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Flies were buzzing everywhere in dark clouds gathered around these corpses Vultures would occasionally shoot out of the clouds, their sharp claws stabbing into decaying flesh
A vulture gave a wary glance at a nearby an to peck away But this feast of decaying er to humans
This foul meat, the stench of which could be ser fit for hu had never happened before The once- Eh the war of the southas over, the da Wang Chong had sent Li Siye to the plateau to spread the plague, and this plague was still spreading Froe, it had now reached the royal capital
Great fires were burning day and night, the s into the heavens In this perilous situation, this was the only solution that Dalon Trinling, Great Minister of the Ü-Tsang royal capital, could think of
Only the Great Tang had the secret ue, and at any rate, treatment was already i the corpses to prevent the plague fro was the only solution the five Great Ministers of Ü-Tsang were able to think of
But in contrast to the plague, the war of the southas the true focus of the Ü-Tsang Eun when the more than two hundred thousand Tibetan cavalry had descended froe of the plateau In the end, only ten thousand had coe crippled
And whether it was the death of these two hundred thousand warriors or the sheep plague creeping across the plateau, they only revolved around a single na!
"Dalun Ruozan, you have truly disappointed this king It is only because this king believed in your strength that this king sent you to the Ngari Royal Lineage to assist the Fourth Prince In the war of the southwest, you said that you wanted to ally with Mengshe Zhao so that you could e you said, but look, see what you have done!&8221;
In the royal capital of Ü-Tsang, the light was gloo as they turned Nearby, piles of aris had been thrown into a sirant smoke rose into the air
The s seeure dressed in a spacious white robe, kneeling on the ground with his face turned to the earth If one looked carefully, they would notice that this was the Great Minister of the Ngari who Wang Chong had defeated in the war of the southwest, Dalun Ruozan
He had suffered grievous defeat in the southwest, incurring ue had swept across the plateau, casting countless Tibetan shepherds into the abyss of er, the Tsenpo had issued an order su
"Your Majesty, this lowly subject has nothing to say!&8221;
The kneeling Dalun Ruozan did not even try to defend himself
"Bastard!!&8221;
The Tsenpo was infuriated by these words Two hundred thousand elite cavalry had been lost and a terrible plague was afflicting the plateau, and Dalun Ruozan was telling hi to say!
The Tsenpo could not possibly accept this
"Co’s punishment!&8221; the Tsenpo’s furious voice thundered, audible from a distance of several li
Dalun Ruozan’s lips curved into a bitter so predicted hoould end up
As the Great Minister of the Ngari and the overall commander of the war of the southwest, he held unquestionable blame for this defeat No punishhly lost this battle
As he kneeled, Dalun Ruozan thought back to that seventeen-year-old boy in the distant capital of the Great Tang as at this veryin the southwest had lasted for many days and he had used every method at his disposal But in the end, he still could not defeat that youth, leaving hia!
The door to the hall opened, and several warriors of the royal capital dressed in heavy bronze arh the smoke These warriors were allwith power After sweeping the roohts on the nearby Dalun Ruozan
The guards of the royal capital were elites that only the Tsenpo could mobilize, and were all extremely powerful The Tsenpo would only mobilize them when necessary, and it did not bode hen he did
"Wait a uards strode toward Dalun Ruozan, a figure shrouded in smoke near the Tsenpo suddenly spoke up
"Your Majesty, may I be permitted to speak?&8221;
As this person spoke, he suddenly left his seat and walked over As the smoke scattered, it revealed a mustachioed man with a fair complexion The demeanor he exuded was rather similar to Dalun Ruozan’s, but he appeared even aze sharper and wiser
In all of the Ü-Tsang Empire, there was only one person who dared to be so bold before the Tsenpo and act on his own initiative: the leader of the five
Although he led the five er than Dalun Ruozan Even so, whenever he spoke, everyone in the hall, including the Tsenpo and Dalun Ruozan, showed expressions of respect
In the Ü-Tsang Eh intelligence and whose words deserved even the Tsenpo’s respect was Dalon Trinling
‘Dalon’ was a respectful term of address that meant ‘Prime Minister’ This was not a level that Dalun Ruozan could reach
The Ü-Tsang Eth, and there was little nepotis and receiving the respect of all its peoples was in itself a proof of one’s strength