Xu Wenxu carefully taught his youngest son Xu Hui, and when the eldest son came back, he explained to the eldest son that he was about to go to Leizhou, and told the eldest son in detail about Liu Zheng's promise and the future of the father and son, and sent the two sons away. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After the two sons left, Xu Wenxu stood at the door of the study and silently looked at the sky and pondered, and his eyes became deeper and deeper.

Although he denied that he was excluded before, but after thinking about it now, he found that his current situation, although he was not really excluded, was almost the same.

Why did Hu Yi say such a thing to his youngest son? It must have been Hu Dongyuan who said something similar at home. What does Hu Dongyuan mean when he says such a thing, it means that Hu Dongyuan is not optimistic about his Xu Wenxu's future, thinking that he Xu Wenxu has done so many things before, and he will inevitably be excluded from the core team by Liu Zheng.

It should not only be Hu Dongyuan who has this idea, Qin Haiqing, Pan Feiyue, Jia Wenxiong and even Zhou Yun and others who are close to Hu Dongyuan may have this idea.

Xu Wenxu doesn't blame them for thinking so, people are powerful, and what he Xu Wenxu did before, especially in Tu Jiaojiao's matter, made mistakes, and it is normal for people to suspect that the lord has hated him.

Unfortunately, things are not as they think.

"Alas!" Xu Wenxu sighed softly: "The lord is the lord, if it's you, I can't guess it!" ”

After saying this, after a long time, Xu Wenxu said to himself again: "This is a good opportunity for me Xu Wenxu, if I seize it and do it to the satisfaction of the lord, then I will leave all of you behind!" ”

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Liu Zheng was dispatching troops in Linqing, and Wanli in the Forbidden City was also busy dispatching troops, but he was not transferring real soldiers, but Jinyiwei and Dongchang.

Looking at the huge map hanging on the wall, Wanli sighed softly and said, "This Liu Zheng has commanded my army!" ”

Chen Ju and Luo Sigong, who were standing beside Wanli, glanced at each other, neither of them spoke, and they all silently lowered their heads and looked at the tiles at their feet.

Fortunately, Wanli was also talking to himself, and he didn't mean to ask the two of them to answer, and after looking at the map for a while, he spoke again: "Luo Sigong, Chen Ju, you say, does Liu Zheng really want to help me this time, or does he have another plan?" ”

How do you take this? I can't pick it up! If you want to say that Liu Zheng is sincere, it is obviously impossible, you say that Liu Zheng has other plans, which is true, but what is he plotting? They couldn't figure this out at all.

The two glanced at each other again, Luo Sigong saw the meaning of opening his mouth from Chen Ju's gaze, sighed silently in his heart, and hesitated for a moment before opening his mouth.

"Your Majesty, the people arranged by the minister in Shandong sent back the news that Liu Zheng was indeed preparing to send troops, and it was said that he was going to send 30,000 people to North Korea and 20,000 to Banzhou, so that he would only have less than 40,000 people left."

Liu Zheng recruited 40,000 recruits in Linqing, Luo Sigong reported to Wanli early, and Wanli knew how many troops Liu Zheng had in his hands.

However, there is a big error in this number known by Wanli, Luo Sigong and others, and the reason is that when Liu Zheng attacked Deng and Laifu, those commanders and envoys of Zhizhou, Zhixian and Wei, in order to cover up their defeats and leave a way for themselves to live, lied about a lot of enemy annihilation figures, and the captured people basically did not mention it, only saying that most of them disappeared or escaped after the defeat.

Wanli pondered for a while before he spoke: "So, Liu Zheng only left 10,000 old soldiers plus 30,000 recruits? He just looks down on me like that? ”

As soon as Luo Sigong and Chen Ju heard this, sweat immediately broke out on their foreheads, Wanli's words are not easy to pick up, if you want to say that Liu Zheng looks up to Your Majesty, then how do you explain why Liu Zheng only left 10,000 old soldiers and 30,000 recruits? Liu Zheng's combination of the remaining troops is enough to show that he is not afraid of the court stabbing him in the back with these people!

If you want to say that Liu Zheng looks down on Your Majesty, then ...... Hehe! You're not going to sit under your ass, what's wrong?

Luo Sigong and Chen Ju looked at each other again, but this time Luo Sigong refused to speak, he told Chen Ju with his eyes, if I took it last time, it was your turn this time.

Chen Ju was helpless, and after thinking for a while, he replied: "Your Majesty, Liu Zheng is so fearless, or because he thinks that you will not go to ask for him, after all, he clearly said it in his Mingfa recital, it is to share your Majesty's worries!" ”

Speaking of this, Chen Ju paused slightly before continuing: "Your Majesty, a gentleman can be bullied, let alone His Majesty who is a golden mouth?" Liu Zheng is using this excerpt to gag your mouth, Your Majesty! ”

Wanli looked at the map with his hands behind his back, and was silent for a long time before he asked again: "Then you say, is he allowed or not?" ”

Chen Ju's forehead was sweating again, it has become more and more difficult to receive His Majesty's words recently, and it is more and more necessary to be careful when following His Majesty's side, otherwise if he suddenly says something wrong one day, it will be light, and if he doesn't make trouble, he will have to take this life into it.

This time, if you don't answer well, you may lose your life, Chen Ju looked at Luo Sigong for help, but found that Luo Sigong glanced at it early, Chen Ju cursed a few words in his heart, but he could only scold twice, he Chen Ju couldn't do anything about Luo Sigong, without the suppression of the old dog, this Luo Sigong and his brocade guard had completely raised their heads.

After thinking about it for a while, Chen Ju spoke before Wanli lost his patience.

"Your Majesty, the old slave is a eunuch who has no eggs, how can the old slave know these things, Your Majesty asks the old slave, it is better to ask the two elders of the cabinet!"

Wanli laughed and said: "Chen Ju, you old eunuch, I don't know your thoughts yet, I still want to hear your thoughts today, but you don't have to be afraid, no matter what you say wrong today, I will forgive you for your innocence, you can rest assured." ”

At this moment, Chen Ju had no choice but to bite the bullet and say: "Your Majesty, in the humble opinion of the old slave, it is better to allow Liu Zheng's excerpt!" ”

Wanli suddenly became interested and said, "What do you mean by this?" Listen to me! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Chen Ju saluted Wanli and said: "Your Majesty, the two cabinet elders are probably no longer thinking about North Korea now, judging from their previous arrangements, this is planning to withdraw the imperial army's army from Korea, first stabilize the country, and help North Korea fight the Japanese!" ”

Chen Ju's words came to this, Wanli's face was already dark, but he didn't speak, just snorted heavily, and motioned for Chen Ju to continue.

Chen Ju was also helpless, thinking in his heart, the two elders are sorry, in order to save our family's small life, we can only sell the two of you, with the two of you in front, our family can live a few more days.