"Killing the Body, Destroying the Mind?"
Yang Tiansheng only half understood. "What's the thinking behind that?"
Yang Ge gazed out over all of Hirado Castle and said softly, "The Eastern Isles may not be large, but they still have several million people. Even if all seventy-two of us were willing to fall into the eighteen levels of hell, never to be reincarnated again, we couldn't slaughter all those millions of Japanese Pirates."
"And if we do nothing but crush them with outside force, it's very likely these bastards will set aside their internal struggles and unite against a common enemy. When that happens, even if we can still force them to bow their heads, it'll only be temporary. They'll hate Huaxia even more deeply, and once they find an opening someday, they'll take even more brutal revenge..."
"We can't just indulge ourselves and leave such an enormous threat hanging over our descendants!"
"So first, we have to break these bastards' spines from within, then mire them in endless internal strife until they no longer have the strength to invade our Divine Land!"
"They..."
He pointed at the paupers of the Eastern Isles below, who had received weapons, stuffed money into their clothes, and already begun volunteering to maintain order and identify Japanese Pirates. "They're both the seeds I've chosen and the gloves I've picked out for us!"
"With them at our side..."
"They can bloody their hands where we can't bring ourselves to."
"They can do the things that aren't convenient for us to do."
"Whether it's murder and arson, plundering wealth, or even slaughtering cities and exterminating clans, these little Japanese devils, with servility and viciousness already sunk deep into their marrow, will certainly do it more cruelly and bloodily than we would!"
"We'll raise them up and lead