I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 398

"It's a pity that the teacher didn't manage to take command in this battle..."

"Tsk tut;"

"Anyway, Marquis Jiang Wu also participated in the Battle of Pingcheng and is familiar with the tactics of the Huns cavalry."

"If the teacher is in command, I'm afraid this battle will really bite off a piece of meat on the Huns as the court expected?"

In Wuzhou, Yi Zhixie, the Right Wise King of the Huns, is looking forward to this battle, and he can face the ceiling of the Han family: Tiaohou Zhou Yafu;
And in Mayi, a hundred miles south of Wuzhou Sai, Cheng Bushi also felt a little regretful that Zhou Yafu failed to command the war.

But it is different from Cheng Buzhi who was born in the army and has hardly set foot in the court, and only knows about military affairs-Zhi has all been in the court of Chang'an.

Not only has he been mixed, but he has also mixed up to the level of Zhun Jiuqing: Lieutenant.

Although I can't say how good or how open I am, I still understand some taboos inside and outside the court;

Hearing Cheng Bushi's unavoidable sigh of regret, Zhidu just raised his eyelids indistinctly, and then squinted the corners of his eyes with deep meaning.

"Junior brother, is he still drinking from last night, and started talking nonsense again?"

"No longer in command, but the teacher went to Zhou's ancestral hall in person, and made a poisonous oath in front of Jiang Wuhou's god amulet."

"Junior brother loses his words for a while, but it will make the teacher infamous in the hearts of the world for being insincere and inconsequential..."

Hearing Zhidu's words at first, Cheng Buzhi was taken aback for a moment, and blinked in astonishment.

——Is there such a thing?
——Have my sister heard of it?

After he reacted, he thought about how powerful it was, and hurriedly lowered his head in secret.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

"Senior brother taught me..."

"Leading the army out, and it's wartime, to dare to drink alcohol and get a hangover, it's really a crime worthy of death."

"After the military discussion is over, I will lead the army to eighty..."

Hearing this, Zhidu lowered his head indifferently, pretending to look at Kanyu, and casually said: "The army sticks will be brought back after the war, don't take advantage of the Huns."

On the contrary, the generals who came to the big tent of the Chinese army one by one, listened to the conversation between the two brothers, and felt confused for a while.

drink wine?

Cheng doesn't know how to drink?
Isn't this pure nonsense?
And it's still wartime?

——This guy is a ruthless guy who keeps saying 'Military law is better than the sky', and he is so cruel that he didn't drink a drop on his wedding night!

this······

"I have long heard that if you are an official in Chang'an for a long time, you will become full of twists and turns."

"Look at this capital, General Cheng is almost learning Chang'an's way of beating around the bush..."

Everyone slandered each other, and the generals looked at each other for a while, then they shook their heads without knowing why;
But in a short while, the tents were filled with tall generals with different appearances, but without exception, they were all dressed in armor and red cloaks on their shoulders.

When he saw someone, Zhidu finally lifted those dead fish eyes from the Kanyu on the desk in front of him.

He nodded slightly to everyone, then sat up straight with sullen face: "Everyone sit down."

After the commander gave an order, the generals took their seats on the seats on both sides, and then turned their heads to look up at Zhidu, who was guarding the chief seat.

In this battle, Zhidu is the commander-in-chief, and Zhidu has the autonomy to "do things cheaply" in everything related to this war.

Don't be dissatisfied - this privilege is granted by the current empress dowager and the current emperor in written edicts, and it is absolutely reasonable and legal.

That being the case, even if Zhidu has no prestige in the army, and he really doesn't have any outstanding martial arts, the generals can only be obedient and wait for dispatch.

Who made him the coach?

The general is outside, and the king's order is not accepted, but the military order issued by the commander is more important than the rules of heaven in wartime!
Anyone who committed a minor crime would be punished with serious punishments such as beheading, owl, tattooing, etc.

The battle is imminent, and Zhidu is probably worried that no one can use it to sacrifice the flag, and the generals will not stab at this juncture.

But after all the generals sat down, what Zhidu said next made everyone present - including Cheng Bushi, stunned in place, unable to recover for a long time... ···

"Your Majesty's edict!"

Zhidu suddenly let out a heavy sigh, which only caused everyone in the tent to be slightly taken aback!
After a while, they scrambled to stand up again, and knelt on the ground in the tent amidst the crisp sound of the clanging of the armored pavilion.

"The imperial edict said: "Judging a warrior, the official of the country, with armor and body, you can see the emperor and don't bow down!"

At the first sentence at the beginning, I saw everyone looking at each other in blank dismay, and didn't dare to get up for a while;
It wasn't until they raised their heads and saw the encouragement in Zhi Du's eyes that everyone stood up suspiciously, but did not forget to bow their waists deeply.

That is, at the same time, looking at Zhidu who held the imperial edict again, an inexplicable strangeness appeared on his face...

"I······"

"Cough cough..."

···
"I have seen every general present here is one of the best heroes of our Han family."

A plain old saying—the plain white words that couldn't be more plain came out of Zhidu's mouth, and the crowd was thrown into chaos by another gust of wind.

Rao is a military commander, and even if he has never set foot in the court, and has never seen the rules of the court, everyone present is also clear: the imperial edict must be polished.

Even if what the Son of Heaven said was, 'You are so awesome! ', the imperial edict also has to be euphemistically praised in the writing of Shangshu and Yushi.

Like this big vernacular that seems to be chatting on the street and reminiscing about the old days...
"This is a secret edict!"

"Only the secret edict will not be taken to Shangshutai for polishing!"

Cheng Buzhi, who was the first to react, raised his head pale in an instant, and looked at his senior brother Zhidu in astonishment.

It is different from the impression of later generations that only those who are trusted by the emperor can get secret edicts: in this generation, secret edicts only mean one thing.

——Correction.

Why?

Because in this era, in today's Han Dynasty, every emperor's imperial edict must be fully sealed and made in triplicate, one is issued, one is left in the prime minister's mansion, and the other is left in the filing room of Shiqu Pavilion.

The latter two of the triplicate exist only for inspection.

When a certain edict cannot be found in any place between the document room of Xiangfu and the archive room of Shiqu Pavilion, it will be judged as a coquettish edict without any surprise.

And the secret edict—the secret edict that even the polishing process is omitted, of course, it is impossible to retain the process of leaving the bottom.

In other words: as long as Zhidu reveals the content of this secret edict today, it is equivalent to standing on the edge of a cliff.

When they returned to Chang'an after the war, anyone who participated in the Zhi would have a copy of the "Correction Edict", and Ting Wei would definitely check: the Zhi is all in Mayi, have you read His Majesty's edict?

Oh, read it~
Then take out the original, let's take it for inspection.

Then the officials of the Tingwei will find out: this emperor's imperial edict is the same as the emperor's imperial chariot: the left flag of the yellow house, and the jade seal of the country made by Heshibi - a unique and rare thing in the world.

And then, even Zhidu will be imprisoned, lose a head or die a household registration book, it all depends on whether the emperor is kind enough...
"Brother..."

With a complicated tone of voice, "Senior brother" escaped, and Cheng Bushi looked at Zhidu with a look of misery gradually.

Even before, the generals in the account who were slightly dissatisfied with Zhidu because Zhidu was still young in the army, had a faint pity in their eyes.

The birds are gone, the good bow is hidden;
The cunning rabbit dies, the running dog cooks.

It's just that I never thought that Zhidu's first battle would be to bring the emperor's secret edict to the battlefield...

"Cough cough."

However, Zhi Du coughed twice with a serious face, and pulled everyone's eyes back to their eyes, and then tried hard to suppress the awkwardness when he saw this imperial edict written in vernacular;

Taking a deep breath, he continued to read: "Maybe the generals don't know something—this battle, since the time of my great-grandfather: Taizu Gao, has been eagerly awaited by all the emperors of the Han family."

"From Emperor Taizu Gao to the present, none of the emperors of our Han family wanted to fight the Huns with open arms."

"But in order to support the people, in order to prevent farmers from being overwhelmed by the war, the previous emperors of the Han family swallowed their anger and tolerated the Huns until now."

"Nowadays, although my Han family is not considered strong and strong, it is already a prosperous country and a peaceful people. The treasury is full and the soldiers are well-rounded."

"I, I can't take it anymore..."

It was clearly a sentence written by Liu Sheng angrily, but it was obviously a little more weird when it was said from Zhidu's mouth.

On the contrary, all the generals in the tent must have been from the army and have a straightforward temperament. From the lines of this overly down-to-earth edict, they felt an unknown affinity.

Rolling up his eyelids with a strange expression on his face, and seeing a smile on the faces of the generals, Zhi Du felt that the awkwardness in his heart eased a bit.

Pretending to cough lightly to adjust his mentality, he continued to read: "The family property accumulated by the past emperors is enough for our Han family to fight with the Huns."

"I don't want any extravagance and pleasure, and I have no interest in building large-scale construction at all."

"I just thought that after this battle, I could sit around the ground with all the generals and have a good time drinking and chatting."

"these years······"

"Cough cough..."

"Over the years, I have also saved a little money..."

···
"It's not much, but it's enough to set up a banquet outside the animal enclosure in Shanglinyuan."

"Wine, I have already prepared it - after begging the Empress Dowager for many days, I finally begged for the purple gold wine buried by Emperor Gao of the Taizu. There is only one jar, enough for each of us to drink."

"Whether the food to go with the wine depends on the skills of the generals, whether they eat chicken and pork from Chang'an, or cattle and sheep from the Huns."

···
"Today, you are listening to the edict read by General Zhi in Mayi, while I am reviewing the dossier in Xuanshi Hall."

"I hope that when the first snow falls in Chang'an, all the generals will go to Shanglin Garden with me, and have fun for a few days."

"At that time, if you want any reward, all the generals will tell me one by one, and I will ask the empress dowager one by one..."

At the end of the reading, Zhi Du's face flushed red with embarrassment, and he wished he could pick out a Xuan Shi hall in his boots with his toes;

As for the generals who bowed in the tent reluctantly at Zhidu, they did not respond for a long time.

"Ugh······"

"I just said that His Majesty shouldn't be so aggressive..."

Thinking like this, Zhi Du was beginning to worry about how to end this farce, as if the generals in the tent had been immobilized by the emperor, and then he raised his head tentatively like mushrooms after a spring rain.

When they saw that Zhidu put up the imperial edict in his hands, and froze in place with a strange face, the generals finally realized: the edict has been read out...
"The last general is waiting, thank you Your Majesty!!!"

There was a loud roar without warning, so frightened that Zhidu subconsciously blinked his eyes;

It wasn't until all the generals looked excitedly, exchanged glances with the people around them excitedly, and punched each other's chests from time to time, that Zhidu finally understood: How far has Liu Sheng tried to figure out people's hearts? appalling degree...

"Not crowned yet..."

"Your Majesty, you haven't been crowned yet..."

"——General Zhi, General Zhi;"

"—This imperial edict...?"

While thinking about it, a rough and wild cry came to his ears, causing Zhi Zhi to quickly regain his mind.

Knowing the intention of the person who spoke, Zhi Du finally smiled and shook his head: "This edict is Your Majesty's encouragement to the generals, and the generals do not need to accept the edict."

——Zhidu is not a fuel-efficient lamp~
Even though this edict did not involve any specific matters, it was just a simple encouragement plus the emperor's personal promise to the general, but the four words 'no embellishment' revealed between the lines still mean that this edict is a letter. A secret edict of death without evidence.

Once Zhidu is "stolen and seized" with this edict, even if Tian Zisheng doesn't intend to get Zhidu at all, Zhidu is afraid that it will inevitably suffer.

The safest way is to keep this 'secret edict' to continue to be 'secret' - the kind that no one can find.

The generals didn't pay much attention to this detail, they just fell silent in the sudden joy.

"I didn't expect His Majesty to care so much about us bastards, and even said that he would buy us a drink!"

"—I have to say this: I have been invited to drink now, hey, that scene..."

···
"I don't know what the taste of the palace brewed purple gold alcohol is?"

"—Hi~"

"—Buried by Emperor Taizu Gao, of course it is old wine!"

···
"Your Majesty, it's okay to be weird, relatives who talk like my sister..."

"—Isn't it..."

Looking at the scene in front of him, Zhidu remained silent, thoughtful.

And at the side of Zhidu, looking at Zhidu intently, at an angle that everyone didn't pay attention to, he stuffed the secret edict back to his chest without a trace, Cheng Bushi finally breathed a sigh of relief...
"call······"

···
"Brother;"

"This battle...?"

After a long time, Cheng Buzhi gave an obvious and deliberate reminder, and finally everyone in the tent regained their minds and sat down on the seats on both sides of the tent again.

Looking at the red-faced generals in the tent who no longer saw the slightest gloomy look, Zhi Du finally let out a long breath of foul air;
On the corner of the mouth, there is also an imperceptible smile...
"Whoo~~~"

"When everyone is here, the imperial edict is announced;"

"Next, let's discuss and discuss together: For this battle, what do we all want to bring back to Chang'an, and serve your majesty with food and drink."

(End of this chapter)