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Chapter 100 I Just Want to Kill Them All (Subscribe)
Listening to Lu Jing's righteous tone and his words filled with blood, Hu Butang finally felt that something was wrong with this kid.

The righteousness leads to evil!

Pure and authentic evil!

Although the people left here are all trustworthy, Hu Butang still asked: "The difficulty is not in killing a group of gentry, but what happens after they are killed? The other gentry families will inevitably be in trouble, and if things go wrong, there will be resentment among the people!"

If a nasty uprising occurs during his term, he should just step down.

Lu Jing: "I'm sure you already know how many respectable gentry there are in Yuhang Province. It shouldn't be difficult to send your capable men over there to control them directly, right?"

Hu Butang's scalp tingled when he heard this: "Are you going to... kill them all?!"

Lu Jing's eyes were calm: "Yes, I just want to kill them all."

"After that, all the land will be taken back by the emperor, but will be given to the people to cultivate. Then a small amount of tax will be collected every year to show the emperor's benevolence and generosity. As for the taxes required by the cabinet, since you have come to lift the ban on sea trade, how much less money can be collected in the future?"

"Take the wealth of the world to support Dayu! Let the people of Dayu live and work in peace! Isn't it wonderful?"

In this way, the people had land to farm and food to eat; the emperor gained a good reputation and nominal land; the cabinet's treasury could be enriched; and Hu Butang completed the tasks assigned by the cabinet and had a bright career.

This is a win-win situation for all parties!
Hu Butang was moved.

He's crazy fucking excited right now!
But there is a problem.

He asked: "Can reopening the maritime ban make so much money?"

Lu Jing laughed and said, "Why else would so many pirates risk their lives?"

Hu Butang still had doubts: "But can this little money support the entire Dayu?"

Lu Jing: "That's because the way we did business in the past was wrong. All land under heaven belongs to the king, and all the people are his subjects. After the southeast coast is stabilized, with the power of Dayu, we can take Goryeo and Wadao in the north. These two places are rich in mineral resources, and there are a lot of silver mines."

"Then we can conquer the barbarians of Baiyue in the south! The climate there is warm all year round, and rice can be grown three times a year!"

"Once the surrounding areas of Dayu are stable, we can cross the ocean and set up a Far Sea Governor's Office, and use the abundance of each state to support the people of Dayu!"

"Of course, this is a bit far-fetched. At present, just confiscating the local gentry in Yuhang Province and collecting taxes from pirates are enough to complete the taxation task entrusted to you by the cabinet."

Hu Butang was dizzy after being hit by Lu Jing's huge offer.

Although he was very excited, Hu Butang was hit: "What you said before was reliable, but what you said later, are you just painting a pie in the sky with the idea of ​​being the first emperor? It sounds good, but it is very difficult to do it! Let me ask you, with such a vast territory, how will the troops be deployed? How will the materials be transported? Aren't you afraid that some places will have their own troops?"

"Let's take a step back!"

"Luozhou, Lizhou, and Jiaozhou are all occupied by powerful demons. How can they be conquered so easily? Even Yueli has some powerful backgrounds."

Lu Jing smiled and said, "Hu Bu Tang, that's because my war potential is not enough."

"With our human race's ingenuity, why can't we deploy a million soldiers across the border in one day?"

"With our diligence, why can't we have a million soldiers ready to go at any time?"

Hu Butang was stumped by the question.

The campfire in front of the military tent suddenly fell into deathly silence.

Song Yuheng and Pei Guanyin were even more stunned!

This, this, this, this! Is this really the impatient guy who usually has muscles in his head and only knows how to chop, chop, chop when he encounters a monster, and doesn't even let the monster finish its sentence?
Those long speeches just now actually came from the mouth of that murderous bastard Lu Jing?

The words of those policy essays were truly like the sound of a huge bell, which made Song Yuheng and Pei Guanyin's hearts tremble and they felt dizzy.

This is the charm of thought.

Sometimes the magic of thought tone is like poison.

He can make a timid person become fearless.

This is also why there are so many celestial phenomena and even Dharmakaya-level masters among the human race, but these celestial phenomenon and Dharmakaya-level masters are willing to obey the orders of a mere scholar.

To the demon clan, this was against the will of Heaven and was incomprehensible.

After a long silence, Hu Butang's voice became a little hoarse: "Lu...Commander, be honest with me, do you have...some ideas?" Dayu is now in trouble both internally and externally and is extremely corrupt.

This huge empire is already riddled with holes. No matter how it is patched up, it will sink sooner or later.

Some far-sighted people even saw the crisis of national extinction.

These people of integrity also want to save the collapsing empire, but how can they do it?

Even the scholar who became a saint hundreds of years ago couldn't do it.

The evil in the human heart is like a mountain. No matter how powerful you are or how great your power to destroy the world is, you can never contend with it.

This also seems to be a curse placed on the human race. Countless saints and wise men throughout history have written books and biographies. Aren’t they all trying to restrain the evil in people’s hearts?
But those saints all failed.

Only the mouth cannon Xun Sheng won again and again.

Lu Jing nodded silently, and finally said the biggest wish that had been buried in his heart until now: "Hu Bu Tang, after I help you pacify the southeast, please persuade the cabinet to send troops to the Japanese island."

Send troops to Japan?

Hu Butang didn't understand.

Lu Jing said meaningfully: "Hu Bu Tang, many times, the key to victory or defeat is not inside the board, but outside the board."

Hu Butang was puzzled: "But I really can't see what key move the Japanese island has that can determine the outcome."

Lu Jing: "The key to victory or defeat does not lie in Wa Island, but in me on Wa Island."

what?
Hu Butang was silent.

Lu Jing smiled and said, "Please take good care of yourself, Mr. Hu. You will be able to see it in a hundred years at most."

In this world full of mysterious and powerful forces, it is easy to live for more than a hundred years.

Unfortunately, those who hold high positions in government rarely live beyond 200 years old.

Many emperors died before they were fifty.

This shows how serious the infighting among the top officials in the court was.

After listening to this, Hu Butang pondered for a moment, then suddenly laughed out loud like a chivalrous man: "Okay! Even if I don't live to be a hundred years old, you can burn it on my grave."

As he spoke, Hu Butang became very excited. He asked his subordinates to bring some good wine and started drinking with Lu Jing and the others.

……

The next day, Hu Butang seemed to have made up his mind and acted according to the strategy Lu Jing had suggested.

He first used his old skills to appease the local people, and then used his high status, extraordinary charm, and the reputation he had accumulated in the southeast to successfully incite this group of people to rebel and obtain evidence of local gentry.

Afterwards, Hu Butang quickly dispatched his troops to various places in Yuhang to lie in wait for orders.

The last step is to lure someone into a trap.

Five days later, Hu Butang sent out invitations to host a banquet for all the wealthy and powerful families in Yuhang at the Guanchao Tower in Lin'an Prefecture.

For a time, all kinds of news surged in Yuhang Province like a tide.

Some of them felt that Hu Butang was most likely setting up the Hongmen Banquet this time. After all, in their minds, Hu Butang had always been considered quite ruthless.

But some people think that Hu Butang has given in this time.

After all, Hu Butang’s backers now are no longer the ministers and high ministers of the previous emperor’s dynasty.

The two ministers Gao and Zhang behind Hu Butang are well-known in the literati circle. It is impossible for them to do anything too excessive.

But no matter what, the local gentry still planned to come and test the waters.

Anyway, that guy named Hu can’t kill them all.

(End of this chapter)