Chapter 162: The Little Man's Careful Thoughts

Qiu Yu was stunned by Fang Jie's idiot, and then raised his hand in annoyance to pat the chair. Fang Xie shook his head and said, "Don't break it, this is a public thing." In case because of your anger at this moment, sir, who will I go to cry to? ”

Qiu Yu looked at his outstretched hand in a daze, and asked silently for a while, "You just accept your fate?" ”

Fang Xie lay down on the stone bed, looked at the roof, and said in a flat tone: "Maybe you don't know me, I've never been an appointee...... But what else can I do now? Crying? Make a racket? Scolding? Smashing things? ”

"Huh"

Fang Xie smiled: "Sir, when I first woke up, I was really angry, the same anger I was when I just figured out the reason for this on Half Moon Mountain. Seeing a guy in a flying fish robe sitting in front of him, his first reaction was to strangle him. But in a moment I calmed down and gave up the idea of strangling him. ”

Qiu Yu asked, "Because your heart is dead?" ”

Fang Xie shook his head: "Because I'm sure I can't beat him, although it's a one-armed guy, I'm definitely not his opponent, and I can't say that I will be strangled to death by him." ”

He withdrew his gaze from the roof, looked at Qiu Yu and said, "When I hid in the big tree on the Half Moon Mountain, watching the young monk of the Buddhist Sect kill Liu Shuang and them, do you guess what I wanted to do the most at that time?" ”

"It's an escape."

Fang Xie didn't wait for Qiu Yu to answer: "At that time, I had actually guessed seven or eight points. I wanted to run away because I knew I couldn't resist. In the past, the enemies I faced were just people who didn't like me, and they had a deep background, but I didn't take them seriously. But this time it was different, it was not a person standing in front of me, but the Great Sui Imperial Court...... What do I fight for? What to take is not willing? ”

So I tried to run away, but I threw it off before the thought came to me. Because I know I can't escape...... My friend was still in the Sanjin Houfu, and it was at that moment that I understood why Sanjin Hou Wu was so impressed by me as a little person, and why he would be so kind to let my friend live in it. It turned out that he had known that there would be such a day, and my friend lived in Sanjin Houfu...... That's a prison. ”

"The most ridiculous thing is that I ran to beg him myself......"

Fang Xie smiled and said: "I only know how naïve I am now, I have always thought that I am a smart person, just like Mr. You have been saying, lying on this cold and hard stone bed, I thought for a long time, and found that every day after entering Chang'an City, every step of the way out, was to walk on the route set by others, and live in the life arranged by others." ”

"It's stupid to think that everything is developing according to your own wishes and plans, but in fact, it's like a marionette, I move how others shake the line, and I am proud of the various wonderful actions I have shown, and I am amusing myself."

Fang Xie has always been very calm, and the calmness made Qiu Yu's heart more and more sour.

"Sir, you just asked me if I had already accepted my fate...... I thought about this question for the longest time, and then decided that I couldn't do anything but wait for the fate to come as honestly as I do now. I don't have a high level of cultivation, so I can't break this stone room. I won't be separated, and I can't save all my friends in Chang'an City. You know, there's a woman who is very important to me right now in Ouchi's bodyguard, and she's one of my exposed internal organs. Anytime, anywhere, you can be pierced. ”

"I used to think that Mr. Zhuo was so eager to let Sister Xiaoyi enter the Ouchi guard, it was really for her good, and he really took a fancy to her potential. It turned out that since then, the imperial court has been arranging how to restrain me. For such an insignificant little person as me, it is really difficult for them to work so many big people. ”

Fang Xie smiled and said: "Wait, there is meat for three meals a day here, if I want to drink wine, talk to those guards outside, and it won't be long before the wine brewed in Shenquan Mountain Villa will be delivered." I tried, and in the morning I said I wanted to eat the hot noodle soup and xiao long bao in front of my shop, and they actually ran four streets to buy them for me...... It's a good day, it's a shabby and dark place, but it's ...... At least I don't have to worry about anything, I don't have to think about whether I will be poisoned when I eat, and I don't have to worry about someone secretly killing me again, because by now, if they want to kill me, they will definitely inform me very seriously, you should die. ”

"Thank you"

Fang Xie said gently: "Thank you for coming to see me, that's enough." Everything is good here, except that when I want to talk to the guards, they always look at me like an idiot. Maybe they'll call me stupid in their hearts, and they want to talk to someone when they're dying. ”

"But I really want to keep talking, and only by talking does I feel at peace."

Fang explained: "I need peace now. ”

Qiu Yu's nose was very sour, and she turned to leave without saying another word. Fang Xie watched her back disappear behind the iron gate, withdrew his gaze, and continued to look at the roof.

The roof was dark, and there was no starlight and moonlight.

He didn't close his eyes, he kept staring at the darkness. After staring at it like this for a long time, Fang Xie suddenly smiled. No one saw that his smile was completely different from the smile he had when he faced Qiu Yu before, cold, even a little cruel.

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Changchun Garden

Dome

The secretary of the Ministry of War, Mou Liangbi, bowed down and put the battle plan formulated by the Ministry of War on the table in front of the emperor, then took a step back and bowed his head: "The documents sent by the Ministry of War to the various provinces have been sent out, and the time sent according to the distance of the distance has been calculated, so as to ensure that the time difference between the officials of each province and the documents will not exceed two days." The set date was also calculated according to the distance, so the provincial officials had no time to do anything other than to start preparing immediately. ”

The emperor didn't seem to be in a hurry to see the battle plan, nodded and said, "Once this matter is announced, the opposition in the court will be as strong as the waves of a great river. It's too late for me to deal with these people, where is the time to reason with those guys in the local area? They wrote the song and sent it to Chang'an, and I had to explain patiently that the delay would be several months, and I simply did not give them this time, but only asked them to send all the grain and grass supplies and soldiers to the northwest according to the specified date, and if it was too late, I would beat them up. ”

He took a sip of his teacup, took the battle plan and said while flipping through it: "This thing is just a plan, but where can any war be carried out according to the plan?" Once the war starts, the situation of the war changes rapidly, and if the court officials blindly follow the plan to point fingers, in the end it is the Great Sui Erlang who suffers in the end. ”

"I understand."

Mou Liangbi said respectfully: "Once the war starts, the military department will never dictate the battle situation ahead. The generals will fight as they want, and the ministers will not participate. Chang'an City is thousands of miles away from the northwest border, and when the news arrives in Chang'an, it will already be outdated, and if you follow this news to command anything, it will definitely not be a good thing. ”

"You understand, that's good."

The emperor said, "However, I don't plan to let you be idle in Chang'an City. ”

He glanced at Mou Liangbi and said, "The affairs of the military department will be handed over to Zong Lianghu to keep an eye on, and you will set off for Shandong Road in two days." Counting the days, the men, horses, grain and grass arranged by me in advance have already arrived in Shandong Province. Although I have sent Yang Kai, the king of Xujun, to take charge, he is familiar with military affairs and is not good at trivial matters in logistics. Yang Shanchen, the governor of Shandong Province, is a cadre, but he is a literati, so he fights...... Naturally, the literati cannot be expected to do anything. Hexi Road, which is next to Shandong Road, is an important rear, and Yuan Chongwu is arrogant, if there is no person with weight to reconcile, he and Yang Shanchen may not be harmonious. ”

After the emperor said this, he smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "If Huai Qiugong hears me say this, I'm afraid he will blow his beard and stare at his eyes again." ”

Mou Liangbi said: "The minister obeys the order and will set off in two days." ”

"Hmm"

The emperor hummed and said, "Yesterday...... Pei Yan, the squire of the Yellow Gate, suggested that I recruit the soldiers of the fiefdoms of the palaces, what do you think? ”

"Huh?"

Mou Liangbi was stunned for a moment, and his heart was shocked.

He had long heard that Pei Yan, the waiter of the Yellow Gate, was ruthless and scheming. It's just that he has never worked with this person, and he doesn't know what Pei Yan is doing. But just hearing this suggestion, he immediately had a general impression of Pei Yan. This person really has some ability to do the position of Huangmen Squire. This proposal is too ruthless.

The emperor wants to march west, and the country will inevitably be more or less unstable in the midst of war, and now the only ones who can threaten the imperial court are those princes who are divided into various places. They had their own fiefdoms, and the taxes of the people were given to them instead of the imperial court. They had their own army in their hands, small in number but well-equipped and trained. In case of...... In case the battle situation is unfavorable to the Great Sui, these princes together are a force to be reckoned with.

At this time, Pei Yan, the squire of the Yellow Gate, proposed to let the private soldiers of those princes participate in the war, in fact, in order to get rid of future troubles. And Mou Liangbi firmly believes that once those soldiers go to the battlefield, they will definitely be the first to die, so that the princes will not have the only strength in their hands.

"Master Pei's suggestion is really the words of the old Cheng to seek the country, but ...... The minister did not dare to agree. ”

"Tell me what you think."

The Emperor asked.

"The minister thinks that the war is imminent, and what His Majesty wants is to be stable, united, and stable, and if the war has not started, the palace soldiers will be recruited first...... In fact, it is destroying this stability. The minister dared to say something offensive to Tianwei...... At this time, those who believe in His Majesty should believe more. Whoever Your Majesty does not believe, believe it, even if it is ...... Just to appease. ”

Hearing this, the emperor couldn't help but smile and said, "I have already rejected Pei Yan's proposal. ”

He raised his head and looked at Mu Liangbi and said seriously: "Now I can rest assured that I will leave the war to you to control, you are older than Pei Yan, and you know when to do things better than him." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your trust!"

Mou Liangbi leaned over deeply, but sighed involuntarily in his heart. Fortunately...... Fortunately, I didn't follow the emperor's words, this supreme has a heart as deep as the sea.

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Next to the lotus pond in Changchun Garden, the proprietress in a blue floral cloth skirt looked at the blooming lotus flowers in a daze. After returning from Half Moon Mountain, she found an inn to recuperate, and she didn't plan to have any contact with anyone in the imperial court. It was a coincidence that he joined forces with the crane Taoist to deal with the old monk. The ones she hates the most are those bald monks in the northwest of the Great Sui, it doesn't matter what the reasons are good and evil, just because she hates, she hates.

But she also knew that since she had entered Chang'an City, she couldn't escape.

So when the eunuch who delivered the decree found her and asked her to go to Changchun Garden to face the saint, she was not surprised in the slightest. He didn't resist, but came calmly.

Mu San, the little eunuch standing on her side, leaned forward slightly, looking very respectful of this village girl. But he didn't speak, and he didn't dare to disturb the contemplation of this beautiful and rustic-looking woman. In fact, how did he know that this woman didn't think about anything, she was purely in a daze.

When Mu San saw the military department Shangshu Mou Liangbi coming out of the vault, he hurriedly said to the village girl: "You can go over now, Your Majesty is still waiting for you." ”

The proprietress sneered, turned and walked towards the vault. Mu San led the way in front, respectfully: "I heard that you are from Fangu?" ”

"Yes"

"Lord Xiaofang is also from Fan Gu, and he has a good relationship with slaves and maids."

He said with a smile.

"Hmm"

The proprietress glanced at the little eunuch, was silent for a while, and said, "What do you want to say?" ”

"The slave and maid heard...... Lord Xiaofang, it's not been good lately......"

Mu San tentatively said, pretending to be calm. But he had already beaten the drum in his heart, he knew that Fang Xie had suffered, and he also knew that it was very likely that he would never turn over again. But he was not reconciled, and he was unwilling to let his first close minister collapse like this. So he plans to fight if he can send charcoal in the snow...... In the future, Lord Xiaofang will really make a fortune, and he will follow Tengda. And if it really can't save him...... Who would know what major court affairs such a small person like him would be involved?