Forgotten Legend of the Bloodied Flower

"It's not your mistake but the mistake of everyone in the northern area," Minister Yang said calmly.

General Yang looked at his brother.

"To be exact, this should have started since Great General Ji's era," Minister Yang said with a sigh. He respected Great General Ji and the people in that era, but the battle with other kingdoms during that era has gotten fiercer.

This caused most of the military power to be transferred to deal with other kingdoms.

As the result, the war funds for those who protected the north border was simply far from enough.

No matter how much Minister Yang used to care for Fan Yi Kingdom, he could not cover up the kingdom's mistake. It was the mistake that eventually led to the kingdom's destruction.

But there was nothing that he could do.

In the war, the winner is king no matter what methods they used. Fan Yi Kingdom that has been tortured because of the border's situation and then worn down by the wars over the years were slowly unable to cope up.

The generals raised were not all the competent people but mixed with those who came because of their background.

With years, their situation simply worsened.

As General Yang listened to his brother's explaining the situation during that era, he could only nod.

He was still young when Great General Ji was in power.

So at that time, he didn't really understand the situation of Fan Yi Kingdom. What he knew was that the clash between the six kingdoms truly gave birth to many powerful generals. Their names resounded on the battlefield, allowing the people to take pride in them.

But Minister Yang had told him that some of them were nothing more than false reputation.

Not all of these so called Great General, Heavenly General, and so on were truly powerful.

Some of them were made because they could barely contend with those who were called as Great General and the fact that their people needed a figure for them to keep their faith in.

The best was indeed the emperor.

But not all of the emperors in that era were powerful and some of them were very annoying.

For example, the one who caused the gambling scandal…

When Minister Yang heard about that, he was absolutely speechless. Because such a story shouldn't have been spread on purpose but some people still ddi it. It was clear that they were trying to destroy the king's image by letting others knew about his misdeeds.

But even if they did, so what?

He's the emperor selected by the Heaven.

Not many people were willing to accuse him and instead expressed their disbelief. Though, the seeds of doubt has been planted from that very moment.

And the clash of the six kingdoms had caused the change in the kingdom's size many times. At that time, many people felt that the situation was really bad and many people lost hope because their places were plundered heavily.

Even if it was just a village, but for the people who lived there, it was very tragic.

There has never been so called law for the war prisoners.

For many of them, they would rather die than living such a humiliating and difficult life after their entire village was completely plundered.

Without any resources, how could one stay alive.

And it was during that period that the emperors started to raise the reputation of these people who contributed on the battlefield, establishing special general's status. When the deeds of these generals were brought back and spread to the cities, the people's morals naturally increased.

Through this method, each of the kingdoms managed to stabilize their people.

And it was also the fastest method.

Some of them even directly head straight to the battlefield, becoming the emperor that was praised by many people and admired by their men. But it was clear that not all emperor could use this method.

Because for many of them, once they fell on the battlefield, it was simply not worth it.

Some of these emperors wanted nothing more than the convenience that they could receive through becoming the emperor.

The one who truly manage the kingdoms were prime ministers and the few others around them.

It was really…

Minister Yang sighed. "Without the attention to the north border, there's not much resources that we received and the situation is not very good. It's already very good for you to be able to defend the border all these years."

Under the circumstances where the resources sent to the north border was limited, General Yang and General Gao were doing a good job all these years. They have protected this place for so many years and nothing have happened so far.

"I'm only doing my duty," General Yang replied slowly and then looked at the north. "Besides, there might be others sent to protect the border in the future now that the capital city is moved closer to the north."

The main reason why he became a general who protected the north border was because of the order given by the ancestors in the Yang Family. That if they wanted to continue in military, they had to protect the border.

But General Yang was the last person in the military in the Yang Family.

The other members of the Yang Family chose to enter the officialdom.

So General Yang thought that there wouldn't be other people from the Yang Family who followed him in the future.

"Perhaps." Minister Yang didn't know about it either. After all, it would depend on how Emperor Yang Zhou arranged them in the future. He was not the emperor and had no rights to know about it before it was time.

"Strategist Song has arrived." General Yang looked at the army coming towards them in the distance and his eyes narrowed. "It seems that it's time for us to have a thorough talk with him again."

"Oh?" Minister Yang looked out with interest and then smiled. "It seems that His Majesty had chosen to trust us."