The Human Emperor (1-200)

C168: Rattling the World!

Most people could not have imagined the extent of the rage the Han generals felt when they heard that the Hu generals were sending in memorials demanding Wang Chong’s execution.

All of them were triggered into action.

Thus, in the morning assembly the next day, a small mountain consisting of nearly a thousand memorials appeared in the royal court, leaving all of the officials with their jaws on the ground.

These memorials came from all around Great Tang. Every single one of them bore the seal of a general, and every single sentence was packed with extreme rage.

The pressure that came from the memorials from nearly a thousand generals was unimaginable.

Never had such a situation appeared in the history of Great Tang. It was unimaginable to have a thousand Han generals stand up for a single person!

Yet, Wang Chong did it!

‘Whoever who pushes for Wang Chong’s execution will be our enemy’, such charged words appeared in nearly every single one of the memorials.

Even though the phrases they chose to use was different, they all conveyed the same meaning. On top of that, it seemed like they were unwilling to compromise at all.

For the first time, the Han commanders expressed their intentions as a whole.

This ‘expression of intention’ was not just limited to the memorials sent to the royal court, many letters were sent to the Hu generals as well.

Countless of military reports stuffed with the rage of the Han commanders reached the table of the Hu generals by the borders. Nearly all of the Hu generals who demanded Wang Chong’s execution received letters from the Han commanders in their own armies.

Similar letters also appeared on the tables of great Hu generals such as Go Seonji, Fumeng Lingcha, Geshu Han, and An Sishun.

The impact of this incident shocked the Hu generals. For the very first time, they felt the strength of the Han generals as a whole.

That noon, when a petition containing the signatures of a hundred generals appeared on the royal court, the scale of the event was pushed to even greater heights.

The signatures that appeared on this document did not come from ordinary generals, but from the ‘Conferred Generals’ of Great Tang.

Tracing back to the previous Qin dynasty, Western Han, all the way back to Great Han, only influential military generals who had contributed immensely to their country could receive a unique ‘conferment’, and these people were known as ‘Conferred Generals’.

Ordinary generals could not start to compare to the weight of the words of these people.

The Crouching Waves General, the Myriad Ships Admiral, the Breakout General, the Nine Cauldron General, the Myriad Crossbows General, the Sea Dominating Admiral, the Barbarian Slaughtering General, the South Guardian General, the North Eradication General, the South War General, the Dragon Martial General, the Dragon Cavalry General, the Vanguard General…

These Conferred Generals were scattered all over Great Tang, but due to Wang Chong, the signatures of all of them were gathered in a single day. This feat, in itself, was incredulous.

A document carrying the names of nearly all of the famous generals in Great Tang; the weight of it was unimaginable.

In the document, on top of bailing Wang Chong, the hundred Conferred Generals also questioned Geshu Han, Go Seonji, Fumeng Lingcha, An Sishun, and the other Hu generals, telling them to reflect on the proportion of Hu generals and Han generals in the military.