Chapter 290: Public Trial and Cancellation of Concessions

Qingse Island.

Public Trial Site.

Peng Feng arrived directly at this place.

Originally, this matter didn’t require Emperor Grand Ancestor Peng Feng to personally attend at all.

However,

he was very interested in confronting the people from the Western Countries, so he came in person.

At this time, at the public trial site, many common people were gathered.

Since the New Dynasty lost the battle against the Western Countries, it had been weak and had given too many privileges to the white people of the West. Usually, many common people had been bullied by these white people.

This was the first time the imperial court had been so tough.

The common people, of course, all came to watch.

Soon, the person being publicly tried this time—John, a blond-haired, white-skinned man with body odor—arrived. （It is said that 99% of black people have body odor, and 90% of white people have body odor. That smell, it’s really pungent!）.

After John was brought up, he was still arrogant: “What? Aren’t you going to let me go back to the West? What else do you want?”

Clearly, in his opinion, the worst thing that could happen after he committed a crime here was that he would be sent back to the Western Countries.

Peng Feng sneered: “Send you back to the West? What are you dreaming about? You committed a crime in our New Dynasty, killing hundreds of people, so you have to be tried here. Our New Dynasty’s verdict for you is—death by slow slicing.”

Upon hearing this, John couldn’t help but be startled.

However, he quickly became arrogant again, saying: “New Dynasty, you better watch out. I am from the Knight Country, one of the four great powers of the West. Our country is the strongest in the world. If you kill me, with the temper of our Knight Country, we will definitely make you pay. We will definitely send warships and cannons to attack your New Dynasty.”

“At that time, your New Dynasty will have to sign all sorts of treaties and make all sorts of compensations.

Last time, your New Dynasty signed the Treaty of Nanjing, immediately giving up five or six concessions and paying 30 million taels of silver. Now, if you dare to kill me, the compensation will definitely be even more.”

John was very arrogant.

This was his arrogance, coming from the Knight Country, one of the four great powers of the West.

He was not afraid at all.

Peng Feng laughed.

A soft laugh.

“Knight Country, I’m so scared.”

“If he wants war, then I will give him war.”

“Men, begin.”

“No, let the families of those hundreds of girls who were harmed, as we agreed before, carry out this punishment. Each person can only cut one slice.”

Immediately, the families of those hundreds of girls, who had been arranged beforehand, carried out this punishment.

During this punishment, John was in agony, waking up and passing out, passing out and waking up in agony.

Finally, he died completely.

And these hundreds of families, both crying and laughing, knelt down to thank Peng Feng for his grace.

And this incident greatly boosted the confidence of the people of the New Dynasty.

The people of the New Dynasty commented like this: “Emperor Grand Ancestor is really tough. He’s not afraid of the people from the Western Countries at all.”

“You should see how Emperor Grand Ancestor fought his way up. He single-handedly killed eight Heavenly Immortal Realm experts of the Manchu Qing and conquered this land. Of course, he can’t be compared to later generations.”

“Look at how he challenged the Four Great Families. He immediately destroyed the Li Family, one of the Four Great Families, and killed the Heaven List expert Li Ruyi.”

“The other three Great Families immediately surrendered.”

“It’s not surprising that Emperor Grand Ancestor is so tough.”

“Haha, it’s good that Emperor Grand Ancestor is back. This way, we don’t have to endure the arrogance of those white people. Before, when those officials saw the white people, they were all about to kneel on the ground, it was really disgusting.”

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“Yeah, and all those weird things, like the three studies, the same path, disgusting.”

Next, there were even more satisfying things for the people of the New Dynasty. For example, the cancellation of all concessions.

People like Zeng Guofan were crying to death, trembling all over, saying that they couldn’t treat the Western Countries like this, that the Western Countries’ armies would come sooner or later.

Peng Feng could only shrug. Zeng Guofan’s backbone was too soft. Forget it, he should just let him resign. The New Dynasty didn’t need people with such soft backbones.

He waited for the reaction of the Western Countries.

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Several months later.

A fleet composed of dozens of ships appeared.

This fleet was clearly not of the New Dynasty’s style.

Its size was also larger than that of the New Dynasty’s ships.

Its style was smaller than that of the New Dynasty’s ships.

Its speed was faster than that of the New Dynasty’s ships.

More cannons were installed on it, making it clear that its firepower was extraordinary.

As soon as this fleet appeared, it attacked the Dagu Forts of Tianzhin City.

Although there were experts on the Dagu Forts who wanted to resist, there were Heavenly Immortal Realm experts on that fleet—or, according to the Western Countries, Twelfth Level experts. They immediately defeated the experts of the Dagu Forts.

Then, they successfully captured the Dagu Forts.

Originally, in Tianzhin City, there were many layers of formations, such as the Seven Stars Eight Trigrams Nine Palaces Formations. These formations could resist higher-level powers.

However, in the hands of the Twelfth Level experts （Heavenly Immortal Realm）, these formations were as fragile as paper.

Soon, Tianzhin City was occupied by this fleet of white people.

At this time, the commander-in-chief of this fleet, a white person about five meters tall, was holding a very long white knight’s spear in his right hand, and wearing tall black military boots.

With his military boots, he stepped on the head of a garrison commander of Tianzhin City: “Go back and tell your king of the New Dynasty. Tell him that the revenge of the Knight Country, one of the four great powers of the West, has come.”

“How dare you kill the people of our Knight Country, how dare you cancel all those concessions we signed when we signed the Treaty of Nanjing.

You New Dynasty, what a DOG gut! We’ve traveled all over the world, and we’ve never seen such arrogant people.”

“Our Knight Country will destroy your New Dynasty’s army, we will rush into your New Dynasty’s capital, and capture your emperor alive. We will make you understand what the consequences are for offending one of the four most powerful countries on Earth.”

“Oh, right, my name is Lie Weilian. Tell your New Dynasty’s king my name in advance. Let him live in fear until he is captured alive by me.”

“Now, get lost.”

The garrison commander, desperate to save his life, scrambled away in a panic.

And behind them, came the laughter of Lie Weilian and the other white people.

These people didn’t take the New Dynasty seriously at all, because they had heavily defeated the New Dynasty once before. Besides, there was no one in this world who could compete with them.

And then,

the news that the Knight Country, one of the four great powers of the West, had sent people spread quickly.

The common people were fine, they all had confidence in Emperor Grand Ancestor. Besides, at worst, they would just fight the people of the Knight Country, at worst, they would just die.

However, the officials were terrified. One by one, they kept spreading negative news, acting as if the Knight Country had come, and they were all doomed.