Chapter 1063: Baoji Kingdom Still Dares to Apply Diplomatic Pressure? Submit the Evidence - It’s Finished!
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"We've been sleeping on this border for too long..."
General Ming said emotionally.
He missed Elder Shui. He missed his old brothers-in-arms.
But the border army had no orders, so they couldn't return to the capital.
They hadn't seen each other in such a long, long time.
Today, looking at Lu Ding, looking at this crowd of investigators, it was as if he saw their former selves, the former Elder Shui.
Those were the glorious years that could never return.
If only time could flow backward, he wished he could walk that arduous road once more, finding joy amidst hardship alongside Elder Shui and his brothers.
There was nothing wrong with times of peace.
It was just that people scattered across the land often stirred up feelings of longing.
Lu Ding nodded. "It will happen."
After all, when the campaign against the Baoji Kingdom began, the border army stationed here would definitely be on the front line.
But whether Lu Ding would still be involved, that remained unknown.
It depended on how the higher-ups arranged things.
After all, nowadays, the 749 Bureau and the military had long been managed separately, with clear boundaries between them.
Not like before.
Back then, the 749 Bureau and the military complemented each other, never separated.
In those days, the 749 Bureau was too exhausted... too many tasks, too high a casualty rate.
They had to maintain the cities while also accompanying the army into battle.
That was a problem of the era, impossible to change. All they could do was gather all kinds of capable individuals and extraordinary talents together and let the capable do more work.
But times were better now.
The burden on the 749 Bureau had naturally lightened.
The former demon palace had now turned into a temporary base heavily guarded by troops.
According to the previously agreed-upon split.
The western region would take seventy percent, the border army would take thirty percent.
Each side settled their accounts, dividing supplies, spoils, and demons.
Each side escorted their own share away.
Although it seemed like the border army was at a disadvantage - they had done all the fighting and consuming along the way, only to get thirty percent in the end.
But Lu Ding's side held the key evidence.
The border army would simply leave, and many of the subsequent matters would need Lu Ding's side to handle them.
Yan Feifan worked alone, keeping one eye on the seventy-thirty split while writing reports and organizing documents.
Until daybreak.
He came to Lu Ding's side.
"Brother Lu, everything is ready."
Lu Ding nodded and said, "Notify the brothers. Take the captured supplies, escort the demons, we're going home!!!"
"Yes, Brother Lu!!!"
Yan Feifan relayed Lu Ding's orders downward.
As for Lu Ding himself.
He pulled out his phone.
He called Secretary Qiu, who was far away in Hanjing.
The moment the call connected.
Secretary Qiu's voice came through.
[Secretary Qiu: I've been waiting for this call from you for a long time. The diplomatic pressure from the Baoji Kingdom has been nothing short of enormous. The fact that I've managed to hold out until now without disturbing you is based entirely on trust.]
From Lu Ding's perspective.
From the moment they arrived at Overcast Mountain and started fighting all the way through, everything had gone smoothly.
Not a single interruption.
But in reality.
On the diplomatic front, the Baoji Kingdom had already been applying pressure toward this side.
It was just that the higher-ups of the Great Han, out of trust in Lu Ding, had been holding the line, stalling.
Now that things had reached this point.
If Lu Ding's side couldn't produce something key that gave them the upper hand in terms of justification, the situation might blow up quite badly.
After all, the Great Han was currently facing joint opposition from multiple nations.
Although, since the last time the Lu Family sent people, the Great Han's situation had eased somewhat.
But the relief wasn't enough.
If this time, they couldn't wage war with a just cause.
Then the pressure from the Baoji Kingdom would turn into other nations joining together to kick them while they were down.
This would cause the situation, which had already eased, to worsen once again.
Lu Ding understood this reasoning too.
"Secretary Qiu, how about you take a look at your email first?"
[Secretary Qiu: Email? Hang on a moment.]
On the other end came the sound of keyboard clacking.
Time ticked by, minute after minute.
After about half an hour of silence on the other end.
Secretary Qiu finally spoke again.
[It's solid!!! With this material, the Baoji Kingdom is finished!!!!]
[They are shaking the very foundation of putting humans first!!!]
[If they're allowed to grow, all the surrounding countries will suffer. Future generations, sons and grandsons, will all turn into human-demon mixes.]
After all, once the bloodline of human-demon hybrids started spreading, the implications would be too vast.
Although nothing was immediately apparent right now, as time passed and nations interacted, it was inevitable that common folk from other countries would fall in love and start families with the human-demon hybrid citizens of the Baoji Kingdom.
And the human-demon hybrid bloodline would spread little by little like this.
Then...
Who could accept having the blood of beasts running through the veins of their descendants?
At that point, the phrase "son of a bitch" would change from a metaphorical expression to a literal statement.
Because you could never know whether that other half of your body, carrying Baoji Kingdom bloodlines, might contain some dog-demon bloodline.
It was truly nauseating.
Secretary Qiu continued.
[Lu Ding, let's go through the procedure. Are you certain that the intelligence and information in these video materials are truthful?]
Lu Ding answered, "I am certain."
[Good. Leave this matter to me. With this material, the Great Han's pressure won't just fail to rebound - it will weaken even further. The Baoji Kingdom's pressure will multiply. They're finished. Once this is made public, it's basically the countdown to their annihilation!]
[At that point, most of the spearheads currently aimed at the Great Han will divert their attention toward the Baoji Kingdom.]
[Leave this side to me for now. Wait for further notice. My guess is, once the pressure on the Great Han eases, the higher-ups will definitely make a move. They'll seize this hard-won opportunity to expand wildly, until the Baoji Kingdom is destroyed, or until they offer a reasonable explanation and compensation.]
[But the Great Han will absolutely not give the Baoji Kingdom any chance to catch its breath. They must max out the pressure.]
[So, be ready to act at any time. There might be other task assignments coming your way.]
Lu Ding listened with growing interest. "Secretary Qiu, do you have some inside information on that?"
[I wouldn't dare call it inside information - nothing's confirmed yet. But our external exploration envoy has already made contact with the Great Xuan and reached a preliminary strategic cooperation agreement with them.]
[It's just that before, the Great Han was attracting too much attention, making it hard to make moves. Now with your intelligence report, we can divert other nations' attention and pressure away from the Great Han and onto the Baoji Kingdom. That way, the Great Han gets some breathing room, and they should speed up the connection with the Great Xuan.]
[When that happens, I suspect they'll use the new city's channel to connect over. The focus will stay on the new city. Oh, right, there's also the Great Jing. Your good friend, An Wuyang, has already submitted a letter of intent to us in the name of his nation.]
[That will also go through the new city's channel - handled and developed there, then transferred through the new city to the Great Han.]
[You need to prepare on your end. Infrastructure needs to speed up. The western port still needs to be expanded. In the future, all circulation will go through the new city, through the western region.]
The great era of the new city - or to be precise, the western part of the new city - was about to begin.
As for the Great Xuan that Secretary Qiu mentioned.
It was the world's first great unification dynasty, similar to the Qin Dynasty, with a similar fate. But Lu Ding said it wasn't the Qin, because the name was different.
He hadn't expected that the Great Han would manage to contact the Great Xuan.