Late Ming Dynasty: Oops, I am surrounded by the Donglin Party

Chapter 519 Grasshopper on a Rope

The two queens were immediately shocked when they heard this.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, please spare us! Please spare us!" The two poor queens immediately knelt down on the ground and cried for mercy.

If they were sent to the military camp, they would have no chance of survival as tens of thousands of soldiers would eat them alive.

"Look, you just promised, but now you go back on your word. I hate people who don't keep their promises the most!

Come, take them and all my concubines into custody."

Zhang Xianzhong gave the order impatiently.

Soon, subordinates came and captured the two queens like chickens.

There was no such thing as gentleness and pity for women in the imperial palace of the Atlantis Kingdom. Zhang Xianzhong changed queens as easily as he changed clothes.

On the sixth day of October, Zhang Xianzhong summoned all his soldiers in Chengdu.

On the spacious reviewing stand, Zhang Xianzhong was rarely wearing a dragon robe, but was wearing armor, standing in front of his soldiers just like he had many years ago.

Behind him are his four adopted sons, Zhang Kewang, Zhang Wenxiu, Zhang Nengqi and Zhang Dingguo.

Zhang Wenxiu and Zhang Nengqi have been recuperating from their injuries for some time. After a month of recuperation, except for Zhang Nengqi who became a cripple, the rest of them have recovered quite well.

The fourth son, Zhang Dingguo, is just 20 years old this year, but there is no trace of childishness on his face. He was adopted as an adopted son by Zhang Xianzhong when he was very young, and started to fight at the age of fourteen or fifteen.

By now, he has grown into Zhang Xianzhong's right-hand man.

He was not as gloomy as Zhang Kewang. His expression was calm and composed, neither humble nor arrogant.

Behind them were hundreds of Zhang Xianzhong's concubines, who were still wearing palace costumes, and some were even wearing only gauze.

However, they had long lost the pride and dignity of being queens and concubines, and the makeup on their faces had long been smudged by their tears. They were trembling and supporting each other as they sobbed.

The soldiers around the parade ground were dressed neatly. Almost all the taxes collected by the Great Western Kingdom were invested in the army. Compared with ordinary people, the soldiers had a much better life.

However, due to two consecutive defeats, the army's morale was low and they just stood there numbly like puppets.

Zhang Xianzhong seemed to be tired of the concubines' noise behind him, so he walked over and started to spank several of them.

"If you continue to make me suffer, I will chop you into pieces right now!"

Seeing this, the concubines could only hold back their tears, and Zhang Xianzhong returned to his original position.

He pulled himself together, looked around at the soldiers and said:

"When our Great Western Nation was first established, we were invaded by the ruthless Ming Dynasty, and it was now a matter of life and death.

I have treated you well over the years, and I have never been harsh with you in treating the things I have robbed.

The situation is critical now, it is time for you to repay me."

In front of the reviewing stand, there were hundreds of loud-voiced guys standing with their hands behind their backs. Every time Zhang Xianzhong said something, they would repeat it, conveying the words of the Emperor of the Atlantis to the entire army.

"Of course, I...I will not treat you unfairly.

We are all grasshoppers on the same rope. If the imperial court really attacks, it will not spare me, nor will it spare you."

In these years, Zhang Xianzhong roamed around and robbed everywhere. Even if the soldiers under his command had not killed officers and soldiers, they had killed ordinary people. There were also many people who committed crimes and bullied the people.

Of course, from the perspective of the Emperor of the Atlantis Kingdom, he had to say this. Only in this way could he make these soldiers give up their other fantasies.

"I... I, you all know my temper. Since we are all on the same boat, my things are yours.

My woman is also your woman.

I am a man of my word. From today on, these concubines are yours!"

Zhang Xianzhong had been emperor for three months, but he still didn't like calling himself "I". After a while, he simply continued to say it as he had said before.

When the soldiers below heard this, their numb faces suddenly became energetic.

Although Zhang Xianzhong's personality was capricious and somewhat tyrannical, what he said always counted.

In the eyes of ordinary soldiers, Zhang Xianzhong was the emperor of the Great Western Kingdom, and now the emperor would distribute all his women to them.

Zhang Xianzhong's concubines were all captured from all over the place and carefully selected, so each of them was as beautiful as a flower.

Who wouldn’t want to sleep with the emperor’s woman?

Seeing the excitement on the soldiers' faces, Zhang Xianzhong was finally satisfied.

He knows too well what men want most.

When they have no food to eat, food is what they want most.

After filling their stomachs, women are what they want most.

In addition to women, money and status are also things they covet.

All along, Zhang Xianzhong has relied on these things to win over thousands of people to work for him, and it has always worked.

But women alone are not enough.

"I keep my word. From today on, these concubines will be sent to the military camp for you to enjoy.

Besides, I have also saved a lot of money over the years."

As he spoke, Zhang Xianzhong waved to the carriage convoy not far away, and the leading coachman led the donkey cart to the front of the tens of thousands of troops.

The wheel ruts left deep marks on the ground, and it was obvious that the car was loaded with heavy things.

The soldier in the front row saw it closely and probably guessed what was inside, and he swallowed unconsciously.

"Open it." Zhang Xianzhong ordered the drivers.

After receiving the order, the coachmen opened the wooden boxes on the carriage one by one, some of which were even only covered with a layer of linen.

After the wooden box was opened and the linen was removed, piles of gold, silver and jewels were revealed, blinding the eyes of the soldiers in the front row.

Almost all of these gold, silver and jewelry came from princes, gentry and landlords in Sichuan.

Sichuan, once the land of abundance, had enjoyed peace for a long time. The wealthy merchants, gentry, and royal family members were all very wealthy, but in the end, they all became Zhang Xianzhong's wedding dresses.

"As I said just now, we are all grasshoppers on the same rope, so we should share the good and the bad.

I will give you the woman, and these gold, silver and jewelry are also yours!"

After these words were spoken, tens of thousands of soldiers on the parade ground went completely crazy. They knelt on the ground in ecstasy and shouted "Long live the emperor!"

Zhang Xianzhong finally stopped being anxious and instead became somewhat complacent.

He waved his hands repeatedly, asking the soldiers to stand up and keep quiet.

"However, you guys can't just take the benefits and do nothing!

I'm afraid the imperial army will attack Chengdu in a few days, so I can give you the women first.

But these gold and silver will have to wait until we defeat the court's lackeys.

Now tell me, do you have confidence?"

Zhang Xianzhong was a man of his word in the military camp, and he almost never broke his promises to the soldiers.

Therefore, even if Zhang Xianzhong said that he launched the attack only after he had repelled the enemy, almost no one would question it.

As soon as he finished speaking, thunderous shouts broke out again from below.

"Have!"

"Defeat the imperial court's lackeys and share the silver!"

"Long live your Majesty!"

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