Hao Sui hurriedly brought the map and beckoned the two little chamberlains to unfold it in front of everyone.

Zhao Xu had already gotten up from the dragon chair, walked down the stairs, came to everyone, and watched the map with everyone. Wu Zhi took a few steps back, so he wouldn't join in the fun.

"Ahh There really are these places! A moment later, there was an exclamation, and everyone exploded in an instant. On the map, around the northwest border line, these places mentioned by Wu Zhi are impressively marked, and from a distance and close distance, they can indeed be connected, and it is really possible to form the situation that Wu Zhi said that the party people crossed the Wuyan Gorge to surround Pingxia City and our several armies to gather and annihilate the party and the enemy!

"This son is a demon! How did he know the names of these maps? Moreover, the Song Dynasty's decision to build Pingxia City was only made by the imperial court in March this year, how did he know about it? Could it be that someone is really born to know it? ”

Zhao Xu and the ministers of civil and military affairs were not calm at all, and their eyes at Wu Zhi were inexplicably a little stranger.

Originally, everyone was waiting for him to come to the court with the mentality of watching the excitement and watching jokes, and Zhao Xu was able to summon Wu Zhi or Cai Jinggong's fire, it was he who said in a weird manner, "Zhuang Yuanlang has great talents, you might as well invite him to discuss countermeasures", Zhao Xu summoned Wu Zhi to ask for advice, Zhao Xu believed it! Only then did this little eight-pin Jing official be able to go to the court to discuss the new thing.

All the ministers of civil and military affairs wanted to see Wu Zhi's vague and nervous embarrassed appearance, but who knows, this Wu Zhi is not afraid of the field, calm and calm, and seems to have come prepared, he can talk eloquently and put forward such a seemingly clever strategy, which is shocking, although he is young, he should not be underestimated!

Zhao Xu was also amazed in his heart, he was not only surprised why Wu Zhi knew so much about the terrain of the map and knew the secrets of the imperial court, but also a little bit of the strategy that Wu Zhi said.

The map is extremely confidential to the imperial court, especially the map of the border defense city, which cannot be lost outside, and ordinary people will not have the opportunity to see it, and many ministers in the court have not had the opportunity to see it. Wu Zhi can be familiar with it, which is what makes everyone feel surprised and puzzled.

"How did Wu Qing learn about these border defense villages?" Zhao Xu was also curious, and immediately lowered his face and asked solemnly and coldly.

Wu Zhi smiled slightly when he saw this, he knew that there would be such a question, so after making a bow, he explained without thinking: "Back to Your Majesty, this is what my master Zhou Tong told me, so I have to investigate it carefully." He had traveled all over the world and been to the northwest border, and now he is the head of the forbidden army in the capital. The minister once asked, so tell me to know! ”

Wu Zhi put the reason on Zhou Tong, and he didn't believe that Zhao Xu and the others would be bored enough to confront Zhou Tong.

Sure enough, Zhao Xu only said "oh" after hearing him explain like this, and stopped asking, Zhao Xu more or less knew that there was Zhou Tong, the head of the forbidden army, but a martial artist was not worth his attention.

I see! The civil and military officials were also relieved after hearing Wu Zhi's explanation, it turned out that they were not born to know! Then, everyone's gaze at Wu Zhi instantly became a little more contemptuous, a little less blazing and awe.

Wu Zhi saw that everyone's eyes changed and changed, and he sneered in his heart, but on the surface, he was very calm and calm.

In the midst of everyone's discussion, Zhao Xu sat back on the dragon chair, looked around, and the court continued.

"Master Wu is a disciple of Zhou Tong, so he must also be able to order martial arts?" After a moment of coldness, Zhang Chun, who was standing in the first row, suddenly spoke lukewarmly, and his words were not good. He is the prime minister, the head of a hundred officials, but the limelight of today's court meeting has been stolen by Wu Zhi, how can he be happy.

"Zhang Xiangming saw that Xia Guan had indeed practiced, and his martial arts were okay!" Wu Zhi ignored his state of mind, and said with neither humility nor arrogance.

Although humility is full of losses, being too modest equals pride, so Wu Zhi doesn't plan to be modest, just tell the truth.

"Oh! Martial arts are okay, so the implication is that the martial arts of the martial arts are outstanding? I wonder if Master Wu can show his hand and let everyone open their eyes? Cai Jing, who was standing behind Zhang Chun, couldn't bear it anymore, took Wu Zhi's words, and asked with a smile, looking gloating, he also wanted to see Wu Zhi's jokes.

"Yes! Master Wu showed his hand and took a look, opening everyone's eyes! When everyone heard this, they also started to laugh, and all of them had bad intentions.

"What about monkeys? And voila! Wu Zhi was unhappy in his heart, but he didn't bother to respond to them, he just stood proudly, looked at Zhao Xu fixedly, and didn't say a word.

Cai Jing and the others were a little annoyed and angry when they saw that Wu Zhi, a little eight-rank sesame official, ignored him, and stared at him hatefully, but they didn't dare to attack, the emperor was still watching from above!

"Ahem! What do you think about this? When Zhao Xu heard Cai Jing's words, he was already a little moved, and he also wanted to see how Wu Zhi's martial arts were, but when he saw Wu Zhi looking at him steadily, he hurriedly pressed the thought in his heart and changed the topic. After all, the occasion is not right, and he doesn't think so, the new champion Yuanlang, a weak scholar, how high can he be in martial arts?

"Dare to ask Master Wu, how do you know that the party members will definitely go to Wuyan Gorge? And also besiege Pingxia City? Why did the party members station troops in Tiandu Mountain and Yanzi Mountain? Can you not predict the prophet? If not, it would be a deception! "Some people take advantage of the opportunity. During this time, Wu Zhi was too popular, and many literati and politicians were jealous!

"Yes, Master Wu, you are a big crime of bullying the king!" Some people started to heckle along.

"You're stupid X, you!" Wu Zhi sneered and scolded, staring at the coaxing officials like an idiot.

"You! You ......" The scolded official trembled with anger and did not dare to refute.

"Enough! There is no excuse for the sin you want to add! People are talking about predictions, where does the deception come from? Xu Jiang blackened his face and scolded in a deep voice.

Xu will be a centrist, although he is not used to seeing Wu Zhi's behavior of singing praises for the new party and belittling the old party, but he is still more upright and has a sense of justice. Therefore, he is even more unaccustomed to the ugly faces of these ministers and literati in the DPRK and China.

"Thank you Xu Shangshu!" Hearing this, Wu Zhi turned around, smiled and bowed to General Xu, thanking him for speaking up for himself. I was secretly sure in my heart that this promise would be worthy of his friendship.

"Wu Qing's countermeasure sounds good, do you have any other opinions?" Zhao Xu lowered his face and asked in a deep voice.

Zhao Xu also had a lot of dissatisfaction and bitterness in his heart. These ministers, pampered and pampered on weekdays, will pick on every time the court employs people, and they can't come up with a big idea, so they know that dogs eat dogs don't do anything. But as the emperor, he can't do without them, and he has to reuse them, he is really dumb and eats coptis, and he can't say anything about his suffering. Now that he sees that Wu Zhi can come up with such a good countermeasure at a young age, whether he can implement it or not, he appreciates it very much, and naturally wants to maintain Wu Zhi's face.

When all the civil and military officials heard the emperor's question again, they were all silent for an instant, lowering their eyebrows and bowing their heads, like an old monk in a fixed position. If they still have a good way to retreat from the enemy, they won't be slapped in the face by Wu Zhi, a hairy boy, and Wu Zhi's outstanding performance will make them incompetent. In terms of age, they can all be Wuzhi's fathers or even grandparents; In terms of experience, they dare to say that they must be many times richer than Wu Zhi; But when it comes to talent, now that Wu Zhi is famous, they feel as if they are out of strength, and they are particularly unhappy in their hearts.

After a long time, seeing that no one answered, Zhao Xu found that he really couldn't ask anything, and he was a little annoyed, and hurriedly glanced at Hao Sui next to him.

Hao Sui understood, and immediately shouted sharply: "If there is something to play, there is nothing to retreat!" Seeing that everyone was indifferent, he shouted with them, "Retreat!" ”

"Congratulations to Your Majesty!" Wu Zhi and the others bowed and shouted.

Zhao Xu walked off the dragon chair under the eyes of everyone, walked to the side hall, and left slowly, and glanced at Wu Zhi deeply before leaving, his mood was inexplicable. Hao Sui followed, following suit.

After Zhao Xu walked into the side hall, the ministers of civil and military affairs began to leave the vertical arch hall one after another. Of course, Zhang Chun went first, and An Tao, Li Qingchen, Zeng Bu and other important ministers followed, and the others left in order. Wu Zhi didn't move, waiting for them all to leave before leaving.

Wu Zhi walked out of the vertical arch hall, went down the stone steps, and nodded to the palace guards on duty on both sides as he walked, and all the palace guards were flattered and saluted him one after another.

Walking into the square in front of the palace, everyone has not gone far, divided into many teams in twos and threes, Zhang Chun is pacing slowly in the middle alone, An Tao and Xu Jiang, Lin Xi, Huang Lu and others are talking and laughing together, and Cai Jing, Cai Bian and Xing Shu are talking and laughing and walking aside, Li Qingchen and Zeng Bu and An Dian have a somewhat gloomy expression while talking about something, and the others are also in groups of three or five, which is really distinct! Seeing Wu Zhi coming over, many people stopped and looked at him sideways, and some began to talk in a whisper, pointing and pointing.

Seeing this, Wu Zhi laughed at them, nodded at them with a smile, and walked forward calmly. These people are his predecessors, they should be respected, as the saying goes, it's not strange to have many people!

Everyone saw that his etiquette was quite thoughtful and not very frivolous, and the unhappiness in their hearts suddenly dissipated a lot, their faces were slightly gloomy, and some people also greeted him.

As he was walking, Hao Sui's sharp and rapid call suddenly came from behind him: "Zhang Xiang, Master Wu, please stay!" The official family has something to summon two! ”

Wu Zhi had no choice but to stop, and turned to face Hao Sui, who was panting and running over in broken steps. A moment later, Zhang Chun also turned back from the front. Everyone looked sideways with bitter expressions. It is already commonplace for the official family to summon Prime Minister Zhang Chun alone, but now they have privately summoned Wu Zhi, a small Beijing official of the eighth grade, which is unheard of, and everyone is a little uneasy.

"What?" Zhang Chun asked in a low voice.

"We don't know, the two adults will go with our family." Hao Sui shook his head, he was also puzzled. He just knew that Zhao Xu looked more excited after returning to the imperial study in the side hall of the Vertical Arch Palace, and couldn't wait to tell Hao Sui to hang up the map, and then stared at the map in a daze, and made this will after a while.

Hao Sui led the way in front of the head, and Wu Zhi and Zhang Chun followed him into the imperial study.

As soon as he entered the imperial study, he saw Zhao Xu sitting behind the desk writing. Seeing the two of them coming in, Zhao Xu then instructed Hao Suidao: "Give me a seat!" ”

Hao Sui casually moved two small embroidery stools, one in front of Zhang Chun, one in front of Wu Zhi, Zhang Chun thanked and sat down, and Wu Zhi also bowed down to thank but did not sit, only stood quietly next to the embroidery stool, he didn't dare to sit, he couldn't be frivolous when he was young!

Zhao Xu and Zhang Chun couldn't help but nod secretly when they saw him advancing and retreating in an orderly manner: "You can teach your son!" ”

"Two Qing families, I summoned the two of you to come over to discuss something!" Zhao Xu said straight to the point.

"I thought about it carefully, and felt that what Wu Qing said just now was quite reasonable. However, the battlefield is changing rapidly, and the fighters are also fleeting, and the response of the generals is very exquisite. Who can be the handsome? Who can do it? And how to schedule to compete for success? ”

Zhao Xu paused when he said this, looked at Wu Zhi, and asked coldly, "What else does Wu Qing have a high opinion?" But it doesn't hurt to say it! ”

At this time, Wu Zhifang had the opportunity to observe Zhao Xu closely. In fact, Zhao Xu is only one or two years older than him, but his face looks much older and paler, weak, and his eyes are dull, and he looks powerless. This short-lived emperor only has less than three years to live, and Wu Zhi can't help but feel a burst of sadness and sigh in his heart, what a trick!

When he was distracted and heard Zhao Xu ask him, Wu Zhi paused for a moment, then put away his thoughts, and pretended to be contemplative, the answer was ready-made, but he had to pretend to be contemplative, otherwise it would be difficult to explain.

After the tea, he said in an orderly manner: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister thinks that he can be the commander of the Northwest Army; Zhong Fu, Zhe Keshi, Yao Xiong, Yao Gu, Yang Weizhong, Guo Cheng, Liu Zhongwu, Miao Lu and others can be generals, each leading all the way to the soldiers. At the same time, Lu Jifu led the army of Yanyan Road, Wang Wenyu led the army of Xihe Road, and Sun Lu led the army of Huanqing Road to assist. The ministers thought that they could first spread the spy eyeline in the streets, go deep into the enemy's territory, spy on intelligence, spread rumors, and show our army's determination to defend Pingxia City to the death. Secondly, hoard more materials in Pingxia City, use Pingxia City as bait, ambush Wuyan Gorge, lure the enemy to attack, then defend the city, transfer troops to help, reinforcements in the periphery to paralyze and disturb the enemy army besieging the city as the priority, the enemy advances I retreat, the enemy is tired and I disturb. At the same time, he secretly crossed Chencang, took the initiative to attack, and sent several large armies to break into the enemy's territory, copy his back road, and wait for an opportunity to annihilate the enemy. In the view of the ministers, Tiandu Mountain and Yanzi Mountain are all strategic places, and the enemy will be stationed here, and several large armies can be surrounded and gathered to annihilate them. At that time, the main force of the enemy will be annihilated, and the troops will be defeated and gone, and our army can take advantage of the victory to pursue, and will be able to compete for its merits, kill countless enemies, and take advantage of the situation to recover many lost grounds, and promote the divine power of our Great Song Dynasty! ”

Speaking of this, Wu Zhi thought for a while, and then said: "Your Majesty can be relieved, this time the party members committed a border, it seems to be violent, but it is really just a paper tiger, there is no need to be afraid, I will retreat victorious!" ”

Zhao Xu and Zhang Chun listened to Wu Zhi's eloquent words, and at first they could calm down, but the more they listened to it, the more surprised they became, the more they listened to it, the more they felt that its strategy was extraordinary, the more they listened, the more they felt that it was reasonable and feasible, and the more they listened, the more they were excited, and it was really possible to successfully retreat the enemy soldiers according to this strategy. When they heard Wu Zhi say "paper tiger", both of them were stunned for a moment, puzzled.

"What is a paper tiger?" After Wu Zhi finished speaking, Zhang Chun asked.

"The paper tiger is not a real tiger, but a metaphor for the enemy as a papier-mâché tiger, which shatters when touched." Seeing that they were puzzled, Wu Zhi hurriedly explained.

"Oh, papier-mâché tiger! Good! Good! Well compared! Zhao Xu couldn't help laughing when he heard this. Zhang Chun next to him couldn't help but nod again and again.

"Zhang Qing, how is this strategy?" Zhao Xu looked at Zhang Chun and asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, this strategy is feasible, wonderful! Give it a try. Zhang Chun hurriedly stood up and thought about it before nodding and saying. He has completely lost his contempt for Wu Zhi at this moment.