The Emperor Shun Zhishi

Chapter 55 Gun seizes military power

Shun lived in Pingyang for a month, and has been explaining the benefits brought by the revision of the Code to various tribes in Huaxia, but it didn't help if his words were worn out.Just when he was feeling depressed, he received Cao Muzi's letter from Flying Pigeon. When he opened it, he couldn't help being surprised.

"The fire in the warehouse is suspected to be deliberately set on fire, return quickly."

The signature on the back is Cao Muzi's own handwriting.Cao Muzi holds a very high status in Shun's heart. He said that the fire in the warehouse was deliberately done by someone, so it must be reasonable.

Obviously, the purpose of the person who set the fire was not just to set fire, but to make Shun lose the supplies for water control, and thus lose his political future, and even a bigger conspiracy cannot be ruled out.

Knowing the seriousness of the matter, Shun quickly told Emperor Yao that he would return to Guirui first, and put aside the matter of revising the code for now before making long-term plans.

Who knew that when Shun returned to Guirui, he didn't see Cao Muzi, but was dragged by everyone to attend the tribal meeting.

"City Master, I suspect that the fire in the warehouse was deliberately caused by someone."

The person who spoke was Xiang, which made Shun feel very strange. He received a letter from Feige from Cao Muzi, saying that the fire in the warehouse was deliberately caused by someone.But how did Xiang know? Did he discover something by himself?Although Xiang is his younger brother, he has always felt that Xiang is ignorant, and what he said must be suspected of embellishment.Coincidentally, most of the leaders who participated in the meeting belonged to the Dongyi tribe, and most of them were the leaders of the tribe who were damaged during the Yushan flood discharge.Shun looked at the more than 30 chiefs, but he didn't see Cao Muzi, and Shun realized some danger.

"Where is the leader of Cao Muzi, where did he go?"

"Ah, he was arrested by us."

The one who spoke was the leader of the Youlu family, and judging by his frivolous expression, it seemed that he just caught a dog.

Shun couldn't help being furious: "Who gave you the courage to catch Cao Muzi?"

Shun let out a loud roar, which startled the tribal leaders, and they retreated one after another, but Xiang stood up at this moment.

"I!"

"you?"

Shun looked at Xiang and felt incredible. Although he knew that Xiang, as his younger brother, had always opposed him and was not a good person, he never thought that he would have the courage to give a Chinese tribal leader to him as a leader of Dongyi tribe. Caught up.

"Don't be kidding, you arrested the tribal leader of Huaxia. If there is no reason, this is a big taboo. Even if you are my younger brother, I can't forgive you."

"Of course it wasn't for nothing. We're sure that Cao Muzi deliberately set fire to the water control materials in the warehouse."

"Are you sure? Like, you have to talk about evidence."

"Of course I have evidence."

I saw that I opened a package, which was a medicine hoe and a flint.Shun recognized that it was a medicine hoe, a tool used by plants and trees to pound medicine, and the flint was indeed an ordinary thing.

"Is this medicine hoe from grass and trees?"

"Yes."

Shun nodded, because the medicinal hoe was indeed owned by Cao Muzi.

"We found this in the ruins of Canglan, which means that Cao Muzi came to Guirui Canglan that night."

"That only means that he has been to the Guirui warehouse, but it does not prove that he set the fire."

"This flint can explain the problem."

Shun looked at Flint, it was very ordinary, and it was impossible to guess who his master was.

"This flint is indeed an ordinary flint, but the difference between this flint and ordinary flint is that it is a flint collected from the Taihang Mountains. You sent people to collect the flint, and the person responsible for collecting the flint is the leader of the Xin family. Cao Muzi. No one else has this flint, only Cao Muzi has it, and we found it on the ruins of the barn. Doesn’t this mean that Cao Muzi set the fire?"

Under Xiang's explanation, all the leaders were encouraged by Xiang, and they put pressure on Shun one after another.

"I have a doubt. Why did Cao Muzi set fire to it? What good would it do him if the materials were burned and the water could not be cured?"

"Of course it's not good for him, but it's very good for you."

Hearing what Xiang said, Shun trembled with anger, and only then did Shun realize that Xiang's real purpose of grabbing grass and trees was actually to deal with himself.

"Don't talk nonsense, I can catch you if you talk nonsense!"

"These supplies are mainly used to build dams, that is to say, the materials used for blocking. Without these materials, it is impossible to block and control water. In the end, the only way to do it is to release floods, which is what you said Dredging and controlling the water. When you discharge the flood in Mount Yu, all the tribes that were opposed to blocking the flood control are drowned by the flood. Doesn’t this explain the problem? You asked Cao Muzi to burn the water control equipment in the barn, so that when the flood came, it was impossible to use the flood control. Blocking the water to control the water can only release the flood and annihilate the tribe that opposes you. This is public revenge. May I ask, how did a person like you become the lord of Guirui?"

Under Xiang's instigation, other leaders at the meeting had been instigated to anger against Shun, and they all believed that the arson was a conspiracy by Shun to destroy the tribes that opposed him.

"Everyone, Emperor Yao and Gao Yao have already been bewitched by him, are you also bewitched by him?"

Finally these tribal leaders got angry, and under the instigation of Xiang, they wanted to arrest Shun.But Shun is the lord of the Guirui city after all, and has extraordinary martial arts. When everyone saw Shun standing in front of them like an iron tower, they were timid and afraid. Although they were eager to try, they stopped.

"Since the city wants to use floods to destroy our tribe, we can only leave the Huayi Alliance."

The leader of the Lu family turned and left first, and then the other leaders also left one after another.Xiang wanted to instigate the leaders to overthrow Shun's rule over Guirui. Although he failed, he managed to instigate these tribes to leave the Huayi alliance, which was also a big blow to Shun.Indeed, Shun also felt frustrated, because Cao Muzi was arrested, and he also knew that it was Xianggan, but out of the consideration of being cautious, Shun did not have an attack for the time being, and those tribes in the Huayi alliance broke away from the alliance, so Shun could only keep silent for the time being .

Xiang told Queli the merits of instigating the 30 tribes by flying pigeons, and praised his bravery and strategy.Queli was quite surprised. Although Shun's rule in Guirui was not overthrown, it was a great achievement to persuade more than [-] tribes to leave the Huayi alliance, especially when Queli was planning a big battle.

Queli immediately told You Miao the news, and asked him to take advantage of the time when the thirty tribes were at odds with each other, and send troops to attack the city of Guirui, and he would surely capture Guirui.When the Miao family got the news of Que Li, they couldn't help being overjoyed, and hurriedly prepared troops to invade China.

Meanwhile, Queli was still doing Gun's work.Because she knew that although Gun hadn't opposed Shun during this time, in his heart he longed for Shun to be defeated.It's just that due to his identity, Que Li didn't want to expose himself prematurely, so he used Huandou to ask him to write a letter to Gun, telling Gun that Sanmiao would attack China aggressively, and asked him to revolt in Yushan and send troops to cooperate with Sanmiao.

After Gun received Huandou's letter from Fei Ge, he was very hesitant.Because although Gun is an ambitious man, he is a descendant of the Yellow Emperor Miao after all, and he is very resistant to helping foreigners attack China.He wanted to refuse, but he felt that this was a good opportunity. Once Sanmiao attacked Huaxia, Gun, as the leader of the tribe with the Chong family, also controlled [-] Yushan soldiers, which was second only to Danzhu's military force in Huaxia.Once war breaks out, Gun can fish in troubled waters.

After Gun realized his role, he also thought of what to do.He decided to rest and recuperate. When Sanmiao attacked Huaxia, he would preserve his strength and watch the tiger fight. After both sides were exhausted, he would send troops to clean up the mess, so that he could benefit from it.

But there is still a difficulty in this idea. First, he must completely control Yushan soldiers and horses.Although Yushan has always been the base camp of the Chinese army, with 8 soldiers and horses, 2 of them were sent by Shun to various tribes to control the water. At this time, there were only [-] people left in Yushan, and they were controlled by Ehuang and Nvying.To control the [-] soldiers and horses, you must first control Ehuang and Nvying.

Although Ehuang and Nvying controlled [-] Yushan soldiers, some of them were soldiers from the Chong family, but the military power was not under their control.To control Ehuang and Nvying, one must come up with a good way.After a whole day of thinking, Gun finally came up with a solution - poisoning.

It turned out that although the [-] Yushan soldiers were controlled by Ehuang and Nvying, the supplies here were all provided by You Chong.Gun, as the leader of the Chong Clan, poisoned the supplies, so naturally there was no need to talk about it.

Gun did what he said, and he added chronic poison to the food while providing supplies to Yushan's army.Within a few days, senior officers in Yushan's army became weak and feverish, and Ehuang and Nvying also had the same symptoms.

Ehuang felt a little strange, so he hurriedly asked Gun to find out.Unexpectedly, Gun stood in front of her feebly. Only then did Ehuang realize the seriousness of the matter.

"What's the matter with you, why are we all feeling dizzy and chilly?"

Gun shook his head, pointed to his forehead, and was speechless.It means telling him that he is sick too.Ehuang originally suspected that someone had poisoned them, but seeing that Gun was also sick, she began to suspect that a plague broke out in the army, causing everyone to fall ill.Just as she was about to find out, she also fainted.

After Ehuang and Nvying fainted, Gun took the opportunity to usurp the command of the Yushan Army, and removed those high-ranking officers who were stunned by the poison from the army, and replaced them with his own confidantes of the Chong family.

After completely controlling the [-] Feather Mountain Soldiers, Gun's ambitions intensified.He was waiting for San Miao's attack, as long as the war broke out, he firmly believed that he would be the final winner.

However, although Gun's plan was thorough, one factor was forgotten. Nvying possessed the thousand-year-old skill passed down by the white fox Qiantui.Although she was poisoned by chronic poison, Nvying soon woke up and found herself in Gun's Yushan palace.Ehuang was also in a coma, and couldn't wake up no matter how much she screamed.When she was about to go out, the servants around her said that they hadn't recovered and it was best not to go out.This made her realize that she and Ehuang had been poisoned and placed under house arrest.

Nvying didn't make any noise, and she didn't resist. She could use her spiritual power to wake up Ehuang, but if Ehuang was awakened, she might be exposed.It's better to let Ehuang remain in a coma and sneak out by herself in the dark, because she can still mobilize Yushan soldiers.But she found that her soldier talisman was missing again. Obviously, the matter was more serious than she imagined. The person who planned the conspiracy was not trying to control them, but to control [-] Yushan soldiers.

Obviously, it was Gun who did the manipulation.Nvying originally wanted to ask Gun for clarification, but felt that if she turned against Gun at this time, she might be able to escape unscathed, but Ehuang might be controlled by Gun.If he rashly mobilized the Yushan soldiers to resist Gun, it would probably lead to internal fighting among the [-] Yushan soldiers.She thought that the best way was to forbear and lie dormant and wait.

(End of this chapter)