On the first day of the fifth month, in the morning. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhao Ziliang had just finished reviewing the official document and played a few tricks on the practice ground in the palace, and Wang Can hurriedly walked over.

Zhao Ziliang put down the horse lance and exhaled a breath of turbidity, picked up a towel to wipe his sweat and asked, "Wang Can, the few big cannibals that were caught have already confessed?" ”

"Yes, the person who did not confess under the punishment of Dongchang has not yet been seen by the general!" Wang Can said, and hesitated: "It's not ・・・・・・."

Zhao Ziliang threw the horse lance to his son Zhao Lei, picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip of tea and asked, "But what?" When did you start talking slurred? Was it at the behest of the Great Eclipse Prince Mahdi? ”

Wang Can said: "Yes, it was indeed instructed by Mahdi!" Now that there are these three big cannibals to testify against Mahdi, we can tell the Eastern Roman Empire what we really want to do, if there is a kind of Eastern Roman Empire, let the Eastern Roman Empire go to the trouble of the big cannibals, we can stay out of the matter, but the last general has just received news from the Bulgarian Khanate, on the tenth day of April, the Bulgarian Khan King Winnech died of illness, and his son Terötz succeeded to the throne as the Khan! Terötz was more greedy, brutal and belligerent than his father Winnech, and he had made it clear at the meeting of the nobility within the Khanate that he was ready to launch an attack on the Eastern Roman Empire, and the nobles of the Bulgarian Khanate were very supportive of this, which further boosted the arrogance of Terötz, and a large number of Pechenegs and Magyars invaded the northern border of the Bulgarian Khanate to the south, and a large number of northern Bulgarians had to migrate south to the northern border of the Eastern Roman Empire. After these people stopped on the northern border of the Eastern Roman Empire, they changed the habit of the Bulgarians to grab and leave, they not only grabbed the northern border of the Eastern Roman Empire, but also relied on it, occupying the local fertile land and houses, as if they were the masters there, and they also instigated many Bulgarians and Serbs in the Eastern Roman Empire to revolt, and the northern part of the Eastern Roman Empire was in danger at this time! If we now transfer the contradiction between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Great Cannibals, I am afraid that the Eastern Roman Empire will not have time to look east at this time! ”

Zhao Ziliang listened to Wang Can's words and said: "This king originally wanted Zhao Hu to send a small force of troops and horses to drive the Pechenegs and Magyars behind from time to time, so that they had to invade to the south, so that the Bulgarian Khanate could concentrate its forces in the north to resist the invasion of the Pechenegs and Mazars, and let the Eastern Roman Empire free up its hands to fight with the big cannibals, but he didn't think that the Bulgarians were so useless, they didn't dare to fight with the Pechenegs and Magyars, but they dared to go to the south to grab the Eastern Roman Empire, This really verifies a truth: civilized people are afraid of barbarians, barbarians are afraid of people who don't want to die, the Eastern Roman Empire is considered a civilized person, while the Bulgarians are barbarians, and the Pechenegs and Magyars now want to survive and have to find the Bulgarians desperately, the Bulgarians dare not fight with the Pechenegs and Magyars, and only dare to rob the Eastern Roman Empire, this relationship is really strange! But what does this have to do with us? Is it a matter of life or death in the Eastern Roman Empire? Poke the matter to the Eastern Roman Empire and let them worry about it themselves, whether they swallow their anger or find a big cannibal desperately, it has nothing to do with us, let's sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight! ”

"Yes, the last general will arrange it later!" Wang Can clenched his fists in agreement, and then asked, "However, what if the Eastern Roman side asks us to hand over the Mahdi, the prince of the Great Eclipse King, to them for disposal?" How do we respond? ”

Zhao Ziliang turned his head to look at Wang Can: "Ask us to hand over the Great Food Prince to them for disposal?" Did the Eastern Romans have problems with their brains? Not to mention that he is the prince of the Great Eclipse and was an envoy before, even if he is just an ordinary Great Cannibal, since he is in our territory in Western Qin, we can't hand him over to other countries for anything to dispose of, otherwise outsiders will think that our Western Qin is afraid of him in the Eastern Roman Empire! They said they wanted us to hand over someone, and we would hand them over? Where will we put the face of Xiqin? Mahdi instructed his subordinates in my Western Qin's sphere of influence and hired mercenaries to kill the Eastern Roman envoy Julius, how to deal with him is of course up to our Western Qin officials, and the crime he committed is not small, this king will let the Judicial Temple conduct a trial, and how to judge it will naturally be decided by my Western Qin law."

Wang Can said: "Great King, if Mahdi's crime really needs to be judged according to the law, it should be executed, but we really want to kill him?" If we really kill Mahdi, then we are afraid that the relationship between Western Qin and the Great Food Kingdom will directly turn around, although the Great Food Caliph Mansur will not go to war with us for such a son, but the relationship between the two countries will definitely fall into a stalemate earlier than we expected! ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said, "What you said is not unreasonable! Zhao Lei, what do you think we should do about this matter? ”

Zhao Lei said: "Father, the child thinks that we can be a little more lenient in the sentence and imprison Mahdi for ten or fifteen years, so that we can not only maintain the national prestige of our Western Qin in front of the Eastern Roman Empire, but also save some face for the big cannibals, and at the same time show the world that anyone who commits a crime in my Western Qin will be punished, even if it is a prince." If we behead the Mahdi, we have not curried favor with the Eastern Roman Empire, but we have made enemies with the Great Food Eater, which is what the wise man will not do! The child thinks that this matter may be able to turn a bad thing into a good thing, and the big cannibal wants to provoke the dispute between my Western Qin and Eastern Rome, why don't we show the conspiracy of the big cannibal to the Eastern Romans, and let the Eastern Romans find the bad luck of the big cannibal? We have so many evidence witnesses in our hands, even if the Eastern Romans don't catch the current situation of the Great Cannibal, they will still believe these witnesses and evidence to a large extent."

Zhao Ziliang was quite satisfied after hearing this, and said to Wang Can: "Zhao Lei's suggestion is good, and it has won my heart. That's what I think is going to do. Tomorrow I will send someone to bring Zonaras, the deputy envoy of the Eastern Roman Empire, to tell him about Julius, and you can also come over and tell him the specific situation, show him the transcript of the interrogation, and then take him to see the three great cannibals who have confessed, and let those three people tell Zonaras about the conspiracy of the great cannibals! ”

"Yes, King!"

After Wang Can left, Zhao Ziliang said to Zhao Lei: "Lei'er, do you know why your father asked someone to bring you here today?" ”

Zhao Lei said: "Father, the child doesn't know!" Father, please make it clear."

Zhao Ziliang said: "You are twenty-three years old this year, and you have three children, and you fought a few battles with your father last year, but your military experience is not enough, you don't have the ability to lead the army alone, you are a lot worse than you in this regard, but don't be discouraged, you just haven't had the opportunity to be exercised and displayed, your potential in this area is actually not worse than your third brother, or even stronger, but you haven't tapped it yet!" My father called you here this time, just to give you a chance to fully exercise and give full play to your military talents, and now Huo Kan is leading the Fifth Army to fight against the Bulgarians in the northwest, what do you think of your father wanting you to go under him as a general? ”

Zhao Lei hurriedly said: "Thank you for this opportunity given by your father, and you will definitely live up to your father's expectations!" ”

"The opportunity is given to you, whether you can grasp it, whether you can hone yourself in this war, whether you can put what you have learned into practice, whether you can integrate what you have learned in practice, it depends on you. As a Father, I would like to remind you that what is in the book may not be suitable for practical use, and that you need to be flexible! ”

Zhao Lei saluted: "Yes, the child remembers!" ”

"Good! For the first time, my father used his privilege to promote you to a military rank and to colonel, but being promoted from colonel to major general is a hurdle, and whether you can buy this hurdle and squeeze into the ranks of generals depends on your own performance and ability! Tomorrow, I will go to the Military Aircraft Institute to handle the transfer."

"Yes, Father!"

On the morning of the second day of the fifth month.

After receiving the notice, Zonaras, the deputy envoy of the Eastern Roman Empire, came to the palace of the Western Qin Dynasty, where he was received by the officials of the secretary and superintendent and took him to see Zhao Ziliang.

"Your Excellency Zonaras, the Deputy Envoy of the Eastern Roman Empire, has arrived!"

Zhao Ziliang put down the brush in his hand and said to Zonaras: "Your Excellency the Deputy Envoy, there is something that needs to be told to you by this king in person, I hope you are mentally prepared・・・・・・ ten days ago, His Excellency Julius was killed on the way back to China!" ”

"What? Is Lord Julius dead? Zonaras turned pale when he heard this, stumbled on his feet, and almost fell to the ground.

"Lord Zonaras, are you alright? Somebody, move a chair for His Excellency Zonaras to sit down."

Immediately, an attendant brought a chair, and Zonaras sat on the chair with the support of the attendant, and he finally stabilized his mood and immediately asked, "King, who did it?" Have you found out? ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "It is clear that it was the big cannibals who did it, they launched an operation in the territory of Flower Thorn Zimo, and seven of the eight trappers we sent to escort His Excellency Julius back to China were killed, and the remaining one was seriously injured and fell into a coma, and he was lucky to survive, His Excellency Julius and his entourage were all cut off by the big cannibals・・・・・・"

"Oh God, those people are so cruel, they all deserve hell!" Zonaras closed his eyes in pain and drew a cross on his chest.

Zhao Ziliang continued: "There are a total of thirteen people in the Great Eater, and they also hired thirty mercenaries, and after they killed His Excellency Julius, there was internal strife, and the Great Eater killed the other mercenaries in order to prevent leakage of the news. In the process of pursuing and apprehending the perpetrators, ten of the perpetrators were killed or killed by suicide, and only three were captured by us! After interrogation, the three confessed that it was instructed and arranged by Mahdi, the prince of the Great Eclipse, and that the person who came forward to contact him was the deputy envoy Aziz, and the reason why Mahdi did this was for two purposes: first, he hated Julius for always opposing him during the time of Hengrus, and in order to take revenge, he sent someone to kill him; Second, if you do something within the sphere of influence of our Western Qin, you can blame us for Western Qin, but the relationship between our country and the Eastern Roman Empire has become bad, and even provoke a war between our two countries!