Chapter 25: The Civil Strife in Batu
When Xu Yang refused Su Ran's retention, it was late at night when he returned to Xu's mansion.
When he returned to the room, seeing that Ling had already fallen asleep, Xu Yang changed his clothes and lay down lightly.
Closing his eyes, his mind kept thinking about what happened in Su Mansion.
The Su family is already a rich country, and the Su family has never participated in the affairs of the court and does not interact with officials in the DPRK and China.
Today, he changed his past and wanted to enter the official career, and Xu Yang's heart flashed with great entanglement.
There's a saying that says it well! 'The grace of a drop of water should be repaid by a spring', although he once saved his life, for Su Ran, Xu Yang should repay him.
However, the Su family's sudden involvement in the official career made Xu Yang puzzled, and he was afraid that the Su family's purpose would not exist.
Then, Xu Yang sighed, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Early the next morning, when Xu Yang and his wife were still asleep, the mansion once again ushered in the chief eunuch beside the Son of Heaven.
After hearing that the chief eunuch had gone to the house, Xu Yang hurriedly got up and came to the front hall to greet him.
"Lord Xu has a lot of noble things, but it really makes our family wait!"
Xu Yang, who had just stepped into the door of the front hall, heard the words of the chief eunuch who was neither yin nor yang, and a trace of displeasure flashed on his face with his head slightly lowered, and then he quickly regained his calm.
Xu Yang looked at the chief eunuch who stood up from the chair, and said with a smile: "I don't know if my father-in-law is coming, I hope you will forgive me."
The chief eunuch snorted coaxingly, Xu Yang was just an official who had been suspended and dismissed, he was a popular person around the emperor, and even the ladies of the palace who were very favored in the palace were polite to him, but he didn't want to come to Xu Mansion today at the emperor's behest, but let him wait here for a long time, and Xu Yang hurriedly came over.
Then the chief eunuch thought of Emperor Zhao Yun's sudden announcement of Xu Yang's entry into the palace today, and he couldn't help but think in his heart that maybe Xu Yang's favor would also be restored. In this way, the chief eunuch then said: "Lord Xu, the servant has come to summon Lord Xu to enter the palace to face the saint, and I hope that Lord Xu will go with our family immediately!"
Xu Yang was shocked by the words of the chief eunuch. Half a month ago, as soon as he returned to Beijing, he was suspended from his post by a holy decree of the emperor, and during the half month, the emperor never summoned him, and there was no news of the so-called dismissal investigation.
Now, the emperor ordered his personal chief eunuch to come to Xu's mansion to send a message to let him enter the palace, and Xu Yang's heart was full of doubts.
After a quick thought in his mind, Xu Yang said to the chief eunuch: "I hope that my father-in-law will wait a while, and send the old minister to change his clothes and immediately follow his father-in-law into the palace."
The chief eunuch looked at Xu Yang's body for a moment, and then said impatiently to Xu Yang: "Please also ask Lord Xu to move faster."
Xu Yang nodded, and ordered the chief steward of the house to greet the chief eunuch in the front hall, while he himself walked towards the bedroom in the backyard.
At this time, there was only one street away from Xuyang.
Taishi Yang Jin looked at the letter that Prince Bass had just passed in his hand, and a trace of anger flashed in his heart.
In his heart, Prince Bass blamed him for not checking the military secrets of the Celestial Empire army this time, so that he repeatedly attacked Yuzhou.
Bas even mentioned in the letter that because of this conquest of the Celestial Empire, the food and grass of the army was insufficient, so he asked Yang Taishi to find a way to find him enough food and grass for the 400,000 army in the Celestial Empire, otherwise, Batu would never have left Yang Jin's life.
After reading the letter, Yang Jin had a bruise on his face, and his hand squeezed the letter hard.
After a long time, Yang Jin calmed down his thoughts, and then said, "How did you go to investigate Xu Yang's affairs?"
The assassin hidden in the shadows walked out of the darkness, and was affected by the violent aura in the air, and the assassin knew that it must be that person who gave some order to Master Yang again.
"There is no result for the time being, Xu Yang has always been honest and honest, and he has not left any evidence of corruption."
Yang Jin heard the assassin's words, nothing has gone well recently, coupled with the letter from Bass just now, Yang Jin couldn't help but vent his anger on the assassin, only to hear him say: "I think in the recent period, the old man has been too tolerant of you, and let you live too leisurely, so that you forget your identity, do things, and don't care about everything."
Xu Yang's words made cold sweat continue to break out on the assassin's forehead, and he was also thinking about this period of time, the efficiency of his subordinates was getting lower and lower, so that he always faced Yang Jin's anger from time to time.
Looking at the assassin who was standing there silently, Yang Jin snorted: "Finally, I will give you three days, if your answer to the old man after three days is still fruitless, then the old man will have no effect in keeping you wasters, I think you should know what to do."
While listening to Yang Jin's words, the assassin raised his sleeve robe from time to time, constantly wiping the cold sweat on his forehead. After Yang Jin's words fell, the assassin said, "The subordinate ordered."
When the assassin stepped back, Yang Jin sighed, turned around and sat down on the Taishi chair in front of the desk, glanced at the letter in his hand again, and then threw the letter on the desk casually, closed his eyes and lay his head on the back of the chair behind him.
When the conspiracy in the capital continued, Jingzhou, which was thousands of miles away, was not peaceful.
At this time, in the Jingzhou Batu military camp, when Bass led hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Yuzhou City unsuccessfully, he led the army to retreat to the Jingzhou military camp.
Since Cai led the army back to the Jingzhou military camp, Bass and Bach, who had always been at odds with him, constantly disagreed on the military situation.
Bath, who has always regarded himself as the heir of King Batu, has been disliking Bach, and the two are constantly fighting openly and secretly in the struggle for the throne, each with their own conspiracies, and Bath has long seen that Bach is not going well.
Today, because of the dispute over whether to directly attack Yuzhou first or to gather enough food and grass for the army first, in the camp, the war between the two intensified, only to hear Bass not back down: "Now there is still grain and grass in the army that can support the army for five or six days, and we directly lead the army of more than 400,000 to attack Yuzhou and occupy Yuzhou, not to mention that I have written to the Taishi to ask him to find a way to gather enough food and grass for the army."
When Bach heard this, he couldn't help but laugh out loud, looking at Bass as if he were looking at an idiot clown.
I only heard Bach laugh and then said loudly: "When the army marches and fights, grain and grass come first, doesn't Brother Wang even understand this?" Or is it that Brother Wang's people are all a bunch of waste? ”
Hearing Bach's words, Bass was furious, Bach was sarcastic that he would not lead the army to war?
"There is still grain and grass in the army, the reinforcements of the Celestial Empire have not arrived, it is most appropriate to attack Yuzhou at this time, Bach, I order you as the head of the army, mobilize the 250,000 troops in your hands, and go with this general to attack Yuzhou."
Bath's words were not agreed with by Bach, who only listened to Bach's words: "Forgive me, Bach will never let my soldiers die on the battlefield without dying on the battlefield, but on starvation."
Seeing Bach's insistence on disobeying his orders, a smug smile flashed in Bass's eyes, and he said, "Bach, how dare you disobey my military orders?"
Putting Bas into his eyes, he only heard Bach say: "There is no excuse for the sin you want to add!"
Hmph, Bas snorted lightly, glanced at Bach, and then spoke out of the tent, and said: "Come on, put Bach in the camp tent for Prince Ben, send someone to guard it, and wait until Prince Ben breaks through Yuzhou and wins a great victory, then escort Bach back to the capital city of Batu and wait for the fall of the Great Khan."
At the end of Bass's words, two burly soldiers of Batu came in from outside the tent.
When the two soldiers were about to take Bach down, they heard Bach say again: "I am the Grand Prince of Batu or the lieutenant general of the army this time, I think which of you dares to take me into custody?"
As he spoke, Bach's eyes swept over the people in the tent, and finally rested on Bass.
Bass squinted slightly and looked at Bach, who was sitting in the first position of the next head, in the face of such a scene, messy, not arrogant or impatient, Bass wanted to solve Bach's heart more and more thoughts.
Bach looked at Bas and said with a dark look in his eyes: "You want to imprison me for disobeying the will of the Great Khan?"
When Bas heard this, his heart flashed with disdain, even if he disobeyed the will of the Great Khan and imprisoned Bach and was known by the Great Khan, with the Great Khan's favor for him and his mother's concubine, as long as he admitted a village's mistake and let his mother blow the pillow wind beside the Great Khan, Bas believed that the Great Khan would never embarrass himself.
But before Bass could speak, the wizard sitting next to him spoke: "The leader of the army will be Prince Bath, Prince Bach is just a lieutenant who disobeys military orders, and the Great Khan is the greatest eagle in the Batu steppe, and the Great Khan will definitely understand Prince Bath's decision."
Bach suddenly heard the wizard's words, and his eyes couldn't help but move to the wizard's body.
Looking at the man sitting across from him, hailed as a great wizard by the Batu, Bach's heart flashed with infinite anger.
I thought that if it weren't for this man who liked to pretend to be a ghost and make trouble, and said nonsense in front of the Great Khan that his mother was an ominous person, it would be detrimental to Batu's great cause. How could the Great Khan snub their mother and son so much, but let the two Bass women succeed and win the boundless favor of the Great Khan.
At this time, in Bach's heart, he really wanted to break the wizard into pieces at once, and he couldn't relieve the hatred in his heart.
After listening to the wizard's words, Bach faced the wizard's eyes with no end in sight, and said, "But a little demon dares to interject when the prince speaks."
After Bach finished the previous sentence to the wizard, he turned his head to look at Bass, who was sitting in the seat of the main general, and said: "In the dignified army, there are demons who dare to make trouble from it, and Batu's vanguard army of more than 200,000 people, in the face of the Celestial Empire, is now only about 100,000 people, but it has not been able to capture Yuzhou City, which is just reasonable."
Hearing Bach's words, Bas was furious, the wizard has always been helpful to their mother and son, if it weren't for the wizard, Bas knew that with his humble background with his mother and his concubine, how could he get the approval of the royal family of Batu and become the biggest candidate for the next king of Batu.
Now that he heard Bach slandering the wizard like this, Bas ignored everything else, and directly forcibly ordered the two burly soldiers who had just come in to imprison Bach.