bayedsolid Chapter 903
Chapter 903
Chapter 903
Qin Yu thought of a way to grow food for the people of Haizhou, but because the procedure was a bit complicated and there was no wages, they had to cultivate the land themselves in the early stages!
As a result, they were unwilling to do it. No matter how Qin Yu persuaded them, they just disagreed. They even refused to allow Qin Yu to send the people to plant!
Now, Qin Yu no longer needs their consent!
The people of Haizhou who were mining sea salt stopped their work after smelling the blood, and were then whipped by the Japanese slaves!
It was not until the evening that they learned that Haicheng had been massacred. They gritted their teeth and their eyes turned red in an instant!
"We thought the Japanese were good people, but we didn't expect them to be such beasts!"
"When the Crown Prince of Daliang was here, our lives were so prosperous! But now, we have nothing!"
"All this is because we're not satisfied! Now think about it, the treatment the Daliang Crown Prince gives us is hundreds, thousands of times what we used to receive!"
"Alas! Now, not only do we have to work for free, but we also have to eat fish scraps! Wuuwu! Someone come and save us!"
"Your Highness, we miss you so much!"
The people shed tears of regret!
At this time, in Haicheng, Yamaguchi Inu Inu looked arrogant and presumptuous!
"Haha! I used to be the crown prince, and when I went to negotiate the price of sea salt with Qin Yu, whatever he said was the final word. But now I'm the emperor of Japan, and he has to raise the price for me!"
"Humph! If he dares to continue to offer such a low price, I will go to war with him! We Japanese have money and food now. If a real fight breaks out, Qin Yu may not be our opponent!"
Yamaguchi Inu said coldly.
Afterwards, he sent someone to find Qin Yu and asked him to increase the price of sea salt tenfold!
Although the tenfold increase is almost the same as Qin Yu’s previous cost of mining sea salt, it is impossible for Qin Yu to agree to the Japanese slaves’ request!
Moreover, Haicheng has almost become a deserted city now, and there are less than 10,000 people left in Haizhou. This is enough for him!
If we take back Haizhou now, we can move a large number of people there, and all the officials will be our own confidants. In two or three years at most, Haizhou will become a prosperous place!
"Huang Qiuhu! Gather the troops, let's prepare to fight back!"
Qin Yu said in a deep voice.
"Your Highness! Recently, the Japanese invaders lurking in the southern border have been active. If my suspicions are correct, they seem to be colluding with the Japanese invaders in Haizhou!"
"If we mobilize the army now, the southern border will be unstable!"
Huang Qiuhu said in a deep voice.
"You only see the surface. These Japanese slaves are all famous for Shangguan Wan'er, and Shangguan Wan'er is very close to the retired emperor. If the Japanese slaves are unstable, it means it's Shangguan Wan'er's doing!"
"I've heard that Shangguan Xiong has mobilized a hundred thousand troops to assemble outside the southern border. My father has sent an envoy to investigate my rebellion, and the envoy is Shangguan Tailang!"
"So, I have to deploy the army now to give them the illusion that there's a vacancy in the southern border. That way, they'll take action!"
"As for the troops in the southern border, there will definitely be no vacancies, because the troops of the four marquises are all in the hands of this prince!"
Qin Yu said in a deep voice.
The four marquises brought an army of 200,000, but in their fiefdoms, there were no less than 200,000 more troops, and all of them were now under the command of Xue Rongrong.
Qin Yu has asked Xue Rongrong to quietly transfer these people to the southern border to hide secretly. There are still 20,000 Jinyiwei in Nanli City, which is enough to ensure the safety of Nanli City!
Huang Qiuhu was relieved after hearing this and immediately said, "Your Highness! Leave the task of repelling the Japanese invaders to me!"