Zero County.
It lay in a strategic and perilous location in southwestern Great Yan.
But that peril only applied to ordinary soldiers. Before martial arts masters, it was merely a slightly taller slope.
The city was still taken without casualties.
Meanwhile, on the corresponding Hero Network, a group of examination candidates and scholars who had come from Jiangnan were touring the place.
Among men of letters, there were quite a few who traveled ten thousand miles. This group was one of them.
"Look at the Heavenly Saint Army after taking the city. They don't massacre the inhabitants, forcibly seize people, or rape women. This is completely different from what Li Wencai said. According to him, they had to slaughter without restraint, killing until nine out of every ten households were empty, before the conflict between people and land could be resolved." An elderly examination candidate spoke in confusion.
"The Heavenly Saint Army is ultimately just a bunch of demonic sect people. They haven't read the sages' books, so naturally they cannot see this truth." Another scholar sighed.
"Hmph, quite the opposite. They have read far too many sages' books. They have been blinded by the benevolence, righteousness, morality, and virtue preached by the sages, believing that whoever wins the people's hearts wins the realm. They have no idea that the method for solving this realm's greatest problem is precisely the opposite of benevolence, righteousness, morality, and virtue: kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!" Yet another scholar ground his teeth.
His tone was filled with the fury of someone who believed he had been deceived.
He had thought that if he studied the sages' books well, mastered the Four Books and Five Classics, understood things like The Book of Songs, The Spring and Autumn Annals, and the Book of Documents, cultivated