In an exquisite small courtyard in the south of the city of Luozhou, an official in a red robe was bowing to a young man.

And next to the red-robed official stood a middle-aged man with a long beard in armor.

"His Royal Highness King Luo, now the grain and military supplies that my court has transported to the north have begun to be transported back to my Luozhou city on a large scale."

The red-robed middle-aged official replied.

"How's the counting of the food and supplies being returned? How many are there? ”

The young man took a cursory look at the fold in his hand and set it aside.

"Back to Your Highness, due to the chaos in the north now, many cities are besieged by the grassland tribes, and the roads are not smooth, so the food and materials that have arrived in my Luozhou Prefecture are less than one-tenth of the total."

The red-robed official said a little nervously.

"Less than a tenth is too little, you have to speed up, otherwise all this food and supplies will eventually become supplies for the grassland tribes."

The young man pinched his forehead and said.

"How is the urgent relocation of the people in the northern border area?"

After thinking for a while, the young man asked again.

"The matter of moving south has been carried out, but it is still difficult to implement because of the grassland tribes, and there are many people who are reluctant to leave their hometowns, they all think that this time the grassland tribes are planning to go to plunder the imperial capital, so they will not be too dangerous."

The red-robed official wiped the sweat from his forehead with the sleeve of his robe and said.

"General Liu, let's talk about the specific situation of the grassland tribe now, you can analyze it for me to see what the grassland tribe plans to do this time."

The young man pondered for a moment and asked the long-bearded middle-aged man in armor.

"Back to Your Highness, judging from the current situation, the grassland tribe is estimated to be still repairing, after all, although this time they broke our three border fortresses in a row, but due to the bloody battle of the Pengzhou army, the grassland tribe also suffered heavy losses."

This General Liu said angrily.

"This shouldn't be, even if the grassland tribe loses tens of thousands of people, according to their current numbers, as long as they go all the way south, it will be difficult for my Dayu to gather the scattered army in a short period of time!"

The young man known as King Luo said with a puzzled brow.

"Lord Jiang, what news do you have from the military department?"

King Luo turned his head to ask a middle-aged man sitting next to him.

"Back to Your Highness, there is no definite news from the Ministry of War."

The middle-aged man known as Master Jiang got up and replied.

"Gonggong Chen, what news do you have over there in the Beisi?"

King Luo turned to the white-faced bearded man standing behind him.

"Back to Your Highness, our family has not received any news, but I heard a gossip that I don't know if it is related to the fact that the grassland tribe has not attacked on a large scale for the time being."

The old eunuch known as Gonggong Chen said softly.

"Oh, come and hear it!"

King Luo, Lord Jiang, and General Liu all cast inquiring glances at him.

Gonggong Chen saw that the three of them were staring at him, so he didn't dare to sell Guan Zi anymore, he hurriedly said.

"We heard that the fine workers in the north sent back a piece of information, which said that the reason why the grassland tribe suspended its operation was because the Tugu king of the Tugu tribe was killed, and the Khan of the Xianbei tribe was captured, and now the two tribes are in chaos, so the other tribes of the grassland are busy stabilizing these two tribes!"

"Is this news reliable?"

Gonggong Chen's words made King Luo have a look of surprise on his face.

"We don't know about this, but these detailed works of my Beisi are carefully selected, and the information sent back should not be wrong."

Although Gonggong Chen knew that this information was most likely true, he didn't dare to say too much.

"Then which army killed the Tugu King and captured the Xianbei Khan?"

King Luo was very curious about which army was so brave that it was able to kill the King of Tugu and capture the Xianbei Khan, which was no less than the Pengzhou army annihilating tens of thousands of people.

"It's strange to say, judging from the information sent by Xizuo, they haven't figured out who these people are, even the grassland tribe hasn't figured it out so far, and our side of the Great Danger is also carefully investigating."

"And such things? According to reason, since someone killed the king of Tugu and captured the Xianbei Khan, and made such an immortal achievement, he should report it to the officials! ”

King Luo is very puzzled, generally speaking, as long as such merits are reported, the court will definitely give a very generous reward, not to mention the addition of officials and knights, but the reward of gold and silver can make people red, but no one has come to report the merits, which is unreasonable.

"General Liu, you said, is it possible for those reinforcements from all over the country to attack the army that killed the King of Tugu and captured the Xianbei Khan because of these military exploits?"

King Luo knew that there had always been a tradition of superiors pretending to lead subordinate military merits in these armies, and he had also been in some feudal armies and feudal armies until there were cases of killing good and presuming meritorious deeds.

"Your Highness, I think this is unlikely, because even if they are really so unwise to do such a ridiculous thing, they will definitely hand over the head of the Tugu King and the Xianbei Khan to the imperial court in exchange for military merit, but according to Gonggong Chen, no one has come to receive the merit so far, which means that the reinforcements from all over the country should not have done so."

General Liu analyzed it for King Luo one by one.

"Then this matter is strange, these guys desperately raided the grassland tribe and successfully killed the Tugu King and captured the Xianbei Khan, but they didn't report to the court to receive the reward, are these guys really just for the country and the people and don't want a reward?"

King Luo muttered to himself.

"Your Highness, the world is bustling for profit, and the world is bustling for profit, where is there anyone who doesn't want the court's reward!"

Another person who had been listening to the room said.

"Lord Lu has a point."

After reminiscing about it, King Luo also felt that his conjecture was a little ridiculous, how could anyone in this world not love wealth and power, even if he didn't love wealth and power, could the court still reward beautiful women.

"Is it possible that Your Highness has been intercepted and killed by the cavalry of the grassland tribe, so they did not report to the imperial court to receive their rewards?"

The other person sitting next to Lord Lu said.

"It makes sense to say to the lord, if these people have been killed by the steppe tribe in the middle of the road, and they died with the Xianbei Khan before they died, so the Xianbei and Tugu tribes were killed

Confusion, it does make sense. ”

King Luo couldn't help nodding and said.

"But Your Highness forgives the old slave for saying more, and the information sent back by the current Bei Si shows that no one in the grassland tribe has admitted to killing these people."

Seeing that King Luo was so excited, Gonggong Chen couldn't help but remind in a low voice.

"Hey, maybe it's because this matter is too confidential that you didn't inquire about the details of your Beiji."

King Luo still insisted on his own ideas.

"You know that this time the Emperor Uncle Ancestor sent me from the imperial capital to Luozhou, not to let me directly go to Luozhou, he ordered me to come to Luozhou to organize the next defense line."

King Luo directly made clear his goal of coming to Luozhou Prefecture this time.

The red-robed official and General Liu all had solemn expressions.

You must know that most of the military operations in the northern border fortress were in charge of the Youwang in the past.

As the northernmost vassal king of the imperial dynasty, King You's perennial war with the grassland tribe is precisely why he enjoys a very high prestige and status among the vassal kings of Dayu.

In the past, Emperor Shengwu also relied on him very much when he was in power, and even after Emperor Shengheng succeeded to the throne, his status was never affected.

But now Emperor Shengheng actually sent the young King Luo to Luozhou to stop the army resisting the grassland tribes, which obviously wanted to divide the rights of the old Youwang.

This kind of thing can be regarded as a matter of immortal fighting for the red-robed officials and General Liu, and mortals like them should be as far away as possible.

But now they are directly involved in this struggle, and they don't know what the final outcome will be.

However, no matter what the situation is in the future, they can only hug King Luo's thighs now, after all, King You's side is full of talents, and he has no chance of making a name for himself in the past.

As for staying neutral, you can't even think about it, unless you don't want to live.

"I know what you're thinking, don't worry, Uncle Huang didn't want me to fight for power with King You, but now the three cities of Biansai are being watched by hundreds of thousands of grassland troops, and it is not known where they will break through and go south, I came to Luozhou Prefecture City just to prevent trouble."

King Luo softly comforted the two who were already sweating on their foreheads.

Regarding King Luo's statement, the red-robed officials and General Liu were full of disbelief.

They knew about the adults who came to Luozhou with His Royal Highness King Luo this time.

First of all, Gonggong Chen is the confidant of Gonggong Qiao of Beisi, and he is mainly responsible for spying on the intelligence of the grassland tribe, and he is the person who can know the movements of the grassland tribe the fastest in Beisi.

And that Master Jiang is Jiang Feng, the official of the Ministry of War, and his position is an official of the fifth grade, although it seems that the official rank is not high, but he is extremely powerful in the Ministry of War.

He was in charge of all the military maps of Dayu, mainly responsible for planning and arranging the front line, and had the authority to deploy various armies for defense and attack.

It can be said that this Jiang Daren was an important promoter of the war that the Ministry of War was mainly responsible for planning and organizing.

And the one who was called Lord Xiang by King Luo was Xiang Shixun, the head of the Ministry of Officials, although his official rank was only from the fifth grade, but he was the same as Jiang Feng, and his status in the Ministry of Officials was also extremely heavy.

As the name suggests, the Department of Merit Examination is the main department of the Ministry of War to evaluate the performance of civil officials in various localities, so as to facilitate the promotion and transfer of officials in the future.

It can be said that he, a member of the fifth grade, must deal with it carefully, otherwise he can use some means in the performance assessment of the other party, and these seniors will have a headache at that time.

And that Lord Lu's name is Lu Jianzhong, who is the head of the Ministry of Officials, and although their Divisions and Meritorious Divisions seem to coincide, their goals are different.

The meritorious service department assesses the political performance of civil officials, while the meritorious department evaluates the merits of generals.

Although the military department also has its own department to evaluate the merits of the generals, and the functions of the North Division are similar to those of the Division, the Division is still one of the departments that the generals care about the most.

The reason for this is because the first reference when the emperor rewarded the title of military commander was the evaluation of the Commander.

Compared with the rewards of official positions and wealth, the generals' enthusiasm for titles has not diminished since ancient times.

There was once an ancient poem: Feng Tang Yi Lao, Li Guang is difficult to seal, as a model of military generals Fei General Li Guang is so persistent in the marquis, so the attraction of obtaining a knighthood to military generals can be imagined.

So it is conceivable how high the status of Lord Lu, the head of the Si Xun Division, is in the generals.

In fact, what made the red-robed officials and General Liu the most unbelievable was this King Luo.

King Luo's name is Mu Linyan, and although he is the nephew of His Majesty Emperor Shengheng today, his status is much higher than that of other vassal kings.

Even if the highly respected King of You is compared with this young King Luo, his prestige in the army may not be comparable to that of King Shangluo.

The reason why this is the case is not because King Luo himself has any achievements in the army, but because King Luo's identity is relatively special.

This Luo King Mu Linyan is not an ordinary vassal king, he is actually the son of the first emperor Shengwu Emperor.

Emperor Shengheng is the son of Emperor Shengcheng, and Emperor Shengwu's father, Emperor Shengyin, is the brother of the same mother.

Then after the death of Emperor Shengyin, his three sons Emperor Shengjing, Emperor Shengshu, and Emperor Shengwu succeeded to the throne respectively, which also fulfilled: the temple people are in chaos, and the prophecy of the three sons being the emperor.

After the violent death of Emperor Shengwu that year, because the other heirs of Emperor Shengyin were difficult to become atmospheric, and the children of Emperor Shengwu were too young to become puppets in the hands of eunuchs and courtiers, so in the end, the Dayu royal family elected Emperor Shengheng to succeed him.

As the crown prince of the previous dynasty, King Luo was in a more embarrassing situation, and at that time, there were even ministers who secretly wrote to implore Emperor Shengheng to kill King Luo to get rid of future troubles.

However, Emperor Shengheng, as a promising emperor who wanted to help Dayu, felt that it was unkind to do so, so he directly exiled the ministers to the state of Jiaoyu on the grounds of dividing the flesh and blood of the Heavenly Family, and never returned to the imperial capital of Dayu.

However, although King Luo's life was saved, after this incident, Emperor Shengheng was also worried that some ill-intentioned people would provoke the young King Luo to rebel on the grounds of orthodoxy on the throne.

Therefore, Emperor Shengheng had to leave King Luo in the imperial capital and teach him personally, so it can be said that he treated King Luo better than his own grandson.

This also led to the fact that although Nakju was the territory of King Luo, King Luo was never able to go to Nakju to become a vassal from beginning to end.

And now that King Luo has grown up, and Emperor Shengheng is also old, so now that the situation in Biansai has been eroded to such a situation, it is also worth letting King Luo come forward.

With the prestige of Emperor Shengwu in the army back then, King Luo must still have a certain right to speak in the army.

As long as he can achieve certain merits in this defensive battle against the grassland, then he has a chance to replace the Youwang as the next vassal king to dominate the army in the north.

And the reason why Emperor Shengheng wanted to replace the old king with King Luo was not because the old king was not loyal enough, nor was he questioning the ability of the old king, but because Emperor Shengheng knew that the old king was as old as himself, and eventually he and the old king would be eliminated by the times.

And the ability of the son of the old Youwang, the son of Youwang, is really worrying, and he is not a usable talent.

As for King Luo's loyalty, Emperor Shengheng has never questioned it from beginning to end, after all, he is the child he brought up, he is very clear about King Luo's temperament, and more importantly, Emperor Shengheng knows that no one in the court will support King Luo's ascendancy.