socalfunplaces Chapter 338
Chapter 338
Hedong Prefecture, Jieyun Pass.
The Northern Liang army started the battle here, advancing straight ahead with unstoppable force.
However, the King of Hedong in Yanyun City was as steady as a rock.
"Your Highness! Urgent military report!"
"General Lin Lie, who guards the north, has conquered more than ten cities in a row and is now only seventy miles away from Yanyun City!"
"Martial arts sects and martial arts families from all over Hedong have responded one after another, and we have no power to resist!"
Shen Mingwu's heart trembled, but he still looked calm on the surface.
The most panicked people were the Confucian scholars who were sheltered in the palace.
Most of them were not at the level of Wenhai, and everyone thought they were too innocent.
Upon hearing that the Northern Liang army was about to enter Yanyun City, they ran to Shen Mingwu like they had lost their souls, wanting to continue to seek shelter.
At this point, Shen Mingwu was helpless.
Putting aside other factors, Shen Mingwu respected these scholars from the bottom of his heart.
After seeing the look of the King of Hedong, everyone could understand that the situation had reached a point where it could not be reversed.
Tears of grievance appeared in their eyes.
It was clearly the fault of the saints, why should the scholars of the world bear the consequences!
Shen Mingwu sighed.
"Alas..."
"Everyone, this king has tried his best. During this period, he submitted many memorials to the court, but there was no effective response."
"Shen Yuze, that little bastard, is violent, stupid, cruel and unjust!"
Shen Mingwu really had no choice but to curse him.
In order to save the lives of the Shen family, he had no confidence to confront Shen Yuze head-on, so he could only clear these scholars out of the King of Hedong's mansion.
The scholars cast grateful eyes one after another.
For a long time, they have been traveling around, and except for the King of Hedong who is willing to lend a hand, all forces have seen them as if they were plague gods.
Now they can no longer drag down the King of Hedong.
It is better to leave on your own initiative and ask for death, so as to have a good reputation of dying standing.
After this group of scholars made some plans.
Under the leadership of a Confucian scholar of the Fasheng realm with a shallow Wenhai realm, they climbed to the top of Yanyun City and looked angrily in the direction of the Beiliang army.
There were about a hundred people in total.
Standing on the top of the city, they were full of vigor and showed their attitude of "not fearing power" to the fullest.
Some people held paper and pen in their hands to record everything that happened.
All the things about the saints killing Shen Yuze were not mentioned at all.
The things about Shen Yuze killing Confucian scholars were exaggerated.
When the soldiers were at the gates of the city, they began to scatter these words all over the sky, as if they were scattering paper money for themselves.
Lin Lie led the army here.
A piece of paper fell in front of him, and he stretched out his hand to catch it and read it carefully.
It would have been better if he hadn't read it, but he was so angry that he laughed when he saw it.
Shen Yuze was degraded to a level that made them look like victims.
Lin Lie smiled and looked at the deputy generals around him, jokingly saying, "Brothers, if this general had not experienced it personally, I would have felt sympathy for those scholars with great character because of these words."
"Until now, he still packaged himself so spotlessly."
"How shameless!"
A deputy general suggested, "General, just charge in and see who wrote these things. I'll chop off his hands!"
"Okay, let's attack the city." Lin Lie said.
There were not many defenders in Yanyun City, and the elite soldiers of Hedong were taken away by Shen Jinjin to outflank and attack the main force of the demon tribe in Shanhaiguan from the rear.
Without resistance from the defenders, these soldiers from Beiliang still knew their limits.
The attack on the city only destroyed the city gates, and did not massacre the few soldiers guarding the city, let alone harass the local people.
But for those Confucian scholars, it seemed to have changed.
These hundred people were tied up and taken down the city wall of Yanyun City. Because they resisted during the period, a few of them were killed.
Lin Lie came to them.
These people kept cursing with all kinds of words as if they had eaten shit.
But no matter how much they cursed, Lin Lie couldn't lose a piece of meat, but Lin Lie's light words made them feel cold.
"Bring out those bastards who screamed the most, cut off their tongues, chop off their hands, and then chop them into meat sauce and feed them."
So, under the city wall, wailing continued.
Among them, the Confucian scholar in the realm of the sage was still cursing before his tongue was cut off.
"You evil demons!"
"If you are so capable, go ahead and beat him up!"
"You are putting the blame on us scholars. Isn't it just Shen Yuze's anger after being tricked!"
Lin Lie wanted to chop this man into pieces.
Shen Yuze and his martial saints just happened to arrive.
His Royal Highness Prince Yu also heard what he said just now, but he was not angry..
"You said that I was furious? That's not the case."
"But I am a little angry, after all, I was plotted against."
"But, I borrow a phrase from your Confucian saints, when the nest is overturned, how can the eggs remain intact?"
The Confucian scholar in the realm of the sage cursed: "Shen Yuze, how can the words of the saints be misinterpreted like this?!"
"Why misinterpretation?"
"If the saints succeed in plotting against us, and the demons invade again after a hundred years, and war breaks out again, the people of Beiliangzhou will be in a situation where no eggs remain intact under the overturned nest."
"To put it another way, if it weren't for you guys providing incense day and night, how could the saints have the ability to plot against the world?"
"You are not wronged at all."
Shen Yuze said, walked forward, stretched out his hand and pulled the brocade clothes on the Confucian scholar in the realm of the sage.
If it were sold on the market, it would be worth at least dozens of taels of silver.
For many years, this group of scholars have enjoyed the benefits of national policies.
Gold, silver, money, and cultivation resources are really inexhaustible, but in the end, they have not provided anything to the world. It is just that the court needs them to criticize and criticize the warriors.
Shen Yuze also respects those scholars who are truly dignified and knowledgeable.
For example, Zhang Taizhong and Hai Duan.
There are principles in doing things, all for the public interest of the world.
As for this group of people, it is completely because they are about to die, and they criticize morality, and then say that they are not afraid of power before they die.
It is extremely hypocritical and meaningless.
Some people think that Shen Yuze's move will break the backbone of future scholars.
Shen Yuze himself has the opposite view.
"If the backbone of scholars can be broken so easily, they are not scholars."
This Confucian scholar in the realm of Dharma Saint wants to leave a name in history and die.
Because he would rather die than go to Beiliang and use his hands holding the sage book to build the city wall and build houses for those illiterate farmers.
There are other Confucian scholars who kneel in front of Shen Yuze and say that they will give up Confucianism and contribute all their wealth just to save their lives.
Shen Yuze didn't intend to kill them all.
In a way, the survival of these people will cause greater damage to the fortune of Confucianism.