Just as Shen Yuelan and others had thought, the war between Li Tiangan and Li Mingdao broke out. The flames of war between the two quickly spread from Henei City to the whole country, and Jinou City where Shen Yuelan was located was not spared.
The once clean and tidy school was bombed to pieces, the once peaceful and harmonious streets were filled with death and violence, the endless flames of war were madly devouring the land, and the sun in the sky was obscured by billowing smoke, without a single ray of light to be seen.
Shen Yuelan looked at the tragic scene in the city and her palms almost bled. Although they had been together for a short time, she had made several good friends in that school.
She could imagine what those people were going through at this moment. Their once happy lives were gone forever. Rape, burning, killing and looting would be repeated on them until the moment of their death.
Shen Yuelan really wanted to help them, but she couldn't. Although life here was good, she never forgot her purpose. She came here for revenge, revenge for Liu E and for the millions of people in the Song Dynasty's Bianliang city.
Although revenge may not necessarily affect civilians, this was not pushed by Shen Yuelan. She was just watching the situation.
She was waiting, waiting for the right opportunity, waiting for the suffering to boil into a bowl of delicious porridge, so that she could step forward and sprinkle a few chopped green onions on it.
At the same time, the little fox Su Xuan in Henei City did not have the psychological pressure of Shen Yuelan, who was a bit like a saint. On the contrary, she was very happy.
If you ask when is the best time to make money, and put aside your conscience, Su Xuan will definitely tell you that it is easiest to make money from national disasters, and in times of great disasters, the hard-earned money of ordinary people is also easiest to make.
Yes, the easiest opportunity to make money is always built on the pain of others. This is a fact that cannot be changed no matter how entrepreneurs and capitalists try to glorify themselves.
Su Xuan had no psychological burden at all. She made money from her enemies' national disasters and sucked their hard-earned money. Just kidding, she was super happy, okay? Is there anything happier than this in the world?
I really don't know what the eldest sister is thinking. She is still hesitating in the family group, worrying about the country and the people. It's not her country, so what's the point of worrying about it? Fortunately, Shen Yuelan just talked a little and didn't take any actual action, otherwise Su Xuan would definitely be vomiting to death.
Unlike Shen Yuelan's wait-and-see strategy, Su Xuan had started planning her business war very early. At this moment, she has completely controlled the food and arms business in Henei City. Now even Li Shuntian has to come to her to buy food.
Su Xuan's plan was quite evil. On the surface, she pretended to be harmless and was willing to be a puppet and spokesperson for the Li family in the business field. But in fact, she was using the Li family's name to gradually swallow up all the major business houses in Henei City.
Li Shuntian thought he had everything under control. As long as the supply of food and arms was in his hands, he would always have the ability to end the war.
Yes, Li Shuntian is not a fool like Edward VIII. As a great ruler, it is impossible for him to give up the entire kingdom for a woman like Song Yi, although Song Yi is indeed very much to his liking.
The reason why he acted like this was because his two younger brothers had been unruly recently, forming cliques for personal gain and raising private armies, and what they had done had long become a major concern for him.
Rather than letting the hidden danger lurk in the dark, rotting and breeding maggots, it is better to expose it actively, fight poison with poison, and when both sides are defeated, you can cut off their retreat, give both sides a thundering blow, and clean up the mess.
From a realistic perspective, Li Shuntian's idea is actually very feasible, and he does have the ability to clean up the mess. The problem is that he chose the wrong agent. The business agent he carefully selected turned out to be a thousand-year-old fox.
Li Shuntian was really badly tricked by Su Xuan this time. So, when the scope of the war expanded to the vicinity of Henei City, Li Shuntian, who originally wanted to stop the war, suddenly found with horror that he could not do it.
That bastard named Su Xuan did not obey his order to stop supplying food and ammunition to the two armies. Instead, he became more aggressive, causing the scope of the war to quickly expand to the entire country.
It was not until this time that Li Shuntian finally discovered that external factors that should not have appeared in his country had appeared. He suddenly realized something, but at this moment he was powerless to change the situation.
The only thing he could do was to defend the Palace of King Yue and the center of the World Barrier, because he knew that no matter how fierce the situation outside was, the enemy's ultimate goal was still the World Barrier, which was the last barrier to protect the Li Yue Kingdom.
Chapter 236 Adding fuel to the flames
Li Shuntian also sent messages to the two brothers who were at war, explaining the pros and cons, but they were all rejected without exception. The reason for their refusal was not that they had to be the King of Yue.
But the war has reached this point, even if they want to stop, it is too late. Both sides are now blood-thirsty, and everyone is stained with the blood of each other's relatives and friends. If you want to stop the war at this time, whoever stops will die.
Although the top leaders of the three parties gradually realized the intervention of external forces under the suggestion of the Li brothers, they still had to fight, after all, too many interests were involved.
Su Xuan usually gives money to these senior executives. The financial sponsor has ordered the fight to continue. If you, a small boss, ask for a stop, no one will care about you.
Therefore, Li Shuntian's delusion that he could turn the tide by himself is simply a fantasy. It is not easy to be a hero.
In addition to Shen Yuelan, who was slacking off and Su Xuan, who was working hard to support her family, the other people were also doing things secretly. Fu Xi was as bold as ever. She gathered the members of her team and resold arms in Li Tiangan's camp. Su Xuan was her biggest client.
Meng Anran took a few good friends and ran into the primeval forest in the west, where they became friends with the natives.
It is said that they have discovered many rare minerals there, and are now organizing the indigenous people to mine and smelt them. Most of the raw materials and finished products have been sold to Li Mingdao, which can be considered a gain.
Su Jiu and Du Juan opened an alcohol processing factory. In war, injuries are inevitable, and treating wounds requires a large amount of alcohol for disinfection. This was an opportunity for Su Jiu and others. They could continue their old business and make a lot of money.
Xu Hanyue, Long Yanyue, Xiao Yuhuan and others were even more ruthless. They knew how to do business or engage in industry, so they set up a killer organization, collected money from people and helped them get rid of disasters. They killed many politicians from both sides, so it was not in vain.
The originally complicated situation became even more impossible to reverse after these people got involved. Shen Yuelan, who had collected information from all sides, was speechless. She had said yesterday that this war had nothing to do with her, but now she was slapped in the face.
She had made a lot of efforts to make this battle come to this point. Although it was a little embarrassing, Shen Yuelan knew that it was her time to work.
Although unlike the original idea, most of the people in her team did not do anything serious, this did not prevent Shen Yuelan from practicing her original ideal.
Along the way, Shen Yuelan found that most of her ideas could not be realized, and they always ended up going in a strange direction. Although it could work, it was different from her original intention.
For example, now, Shen Yuelan hopes to plant a spark in Li Yue Country, but after weeks of attempts, the people are not buying it, which is actually understandable.
The current dispute between the Li brothers, after all, is just a large-scale civil strife within the kingdom. Although it has caused a lot of harm to the people, the previous governance of the Li brothers was very effective, allowing the people here to live and work in peace for many years.
This made the people more willing to trust the Li Yue government when faced with a choice between the two sides. Therefore, Shen Yuelan's propaganda activities were quite unsuccessful and she was driven out by the people many times, which made Shen Yuelan a little discouraged.
[Hiss, the people actually love the Li brothers so much, it seems those bastards usually do a good job. ]
[Not necessarily. Maybe we didn’t find the right audience. We have been wandering in cities before, and the Li brothers’ base is precisely in these cities.]
【Based on our recent life, we can understand that the life of ordinary people here is still very good, so it is unlikely that they will follow us to start a revolution.】
[What should we do? Where can we find the audience? In the countryside?]
[Well, I'm not sure, but looking around is better than suffering here, right? ]
[Well, okay, let’s go! ]
Shen Yuelan wisely gave up her plan for the city and began to move to the countryside they imagined. However, after struggling for more than half a month, they still couldn't find a decent agricultural production base. Isn't this right?
If there is no rural production of food, where will the food for urban residents come from? If there is no rural production of materials, where will the various raw materials needed for urban development come from?
But they ran almost half of Li Yue and could not find any trace of food production. Outside the city, there was nothing but wilderness and forest, and there was no such thing as farmland.
[How is this possible? Does this kind of social organization without a complete economic structure really exist? ]
[Master, I remembered an incident in the past. During the Battle of Bianliang, their main targets of looting included the granaries in Bianliang City. Could it be that all their food was looted from other worlds?]
Shen Yuelan was silent for a long time after hearing this. If Li Yue's prosperity today was built on the suffering of other worlds, then compared to sparks, Shen Yuelan would prefer to use force to purge it.
[Let's look for it again, ask more questions, and make sure we don't wrongly accuse them. But if it's really as you said, I will use force to completely clean out these termites!]
[Kill them all? Isn't that a bit too cruel?]
[Everyone here is a beneficiary of the plunder war, so they must be people who knew about and indirectly participated in the plunder war. They know that the food in their bowls is stained with blood, but they can still eat it with relish. ]
[If we don't kill this kind of person, will we keep him alive for the New Year? ]
Seeing that Shen Yuelan had made up her mind, Shen Huanyan did not try to persuade her any further. After all, what Shen Yuelan said was right. Since she had enjoyed the fruits of plundering others, she should also bear the price that came with it.
Another half a month passed, and the two of them had traveled all over Li Yue. Except for the natives in Meng Anran's place who grew their own food, the residents of other cities all relied on the central government to plunder food from the outside world to survive.
Shen Yuelan even learned a fact from the natives, that is, this land was actually occupied by the Li Yue people, and this group of forest natives were the original inhabitants of this world.
Seeing that this place was rich and prosperous, they wanted to rob it. They killed all the relatives of the indigenous people in the forest, destroyed their country, took the fertile land for themselves, and drove them into the primeval forest.
As for what Song Yi said, it was actually half true and half false. It was true that Li Yueren destroyed her country, but it was not this place. She was plundered by Li Yueren when she was three or four years old.
And this place happened to have some connection with the Song Dynasty, so it was mistakenly regarded by the Song descendants with incomplete memories as their destroyed motherland, but in fact, their country has not yet perished.
Although they suffered heavy losses that year, the Li brothers did not win the battle and had no choice but to rescue a few people, including Song Yi.
Chapter 237: The Emperor's Sorrow
Of course, Song Yi herself was unaware of these things, or rather, she simply did not understand the truth.
The natives in the forest hated the outsider Li Yueren, and naturally had no good feelings towards the outsiders such as Song Yi. Therefore, they were too lazy to correct the wrong perception of Song Yi. At least now they could let these two dogs bite each other and have a mouth full of fur. Why should they correct her?
To be honest, if Meng Anran and others had not previously created huge economic value for these forest natives, they would not have told the truth to Shen Yuelan and others.
However, no matter whether they told the truth or not, Shen Yuelan had no interest in exploring further. The time of farewell and the time agreed upon by Du Juan and Song Yi were approaching, and it was time to end it all.
Song Yi, who was far away in Henei City, was extremely conflicted at this moment. She had already arrived at the energy center. As long as she pressed the button in front of her, the world barrier of Li Yue Kingdom would be opened, and Li Yue would be completely finished.
But Li Shuntian treated her really well and respected her during this period. Although Song Yi knew that this man's love for her was a bit of exploitation, he never hid this fact and even apologized to her solemnly after she pointed it out.
And he promised her that he would fulfill one of her wishes within his ability as compensation, a promise from a king that was originally quite tempting, but according to recent developments, he seemed to have lost the ability to satisfy himself.
And it was a loss in every sense of the word. The development of the war gradually went beyond his control, making him increasingly anxious. His original habit of signing in at her bed every night began to become less frequent after that.
This made Song Yi, who had just tasted the joy of sex, very dissatisfied. He could neither satisfy herself nor realize her wishes. What was the point of keeping such a man?
In a fit of rage, Song Yi pressed the button without hesitation. But just as she was about to leave, she saw Li Shuntian, who looked depressed, at the door of the central office. When did he come? Why didn't he stop her?
[When did you come? ]
[When? Let me think about it, I probably followed you when you left the palace.]
[If that's the case, why didn't you stop me just now? ]
[Stop you? Haha, alas, I can't stop anyone, whether it's my brothers or you, I can't stop them. Now the situation has completely collapsed. After this civil war, no matter who wins, the Li Yue Kingdom will no longer exist. ]
[Do you know? The reason why Li Yue Kingdom is so prosperous is because of its strong military force. We will go to other surface worlds to plunder regularly. Resources, wealth, knowledge, and even women are all within our hunting range. ]
[But now everything is over. This war destroyed our proud military force. We can no longer go to other worlds to plunder, and the output of our land is completely unable to meet the needs of such a large urban population.]
[It won’t be long before this prosperous country is completely wiped out by famine.]
[If we open the barrier now, we will surely die, but at least the women and children who did not participate in the looting will still have a chance of survival.]
[If you had known this earlier, why did you do this in the first place? If you had learned to be self-reliant and to support yourself from the beginning, why would you do this today? 】
[Haha, you don't understand. You don't understand how far human depravity and greed can go. We are not born to be pirates. I was just an honest farmer who supported my family at the beginning.]
[But one day, the Void Pirates invaded our homeland. We fought back desperately and paid a huge price to save our homeland. What the Void Pirates left us with was not only pain, but also several warships.]
[The warship was filled with the resources and food they looted. I wanted to distribute these things to everyone as a reward for their hard resistance and compensation for the loss of their loved ones, but I never thought that this was the beginning of all nightmares.]
[The sudden acquisition of a large amount of food and wealth caused the originally hardworking people to gradually give up farming and work and become idle. The land gradually became barren and order gradually became disordered. By the time we realized this, it was already too late.]
[Food was running out, order was breaking down, and on the contrary, violence on the streets was increasing. Only then did I realize what a wrong decision I had made.]
[But we have already gone down the wrong path, and there is no turning back. Although I would like to encourage the people to return to their land and cultivate it, I still have to find food for them. ]
[For this reason, I set my sights on the warships that the Void Pirates left for me. We captured those warships through surprise attacks, so the damage was not serious. We tinkered with them for a while and actually repaired them.]
[I originally wanted to take those warships to other worlds to borrow food, but I never expected to have conflicts with countries in other worlds in the process.]
[I was young and hot-tempered at the time, relying on my own strength, and in a rage, I flattened that world. From then on, the situation was completely out of control. After we returned with a full load, we wanted to stop there.]
[But the people became even worse. Although they agreed to work, they were no longer willing to engage in agricultural production. I used various means, but to no avail. As their king, I could not give up on them.]
[So whenever the food ran out, I could only lead my fleet to other worlds to plunder again and again. I knew it was wrong, and I also knew that this mode of survival would never last long, but I had no choice.]
[I am their king. I cannot watch them starve to death. Therefore, I would rather the enemies behind the fortress tear me apart than let my subjects starve to death in the wilderness.]
This was the first time Song Yi heard the confession of this king. It sounded like this person was quite reasonable, but when he thought about it carefully, it was full of loopholes. To put it bluntly, the result today was simply due to the excessive indulgence of the man in front of him.
If he had been strict with himself from the beginning and led his subjects on the road of self-reliance, how could there be such a disaster today? He had countless opportunities to correct his mistakes, but he missed them due to his indecision again and again.
According to the Song descendants, the demise of their country was not unjust.
[Humph, what's the point of repenting after the crisis? ]
[Hehe, it doesn't make any sense. I just want to talk to you. Right now, you're the only one around me who can listen to what I have to say.]
[Others, when they heard what I said, could not hear a single useful word except that I deserved death and Your Majesty must not do this. This is the sorrow of an emperor.]
[The emperor cannot be wrong, because his subjects will not allow it.]
Chapter 238 Moths to Flame
Looking at this monarch who is "dedicated to the people", Song Yi was speechless for a moment. It's not that she was speechless, but she put herself in Li Shuntian's shoes and thought that if she were in Li Shuntian's position, she might not do better than him.
Shen Yuelan didn’t know about the conversation between the desperate monarch and the speechless concubines in the Yue Palace. She only saw the slow dissolution of the world barriers and the slowly emerging Yuelong behind the barriers.
Without waiting for Shen Yuelan to give a warning, tens of thousands of small warships gushed out from the mother ship in a mighty manner. The beam of light formed was like a sharp sword with a cold light, piercing straight into the heart of the earth.
Seeing this, Shen Yuelan no longer hesitated. One hundred thousand modernized Qin troops instantly covered the entire land. Each of them was stern and majestic, which made Su Xuan and others who came to join them amazed.
[Tsk, it's only been a few days since I last saw them, and they've already evolved to this level. In two years, they'll be able to fly airplanes and ride tanks.]
[Hehe, not bad, but they still have a lot of room for growth. As the chief financial officer, you should also have some ideals. Why fly a plane when you have nothing to do? You should at least be like those guys in the sky and fly a void battleship.]
[Hehe, it won't be long before they really have to drive a void battleship. ]
[Hmm? Haven't you gone to recruit crew members yet? ]
[Why waste that much money? We have soldiers. Boss, you have 100,000 elite soldiers. Remember to give me 50,000 of them later.]
[Do you need so many? ]
[Of course, this broken warship is larger than the mainland of Li Yue. Fifty thousand people is the minimum. If possible, I would like to send all the 100,000 soldiers in your hands.]
[Hiss, you are trying to kill me. However, if 50,000 people is just the minimum, then the Yuelong will only be a transport ship with no ability to fight back, right? ]
[Yes, that's true. But don't worry, Boss. I'll think of a way to fix this later. Anyway, we have to get the battleship moving first.]
[Oh, forget it. Even if we can recruit people, how much will the daily expenses be? After this is over, I will send the Suchang sisters to your ship to serve as your bodyguards for a while. Money is tight now, so any savings are good.]
[What about your safety, Boss? ]
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