Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 501
However, after thinking about it again, he realized that what Ye Chen said was correct, and the facts in front of him did not allow him to have any choice at all. A general who has trained five thousand private troops.No matter how powerful he is, even the No. 1 general in the world, how dare His Majesty the Emperor and the court use such a general?How can it be used?Even if the church is destroyed one day, no one dares to use him.Even daring to use his three sons has shown Ye Chen's extraordinary courage and great sincerity.

After an unknown amount of time, Murong Yanzhao sighed deeply: "Since you are old, let's go old."

There are many things that always seem so heavy before a decision is made, but once a decision is made, the weight of those things seems to be lost in an instant, and they will be blown by the cold wind from the northwest and disappear into the lead cloud.

This is how Murong Yanzhao felt at this time. After saying the words of returning to the old, he suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and his mind and brain seemed to be much clearer, and he found that this was the most correct choice in the first place.

Struggling repeatedly between the holy hall and His Majesty the Song Dynasty, even a strong-willed man like him still feels exhausted physically and mentally. He has been thinking hard about how to break through this deadlock, until now he understands that this is a deadlock. It's because of his obsession with following His Majesty the Emperor to unify the world.

"Since the general has figured this out, please also ask the general to stabilize the northwest frontier army and the situation in the northwest. The imperial court will send someone to take over the northwest camp in half a month." Ye Chen stared intently at Murong Yanzhao's eyes, He didn't relax for a moment, until he finally said that sentence, he was slightly relieved in his heart.

Li Yanqun, Murong Yanzhao's most trusted subordinate, the military advisor, stood by the desk, silent, his hands clasped in his sleeves were sometimes clenched, and sometimes loosened. After struggling for an unknown amount of time, he said in a hoarse voice: "This subordinate is not reconciled. .”

Murong Yanzhao looked at the ink-stained letter paper on the desk, and said indifferently: "Ye Chen is right, under the current situation, being able to return to the old hometown is already the best fate I can see. Bao, I will send another long letter to His Majesty in Kaifeng. I believe His Majesty will always give me some face. Ye Chen and Cao Bin will fight for the military affairs. As for you, if you are worried that the Holy Church will seek your reply, you can Retire to old age with this general."

Touched eyes appeared in Li Yanqun's eyes, and then moved into sentimentality, and he laughed at himself and said: "I was originally a watcher sent by the Li family of the Holy Church to the general, but after a few years, the general gave me several times to save my life. En, and treat each other with sincerity, so I became a real master and servant, since the general is going to retire, I am willing to retire with the general."

In the deep winter of Gyeongju City, the wind was as cold as a knife. The people who watched the excitement had already gone home. Except for the patrolling cavalry, it was difficult to see anyone on the street.

After taking a bath in the general's mansion, Ye Chen stood in the courtyard and looked at the dark sky, and said with emotion: "After Murong Yanzhao disarmed and returned to the field as the commander of the Northwest Camp, at least he is still the Duke of Henan. Several big mansions, playing with cats and dogs to tease maids in his spare time, moving chairs to hide in the shade of melons to entertain Sun Weile when he is bored, this kind of life is actually very good for him. But I absolutely do not believe that the church will allow such things occur."

Hu Sanguang next to him said at the right time: "What does your lord mean?"

Ye Chen said: "Let our people stare at all suspicious people in Gyeongju City that we once suspected before."

Hu Sanguang respectfully said yes, turned around and went down to make arrangements.

Ye Chen turned his head and said to Wu Batian on the right: "Old Wu! You are the Sixth Elder of the Holy Church. What do you think the Holy Church will do?"

After thinking seriously for a moment, Wu Batian said: "The Holy Church will do everything possible to kill the Lord in Qingzhou City. If they can't do this, they will definitely retreat and kill Murong Yanzhao next. Plant the blame on the adults, and at the same time try to incite the Northwest Frontier Army to make trouble. And then take advantage of the chaos to kill the adults."

Ye Chen took Wu Batian's analysis very seriously. He suddenly felt that under Wu Batian's big body, there was actually a head with extremely careful thinking, yes!It was because of my own negligence in the past, how could Wu Batian be poor in scheming and resourcefulness to become an elder in the church.

"When do you think the church will do it?"

"It could be anytime."

The conversation between Ye Chen and Wu Batian had just ended, when Murong Yanzhao's number one counselor, Li Yanqun, the chief steward of the General's Mansion, came to invite Ye Chen to the real reception banquet.

The General's Mansion in Qingzhou City occupies a very large area, with flying phoenixes, vermilion lacquer on the door, and hidden bamboo walls. It occupies half a street, and it looks very arrogant, but it fits well with its status as the commander of the Northwest Camp. In this era, people will only take it for granted, and if they are young, they are not worthy of their status.

Today, at this time, the General's Mansion is entertaining the imperial envoy who came from Kyoto to comfort the army, the well-known chief envoy of the Huaxia Weifu, and Ye Chen, the king of Xiangfu County.

The inside of the General's Mansion seemed very lively, but what was extremely out of harmony with this happy atmosphere were the soldiers guarding the gate of the General's Mansion. Pedestrians.

In the entire Northwest, there are not many pedestrians who dare to walk in front of the Mansion of Great General Murong Yanzhao, so their more task is to check the guests, although the guests are all celebrating except for the bosses in the Northwest Camp. Officials in the state city.But these soldiers still didn't dare to relax, and carefully checked the things they carried with them to ensure that no one dared to bring a murder weapon inside.

Today is to clean up the young imperial envoy.They must ensure that nothing goes wrong.

In addition to the heavily guarded main entrance of the General's Mansion, there are also many nails buried in those secluded places in the mansion.There are Murong Yanzhao's confidantes, and there are people from Huaxia Weifu brought by Ye Chen.And in the night sky outside the General's Mansion, I don't know how many spies are lurking in the dark.

Whether it's the truth about the assassination in the valley outside Kaifeng, the real purpose of Ye Chen's visit to the Northwest, or the real contest behind the army fight on the Chang Street in Gyeongju City today that ordinary people seem to be confused about.For some reason, these things are only known to a small number of people in the Song court, and so far only Ye Chen, His Majesty the Emperor, Cao Bin, and the person involved, Murong Yanzhao, understand what is going on.

Therefore, although many generals of the Northwest Frontier Army and Gyeongju City officials had many thoughts and guesses because of Ye Chen's arrival and today's assassination of Ye Chen by the Long Street Heavy Cavalry, they were limited to speculation after all.

(End of this chapter)