Hearing Young Master Liu's inquiry, Nangong Ye, Hu Yanyu, Wanyan Chiezha, Yeluha, and Yunchong all looked at Zhang Kuang in unison.
Nowadays, Zhang Kuang, the left-wing military marshal, is in charge of most things within the Kingdom of Dashi.
As for who is the most suitable person to report to Young Master Liu about the situation in Dashi Country, it is naturally him.
Zhang Kuang felt the gazes of several people, chuckled and gave Young Master Liu a fist.
"Your Majesty, let the veteran come first."
Liu Mingzhi blew out a puff of smoke, looked at Zhang Kuang and nodded with a slight smile.
"Okay, uncle, let's talk first."
"Your Majesty, I wonder what kind of things you want to ask about?"
Liu Mingzhi raised his hand to fan the light smoke lingering in front of him, then picked up the pot and poured himself a cup of herbal tea.
"Uncle, please tell me first what is the main situation in Dashi Country now."
Zhang Kuang pondered for a moment and said loudly: "Back to Your Majesty, for now, most places in Dashi Kingdom are still very stable.
In some places, there will be some unrest from time to time.
However, every time a turmoil breaks out, it will soon be suppressed by our Dalong soldiers."
When Liu Mingzhi heard the arrogant answer, he frowned slightly, picked up the tea cup and took a casual sip of tea.
"Uncle, what are some of the places you mentioned?"
"Your Majesty, most of them are cities on the border of the Great Food Country."
Liu Mingzhi narrowed his eyes slightly, and after pondering for a moment, he opened his mouth and gently took a puff of dry cigarette.
"Uncle, what are the identities of those who caused the unrest? Have they been investigated clearly now?
Is it a force among the people? Or is it a damaged force left behind by the imperial court of the Great Food Kingdom?"
Zhang Kuang picked up a cup of herbal tea and soothed his dry throat after drinking.
"According to the investigation by spies and scouts, there are both. There are the remaining forces from the Great Food Kingdom that are unwilling to surrender to our Great Dragon Heavenly Kingdom, and there are also some forces from the people.
However, compared to the forces among the people, most of them are the remaining forces from the imperial court of the great food country."
"What's the situation with those civil forces? Are they dissatisfied with our Dalong's rule, or do they have other reasons?"
"Back to Your Majesty, there are two types of civil forces that deliberately create unrest."
"Oh? Tell me."
"Your Majesty, some of the civil forces who deliberately create unrest for us are the people of the Great Food Country who are dissatisfied with the rule of our dragon, and the other part are sand bandits who have been wandering around the western countries all year round."
Liu Mingzhi, who was drinking tea, paused slightly and frowned.
"Are some people dissatisfied with our Dalong's rule? Why are they dissatisfied? You haven't done anything excessive, right?"
When Zhang Kuang saw the change in Mr. Liu's expression, his expression tightened slightly and he shook his head without hesitation.
"No, no, I can assure you, Your Majesty.
Since I have completely conquered the entire Dashi Kingdom, I have been properly managing the people in the Dashi Kingdom in accordance with the orders given by Your Majesty before the expedition.
Apart from this, I have never done any excessive behavior without authorization."
Seeing Zhang Kuang's expression suddenly becoming embarrassed, Liu Mingzhi drank the herbal tea in the cup in one gulp.
"Uncle, you don't need to be nervous.
I ask you this, young master, and I don’t mean to question you.
Mainly I just can’t figure out why this happens.”
"I understand, I understand. I understand."
Liu Mingzhi put down the tea cup in his hand, stood up and stretched, then walked towards the city wall a few steps away with his dry pipe in hand.
Seeing this, Zhang Kuang immediately stood up and followed him.
Nangong Ye, Cheng Kai, Hu Yanyu and others also stood up one after another and gathered towards the city wall without any hurry.
Liu Mingzhi glanced at the scenery outside the royal city and silently took a puff of dry cigarette.
"Uncle, have you investigated and found out why those people are dissatisfied with our rule?"
"We have already investigated the general situation."
"Oh? Tell me what the reason is."
"There are racial reasons, religious reasons, and all kinds of other messy reasons."
Liu Mingzhi withdrew his gaze and turned to look at Zhang Kuang standing next to him.
"Because of race, I can probably understand what's going on, young master.
It’s just that their hearts must be different from those of the non-my race that our dragon said, there’s no difference, right?”
"Your Majesty, that's exactly what it is."
"Then what's the reason for this belief?"
Zhang Kuang scratched his brow with his fingers, smiled bitterly and let out a sigh of relief.
"Back to Your Majesty, the people of the Dashi Kingdom who caused the turmoil have great faith in the God they call."
"They can believe in whatever they want to believe. What they believe in is their business. What does this have to do with being dissatisfied with the rule of our dragon?
What? You won’t force them to change their beliefs, will you?”
"No, I don't have any."
"I'm surprised, young master, that you have been benevolent to them, but you haven't forced them to change their beliefs.
If that's the case, then why are they dissatisfied with our dragon's rule?"
"Return to your Majesty, you may not believe the reason."
"Hey, uncle, stop being so pretentious and tell me what's going on."
"Your Majesty, it's like this. Since then, I have led the soldiers to completely conquer the entire Dashi Kingdom.
The reason why the people of the Great Food Kingdom have been causing turmoil and are unwilling to submit to the rule of the Great Dragon is because the veterans and other brothers, as well as our officers and soldiers of the Great Dragon, do not believe in the God they call.
They think that the old ministers and other brothers, as well as our Dalong soldiers are heretics, and we heretics are not worthy to govern them, the people of God.
During this period, they even sent a representative to come to the royal city to negotiate with the old minister and other brothers.
That representative claimed that as long as we are willing to believe in their Allah and become His people, we will accept the governance of our Great Dragon Heavenly Kingdom."
As he talked, he lit up a pot of tobacco with a wry smile and took a long puff.
“Your Majesty, we don’t even know what the God they say is about us, so how can we believe in Him?
Furthermore, even if we really figure out what God is like, it is impossible for our brothers and veterans to believe in Him.
It is for this reason that they will create some small disturbances for us from time to time."
Liu Mingzhi raised his hand to knock out the ashes from the smoke pot on the city wall, casually put his hands behind his back, and looked out towards the outside of the royal city again.
"A fanatical believer?"
Nangong Ye took a sip of wine from the wine bottle and looked at Young Master Liu helplessly.
"Your Majesty, Brother Zhang is right.
Isn’t it a joke to ask veterans, brothers, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers to believe in the God they say?”
Zhang Kuang blew out a puff of smoke and nodded with a slight smile.
"Your Majesty, when we are away on an expedition, my brothers and I don't believe in anyone but our own ancestors.
With the blessing of our ancestors, everything will be fine!"
Liu Mingzhi raised his eyebrows and nodded happily.
"Yes, uncle, you are right, trust no one as much as your own ancestors!"
Zhang Kuang raised his hand to fan the smoke in front of him and sighed helplessly.
"Well, Your Majesty, now you should be able to understand the difficulties I'm waiting for, right?"
"understand.
By the way, as for the people of the Dashi Kingdom who deliberately create unrest, are you handling it?"
"What else can we do except send troops to suppress it? Send troops to suppress it."
“What were the results of the crackdown?”
“Not ideal.”
"Why?"
"Your Majesty, you don't know something. In addition to some young and strong men, among the people there are also most old, weak, women and children.
It's easy for those young adults to say that if they dare to cause too much trouble, they will be dealt with how to deal with it.
Those who can be persuaded will naturally be given a lighter punishment. Those who are really stubborn and unreasonable will naturally have no choice but to be killed.
However, it is difficult to deal with those old, weak, women and children.
To be honest, brothers should not go too far when it comes to those old, weak, women and children.
You ask the soldiers to charge into the battle and attack the city, and the soldiers don't even blink an eye.
However, if you ask them to kill unarmed civilians, especially when there are a large number of women and children inside, they are somewhat reluctant to do so.
It’s not that I don’t dare to kill, it’s not that I can’t kill.
But, I really can’t let go of that ruthless hand.”
Liu Mingzhi listened to Zhang Kuang's somewhat low tone and nodded silently.
"I understand, young master, what is the situation with those sand bandits who are running around in various kingdoms?
Since you have investigated their identities clearly, why don't you mobilize troops to suppress the bandits?"
Zhang Kuang took a puff of dry cigarette and shook his head helplessly.
"Your Majesty, you don't know that those bandits are extremely cunning.
They never dared to fight with our soldiers. Every time they found the right opportunity, disguised themselves and sneaked into the city.
Then, he took the opportunity to loot the area near the city gate and immediately escaped.
When the soldiers gathered together and planned to encircle and suppress them, they had already fled into the desert and disappeared without a trace.
Those sand bandits are very familiar with the terrain and environment in the desert.
After entering the desert, it was their world.
The soldiers were worried about falling into the trap of the bandits, so they did not dare to pursue them rashly."
Liu Mingzhi nodded slightly and casually pinned the cold tobacco bag to his waist.
"Well, by the way, who are those bandits looting?"
"Your Majesty, there are large and small caravans from all over the world, as well as ordinary people in the border cities."
"Do they dare to sneak attack our dragon soldiers?"
"At the beginning, those bandits were very coveted for the excellent weapons and equipment of our soldiers, and they even made sneak attacks on our Dalong soldiers.
Later, after one time they left more than 300 corpses under the arrow formation of the soldiers, they no longer dared to provoke the soldiers."
Liu Mingzhi was silent for a while, then raised his hand and patted the city wall in front of him a few times.
"The elite scouts in the army are all masters of the third level.
Could it be that even they can't trace the whereabouts of those sand bandits?"
"Your Majesty, I have not sent orders to the guards of many border cities, asking them to send their military masters to track down the traces of the bandits.
However, the results were very unsatisfactory.
When there is a slight breeze in the desert, all the footprints left by the bandits, including horse hoof prints and camel footprints, will soon be covered by yellow sand.
No matter how powerful our scout brothers are, there is nothing they can do in this situation!"
"Apart from this, haven't you thought of other ways to suppress bandits?
For example, soldiers were sent to disguise themselves as caravans from Western countries to lure sand bandits to come and rob.
Or spread some news that some people are getting rich, and then send some soldiers to live in the homes of the people of the Dashi Kingdom near the city gate, waiting for the bandits to come and fall into the trap."
"Your Majesty, I have already tried the two methods you mentioned.
At the beginning, the soldiers made some gains.
However, those sand bandits are all very clever. After they suffered several losses, they almost stopped being fooled.
Later, when they looted the caravan, they always sent people to deal with the caravan in advance and used various reasons to get close to the caravan members.
As soon as they discover that the people in the caravan do not look like Westerners, they will evacuate immediately.
As for setting a trap in the city and waiting for them to fall into the trap, there is no need to think about it.
The appearance gap between our Dalong soldiers and Westerners is so huge that it cannot be hidden from the eyes of those bandits.
As soon as those sand bandit spies see our Dalong soldiers wandering around in people's homes, they will immediately notify their comrades to evacuate."
Liu Mingzhi nodded slightly and sat sideways on the city wall.
"Uncle, from what you said, these bandits are indeed not easy to deal with."
"Your Majesty, in the final analysis, the soldiers are still unfamiliar with the environment and terrain in the desert and do not dare to attack rashly.
Otherwise, why would it be their turn to be so arrogant!
Over the years, Lao Chen and other brothers have been sending people to draw maps in the desert.
By the time we get the detailed map, those bastards will be missing their heads."
"Uncle, can't we use the map you captured from Dashi Country?"
"Your Majesty, it can be used, but their maps don't record much of the terrain in the desert.
Some of the main routes are fairly clearly documented.
As for other detailed routes, there is no way to tell.
However, without too much pressure on me, I dare not rashly order the soldiers to go into the desert to suppress the bandits."
Seeing Zhang Kuang's slightly depressed expression, Mr. Liu smiled and nodded.
"You are right, because some barbarian bandits are really not worth risking the lives of the soldiers."
"Your Majesty is wise, I would like to thank your Majesty for your understanding."
"What is the situation with the remaining forces of the imperial court of the Great Food Kingdom?"
"Your Majesty, every time the remaining forces of the Great Food Country create turmoil, they will flee to other countries to avoid encirclement and suppression by the soldiers.
Without your Majesty's order, I would not dare to rush into other countries and start a war with them."
Liu Mingzhi took off the wine bag from his waist, raised his head and took a few sips of wine, then sighed with a pitiful expression.
"well."
"It seems that it is not so easy for me, the young general of Dalong Celestial Dynasty, to completely control this territory!" ()