Imperial warlords: Cannons are the only truth

The 21st day of the sixth month of the ninth year of Yongsheng in the Great Qian Empire.

An article published in the Imperial Gazette by Guo Shouhan, the Director of the Imperial Observatory, quickly sparked heated discussions throughout the capital.

Soon, major newspapers in the capital city also rushed to report on the matter.

The Imperial Observatory, which had been dormant for decades, suddenly became a topic of conversation among people.

Since Xiluozhou overturned the people's understanding of the Great Qian Dynasty with its powerful ships and cannons, new learning has also become popular.

From that time onward, the Imperial Observatory, like the emperor who had lost power, essentially disappeared from people's sight.

Now, Guo Shouhan, who is the 88th generation successor of the Imperial Observatory and the current director of the Imperial Observatory, has quickly become a celebrity in the Great Qian Dynasty because of his remarks targeting the imperial family.

Under Xie Kangnian's arrangement, Guo Shouhan's article, which was first published in the Imperial Gazette, was quickly reprinted and published by newspapers all over the country.

In an instant, almost everyone in the Great Qian Kingdom knew the twenty-four characters Guo Shouhan had mentioned in his article:

When Mars guards the heart (the heart of the planets), chaos reigns throughout the land.

Abnormal celestial phenomena foretell world tragedy.

Five stars gather in the room, bringing wisdom to all corners of the world!

In summary, these twenty-four characters boil down to one meaning:

The current chaos in the Great Qian Dynasty is all due to the emperor's moral failings. Recently, unusual celestial phenomena have indicated that an even greater disaster is about to befall the empire.

However, disaster contains a great opportunity. The alignment of the five planets indicates that the Great Qian Dynasty will meet an enlightened ruler who will save millions of people from suffering during this calamity and lead the Great Qian Dynasty to rebuild its former glory and usher in a new era.

Finally, based on the "astrological signs," Guo Shouhan concluded that the Jiang royal family's moral failings had angered the heavens, and even greater chaos was inevitable. Only a wise ruler could step forward and turn the tide, thus quelling this catastrophe and leading the Great Qian Dynasty to a phoenix-like rebirth!

This script was naturally written entirely according to Xie Kangnian's ideas.

The reason for emphasizing that greater chaos was inevitable was to pave the way for Xie Kangnian's subsequent military action.

Soon, under Xie Kangnian's arrangement, a large number of "online trolls" emerged in various parts of Daqian.

These people vigorously promoted Guo Shouhan's theory of celestial phenomena, trying every means to create an atmosphere that great chaos was about to unfold.

Just as the public was in an uproar over Guo Shouhan's astrological pronouncements, the Imperial Astronomical Bureau was making headlines.

Xie Kangnian and the representatives of the four countries also secretly reached a final agreement.

In addition to providing Xie Kangnian's troops with advanced weapons and equipment at a friendly price, the four countries of Georgian Union, Dunli, Lanxi, and Prun also...

The Four Nations Consortium also signed a loan agreement with the Great Qian Empire, represented by Xie Kangnian, for a staggering 30 billion silver dollars!

Financial groups from various countries have always been extremely enthusiastic about providing loans to the Great Qian Dynasty.

Therefore, both parties can be said to have hit it off immediately!

However, it should be noted that the reason why financial groups from various countries like to provide loans to Daqian is not because they are optimistic about Daqian's ability to repay its loans.

The truth is quite the opposite—the Great Qian Empire's lack of repayment ability means that they must use mining rights, railway construction rights, and leased land as collateral.

Through this lending relationship, the territory and resources of the Great Qian Dynasty became collateral for the lending countries, which was exactly what the great powers wanted.

Over the years, the competition among the great powers for the construction rights of the Daqian Railway and the mining rights has been extremely fierce.

In recent years, the Salo people and the Yi people have taken advantage of their geographical position and the instability of the Western Luo continent itself to carry out a series of increasingly frequent activities in Daqian, which has made countries such as the Gelian feel an unprecedented threat.

Xie Kangnian was well aware of this kind of thinking among foreigners.

Therefore, he deliberately used this as a condition for cooperation between the two sides to gain strong support from Georgia and other countries, and to more closely integrate the interests of both sides.

Xie Kangnian's actions made the Georgian Union and other countries realize more directly that only if Xie Kangnian ultimately succeeds will they maximize their interests in Georgia.

In this way, Xie Kangnian not only obtained a large amount of funds, but also gained a more solid backing for his military unification, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Having dealt with foreigners for so many years, Xie Kangnian knew their character all too well.

This time, although it was the Gelian people who took the initiative to find Xie Kangnian, asking him to step forward and clean up the mess, and they even said a lot of nice things.

However, if this battle really breaks out, what if Xie Kangnian is at a serious disadvantage or some other unpredictable changes occur?

These foreigners can change their tune in the blink of an eye!

Therefore, only by presenting them with the greatest possible benefits can we ensure that these foreigners will truly support us to the end.

Now, Xie Kangnian, who is approaching sixty, has his biggest wish: to fulfill his dream of becoming emperor at all costs!

In fact, to realize his dream of becoming emperor, Xie Kangnian secretly set a bottom line for himself: even if he had to give away half of the Great Qian territory, he would still become emperor!

This alone is enough to show that Xie Kangnian had become utterly depraved and without any moral bottom line when it came to being emperor.

In short, he was willing to pay any price to fulfill his dream of becoming emperor!