675 Military Law; White Flag! (2/2)
”I won’t agree!”
”I won’t do it either!”
”Whoever loves to follow such rule, go ahead! I don’t buy it! I don’t think Ye Xiao dares to chop my head!”
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As Ye Xiao announced his rule, the crowd burst into clamor. The soldiers of those influential families stared at Ye Xiao with grudge in their eyes. They wished they could swallow him in one bite!
[I am born a noble man. Now I am going to fight with these doggery in the battle! That is a depressing thing already! Now you make a rule that makes me feel much more depressed!]
[It won’t work. I am telling you! We won’t follow it! What can you do? What do you dare to do?]
[We are going to violate the law! We have already done it.]
[Are you going to kill us all?]
[Do you dare to kill us all?]
All of those men were thinking!
The officials who disliked Ye Xiao already because they didn’t want him to be the commander of an army gloated. [The law does not punish numerous offenders. Hundreds of the noble born men are shouting against you. I wonder what on earth you can do to solve this!]
[Execute one as a warning to others? There are hundreds of them. You can’t mess with them. You can’t mess with any one of them. They are all the ‘others’, that you can’t execute!]
[Do not think that you really are a commander just because you sit on that stupid chair.]
[Slush can never be pasted on the wall.]
[The head of the ‘three lords in town’! How typical!]
[Hmm. It turns out only the head of the three lads fits the stupid title all along!]
If it wasn’t Ye Xiao, but any great generals in the kingdom, such as Su Dingguo, General Lan, Ye Nantian, this might only end by the commander taking a step back. In fact, those generals would never set such a rule in the army.
However, Ye Xiao was the one who played the main role here. He was the one who set that rule.
He feared nobody in the world. He didn’t put anyone in this world in his eyes at all!
That made it a different story now.
Ye Xiao apparently had predicted such situation. He half closed his eyes and spoke with a smile, ”So… Listen to you. You won’t follow my rule, right? You are violating it now. That is what you are doing, right? Well. I am nice and generous. Let me ask you one more time before anything is done. Take that as a chance I give to you!”
”We don’t need it. Who could stand such an unreasonably strict rule? That is beyond nature and law! We don’t need to obey it!” One man was getting more and more arrogant since Ye Xiao was smiling.
He was son of the Penalty Minister. His father was watching this on the side. He thought that he was safe because his father was there. That was why he shouted with arrogance and confidence.
As he made the first objection, the other over four hundred men shouted together, ”That’s right! We won’t obey it!”
Ye Xiao didn’t feel annoyed at all. He just nodded. ”Hmm. You won’t. Fine. Guys! Bring me a big vat and a big white flag!”
[What?]
[A vat?]
[A white flag?]
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