My Emperor Father Can Read Minds

Chapter 297: Offering Cao Dog to the Imperial Court

In the face of an absolute disparity in military power, integrity is the least valuable thing.

Japanese pirates have no integrity.

One moment they were swearing brotherhood with Cao Ji, and the next moment, those black-hearted, rotten Japanese pirates were already plotting how to offer the traitor Cao to the Imperial Court.

Although everyone is called a thief, there are differences between thieves!

They are not the same as that dog traitor Cao Ji.

Although they are called Japanese pirates, they are just a bunch of maritime protectors who usually enjoy drinking and bragging, and occasionally collect protection fees from merchant ships passing by their doorstep!

As an official appointed by the Imperial Court, Cao Dog usually swaggered around, abusing his power, taking human lives lightly, and acting unlawfully. This was a severe breach of the Imperial Court’s trust, so the Imperial Court’s arrest of him was only natural!

How could this rebel be the same as their maritime protectors?

The Japanese pirates are thick-skinned; once they said they would hand over Cao Ji, they immediately acted.

But how could such a thing be done just by saying it? At least they had to find Cao Ji, right?

Unfortunately, reality was disappointing.

When the Japanese pirates went to Cao Ji’s hiding place to find him, they belatedly realized a problem.

— Cao Ji himself was not at the hiding spot he claimed!

There are many islands in the sea. Cao Ji had operated at the harbor for many years and was in cahoots with the Japanese pirates. Naturally, he had his own private property at sea.

Their long-term cooperation made the Japanese pirates very familiar with Cao Ji’s private island in the sea.

At that time, when Cao Ji fled, he escaped to his own private island, and the Japanese pirate leaders even came over to watch the excitement.

But now, looking at the deserted island, the Japanese pirates felt like the joke was on them.

Damn dog traitor Cao!

That bastard sneaked away secretly at some unknown time. Not only was the island empty of people, there wasn’t even a bit of food left. It was clearly a premeditated act!!

The Japanese pirate leaders were furious.

They were supposed to be comrades through thick and thin, but damn it, Cao Dog actually slipped away secretly without telling them?!

It was clearly his fault causing all these troubles, yet that dog thing ran away first, leaving them there to be used as a shield?!

That was a textbook example of being ungrateful and disloyal!

The Japanese pirates selectively forgot about handing over Cao Ji and only kept cursing Cao Ji’s shameless behavior in their hearts.

The navy, carrying cannon carts, fought the Japanese pirates fiercely. The harder the navy fought, the more fiercely the Japanese pirates cursed Cao Ji in their hearts.

As time passed, watching their own dwindling Japanese pirate forces, the group of maritime protectors became extremely afraid inside.

One leader, with eyes wide open and a confused look, asked, “What do you think we should do now?”

The responder hugged a wine jar, living drunkenly and wildly, "We can’t beat the navy, can’t find Cao Dog, just live one day at a time.”

Anyway, judging by the situation now, it didn’t seem like the Imperial Court would let them off. Rather than being killed or captured, many Japanese pirates preferred to squander wildly during this final period.

Those clinging to women nodded with laughter, “Beauties, fine wines, gold and jewels—we have plenty. I’d rather rot here than be wiped out by the Imperial Court! You just enjoy yourself while you’re still alive; why worry so much!”

“Yeah, just live day by day.”

“Hey? The wine’s gone, go! Bring a few more jars over…”

In this chaotic gathering, the leader who first spoke looked at this group of “sludge” in silence for a while. Finally, he bit his teeth and slammed his fist on the nearby armrest.

Live day by day, my ass!

That’s just like a death sentence meal!!

Damn, that’s too unlucky!

The leader didn’t want to die; he still wanted to live freely as a wealthy man, so he had no desire to experience this middle-aged deathbed extravagance!

Isn't it just about finding that dog traitor Cao Ji?

He’ll find him!

His clever mind was turning, and the Japanese pirate leader began to focus on dispatching people to search the seas for Cao Ji’s whereabouts. No nearby place? Then farther away. No distant place? Then even farther!

The Japanese pirate leader just didn’t believe that Cao Ji, who was now wanted by the Great Wei Imperial Court, could leave the sea and go ashore?

As long as Cao Dog was at sea one day, there would always be a day when they found him!

As for the internal affairs of the Japanese pirates, the Eldest Prince with the cannon cart in hand paid no attention.

It wasn’t that he underestimated them, but his opponent was just utterly weak.

Once the cannon cart appeared, everyone dropped to the ground.

In such an overwhelmingly crushing situation, even if the Eldest Prince wanted to be serious, seeing all those bodies flying everywhere, he simply couldn’t keep a serious face!

So whatever the Japanese pirates thought or did… the Eldest Prince really didn’t care.

After all, they were all Japanese pirates—not worthy of forgiveness. Just one cannon shell was enough, whether they live or die, fate would decide.

Catch Cao Ji, wipe out the Japanese pirates.

There was no conflict between those two goals.

With the support of the cannon carts, although the Eldest Prince hadn’t caught Cao Ji yet, the campaign to eliminate the Japanese pirates was in full swing.

Every few days, battle reports arrived at the Capital—either reporting how many bandits were eliminated or how much loot was collected tomorrow…

Obviously, these were insignificant minor battles. A general at the frontier wouldn’t even bother replying, but the generals at the capital were so happy they were practically grinning from ear to ear.

It wasn’t because they were taking the side of the Eldest Prince or making political moves, purely as generals, they knew that the Imperial Court had produced a divine weapon that allowed the army to win every battle without losing a soldier.

Thinking about the future battlefield situation, the generals couldn’t help but feel immense joy.

As the chief of generals, Du Xing really couldn’t hold back this time.

His Majesty didn’t mention the explosive packs last time, but what about the cannon carts? Was His Majesty really not going to announce it to them?!

But Du Xing didn’t go to Emperor Wei.

He went to find Wei Yu.

Du Xing considered himself in his prime and with a good memory, so he clearly remembered that these gunpowder, cannon carts, and related stuff were all things that the Ninth Highness had mentioned to them when talking about warships!

Du Xing didn’t know when these things were made. He asked Pei Zhi, who as Minister of Works even didn’t know about this matter, which showed this was something His Majesty and the Ninth Highness did privately…

Since it was already in use by the army, it clearly wasn’t something to hide.

So since His Majesty didn’t say anything, it was okay for him to go to Ninth Highness to try to find out.

When Wei Yu faced the excited and expectant Du Xing, he felt somewhat speechless.

Yeah!

War enthusiast Master Du finally couldn’t hold back and came to find him, so why hadn’t his dad, the instigator, shown this to the court officials yet?!

What was there to hide about this?

A whole bunch of people already knew the names like “explosive packs,” “cannon carts,” and “cannonballs,” but they’d never actually seen them. How reasonable was that?!

Huh?!

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