Chapter 263: The Valley of Heavenly Secrets, Xunyang Is Short of Food
Seeing that the group of people who were usually aggressive had become cowards, General Xiao sneered and stood up. "Your Majesty, I think we should ignore it and let it develop on its own."
He was just short of saying what was on his mind. The Emperor didn’t care when Xunyang was in trouble back then. It would be too shameless of him to show his support now that Xunyang had survived the crisis .
However, this was clearly not what Emperor Chong’an wanted to hear. He was not a magnanimous person.
Ever since Shangguan Han was born, he had been worried every day that he would scheme with the Bulwark Duke family to force him to abdicate. It had not been easy for Emperor Chong’an to eliminate him.
Now, he had to leave Shangguan Han alone with a city in his hands. How could Emperor Chong’an be at ease?
Grand Tutor Zhao secretly glanced at Emperor Chong’an’s expression and sighed. "Your Majesty, Xunyang City has just experienced a great war. The city must be short of clothes and food."
"I believe that since they are citizens of Great Xia, the Imperial Court should treat them equally and not ignore them."
"Besides, resisting the Hun army is a great merit. Since they’ve done well, you should reward the soldiers of Xunyang City."
He was prepared to pretend that nothing had happened. He only said that the soldiers had contributed and did not mention Lord An Le. He wanted to take the opportunity to rope in the soldiers of Xunyang City.
As long as they accepted the imperial court’s reward, not only would Lord An Le not trust them, but those people would also side with the imperial court.