Reborn as the Crippled King's Beloved-Chapter 562 This is too terrifying!

The Emperor led the expedition himself.

The border was sealed off, not even a pigeon, let alone a fly, could escape.

Meanwhile, after the incident in Shabin County, the Eldest Prince of Bullet State did not remain arrogant for long before his men were rounded up and he himself was captured alive by the army. Naturally, the fleet was also confiscated; aside from the Eldest Prince, not a single survivor was spared.

The reason was not that Great Yan was excessively cruel.

Rather, on the ships of Bullet State, women abducted from various places were penned like livestock for the pleasure of the men on board.

Most of these women were from Great Yan, and there were others from smaller coastal nations. It could be said that wherever their fleet docked at a port, they would definitely abduct women. Those missing women either died miserably at their hands and were thrown into the sea to feed the fish, leaving no remains, or they contracted diseases and were still used to satisfy the men’s lust.

These women were too miserable; anyone who saw them couldn’t help but be angered. Killing the men of Bullet State aboard the ships wasn’t enough to vent this fury.

The reason they could dock in Great Yan was that they were Imperial Merchants of Bullet State, engaged in economic transactions with Great Yan. The Imperial Court had stipulated that they could only dock to resupply their ships or conduct trade with local merchants, with the requirement that they were not to disembark and enter the country at will.

It was after nightfall that those with good Qinggong from Bullet State entered the city to abduct people.

They indeed committed countless evils!

The Eldest Prince of Bullet State was not dead, but he might as well have been; his body didn’t have a single patch of undamaged flesh, bruised purple and blue, with all tendons in his hands and feet severed.

If he weren’t still useful, he would have been cut up piece by piece.

The Eldest Prince of Bullet State was escorted northward, still by water, yet now he traveled on Great Yan’s ocean-going vessels, manned entirely by soldiers who were valiant in battle and adept at naval warfare.

They were well-trained and continued their exercises aboard the vast ships, swimming in the water after docking, each and every one a master at Float and Swim.

They would not get seasick even when facing great winds and waves.

The Eldest Prince, barely hanging onto life, was dumbfounded and finally realized the enormity of the disaster he had wrought.

But, it was already too late for regrets.

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They had safely made it to the Southern Ridge, thinking they had finally found light at the end of the tunnel, that the Emperor was far away and the sky high above. But, unexpectedly, a massive army emerged in the Southern Ridge, quickly rounding up the Eldest Prince of Bullet State with the utmost speed.

It was said that the Eldest Prince had fled by ship overnight, but he was captured in less than half a day. When facing Great Yan’s navy, he had no chance to resist.

These fleets were usually in the nearby seas.

In other words, should they dare to make any kind of disturbance, with one command from the Emperor and Empress, they could be made to die with no grave to mark their passing.

The Second Prince had become crippled and now needed to be fed by someone. He was also terrified that someone would poison him and lived every day in fear and trepidation.

This caused him more suffering than a swift death would have.

Murong Man originally planned to kill the Second Prince and Yun Weiwei and take control for herself, but then she realized that her every move was being watched and controlled by the Emperor and Empress far away in the Capital City, treated as a joke. As much as this infuriated her, it also filled her with a profound sense of powerlessness and fear.

She finally understood that Murong Jiu didn’t kill her not because of kindness, but because Murong Jiu simply wanted to watch her struggle and vie for attention.

Her fear stemmed from knowing that perhaps once Murong Jiu grew tired of her, a single gesture could have her head rolling.

Between her and Murong Jiu, one was in the heavens, and the other had become the muck in the gutters below.

Murong Man feared death, for once dead, she would have nothing left; her consciousness would cease to exist, she would be forgotten by people, gnawed on by worms, rotting and stinking, turning into a few pieces of decayed bone.

She wanted to live, to continue living even in humiliation.

Only suddenly, Murong Man started coughing violently.

She couldn’t stop coughing, and then, a mouthful of black blood spewed from her mouth.

Yun Weiwei appeared in front of her.

"Oh dear, little sister, you couldn’t possibly have contracted tuberculosis, right? You’re even coughing up blood."

Tuberculosis was a serious disease, contagious, and everyone avoided it like the plague, yet Yun Weiwei smiled with a hooked lip, eyes gleaming with triumph.

"You poisoned me! You vile woman!"

Murong Man agonizedly knelt on the ground.

"Even poison couldn’t be as bad as you, could it?" Yun Weiwei walked up, but did not approach her. Two guards stood in front of her, knives in hand, ready to hack her to death if she dared to make a move.

Yun Weiwei leaned on one guard’s shoulder, watching Murong Man with satisfaction.

"Rest assured, you won’t die so quickly. This is Rotten Gut Powder, a specialty medicine from Southern Ridge that will make you so agonized that you’ll wish for death. Over three months, your intestines will rot away bit by bit, and you’ll die of stench. Of course, you could also just hit your head here and end the suffering."

Murong Man was not willing to die.

She had overturned dire situations many times before, and she believed she would definitely find an antidote.

However, they had been essentially exiled here, their assets already seized. Murong Man had almost run out of the usable silver in her possession, whereas Yun Weiwei, with her deep schemes, had hidden away plenty of gold, enabling her to bribe guards into becoming her paid lovers.

As Yun Weiwei strutted away arrogantly, Murong Man thought to herself, she couldn’t die, she must turn the situation around again, she must!

...

Murong Jiu had started to preside over the government affairs behind the curtain once again.

In reality, the political affairs she dealt with were not many, because Lou Zixi was gaining more and more trust, and even sorted out memorials from all over the country. Only the major or emergency issues from various places were presented to Murong Jiu.

Murong Jiu had become adept and handled the matters very well.

Even the implementation of the new policies that she and Jun Yuyan had previously planned was smooth and caused no dissatisfaction among the families controlling local affairs around the country.

On the fourth day of Jun Yuyan’s campaign, he set foot on the naval battleships.

Of course, the battleships of that era could not be compared with those of a thousand years later, but they were still formidable in size, a dark mass of towering ships stretching as far as the eye could see.

Fu Heng and others, leading an army inexperienced in naval battles, took a detour from the northern land and entered a Vassal State.

The sight of the imposing army nearly paralyzed the Emperor of the Vassal State with fear; he was on the brink of kneeling and surrendering.

Upon learning that they were only looking to borrow land and vessels, he immediately instructed his subordinates to fully cooperate.

The Imperial Family of this Vassal State was known for their spinelessness, always first to offer tribute, and repeatedly sent Princesses to marry into Great Yan as a symbol of alliance.

However, Fu Heng and the others knew that this small nation was no saint in later generations.

They were adept at deception and double-dealing.

Naturally, Fu Heng and his company did not hold back. Assuming the identity of the Son of Heaven Nation’s General, they levied troops, grain, and weapons from the country. The Vassal State dared not refuse, nor could they express their anger.

Their Emperor even feared the flames of war reaching his own soil; whatever the General of Great Yan said, went.

Within a few days, General Fu and Su Kai also brought their troops, and the small nation trembled. If these forces were to attack their country, it probably wouldn’t last even ten days.

This was truly terrifying!