"I suggest we conquer a foothold so absolute, that the Emperor's reach will officially span from the Jade Palace to the edge of the Atlantic!" Strategist Sun declared, his frail hands trembling with excitement as he traced invisible borders across the parchment map.
"We have the food, we have the manpower, and the local rulers are too terrified of our numbers to mount a unified resistance! We shall easily overwhelm the northern fortresses, enslave their populations to work the mines, and secure a permanent fortified harbor to support your eventual return from the northern islands!"
Zhao Feng paced around the war table.
To be the general who not only executed a traitor but also handed the Emperor an entirely new continent on a silver platter? It would guarantee his ascension to the highest echelons of immortal, historical divinity!
"The locals are weak, completely divided by their pathetic religious squabbles and petty territorial disputes," Zhao Feng said.
