Chapter Ninety-Six: The Difference Between the Imperial Husband and the Beast
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"Moreover, after the death of the imperial husband, the task of praising the heroic scene when the imperial husband was killed will all fall on the people around me, and they will definitely spread the good story of how the imperial husband was ten in the desert, but he was easily stabbed by a pawn in the Great Zhou, and even recorded in history." Ashina looked like a trapped beast in a cage for an indefinite period, which could very stimulate Zuo Ying's evil mentality, and the provocative words surged for a while, "Therefore, I advise the imperial husband, everyone is already dead, and whether there are still warriors like the imperial husband to guard the desert and other aftermath matters should be left behind, and don't have any more obsessions." ”
"You! …… Dog Emperor! "Ashina really regrets why he didn't practice his mouth with his brother more at home at this time, when he can only fight his mouth, he is obviously not on the same starting line as this Great Zhou Dog Emperor who is used to being full of benevolence and morality! And the most terrifying thing is that when he digested what the "Dog Emperor" said, he seemed to feel as if there was really some truth! It's impossible to kidnap the Dog Emperor now. It doesn't matter if you die for your own life, the key is that if one death can only be exchanged for the life of this puppet empress at most, it has no impact on the overall situation, and it is far from the original plan, so what is the point of this death? This made him not have enough strength when he struggled, and his speech was a little stumbling.
But Ashina thinks about it indefinitely, and it's not right! If you don't kill this dog emperor, take her head back. Even if they let him go now, he would not have the face to go back to see his father Khan, his brother, and the warriors of Black Sand City. Could it be that Lao Tzu wants to stay in her harem for the rest of his life, being her caged bird and fish in the net? ! Isn't that more uncomfortable than being ruined after death and dying again?!
Whenever a person is faced with a situation that he has not encountered before and does not know how to start, the thinking of seeking a life-saving straw will be grasped. Some nonsensical things will easily be salvaged from the mind, for example, he remembers what his brother said that day. When the Great Zhou and the Empress of the Great Zhou are married, it is not that they will never be able to return to the desert for the rest of their lives, they only need to spend three years and five years, and when they have the common blood of the two and are enough to maintain the friendship between the two countries, they can return to China......
What the?! To have a common bloodline with this hateful-looking dog emperor who mocks and humiliates him?! Ashina was brutally disgusted by himself, if it weren't for the shackles on his hands. Now I really want to smack myself in both mouths.
"Why didn't the imperial husband speak?" Zuo Ying looked at Ashina Wuji, who was still grinning just now, and suddenly became silent, her face was blue for a while, green for a while, and she couldn't help but laugh in her heart, "That's right." The imperial husband was thinking, how can I kill me and bring my head back, so that the imperial husband can have the face to see Jiangdong's father, right? ”
"Your Majesty......" Zuo Ying's words made Scarlet Feather feel cold.
The thought struggle just now made Ashina calm down indefinitely, and he sneered: "Hmph, then you say, what should I do to kill you." Bring your head back again? ”
Zuo Ying showed an expression of "teachable": This child is beginning to be able to calm down and devote herself to the state of talking about business, once she talks about business, she will be invincible.
"It's simple, one word."
Ashina showed a skeptical expression indefinitely. Scarlet Feather felt that the conversation between the two was getting more and more incredible.
Zuo Ying continued unhurriedly and said: "The word 'letter'. As long as you gain my trust, don't say anything like my head that is worthless to you. Even the craftsmen and resources you have always dreamed of may be sent to Black Sand City because of the trust I and the imperial court have placed in you. ”
Ashina thought for a while, snorted disdainfully and sneered: "What can you give me?" You're a mud bodhisattva with nothing! ”
Zuo Ying really wanted to say: Yes, I am a mud bodhisattva who has nothing, and the master is a jade and golden body; But you Ashina will go to his old man's house to charge the harem indefinitely, and see if he will ignore you?
"Even if I am so poor that I only have this head left, you can take it back to Black Sand City and have an explanation, at least it won't be a loss." Zuo Ying said.
Just when Ashina was still wringing his fingers in his heart to calculate whether he lost or not, a loud voice from the inner servant came from outside. When everyone heard it, they knew that Weiyang Palace had arrived.
"Yu'er, untie the chains on the imperial husband." Zuo Ying commanded.
Scarlet Feather looked at Zuo Ying with a reluctant expression, "Your Majesty, ...... danger"
Mixing in this world, which day is not an adventure? Zuo Ying smiled and said, "I believe in the imperial husband. ”
Well, she believed that the difference between the imperial husband and the beast was that he could understand human speech.
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In the early morning of the next day, Helan Chu stepped into the palace in the morning light and came to the door of the imperial study early. The chamberlain at the door told him that Her Majesty the Empress would be there soon, and asked him to go to the imperial study for a short rest.
Helan Chu strode into the imperial study.
Weiyang Palace is the palace room where the emperor asks about politics and rests, and the imperial study is one of the most important buildings. "Poetry" cloud: "How is the night? The night is not young. The light of the court. The gentleman will stop, and the sound will be. "It depicts a wise and diligent monarch reading the reply through the book all night, and the palace in the middle of the night is dark, only the torches in the palace where the emperor is located are bright, and the rings on the emperor's body jingle from time to time when he is pacing." The name "Weiyang Palace" is the meaning of hoping that the monarch can spur himself on with the sages, work hard for the public, and be diligent in government and love the people.
Sunlight shines obliquely through the open windows on both sides of the study, with a slight shade of outdoor foliage, sprinkled on the bookcase that has been laid with the four treasures of the study and on the pear wood bookshelf full of scrolls behind the bookcase, giving the originally calm and heavy furnishings here a sense of vitality and vitality; The light awakening incense in the copper incense burner is mixed with the faint fragrance unique to the bamboo slips in the air, turning into a refreshing and inspiring atmosphere.
"See Taishi."
The palace maids who were waiting in the study saw Helan Chu walking in, and they all bowed one after another.
"No courtesy." When Helan Chu sat down, he noticed a strange palace maid. It was a middle-aged palace maid with gray sideburns. The figure still maintains the slender beauty of a young woman, and it is strange that it is strange that it is covered by a veil below the eyes.
Helan Chu was suspicious in his heart, and asked the middle-aged palace maid, "Who are you?" ”
The middle-aged palace maid who had been keeping her head down glanced at He Lanchu and seemed to be slightly taken aback. But he came to Helan Chu generously, bowed his head and saluted: "Back to the Taishi, the slave maid is Aunt He, the palace maid who His Majesty has just allowed to enter the palace to serve." ”
"Why veiled. So rude? Helan Chu asked coldly.
"Slaves deserve to die." Aunt He arched her waist even lower, and her voice trembled a little, "It's just because the slave maid has an ugly appearance, so she is afraid of disturbing others, so she has been covering her face with a scarf for many years, which is really a last resort." ”
Helan Chu felt even more strange now, where did the empress find such a palace maid who was more than half a hundred years old and had an ugly face that she didn't dare to show her eyes to stay by her side. And why keep her around?
Just when he wanted to ask for an explanation, Zuo Ying's voice came from the direction of the door: "Taishi, this is the person I want to come from the imperial husband's personal entourage." ”
Everyone saw Zuo Ying walking into the imperial study accompanied by Scarlet Feather, and they all stepped forward to kneel and salute. It's just that one of Aunt He's hands is weak to support the ground, and it looks a little difficult when she kneels.
"Let's all be flat." Zuo Ying came to the bookcase and sat down. "Taishi, this Aunt He was originally a Confucian master when the imperial husband was in the desert, and she has been teaching the two princes Confucianism for nearly twenty years. She herself is Han, and this time she was able to return to her homeland with the marriage of her imperial husband. I fell in love with her, and allowed her to stay in the palace to accompany her. ”
"Oh?" Helan Chu had naturally heard of such a character, but he didn't expect this person to be such a peculiar woman, "You are the Confucian master who named the two princes of the Ashina clan 'Wujiang' and 'Wuji'?" ”
"It's the slave." Aunt He said, "Slaves and maids are just rough Confucianism. The reason why I had the honor to give lectures to the two princes was only because in the desert, there were very few Han people, and even fewer could read and write hyphenated, so the slaves and maids were able to be among the teachers. Now back in the Great Zhou, if it weren't for His Majesty's care, the slaves and maids would be old and helpless. The slave and maid are afraid that they will not be able to accompany the palace maids. ”
"Aunt He, why do you have red circles under your eyes?" Zuo Ying saw that Aunt He's eyes were slightly red, and there seemed to be tears faintly, so she asked a little playfully, "Is it that my Taishi is too serious and scares you?" ”
"Never!" Aunt He hurriedly denied it: "The Taishi is a talented person, with the power of being a general and a mainstay, and the slave is very happy that His Majesty can get this humerus minister." The slave maid is only returning to the Great Zhou for the first time, and has not been able to adapt to the climate here, and there is only a slight sign of wind and cold. The slave was rude. ”
Although this Aunt He behaves strangely and has an unknown origin, she doesn't know why, Helan Chu, who has always been arrogant and picky, doesn't think she hates her, but is faintly curious about why she came to the desert and stayed in the desert for 20 years. Aunt He, who now looks like she has reached the age of destiny, was still in her prime twenty years ago. At that time, she was a lonely and weak woman in the desert, and if she did not want to, she was forced to leave her homeland for twenty years, and it is impossible to imagine how much suffering she has encountered in the process.
"Your Majesty, today I want to explain to Your Majesty the "Second Battle" of the "Thirteen Chapters of Sun Tzu". Sentimentality is naturally not something Helan Chu is willing to spend time doing, after Zuo Ying's lesson, he still has a bunch of political affairs to deal with, "Sun Tzu said: 'Those who do not know the harm of using soldiers cannot fully understand the benefits of using soldiers. The "harm of the use of troops" mentioned here is purely in terms of war and national strength itself, and does not involve the damage to human life and the harm to the people. It can be said that it is the lowest possible price that the monarch needs to consider before deciding to start a war. ”
Zuo Ying had read "The Art of War" before, and the beginning of this article was to list the costs of "galloping thousands of cars, leather cars and thousands of rides, with 100,000 armor, thousands of miles of food, for guests, for glue paint, and for the ...... of armor". However, Helan Chu was the first to mention this finishing touch, which made people understand the connotation of this article a little more clearly even before they had fully read it, and they really had to admire his cleverness.
"'It will win the war with it, but if it is long it will be dull and sharp, if it is attacking the city, it will be forced, and if it is a long-term violent army, the country will not be enough.'" "Helan Chu memorized "The Art of War" like a stream, and continued to extract sentences out of context like picking flowers and leaves, "'Therefore, the soldiers heard it quickly, and they did not see it for a long time. This is what later generations called 'the speed of soldiers'. Once the war continues, no matter how elite the soldiers are and how abundant they are in terms of food and grass, they will still lose their strength due to fatigue, frustration, and a large consumption of supplies, and eventually lead to defeat. ”
Although this is not a particularly profound truth, but through such an incisive sentence that is so to the point, and there is a person like Helan Chu who has a deep understanding of military law to explain it next to him, it makes people feel as if they will never get tired of reading it no matter how many times they read it, and every time they read it, they have a new understanding.
"I remember that back then, the minister once went on an expedition with Emperor Wu." Helan Chu paced to Zuo Ying's bookcase, his expression became a little deep, "When attacking Yuling Pass in Fenxi, there were less than 2,000 garrison soldiers, while our siege elite had more than 3,000, and they were pursuing the victory, full of sharpness. Unexpectedly, because of the natural danger of Yulingguan, the war period was repeatedly extended. In the end, because the food and grass could not be supported, and the Liang soldiers had foreign reinforcements, it was declared a failure, and our army suffered heavy casualties. ”
Zuo Ying nodded as if he understood, "Is this also what I said later, 'the attack is insufficient, and the code is more than enough'?" ”
"'The good defender hides under the nine earths, and the good attacker moves above the nine heavens', each offensive and defensive have their own advantages to fight," Hearing Zuo Ying's answer, Helan Chu suddenly felt that he had underestimated this disciple, he might be able to teach the thirteen articles throughout, instead of coming step by step, "The reason why there will be 'insufficient offense and more than enough conservation' is because the defender often has more advantages to rely on." "Terrain Tenth" said: "The man of the terrain is also the help of the soldiers." 'Yuling Pass occupies a natural risk, built on a cliff, the mountain road is steep and narrow, and there is no other place to detour, if you attack, I am afraid that the casualties are several times that of the enemy. Under the stalemate, our army's strength was already greatly inferior to before, and unfortunately its reinforcements arrived, our army was trapped in a cage, although the 3,000 elites broke through the siege bloodily, but there were heavy casualties, and none of them remained......"
Suddenly, the sound of something falling to the ground interrupted Helan Chu's words. The crowd couldn't help but look in the direction from which the voice came from.
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