When Zhao Junsheng heard that the emperor had sent a eunuch, he was having dinner with Mulan, but he still finished the meal in a hurry.

"The emperor must have called you over for the sake of that toothed general. Brother Junsheng, if you can't do anything, you must not stiffen with the emperor, take a step back and open the sky, let's think of other ways, it will definitely be an egg to hit a stone against the emperor, it is unwise! ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded and put down the dishes and chopsticks: "Well, I know!" After I leave, you can also go back to the barracks, the expedition is imminent, if you don't sit in the army, the soldiers and generals will inevitably be unsteady! ”

Hua Mulan got up and put on an armor and cloak for Zhao Junsheng, hung a war knife around his waist, and put a helmet on him.

"I'm leaving!" Zhao Junsheng shook Mulan's hand and turned to leave.

When I came to the camp of the Eastern Expedition army outside the city, torches had been lit at the gate of the huge camp, and candles were also lit in the palace.

"Your Majesty, General Zhao has arrived!" The eunuch reported to Tuoba Jian.

Tuoba Jian put down the bamboo slip and raised his hand: "Xuan!" ”

Zhao Junsheng walked into the hall and bowed with his fists in hand: "Your Majesty!" ”

Tuoba Jian raised his hand, "Zhao Qing, I heard that your people have captured all the generals of one of the teeth under Hedoro?" ”

"Yes, this one-toothed person looted Yangjiawan twenty miles east of the city last night, causing eleven people to be killed and nine houses burned down······ after investigation and interrogation, the evidence of this case is conclusive, and all the perpetrators have also confessed, so the minister sentenced him to be beheaded at noon tomorrow!"

Tuoba Jian sighed: "Zhao Qing, do you know that you have caused me a lot of trouble, it is nothing for you to kill one or two people, but you have to kill a tooth of the general, now the entire leader is alarmed, the high-level generals and colonels have come to find me, they oppose the use of capital punishment to deal with it, this matter will affect the whole body!" ”

Zhao Junsheng immediately said: "Your Majesty has issued a clear decree in advance on this matter, and these people dare to openly resist the decree?" ”

"Everyone knows that the law is not responsible for the people, didn't you know this when you judged? Can't just kill the chief evildoer and lightly punish the other coercions? If you are going to kill them all, will they be willing to rest? It was you yourself who gave them the excuse! ”

Zhao Junsheng couldn't guess what medicine was sold in Tuoba Jian's gourd, so he hugged his fists and asked, "Then what does Your Majesty mean?" ”

Tuoba Jian got up and walked around the hall with his hands behind his back, and after a cup of tea, he stopped and said, "Before tomorrow's execution, I will decree that only the evil will be punished and the other soldiers will be pardoned.

Zhao Junsheng did not accept the order, and was silent for a while and hugged his fists and said: "Your Majesty is not impossible to do this, but the minister of Youzhou will definitely not be able to do it, so please let your majesty go back to his hometown with Mulan, and after the minister and Mulan get married, if Your Majesty still needs the minister to serve, the minister should serve in front of the car."

Tuoba Jian angrily rebuked, "Why don't you understand my suffering? First of all, Hedoro brought a large number of generals to show my face, forcing me to issue an order for you to release people, and now you want to pick a son for me, is this emperor nothing in your eyes? ”

Zhao Junsheng has a set of logistics, Tuoba Jian has long known that when he was in the Jinling camp in the clouds, everyone's eating, drinking and Lazar were controlled by him, and he was stunned that there was no mistake.

This time, Tuoba Jian decided to go east to conquer Yan State, he was the first to think of Zhao Junsheng, so he appointed Zhao Junsheng as the assassin of Youzhou early, only by taking care of Youzhou, the springboard and logistics base for attacking Yan State, can the war of the Eastern Expedition to Yan State get sufficient logistics support.

If Zhao Junsheng quits, who can do this errand well, even if it is an immortal, it is impossible to control Youzhou in just a few days, right?

Zhao Junsheng hugged his fists and said: "Your Majesty, it's not that the minister wants to pick a son, the minister only sentenced the crimes of these people to execute them, and His Majesty issued an order to pardon them on the back foot, doesn't this make it clear to tell all the ministers in the world that they are not treated by His Majesty, and who else will listen to the ministers in Youzhou in the future?" Is it superfluous for the minister to stay here? ”

Tuoba Jian said: "I also know that this is wronged you, but if you don't do this, let you kill that one tooth of the general, it will inevitably cause turmoil in the army's heart, at this time is at the critical juncture of the Eastern Expedition to Yan State, you must not shake the morale of the army, otherwise the previous achievements will be wasted!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "The minister thinks that on the contrary, Your Majesty is too worried, killing this one tooth of the general, not only will not cause the morale of the army to waver, but also make the soldiers realize the strictness of military law, and they will not and dare not commit it again in the future!" Indeed, killing thirty-two soldiers to pay for the lives of eleven villagers seems to have made the military suffer a big loss, but exchanging the lives of these thirty-two soldiers for the loyalty of millions of people in Youzhou to His Majesty and the imperial court is a big deal! ”

"Previously, the puppet emperor set up another court in Youzhou, and the power was unmatched for a while, the people of Youzhou only knew that the world was the puppet emperor as the emperor, but they didn't know that there was His Majesty, and now Youzhou has returned to the rule of the court for only a year and a half, and the influence of the puppet emperor's court on the people of Youzhou has not been completely eliminated, but now the government has changed its order, and it is clear that the case of the assassination of the history of the government has been judged to take effect, but it was overturned by His Majesty's edict, this is to push the people of Youzhou to the opposite side of hatred of the court, how many years does Your Majesty plan to collect the hearts of the people of Youzhou?"

Tuoba Jian was quite moved by Zhao Junsheng's words, and the decision that Fang had just made in his heart was a little shaken.

Zhao Junsheng continued: "For the old ministers of the former emperor of Hedoro, the ministers think that Your Majesty is too tolerant and too pampered to them, so that they dare to openly coerce Your Majesty, and have no reverence for Your Majesty, and they deserve to be punished!" ”

"It's no wonder that when His Majesty succeeded to the throne, they were all in command, and then His Majesty and his ministers tricked them back, and when they learned the truth, it was too late, they had to accept the fact that His Majesty had ascended the throne on the surface, but in fact, they were somewhat unwilling in their hearts, now look at their performance, these people are unruly one by one, if Your Majesty does not prepare early, something big will happen sooner or later!"

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that although these people have no reverence for Your Majesty, the soldiers of the Eastern Expedition army are in awe and loyalty to Your Majesty, as long as Your Majesty ascends to the heights, the soldiers will inevitably gather from the followers, which can not only harvest the loyalty of the warriors, but also deter those who are unruly!"

Tuoba Jian didn't make a sound for a while, and the time passed little by little, a breeze blew, the candles in the hall swayed, and the irritability was gone.

"Zhao Qing, go back first, I have to think about it!"

"Retire!" Zhao Junsheng clenched his fists and withdrew.

Tuoba Jian walked slowly back and forth in the hall with his hands behind his back, thinking, knowing that when the candle was about to burn out, the eunuch came to change the candle, and he came back to his senses, and ordered the eunuch: "Quickly go to Xuanguo Shi and Cui Hao to meet him!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

At this time, Tuoba Jian felt the need to consult the advisors, and among the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, the most brainy was undoubtedly Cui Hao, although Cui Hao was also a person valued by Tuoba Tao, but Tuoba Jian also valued this wise man.

Soon, Cui Hao and Kou Qianzhi both came to visit.

Tuoba Jian raised his hand: "The two of you are exempt, I came to you two to come because the soldiers who led the army broke into the village outside the camp last night to burn and kill and plunder, and Zhao Junsheng sentenced them all to be killed, he killed people is simple, but he threw the trouble to me, and the leader of the army, He Duoluo, came over with a group of generals, putting on a posture that if I didn't give an order for Zhao Junsheng to release him, they wouldn't give up!" How to properly handle this matter, I don't know what the two ministers think? ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, Cui Hao said: "Your Majesty is too worried, Heduoluo and others can't turn up the big waves, Your Majesty's will has indeed deprived the Xianbei generals of their privileges and violated their interests, they will inevitably be unhappy, and it is normal for them to put pressure on Your Majesty in tandem, but they will never dare to do anything rebellious, if the generals want to make trouble, it will never be possible if no one takes the lead, if Your Majesty is worried, you can order Heduoluo to take the vanguard and take 2,000 people to Baoqiu Water to build a pontoon bridge to prepare for the army to cross the river, If he dares to disobey the Holy Order, His Majesty can take this opportunity to take him down! ”

Hearing this, Tuoba Jian thought about it for a while, nodded and said, "It's indeed a good way!" Hmm······ For this crusade, I want the national teacher to do a divination on the results of the war, if I don't do a divination, I will never be sure! ”

Kou Qianzhi agreed: "Your Majesty has an order, the poor Dao should obey it, it's too late tonight, and tomorrow the poor Dao will order someone to build a Taoist altar and then practice divination."

In the back hall of the Assassin's Mansion, Zhao Junsheng knelt behind the low table, holding a war knife in his left hand and wiping it with a strip of cloth in his right hand, but he was thinking about the situation when he saw the emperor just now.

In his opinion, Tuoba Jian's foundation is a little shallow, his throne is not really passed down by the previous generation of emperors, although he has made up the edict of succession, but many people know about it, but everyone dare not say it, so his authority as an emperor is greatly reduced, which also causes many people in the Xianbei tribe to have little respect for him as an emperor.

What Tuoba Jian lacks now is time, he needs time to build up his martial arts, he needs time to smooth out Tuoba Tao's influence on the Xianbei nobles and exert his influence.

At this time, attacking Beiyan was still too hasty in Zhao Junsheng's opinion, and Tuoba Jian also needed to further strengthen his control over the imperial court, the Xianbei nobles and the army, but he couldn't wait.

"Envoy, the emperor came to the palace to announce the decree."

Zhao Junsheng knew that Tuoba Jian must have made a decision, put the knife into the sheath, got up and walked to the outer hall.

"General Zhao, Your Majesty has decreed that the execution at noon tomorrow will be carried out outside the city, and the location will be chosen by you, and Your Majesty will personally go to watch the execution at that time, and will also issue an order for all soldiers to go together!"