Chapter 415 - Defending the City (1/2)
Chapter 415: Defending the City
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Zhong Heng felt that the heavens were not fair to hiave him some benefits, before he could truly enjoy them, they would be cruelly taken away from him
Back in the Central Plains, his official career had been full of frustrations When he noticed that he did not have any achieve the e amount of money to earn a small official post in the Ministry of Defence However, after only one ion on the pretext that it was for hi and that he would have a post waiting for him upon return to the Central Plains In reality, it was more like exile
In narade official, but in a convoluted and dangerous environood, the post of commandant ithout actual authority The nucleus of his job was to ensure the personal safety of the Governor; it was nota butler
Different from the Governor, who could easily obtain a ‘Protective Talise a did not even have many chances to be bribed
As he saw for himself how there were rich people all over North City and countless pleasures to be indulged in South City, he realized that it was extrery beggar watching the guests in the opposite inn gorge the under such torment that he could feel all the time made him develop a nihilistic attitude towards life “Should I be loyal to the Eround he walked on before Should I love my country? The Central Plains is hundreds of ht for here in Jade City will somehoind its way into the hands of the Governor—it’ll have nothing to do with my nation Should I work towards my ideals? My only wish is to be covered with riches, even at the expense of 10 years of ht
Then, a weird youth called Slave Huan appeared in his life
The first time they met, the both of the Heng could immediately spot the uniqueness in the youth He was known as a ‘slave’ but there was still a residual aura of pride carried over fro well-off
It was coion for someone to become from poor to rich and vice versa; there were instances of royalty beco slaves However, it was not usual for so of the Golden Roc Fort to not entirely accept the role of a slave
When Slave Huan accepted the co the issue are two entirely different things’ and successfully extricated hi felt that the youth was not an ordinary person That said, it was just a thought he had at that point in time
What Slave Huan did not knoas that his actions at that tieht of this lowly fifth-rank official Zhong Heng was a e; the only things he prided hiement However, in the eyes of his superiors, they were not merits but flaws that made the excuses to exclude him from the inner circle
One was a coed and still unacco his hatred in check and biding his tie Their fates were intertwined froh sometimes they were on the same path and other times on separate ones
Many years later, Slave Huan beca becadoh it was such a weak nation, it could also be considered a big transition in his life
The heavens were still unfair to hi Pridom was invaded and more than half of its lands had fallen into the hands of the ene to keep the eneive in; he did not know if he would have a similar opportunity in the future No rasp and he had no plans to let go
When the Dragon King had left the Stone Kingdom to rescue the army of the Great Snowmountain, he had promised that he would have co Heng’s judge cadoe enemy As such, he had to carefully plan for the future
The Stone Kingdo in cohesion The for Dou, was exiled, and there were only a few hundred people left in its arht and distrustful of their new Pri was sickly and si the carefully orchestrated worshi+p of the eunuchs every
The only force he could rely on was those led by the macheteman, Lin Xiaoshan This forced consisted of dozens of swordsmen from the Great Snowmountain, more than 200 bandits ere unclear which side they stood on as well as four to five hundred soldiers of the Stone Kingdom itself
The coalition forces of the other four kingdo on the Stone Kingdom’s borders, which left the newly appointed Prian acting on a few things
He abandoned the tactic of waging war all over the country and sent out ers to summon all of the soldiers stationed at the border posts back to the capital In this way, he ed to squeeze out a little more than 200 soldiers
His next dom to relocate to the capital within three days, and they were only allowed to bring along provisions,with them The Prime Minister promised his people that after the war, their lands and houses would be returned to their original owners and all daes to their property would be borne by the treasury This last statement caused many citizens ere hesitant toHeng evento jianghu rules and not as the Pridom Very quickly, he found out the truth that the person they turned to, or rather feared, was not the Dragon King, but his fereat that it was enough to garner soon King’s departure, Zhong Heng had confiscated the assets of his predecessor, Yang Dou; they ah value that it even exceeded that of the national reserves Zhong Heng did not report the assets but used them to hire craftsmen to patch up the castle walls and also to attract the youthful far the army
The most important supply he had to secure was still provisions, for without food, no uard the city for long
War was suddenly upon the Stone Kingdom and its official reserve of provisions was extre used both force and tact to bolster the country’s supply of provisions On one hand, he purchased provisions from the common folk at exorbitant prices while he forced the wealthy and nobles to give up their personal supplies on the other
It was one of the ed to hold on to its capital After only three months, the price of provisions shot up so inal price of rice would not be enough to purchase any fro Fa held two discussions with the king before realizing that he was unable to persuade the latter As such, he decided to bypass the inco and took control of the national reserves as well as the royal treasury He also sent out his people to take over the shops and banks in the kingdo faather another sum ofto secure the capital with barely 1000 soldiers After all the hard work Zhong Heng put in, he would need to rely on the wrong strategy used by his eneot to govern