Munitions Empire-Chapter 1081: Crazy Planning 1003

Chapter 1081: Crazy Planning 1003

In the Ministry of Internal Affairs office of the Tang Empire, several leaders were holding an emergency meeting. The atmosphere in the room was extremely tense, even laden with a thick scent of gunpowder.

“If you ask me, just act on the Dongqing section! 300 kilograms of explosives, buried right under the railway…” A man clenched his fist tightly, then suddenly released it, making an explosion gesture with his hand: “Frame Dahua Empire for it!”

“At that time, whether it’s Qin Country or us, we’ll both have a reason to declare war on Dahua Empire! Worst comes to worst, we could divide up Dahua, and that serves our interests too!” After saying this, the man looked at his colleagues.

“Our manpower in Dahua Empire is severely lacking. With such a large-scale operation, do you think the Imperial Security Bureau won’t be alarmed?” Another leading cadre glanced at him, as if to say the other was an idiot.

“I’m just getting impatient.” The man who suggested bombing the train explained begrudgingly, leaning back in his chair: “We definitely cannot let that woman enter Great Tang! Nothing good will come of it.”

“An operation in Dahua Empire won’t elude the Imperial Security Bureau; they certainly won’t just stand by.” A female cadre said bluntly: “The director of the Imperial Security Bureau is Li’ao, a ‘guilty civilian’ from Brunas. He will definitely side with the Hua Clan.”

“Watch your language!” the deputy minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, seated at the second most important position at the meeting table, reprimanded sternly.

Because, to be precise, His Majesty The Emperor’s father, or rather both his parents, were guilty civilians. By strict definition, Tang Mo is also a guilty civilian, and the term guilty civilian obviously carries a derogatory connotation. Thus, in the Tang Empire, the word guilty civilian is in an awkward position: you cannot use it casually, yet it is not banned.

“I’m sorry!” The female official knew she had misspoken; she merely intended to disgust Li’ao, her rival in the Imperial Security Bureau, with no intention of offending His Majesty The Emperor, whom she adored and respected.

“If we don’t act outside the Empire’s borders, then entering the Empire will make the operation much harder.” The male official who spoke first reminded everyone with a sense of urgency.

“Poisoning? That requires fewer people to carry out…” the female cadre pondered a quieter course of action.

Someone immediately raised a question: “She’s bringing three thousand people with her… Do you really think they are just her bridal party? Everyone around her is her own person; we haven’t placed anyone on that train.”

“Damn, this came too suddenly; it must be those in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Imperial Security Bureau who have locked down the information! These damned ‘Hua Clan’ people!” The official who had spoken earlier muttered resentfully.

“Have you gone mad? His Majesty has already stressed in the meeting that from now on, there will be no more talk of the ‘Hua Clan’, only the term Tang People!” the leading deputy minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reprimanded once again.

“You’re having this meeting here, planning to act behind His Majesty The Emperor’s back; don’t you feel the slightest bit of guilt?” Suddenly a questioning voice came from the door, deep and meaningful.

Everyone was startled by the questioning and rose to their feet, lowering their heads in shame and saying, “Your Highness.”

“Oh? Weren’t there plenty of brilliant ideas just now?” Yulin walked up to her subordinates, her smile more mocking than genuine, and asked: “Attacking the visiting Princess, destroying a neighboring country’s railway… Those present here, surely, are people capable of great deeds.”

“Your Highness…” The deputy minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs glanced at his colleague in police uniform beside him, sweat already beading on his forehead.

He dared not explain, because he knew Yulin was already a legend back when he was studying at the Great Tang Military Academy; they all addressed her as ‘Her Majesty’ then.

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“Get out! Less of this nonsense in the future! Have you nothing better to do? Leave now!” With a wave of her hand, Yulin ordered those who had just dismissed the Qin Country and were plotting a massive attack in Dahua Empire, even willing to provoke a war among three countries, to scurry away like rats, escaping the conference room as if graciously pardoned.

“We were also doing it for you, Your Highness…” Yulin’s secretary lowered his voice, trying to excuse his colleagues.

Yulin, who had been eavesdropping on these people talking nonsense from the next room, smiled nonchalantly, “I wasn’t planning to punish them. Our Emperor truly gave me a good diversion.”

Hearing Yulin say that she had no intention of punishing her subordinates, the secretary knew that Yulin also held no fondness for the “peace-seeking Princess” who had come from afar.

After all, having another woman come to share one’s husband is never a good thing for any woman.

“Let’s just see…” Yulin was of course aware that Tang Mo would agree to the Princess of Qin Country’s arrival in Tang Country for a significant political purpose of unifying the Western Continent; therefore, she did not want to appear too radical in this matter.

What really irritated her was the other side’s Alice: It was one thing for Yue’er to behave foolishly every day, but Alice’s choice to feign ignorance on this matter and take the stance of an onlooker was particularly vexing for her.

Shouldn’t these kinds of issues unify us against a common foe? What’s happening now? They expect me to lead the charge and then reap the benefits behind my back? Where in the world does such good fortune exist?

…

“We can’t let that woman arrive in Chang’an, otherwise Nangong Hong, Li’ao, and those Hua Clan people, wouldn’t they be even more overjoyed?” In an office within a military camp outside of Dongqing’s Fengjiang City, a colonel once again brought up the term Hua Clan.

Even though this term was detrimental to internal unity, the Emperor’s endorsement of the term Tang People made many of the old contingent from Brunas feel uncomfortable.

They occupied positions of advantage in both the military and court and were also very wary of the Hua Clan who now held an absolute numerical majority.

Another staff officer nodded and said, “Exactly! Recently Qian Jinhang has been making great strides at the Imperial Staff Department, and General Feng Kezhi has already been appointed as the commander of the 9th Group Army. If we don’t put them in their place, won’t they climb over our heads?”

“But what can we do? Are we to send the military over for a blocking battle?” the Division Commander asked, half-jokingly, half seriously, taking a glance at the Mayor of Dongqing’s Fengjiang City sitting beside him.

“This… wouldn’t that lead to a military tribunal?” the Mayor of Fengjiang City asked in return with a forced smile.

“We’ll just say we encountered bandits…” a colonel came up with a rather frivolous excuse.

The Mayor of Fengjiang City raised his eyebrows, nearly cursing outright: Dammit, are you saying that there are bandits in the territory under my jurisdiction? Isn’t that a direct accusation of mismanagement?

Furthermore, to think of such an excuse, do they really believe that the people above are fools? The Great Tang Empire’s territory has long been void of any illegal armed forces, and even the private armies of local nobility are illegal, where would bandits come from?

With thousands of miles of cultivated land and peace throughout, it’s been more than two years since even gangs have been heard of; now you bring up a band of bandits capable of standing up to 3000 elite soldiers of the Qin Army?

“If real trouble arises, would you still not lose your head with all these excuses?” the Mayor of Fengjiang City coldly replied with a question, and then sternly warned, “If it implicates other old Brunas people, how do you expect His Majesty to clean up the mess?”

“…” The officers, initially quite aggressive, fell silent as the problem seemed more serious than they had imagined.

They were not shortsighted or impulsive; they simply did not take the assassination of 3000 Qin soldiers, including a Princess of Qin Country, seriously.

In their view, even if they truly killed the Princess of Qin Country and provoked the displeasure of Qin Country, they would just have to fight another war against Qin Country.

If Qin Country does not submit? Annihilate it. If the People of Qin do not comply? Likewise, wipe them out… In short, they had boundless confidence in their war machine.