Before Yang Du and Shangcheng left the Inner Imperial City, they were summoned back to the Prime Minister's Mansion to participate in the military meeting. Guo Biao's breakthrough of the Poor Mountain's Turbulent Ancestral Court brought about a new change in the confrontation between the Liangwei Town of Yanshan in the Bohai Sea and the left wing of the Turquoise. The imperial court had to make a quick and accurate judgment on the possible development trend of this new situation, and then make new adjustments to the military deployment of the two guards.

Yang Du, who was walking behind, turned around and walked towards the prime minister's office.

Shang Cheng didn't turn back in a hurry. He first found a yamen with an open door, went in, and asked for some hot water to wash his face. The official on duty in the yamen was first startled by his appearance, and he couldn't speak: this grimace guy had blood on his face, and he was full of alcohol, and his regular battle robe was also covered with messy things such as dishes, miso and soup, and he could hardly make out the original color, how did he enter the imperial city? But none of them dared to say anything. People who dare to break into the imperial city like this can know at a glance that they have a great background!

Shang Cheng washed his face and put on a new eye mask, and then rushed to the prime minister's office. As for the pickled robes, there is no way, so I can only shake the dirty things and put them on first.

Along the way, the people he met were either sideways or pointed at him. It seems that it was just such a moment that the news of his fight with Yang Du in front of Emperor Dongyuan in Zichen Hall had spread.

When he walked into the main hall of the Prime Minister's Office, Zhenxiang's speech was nearing the end:

“…… To sum up, I think that the priority of the Turquoise left in the next two or three years is not revenge, but against the wavering tribes. Until their internal stability is not completely stabilized, the king of Donglu Valley will not provoke a new war. ”

After Zhenqian finished speaking, the main hall fell into a long silence, and people were seriously thinking about his speech; At least to make a serious appearance. This is a kind of respect for the true spine. This soldier Zuo Shilang was the only one who stood up some time ago to openly oppose Zhu Xu's appointment as the governor of Yanshan, and suffered many people's accusations for this, and the imperial court sent him to Fangzhou to see Shang Cheng, which was actually a disguised punishment. Today he finally raised his eyebrows! The news of Guo Biao's return proved that he was farsighted and correct at that time, and he did not use his own correctness to blame others for their mistakes, so what he said now carries extra weight.

Shang Cheng found an empty chair in the corner of the room and sat down. In fact, when he entered the door, he saw an empty seat next to Gu Shi, which was obviously his seat. But Gu Shi "pulled his hand" on the Zichen Palace, making him suffer a big loss under Yang Du's hands, how could he sit with Gu Shi again? So he turned a blind eye to the seat that belonged to him, and he didn't pay attention to Gu Shi's greeting.

The clerk who ran in and out of the hall to serve tea and pour water was very eye-catching, and immediately went out to find a big fur prepared for the prime ministers, asked him to change it for the time being, and handed him a copy of Bohaiwei's good news. In this way, those who had not noticed him coming in also saw him. Many people's faces were still very serious, but when they saw his down-and-down appearance, they couldn't help but show a smile in their eyes. These are all capable people who have come from countless winds and waves, so it can be seen at a glance that Yang Du and Shang Cheng's fight to death just now is actually just a "play" co-acted.

The moderator of the meeting was, of course, Zhang Pu, the right minister. He sat at the head of the main hall, and when Shang Cheng entered the door, he saw this young Shangzhu country. But he didn't beckon Shang Cheng to sit down in the empty seat that he had prepared a long time ago, but just greeted him with his eyes. On the one hand, this was because Zhen Qian was speaking at the time, and he couldn't interrupt with words; On the other hand, he was also using this way to tell all the people attending the meeting in the main hall that in his eyes, Shang Cheng did not receive any special attention and attention, which was actually a refutation of the rumors that "he was very jealous of Shang Cheng" that circulated in a small area! In some ways, though, the rumors aren't bad.

Yes, he admits that Shang Yanshan is a difficult guy to deal with. This is undeniable and cannot be denied. This person can govern Yanshanwei smoothly and properly on the one hand, and on the other hand, he can also fight back and forth with the Tuqi people and achieve brilliant results, this is the ability; He has been transferred out of Yanshan, but few of the civil and military officials in Yanshan are willing to stand up and speak ill of him, this is prestige; Ye Xun went to Yanshan to find out his mistakes and omissions, but he made himself disgraced, this is the wrist; After being transferred back to Beijing, he immediately put on a face, went to the prime minister's office to shout grievances, went to the military department to make a merit for his subordinates, and then stayed at home to "recuperate". This guy would rather let the favored prince not make friends, let alone provoke him everywhere, but he fought with Yang Du in front of the Son of Heaven in the Zhengdan Dynasty, this is his vision and insight...... A person with ability, prestige, skill, vision and insight, who dares not to be afraid of three points? Sometimes, he even felt that Shang Cheng was more difficult to deal with than Dong Quan. Of course, Shang Cheng's identity as a Shangzhu State is also very tricky to hold, and no civilian official dares to stretch out his hand to the barracks easily! However, he also felt very lucky, fortunately, this kid did not study and be admitted to the Jinshi, let alone join Dong Quan and them, otherwise Dong Quan and them would have been more difficult to clean up. Therefore, when he heard about Zuo Xiangxiang Tang Xing's evaluation of Shang Cheng at the beginning, even if he didn't agree with many things that Lao Xiangguo did, he still felt that the evaluation was on his heart.

"If this son had been born thirty years earlier, how could you and I be today?"

See! Even the old Xiangguo admires a character so much, what is it for him to be a little jealous of this person?

In fact, others don't know that what Shang Cheng taught him to be afraid of was not his vision or skill, but this guy's military ability. Last month, the Ministry of War compared the characteristics of several generals with past examples, and finally came to the conclusion that one is Xiao, two Yang, three strict, and four businessmen. But the secretary of the military department also said in the public office that the seniority in this sequence will take advantage of it. If you put aside the qualifications and the merits accumulated over the years, it should actually be one Xiao, two Yang, and three businessmen. Some people in the military department even suggested that Yang Du could not be ranked second, at least Yang Shang was tied, on the grounds that Yang Liehuo was not as stable as Shang Yanshan. This statement sounded ridiculous, so it was scoffed at the time. But the world is unpredictable, who knew that Guo Biao would be able to come back from the grassland? It is true that Guo Biao is Xiao Jian's confidant, but after all, he won the battle in the grassland under the title of Yanshan's fake governor, and the cavalry he brought with him was also Yanshan's soldiers, and his achievements must be counted on Shang Cheng's head. Yanshanwei successively won the great victory of Heishui City, the great victory of Yandong, and the great victory of Poor Mountain, Shang Yanshan has such three great contributions as the backing, and it is a foregone conclusion that Xiao Jian and Yang Shang are tied. In the future, if there is any military problem, no one will dare to take his views lightly. Although no one would have taken it lightly before......

To be honest, Zhang Pu didn't want Shang Cheng to express any opinions or opinions on such occasions. What will Shang Cheng say? It must be north, north, north, and north; Even if he can't get it through in the end, at least let him Zhang Bochun put some effort into it. Shang Cheng may even move out the matter of Zhu Xu's going to Yanshan again, and make a challenge to the prime minister's office, and all the people in the room will lose face. Yes, this guy will definitely do this, and he will offend a large group of prime ministers, deputy ministers and generals in the army at once, just take the opportunity to confirm his name!

But he also knew that the idea of not letting Shang Cheng speak at a military conference like this to discuss the situation on the northern border would simply not be realized. Even if Shang Cheng's identity as a pillar is discarded, and the fact that Shang Cheng presided over the formulation of the strategy of sending troops to the grassland twice, this guy is the only one among the generals present who has served as the commander of Yanshan or Bohai, and is the person who has the most say in the development of the situation between Da Zhao and the left wing of the Tu Kuoci.

He saw that there was no one in the main hall who wanted to speak, so he named Shang Cheng and said, "Uncle Ying, what are your opinions on the current situation of the two Wei towns in Bohai and Yanshan?" ”

Shang Cheng was still reading Bohaiwei's report. I don't know if this document is from Guo Biao's own handwriting, in short, it is very popular, because his merits are very high in the document. The document first said that Guo Biao repeatedly asked himself for advice in Fangzhou and repeatedly made decisions until all the foreseeable situations were thoroughly understood without any mistakes, and then he met Sun Zhongshan and Ximen Sheng in Yanzhou and Beizheng successively; When they met, they not only told the things they explained truthfully and meticulously, but also repeatedly emphasized their own instructions and teachings, so that the two of them could not make the slightest mistake in following them......

“…… On the 24th of August, after the 3,000 cavalry led by his subordinates, he fought a fierce battle with the enemy for half a day. On August 29, they arrived near the Bohai Sea, thousands of friendly troops poured out of the camp to respond, but the great change was steep, and the main force of the four left divisions of Cishan was suddenly exhausted, and the captain Zheng Qi was the first to shout a fierce battle, and the various units fought hard, and several times they were close to the reinforcements, and the enemy troops fought to the death in a formation, so that our troops and reinforcements were exhausted and could not gather under their command. When the battle reached Shen, tens of thousands of thieves suddenly appeared in the east and west, and the situation was extremely critical. After two months, he traveled through the grassland and trekked through the desert, with thieves blocking the road in front and chasing soldiers in the back, often meeting the enemy several times a day. At that time, it was already winter, the desert grass was yellow, people and horses had no food, and the soldiers took the grass roots and winter insects as food, and drilled the ground for more than ten zhang to ask for water. The soldiers knew that they would die, and they all said that the great husband was born in the world and stood between heaven and earth, and he should go to great lengths for the country. From time to time, the deputy lieutenant of the Yanshan Admiral's Mansion is a warrior of the grassland of Ben Zhao, whose name is Suza, the ancestors herded horses in the barren beach and grassland of Mobei, proficient in geography, so he was the guide, with the elite cavalry battalion of Tian Xiaowu Zhao Shishi as the guide, the whole army went north, crossed the Fenghe, crossed the jade base, went to the poor mountain, and stepped on the thief city all the way to more than a dozen beheadings of thousands of levels, and finally broke through the exhaustion of the ancestral court on the ninth day of November......"

He has read a lot of military newspapers, and knows that as long as there are defeats in the military newspapers, they are always concise and to the point, and he can't use the Zen method to teach people to have an epiphany on their own; And as long as it is a victory, even if it is a small encounter, as long as it is a victory, it must be a strong color, from thinking to planning to execution, I can't wait to write hundreds of thousands of words on every detail. Looking at the level of Guo Biao's article, it is medium in the barracks, but it is not bad to be able to say that Bohaiwei is not moving as thousands of people pouring out to rescue, and the ability to reverse black and white is not bad; Obviously, it is thirty-six plans to go up, and it can be said that it is a thousand miles of hard work, and the ability to boast of merit is not low. What reassured him even more was that judging from the battle report, not only Guo Biao himself was fine, but Shi, Zheng Qi, Tian Xiaowu and Su Zha also came back alive......

He was looking at the battle report, and suddenly heard Zhang Pu mention his name, so he raised his head and said calmly: "I have nothing to say." ”

Zhang Pu thought that he should at least think about it before speaking, and was holding up the lamp to drink water, when he heard him say this, the tea soup was brought to his mouth and stopped. In a hurry, he couldn't figure out what Shang Cheng meant by this. Is this sarcasm or sincerity, or is it simply resentful? Since you don't want to say it, what else does the imperial court want you to do in the Shangzhu Kingdom?

Zhang Pu put down the lamp, stared at Shang Cheng and said, "Uncle Ying, you have been fighting against the Tuqi people for five years before and after Yanshan, and you are very familiar with the situation in the northern land and the Tu thieves...... His heart suddenly jumped. Oops, this can't be what Shang Yanshan made to himself to retreat, right? He didn't want to say that he just forced him to say, so what should he do with him when he said he wanted to go north? This is what I had to force him to say...... He silently thought about how to resolve it, but his words did not stop at all, and continued, "...... At present, your views and opinions are very important for the imperial court to judge the situation and formulate a strategy for dealing with the left wing of the Turks this year and next. Ying Bo just said it bluntly. "Sure enough, I still fell for this guy! He must have been waiting for this sentence one by one, "Your views and opinions are important"!

Including Xiao Jian and Yang Du, several people in the main hall lowered their eyes. It seems that the rumors are true, Zhang Pu is indeed extremely jealous of Shang Yanshan, otherwise it would not be possible to be attracted by Shang Yanshan's light words.

Shang Cheng's expression did not change, he closed the battle report in his hand and said, "I agree with Lord Zhen's opinion. ”

As soon as these words came out, most of the people present were surprised, and Zhang Pu was even more surprised that his eyebrows were raised. Since he taught Shang Cheng to speak out, he would not be surprised by what Shang Cheng said; Even if Shang Cheng asserted that the people of Kaichun would gather a million iron horsemen to go south, he could not be surprised. But Shang Cheng just went to echo the words of Zhenxiang, this, this...... How is this possible?

He stared at Shang Cheng suspiciously, trying to get some clues from Shang Cheng's expression.

Shang Cheng didn't look at him, and spread out the battle report and slowly flipped through it.

He also has no way. Of course, he knew that Zhenqian's words were the views of the Ministry of War, and the views of the Ministry of War were actually the decision of the Prime Minister's public office to march south one by one. But now it is the first month, and the plan he planned earlier to build a city on the grassland to force the king of Donglu Valley to carry out a strategic decisive battle has missed the last opportunity to execute, even if he can return to Yanshan, he has nothing to do, at most he will send some people into the grassland to harass him. In addition, the left wing of the Turks suffered major blows one after another, and although the loss of strength was not large, the foundation of the ruling was shaken, so for the whole year or even longer, the king of Donglu Valley would be busy resolving internal contradictions, and there was basically no possibility of provoking a war. However, the left wing of the Turquoise needs time to recuperate and recuperate, and the right wing of the Turpentine is very likely to become active, and the pressure on the two Wei towns of Longxi and Dingjin will definitely increase greatly in the coming period. On the one hand, the imperial court had to carry out the southern expedition, and on the other hand, it had to support the town of Dinglong and Liangwei to deal with the right wing of the Tuduci, whether it was financial, material or manpower, it was impossible to lean towards Yanshanwei as before; And without the full support of the imperial court, only relying on the twenty-seven counties of Yanshanwei's three states, what can be done to fight the Tuqi people? He is not a god, and he cannot transform into food or ordnance......

He conditionally supported the southern expedition, but at the same time he put forward a new view that he had just formed: the forces placed in the north of the Great Zhao were definitely not their main force, or rather, not all of their main forces; Whether it is the left wing of the king of Donglu Valley or the right wing faced by Longxi Dingjin, its purpose is likely to be just to contain and confuse Da Zhao!

This idea was so novel that it was unacceptable to the vast majority of people, who demanded that Shang Cheng come up with strong evidence to prove his point.

Shang Cheng spread out his hands, shook his head and said, "I don't have any evidence. But there is a way to prove it. There must have been war reports from the four northern guards in the imperial court over the years, and you can check them carefully to see if the left and right wings of the Turquoise have alternately entered the active period of southward entry in the past few decades. In addition, it is to look at the performance of the left and right wings of the Tun Tun this year and next year. If the left wing does not move and the right wing suddenly increases the intensity of harassment from the south, it may prove my judgment to some extent. ”

This is the imperial city, and the battle reports of the past years are easy to find, so after half an hour, Zhang Pu got the official document from the Ministry of War. The timing and scale of the battles listed above all prove that Shang Cheng is right, and the left and right flanks of the Turks have indeed been attacking in turn in the past few decades......

Now, a new question is in front of everyone: what is their purpose in containing Da Zhao from the left and right wings of the Turquoise; What are they trying to confuse Da Zhao?