1046 Planning For Tough Times (2/2)

Renbo gave a satisfied smile when he heard that. Ruler had really grown up.

He didn't feel happy nor sad about material items, he was also more and more shrewd. He kept calm and didn't let anger get to his head, making the best possible choice.

They went around Gantian Mountain for a full round and a full eight hours later, the carriage entered Gantian Mountain under the protection of the 20,000 Blood Cloud Cavalry.

Zong Shou returned to Hanyan Palace, he temporarily suppressed his desires and summoned all the officials to the hall.

However, the first topic they discussed wasn't a huge country matter but to take Ruoshui as his concubine.

Who said that he only had one queen and one concubine?

The officials didn't have any objections and were instead glad to see it happen. Zong Weiran's bloodline had been just a lone bloodline since five generations ago.

If any accidents occurred, then it would be tough for them to even find anyone to take over.

After all, the relatives five generations away were too far.

Ruler had finally grown smart and was finally willing to spread the leaves. That was the best possible decision.

However, taking in a concubine was a joyous thing, but why did Ruler seemed like he was filled with huge hate and anger?

Thinking about it, Zong Shou wasn't affected much by those people who blocked his path and scolded him, causing the people in the hall to heave a sigh of relief.

The second matter of the meeting was him preparing a decree to prohibit people of Great Gan for discussing about the Ruler.

Renbo was slightly surprised and thought to himself, is Ruler actually angered by those Confucians?

However, there was no need to think much about this and he knew that he had to firmly oppose.

”We can't! Since ancient times, preventing people from speaking has been catastrophic! We can only influence them and not shut them up…”

The Generals around didn't care but the few civil servants all objected in unison.

Xu Shu was already the right secretary of the Meeting Hall, the deputy head of it, and he bowed, ”Ruler had mentioned that Great Gan can't punish people for speaking, so how can we go against it? However, if Ruler is annoyed with those Confucians, there is no need to do this. Great Gan has laws, stopping the royal carriage, trying to assassinate, insulting the Ruler, those are all punishable offenses!”

Zong Shou was speechless and he couldn't tell these people that what he was annoyed with was people talking about how many concubines he had and how ”useless” he was?

The few civil servants were firm and he also lacked reasoning on his side. After insisting on it for a while, he could only choose to shelve it helplessly.

The third matter was regarding Zhu Zi making him the Enemy of the Confucians.

”Zhu Zi really is vicious, announcing to the entire world to try to sow chaos in Great Gan such that our vassal states would turn against us. He wants to replace us.”

Although Great Gan unified Donglin, many tails were left. Most city lords chose to self-rule and were just subjects under him.

Luckily, over these few years, there were many cities and towns that chose to be directly ruled under Great Gan.

The private troops owned by those cities were reduced by more than half by Qiu Wei.

Even if they wanted to riot, they wouldn't have the ability to do so now.

They needed a period of time to expand their armies even if they wanted to.

”There is no need to bother about the city lords in Donglin. What we worry about are the Demon Faction sects. Those Demon Sect disciples are causing problems all around. Within this half day, people of four sects appeared around, using poison to kill around 100 people. If we can't restrict them, then people will definitely be terrified!”

Hu Qianqiu was worried, there were 20 children from his Tiger Race who died because of this Demon Sect. Although their Race had a large population, he still felt heart pained because of that.

The Tiger Race children didn't die on the battlefield but to the schemes of the Demon Sect.

Zong Shou's brow became serious as he knew that the chaos sowed by the Demon Sect wasn't something the few sects under Great Gan and the few hired helpers could suppress.

”I will inform Sword Sect and Common People's Path to help us.”

He didn't hesitate. This was one of the conditions of allowing both of them to open colleges and dojos in the outer region. After the matter, he wouldn't need to feel that he owed them anything. This was also time for them to help him out.

”Only then would Donglin and Huizhou be stabilized. However, South Wind Cloud Continent was only calmed down not long ago. After this storm, there will probably be more chaos and we need to send troops to suppress it.”

Qiu Wei was the one who spoke. He was really calm and had the aura of a huge general.

”We need at least 300,000 Grade Three troops to ensure stability. However, they can at most hold on for three months!”

Zong Shou's expression became serious. 300,000 Grade Three troops wasn't a small power.

At this moment, naturally, it couldn't be considered much in the Cloud World but before the Spiritual Wave it was enough to sweep an entire cloud continent.

”Apart from this, the crucial point of this battle is the navy. Can Ruler send some Spaceships back? Gulie wouldn't be able to do so alone!”

Great Gan had thin foundations in the Central Cloud Continent.

All the resources and grain had to be sent over by Cloudships from Huizhou.

It seemed problematic but their resources were transported faster than Great Shang. Great Gan was interconnected and Cloud Crossing Carriages could travel thousands of miles in a day. Cloudships were even quicker.

However, the basis of all of this was built on the navy.