A bad decision is more correct than no decision at all.

When Kong Ming walked into the hall of the palace, he felt the helplessness of this battle, those politicians who quarreled around, even now are still keen to quarrel there, for a little thing, keep repeating, and those officers are also constantly explaining and fighting, of course, because of the defeat, so they are not very confident in speaking, many times those politicians blush, but there is no way to refute, although many of the officers are originally from politicians, but the record makes them unable to say their words。 Because Kong Ming is a classmate of Dagong Xiang Tiancheng, after Kong Ming's report, Kong Ming also made an exception to visit this kind of boring quarrel. Kong Ming looked at Xiang Tiancheng's sad face, but after a glance at Kong Ming, he motioned for Kong Ming to find a place to participate in this meeting. After Kongming politely replied, he found a table in a corner of the hall and sat down.

"Grand Duke, I personally think that we should have a new round of negotiations with the Harvey Empire, otherwise their asking price is too high, so what's the difference between this and the death of the country?" said Cole, the finance minister of the Chu State.

"Yes, hmph, let's cede to them all the places they occupy now, how is it possible, if only one or two cities are okay. A chubby minister said.

"You people know that surrender, hmph, after surrendering, your official position will still be the same, but what do you let the Grand Duke do, as long as we can hold out for two months, the armies of the Huayuan Empire and other principalities will inevitably come, and at that time we can defeat the Harvey Empire, and the principality can be saved. Said Sewell, the military minister of the principality.

"Two months, hmph, Macheng broke overnight, and it's two months! The chubby minister said. His words made Sewell angry enough.

"You!" Sevier was speechless.

"Who's that fat man?" asked Kong Ming as he turned to a young officer in gorgeous armor next to him.

"Shhh, be quiet, that's Minister of State Lei Yekun, he is a senior swordsman, his ears are very sharp, and he is easy to hold grudges, be careful, he doesn't like people talking about his fat man behind his back. The young man whispered. When Kong Ming heard this, he looked at the fat man a little more, and saw that Lei Yekun was also looking over here, sure enough, he was worthy of being a senior swordsman, but his hearing was really good, but Kong Ming saw that the moment he saw it, a faint brilliance flashed from his eyes, and that kind of brilliance was definitely not something that a high-level swordsman could have. Kong Ming's heart couldn't help but have a kind of jealousy towards this person, this is like a demonic beast, the kind of thing that comes from nature and can't be explained. At this moment, Kong Ming knew that this fat man was by no means as simple as it seemed on the surface.

"Hmph, no matter what, we must hold out until help arrives, and only then can we drive the Harveys out of the duchy. There is hope for our future. Sewell, the military minister of the principality, said forcefully.

"What if we can't wait? What's more, we don't know if the price we're going to pay when the rescuers come is lower than that, if it's higher?" said Chancellor of the Exchequer Kohl.

"If we don't fight, how can we account for the dead?" said another general.

"There is no way to do this, for the sake of the future, it can only be like this, this is also an explanation without explanation, and we can also negotiate to delay time, so the knife can also be said to buy time. Cole said.

"If you don't explain, then who will fight for the principality in the future, what you say is light, after all, it's just a greed for life and fear of death. A mocking voice came from among the officers.

"Ah Luo, don't make personal attacks there, you're discussing the future of the principality. Cole yelled.

"Well, the principality has been sold to you, and there is still a fart future. Ah Luo's voice came from that place again.

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Kong Ming looked at this hall like a vegetable market and was really speechless in his heart, this is discussing the future of a principality, and the simple value is a place where the ministers of the principality compete to sell the country, it seems that the soldiers of the Harvey Empire really scared these pampered ministers, Xiang Tiancheng figured out that these people came to strengthen the country, and they begged for fish from the roots. Thinking of this, Kong Ming turned his eyes to the classmate on the main seat in the hall, only to see Xiang Tiancheng dragging his face with one hand, constantly knocking on the table with the other, leaning on the chair, looking at the person in front of him who was constantly arguing with the vegetable seller, obviously he was used to this situation for a long time.

This went on for more than two hours, and it was still endless. Kong Ming was upset when he heard it, he really couldn't figure it out, why the enemy had already come to the city, and there was still an endless quarrel here, in addition to the spy factor in it, there was also the distribution of interests between different nobles, but Kong Ming thought that the most important thing was that Xiang Tiancheng did not have the courage to suppress all kinds of problems in it, as a leader, a wrong decision was more important than no decision, rather than endlessly fighting for some useless things here, the art of war: " Looking at its generals, you can know the victory or defeat. Thinking about it, this battle is already predictable. Thinking of this, once again thinking of the previous failed battles, Kong Ming was even more disappointed in this battle, although he could leave this irritating place with various excuses and return to the Huayuan Empire, but as a soldier, he really couldn't make this decision, the most important thing was that now was not the best time to leave. Because Taiguo left at this time, then there will be some shadows in his future military career, failure is not terrible, what is terrible is that he does not have the courage to face failure, not to mention that he does not even have the courage to fail, for the one in front of him, as a soldier, he is powerless, and he cannot stop or build yì, but he can do his best within the scope of his ability, and give those who come back with him a better ending.

I don't know how long it took, Xiang Tiancheng straightened up and coughed a few times, after those people heard it, they didn't stop, and they continued to argue, until the people led by Xiang saw Xiang Tiancheng's ugly face, and motioned for the others to stop, and after a while, the sound like a vegetable coin market in the hall stopped. At this time, the guard at the door may have heard that the hall was silent, and there was no sound, thinking that something had happened, and suddenly a group of people rushed in. Xiang Tiancheng looked at the soldiers who rushed in, he finally made everyone stop, but let a team of ignorant soldiers stir it up, and the great anger in his heart was directly sent out at these innocent soldiers.

"Get out, what are you doing here, don't you see we're discussing something important, get out, get me out!" the sound rang out, and the soldiers hurried out of the hall faster than they had come. And that voice also shocked the officials in the hall, Xiang Tiancheng looked at the shocked looks of the officials around him, and was very satisfied with his move to scold Huai. After thinking about it, he continued: "Let's discuss it here today, everyone go back first, follow the original unchanged, pay attention to the enemy's movements, report to me at any time, and disperse first." ”

After everyone heard it, they didn't care, thinking that this kind of thing had happened not once or twice, and the two sides of the quarrel glared angrily, and walked out of the hall together, walking outside, but Kong Ming heard that after they left the hall, they talked to each other again, as if the previous qiē was just a play. Kong Ming walked behind everyone and was about to walk out of the hall, when he heard Xiang Tiancheng shouting: "Kong Ming stay, I have something to say to you." ”

This sentence surprised everyone who heard it, and looked back at Kong Ming who was wearing tattered armor, among which there were a few people who might know the relationship between Kong Ming and Xiang Tiancheng and others muttered a few words, and everyone suddenly realized, showing a smile and looking at Kong Ming, which made Kong Ming feel embarrassed for a while, and could only turn around and give a military salute to Xiang Tiancheng.

"The two of us haven't seen each other for a long time, thank you for fighting for my country, let's go to the back and have a drink for two. ”

"All right, Grand Duke, please. Kong Ming made a gesture, this is Xiang Tiancheng's principality, of course, he has to give the master enough face, although he is here to help others, but friendship is friendship, and he still has to give the other party a face in front of those subordinates of the other party. Xiang Tiancheng nodded, walking in front, Kong Ming followed him for more than ten minutes, and came to a pavilion, there was a small table made of jade in the center of the pavilion, there were already two cups on the table, and there was a burst of clear wine fragrance in the cup, so that Kong Ming really moved his index finger, and there were five small dishes on the table, two pairs of chopsticks, Xiang Tiancheng sat down by himself, and then motioned to Kong Ming to sit down opposite him, let his subordinates leave a little farther, picked up the wine glass in one hand and drank it in one gulp, and then said: " Kong Ming can have an opinion on the current battle situation and save the situation from fire and water?"

"I wonder what the Grand Duke wants?" asked Kong Ming carefully.

"Hmph, of course it's to drive Harvey out of Chu and give me a good river and mountain!"

"A defeated army, under the weak, where is the strength to defeat it and drive it out of the Chu State?" Kong Ming also said bluntly after taking a drink. This is a very unkind statement, but it is true, and then, the truth is usually not welcomed.

"I still have an army of 300,000 and tens of millions of people, who will be afraid of his expedition to the tired army. Xiang Tiancheng was not convinced.

"The 300,000 army is divided on a front of several hundred kilometers, but tens of millions of people have no one to organize, how can they resist the enemy's attack?" In the case of only two people, Kong Ming deliberately gave Xiang Tiancheng a fierce medicine.

"Hmph!" Xiang Tiancheng glared fiercely, staring straight at Kong Ming, the people outside wanted to rush in when they saw this, but Xiang Tiancheng signaled them not to move, and after a while, he sighed, "Old classmate, is there a way to teach me?"

Kong Ming poured himself another glass of wine and drank it: "I have three strategies, is the Grand Duke willing to listen?"

"Those three strategies, let's listen to them. There was a trace of vibration in Xiang Tiancheng's voice, but he tried his best to suppress the feelings of his people.

"The best policy, you quickly get out of Chudu, lead an army to move closer to the Huayuan Imperial Army, and rely on Huayuan to avoid protection, at least half of the country can be protected. Life is worry-free. ”

"Where's the middle strategy?"

"You lead the army and people of Chu to resist the Harvey army, a battle is decided, and if you win, you can protect the troops of Chu, and if you lose, you can go to Huayuan to wait for the opportunity. It's a desperate gamble, and in any case it comes at a great cost. ”

"What's next?" Xiang Tiancheng said in a low voice, obviously the first two strategies were not optimistic about the situation, which hurt him very much.

"Surrender Harvey, like this, you can save your life, Harvey will inevitably let you change a place to give the same treatment, the disadvantage of this strategy is that from now on the state of Chu will become a country of four wars, and the people will have no peace. ”

"Why?" said Xiang Tiancheng strangely.

"As soon as the Grand Duke leaves, there are no nobles in the Chu country who can suppress others, and all countries have to intervene in this place, and from then on, there will be a dragon and tiger fight, as short as three or five years, and as long as decades, plus the Chu people are warlike, how can there be a peaceful day here?" Kong Ming said.

Hearing Kong Ming's words, Xiang Tiancheng's heart churned, if you fight, you will lose the country, and if you don't fight, you will also lose the country, how to choose? Xiang Tiancheng couldn't drink the wine glass for a long time, as if this was a cup of poisonous wine, if it was a cup of poisonous wine, how should you choose?

"I won't pick it anyway. Kong Ming said resolutely.

"Why?" Xiang Tiancheng asked strangely, he knew that his classmate had always been wise, and he would definitely give him a satisfactory answer.

"Do you want to hear a story?"

"Hmm!" Xiang Tiancheng nodded, he didn't know why Kong Ming would tell the story at this time, but he knew that Kong Ming must have his definite reasons.

"There was a wolf and a tiger fighting, and in order to survive, it was beaten by the tiger and bruised, and when it was fighting with the tiger, there was also a tiger not far from it who watched them fight. At this time, in order to survive, the wolf has three choices, one is to take refuge in the tiger that fights it, the second is to fight with the first one, whether it wins or loses, it must fight with the second tiger again, and the third is to take refuge in the other tiger. If it was that wolf, what would you choose?"

"How to choose?No matter which tiger you choose, the wolf can be saved, only the second choice is the stupidest choice?" Xiang Tiancheng looked at Kong Ming as if he had realized something, "If it were you, which one would you choose?"

"That intact tiger, only intact is powerful. Kong Ming said categorically.

"It's a waste of talent for you not to be a lobbyist. Why?"

"Because the wound on the body is the first bite, after the fierce fight, it is inevitable that there will be injuries, a wounded tiger and an intact tiger, I think it is better to choose the intact tiger, and those undead under the butcher's knife of the Harvey Empire's army want us to avenge them, compared to the two, the Huayuan Empire is a good choice. ”