Lord Liu, who was in charge of intelligence, glanced casually at the Jade Token, then looked astonished and remained stunned for several seconds before coming back to his senses.
He glanced up at Zhang Yu, who was still lying in the chair chatting away, then at Zhu Wusheng, who was about to leave. Finally, he gritted his teeth and extinguished the Jade Token, pretending not to have seen it.
He calmly followed the crowd away as if nothing had happened, and no one noticed anything unusual about him.
At this moment, Sima Sheng appeared silently beside him, grabbed his arm, and said:
"Lord Liu, your Jade Token pendant just lit up. Did you receive some important information?"
Now Prime Minister all the ministers and officials are present, why not project the images and let them resolve the issue on the spot?
"It's such a trivial matter; there's no need to trouble you gentlemen."
Lord Liu tried to cover it up, but Sima Sheng sneered and snatched the Jade Token from him.
"Sima Sheng, you have committed a capital offense by stealing the Jade Token of an official appointed by the imperial court."
Lord Liu was getting a little impatient.
"Concealing crucial military information is a capital offense."
Sima Sheng was not to be outdone.
The commotion eventually alerted everyone, Zhu Wuyuan, Zhang Yu, and the others all looked over.
Sima Sheng nodded slightly to Zhang Yu, who understood immediately.
Zhu Wusheng was already furious with Sima Sheng for betraying him, and now that he saw Sima Sheng still daring to be so insolent, he immediately shouted, "Guards, arrest Sima Sheng for disregarding the law!"
Sima Sheng, undaunted, said, "Prime Minister, are you in such a hurry to kill me to silence me?"
"How dare you! I, the Prime Minister, have acted with integrity and upright conduct; how can I allow you to slander me?"
Zhu Wushuang an upright and righteous look on her face.
Sima Sheng smiled and said, "Since you have nothing to hide, why did you collude with Lord Liu to conceal important information?"
Zhu Wusheng glanced at Lord Liu, who looked flustered, and guessed that something must have happened.
However, he was not afraid and asked Lord Liu directly, "Have you been withholding information?"
Lord Liu, a Zhu Wusheng supporter of Zhu Wusheng, whispered, "Prime Minister, this is of utmost importance. Quickly retrieve the Jade Token, otherwise..."
Before he could finish speaking, Sima Sheng had already opened the Jade Token, and a beam of light appeared in the air.
The Image Jade Token was so clear it seemed almost tangible.
On the city wall of a northern prefecture, the defending general, clad in full armor, pointed to the dark, surging army outside the city, his voice trembling with excitement:
"My lords, a sudden military situation has arisen. The Black Wind Rebels, who have been entrenched in this area, have suddenly assembled their entire force and are heading towards the city gate."
They... they actually used the pretext of begging for surrender.
"It's over!"
Lord Liu's vision went black, and his legs went weak, almost causing him to collapse to the ground.
He gripped the hem of his clothes tightly, his nails digging into his palms, but he felt no pain—all his hopes of getting away with it were shattered at that moment.
Zhu Wuyuan was also stunned.
The Rebel Army... surrendered?
His mind went blank for a moment, and his first thought was of the bet he had made with Zhang Yu.
The boastful claim of "eliminating more than 10,000 Rebel Army in a single day" suddenly resounded in his ears like a thunderclap.
The crowd, which was about to disperse, suddenly stopped in their tracks. Countless eyes were fixed on the image in the sky. Some people opened their mouths wide, while others rubbed their eyes, afraid that they were seeing things.
The members of the Four Great Families, including Murong Bai, who remained loyal to the Imperial Family, felt their hearts pounding and their eyes gleaming with disbelief.
They stared intently at Zhang Yu, as if they were seeing this Princes, whom they considered a "madman," for the first time.
"There really are Rebel Army surrendering... Could it be Sheng Yu?"
"Impossible, it must be a coincidence."
"Exactly, maybe Black Wind Stronghold is just fighting amongst themselves and can't hold on any longer."
The discussions rose and fell, but they could not conceal the shock in everyone's hearts.
Lord Liu suddenly scrambled to his feet, his face ashen, and said in a shrill voice:
"Your Prime Minister, this is absolutely a coincidence."
It must have been Zhang Yu's good luck that he ran into a Rebel Army that was about to collapse. How could this be considered his achievement?
Zhu Wuyuan took a deep breath and tried to keep his voice steady:
"Sheng Yu, if it were just a Rebel Army surrendering, it might be a coincidence."
Are you trying to say... this is all your doing?
Zhang Yu did not answer immediately, but slowly turned his head to look at Sima Sheng, a barely perceptible smile flashing in his eyes.
Sima Sheng understood immediately, and from somewhere produced more than ten more Image Jade Token, his fingertips brimming with Spiritual Power—
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
One after another, dazzling beams of light shot into the sky, each beam displaying a different scene from the city walls of the prefecture:
"The 'Blood Saber Camp' rebels of Southern Prefecture, numbering 30,000 elite troops, are arrayed below the city walls and request your surrender!"
"Forty thousand members of the 'Netherworld Cult' in Hongzhou knelt outside the city gates, shouting their surrender!"
"The 'Iron Palm Gang' of Jianzhou, numbering 25,000, has surrendered!"
"The main forces of all the Rebel Armies, numbering over ten thousand, from the 'Black Wolf Valley' of the Western Desert, the 'Gale Stronghold' of the Northern Plains, and the ' Eastern Sea -Tide Turning Gang, have all lined up outside their respective cities to submit their surrender documents to the imperial envoys!"
In an instant, the names of those Rebel Army who had once caused Eastern Sheng Kingdom so much trouble and struck fear into the hearts of its people, all simultaneously, under the gaze of hundreds of millions of citizens across the world, shouted out the same word—
"We request your surrender!"
The square was deathly silent.
Everyone's expression froze.
Murong Bai's mouth was agape, wide enough to fit an egg, Murong Qiushui's eyes were filled with terror.
Zhu Wuyuan's face went from ashen to deathly pale, and then from deathly pale to ashen, as if all the blood in his body had been drained.
The surrender of a traitor might be a coincidence.
Two, three... more than a dozen, and these were the most powerful Rebel Army forces in the land, all surrendering on the same day—this was no coincidence.
Could it really be Sheng Yu?
But how did he do it?
The images in the sky continued: more and more Rebel Army flags fell, more and more weapons were abandoned on the ground, and more and more voices merged into a single cry—
"I am willing to submit to the imperial court and never cause chaos again."
The sound, like rolling thunder, shook the entire sky of the Eastern Sheng Kingdom.
Zhu Wuyuan's legs went weak, and he almost knelt down.
He looked at Zhang Yu, who sat leisurely in the armchair, and at those eerily calm eyes, and finally understood—
I myself suffered a crushing defeat.
How is that possible?
Sheng Yu... how did he do that?
Zhu Wuyuan felt a tightness in his chest and a sweet taste in his throat. His usually dignified and composed face was now as pale as paper, and even his fingertips were trembling slightly.
Can the Rebel Army across the land be quelled in a single day?
This is beyond human capability; it's a myth!
"Zhang Yu, you're so cunning."
Zhu Wuyuan stared intently at the young figure sitting in the armchair, his voice sharp with extreme anger and fear:
"You had already secretly colluded with the Rebel Army in various places and reached a surrender agreement before you even returned to East Sheng."
What a far-sighted and meticulously planned strategy!
He almost gritted his teeth, realizing the only possibility.
Even after understanding this, Zhu Wuyuan still felt a chill run down his spine.
Even with advance planning, subduing these unruly Rebel Army who have been fighting each other for years is an almost impossible task.
This Sheng Yu... is ten times, a hundred times more terrifying than he imagined.
"So... so Your Highness had planned this all along; we were simply blind."
Murong Bai snapped out of his shock and looked at Zhang Yu with an indescribable complexity in his eyes.
There was guilt, admiration, and an overwhelming sense of awe, as if from another world.
He initially thought Zhang Yu was just fooling around, but little did he know that the other party had already laid Heaven and Earth Net, just waiting for the moment to close it in!
"Hahaha! Good! Good! Good!"
Old Master Wang could no longer contain his excitement, and he laughed heartily, tears streaming down his face amidst the laughter.
"The royal family has a worthy successor; we are fortunate indeed."
The Sheng Family... the Sheng Family's fate is not yet over.
However, it is equally clear that even with prior preparation, subduing the dozen or so most powerful Rebel Army in the world would be no less difficult than unifying ten kingdoms into one.
What methods did this young Your Highness use to make these Rebel Army, who treated human life like dirt, willingly submit?
Murong Qiushui stared blankly at the images of surrender that kept appearing in the sky. Those "traitors" she had once looked down upon were now kneeling in neat rows before the city gate, raising their weapons above their heads and shouting "Surrender!"
Her heart remained restless for a long time, and a question kept echoing in her mind:
"What kind of magic did the Sheng Family use?"
She couldn't understand it, nor could she accept it, but the facts were undeniable.
Those unruly rebels, at this moment, are offering their utmost submission to the Princes they have never even glanced at, in the most humble manner.
This is Zhang Yu's Trump Card.
This is the real reason why he dared to say "one day is enough".
On the plaza, within the entire Eastern Sheng Kingdom, everyone was speechless with shock at this astonishing reversal.
Zhang Yu simply picked up the slightly cooled teacup, took a small sip, and calmly gazed at the setting sun on the horizon, as if all of this was within his expectations.
"Your Prime Minister, please state your final test."