marquis of jingan

After Zhao Lu left, Emperor Hongde sat on a chair, put aside the accounts in his hand, then picked up the memorial to the ten crimes, and read it carefully.

The more he looked, the happier he was, almost flushed.

"The Huai'an army is really a good medicine for the court."

The emperor closed the memorial and murmured: "Since the Huai'an army occupied Xuzhou, not only the civil servants in the council hall have become much more comfortable, even the chronic illness of the Huaihe Navy has been cured."

After muttering something in a low voice, the emperor reclined on his soft couch, closed his eyes, and enjoyed the thrill of victory.

At this time, in the conflict between Shen Yi and the Zhao family that lasted for several years, the Emperor Hongde became the biggest beneficiary of the incident.

The Zhao Clan, who had troubled the Dachen royal family for almost two generations, passed away with the wind as Zhao Lu bowed his head.

As if it never appeared.

This made Emperor Hongde feel more relaxed than ever before.

Because Hong De came here, even if the future Northern Expedition made no further progress, what he had harvested now was enough.

Even if he doesn't have any political achievements now, and the Northern Expedition has no results, he, the emperor, can be regarded as one of the most outstanding emperors since the great Chen Nandu.

The credit goes straight to Emperor Xianzong!

After an indeterminate amount of time, the eunuch Gao Ming came back from the outside, carefully stood beside the emperor, lowered his head slightly, and said, "Your Majesty, General Zhao has been sent back to the Marquis of Anping."

The emperor was still lying on the soft couch, without even opening his eyes, and said lazily: "Tell the deputy commanders of the Fifth Army Battalion to come to the palace to see me."

Gao Ming lowered his head, answered yes, turned around and told the eunuch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to deliver the order.

After finishing these things, he returned to the emperor's side. After hesitating for a moment, he lowered his head slightly and said, "Your Majesty, there are some servants in the harem who spread the news that the Empress and Concubine Hui met in the back garden this morning. There seems to be a conflict..."

The emperor was in a good mood, he opened his eyes, sat up straight, and glanced at Gao Ming.

"What's the conflict?"

"The Empress said that Concubine Hui didn't understand the rules and didn't go to the Empress to salute on time..."

"As for Concubine Hui, the empress said that the empress broke the ice in Zhaode Palace to cool off from the summer heat..."

The royal family has always had its own ice bank, which stores ice in winter and cools it off in summer. As the empress of the harem, these "resource allocations" are naturally decided by Empress Sun.

Eunuch Gao paused and continued.

"After the empress returned to the palace, she said that the concubine Hui was so angry that she moved her fetus. At this moment, the imperial doctor has already gone to ask for a pulse..."

When the emperor heard this, he just felt a headache. He rubbed his head and said, "I don't have such troubles in managing state affairs. These women and Taoists really can't stop for a day!"

Eunuch Gao lowered his head and asked, "Your Majesty..."

"Don't go, don't go."

The emperor shook his head and said: "I still have a lot of things to deal with. People in the council hall of the Ministry of War and Household Affairs have to meet, and the generals of the Fifth Army Battalion also need to see each other. It's a critical moment, so how can I have the energy to deal with these boudoir matters? "

"Report to Kunde Palace, let the queen mother give them justice."

Eunuch Gao lowered his head slightly, and said yes.

But he knew in his heart that if the matter was reported to the Empress Dowager, then the Empress Dowager Hui would definitely suffer.

And it must be a big loss...

………………

Xuzhou Mansion, South Gate.

The battle is still fierce.

But it's not as intense as before.

Because Zhengnan Army is also human.

During the more than one month of attack, even if the number of soldiers killed by the Zhengnan Army did not exceed [-], the number of casualties was definitely over [-].

There were countless injuries.

In this state, although Tu Yuan's strategy of using troops has not changed, his morale is gone, and the southern army is not fighting as hard as before.

Standing on the tower, Shen Yi glanced at the Zhengnan army marching towards Xuzhou from a distance, looked back at Zhao Zhuo who was standing behind him, and said with a smile: "Brother Zhao has been in Xuzhou for several days. How do you feel now that you have gone through all four city gates?"

At this time Zhao Zhuo had arrived in Xuzhou for about five days, Shen Yi did not arrange an errand for him, but asked him to look around the four city gates to understand the situation of Xuzhou City.

Zhao Zhuo was silent for a while, then lowered his head slightly and said, "Shen Shilang, I don't understand, the current strength of the Qi people, it is unlikely to capture Xuzhou, why do they have to attack like this."

He frowned and said, "This is already a way of fighting that completely disregards the lives of soldiers."

Master Shen looked calm and said with a smile: "I didn't quite understand it before, but now I probably figured it out."

"Northern Qi's Southern Conscript Army changed generals. To the new chief general, Tu Yuan, these conscript troops are just numbers. He doesn't care much about how many people died."

Speaking of this, Shen Yi paused, and continued: "To tell you the truth, Brother Zhao, reinforcements from the Qi people are already on their way, and it is estimated that they will all reach the city of Xuzhou in five or six days."

"At that time, outside Xuzhou City, there will be nearly 20 Qi troops."

Master Shen looked at Zhao Zhuo, and said with a smile: "Now, our Huai'an army can advance and retreat freely. At that time, we can only stick to Xuzhou, and it will be difficult to get out."

"that time…"

Shen Yi looked at Zhao Zhuo's expression, and said calmly: "Maybe we need General Zhao and Brother Zhao to help you."

Hearing this sentence, Zhao Zhuo understood Shen Yi's intention of calling him over, he thought for a while, then lowered his head slightly and said: "Shen Yilang is ordered to control the Huaihe navy, as long as there is an order, the Huaihe navy will naturally obey."

Shen Yi smiled and said: "Without General Zhao nodding, not to mention my general order, even the imperial court's imperial decree, I am afraid that the Huaihe Navy will not be able to mobilize."

Zhao Zhuo looked up at Shen Yi, and after being silent for a while, he suddenly said, "Shen Shilang, my father should already be in Jiankang at this time."

"The future Huaihe Navy may not be determined by my father."

He paused, and continued: "If there is any quarrel between the Huaihe Navy and Shen Shilang in the future, Shen Shilang can't remember it on our father and son."

Hearing his words, Shen Yi was taken aback for a moment, then frowned: "Marquis Zhao, have you gone to Jiankang?"

Zhao Zhuo lowered his head and said, "Shen Shilang has a Mansion Reporter under his command, isn't it? It is said that he has reached the stage of supernatural powers, and the Mansion Reporter will find out if he checks it out."

Master Shen folded his hands behind his back, looked at Zhao Zhuo, and said with a smile, "Brother Zhao wants to sow discord between me and Your Majesty."

"Don't dare."

Zhao Zhuo lowered his head slightly, and said: "Your Majesty favors Shen Shilang, this is a well-known fact, and it is not something that the general can provoke."

"As long as Shen Shilang and your Northern Expedition go smoothly, His Majesty will definitely fully support the Huai'an Army. There is no problem with that."

Shen Yi looked at Zhao Zhuo and narrowed his eyes.

The implication of Zhao Zhuo's words is obvious, which means that once the Huai'an army fails in the Northern Expedition, he, Shen Yi, may fall out of favor.

As for the Zhao family, they might be able to escape from the disaster, put them to death and survive.

Master Shen smiled when he heard the words: "Brother Zhao may not have figured it out yet."

"I'm just a scholar in Jiangdu Prefecture. The Northern Expedition or not, it doesn't make much sense to me. I'm a Jinshi of the second list. I really can't do it. I can't be a magistrate in a local area. It's more than enough to be a county magistrate."

"Although I want the Northern Expedition, the one who wants the Northern Expedition the most is definitely not me, Shen."

Master Shen floated away with his hands behind his back.

"You Zhao family, it is because you didn't see this clearly that you are in today's predicament..."

…………

A few days later, the Zhengnan Army began to shrink back, basically stopping its attack on Xuzhou City.

Shen Yi came back to the east gate and looked at the Qiren camp in the distance with a binoculars.

Su Ding stood behind him, slowly put down the binoculars in his hand, then looked at Shen Yi, and said, "Mr. Shen, these Qi people retreated very simply, as if they were about to give up attacking Xuzhou."

Shen Yi shook his head, and said: "The emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty has transferred all the chief generals of the northern frontier army, which shows his determination to attack Xuzhou. The Qi army will never give up so lightly."

"They're backing off now, maybe..."

Master Shen's face was solemn: "It may be that the reinforcements have arrived."

Now that there is information about the internal guards, Shen Yi's eyes and ears are smarter, and he can basically grasp the situation around Xuzhou, and even the situation in Yandu.

According to the intelligence of the internal guards, the Northern Qi reinforcements arrived in Xuzhou in the past few days.

Su Ding hesitated for a moment, and asked: "Duke Shen, their reinforcements have arrived, how should we respond?"

"Naturally, continue to guard Xuzhou."

Su Ding was silent for a while, and then asked: "Mr. Shen, how long are you going to guard..."

Shen Yi heard the words and looked to the north.

"Wait until the old guy kicks his legs..."