my wife is mulan

"Yes, madam!"

Hua Mulan called her confidant Ding Xiang to tell her: "Just now the king sent someone to send an edict to let me lead the army to the south to fight against the emperor's army in the Southern Dynasty! If I leave, this huge palace will have no master. I am worried that some court ladies Getting carried away with the eunuchs without any restraint has broken the rules of the palace! The palace ladies, you have to strictly control them! As for those eunuchs, I will tell the chief eunuch before I leave!"

Ding Xiang quickly bowed down and agreed: "Yes, Madam, don't worry, there are slaves here, and the maids in the palace can't mess up!"

Hua Mulan nodded, and shouted to the door: "Come on, please invite General Li Bao!"

Li Bao is the commander of the forbidden army, responsible for guarding the safety of the palace.

After a while, Li Bao, who was fully armored and equipped with a sword, came to the hall and clasped his fists and said: "My minister, Li Bao, pays homage to your empress!"

Hua Mulan said: "Li Bao, my palace is about to lead the army to the south according to the imperial edict, and this palace will soon lose its master. During the absence of the king and this palace, the gates of each palace must be strictly guarded. Let it in!"

Li Bao was taken aback, then clasped his fists and agreed: "Don't worry, Madam, with Li Bao here, the guards at the gates of the palace will not let any idlers in!"

Afterwards, Hua Mulan and Li Bao went to the main hall of Qinzheng Hall together, and all the remaining ministers and generals had arrived.

After the crowd paid homage, Hua Mulan called out, "Masters, I have received an order from Your Majesty, and I will soon lead my army to the south to fight the army of the Southern Dynasty. The military and political affairs of the DPRK and China will depend on the ministers!"

What?The ministers of the court were shocked. These days, the Northern Expedition led by Emperor Liu Yikang has been discussed in the court.

The left-behind ministers and Hua Mulan agreed to send troops to stop the Southern Dynasty army from continuing to go north, but these days the court has been arguing endlessly over who will lead the troops and where to send them from. I never thought that Zhao Junsheng's edict has arrived .

Gao Yun stood up and said loudly: "Princess, this matter must not be done! The concubine is a woman, how can she lead the army to confront the emperor of the Southern Dynasty? If this matter is spread, it will definitely make the world ridicule!"

After Gao Yun, a large group of ministers stood up to express their opposition.

Hua Mulan was also helpless, and waved her hand: "Come here, show the king's edict to all the ministers!"

An eunuch took down the edict and handed it to Gao Yun, and the edict quickly passed through the hands of the officials and returned to the imperial case. Hua Mulan asked, "Does anyone still question the authenticity of the edict?"

Gao Yun said: "Your Majesty, the ministers are not questioning the authenticity of the imperial edict, but because your Majesty is really not suitable for commanding troops. This would be a joke!"

Hua Mulan was trembling with anger, and said angrily: "What joke are you making? Who stipulated that I cannot lead troops to go out to fight. In the past, the barbarians in the Northeast harassed the border. Didn't I lead troops to quell the barbarian riots?"

Gao Yun said: "Your Majesty, it's not that the old minister is deliberately looking for faults. At the beginning, Your Majesty was not the concubine of the king, and the state of Qian had not yet been established. It would not hurt to be casual, but now the state of Qian is established, and she has become a princess every year. If it weren't for All the generals I worked on are dead, how can I let my mother lead the army? Isn’t this a joke?”

The general ministers stood up to support Gao Yun one after another, each of them had plausible words, and Hua Mulan's head was about to explode.

At this time, Cui Hao saw that this posture continued to make trouble, he was afraid that the trouble would be unstoppable, so he stood up and said to the ministers: "Everyone, please listen to me!"

Gao Yun and the others glared at Cui Hao, "Cui Hao, do you agree with this absurd edict? You don't want to lose face, and we will have to. As the saying goes, the master humiliated his ministers to death, if this matter becomes a laughing stock in the world , I’m going to die even if I die!”

Cui Hao said: "Everyone, since your majesty has issued an edict, it must have been carefully considered! Besides, if the empress led the army to defeat the emperor of the Southern Dynasty this time, it would not be an absurd act, but a wise move! Cui reminds everyone In a word, there are some things that can be stopped, and the edict has been issued, it is absolutely impossible to take it back, and it is useless for you to object, do you want to resist the edict and not obey it?"

All the ministers really did not dare to resist the edict, even if it was an edict issued by an absurd emperor, none of the ministers would dare to resist the edict, let alone Zhao Junsheng is not an absurd monarch.

Hua Mulan saw that all the ministers had stopped, and said: "Your Majesty has made arrangements for the military and political affairs before he led the army to leave Qianjing, and I didn't take care of anything. After I left Qianjing, everything went as usual! Where is Pei Jin? "

Pei Jin stood up and clapped his hands and agreed: "My minister is here!"

"The supplies of the Southern Expedition Army must be prepared to arrive at the front line as early as possible, and there must be no delay!"

"Wei Chen obeys!"

In order to facilitate the expedition, and to make herself feel at ease, Hua Mulan sent all the children to her natal family to take care of them. Although she was the only mistress in the palace and no one competed with her for the time being, she was still worried about leaving the children in the palace. Here, mainly, the children are still too young.

Just as the garrison troops that were dispatched from various places continued to gather in Xiangzhou, Hua Mulan came to Wan Yutong's shop before leaving for the south.

"What kind of wind brought your lady here today?" Wan Yutong smiled and welcomed Hua Mulan into the shop.

Hua Mulan waved her hand: "Don't do this with me, just call me Mulan, I feel very uncomfortable when you call me your mother!"

"Okay, Mulan, you go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, why come to my place today?" Wan Yutong led Hua Mulan to the stone table in the backyard to serve tea.

Hua Mulan took the teacup and said, "How do you think about what I told you last time?"

"What's the matter?" Wan Yutong asked knowingly.

Hua Mulan was a little annoyed: "I think you are pretending to be ignorant because you are pretending to be ignorant. It's about letting you enter the palace. After all these days, you don't have a single letter. What are you thinking?"

Wan Yutong sighed: "Mulan, I beg you, don't make things difficult for me. I'm living a pretty good life now, so why do you drag me into the circle of right and wrong? Is the place in the palace so easy to live in? I Ask yourself if you don’t have the ability to gain a foothold in the palace, and with my IQ, I’m afraid that even the bones will be eaten up in the end after entering the palace, so just let me go, okay?”

Hua Mulan said: "Who will bite you? Now I, Hua Mulan, are the only ones in charge of the palace. Anyone who wants to harm you has to get my consent!"

Wan Yutong shook his head and sighed: "Mulan, don't force others to make things difficult for you, I really don't want to enter the palace!"

"Don't you want to be with brother Junsheng? You used to like him so much!"

Wan Yutong said indifferently: "The past is the past, and now is the present! The current king of the Qian Kingdom is no longer the former Zhao Junsheng, and I am not the former Wan Yutong. The Wan Yutong who liked Zhao Junsheng no longer exists. I don't have that feeling for him anymore, don't you understand?"

Hua Mulan frowned: "Are you telling the truth?"

"No lie!"

Hua Mulan sighed after hearing the words: "If you say that, I really can't force it! Originally, I came to think of your farewell. Brother Junsheng sent someone to send an edict asking me to lead the army to fight against the emperor of the Southern Dynasty. I hope you will agree to enter the palace when I leave. Look, I have no master as soon as I leave the palace. This has never happened before in all dynasties. This kind of thing can be recorded in the annals of history Already!"

Wan Yutong stared wide-eyed, "This... Zhao Junsheng is really polite, he actually let his concubine lead the army, and the opponent is the emperor of the Southern Dynasty, so isn't he afraid of the people talking behind his back? "

Hua Mulan was rather dissatisfied: "Yutong, other people reacted like this, why are you talking like this? What's wrong with women? Women can do what men can do!"

Hua Mulan lowered her voice when she said this, and sighed: "Actually, I know that brother Junsheng had no choice but to let me be the commander. The foundation of our country is too shallow, and there is no commander with a reputation and talent. I was also dragged in Guanzhong. If he was there, he would naturally lead the troops to confront the emperor of the Southern Dynasty! Now, except for me who can make the generals of the towns obey orders, no one else has this prestige. Marching and fighting are the most taboo Even if the orders are different, brother Junsheng can't help it!"

Wan Yutong showed shame, got up and made a blessing: "It's Yutong's shallow knowledge and misunderstanding, please don't blame Mulan!"

"It's okay! It's getting late, I should go too, let's talk about it after I return to Qianjing!"

The next day, Hua Mulan led the guards and headed southward quickly in light clothes. They rushed all the way, and arrived in Xiangzhou in just a few days to join Bai Jinguang, Wei Jing, Liang Yi and others.

The town garrisons and state and county soldiers drawn from the states also came to gather one after another.

By March 6000th, almost all the town garrison troops and state and county soldiers that had been transferred had arrived, including 8000 cavalry, 1 infantry, and 6000 state and county soldiers, a total of [-] .

However, state and county soldiers are all drawn from states and counties as auxiliary arms, and generally do not undertake the main combat tasks. Unless it is a last resort, state and county soldiers will not be sent to the frontal battlefield to participate in battles. After all, state and county soldiers are more trained. Few, poor equipment, might be the first to be defeated on the battlefield.

"Your servants pay homage to the concubine!" The generals bowed to Hua Mulan, who was sitting on the head seat in the commander's tent, who was fully armored.

Hua Mulan said blankly: "I am now the commander of the Southern Expedition Army, not the princess!"

All the generals looked at each other, and immediately changed their words: "The last general will wait to see the commander in chief!"

"Excuse me!" Hua Mulan raised her hand, and when everyone got up and retreated to the sides, she shouted to Guo Sheng, the general of Xiangzhou Township: "General Guo, my commander has sent a memorial to the king, and I want you to be my deputy. Today You just hand over the military affairs of Xiangzhou Town to Sima, and come to my commander's tent tomorrow to take charge of it!"

Guo Sheng promised: "The final general will obey!"

Hua Mulan waved her hand: "Pass down the commander-in-chief's order, kill cattle and sheep, let the soldiers eat for two days, and send troops south on the third day! Liang Yi, I order you to be the vanguard, and lead [-] cavalry to the Yellow River ferry to collect boats for the army to cross the river." Prepare!"

"Take orders!" All the generals echoed in unison.