Chapter 1079 (2/2)
He stabbed down and the floating island he was on cracked outwards.
The young man waved his sleeves and swept up one of the stone pieces as he stepped into the air.
His face was filled with determination. At most, in three years, he would be able to fight Zong Shou head on!
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The atmosphere in the Imperial Capital at night was suppressed, the entire city held its breath.
The originally prosperous and busy brothels and inns were now completely empty.
There weren’t many people walking on the streets either.
Although there were still hundreds of glass lights hanging in front of the aristocratic families, it still felt extremely cold and dark.
Within the reading rooms of the various families, it was explosive and intense.
There were friends and maybe a few family members, they were all discussing about the situation of the world.
In terms of the speed at which they got their news, these families were definitely no slower than the sects.
The entire Imperial City was in chaos due to the results at God Falling Plains. This was the first time they started to worry about the east country, especially because of the person they all saw as a violent ruler.
“The world is over! It is completely done! They were defeated at the God Falling Plains, eighteen million troops were all wiped out. The Great Shang’s country is at an end!”
“How can Zong Shou be the Saint Ruler? Didn’t they say that the Qilin is born while feeding on good energy?”
“How amusing! How amusing! Zhu Zi actually made the Saint Ruler their Confucian Faction dreamt of for ten thousand years as the enemy of the Confucians! They tried to replicate the prosperity of the three emperor eras—does the Heavens feel that the current Great Gan can be compared to the ancient era?”
“The Great Shang has lost most of its elites, would the Great Gan chase and sweep the mid plains?”
“This is the calamity of our Confucian Faction! What did we teach wrongly? Or is the Heavens in the wrong?”
“How annoying! There were only a few generations of prosperity over these seven thousand years due to my Ration Thinking line. All of the rulers cherish and admire our capabilities…”
“If I knew that this would happen, I wouldn’t have joined in! Zhu Zi really cost us!”
“The Jiuchi Palace was a trap? How would such a mighty lord do something that stupid?”
Within the reading rooms, fires blazed. What burnt wasn’t wood, but documents and books that scolded the Great Gan Ruler.
Since Zhu Zi sent the decree which deemed Zong Shou as the enemy of the Confucians, numerous Confucians were writing to scold him. They sent letters to one another, and if there were exceptional pieces, they would fight to take a look at it.
There were even some that were made into books and sold to the people. All of a sudden, the prices of paper rose up, stepping the reputation of the Great Gan Ruler Zong Shou to the ground. He was connected to numerous sins which might not even be true.
However, at this moment, they were all in danger. It was best if they stayed away from these books.
If one day, Zong Shou ruled the world, then collecting these articles and books was a sin.
Moreover, no matter how people dissed and insulted him, as long as he had the aura of the Saint Ruler, then those words were useless. The people would naturally be able to differentiate what was wrong and right.
It would instead make more people laugh at them, and make them believe that the Confucians loved to spread falsehoods.
At this moment in another house of the aristocratic families, there was another scene. The things that they were worried about were completely different.
“Damn! That ruler is useless and wasting the army. The twenty thousand Dao Soldiers that we spent so much effort to raise is all gone!”
“We shouldn’t have joined in at the start, Zhu Zi really sabotaged us…”
“The world is in chaos, I don’t think we should stay within the Imperial City. We probably need to gather our troops and prepare in our feudal land…”
“Shiyue, the Shi Family has started to rise?”
“Should we contact the Gan Country? We are weak and we can’t fight, we can only join the side of the strong. Zong Shou is the Saint Ruler and he is someone we should serve!”
“Who knows where the so-called God Emperor is at?”
The Ministry of Justice Jail, at this moment, Jin Buhui opened his eyes lazily.
“Speaking of which, the Great Shang lost? So I don’t need to dig out my eyes?”
As he said that, he looked playfully in front of him.
The officials who he met that day were all present.
Their faces were filled with fear and panic, especially those who mocked him. They all felt really awkward.
Among them even included the Yang Family disciple.
“Don’t worry, the Great Gan won’t be able to attack so soon!”
The teen surnamed Yang laughed bitterly. He naturally knew that. The problem was that the feudal land of the Yang Family, where their foundations were at, was in Jiangnan.
Those five states were destined to fall into the hands of the Great Gan.
If the ruler knew that his brother faced such treatment and was humiliated by him. If he took revenge, then what would happen to him and his family?
It wasn’t only him, but few officials here all had families based there.
Jin Buhui laughed coldly, his heart was really calm.
His brother won. The Great Shang lost so badly! It was to the point that they couldn’t turn it around!