Forgotten Legend of the Bloodied Flower

So far, the assassination attempts all ended in failure.

But for the northern tribe to be so confident when sending these people in the first place, Emperor Zhou felt that they might have some other schemes.

“Yes, Your Majesty!”

The two prime ministers quickly arranged people to finish this task. After all, an assassination towards a general was a big deal.

What if they succeed?

It would be very bad for them.

After the matter of the assassination was arranged, Emperor Zhou’s attention was on the building plan that they have proposed before. He could see that this project required a lot of manpower and materials.

The materials were not a problem because it mainly required stone.

But the manpower…

“Do you want to transfer all the war prisoner to build the walls?” Emperor Zhou asked as he looked at the two prime minister who had finished making their arrangement for the assassination matters.

“No, not all.” Prime Minister Lan shook his head. “The road is still important and we can’t abandon this project.”

The road project had started for a long time and many war prisoners were sent to do hard labor building the road. So far, there was already long road connecting several cities in Fei Yang Kingdom and still expanding to the east and the north.

By now, only the areas formerly belong to Shi Long Kingdom and Fan Yi Kingdom still hadn’t finished the construction.

The others have more or less settled.

“What will you do once the war prisoners have died?” Emperor Zhou asked another question.

Because he knew that the death rate for these war prisoners were really high. They would not last long under high intensity labor and eventually died.

And the walls project was estimated that it would last for a long time, so it would be hard for them to keep these war prisoners alive all the time. Even now, the road project alone had caused many people to die.

Since these people were all people who wanted to destroy Fei Yang Kingdom, they dared to be ruthless.

But once peace had truly came…

Would they use their own people like this?

It was impossible.

“This…” Prime Minister Lan frowned.

He couldn’t possibly propose for them to use the people of Fei Yang Kingdom to use as labor force. Because the labor work was really heavy and if they were not careful, there would be many people who died.

Moreover, the environment might cause these people who were originally healthy to have sequela because of the harsh treatment.

Prime Minister Lan didn’t want to destroy Fei Yang Kingdom’s future.

“I don’t think it’s necessary to worry about this matter, Your Majesty,” Prime Minister Xian said slowly. “There are hundred thousands of war prisoners and keeping them alive is a huge burden for our kingdom’s food. For now, it’s good to use them as large scale labor force and it’s estimated that they should last for three to five years. After that time, most of the projects should be finished and we can caught some people from the northern tribe who made trouble to be our labor force.”

If there were no war prisoners, then made one.

Prime Minister Xian’s ideas were very clear.

He didn’t think that the war between Fei Yang Kingdom and the northern tribe would end anytime soon. And in the war, it was not like everyone from the opposing army have to be killed.

They could keep some and these people could be used as war prisoners, or to be exact, as their own labor forces.

Anyway, everyone in Fei Yang Kingdom hated the northern tribe.

These people had been robbing them and plundering many people whenever it was winter. It had caused the deaths of many people due to the lack of resources.

“That’s a good idea.” Emperor Zhou thought for a moment and then agreed.

If these people from the northern tribe came to rob them again, they could be captured and then turned into labor force.

Wouldn’t it be good for them too?

Of course, Emperor Zhou would not think about going to the north and launch an attack to the northern tribe.

They knew that their soldiers wouldn’t be able to handle the cold temperature further to the north. If they were to force it, it was estimated that many of their soldiers would die because of the environment instead of being killed by the enemy.

It was already good enough.

Emperor Zhou’s dream was to conquer the other kingdoms and united the land under Fei Yang Kingdom.

He had achieved his dream.

Now, his task was to let Fei Yang Kingdom recover and become a true powerful kingdom worthy to lead the entire land.

“Good.” Prime Minister Lan smiled.

He also felt that Prime Minister Xian’s plan was pretty good. While it could be called insidious, but as long as they could win the war, they could make arrangement for the people who lost.

Besides, it was all for Fei Yang Kingdom.

“These are the designs we have selected and if we were to follow these three people’s plan, we could divide the wall building to three different places. This will definitely speed up the projects and allow the huge manpower to work,” Prime Minister Lan said and explained the project in his hand.

These designs were delivered by different people and after careful selection, only three were feasible to use.

Moreover, the shapes were similar and they could be used in different terrain.

Emperor Zhou looked at the drawings and then at the details of the dimensions. He frowned slightly. “The size is different in each drawing. It’s better to make it of the same size so that it would be easier for us.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“Also…”

The three of them takes some time to finalized the arrangement and then sent the appointment letters and the modified designs that they have approved. There would be people who started this project.

Hopefully, in the eight months before the winter, there would be result for them to see.

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