Outside the county government in Juzhang, Xu Sheng, the king of Yue, gently opened the curtain of the carriage, looked at the closed gate of the county government in front of him, and frowned deeply.

The general Xu Chang was also worried, turned the horse's head, rode from the front of the queue to the carriage, and then pointed to the closed gate and asked, "Father, how is this good, Mo Buerchen will take a few foot soldiers to test it first." ”

Xu Sheng didn't answer his son's question first, but his expression was solemn and he reprimanded: "In this battlefield battle, how can the father and son say? Don't you think this is still a mess in the palace? ”

"The king reprimanded that it was the last general who overpassed."

Listening to his son's confessional answer, Xu Sheng bowed slightly, and a hint of love and pity flashed in his eyes - it was not his intention to be so strict with Xu Chang. It's just that he is forty years old, and it is unknown how many days are left in the future, and the great rivers and mountains of the Yue country will eventually be passed on to his only son, for the sake of the ancestors.

"Look." Thinking of this, Xu Sheng raised his finger and pointed to the walls on both sides of the gate, the walls were about two zhang high, and they were painted with chalk.

Xu Chang followed Xu Sheng's finger and looked at it for a long time, but he still didn't see a name: "Forgive the end of the general is foolish, and he can't understand the king's intentions." ”

Xu Sheng snorted coldly and said: "This wall seems to be unmanned, but there will be ambushes behind it!" Ji Ming, I ask you, what would happen if you drove your troops forward, and a salvo of bows and crossbows burst out on the inside of the wall? ”

Hearing this, cold sweat trickled down Xu Chang's forehead, and his voice trembled: "That...... Even...... Yes...... Heavy casualties...... bar. ”

Xu Sheng glanced at Xu Chang, and then said in a long voice:

"The son of a daughter does not sit in the hanging hall, but in vain the courage of the horseman, and this is your sin."

"The way of the art of war, use it with fiction and reality, act without thinking, and rashly send troops, this is your second sin."

"Hmm~" Speaking of this, Xu Sheng pondered for a while, but suddenly he couldn't think of a third crime, so he had to say: "You know the guilt?" ”

"The last will be convicted." Hearing Xu Sheng's words so serious, Xu Chang hurriedly dismounted and bowed down to apologize.

"That's good." Xu Sheng took a foot of his long beard and continued: "The widow will order you to make meritorious service for your crimes, remember, go to the queue and select a few soldiers with long shields, and let them march in formation. ”

"Whoa." Xu Chang got up and answered and was ordered to leave.

After a while, Xu Chang selected four soldiers, and then under the gaze of everyone, these four soldiers held long shields and slowly approached the county government.

Waiting for the four soldiers to reach the halfway point, Xu Sheng looked up at the bare courtyard wall, and his eyes flashed, "At that time! ”

However, the bare courtyard walls are still lifeless.

"Hmm—it must be to lure the enemy deeper." Xu Sheng took his long beard, confident, and was unmoved.

Then the four soldiers walked to the gate of the county government gate calmly, and when they saw this, Xu Chang came over again, and asked Xu Sheng, who was still calm, "Your Majesty, what should I do now?" ”

Xu Sheng sighed: "The army is pressing, but the defenders in the city are as stable as a mountain!" Unexpectedly, this Li Zhao also had the essence of the art of war, but in the past, he was underestimated by the widow. ”

After saying this, Xu Sheng's voice became serious, and he instructed Xu Chang: "General, pass on the order of the widow, and the whole army will be pressed!" ”

"Your Majesty!" Xu Chang's eyes widened, "The whole army is pressing?" ”

Listening to Xu Chang's suspicious tone, Xu Sheng sighed in disappointment—this son is not a widow—but still explained:

"The soldiers are fast, if you linger in this sentence for too long, the other counties will inevitably be on guard.

"Besides, the art of war also has clouds, 'so use the law of war, ten are to surround it, five to attack it, and to fight it twice', the patrol soldiers in this sentence are only twenty or thirty number, and my Dayue soldiers are ten times as many as them, and Li Zhao is just a mantis with his arms."

"Alright, General, let's go."

"Whoa." Xu Chang saluted and retreated, and then the Da Yue soldiers under his command, lined up to rush to the county government to kill, Xu Sheng watched all this quietly from the carriage, he knew that such a rush to kill, it was inevitable to be injured, but Da Yue couldn't afford it!

Thinking of this, Xu Sheng's eyes flashed again, and his voice was extremely low: "Li Zhao, the widow will kill you to sacrifice my Dayue heroic soul." ”

"Your Majesty."

"What?" Xu Sheng looked at his son who rode over again, and was a little dissatisfied, shouldn't he be in front of him to command the battle at this time, what are you doing here?

"Your Majesty, please see." Xu Chang pointed to the gate of the county government that had been knocked open.

"Nobody?" Looking at the empty door, Xu Sheng frowned, but then his eyes rolled and he said categorically: "The ambush must be in ambush in the county government!" Well, the widow understood, Li Zhao was showing weakness to the enemy, and then lured the widow to go in and carry out the plan to capture the king. ”

"General."

"The minister is here."

"You send some soldiers to go in and search carefully, don't let go of any corner, if you catch Li Zhao, a thief, don't harm his life for the time being."

"Your Majesty, why is that?" Xu Chang looked puzzled.

Xu Sheng replied: "Although this Li Zhao is a rebel, he also has some talents, if he can abandon the dark and cast the light for the use of the widow, it will be a good story." ”

"The king is wise."

"Okay, don't say these sycophants, go ahead."

……

Two quarters of an hour later, Xu Sheng, the king of Yue, sat in the first seat of the main hall of the county government with a somewhat cloudy face, and the lower one was full of civil and military ministers of the Yue Kingdom.

Xu Sheng never thought that this county government was actually empty, and the county ordered Li Zhao to run away without a trace; Logically speaking, this should be a good thing, but Xu Sheng was not happy, because how much wisdom he seemed to hold before, how much he looked like a fool now.

Therefore, Xu Sheng widened his eyes and glanced down, hoping to find an unknown minister to reprimand him to relieve the embarrassment in his heart, but all the ministers below held their breath and bowed their heads, obviously they also knew that the king was in a bad mood at the moment.

The search was fruitless, and he scolded secretly in his heart, "This group of ministers", Xu Sheng had no choice but to pretend to be calm and said: "In this battle, my Dayue will occupy the entire territory of Juzhang without losing a single soldier, and this God bless me Dayue!." ”

The important ministers suddenly felt like they had been amnestied, and said in unison: "The ministers are the king's congratulations!" ”

"The widow once heard, 'Those who are good at using people in ancient times will follow the heavens and follow the people and reward and punish them.'" Follow the sky, then use little effort and make a difference; If you obey the person, the punishment will be omitted and the order will be carried out; If the rewards and punishments are clear, then the thieves and thieves will not be chaotic. In this way, there is a difference between white and black'. ”

"Today's ministers have contributed to my Dayue Sheji, and they must be rewarded."

"This is all due to the high virtue of the king, not the work of the minister, the minister does not dare to steal the evidence, and asks the king to take back his fate." When Xu Ming, the general of Zhenghan Zhonglang, heard Xu Sheng's words, he couldn't help but salute and excuse himself.

Xu Sheng was suddenly relieved in his heart, singing a one-man show has never been a good taste, but although he favored Xu Ming's behavior in his heart, on the surface, Xu Sheng had a straight face, and reprimanded: "Ming rewards and punishments, and promotes meritocracy, this is the way of the master, and you want to be lonely and have no way?" ”

"Don't dare!" Xu Ming hurriedly said in panic.

"Xuchang!" Xu Sheng looked at his son.

The general Xu Chang came out of the column and said: "The minister is here." ”

"The widow named you as the marquis of Juzhang County."

"Thank you, the king!"

After that, according to the size of the official position, Xu Sheng wrote a number of ministers to the county marquis, township marquis, pavilion marquis and other titles, and after the rewards were shared, Xu Sheng said again: "Xu Ming, the widow ordered you to quickly take the prime minister to ......." ”

Saying this, Xu Sheng glanced up at the roof of the county yazheng hall, and continued: "Zhixingyue Palace came to discuss matters. ”

"The minister commands." Xu Ming responded, turned around and walked out of the main hall.

"Xuchang, the widow ordered you to order a hundred soldiers, take over the city ban, and welcome my eight hundred soldiers and their families outside the city into the city."

"The minister commands."

Waiting for Xu Chang to leave, Xu Sheng pondered for a while, and then said: "As for the princes, according to the size of the position, each perform its own duties, the widow is also a little tired, and he wants to go to the Qinzheng Palace to rest for a while." ”

All the ministers bowed down and said, "Congratulations to the king." ”

"Hmm." Xu Sheng bowed slightly, walked out of the main hall, and under the escort of two soldiers, he went to the wing room where the county commander temporarily lived in the county yazhong.

……

In the afternoon, Xu Sheng woke up from his dream, changed into a new uniform, and walked to the county government hall under the escort of the soldiers at the door, where Prime Minister Xu He had been waiting for a long time.

"I've seen the king." Xu He saw Xu Sheng's figure and hurriedly saluted.

"Prime Minister, didn't the widow say that the prime minister is really the father of the widow, why do you need so much courtesy?" Xu Sheng hurriedly stepped forward to help Xu He, slightly dissatisfied.

Pulling Xu He to the main hall, Xu Sheng couldn't wait to ask: "I don't know that with today's situation, the prime minister can teach the widow?" ”

Xu He glanced up at Xu Sheng's face lightly, and arched his hand: "Presumably the king has a holy judgment." ”

"Haha." Xu Sheng laughed a few times, holding Xu He's hand and said: "Those who know me, the prime minister!" The widow has made up his mind, and wants to go out of Shanyin and take the meeting in one fell swoop. ”

Since the fourth year of Yongjian, the counties north of Zhejiang Province have become Wu County, and Wu County has become the county of Wu County, and Shanyin has become the new county of Huiji County.

"Then dare to ask the king, where do the soldiers come from?"

"I am a thousand elite soldiers of my Dayue!"

Xu He sighed in his heart, it was not good to directly hit Xu Sheng's full self-confidence, so he had to detour from the side: "If the four counties of Cheng County, Yin County, Tan County, and Yuyao attack the sentence from all sides, what should the king do?" ”

"This—" Xu Shengwei said.

"Your Majesty!" Xu He's expression suddenly became serious, "These four counties are in the sentence, if the limbs are at the head of the people, the king should take the four counties first, and then go to the troubles, and then he can plot against Shanyin." ”

"Besides, the traitor Li Zhao escaped, he must go to Shanyin, presumably he is already halfway through at this time, and when the king sends troops, Shanyin must be heavily guarded, and I am afraid that he must attack urgently."

After saying all this, Xu He fell to his knees with a thud: "What the old minister said is from the bottom of his heart, may the king learn from it." ”

"Alas, alas, how are you, old prime minister, hurry up."

Xu He was unmoved, still kneeling firmly on the ground.

Seeing this, Xu Sheng hesitated for a moment, then stomped his feet, and said helplessly: "Okay, the widow is the prime minister." ”

"The king."