I am a commoner, but I will lead the empress to unify the world

Chapter 177 Shen Changgong's Operation Breaking the Convention

Yu Huatian's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, and he quickly said,

"Your Highness, please do not tease me. I am a surrendered general. How dare I do such a thing?"

What a joke.

The enemy commander surrendered with his soldiers. Instead of dealing with him and letting him continue to lead those fully armed enemy troops?

How is this different from not surrendering?

Which monarch would dare to allow the enemy commander to stay in his own country with the enemy troops?

Unless you're crazy.

Otherwise, if the coach has any bad intentions, he can catch them off guard immediately. This is called inviting a wolf into the house and letting a tiger return to the mountain!

Yu Huatian didn't believe that Shen Changgong and Yan Fuyao would be so stupid as to do such a thing.

However, Shen Changgong in front of him said nothing and just looked at him quietly.

Yu Huatian was stunned, then turned to look at the Empress Yan Fuyao.

But Yan Fuyao didn't say anything, nor did she refute. She just looked at him quietly.

The more Yu Huatian thought about it, the more ridiculous it seemed. He said,

"Your Majesty, you...are you telling the truth?"

Shen Changgong smiled slightly and said,

"We're all family here, so I'll just get straight to the point. Marshal Yu, what do you think of Great Yan? Regarding national strength, military power, and other aspects."

"This……"

Yu Huatian didn’t know what to say. He couldn’t eat someone else’s food and then smash their pot, right?

"Just tell the truth. No one in Dayan is ever convicted for their words."

"Then let me be honest. In terms of national strength, population, resources, food, and land area, Dayan is the weakest of the nine kingdoms."

Shen Changgong nodded and sighed,

"Yes, Dayan is located in the northeast, with a harsh environment and scarce resources. The only grain-producing land is the northern plains. However, due to the small population and the cold weather in the north, the people are unwilling to migrate there.

No matter how we develop, we in Dayan will never be able to develop more than other countries.

The only way to make Dayan strong is to constantly seize territory, population and resources through war.

Only by turning other people's things into ours can we, Dayan, become strong.

However, relying on the country of Dayan, supporting an army of 400,000 is already the best effort possible. If there are more, it will be unbearable.

We can only plunder and wage wars continuously until we...unify the world."

Upon hearing this, Yu Huatian's pupils suddenly shrank and his whole body trembled.

He looked at Shen Changgong in disbelief. He didn't expect that this young prince had such great ambitions.

His target is not just Kun Kingdom, he wants the whole world!

Yu Huatian looked at Shen Changgong in disbelief and said,

"Your Highness, do you know how vast this world is? Hundreds of years ago, Great Xia cast nine tripods to control the nine states, dividing the world into nine regions. Later, they divided the world into hundreds of kingdoms. Even now, after annexation, only nine kingdoms remain, but the world is still vast..."

"How big can it be?"

Shen Changgong interrupted Yu Huatian and said,

"This world is vast. Wherever my sword cuts, it will be the territory of Great Yan!"

"General Yu, let's get down to business. We, Great Yan, want to unify the world, not for ourselves, but for the common people of this world.

There are nine countries standing side by side, bordering each other, with constant disputes and frictions, and wars of all sizes breaking out one after another!

The people had to serve in the military and do labor service from generation to generation, and the children of farmers had to go to the battlefield to fight the enemy.

Today you capture a city and tens of thousands of people die. Tomorrow I take it back and tens of thousands of people die again. The disputes go back and forth endlessly.

After fighting again and again, the city remained the same, but countless people were killed and wounded, leaving only piles of bones on the ground.

"For the ambitions of princes and generals, for the struggle for power and profit among nations, the children of ordinary people are forced to fight on the battlefield, and generation after generation of people die at a young age. Do you think this is right?"

Yu Huatian was silent for a long time, then said slowly,

"To end the war, the world must become one nation."

"That's right, we are all people of the Great Xia nation. We are all of the same ethnicity, speaking the same language, using the same writing system, and sharing the same culture. Why do we have to fight each other?

Why can’t we form unity?”

Shen Changgong said slowly,

"This king has one wish, which is to end war in the world, so that farmers can farm peacefully without having to fight on the battlefield, and the food they grow is enough to feed their families and have some left over.

Merchants can travel freely around the world without worrying about enemies, paying complicated customs duties, or worrying about safety issues.

I can gather the national strength of the entire world to build water conservancy projects and improve people's livelihood, so that the country can use its strength to improve people's lives instead of fighting each other and being consumed by war.

This king wants to make sure that everyone in this world, whether they are from Yan or Kun, whether they are from Qi or Qian, can proudly say in the future that we are one family and from the same country.

Let the world be united and there will be no more regional disputes.

This is my ideal.”

Yuhuatian was greatly shocked.

If he was defeated by Shen Changgong out of helplessness and inferior skills before, and admired his military talent, then now he was truly impressed by the great ideals of my opponent.

While he was still thinking about his family, soldiers and country, when he thought he was great for surrendering and suffering humiliation for the sake of his soldiers, he was already thinking about the people of the whole world.

Whether it is the people of his own country or the enemy country, otherwise it is within his ideal.

Shen Changgong continued,

"We need to sacrifice our generation to complete this great mission, so that our descendants will no longer suffer from the pain of war in the future.

If we don't fight this battle, our descendants will have to fight it. As their fathers and grandparents, we should do all this for them.

However, it is difficult to achieve this by relying solely on the power of Dayan.

Therefore, we need to assimilate the people in the occupied areas, treat them well, recruit soldiers from a wider territory, and strengthen our strength.

Are we going to abandon them just because they were once our enemy?

Should we kill all these people just because they have fought against us before?

If we do this, those people will hate us for generations to come, and there will be no peace in the world."

"Your Majesty of Great Yan has a broad mind and can accommodate all talented and loyal people, no matter who they were before. In Great Yan, we only look at talent, not background.

This group of Kun troops is our first legion composed of people from other countries, and you are their commander-in-chief. Therefore, I have discussed with His Majesty that you will continue to command this legion and lead them to conquer cities and expand the territory for Great Yan."

Yu Huatian finally understood what Shen Changgong meant and his thoughts, but he still felt incredible.

He just surrendered today.

In other words, Prince Lanling and Emperor Yan had already prepared to appoint him long before he surrendered?