Looking at Tai'an from the full moon

Early the next morning, Xiao Zuochen received a message from Mr. Ying.

Because Xiao Zuochen has returned to Wangyan City for several days and has not yet returned to Ying Mansion, Mr. Ying sent someone to ask him what's going on.

Besides, Wei Changmei and Zuo Xin haven't contacted Xiao Zuochen for a long time. Now that they are back, they have to face the next problems together.

"I really did something wrong. I've been living too comfortably these past few days since I came back. I don't have to worry about whether someone is plotting against me. I forgot that they are still worried about me."

Xiao Zuochen destroyed the note sent by Mr. Ying, and Yun Feng who was standing aside asked.

"Master, is there anything you want me to tell them?"

Xiao Zuochen nodded.

"Go and tell them to meet in the room on the top floor of the flower building at noon today."

Yun Feng nodded to indicate that he had taken note of it. He turned around and was about to leave, but immediately turned back and asked.

"Why don't you just go back to the Shadow Mansion?"

Xiao Zuochen looked outside the door and said after hesitating for a moment.

"It's safer to have a flower house."

Yun Feng was stunned for a moment when he heard his master say this, then he seemed to realize something and nodded, but his expression was still a little uncertain.

It was almost noon, when Xiao Zuochen was about to go out, he found that his sister's study door was open and he could faintly hear her voice coming from inside.

Xiao Zuochen was curious, so he asked a servant who was cleaning the yard.

"Does your city lord have no official business today?"

The servant bowed to Prince Yun as a greeting, scratched his head and answered Xiao Zuochen's question.

"The city lord usually handles official business at home and does not leave the house often. Unless there is something difficult that requires the city lord to step in, the city lord will only go out for half a day every day."

After hearing this, Xiao Zuochen felt a little confused.

"Then in the past two days, Sister left home early and came back late every day. Is it because she is busy with official duties?"

The boy shook his head.

"I don't know about that. Although the city lord won't tell us servants about the things he wants to deal with, I heard from other brothers that the city lord didn't have any important things to do these past two days, because the city lord went out to the teahouse to drink tea or listen to music the past two days. Of course, there must be official business, but not so much, and the city lord has time to deal with it after returning home every night. It's just that the city lord's behavior in the past two days seems to be avoiding something."

The servant naturally didn't find anything wrong with what he said, but Xiao Zuochen seemed to be thinking about it. He seemed to know why his sister went out early and came back late every day.

"okay, I get it."

Xiao Zuochen waved to the servant and prepared to leave. At this time, the servant asked a question.

"Your Highness Yunwang, are you going to leave the palace? Do you need me to tell the city lord? After all, you just came back, and the city lord is worried that someone might harm you, so he has sent more people to protect you, both openly and secretly."

Xiao Zuochen smiled.

"Who else in Wangyan City would want to hurt me?"

The servant scratched his head after hearing this. Indeed, there was no one in Wangyan City who wanted to harm King Yun. Unless someone from outside was so bold as to want to harm King Yun and sneaked into Wangyan City. However, the city lord had re-arranged the city defense a month ago, and all the arrangements were made by the city lord himself. Even the generals defending the city did not know the whole picture, and only knew the arrangements in their own small world. Therefore, it was still difficult for outsiders to have a perfect plan to assassinate King Yun.

Xiao Zuochen looked towards the study. Wei Yang was busy with something with her head down. Xiao Zuochen didn't even say hello to her and turned around to leave the City Lord's Mansion.

In the room on the top floor of the flower building, Mr. Ying, Zuo Xin and Wei Changmei were already waiting here. Half a year had passed, and Zuo Xin and Wei Changmei had not changed much. Mr. Ying's hands and feet were broken at the time, but the old man with white beard came back later. Although it was too late to treat him, he was able to move his hands, but he couldn't use much strength.

After the three of them met Xiao Zuochen and Yun Feng, they exchanged a few simple greetings, and Mr. Ying went straight to the point.

"Your Majesty, the new batch of Shura soldiers has been trained. Together with the ones you left, there are now a total of 3,000 people."

When Xiao Zuochen heard this, a look of surprise appeared on his face.

"so many people?"

Mr. Ying nodded.

"After training the second batch, people were a bit bored, so I asked Zuo Xin to go to various cities to recruit some more. You know what, Zuo Xin was unreliable when she first came, but later she started practicing martial arts and helping me reorganize the army. Now she really has the style of a female general!"

Zuo Xin couldn't help but straighten her body when she heard Mr. Ying praising her, and looked at Xiao Zuochen with a proud look on her face. Xiao Zuochen smiled, which was also an acknowledgement of Mr. Ying's evaluation.

"Now we finally have our own army, so what are you going to do next, Your Majesty?"

Mr. Ying's question made Xiao Zuochen stunned for a moment. After all, he agreed to train the Shura Army only under special circumstances. The first batch of Shura Army was trained by Mr. Ying when Concubine Yun was in power. He didn't even see the shadow of that batch of troops before they disappeared. The second batch was trained to fight against Concubine Yun when she controlled the government, but other ways to deal with her were thought of in the palace at that time, and this batch of troops was not used. Now, the scale of this army is getting bigger and bigger.

Seeing Xiao Zuochen hesitate, Zuo Xin spoke directly.

"All cities have received the decree issued by Xiao Zuoming. You are now equivalent to a fugitive, or rather, we are all equivalent to fugitives. But it is obvious that he cannot catch us now unless he sends troops to attack Wangyan City. If a war really breaks out, these troops will definitely be our bargaining chip to save our lives. So I suggest that we discuss with City Lord Wei and let some Shura troops participate in the patrol. If we really encounter an enemy attack, the two sides can support each other and cooperate."

"Ah."

Mr. Ying thought about it and agreed. But he felt that in addition to strengthening the defense of Wangyan City, they must take the initiative to attack and catch Xiao Zuoming off guard!

But Xiao Zuochen disagreed.

"No, if the two sides are mixed together, problems will easily arise. An army cannot have two commanders. If the two sides patrol together, who will come out to solve the problems? I don't agree..."

Before Xiao Zuochen finished speaking, Mr. Ying spoke.

"Hey, aren't you two a couple? Why are you so clearly divided?"

This silenced everyone present. Xiao Zuochen had no other thoughts about his elder sister, and he even felt that there were some things he could no longer talk to her about. Zuo Xin and Wei Changmei were silent because according to the hierarchy, they were concubines and had no right to say anything, and they were not interested in Xiao Zuochen's marriage. The only person present who was interested in this might be Mr. Ying.

"Let's talk business. I don't think Xiao Zuoming will send people to attack Wangyan City in the short term. Although I am a big threat to him, he can't use his army to attack Wangyan City. The imperial guards of Tai'an City cannot be moved. I have also checked the guards guarding the city. There are no more than 10,000 people in total. General Bai has a lot of soldiers, but they are all stationed at the border to resist foreign enemies. Xiao Zuoming can't call these people back to capture me, because once he calls back the troops stationed at the border, the people of Cangyan will attack before he catches me. Even if he really wants to use these troops to attack me, General Bai will not agree."

Mr. Ying was silent for a while and then spoke.

"What you said makes sense, but you really don't consider working with City Lord Wei..."

Before Mr. Ying could finish his words, Xiao Zuochen continued to interrupt him.

"Although Xiao Zuoming has no chance of winning against me, it is not certain for the Prince of Qing. The Prince of Qing has no power in his hands now, no military power, and no backing. So it is easy for him to deal with the Prince of Qing. But given his personality, he will not take action against the Prince of Qing immediately. It is precisely because it is easy that he will leave the Prince of Qing to the end. So I guess he will first join forces with the prince to deal with me, thinking that after they get rid of me together, they will fight for power.

But I have a guess about the King of Qing. He seems to have nothing, but why does he have the ambition to be in power? I think that apart from the very few people in the court who are the King of Qing, he must have a trump card in his hand! But we don’t know what this trump card is. If we can find a way to find out his trump card and convince him to cooperate with us, then Xiao Zuoming will be isolated and helpless. After that..."

"What happened next?"

Mr. Ying asked tentatively.

"after..."

"Huh? How about it?"

Xiao Zuochen took a deep breath, as if he had made a great decision.

"Hit him! Hit him when the opportunity presents itself!"

"Okay! I've been waiting for you to say that!"

Mr. Ying slammed the table in excitement, and because he slammed too hard, his face was distorted with pain, and the people around him hurried forward to comfort him. However, Xiao Zuochen, who had always been indifferent, finally agreed to fight with Xiao Zuoming, which was good news for them.

However, Xiao Zuochen, who was standing aside, had no smile on his face, because he didn't know whether this war would bring more benefits or disadvantages.