The Six Arts of the Gentleman in the Bright Moon of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 771: Yan Family Independence [Subscription*Monthly Ticket Request]

"I know it!"

Xiong Qi got the information he wanted to know, and without even looking at the eagerness in Ji Bu's eyes, he turned around and left the prisoner camp.

"He... is not the eldest son Qi!" Ji Bu realized it belatedly, but he did not think that Xiong Qi had deceived him, but that he was someone sent by Bingzhou to impersonate him in order to continue to deceive him and obtain information.

"It's a bit cruel after all!" Yan Yan received Mo Ya's report and learned about Xiong Qi's behavior. He sighed deeply about Ji Bu's experience.

Kindness does not command the army, and justice does not command wealth. After all, there is no such thing as mercy on the battlefield.

No one ever treated prisoners as normal people, especially generals like Ji Bu who had access to high-level intelligence of the enemy country. No matter who got them, they would try every means to use coercion and bribery to obtain all the information and squeeze out the last value from him.

"The most cruel thing for Ji Bu is not our inducement to confess, but that until now, Shouchun has not sent any envoy to inquire about everything about Ji Bu, let alone redeem Ji Bu!" Mo Ya also sympathized with Ji Bu's experience.

The sympathy before was for the man who fell into Yan Yan's hands and was tricked by Yan Yan, but the sympathy now was for such a fierce general on the battlefield, a great general of the country, who was captured, and no one in the whole country cared about his life or death.

No one even came to question Ji Bu, let alone the ordinary soldiers who were captured.

The Shadow Tiger Legion is like a group of ownerless wandering souls, with no one caring about their life or death.

Yan Yan and Li Ren nodded in agreement when they heard Mo Ya's words.

Although the two armies are still fighting and it is impossible to release the prisoners, they will at least come to inquire and pay a certain amount of ransom to ensure that the captured soldiers are not abused in the enemy camp.

But until now Shouchun has never sent anyone to inquire about the matter.

Even during the naval patrol, no scouts were seen coming to investigate the reasons for the Shadow Tiger Legion's defeat or to search and rescue the fleeing soldiers.

"What a terrible thing it is to let a group of politicians who know nothing about military affairs control military power!" Li Ren sighed.

A more normal country, even if it knew that the Shadow Tiger Legion had been destroyed, would still send special envoys and scouts to the battlefield to inquire about the reasons for the defeat and conduct a post-war review, and then send envoys to discuss the handling of prisoners of war with the enemy.

Unfortunately, the State of Chu did not do anything and even threw the entire Thunder Leopard Corps into Shouchun City. It also transferred the Tenglong Corps back to Shouchun and gave up the garrison.

Of course, Shouchun did not do nothing. Fu Chu and Li Yuan traveled east, west and north, looking for traces of Lian Po and Li Mu, and finally found them in Yushan Academy.

Lian Po and Li Mu, who are retired and unemployed at home, are from the same Zhao State. They were once superiors and subordinates, but each led an era in Zhao State. The two generations have similar spirits and become friends regardless of age. With the help of the resources of Yushan Academy, they are working together to write a new military book.

When Li Yuan and the envoy of King Chu found the two men, they realized that the situation in Chu had become so corrupt.

"The Shadow Tiger Legion was actually wiped out by the navy?" The two were shocked after learning about the battle situation from the Chu envoy.

"What was the specific battle situation like?" Li Mu himself was the cavalry commander, and he was also very curious about how the navy managed to completely wipe out a pure cavalry corps on the land plain.

It’s a pity that the Chu envoy was clueless, leaving Lian Po and Li Mu with no idea how the Shadow Tiger Legion was defeated.

"There is no hope for the State of Chu. Perhaps the Yan family will understand better!" Lian Po shook his head.

It was also the first time that he saw a country's court being completely unaware of its own defeat.

They even know less than a local force in their own country.

"Gentlemen, please wait for two days. The Yan family will send people to search for detailed battle reports!" Yushan Academy gave Lian Po and Li Mu what they wanted and tried its best to meet their needs. However, the envoys from Chu State were more eager to invite Li Mu and Lian Po back to Shouchun to take charge of the overall situation.

"I am old!" Lian Po took the initiative to admit that he was old and unable to do it.

Therefore, the person the Chu envoy wanted to invite back the most this time was Li Mu.

After all, compared to Li Mu, Lian Po had been in Chu for many years, but the previous King of Chu and Chunshen Jun did not use Lian Po, which also meant that Chu disliked Lian Po because of his old age.

"The envoy invites me?" Li Mu laughed wildly, then pointed to the memorial archway of Yushan Academy, which had ten big characters on it: benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness, gentleness, kindness, respectfulness, modesty and humility.

"The envoy doesn't know that the commander of the Bingzhou army this time is my eldest son, my most beloved son?"

"Letting a father and his son fight each other on the battlefield, is this the style that the Chu State should have?"

“No wonder the Chu State, despite having the Confucian Yan family and the Tantai family, has never been able to shake off the name of the barbarian Chu State!”

At first, the scholars of Yushan Academy were curious about the commotion caused by the envoy of the King of Chu coming to invite the two men to come out of seclusion, but after hearing what Li Mu said and seeing the ten big characters on the archway, everyone's eyes became cold and disdainful.

"Get out of Yushan Academy, get out of Qingxi, the Yan family does not welcome you!"

Li Mu didn't even need to ask them to drive them away. The scholars from Yushan Academy and Qingxi, who could not tolerate any grain of sand in their eyes, angrily drove the envoys from Yushan and Qingxi.

What is the difference between letting a father and his son fight each other on the battlefield and letting the father kill his own son with his own hands?

It goes against the moral principles of human relations and you want to make the father unkind and the son unfilial?

"How ridiculous!" The head of the Yan clan also took the initiative to come to Yushan Academy to meet Lian Po and Li Mu.

"Don't worry, gentlemen. It was our negligence. The Yan family will not allow such people to disturb your meditation again."

"It's okay, who would have thought that Shouchun would do such a thing!" Lian Po and Li Mu waved their hands to indicate that they were not affected.

However, the Yan family still responded by prohibiting the envoys from Shouchun from setting foot in Wu County again.

There is no way. As a country that has always used the system of feudal fiefdom, the Yan family is the local tyrant of Wu County. If you give face to them, you are the King of Chu. If you don’t give face, the royal power cannot command the Yan family.

What's more, because of the arrival of Lian Po and Li Mu, the Yan family also asked them to select two thousand young men for the Yan family and train them to defend Wu County and ensure the safety of the Yan family.

Therefore, the Yan family ignored Shouchun and refused to allow Shouchun envoys to enter. Unless Shouchun sent a large army, it really had no way to deal with the Yan family.

What's more, the disciples of the Yan family and Yushan Academy are spread all over the Chu State. If anyone wants to touch the Yan family, the Chu State will be doomed.

"Based on my understanding of Bingzhou, it is impossible for that guy to start such a big war just for those 500 soldiers." After thinking about it, Li Mu also invited the head of the Yan family to discuss the situation together.

"The Yan family in Nanwu City sent back news that Qi State sent officials to take over the thirty-six cities of Lu State!" The head of the Yan family has even more information than Shouchun.

"That's right!" Li Mu smiled. This was something that the Yan Yan he knew would do.

Lian Po stroked his long beard and nodded. Bingzhou taught a lesson to all soldiers in the world: war is for the purpose of gaining greater benefits; otherwise, victory is a defeat.

(End of this chapter)