Chapter 160 The forbidden half of the night, the human butcher armored
Shangshu province night duty place is located in the palace within the east side of the Longsheng door, the palace wall has a row of low tiled houses, compared to the two provinces under the door of the grandeur of the building of the hall, is really shabby to the extreme. Tonight is by the dynasty’s first minister Zhang Julu personally into the palace night duty, three provinces in the governor because of the West Chu old master Sun Xiji was transferred out of the capital to become the West Chu old land that jurisdiction of the Secretary, the three provinces in the province of the book of the province is vacant, the three positions suddenly empty two, more and more unlike the dynasty of etiquette, and the dynasty and the field of power and wealth are speculating on who has the qualifications and luck to replace Sun Xiji, a leap forward, the leader of the Taoist forest in the south of the Yangtze River, Lu Dao! The leader of Jiangnan Taoist priests Lu Dao Lin has just been promoted to serve as the Minister of Rites less than a year, the left priest Huan Wen has become the big brother of the popularity of the time. Shangshu province straight hall in addition to the center of a short room with the name of Zhang Lu, sitting in the head of Zhang Julu, the easternmost short room and Lu Dao Lin’s younger brother Lu Baijie, the Tongxi Jianxian new Ministry of the Ministry of the Army, coincidentally, also on duty, although the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Gu Jiantang hold, has always been oil and salt into the rest of the Shangshu five are a bit of a well-watered offending River Water, the six ministries of the Seal of the Yamen seal letters, the Ministry of the Ministry of the Army alone to put the straight hall side room, which is known as the ruling of strict Zhang Julu Known as harsh Zhang Julu, is also open eyes to deal with the past, see Gu Da Shangshu is not only rank higher than the five Shangshu foot a product, the real power is undoubtedly far from the difference between a product.
But new among the core of the capital city official Lu Baijie is not taboo these, and Zhang occasionally meet, are not only nodding and saluting the dragonfly water cross, will stop to say a few words, each time is to talk to each other, each other without half perfunctory. Zhang Julu is flipping through a copy of the old Chu forbidden forbidden books, written for a crazy Confucian, rushed to serve in Guangling Road to appease the boisterous public opinion of the Sun Xizi even wrote a letter specifically for this, for the Confucian plea, pleading for leniency, Zhang Julu daytime to receive that letter, did not immediately reply to the letter, just with the palace archives for a forbidden book, carefully flipping through the book, is reading to the frowning place, the blue-eyed and purple-bearded dynastic first aid heard straight hall outside came A burst of heroic laughter, dare so inner court clamor of the old man, a handful of fingers.
Zhang Julu put down the forbidden book, looked out of the window hanging on the wall of the full moon, the room several of the six departments of the power are subconsciously stop the pen to stop the pen, put the book to put the book, look to the head of the adult, Zhang Julu smiled towards the crowd pressed the hand, indicating that the crowd do not pay attention to their own, and the last old head of the head of the Minister of the Taiwan at the time of the different, this time, Zhang Lulu within the officials, although the rank of the rank of the rank of the four products or more, but compared to the previous age is even smaller than the round of nearly, the head of the court, the head of the court, the head of the court, the head of the court and the head of the court. Few hair white eyesight dim old man, mostly in the fifties, there is even a only forty years old in the beginning of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of Justice, Zhang Julu gently across the two thresholds, out of the court privately called the straight hall of the Zhang Lu, to see the left priest Huan Wen that the familiar can not be familiar with the old face, in addition to this, there should be in the Palace West Road Qianxi two Chonghua Palace on duty in front of the Imperial Palace of the Ministry of Rites Lu Daolin, the Imperial son of the Emperor to the Beijing feud, the Imperial son of the Emperor is the first time that he has been in the Palace, the Imperial son of the Emperor to the Beijing feud, the Imperial son of the Emperor is the only person who has been in the palace for the last three years. Prince of feudalism in Beijing, is the first major event that affects the whole body, the clan government Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Education, etc., all aspects have to work hard, can not make a mistake. But between Huan Wen and Lu Daolin, there is a man, the most conspicuous than the body of the yellow dragon robe, Zhang Julu quickly stepped forward and was about to bend down to salute, the nine to five gently hold Zhang Julu arm, Zhang Julu no longer pretend to be humble, the corner of the eye saw a young eunuchs, said that he was young, that is only compared to the past that the Secretary of the big eunuchs Han Sheng Xuan, was originally supposed to be accompanied by Han Sable temple next to the son of God, this Inside the doorway of the mystery, and the inner court eunuchs have never had intercourse with Zhang Julu also do not go to explore, the heart can be counted.
Lu DaoLin see three people have no immediate intention to enter the house, take the lead to retire, walk into the Zhang Lu.
The son of heaven waited until the Secretary of the Ministry of Rites into the house, only then warmly joked: “two love secretary with me to go to the Ministry of the Army straight hall will sit for a while? I can know where the tea is good, authentic spring god lake rain before tea, Zhang Lu side can not, tea is also sloppy, into the mouth.”
Private monarchs and ministers do not have too many rules to speak of Zhang Julu laughed: “line ah, shameless rubbing wine I do not like, rubbing tea this kind of thing, taking advantage of General Gu is not in, do a few times is no harm, but I guess that Huan priest wine is not much interest.”
Huan Wen glared, “Zhang Bieye, just met His Majesty and you’re rushing to set me up?”
Zhang Julu glanced at Huan Wen with one hand behind his back, “The aroma of wine is so great, do you think I don’t smell it? If you’ve gotten a good deal, then shut up, drink your wine later, and don’t go crazy.”
Huan Wen who was undermined by a friend to expose the shortcomings of Huan Wen laughed, Zhao family Prince of Heaven is also in a relaxed mood, with the two pillars of the country together towards the Ministry of War, the East Chamber of the straight hall, here vaguely confronted with the Zhang Lulu, there is a Gu Lulu’s argument for these harmless disputes, the Prince of Heaven listened in the ear also laughed off, even when in the face of the Zhang Juelu and Gu Jiantang can also be without any mustard to casually flirt with a few sentences. After the threshold, see is the emperor himself straight hall, outside the house inside the house of the ministry of war ministers are clamoring up and ran out, kneeling on the ground, the military minister Lu Baijie kneeling in the forefront, the voice is also the most exciting and mellow. The son of heaven let all rise, there is no meaning of admonition, just let all the people return to the case to deal with military affairs, but left Lu Baijie, for this person, Zhao family son of heaven is very important, many times to the palace to talk about military and state affairs, and even let the Tongxi Jianxian go to teach a few grandsons of the sword, can be said to be a great deal of grace, so that the Lu Baijie quickly in the capital of the imperial court to establish a foothold, no one dare to underestimate the negligence.
Outside the room on the wall hanging a huge picture of the mountains and rivers, the emperor let the three dynastic dignitaries sit and drink tea and wine is, he stood under the painting, pick up a slender rosewood pole, temporarily did not point on the huge painting.
Zhang Julu drank a mouth because of a poem and became a tribute tea of spring God Biluo, on the next chair on the State Prince Supervisor left priest whispered: “Drinking away from the point, the tea aroma are washed away.”
Huan Wen returned the color and said, “The house is so big, the wine is so fragrant, you let me go where?!”
After saying this, he asked the attendant of the hall to ask for one more cup of Quan Kiln, which is not a big weapon, and handed it to Lu Baijie, the minister of the Ministry of the Army, and said with a smile, “Tongxi Jianxian, let’s drink together, two against one, and if we want to get rid of it, it is also the Zhang Bieyi who will get rid of it, isn’t it this rationale?”
Lu Baijie, who had the demeanor of a Confucian general, smiled and took the wine cup, saying softly, “Wine, I drink. But not this reasoning, Lord Left Priest Wine, I really dare not say.”
Zhang Julu laughed in exasperation, “One is more oily than the other. The Left Priestly Wine with a clear wind and bright moon on his shoulders? The Tongxi Sword Immortal who is generous without a city? How did they turn sour when they came to me?”
Late-night travel and will be a few residence Lang and eunuchs together left outside the emperor heard, turned a smile, asked: “Julu, and then to me about the imperial examinations north and south list and split the road to take soldiers, I’ve seen the zhangzhang, although 60,000 words words are recognized, but there are still a lot of puzzles ah. Especially when a dose of medicine to remove the disease, but a hundred years later to see the cronyism drawbacks of the argument, that the zhangtou tigers and snakes, is really incoherent, is not enough, tonight focus on talk about it. Huan priests and Lu ministers also do not idle, have the idea to say. Tea or wine, I will not be less of you. If you can’t tell a reason before dawn, don’t blame me for being petty, how much tea and wine I drank, I’ll calculate the silver according to the market price, don’t want to pay a penny less!”
Zhang Julu faced Huan Wen Lu Baijie and laughed: “How, am I being unreasonable, or is His Majesty being unreasonable?”
Both nodded and laughed, “Your Majesty is more so.”
The emperor laughed brightly, “If it were anyone else, at this time, they would have to praise me to death for my diligent and thrifty governance?”
Zhao family son of heaven waved his hand to signal the attendants to retreat into the inner room and close the door, he picked a fine workmanship into the expensive chair to sit down, but the hand is still lifting the sandalwood pole, placed on the knee, received Lu Baijie handed over a cup of refreshing tea.
This is to say to the daybreak, the four officials are still not tired, talk about strong.
Only on the matter of diligence, this Zhao family son of heaven is indeed can be ranked in the history of all emperors and kings of the top three.
Although there were still some fine points that had not been covered, the emperor still stood up, rubbed his hands and feet, walked under the giant painting, turned his back to the three, drew an arc where Northern Liang, Western Shu, and Western Regions intersected, and asked, “Are they all here?”
Zhang Julu said in a deep voice, “Sixty thousand riders. There are still 20,000 riders on the stage road.”
The emperor who was pointing with a wooden pole smiled, “Whether it’s 60,000 or 80,000, there’s not much difference in significance, unless it’s 60,000 for 600,000.”
Zhang Julu nodded.
Zhao family emperor threw away the pole, went to the table to hold a cup of porcelain cup that has long been tea cooled, but did not lift it, I do not know if there is no interest in drinking tea to quench his thirst.
Or was he afraid that his courtier would see through the detail that he would tremble after lifting the cup.
He looked down at the teacup and asked softly, “Will it?”
Zhang Julu calmly shook his head and said, “Don’t worry, Your Majesty, there will be no fight.”
Upon hearing this clear answer, the Zhao Family’s Son of Heaven smiled, put down the teacup that he hadn’t even lifted, and raised his head to say, “The few of you should also take an early night’s rest.”
After Lu Baijie and the two old ministers joined him in respectfully escorting His Majesty the Emperor out of the straight hall, he returned to the house alone and unintentionally looked over at the table.
There were still some ripples in the cup.
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I’m afraid that no one can believe that a big net has been cast on the border of Northern Liang, the old Gu Party can be said to have come out in full force, 60,000 men and horses have all rushed to be stationed in one place under the pretext of transferring for defense, and there are even 20,000 riders urgently entering the country from Jizhu, the momentum of which is so great that it cannot be concealed at all!
Already in place 60,000 troops to the general Gu Jiantang direct line of old Cai Nan led the army, in the border line to pull out a violation of the law of war of the sparse defense line, this seems to be a child’s home defense system, not to mention that the north of the shock of the two dynasties of the iron cavalry, I’m afraid that even if the king of the Guangling King of the Yanzhi King of the ordinary cavalry, can be stirred up in one drum. But when General Cai Nan toured the front line with hundreds of his own soldiers, there was no sign of any changes to be made. The generals and lieutenants in the army were not without doubts, but when one of them was reprimanded by Cai Nan for asking to his face, no one dared to touch this bad luck again. Cai Nan rode his horse and looked north, with mixed feelings, muttering to himself: ”I just wish I could be given another 40,000 men to symbolize the entire border line. In this way, it also puts up the battle of not allowing the Northern Liang iron horsemen to enter the country in a dignified manner, otherwise if we really want to fight, 60,000 people shrunk into a ball will be able to block it? But as long as you Northern Liang army dare to rush in, my 60,000 people even if you slaughtered so what? Rebellion in the open? I’ve been waiting for this day!”
Cai Nan wants to be like this, but really deep down to think about it, the thought of hostile with that reputation is still a big cut above the Gu Shangshu great general, or some like walking on thin ice.
I’m not sure I can do anything about it, but I’m not sure I can do anything about it, so I’m not sure I can.
Cai Nan knows his own pain.
As for why there is this kind of movement, Cai Nan only knows that there is a prince Zhao Kai went to the western region, it is not possible that someone in Northern Liang wants to kill this famous prince? Although Cai Nan is a martial artist, but also understand that the name is not the crude reasoning, the origin of the ambiguous Prince Zhao Kai, if there is really that mind, it must be this way to build a career, not to mention that at this time the capital is in the critical period of the Prince of the King, Zhao Kai if you can really gain power in the Western region, Cai Nan with his knees know that certainly can be a real power county king, hey, if you go to the West as the King of Shu, that is! That would be interesting.
A scout came back with a fast horse, his face was pale, after dismounting from the horse, he knelt down and said in a trembling voice: “The Northern Liang cavalry has come, I don’t know the exact number, at least around 10,000 people! But these 10,000 riders are that Great Snow Dragon Cavalry!”
Cai Nan’s face was as normal, only the knuckles of his sword were white.
The Northern Liang King’s 10,000 horsemen, is that too few?
Cai Nan felt it was too much!
Gritting his teeth, Cai Nan ordered towards a beloved general behind him, “Pass the order down, within a hundred miles, gather troops here.”
Cai Nan raised his eyes and looked out, the yellow sand rolling in his vision.
The corners of Cai Nan’s mouth were bitter as he took a deep breath, “Which righteous son will lead the troops?”
He disregarded the obstruction and insisted on leaving his own soldiers behind, riding forward alone.
When Cai Nan was half a mile away, he was always afraid to take half a step forward again.
The countless iron horsemen that roamed the vast plains stopped their horses solemnly.
Cai Nan could see a king’s flag of Xu hunting in the strong wind and yellow sand.
A horseman came out of formation and slowly marched forward.
Cai Nan’s eyes widened, and his breathing, which was still barely steady, snapped up.
The old man was wearing armor and carrying a spear.
Cai Nan’s mind went white, and somehow his hands and feet could not help themselves as he rolled over and dismounted, kneeling on the ground, respectfully shouting, “Last General Cai Nan, see the King of Northern Liang!”
After a man, a horse, and a great general with a spear approached Cai Nan, he gave a soft hmmm, and the warhorse continued to slowly step forward with its hooves.
Every sound stepped on Cai Nan’s heart.
Levering his horse to a halt, Great General Xu Snapdragon, who finally once again put on his armor and carried his spear, looked into the distance and asked softly, “Only 60,000 people, isn’t Gu Jiantang being too stingy?”
Cai Nan, who was always kneeling on the ground, where to care about the pride of style, a face stained with coarse yellow sand, did not dare to make a sound.
This human butcher laughed, “Don’t worry, I’m just waiting for people, not killing. As long as you guys don’t interfere, this king has no interest in tearing his face off with anyone.”
Xu Snapdragon laughed, “Let’s go, General Cai, let this king take a look at the Gu Family’s iron cavalry.”
On this day, when Northern Liang King Xu Snapdragon rode to the battlefield, I don’t know who first dismounted and shouted out Seeing the Great General, and the 20,000 cavalry troops that had urgently rushed to the battlefield were densely packed, and all of them knelt down.