LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 504: After the smoke has settled, why did Your Majesty surrender first?
Chapter 504: After the smoke has settled, why did Your Majesty surrender first?
As the five first-generation gods all descended, the God of the Sea and the second-generation Shura God fell one after another.
Although after the death of Poseidon and the second-generation Shura God, Su Mo allowed the five god kings to return to the God Realm.
But regarding the current situation, the high-level officials of the anti-Martial Soul Hall camp who were at Huwei Gate still saw it very clearly and understood. They couldn't help but look ugly and feel very heavy.
Now, even the God Realm, which was originally intended to protect their anti-Martial Soul Hall camp, has turned against them.
Is their anti-Martial Soul Hall camp really hopeless?
Even though they knew that they were at the end of their rope, people like the Xingluo Royal Family and the Netherworld Grand Duke's Palace were still fine.
After all, everyone in the mainland now knows that the women around Su Mo include Dai Lingxuan, the eldest princess of the Xingluo Royal Family, and Zhu Zhuqing, the second eldest daughter of the Netherworld Grand Duke's Palace.
Even if the anti-Martial Spirit Hall camp is defeated, the Xingluo Royal Family and the Netherworld Spirit Cat Family admit defeat.
But for the sake of Dai Lingxuan and Zhu Zhuqing, Su Mo obviously would not let Wuhun Palace and Tiandou Empire make things too difficult for the Xingluo Royal Family and the Netherworld Civet Family.
But for other soul master families and nobles who had important interests in the Star Luo Empire, as well as the kings and royal families of the major kingdoms and principalities who had fled to the Star Luo Empire, surrender was not an acceptable option for them.
Because judging from the land reforms carried out by the coalition forces of Tiandou Empire and Wuhun Palace led by Su Mo in the occupied countries such as the Kingdom of Kilikris, the Kingdom of Pelagi and the Principality of Yunluo.
They are the nobles, kings and royal families of major kingdoms and principalities who have nothing to do with Su Mo, Wuhun Palace and Tiandou Empire.
In all likelihood, once they give in and surrender, Su Mo will lead the Wuhun Palace and the Tiandou Empire to confiscate their property, and then the land under everyone's name will be distributed to those mud-legged people.
This is undoubtedly unacceptable to the nobles in the anti-Martial Soul Hall camp.
But now, with the God Realm unwilling to provide them with shelter, they really have no other choice.
And at the Huwei Pass, a group of high-level officials and nobles from the anti-Martial Soul Hall camp were hesitant, their faces uncertain, wondering whether they should surrender directly.
Dai Tianfeng called a few guards and gave instructions for a while.
Several guards were stunned at first, but after confirming, they took a deep breath, turned around and left quickly.
Not long after, there was a burst of noise and shouting from several city gates of Huweiguan.
"According to His Majesty's order, open the city gate and welcome the king's troops into the city!"
"what!"
Hearing this, Huwei was turned off, and many nobles wearing gorgeous armors couldn't help but change their expressions.
Some big nobles who were relatively close to Dai Tianfeng immediately turned their heads and looked at Dai Tianfeng, with shocked expressions on their faces: "Your Majesty, what is going on!"
But in this regard, Dai Tianfeng had a calm expression, put his hands behind his back, and just said lightly.
"Now that the situation has reached this point, there is no choice left, although we still have those geniuses who will inherit the throne of God."
"But now the first five generations of god kings who rule the god world have given up on us and still regard Su Mo, the holy son of Wuhun Temple, as their father god. If we still persist in resisting, we are just trying to use our arms as a chariot and seeking death."
"On the contrary, if we are smarter and surrender voluntarily, we may be able to get some preferential treatment. I just made the wisest choice."
"Anyway, our Xingluo royal family has decided to surrender. Whatever you want, you can decide for yourself."
"Even if you want to leave now, go back to your territory, and organize forces to resist Wuhun Palace and Tiandou Empire, I will not stop you."
"You decide everything yourself."
Listening to Dai Tianfeng's words, the senior executives of the Star Luo Empire and other kingdoms and principalities couldn't help but look very ugly and angry, and an idea popped up in their hearts.
We still want to fight again, why would Your Majesty surrender first?
But of course, no matter whether it is the scholar-bureaucrats in Su Mo's previous life or the feudal nobles on Douluo Continent now, they will not say that they truly live and die for the emperor. Of course, there are also people who are willing to go through life and death for the emperor, but after all, they are still a minority.
But on the contrary, these people are the majority who hold the emperor over their heads, go crazy against the people of the empire in the name of the emperor, and then attribute their grievances to those above and benefit to those below.
The same is true now.
If Dai Tianfeng were on their heads, these nobles would retreat from Huweiguan and return to their respective territories to organize resistance even if they were unwilling to surrender.
Even if he failed, the punishment from Tiandou Empire and Wuhun Palace would only punish the Xingluo royal family and Dai Tianfeng as the emperor.
But now, Dai Tianfeng led the Xingluo royal family to surrender.
If they still stubbornly resist, then when the combined forces of Tiandou Empire and Wuhun Palace really defeat the Star Luo Empire, they will probably die badly without anyone on their side!
Although he knew that Su Mo's land reforms in other kingdoms and principalities would judge those nobles who did evil, and the most serious crimes would be executed.
But now those in Huwei Gate are often some big nobles.
They have a large territory and many ways to make money. They enjoy a very high status in the Star Luo Empire. They have many ways to gently prey on the people and rarely cause anything too ugly.
Even if there is, it was done by other members of the family and has nothing to do with them.
Therefore, these big nobles are more inclined to surrender.
After all, although their property and territory will be confiscated, if they surrender voluntarily, they will definitely receive some preferential treatment. They may retain their property and not be executed.
But if you are caught resisting, you will really be executed.
No one wants this.
With Dai Tianfeng taking the lead, people from the Xingluo Royal Family and the Netherworld Grand Duke's Palace were the first to change their minds.
Since there is no choice, resisting will only lead to more losses, so it is better to surrender!
After all, Su Mo, the Holy Son of Wuhun Palace, is surrounded by women from the Xingluo Royal Family and the Netherworld Lingmao Family. For the sake of Lingxuan and Zhuqing, Su Mo will definitely not kill them all.
Soon, the commotion at Huweiguan ended.
After the main city gate was opened.
On the street, a group of nobles wearing gorgeous armors had stood in two rows with great respect, welcoming Su Mo and the high-level officials of the Wuhun Palace and the Tiandou Empire's coalition forces as they entered.
And after entering Huwei Pass.
Because of the collective surrender of the anti-Martial Soul Palace camp, Su Mo also accepted their surrender, and after leading his troops through Huwei Pass, he went straight to Xingluo Imperial City.
Outside Xingluo Imperial City, after rewarding the army.
Su Mo also started directly from Star Luo Imperial City, and carried out land reform around Star Luo Imperial City with the cooperation of the Star Luo royal family, the Netherworld Grand Duke's Mansion and many nobles of the Star Luo Empire whose fiefdoms were around Star Luo Imperial City.
At the same time, after a steady stream of Tiandou Empire and Wuhun Palace troops arrived, with the cooperation of other great nobles, Su Mo also sent the troops to other parts of the Star Luo Empire to carry out land reform.
Compared with the knowledge of the big nobles, most of the small nobles resisted fiercely because their property was only territory.
It's a pity that in the face of the absolute strength of the allied forces of Wuhun Palace and Tiandou Empire, and when the great nobles came to help, the common people took advantage of the division of land and rebelled.
These minor nobles were quickly defeated, then tried, and then either eliminated or reduced to hard labor.
In this way, land reform began in full swing near the Star Luo Imperial City in the Star Luo Empire.