Seeing that Grandpa Kan had serious business to attend to, Jiang Yingcheng obediently said goodbye to the two men.
Kan Ruifeng's heart brimmed with bitterness.
Though the little girl would surely find some way to slip them a note afterward, this news was simply too important. Even waiting a single short day felt like torment.
But things had come to this, and he could only follow his colleague away with tears in his eyes.
The little alley soon welcomed a new visitor.
Virtue-Returning General Lei Zhixin accepted the invitation to sit beside the little girl, unabashedly taking two small pastries. "Little Highness, are you asking what sort of reasons we use when we attack other countries?"
Jiang Yingcheng nodded like a chick pecking at grain. "Yes, yes, yes!"
She was truly interested in the revenue generation Grandpa Kan had mentioned earlier. Unfortunately, they had barely exchanged a few words before someone called him away.
"It's actually quite simple. There are two methods we use most often." Assuming the little girl wanted to help Emperor Mingze shoulder his troubles, Lei Zhixin laughed heartily and answered honestly. "First, seize upon an enemy kingdom's wrongdoing and broadcast it far and wide."
Great Rui was a land of propriety, so it needed a justifiable cause before attacking another country.
That "cause" was a subject well worth studying.
Great Rui's historical records even mentioned an emperor who, wishing to attack another country, gathered his trusted aides to pore over history books. Finally, in an exceedingly obscure corner, they discovered that the small country had attacked some unnamed little kingdom in a certain year. The emperor then dispatched troops in righteous fury to avenge that wronged kingdom.
The intricacies ran too deep, so both tacitly moved on to the next method.
"And the second?"
"The second...