Slave to Queen: One Night Bride

Chapter 351 Ambition
On this day, Zhao Deji summoned a group of officials to fight, and then, Qin Hui faced it alone.Zhao Deji naturally mentioned the continuous victories sent by the two rivers, and laughed: "The captives always take advantage of the plains and march across the world. Unexpectedly, the Great Song Dynasty can also achieve great victories in the plains today."

Qin Hui immediately said: "It's all about His Majesty's lofty will, planning strategies."

Qin Hui carefully observed Zhao Deji's expression and tone, and then said: "It is gratifying for Yue Pengju to win, but he did not obey the imperial court's order, a arrogant general..."

Zhao Deji also had a bit of resentment for Yue Pengju's disobedience to "heavy troops to guard and light soldiers to choose interests" and did not expel the people who took refuge in Lianghe. The mighty general".

Qin Hui took out the contract letter sent by the Jin envoy, Zhao Deji looked at it, and saw the third article, unexpectedly the Jin man had such a request, and frowned slightly: "The Jin man is like this, because he is jealous of Yue Pengju..."

Listening to his tone, Qin Hui didn't mean to kill Yue Pengju, but pointed out the Jin people's taboo against Yue Pengju, and said: "The fourth prince is extremely vicious, but good soldiers are not good luck. , taking advantage of the victory to withdraw troops, this is the long-term strategy of the country. Now the captives propose a peace negotiation and return it to the Queen Mother..."

Returning the Empress Dowager is the key point!When Qin Hui came here, he paused wisely.Sure enough, Zhao Deji shed tears again: "The queen mother is suffering in the north, I am really unfilial..."

In order to welcome back the queen mother, it is natural to sacrifice something.Is it worth it to exchange Yue Pengju for the Queen Mother?
Qin Hui no longer worried about this issue, so he comforted Zhao Deji for a while, and threw this "benevolence and filial piety" to Zhao Deji for his own evaluation.

Zhao Deji thought about it, and on the second day, he summoned the censor to play the right question.The censor playing today is Fan Tong.Fan Tong was recommended by Qin Hui and was continuously promoted. He called Qin Hui "Enxiang". Since then, the word "Enxiang" has become a hidden rule in the officialdom. Minion.

Zhao Deji asked: "Now that Yue Pengju has won successive victories, what does Fan Qing think of it?"

Fan Tong then said: "The important generals of the country give rich salaries to high-ranking officials, rich houses and good land for their children, in order to expect them to serve the country and be loyal. Now, when I watch Yue Pengju, he blindly shows off his abilities and does not obey the orders of the court. He is diligent and thrifty, Not greedy for money, not accepting beautiful concubines, able to share weal and woe with soldiers, and wholeheartedly recruiting down-and-out literati, courteous corporals, and establishing his own personal reputation and prestige. As everyone knows, collusion between civil servants and military generals is always a taboo... Duke Zhou is afraid of gossip day, Wang Mang is humble When it was not usurped. Xiang Shi died at the beginning, who knows if it is true or false in his life!"

His viciousness is that he has turned all the virtues of Yue Pengju that the scholar-bureaucrats talked about in the past into terrible "ambition!"

Sure enough, Zhao Deji was deeply touched, especially the sentence "Wang Mang was humble before usurping", and said: "Fan Qing's words are true. Since I became the throne, I have worked hard every day, walking on thin ice, for the sake of the country, and my hair turned gray early. Only then did I realize , generals, those who are greedy have no ambition, and those who are ambitious have no greed. Before Wang Mang usurped the throne, he wore old clothes and had only one wife. Later, the Han Dynasty was destroyed in his hands..."

Fan Tong was really overjoyed when he got this precious information, but on the surface he was still diligent and diligent, and after saying a few good things that Zhao Deji loved to hear, he left and went out, and rushed to Qin Hui's prime minister's mansion in the dark, and secretly informed Zhao Deji message.

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On this day, when Qin Hui came home, Wang Junhua was scolding his daughter-in-law Cao.Her adopted son, Qin Xi, married his wife when he was a teenager. Relying on the power of his adoptive mother, Qin Xi, who was only a teenager at this time, even took three concubines.Cao was dissatisfied and cried to Wang Junhua, but Wang Junhua's attitude towards his adopted son was exactly the opposite to that of Qin Hui. , and it’s not your turn to speak.”

The daughter-in-law could only swallow her anger, Qin Hui naturally didn't dare to say more, at this moment, Gao Yigong suddenly came to the door.Gao Yigong was placed by the fourth prince to monitor him and his wife, so he naturally did not dare to slack off, Wang Junhua hurriedly stopped scolding, shouted away his son and daughter-in-law, and welcomed Gao Yigong to the study.

Gao Yigong took out the fourth prince's secret letter again. On it, the fourth prince said that his son-in-law died in the hands of Yue Pengju, and now he wants to negotiate a peace. Qin Hui wants to be a peaceful and stable prime minister. First, he must persuade Zhao Deji to order Yue Pengju to withdraw his troops. Second, It must be said that Zhao Deji was persuaded to kill Yue Pengju.

Qin Hui was very proud: "Lord Gao, you can report to the fourth prince. The old man already has some ideas about these two conditions, and I will not disappoint the fourth prince."

After Gao Yigong left, Fan Tong came to visit again.Wang Junhua listened to the duet between him and Zhao Deji, and almost jumped up with joy: "Hua Rong, that bitch, her time of death is finally coming! To kill Yue Pengju, Hua Rong will definitely be killed!"

Fan Tong said, "I heard that Li Ruoxu, Yue Pengju's emissary, has rushed back to Lin'an, but what should I do?"

Qin Hui said: "Wait for me to summon Li Ruoxu first."

Li Ruoxu was indeed ordered to return to Lin'an to report to Zhao Deji on behalf of the commander, asking the court to suspend the withdrawal of troops.He was eager to confront the emperor first, but he couldn't ignore the prime minister's summons.Qin Hui's summoning was nothing more than judging clues from his conversation, to see how much Yue Pengju could impress Zhao Deji.But after talking for a while, he didn't find anything, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

On the second day, Li Ruoxu went up to face him.

The emperor asked: "It is gratifying for Yue Pengju to win consecutive victories. But it is said that the captives set up heavy troops in Kaifeng to trap the king's teacher. Is it true that Yue Pengju intends to win a hundred victories without defeat?"

Li Ruoxu replied: "Kaifeng is the mausoleum of my Great Song Dynasty's ancestral temple. When my ministers recalled the disaster in Jingkang, they all shed tears. Now, two rivers and one place, Zhang Xianggong and Yue Xianggong should have sent troops together, but Zhang Xianggong Withdrawing from the battle, I hope that His Majesty will urge them to fight together, expel the captives, and protect our Song Dynasty's ancestral temple and society. Your Majesty will patrol the southeast and southeast, and work hard to rule. Now is a great time to recover the mountains and rivers in the north of the Song Dynasty."

Zhao's ancestral temple was destroyed by Jin people, no matter how brazen Zhao Deji was, it was an unbearable humiliation after all, seeing Li Ruoxu mentioning this matter, he pondered for a while before asking: "What if Yue Pengju's army goes deep alone?"

Li Ruoxu replied decisively: "All the soldiers of the army work together, and the mourning soldiers will surely win!"

Zhao Deji had nothing to say, thought for a while, and said: "This time, I need to give Yue's army a generous reward, and I will reward you with one hundred thousand guan."

Li Ruoxu thanked En and withdrew.

Qin Hui stood aside, seeing that Zhao Deji didn't mention immediately asking Yue Pengju to withdraw his troops, he knew he was hesitant.He knew that Li Ruoxu's melody had an effect on him, and he hated Li Ruoxu so much, but there was nothing he could do for a while.Li Ruoxu was the younger brother of Li Ruoshui, a loyal minister who died during the Jingkang disaster, and was placed by the court as an aide next to Yue Pengju.

Li Ruoxu left with Zhao Deji's edict, Qin Hui immediately summoned Fan Tong and others to discuss.He was afraid that the fourth prince would suffer a crushing defeat. If Lianghe regained control, Yue Pengju's prestige would rise to a terrible level, and if he did so, he would lose his status.

Fan Tong saw Qin Hui's frowning face and wanted to show off, so he said, "Mr. Qin, what is the most important thing in the army?"

Qin Hui asked with his eyes, and Fan Tong was quite proud: "Since ancient times, food and grass have been the treasure of the army. No matter how capable Yue Pengju is, what can he do if there is no food in the army?"

Qin Hui was overjoyed: "Great plan! If there is no food in the army, how can Yue Pengju make waves?"

In the name of the cabinet, Qin Hui immediately withheld and transferred the [-] shi of grain and [-] guan of money originally distributed to Yue Pengju in the name of Zhang Jun and Yang Yizhong's needs for Zhang Jun's deployment.He wrote the urgent delivery and immediately ordered Shutong to send it out in person.

Besides, after the Battle of Xiaoshangqiao, Jin Wushu's army turned to attack Xingshui where Wang Gui was located.Wang Gui's army has more than 9000 people, and Jin Wushu has [-] troops stationed there.They stopped at a distance of [-] miles from Xingshui and took up positions.

That night, it rained heavily and was muddy.Wang Gui was good at fighting. He rode his horse through the mud twice to check the enemy's situation. When he came back, he ordered the infantry to fight and the cavalry to rest.The generals were puzzled, Wang Gui said: "It's raining and muddy, and the captives' horses can't run fast. We might as well rest up our cavalry and fight with infantry."

Sure enough, the cavalry of the Golden Soldiers couldn't gallop as usual in the mud at all, and it was very difficult to walk.However, under the urging of Suhesu, waves of violent attacks were also launched.Wang Gui calmly led his army to fight, repelling the attacks one after another.

But Jin Wushu made up his mind this time, taking advantage of the large number of troops, he divided the whole army into eight teams, and took turns to charge.In this way, the two sides fought for 22 consecutive rounds, and both sides turned into bloody men and blood horses. In the mud, there were all fallen soldiers from both sides. As for the Jin army, the death rate was ten times that of the Song army.At this time, the horse army led by the general Han Qing rushed forward and fought hard, making the Song army avert danger time and time again.

After 22 rounds, Tuhesu, Han Chang and others could no longer bear the anxiety in their hearts.It is necessary to know that human life is not iron and stone. Seeing that the Jin army charged again and again, and the corpses of the companions fell one by one, they were unwilling to go on like this. Even though they might be able to completely wipe out the Yue family army in the end, they would definitely sacrifice their lives the price.

Jin Wushu was supervising the battle on a high mound, and seeing Han Chang was defeated again, he was so angry that he raised his whip and lashed at him.In a fit of rage, he whipped continuously, even more than fifty lashes!Han Chang was already blind in one eye, and he grew extremely disgusted with the battle of the southern invasion. Seeing that the fourth prince beat him repeatedly, regardless of his past friendship, he felt even more resentful.

On the second day, seeing that the Jin army was slack, Wang Gui rushed out the cavalry who had recuperated for a long time.When Jin Wushu came here, he had to completely retreat to Kaifeng, but Han Chang was unwilling to follow him to Kaifeng, so he took his own troops and fled to Changge County, north of Xingshui.

It was five days later when Yue Pengju led his army to Xingshui.Zhang Xian, Wang Gui, and Yue Pengju, the three armies merged, and there were more than 8000 people left in the original [-] army. Except for the [-] people currently in Xingshui, the rest are distributed in the three strongholds of Lianghe.

That night, Yue Pengju led the whole army to hold a grand sacrificial ceremony to commemorate all the soldiers who died in battle and the soldiers who died in the bloody battle at Xiaoshangqiao.After the Jin army retreated and collected the corpses of [-] soldiers from Xiaoshangqiao, they took out two liters of arrows from them, which shows that each person was hit by at least dozens of hundreds of arrows.

The two liters of arrows were placed next to the high fire, and all the soldiers in the army wept when they saw it.The sacrificial oration was written by Zhu Fu: "...the majestic appearance is like life, in the dreams of the family, the return of the triumphant song is faint; the good name will last forever, and the achievements of the expedition will be shining in the history books..."

In the smoke, the collected dead soldiers were cremated, and their souls returned to heaven in the flames.

(End of this chapter)