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Chapter 1112: Chapter 450 The Fall of Wei Country_3 Chapter 1112: Chapter 450 The Fall of Wei Country_3 Moreover, among these two million people, there were also those from the Wei State Army.

At this time, the Wei Army had suffered a crushing defeat and had lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

Now, the remaining population in Shuofang County is estimated to be just over one million.

This is also why, even though the Wei State knew Guannei County was tough to crack, they had to dispatch troops this year regardless.

Because if they didn’t send troops on the Southern Expedition, the Wei civilians in Shuofang County would have been eaten clean by them.

At that point, if they still wanted to survive, could it be that the Wei Army would have to resort to cannibalism among themselves again?

If it came to that, it would truly be too horrific.

It’s not that the Wei State’s monarch and ministers cared too much about the Wei Army to do such a thing.

The main reason was the fear that doing so would lead to the collapse of military morale.

Without having to wait for the Chu State to attack, they would have self-destructed.

So, to wait was to die, and to attack was also to die.

Since death was inevitable either way, they might as well launch an attack to see if a glimmer of hope could be found.

However, as it stands now, such thinking was obviously too optimistic.

An army that had begun eating people out of hunger, how could they possibly be the match for the well-nourished and battle-ready troops of Chu?

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Not only did they suffer a crushing defeat in battle, now they couldn’t even hold onto their hellish Old Nest.

Before Huang Xin led the Chu Army into Shuofang County, the Wei State’s ministers, along with the last two hundred thousand remnants of their defeated army, abandoned the city and fled, disappearing without a trace into the vast Yan State of Hebei.

Huang Xin had no intention of pursuing this defeated army.

Without Shuofang County, their last foundation, what turmoil could a mere twenty thousand defeated soldiers stir up even if they fled back to Yan State?

It probably wouldn’t be long before they vanished with no trace amidst the innumerable tribes of Hebei, Yan State, swallowed silently by the river of history.

Following the Zhou Country, Wei State, one of the veteran hegemons of the Nine Provinces, lost its last piece of land in spring of this year, which is the forty-third year of the Shenwu era, the month of May.

Although its monarch and ministers were still present, the land was lost, and the capital had fallen.

By today’s standards, it was officially considered extinct.

In the contest for supremacy in the world, another contender withdrew from the stage.

However, Huang Xin, on this side, had no time to feel the thrill of having achieved a significant conquest of a nation.

He was currently overwhelmed with dealing with the mess left behind by the Wei Country.

The situation in Shuofang County was far worse than imagined.

Driven by hunger, every imaginable horror was continually taking place on this piece of land and upon its people.

The survivors, no, it’s uncertain if they could still be called human.

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After all, it’s hard to say if someone who has fed on their own kind for several months is still one of your own, if they still consider you one of them, rather than food.

That was the current state of Shuofang County.

Seeing those people with green glints in their eyes, both fearful and covetous upon the Chu Army’s arrival, some were outright numb and completely insane.

Facing these residents of Shuofang with obviously troubled minds,

even the many battle-hardened Chu soldiers felt a chill rising from the depths of their hearts.

“The people of this place are beastly, feeding on humans, their human dignity utterly gone!”

The Guannei County Governor Gao Mingtao, who had hastily arrived with the troops and been appointed to oversee Shuofang County, was also horrified by what he saw.

He had a deeper understanding of the Wei State’s sin of exploiting its subjects.

And then he made a suggestion to Huang Xin, “Commander, the people here are no longer virtuous.

To rashly move them into our country may incite local panic and corrupt public morals.

In my view, the previously planned immigration should not be carried out.

The people of Shuofang are also not easy to settle.

Why not bring in some grain, leave a garrison here, and lure the Wei civilians of this county with the food to first ensure they have enough to eat and put an end to the unspeakable practices?

Then let these people settle and farm on the spot, resume production, and live and work in peace.

Eventually, after a decade or so, we can see what their local customs are like before discussing relocation again.”

The current residents of Shuofang County, numbering over one million, are in no condition, mentally or physically, to be relocated.

To force relocation would be a disaster for them, as well as a disaster for the already stable hinterlands.

Thus, for the sake of all, it was best to let them stay where they were, to live or die on their own.

The Chu State’s provision of some grain relief was already the epitome of humanity and righteousness.

And it was also appropriate.

To extend the Chu State’s western border northward into Shuofang County would significantly deepen the region’s frontier defenses.

This would be highly valuable militarily in shielding the region from the barbarian threat of the Yan State prairies in Hebei.

Huang Xin nodded slightly at this, saying, “Governor Gao is right.

Let’s settle them this way.

Such a grand northern county has turned into a hell on earth.”

He couldn’t help but lament, “The monarch and ministers of Wei have truly committed many sins.”

Gao Mingtao, nearby, agreed wholeheartedly with a nod.

Even for someone like him who had weathered many storms, this experience had opened his eyes.

The rulers of Wei were truly inhumane.

To be so cruel to their own people,

It would go against all reason for such scoundrels to not fall.

For the Great Chu to eradicate such a regime and rescue the people from desperate straits, it was undoubtedly a force of grace and righteousness.

Born and educated as a traditional scholar, Gao Mingtao’s conviction in the righteousness of Great Chu’s Northern Expedition deepened in his heart, becoming ever more resolute.

It was because the world held so many tyrannical monarchs and ministers that Chu needed to launch the Northern Expedition, to eliminate all tyrants and cruel officials, unify the realm, and rescue the people of the world from peril.

Such supreme benevolence could not be compared to the lesser good of a single family or country.

Only when there is but one country left in the world, with only a Wise Monarch in power, can the world welcome a long-lasting peace.

Then everyone, from high-ranking officials and noble clans to the low-level populace, could enjoy the prosperity brought by a golden age.

Having experienced thirty years of such a golden age in Yangzhou, and having witnessed various human tragedies amid the wars in the north,

now seeing the brutality of Wei, a state of beasts,

Gao Mingtao had a deeper appreciation for the peaceful era he once took for granted.

His admiration for the greatness of the Shenwu Emperor above him grew clearer.

Peace, this word, had never felt so precious and weighty.

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