An urgent military dispatch brought this grand court assembly to a temporary standstill.
As he looked at the urgent military dispatch, Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long's face turned livid, even his fingers trembling slightly.
Minister of War Ban Di's expression was so gloomy it seemed ready to drip water. The look he gave Ye Zhen had become incomparably sinister!
The matter he and the Emperor had plotted for so many days had been utterly ruined by this single urgent military dispatch.
This urgent military dispatch had arrived far too strangely.
Under normal practice, Pingyi Border Defense Camp should have first notified the War Ministry through the emergency communication Teleportation Array. Then the War Ministry, the Emperor, and key ministers would discuss countermeasures in a small circle before deciding whether to make it public.
Yet this urgent military dispatch had, by sheer coincidence, been thrust directly before all the ministers during the grand court assembly, skipping over the War Ministry entirely.
If anyone said this had nothing to do with Ye Zhen, Ban Di would not believe it even if they beat him to death!
The main reason was that the impact of this urgent military dispatch was simply too great!
There were two principal consequences.
First, according to the Great Zhou Law, if a fief was invaded from outside, the noble of that fief was its first line of defense. If the fief's noble lost the fief, the crime was no different from a provincial governor or Commandery Governor losing a city within ninety days—confiscation of property and extermination of the clan!
Therefore, if a noble's fief was invaded by foreign enemies, the lord of that fief had to personally return to defend it, without exception.
Second, under the current circumstances, more than a million Devil Race troops were invading Great