Text Chapter 9: Frontline Reports
In the Jinluan Palace, the Emperor of the Mu Kingdom sits on the dragon chair, and the ministers below sit in two rows, the left hand row is headed by the prince, and the right hand row is headed by the generalissimo, at this moment the ministers in the hall are looking at the only woman standing in the hall, Her Royal Highness Zhao Yurou, the seventh princess of the Mu Kingdom.
Emperor Muguo sat on the dragon chair and looked at Zhao Yurou standing in the hall with a majestic gaze, without saying a word.
Zhao Yurou was standing in the Jinluan Hall with an indifferent face at this time, looking at his father who was sitting in the dragon chair above the Jinluan Hall with fearless eyes.
I saw Zhao Yurou's long hair splashing like an ink-like shawl, a white dress that looked simple but generous, and her delicate face was set off by her noble temperament, like a fairy descending to earth.
The hall suddenly fell into a bitter cold, the temperature around it dropped rapidly, and the flowing air began to become wooden, as if it was about to freeze.
After a moment of silence
"Taken down and put in a black prison."
Wood Emperor Zhao Xudong broke through the severe cold in the hall and ordered in a voice full of majesty.
"Obey~~"
The Qinglong soldiers stood upright and saluted to the Wood Emperor Zhao Xudong.
"Your Royal Highness the Seventh Princess, please come with us."
The two Biao-shaped guards of the Blue Dragon Regiment who were ordered to escort Zhao Yurou into the black prison in the hall, one of them said to Zhao Yurou.
Zhao Yurou turned around and walked towards the gate of the hall without hesitation, and walked calmly in front of the two biao-shaped guards.
Some of the ministers in the palace had nothing to do with them, and they sat quietly without making a sound.
Some ministers had a sad look on their faces, fearing that the high position they had so hard to get would be gone.
Some of them are not worth it for the seventh princess Zhao Yurou, isn't it just to come forward, and it is unknown what the outcome will be after appearing.
Only the prince and the generalissimo looked worried, and wanted to intercede for Zhao Yurou again, after all, it was his seventh sister and the little seventh he had watched grow up since childhood.
"Father~~"
"Shut up, didn't my father say it, no one is allowed to intercede for the rebellious woman Zhao Yurou."
The crown prince Zhao Qichen was just about to open his mouth to plead with his father for the seventh sister Zhao Yurou, but was reprimanded by the wood emperor Zhao Xudong.
Zhao Yurou's mood at the moment has nothing to love, and she will never regret the choice she made, she has stepped out of the palace.
"Please think again!"
Generalissimo Mu Guo pondered for a moment before speaking.
Generalissimo Wu Pingfan's mood at the moment is very complicated, on the one hand, of course, he wants the seventh princess Zhao Yurou to come forward to solve this national crisis, if the country is broken, where will the emperor come from, where will the generalissimo come from, these high-level officials of the wooden country, when the time comes, these people should be prisoners!
Generalissimo Wu Pingfan thought that he had lived a lot of age and it didn't matter if he was a prisoner, but he still had children and grandchildren, and the end would only be that his family would be ruined and nothing else, he didn't want to do this.
But there is only one ending for Zhao Yurou who refuses to come forward, that is, he is heavily punished and punished, but he did not expect to be degraded and put in a black prison.
The depreciation of the clan is not very serious, the serious thing is to enter the black prison, and there is only one ending in the black prison, that is, a dead end, witnessing the little Qi Zhao Yurou who grew up watching him grow up in the black prison and couldn't bear it, the generalissimo Wu Pingfan couldn't help but fall into an abnormal contradiction.
"Marshal, don't say anything more about this matter."
The generalissimo's exit was also expected, but he couldn't talk to the generalissimo in the tone of reprimanding the prince, but looked at the generalissimo calmly and refused lightly.
There is a reason why the generalissimo is the generalissimo and the emperor is the emperor.
After pausing for a while, he continued to speak: "Zhao Yurou, the seventh princess of my country, has been deposed as a concubine and sentenced to a black prison, and Zhong Aiqing will intercede for her again. After finishing speaking, he looked around at the ministers in the Jinluan Palace with a stern gaze.
After a while, he continued: "As a princess of her own country, this woman does not care about the safety and survival of her country, and as the child of this emperor, she does not care about her obligations and filial piety as a child, and sees her country and this emperor fall into a country and crisis, and does not exert her might. ”
"Ah~~"
Generalissimo Wu Pingfan sighed softly after listening to what Emperor Zhao Xudong said, and sat down gloomily.
How could he not know that the emperor would not change his mind about the things he had decided, so he pondered for a while, but he couldn't bear to intercede for Zhao Yurou again.
The ministers in the main hall all bowed their heads when they touched the emperor's gaze, and as for what they were thinking when they lowered their heads, only they knew what they were thinking.
Zhao Yurou, who was escorted to the black prison, was so helpless and sad at this time, she couldn't help but think about why she was born in the emperor's family, and what a sad thing she felt.
Since ancient times, the royal family has no family affection, and ruthlessness is the most imperial family.
The royal family has no brotherhood, father-son love, husband and wife love, only the struggle and game of power.
For the sake of imperial power, for the supreme right, for the position of the Son of Heaven in the Ninety-Five, in the royal family, family affection is not as important as imperial power.
Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves came from the street outside the palace near the palace.
I saw a fast horse galloping towards the palace from far and near on the street outside the palace, and those who dared to gallop on the street at this time could only be the Yu Ling messenger who reported the battle situation on the front line.
"Rack~Rack~Report~~Frontline Report~~"
Loud shouts rang out from the streets outside the palace.
I saw Yu Ling's soldiers riding horses and galloping on the road, making a deafening 'dong dong' sound.
The Yu Ling Chuan Army was not under the control of the three armies of the Imperial City and had independent jurisdiction. Once the feather order is inserted to represent the urgency of the 100,000 people, no person or department can stop the feather order to pass the army, and if it causes a delay in the military situation on the front, it will be punished with a heavy sentence.
"Frontline report, frontline report~~"
The guards at the gate of the palace knew that it was Yu Ling's soldiers who were riding on the horses, so they didn't dare to delay at all, and immediately lifted the wooden cabinets placed on both sides of the palace gate, and quickly opened the palace gate, allowing Yu Ling's soldiers to gallop in directly on horseback.
"Report~~Frontline Battle Report~~"
Yu ordered the soldiers to ride straight to the Jinluan Palace, shouting loudly as they ran.
Zhao Xudong, the Wood Emperor in the Jinluan Palace, and all the ministers in the palace heard the news of the front-line battle report from a distance, and they all stood up in their seats in anticipation, waiting for whether there was a chance of a glimmer of life.
It's not that the Wood Emperor Zhao Xudong and the ministers are not calm, but the Wood Country has been dilapidated, and they have all been attacked outside the Imperial City of Lin'an Mansion.
If the imperial city of Lin'an Mansion is breached, then Emperor Zhao Xudong and the ministers will not be the high-ranking people, I am afraid that they will all have to be reduced to prisoners, in fact, they all know very well in their hearts.
Therefore, all the ministers of the Jinluan Palace, including the Wood Emperor Zhao Xudong, were waiting for a glimmer of light.
The sound of the fast horse whipping had reached a place not far from the outside of the palace, and the Mu Huang and the ministers all clenched their fists unconsciously, looking nervously left and right.
"Do~~Do~~Do~~"
In a few moments, the sound of horses' hooves reached the outside of the temple.
Zhao Xudong, the wooden emperor in the palace, was already sweating in his palms, and the ministers were sweating profusely.
I only heard the sound of "driving ~~" to stop the horse, and then saw the herald of the Yu order galloping into the Jinluan Palace, stretched out his hand and took out the battle report of the front line from the bamboo tube behind him, and saluted the soldiers to the wood emperor Zhao Xudong, and said uprightly: "Your Majesty, the front line battle report." After speaking, he held the battle report with both hands and presented it upward.
In ancient China, before the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Hu people rebelled against China, all dynasties and countries did not practice the bad habit of bowing down and kowtowing.
In ancient times, the Chinese sat on the ground, sitting on their laps. In this way, whether it is a monarch or a minister, no matter whether the mat is good or bad, everyone is roughly equal, and it doesn't matter who kneels to whom.
When he arrived in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, he gradually sat on the chair. Because the Tang Dynasty compared the unity of monarchs and ministers. So everybody basically sat in their chairs.
If the minister wanted to show respect, he got up from his chair.
As for "kneeling", it is kneeling to the sky and kneeling to parents, which is used only for very important ceremonies.
The big eunuch standing next to the dragon chair didn't need the orders of the wood emperor Zhao Xudong, so he rushed to the Yuling Chuan soldiers standing in the hall.
The great eunuch came to the front of the Yu Ling Chuan to receive the battle report, and then stepped on the steps of the dragon chair and came to the side of the Wood Emperor Zhao Xudong.
Emperor Zhao Xudong took it directly from him without waiting for the great eunuch to appear, and then spread out the battle report, looked at it carefully, and when he first looked at it, he couldn't help but smile and nodded his head, and all the ministers in the palace looked at the battle report in the emperor's hand, and saw the emperor with a smile on his face, nodding his head, thinking that there was a good ending, and he was immediately relieved.
And the wood emperor Zhao Xudong gradually put away the smile on his face as he watched the progress, and then changed to a frosty face, and saw that in the end, he slapped the battle report vigorously on the dragon table.
'Alas~~'
I saw Wood Emperor Zhao Xudong sigh heavily, and the whole person sat on the dragon chair weakly.
The ministers finally saw the emperor sighing, and sat on the dragon chair weakly, knowing that the battle situation outside the city of Lin'an Mansion was not good, and guessed that Lin'an Mansion was about to be breached, and they all looked sad, and sat down without a look, looking at the teacup on the table in a daze.
In the entire Jinluan Palace, only the Generalissimo of Mu Guo was still standing, he looked at the emperor who was sitting on the dragon chair in a daze, and asked puzzledly:
"Dare to ask the emperor, what happened, what was the battle situation outside the city, what was written in the battle report, why sighed?"
"Read~~"
Zhao Xudong, the Wood Emperor sitting on the dragon chair, was unable to say another word, and said softly to the big eunuch beside him.
Zhao Xudong, the Wood Emperor, who was still full of majesty at the last moment, felt as if he was dozens of years old at this moment.