Chapter 021: The Emperor's Soldiers, the Du Family's Generals
Xie Fenghua leaned back and leaned against the wall.
She had already learned about Yuan Minzhou's excellence, and she was able to pass the test from this person before, maybe she still met him when he was in a good mood. But once he wants to get to the bottom of it, he can't easily fool it with those specious words alone.
In fact, needless to say, her existence is the best evidence.
But she couldn't.
The strange power is already terrifying. She believed that once she revealed her identity, she would have been dragged to behead as a monster before the case was over.
Thinking of this, she suddenly became a little irritable, pulled a piece of grass in her hand, held it in her mouth, and racked her brains to think of a way to deal with it.
As everyone knows, her unconscious appearance made Yuan Minzhou's eyes darken, and she took advantage of the silence between the two of them to look at them carefully.
Her appearance is not too outstanding, but she seems to have a unique aura on her body, which makes people unable to take their eyes off. The firmness of her eyes and the heroism of her eyebrows are enough to make people ignore her appearance, and they are attracted and impressed by that resolute momentum for the first time.
At this moment, she was leaning lazily against the wall with a stick of grass in her mouth, one leg stretched out, the other bent, her arm resting on her knee, but her gaze did not know where to fall. That lazy aura emanates from the inside out, and if you ignore her identity as a woman, you can even find a trace of ruffian in it.
But when she stared at someone somewhere, those eyes instantly became cunning and smart, like a cunning general with the chance to win, born with majesty, but not confined to redundant conventions, and calculated people in the ups and downs of her sleeves.
It's not the first time Yuan Minzhou has seen her, but every time he sees her, he has a deeper understanding of her.
And thousands of thoughts were only for a moment, Xie Fenghua thought about the grass for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "Master Hou, your question, please forgive me for not being able to answer it now." But please believe that no one in this world cares more about my sister's affairs than I do. When she was still alive, I prayed day and night for her to be safe and triumphant, and when she died, I could also fight for her fame. ”
Yuan Minzhou was not surprised by this result, as if she knew that this was her biggest concession, and did not continue to cling to this topic. After thinking about it, he asked, "I heard, you are checking the 50,000 soldiers and horses?" ”
Xie Fenghua sat up straight suddenly, and couldn't help but exclaim, "How could you ......?"
"Don't worry, your second uncle is quite secretive. It's just that he wasn't very lucky, and he happened to be noticed by my people. Yuan Minzhou hurriedly reassured her, "Actually, if you want to investigate this matter, why don't you come and ask me." At the beginning, the expedition of these 50,000 soldiers and horses was supervised by me. ”
Xie Fenghua blinked, and then said: "Then can the Hou Ye tell me the beginning, end, cause and effect of the emperor's dispatch of troops." For example, why is the general of the 50,000 soldiers and horses Du Huaisheng, the eldest son of the Du family? After leaving Tianjing, what happened to the 50,000 soldiers and horses along the way? How did Du Huaisheng report the military situation? ”
Yuan Minzhou glanced at her, and said meaninglessly: "You know a lot, and you want to know a lot!" ”
Xie Fenghua laughed a few times, and when he saw that he didn't mean to delve into it, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and hurriedly pricked up his ears to listen to him talk about that old incident.
It turned out that after the imperial court received her 800-mile expedited military report, the emperor immediately determined the number of soldiers and horses to be reinforced and the generals with the troops. At the beginning, the general was not Du Huaisheng, but Dou Shiqian, who was born in a family of generals.
Originally, everything was ready, but the night before the expedition, a bizarre thing happened in Tianjing City.
It is reported that the little son of the Prime Minister's Mansion had a dispute with the second son of the Du family, and pushed the other party downstairs, dying on the spot. When Empress Dowager Du heard this, she was furious and immediately issued a decree to the Prime Minister's Mansion, asking Prime Minister Sun Mingyuan to hand over his youngest son and fight for his life. Sun Mingyuan was old enough to have a son, so he naturally refused to hand over his youngest son, so he begged the emperor.
Sun Mingyuan is not only the minister of the imperial court, but also the emperor's right-hand man, if he is not desperate, he will not be cheeky to seek a way out for his youngest son. The emperor naturally didn't want to see his cronies wronged by this, so he went to negotiate with the Empress Dowager Du.
The negotiation process was not very pleasant. At first, Empress Dowager Du was reluctant to just forget it, and after a few rounds of arguments, she slowly relented and put forward a request - that is, to replace the general with the reinforcement with Du Huaisheng, the eldest son of the Du family.
"At that time, the emperor and I both felt that it was not too much of a problem to let the Du family command the 50,000 soldiers and horses for the time being. As long as the reinforcements arrive on the battlefield ahead, with your sister's iron-fisted means, you will definitely be able to hold the initiative in your hands. It's just that no one expected that in the end, the whole army would be wiped ......out," Yuan Minzhou had a look of pain on his face, and sighed, "If I had known that this was the result, it would have been better for me to lead the troops from the beginning." ”
Xie Fenghua didn't know that there was such a tortuous process, and after listening to it at this moment, his heart was also heavy, and he didn't make a sound for a while. On the contrary, Yuan Minzhou thought that her brain was not messy enough, and continued: "Speaking of which, last time you asked me to check the man named Wan Peng, I found out. However, you will never know who his master is. ”
"Who is it?" Xie Fenghua said urgently.
Yuan Minzhou slowly spit out two words, "Du family!" ”
It's the Du family again!