By 10 a.m., the latest news had finally arrived.
The Prime Minister of East Saiyi, Wen Wei, had officially issued a public surrender declaration and ordered all military forces to immediately cease resistance and combat operations.
Yet, there was still no news from the Imperial Capital.
On the issue of whether to accept the East Saiyi surrender, there had always been a great divergence within the Empire.
A few months earlier, the decision to send troops to occupy Long Sorrow Port and to have Niu Man and Sawa establish a regime there was, in fact, the result of this disagreement. Subsequently, the Empire recognized the Long Sorrow regime diplomatically, claiming that the conflict on the Saiyi homeland was a civil war between two regimes, which was also related to this issue.
Fundamentally, it was about disentangling from Saiyi to avoid getting mired in a quagmire populated by tens of millions of residents.
