The Imperial City of the Wood Kingdom Prince East Palace Council Hall

"The ministers have seen His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

The ministers of the Mu Kingdom stood up from their seats and said to the prince Zhao Qichen, who walked into the palace of the prince's east palace.

"Ministers, please take a seat."

Prince Zhao Qichen walked to the east chair in the middle of the hall and sat down.

During the period when the crown prince was in charge of the country, all the government affairs in the country were not handled by the imperial court, but by the prince's east palace.

The crown prince had his own imperial palace, which resembled the imperial court.

The configuration of the East Palace is completely modeled after the system of the imperial court, so that when the state needs to supervise the state under special circumstances, the power will not be sidelined.

The East Palace also has a personal guard similar to the Emperor's Forbidden Army, the East Palace Guard.

The East Palace Guards are divided into two armies, the left and right guards, each with 5,000 people, and a left and right guard chief, the East Palace Guards are the direct army of the prince, independent of the imperial army in the palace city, and are directly dispatched by the prince.

As the prince of a country, the crown prince also has great power, and the national level, such as the Ministry of National Intelligence and the State Secret Guard, is under the direct jurisdiction of the prince.

During the reign of the crown prince, the power was equal to that of the emperor.

The system of supervising the prince of the state sets up a chief assistant of the supervising state, and the first assistant assists the supervising prince in handling major matters and emergencies.

I saw that the chair of the first and auxiliary ministers of the state was placed next to the east chair of the crown prince Zhao Qichen, and the generalissimo Wu Pingfan was sitting on the chair of the first and auxiliary ministers.

The crown prince Zhao Qichen set up two rows of Taishi chairs on his left and right hands, and the left and right prime ministers of Mu Guo sat on the prince's left and right side of the Taishi chairs respectively, and the other important members of the court sat on both sides according to their respective duties.

"There is a major matter to discuss with you in such a hurry to recruit all the ministers."

The crown prince Zhao Qichen, who was sitting on the chair of the East Tai, had a bad face, and said to the ministers in the hall with a sad face.

"Dare to ask Your Highness, what major things happened?"

Xiao Yicai, the prime minister of Zuo, looked at the prince sitting on the chair of the east prince, and saw that the prince was in a trance, with a sad face, and asked puzzled.

The other ministers in the hall also felt that the prince's state was not very good at this time, as if he was still in a state where his heart was still there, and the ministers didn't know why after thinking about it.

Although the war outside the Imperial City of Lin'an Mansion is said to have killed a lot of soldiers and generals, there are many patriotic soldiers who are desperate to defend their families and defend the country, and the outcome of the war is far from reaching the point of destroying the country and destroying the species, and I don't know what the prince is worried about?

"Ah~~"

The crown prince Zhao Qichen first sighed and continued: "The exact news came just now, saying that the executioner Liu Deqing is ready to fight in person!" ”

Prince Zhao Qichen was also shocked when he heard the proclamation of his subordinates not long ago, and the whole person couldn't calm down for a long time, how much he hoped that the news he received was fake, but the ending was very unsatisfactory, the news received was sent from the flag order tower of the base camp of the army, and the flag soldiers of the army sent the news that the general Liu Deqing was ready to fight in person, then, will this news be fake?

It is rumored that Liu Deqing led the army to fight, and under normal circumstances, he either fell asleep in the commander's tent or drank a little wine in the commander's tent, picking at his stinky feet.

But there are exceptions to everything, that is, when the siege of the city for a long time is fruitless, Liu Deqing will choose to fight in person, and the corresponding is to slaughter the city.

If the defenders of the city do not surrender, they will threaten to slaughter the city, and with the threat from Liu Deqing, the timid and fearful city defender will generally choose to open the city gate and surrender.

But there are also loyal martyrs who will not surrender, and the consequence of not surrendering is that Liu Deqing will personally go into battle and then slaughter the city.

Liu Deqing's prestige is really outstanding, and he is eloquent and strategic. However, Liu Deqing is usually very careless.

When Liu Deqing personally came forward to persuade him to surrender and the city did not fall, Liu Deqing would choose to attack the city in person, and he would never retreat if he did not capture the city, no matter how difficult it was or how tiring it was, until he captured the city.

The first thing he did after capturing the city was to order the slaughter of the city, killing all the soldiers and young men in the city, leaving only women, old people and children.

According to General Liu's words: "The dignity of this commander cannot be trampled on, unless it is washed away with blood." ”

If there are an average of 100,000 young men and soldiers in a city, then ten cities are one million people, and one million people are slaughtered!

Therefore, Liu Deqing can make the soldiers defending the city feel cold, the generals who defend the city feel frightened, and the generals of other countries can feel cold and frightened, and the generals of other countries secretly call Liu Deqing an executioner.

Historically, the founding ancestor of the Lin State, Yugong Page, has also slaughtered the city many times.

In May 207 of the Central Plains, Yu Gongye led his subordinates to attack the military stronghold of Xiangyang, and after a hard battle, he finally captured Xiangcheng, but he was angry with the unwavering resistance of the defenders and the neutral style of the people, and wantonly slaughtered the city.

In July 210 of the Central Plains, Yu Gongye led an army to attack Chengyang, and after capturing Chengyang, he once again adopted the method of slaughtering the city to end the cleaning of the battlefield.

Liu Peigong, the founding ancestor of the country, and Lin Guotaizu Yugong are also better than each other.

Liu Peigong led people to Yingyang, one of the most densely populated commercial centers of the He Dynasty, when Liu Peigong killed 160,000 soldiers and civilians, old and weak, women and children.

Liu Peigong led a team of tens of thousands of people to slaughter the Wuguan of the He Dynasty, Wuguan is the only way to the country of He, the status is second only to Hangu Pass, the He Dynasty sent a large number of soldiers and people to guard, it can be seen that the number of defenders of Wuguan at that time plus the people of the He Dynasty should be at least seven times that of tens of thousands of people brought by Liu Peigong, both Tu Wuguan is a non-stay, the lowest conservative estimate is that Liu Peigong slaughtered Wuguan at least 100,000 soldiers and civilians of the He Dynasty to defend the city.

When the ministers in the East Palace Hall heard that Liu Deqing was preparing to fight in person, some of the ministers' hearts were about to jump out of their chests, and the less timid ministers simply turned their faces purple.

"What, the executioner Liu Deqing is ready to fight in person?"

The right prime minister Zhang Zhaozhong was so frightened that he stood up unconsciously, and he couldn't help but feel that the right prime minister Zhang Zhaozhong was not afraid, if the right prime minister Zhang Zhaozhong was alone, he would not be afraid of any gods and demons coming to attack the city, and his head would not fall off but the big scar at the mouth of the bowl, but none of the ministers in the hall were all a big family, and it didn't matter if he died, but all the big people behind him were killed, who could not feel frightened.

"Yes. Now the country is strong, Liu Deqing's army is strong and strong, our country is weak, and Liu Deqing beat only one Lin'an Mansion and some other remote areas, if Lin'an Mansion is destroyed again, the Mu Kingdom will no longer exist. ”

Generalissimo Wu Pingfan, who was sitting next to the crown prince Zhao Qichen, looked around at the ministers in the hall of the East Palace, and said with a sad face.

If Lin'an Mansion is destroyed, then the Mu Kingdom will no longer exist, and it also means that many ministers of the Mu Kingdom's court, imperial relatives, and dignitaries of the noble clan will become prisoners on the street, and the best outcome may be ordinary civilians.

"Just now, the flag soldiers on the outer city wall of Lin'an Mansion came with news that Liu Deqing is making the final transfer of troops for the battle in person!"

Prince Zhao Qichen said with a worried face.

"The news that the executioner Liu Deqing is preparing to attack the city in person cannot be revealed, otherwise, I am not afraid that the soldiers will mutiny, or I am afraid that the young men in the city will rise up and rebel!"

Right Prime Minister Zhang Zhaozhong thought for a while and said.

"This temple knows! The leakage of the news has long been stopped, and the news has been controlled. ”

The prince of Muguo had a bamboo on his face, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, as if he suddenly remembered something, and said to himself: "I wonder if General Gudebai will succeed in asking for help from the Donghu Khanate?" ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, what General Gudebai went to ask the Donghu people for help?"

Generalissimo Wu Pingfan, who was sitting next to the prince, heard the prince Zhao Qichen's self-talk, and couldn't help but tremble, frowned, and asked in a loud voice.

"Oh~~ That's it! Half a month ago, when Liu Deqing had not led the army to Lin'an Mansion, the main body of the palace secretly ordered the general of the secret guard, General Goodbai, to go north to the Donghu Khanate with the secret decree of the palace, and ask for help from the Donghu Khan in the name of the palace to see if he could borrow troops from the Hu people. The prince explained.

"Nonsense!"

When the generalissimo of Mu Guo heard this, he stood up in anger and yelled at the crown prince.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, can you send Hu Ren with the emperor's permission?" The Generalissimo asked.

"No, at that time, Liu Deqing led his troops to Lin'an Mansion, and General Goodbai carried out the order not far from the boundary of the Hu people, and the palace did not rush to ask his father for instructions and issued an order to General Goodbai to ask for help from the Hu people, and then Liu Deqing attacked the imperial city, and the palace forgot about it."

The crown prince Zhao Qichen thinks that this is not a big deal, as long as the Mu Kingdom is not destroyed, it is not too much, besides, as the prince of a country, he thinks he has the right to make such a decision.

The prince was yelled at by the generalissimo, and the people were stunned, and they didn't know why the generalissimo's uncle was so angry.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, it's not the old minister who said you, you are in trouble, this disaster can be big or small, to say that you have attracted the Hu people to interfere in the internal affairs of our Han people, if the Hu people attack the Central Plains in the future, you will be the sinner of the Han people through the ages.

The Hu people have always wanted to invade the Central Plains, but they were blocked by the Central Plains countries.

Do you know that there is an unwritten rule among countries, that is, in the case of a crisis in a country that is blocking the invasion of the Hu people, the countries of the Central Plains must have money to contribute, and no money to contribute, and other countries must not fall into the well even if they do not want to help, even if there are great grievances between countries, they must be temporarily put aside.

To put it mildly, His Royal Highness the Prince, you have invited the Hu people to interfere in the internal affairs of the Central Plains countries, even if the country is attacking our country now, but the country is unknown, other countries can condemn the country and aid our country, but if Your Highness you attract the Hu people, the war of the country attacking our country will become famous, and the wood country will become a Central Plains country that fornicates with the Hu people, and all countries dare not help even if they want to help our country, because any country will not assist the Hu people. ”

Generalissimo Mu Guo said earnestly to the crown prince Zhao Qichen.

The crown prince Zhao Qichen said this by Generalissimo Wu Pingfan, and after thinking about it, he found that what the generalissimo's uncle said was all reasonable, his face changed from ruddy to iron-blue, and he couldn't help but regret that his intestines were green.