After being divorced, my identity as a poet was exposed

Yue country.

Blackwater City.

This is an important military town on the northeastern border of Vietnam.

One hundred thousand Shence troops, the most elite troops of the Yue Kingdom, were stationed in Blackwater City.

The General's Mansion.

study.

Han Sanwu, dressed in plain clothes, bowed respectfully to Zhao Hanyue, with a somewhat complicated look on his dark face.

"Your Highness, please take a seat!"

"Thank you, General!"

The two of them sat at the tea table respectively, and Amu and Zhui Ming stood behind Zhao Hanyue.

Han Sanwu looked at the two of them, looked away, and brewed a pot of tea.

"My lord, I have heard the news of the emperor's death."

"My heart... hurts so much!"

"I have been with the emperor since he was selected as a martial arts scholar at the age of fifteen... At that time, I was one of the emperor's sword-wielding guards."

"I am three years younger than the emperor... At that time, the emperor was eighteen, and he had just ascended the throne. The country of Yue could not be said to have many external troubles, but internal worries... I was an ignorant warrior at that time, and did not know the emperor's worries."

"The following autumn, the emperor decided to hunt at Pingshan hunting ground."

"The Pingshan hunting ground is a hundred miles away from Sifeng City. I was traveling with the emperor. I thought it was an ordinary hunting activity, but unexpectedly, the Pingshan incident happened that shocked the whole country."

Zhao Hanyue listened carefully.

She was not yet born at that time, but later she heard about the Hirayama Incident.

Many people died in that incident!
Not only the Qian Yulin Army stationed at Pingshan Hunting Ground, but also more than two thousand Nanye Army soldiers died.

There is no big book about this incident in the history books, but it is briefly said that the Nanye Army was ordered by King Wen to assassinate the emperor at Pingshan Hunting Ground.

Of course my father was not assassinated.

After my father returned to Kyoto, he even held a grand banquet!

I heard that my father hosted a banquet for four princes in Kyoto, as well as a number of civil servants and generals in the court.

It was during this banquet that my father talked about the Pingshan incident and threw his glass in anger...

Three hundred internal guards swarmed in and killed everyone at the banquet.

At this point, the father truly eradicated his dissidents and secured the throne.

"I blocked three swords and one arrow for the emperor at Pingshan."

"I was seriously injured, but I still tried my best to carry the emperor out from the siege of Nanye Army."

"When I got to the mouth of the bottle at Pingshan Mountain, I finally fell down because I could no longer hold on due to excessive blood loss."

"Your Majesty, please leave first."

"Unexpectedly...the emperor carried his ministers out of Baopingkou and arrived at the Shence Army camp."

Zhao Hanyue was slightly startled. It wasn't that her father was carrying Han Sanwu on his back, but... why did the Shence Army set up camp outside Baopingkou in Pingshan?

"Hunting on the plains is not about guarding the wild beasts in the mountains."

"The rebels headed by King Wen are hunting the emperor, and they are the ones who are hunting the emperor at his own risk."

"The Emperor won, and I became the Commander-in-Chief of the Ouchi Guards because of my role in rescuing him."

A smile appeared on Han Sanwu's face. He took a pinch of tea and put it into the pot, and then said:

"Of course, this identity is not important. What is important is that I have become the emperor's most trusted person."

"Three years later, when I was nineteen years old, the emperor threw me into the Shence Army and became a captain of the Shence Army."

"It was winter when I left Kyoto, and there was heavy snow in the Four Winds City."

"The emperor is cooking wine in the palace to bid farewell to his ministers."

"The emperor said something to me, and I... will never forget it!"

Zhao Hanyue looked at Han Sanwu in surprise.

Just last year, General Han Sanwu, who had returned to Kyoto, was sent to the Shence Army by his father for the reason of guarding against the invasion of the desert country. Knowing that he was critically ill from poisoning, his father wanted to make his younger brother Zhao Lun the crown prince. At this time, the situation in the Ning Kingdom was already in turmoil. His father had been the emperor for so many years, so he obviously knew it.

So at this time, he should summon his most trusted Han Sanwu to lead the Shence Army back to Beijing to stabilize the situation and ensure that his younger brother Zhao Lun ascends the throne.

However, even after his death, his father did not issue an order to summon Han Sanwu to lead his troops to Beijing.

"What did your father say to you?"

"The Emperor said... I have no brothers anymore. All the brothers of the Zhao family and even my nephews died after hunting in Pingshan. But I don't think I am a widower, because I regard you as my brother!"

"The emperor said, go and help me keep an eye on the Shence Army."

"I'll give you two years to get familiar with military affairs and the Shence Army."

"What I want is an army that can truly fight and is absolutely loyal to me!"

"I did not dare to live up to the great trust of the emperor, so I joined the Shence Army... Two years later, I fulfilled my mission and was appointed as a general by the emperor to lead the Shence Army."

"Nearly twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye."

"In the past twenty years..."

"The imperial court only knows that the Shence Army has one hundred thousand soldiers. Only the emperor and his ministers know that the Shence Army is much more than that!"

Zhao Hanyue was shocked. Her eyes widened immediately, she leaned over slightly and asked in surprise:
"How many people are there in the Shence Army now?"

Han Sanwu poured tea and smiled slightly: "Three hundred thousand!"

Zhao Hanyue took a breath of cold air, "Three hundred thousand?"

"Yes, 300,000 warriors who are good at fighting!"

"...Where are the other two hundred thousand?"

Han Sanwu picked up the tea cup and blew on it, "One hundred thousand is in the mountains."

"After the Pingshan incident, the emperor designated Pingshan as a forbidden area, and inside it was the third army of the Shence Army."

"There are still 100,000 people from the Second Army in Tianlei Mountain."

"This is the first army of the Shence Army, which is the only Shence Army known to the outside world and registered in the Ministry of War."

Zhao Hanyue couldn't believe it. If what Han Sanwu said was true, then the fighting power of the Yue Kingdom was extremely powerful... No wonder his father once had the intention of conquering the Ning Kingdom.

But since there was such a powerful fighting force, why didn't Emperor Father ask Han Sanwu to send an army to Kyoto?
Perhaps seeing Zhao Hanyue's doubts, Han Sanwu smiled bitterly and said:

"A year ago, when I left Kyoto again, the emperor had another long all-night conversation with me."

"He said...the Yue Kingdom has been infiltrated by the remnants of the Great Li, and he will use it as bait again to lure out the remnants of the Great Li."

"The minister objects, but the emperor insists."

"At that time, the emperor had been poisoned. The emperor told me that it was the poison from the Five Poison Sect and there was no cure."

"The emperor said that left and right are destined to die."

"He needs to find out those remnants of the great separation and bury them with him!"

"Otherwise...the remnants of the Great Li will definitely steal the country, and this country will be ruined."

Han Sanwu looked sad and sighed:
"It's a pity that the emperor did not win this time."

"But I didn't lose."

This statement was very contradictory, and Zhao Hanyue couldn't understand it.

Han Sanwu put down the tea cup, stood up, and went to the desk beside him.

He opened a drawer and took out a wooden box.

Holding the wooden box in both hands, he returned to the tea table, sat down, and took out a small key from his sleeve pocket to unlock the wooden box.

He took out a letter from it!

"The emperor sent Shi Kuang to give me the decree before his death... If it weren't for this last decree, I would have led my troops back to the capital!"

Zhao Hanyue took the letter with trembling hands, opened the envelope, took out the letter paper, and unfolded it...

It is indeed the handwriting of the Emperor Father!
"My brother Sanwu!"

"This is the last order I give you in this life..." (End of Chapter)