Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 398
"Deputy Marshal, I think this time it's you. The most powerful man in the war between the courts is the general."

"Every time the officials go out to fight, they let the general lead the army alone. How can others get such trust."

"I think the position of commander-in-chief will also belong to the general in the future!"

"That's up to you to say, it's a certainty."

On the third floor of the restaurant, the wine and meat on the table were already cold, only the wine glass was still warm. Li Chuyun ignored the noise of his subordinates on the table, and kept looking at the street corner below.

He casually drank the wine in his glass, keeping his eyes on the distance: "Stop going out and shouting about these things, the officials make their own decisions, and it's not our turn to overrule."

Several generals shut up and nodded, and said no more.

Li Chuyun kept looking downstairs, drank two more glasses, his heart was full of melancholy.

His eyes never left the pair of begging grandparents on the corner of the street. The very old, white-haired grandfather kept pleading to the passers-by. The young child was disheveled and curled up in the arms of the old man, avoiding the eyes of the people around him.

The chill of autumn made the skinny and young children shiver. The people passing by were in a hurry, most of them were indifferent, quickened their pace, and hurriedly avoided like bad luck. Such situations are not uncommon in Daliang, and there are countless of them in the world.

His eyes stopped on the other side, under the old willow tree by the river opposite the grandfather and grandson road, there were two idle men leaning against each other.

Li Chuyun withdrew his gaze with a complicated expression.

He blamed his subordinates with his mouth, but he didn't think about it in his heart. After all, it was the position of an extremely human minister, which he had to carefully think about in his dreams before.

Originally, he thought that it was not far from what he thought in his heart. If the officials didn't want to run around, then the only ones who could lead the army to destroy the Southern Han Dynasty were him, Wang Quanbin and Wang Shenqi.

Wang Quanbin is getting old, and it is unlikely that the officials will let him go again. Only he and Wang Shenqi are left. This is almost a certainty.

For this reason, he also played some tricks, or he didn't set it up, but he just didn't stop it.

Previously, Wang Shenqi had an envoy from the Hebei capital, probably in order to please his superiors, he actually thought of giving gifts from Fu's family and speaking for Wang Shenqi from the queen's side.

This matter was also told to him by the people below. If it was in the past, he would definitely tell Wang Shenqi, let him take care of his subordinates, and don't engage in such clever tricks.

Because he has followed the campaign for many years, he knows that although the officials are generally lenient, informal and straightforward, they definitely don't like such methods, and Wang Shenqi and him have fought side by side several times and fought hard.

But at the critical moment when the two might compete, he did not inform Wang Shenqi of this matter, nor did he stop it, but kept silent.

If the officials hate Wang Shenqi because of this incident, his chances of winning will be even greater.

This is not a calculation, but it has deviated from many things. However, in the face of the power of one person under one man and over ten thousand people, those abandonments are simply too few.

It's just that he never expected that just when he thought he had the chance to win, the officials called Pan Mei back to Beijing...

There was news on the day Pan Mei was recalled. The officials met Pan Mei alone in the garden outside the city and talked for half a day.

When all kinds of news came, he was teasing his smart and cute little daughter at home, and he was still thinking, it would be great if the good girl grew up quickly, such a cute daughter might have a chance to be favored by the officials, and his status would be even better. stable.

But after the eldest son Li Jilong told him the news, he fell silent as if struck by lightning, and it took a long time before he let out a long sigh of relief.

He still clearly remembered that his son Li Jilong, who was not deeply involved in the world at the time, didn't quite understand what was going on, and he was puzzled by the change on his face.

But he knew.

The officials have been talking for so long about letting Pan Mei come back, and nine out of ten they want Pan Mei to be in charge
Because Pan Mei has always been a person trusted by the officials, when it was Hou Zhou, Pan Mei supervised the army almost every time the officials went out, and the two complemented each other and cooperated a lot.

Pan Mei guarded Tanzhou before and defeated the Southern Han army. It is also a reasonable choice to use him as the commander.

In an instant, all expectations and ambitions came to naught, and Li Chuyun became silent for the past few days, and he didn't dare to think about the remaining hopes.

Looking at the bustling street with people coming and going outside the street, drinking bitter wine in the bowl, he suddenly realized one thing, he seemed to have no right to bargain with the officials.

No matter how high his military exploits are, there are too many people with high merits in the army, and there are many people who can stand on their own.

It wasn't until this moment that Li Chuyun suddenly realized one thing, he couldn't do Wei Qing or Huo Qubing, no matter how high his contribution was, there were too many capable people in the Qin Dynasty.

Thinking of these, it was like a broken dream, like waking up from a dream, extremely depressed.

After drinking a few bowls of bitter wine, looking at the bustle and bustle below, I also feel melancholy and can't lift my spirits.

After a while, Li Chuyun settled the bill, and all the generals got up and went downstairs surrounded by confusion and doubts. The customers below stepped aside one after another. Many people bowed their hands and said good things from a distance, and some bold people came up to compliment him .

After all, this restaurant is full of regular customers, and many people know Li Chuyun's true identity.

In the eyes of everyone, Li Chuyun left straight away, strode outside, took out a handful of coins and put them in the broken bowl of the grandpa and grandson who were begging on the street corner.

The old man immediately knelt down to thank him loudly, kowtowed to him, and pulled his timid and emaciated grandson to do the same.

Li Chuyun didn't care about them. Instead, he walked a few steps away and knocked down the big man who was loitering by the willow tree. The accompanying knife was also pulled out.

Two idle hooligans, no match for elite soldiers and warriors, were instantly restrained.

"Get away, don't get close to this area, and embarrass them, I'll throw you into the river and feed you bastards!" Li Chuyun threatened viciously, as if he wanted to vent all his anger.

He has always been keen and his intuition is different from ordinary people. He once spotted Khitan spies among the common people at a glance when he was by the Yellow River.

The old man's eyes were cloudy, but the thin child had been avoiding the eyes of passers-by just now, mainly because of the two idle men leaning against the willow tree opposite them, and the two men also frequently looked at the grandpa and grandson.

He has seen this kind of thing a lot. Even if the weak fall into the worst situation, someone will step on them. These two people are obviously waiting for the grandpa and grandson to ask for some money, and then they will come out to squeeze their share.

Li Chuyun sighed, and he thought of the hard days in the Northwest, the days of sharing weal and woe with ordinary people and fighting against foreign enemies.

Suffering will always favor the weak, and he knows this best after struggling in the Northwest.

Looking back, I found that the grandfather and grandson were kowtowing to him gratefully, shouting that he was a Bodhisattva who came to the world, and tears were streaming down his face.

Li Chuyun stretched out his hand, helped them up, then turned and left, feeling helpless in his heart, he couldn't change the world's affairs, and he couldn't help them for a while even if he could help his grandparents and grandchildren.

"General." After walking for a while, the general beside him hesitated to speak.

Li Chuyun turned around and said, "I'm here today, let's all go back and train well. Don't talk too much about the Southern Han Dynasty in the future. The officials will make their own decisions."

Seeing that the boss seemed to be in a bad mood, everyone took orders one after another and didn't say any more.

Li Chuyun sighed when he saw the people going away, they would not understand the feeling of the ultimate disillusionment of their dreams, there is no military general who does not desire Wei Huo's achievements and treatment, does not desire to be a wolf and live in Xuxu, and be admired by future generations.

"That's all." He finally said a few casual words to explain, and was ready to go home to tease the youngest daughter at home, and ignore those worldly troubles.

"Officials."

In the Chuigong Hall, several scholars of the Hanlin Academy were cautious.

Shi Congyun was wearing a light leather armor and was carrying a bow. He was hunting outside the city with Fu Ermei, but was called back by people from the Imperial Academy and Honglu Temple.

Li Yu sent someone from Jiangnan to send Liu Wei's reply.

At that time, he went to inform him that Tao Gu, a Hanlin scholar, was very cautious, and his words were very euphemistic. He said that Liu Yu's words were "very disrespectful" and the like, which were all polite words.

But Shi Congyun had already guessed that it would not be a good word.

The two Hanlin scholars and Honglu Temple officials who were waiting were very nervous, because Liu Kui didn't say anything good in his reply letter and was very disrespectful. They were afraid that the officials would get angry.

It took a while
"Hahahaha." It was the official's laughter that came from above. Everyone looked surprised, and when they looked up, they saw the official was laughing, with a happy face, as if they saw something interesting, and they looked at each other very puzzled .

Shi Congyun really laughed happily, not because he was angry, but because he was really amused.

Liu Wei's letter is indeed very arrogant, for example, you are the emperor, and I am also the emperor. It is normal to say that the Southern Han Dynasty will never submit, and if you have the ability, you will meet on the battlefield.

But at the end, he couldn't hold back for a while. In his letter, Liu Yan talked about how he was the son of the Jade Emperor and was blessed by heaven. If he dared to send troops to the Southern Han Dynasty, he would be punished by heaven.

He also vowed to give him the content of "popular science" scourge, locusts, great drought, epidemics, the sun does not come out, etc. He also said that the reason why the Southern Han Dynasty was defeated in the autumn war was because God had the virtue of good life , did not want the soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty to wantonly kill the soldiers of the Central Plains, so the army was defeated.
As an atheist of later generations, Liu Yan's serious exposition almost made him burst out laughing, and it took him a while to catch his breath.

Facing the puzzled officials, Shi Congyun said directly to Tao Gu, "Don't pay attention to him, let's just make our own preparations. If he is the Jade Emperor's son, then I am the Jade Emperor,"

Then he said to Tao Gu: "The most important thing is that you have to write the Annals List recently. You can ask Guo Tingwei to write down the benefits brought about by the tax reform near Chengdu. Learn and talk more."

"Are the officials planning to carry out reforms?" Tao Gu asked.

Shi Congyun didn't play with him about the unfathomable power of the sky, and said directly: "Let the people of the world understand and gain insight. I don't have that kind of plan, so you just write it, and you don't need to show it to the prime minister of the Zhengshitang."

Emperor Shi naturally had his plans
(End of this chapter)