Chapter 240: His Disgust
Chenglie, For some reason didn’t like that suspicious woman in there. When she was carried in a laundry basket out of the encampment, he smelt the slight smell of agarwood and he was excited it must be Xing and worried how he’d help her. But lo and behold, it is not Xing ...!
And this woman had the guts to steal Xing’s clothes and made him believe it was her for a moment.... Unforgivable!
The coat she was wearing had the nine-tailed phoenix that should be worn only by the Empress. Xing wouldn’t have given her that coat because she would be expecting her attackers tonight and she is not a coward to make them believe someone else as her and she is not heartless to send another woman in her place to be violated. This suspicious trash woman stole it...!
Chenglie was angry at Xing to put herself at a risk like this even though he understood why she might have planned it. It might pertain to a larger political agenda.
Even though the tribals are the original inhabitants of the Eastern province and must be given back their native place back, their people who are living here cannot be displaced from there and also the tribals had different culture that would make the coexistence of them impossible.
Many in the court believed that the tribals should be let in just like that and allowed to coexist with the other citizens. But war has started already which was a wiser decision.
If the tribals, after winning the war take the East, they won’t have much jobs there. Even though they say they can do agriculture, most of the tribes had given up farming for generations and they will find it hard to start suddenly. If they fail.. Which they will as it will be ensured, they will look for other jobs and will take on anything even if it pays less or worse making their kingdom’s citizens lose jobs or they will try to loot and rob the others.
Also there are different tribes and they all follow different rules with no unified leaderships which will lead to conflicts in between them which will gradually spread to the west to the wind kingdom.
Although it will be happening gradually, it will happen surely as he was told. So the tribes winning cannot happen at any cost.
He didn’t think much of it but it was planned by that Old Rong to ensure the destruction of the Wind Kingdom as explained to him by a drunken Shihong one night. Chenglie himself thought that these are so far-fetched ideas but he still could see the little possibility of these things to happen. The protests by God of rain and the God of Quingze river making the entire East dry is to help with Old Rong’s agenda too as mentioned by Shihong. He also mentioned that Xing is a descendant of the Tianshi Emperor too which is believable all things considered. But what does he know?
If Xing is smart enough to see this possibility... Chenglie does not know. But she believes they will win the war and she will let some tribes inside the Wind Kingdom and some won’t be able to enter. He knows this because he knows that she will feel guilty for starting the war and she believed the Chu family’s injustice two centuries back and the negligence of the Tianshi Emperor is what led to this situation now.
But for letting only certain people in, she will need a proper reason that will be accepted by his brother, who believes in equality for all. He will say let everyone in or no one in. But not all tribes will fit in their kingdom as not all are friendly and those who are refused to enter the kingdom will protest the decisions to let some tribes in which will result in conflicts again. Even now, the Sima Tribe is staying out of the war and they will be let in. In this ’humiliation plans ’ Shihong made for today, two of the tribal leaders who were women have opted out since they felt like they don’t have to humiliate a woman to win a war and if they did it, that is a cowardly act worthy of condemnation.