Chapter Twenty-Four: Determination Follows, Lord and Defeat
The Great Chamber, which is a common rule in all countries on the continent, is held every other month on the first day of a new month.
The Imperial Court invited high-ranking officials of the Imperial Court, nobles, and princes to discuss whether there were any mistakes in the previous month's national policy or policies that could be improved in this month.
This great court meeting has always been a monthly event in the court, after all, this is not a casual discussion like the previous three-day meeting, and there is nothing to do in a few hours.
The people who participated in this great court meeting were at least officials at the level of a feudal official, especially those officials who were invited to participate, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that they were giants who had held part of the authority of the country, not to mention those princes and nobles, who were noble and noble, and if they said a word casually, the servants around them had to carefully ponder whether this sentence had a deep meaning.
What's more, today's Dongxun Kingdom has a great court meeting, as a monarch, Fu Xi is unconscious, and he can't preside over the big court meeting at all, which leads to the fact that there is only one topic in the court today.
That is the attitude towards Nanli, whether it is war or peace.
It can be seen from the seats allocated today that the officials and eunuchs in charge of this affairs in the palace tacitly divided the main battle faction and the main peace faction into two sides respectively.
This makes it even more obvious how serious the two factions in the Eastern Xun Kingdom are divided at this time, and after the official in charge of arranging the seats has placed everyone in his own seat, he leaned up his proud head and walked into the territory of the main battle faction without looking back.
This official's move was also seen by those lords and factions, and the old ministers couldn't help but sigh again and again.
Although the official is not of high rank and has no right to speak, it can be seen that at this time, the balance of the two factions has almost overwhelmingly shifted towards the main battle faction.
The scattered people of the Lord and the faction, each of them showed a helpless look at the mighty main battle faction opposite.
Among the group of people from the main battle faction, most of them are young Zhuang faction officials in their thirties, and many of them are young and talented in recent years.
On the other hand, although the official rank is not low and the right to speak has a little weight, all they could do before was to barely suppress the thoughts of those young men opposite.
However, since Emperor Xun Fuxi was assassinated and fell unconscious a few days ago, they could no longer play a big role in this matter.
There are also four or five existing princes in the Dongxun Kingdom, and only two of them hold great power, and those two princes are all in the main battle faction and follow those juniors to drink and talk.
"Shin Xiang, can't you really stop this this time?"
When the Lord and the people sent him saw that they were coming from outside the main hall, they quickly got up, and one of them asked the old man with some unwillingness.
The old man's expression was entangled, and finally he shook his head and walked slowly to the center of the court.
And this old man is actually Shen Zhicui, the prime minister of the Eastern Xun Kingdom at this time, he was also a member of the main and faction, and the main and faction also relied on his weight in the court to be able to get along with the group of people in the main battle faction, but after the assassination of Emperor Xun Fuxi a few days ago, Shen Zhicui, who was the prime minister, naturally saw the flaws in this matter, and even he determined who was behind this matter at the first time.
But he also saw another place, that is, if this happened at this time, he was still staying in the Lord and faction as the prime minister, he would be sorry for the unconscious Emperor Xun Fuxi, and he would be sorry for his own integrity, and if he still demanded peace from the Lord, I am afraid that the murderer behind the assassination incident would also use this matter to design himself, and force himself to blame and remove his own phase, if this is the case, then he doesn't dare to imagine what a Dongxun who is full of war above the court will become.
So all he could do was to temporarily sacrifice his former colleagues to preserve his position, so that he could have enough energy to guide Tosun from becoming a complete militaristic state in the future.
The chief eunuch saw that everyone had arrived, so he cleared his throat and said
"His Majesty is unwell and inconvenient to participate in today's court meeting, and the prime minister will preside over it on his behalf."
Shen Zhicui bowed to the empty dragon chair, then turned around, looked at the officials in the two rows, took a deep breath, raised his head, and said in a deep voice
"This month's Great Court Meeting, the main topic of discussion is the attitude of my Dongxun towards the south, whether it is war or peace, please colleagues to express their opinions, and finally the Prime Minister and the six Shangshu jointly decide this matter."
When the words fell, I saw that an old official of the Lord and the faction hurriedly walked to the middle, and said after saluting Shen Zhicui
"Nanli has been a country for thousands of years, the country is safe, the national strength is strong and the military strength is immeasurable, plus there are many masters in the country, and I have only been a country in Dongxun for a hundred years, both the quantity and quality of the domestic standing army can not be compared with Nanli, not to mention that Nanli also has the old commander of the Bai family to lead the army, and the sword saint wind is uneven and sits in Jinling, at this time, it is really unwise to rashly leave the war with Nan."
When the old official said this, although all kinds of words pointed to the facts, the officials of the main battle faction on the side were all disdainful, so the main battle faction sent out a young general wearing heavy armor and said unruly
"Shen Xiang, as far as we know, the old marshal of the Bai family has already stepped down as a marshal for more than ten years, and now he is just an old man who has nothing to do at home to tease the birds, not to mention the uneven wind, and now the serious injury has not healed, my Dongxun is located in the southeast, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, we only need 30,000 central troops, after leaving Sichuan, go straight to the border of Nanli, and fight everywhere, and I will definitely be caught off guard by Nanli."
As soon as the young general finished speaking, another person came out of the main battle faction, although this person was only twenty years old, but he was the imperial grandson of the Fuxi clan, and his status was quite high, as soon as he came out, he looked at Shen Zhicui with straight eyes, and added
"Even if my Dongxun division is unfavorable, then I can retreat into Sichuan, forgive me for the south to leave the garrison to attack, unless they have wings, otherwise they don't want to enter Sichuan."
As soon as the emperor finished speaking, he glanced at the old official of the lord and faction with a smile, and whispered, "What an old coward." ”
"You!"
The old official looked at this imperial grandson angrily, if he hadn't taken into account the identity of this person, I'm afraid he would have let the left and right beat this kid out a long time ago.
The emperor looked at the old official and couldn't do anything about him, so he snorted coldly, so he saluted Shen Zhicui, and said in an inexplicable tone, "The kid knows what Shen Xiang is worried about, it's nothing more than that I am a country in Dongxun, and it is difficult to compare with a huge Nanli, so what if you add the Xikun country?" ”
After the emperor finished speaking, he clapped his hands.
A person came from outside the hall again, this person was wrapped in a black robe, only a pair of eyes were exposed, although it was still daytime at this time, but this person exuded a cold aura.
This person walked to the emperor's grandson, bowed to Shen Zhicui strangely, and said coldly
"The envoy of the lower kingdom has seen Shen Xiang."
Shen Zhicui's eyes shrank sharply, he looked at this person in disbelief, and asked in a slightly trembling voice
"You? You, are you the black-robed Saint Monarch of the Xikun Kingdom? ”
The man known as the Black-robed Saint Monarch sneered a few times and said
"I can't imagine that Shen Xiang still remembers my old antique, yes, it's down."
After seeing this person admit that he was the black-robed Holy Monarch, those people from the Lord and Sect suddenly turned pale and lowered their heads weakly, and the old official who wanted to continue to speak to the Lord and the Lord also reluctantly walked back to his seat and sat down.
They knew that this matter had already become a settlement since this black-robed Saint Monarch appeared on behalf of the Xikun Kingdom, and no matter what they said, it was already useless.
The black-robed Saint Jun smiled zizizily, spread his hands, took out a bamboo slip and handed it to Shen Zhicui, picked his eyes and continued
"This is the specific plan of our Xikun Kingdom on the formation of a coalition army this time, Shen Xiang and take a closer look."
Shen Zhicui took the bamboo slip with an ugly face and did not open it, but frowned and looked at the black-robed Holy Monarch and asked
"Since you're still alive, how many people should be there?"
The black-robed Saint Monarch glanced at Shen Zhicui and replied with a slight dissatisfaction
"Naturally, they are still alive, otherwise how could I, Xikun Kingdom, have the confidence to dare to provoke Nanli this time?"
Speaking of this, the black-robed Saint Monarch paused and continued with a smile
"As for the news that the old guy was seriously injured by Feng Buping, it was also confirmed by those guys."
Shen Zhicui let out a long sigh and said helplessly, "Since they have confirmed it, it is naturally true, so the true appearance" Speaking of this, Shen Zhicui looked at the main battle faction and found that the six Shangshu were all there, and continued
"Agree to form a coalition to fight against the unjust act of Nanli."
"Shin Sang-hyun-myeong"
Everyone in the main battle faction tacitly praised Shen Zhicui.