosophers that this situation has arisen. How could one blame me, if a ruler is not a ruler, then ministers are not ministers in this vast world.”

“Do they really want us to die together for Chen Dingye, this foolish and immoral person?”

“You want to be a dead scholar, a dead nobleman?”

“Great Chen is doomed to fall, so before it does, one must gather as much gold and silver as possible. As a man, during chaotic times, protecting one’s family and relatives is already barely sustainable, where is the time to manage other matters?”

Feng Jingxiu’s expression changed: “But the frontline military funds, how could they…”

Feng Yuning looked at his son, after a while he said: “Do you think only your father is competing?”

“Why does the Ministry of War refuse to budge?”

Feng Jingxiu’s expression drastically changed, Feng Yuning sighed, saying:

“Do you know how severe the army’s empty salary issue is?”

“Do you know how many in the fully staffed hundred thousand army are just names drawing grain and silver?”

“It’s not that your father wants to do such things.”

“Rather, the great situation in the world is so turbulent, in this court, civil and martial officials, everyone is taking, who doesn’t take? Everyone takes, in this situation, if others take while you don’t, you are a fool, merely a laughing stock.”

“Others take abundantly, afterwards they can still survive, yet they watch the rigid, foolish nobleman die, with bones turning to ashes, unknown to anyone.”

“Moreover, your father has already sent someone to Prince Qin.”

“Whatever happens, father will find you all a retreat… Going elsewhere, even if we cannot achieve glory and fame, participate in major court affairs, as now, but at least we can live in wealth and peace during old age.”

“After all……”

Feng Yuning confidently said: “I have indeed sent it.”

“As much as [eight million] taels of silver!”

…

In Xiyi City, the winds and clouds rise, the frontline battles tense, rear officials feasting.

However, they ultimately held off Ying Country’s achievements, both sides fiercely battling here, although not as the Western Regions war of previous years, not as the Wolf King pierced Daying’s interior war, but it was truly courageously fierce unseen in years.

The eyes of people from all over the world were focused here.