mousepad-d2 Chapter 119 Authority
Chapter 119 Authority
It is rare for Yunzhou in November to clear up. Since the beginning of autumn, the sky has been shrouded in dark clouds, and the wind is majestic, roaring with dust and grass clippings.Looking from a distance in the sky, Juning Pass stands silently in the strong wind. It is the last ancient pass guarding Yunzhou.The west of this Guan accepts Yu, and there is a rift valley to rely on as a natural moat, and the Lueyang Mountains in the east.The city wall is more than several feet high, and on the high wall, the officers and men on duty left after handing over.The armor is not warm, and people often feel stiff and numb after standing in the wind for a long time.Even so, the recent inspections still required a lot of manpower.
This year's autumn is too short, and it will soon pass, and it will snow after winter, which is not conducive to combat.Since the loss of Yuehe, Yun Cejun is like a half-blind person, who can no longer see the movement of Xirong people.Yuehe River seemed to be covered by fog, and it was very calm. Yun Ce Army could only send out scouts to inquire about the situation.
Ming Yuyan wrapped the cloak around her body tightly, and walked into the military tent with a sigh. She shook the grass clippings on her body, lowered her head and cursed something, and moved to the sand table to look.
Army Commander Zhao didn't take off his heavy armor, so he took off his cloak casually and threw it aside, and glanced at her: "All the people from the dark camp have been sent out?"
Ming Yuyan nodded and asked, "My lord, Zhou Shuai is not here, and the situation seems to be not very good now."
Army Commander Zhao said: "I haven't seen a better time. The scouts can't find anything. Now the Xirong people don't know what's going on."
Ming Yuyan hesitated for a moment, and said: "It's not that the imperial court has sent a mission to the royal court to obtain the peace agreement. When the mission returns, there is no need to be so worried."
Commander Zhao said coldly: "What if you can't come back?"
Ming Yuyan shivered suddenly, and said, "Can't come back? Why can't you come back? If there is really a war, we don't have many here—"
"Shut up!" Commander Zhao said viciously, took a small flag on the sand table and threw it at her.
Ming Yuyan shrank her head in silence, she knew that she almost said the wrong thing just now—after Zhou Gan left, half of the soldiers in Yun Ce's army were transferred from Juning Pass, and everyone seemed to acquiesce One thing is that Xirong and Daiguo can't fight each other. Since they can't fight anymore, there is no need to garrison a large number of troops near the border. Besides, the mission has already entered Xirong, and this matter is half done. How can you change your mind easily when it comes to national affairs?
"The Eighth Army is already on its way back to Guangyuan City," Commander Zhao said, "Shuai Zhou has already retreated, and Shuai Zhang just took over. It is inevitable that people in the army will fluctuate."
Just as Ming Yuyan was about to say, "That's not because of her connections", Commander Zhao's face suddenly changed.
"Don't talk." Commander Zhao frowned, "Did you hear something?"
Ming Yuyan listened carefully for a while, and faintly heard the low and long sound of the horn amidst the wind of the call sign.
She looked at Commander Zhao in disbelief, and just as she was about to rush out the door, she bumped into someone outside.
Ming Yuyan recognized this person, she was a general beside Commander Zhao, this general who has always been known for his bravery looked flustered at this moment, looked behind her and said: "Commander—"
The eager drums sounded, getting faster and faster, Ming Yuyan quickly counted the beats of the drums in his heart, and suddenly looked to the north.
A stream of black smoke rose into the sky, followed by several streams of black smoke burning one after the other, straight to the sky, Ming Yuyan clenched the sword around his waist, suddenly the drum stopped, she looked down at the ground under her feet, sand and gravel Slightly shifting the position, she felt the ground shaking.
There was a muffled thunder-like sound from a distance, and the heavy drum beat sounded again, which gave her an illusion, as if the drum beat came from the depths of the earth, shaking her heart and soul, and shaking her ears. ring.
She turned pale in an instant, and turned to look behind her.
"What are you still doing?" Commander Zhao put on a heavy armored cloak at some point, pushed aside the guards and said, "Call the soldiers and prepare for battle!"
Ming Yuyan was stunned, Commander Zhao walked past her, his dark red cloak fluttered in the wind, so similar to the flags flying over the barracks.
In the autumn of the fifth year of Taiqi, [-] cavalry from Xirong came across the sky and appeared at the Yuehe line of defense outside Juning Pass.At the same time, the royal court tore up the peace treaty signed with Dai Guo and declared war on Dai Guo.
Yunzhou Baili hurriedly submitted this report to the Ministry of War, which shocked the government and the public. The cabinet made a decisive decision and discussed the matter with the Ministry of War in the court meeting.
"...The royal court of Xirong sent envoys to make a statement at Juning Pass, saying that the envoys have already transferred to the royal court, and Ding Qian, the former attendant, has been conferred by the royal court, and there is no one in the envoy who does not obey. …”
Yuxiao Palace was very deserted, and the fire that was never extinguished on weekdays did not know when it went out.The main hall was shrouded in a gloomy and cold atmosphere. The white jade bed that the Empress used to meditate on a daily basis was covered by layers of gauze. Those white gauzes seemed to have lost their life and withered on the ground. breath.
Before Chu Jun finished speaking, the person leaning on the bed coughed heart-piercingly. She closed the urgent report submitted by the Ministry of War, and said, "Mother, since the imperial court lost the Erlan grassland a hundred years ago, the cavalry The number of cavalry is much lower than before. Now Xirong is leading 1 cavalry to the south, which is ridiculous to say, but with the land and resources of our country, we can’t even gather [-] cavalry to fight against it!"
Her last words echoed in the deep palace, colliding back and forth on the columns, mixed with a hoarse cough, as if two forces, old and new, were competing against each other.
The empress's hair on the bed was mostly gray, her eye sockets were sunken, her eyes were protruding, and she was panting like a dilapidated bellows. She said with difficulty: "...Let Zhou Shichang stick to Juning Pass...cough cough cough cough Keke..."
"Zhou Shichang?" The corners of Chu Jun's mouth raised, and his tone contained sarcasm, "Is that the defeated general?"
The empress sat up with her frail body, she didn't want to lose her dignity in front of the young ruler, but her dying body was so fragile, her arms trembled, and she said angrily: "Yunzhou... Must be kept!"
"What if we can't keep it?" Chu Jun looked at her and said coldly, "Are you going to repeat what happened 300 years ago again? The Xirong passed through Yunzhou, pointed at Hengzhou, came to Chang'an, and slaughtered the six states?"
The Empress was shocked and looked at her in disbelief.Having been an emperor for several years, one must know that if there is no merit, there is no fault. She never thinks that her practice is wrong. She is an emperor, and this world belongs to her!So what if Yuehe gave up?It's just a piece of barren land!But Yunzhou cannot be trapped, and Juning Pass cannot be broken!If Yunzhou fell, how could she, the emperor, dare to say that she had contributed to the country and could face the ancestors in the Taimiao?This is what the emperor fears the most. Nothing can stimulate her sensitive and fragile nerves more than the fall of the six states.
"You can't fall into..." the empress repeated these words over and over again, and coughed again in pain.
The person in front of her suddenly stood up and looked down at her.
"Emperor Mother." The young empress looked down at her. The crimson royal robe was embroidered with glittering phoenix birds. The Empress was not the first emperor's own daughter, so she didn't even have a chance to wear this dress.She heard the silent and reserved four daughters say each word: "During your ten years, you had countless opportunities to reform the New Deal. But you used Yan Minghua and others heavily, causing villains to run rampant and corrupt officials to emerge in endlessly; Delay in setting up a concubine makes the ministers of the court form cliques and divide morality; build palaces and build palaces, recruit sorcerers, abandon the government guidelines, ask ghosts and gods and forget the country; increase taxes in the name of practice, and superstitiously believe in the theory of longevity because of selfish desires. ...For this mere life pill—”
There is a red bead between her fingers, which emits a warm and bright fire light. It is obviously the life pill that she threw into the furnace last time!The female emperor's pupils shrank slightly, she stretched out her hand to reach it, and said eagerly: "Give it to me! Give it to me quickly!"
The bead rolled a few times at her fingertips, and was caught again when it was about to fall to the ground. Chu Jun said indifferently: "You handed over Yuehe so easily for this heresy." She He smiled suddenly, lowered his eyes, and said very gently: "It is said that there are mountains in the southeast of Xirong, which are covered with snow all the year round, but there is a fire spring in the mountain, which sprays out fire every few years, melting the snow into water, and the water flows into the spring again. In the middle, the fire spring is condensed into stones, and this thing is the ore taken out after the fire spring was not extinguished by the snow water. This mineral has been nourished by the fire spring for hundreds of years, contains hot stars, and has a red light Little by little, the Golden Tent enshrined this object as a sacred object just to deceive believers. If this thing can really make people live forever, I am afraid that the Golden Tent mages will not have to die."
Chu Jun twirled the beads and placed them beside her bed, taking a moment to say: "This elixir is formed by flowing fire, so you are not afraid of fire, but there are highly poisonous substances hidden in it, which can evaporate when heated."
The empress's red eyes reflected the life pill, and the red light seemed to be a sign of death, and she heard Chu Jun say: "Mother, you are really useless."
That voice was full of contempt and disdain, and there was also a faint contempt. The empress laughed softly. The servants in the palace had been reprimanded by Chu Jun long ago. Because the empress did not like luxurious furnishings in her practice, it was even more empty at this time. Her laughter was like a nocturnal scorpion, which looked very strange in the empty palace.
"What are you? I am the ruler of a country!" She suddenly stopped laughing, and said in a hoarse voice: "That bitch of the Wei family, actually cheated on me with an outsider! She gave birth to someone like you!" The sin of rebelling against mother and murdering sister!" She muttered to herself: "I should have burned you to death in the first place, and with that bitch, if you burn to death, it will be over..."
Chu Jun was not at all annoyed when he heard the words, but said: "What can blood relationship prove? If you really want to establish an emperor by blood relationship, wouldn't it mean that Empress Yuan didn't know people well, so she shouldn't adopt a niece, and she should choose one of the sisters from the same clan?" If a prince comes out to inherit the throne, then the queen mother will not have what she said today."
The empress breathed heavily, and said sharply: "Presumptuous!"
"This doesn't explain anything." Chu Jun walked slowly to the bed and said, "What the people respect is the emperor who calms the troubled times and establishes the country; the courtiers follow the ambitious monarch who has the world in mind; the army is loyal to the strong-willed emperor. Master, the sword strikes at Fang Qiu at will."
"To be a king, you need to water the land with the blood of your enemies. Mother, the power in your hands has not survived the flames of war, nor has it blazed a trail of blood in conspiracy. You have never had the ambition of the previous emperors, and you have never traveled through this territory, subjects What they are afraid of is the authority that has been passed down from generation to generation after the surname, even if the person sitting on the throne has a bad background and a thin blood relationship, just like Emperor Wuchen."
"From the founding of the motherland to the present, the prosperity of our country has lasted for more than [-] years." With a flick of her eyes, she said, "If mother doesn't want to become a sinner, she will be obsessed with the way of longevity in the history books in the future." , so that the country's constitution is damaged, and the territory is lost—"
The empress tightly grasped the corner of the silk quilt with her bone-like hands, her teeth rattling.
Chu Jun smiled slightly, his voice could be called brisk, but for some reason it made people tremble: "Then give up the things in your hands."
The author has something to say: Double update tonight, I will write some more. . . .