As soon as Father-in-law Yu said this, his words were amazing, and everyone present was stunned. However, if you take a closer look, you will find that not everyone was surprised, the two fathers-in-law Long and Yu, as well as Zhang Mingyue and the other two middle halls, were very calm, at least not much changed compared to just now.

People like Lan Ziyi, who guessed the answer to the mystery in advance, were still overwhelmed by this news, and others could imagine what they would look like after hearing this news.

Father-in-law Yu looked at Qi Zhun who was sweating on his forehead with a smile and said:

"Master, what's the matter? Why just keep your mouth wide open and don't speak? ”

When Qi Zhun heard this, he realized that his chin was hanging on the roof of his mouth at some point, why didn't he come up. Qi Zhun, who closed his mouth, swallowed and foamed at the mouth, wanting to calm down and clear his mind, but just this did not calm him down.

Qi Rongxun looked at his father and asked in a low voice:

"Father, how are you?"

Now that everyone at the table is quiet, everyone heard Qi Rongxun's words, and he was actually cowardly when he said this. But Qi Rongxun himself has been frightened by Father-in-law's words, and it makes sense for him to ask this now with his honest appearance. Lan Ziyi, who was sitting on the side, was thinking quickly in his head, and he was thinking that it was his father Lan Qianzhen who was being asked now, so how should he Lan Ziyi open his mouth to share his worries.

Qi Zhun picked up the wine on the table, raised his head and drank it all, and then his fading face finally flushed a little, he slowly exhaled a breath and stabilized his position, and then he patted his son's hand and comforted:

"I'm fine. But you, if you have been like this, when I am gone, will you be able to hold the sky on your head for yourself? “

Qi Rongxun didn't understand why his father suddenly said such reproachful words in public, he lowered his head with a red face, and his shame was full of doubts and incomprehension.

Then Qi Zhun looked at Father-in-law Yu and said:

"Father-in-law, there have been pirates on the southeast coast recently, and my main force is only so little, how can I go back to defend against the pirates now that my father-in-law has laid down his troops?"

Qi Zhun asked about Father-in-law Yu, but he didn't expect Father-in-law Long to interject and reply:

"Taishi just kept saying that his soldiers were soldiers of the imperial court, why did he change his words to 'you' main force now?"

Qi Zhun heard what he said:

"The two fathers-in-law want me to go to the town to suppress the thieves, and on the other hand, they want to collect all the remaining soldiers of the Eastern Army, while asking me to lay eggs, and at the same time not giving me food, and at the same time cutting meat from me, how can I go back to fight like this?"

Yu Gonggong smiled:

"Taishi was brave and unparalleled when he pacified the pirates on the southeast coast, why did he have less courage when he got older? Since the Taishi thinks that it is easy to have no one to protect you on the way back, I will send the Imperial Forest Army to send you to the town after the emperor sends the imperial army iron horse. “

Qi Zhun couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this, he said for a long time that he was talking about the lack of personnel in the Eastern Army, but Father-in-law Yu insisted that he lacked guards, this is not confused. But if Father-in-law Yu was really so confused, he would have returned to his hometown a long time ago, and everyone knew that he was pretending to be confused.

Qi Zhun knew this in his heart, but he couldn't lift the table and turn his face to tell this matter, you must know that Gonggong Yu and Gonggong Long represent the emperor, if Qi Zhun dares to turn his face, then who is he turning his face with?

So Qi Zhun had to repeat what he just said:

"Two fathers-in-law, I'm not short of guards, I'm a man, and I'm going to exterminate the pirates after I return to the town."

Hearing this, the fish father-in-law said:

"According to the documents reported at the end of last year, there were 178,000 soldiers in the Eastern Army last year, and although the losses of the Eastern Army in this crackdown on bandits were large, there were only 130,000 soldiers left in the capital, and there were still 40,000 soldiers to call in after the Taishi returned to the town. Could it be that Taishi has been eating empty salaries before, and the strength is poor? “

Father-in-law Long took over the conversation and interjected:

"The pirates from the eastern island are indeed my great calamity, but that was five years ago, in the past few years, the Taishi has been fighting along the coast for many years, and the pirates have not moved much, and the pirates have only been a small group of enemy bandits in the past year or two, no more than a few hundred, only a dozen or so people, and the thieves who exterminated more than a dozen people, this time is no exception. Is it possible for the Taishi to use more than 100,000 troops? “

Qi Zhun heard what he said:

The two fathers-in-law said this wrong, the last general is by no means a shameless person who is greedy for the empty salary of soldiers, and the registration register of the Eastern Army last year is not the slightest false, and there are indeed 170,000 people on the register. But my father-in-law must know that I am in Dazheng from south to north, and the sea is thousands of miles, and there are landing grounds for pirates everywhere. The pirates invaded the territory by boat, swished to come, drifted away, the sea breeze blew, the ship traveled thousands of miles, towards the shore of Qi, and reached Min Bay at dusk.

The demon thief moved quickly and turned like the wind, but my soldiers who defended against thieves could only run to the battlefield on two legs. The reason why the demon thieves were in trouble before was because the enemy was fast and I was slow, and when our army rushed to the battlefield, the pirates had already fled, and our army was exhausted. So at the beginning of my trip to the town, I chose an important coastal town to gather heavy troops, and the coastal line was widely spread outposts, and at the same time organized fishermen to protect the armor of the village and set up beacon smoke. If there is a thief in one place, the beacon smoke will be lit, and the eastern army can arrive within half a day. In this way, I will exterminate the pirates who have been suffering for hundreds of years. Now my father-in-law has taken my main force, leaving me with more than 40,000 people to command, and I have no money to recruit troops and replenish troops. “

The two fathers-in-law of Long and Yu said that Qi Zhun ate empty salaries and killed the hair thief, and there were thorns in his words. Fortunately, Qi Zhuncheng's government is not shallow, and he was not provoked at all, and his answer was reasonable, neither humble nor arrogant.

It's just that no matter how forceful the argument is, it doesn't make any difference to the outcome that has already been decided, and the impassioned argument is so pale, so weak, so worthless in front of an uncaring audience.

Qi Zhun's words were very long, and Father-in-law Yu didn't have so much patience to listen carefully. While Qi Zhun was talking, Father-in-law Yu kept holding chopsticks to play with the dish in front of him, and picked out several pieces of meat one after another and stuffed them into his mouth. After Qi Zhun finished speaking, Father-in-law Yu said in a tired tone:

"The emperor remembers the merits of the Taishi, not only the emperor, but all of us remember. If it weren't for the Taishi, the pirates wouldn't know where to make trouble. Before the Taishi, there were so many town generals in the Eastern Army that none of them could restrain the pirates, only the Taishi, only the Taishi did not add a single soldier after going to the town, just practicing on the original strength to defeat the demon thieves and retreat. We all remember the great achievements of the Taishi, just like this time when the Taishi entered the capital. “

Then Grandpa Long took over and said:

"But the pirates have been destroyed, and the remaining calamity does not need more than 100,000 people to prevent, and the 40,000 people of the Taishi can fully support the southeast sea frontier.

And the capital is the root, the coast is only the end, the Beijing camp lost most of the loss this time, if the soldiers are not replenished in time, who will defend the emperor's court? The loss gap is so big, according to the previous process of selecting the Beijing camp, if you want to replenish the soldiers, do you have to wait until the Year of the Monkey?

Taishi, it is a great honor to defend the emperor, and if the Taishi pushes back and forth, it will make the emperor and the court feel cold. “

When Gonggong Long and Gonggong Yu said this, they were already making it clear to Qi Zhun that the plan to seize the army had been decided, and it was useless for Qi Zhun to say more. But Qi Zhun sat in the Eastern Army, how could he bear to give away his hard-earned family wealth like this?

Qi Zhun raised his head, looked at Zhang Mingyue with an almost pleading gaze and said:

"Shousuke-sama, won't you say a few words?"

When Long and Yu were besieging Qi on time just now, Zhang Mingyue kept pulling his eyelids, as if he was asleep, as if he was completely isolated from the world. But how could he be isolated on such an occasion? He gave up his position and tacitly acquiesced in the inner court's attack on Qi Zhun. Now being asked by Qi Zhun, Zhang Mingyue just raised his eyelids and replied softly:

"Taishi, since they are also soldiers of the imperial court, where is Tunshu not Tun? What's more, it is still at the foot of the Son of Heaven to garrison the capital. “

Qi Zhun closed his eyes painfully when he heard this, and the furrows on his face that deepened little by little kept telling the pain in his heart.

Lan Ziyi can understand Qi Zhun, not only can he understand it, but he can also assert that the relationship between Qi Zhun and Zhang Mingyue is not ordinary. Qi Zhun's expression was speechless about enduring the pain of betrayal, and now Qi Zhun's only backer he could rely on betrayed him without frowning, and this pain could not be explained in a word.

After a long time, Qi Zhun opened his eyes, and from his lost eyes, Lan Ziyi could tell that Qi Zhun had accepted his fate. He opened his mouth and said:

"Then I'll want to mobilize the few people in my hands to exterminate the pirates. It's just that I want to remind my father-in-law and all of you that don't forget that although the pirates have been exterminated, there is still a Lan Qianjun standing above the ocean, and his strength is even stronger now. “

Lan Ziyi was shocked when he heard this name, who is this Lan Qianjun? Why is the name so similar to his father's?

Hearing this, Father-in-law Yu replied:

"Lan Qianjun is the Marquis of the East China Sea who is personally appointed by the imperial court, and he will not threaten the imperial court."

Qi Zhun smiled bitterly:

"The imperial court is just fetters for him, can the military department still mobilize his fleet?

Anyway, I'm already a Taishi, and from now on, the Eastern Army will be gone, so how can Lan Qianjun not worry about me anymore. “

As soon as Qi Zhun finished speaking, one of the generals of the Eastern Army sitting at the door dropped his cup and stood up and said:

"If you want to cut the domain, just say it, why bother to invite the Hongmen Banquet to beat around the bush here? The birds are all hidden, the rabbits are dead and the dogs are cooking, our group of Qiu Ba is cheap anyway, and it should be so! “