The king behind the empress

Chapter 441 Zheng Guo Invasion
After the guards in the shadows had left, Mo Yuanji stood alone in front of the only table in the room that was still intact, staring fixedly at the place on the map where Jia Yu left his finger prints just now.

"Barbarians... barbarians..."

Mo Yuanji muttered a few words, feeling a little hard to make a decision in his heart. Having lived in the northern border for so long, he knew better than anyone else what would happen if the barbarians were sent to Da Zhou. This word is probably the best portrayal of Da Zhou's future.

But if you don't introduce the power of the barbarians, relying on Mo Zizai's ability to easily defeat the coalition forces of 50 aristocratic families, the best result for your own [-] frontier troops is that you can stick to the northern border, and it's hard to say whether you can hold it .

After thinking about it for a long time, Mo Yuanji finally made a decision in his heart. He summoned a confidant and said, "After sending someone to Yanling Mountain, contact Wu Lianghe."

"Contact Wu Lianghe?"

The confidant was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't question him, but asked, "My lord, what did you tell him?"

"Don't say anything."

Mo Yuanji shook his head and said, "I just need to send someone to look for him. If he is a smart person, he will understand what I mean."

"If he is not, then there is no need for subsequent contact."

"Here."

Although this confidant didn't know what Mo Yuanji meant, he still nodded, turned around and went down to arrange things.

About an hour after the confidant went down, the shadow guard who had gone to deal with Jia Yu rushed back, but there was faint blood oozing under his black clothes, and he looked like he was seriously injured.

"what happened?"

Mo Yuanji looked at the shadow guard and frowned slightly. As a personal bodyguard to protect him, this shadow guard's strength was in the Soul Realm. Now, it's too useless to deal with Jia Yu who has no cultivation level and be injured, right?
"Jia Yu has experts around him."

The shadow guard half-kneeled on the ground, with a bitter face and said: "The humble job has missed, and I couldn't solve him. I hope the prince will forgive me."

"Are there any masters? Where are the masters around him?"

Mo Yuanji stared at the shadow guard with a somewhat unkind expression. The guards around Jia Yu were all sent by himself. If there are masters, how could he not know.

"and many more……"

Speaking of this, Mo Yuanji suddenly thought of someone. He looked at the shadow guard and asked, "Is that the old man that Bai Changqiu brought over last time? Has he come to Dingzhou?"

The last time Bai Changqiu came here with a human guard, but when he went back, he said that the two of them went back together, but according to the information they had, the old man from the human world separated from Bai Changqiu as soon as he left the city. Where did they go? Not detected.

Now it seems that this old man is hiding near Dingzhou.

"It's really him."

Mentioning this person, the shadow guard felt a dull pain in his wound. If it wasn't for the person not killing him, the sword might have killed him.

"No wonder..."

Mo Yuanji nodded slightly when he heard the words. Some time ago, a servant told him that someone from the enshrinement mansion came to find him, but because he was not there, the man from the enshrinement mansion left after seeing Jia Yu. He wanted to come to the man from the enshrinement mansion. , I came to myself to talk about the entry of this famous human warrior into the city.

It's just that this person was sent away by Jia Yu, so he naturally kept this matter a secret.

"You underestimated him."

Mo Yuanji sneered, and then said: "However, if you want to be unscrupulous with me just by being a warrior in the human realm, it would be too much to look down on me."

"Which way did they go?"

In Dingzhou City, there were frontier troops everywhere, and the warriors in the human realm couldn't show their strength at all, let alone he brought Jia Yu, even if he was alone, he would never escape from Dingzhou City.

"Go back to the lord, he... didn't leave, and he still has a few words for me to bring to the lord."

The Shadow Guard, who was being used as a mouthpiece after failing to kill someone, looked a bit ugly, but he remembered what Jia Yu said at the time, and he honestly became a mouthpiece once.

"He said that Sun Qing and Liu Yu contacted the prince because of his instruction. If he died, the prince wanted to use them to kill Kou Yi, and they would never do it."

"He also said... he is only out for revenge now, as long as he can achieve his wish, then he is willing to deal with the prince."

"Heh~ He really thought he was going to get me."

Mo Yuanji snorted coldly in disdain. Sun Qing and Liu Yu had already turned to him secretly. Threatening myself this way is really beyond my control.

However, although Mo Yuanji didn't care about Jia Yu's threat, he still stopped his action of gathering troops to encircle and suppress Jia Yu.

If he wanted to cooperate with the barbarians, then he must have someone under his command to advise him to restrain Wu Lianghe, and Jia Yu was obviously a very good choice.

Before defeating Mo Zizai, Jia Yu will definitely be a useful tool, so there is really no need to kill him now.

After pondering for a while, Mo Yuanji said slowly, "Okay, I know about this, you can go down to recuperate."

"Here."

Seeing that Mo Yuanji didn't mean to blame, the shadow guard heaved a sigh of relief, and then retreated.

……

Guangling City, the two armies that went to Jieyang and Yecheng have also rushed back to help the Shenwei Army resettle the soldiers who surrendered.

In the mansion in the city, Mo Zizai looked at Xu Boyuan with complicated eyes. This man was too fierce, less than 15 to [-]. He drove them to a desperate situation like driving pigs. Absolutely for sure, being a lieutenant general under Han Qu before was a bit of a shame.

"15 soldiers, all killed?"

"Yes."

Xu Boyuan nodded silently. Although he won the battle this time, he didn't expect any rewards. Although those soldiers were enemy troops, it was too much to burn 15 people to death.

Throughout the ages, there are not many generals who have done things so well, and the fate of those few people has not been very good.

After all, this matter was too disastrous, and the historian wrote it down with a swipe of a pen. It must be infamous in later generations. No monarch would bear such a great reputation for a general, so this infamy can only be borne by him , so even if you win the battle, the best result is neither rising nor falling.

But fortunately, Mo Zizai, who is in charge now, doesn't follow any rules in his work, so he probably won't be punished for this matter.

But then again, if it weren't for Mo Zizai who is in charge now, even if Xu Boyuan was defeated, he would not have used such extreme methods.

However, Xu Boyuan has no regrets about this matter. He has seen what those soldiers did. They are a group of disasters. If they cannot be killed, once they escape, they will harm the surrounding people. So even if he was punished, Xu Boyuan also admitted it.

"You are really ruthless."

Mo Zizai shook his head helplessly, but because Yang Yanzhang had told him about it before, he also understood the situation, so he didn't mean to blame Xu Boyuan.

"Well, so be it."

After contemplating for a while, Mo Zizai said, "Don't worry about it, just push it on the king's head. Go back and give a memorial to the court, saying that this king ordered you to do this."

Mo Zizai may not be a good emperor, but he is definitely a good boss. He is extremely skilled in taking the blame for his subordinates.

Anyway, he doesn't care about the infamy of later generations. As for the remaining old masters in the imperial court, if Xu Boyuan did this, they might point fingers at Xu Boyuan, maybe even write a book to scold him, but Mo Zizai will After this matter is settled, you let them point and point at Mo Zizai, and they will screw all the seeds off their heads.

To be honest, Xu Boyuan was very moved when he heard what Mo Zizai said. There are not many monarchs who can do this for the generals under his command, so he immediately said: "This is the idea of ​​the general, and the consequences I also thought about it, the prince doesn't have to be like this..."

"Okay, the king has the final say on this matter."

Mo Zizai waved his hand, and said, "That's the matter. Apart from this matter, you can submit the memorial as you like, and this king will also ask for credit for you."

"However, if you want to confer rewards, you will have to wait until you return to the imperial court. Let Wei Yi decide how to add officials and ranks to you at that time. I'm not good at this, so don't count on me."

"Thank you, Lord."

Xu Boyuan saw that Mo Zizai was not trying to be polite to him, but directly set this moment, so he couldn't help but salute deeply, "In the future, I will be appointed as a prince with a humble job, and I will not hesitate!"

"Okay, don't be so polite."

Mo Zizai didn't think there was anything wrong with it. He was the one who sent these people to fight. Now that he has won the war, he can resist these messy things, so he will naturally resist. Anyway, he is not afraid of these people's rebellion. never mind.

"Go and rest for a while, come back if you have something to do..."

Before Mo Zizai finished speaking, Yang Yanzhang hurried over suddenly, and he said to Mo Zizai with an ugly face, "My lord, it's not good, Zheng Guo has used troops against me."

"Zheng Guo?"

Mo Zizai was startled when he heard the words, and quickly asked, "Did the Eastern Realm fall? What happened to General Zhang?"

"That's not it."

Seeing Mo Zizai's reaction, Yang Yanzhang knew that he had misunderstood, and quickly explained: "Xiao Yanbing led tens of thousands of troops, crossed the Wanling Mountains, and appeared at the weak point of our Great Zhou."

"I don't know the exact situation yet, but the news from the east border says that Yanyang County has been captured."

Speaking of this, Yang Yanzhang couldn't help but feel a little thankful, thanks to Mo Zizai giving Zhang Yuan the autonomy in the East Territory, asking him to copy all those aristocratic families and businessmen, and hoard enough military rations, otherwise, he would appear behind the East Territory If Zhang Yuan's food and grass are cut off, and the tens of thousands of troops attack him back and forth, the eastern border may be in danger.

"Has Yanyang County been captured?"

Mo Zizai felt a little unbelievable when he heard the words. At the beginning, his father was worried about the problem of the Wanling Mountains, so he deployed troops in Yanyang County behind the Wanling Mountains. Built very high, easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Not to mention that there are only tens of thousands of troops in the area, even if it is increased ten times, it is impossible to win the entire Yanyang County in a short time.

"Could it be that their soldiers are as strong as those of the Scarlet Flame Dragon Knights? Not so?"

Although Mo Zizai felt that his idea was somewhat impossible, he did not take it too lightly. He opened his mouth and ordered Yang Yanzhang: "You immediately send someone to investigate what is going on in Yanyang County."

"Then I don't have time to take care of these soldiers for the time being. I will directly select some of the stronger ones and let them march to Yanyang County with the Shenwei Army. As for the rest, if they are honest, they will be sent to dig mines and build roads. If they are not honest , directly murdered on the spot!"

"Here!"

Yang Yanzhang knew that the situation was urgent, so he didn't say much, and after answering, he went out to arrange specific things.

After he left, Mo Zizai looked at Xu Boyuan, and said, "General Xu, I want to entrust you with a mission. Would you like it?"

"My lord, just open your mouth."

Xu Boyuan didn't refuse at all, he bowed and saluted and said: "The last general will go through fire and water, and he will die."

"Not that serious."

Mo Zizai shook his head and said, "Now that this battle is over, the southern family is basically abolished, so this king wants you to go to the southern family and uproot those people."

"uproot?"

Xu Boyuan originally thought that Mo Zizai wanted him to go to Yanyang County, but when he heard Mo Zizai suddenly talking about the southern family, he couldn't help but lose track of Mo Zizai's train of thought.

"Yes."

Mo Zizai nodded, and said: "Now the war here has not subsided, and the Yanyang war has started again, and there is still the northern border behind, so the court needs a lot of silver to support the army to finish the war, so this The king wants you to take advantage of the weakness of the southern family and directly destroy them."

"Kill what should be killed, and copy what should be copied. In short, they can't let them take away a tael of money. Can you do it at this time?"

"This……"

When Xu Boyuan heard what Mo Zizai said, he couldn't help hesitating. It's not that he doesn't want to do these things, but that he is good at killing people. He is really not good at ransacking houses, and he will go alone. If the taels of silver are not enough, then he can't tell.

"It's okay, the king sent Dongchang to go with you."

Mo Zizai saw Xu Boyuan's worries, and said, "When the time comes, the war will be up to you, and the house raid will be up to him."

"I don't care what you do, or how many people you kill. In short, I want to see enough money, understand?"

When Mo Zizai said this, he had already decided to send Chen Ying out to cooperate with Xu Boyuan's actions.

Of these two people, one is ruthless and the other has no bottom line in doing things. If they are sent to the south to search for silver, those aristocratic families in the south may be miserable.

But Mo Zizai didn't care about their lives at this time. The accelerator needed to be upgraded with silver taels, and he didn't have time to search the house slowly, so he could only use this simple and rude method.

"What the hell, you won't let people stop for a while, Zheng Guo, right? If I don't punch you out this time, I will call you Grandpa!!!"

(End of this chapter)