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"Sir, all three of them have been caught."

Just as Zhou Wu was treating the tall, thin man to a delicious meal, Niu Er rushed in excitedly.

"Really? How did you catch him?"

These people have a lot of tricks up their sleeves, which is why Zhou Wu was a little curious.

"Sir, we brought hunting dogs this time, and we have more manpower. Catching them shouldn't be too difficult. But these three bastards are indeed quite cunning. Can you believe that the dwarf rabbit was eventually found in a rabbit hole?"

"What? A rabbit hole? You can hide in there."

"Of course, the hound kept barking at the rabbit hole, and none of us expected that there was someone hiding inside."

Hmph, what kind of cultivators are they? In Zhou Wu's eyes, they're nothing more than a group of acrobats with some skills.

"bring it here."

"Yes."

Zhou Wu absolutely cannot let these three people go; bringing them up is merely to verify their identities.

"Zhou Wu, you'd better let us go, or my Tantric sect will fight you to the death."

Before anyone could even press down on her, they heard the old woman struggling and screaming. Her hoarse voice confirmed it was indeed her.

When they were brought up, it was indeed the same three people. Zhou Wu didn't ask any questions, and simply waved his hand, ordering Niu Er to take the men away and execute them.

This scene terrified all three of them. Weren't they going to ask anything? Weren't they going to execute him without going through some kind of torture or interrogation?

No matter how the three threatened or begged for mercy, Zhou Wu remained unmoved.

Ultimately, the three were taken to the Nanhai execution ground, becoming the first batch of prisoners to be publicly executed in Nanhai, serving as a warning to those who were not up to the task.

. . . . . . . .

"My lord, intelligence from Japan."

"read."

There's been no news from Japan for a long time, and Kenjiro hasn't sent anyone for a while either. Zhou Wu is wondering about this.

"Su Yuan's army gathered more than 200,000 troops and attacked Kenjiro's army again. Kenjiro resisted fiercely, but the difference in numbers was too great, and he was ultimately defeated. Kenjiro committed suicide in his castle mansion, and Su Yuan unified Japan."

"what!"

Zhou Wu snatched the intelligence report and personally checked it word by word; it was indeed written that way.

It wasn't that Zhou Wu felt sorry for Kenjiro's death, but rather that he hadn't expected Su Yuan to unify Japan so quickly.

In Zhou Wu's plan, the country of Fusang would be taken over sooner or later. He supported Kenshiro to the throne because the development of the South China Sea had just begun, and he thought that Kenshiro could hold out for a few years. He did not expect that he would be defeated by Su Yuan so quickly.

"We must take advantage of the fact that Su Yuan is still not firmly established, otherwise, if we give him enough time, it will be much more difficult to take him down later."

Zhou Wu decided that he could not delay any longer and immediately submitted a memorial to Li Tiancheng, requesting that troops be sent to Japan.

Royal Palace

"Your Highness, this is Zhou Wu's memorial. Please take a look."

Li Tiancheng handed Zhou Wu's memorial to the Crown Prince, mainly to seek the Crown Prince's opinion.

Li Tiancheng knew that Zhou Wu had never liked Japan, but he didn't expect him to hate it to this extent. However, for Li Tiancheng, Japan was an overseas territory, and it would be a losing proposition to spend a lot of manpower and resources to conquer it. It was simply a losing deal.

"Father, I think we can support this matter."

After reading it, Li Junren still decided to speak up for Zhou Wu.

"Oh, tell me your reasons."

"Your subject once heard Zhou Wu mention that the Fusang people are a very aggressive people. Because Fusang is an island nation with extremely scarce resources, they have always had the idea of ​​jumping out of the island. However, they are very clear about their own strength, so they have a strong ability to learn and imitate. Before they are strong enough, they will disguise themselves. When they have enough strength, they will show their sharp claws."

"is it?"

Because Li Tiancheng didn't have much contact with Japan, he didn't know much about them.

"After Zhou Wu said those words, I paid special attention to the Japanese students at the Imperial Academy. They were respectful and polite to people and never competitive. But one time, by chance, I discovered that they were all acting."

"Oh."

"Once, I was in a restaurant in the capital when I overheard people speaking Japanese in the next private room. Their tone of voice and their attitude toward the waiter were completely opposite to their humble demeanor at the Imperial Academy. Coincidentally, someone next to me that day understood Japanese and overheard these Japanese students discussing, without any hesitation, the appearance and figure of the women of my Great Dragon. They also said that what they learned in the Great Dragon would make Japan as powerful as the Great Dragon when they returned to Japan."

"Discussing women is impolite, but it doesn't have to be this serious..."

"Father, you didn't hear what they said next. They actually wanted to covet my Great Dragon, saying that if the land of Great Dragon belonged to the Fusang people, it would definitely develop even more powerfully than Great Dragon."

*Smack!*

Li Tiancheng could no longer hold back and smashed the teacup in his hand on the ground.

"Someone is coming."

"The humble position is here."

"Order the Imperial Academy and all prefectures to expel all Japanese people from the country and forbid them from ever setting foot on the land of the Great Dragon again."

"Yes."

The Great Dragon Empire is Li Tiancheng's bottom line; no one can have any ideas about it, no one is allowed to.

“Your Highness, although the Japanese deserve to die, the ministers will not agree to this thankless task at court.”

Emperor Li Tiancheng sighed, because there was absolutely no benefit to going on a campaign against Japan, so the ministers would definitely not agree. On this point, Emperor Li Tiancheng was powerless to help them.

"Father, I think we should try our best to provide some support to Zhou Wu."

Li Junren was certainly aware of these matters in the court, and he knew that his father was in a difficult position. However, if Zhou Wu did not provide any support, it would indeed be difficult to explain.

"How about this, the ministers definitely won't agree to a regular army. They've been having a headache over the militia lately, so why don't we just give it all to Zhou Wu?"

"Oh, wouldn't the militia be too...?"

The militia was established when the imperial court lacked regular troops and local security was not guaranteed. The court allocated some positions to local governments. The combat skills of these militiamen were far inferior to those of the regular army, but fortunately, their salaries were not high.

Recently, the court meetings have been discussing the resettlement of the militia almost every day, and the ministers have proposed two main approaches.

One option was to convert all these militia groups into regular troops, improve their training quality, and give them the salaries of regular troops. However, this plan was quickly met with protests from most civil officials because there were simply too many militia members. Increasing the salaries of all of them would cost the treasury a lot more money each year, and the court did not need that many regular troops at the moment.

The second option was to disband all the militia members on the spot. However, the compensation for disbanding them would be a huge sum of money, which the imperial court did not want to ask for. Since Zhou Wu needed people, all the militia members were given to Zhou Wu to use in the war against Japan.