At the same time, the Daughter Kingdom had already known the trajectory of Emperor Xuanwu of Daqian, but they did not hold a meeting until Emperor Xuanwu officially issued the decree.
Emperor Xuanwu sent spies to the daughter country.
It was naturally impossible for Qu Jie to have no countermeasures.
The spies she sent to Daqian were able to rely on high-precision instruments to monitor Emperor Xuanwu's actions at all times and relay the latest news back in real time.
So when an emergency meeting is held.
In the real-time picture projected by Qu Jie, Emperor Xuanwu's pre-war declaration was not over yet. The ministers sat down and watched for a while before Qu Jie turned off the projection:
"You should all know the specific situation."
"Although with our current strength, we don't have to worry about them coming. We can definitely eliminate as many as they come. But after all, those soldiers have the same ancestors as us, and some of them may even be related to us here or some people in our country. Inextricably linked, or relatives within five servers.
So, that's what I thought.
If we can't fight this battle, we won't fight it. "
Speaking of this, Qu Jie could already see that the ministers beside her were eager to give a try and wanted to refute, but she did have her own ideas, so she directly stretched out her hand to signal:
"Don't worry, listen to me first.
After getting along with each other for these years, you should know that I have special abilities, or you may also think that I have the help of other forces. Do you think that if I have the ability to directly destroy the imperial mausoleum in the capital, or destroy the palace, or destroy some Sir, can the area where the clan is located be able to form a force deterrent?
Avoid this war.
At the same time, it does not affect our ability to intimidate one party.
After all, we all have the same ancestor. If there can be fewer casualties, of course it would be better to have fewer casualties. "
Although Qu Jie is not short of population now, it only means that there is no shortage of population, which does not mean that there is no shortage of the main population of the country. If she cannot guarantee the main population of the daughter country in the future, that is, the population of the same origin as them will occupy an absolute share. If there is an advantage, then it is very likely that various problems will occur, ranging from national turmoil to serious national dominance being taken away by foreigners.
So Qu Jie just postponed the introduction of the population.
It does not mean that it will not be introduced in the future.
She can never have too many high-quality and trouble-free large-scale population. After all, the reason why the daughter country today only has about five million square kilometers of land is not that Qu Jie is not strong enough or ambitious, but that she really does not have it. With such a large population, they control more and larger land.
Now there are 200,000 to 300,000 fewer deaths.
How many more people will there be in a few decades?
Nowadays, the total population of the world is estimated to be less than 300 million. In addition, Qu Jie still has very complete technology. In the next few decades or even nearly a century, she will only have to worry about not enough people, not too much population.
The problem of overpopulation will only need to be considered in her granddaughter's later years or the next generation of empress.
These factors directly lead to Qu Jie.
I don't want to see a large number of casualties in the Qian country.
"Please forgive me, Your Majesty the Empress. Although you have left the Daqian Kingdom and created the Daughter Kingdom on your own, you are still a member of the Daqian royal family. Isn't it inappropriate and unfilial to directly destroy the Imperial Mausoleum and the Ancestral Temple?"
Even though they had established a country overseas, some of their thoughts and moral concepts had not been completely abandoned, so naturally there were ministers who hurriedly stood up and warned them.
The imperial mausoleum includes the tomb of Emperor Qiankun. Emperor Qiankun is also enshrined in the Imperial Ancestral Temple, and Qu Jie is the daughter of Emperor Qiankun. No matter in which era, it is very explosive for a daughter to blow up her own father's tomb and burn her own father's memorial tablet. Although their daughter country does not need to practice the three obediences and four virtues, they still need to have basic filial piety, right? If they really do this, they will not be scolded to death?
But, Qu Jie really doesn’t care, and she only said she wanted to destroy the emperor’s mausoleum, not her father’s mausoleum:
"You are thinking too much. I didn't say I would blow up my father's imperial mausoleum. There is also the imperial mausoleum of my eldest nephew and my brother's imperial mausoleum. In addition, the earliest Qiankun Emperor in the Taimiao Temple
I have brought all the tablets back, and the ones enshrined now were those that were re-carved later and do not count.
My brother even beheaded his nephew and killed his brothers and sisters as well. What does it matter if I dig up his grave?
And isn’t this also to reduce the number of dead people?
The Imperial Mausoleum and the Ancestral Temple are the least crowded.
If we destroy the palace or the area where the noble clans are located, how many people will die? Our main purpose is to intimidate, not how many people to kill, so of course, the fewer people to die, the better! "
Well, it sounds a bit unreasonable to say this, but considering that destroying human graves is indeed a bit excessive, the officials continued to persuade Qu Jie, and finally persuaded Qu Jie to set the final goal of destruction. For the Ancestral Temple, if Emperor Xuanwu still disobeys after the Ancestral Temple is destroyed, he will destroy the tombs of his father and grandfather.
Other places, such as palaces and the like.
It is postponed.
If that doesn't work, then we may have to destroy all the rebels in the entire capital who can command them. After all, they are all dead, and there are less than 10,000 people. They are better than the 300,000 troops who went out to fight and were completely wiped out. Better.
Fewer people died.
As the plan was finalized, Qu Jie immediately sent an airship carrying several missiles to the capital, and successfully arrived in the capital two days later. He used a loudspeaker to shout below, saying that their country loves peace and does not want anything serious to happen. The large-scale conflict caused a large number of casualties. I hope Emperor Xuanwu can exercise restraint, immediately withdraw the imperial edict to start the war, and issue an edict to apologize for his sins.
Otherwise they will take measures to warn.
Never fail to predict something.
As for Emperor Xuanwu, although he was a little scared of the thing flying in the sky and the sound of the loudspeaker, the emperor kept his word and asked him to admit defeat before the war started. He didn't want to lose face, so of course he didn't pay attention at all. , and hurriedly transferred the entire Beijing camp to guard the palace. At the same time, they also tried their best to use weapons such as repeating crossbows with the longest range to shoot down the thing flying in the sky in order to show their martial virtue.
As for the effect, of course it is useless.
This is not some anti-war drama. Just throwing a ball and a stone can bring down a plane. The range of a crossbow is only 500 meters, so it can shoot down an airship.
Twenty-four hours later, the trumpet on the airship sounded again, repeating that their daughter's country is peace-loving, but because Emperor Xuanwu was too stubborn, he had to take some countermeasures, and then headed towards the Ancestral Temple. Over there, a missile was thrown.
Half a minute later, a mushroom cloud was born.
The Imperial Ancestral Temple was completely reduced to ruins.
Fortunately, most of the imperial guards were guarding important places such as Qianqing Palace and Zichen Palace. Except for a few eunuchs guarding outside, there were basically no people in the Imperial Ancestral Temple, so the overall casualties were very few.
Immediately afterwards, of course, Emperor Xuanwu, who understood what happened, was surprised, angry and panicked, and the officials who knew what happened were equally angry, surprised, and panicked to the point of collapse. Some of them hurriedly sent their families out of the city, and some of them went in. palace discussion.
Of course, there are also those who are so frightened that they run away.
They had never seen an air raid before. They encountered an air raid for the first time, and they also received such a unique gift. It was a gift that transcended the times. It was difficult to calm down.
When Emperor Xuanwu and the others held an impromptu court meeting to urgently discuss what to do, the airship continued to use the loudspeaker to shout, saying that they would wait another day and night. If they did not do what they said within one day and one night, they would be destroyed. The imperial mausoleum, and even the inner court of the imperial palace.
At the same time, he also gave a lecture on the nature of war to the people of the whole capital, explaining in detail that the core of the war lies in the greed of the ruling class, and regardless of success or failure, the profits basically belong to the ruling class.
Ordinary people only have losses.
Because their daughter country understands the nature of war and is unwilling to see the large number of people who belong to the same ancestor suffer too much damage, they adopt today's tactics, that is, as long as the ruling class compromises or destroys the ruling class, It won't trigger a war.
Later, the people were encouraged to take refuge outside the city first. ap.
To avoid accidental injury when you look back.
The most outrageous thing is that they also destroyed the city wall of the capital, euphemistically saying that the current city gate is too small to allow the people to evacuate in time.
After doing this, those who were still a little confused about whether to run or not, and because the city gate was locked and couldn't run if they wanted to, of course ran away quickly, especially the outsiders, who ran to their hometowns as soon as they left the city. .
I was afraid that I would be affected if I walked too slowly.
Only those with assets in the city were a little reluctant to part with them, but most still believed that their own lives were more important. Only a few believed that people could die but their money must not be lost, so they insisted on guarding their family property unwaveringly.
Everyone has their own ambitions, so we can only bless them.
Even some noble officials at least secretly send their parents, wives and children out of the country. Of course, they find some excuses, such as going to Zhuangzi outside the city, or returning to their hometown to visit graves.
This is the appearance of all living beings in the city.
It was even worse in the government hall. There was a lot of quarrel and the ministers were really tit for tat.
"Your Majesty, we must not compromise on this matter. If we compromise on this, where will my dignity be? Your Majesty, where will your dignity be? Your Majesty, Taizong, has swept across all directions, and all nations have come to court. It has been less than ten years. If we compromise on this to a small country, How can I see Taizong after my death?"
"What you say is nice. If you don't compromise, what should I do if this thing is thrown into the palace? You are putting His Majesty's life aside and only care about your own reputation."
"Your Majesty, I would like to suggest that you have a little fight with this thing from the Daughter Kingdom first to buy some time, and then you can evacuate privately to a relatively safe place where they can't find it, and at the same time order 300,000 water The army set off quickly and headed straight for Huanglong.
If you don’t believe it, the army will arrive at the gate of your daughter’s country.
Can the things flying in the sky come back? "
"But...but what if they don't listen to the advice at all and just throw away many of the things they just threw away? The capital will not be completely destroyed by then.
Also, what should I do if the imperial mausoleum is destroyed! "
"Probably not. Isn't the princess of the daughter country Princess Jiahe? Is she... so unfilial?"
"The Imperial Ancestral Temple has been destroyed, how can the Imperial Mausoleum be better than the Imperial Ancestral Temple? To put it bluntly, there is still a tablet of Emperor Qiankun in the Imperial Ancestral Temple, and she dares to destroy it, not to mention the Imperial Mausoleum, and she You don’t have to destroy Emperor Qiankun’s mausoleum, you can completely destroy the mausoleum of Taizong or the late emperor, then there is no need to worry about being unfilial!”
"Your Majesty, I don't think you need to worry too much. Let's put ourselves in their shoes. If we had many weapons like that just now, would we threaten them so politely? Wouldn't it be better to just destroy the opponent completely?
Therefore, I boldly guess that the number of weapons like just now is very small and can only be used for deterrence and cannot be used as normal weapons. As long as we can avoid the first few waves, we will no longer have to worry about threats in the future, so the most important thing now is You have to hide first, and we have to find a way to hide, just to avoid the attack. "
"Your Majesty, I second the proposal!"
"We can disperse and leave. It is best to find a few more people to pretend that His Majesty is evacuating the capital. Your Majesty can use some of the underground passages that Princess Jiahe dug and have not yet filled in to evacuate the capital secretly.
This ensures absolute safety. "
"But if the imperial mausoleum is destroyed..."
"Even if the imperial mausoleum is destroyed, it will be the daughter's kingdom's fault. At worst, we can conquer the daughter's kingdom and use the head of the daughter's kingdom's leader to sacrifice to the Taimiao Temple and the imperial mausoleum to apologize."
"Your Majesty, don't hesitate any longer!"
"Now we have absolutely no way to deal with that thing in the sky. We can only withdraw first, Your Majesty!!!"
"Your Majesty, please move."
It has to be said that their brain circuits are really completely different from Qu Jie's, and they really don't believe Qu Jie's so-called peace-loving remarks. They probably think that Qu Jie's wish to reduce casualties is nonsense and lies to deceive the public.
But the conscience of heaven and earth, she really thought so.
But these people don’t believe it, what a real disciple!
Using surveillance equipment to clearly see and hear the discussions among the ministers in the palace, Qu Jie, as well as her daughter, the ministers, looked at each other in astonishment and were speechless. It took a long time for someone to ask if they wanted to attack immediately, so they simply They can be destroyed together.
However, Qu Jie thought about it and did not adopt it.
Just activate the voice function of the monitoring device:
"Ahem, grandnephew, you should be able to hear me now. After all, my voice is quite loud. I want to tell you that what you just discussed was clearly heard by me. Ah, it's crystal clear. Even now I can see the surprised expression on your face. You have been under my surveillance.
What you are doing, saying, and doing, I can see and hear clearly here, so don't resist needlessly, I don't want to kill you, just be honest. Are you really obedient? Stop messing around all day long! "
Needless to say, this sudden sound, as if coming from the void, frightened the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty and Emperor Xuanwu himself. Some of the timid ones were even paralyzed with fear, feeling like they had seen a ghost.
