King Ye Zhao Yan, who has inherited the throne for fifteen years, does not say anything during his reign, not to mention the first in the world in terms of civil and martial arts, at least there has been no famine in these years, and there has been no mutiny, but he is also a monarch who can keep it.

When he received the report from Zhou Tielin, the county guard of Danyang County, he was also a little surprised.

When King Qianye was alive, Chu Qianwen was already one of the hottest generals in Ye State, and when he was still a prince, he had contacts with Chu Qianwen, and even with Chu Yujia.

It's just that he never thought that such a guy, who is famous for writing and copying poems, would have such martial arts and courage.

Challenging the commander of the Qi army in front of the 200,000 Qi army formation, this is not something anyone can do.

Ask yourself, in the court of this Ye country, even among the people, there are only a handful of people who dare to do this.

King Ye picked up the teacup casually, took a sip slowly, and asked loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, you say, should the Lone King reward Chu Yujia or not?"

The Minister of Civil and Military Affairs also began to discuss for a while.

King Ye first glanced at Prime Minister Gong Qingdang's expression, but Gong Qingdang didn't say a word, and even his expression didn't change.

You must know that Gong Qingdang is Chu Yujia's father-in-law, if Chu Yujia can attain the Tao and ascend to heaven, then the benefits that he, the old father-in-law, can get, don't need to be talked about by others.

"Gong Xiang, what do you think?"

Hearing King Ye's question, Gong Qing hurriedly bowed his hand and said: "The minister thinks that this matter should not be participated by the minister, after all, the courtier and Yu Jia have already become husband and wife, if the minister intervenes in this matter, I am afraid that it will be unfair, and it is better for the king to decide." ”

Gong Qing was smart and picked himself clean.

Without waiting for King Ye to speak, Li Puyi stood up, bowed down and saluted: "King, the minister thinks that Chu Yujia will not be rewarded or punished. ”

"Oh?"

King Ye raised his eyebrows, looked at Li Puyi and said, "Master Taifu, this time Chu Yujia has made a great contribution, if King Gu Gu doesn't reward him, he can't convince the public......

"King, don't forget, Chu Yujia's father, Chu Qianwen. ”

Li Puyi sneered and said: "Chu Qianwen supported the army and tried to rebel, this is the original evidence is conclusive. ”

"If this is a change of people, not to mention the whole house, even the nine clans should be. ”

And the king remembered his exploits in guarding the northwest gate of the Ye Kingdom for 20 years, which left him a bloodline in the world. ”

"This is already the king's greatest gift to the Chu family, what is he Chu Yujia not satisfied with?"

"Now that this Chu Yujia has made a contribution, in the eyes of Wei Chen, it is far inferior to the gift given to the Chu family by the king, so it can only be regarded as a meritorious service. ”

"It's not necessarily possible to wear guilt and make meritorious contributions. ”

Without waiting for Li Puyi to finish speaking, Wu Dangguo, the general of Ye Guo, also opened his mouth.

This Wu Dangguo is a middle-aged man in his forties, and when he doesn't speak, he squints his eyes as if he is napping.

But those who are familiar with his temperament know that this person is not easy to provoke, and it is impossible for a person to be provoked to be a general.

Wu Dangguo's eyes opened a gap, what happened to Chu Qianwen, he couldn't be clearer, it's just that he didn't want to mention it, but now that someone mentioned it, he had to say a few words.

"What does the general think?"

Li Puyi turned his head to look at Wu Dangguo.

"There is no high opinion, but there is one low view. ”

Wu Dangguo stepped in and said: "King, the minister thinks that this time Chu Yujia will be rewarded, and he will be rewarded heavily. ”

Hearing this, King Ye looked at Wu Dangguo with some puzzlement and didn't speak.

Wu Dangguo has been with the emperor for 20 years, and naturally knows the temperament of the monarch, so he explained: "Now that the army of Qi is pressing, and the Jin side has also begun to be indecisive, the army is now demoralized because of the defeat in the territory of Qi, even if there is a determination to die, there is no belief in victory." ”

"To tell the truth, I, Wu Dangguo, have already written a suicide note at home, once the army of Qi is overwhelmed, I will immediately ask the king to fight, and personally lead the troops to Danyang County to fight Qi Dog to the death. ”

"Qi Dog wants to take a step into my Ye country, then he has to step on my Wu Dangguo's body, and now Chu Yujia has been born, challenging the generals of the Qi army in front of the battle, killing three generals in a row and also crippling the first fierce general of the enemy army on this march, forcing the Qi army to retreat fifty miles. ”

"So what?"

Li Puyi said disdainfully: "It's just a retreat of fifty miles, not a withdrawal of troops, if he can really withdraw the troops of Qi State, you are talking to me about this." ”

"General, don't forget, his father committed the capital crime of stealing his family and exterminating the clan, and it was already an extrajudicial mercy for the king to spare his life. ”

"Huh. ”

Wu Dangguo shook his head and said, "What do you know as a literati, how many battles have you fought and how many battlefields have you been on?"

"Do you know that every time the enemy retreats, it is exchanged for the lives of thousands of soldiers. ”

"This time, he single-handedly made the Qi army retreat fifty miles, who in this world can do it?"

Wu Dangguo sneered, turned his head to look at Li Puyi: "You said that the king spared his life, then do you still remember, who went to Gumo to discuss peace but was detained, and who single-handedly entered Gumo Border City to save him?"

Hearing this, Li Puyi's face was a little unpleasant.

The person who went to negotiate peace with Gumo at the beginning, who else could Li Puyi be?

As a result, he was detained by Gu Mo, and demanded that Ye Guo cede the land and pay compensation, and if he did not allow it, he would kill Li Puyi.

When the Taifu was detained, it was a matter of losing the dignity of the country, but why not be ashamed if the Taifu died abroad?

At that time, because the Ye State had just fought a national war with the Jin State, its national strength had not yet recovered, and it was impossible to conduct a second national war.

So, Chu Qianwen rode into Gumo alone, entered the Yihe land, and snatched Li Puyi back.

Until now, Li Puyi has not forgotten that the wounded general was carrying himself on his back and struggling on the desert, if it wasn't for the general who arranged 500 cavalry to meet in advance, they would all have died in that place covered with yellow sand.

"General, in the face of national interests, there are no personal feelings, and you and I talk about this, it seems that it is useless. ”

Li Puyi quickly came back to his senses, pouted and said, "Now we are talking about Chu Yujia's matter, not Chu Qianwen's matter. ”

"If you say that, then why talk about Chu Qianwen, we are talking about Chu Yujia. ”

Wu Dangguo was not to be outdone: "Chu Yujia has contributed to the Ye Kingdom, so he should be rewarded." ”

"You are simply ridiculous, and you are ignoring the laws of our country!"

These two officials and the first-class Taifu quarreled with the general, which made the court of Ye State chaotic, and only Gong Qingdang and King Ye, the two monarchs and ministers, seemed to be out of the matter.

Gong Qingdang really couldn't speak, but King Ye didn't want to speak.

The court is like this, no matter what country it is, it has its own faction.

For example, Ye Guo, Gong Qingdang is a faction of Wenchen, while Wu Dangguo is a faction of military generals, most of his subordinates are his direct subordinates, and the two factions are-for-tat on weekdays, and no one will let anyone.

As for Li Puyi, the Taifu, he is in his own faction, and there are both civil and military in his faction.

The three factions are fighting openly and secretly with each other, and these Ye Wang Zhao Yan are not unaware.

On the contrary, the monarch of King Ye, Zhao Yan, was more happy to see such a scene of arguing with each other in front of him than the harmonious scene in the court.

After all, if the courtiers don't fight among themselves, then he will be the king who suffers in the end.

After talking about Ye Guo, he is talking about Qi Guo.

At this moment, the court of Qi had already received the report submitted by Dou Jiankai.

Compared with King Ye's entanglement, King Qi is the most difficult one.

Dou Jiankai was personally promoted by him, and he ignored the opposition of the ministers and let Dou Jiankai, a fledgling general, sit in the position of commander.

This time, the war of Qi against Ye can be said to be fully prepared, supporting a new commander, with both cavalry and cavalry in the army, complete siege equipment, and abundant food and grass supplies in the rear.

And because the Ye army has just suffered a defeat, it is when morale is low, and it is a one-sided war in anyone's opinion.

But I didn't expect that before the battle began, it ended up with such a result.

Now the soldiers of the Qi army on the front line are deterred by Chu Yujia, which has led to a great reduction in morale, and it is obviously not suitable to go to war, and Yan Kai, the king of Qi, is also angry.

"Ridiculous, ridiculous. ”

Yan Kai slammed Dou Jiankai's recital to the ground.

Gao Yi, the prime minister of Qi State, walked out of the crowd and arched his hand: "King, the original intention of my country's use of troops against Ye State this time is to beat the water dogs, 200,000 infantry troops plus 50,000 cavalry troops, and it cannot be an imperfect deployment. ”

"Such a deployment and the wise strategy of the king, not to mention that the Ye State can be completely destroyed, but it is enough to make the Ye State unable to advance eastward within ten years and harass the people on the border of our country. ”

"But now the good situation has been buried by Dou Jiankai's carelessness, and the three loyal generals under the command of the king died in front of the battle, and Zhang Wutao, the disciple of the head of the Thunder Academy, was beaten into a waste, which is nothing more than the loss of my Great Qi Country. ”

Therefore, the minister dared to implore the king to severely punish Dou Jiankai to make the people angry, and at the same time give an explanation to the Thunder Academy. ”

Before King Qi Yan Kai could reply, Ling Run, the general on the side, stood up and intervened to give a salute: "Great King, the minister thinks that now is not the time to severely punish Dou Jiankai. ”

Qi King Yan Kai was also a little hesitant, after all, if Dou Jiankai was severely punished, no matter what the outcome was, it would be him, the king, who was wrong.

Wang, could it be wrong?

King, can never be wrong.

Ling Run stood up, knowing the difficulty in Yan Xingxing's heart, he pretended to hesitate for a moment, and Yan Kai asked, "Oh, what does the general mean......"

"The minister thought that a year ago, Ye and the Later Jin Dynasty united, broke into the hinterland of our country, burned and looted in the hinterland of our country, and the hatred of our people for the Ye people has reached a peak, a peak of the apex, which is of great benefit to our country to launch the second national war against the Ye country. ”

"But changing generals in battle is a taboo on the march, and I think the king also knows this, so the minister suggested that Dou Jiankai should not be punished in any way during the war, but another general should be sent to go in the name of the overseer, on the surface it is to assist Dou Jiankai, but in fact, the new overseer has full control of the war against Ye. ”

Ling Run's words can be said to have not only given Yan Kai the face of the monarch he wanted, but also said everything he wanted to say.

With such emotional intelligence, it is no wonder that Qi Wang Yan is so fond of Ling Run.

Qi Wang Yankai's tightly locked eyebrows slowly relaxed, looked at Ling Run, and his tone softened: "I don't know, which one does the general want to recommend?"