325 Chapter 325 Race Exterminated City Wiped Ou (1/2)
There were hundreds of people, not only those near Xijie City, but there were many people who Zong Shou forcefully brought from those 3 provinces. They had many different expressions on their faces: joy, seriousness, fury, and respect.
Even the treatment they got was different. Some sat under an orderly laid out warm tent with stoves beside them, whilst some of them stood alone in the snow.
Ren Bo looked out into the distance, only to see that there were rows of woodpiles facing the city walls, one every 20 feet, on it hung a corpse. There were a total of 30 thousand of them, inclusive of both males and females. Due to the cold weather, all of them had frozen up. Looking from afar, one felt a chill enter their body.
The most obvious one was the Taoyun City lord Yue Guanyun at the front! The other people should have come from those traitor cities.
Along the way, he had heard that Zong Shou's actions towards the traitors were extremely cruel, unlike when he attacked and swept Huanlong, Tianfang and Xiping Provinces, where the cities either automatically or were forced to surrender.
He pretty much didn't accept any surrender, city lord and below, including personal forces were all killed, along with families who were all wiped out.
Ren Bo couldn't bear to look. However, he knew that there was nothing wrong with what Zong Shou did.
He was sharp to notice that most of the corpses were above 16 though.
Ren Bo smiled slightly and retracted his gaze, ”Isn't the ruler treating these city lords a little too harshly? I remembered that the former ruler although on the surface he treated the city lords as his arms and legs, not hurting their face, in the dark, he got close to some while distanced from others. He would often give ones close to him benefits. Rewards and punishment were obvious. As such he could make people closer to him…”
”Is that so?”
Zong Shou instantly realized that as compared to Zong Weiran, his methods were inferior.
However, this way of ruling was something that he didn't understand. In the past, although he spent a period in the market, and although he managed to have a few people under him, just as he saw the light, he was suppressed.
Then Zong Shou didn't bother much. Anyway, he didn't care much about these people. He didn't intend to play around with these methods and it was better to be more direct.
He directly got into the topic, ”The prime minister came over from thousands of miles away. Has the Rainbow City been settled? How are my earnings this time?”
”Based on the 5% calculation agreed from before, the ruler earned 2 million grade 4 beast crystals! However, that didn't include the beast crystals and ingredients in the ruler's 2 heaven and earth-bags…”
Ren Bo wasn't careless, handing over a few pieces of beast leather from his hand, ”This is the inventory list and also the number of beast crystals Gantian Mountain will roughly use next year. Based on what the ruler said, it is a budget.”
That day before the fleet took off, he didn't expect that the number of beast crystals they got was so huge. If he knew that, he would have lowered the percentage even more.
Zong Shou's lips twitched. As expected, this Ren Bo wanted to take money from his pocket, what a scheming official.
”Prime minister, why didn't you add in the 800 energy destroying crossbows I bought in Psychic Island into the list?”
Seeing Ren Bo smile and not reply, Zong Shou held his breath. Facing this old minister, this was the first time he had a feeling of loss. He skipped across that matter and looked at the budget that Ren Bo had made.
The 1st to jump into his eyes was the loan from him which was cut by a full 50%. The reason behind that Gantian Mountain's current day finance was enough to support.
Zong Shou's eyelids jumped and he forcefully suppressed the urge to sack Ren Bo, continuing to read on.
He said deep in thought, ”The prime minister's budget is a little weird! With this budget, most of the beast crystals and the soul stones are going to fall into the hands of the martial cultivators and spirit masters.”
When Ren Bo heard that he slightly bowed, ”Yes! I have carefully considered. If most of the beast crystals and soul stones flowed into the market, it will only cause mass depreciation and cause the finances of the people to shrink. Which was why after I considered, the best way would be to use up and consume these items.”
Zong Shou's eyes lit up, 90% of his anger from before had instantly disappeared. In this era, there weren't many people who knew that an increase in supply would result in a decrease in the wealth of people.
Although he wasn't pleased with the stinginess of Ren Bo, it could still barely be used. He looked more carefully, Tiegang Hall was already half completed.
”Good, this is exactly what I meant!”
Just as he said that a bunch of cavalry galloped over from afar. The one in the lead was Zong Yuan. He got off the horse and bowed, ”Ruler, that Xie Rong isn't willing to surrender!”
Zong Shou's brows furrowed, saying coldly, ”Did you say we will burn all the children under 16?”
Seeing Zong Yuan silently acknowledge, Zong Shou understood. He scoffed coldly, ”Since he wants to die with his city, then let's give him what he wants. Push those energy destroying crossbows out.”
Ren Bo's expression changed slightly as he looked towards the front of the formation, at the hundreds of energy destroying crossbows being pushed out towards Xijie City. The 200 thousand people all cheered out!
Ren Bo knew that Zong Shou had always been keeping the energy destroying crossbows in his heaven and earth-bag and brought it along with him. However, he didn't use it much. When he swept the 3 provinces and crushed the armies, most of them were in the wilderness. Which was why it wasn't convenient to use them and not convenient to lay them out. The consumption was also huge so he didn't do so many times.
It seems like Zong Shou was prepared to use it here to send a message to the various cities.