Seeing that everyone showed frightened looks, Emperor Dade felt a burst of satisfaction in his heart, and he liked this feeling of controlling the life and death of others. After the drama was enough, Emperor Dade smiled slightly, he patted his head, as if with a little regret, and said: "I am also old, and I am willing to recall everything." Maybe I've slept for too long, and I especially like to talk, so that you can listen to the chatter, and my chatter is annoying. However, I often remember that battle, when I and Zhang Xiaowu were on the star-picking platform, killing and repelling thousands of enemy troops. Hahaha, hurry, hurry. ”

Everyone didn't know how to respond, but the battle of the star platform was indeed a big change in the palace, a fire last year, and only one-fifth of the palace in the harem has been repaired so far.

Emperor Dade sighed, as if talking to himself, and as if he was saying to everyone: "If it weren't for Zhang Xiaowu, the person sitting on the throne today should be my ninth brother." Therefore, I should actually thank Zhang Xiaowu and Zhang Linggong. Speaking of Zhang Linggong, the official position of this Linggong, the central order, hahahaha, wonderful, wonderful! I never thought he would have the genius idea of setting up a central mansion, and I couldn't help but be amazed. As soon as this central government is set up, you say, in fact, it doesn't matter whether there is an emperor or not. ”

Everyone was shocked and lowered their heads.

Yuan Wanqiu's heart was shocked, she glanced at Yunyan, but Yunyan didn't understand it too much, she just trembled with fear, after all, Yunyan's background was too lowly, and she would naturally be afraid when she encountered this kind of scene. On the contrary, Mangzhong's eyes were shining, and he seemed to understand, but he clenched his small fists tightly, and seemed to be very dissatisfied. Yuan Wanqiu pulled the placket of Mangzhong's clothes and signaled her not to talk back, the emperor was not the master, the lord could indulge her, but the emperor would never.

Emperor Dade didn't notice the expressions of the three women, he seemed to be immersed in his own world: "The empire has tens of millions of people, and there will be thousands of big and small things every day, and if ten tricky things happen every day, it will be enough for the court to be busy." Since I became emperor, I have been busy with government affairs, busy with handling political affairs, but I never thought that in fact, I could handle government in such a way. The Central Mansion, the Central Mansion, with the Central Mansion to deal with the government, it is definitely better than the emperor making decisions alone-but, now that I have woken up, the Central Mansion......"

Although Emperor Dade's words were not exhausted, the meaning was obvious, since the emperor had awakened, there was no need for the central order, let alone the central government.

Although the three women didn't understand the meaning for a while, when Emperor Dade left, they also realized that it was the lord's power that was too great, which caused the emperor's dissatisfaction.

Since ancient times, the struggle for imperial power has been a natural contradiction, and the Holy Han Dynasty set up the left and right prime ministers to resolve this dispute. The central government set up by Zhang Xiaowu broke this balance and concentrated power in one, although it was able to accomplish great things because of the concentration of power, but it also threatened the imperial power because of the concentration of power.

"The emperor is afraid of our master." Although Yuan Wanqiu has a weak temperament, she was born in a family of eunuchs, but she understands things in officialdom better than others.

Yunyan said worriedly: "You say, did the emperor use us as hostages to threaten our master?" ”

Yuan Wanqiu shook her head and said: "It is impossible for us to be hostages, Your Majesty is the king of a country, if we take these little women as hostages, I am afraid that we will lose the pattern." ”

Yunyan hurriedly asked, "Then why did the emperor invite us into the palace." ”

Yuan Wanqiu thought for a while and guessed: "It should be a warning, maybe it is to ask us to write to him and persuade him to hand over the military power." ”

Yunyan innocently asked, "Is that if you hand over the military power, our Hejian Marquis Mansion will be fine?" ”

Yuan Wanqiu said lightly: "Hand over the military power, no one in the Hejian Hou Mansion will survive." ”

"Huh? Are we all going to die? Yunyan exclaimed.

Mang Chong spoke: "The lord can't hand over the military power!" The master's biggest honor guard is military power, and a general without military power is not a general, but a miscellaneous servant who can be slaughtered. Do you know General Cheng Chucheng? He is still a scholar, he also served as the commander of the sixth regiment, I was originally a maid of General Cheng's family, and later General Cheng was defeated and took away his military power, and became an ordinary person. A few days ago, I heard that General Cheng provoked a ruffian in Longdu City, and he was actually brought to his house by someone else's ruffian, apologized, and spent a lot of money. He is a dignified general, but he has no military power, but he can even bully a ruffian. Our lord has no military power, so isn't it bullying others? ”

Yun Yan said: "No, our master is the Marquis of Hejian." ”

Yuan Wanqiu said: "The scholars all rely on marriage to help each other to form allies, and my Hejian Hou Mansion has no allies, so once something happens to our family, it will be a catastrophe." Back then, my grandfather was also the commander of the Yinyi Guard, and the Yuan family lived in Longdu for ten years, but so what? When the Yuan family had an accident, no one took the initiative to help. Therefore, if something happens to the Zhang family, no one will help, but there will never be fewer people who fall into the ground. ”

Yunyan stared at the candle flame with his cheeks back, and thought in his heart: "I don't know what happened to him now." ”

At this time, tents were lined up around Datong Mansion, and the sergeants were treating each other, some soldiers were warming themselves around the bonfire, and some soldiers were wailing about the painfully lost Paozawa brothers.

"Woo-woo-woo-woo-"

The horn of the camp sounded, and the sergeants began to gather their things and prepare to hide in their tents for the long night.

Zhang Xiaowu rectified and gathered the army, according to the statistics of Wusong, the battle of Liangheling, the Han army including the White Tiger Army, the Vermilion Bird Army, the Qinglong Army and the defenders of various states were killed and missing, the preliminary statistics of 140,000 people, and the Rakshasa Inuyi army only sank more than 60,000 people, but the Inuyi army had many cavalry, so that they were injured and fled were not counted, and in this cold winter injury, even if they escaped, they did not live long.

The ratio of losses between the Han army and Inuyi was more than two to one, because many Han soldiers took advantage of the chaos to flee during the decisive battle, so it was impossible to count the specific number of killed, and even some soldiers returned to the camp one after another in the past few days.

Most of the dead of the Han army were wounded by the Inuyi cavalry, and in the later period, due to the forced conscription of Hunzhou to join the White Tiger Army, as well as the reinforcements of the township army in various states, although the number of Han troops increased, the source of soldiers was uneven, resulting in disobedience to orders during the battle, and serious losses.

Of course, among them, the White Tiger Army suffered heavy losses, and less than 20,000 of the 80,000 White Tiger Army survived in the end, nearly 60,000 were killed in battle, and only six of the eighteen tigers under Dushanbo survived.

"The shortness of the Han army lies in the small number of cavalry, we estimate that the enemy has fled at least 80,000 cavalry this time, and we have only gathered 140,000 people, the contrast between the enemy and us is still balanced, and the enemy has many cavalry, and the future battle situation has not yet been determined." Wu Song analyzed, "Now that the Inuyi army has fled to Daizhou City, we need the support of the White Tiger Army to attack Daizhou City. It's just that now that the White Tiger Army has been almost disabled, and Dushan Bo has also been killed, it is not yet known whether the White Tiger Army will be willing to support us. ”

"Why are you attacking Daiju City?" Zhang Xiaowu smiled evilly, "Let's attack the two wolf passes directly, tie the pockets tightly, and I'm going to eat all the dogs." ”