The Lord's Empire

Chapter 269

Chapter 269 – Great Qin Legacy

Translator: Mr Voltaire

Editor: Modlawls123

This place had already become a ruined village. The walls around it had been destroyed, and the Village Hall and some other structures had already disappeared. Many buildings had already fallen into ruin – it seemed that the City Heart had already been relocated.

“Looks like the Xia family was able to run quite quickly!” Zhao Fu thought to himself as he looked at this scene.

The impact from destroying the Great Shun Town had been too great, and because large families had Legacies as well, it was impossible for them to not know what was happening.

When they heard that final mournful cry, the Xia family and Yue family’s people had been scared out of their wits, and they figured that it was Great Ming that had destroyed Great Shun. When they thought about how they had betrayed Zhao Fu and the fact that their two families had always been weaker than the other families in the six families, they knew that Zhao Fu would be coming to destroy them next.

As such, they had immediately relocated their villages. They knew that they would have to pay a price, but it wouldn’t be as great as losing their villages.

Zhao Fu came too late, but he was pleased to find that there were still roughly 5,000 people and some resources that had been abandoned.

Because they didn’t have much time, it was impossible for the Xia family and Yue family to take everyone. If they brought so many people, Zhao Fu would definitely catch up to them, resulting in all of them perishing. As such, they chose to take the precious items and important people.
As for the remaining normal people and items, the Xia family and Yue family allowed those who could run to run, and they destroyed and burned what they could. Even if they had to destroy everything, they weren’t willing to let Zhao Fu have it.

However, they had many shops in the system main cities, which they obtained good profits from. They had developed in Green Apricot for a long time, and they weren’t willing to throw all of it away.

Moreover, they were currently unable to go to other regions, so they had to hide in some remote location, not daring to even go to the system main cities. Now, the entirety of Green Apricot belonged to Zhao Fu, and going to system main cities would be equivalent to committing suicide.

In the end, upon realizing they couldn’t leave all of their resources and people, they decided to make a deal with Zhao Fu.

When Zhao Fu brought the 50,000 soldiers to the Xia family’s village, he found that the Xia family’s people were waiting there for him.

At that moment, a young man walked out from the crowd and shouted somewhat nervously, “Please don’t attack, everyone! The Xia family has left some people here to talk with Young master Zhu.”

When he heard this, Zhao Fu felt quite confused, but he still ordered some people to bring the young man to him.

The young man looked at Zhao Fu, who was wearing a black cloak, and smiled before saying, “Young master Zhu, I would first like to apologize to you on the behalf of the Xia family. We don’t dare to hope that you will forgive us, but please believe us when we say that we had our own hidden troubles. However, we still feel regretful and remorseful, so we are gifting all of the people and items here to young master Zhu to show our sincerity.”

Zhao Fu understood the Xia family’s intention – no wonder there were still so many people and items here. If he accepted these things, he would be honor-bound not to attack the Xia family.