374 Rebels (1/2)

While Jun Hua was facing her amazing grandfather, Soujin went to the palace and have a meeting with the other officials. The atmosphere in the hall was rather tense, and he could see that most of them have a grim expression on their faces. Yan and Ming Hui were not exceptions, despite them looked calmer compared with the other people.

He walked to the front nonchalantly and greeted the emperor respectfully before asking about the situation, ”Is there any bad news happened?”

Yan nodded his head. He was currently posed as a 'perfect' emperor, so he cannot do anything rashly as usual. He pointed to the side and Shu opened the scroll to read the content once more.

”Inside Yuan Kingdom, there is a person named Zhao Da, who initiated a rebel against the Long Kingdom a few days ago. Based on the estimation, he managed to pull a lot of people into supporting his act because they feel discontent of Yuan Kingdom becoming a subordinate country of Long Kingdom.

Aside from Zhao Da, there is another group of people rebelling on the northeast because they found the new regulation reduces their profit. The number of slave traders that we caught during the past years increased, but the nobles found it hard to see that their profit reduces significantly because they had to pay their worker.

The size of the rebel becomes bigger because they have more money and people who support their decision. The one handling the rebel on the northeast is General Tou, but he requested help because he found the number to be extraordinary.”

Soujin listened to the news calmly. His calm demeanor made the officials in the hall to be confused. Shouldn't this young general provide them with a way out or something like that? Why did he choose to stay silent?

”The rebel on the northeast, tell General Tou that he had to think for a way to handle them by himself,” Soujin opened his mouth after a few seconds.

The moment Soujin answered, the hall turned into silence. The officials were all looking towards Soujin with bewildered eyes and hanging mouth. They can't believe that this general would say something like that. Shouldn't he come forward and help the old general to capture the areas back?

One of the officials braved himself and tried to ask, ”General, don't we need to send people to help?”

Soujin looked at the person who had asked with a sidelong glance, clearly not giving that person much importance. That single glance was enough to send chills behind the person's spine. He can feel the coldness Soujin emanated just from that single glance to him. He understood. The young general was not that calm inside, but his demeanor would still stay like that because of his position.

”Send a messenger to Emperor Jun Qing. He will send reinforcements to the northeast,” Soujin continued.

Yan nodded his head. That was a plausible option since Soujin's soldiers were busy in the west to take over the kingdom under the leadership of Fan Lanying and other generals. General Tou was using his own soldiers and part of Jun Hua's soldier whom she ordered to stay in that area and help General Tou previously.

”Do that,” Yan ordered, and Shu immediately noted it down.