Chapter 300: The Eight Banners Enter the Pass
"Farming in peace?"

After receiving the instructions from his "other self", Lin Liu couldn't help but nod secretly:
This method is great, simple and practical!

"As long as I don't make any mistakes, I will always be ahead of them for more than 30 years. If I work hard and develop steadily, I will definitely be the winner in the future."

"So I don't need to be anxious, there will naturally be others who will be anxious..."

The other warlords fell behind step by step. They probably knew that if they simply competed on development, there was no way that the other warlords could compete with the Eight Banners.

Therefore, the more Lin Liu tries to be peaceful with them and focus on farming, the more impossible it will be for them to concentrate on farming and development.

The reason is simple, Lin Liu's dominance is already established, and if the vassal states want to compete with him in the future, they must jump up and down and achieve a surprise victory!
"However, no matter how they attack or use their evil powers, I will just remain unchanged in the face of all changes."

Lin Liu showed a confident smile. This was the confidence that being far ahead brought him...

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[You are conferred the title of Dashun Dragon and Tiger General, commanding the Eight Banners, and suppressing the Northeast for the imperial court.]

[From then on, you held high the strategy of "building high walls, storing up food, and slowly claiming the throne", and you remained constant in the face of ever-changing circumstances, and you have been farming in the Northeast in a stable manner.]

[While farming, you also actively responded to the imperial edict, loyally leading the Eight Banners elite and other vassal troops to suppress the uprisings everywhere.]

[However, unlike other vassal armies that always committed brutal acts of burning, killing and looting, you always put military discipline first: on the battlefield, the Eight Banners would not show mercy, but after the battle, the Eight Banners would treat prisoners leniently and never violate military discipline.]

[Not only were you lenient to the captives, you also tried not to disturb the civilians along the way. Such a disciplined army amazed the civilians: these days even the government troops rob the civilians, but I didn't expect that the local vassal states would have military discipline...]

[Over time, your reputation as the Eight Banners' Righteous Army spread, and because you always actively promoted the teachings of the "Western King Religion," new believers continued to be generated wherever your army passed.]

【Thus, under the belief in gods and the pursuit of a better life, people from all over the country chose to move to the Northeast with the army: they heard that the Northeast was vast and sparsely populated, and it was good for farming. After they went there, they would be given land... This was of course the best! 】

[After a while, there was a spontaneous wave of people moving to the Northeast, with countless people bringing their families and rushing to the "promised land" given by the gods...]

[It’s too spicy! The ingredients are complicated and it’s hard to hold back! 】

[But no matter what, your career is always flourishing, and the more prosperous you are, the more others will be wary of you...]

[In the eyes of other vassal states, you are a freak. You started planning thirty years in advance... When the heroes of the world finally stepped onto the big stage, you had already become a behemoth, and the purity of your team was extremely high, and everyone was a crystal powder! ]

【Faced with such a huge gap, everyone can't help but shudder: If you don't overtake on the curve, then you have already won! 】

[How can a group of public beta newbies compete with the internal beta players for development? 】

[So after careful consideration, in order to achieve a surprise victory, everyone began to show off their unique skills...]

[When you were 38 years old, several vassal states suddenly jointly submitted a petition to the imperial court, claiming that the Eight Banners were planning a rebellion, and requested the imperial court to issue an edict to suppress the Eight Banners! ]

[When the emperor heard this, although he didn't believe it, he still summoned you to the court for a discussion.]

[You went to the capital without hesitation and proved your innocence to the emperor! ]

[After confirming that you really have no intention of rebellion, the emperor trusts you even more...]

[The several vassal states who tried to frame you were also surprised by this, because in their opinion, you were definitely not a loyal subject, and it was normal for you to do one thing on the surface and another behind the scenes.]

[They thought that they could find out the truth by just checking! But they didn't expect you to be able to withstand the investigation...]

[And you are not someone to be trifled with, just report them back! ]

[The emperor then ordered a thorough investigation, and immediately found the real thing... He then decisively suppressed it, and a few unlucky people were soon sent away...]

[When this happened, everyone was confused, including the emperor: Are you really a loyal minister? How could there really be a monk in this world who is willing to be a dog for the imperial court? ]

[In fact, everyone knows that a normal cultivator's vassal state would not be able to withstand an investigation. Your innocence is actually abnormal to the extreme! ]

[But... there's nothing we can do. After all, you are a truly loyal minister. The court can't label you a traitor just for a "false charge". At least before you officially rebel, your innocent character is a golden ticket to immunity from death. The court won't and can't take the initiative to deal with you...]

【…】

[Year after year passed, you were always farming and fighting the rebels, and never had any intention of rebelling. ]

【Attracted by you, more and more people moved their families to your rule. You settled them well, distributed land and houses, and made the weather favorable. As a result, the people's livelihood in your rule became better and better.】

[With more and more people, the incense will naturally increase. The foundation of you and the monkeys and other Shinto monks is becoming deeper and deeper. However, in addition to practicing, you will also use a lot of divine power to help the development of your rule. ]

[Basic education, moving mountains and filling the sea, promoting the growth of crops... etc. These things you have never forgotten and have always maintained. ]

[Because you are not a warlord, and you don’t want to create a new dynasty, what you want is a brand new prosperous world, so you have been insisting on these infrastructures that are useless in the eyes of others! ]

[However, the more you do this, the more anxious others will become...]

[You are too steady, as steady as an old dog. As long as you don't make any mistakes, others will definitely not win. How can others not go crazy?] [So, they finally stopped hiding their ambitions after they had grown stronger, and planned to annex others to fight against the mysterious force in the northeast...]

[When you were 45 years old, two vassal states in the southeast started a war, and each of them brought their teammates into the battlefield. The scale of the war became larger and larger, and gradually it became uncontrollable! ]

[The imperial court issued an edict to stop the fighting, but the vassal states continued to fight without obeying the order. The imperial court was furious and ordered other vassal states to send troops to attack! ]

[However, the others did not obey the imperial edict, but followed suit and started wars of annexation... The Dashun court, which had been revitalized, was suddenly exposed and the whole country was in chaos...]

[After losing control of the vassal states, the Dashun court became the "Holy Dashun Empire", and the emperor became a replica of the Zhou emperor, who could not be commanded by anyone.]

[It was at this time that the emperor, sensing that Dashun might really be doomed, had no choice but to place all his hopes on you. Regardless of whether you were a loyal minister or not, he hoped that you could stand up and carry the Dashun Dynasty on your shoulders!]

[So, a letter asking for help was quickly sent to the Eight Banners in Northeast China...]

[The first moment you received the imperial edict, you cursed all the local vassal states as villains, and then mobilized the 80,000 elite troops of the Eight Banners.]

【Eight Banners, enter the Pass! 】

[You came directly to the capital, expressed your loyalty to the emperor, and then immediately ordered the Eight Banners to attack in different directions, attacking the vassal states that had annexed each other.]

[From this moment on, you officially start the long-awaited war of unification! ]

[Everyone knows that no matter whether you are loyal or treacherous, after this battle, you will inevitably control the absolute power of the court. Changing the dynasty is inevitable...]

【…】

[When they heard that the Northeastern Army had entered the pass to quell the rebellion, the feudal lords all over the country were horrified. The various forces that were still fighting immediately stopped fighting and formed an alliance at the speed of light to fight against the Eight Banners that entered the pass! ]

[Your presence has brought them together.]

[But... this is useless. A crushing victory is a crushing victory...]

[In June of that year, the Eight Banners defeated the coalition forces of the eastern vassal states, captured and killed more than 500,000 of them, and the lords of each vassal state were also captured by the Eight Banners! ]

[You unceremoniously escorted them to the capital. After the emperor received these monks and vassal leaders, he also brutally tortured them to death one by one and sent their heads to all directions...]

[In May of the following year, the Eight Banners defeated the Southeastern Alliance and captured and killed more than 400,000 people! ]

[In March of the following year, the Eight Banners defeated the Southwestern Allied Forces and captured and killed more than 600,000 people! ]

[The next year…]

[When you attack the feudal lords, it's like an adult abusing a child. There's nothing much to say. It's all about destroying, destroying, and destroying again.]

[Winning from the northeast to the southeast, then to the southwest and northwest...]

[It only took you two or three years to conquer more than a hundred vassal states, and most of that time was spent on traveling. This shows how smooth your unstoppable momentum was.]

[When you were forty-nine years old, you flattened the Southern Continent and saved the precarious Dashun Dynasty from the brink of life and death! ]

[While you were destroying the feudal lords, you had to send out the Eight Banners to garrison here in order to maintain stability in various places... In addition to stabilizing the local area, the soldiers also vigorously promoted the "Western King Divine Religion", and the number of your followers began to soar rapidly...]

[Everyone in the world can't help but look at you: The world has been settled, and the people are united... It has come to this, you can't continue to act, right? ]

[Everyone is waiting for you to usurp the throne, accept the abdication from the emperor, and establish a brand new dynasty! ]

[Including the emperor himself...]

[In the first month, the Emperor of Dashun issued an edict, saying that the Dashun Dynasty had lost its virtue before the heavens, and took the initiative to hand over the edict of abdication to you! ]

【But you refused. 】

[The emperor was not surprised, so he issued another decree! ]

[But you refused again. ]

[The emperor was a little surprised, but he still issued another decree: He doesn't believe you are a true loyal minister! ]

[But, you refused again...]

[Just when the emperor was about to issue another imperial decree, you had already returned to the Northeast Eight Banners' headquarters and personally submitted a memorial to the emperor.]

[In your memorial, you righteously dissuaded the emperor from abdicating his throne, stating that you had never had any ambition to usurp the throne...]

[“Even if the destiny is in my hands, I only want to be the Shogun!”]

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(End of this chapter)