mtl008 Chapter 1204 mainly focuses on troop training.
Chapter 1204 mainly focuses on troop training.
"At that time, we will be fighting on two fronts and attacked from both sides! That will be the true end of our nation, a point of no return!"
"Your Majesty, please rescind your decree! Do not let momentary anger jeopardize matters of state!"
For a time, the entire Zichen Palace was filled with voices of opposition and advice.
Almost all the civil officials believed that Murong Yan's decision was crazy, irrational, and even self-destructive!
however.
Faced with this overwhelming wave of opposition.
Murong Yan's stunningly beautiful face remained completely unmoved.
She simply looked at His Highness's self-proclaimed loyal "pillars of the court" with a cold, death-gazing gaze.
for a long time.
She then slowly began to speak.
Not loud.
Yet it clearly resonated throughout every corner of the main hall.
It struck a deep chord in everyone's heart.
"Are you finished?"
Those three cold, emotionless words.
In an instant, the once bustling Zichen Palace fell into a deathly silence once more.
All the officials looked at Her Majesty the Empress with disbelief.
I don't understand why she can remain so calm at this point.
"Now that you've finished speaking..."
Murong Yan's lips slowly curved into a cold, mocking smile.
"Then it's my turn to teach you a lesson."
"Do you think," her voice grew colder and sharper, "that my decision to personally lead the army to attack Japan was a spur-of-the-moment decision?"
"Was it to vent personal grievances?"
"Is it to avenge my husband and my 100,000 Anxi soldiers?"
"Innocent!"
"How ridiculously naive!"
"I tell you!"
"Every decision I make is not made without reason!"
"My purpose in attacking Japan is precisely to save the Western Regions! To save the Prince! To save my Great Qian Dynasty!"
"This is our only and final way to break this deadlock!"
Murong Yan's words were like bolts of chaotic divine thunder from beyond the nine heavens!
It exploded in everyone's minds once again!
They were all dumbfounded and speechless!
Was the attack on Japan intended to save the Western Regions?
This...how is this possible? !
These two things are completely unrelated!
"Your Majesty..." Wang Anshi, the Minister of Personnel and the head of all officials, mustered his courage and asked, "Your Majesty, we are ignorant and humbly request your guidance..."
"Hmph." Murong Yan snorted coldly, a hint of undisguised disdain flashing in her icy phoenix eyes.
"What else can you bunch of old fogies who have spent your whole lives studying the classics do besides quoting scriptures and using classical allusions?"
"What else can you see besides this small piece of land in the Central Plains?"
"Do you know why the Ottoman Turks traveled thousands of miles to attack us?"
Do you know why the East India Company's fleet suddenly appeared in our territorial waters?
Do you even know what this so-called 'Nihilism Party' actually is?
Every question Murong Yan asked was like a sharp knife.
It pierced the hearts of all the civil and military officials present!
They were all blushing with shame and felt utterly embarrassed.
Yes.
They know nothing.
They are like a group of frogs kept at the bottom of a well.
Apart from the small patch of sky above his head, he could see no wider world.
Yet they remain arrogant, believing themselves to be the center of the world.
How tragic!
How ridiculous!
"I'm telling you!" Murong Yan's voice grew increasingly loud and impassioned!
"This world is far bigger and far more dangerous than you can imagine!"
"In the distant West, unknown to us, there exist nations far more powerful than us! With more advanced weapons! And with far more insatiable ambitions!"
"They were like a pack of hungry jackals who had smelled blood!"
"They are eyeing our Eastern continent, which they see as incredibly fertile and prosperous, with covetous eyes!"
"Today, the Ottoman Turks and the East India Company have come."
"Tomorrow could be Russia, France, or Spain!"
"If we cannot break their backbone and terrify them today with the bloodiest and toughest means!"
"Then what awaits us is only the tragic fate of being gradually divided and devoured by them, ultimately leading to the destruction of our nation and the extinction of our race!"
"And now!"
"We have no retreat!"
"The Western Regions have been lost! The prince is trapped! The national treasury is empty! The people are in turmoil!"
"If we were to mobilize the entire nation's resources to fight a protracted war of attrition against that 200,000-strong Turkish army in the Western Regions."
"That plays right into the enemy's hands!"
"They'd love for us to be dragged down and worn down like this!"
"so!"
"We must escape this deadly chessboard they have set for us!"
"We must use a crazy method that none of them can imagine!"
Let's break this deadlock!
"And the key to breaking this deadlock lies in..."
Her finger once again pressed heavily on that inconspicuous little island nation on the geomantic map!
"——Japanese country!"
Why Japan?
Yue Fei stared at the map at that tiny, isolated country overseas, his brow furrowed in bewilderment.
"Your Majesty, please forgive my bluntness. Japan is a small country with a weak population and scarce resources. Moreover, it is surrounded by the sea and separated from our Great Qian by vast blue waters. Our army is on a long expedition and faces difficulties in resupply. We are at a disadvantage in terms of both weather and terrain."
Even if we manage to capture it by chance, what will we gain?
"Besides adding another barren wasteland and millions of unruly people, it brings no benefit whatsoever to our Great Qian."
"On the contrary, it will only plunge us deeper into the quagmire of war, completely exhausting the last bit of national strength of our Great Qian!"
Yue Fei's words were very pertinent and reasonable.
This also represents the sentiments of the vast majority of military officers present.
In their view, attacking Japan was a losing proposition no matter how you looked at it.
Not worth the candle.
however.
Murong Yan laughed after hearing this.
Her smile was cold yet beautiful.
It also exudes an absolute intellectual dominance.
“Minister Yue,” she said, looking at Yue Fei’s resolute face, which was filled with confusion and bewilderment, and slowly shook her head.
"You only saw one aspect."
"But we did not see the second, the third, or even the fourth."
"Oh?" A hint of curiosity flashed in Yue Fei's eyes. "Please enlighten me, Your Majesty."
“Firstly,” Murong Yan extended a slender, jade-like finger.
"You just said that Japan is a small country with a weak population and scarce resources. That's only half true."
"Japan's other resources may not be that great. But it has one resource that is incredibly abundant, far surpassing that of our Great Qian Dynasty or even any other country in the world!"
"What resources?" Everyone looked over curiously.
"silver!"