These days, in the court, one by one, they are competing to go.

And the last fifth didn't fight because he was fighting for something else, he was fighting for the commander!

Thinking of this, Ji Zheng couldn't help sighing, he had wronged the fifth child, he was obviously enjoying the supreme glory, but he was only willing to be a shadow.

As the saying goes, knowing a son is better than a father, and the abilities, conduct, and deeds of several sons are well understood. They all have a side that is like him, and there is a side that is not like him.

The fifth son was born in the army, he likes to go straight, and he does things cleanly and neatly, and he doesn't drag mud and water, in the eyes of the court, he is clean and self-conscious, and he doesn't join the battle for succession, just because he is an adult prince and can't avoid it. But the real reason is a secret that only three people understand.

And how to use to make the fifth son successfully obtain the qualification of commander, so that the other four sons have nothing to say, is something that Ji Zheng needs to think about. Four sons, which one is a fuel-efficient lamp.

The importance of the candidates for this expedition is as important as a mirror. Ji Zheng was unsure of the candidate for the crown prince, and the court had already complained. And this time against Baili, after the triumph of the army, the candidate for the crown prince has reached the time when he has to stand.

I wonder what kind of turbulent waves will be when this secret is revealed......

"You guys, let's grow up quickly. I'm getting old!"

Thinking of this, Ji Zheng, who had just felt relieved, felt infinite pressure again.

"Your Majesty, General Han of the Military Department asks to see you!"

"Elder Han, you must have played the battle strategy of the military headquarters this expedition to me, please invite him in. ”

After a while, General Han was taken into the imperial study by his eunuchs.

"Old minister, see the emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

"Old general, please get up and sit down!"

Ji Zheng said casually, but General Han still knelt straight on the ground and did not get up, and Ji Zheng showed doubts in his eyes.

"Old General, please get up and sit down. ”

"Your Majesty, the old minister implores the emperor to be the master of the three armies of Chuzhou!"

"What's wrong with the three armies of Chuzhou? You get up and speak. ”

Only then did General Han stand up and move to the side seat and sit down, "Your Majesty, last night, the three towns of Chuzhou sent a letter to the military headquarters. The southern expedition of the army is imminent, and the three armies of Chuzhou are also making preparations for the start.

Half of the military family members of the towns and cities returned to their hometowns, but they didn't want to be kidnapped and killed by gangsters on the way home. More than 2,000 military dependents were all slaughtered in the barren valley of Chuzhou. ”

"What? Who is so bold?" Ji Zheng was also stunned, his eyes widened, "The Three Towns Army of Chuzhou sits in Chuzhou, stabilizes Shenzhou, and has a social contribution with my Dayu, and someone dares to kill military dependents? What about Lu Sheng? Why didn't there be a report from Xuantian Mansion in Chuzhou?"

"Xuantianfu can't be blamed for this, because although Xuantianfu found these murdered military families, it didn't know that they were military families of the Three Towns Army. Early yesterday morning, the soldiers of the Third Town Army went to Xuantian Mansion to identify the corpses, and only then did they know that they were military dependents. ”

"You mean ......" Suddenly, Ji Zheng's words stopped. Because he suddenly remembered that Lu Sheng did report to himself a few days ago that in the case of Chuzhou, two thousand corpses of Chuzhou people who were pretended to be Xiongnu were indeed found in the barren valley.

However, because there are no reports of missing persons in Chuzhou, the identities of these 2,000 people cannot be determined. And this case...... Does it seem to have something to do with Independence City?

Li Xiaochen kidnapped 2,000 people for his own pleasure. But because even Li Xiaochen didn't know the identities of that group of people, Xuantian Mansion has not yet confirmed where the murdered people came from.

But Ji Zheng really never expected that it would be the military family of the Three Towns Army of Chuzhou?

When Ji Zheng thought about it, his head suddenly felt a little painful.

"General Han rest assured, I immediately issued an order to Lu Sheng, ordering him to crack the case as soon as possible and catch the real culprit, and I will not spare it. ”

"Your Majesty, the murderer has actually been captured, it is Li Xiaochen, the young city lord of White Horse City in Chuzhou, he has personally admitted that in order to follow the ancestors to step on the grassland, he hijacked the military families of the Three Towns, changed them into Hun clothes and killed them.

For his own momentary hunting, he killed my Dayu people, and these people are all military dependents. Please also ask the emperor to call the shots for the Three Towns Army!"

"The case has been solved......" Ji Zheng's words suddenly stuck in his throat.

Because just yesterday morning, Lu Sheng had secretly handed over Li Xiaochen to the Taishou Mansion. and handed over together with the corresponding evidence, Ji Zheng felt that Lu Sheng had done a very good job at that time.

As long as Lu Sheng does not make much fanfare, he will have room to operate by handing over Li Xiaochen to the Taishou Mansion silently. Although he knew that Li Xiaochen deserved to die, even if he was allowed to die, it couldn't be at this time.

But after only a day, how did it spread like a laurel tree blooming? So quickly, the military headquarters knew about it? If those who were killed were ordinary people, Ji Zheng could still suppress it, but now, it was the military family members who died.

The military department has always had a tradition of protecting calves, and the military law of the military department is strict but it is only allowed to deal with it internally, and if the military household is bullied by others, the entire military department has nothing to say from top to bottom, and will not give up without biting a piece of meat.

This time, there are 2,000 military dependents, and it can definitely stimulate the military headquarters to jump up and down. Now that General Han has come to ask for his life, Ji Zheng seems to have imagined that after a while, the military department will be overshadowed and murderous.

"That...... Old General Han, I know. I will immediately verify with the Chuzhou side in person, you step down, if this matter is true, I will definitely give an explanation to the three towns of Chuzhou. You step back first and prepare for the morning pilgrimage. ”

"Yes, the old minister retired!"

"Wang Xi!" When General Han retreated, Ji Zheng hurriedly shouted to his side.

"Old minion—"

"Spread the decree, I am ill today, and I will postpone the early dynasty and open again tomorrow. ”

"Yes, but the emperor, you have to give a reason for being sick, right? Otherwise, the commotion outside will be even more fierce......"

"!"

"Yes!"

After Wang Xi retreated, Ji Zheng's eyes instantly dimmed, "Ruoxu, you said this, is it Lu Sheng's ghost?"

"No!" A gust of breeze passed, and Shen Ruoxu, dressed in a green shirt, appeared in the imperial study, "At least, Lu Sheng will not reverse black and white out of nothing, and the two thousand military dependents are definitely done by Li Xiaochen." That little rabbit cub really deserves a thousand cuts!"

"However, that's White Horse City!" Ji Zheng covered his head in pain, "It is precisely because Dayu has a white horse in the army, and the grassland Huns dare not invade my Dayu again for a hundred years." Even if there was a locust plague in the grassland five years ago, so many people starved to death and did not dare to take the next step south.

A White Horse City can reach a million troops on our northern front. How do you tell me to make a trade-off?

This is not a deliberate statement by exaggerating the role of the white horse in the army, the grassland Huns have coveted the southern flower world for a long time. They used the power of the grassland to invade Dayu three times.

A thousand years ago, this was the era of heroes, and the white horse showed its sharp fangs for the first time. 100,000 white horses joined the army, fought from Lanzhou to the grassland, returned in three years, and the armor almost grew with flesh and blood.

The population of the steppe has decreased by seventy percent.

Five hundred years ago, Dayu was worried about internal and external troubles, and the surrounding small countries rose up to attack it. 100,000 white horses marched out of Lanzhou again. And the dispatch of the White Horse Army directly changed the strategy of the grassland from attack to defense.

Two years later, 5,000 white horses returned to Dayu from the army, and the population of the grassland was reduced by fifty.

A hundred years ago, the Xiongnu suffered a snowstorm, and the cattle and sheep suffered heavy losses. The Huns broke the kettle and sank the boat, and the soldiers were divided into two ways to attack Dayu from the north and west.

The war lasted for three months, and the White Horse Army was activated by an order. This time, it's even more interesting.

The White Horse Army had just sworn in and was ready to march, and the two armies of the Xiongnu collapsed almost simultaneously. The white horse joined the army, and the Huns fled with their lives just by virtue of their great fame.

This rout was not ordered by the Xiongnu Khan, and the Xiongnu nobles held the belief that they would rather be broken than broken, but they could not stand the collapse of the Xiongnu army.

Since then, the Xiongnu have not invaded the territory again.

One day in White Horse City, the northern Huns did not dare to touch a single hair of Dayu. This kind of deterrence is like a mouse seeing a cat and an inheritance engraved in the blood.

Even if Li Xiaochen committed a big crime, Li Xiaochen couldn't die until he firmly held the White Horse Army in his hands.

"I repeatedly asked Lu Sheng to give me secrets, keep secrets, and not reveal anything. Even if Li Xiaochen should be cut with a thousand knives, it will be up to me to deal with it. He...... He even leaked the facts of the case.

Everyone knows how protective the calves of those people in the military department are, even if they kill one military family, they can make a fuss, let alone two thousand?"

"Your Majesty, it's better not to have preconceived notions about this matter first. Listen to Lu Sheng's explanation, what the hell is going on. Lao Chen always felt that this matter was not so simple. ”

"Of course it's not that simple, Demon Sect!" exclaimed with a cold look in his eyes.

At this moment, the rune array in the imperial study suddenly lit up, and the nineteen rune arrays, the one in Chuzhou, flashed.

"Chenhe Xingzhi!"

"Minister, Lu Sheng!"

"See the emperor!"

"Heh? I haven't looked for you yet, but you came to me first? Are you trying to ask me for guilt? Lu Sheng, how did I explain it to you, you can collect evidence, you can arrest people, but you must not leak the news.

You think you are a good person, and you think that you won't be able to do it without me, right?"

"The emperor was angry, but the ministers didn't dare. Lu Sheng's tone was extremely calm, without the slightest mood swing.

"Don't you dare? Why don't you dare? Then you say, what's the matter with the military family members of Chuzhou? Why didn't you tell me that these people were military families?"

If it weren't for the soldiers of the Three Towns Army who came to identify the corpse, the minister wouldn't have dared to believe that Li Xiaochen would be so bold and reckless after identifying them. ”

"Then why did you let them identify the corpse?"

"When they came in disguise, they didn't know who they were. Secondly, the identities of these slain people are the last mystery of the case, and only after solving it can the minister close the case. ”

Lu Sheng's explanation is fine. Ji Zheng was blocked for a while, and he couldn't say a word.

"Wait, Lu Sheng, why did the soldiers of the three armies go back to Xuantian Mansion to identify the corpse?

"yes, how do they know?"

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