Xiaoyao Xiaojunhou

Chapter 518
But on the surface, he could only pretend to be deaf and dumb, showing that he did not understand the deeper meaning of this sentence.

Concubine You Guifei next to Emperor Chen has been paying attention to him.

Concubine You put her hand on Huang Chen's clenched hand and held it gently.

Concubine You seemed to be the elixir that could ease everything. Chen Huang's clenched hand gradually relaxed after she squeezed it...

Emperor Chen turned his head slightly and glanced at Concubine You. Concubine You also looked at Emperor Chen and secretly shook her head.

Chen Huang took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

When Chen Huang opened his eyes again, a smile appeared on his face.

"Haha, your envoy reminded me well. This is a matter that I and Emperor Liang have discussed together. The rest of us don't need to say anything, just abide by it! King Jiangdu..."

When Huang Chen looked at King Jiangdu, his face was almost distorted.

This bastard tricked him again.

If possible, he really wanted to teach him a good lesson.

However, King Jiangdu is his own younger brother, so it is inconvenient for him to do anything, lest he get the notoriety of being unfriendly and disrespectful.

Furthermore, the king of Jiangdu held a heavy army and garrisoned Yangzhou, and his prestige in the army was very high...

"The younger brother is here!"

King Jiangdu is quite calm, but with a cold face, he is not even afraid of Liang Guo. To Emperor Chen, he is even more like a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water.

"King Jiangdu, you are disrespectful to the envoys of the Liang Kingdom and openly defy the common will of me and the Emperor of Liang... I will fine you a salary of three years and lower your rank by one level. After the martial arts test is completed, you will return to Yangzhou immediately without my orders. You can’t even step out of Yangzhou!”

As soon as Emperor Chen saw King Jiangdu, he was so angry that he blew his beard and said, "You are not allowed to step out of Yangzhou even half a step." He added it on a whim.

He is annoyed when he sees King Jiangdu now.

"My brother obeys!"

King Jiangdu's voice was cold and hard. He glanced sideways at Li Jiye, snorted coldly, waved his sleeves and left, actually leaving directly.

"Haha, I wonder if your envoy is satisfied with how I handled it?" Chen Huang looked at Li Jiye with a smile on his face.

"Your Majesty, a foreign minister is always a foreign minister. It is inconvenient for me to comment on your country's affairs. Your Majesty, if there is nothing else to do, the foreign minister will go back and continue to observe the military exercises." Li Jiye handed over his hand.

"Okay, your envoy, please go ahead!"

Li Jiye turned around and came back, sat down on the chair next to Zhu Xiuyuan, then without any expression, just stared at the school field below...

The matter was settled just like that.

The melon-eating ministers all patted their chests and breathed a sigh of relief.

Only Emperor Chen, who was sitting high on the throne, looked livid. Concubine You comforted him for a while before Emperor Chen recovered.

The first martial arts test was not interrupted because of this incident, but continued one after another...

……

Let's talk about the King of Jiangdu. After leaving the martial arts school, he went straight back to his mansion in the city.

Snapped!
boom!
Snapped!
In the living room, there were more than ten cups broken by King Jiangdu, and there were ceramic shards on the floor.

After dropping so many cups, King Jiangdu seemed relieved.

He sat down on the chair, rested one elbow on the small table next to the chair, lowered his head slightly, and fell into a state of contemplation.

After a while, a servant suddenly ran over. As soon as he entered the living room, he saw so many ceramic shards on the ground. The servant knew immediately that the prince was probably angry.

"Come in and talk, what's the matter?"

King Jiangdu caught a glimpse of the servant. Although his tone was cold, his expression had softened a lot.

"Your Majesty..." The servant walked into the living room respectfully, avoiding the ceramic shards on the floor, and carefully said, "The concierge came to report that two people were coming from outside the house. They were sent by King Linhuai of Haozhou and King Shanyang of Chuzhou. Yes, please see the prince, saying that there is something important to discuss."

"Oh?"

King Jiangdu was stunned for a moment, and then his two sword eyebrows stretched out, and there were bursts of strange light in his eyes.

"Please come to the front hall to meet our guests!"

King Jiangdu gave the order casually and stood up to change his clothes before going to see the two men.

……

King Jiangdu was stationed in Yangzhou. Yangzhou and Runzhou, where the capital was located, faced each other across the Yangtze River and were close together.

Therefore, Yangzhou is Fanping in the north of Beijing.

As the younger brother of Emperor Chen, King Jiangdu was stationed in the Yangzhou camp and had [-] elite troops under his command. It can be said that he held a high position of power.

His prestige in the army is very high. Although it is far less than King Zhongshan, it is much higher than King Poyang, King Zhenze and other kings.The capital is located in Runzhou, and to the west is Hezhou.

Hezhou is also an important place for garrison. Further west from Hezhou is Luzhou, and further west from Luzhou is Shouzhou, which belongs to Yan State.

Below Shouzhou, there is Shuzhou, which also belongs to the State of Yan.

I remember that at the beginning, the Yan State had promised to use Shouzhou and Shuzhou as pledges in exchange for Chen Guo's divine thunder formula and Liang Guo's friendship.

Those are the two states.

Going up from Hezhou, that is, going west from Yangzhou, is Chuzhou.

To the north of Chuzhou and Yangzhou are Haozhou and Chuzhou.

The two visitors that King Jiangdu is about to receive are people from Haozhou and Chuzhou.

Haozhou borders Chuzhou, and Chuzhou borders Yangzhou.

At the same time, these two states are also the boundaries between Chen State and Yan State. They are border states.

To the north of the two states is Sizhou on the Henan Road of Yan State.

Haozhou and Chuzhou, which are border states, do not border the capital, but border Yan. Therefore, each of the two states has a prince stationed there.

Haozhou was garrisoned by the King of Linhuai, with an army of [-]. His responsibility was to guard against the Yan army from going south and ensure the safety of Yangzhou and Runzhou in the south.

In addition, the Linhuai King of Haozhou was a rare king with a different surname in the Chen Kingdom. His surname was Fang and Qing.

Chuzhou was garrisoned by King Shanyang and had an army of [-] troops. Its strategic role was the same as that of Haozhou.

The Shanyang King of Chuzhou was also a king with a different surname, Zhao Mingguang.

……

Time passed quickly. When the sun was setting in the west and evening was approaching, the two people who came to Prince Jiangdu's Mansion to pay homage to Prince Jiangdu secretly left the mansion through the back door.

At the martial arts school five miles outside the city, a whole day of preliminary martial arts examinations was over!

More than [-] people were divided into [-] teams, and each team conducted a preliminary test, which lasted a full day.

The results of the preliminary examination were quickly calculated. Among the more than 200 martial arts candidates, there were only more than [-] advanced ones.

They will get a spot in the next martial arts competition.

As for the remaining 800 people, half of them were not shortlisted and were taken away from the school during the initial examination.

These people are traveling in vain.

The remaining half met the requirements, but Zhu Xiuyuan couldn't ask for so much, so these people received the compensation for the travel expenses and left today.

Of course, during this process, dozens of violent incidents occurred, but they were all suppressed by the Jinwu Guards borrowed by Zhu Xiuyuan, and many people were arrested...

Emperor Chen and Concubine You drove back to the palace, and the civil and military officials in the VIP seats also left in their cars.

People in the ordinary audience seats were cursing and saying that they were cheated. They spent so much money to buy "tickets" and what did they see in the end?

So boring to watch!
Ordinary audience booed, saying that tomorrow is not coming...

For Zhu Xiuyuan, today's first martial arts test was very successful.

As the organizer of the martial arts examination, everyone left, but he stayed to arrange the general affairs of the martial arts examination school.

The most important thing is that he has to arrange for more than 200 advanced martial arts candidates.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, these advanced candidates are not allowed to meet with outsiders.

Zhu Xiuyuan had already made arrangements. He supervised the construction of a marching camp outside the Shenlei Army camp, which was enough for the 200 people to stay temporarily.

They stayed there temporarily and got used to the life in the camp in advance.

At the same time, he also ordered the Shenlei Army Camp and Shenlei Square to strengthen guarding to guard against accidents.

As expected, generals at all levels in the Divine Thunder Army will be born from these 200 people.

However, the Shenlei Army is too important, and it is inevitable that some subtle operations will be mixed in among these people.

After the martial arts competition is over, Zhu Xiuyuan will have to conduct "interviews" with them one by one, and a series of tests are waiting for them.

In addition, Zhu Xiuyuan also asked Kou Wanwan to help, secretly investigate the details of these people, and try to remove all the tricks among them.

After finishing these things, it was dark, and Zhu Xiuyuan returned home.

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