"It's a pity that in this battle, the teacher couldn't take charge in person······"

"Tsk;"

"No matter what, the Marquis of Jiangwu was also a person who participated in the Battle of Pingcheng and was familiar with the tactics of the Hun cavalry."

"If the teacher is in charge, in this battle, I am afraid that he will really be able to bite off a piece of meat on the Huns as the court expects?"

In Wuzhou, the right virtuous king of the Xiongnu, Yi Zhixie, was looking forward to this battle, and he could face the ceiling of the Han family: Tiaohou Zhou Yafu;

And in Mayi, a hundred and ten miles south of Wuzhou, Cheng Buzhi also felt a little regretful that Zhou Yafu could not command this war.

But it is different from Cheng Buzhi, who was born in the army and has hardly set foot in the court, and only knows about the affairs of the army - Zhi has been mixed in the Chang'an court.

Not only did he mix it up, but he mixed it up to the level of a quasi-Jiuqing: a lieutenant.

Although I can't say how good the mix is and how open it is, I still understand some taboos inside and outside the court;

Hearing that Cheng Buzhi inevitably sighed regretfully, Zhi Du only raised his eyelids without a trace, and squinted the corners of his eyes with deep meaning.

"Senior brother, I haven't woken up from last night's wine, and you've started talking nonsense again?"

"I will no longer be in command of the expedition, but the teacher personally went to the ancestral hall of the Zhou family and made a poisonous oath in front of the god card of the Marquis of Jiangwu."

"The junior brother lost his words for a while, but it will make the teacher fall into an insincere and inconsistent infamy in the hearts of the people of the world······"

At first glance, when he heard Zhidu's words, Cheng Buzhi was stunned for a moment, and blinked in astonishment.

- Is there such a thing?

- Why have I heard of it?

When he reacted, he thought about it clearly, and hurriedly lowered his head.

"Ahem, ahem······"

"Senior brother teaches ······"

"Leading the army to the battle, and it is wartime, it is really a crime to dare to eat wine and have a hangover, it is really a crime to die."

"After the military discussion is over, I will go and lead the army for eighty ······."

Hearing this, Zhidu lowered his head indifferently, pretending to look at the public opinion, and said casually: "The military stick will be received after the war, and the Huns will be cheaper." ”

However, the generals who came to the big tent of the Chinese army in order, listening to the conversation between the two brothers, only felt confused for a while.

Drink?

Cheng doesn't know how to drink?

Isn't that pure?

And it's wartime?

- This guy is a ruthless person who has a sentence of 'military law is greater than the sky' on his lips, and he is stunned that he has not drunk a drop of wine on the night of his wedding!

This ······

"I have long heard that if you have been an official in Chang'an for a long time, you will become full of twists and turns."

"Look at this Zhidu, it's almost time for General Cheng to learn Chang'an's tricks······"

They scolded each other, and the generals looked at each other for a moment, and they shook their heads for some reason;

But in a moment, the tent was filled with generals of different appearances, but without exception, wearing armor and red cloaks on their shoulders, and standing tall and large.

Seeing that people were coming, Zhidu finally lifted the pair of dead fish eyes from the kanyu on the bookcase in front of him.

Nodding slightly to everyone, he sat up straight with a stiff face: "Sit down." ”

The boss gave an order, and the generals sat down in their seats on both sides, and then turned their heads sideways to look at Zhidu, who was guarding the main position.

In this war, Zhi Du is handsome, and everything related to this war, Zhi Du has the autonomy to 'act cheaply'.

Don't be dissatisfied—this privilege is granted by the current Empress Dowager and the current Son in the written form of an edict, which is absolutely reasonable and legitimate.

Even so, even if Zhi Du has no prestige in the army, he really doesn't have any martial arts that can be used, and the generals have to honestly wait for the dispatch.

Who makes the family the manager?

Outside, the king's orders are not subject to it, but the military orders issued by the commander are greater than the heavens in wartime!

If you commit a petty crime casually, you will often be punished with heavy punishments such as beheading, stabbing, and slashing.

The war is imminent, and Zhidu is probably worried that no one can use it to sacrifice the flag, and the generals will not be stabbed at this juncture.

After the generals sat down, Zhi Du's next words made everyone present, including Cheng Buzhi, stunned in place, and couldn't come back to their senses for a long time······

"Your Majesty's edict!"

Zhi Du was cold and silent, only to provoke everyone in the tent to be slightly stunned!

After a while, he scrambled to his feet, and knelt in the tent amid the crisp sound of the armor pavilion.

"The edict said: The martial artist, the cadre of the country, the armor and the body, you can see the Son of Heaven and do not bow down!"

In the first sentence of the beginning, I saw everyone looking at each other and looking left and right, and they didn't dare to get up for a long time;

It wasn't until they raised their heads and saw the encouragement in Zhidu's eyes that everyone stood up suspiciously, but they didn't forget to bow their waists deeply.

At the same time, when he looked at Zhidu who was holding the edict in his hand again, his face swelled with an indescribable strangeness······

"I ······"

"Ahem······"

···

"I have seen every general present, and they are among the best heroes and heroes of my Han family."

A big vernacular-the big vernacular that can't be white anymore comes out of Zhidu's mouth, and everyone is only messy in another gust of wind.

Rao is a military general, Rao has never set foot in the court, has never seen the rules of the court, and everyone present also knows that the edict must be polished.

Even if the Son of Heaven said the sentence 'You are so good!' The edict must also be polished into the euphemistic praise of the crepe crepe under the pen of the Shangshu and the imperial historians.

It's like chatting and recalling old days on the street······

"This is a secret edict!"

"As long as the secret edict will not be taken to Shangshutai for polishing!"

Cheng Buzhi, who was the first to react, raised his head bloodless in an instant, and looked at his senior brother Zhidu with a stunned face.

Unlike later generations, who had the impression that only those trusted by the Son of Heaven could receive the edict: in this generation, the edict meant only one thing.

- Edict.

Why?

Because in this era, in today's Han Dynasty, every edict of the Son of Heaven must be sealed and in triplicate, one is issued, one is left in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and one is left in the filing room of Shiqu Pavilion.

The last two of the three copies are all checked.

When a certain edict cannot be found in any of the two places between the Xiangfu Document Room and the Shiqu Pavilion Archive Room, it will not surprisingly be judged as an edict.

And the secret edict - even the editing link has been omitted, of course, it is impossible to retain the process of keeping the bottom.

In other words: the content of this secret edict, as long as Zhi Du takes it out today, it is equivalent to standing on the edge of the cliff.

When he returned to Chang'an after the war, anyone who participated in Zhi would have a 'Jiao Zhao', and Tingwei would definitely check: Zhi is all in Mayi, has he ever read His Majesty's edict?

Oh, it's been read~

Take it out as it is, and let's take it and check it out.

Then the officials of the court will find that this edict of the Son of Heaven is the same as the imperial edict of the Son of Heaven: the Yellow House Zuoxu, and the heirloom jade seal carved by the He family, which is a unique rarity in the world.

Then, since Zhidu was imprisoned, it all depends on whether the Son of Heaven is good enough or not······

"Senior Brother······

The tone was full of complexity, and the 'senior brother' came out of his mouth, and Cheng Buzhi's gaze at Zhidu gradually gave birth to a touch of sadness.

Even before, because Zhidu was still young in the army, and the generals in the tent who were a little dissatisfied with Zhidu, there was also a faint flash of pity in their eyes.

The birds are all gone, and the good bow is hidden;

The cunning rabbit dies, and the lackeys cook.

It's just that I never thought that the first battle of Zhidu was to go to the battlefield with the secret edict of the Son of Heaven······

"Ahem."

But seeing Zhi Du's solemn face and two light coughs, he pulled everyone back to his eyes, and then tried to press down the awkwardness when he saw this edict written in the vernacular;

Taking a deep breath, he continued to read: "The generals may not know that this battle, since the time of my great-ancestor: Emperor Taizu Gao, has been the anticipation of the previous emperors of my Han family. ”

"Since Emperor Taizu Gao, there is no emperor of my Han family who does not want to throw off his arms and fight with the Huns."

"But in order to support the people, in order to prevent the farmers from being bent by the war, the successive emperors of my Han family swallowed their anger and tolerated the Huns until now."

"Nowadays, although my Han family is not a strong soldier, it is already a country and a people, with a full treasury and a wide range of soldiers."

"I can't take it anymore······"

It was obviously a sentence written by Liu Sheng angrily, and it came out of Zhidu's mouth, but it was obviously a little weird.

However, all the generals in the tent must have been born in the army, and they have a straightforward temperament, but they have experienced an affinity for no reason from the words of this too down-to-earth edict.

Rolling his eyelids with a strange face, and catching a glimpse of a smile on the faces of the generals, Zhi Du felt that the awkwardness in his heart was eased a little.

Then he pretended to cough lightly to adjust his mentality, and continued to read down: "The family business saved by the emperors of the past dynasties is enough for my Han family to fight with the Huns. ”

"I don't want to indulge in extravagant pleasures, and I have no interest in building a lot of buildings."

"I just thought that after this battle, I could sit on the same ground with all the generals and drink and talk happily."

"These years ······"

"Ahem······"

"Over the years, I've saved a little money······"

···

"It's not much, but it's enough to set up a wine banquet outside the beast pen in Shanglin Yuan."

"Wine, I have already prepared it - I have begged the Empress Dowager for many days, and finally begged for the palace-brewed purple gold alcohol buried by Emperor Taizu Gao, just one jar, enough for each of us to drink a sip."

"The dishes that go with wine, whether to eat Chang'an's chickens and dolphins, or the cattle and sheep of the Huns, depends on the ability of the generals."

···

"Today, you listened to General Zhi read the edict in Mayi, and I reviewed the file in the Xuanshu Palace."

"I hope that when the first snow falls in Chang'an, the generals will be able to go to Shanglin Yuan with me and have fun for a few days."

"At that time, if you want any reward, the generals will tell me one by one, and I will ask the Empress Dowager one by one······"

At the end of the reading, Zhidu's face was already red with embarrassment, and his toes couldn't wait to pick out a Xuanshu Hall in his boots;

And the generals who were reluctant in Zhidu, bowing down in the tent, did not react for a long time.

"Alas······"

"I'll just say that Your Majesty shouldn't be like this······"

Thinking like this, Zhi Du was beginning to worry about how to end this farce, as if the generals in the tent who had been immobilized by the Son of Heaven had been edicted, so it was like mushrooms after a rain, and he tentatively raised his head slightly.

When they saw the edict in Zhidu's hand, the front color was strangely frozen in place, and the generals finally reacted: it turned out that the edict had been read······

"Wait, thank you, Your Majesty!!"

There was a roar without warning, which frightened Zhi Du subconsciously blinked;

It wasn't until the generals were full of excitement, exchanging glances with the people around them excitedly, and smashing a punch on each other's chests from time to time, that Zhi Du finally understood: What kind of appalling degree has Liu Sheng figured out people's hearts today······

"Haven't crowned yet······"

"Your Majesty, you haven't been crowned yet······"

"—General Zhi, Zhi;"

"—······ this edict?"

While thinking about it, a rough cry came into his ears, which provoked Zhi Du to hurry back to his senses.

Knowing the intention of the person who opened the mouth, Zhi Du finally shook his head with a smile: "This edict is Your Majesty's encouragement to the generals, and the generals do not need to be edicted." ”

——Zhidu is not a fuel-efficient lamp~

Even though this edict does not involve any specific affairs, it is just a simple encouragement and the Son of Heaven's personal promise to the general, but the words 'no polish' revealed between the lines still mean that this edict is a secret edict with no evidence.

Once Zhidu is 'stolen and seized' with this edict, then even if Tianzisheng does not plan to engage in Zhidu at all, Zhidu is afraid that it will inevitably be a bitter meal.

The safest way is to let this 'secret edict' continue to be 'secret' - the kind that no one can find.

The generals didn't pay much attention to this detail, but suddenly fell silent in this sudden joy.

"I didn't expect Your Majesty to care so much about us old and coarse people, and said that he would invite us to drink!"

"—This is to be said: I've had a drink today, hey, that scene ······"

···

"Gong brewed purple gold alcohol, I don't know what it tastes like?"

"-Hi~"

"-Emperor Taizu Gao buried it, then of course it is an old wine with years!"

···

"Your Majesty is still weird, and he talks like my sister······"

"—isn't it·········"

Looking at the scene in front of him, Zhi Du was speechless and thoughtful.

And on Zhidu's side, looking at Zhidu intently, at an angle that everyone didn't pay attention to, stuffed the secret edict back to his chest without a trace, and Cheng Buzhi finally breathed a sigh of relief······

"Hoo ······"

···

"Senior brother;"

"······ this battle?"

After a long time, Cheng Buzhi gave an obviously deliberate reminder, and finally let everyone in the tent regain their senses and sit down on both sides of the tent again.

Looking at the generals in the tent who were full of red light and no longer had the slightest gloomy color, Zhidu finally let out a long breath of turbidity;

On the corner of his mouth, there was also an imperceptible shallow smile·······

"Whew~~~"

"The people have arrived, and the edict has been announced;"

"Next, let's discuss together: In this battle, what do I want to bring back to Chang'an, and serve it to Your Majesty."

(End of chapter)