468 The best of both worlds
A month later.
As soon as Kumoti, who had just returned to the court, returned to the capital, he got the news that Mulan was "depressed and bedridden", and he was really surprised.
Hua Mulan served under his account, and he was a real man who resisted the battlefield without frowning, how could he be "depressed" because of some nonsense rumors?
Many rumors say that it was because His Majesty was angry that Hua Mulan had insulted Princess Xingping, so he was unwilling to retaliate against him, and put him under house arrest in Nanshan, and finally became depressed and unable to see anyone.
It is also said that it was because Mulan offended many people, and these people took the opportunity to fall into the well, forcing His Majesty to take a stand and deal with Mulan first.
Either way, it reveals a not-so-good message, that is, "Mulan has fallen out of favor".
Taken aback, Kumoti immediately sent someone out to investigate, but the result was different from the rumors from the outside world. Although Mulan lives in Nanshan, he actually went to recuperate, he was injured in the shoulder when he saved His Majesty before, and there was a big problem with the whole shoulder, if he didn't take care of it, his arm would be scrapped in the future.
In order to prevent Mulan's injuries from worsening due to forceful force, Tuoba Tao asked him to go to Nanshan, which is rarely crowded and secluded, to recuperate his injuries, and even sent the prince to serve the sick, and he often visited Nanshan.
The same is to recuperate Nanshan, two different rumors, but the results are two completely different ones.
One is that he has fallen out of favor and is in danger, and the other is that the Holy Grace is in full swing.
After weighing it in his heart, Kumoti finally chose to go to the palace and ask Tuoba Tao in person what happened.
When you enter the palace, you can't get out.
Tuoba Tao had to keep him in the palace for a long time.
"There are few people living in your house in Beijing, and it's strange to live in a deserted place, so it's better to live in my palace together, and talk about this expedition......" Tuoba Tao revolved around this brother in one day today. Why did you fall into the water? When I first received the news, I thought I had misheard, you are such a cautious person......"
Tuoba Tao suddenly looked at Kumoti suspiciously, and saw that Kumoti's heart was raised.
"Hahahaha......" Tuobatao's expression changed from suspicion to sudden realization, patted Kumoti's shoulder and laughed: "Didn't you see that it wasn't me, and your feet slipped in fright?" Hahahaha......"
Kumoti lifted his heart and shook his head amusedly.
"Your Majesty is too fanciful. It's just that next time it's happening......"
"I demoted your aunt to a concubine, do you blame me?"
Tuoba Tao opened his mouth to interrupt Kumoti's words.
"......" Kumoti finally got around this topic, and simply let go and said to Tuoba Tao clearly: "Your Majesty, I have already figured it out, rather than letting them continue to plot and eventually cause a big disaster, maybe this kind of result is the best now, for my aunt's matter, I can only say ......"
He sighed.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace not to kill."
Tuoba Tao's eyebrows and eyes suddenly relaxed, and he was also full of emotion about this matter: "The seeds of disaster have been planted several generations ago, but the decision of the ancestors is not something I can influence. Now that it can be resolved as soon as possible, it can also avoid harming the innocent, and I will also deal with their descendants leniently......"
"Yes." Kumoti nodded. "There's one more thing I think would be better said. In the camp of Montenegro that year, there was a suspect who killed ghosts and committed suicide, using the spring of the crossbow machine, and the spring was given to him by me. ”
"Huh?"
Tuoba Tao thought about it.
"That's not Mulan's ......"
"Not only that, on the day of Mulan Dabi, there was an assassin who had already planned to assassinate Cui Hao, Mulan broke through the matter and informed me of the incident, and I took advantage of the situation to investigate, and finally found the person who planned it, it was the general from the Wang family, I coerced and lured the other party to dispel the idea of assassinating Cui Hao, and forced him to return to his hometown injured, so the matter was over, and then Dabi went smoothly......"
Kumoti looked at the thoughtful Tuoba Tao, and continued: "Most of the military households in Montenegro enlist in the army, and the relationship between all parties is complicated, and the same is true for killing ghosts. His parents and sisters were all under the control of the old master, and even if he had reached that position, he still had to take the blame for the real assassin. He knows that I saved Mulan, so he hopes that I can give him a convenient way so that he can die quickly and not affect anyone. ”
"Why did I kill the ghost, he said that his family is in the hands of the old master, if he confesses, he may be punished by the nine clans, but he does not admit his guilt and points out the real murderer, and the family will definitely die. He thought about it, no matter how he chose, the whole family would die, it was better to kill himself first, and if the evidence was insufficient, His Majesty might not harm his family, and his family would be able to escape because of this. ”
"His old lord was originally a general under the account of King Wei...... It's a family feud of the clan again......" Kumoti said with a calm expression, "I promised to save his family, and then I gave him the machine spring." ”
Tuoba Tao didn't say a word, and listened to Kumoti's "surrender" with a blank face.
"I have always wanted to maintain the 'peace' between the clan and His Majesty, I originally thought that when His Majesty's strength became stronger and stronger, the clan would naturally know that there were some things that could not be done. And you have a generous and benevolent personality, completely different from the emperors and ancestors, and you have the amount of tolerance, as long as the time passes, those uneasiness will dissipate with time, so in those years, I have done a lot of wrong things to hide from the world. ”
Kumoti had already figured it out in the river, and he didn't want to deceive Tuoba Tao all the time, so he simply told him what he had done.
"After the ghost slayer died, I directly found the grandson of King Wei, I knew the ins and outs of the matter, and I was willing to hide the truth for them, so the family of the ghost slayer quickly sent it to me. I settled them in my fiefdom and became an ordinary herdsman, and lied to them that the ghost killer had died in battle, and that I was his main general so I took care of them, and the family of the ghost killer was so grateful to me that they never asked the ghost killer why he died. ”
Later, the Wang family amassed wealth, which was also used for rebellion. Wang Jin was rampant in Chang'an, and my aunt saw that she couldn't hide it, so she hid her things in my courtyard, and I took the opportunity to expose the money and let you fill it into the treasury, and I also had a discord with her because of this. But I didn't expect her to have the courage to do it herself in addition to providing money......"
Kumoti's eyes were full of sorrow.
"She's doing it herself, and I can't take care of it."
"Nothing else?"
Tuoba Tao didn't show any surprise, and continued: "What else do you have in your heart, let's just finish talking about it together." ”
"The ...... of Montenegro"
Seeing that Tuoba Tao wanted to know everything, Kumoti began to think about it carefully, starting from when he found out that Black Mountain was wrong, and talking about the clan actions he discovered back then.
He had already put life and death aside, and he had no relatives to tie him, and he defeated the Yan Kingdom and returned, which was more like "atonement" and "vow", and there would be nothing to hide.
There are many things that Kumoti said that Tuoba Tao has already known through the sect that was interrogated, and there are some things that he does not know, and one or two can be deduced by Kumoti's peeling off the cocoon.
Gradually, a conspiracy that had been laid out for at least ten years was revealed in front of Tuoba Tao little by little, and some things were even more shocking to him, and he couldn't help but widen his eyes.
"What do you say? Among the people who repair the history of the country are their people? They want to erect a monument to reveal all the previous events? Tuoba Tao shouted in disbelief: "We are Xianbei people! Xianbei old rules, the brother died, the younger brother married the sister-in-law, the elder brother married the younger brother-in-law, that is a normal thing, they actually want to make history? ”
"Not only that, the first emperor and ancestors killed so many clans, many of them were unjustly killed, they did their tricks in the history of the country, but they deceived the superiors and concealed them, in order to inform the world of their grievances in the future, and Cui Hao, who was responsible for revising the history of the country, although he only took on a name, he didn't get a good end."
Kumoti said a little helplessly: "Before, they were worried that Cui Hao would find out what they did in the history of the country, because Cui Hao was too smart, so they wanted to assassinate Cui Hao during the Black Mountain Competition." As a result, after the assassination failed, they found that Cui Hao had too many government affairs to deal with every day, and he didn't have time to stare at the historians who were repairing history every day, but they just read a batch of manuscripts every three months, and they simply didn't work hard, and turned to bribe and buy those proofread documents, the national history is too complicated, I Xianbei people have no words, and many materials are incomplete, so they have to ask the elders of those clans, which gives them another opportunity to take advantage of......"
He didn't dare to say that the day when the national history was completed was also a time of shame.
"Such a big thing, you have been hiding until now......" Tuoba Tao sighed with some resentment: "Is it because I am too good and happy?" Or am I too heavy on martial arts and light on literature? If you don't talk about the history of the country today, I almost forgot about it. ”
Every dynasty has to revise the history of the country, Xianbei has no writing, and the sinicization was not enough before, and many Han ministers refused to go out of the court, so the matter of repairing history has been delayed until now.
Cui Hao is the chief official, but the chief official has always been just a name, and many of the ministers of the Han people are unwilling to revise history for the Xianbei people, so the Xianbei people account for most of the historians.
This also gives them an opportunity to take advantage of it.
If one day the "original" national history is released to the public, it will become a laughing stock in the world if it wants to be deleted again. But the words and deeds of the Xianbei people when they were ignorant seem barbaric, incorruptible and shameless now, but in the eyes of the Hu people at that time, they were their way of life. Tuoba Tao has always wanted Wei to become "orthodox in the Central Plains", and if these ugly things are made public, the orthodox status will be shaken.
"If I don't find out, how are you going to stop it?"
Tuoba Tao asked his brother curiously. In his opinion, if the history is repaired for more than ten years, the project is so huge that it is extremely difficult to stop it.
Kumoti touched Pei Jue on his waist, and replied with some embarrassment: "It's a must...... I want to burn down a few of His Majesty's rooms......"
"You...... You ......" Tuobatao's eyes widened, "There aren't many books in the library, you burn them ...... up"
"That's no way out."
Kumoti's face was gloomy: "I thought at the time, even if I was impeached, I had to think of burning everything." But then I thought about it, by that time, it was not certain whether I was alive or not, so I thought about it in the past few years, and once the manuscript was burned, Cui Hao would definitely be alert, and began to pay attention to this matter, and personally supported the revision of history......"
The library burned, someone must be responsible, and Cui Hao, the chief official of the history repair, will be held accountable for this, in order to wash away the shame, he can only rebuild the national history more "perfect".
Once Cui Hao attaches importance to it, those clans will not be able to play any tricks in Cui Hao's hands.
"You think you're doing secrets, but there's already a trace. As early as when I ascended the throne, there was a White Egret official who had a secret report that you had a close relationship with the clan. Tuoba Tao smiled bitterly, "Luo Jie once warned me to pay attention to your movements, and Mulan once thought that you were in collusion with Wang Jin and wanted to be unfavorable to me. I've always believed in you, if you really want to deal with me, you don't need to be so troublesome, that cup of poisoned tea back then ......"
"Your Majesty, please don't mention that again."
The matter of that cousin back then was a pain in the hearts of the two of them.
Such a wonderful and gorgeous character has since dissipated into the world, even if the history of the country is rebuilt, it will not be mentioned again.
Sometimes, Kumoti even felt that it was better to drink all the poisoned tea himself, so as not to struggle so hard later.
"Speaking of Mulan...... Kumoti stiffly changed the subject, "I thought that Mulan would go out of the city with the hundred officials to welcome our class teacher back to the court, why is it rumored that he is recuperating in Nanshan?" ”
"He's really recuperating."
Tuoba Tao's head also hurts very much, after casting the spell, Tuoba Huang, who has obtained divine power, will soon be able to run around, but Hua Mulan is greatly injured, and it took half a month to recover.
Because he never thought of the "best of both worlds" method, Tuoba Tao was a little afraid to face Mulan, so he didn't make an order to let Mulan go home, but just let the prince run more diligently, and he often drove the Nanshan Palace, but he didn't stay for an hour every time.
"It's just right for you to come back, you help me to persuade him, he is so young, he wants to be disarmed and return to the field......" Tuoba Tao said with a headache, "He said that he was tired and didn't like to fight." Listen, just when I was about to use him, he told me that he was tired of fighting and wanted to go home! ”
"Your Majesty, but what did you promise Mulan before, but it didn't come true?" Kumoti's first reaction was that something had annoyed Mulan.
He knew Mulan's temper, and he was by no means a nonsense person, and he would not take the initiative to go unless he was discouraged.
"I just look so ridiculous?" Tuoba Tao's nose was crooked, "I'm even ready to expand the Tiger Ben Army to 50,000 people!" ”
"That's the matter of Princess Xingping, Your Majesty ......"
Kumoti continued to speculate.
The more Tuoba Tao listened, the more irritated he became, and then he thought that Kumoti had told him everything, and it was not interesting for him to hide it from him, so he simply took a deep breath and looked at Kumoti and said: "That's it, I'll tell you what's going on, you can help me refer to ...... details."
The place where they discussed was an unmanned water pavilion, and the guards were patrolling and defending the shore, and Tuoba Tao was not afraid of others listening, so he simply said to Kumoti: "Actually, Mulan is a woman. ”
At this moment, Kumoti, who has always been calm, can't calm down.
"That can't be!"
Kumoti cried out, "He once slept with me...... He...... He ...... like that."
"Huh? Sleeping in the same account? Oh, you're talking about the night......" Tuoba Tao was shocked at first, and then thought that Mulan used to be Kumoti's personal soldier, and she would never have any personal feelings, otherwise Kumoti wouldn't have known that she was a woman, so he trembled a few times funny.
"What's this, I'm still undressing in front of her! The army is directly open and peeing, and there are ......"
Kumoti tried to think about Hermulan's face towards the woman, and the whole person shuddered when he thought about it, and his awkward cold hair stood on end, and he shook his head again and again.
"Your Majesty, don't joke with me, you say that I am a woman, everyone believes me, how can a warrior like Mulan ......"
Kumoti is quite calm, when Helian Mingzhu heard him say it last month, he simply covered his ears and ran away like a madman.
Tuoba Tao held it in his heart for so long, and he didn't believe anyone when he said it, but now the bad taste came up, and he just took advantage of this incident to ease the embarrassing atmosphere between the two just now, and said with a smile: "I wanted to reuse him before, so I sent Su Hejun to check the details of the Hua family, and guess what?" The Hua family has only two daughters, named Mulan, is the second daughter of his family, and the only son is not yet an adult......"
Kumoti frowned.
"There are other possibilities, such as the son and nephew of the family joining the army for the uncle......
"But she told me herself." Tuoba Tao smiled unhurriedly, "Grandpa has no eldest son, Mulan has no eldest brother, I am willing to be a saddle horse for the city, and ......from now on I will recruit for my grandfather."
Tuoba laughed and patted Kumoti on the shoulder.
She herself said that she was a woman, but she was really not beautiful, she was tall, she had a lot of strength since she was a child, and she followed her father to learn martial arts, and after entering the barracks, no one recognized her as a woman. Besides, you've seen her peerless beauty......"
Tuoba Tao refers to Di Yefei.
"Do you think that if you are on fire with him, who would think that Mulan is a woman? Haha, hahaha, it's me, I wouldn't think Mulan is a woman! ”
"Rub General Ben's back!"
"Mark down and call the attendant ......"
"General, how long has it been since you bathed?"
"More than two months. It's so comfortable to scratch, rub it with your coarse calluses! ”
"The right army is eating too badly, you are so thin, where is your strength?"
Kumoti, whose face was already green, suddenly remembered the past in his mind, but the whole person was a little dizzy, and his body was a little shaky
What did he do then?
By the way, he pinched Mulan's chest, and said-
"Hahaha, you kid looks thin, but his chest is quite strong......"
What are these in front of you? Hey? How can there be stars flying in the sky? Isn't it daytime? Or did he soak in the water for too long and his brain got into the water?
Kumoti helped the pillar of the water pavilion so that he did not fall into the water, and Tuoba Tao next to him was already laughing and lying on the stone table and could not move.
"Hahahaha, I knew it was going to be like this! Hahaha! I'll be waiting for you! Hahahaha...... Hahahaha......"
"Your Majesty, don't laugh yet...... Kumoti said with some gritted teeth: "If Mulan is really a woman, then she has only one way to 'cheat death' except to get rid of her armor and return to the field." Have you ever thought about how she will marry in the future if it is rumored that she is a woman? How to live? ”
"Death? No, no, no, I once said to her that even if she was a woman, I would use her. Tuoba Tao sat down on the stone table in the water pavilion with some distress.
"Hua Mulan is different from other courtiers, she has no selfishness. Maybe sometimes there are some women's kindness, and sometimes some ridiculous persistence, but she, like you and me, is a person with faith in her heart, not a mediocre person who fights for fame and fortune. ”
"Although she is a woman, she is no less knowledgeable and powerful than a man. There are many women in this world who are worthy of the respect of others, my mother, the Empress Dowager Dou is one, Mrs. He is one, and Hua Mulan is even more beyond the category of 'men and women', just a hero worthy of reuse. ”
Tuoba Tao put away his laughing expression and asked Kumoti seriously: "I ask you, I can reuse criminals, I can reuse vassals, and even enemies, why can't I reuse a woman?" Just because she's a woman? ”
"Your Majesty, of course you can always reuse her, but only if she wants to. Now, since she is tired of it, she must have sensed the discomfort caused by being a woman. Women age much faster than men, and when she is thirty years old, if she has no children and no daughters, she will be a disgraceful identity for the rest of her life, even if she is crowned a king and a general, what is the point? Do you let her live her life facing the wall as soon as she returns to the General's Mansion? ”
Kumoti knew what Tuoba Tao meant, but it was too risky, and he didn't want both of them to choose this path.
"Choosing to cheat death, at least you can get your life back on track. Although she is not beautiful, with her own family wealth, it is okay to recruit money. Her martial arts are so good, it is impossible for an idle man to let her suffer......"
Kumoti suddenly saw the appearance of Mulan in women's clothes teaching her husband, and she couldn't help but shake her head and shake her head out of the terrible scene.
"It's good for you and for Mulan."
"I'm Da Wei, and I already have a female official." Tuoba Tao suddenly spoke: "Yucui's position as a guest of Honglu Temple has done a very good job, and everyone praises her. ”
"That's different."
Kumoti grabbed at the pillar with some irritation.
"She's in charge of the military! Soldiers! ”
Tuoba Tao didn't understand it anymore.
"It's the power of the army, but what does it matter?"
"A woman in charge of the army is really not a big deal for us Xianbei people, but what about it from the perspective of the people of the world? If you want to become the 'Son of Heaven' from the Great Khan, the status of orthodoxy is indispensable, and if you let a woman take charge of the army, is this considered 'justifiable'? And how many men are willing to condescend to women? ”
Kumoti tried to move Tuoba Tao in terms of "influence".
"I know what you say."
Tuoba Tao willfully high-fived.
"But I just want to use Mulan!"
"You're ......"
Kumoti simply had the urge to go crazy.
Tuoba Tao's face was full of expressions of "I'm willful, I'm unreasonable, I'm glorious, and you can't do anything with me".
Kumoti calmed down, resisted the urge to throw Tuoba Tao into the lake, and turned his head to the lake.
There are no lotus leaves in the lotus lake in March and April, but the willow on the shore has spit out new green, and everything is thriving.
He took a deep breath and slowly exhaled it, letting his thoughts become clear and calm.
"Your Majesty, if you want Mulan to take charge of the military as a woman, it is bound to be a long-term process, and it cannot be achieved overnight. She is a woman, and she is a substitute father in the army, once this head is opened, I don't know how many Xianbei daughters will take private soldiers to join the army. Because you have already sealed a female general, there is an example to follow, and it is not impossible for the second and third female generals to follow. ”
Tuoba Tao heard that this clan brother began to think about this matter cautiously, and was immediately overjoyed: "Yes, yes, I also think it is too difficult, so I asked you what to do!" ”
Kumoti closed his eyes and continued to analyze: "In addition, although Mulan has no selfish intentions, once a woman becomes a parent, she will inevitably plan for future generations, such as Aunt Duanping......"
"It's not a problem, Mulan doesn't have decay."
Tuoba Tao looked at Kumoti, who suddenly turned around with a hellish expression, and couldn't help but laugh: "If a woman washes the military account with blood every month, do you think she can hide her identity?" Hua Mulan has a hidden disease, she has never been to decay, and she will not have any descendants, so she has not had a flaw for so many years. ”
He also shook his head with some regret: "It's really a pity, Daoist Kou said that it is possible for her divine power to be passed on through the bloodline, even if her descendants don't have it, maybe there will be next generation grandchildren, or other descendants in the future." But things in the world are so fair, she has the power that other women don't have, and there are other women who have the flaws she doesn't. ”
“…… This is a place where it can be done, but it is too cruel for a woman. "Kumoti received two explosive messages today, and he was already a little dizzy.
Helplessly, Tuoba Tao was still waiting for his opinion, so he could only settle his mind and continue to think.
"In addition to martial arts, what is Mulan's biggest advantage? It's prestige! ”
Kumoti couldn't help but roll his eyes when he thought of this.
"But because of Princess Xingping and you moving her to Nanshan, her reputation is about to lose much, and it may be a matter of time before she becomes the laughing stock of all countries......
"As soon as her identity as a woman is revealed, it will naturally be broken."
Tuoba Tao was not worried at all.
"Yes, not only can it not be attacked, but it can also completely thwart the vicious thoughts of the frustrated Muqian. It's just not good for her. The most appropriate way is for her to say that she is a woman, and then tell everyone what happened, and propose to disarm and return to the field......"
Kumoti said with a cold face.
"But I want to use her ......"
"Yes, so Your Majesty, you can't agree, but let her go back for the time being and figure it out." Kumoti looked at Tuoba Tao with a puzzled face, and really felt tired and tired, and sighed faintly.
"Your Majesty, the question now is not whether you want to use Mulan, but that Mulan feels tired and doesn't want to fight anymore. What's the use of a general with no fighting spirit? If Mulan can't figure out what she's insisting on for a day, it's impossible to really turn back to the original 'General Huwei'. ”
"You mean ......"
Tuoba Tao touched his chin.
"Touching people with emotion?"
"Plus this year, Mulan has been in the army for seven years. In the past seven years, she doesn't know how much blood and tears she has shed and how many acquaintances she has, which is an impossible experience for a woman raised in a boudoir. Even ordinary soldiers will constantly recall the days when they were on the battlefield, as long as they have been on the battlefield, these have long been in their bones, and they will not linger at all......"
Kumoti is very sure of that.
"She has so many people in the army, there must be many colleagues who don't mind her status as a woman at all, and hope that she can stay, but when the time comes, as long as Your Majesty pushes the troubles and manages to find her friends in the army, she can say that if she moves them to Pingcheng, she will definitely be able to calm the worries in Mulan's heart."
Kumoti is born with a delicate sense of touch for the human heart, so he cut off Mulan's fear directly from the source. "Hua Mulan is reluctant to join the army again, not because she doesn't love life in the army, but because she has a too decent personality, she is worried about causing trouble to others, she is worried that her woman's identity will be exposed sooner or later and affect everyone's lives, and she is worried that her comrades in the army will be disappointed one day......"
Tuobatao's expression gradually became solemn, and he nodded slowly.
"Not only that, but the Hua family seems to have been living in torment."
Kumoti sighed in his heart.
He knew that once he made this plan, with Mulan's character, he would not be able to get out of the matter and return to the field.
However, a woman like her, even if she really returns to the field and stays in the countryside for a while, she will understand where she finally belongs.
The place where Great Wei needs warriors is not only the battlefield, in such troubled times, who is not his own warrior?
This is an era of heroes and no other!
"Your Majesty, I can only give advice, you are the Son of Heaven who will make the world respect, go and let the world see your courage, and let Mulan's comrades, those who understand Mulan's usefulness, feel your sincerity!"
Kumoti bowed to Tuobatao.
"Please let the people of the world see that it is not that you want to keep Mulan as an official, but that the people of the world want to keep Mulan as an official, and it is the army that wants to keep Mulan as an official! It's not that you need Mulan, it's that Dawei needs Mulan, the army needs Mulan, and the people need Mulan......"
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