"Kill the man, kill the heart?"
Yang Tiansheng seemed to half understand, "What are you talking about?"
Yang Ge looked out over the entirety of Hirado Castle and said softly, "Dongying might be small, but it still has a population of several million. Even if all seventy-two of us were willing to sacrifice ourselves to the eighteenth layer of hell, never to be reincarnated, we couldn’t possibly slaughter all these millions of Japanese invaders."
"Besides, sheer external force is very likely to make these scoundrels put aside their fighting and unite against a common enemy. By then, even if we can still suppress these scoundrels and make them bow their heads, it would only be temporary. They would surely hate us in Wei even more, and once they seize an opportunity in the future, they will retaliate even more fiercely..."
"We can’t just do things for the sake of our own satisfaction, leaving such a huge hidden danger for future generations!"
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"Therefore, we must first break the spine of these scoundrels from the inside, then plunge them into endless internal strife until they no longer have the strength to invade our divine Wei lands!"
"They..."
He pointed at the Dongying paupers below who had received weapons and money and had already started to join in maintaining order and distinguishing the Japanese invaders: "They are the seeds I’ve chosen, as well as the gloves I’ve selected for us!"
"Wear them..."
"The dirty work we cannot do, we can let them do."
"Whether it’s murder, arson, or even plundering wealth and annihilating towns, these little devils, whose servility and ruthlessness are ingrained in their marrow, will do it more cruelly and bloodily than we ever could!"
"We support them, leading them to destroy what was once Dongying’s lineage, what village chiefs and local officials they had, breaking their traditional inheritance, pitting them against one another, making them fight to the death!"
"That way, we can step out of the chessboard and as outsiders, with very little food and weaponry, keep controlling both sides to continue fighting to the death, while continuously exchanging for Dongying’s gold, silver, population, and all the resources Wei needs."
"All we need to do is to keep an eye on them. As soon as there is a trend of unification, we come over, pull out the bigger village chiefs and local officials, have a knife put to them, and raise another batch of the lowest-class Japanese pirates to continue fighting for territory and resources. Just like this, we go round and round, continuously bleeding this mongrel nation, squeezing out all their potential to the death!"
"If handled properly, I think there’s hope that within my lifetime, I will see this land fall under the map of Wei’s territories. Though this land isn’t anything special, we can’t let it just grow grass and be taken advantage of by these little devils..."
"I call this move ’Kill the man, kill the heart’!"
"As the name suggests, I will kill both the man and his spirit!"
He seemed to envision some beautiful scene, and as he spoke, he actually started to laugh.
However, the four men listening intently, seeing the smile on his face, all broke out in a cold sweat.
What a move, "Kill the man, kill the heart"!
How cunning, how ruthless!
Could this really be the same Yang Ge who, back in Wei, insisted on paying for even a pancake?
How could he completely change his nature once he was outside the country?
"Old Second, tell your brother the truth,"
Yang Tiansheng swallowed nervously and asked in a low voice, "Was your family, by any chance, destroyed by these scoundrels?"
In his mind, he added, ’The Eastern Factory had desecrated your family’s tomb, and after you had your revenge, you put away the knife. Why is it that against the Japanese invaders, every move you make aims for their annihilation?’
The other three also stealthily glanced at Yang Ge, feeling secretly relieved... they were lucky that they had never antagonized this guy to the death. With his cunning and malicious combination of moves, who could withstand it? Even the Zhao Family on top couldn’t cope!
Yang Ge answered, "Things are not as you imagine them to be, but if you want to put it that way, it’s not entirely wrong... Have you forgotten how these Japanese invaders ravaged our southeastern coast? Even now, weak as they are and unable to confront Wei directly, they dare to take things this far. Can you imagine what they would do to Wei’s lands if they ever gain the upper hand one day?"
Yang Tiansheng thought Yang Ge was being overly worried and said disdainfully, "Them? Worthy?"
Yang Ge sighed silently, forced a smile, and stressed, "Everyone thinks they’re unworthy, but the turns of the world are unpredictable. Who can determine how the future will unfold?"
After speaking, he took a deep breath, intensified his tone and said, "I’ve said what should and shouldn’t be said. If you feel that this is too cruel, too inhuman, and you can’t carry out this task, I can understand you. From now on, you just need to lead the brothers in looting wealth, and I’ll handle the rest. It won’t affect our relationship in the slightest."
"In fact, I am very eager to manage this affair all by myself. If I can accomplish this, then my existence in this world would not have been in vain. A hundred years from now, if I happen to meet the ancestors of the Yang Family in the afterlife, they will be proud of me!"
Seeing his earnest expression, which carried no hint of joking, Yang Tiansheng suddenly remembered the scene he had witnessed back at Guihua Ping in Songjiang Prefecture.
He spat out a mouthful of saliva and said with certainty, "Alright, brothers for life, no afterlife. If Yang Ge, you’ve made up your mind to be this villain, then as your brother, I will accompany you through the eighteenth layer of hell!"
Li Jincheng looked uncertain as he opened his mouth to speak, but a sense of unease filled his heart.