After singing the song "General Order", Xiahou Xuanba and Xu Laojiu glanced at each other, both saw the heat in each other's eyes, and at this moment, they seemed to have returned to the eventful years of blood and fire.

"Xu Laojiu, I want you to personally help me do a few things." Xiahou Xuanba suddenly spoke.

"If the general has a life, he will die for a long time." Xu Laojiu knelt on one knee and gave a military salute, this time he did not call himself an old slave, but used the name he had when he was in the barracks.

"You come with me." Xiahou Xuanba smiled and helped him up.

After the two came to the study, Xiahou Xuanba took out four letters with the same appearance from the table and handed them to Xu Laojiu.

Xiahou Xuanba looked at Xu Laojiu and explained seriously: "You must personally send these letters to Cheng Blind, Li Xiaodao, Zhang Yehu, Wang Laogun and a few others. ”

"The Great General......

Xu Laojiu listened to Xiahou Xuanba's explanation, and couldn't help but feel a little hot in his heart, as he said when he recalled the past before, these people now have heavy troops in their hands, and they are all people who have followed Xiahou Xuanba to fight on the battlefield together, and can block swords for each other, and they belong to Xiahou Xuanba's henchmen, and they are the same as themselves, they are all 'only aware of the general's order and do not recognize the emperor's will', and they are willing to die for Xiahou Xuanba...... Xiahou Xuanba secretly trusted several of them this time, and his intention was self-evident.

Xu Laojiu's lips trembled, and his face was full of excitement: "Don't worry, general, I will definitely hand over this letter to them one by one." ”

"Don't worry, I'm not done yet!" Xiahou Xuanba patted Xu Laojiu's shoulder, as if he had guessed what he was thinking, but this time he didn't say anything, just smiled and said, "Remember that after the letter is delivered, they are not allowed to open it immediately." ”

"Huh?" Xu Lao couldn't help scratching his head for a long time.

Xiahou Xuanba smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry! As for what can be seen? When the time comes, they will know.

"Remember, don't open it right away, it's my military order." Xiahou Xuanba told again.

Although Xu Laojiu felt a little strange when he heard this, he didn't think much about it. For so many years, he only knew that the general's soldiers were like gods, military orders were like mountains, and some arrangements, although they couldn't understand them at the time, but afterwards they could always prove that the general's words and deeds had their deep meanings...... Over time, their group of people also got used to complying.

"Yes, the Great General, rest assured. I will deliver them word for word. Xu Laojiu reassured.

"Hmm."

Xiahou Xuanba nodded, then took out a token and a letter from under the table and handed it to Xu Laojiu, saying: "After you leave the city, go to Jiaziying first, deliver the token and letter to Gu Zehe, and let him act according to the words of the letter." Again, he is not allowed to open the letter immediately, but three days after you are gone. ”

"Yes." Xu Laojiu agreed again.

"After all these letters are delivered, you don't have to go back to Kyoto immediately, you go to Thirteen, and stay with him at that time......," Xiahou Xuanba finally ordered.

When Xu Laojiu listened to Xiahou Xuanba's last order, he couldn't help but feel a little strange. Because what Xiahou Xuanba said was that he didn't have to come back to Kyoto, let himself go to the thirteenth prince Xiahou Wenyuan, could it be that Xiahou Wenyuan would not be in Kyoto at that time? However, he also knew that this matter was very big, and the hundreds of thousands of troops outside Kyoto City had to have a real backbone to take charge of the matter, and there was no doubt that in addition to the general Xiahou Xuanba, the thirteenth prince Xiahou Wenyuan was undoubtedly the best candidate...... At this time, Xu Changjiu also firmly believed in his conjecture. I thought it was no wonder that this time the thirteen princes were heavily armed, and the general had never been to see it? It turns out that all this is to hide people's eyes...... In the eyes of Xiahou Xuanba, there was even more worship. Xindao, the general's soldiers, it is really not what Qiu Ba can guess.

"Yes."

Xu Lao replied for a long time, and then said with concern: "The old slave is not by the general's side during this time, the general, you have to take care." ”

"Hmm."

Xiahou Xuanba nodded and said, "You can set off overnight later!" ”

Xu Laojiu also knew the importance of this matter, nodded towards Xiahou Xuanba, and said, "Don't worry, the general, the last general will definitely sneak out of the city without knowing it." ”

"Well, go ahead! Be careful all the way. Xiahou Xuanba commanded.

"Take care, General." After a long fist, Xu Lao turned to leave.

"Wait a minute." Just when Xu Laojiu had just walked to the door, Xiahou Xuanba called out to him again.

"What else does the general command?" Xu Lao Jiu turned around.

Xiahou Xuanba took out a jar of wine from the shelf behind him and filled the wine jug that had been old for a long time, then patted him on the shoulder and said, "Go!" ”

"Thank you, General." Xu Laojiu touched the wine jug in his arms, and his face was grateful.

After Xu Laojiu left, Xiahou Xuanba picked up the remaining wine in the wine jar and drank it all, looked at the direction of Xu Laojiu's departure, and said to himself: "I hope you can all live well......

……

In fact, how did Xu Lao Jiu know that all his guesses were wrong.

Xiahou Xuanba, who was entrusted by the first emperor and wanted to be as famous in history as the old lady Situ Changqing, how could he really have the heart of rebellion? As he said to his brother Xiahou Wenyuan before, he did not want to fail the first emperor, and he was even more determined to be loyal to the monarch and serve the country after his death...... Although he still has illusions about the little emperor in his heart, and he is very reluctant to believe that he will have an axe in the future, but from a rational point of view and the little emperor's attitude towards him in the past two years, he has a premonition that he is very likely to die a bad death in the future.

This is also the reason why he just asked Xu Laojiu to send those letters. As I said before, Xiahou Xuanba has his selfishness and loyalty.

As far as he is concerned, he has given all his body, mind and flesh to this empire that is about to fall, and if he cannot support the edifice in the future, he will use his body in front of the collapsed edifice...... If there really is such a day in the future, the little emperor really wants to add a sword and axe to him? He would never resist as he said to Xiahou Wenyuan at the beginning, and it was even more likely that he would be killed. "The king wants the minister to die, and the minister is not dead and disloyal", this is an ancient precept, and it is also the foolish loyalty that Xiahou Wenyuan said, but a person with dedication like Xiahou Xuanba really has this kind of stubbornness of foolish loyalty.

At the beginning, for the sake of the continuous inheritance of the family, he handed over the position of patriarch to Xiahou Wenyuan, splitting his entire family...... Today, he asked Xu Lao Jiu to deliver the letter as well.

He can shed his blood for his 'foolish loyalty', but he doesn't want these old brothers who have followed him for many years to have the same fate as him in the future.

His letters to Cheng Blind, Li Xiaodao, Zhang Yehu, and Wang Laogun were not as "gathering the old ministry and plotting to rebel...... as Xu Changchang thought, in fact, the content of each letter is the same, only a simple sixteen words: "I mean so, no complaints; In addition to rebellion, please take care of yourself. ”

Through the death of Yan Kun, the official of the Ministry of Shangshu, in the palace late at night, and his brother Xiahou Wenyuan's deception and ignorance of the government, he faintly had a hint of foreboding in his heart, so he asked Xu Chang, who had been with him for many years, to leave Kyoto to deliver the letter.

The reason why they were not allowed to open the letter was just as Xu Changjiu said, their group of people were all people who were willing to die for Xiahou Xuanba. If they learned that Xiahou Xuanba was worried about his life, they would definitely raise troops desperately and vow to protect Xiahou Xuanba's safety, which would inevitably make this empire that was about to collapse become full of holes again...... This is really not what Xiahou Xuanba wants. And when the time comes for them to open the letter one day, it will be already a boat. And if you really end up in such a state? It can only show that this empire has long been decayed, and this majesty is not worthy of their allegiance...... Therefore, he will not ask these people to be as stupid and loyal as him, and the last requirement for them is to not rebel and avenge him. The rest is to leave the choice entirely up to them, which means that whatever happens to them? He won't blame them.

And the order he asked Xu Changjiu to take to the Jiazi Battalion was also to completely withdraw the Jiazi Battalion from Kyoto. His intention in doing this was not only to protect the Jiazi Battalion, but also to reveal his heart to the little emperor again. Let's ask, if he really has the intention of rebellion, how can he transfer all the power around him?

He knew that when the princes' children entered Beijing, he asked Jiaziying to forcibly take over the defense of Kyoto, which brought great psychological pressure to the little emperor, making the little emperor, who was already extremely jealous of him, even more jealous, and also touched the scale of the little emperor as a creature like a "dragon". It's just that the situation at that time didn't allow him to do otherwise. To put it bluntly, that incident was actually a conspiracy, which was a temptation of the princes to him and a temptation of the Great You Imperial Court. What if he had not responded with a tough attitude? He dared to guarantee that the princes would never be as "docile" as they were now, and perhaps there would have been a second "Dongche Marquis" and a third "Dongche Marquis" by now...... Compared with this, whether the relationship between him and the little emperor will be "dirty" is not worth mentioning at all. He thinks that the little emperor's jealousy of him comes from the Jiazi camp outside Kyoto, so he is now tantamount to pulling out his "fangs", without the existence of the Jiazi camp, he is like a tiger that has lost its fangs, and he hopes to eliminate the estrangement between him and the little emperor......

I have to say that Xiahou Xuanba's original intentions were good. It's just that the mistake is that he overestimated the wisdom of the little emperor and underestimated the little emperor's resentment towards him......

Of course, that's an afterthought.

At least until now, whether it is for this empire, or for the little emperor, or for his family, or for his old brothers who trust their lives...... At least one thing, that is, he Xiahou Xuanba thinks to himself, and he is worthy of his heart all his life.