Having many children brings many blessings; the struggle for power begins with marriage.

Chapter 139 The Brutal Sirius King and the Benevolent Northern King

Lu Chen, along with Yelü Nanyan and Xiao Wenyao, quickly arrived at the camp where the barbarian prisoners were being held.

The barbarians had 100,000 captives, and the North Commandery had to put in a great deal of effort just to manage them.

Ten thousand heavy cavalrymen were stationed near the barbarian prisoners' camp, along with some ordinary soldiers responsible for managing the prisoners.

Basically, each Northshire soldier was responsible for more than a hundred barbarian prisoners, which put a lot of pressure on the Northshire soldiers who managed the prisoners.

The vast majority of soldiers in the Northern Commandery believed that killing these barbarian prisoners was the easiest solution.

However, keeping these prisoners was the Northern King's order, so the soldiers couldn't say much.

As soon as Yelü Nanyan and Xiao Wenyao stepped off the carriage, the barbarian prisoners who were doing hard labor saw them and immediately erupted in chaos.

"Your Majesty...Your Highness!!!"

"Look, everyone! It's the Princess!!!"

"What's going on! Why is the Princess Consort in Yancheng?!"

"Has our tribe been wiped out by the Northern King, and our queen been captured by him?!"

"No...impossible! The Queen is so clever; once she knows we've been defeated, she'll definitely move the royal court immediately. How could the Northern King find our tribe's exact location so easily?!"

"That person is definitely not the princess!!!"

……

Seeing that the barbarian prisoners could not believe that the woman who stepped off the carriage was the barbarian queen, a soldier from the Northern County guarding the barbarian prisoners couldn't help but sneer and say, "You probably don't know yet, but your queen has now agreed to marry our prince and is now our prince's woman."

"Moreover, your Sirius King tribe will soon be moving to the Northern Prefecture. It's only because our king is merciful that he would have slaughtered all of you barbarians long ago if it were anyone else."

Upon hearing the words of the North County soldiers, the barbarian prisoners were stunned.

Why would their queen choose to marry the Northern King? Has their royal court really been found by the Northern King?

The Queen is no longer in the Sirius King Tribe. Does the Sirius King Tribe have a future?

For a moment, the barbarian prisoners became very depressed, and the atmosphere at the scene was extremely oppressive.

At this moment, a guard from the royal palace came to the barbarian prisoners and said, "The people of the Sirius King's tribe, stay here; the people of the Northern Xian King's tribe, go back first."

Among these 100,000 barbarian prisoners, many were soldiers from the Northern Xianwang tribe. After hearing what the royal guard said, many of the barbarian prisoners from the Northern Xianwang tribe turned and left, and soon only the prisoners from the Tianlangwang tribe remained on the field.

At this moment, Yelü Nanyan walked slowly to the soldiers. When she saw that not only the princess had come, but also Xiao Wenyao, the daughter of the Heavenly Wolf King, the soldiers had no choice but to accept reality.

It seems that the Northern King has indeed found the royal court of the Sirius King tribe, otherwise their queen and princess could not have appeared here at the same time.

At this moment, the barbarian prisoners all knelt down and said, "Greetings, Queen!"

Seeing this, Lu Chen felt a pang of emotion. He hadn't expected Yelü Nanyan to hold such a high position in the hearts of the barbarian captives. Indeed, capturing her was the right thing to do.

Even if Yelü Nanyan isn't pretty and doesn't have a score of 90, she still possesses strong political attributes. Capturing her would essentially mean controlling the entire Tianlang King tribe.

Of course, it must be said that he was lucky. Yelü Nanyan was beautiful and her score was over 90. Most importantly, Yelü Nanyan was a virgin and was the type he liked.

Yelü Nanyan looked at the kneeling barbarian prisoners, her emotions a mixture of feelings. She sighed and said, "I am no longer a queen. Get up, all of you. I am just a prisoner, just like you."

Even after hearing Yelü Nanyan's words, the barbarian prisoners still did not get up.

At this moment, a barbarian prisoner looked up and asked, "Your Highness, has the Sirius King's tribe truly been destroyed by the Northern King?"

Yelü Nanyan replied, "The Northern King is benevolent and has allowed the Sirius King tribe to relocate to the Northern Commandery. Your relatives will settle in the Northern Commandery as subjects of the Great Xia. In a sense, from now on, the Sirius King tribe will no longer exist."

Upon hearing Yelü Nanyan's words, the barbarian captives found it hard to believe.

They came to attack Northshire, wasn't it all for the land of Northshire?

Now that the Northern King has defeated them, not only has he not destroyed their royal court, but he has also relocated their tribesmen to the Northern Commandery, making them commoners of the Great Xia?

Why did they even bother attacking North County in the first place?

Not only did so many people die, but they were all taken prisoner, and the tribe was destroyed.

In the end, a meaningless war was won with the blood of more than 200,000 people.

The barbarian prisoners fell silent, unsure of what to say.

Yelü Nanyan sighed slightly, then continued, "The Northern King asked me to tell you that you will be forced to serve in the Northern Commandery for ten years. If any of you perform well, the Northern King will allow you to go home to visit your families, and you will also have the opportunity to end your service early."

"After your service is over, it is up to you whether you stay in the Northern County as subjects of Great Xia or choose to return to the grasslands to continue your nomadic life."

Upon hearing this, the barbarian prisoners all raised their heads, instantly becoming much more alert.

One of the barbarian soldiers asked, "Your Highness, is what you say true? Can we really go back to see our families?"

Yelü Nanyan said, "On the way here, I asked the Northern King, and he said that he would give you one hundred spots to go home and visit your families every month, but you would have to wait for half a year. However, the Northern King would not restrict your relatives from visiting you."

Upon hearing this, the barbarian captives became incredibly excited. They had all thought they would never be able to leave the Northern Commandery again and would never see their relatives again. They never expected that the Northern King would allow their relatives to visit them.

If that's the case, they'll probably be able to see their loved ones soon.

However, the barbarian captives soon realized that their treatment was probably due to the sacrifice of their queen.

At this moment, one of the prisoners asked, "Your Highness, is this the condition you received from the Northern King in exchange for agreeing to marry him?"

Yelü Nanyan was about to answer when she saw all the barbarian prisoners staring at her, so she fell silent. Actually, it didn't concern her much; she had no right to bargain with Lu Chen now.

Seeing that Yelü Nanyan did not speak, the barbarian captives all assumed that Yelü Nanyan had tacitly agreed.

In an instant, the barbarian captives felt even more grateful to Yelü Nanyan, and Yelü Nanyan's status in their hearts rose to another level.

Just then, a barbarian prisoner suddenly asked, "Your Highness, are you and the princess going to marry the Northern King?"

Yelü Nanyan replied, "Yes."

The barbarian captive continued, "So, the princess will be the Northern King's woman from now on? If I tell the Northern King something about the princess's mother, would that count as performing a meritorious service?"

Upon hearing the prisoner's words, Xiao Wenyao paused for a moment, then immediately asked, "About my mother? What is it?"

The prisoner said, "Princess, your mother was poisoned by the King. Several of the King's men and I know about this."

Although the Sirius King is dead, Xiao Wenyao is still alive and is about to become the Northern King's woman. If the Northern King can be told about some of the despicable things he did in the past, and make Xiao Wenyao hate him, this would be a way of helping the Northern King.

After all, the Northern King was Xiao Wenyao's father's killer. If Xiao Wenyao didn't hate the Heavenly Wolf King, it wouldn't be a good thing for the Northern King, and Xiao Wenyao might not necessarily be loyal to the Northern King's mansion.

However, if Xiao Wenyao knew that her mother had died at the hands of the Heavenly Wolf King, she would be very likely to no longer care about the Northern King's revenge for her father's death, and she would be more likely to return to the Northern King's mansion.

At this moment, another barbarian prisoner spoke up, "Princess, I also know about this, and I also know that the King himself administered the poison to your mother!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Wenyao's face turned deathly pale.

She had actually heard her uncle mention this guess before, but it was just a guess without any evidence. She never expected that after her father died, one of his former subordinates would come forward as a witness.

My mother was indeed poisoned to death by my father!

Thinking of this, Xiao Wenyao's body trembled involuntarily.

How cruel my own father is!

In order to marry the princess, he even poisoned his wife who had always been with him.

If it weren't for her mother persuading her uncle to back down, her father might not have become the king of the barbarians. As a result, the first thing her father did after becoming the King of the Heavenly Wolf was to poison her mother.

Xiao Wenyao was initially a little sad about Xiao Hongbo's situation, after all, he was her biological father and they were related by blood.

However, after hearing the revelations from her father's former subordinates, she felt no lingering affection for Xiao Hongbo. She simply felt that Xiao Hongbo deserved to be killed by the Northern King, who was avenging her mother's death.

At the same time, Lu Chen approached from a distance and saw Xiao Wenyao's tears streaming down her face. Lu Chen smiled and asked, "What's wrong, little princess? Does your tribe's soldiers suffer? Does it break your heart?"

Xiao Wenyao didn't answer; she just kept wiping away her tears.

At this moment, Yelü Nanyan said from the side, "Your Highness, just now some of the former subordinates of the Heavenly Wolf King confessed to Yao Yao that the Heavenly Wolf King used poison to kill Yao Yao's mother."

Upon hearing Yelü Nanyan's words, Lu Chen was taken aback. He had already heard about this matter in the intelligence collected by Wu Yuan, but he just treated it as a joke, since it didn't have much to do with him.

However, judging from how sadly Xiao Wenyao is crying, she must have a very close relationship with her mother.

So, does that mean he avenged Xiao Wenyao's mother's death?

Thinking of this, Lu Chen glanced at Xiao Wenyao's favorability rating and found that Xiao Wenyao's favorability rating towards him had indeed increased a lot, even approaching eighty.

Lu Chen suddenly thought of something and then said to the barbarian prisoners, "The Wolf King killed even his own wife for his own ambition. Not only did he kill his own wife, but he also led you to the Northern County to burn, kill, and plunder, committing so many crimes."

"Since some of you were once subordinates of the Sirius King, you must know more about the mistakes he made. If you step forward and confess all the crimes he committed, I will grant you a chance to go home and visit your families!"

Now that the war is over, we need to find a war criminal and pin all the blame on that person so that Lu Chen can subdue the entire Sirius King tribe.

At that time, the people of the Sirius King tribe will only think that it is their king's fault, that their king has led their entire Sirius King tribe into a desperate situation for his own ambition.

Compared to the Sirius King, the Northern King was the one who truly treated them well. Not only did the Northern King not kill them, but he also gave them a chance to atone for their sins and even moved their families to the Northern Prefecture.

As time goes by, these barbarians will only grow to hate the Sirius King more and more.

Lu Chen thought to himself, since the Sirius King is already dead, let him play a final role.

Just as Lu Chen had expected, as soon as he finished speaking, a barbarian prisoner stepped forward and said, "I know that the Wolf King has repeatedly imprisoned and tortured the captured Great Xia women in a tent behind the Queen's back! He claims to want to marry the Queen and to love her very much, but in reality, he only covets the Queen's beauty and the power she holds. He is a scumbag!"

Upon hearing the barbarian prisoner's words, Lu Chen frowned slightly. Why did he feel like he was being subtly insulted? Was it just his imagination?

Fortunately, the barbarian captives were referring to the Sirius King, so Lu Chen didn't pay much attention to it.

Once the first one appeared, a second one followed. Soon, another barbarian soldier stood up and said, "I know that in order to become the king of our tribe, Xiao Hongbo secretly murdered an elder who opposed him and even took out the elder's internal organs, cooked them, and ate them. Xiao Hongbo is a demon!!!"

"I know……"

"I know that too..."

……

In an instant, the barbarian prisoners present stood up one after another to expose the crimes Xiao Hongbo had committed. At first, it was relatively normal, but as the story progressed, some of them started to make up stories.

For example, Xiao Hongbo likes to eat children, likes to play with men, and even likes to eat feces.

This was exactly the effect Lu Chen wanted. The more Xiao Hongbo was despised by their tribe, the easier it would be for these barbarian captives to submit to Beijun.

After a while, Lu Chen said to Qin Yushan beside him, "Commander Qin, you should have someone list out the crimes of Tianlang King Xiao Hongbo and then make a notice to be sent to all the cities in Beijun."

Qin Yushan immediately replied, "Yes, Your Highness."

At this point, Lu Chen looked at Yelü Nanyan and said, "Princess Yelü, it should be about time. We can go back now."

Yelü Nanyan glanced at the barbarian prisoners present, then at the distraught Xiao Wenyao, and sighed softly, saying, "Yes, Your Highness."

They then returned to the Prince's Palace.

After returning to the palace, Yelü Nanyan sat on a wooden stool in her room, staring blankly out the window at the courtyard, lost in thought.

Just then, the voice of a maid from the Prince's mansion came from outside the courtyard.

"Greetings, Your Highness!"

Upon hearing the maid's voice, Yelü Nanyan was slightly taken aback. Then she quickly stood up. Just as she stood up, Lu Chen pushed open the door and entered the room.

(End of this chapter)