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Lou Ji doesn't have to live in the imperial city, he goes to Zishiyuan every morning to standby, and returns to his new home in the afternoon to make some preparations for marriage, in fact, there is nothing he needs to do, but the emperor deliberately gave him leave, and said in front of many attendants: "My niece is a little spoiled, fortunately, she is young, and there is still a chance to correct it. ”

Because of the emperor's few words, Lou Ji received a large number of gifts that day.

In the evening of this day, the staff member Qiao Zhisu came back from outside the city, specially came to visit the building, sent a private gift, and brought a message: "Shen Mushou did not return to Beijing, it is said that he has already set off, and he suddenly fell seriously ill on the way, so he had to stay in the state boundary to recuperate, and sent his eldest son Shen Cong to ask the court for guilt, and he will arrive early tomorrow morning." ”

The people around the general, only Qiao Zhisu sensed the danger, and he had similar thoughts to Lou Ji, but he didn't dare to speak to the general, just watched from the sidelines, and occasionally talked with Lou Ji in private, always shaking his head and expressing helplessness.

"Of the six ministers and four kings, only Shen Mushou refused to give his life, everyone else has returned to Beijing, and King Guangling is the slowest, and he has also entered the boundary of Luozhou, and he will arrive in Beijing the day after tomorrow." Qiao Zhisu shook his head again, "In the past ten years, the six ministers and four kings have either stayed in the capital or the town, and the pattern has been formed. His Majesty recruited everyone back, but he was afraid that he would also bring back the old grievances. ”

"I know that the Lou family is not in harmony with the Huangfu family and the Lan family, is friendly with the Shen family, the king of Guangling is at odds with the other three kings, and the Cao family is in-law with the Cao family of Xiao Guogong, and the Cao family is at odds with the Xi family in Jingzhou." The building base understands the general situation that has been passed down for a long time.

Qiao Zhisu said with a smile: "In detail, it's much more complicated than this, if you only grasp the key, it's simple, in fact, there are two lines." One is the king of Guangling, he is the younger brother of the first emperor, he was quite favored at the beginning, very popular, and was almost made a prince, but finally failed, leaving many grievances. The other is the general......"

Qiao Zhisu suddenly shut up and didn't say anything.

"What's wrong with the General?" Lou Ji asked, "I often wonder that the generals are highly accomplished, and there don't seem to be many friends, except for the Shen family, there are very few contacts with other important ministers. Mr. Qiao has something to say, although he is outspoken, there is no need to shy away from it, I am not the kind of person who talks casually. ”

Qiao Zhisu said with a smile: "Speaking of which, the grievances of the Lou family have some connection with the biological mother of the seventeenth son. ”

In the past, Lou Ji would have had a cold face or didn't answer, but in the past few days, he has frequently heard people mention his mother, but there is always a preface without a follow-up, which makes him both annoyed and curious, so he said: "Mr. Qiao, but it doesn't hurt to talk about it, I also want to know what happened in the first place." ”

Qiao Zhisu hesitated for a moment, and saw that Lou Ji really wanted to know, so he said slowly: "Tiancheng - it was still Dacheng at that time, and the last place to conquer was Wu State, the general personally commanded the army, Huangfu Kai, Cao Shenxi was the deputy, and King Guangling was the successor. The imperial court originally thought that this battle would take three or five years, but it did not expect that the Wu country was already rotten and vulnerable. The general drove straight in, and it only took more than half a year to attack the city of Wu. ”

Qiao Zhisu was already a member of the general's staff back then, and he was not yet thirty years old, so he remembered the past very clearly.

Lou poured tea, Qiao Zhisu thanked and continued: "I didn't expect King Wu to refuse to surrender, personally led the soldiers to defend the city, the general's battle was quite difficult, with countless casualties, until the King of Guangling dropped the reinforcements arrived, and finally conquered the Wu capital. ”

"I heard that King Wu committed suicide."

Qiao Zhisu nodded, "I was at the scene, King Wu stood on the palace gate, facing the Dacheng soldiers, drawing his sword and killing himself." Later, many rumors appeared, claiming that King Wu had said such and such a curse, and every time a Wu person made a rebellion, the rumors would increase by a few points. As an eyewitness, I can say that it was all fake, and King Wu didn't say anything, he just committed suicide. ”

Lou Ji tried to imagine the scene of his grandfather's suicide, but to no avail.

"After capturing Wudu, the trouble has just begun. The general suffered a lot of losses, and his soldiers hated the Wu people very much, and urged the slaughter of the city to take revenge. The general agreed, but the king of Guangling objected, thinking that the world was initially decided, and it was time to follow the people and recuperate with the world, and not to increase the anger of the people. ”

"King Guangling is right, after the state of Wu is pacified, the world will be unified, and there is really no need to slaughter the city." Although Lou Ji is the son of a general, he is on the side of King Guangling in this matter.

"That being said, but at the time, the general didn't have many options."

"Why?"

"How so...... The seventeenth prince has never led a soldier or fought a war, so it is probably difficult to understand things in the army, and I am just a bystander. Anyway, there are no outsiders, so I'll take the court as an analogy, the six ministers and four kings are at odds with each other, even to the point of life and death, but they all serve the first emperor, and the first emperor did not deliberately support anyone or belittle anyone. The situation in the army is similar, when the generals are fighting, they all want to stay behind, and when they win, they all want to fight for the greatest merit, and the dispute is endless. ”

"The general must straighten out the morale of the army."

"Yes, the reason why a general is a general is that he can win people's hearts and make the people use it for himself."

"You don't have to slaughter the city to win people's hearts, do you? There are many ways to get revenge. ”

"Haha, the seventeenth prince still doesn't understand. Revenge is only one of the reasons, for the imperial court, the world is unified, it should be a time to recuperate, for the officers and soldiers in the army, they will soon have to unload their armor and return to the field, if they do not make a lot of money at this time, there will be no such opportunity in the future. ”

"The imperial court will definitely reward military merits."

"Those rewards are better than nothing. In short, everyone wants to slaughter the city more, not only to avenge the killing of the Wu people, but more importantly, to plunder the wealth accumulated by the Wu capital for hundreds of years. ”

Lou Ji didn't say anything.

Qiao Zhisu remembered the past again, and said with a smile after a while: "Slaughtering the city is not an easy matter, not to say that the soldiers are allowed to enter the city and rob at will, the area must be demarcated in advance, and the banner must be used to indicate who each neighborhood belongs to, you think, the street is divided into rich and poor, the square has the noble and the low, everyone wants the rich and noble, and the generals are quarreling about it." It took the general three days to complete the division with more than a dozen of our staff, leaving the generals speechless. ”

"What about King Guangling?"

"King Guangling is assigned to the northwest area of the palace."

"He ......"

"Hey, oppose when you should object, and you can't do without the benefits you deserve."

"The general has been distributed...... Princess of Wu Kingdom. ”

Qiao Zhisu nodded, "The princess of Wu is famous, and the general gives up gold, silver and jewelry, as long as she is alone, it is a rare infatuation." ”

Lou Ji can't say that his father is not, but he can't agree with the term "infatuation".

"When the army returned to the dynasty, the first emperor heard about the slaughter of the city, and he was furious, so that the general's merits and demerits were offset, and the whole army was rewarded, but the general was not rewarded." The next words, Qiao Zhisu is not good to say.

"I know that Princess Wu once entered the palace." Lou Ji still wants to know the truth.

"I don't know anything about the palace, so I won't talk nonsense. The general was very angry, thinking that it was the King of Guangling, Cao Shenxi, and Huangfu Kai who secretly slandered the first emperor, so that they lost the beautiful woman in their hands, and in a fit of anger, the general imprisoned two generals, whipped dozens, and prepared to lead troops to attack the Guangling Palace. ”

Lou Ji was taken aback, "This ...... This is a great sin of rebellion! ”

"Even now it feels incredible, at that time, our staff were frightened, but the generals and soldiers of the army didn't care about this, and the general pointed to fight wherever he wanted. The soldiers assembled outside the city, numbering several thousand, and when the gates were opened the next morning, they rushed in and went straight to the palace. I don't know who told the informant, after the first emperor heard about this, he went out of the city to work without waiting for dawn, publicized the general's achievements over the years, and was named the Duke of Anguo, and the hero was knighted, and the general was the first person. ”

"The first emperor did a good job."

"No, we all admire it. In this way, the general was ashamed, dismissed the soldiers, and pleaded guilty to the first emperor. The first emperor called the king of Guangling and asked the two sides to make peace. He also summoned Huangfu Kai and Cao Shenxi, and asked them to ask the general for their guilt. ”

"What are these two guilty of?"

"As a lieutenant general, it is a sin not to be able to comfort the coach, but to be suspicious. In short, the general is very beautiful, and within a few days, the princess of Wu was also sent to the general's mansion, which is said to be the idea of the current queen mother, and the general naturally has no complaints. But after the emperor was humiliated, he held a grudge, his status became higher and higher, and his hostility towards the general became more and more obvious. Xiao Guogong Cao Shenxi was better, and would rather endure it, but never had any more dealings with the general. ”

"Bian He is not guilty, but he is guilty. The general's rebellion is not the fault of the princess of Wu State. "It's hard to say the title of "mother" in front of outsiders.

"Of course, the princess of Wu is more famous because of this, and the rumors are even more prevalent."

"What did she do in the palace that the Queen Mother and others will never forget?"

"The secrets of the palace are beyond my reach, and as for those unbelievable rumors, there are few truths, so don't mention them."

Qiao Zhisu said that he was a general, but all he thought about in his heart was his mother, the country was ruined, his father committed suicide, how did Princess Wu endure it over the years? How much pride and grief is there in the eyes that look at you? How much love does he have for his forced son? How much hatred?

Lou Ji had only seen his mother a few times when he was a child, and he couldn't answer these questions from memory.

"The general and the king of Guangling don't seem to have left much of a holiday." Lou Ji said, avoiding the thoughts in his heart.

"The general doesn't hold grudges very much, as for the king of Guangling, with such ambitions, of course he doesn't want to offend the important ministers of the court, as for what he thinks in his heart, outsiders have no way of knowing."

"I already understand what Mr. Qiao means, thank you." The building got up and gave it up.

That's all he said, no matter how much Qiao Zhisu shouldn't have said, he didn't dare to say it, he got up and said with a smile: "Although it is an old story, it can be a lesson for today." I have followed the general for many years, and I have been trusted and rewarded, and I never want to see a high-rise building collapse one day. ”

"Mr. Qiao's heart is clear to the sun and the moon, and the Lou family will never forget what Mr. said today."

Qiao Zhisu said goodbye, and finally added, "Among the four kings, the king of Xiangdong is the most detached, if the Lou family needs the help of the royal family, he has to be, and the other three kings are difficult to make friends." ”

After returning to the house, he repeatedly thought about Qiao Zhisu's words, as a member of the general's staff, he said very clearly: The general can only do great things when he is angry.

How to make my father angry with the emperor is a problem.