Chapter Ninety-Six: Temptation
In the thunderous shouts of the Tufan soldiers, after more than a dozen rounds of boulder bombardment, seeing that the outer wall of the Maguan city wall has been destroyed by almost a quarter, at this time, the physical strength of the giant warriors is also a little exhausted.
The king of Zhenxi returned to the palace in a panic and immediately summoned the civil and military ministers to discuss how to deal with it. The ministers who have seen such a situation today are also six gods and no masters, and they can't think of any good way to deal with it, and there are many discussions for a while, including the lord and the lord, the lord retreating, and those who say that they want the court to rescue, and they say anything.
At this time, King Zhenxi suddenly remembered that King Yuwen was not there, and immediately asked people to go to the front line to summon King Yuwen to come back quickly to discuss the matter. No, the military advisor Wang Jianyi stood up at this time and stopped: "Wait, king, before you summon King Yuwen, I want you to see someone first." ”
"Well, who wants me to meet at this time?" asked his military advisor with a suspicious face.
The military advisor looked around and stopped. The king of Zhenxi waved his hand and ordered all his ministers to retreat. The military advisor summoned a guard, and after an explanation in his ear, the guard immediately hurriedly retreated.
After a while, the guard led a man into the main hall. This person was about thirty years old, tall, with a cold face, dressed in the costume of a six-grade military attache of the imperial court, wearing an official hat, and walked forward to pay homage to the king of Zhenxi.
King Zhenxi looked at it, but it turned out to be someone he recognized. This person is the son of Wu Qizheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Wu Zheng, the guard officer of Lanling, the reason why he knows this person is because this person has a godfather of an official who worships a member of the imperial court, and his godfather is Huang Kecheng, the commander of the Nine Gates of Youjing City. Lord Huang has no children under his knees, and he is very fond of his godson, and Wu Zheng also took advantage of this to soar to Huang Tengda, and he became a six-grade high-ranking official at a young age, which is not much worse than his own father.
King Zhenxi, as the royal family with the surname of the country, was originally very incomprehensible to the Huang family, who was in charge of power in the court, and thought that it was because of Huang Guifei's dictatorship and nepotism in the court that the Tiangang was not correct and the national policy was wrong. He was even more disgusted with those courtiers who clinged to the Huang family and tended to be inflammatory.
He glanced at Wu Zheng and said angrily, "What are you here for?"
When Wu Zheng heard this, he immediately bowed his head and said: "The little one admires the king Suhuai, how dare he have such a will." To tell you the truth, I have come here to save the king from fire and water in accordance with the secret decree of the Holy Lord. ”
"Hmph, the saint you said is the son of Wu Shizhong, who is in charge of the throne, I didn't recognize that he is the current emperor, and raised the flag to rebel against him, how could he think of saving me. Didn't he send troops to attack me before, and now Tufanxi invades me, isn't it also his idea? King Zhenxi said angrily.
"This is wrong, the emperor previously sent troops to exterminate the bandit leader Yuwen Haotian in the Northern Regions, and this time he let Tufan come to conquer the Western Regions is also to eliminate this traitorous rebel, and you are the grandfather of the current emperor, the founding hero, and the king of Zhenxi ordered by Taizu, how can the emperor bear to sin against you. In addition, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, especially Lord Huang, etc., have repeatedly admonished the emperor, asking you to return to the court, repay the merits and forgive the sins, regardless of the past suspicions, after the Western Regions are pacified in the future, you can still continue to come back to be the king of Zhenxi. Wu Zheng said it sincerely.
Hearing him say this, the king of Zhenxi was completely angry, and asked softly, "Does the emperor really mean this?"
Wu Zheng took a step forward and said: "This statement is absolutely true, when the emperor reached an armistice agreement with Tufan, he signed a secret agreement with Deyong Khan, and Tufan promised to allow the king to go out of the city with his dependents and generals within 200 people when besieging the Western Regions, and he must not be stopped. This is the original copy of the secret agreement at that time, so please take a look. With that, he handed a piece of yellow silk to the king of Zhenxi.
The king of Zhenxi took the silk silk and looked at it carefully, and sure enough, as he said, it was stamped with the emperor's jade seal and the big seal of the Deyong Khan, and asked, "You mean, the Tufan people will agree to let me go out of the city when they see this?"
"That's natural. Wu Zheng took a step forward as he spoke, took back the yellow silk in the hands of the king of Zhenxi into his own hands, and then folded it and put it back into his arms, saying: "There is really no problem on Tufan's side, but if you want to return to the court, you must have an explanation, after all, you were a blatant treason back then." ”
"Nonsense, I'm not a traitor, I'm just defending Taizu's will and denouncing the rebels who are rebellious in the country. Although King Zhenxi said so, he also thought in his heart that Wu Zheng's words were also true, and it was impossible for the imperial court to accept his return casually for no reason.
"That being said, after all, you are also a guilty minister of the imperial court. Wu Zheng continued: "However, if the king can take the traitorous minister Yuwen Haotian, detain him and return to the court, and present a gift to the emperor, this is a great achievement, which is enough to make the king's merits and crimes offset by it. ”
Hearing this, King Zhenxi turned his head to the military advisor Wang Jianyi, and the two looked at each other, and he saw the affirmative meaning in the eyes of the military advisor.
The king of Zhenxi thought, now that the city is bound to be lost, is it possible that the crown prince of my dignified territory wants to become a prisoner of the Tufan Beiban, that is not willing to die. Even if Xia Ma Pass is fortunate enough to be preserved, it is all due to Yuwen Haotian, then, as his reputation in the Western Regions grows day by day, sooner or later it will override my head. Then the crown prince of my country can only be subject to this traitorous minister, and that will never happen. It seems that returning to the imperial court is the best choice at the moment.
Moreover, it is really easy to arrest King Yuwen now, the pro-army led by King Yuwen did not follow him to Xiama Guancheng, and there was only one guard of less than ten people around him, this is indeed the best opportunity, once missed, there may not be such a chance in the future.
After pondering for a while, King Zhenxi had made up his mind, he glanced up at Wu Zheng and asked, "Then according to you, how should this king do it, and when will he do it?"
"Without further ado. Wu Zheng was secretly happy in his heart, and stepped forward and said: "The specific plan, there is a plan in the morning, I only ask the king to decide as soon as possible." After that, he made a detailed statement to the king of Zhenxi and the military advisor in advance.