Records of the Human Emperor Chapter 468: The Court Debates!

Chapter 468: The Court Debates!

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

The true impact of the incident was felt the most among the common people. The southwest bordered Mengshe Zhao and Ü-Tsang, where the Tea Horse Road acted as a source of generous profit. Many merchants in the capital did business there.

When the news from the southwest reached the capital, the gruesome seas of blood and mountains of corpses were not something that the sheet issued by the Imperial Court could fully describe.

Geluofeng had been enraged and so had not shown the smallest mercy. From this point, one could imagine the devastation within the city.

"War! War! Mobilize the army and exterminate Mengshe Zhao!"

"What is the Imperial Court doing? Even Ü-Tsang is attacking our Great Tang! Why hasn't the Imperial Court done anything?"

"Destroy them! Give them a fierce lesson!"

"Blood for blood! The lives of the dead Han must be avenged!"

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Everyone was furious. The Great Tang had been at peace for several decades. Relying on its hundreds of thousands of soldiers, it had suppressed the Eastern and Western Turkic Khaganates, Goguryeo, Ü-Tsang, and Mengshe Zhao. Even the Abbasid Caliphate and Charax Spasinu in the far west were cowed by this indisputably enormous strength of the Great Tang.

After so many years, this indisputable power had become the greatest glory for the people of the Great Tang. And the incident in the southwest made these people feel a deep disgrace and affront!

When this disgrace and affront transformed into rage, the first to suffer their fury was the Annan Protectorate of the southwest.

And Zhangchou Jianqiong, as the former Annan Protector-General, felt an even greater pressure.

"Bastard thing! What in the world is Xianyu Zhongtong doing? I gave him the Annan Protectorate, and then he produces this massive blunder!"

In the Bureau of Military Personnel, Zhangchou Jianqiong smashed his palm on a table, his face red from anger.

The southwest was his territory, one that he had overseen for decades, and n

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