high official

Chapter 960

With bursts of music and the attention of everyone, His Royal Highness the King of Han, accompanied by all civil and military personnel, went down the city gate tower to meet the travel-stained messengers.

Before the messenger stopped his horse, the King of Han lifted up his robe, knelt in the dust, and said in a loud voice, "My son Zhu Gaoxu, I respectfully greet my father, the emperor!"

All the civil and military personnel behind the King of Han also knelt down quickly, and together they respectfully greeted the messenger with peace.

The messenger's expression changed, he got off his horse in a hurry, and hurriedly helped the King of Han up and said, "My lord misunderstood, the villain is not an imperial envoy..."

"What?!" Seeing a big oolong put on, Han Wang's face turned into an eggplant, but he couldn't blame others, who made him mess up under his impatience?

"Then who are you?!" Hou Tai said angrily, "Hurry up and tell me!"

"The villain is a messenger sent by His Royal Highness Zhao Wang," the messenger knelt down, took the cylinder from his back, and offered it with both hands. "His Royal Highness King Zhao hastened to rush to His Highness King Han!"

"..." King Han's heart clenched, he had a bad premonition.

Hou Tai hurriedly took the cylinder, opened the seal, and presented the letter in it to the King of Han.The King of Han raised his hand, but instead of accepting the letter, he said to Wei Wuque who was behind him, "Sir, take care of Gu."

Wei Wuque calmed down, tore open the seal, took out the letter, read it quickly, and whispered to King Han, whispering a few words.

All the civil and military people didn't know what to say, they could only stare at the face of His Royal Highness, and saw the face of the prince, from black to green, from green to white, and finally turned black as the bottom of a pot. At this time, even a fool would know that bad things up!

"My lord, the morale can be boosted, but it can't be weakened. Let's go to the front first..." Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu was about to lose his temper, Wei Wuque hurriedly persuaded him: "The soldiers are all looking at the lord!"

"Ah..." The King of Han gritted his steel teeth, finally managed to suppress his anger, and said in a muffled voice, "Today is just a meeting to seek thieves, and we will set off on another auspicious day..."

"Ah?!" All the generals were shocked. They didn't know what happened, but the prince had no choice but to let go!
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A huge swearing-in meeting, but the final result was loud thunder and little rain. His Royal Highness just said some nonsense like "the court is in trouble, Shandong bandits are in trouble, fight the enemy bravely, honor the ancestors" and so on. After perfunctory the generals under his command, he left with a dark face.

The soldiers who were ready to go were also taken back to the barracks in a daze. No one knew what happened.

There were bursts of mad tiger-like roars, obscenities and imperceptible curses from the Palace of the King of Han and Yin'an Hall, accompanied by the sound of thumping and smashing things!The eunuchs and maids outside the hall were so shocked that they were all silent, fearing that the fish in the pond would be affected and their lives lost.

Wei Wuque, Zhu Heng, Hou Tai, Ma Zhong, and others stood in the hall bravely, looking at His Highness the King of Han who was about to go mad, waiting for his seizure to end...

The King of Han is really going crazy!He has been planning for so long!Hold back for so long!Even endured for so long against my nature!What I got in exchange was nothing to fetch water from the bamboo basket, not to mention nothing to rejoice, and I even threw everyone to my grandma's house!
After His Highness the King of Han smashed all the bottles and jars in Yin'an Palace, Zhu Heng finally couldn't help asking: "My lord, what happened?"

Everyone also looked at His Highness the King of Han, really wanting to know what kind of madness he was having.

"..." Zhu Gaoxu wanted to show King Zhao's secret letter to a few people, but found that he had thrown it somewhere in a fit of rage just now.With a dark face, he said in a muffled voice: "He said that the crown prince used the reserve position as a guarantor for Liu Sheng, and won him another month!"

"Ah!" The generals understood now, no wonder the King of Han was going crazy, it turned out that the cooked duck flew away again.

"My lord, the key is what will happen in a month's time?" Wei Wuque said calmly. He had read the letter before, so he naturally knew.

"One month later, if Liu Sheng still can't win, not only will Liu Sheng be held accountable, but the crown prince will ask himself to abdicate." Zhu Gaoxu said coldly, "Unexpectedly, my elder brother is so afraid of this king!"

"Then that's not a bad thing, is it?" Wei Wuque said softly, "As long as we wait patiently for another month, the prince will still become the governor-general, and the prince will not be able to eat and walk around..."

"Well." Zhu Gaoxu nodded, and said in a muffled voice: "The third letter also said the same thing. He told me to endure it for another month. As long as I live in peace with the White Lotus Sect for a month, what should be my fault is my fault. Also belongs to Lao Tzu!"

"But we have already dispatched troops!" Zhu Heng reminded the King of Han in a low voice: "Even the city of Linzi has been taken down, how can we live in peace with Qingzhou?"

"How about withdrawing the troops immediately," Hou Tai whispered, "Return Linzi to Qingzhou?"

"Hmm..." After venting his anger, His Highness the King of Han regained his composure, pinched his chin and pondered for a moment and said, "There's no reason to spit out what you've eaten! This time, take Linzi by chance, and never hand it over again." !"

"My lord is right!" Wei Wuhuai nodded, agreeing very much: "We conquered Linzi, and our teacher is famous. There is no reason why Tang Tiande attacked us, but we couldn't fight back. In the humble opinion of the students, we can first let those who attacked Guangrao and Shouguang The army retreated, and then sent people to Qingzhou, telling them that we took Linzi back as a punishment for breaking the alliance!"

"Hmm." The King of Han couldn't help but nodded, and asked, "And then?"

"Then, we can give them two choices, whether to fight or to make peace. If there is a war, there is nothing to say, everyone will fight each other, and we will fight to the death on the battlefield!" Wei Wuque said in a deep voice: "If you want to make peace, they You must swear that you will never break the covenant again, stab your allies in the back, and hand over the culprit who caused the 'Linzi Incident' to our side!" After a pause, Wei Wuque said in a low voice: "If you can do it, I will Only then can... return Linzi to them."

"What?!" When Zhu Heng heard this, he jumped into a rage and said, "You didn't listen to what the prince said, you must not return Linzi to them!"

"Hey, General Zhu, be safe and don't be impatient. The student's so-called return to Linzi is nothing but empty talk." Wei Wuque shook his head and smiled, "Don't forget our purpose is just to fight for a month. So how do we fight for it?" ? Nothing more than a word 'drag'."

"Procrastinate?" Zhu Heng was taken aback for a moment.

"That's right, procrastination." Wei Wuque smiled and said, "The so-called negotiation is just to delay time. Tang Tiande is narrow-minded, easy to repeat, and forgets the overall situation when he hears that we have captured Linzi. We will fight to the death. But when we hear that we can return Linzi, we will definitely change our minds and try to avoid fighting with us. But if we hear that he needs to hand over his confidants, he will definitely fall into conflict again. Hurry up, he doesn't necessarily have an idea!"

"Well, that's a good point!" Zhu Gaoxu nodded, not to mention Tang Tiande, even he himself would still hesitate for a long time in such a complicated situation.

"Then what if," Hou Tai said sharply, "he has a wrong surname Tang, and he will soon have an idea?"

"It doesn't matter. Even if he agrees to our request, he will definitely put forward a series of conditions. When the time comes, we will discuss and study, and the time will pass?" Wei Wuque smiled and said: "Even if the covenant is made, when will we Returning Linzi City to them, isn’t it up to us? After ten days, eight days and a month, can they still bite people?!”

"Haha not bad!" Zhu Gaoxu finally turned from cloudy to sunny, and nodded with a smile: "It's Mr. Yi Wei! Let's send someone to Qingzhou and drag him for a month!" Is it the most suitable for this king to take this trip?"

"Students are obliged to do so, but the members of the White Lotus Sect are very wary of students, and I'm afraid they won't talk to me." Wei Wuque thought for a while and said, "His Royal Highness is the most suitable. He has a noble status and can best represent the prince. In Linzi City, we were plotted against by the White Lotus Sect, if the White Lotus Sect wants to question us, His Royal Highness can rightly accuse them of breaking the covenant first!"

"Yeah." Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while, nodded and said, "Anyway, it's just to delay time, and it's not really to reconcile with them. Let Zhu Zhantan go there, so it won't be a mess..." After finishing speaking, he ordered in a deep voice Said: "The decree of Gu Jun, Wang Bin and Chen Feng immediately led the army to withdraw to Le'an, Zhu Zhantan handed over the army to the deputy general, and immediately went to Qingzhou as an envoy, there must be no mistake!"

"Follow the order!" All the generals responded in a deep voice.

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The news that Linzi city was captured by the army of the Han Dynasty only reached Qingzhou at this moment.When Tang Tiande heard this, his face turned pale with shock, and hurriedly summoned his subordinates, Wenwu, to discuss the matter in the lobby that has been changed to the 'Parliament Hall'!

A group of so-called prime ministers, Pingzhang political affairs, and privy envoys, dressed in clean official uniforms, knelt down and saluted Elder Tang, shouting that the King of Dharma has no bounds!

In the past, Tang Tiande liked this set of etiquette the most, but today it is of no nature. He hurried to the dragon chair, sat down and said, "Get up."

"Thank you, King Fa." Tang Tiande said in a deep voice after all the civil and military soldiers got up, "The King of Han has attacked us. Last night, he sent a large army to attack Linzi. With the cooperation of the traitors, they attacked the city at dawn. Thousands of our troops were killed and wounded. The remnants of the defeated generals are on their way back..."

"Ah?!" The complexions of all the civil and military officials changed drastically, and Bai Baier screamed: "It's terrible, the slave family said that the King of Han can't be messed with, right?!"

"Shut up!" Tang Tiande slapped the dragon chair, and said angrily, "The King of Han used us before to achieve his goal of making a comeback! Once the emperor uses him again, he will be the first to destroy us, and prove to the emperor that we are used by him." It's correct!" He said with a spat: "Knowing this, do I still sit and wait for death? I must strike first!"

"But Linzi was taken back again..." Bai Baier muttered, "I don't see where the strength is." As one of the three giants who later surrendered to Tang Tiande, the other two, Dong Yangao and Hao Yunzhong, were both made prime ministers by Tang Tiande. , but Bai Baier was left behind, which made him extremely unhappy, and became more and more eccentric all day long.

(End of this chapter)