The Royal Palace, the Imperial Study

The moment Chu Xianzhao stepped into the imperial study, the room was surprisingly quiet, he saw the long black table, his father sat in the old position of the sandalwood table, his hands crossed against his chin, Chu Xun sat on the right hand side of his father, and a layer of brocade cushions was thickened under the chair to keep warm, but the eldest brother crossed Erlang's legs, away from his father and sister, and sat in the most remote corner, the most embarrassing thing for Chu Xianzhao was that there were only five chairs next to this long long table, one in front of the eldest brother and one behind the elder sister, as if choosing a camp, waiting for his arrival。

Emperor Yin looked at his son in front of Zhumen, frowned, and said, "Why don't you come and sit quickly, procrastinating, we have been waiting for you for a long time." ”

When he stiffly lowered his hands and passed the table, Chu Yingyang suddenly grabbed his hand: "Sit down, little brother, there is a chair here." ”

"Hmm. He stiffly squeezed out a smile, and suddenly felt a sharp gaze coming from behind, Chu Xun tilted his head and stared at his younger brother deadly, Chu Xianzhao sighed low in his heart, and just wanted to turn around, Chu Ying's raised hand was like an iron tong that made him unable to break free: "Sit here, our brothers don't sit with the crazy woman." ”

"Chu Yingyang, if you want to quarrel, I will accompany you to the end!" Chu Xun squeezed out this sentence from between his teeth.

"That's enough, I didn't call you here today to see you arguing. Give me a bit of a royal demeanor!" Emperor Yin said in a low voice.

Chu Xianzhao sat in front of Chu Yingyang, Chu Xun snorted coldly, and turned his head not to look at the two of them.

"Let's talk about Chu Xun first, this time you arrested the suspect without the approval of the above, and actually executed the prisoner behind my back, I temporarily froze the power of the Rose Division, first observe for three months, during this time I will send someone to rectify your vigorous and resolute methods, during this time you have behaved well, I will consider whether to return the Rose Division to you, or put it into the ranks of the Supervision Yuan. ”

Chu Xun was silent for a while, nodded, and acquiesced in his father's decision, Emperor Yin was very satisfied with her turned her head, and her eyes fell on Chu Xianzhao: "Xiao Zhao, this matter started because of you, my father doesn't intend to punish you, you did the right thing, if it were me, I would also save that girl." This matter is over, that girl I left her in the Falling Water Courtyard, I know that she cured your illness, and I can thank her. ”

"Father Xie. ”

"And who took you to get that sword box, didn't my father tell you not to touch that thing before? If it weren't for the soul of your ancestor in the sword box, you would have been sucked away by the sword soul a long time ago, and only a dried corpse remained!" Emperor Yin blamed.

"The son is guilty. ”

"Don't give me the idea of that sword box in the future!" he said angrily.

"Oh. Chu instantaneously replied in a low voice.

"Ying Yang, do you have anything to say?" He looked at his eldest son, Chu Ying Yang rubbed his eyes, and said coldly: "No, everything will be decided according to the will of the father." ”

Emperor Yin nodded: "The three of you are not small, Yingyang, you have also been on the battlefield a few times, I ask you a question, why our north has not been able to defeat the southern continent." ”

Chu Yingyang hesitated for a moment: "There has never been a country in the Northern Regions that can defeat the Qing'an Dynasty, just take our Yin Country as an example, the Yin Country has swept the world with iron cavalry, and the cavalry can be called the first war horse in the world." But our cavalry is not as good as leaving the court in land warfare, not as good as the East Sui in defense, not as good as the West in weapons, not as good as Yan Fu and the Golden Horde in riding and shooting, our biggest advantage is the manufacturing process of the armor and the strength of the keel horse, the rich iron production of the Yin country is enough to make our 500,000 soldiers all put on armor and charge on horses, our armor is the best in the world, and can even cover the war horse, the iron cavalry of the Yin State in the charge is invincible, even if it is a mountain in front of us. Even so, the battlefield we can control is only on land, and the dragon warrior legion of Qingguo controls the sky, and they have no advantage over our iron cavalry, and Qingguo is our worst enemy. ”

"Very good, Qingguo is our worst enemy, smoke, what do you think?"

Chu Xun said coldly: "No, our biggest disadvantage is that we can't control the all-round battlefield advantageously, every country in this world is afraid of the dragon of Qingguo, and the dragon can be said to be the political pillar of the Zhao royal family." Take the battle sixty years ago, it was a terrible victory, even the best archers could not shoot through their scale armor, Qingguo is a very terrible country, but to say that dragons are not impossible to kill, and the number of their dragons is only a few hundred at present, Qingguo will spend millions of taels of silver every year to captivate these gold-swallowing beasts, and soon their advantage will be slowly lost, and the dragon's military dividends will gradually fade until they are annihilated. Our biggest enemy is the six southern countries, they are not inferior to our northern countries in terms of number and strength, even if we really defeat Qingguo, in the end it will be a lose-lose situation, and those countries in Tang will not miss this great opportunity, and will immediately wave their forces to the north. ”

"The six countries in the south are also a headache, but they have been living in the shadow of Qingguo, and in fact, they are more troubled than us. Tang Guo wanted to rely on his own strength and Qingguo on an equal footing, but could not overshadow Qingguo's edge, Dong Sui from the beginning of his own direction, and Qingguo reached a multifaceted agreement, as a subordinate of Qingguo, and Nanfo did not want to participate in the war from the beginning, they believed in Buddhism, thinking that life is to do good and accumulate virtue, and enter the Elysium as soon as possible, together with their king, as for the Great Yue Kingdom, even Qingguo does not want to pay attention to them, the land of Nanban, it is difficult to educate. Emperor Yin was very satisfied with his daughter's answer.

Emperor Yin said quietly: "Then Xiaozhao, what do you think?"

"Northern Regions...... Our current enemies are in the northern region, the reason why we have not been able to take the south, the biggest reason is our own, the war in the north has never been broken, although our northern territory is large, but most of the land is barren and cold, the southern continent is only the most inconspicuous Dayue country, the annual production of grain is even more than the Yin country, where the rain is abundant, there is so much rice that can not be eaten enough, one by one rotting in the field, making the next year's grain more abundant......"

"I'm talking to you about war, not food. Yinguo reminded.

"The son means that although the Three Kingdoms Alliance is now formed, it is not strong in the eyes of Erchen, here the Northern Barbarian War I Golden Horde has cut off most of the troops, it is difficult for them to recover to the previous strength in ten or eight years, you all know, Liu Kang, the Emperor of the Bottle, has been standing still, if he can't smell the smell of meat in his mouth, he will not easily send troops, then this war, we are destined to rely only on ourselves, the Northern Expedition When the Seven Nations Alliance invaded the Northern Regions, Yinguo, Xilin, Yanfu, Bottle, our four countries formed a temporary alliance and repelled their seven countries, and I want Erchen to say, if we want to reproduce the miracle of sixty years ago, we need to unite the Northern Regions, we need allies!"

"You think too simply, there is no day of unity in the north, you said it yourself, Liu Kang will only wait and see, the vitality of the Golden Horde will be greatly damaged, the entire territory of the Northern Barbarians will be destroyed, and Yan Fu, what method do you plan to use to unite these countries that do not trust each other?"

"Sword and fire, iron and blood...... This is the eternal last word, under the iron hooves of the big Yin Iron Rider, there are only corpses and bones, what is Qingguo, if we can really unite the countries of the Northern Regions, let alone Qingguo, even the whole world can be defeated!" Chu Xianzhao suddenly became excited, Chu Xun covered his mouth and couldn't believe that these words came from his younger brother's mouth.

"Okay! Very good, this is the backbone that my eldest Yin's boy should have, your brother said what I thought," Yinhuang nodded and said approvingly.

"Westbound...... Father, you seem to have forgotten the western frontier, and if our army is to go south, it must pass through the mountains of Houchu. Chu Xun said.

Emperor Yin said disapprerovingly: "I only have plans in the western realm, at present, we have to take down Yan Fu first, Ying Yang, I plan to let you follow General Meng again, what do you think?"

Chu Ying raised his head and slammed it on the table: "Erchen...... Don't go!"

"Oh, don't you like to go to the battlefield the most? Why do you retreat when it comes to fighting now? ”

Chu Ying pursed his lips, the corners of his mouth trembled a few times, but Chu Xun was happy: "What? My dear brother, are you reluctant to be a girl in the city? Or are you scared?"

"You know!" he didn't even look at her.

"Coward......

"Crazy woman—"

Emperor Yin slammed it on the table: "When do you two want to have a cold war, if your queen mother's spirit in the sky sees you like this, don't you feel ashamed? You are all members of the Chu royal family, and the royal family should have the spirit of the royal family." ”

"Ying Yang, why don't you want to go? Since the return of the battle of Yunjian River, our father and son have not spoken like this for a long time, your destiny is martial arts, and the gods and Buddhas of the heavens hope that you will have a heroic performance like a martial god on the battlefield, you should not continue to be decadent like this. He looked at the eldest prince and asked.

"Heroic performance on the battlefield...... I would like to call it a massacre, what do you want me to do, father, continue to take up the sword and aim at the innocent women and children? ”

Chu Xianzhao suddenly felt that his eldest brother had a lot of secrets in his heart that he had never told him, and Emperor Yin frowned: "Women and children, what happened in that war?

Chu Ying put his legs on the long table, crossed his hands behind his head, and didn't even bother to say a defense, Emperor Yinhuang sighed: "That's it, if you don't want to go......

"Father doesn't wonder what happened to the sons of the sons of Yunjian River? You only know that I killed Yan Fu's general Ye Ba, and on the day I returned to Lin'an, everyone called me a hero, if I could choose again, I would rather not participate in that war, and treat this title of hero as if the dog took it away. ”

Emperor Yin's face changed a little, and his eyes were uncertain: "Tell me what happened in that war?"