Professional Ethics of a Concubine

Prince Su saw the Ninth Princess and the Seventh Prince and invited them into the palace.

"Go and play with your brother. Your father has something to do." Prince Su put Anya down and said to her with a smile.

"Yeah." Anya nodded obediently, greeted the Ninth Princess and the Seventh Prince, and ran away happily.

"Did something happen in the military camp?" asked Prince Su.

"No." The Ninth Princess shook her head, "My brother and I came to the city to take a look and found that there are actually many people who escaped from the State of Yan here.

I had heard about this before, but when I actually saw it and heard what they said, I was deeply shocked.”

"From this, it can be seen that our Great Zhao is deeply loved by the people." Prince Su said, "This battle may be simpler than we thought."

The Seventh Prince remained silent, mainly because he was too embarrassed to speak and he became a little autistic.

"Your Highness, I have a plan. Please listen to it and see if it is feasible?" The Ninth Princess said with a very humble attitude.

Prince Su asked, "Then let's go to the study to talk?"

"No need. It doesn't matter if someone hears it, because what I'm doing is an open conspiracy." The Ninth Princess smiled and shook her head.

“I think we can let the people who have fled from Yan State go to the city wall and tell the Yan army that if they give up resistance, they will not only not be killed, but also have enough food and meat to eat.

In addition, we can write on the cloth and shoot it into the enemy camp with crossbows, saying that Ji Wu murdered the king and rebelled, and the Ming king is leading the army to quell the rebellion, so as to disrupt their morale.

The Yan army certainly doesn't have enough food. We can even have people put delicious meat on bread, just like bait, to lure them and make them uncomfortable.

When people are hungry, a piece of meat may cause scramble and chaos.

The generals of the Yan army would certainly adopt more severe punishment measures to rectify military discipline, such as killing, beating with military sticks, flogging, etc.

However, for ordinary Yan soldiers, staying in the army is a dead end, and running to us is the way to survive.

Under the fear of death and driven by the desire to live, the possibility of their mutiny will become increasingly greater.

Even if there is no mutiny, we can still take the initiative to attack the city. As long as we shout "surrender your weapons and we will not kill you, and we will eat meat after the battle", I believe many Yan soldiers will immediately lay down their weapons."

"Good! When attacking a city, we should first conquer its heart." Prince Su nodded in appreciation, "Let's do it this way. Now we will go back to the barracks to discuss with Wen Yuan and implement it as soon as possible."

The group immediately went out and rode back to the barracks.

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Xie Wenyuan was slamming the table and getting angry.

Because he found that the King of Qi had run away again and left a note saying that he was going to carry out the task assigned by the Emperor.

"Alright! You, Xie Xiaoer, have grown up to be so capable that you are actually playing tricks on me! How could I not know what mission the Emperor has assigned me?!"

Xie Wenyuan stared at the note, gritting his teeth in anger.

"Cousin, how about I go and bring him back?" Hu Xiaoqi asked immediately.

Xie Wenyuan looked at him and saw that he had his arms folded as if he didn't care much, but in fact his eyes were very bright.

Xie Wenyuan snorted, thought for a moment and said, "Okay, go ahead, just don't get yourself killed."

The implication is that you can do whatever you want, as long as you can still breathe again.

With these two brainless idiots with great martial arts skills together, Xie Wenyuan couldn't estimate how much they could accomplish.

Just do it, it's not like you're making a fuss in your own home anyway.

"Then if I leave, what will I do about my mission to protect Prince Su?" Hu Xiaoqi asked again.

"I don't need your protection." Prince Su walked into the tent and said to him.

"Really?" Hu Xiaoqi blinked.

Prince Su waved his hand and asked Xie Wenyuan what new task he wanted to assign to Hu Xiaoqi.

The King of Qi went to assassinate the Emperor of Yan, I asked Xiao Qi to follow him and see for himself." Xie Wenyuan said.

Prince Su frowned and said angrily, "This Prince Qi disobeyed military orders. I will punish him severely when I return!"

"Let's wait until he comes back alive." Xie Wenyuan finished off lightly.

Prince Su suddenly choked and couldn't help but glared at Xie Wenyuan again. His anger immediately turned into worry, and he said to Xiao Qi,

"Then you should set off quickly. By the way, can you find the King of Qi?"

"Of course I can. I'm very good at tracking traces." Hu Xiaoqi said immediately, straightening his back and looking very proud.

Prince Su still felt that he was unreliable, but he had no better choice, so he could only give him some worried advice.

"Well, you are not familiar with the Yan Palace, so let General Wei go with you. If you can find out where my mother, wife and children are imprisoned, I hope you can lend a hand and rescue them."

The Seventh Prince immediately spoke up.

"I still have some loyal and useful people in the capital. If you are short of manpower, you can ask General Wei to contact them."

"Brother Emperor, are you sure they didn't rebel?" The Ninth Princess asked.

"...I don't think so." The Seventh Prince became uncertain when asked this question, and spoke hesitantly.

"People's minds are unpredictable, especially the capital city, which has been completely controlled by Ji Wu's people. We haven't received any specific information, so we'd better not contact them."

The Ninth Princess spoke.

“All right then.” The Seventh Prince nodded in frustration, and his whole body wilted like an eggplant hit by frost.

"Don't be so angry, my brother. When we capture the border city, we will need you to appease those generals loyal to Yan. Compared with Ji Wu, they will definitely support you more."

The Ninth Princess smiled and comforted him, encouraging him.

"Hmm!" The Seventh Prince cheered up, because he didn't want to be useless like a waste.

"So in the end I will set off with General Wei?" Hu Xiaoqi asked.

"Yes, go find him and ask him to take you to the capital." Xie Wenyuan said, "I will give you two Dragon Shadow Guards."

"I think we are lacking a smart military advisor." Hu Xiaoqi touched his chin and said seriously.

Xie Wenyuan nodded thoughtfully, then his eyes lit up and he said,

"...That makes sense. Well, then I'll sacrifice my life and go with you to explore the capital."

Prince Su was startled and glared at him, "What are you doing? You just stay here! It's troublesome enough to have two people messing around, and you're adding to the chaos!"

"Cousin, you can't do this. We have to distract ourselves to protect you." Hu Xiaoqi was still disgusted.

"Get out of here! Take care of yourself!" Xie Wenyuan waved his hand and told him to get out of here. "Just come back alive."

"Okay!" Hu Xiaoqi responded loudly, then went to find General Wei and set off happily.

The Ninth Princess witnessed the whole process,...

Why do they seem to be so mischievous when the prince is not around? Can they be serious?

"Ninth Princess, do you have anything important to say?" Xie Wenyuan asked her.

The Ninth Princess suppressed her complaints and told Xie Wenyuan about her plan to attack the enemy.

"Well, this meat cube plan is good, let's do it." Xie Wenyuan said.

"Don't let those guys in the kitchen who can only cook pig food do this job. Go to the city and find a few chefs to make the diced meat more fragrant so that people will want to eat more after just one bite. This will make it more tempting!"

"...Your Highness is the one who has thought it through thoroughly." The Ninth Princess said with a smile.

The Diced Meat Plan, haha, nice name.

If this can really disrupt the enemy's morale, it will leave a significant mark in history books in the future.

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For this diced meat plan, all the chefs in the city were recruited to start braising the meat. The aroma of the meat could be smelled from far away.

Xie Wenyuan smelled the aroma of the meat and thought that he couldn't just let his own people be greedy and not give them meat to eat.

So they just bought more pigs and improved the food for the soldiers of the Great Zhao.

In a short time, all the pigs raised by farmers in the suburbs were sold out.

If there are not enough pigs, use sheep. If there are still not enough sheep, kill chickens!

"We're spending the New Year here!"

Prince Su went to patrol the streets. Looking at the huge pots set up and smelling the fragrant meat, he always felt that the direction was a little bit deviated from the original plan.

How did Xie Wenyuan lead me astray?

However, the effect of boosting morale is really great!

Now that they could eat meat, the soldiers in the barracks were happier than each other.

When I'm happy, I want to have fun.

Therefore, without the King Su's special order, the soldiers lined up on horseback and led the Yan people to the enemy's city wall to shout,

"Haha, let's eat meat! Let's eat meat again!"

"Oh, I heard you guys can't even get enough food, let alone such delicious diced meat!"

The Yan army's eyes were red, and they were angry and jealous.

I've never seen such a mean person!

Eating meat is great!

When we defeat you, we can eat meat every meal!

"Hahaha! You still want to defeat us? You can't even dream about it! Once we pull out our cannons, two shells will be enough to knock down your city walls."

"Do you know why we didn't bomb them? It's because our Great Zhao's emperor and princes are merciful. They said you are just soldiers following orders and are willing to give you a chance to surrender. As long as you surrender, you will have meat to eat!"

The general of the Yan army came over and shouted angrily,

"They are all dead! Shoot them to death with arrows!"

"Hey, let's go, young master! We'll come back later!" Seeing the other side shooting arrows, the soldiers of Da Zhao immediately retreated on horseback.

Because they all wore helmets and armor, even if these long-range arrows hit their bodies, they could not penetrate the armor, so they had nothing to fear!

After the Zhao army retreated, the Yan army stopped shooting arrows, as it would have been a waste of arrows.

The general of the Yan army looked at the soldiers guarding the city with a stern face and emphasized again seriously,

"Eating meat and not killing are all tricks used by the Zhao army to lure the enemy. If you really want to surrender to the enemy, you will die!"

The soldiers naturally responded and shouted loudly, "I dare not!"

The general nodded, inspected the city wall, and with a serious expression went down the wall to discuss countermeasures with the general.

The army is running out of food and grass, and the Zhao army is still using this strategy to lure the enemy, which really makes people feel uneasy.

"Cuckoo..."

"Gululu...Gululu..."

The stomachs of the Yan soldiers started singing again, one by one, louder than the other. When they joined together, you could say they were playing a symphony.

It sounded strangely polite, but the Yan soldiers were cursing one by one.

"If this continues, I won't be able to fight, I'll just starve to death!"

"Damn it, I could eat half full before, but now I only have one meal a day, and it's just watery soup. Who can stand this?"

"Do you think Zhao Jun is really eating meat?"

"Listen to their nonsense. If we let everyone eat meat, we would have to kill hundreds of pigs. How could you bear that?"

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Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!

At this moment, some arrows wrapped in cloth strips suddenly shot over from a distance.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" some Yan soldiers shouted in shock.

"What are you yelling for! The Zhao army is not coming to kill us! It's the cloth strips that are shot at us!" Someone else shouted, "Look what it is!"

"What are you looking at? It must be something that will disrupt our army's morale!"

However, some people still ran over, picked up the arrows and took down the cloth strips. If they didn't keep an eye on them themselves, they would report it to their superiors.

"Ouch! There are diced meat!" the soldier who first tore off the cloth strip exclaimed in surprise.

Suddenly, this sentence attracted the attention of everyone around, and everyone looked at the man's hand... the diced meat in his hand.