Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 805: Chapter 635: Such Fervor Among the Crowd!

However, Gu Changsheng, amidst unanimous discussions, rubbed his temples with a headache and spoke helplessly, “As the saying goes, external troubles must be resolved after internal ones. Now that the internal strife is settled, tell me, is there any family in the Southern Border that can stir up a mighty wave?”

With a slight lift of her Phoenix Eyes, Gu Changsheng, amid the fearful and anxious female officials, curled her lips and spoke, “If you can name one or two families like Xiangka who might attempt a coup, I happen to have a day’s leisure now. I shall eliminate them, and then continue northward.”

Well, she is quite agreeable, always receptive to advice!

“What is the Lord saying? The Lord is favored by the Heavenly God, reviving the Phoenix Sovereign, and reigning over the Southern Border. No reckless family would dare to fight against the heavens!”

The group of female officials, upon hearing this, immediately knelt down.

This new lord of the Southern Border, with a gentle smile and carefree words, has a certain aura… truly with a hint of dominance!

“Then that’s settled. Fortunately, even if I don’t stay at Great Swamp Mountain, no one dares to stir waves. However…” Gu Changsheng glanced at the kneeling crowd, her expression sinking solemnly, “But if I do not leave the Southern Border Hinterland, my friends will be trapped in a dire situation!”

Upon speaking, Gu Changsheng slowly stood up, looking at the row of kneeling female officials in Heluo City, and spoke spiritedly, “You reside in Heluo City, guarding the Southern Border for generations, indifferent to external affairs, perhaps unaware. Before I mobilized troops to the Southern Border, I was conferred the title of Prince Changsheng of Great Zhou in the Central Plains. The Four Kingdoms of the Central Plains are in turmoil due to my campaign in the Southern Border. I fought all the way to Great Swamp Mountain and seized Heluo City. The Southern Border is aflame, yet can only be considered internal strife with no foreign invasion. What do you suppose is the reason?”

The group of female officials in Heluo City, upon hearing this, were utterly astonished.

Truth be told, until Gu Changsheng became the new lord of the Southern Border, they hadn’t found anything unacceptable. After all, Gu Changsheng is Fenghuang Changsheng of the Phoenix Clan, one of their Southern Border kin!

The turmoil in the Southern Border, their new lord Fenghuang Changsheng, fought from the outskirts of the Southern Border to the Hinterland, and effortlessly regained the Sacred Land of Great Swamp Mountain. Until now, they felt the war was over!

The new lord of the Southern Border is clear, the Phoenix revival is imminent, everything will revert to its original state. Even if the ministers of the former court are affected, at least this struggle for the throne is concluded, and concluded so naturally, letting the people of the Southern Border be convinced!

But upon hearing their new lord speak, it seems, it doesn’t quite appear that way…

Internal strife, seems not merely internal…

The City Lord’s Great Hall in Heluo City, because of Gu Changsheng’s few words, suddenly plunged into an eerie silence!

The somber and solemn mood suddenly surged up!

Heluo City, as the largest city outside Great Swamp Mountain, derives its significance from being not only the seat of the Heluo Clan, one of the Six Halls, but also the political ruling center of the Southern Border. Great Swamp Mountain is the Sacred Land, the territory guarded by the Imperial Family, sacred and inviolable. The true operational management of the Southern Border is indeed in the hands of these female officials in Heluo City!

Looking at the hall full of kneeling female officials, Gu Changsheng sighed helplessly.

In such a solemn place, her son is competing with the Little Monk for chicken drumsticks, her father passing tissues beside, and she finally understands why the Phoenix Clan’s reign over the Southern Border for a millennium was so easily schemed against by the Three Palaces!

It’s too damn detached from the world!

A clear stance of not meddling in state affairs, wouldn’t you agree?

This relinquished authority, the group of female officials present, are the true exerting force of the Southern Border, fortunately this group only acknowledges the reigning master of Great Swamp Mountain, otherwise, her position would indeed be quite awkward.

With radiant rosy colors and a hint of Holy Golden between her brows, Gu Changsheng sat on the principal seat, feeling that the Southern Border truly has a sense of governance without interference!

“Does the Lord mean the Southern Border still faces foreign threats?”

Finally, a female official couldn’t help but ask the question weighing heavily on everyone’s mind.

“What do you think?” Gu Changsheng raised her eyebrows upon hearing this, “The internal turmoil in the Southern Border, caused by me, I resorted to slaughtering cities solely for rapid resolution, merely to minimize casualties outside the Southern Border!”

Gu Changsheng sighed and continued slowly amid the shocked looks of the female officials, “Let’s not mention the chaos in the Central Plains, that’s my family matter, with my fiancé defending. However, Bashu and the Southern Border have been lifelong allies, the Witch and Gu Tribes spring from the same source. Now, with Southern Border turmoil, Bashu is instead the first to bear the brunt, becoming the Southern Border’s final barrier. I don’t know how many troops the Southern Chen dispatched to Bashu intending to hinder me from reclaiming the Southern Border, but I’ve already received news from the North. My friend Borjigin Nian has led my Eight Hundred Families’ Generals back to Bashu, jointly defending against Southern Chen with the Wuchang Clan, while Xia Ruyan has also led her tens of thousands of troops to the edge of the Southern Border to prevent Bashu from falling.”

At this point, all the female officials in the great hall held their breaths.

Gu Changsheng slowly stood up and spoke with a tone of helplessness, “There’s nothing that can’t be said openly. As the new lord of the Southern Border, it’s clear who I am. I am the lord of the Southern Border, and my father is the supreme lord of the Wuchang Clan in Bashu. I bear the blood of the Phoenix Clan and also the blood of the Wuchang Clan in Bashu. Whether out of duty or self-preservation, I, Fenghuang Changsheng, bear the bloodline of both the Witch and Gu Tribes, and even though I grew up in the Central Plains, I swear not to let a single soldier from the Central Plains set foot in the lands of the Southwest Witch and Gu Clans!”

Thinking of the Wuchang Yue, the little Witch Lord in Bashu who is now struggling to protect her people against foreign invaders, Gu Changsheng felt a pang of guilt.

Gu Changsheng felt guilty, but there were clearly others who felt even more remorseful!

Those people were the female officials who knelt down!

Upon hearing Gu Changsheng’s words, the kneeling female officials immediately stopped kneeling, scrambling to get up from the ground, each one filled with fervor and righteous indignation!

“How can you say such words, my lord, as if it were so distant?!” A female official in her twenties, with eyes blazing with anger, shouted to the heavens, “The arrogant fools from the Central Plains dare to invade our sacred land in the Southwest! Do they truly think that just because we, the Witch and Gu Tribes, are in a remote corner of the Southwest, we are afraid of them?”

“The Witch and Gu Tribes have always been one lineage. Although we rule separate territories, the lineage of the King of Witch Gu has been passed down for generations through the royal bloodlines of both tribes. My lord, there’s no need to speak as if we are distant! Although the King of Witch Gu has not appeared for a thousand years, causing a divide between the two tribes, every citizen of the Southwest knows this thousand-year legacy. Bashu stands steadfast to defend against foreign enemies for our Southern Border, showing utmost benevolence and righteousness. We, the Southern Border Miao Ethnic Group Gu Women, are not ingrates. Our lord, bearing the bloodline of two tribes, should lead us, the Southern Border Gu Women, to defend our Southwest Witch and Gu Tribes!” Another elderly Gu woman was so angry that she was pounding her chest and stamping her feet, “The insolent fools from the Central Plains, the Southern Border’s myriad Gu Women have not stepped into the Central Plains for a thousand years, and they dare to bully us because we are all women, forgetting our mighty army of Gu insects! It’s simply intolerable!”

“How dare they invade our allies in the Southern Border, taking advantage of our internal chaos to attempt an invasion of the Southwest, their sins are unforgivable! Even the gods and men demand their punishment! We plead for our lord to lead the army northward, to drive out the children of Southern Chen from Bashu, from the Southwest! We are willing to follow our lord, to once again demonstrate the millennium-old prestige of our Southern Border Gu Women!”

“Raise an army and head north! Drive them out! Kill them! Let the fools of the Central Plains witness the might of our Southern Border Gu Women!”

“No, no! They’ve already bullied us at our doorstep, how can it end with merely driving them out! My lord, please immediately muster an army towards the Central Plains, so the Four Kingdoms of the Central Plains can witness the might of our Southern Border Gu Women, so they will know that we are not easy to bully!”

“Yes, yes, yes! Muster an army to the Central Plains! Our Southern Border Gu Women have not stepped into the Central Plains for a thousand years, they must witness what it means to be a Clan of God Favor, remember it for a thousand or eight hundred years. If that doesn’t suffice, we shall annex the Central Plains—though the terrain of the Central Plains is somewhat lacking, not as nourishing for people and Gu as our Southern Border’s mountains and waters, it would be acceptable to take it as a vassal state!”

“Exactly, exactly! We are so underestimated! Do they really think our Southern Border Gu Women are vegetarians! My lord, as long as you give the order, the myriad Gu Women of the Southern Border will immediately gather, and follow you to battle in the Central Plains. Those damn Four Kingdoms of the Central Plains, insignificant fools, dare to oppress our Southwest Witch and Gu Clans. We willingly offer tribute every year, simply following ancestral teachings, to avoid the fools of the Central Plains dying too miserably. But they, in their conceit, have truly taken themselves seriously! Mobilize! Mobilize now! This minister will immediately gather the Southern Border Gu Women to head to the frontier!”

“Exactly, our internal fights are one thing, what does it have to do with the Central Plains? How dare they ambitiously covet our lands, it’s simply intolerable. This minister will immediately prepare the grain and provisions for the north!”

“This minister will immediately draft recruitment edicts!”

“This minister will immediately gather the people of the Southern Border!”

“This minister will immediately…”

“…”

All of a sudden, Gu Changsheng was stunned!

As they spoke one after the other, all filled with wrath, Gu Changsheng was so shocked that she took two steps back and slumped into a chair. If it weren’t for the armrests, she might have fallen down quite disgracefully.

Righteous indignation and fervor!

It was not just idle talk, clearly. Before Gu Changsheng had the chance to speak, several female officials hurriedly bowed to her and rushed out!

Judging by their posture, they truly seemed ready to fight to the death with someone!

Gu Changsheng watched as most of the raging female officials swiftly scattered, and for a moment, she felt at a loss, her whole being thoroughly overwhelmed!

“Fa… Father… the things I just said, weren’t too emotional, were they?” Gu Changsheng swallowed nervously and asked in confusion.

Gu Taitian, who was wiping his grandson’s mouth, paused to glance at her, calmly uttering two words, “They weren’t.”

Hearing this answer, Gu Changsheng was even more bewildered…