The prince is not doing his job [traveling]

After leaving Pei Ze's tent, Zhang Maocheng did not go to the general's big tent, but left the barracks full of anger, returned to the general's mansion in the town and changed his clothes, then left through the back door of his house, sitting in a car The crude carriage that did not match the status of a general went to an inconspicuous house in the town.

Stepping into this unattended small courtyard, Zhang Maocheng immediately saw the person sitting in the courtyard playing with birds and basking in the sun. That person was the military advisor Xu Liqian sent. It's just a little boy who doesn't know the status quo of the city, and he doesn't understand marching and fighting at first glance.

Presumptuously and rudely, he sat across from this man, Zhang Maocheng said with a livid face, "King Wu Cheng wants to see his subordinates."

Qin Fengming glanced at Zhang Maocheng, who was covered in dust, and then moved his chair to hide behind with a look of disgust. Then he said nonchalantly: "If he wants to see, let him see."

Zhang Maocheng, who was already displeased, became even angrier when he heard Qin Fengming's perfunctory answer, and shouted with his eyes wide open, "Let them see? That's a soldier trained and trained by King Wu Cheng and King Wu Cheng!"

"So what?" Qin Fengming sneered, "That is the soldier who was mobilized and taught by King Wu Cheng and King Wu Cheng, but they are trapped in your camp?"

"I lost more than 50 people just by trapping 200 people. If he wasn't in my camp, then I don't know where my head should be at this moment!" Recalling the battle that day, Zhang Maocheng still has lingering fears .

I used to think that King Wu Cheng was about the same age as him, and the reason why lieutenant officers and soldiers would brag about King Wu Cheng's ability was just because he was the son of General Pei. What he only had was combat experience, and this experience had been completed in the past four or five years, but after he really fought against King Wu Cheng, he realized that King Wu Cheng's reputation was not just blown out.And although those people who came with King Wu Cheng are the bastards in the Northwest Army's impression of enjoying life in Chang'an, they are really capable. frown.

Qin Fengming cast a disdainful glance at Zhang Maocheng, and said: "In the territory of Suzhou, all the soldiers belong to you, more than 1000 government soldiers, more than 3 frontier garrisons, plus the 50 private troops you recruited yourself. Are you afraid that these [-] people will fail?"

Zhang Maocheng's eyes flashed, and he said, "Out of the 2 frontier garrisons, only [-] can be deployed at most, and the remaining [-] people have to be used to guard against the Turks."

Qin Fengming looked at Zhang Maocheng, and said with a sneer: "Who told you to guard against the Turks? It is enough to keep 5000 people guarding."

"Are you crazy?!" As soon as Zhang Maocheng heard the number of 5000, Zhang Maocheng immediately raised the volume, and looked at Qin Fengming like a madman, "If the Turks attack, how can [-] people stop it?"

"If you can't stop it, you can't stop it," Qin Fengming said indifferently, "If the Turkic people really come in, you don't need to allocate troops to deal with it, but it can weaken the enemy's combat power, isn't it great?"

"But when the time comes, the people of Suzhou..."

"Oh, General Zhang, who decided to follow King Wu to rebel, still cares about the lives of the people in Suzhou, but don't forget why you came to Suzhou!" Qin Fengming laughed, "This is the order of King Wu, sir. The general can figure it out. If you don’t bring enough people, the King of Wu will blame you, don’t say I didn’t tell you.”

Zhang Maocheng gritted his teeth secretly.

"By the way," Qin Fengming said again, "If you are really afraid of King Wu Cheng that much, break the legs of the 50 people he brought. Anyway, King Wu Cheng only wants them to live?"

"You!" Zhang Maocheng looked at Qin Fengming in shock.

Qin Fengming smiled and said: "The general is now riding a tiger. For the sake of your wife, children and your own life, you must abandon those unnecessary kindness."

Concubine Yun Shu was really insightful back then, she actually picked such an honest person from the countryside, first used a beauty trick to trap him, and then lured him to the northwest with her lofty ambition to protect her family and country, just because she was honest, this The general has been coaxed by his wife to act according to the Yun family's plan all these years, and now the Yun family wants to use him, as long as his wife cries in front of him, it is easy for him to treason.

Zhang Maocheng glared at Qin Fengming fiercely, and left angrily after a while. He was already upset, but now he felt even more aggrieved.

Pei Ze, who was in the camp of the Northwest Army, was in a good mood, just waiting for Zhang Maocheng to appear in front of him again.

But this time the waiting time was unexpectedly long. Pei Ze waited for three days before Zhang Maocheng came.

At noon that day, Pei Ze was eating a hard-to-eat lunch in the Northwest Camp, when Zhang Maocheng was greeted unsuspectingly.

Pei Ze raised his eyebrows, calmly put down the chopsticks in his hand, calmly swallowed the food in his mouth, and then waited for Zhang Maocheng to speak.

Seeing that Pei Ze still looked calm, he didn't seem to care about his being imprisoned, nor what would happen to him, Zhang Maocheng was puzzled, he couldn't figure out where Pei Ze's confidence came from.

"Wu Chengwang said earlier that he wanted to see your subordinates, so this general will take you there."

Pei Ze stared at Zhang Maocheng, then shook his head and said, "No need, because the general's thinking speed is too slow, so I can't wait to meet them first, and now I just wait for the general to come."

"what?"

As soon as Zhang Maocheng spoke, Pei Ze suddenly jumped up and attacked Zhang Maocheng with lightning speed.

Zhang Maocheng subconsciously blocked Pei Ze's first blow, and then subconsciously counterattacked.

Pei Ze took two steps back, reached back and pulled out the knife hidden under the table, and slashed at Zhang Maocheng.

Unexpectedly, Pei Ze would hide a weapon under the table. Zhang Maocheng lost his mind and missed the best time to dodge. Although he had retreated a little, his clothes were still cut by the tip of the knife. Before Zhang Maocheng could react, another knife appeared It leaned out from behind and lay across Zhang Maocheng's neck.

"Don't move, general, or your head will fall off." Kong Qing sneered, and kicked Zhang Maocheng's knee.

On the first day of imprisonment, even if Zhang Maocheng carefully separated the 50 of them, he couldn't stop them from sneaking out in the middle of the night.They replaced all of their own people with soldiers from the battalion, and left half of them, pretending to be soldiers to come and go in the camp swaggeringly, while the other half rushed to the camp of the guard garrison at night.They respectively found out where the generals lived, and then picked a wonderful night with a clear moon and few stars, and tied up all the generals at the same time.

On the day Zhang Maocheng came out of their lord's tent angrily, he followed Zhang Maocheng secretly, not only found Zhang Maocheng's general's mansion, but also found Qin Fengming.Then they replaced the soldiers guarding the prince and waited for Zhang Maocheng to come.

Hearing a "plop", one of Zhang Maocheng's knees hit the ground hard, but the knife across his neck followed him like a shadow, and he couldn't leave it for a moment.

Zhang Maocheng looked at Pei Ze in astonishment.

Li An opened the curtain and walked into the tent, walked straight past Zhang Maocheng who was kneeling on the ground, walked in front of Pei Ze, cupped his hands and said: "My lord, the generals of the Northwest Army, Suzhou Zhou Mu and Qin Fengming have all been taken into custody, and the general's mansion is also under control. among."

After saying this, Li An turned his head and looked proudly at Zhang Maocheng who was stunned.

They secretly followed Zhang Maocheng to find Qin Fengming, but they didn't expect that Qin Fengming took his life but didn't cherish it, and went to the northwest to work for Xu Liqian. He really hated his life.

"You..." Zhang Maocheng looked at Pei Ze, with nothing but shock in his eyes.

Pei Ze looked at Zhang Maocheng, and said with a smile: "General, remember, never imprison the enemy prisoners in your own camp in the future, or you will lose your life at night. Take them out!"

"Yes!" Kong Qing replied angrily, and Kong Qing picked up Zhang Maocheng and carried him out. As soon as he got out of the tent, someone brought a rope and tied Zhang Maocheng.

Pei Ze and Li An followed Kong Qing out of the tent, and then said to Zhang Maocheng who was tied up, "If you catch someone, you should be tied up immediately. Don't you understand this principle?"

Do you think that the large number of people in this big camp will definitely be able to contain fifty of them?But how many elite soldiers and strong generals are there in this camp of more than 1000 people?Ever since the former general of the Northwest Army made an attack, there are no generals left in the Northwest Army who fought with His Majesty back then. Even if the rest of them fought with the Turks, it was just the most basic fight. How can they compare with them? A person who survived many life and death?

"My lord!" Another person came running from a distance and stopped in front of Pei Ze, "The prison van is ready, do you want to go to the garrison camp immediately?"

"En," Pei Ze nodded, and said, "Put people into the prison car, take the more than 1000 government troops with you, and go to the garrison camp!"

The number of government troops is small, and the camp is on the outskirts of Suzhou City, and the garrison here is guarding Yangguan and Yumenguan, so the camp is in the northwest of Suzhou.

When they heard the drumbeat of the assembly, the Suzhou government army thought that something had happened, but after they assembled at the school grounds, they saw their generals and captains being escorted into prison wagons, and some others were riding horses Standing on both sides of the prison car, the only person recognized by the more than 1000 people was Pei Ze, the leader. Is Wu Chengwang the one on horseback?

In fact, these soldiers didn't understand why Wu Chengwang was arrested that day, just like they don't understand why Zhang Maocheng was put in a prison car today.

The people Pei Ze brought were all those who fought together in the past, and they were all people who had dispatched soldiers and generals. However, after entering Chang'an, they were all incorporated into the emperor's personal guards and sixteen guards as soldiers. Accustomed to following Pei Ze, he retired from the army and went to Prince Wucheng's mansion. His rank was lowered, but in fact he was the emperor's confidant everywhere. The glory on him had never been diminished. He yelled out in the demeanor of a general, and after a few orders, he shocked a thousand government troops. A quarter of an hour later, Pei Ze led the Suzhou government troops to the camp of the guarding garrison.

When these more than 1000 people appeared near the guard camp, they frightened the people in the camp. When the soldiers on the observation deck saw their general being held in a prison car, they were even more dazed. He ran down the viewing platform and was about to inform the lieutenant general in the camp, but saw a few unknown people coming out of the camp, as if the guards at the gate of the camp did not exist, they opened the gate of the camp carelessly.

"Who are you?!" The gates of the camp were opened, and only then did the guards realize that they raised their spears and machetes to aim at these unknown people.

These people sneered, and then raised their hands casually to block the spears.

"Go away, don't stand in the way of King Wu Cheng."

Wu Chengwang?Hearing this thunderous name, the guards were taken aback again.

Why did King Wu Cheng come to the northwest?

Although the emperor first incited the whole army when he rebelled, it was because the people in power at that time were benevolent, and the emperor had great confidence that he could get support and support.But this matter is different when it comes to Xu Liqian.

Xu Liqian's rebellion was not for the people, but for rights. For ordinary soldiers, they were also extremely unwilling to exchange their lives for other people's rights. Want to die for something that has nothing to do with you?

Therefore, after Zhang Maocheng was instigated by his wife to decide to rebel, he only informed a few generals in the garrison. Naturally, some of them decided to fight because of Xu Liqian's promise of wealth and honor, and some were threatened by Zhang Maocheng to join the gang.As for the ordinary soldiers, they didn't know what was going to happen. Zhang Maocheng probably planned to make up some excuses to perfuse them.

After a while, Pei Ze arrived at the gate of the camp, but he didn't stop. He only left a sentence asking all the generals except the soldiers on duty to gather at the school grounds, and then led the team behind him to the school grounds.

When nearly 3 garrison troops assembled in the school grounds, Zhang Maocheng and others had already got off the prison van and knelt in a row at the front of the line. Qin Fengming, who was escorted, had been struggling and seemed to have something to say. To listen to him.

And Pei Ze, Li An and Kong Qing stood on the high platform on the side of the school field, looking at the row of kneeling people, Pei Ze suddenly recalled their rebellion back then.

At that time, the fate of tens of thousands of people was determined by a few people's long talks overnight. At that time, there were also people who didn't understand anything but were incited by the atmosphere and joined the army rashly. At that time, there were also people like him who had no choice but to Follow the rebels.

Pei Ze knew that among the people kneeling below, some made their own decisions to treason, such as Zhang Maocheng; Those who threaten and lure, such as the deputy general of the garrison guarding the pass, no matter what kind, must die here today. This is a warning to all the generals in the northwest, reminding them that His Majesty will never tolerate traitors, even if they are only coercion.

Taking a deep breath, Pei Ze loudly explained the whole story to the whole army. Of course, what he said was to smear Zhang Maocheng and the others, to maximize their treasonous crimes, and then in front of nearly 3 people The heads of these people were chopped off.

"Kong Qing," Pei Ze said to Kong Qing next to him, "Take people to the general's mansion, and leave no one behind. The family members of the governor of Suzhou and other generals, the males are exiled into the army, and the females... are registered as lowly. Follow the rules."

"Yes!" Kong Qing turned and left the high platform, took ten people and left the garrison camp.

"Li An," Pei Ze told Li An again, "Let the people we brought temporarily take the positions of these dead generals, and give them three days to stabilize the morale of the army."

"Yes!" Li An also left immediately.

Only Pei Ze was left on the high platform, looking down at the blood-soaked yellow sand on the ground, Xiao Yanzhi's smiling face suddenly flashed in front of Pei Ze's eyes.

Looking up at the high sky and calm sky in the northwest, Pei Ze hoped that Xiao Yanzhi, who was far away in Chang'an, would be at peace, and that he wouldn't have to witness this unpleasant scene with his own eyes.

However, the so-called sharing joys and sorrows means that we have to be together even when we are unhappy.Here Pei Ze killed many people regardless of the severity of the crime, while Xiao Yanzhi over there also ran into big trouble.

He just received Pei Ze's strange letter from home, but he didn't receive anything the next day, even Xiao Yanzhi couldn't laugh anymore.

In the imperial study room, the emperor looked at Xiao Yanzhi who started to lose his mind again, raised his hand and gently knocked on the table.

"In other words, I have returned to my soul."

"En?" Xiao Yanzhi's eyes flashed, and he turned to look at the emperor in doubt, "Father, what's the matter?"

The emperor asked helplessly: "Did you hear what I just said?"

"Uh..." Xiao Yanzhi scratched the corner of his mouth, "Father, forgive me."

"What happened to you today?" The emperor looked at Xiao Yanzhi worriedly.

Xiao Yanzhi opened his mouth, but in the end he just shook his head and said with a calm smile, "My son is fine."

Originally, I wanted to say that it was because I didn’t receive Pei Ze’s family letter, so I was worried that something happened to Pei Ze, but after thinking about it, I felt that the fact that Pei Ze wrote him a family letter every day revealed that the relationship between the two was too close , it seems inconvenient for the emperor to know.

The emperor twitched his brows, looked at Xiao Yanzhi with a smile and asked, "Are you worried about Pei Ze?"

Xiao Yanzhi scratched the corner of his mouth again, and said, "It's a little bit."

The emperor chuckled, and said: "Don't worry. Back then, his father couldn't even step into the Suzaku gate of the palace, but he accompanied me into the palace. Don't look at him standing in the court hall and his brain is not working. Everyone is smart."

"Father said so." Xiao Yanzhi lowered his eyes.

But being right didn't stop him from worrying.

The emperor shook his head, picked up the tea bowl and drank tea.

Seeing this, Xu Lishan secretly kicked Xiao Yan's foot, then leaned his head close to Xiao Yanzhi's ear, and said in a low voice: "Are you going to worry about it when you go home? What can I do if my father finds out?"

Xiao Yanzhi glanced at the emperor, and then answered Xu Lishan in a low voice: "Didn't you see it?"

Xu Lishan rolled his eyes at Xiao Yan.

Is it too late when Father really sees it? !

Seeing Xu Lishan and Xiao Yanzhi's whispering, the emperor smiled as if he didn't see it.

The heart suddenly began to ache, the emperor's face froze, he quickly closed his eyes and took a deep breath, trying to hold back the pain, but the ever-increasing pain gradually exceeded the range that could be tolerated, causing the emperor to arch his body involuntarily.

Xiao Yanzhi and Xu Lishan, who were constantly looking at the emperor, noticed something was wrong with the emperor almost immediately.

"Father!" Xiao Yanzhi stood up from the wheelchair and rushed to the emperor's side in one stride. "Father, what's wrong with you? Zhao Kang, medicine!"

Hearing Xiao Yanzhi ask Zhao Kang to take the medicine, the emperor glanced at Xiao Yan, but the pain in his heart made the emperor speechless, so he didn't ask how Xiao Yanzhi knew.

"Here we come!" Zhao Kang also rushed to the emperor's side, skillfully took out the medicine bottle, and poured out two pills to the emperor's mouth.

The emperor put the pill into his mouth and swallowed it with Zhao Kang's hand, quietly waiting for the effect of the medicine to take effect.

"Father, are you feeling better?" Xiao Yan looked at the emperor nervously, and could do nothing but hold the emperor's hand tightly.

The time of enduring the pain always passed very slowly. The emperor's face was pale from the pain, and his forehead was covered with beads of sweat, but the pain in his heart did not ease at all, on the contrary, it became more and more painful.

"Why does this medicine seem to have no effect?" Xu Lishan asked in a panic.

Xiao Yanzhi's heart skipped a beat, and he asked Zhao Kang, "Is this a new medicine?"

The medicine was changed by him, but there must be no problem...

Zhao Kang shook his head and said, "If you go back to Your Highness, the new medicine from the Imperial Medical Office hasn't been prepared yet. This is the kind your Majesty took before."

"Then why didn't it work?" Xiao Yanzhi was also anxious, "Go and call the imperial physician, quickly call the imperial physician!"

"Hey! The old slave is going now!" Zhao Kang hurried out and called for Bao Quan, who asked Bao Quan to run to pick up the imperial physician as quickly as possible.

"Father..." Xiao Yanzhi pulled down the kang table on the couch, and ignored the scattered books, "Help me to help Father lie down."

"Okay!" Xu Lishan was also panicked, Xiao Yanzhi said what he said at the moment.

"Father, the Imperial Physician will be here soon, right away." Xiao Yanzhi half knelt by the side of the couch, wiping the sweat off the Emperor's face with his sleeve, "Father, hold on, the Imperial Physician will be here soon, right away."

Xu Lishan also looked anxious, looking at the blue-faced emperor for a while, and then at the door of the imperial study, and shouted anxiously: "Where's the imperial doctor?!"

"Here we come!" Zhao Kang, who had been guarding the door all this time, suddenly brightened his eyes, "Hurry up!"

Several imperial doctors filed in, wiped the sweat from their foreheads as they walked into the imperial study room, seeing the emperor's face, they were all shocked.

Xu Lishan hurried out of the way and shouted: "What are you doing in a daze? Hurry up!"

"Yes Yes Yes."

Several imperial physicians immediately gathered around the emperor, checking the pulse, checking the pulse, and whispering non-stop, and then the two imperial physicians hurriedly dug out the silver needles in the medicine box, and performed acupuncture for the emperor deftly. The imperial physician turned to Xiao Yanzhi and Xu Lishan.

"Dare to ask the two princes, did His Majesty hear any news that made you emotional? Or what did you eat and drink?"

"Tea, father drank tea!"

But the teacup was placed on the kang table before, and it was thrown to the ground and shattered by Xiao Yanzhi.

The imperial doctor stared at the broken tea bowl in a daze, then squatted down to examine it carefully, fortunately there was still a little tea soup on one of the broken tea bowls.

"To the two lords, this tea...something has been added, it happens to be..."

Before the imperial doctor finished speaking, the door of the imperial study was kicked open. Xiao Yanzhi and Xu Lishan were taken aback. When they turned their heads, they saw the generals of Weiwei on the left and right leading people rushing in.

"Who let you in?!" Zhao Kang quickly walked up to the general, "Trespassing the Liangyi Hall, are you courting death?!"

"Go away!" The general pushed Zhao Kang away, and then shouted, "The two highnesses conspired to poison your majesty, and they got the stolen goods, let me take them!"