It's not that Zhou Tian doesn't understand his current situation. The reason why he wants to ask his ministers is just to hold on to a glimmer of hope that he can hear some useful plans from their mouths.
But the final result of the negotiation was to disappoint Zhou Tian. When his ministers had no idea at all, the only thing Zhou Tian could do at this time was to use the power of his own hands to fight with the opponent. Give it a try.
After making up his mind, Zhou Tian no longer had any other thoughts. After glancing at the officials under him, he suddenly said: "Everyone, the principality has reached a critical stage of life and death. If there are any unnecessary words, I will I won¡¯t say much more. If anyone wants to withdraw at this time, please come forward and I can let him and his family withdraw from the principality.¡±
Zhou Tian had already said such words before the battle. Zhou Tian¡¯s words had a huge impact on the morale of their side. However, even though there were many people who were moved, there were really only a few people who were willing to stand up at that time. After all, in the current situation, if it were them, they would definitely resort to bloody suppression against those who came forward. In this way, when they didn't believe Zhou Tian's words at all, even if they were moved, they couldn't stand up at that time.
However, when only a few officials came forward, Zhou Tian really ordered at that moment: "Come here, take them down, and send them out of the principality while canceling all their benefits." .¡±
"No!" After hearing Zhou Tian's words, several guards immediately came forward and took the officials down directly.
But Zhou Tian's reaction directly emboldened many people at that time. Some officials who were originally moved but did not dare to stand up, at that time, most of them jumped out in a hurry, shouting long live Zhou Tian one by one. At the same time, one side has already implicitly expressed their desire to leave the principality.
But after listening to those officials, Zhou Tian did not directly order people to let them go as before.
"Do you know who I hate the most?"
Looking at Zhou Tian without knowing why, after hearing Zhou Tian's words, all the officials who were kneeling to resign at that time, without exception, flashed a hint of uneasiness.
¡°Obviously, their feelings were correct. Because, after saying that, Zhou Tian suddenly, without warning, slapped the table and said angrily: "What I hate most are people who betray the Lord, and what I hate second is people like you." A guy who is greedy for life and afraid of death."
"Your Majesty, spare your life! Your Majesty, spare your life!" Upon hearing Zhou Tian's words, those officials were immediately frightened.
He waved his hands a little tiredly, but Zhou Tian did not directly order them to be dragged down and beheaded as those officials feared. Instead, he waved his hands in some discouragement and said: "I have already said that I will not take your lives, so I will not take your lives, but your performance is not even as good as those of the previous people. So you can't escape the death penalty, but you can't escape the penalty of living. I I will not take your lives, and will even let you leave the Principality of Yellowstone. However, based on your performance today, you are not worthy of being an official of our Principality of Yellowstone. Come, take them down, and confiscate all their property, along with their families. Get out of the principality!¡±
"No!" Without any hesitation, after listening to Zhou Tian's order, the guards who were on the side did not pay attention to the officials' begging for mercy at all, but took them into custody without saying a word. .
After the shouts of those people died down, Zhou Tian looked at his officials with a wry smile and said: "I am not the kind of monarch who treats his officials as private property, but I cannot tolerate betrayal. Those people are just greedy for life and afraid of death. Although they are hateful, they are not worthy of my hatred. But some of you are damn!" After saying that, Zhou Tian took out a pile of letters from an unknown corner. But he just threw it on the table at that time and said: "This is a part of the collaboration letter captured by the principality's intelligence system yesterday. I won't say more about its content. Anyway, it is nothing more than a few words. I'll just read them out here specifically about the people involved." After that, Zhou Tian took the letters, but every time he read a name, he threw a letter on the table.
Although the officials below were forcing themselves to stay calm, the trembling calves of most people undoubtedly showed their psychological reactions at the time.
As a result, after Zhou Tian reported the names of nearly a hundred people in succession, he finally gave the order: "Those who betray the country must not be leniently spared. It is useless for anyone to plead for mercy today. One by one, these people will be executed." , Confiscation of family property!¡±
"Your Majesty, your Majesty!" Although those officials were all frightened by Zhou Tian's actions, under the circumstances, they still had to suppress the uneasiness in their hearts and work hard to prove at that time.??One's own 'loyalty'.
Zhou Tian naturally knew that the officials under him were afraid of his methods, but now he had no other choice. After all, the war is about to begin, and today's drama must be performed even if he doesn't want to. Otherwise, if he can't scare those officials with thunderous means, the people who will secretly surrender to the enemy will not be dragged out now. So much.
However, although the desired effect has basically been achieved, when looking at the officials under his command, Zhou Tian still couldn't help but shook his head secretly at that time.
"Although these officials are pretty good at handling government affairs, their courage It seems that they won't be able to help much in this war." After having that thought in his mind, Zhou Tian did not hesitate at all. Bian, who was quite decisive, spoke directly at that time: "If you have nothing to do, then go down and handle your official duties! During the war, I don't want any chaos in the principality."
"I obey your orders!" In response, the official at that time retreated respectfully.
It wasn¡¯t until those officials all retreated that Zhou Tian called all the real core personnel to his side.
Those officials, Zhou Tian, ??could be said to be completely disappointed with them, but there were still many people in the principality who could really reassure him. As a result, after all the ordinary officials retreated, Zhou Tian naturally called all his confidants over.
Because of the urgent time, Zhou Tian no longer had any thought of dawdling. As soon as Gichel and the others, who were really worried about Zhou Tian, ??gathered together, Zhou Tian immediately issued the order without hesitation. Ordered.
"Yueqing, please go down and do a few things for me now. First, turn off the teleportation function within the teleportation array, and do not allow teleportation arrays anywhere to teleport people into Huangshi City, even to a few border towns. Secondly, , you make arrangements to first send the firearms troops stationed in the city to several border cities in batches to ensure that they will not be attacked by the opponent in a short time. At the same time, after the team teleports out, the teleportation array will be opened. Send away all those in the city who want to evacuate!"