Chapter 100 The Empress Destroyed Your Country (26)

However, Bai Tang was extremely skilled in winning people’s hearts, and the techniques she used were deemed impossible to learn no matter how long one studied.

Dealing with a bandit den was not an easy task to handle completely. Their habits would need to change, and they needed to see hope instead of worrying about food and clothing. Naturally, Bai Tang had her own ways of achieving this.

As a woman, she faced some difficulties due to the prejudices people held against women. However, after spending some time understanding the situation of the various bandit groups, she began a comprehensive transformation and development plan. She found useful people and worked diligently to train them to help her pull the load.

Everyone was busy, especially Bai Tang. After finishing work during the day, she would go to bed and fall into a deep sleep.

How could one not have any ambition in this world? It wasn’t only because of her feud with Nie Suzhi. Once Bai Tang learned that Nie Suzhi was the Emperor, her thoughts became straightforward— if he couldn’t do it, then she’d do it!

If you can’t, then get out of my way, I’ll do it!

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Nie Suzhi noticed that something was wrong with Bai Tang recently. He had a fixed schedule, so he knew roughly when she would go to bed every day, and he would pull her into a dream at that time.

However, in the past few days, Nie Suzhi noticed that Bai Tang’s sleeping time had shifted significantly. He didn’t remind her, but instead directly piled up the memorial for several days. During these days, except for eating, he spent most of his time napping and calculating Bai Tang’s time.

After a few days, Nie Suzhi found that on average, Bai Tang only rested for 3 hours a day, which was a quarter of the day’s 12 hours. So, what did she do with the remaining three-quarters of her time?

Even though Nie Suzhi knew that he couldn’t do anything to Bai Tang in her dreams, he still did this in order to gradually influence her by introducing bizarre and violent dreams. 

He believed that if he could make Bai Tang see more twisted and violent things, even the most normal person would eventually develop problems. This could be a breakthrough for Nie Suzhi to exploit, as he believed that if he could utilize this correctly, he could add a touch of bloody color to the purgatory on earth.

Another reason was that Nie Suzhi could extract some useful information from it, even if it was scarce. For intelligent people, this could lead to inferring many things.

For instance, what could be making her so busy right now, only getting three hours of sleep? Nie Suzhi thought for a while and concluded that it must be because she had just begun working on something.

Therefore, Nie Suzhi ordered De Fu to collect information from various places.

Unfortunately, during the four years that Nie Suzhi had intentionally sabotaged the whole of Great Qin as the Emperor, the state of Great Qin was now in a sorry state. It was like a rotten apple with a golden exterior. People were divided, and the hidden dangers planted by Nie Suzhi were growing and wreaking havoc in various ways. It was extremely difficult for De Fu to collect information in this situation.

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It took a full two months for the mountain stronghold to take shape. Gradually, various aspects such as education, recuperation, organization of teams, and so on began.

Bai Tang chose a good day to rename the stronghold “Divine Movement”. When the scale expanded in the future, the team she trained would be called the Divine Movement Army, renowned for their guerilla tactics.

Bai Tang knew that her unusual behavior could not be concealed from Nie Suzhi, but it was also very difficult for him to find out what she was doing. The Minnan area had little connection with the capital, and unexpected events were common. Bandits were also rampant, and Bai Tang had blocked all news. Even the local bandits only knew that the biggest bandit stronghold had changed hands but did not know who the new leader was.

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