Chapter 16: I'm Not Sure!
Chongsui played tricks and entered the capital in advance. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoThis is the largest court meeting since Liu Penzi ascended the throne. All the civil and military forces above the third grade of Chu County have arrived, not to mention the great Sima and the great general Chongsui who came from afar. However, playing tricks made the fundraising work hasty and abnormal, Zhang Jiuri and Wu Zhiping were very busy and asked Sun Long to help arrange it. At this time, Sun Long remembered his personal retinue of the Son of Heaven, and stammered:
"I'm dear and deafening. You have to follow Your Majesty! ā
As the court meeting approached, the courtiers came one after another. Chongsui was followed by more than a dozen fierce warriors, and a white-bearded old man beside him had a strange posture. Slightly rickety, but his eyes are sharp, his hands are hanging down his knees, and he enters the court to greet others, his face is like water, and he is silent. He immediately attracted Liu Penzi's attention:
"Who is the old man standing beside Da Sima?"
"Your Majesty, this is Qiu Xi, the protector of the minister's account, known as Beiweng"
Said Qiu Ci, Liu Penzi may not remember, but said "Bei Weng" is known to everyone in the world, before he came out of the office, Liu Lang in Handan, Hebei Province called the emperor, and repeatedly invited him to be the director, and promised a thousand taels of gold, Qiu Ci was sick. At that time, Liu Lang occupied Handan, and Hebei was shaken. Liu Xiu was expelled by him to Yuyang Prefecture in Saibei, and he was as depressed as a lost dog. But Qiu Ci often told people that Liu Lang would definitely be defeated by Liu Xiu, and Hebei would soon return to Liu Xiu. Later, Liu Lang and his gang disappeared in less than half a year. The people of the time recited, and they all said that Beiweng has the wisdom of the sky.
Subsequently, Qiu Ci offered a plan to destroy Yu on a false journey, and helped Chongsui defeat Liu Jia in Qingzhou in one fell swoop, Chongsui and Da Situ Luyan both played to ask Qiu Ci to be the marquis, and Liu Penzi named him the marquis of Guang'an, but Qiu Ci did not accept it on the grounds of thin merit and shallow virtue.
Seeing it today, Liu Penzi felt creepy, and couldn't help but praise against his will:
"People say that Beiweng has the wisdom of the sky, and I can see it today, and his temperament is extraordinary"
Qiu Xi turned around and thanked him, and said:
"The Son of Heaven praised falsely, Your Majesty is upright and youthful, and he is more benevolent and virtuous, just like a dragon and a phoenix", the four eyes were facing each other, Liu Penzi felt that Qiu Xi had the state of an eagle and a wolf, and he was disgusted.
At the beginning of the court meeting, first the great Situ Luyan led the ministers to congratulate the Son of Heaven, and the so-called congratulations were just to put out some of the achievements made by the basin regime since Liu Penzi ascended the throne, and put this merit hat on the head of the Son of Heaven. In addition to some hypocritical and pretentious words praising the character of the Son of Heaven, a few achievements were highlighted.
"Your Majesty since you ascended the throne, the four seas are all looking up, last month, the great Sima with the might of the heavenly soldiers to conquer Jiaodong, the whole territory of Qingzhou for Your Majesty. At the beginning of this month, Liu Ziyue, the general of the Great Sikong Liu Yue and Hu Ben, gathered and annihilated 100,000 thieves and soldiers of the first regime under Suiyang City, and captured countless soldiers, horses and weapons. ā
Liu Penzi was sitting upright on the dragon chair, but his mind was not here at all. He was waiting, Chongsui entered the capital in advance, but he didn't know if Liu Ziyue's soldiers and horses could arrive as scheduled. Therefore, at the time of the third watch, he sent Zhao Chunyang to lead a Gan person to wait for a fast horse to go to the west of the city, and asked him to come back from the truth. Nowadays, after the virtual text is played, Zhao Chunyang has not returned, and the soldiers and horses in the west of the city have not yet arrived, and the anxious Liu Penzi scolded his mother in his heart.
When Liu Penzi saw the bottom, Chongsui stepped out and said silently in his heart: "Medicine, medicine." Cutting trouble! I really can't hide from what I should have come," he said.
"What is Aiqing's performance, please speak"
"Your Majesty, although Qingzhou is peaceful, but after a year of fighting, the soldiers are slightly tired, and the flood season is approaching in Hebei, and the Yellow River is difficult to cross for a while. Now that I heard that the Tongma bandits in Hebei had risen again, Liu Xiu was tired of coping with it, and he was unable to attack Qingzhou in the south. The army does not need to be old, and the counties south of the Huai River are all former ministers of Wang Mang. Oral dissatisfied, he gathered to the north in the day, there are few fortifications in the south of my Chu County, and the army of Xiapi is not strong, the ministers will strike first, and the elite troops from Qingzhou are stationed in Xiapi, and the old department of Sizhi Mengluo conspired to go south, and pacified Huainan in one fell swoop! I hope Your Majesty will bow down."
Zhao Chunyang came by coincidence, just when Chongsui was playing the report, Liu Penzi listened to it:
"There are no soldiers and horses of Liu Ziyue in the west of the city, I will send people to keep an eye on them, and as soon as there are soldiers, I will report immediately"
Liu Penzi was dumbfounded, staring blankly at his feet, layers of fine sweat oozing from his forehead, and his hands clenched the dragon chair
"I don't know what Your Majesty means?" Chongsui saw that Liu Penzi was stunned and asked loudly.
Liu Penzi had an idea, and thought to himself, can he delay for a while
"Aiqing played, I have heard it clearly, the prime minister is old and seeks the country, just now the general Chongsui played, what does the prime minister think?"
Liu Penzi is usually tired of Da Situ Luyan's endless troubles, but today he hopes that he can play to the fullest, and it is best to spray for an hour, so that he can wait more and think more.
"Your Majesty, the soldiers are easy to get old, the flood season is approaching now, and Liu Xiu of Hebei is too busy to take care of himself, my Qingzhou soldiers are full of food, and if they can't quickly map Hebei, they should find another fighter. The general said that Huainan was unstable, and the minister thought so. In addition, the counties of Huainan are rich in food and talents, and now they are all in the hands of Wang Mang's officials in the old dynasty. Now Your Majesty ascended the throne, the world returned to the heart, it is time to make the Qingzhou soldiers with a great victory, rushing to pacify Huainan, the general played, the upper is the Son of Heaven, the lower is the people, the minister thinks it is very safe, the minister implores Your Majesty, surrender! ā
"The ministers and others all seconded the proposal, and your majesty must allow it!"
Obediently, Liu Penzi looked at it, and half of them supported Chongsui garrison Xiapi, Liu Penzi expected, these wall grasses may not know the true intentions of the garrison, but they know to stand in line and draw boundaries.
I saw Liu Penzi waving to Zhang Jiuri, the regular attendant, and said:
"Today's court meeting, there are a lot of people, it's not hot, and the ministers are also hot and unbearable, you quickly go and get more ice."
After sending Zhang Jiuri away, Liu Penzi cleared his throat. Slowly stood up from the dragon chair
"Ministers, what are we fighting for?"
The subordinate ministers have their own words, but it is nothing more than recovering the Han Dynasty and pacifying the world.
"Xinghan! The imperial power is just a peaceful world! Speaking of which, Liu Penzi also waved his hand, but unfortunately bumped into the armrest of the dragon chair, forcibly endured his grief and turned his hand back, and rubbed it hard with his other hand.
"Since it is a prosperous Han, who is a thief today? The initiator Wang Mang is dead, and people and horses have been arranged, and only Liu Xiu of Hebei, the first emperor of Chang'an, Gongsun Shu of Yizhou, and I and Liu Penzi are ready to do the emperor's business. Nowadays, the great Sikong is in Suiyang to fight the first regime of the Great Sima Zhu Wei, and the Great Sima Chongsui chose the opportunity to go north in Qingzhou to pacify Liu Xiu in Hebei, this is the right way, what we have to do is to take off the crown on the head of the group of thieves, so even if I don't wear anything on the top of my head, it will naturally shine! Liu Penzi said while observing the dynamics of the generals and civil officials, Da Situ Luyan buried his head deeply and couldn't see his expression. The general Chongsui seemed to be listening, but his eyes were firmly fixed on Liu Yilun, who was standing opposite. Speaking of this, someone in the quiet main palace applauded, Liu Penzi glared angrily, Sun Long hurriedly put away his hands and stood upright.
Liu Penzi continued, "And right now, Hebei is not peaceful, Chang'an is not down, and there are hundreds of thousands of mercenaries from Da Sima, but if you want to avoid the important and go to Huainan, I think it is not safe. Huainan soldiers are outnumbered, and it is difficult to protect themselves, so why go north to attack my city? At this time, if you can quickly conquer Hebei and take Luoyang, then the counties of Huainan will serve yourself without a fight! Therefore, the general's recital, I think it is not safe, and I am not allowed."
As soon as the words fell, Chongsui immediately raised his sword, Chongsui was born as a bandit, with a sense of evil courage, eight feet tall and under the fury, this time, everyone looked sideways, and they didn't dare to look directly.
"Your Majesty has been in the deep palace for a long time, and before you are called the Son of Heaven, you have never seen dancing with a sword or a sword, and you also understand military affairs and soldiers?!" As soon as this remark came out, everyone was shocked.