"Fengtian carrier, the emperor said: The survival of the western realm is imminent, as the people of Jiuyou, he should do his best, and now he orders Jianwei to wait for Song to return to Xizhou as soon as possible, and allocate 800,000 troops to the general Wu Anping in the west, so as to calm his heart and admire this."

In the compound of the post house, several nobles in gorgeous clothes knelt on the ground, and when the eunuch finished reading the holy decree, the face of a slightly chubby middle-aged man turned dark.

"Hou Ye Song? Not yet. The eunuch looked at Song Zedao.

"Minister, take the order!" Song Xue came back to his senses, stood up and took the holy decree, his body trembling a little.

The eunuch said softly, "This matter is related to the country's plan, and the Marquis of Song can be exempted from the court meeting, and now he will immediately return to Xizhou to transfer troops and horses to General Wu, and there is only one month." ”

"One, a month?" Song Ze was stunned, from the capital to Xizhou as fast as one month, slow as two months, the emperor was so anxious, so he had to rush back to Xizhou within a month, and allocate 800,000 troops, this is all his belongings.

Unexpectedly, this just came to the capital and suffered such a thing, glanced at the other princes, most of them were gloating, the fiasco in the west, they all knew about it, Song Xue knew it for the first time, and he didn't care too much about it.

When the princes came to the court, they must bring troops to show their military strength, and at the same time, they also wanted to grasp more of the right to speak at the court, but they didn't want to bring more than 8,000 troops but it became a stumbling block for him.

Can he disobey the Holy Command? Does he dare to disobey the Holy Command?

This decree was known to the other princes, and if he disobeyed the holy decree, he would face the criticism of the public and become the voice of the other princes to crusade against him.

And if he doesn't disobey, he will hand over 800,000 troops, and Song chooses most of his forces.

He took a deep breath and glanced at the words on the decree again, his expression wavering.

"Brother Song, if you don't accept this holy decree, you have to accept it." After the eunuch left, a sympathetic word came from the side.

Song Ze looked at the man in the purple robe, about fifty years old, thin and resolute, and smiled bitterly, Song Ze said, "Is Mo Hou Ye making fun of Song?" ”

When he knew that after the fiasco in the Western Territory, he shouldn't have brought so many soldiers, but now it's good, let the emperor find this excuse and get 800,000 troops, and now his intestines are about to regret it.

"How dare I make fun of Brother Song, you are serving the country, the west is in a hurry, sending my brother to send charcoal in the snow, and throwing out 800,000 troops in a flick of his hand, this courage, the old man admires it." Pingxiang Marquis Moyang laughed.

Song Ze glared at him, stopped talking, and turned around and walked towards the post house.

All the princes were watching his jokes, and there was a holy decree urging, where was he still in the mood to stay here, and after cleaning up for a while, he took a few guards out of the post house and headed in the direction of Xicheng

This time, the purpose of all the princes is very clear, to test the emperor and win over the prime minister Li De, and now he has lost 800,000 troops, and he is no longer in the mood to fight.

When he returns to Xizhou, it will be his world, he will drag it out first, and then wait for the end of the princes' court meeting to see the situation.

Thinking like this in his heart, Song Xue took a dozen guards and rode away from the camp outside the West City, and the eight thousand soldiers he brought were arranged twenty miles outside the city.

Just as Song Xue was running towards the camp with a gloomy face, a person chased after him in the distance.

Seeing this scene, Song Ze frowned slightly, squinted his eyes tightly, and wanted to see the person who came, and when he got closer, he saw that he was wearing court clothes, looking ordinary, but extremely young.

"Master Song, please stay." When he got nearer, the young man sat down on his horse and bowed his hand.

"Who are you?" Song Xue looked at him a few times and asked.

"Junior Hanlin Academy Bachelor, Ji Fang." Ji Fang smiled slightly.

"Master Hanlin? What are you looking for me? Song Xue was slightly stunned.

Ji said with a kind smile, "I heard that the border is in a big emergency, and the Marquis of Song received the holy decree and allocated 800,000 troops to the emergency. ”

"Congratulations?" Song Ze's face was slightly gloomy, and this little Hanlin Bachelor could also make fun of him like this.

"Don't worry about Lord Song, the reason why the younger generation said it was congratulations, I'm afraid that only Lord Song can enjoy such benefits." Before Song Xue could get angry, Ji Fang said calmly.

"Tell me what's in it!" Song Ze replied indifferently, the emperor robbed him of 800,000 troops, and said that it was a benefit, and he really couldn't treat him as a fool.

He wanted to hear what ridiculous reasons the yellow-haired child in front of him had, and if he was dissatisfied, he would beat him to relieve his anger.

"Can you take a step to speak?" Ji Fang glanced at the guard next to Song Xue and said respectfully.

Song Xue waved his hand, and the other guards retreated into the distance, "Say it." ”

Ji said with a calm smile: "The Ming people don't say secret words, presumably the Marquis of Song came to the court parliament, and the purpose is no different from that of other princes." ”

Song Ze's eyes narrowed and he didn't answer.

Ji Fang continued, "Have you ever thought about why the emperor only transferred your 800,000 troops, but not the military horses of Beizhou and the military horses of the prince outside Qiaozhou? ”

Song Ze looked stunned, Beizhou and Qiaozhou are divided into north and south, and they are not far from Xizhou, it stands to reason that the emperor's first thought should be to let Wu Anping, who is still in Beizhou, directly transfer troops from Zhang Shun in Beizhou, but why did he choose him, who is not far away from Xizhou.

"Hmph, the old man knows that his strength is the weakest among the major princes, and it is only natural that the emperor chose Weichen." But after thinking about it carefully, in Song Ze's opinion, the reason why the emperor chose him, in addition to the most suitable distance from the western realm, is probably to see that he is the weakest of the four princes.

Ji Fang shook his head and said, "Hou Ye is wrong, in the emperor's heart, among the most trustworthy princes, it should be you Hou Ye Song." ”

"The emperor trusts Weichen?" Song Xue was stunned.

"This is what the emperor said to the younger generation, among the several princes, the Marquis of Song is the most loyal, when the emperor was alive, he often mentioned your old man, but every time he talked about other princes, he lamented, especially the foreign prince Prince Liu." Ji Fang said directly: "The most taboo and hated person by Marquis Song now should be the foreign prince Liu Yuan." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Song Ze's face changed and he asked in surprise.

pointed out that he hated Liu Yuan the most, if it was spread out, would he still have a good life?

"The holy decree that the emperor gave you actually has another deep meaning, which is also the reason why the younger generation came to find the Marquis of Song in private at the emperor's behest." Discipline is a righteous way.

Song Ze's expression was solemn, and he saw Ji Fang say in a low voice, "The reason why the emperor let the Marquis of Song stay away from the capital with the intention of transferring troops is that he doesn't want to see the Marquis of Song and the emperor have a conflict, and at the same time, it is also for you to go back and stand by, and the world of the Nine Shadows is about to change." ”

Outside Xicheng, Ji Fang waved goodbye to Song Ze and others, and Song Ze hurried back to the camp with a whip, and quickly took 8,000 soldiers to Xizhou overnight.