Chapter 135: The Chess Player (2-in-1)
Today's Qingyu Dynasty officials are corrupt and incompetent, which is the situation formed since the Jade King became emperor.
It can be seen from the surface that although there are still prime ministers, in fact, the two prime ministers, Li Nan and Zhao Jiulong, are idle in their respective mansions, and they have no real power, let alone the right to speak.
Therefore, I am afraid that the only capable officials in the entire court are Guo Jia, the secretary of the Criminal Department, so the Jade King will let Guo Jia investigate all the officials, and he has never suspected Guo Jia from beginning to end, which has something to do with Guo Jia's usual lack of gangs.
After the Jade King left the Taihe Palace, he went directly to the Qingyu Palace, which was a place he often visited, and there was no one else in the palace who could tell him the truth.
"Your Majesty, what's wrong?"
Now that Concubine Yan has become the queen mother, the big change in identity did not make her happy, and the reason was that the Jade King didn't listen to her.
"Lu Jiuyuan has hit Beixia County."
The Jade King said lightly, in fact, he didn't care about Lu Jiuyuan's ability to hit Beixia County, what he cared about was the ability of the ministers of the court, and now it seems that except for a few ministers he likes, the others basically have no ability, if he didn't rely on the relationship between these people at the beginning, there would be no such ministers now, and it is time to clean up.
"Lu Jiuyuan? Isn't he in North County? How did you get to Kitaxia-gun? ”
"Queen Mother, Lu Jiuyuan seems to have known what I was going to do, and he waved his troops south when I acted."
The Jade King was most puzzled about why Lu Jiuyuan knew that he was going to imprison Emperor Lu Hua'an, who was obviously in the distant Northern County, but he knew everything about the situation in Qingyu City.
"Is it true that Lu Jiuyuan has included the Northern Cold Grassland under his command?" Hearing what the Jade King said, Concubine Yan asked.
"Hehe, Queen Mother, is it possible to unify the Northern Cold Grassland with Lu Jiuyuan's strength?" The Jade King chuckled, he absolutely did not believe in Lu Jiuyuan's unification of the Northern Cold Grassland.
"Yes, but even if it's fake, Your Majesty should be careful, after all, Lu Jiuyuan made us lose a lot at the beginning."
"Don't worry, I naturally know this." Hearing what Concubine Yan said, the Jade King didn't care, and the heaviest loss at that time was not Concubine Yan and Xia Mengzhi, what did it have to do with him.
"Your Majesty!"
At this time, a high-pitched voice came from outside the door, obviously a eunuch. This person is the current chief eunuch Liu Gonggong.
"What's wrong?" The Jade King frowned and asked, didn't he say that there was nothing serious not to bother him, could it be that there was something important that needed to be dealt with by him.
Hearing the Jade King's question, Gonggong Liu first glanced at Concubine Yan, then looked at the Jade King, then walked to the side of the Jade King, and said in the Jade King's ear,
"Your Majesty, the King of Jiuyuan has an army of 30,000."
"What?"
Hearing that the Jade King of the 30,000 army immediately stood up, this reaction was very normal, but it fell on? In the eyes of Concubine Yan.
"Your Majesty, what happened?" Yan Guifei asked.
"Lu Jiuyuan consists of an army of 30,000." The Jade King said, then looked at Gonggong Liu, "Is the news accurate?" Didn't you say that there were only twenty people in Lu Jiuyuan? ”
"Your Majesty, the news is accurate, the King of Jiuyuan led nineteen people first, but followed by an army of thirty thousand, of which more than twenty thousand troops were the army of the barbarian clan of the Northern Cold Grassland, and the remaining thousands of people were all innate warrior armies."
Knowing that Lu Jiuyuan had an army of 30,000, Gonggong Liu was still afraid, after all, it was about his net worth and life.
"What? An innate army of several thousand people? ”
Originally, it was just an accident to hear that Lu Jiuyuan had an army of 30,000 Jade Kings, after all, he could still deal with an army of 30,000, but how could he deal with an innate martial artist army of thousands of people, although he had heard of the martial arts army, but he hadn't really seen it, and now Lu Jiuyuan suddenly had such an army, could he really deal with it, if it was the acquired realm, he could still replenish the total number of people, but it was basically impossible for him to replenish the number of people in the innate realm, and Lu Jiuyuan had more than 20,000 other armies, With such strength, Qingyu City is basically powerless to resist now, and at most it is only defensive.
"By the way, Gonggong Liu, you just said that there are barbarians among the 30,000 army?" At this time, Concubine Yan asked.
"Back to the Empress Dowager's words, the 30,000 army of the King of Jiuyuan does have more than 20,000 barbarian troops."
The title is just the Jade King's self-styled title, and the Jade King's faction is also called like this, but it has not been agreed by Lu Huaan, and the same is true for Queen Zhao Xiumei.
"Gonggong Liu, how many people are there in Qingyu City now?" The Jade King exhaled a long breath before asking Gonggong Liu.
Now what he cares about is not how to stop Lu Jiuyuan in Beixia County, with Lu Jiuyuan's current strength, it is very simple to fight Qingyu City, or think about how to defeat Lu Jiuyuan completely in Qingyu City, otherwise he will lose in the end.
"Your Majesty, Qingyu City and the Praetorian Guard only have a total of 30,000 troops, and basically all those with combat power are counted, even the official errands are counted."
"Father-in-law Liu, to be honest with me, I remember that in the past, the Praetorian Guards were afraid that they would not be less than 30,000! How could Qingyu City only have this little strength? ”
The Praetorian Guard guards the palace, and the number is naturally less than that of other armies, but it can't be so small, a huge palace needs at least 30,000 Praetorian Guards, but now someone told him that with other troops, including the officials who don't usually participate in the war, there are only 30,000 people, so how can he believe it.
"Your Majesty, do you remember the troop surge three years ago?" Gonggong Liu first glanced up at the Jade King slightly, and then asked.
"Are you Shun when there were fewer brocade guards?" The Jade King understood that the number of Jinyi Guards was decreasing three years ago.
"Yes, Your Majesty, three years ago, the Emperor Taishang secretly sent troops to the south and east, and these people sent there were the Praetorian Guard, the city defense army, and many soldiers stationed in Qingyu City, and the rest were all people with His Majesty, and the Emperor Taishang let them leave secretly, a little less at a time, and they couldn't see it at all if they weren't serious."
"Three years ago, you old thing, no wonder you took the palace so easily, it turned out that everything went according to your plan."
Hearing what Gonggong Liu said, the Jade King remembered why he took the palace so easily, but he was still very jealous of Cining Palace, it turned out that everything was in the hands of Emperor Lu Huaan, Lu Huaan had long known that he was going to do this, and he also obeyed his will, plus Lu Jiuyuan led his troops all the way south, what is here is self-evident.
The purpose is just for Lu Jiuyuan, and he seems to be very sure that Lu Jiuyuan will do this, the more he thinks about the Jade King, the more he feels cold sweat, what if Lu Jiuyuan doesn't win against him, can Lu Huaan just wait for death? Obviously impossible, since he knows that he will do this, there must be a backhand, that is to say, Lu Huaan has other means, and it is also the last resort to deal with him, thinking about it, I feel that he is still too young.
"Mother, we need assistance, otherwise we will definitely lose."
In the end, the Jade King only thought of Concubine Yan and Xia Mengzhi, although it was not good for him to do so, but he didn't want to be pulled down from this high dragon chair, and once he lost, it was not just as simple as death, but also the infamy of the future generations.
"Your Majesty, the mourning family knows what to do, Your Majesty should let the queen prepare as soon as possible!"
The Jade King was able to figure it out, and Concubine Yan naturally thought about it, when the number of Praetorian Guards decreased, he felt that something was wrong, and now it seems that this is really the case, Lu Huaan has already thought of the way back, and he is worthy of being an old fox.
"On the other side of the dream, I will naturally remind you."
Looking out the window at the north, the Jade King and Concubine Yan showed obvious worry on their faces.
Unlike Qingyu Palace, Cining Palace was peaceful, because Lu Huaan waited for the news he wanted.
"Shadow, what's going on?" Lu Huaan asked as he sat in the room.
In addition to Lu Hua'an, there are also Cao Gonggong and Shadow in the room, as for the queen, Lu Huaan originally wanted the queen to listen, but he was worried that Lu Liyuan's child's personality would expose what he was doing, so the three of them.
"Your Majesty, now that the prince has arrived in Beixia County, it will be a matter of the past few days at most when he arrives in Qingyu City."
"Oh! So fast? Lu Huaan asked, this speed is indeed a little faster, much faster than he imagined.
"Your Majesty, there are thirty-six people under the prince, the names are Yanyun Eighteen Cavalry and Shadow Eighteen People, this is what Shadow Three overheard overheard, they are all innate sixfold martial artists, according to Shadow Three's intelligence, Shadow Eighteen people have entered the palace, just near Cining Palace, and Yanyun Eighteen Cavalry is all the way south with the prince, and arrived in Beixia County in a few days with strong strength."
"Hehe, I'm afraid it wasn't Ying San who overheard it, I'm afraid that the third child deliberately let Ying San hear it, and the great grandmaster and strong man around the third child still want to find out such a secret news, I don't believe it at all." Lu Huaan laughed.
He said it very reasonably, it was impossible for Ying San to find out such a secret news, and Lu Jiuyuan had already warned him at the beginning, so Ying San could get the news, and it must be Lu Jiuyuan who deliberately let Ying San know.
"Your Majesty, I think so too." Shadow thinks the same way as Lu Huaan.
"Okay, let's say, the third has tens of thousands of troops?" This is what Lu Huaan cares about, although he transferred half of the soldiers in Qingyu City, but it should not be underestimated.
"Your Majesty, this time the prince brought 25,000 barbarian clans and 10,000 innate and heavy warriors, of which 5,000 innate and heavy warriors followed."
"How many innate martial artists?"
Lu Huaan rubbed his ears, he thought he had heard it wrong, so many congenital weights, I'm afraid it's impossible, there are only tens of thousands of martial arts soldiers under him, and there are only more than eight thousand whose strength has reached the innate realm, will this be too much.
"Your Majesty, there are 10,000 in total, but the news of Ying San says that the prince is more than these, and there are also Jinyi Guards, all of which add up to the fact that there may be 100,000 Innate Realm martial artists under the prince."
As the words of the shadow fell, Lu Huaan didn't know what to say for a while, if the army of 100,000 innate realms was all sent to the battlefield, he didn't know what the results would be, but he knew that only the Canglong Empire could come up with such a foundation, but the Canglong Empire must be more than just showing that simple, the army of the 100,000 innate realm should be a base number, after all, he still heard some rumors about the lower three states.
"It seems that the third child knows everything about what I do."
As the emperor, Lu Huaan's mentality naturally adjusted quickly, but the beating on his eyelids still existed, after all, this was not an ordinary army.
"Since the third child's speed is so fast, let's let the second shadow prepare!" As soon as Lu Huaan finished speaking, he seemed to think of something and continued, "By the way, let Ying San contact Ying Er, and when the time is right, Ying Er can make random shots." ”
"Yes, Your Majesty."
After saying that, the shadow left, and as for what he was going to do, only the three of them knew what he was going to do.
Ying Er was originally in the Xia Dynasty, but he was secretly recalled when Lu Huaan started the plan three years ago, but he had been preparing this plan for several years, and he had been preparing since Lu Jiuyuan went north six years ago and found that the Jade King was going to rebel, and now it seems that this preparation was not in vain.
"Grandpa Cao, what do you think of this game of chess?" Lu Huaan immediately looked at Gonggong Cao and asked, of course, it is the shadow and the people under the shadow who have contributed to it in the past few years.
"Your Majesty's game of chess is naturally wonderful." Gonggong Cao was a little surprised when he heard Lu Huaan's words, but he still replied seriously.
"But why do I think that the chess player in this game is not me?" Lu Huaan's words came from the bottom of his heart.
In his opinion, Lu Jiuyuan is more like this chess player, since the beginning of the king, it seems that everything is inseparable from Lu Jiuyuan, but he can't find obvious traces, and now he knows that Lu Jiuyuan's subordinates are capable of many people, plus an army of 100,000 innate realms, is this really a hidden chess piece on his chessboard, he doesn't think so, on the contrary, he is more like a chess piece in Lu Jiuyuan's chessboard, everything is done according to Lu Jiuyuan's pace.
"Of course, this Qingyu Dynasty can be this chess player, of course, only Your Majesty."
Lu Huaan thought that Gonggong Cao could still guess, but he couldn't say that Lu Jiuyuan was a chess player, after all, he was Lu Huaan's chief eunuch, not Lu Jiuyuan's.
"Hehe, old fox."
After speaking, Lu Huaan no longer paid attention to Gonggong Cao, but went out of the room, the Jade King asked him to be free, of course he had to take a rest, otherwise it would be a waste of the Jade King's good intentions.