"Wechen greets Your Majesty."

"When the minister sees His Majesty, and when he sees His Majesty's dragon health, the minister is relieved......"

"I've seen Your Majesty!"

"Woooooooooo......oo Master, the slave and maid can finally return to the master, and they can serve the master again......"

Looking at these real cronies who came to the palace together, Sun Ning, like them, showed a rare sense of excitement, and hurriedly stepped forward and helped up the kneeling people one by one.

"Calm down, don't be polite, get up and speak." As he spoke, he vigorously helped everyone up, even Wei Shen was no exception, and deliberately patted him on the shoulder, "I have wronged you." ”

The original team that returned to Yuzhou this time was a few more than Sun Ning thought, in addition to Guo Chongyanhu and Chen Qingyun, who knew before, even Yang Xuan came with him, and the other one was Deng Hei.

Especially the latter, it was even more surprising to Sun Ning, after all, the other party was just a cottage leader who had fallen into the grass, and he didn't have much to do with himself, so he actually followed him to Sichuan and Shu to join him regardless of the hardships.

"You can treat me like this, and you will still not leave me at this time, and my grandson Ning will remember your loyalty and affection." Sun Ning said to a few more people movingly, and also bent down and hugged his fists to salute.

This made several people panic for a while, and they hurriedly stopped them and returned the salute: "Your Majesty is serious, this is what the ministers should do." Since we are your majesty's courtiers, and we are loyal and supporters, how can we turn our backs on us! ”

After a good number of courtesies, Sun Ning sat down with each of them and talked about his various experiences in the past few years.

Although he had heard many things from Shen Zhou, when he heard it again, he still sighed: "It's my incompetence that has betrayed your trust all along." So if you can come to Sichuan and Shu again this time, I can't help but feel a little ashamed while I am moved. ”

"Your Majesty's words are serious, and the ministers know that Your Majesty was forced by the situation before, and it is not true that he doesn't care about us courtiers." Chen Qingyun said.

Yan Hu also nodded: "Yes, and to be honest, Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, and your safety is naturally much more important than our courtiers, so if you don't return to Nanyang, we have never had the slightest complaint in our hearts." ”

"In fact, not only a few people such as me, but also the lieutenant generals of the Nanyang Army, have never said that Your Majesty is not. It's just that the ministers and others are not capable enough, and they can't take more people away after all, so I ask Your Majesty to forgive them. Chen Qingyun even directly pleaded guilty.

"What sin are you guilty of? If you really want to count the sin of abandoning the soldiers and horses under your command, I, the emperor, am the culprit. Sun Ning hurriedly excused them, "By the way, this time you left Nanyang, the road must have been quite hard, right?" Have you been pursued? ”

Chen Yan and the two looked at each other, and then at Guo Chong, who didn't speak much, before shaking his head and saying, "No." In fact, when the ministers secretly left Nanyang, they also thought that they might be blocked, but they turned out to be unhindered all the way.

"Afterwards, we found out that it was not Guo Yan and others who let us go, but that he couldn't spare his hands anymore."

"Huh? Why is that? ”

"Because the rebels of the Pingtian Army clashed with the Liangzhou Army again, they also want to take Nanyang."

Only then did Sun Ning understand that Nanyang was an important town in Gyeonggi, even if he didn't mention the massive amount of materials hoarded in it, the key position it was in alone was enough for the Pingtian Army, which had completely occupied Luoyang and was entrenched there, to be tempted to snatch it.

Nanyang has always been able to maintain its independence before, one is that the city is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the other is that the Pingtian army has taken Luoyang for the first time, and there are too many things to do, coupled with the containment of the northern ghosts, so they can't free up.

But after a few years of operation, the situation is completely different, and the Pingtian Army naturally will not let such a critical throat really fall outside of its control, especially not let this city fall into the hands of the Liangzhou Army.

At this time, Guo Chong also added: "Not long after we left Nanyang, there was news that 50,000 troops from the Pingtian Army were going to Nanyang, and the Liangzhou Army also had quite a few soldiers and horses rushing over there. Thinking about this, the two sides should have been attacking Nanyang for many days. ”

Sun Ning nodded, he had traveled all the way before, and most of what he had learned was news in the rivers and lakes, and he really didn't know much about the general trend of the world.

As for after arriving in Yuzhou, because of the long and dangerous road, the reception of news from the Central Plains was almost cut off, so it was naturally more difficult to grasp the specific situation thousands of miles away.

So in the end, it could only be a sigh: "In the end, it was my incompetence as the emperor that made everyone suffer, and I don't know if the other soldiers who stayed in Nanyang were safe......"

Seeing this, everyone hurriedly felt relieved again, which made him retract his thoughts, looked at Guo Chong and said, "Brother Guo, this time I think the most serious implication of you." ”

"Don't dare, in fact, I have to thank Your Majesty for waking me up. Otherwise, I am still in Liangzhou City as a fool, and it will definitely not end up well. ”

"But after all, I will turn your father and son against each other, otherwise you wouldn't have to leave Liangzhou and come to the corner of Sichuan and Shu."

Guo Chong only smiled: "But I think that compared to doing nothing in Liangzhou, being here can make me show my strengths." Please also ask Your Majesty to give me a chance so that I can contribute to you and the Dayue Imperial Court again! ”

Facing his eyes full of longing, Sun Ning nodded vigorously at the moment: "Of course, since you are here, how can I not make good use of your talents." ”

As he spoke, he first looked at Yan Hu and Chen Qingyun: "You have always had a lot of experience in the way of commanding troops and training, but now the Yuzhou garrison looks a little lazy, what I mean is to practice as soon as possible in preparation for the next war."

"Dingxi Hou's side, I will explain to him, let you be a general in the army, focus on training, how about it?"

"Your Majesty's will!" The two agreed in unison, and their spirits were even more vibrant.

"As for Brother Guo and Deng Hei, you elders are dealing with people, as well as contacting people outside the officialdom. This point will be handed over to you, don't underestimate this matter, now there must be the eyes and ears of the Tang Sect or barbarians of all ethnic groups inside and outside Yuzhou, and you need to help find out and remove them one by one! ”

The two glanced at each other, and each shouted in response.

"Yang Xuan, you have always been the commander of the guards beside me, and this time is the same, I will hand over the guard of this palace gate to you." Sun Ning finally said to Yang Xuan.

This one was also excited, and immediately knelt down on one knee and solemnly promised: "The minister will do his best to guard the palace gate, so that His Majesty can feel at ease." ”

"Okay, as long as all of us work together and work hard, I don't believe that this Sichuan Shu can still fall into the hands of those wolf ambitions!"

Sun Ning cheered up again with great satisfaction, so that the people he trusted the most were put in important positions, and in time, Yuzhou would really be able to completely fall into his hands.