Thief Emperor

Chapter 248 Joining the Gang and Serious Illness

The court's response, or rather the Crown Prince's response, sounds like there is nothing wrong with it.

As long as the rebels in the Central Plains accept the amnesty, the rebellion in the Central Plains will no longer exist, at least in name. Then the Shuofang Army that was summoned to the Central Plains by His Majesty the Emperor will not be able to continue to stay in the Central Plains with good reason, and can only retreat to Shuofang.

However, the premise of this method is to let the Shuofang Army put a few more rounds of pressure on the rebels, and at the same time order Su Jing to attack the rebels from the flank, forcing the rebels to accept the court's amnesty.

Even if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's strategy was implemented perfectly, it would only delay the big bomb of the Central Plains issue for some time.

The rebels who accept the amnesty will have one or two more years of breathing room, and by then they may become even more difficult to deal with than they are now. If we are not careful, the central dynasty may completely lose control over the local areas, and then there will really be chaos among the princes all over the world.

It will take another 10 to 20 years for things to stop.

After Li Yun talked with Du Qian for a while, he took a deep breath and said, "No matter how the Central Plains situation progresses, it is not something Yuezhou can control now. We can only sit back and watch. It's just that General Su..."

Du Qian lowered his head and drank a sip of tea, then slowly said, "General Su is in a dilemma. The soldiers he led in Jiangnan Road have suffered heavy casualties and have not received any supplies from the court. If the court forces him to march forward again to fight the rebels, I'm afraid he will be defeated in the end."

Li Yun remained silent.

At this time, since the world was in chaos, the Su family might as well occupy one or two states and pretend to obey the court while secretly disobeying it. The court would have no way to deal with them, and they might even become a local lord in the future. However, General Su sent Su Sheng to the capital, so they had to follow the rules when doing things.

It is estimated that at that time, Su Jing had never imagined that the imperial court would detain his son in the capital.

After rubbing his temple, Li Yun looked up at Du Qian and asked, "When will the envoy return to Yuezhou?"

"Pei Huang will be leaving tomorrow. After I see him off, I will go back to Yuezhou."

At this point, Du Qian looked at Li Yun and said with a smile: "Li Sima's contribution to Wuzhou should have reached the capital by now. When Pei Huang returns, if he can make some efforts, the reward for this contribution should not be too small."

Li Yun narrowed his eyes.

"That's not very important."

He waved his hand and said, "At the moment, a Yuezhou Sima is enough for me."

Du Qian shook his head slightly and said, "The battle of Wuzhou has shown that Li Sima is extremely talented in military affairs. God made Li Sima reincarnate in such a chaotic world, naturally wanting Sima to achieve great achievements."

Li Yun looked up at Du Qian and did not respond, but there was a hint of scrutiny in his eyes.

Du Qian stood up, walked a few steps with his hands behind his back, then turned back to look at Li Yun and whispered, "In my opinion, in one or two years at the shortest, or three to five years at the longest, the Great Zhou will be ten or a hundred times more chaotic than it is now."

He looked at Li Yun steadily and said in a deep voice: "General, you should have made preparations earlier at this time."

Li Yun looked at Du Qian with a strange expression, "Your Excellency, are you testing me by saying this?"

Du Qian smiled silently.

"If I wanted to make things difficult for Sima, I would have already taken the opportunity to return to the capital with Pei Huang. Apart from anything else, what Sima did in Yuezhou during this period of time is at least enough to be described as plotting something foul, right?"

"In my estimation."

Du Qian said softly: "The number of Yuezhou troops is more than twice as much as it appears on the surface."

Li Yun also stood up, looked at Du Qian, slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, and whispered: "Envoy, this is not the place to talk. Let's have a good chat when I return to Yuezhou in a few days."

"it is good."

Du Qian looked at Li Yun and said with a smile: "I'm in Yuezhou, waiting for Sima to come back."

After saying that, the two of them went down the Misty Rain Tower, one in front and one behind.

Li Yun asked Meng Qing, who was waiting downstairs, to send Du Qian back, while he returned to the inn with Li Zheng.

At this moment, it was already dark, and the moonlight was shining. Li Yun turned his head to look at Li Zheng and asked, "Shou Hou, what do you think of Envoy Du?"

Li Zheng thought for a moment and replied, "Very impressive."

Li Yun asked again: "How is it so powerful?"

"After he arrived in Yuezhou, he was able to handle all the affairs of the Yuezhou Governor's Office in an orderly manner. The previous chaos in Yuezhou soon disappeared. Apart from other things, he was much better at being an official than those of us who came from the village."

After Li Yun took over Yuezhou as the acting governor, although he made some major policies such as equal distribution of land, he did not take into account some minor matters.

In fact, many positions in the governor's office were vacant until Du Qian came.

After Du Qian arrived, he sorted out Yuezhou's affairs in no time and quickly restored Yuezhou's government affairs to normal.

"and…"

Li Zheng said, "When we attacked Wuzhou, it was Envoy Du who was in charge of the logistics and supplies, and everything was in perfect order without any mistakes or omissions."

Li Yun looked up at the moon in the sky and suddenly said, "You say, if he wants to join..."

"What should we do?"

Li Zheng exclaimed, "Ah!" and said in disbelief, "Second brother, how could Envoy Du, with his background, join our group?"

"I don't know either, but what he said just now clearly means this." Li Yun shook his head, exhaled a breath of alcohol, and said slowly: "Maybe these powerful scholars are more or less different from ordinary people."

Throughout history, many scholars, especially those famous scholars in history, seemed to have been blessed with supernatural powers when making major life choices, as if they had already seen the future trend of the world at that time.

Therefore, they all placed their bets in advance and made the right choices in advance.

However, this matter should also be viewed dialectically.

It is also possible that many scholars placed bets, but only those who won the bet were recorded in history books and their names will be passed down in history.

As to whether Du Qian was the former or the latter, Li Yun couldn't say for sure.

But his attitude of wanting to join the gang has been clearly revealed.

Having drunk a lot of wine, Li Yun fell asleep quickly after returning to the inn. The next day, he went to say hello to Cui Shao, Pei Huang and Du Qian, and then led his men away from Xuanzhou.

Li Yun naturally went back to Qingyang to pick up his new wife, but Li Zheng went directly back to Yuezhou from Xuanzhou. After all, there were still many things in Yuezhou that needed Li Zheng to deal with.

…………

Songzhou, in the military tent of General Su.

An envoy from the imperial court walked into the camp with an imperial edict in his hand.

Su Jing bowed his head and knelt to receive the imperial edict.

After the angel read the imperial edict, he stepped forward to help Su Jing up and said with a smile: "Old General, the chaos in the Central Plains will soon be quelled. As long as you make some more efforts, you will have made great contributions when the chaos in the Central Plains is quelled."

This imperial edict once again urged Su Jing to march into Henan Prefecture.

But this time, it was sent by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Su Jing held the imperial edict in his hand, glanced at the messenger in blue, and suddenly said, "Angel, I am old and have been feeling dizzy lately. I am no longer able to handle this heavy responsibility. I beg the angel to go back to Beijing and tell the court that I am willing to hand over all military power to the court and ask the court to select another virtuous person to lead the troops in Songzhou."

At this point, Su Jing's voice became hoarse: "I only ask that the court allow my father and I to return to our hometown, so that I can have a place to be buried in the future."

The messenger was startled and waved his hands quickly: "Old General, this is not something someone like me can say. Absolutely not, absolutely not."

Su Jing took out a written memorial from his bosom, handed it to the messenger, and said, "Then I'll trouble the angel to forward my memorial to the court."

After that, the old general sighed, waved his hand and said, "Angel, I am a little tired."

The envoy smiled awkwardly, took Su Jing's memorial and left.

After General Su sent the messenger away, he came to the bed in the corner of the big tent, lay down, stared at the tent with his eyes open, motionless.

After an unknown amount of time, Deputy General Jiang Yan shouted a few times outside before rushing into the tent. After seeing Su Jing lying on the bed, he hurried forward, knelt on the ground, and asked anxiously, "Marshal, what happened to you?"

Su Jing was awakened by his call. He opened his eyes and looked at Jiang Yan, then shook his head slightly: "The old man is sick."

"Not feeling well."

At this point, Su Jing turned his head away and sighed slowly: "I can't command the troops anymore. I'll leave the military affairs to you from now on."

Jiang Yan was stunned for a moment, then quickly shook his head: "General, I don't have the ability to lead the army, I..."

"You have to take charge of the situation!"

"But I am already ill."

General Su ignored him, coughed, and even his face turned pale.

"I'm afraid my illness won't be cured in a short time."

Having said that, he closed his eyes and ignored Jiang Yan.

At this time, he must be sick.

It would be best if he died of illness directly.

If he gets better, the more than 20,000 Jiangnan soldiers under his command may...

Most of them are going to die.

Seeing this, Jiang Yan also collapsed to the ground, feeling confused.

"This this…"

He wanted to cry but had no tears.

"It's none of my business..."

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