204 Declaration of War (1/2)
Capital of Ming Kingdom
Inside the hall, not a single official dare to speak. The emperor was angry and throwing another fit. The news had just came, the Jun family declared that they separated themselves from Ming Kingdom. The news instantly shook the entire capital.
The emperor immediately declared a war against Mountain Kingdom. Taking the Jun family away from Ming Kingdom was the same with shaving their military power of thousands of soldiers. The emperor would never take it lightly.
”Emperor, please don't be so hasty.”
The emperor didn't want to listen to the officials and kicked them out from the hall. He turned towards Strategist Wu.
”Is this included in your plan?”
Strategist Wu was genuinely surprised. He had expected that the Jun family might do something drastic, but not to this extent. If the Jun family suddenly separated themselves, what would happen with their soldiers? Would they willingly follow their leader to the other kingdom?
”No, please wait for a moment, Your Highness,” Strategist Wu quickly sent people to check on something, but the result makes his face turned grim. He really shouldn't have postponed investigating about Jun Family.
”Emperor, it is this subject carelessness.”
Seeing Strategist Wu also got done in with this news, emperor felt even angrier. Does this mean that the Jun family was even smarter than the strategist?
”What do you mean?”
”The Jun family had been planning for this for a long time already. It is because this subject didn't pay any attention that the obvious move is passed from us. The families of the soldier under Jun family are inside their territory.”
The news hit the emperor greatly. Did this means that the Jun family was planning to separate themselves from a long time already? They were scheming right under his nose and yet he didn't' realize it at all. Somehow, the emperor felt like he was being fooled by those people without him noticing it at all.
Now that the situation had grown until this stage, what can he do towards them? Forcing them to return would require war and he had declared war against the Mountain Kingdom, which meant those people no longer categorized as people from Ming Kingdom.
The emperor truly wished to tear them apart. The only thing that made him calmer was the death of Jun Min.
”At least, their power had weakened a lot.”
Strategist Wu wore a complicated face. ”It is precisely because they had weakened that they might be the one survive this turbulence.”
The enemies would be trying to attack those they seen as threat first. Since Jun family had lost the most important figure who could lead them, they were seen as a weaker threat and would soon find their own demise. With them going out, it's clear that their relationship with Ming Kingdom has ended, making Ming Kingdom weaker.
The weaker Ming Kingdom was seen as an opportunity for them to attack while the Jun family can stay within the Mountain Kingdom calmly. While they want to attack the Mountain Kingdom, they need to consider the terrain since the one who was most proficient in battle on the mountain was Jun family and Mountain Kingdom.
They would not be stupid so as to challenge themselves to pounce towards the people in Mountain Kingdom. Instead, they would try to attack Ming Kingdom. Ming Kingdom was a big kingdom with a lot of resources on the land.