I'm a scumbag

Chapter 388
After exchanging a few sour greetings with Cao Xing, the Minister of Rites went to the place where the award was conferred, preparing for the next award ceremony.

It's no wonder that Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites counted these few sentences.

This time, Cao Xing directly conferred the title of uncle, and if he returns to the court, at least he has started as a law minister.

Cao Xing is a legalist, and Ding Guohou must not care about Faxiang.

Marquis Dingguo didn't care, so the position of Faxiang couldn't be left empty. Cao Xing was undoubtedly the most suitable candidate now.

Directly becoming the minister of law, coupled with the honor of the earl, Cao Xing directly became one of the most powerful people in the court.

In the future, when he, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, met Cao Xing, he would really have to respectfully address him as 'Faxiang'.

When Cao Xing was in charge of Dali Temple before, his rank was the same as that of the six ministers, all of which were of the third rank.

Now that Cao Xing has directly become a top grade, can't the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites be sour?

In comparison, Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War did not have so much thought.

He is now just a left servant, temporarily acting as Wang Lin to lead the military department.

Even if he is promoted in the future, he will at most become Minister of the Ministry of War, which is still far from the position of Cao Xing and the others.

However, it is still necessary to establish a good relationship with Cao Xing, the future Dharma Prime Minister, in advance.

After carefully checking the etiquette arrangement of the awards, the Minister of Rites also invited Wu Xian to the stage.

As the eunuchs proclaimed that the auspicious time had come, Wu Xian also took out the imperial decree with the jade seal and read out various awards from the court.

The one who received the highest award besides Ning Chen was Zhao Tuo.

Zhao Tuo directly sealed a Marquis of Pingyuan.

Zhao Tuo is the number one general under Prince Jing's command, and being named a marquis is not considered arrogance.

If this is Ding Guohou's subordinates, such as Xu Muzhi, then he can only be named Uncle Dingyuan.

There is no way, who will let Ding Guohou still be the Marquis now.

If Marquis Dingguo is now a duke, or has directly become a king with a different surname, then Xu Muzhi may still get the title of Marquis.

But Marquis Dingguo didn't want to continue to raise his title, and Xu Muzhi only gave you the title of Earl.

In this way, Xu Muzhi and Ning Chen have moved up the ranks in terms of title.

In addition to Zhao Tuo and Xu Muzhi, the General of the Right Route Army also won the title of Earl.

Then there is Cao Xing, this Ming Fabo.

From the name of this title, it can be seen that Cao Xing must be the best candidate for the law next.

In addition to the titles of these earls, several viscounts were awarded next.

Then there are the baronships of Wu Jinzhi and Wu Tuizhi.

Hearing that his two sons had both won the title of baron, Old General Wu was crying.

Old General Wu was really dreaming, and he didn't even dare to dream like this.

He didn't dare to imagine that one day his two sons could obtain the title of knighthood.

Old General Wu still knows what kind of people his two sons are.

In General Wu's opinion, it would be great if his two sons could live out the rest of their lives peacefully.

He didn't even dare to think about being rich.

But who would have thought that he took a dangerous move and brought his two sons to the northern border to look for Ning Chen.

It turned out to be the right way.

With the title of baron, his two sons really don't have to worry about the rest of their lives.

After announcing the Baron.

Wu Xian took out another imperial edict.

This is the true decree.

The previous one was a list drawn up by the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Rites.

Then Sun Banban, the palm print eunuch, stamped an official seal with the jade seal.

This new decree is the real decree.

The imperial decree written by Wu Zhaoyu himself.

The content of the imperial decree is the official announcement of Duke Ning Chen's title.

From this moment on, Ning Chen's title has directly changed from Champion Marquis to Champion Duke.

First-class Duke Champion, the highest-ranked person in the Wu Dynasty, and there is no one.

"Champion!"

"Champion!"

After Wu Xianxuan finished reading, the whole audience burst into cheers like a mountain roar and a tsunami.

Ning Chen also really enjoyed the cheers from the mountains.

"Soldiers, the battle between our Wu Dynasty and the Western Regions is still going on, and there are still many opportunities for you to make contributions."

"Today the imperial court rewarded us in Moco City. I hope that in the future, we can reward the three armies again in Leiyin Temple."

"On that day, I hope that my western expeditionary army will be the expeditionary army that has received the most rewards in all dynasties."

"Soldiers, follow me and kill!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

Ning Chen's few words directly ignited everyone's enthusiasm.

Everyone is full of fighting spirit, wishing to take up weapons now, rush to Leiyin Temple, and chop those bodhisattvas and arhats off the altar.

Ning Chen didn't stay in Moco City for too long.

The war is far from being declared over.

There are still many things that need to be done.

Naturally, it is impossible for Ning Chen to stay here, delaying the army for too long.

After saying goodbye to Zhao Tuo and the aggrieved Xu Muzhi.

Ning Chen brought the Minister of Rites and others back to Baijia City before dark.

That night, Ning Chen had a dinner with Minister of Rites and others in person.

This is definitely a great deal of face to them.

A dignified first-class meritorious service, Mr. Champion.

Even those princes in the clan now need someone to chat with.

To be able to condescend to have a meal with them is really a great deal of face.

After dinner, Ning Chen asked Cao Xing to hand over the military exploits he had sorted out over the past few days to Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War.

When asking him to go back, take him back and report to the Ministry of War.

Early in the morning of the second day, the awarding team set off for Beijing.

Normally, at this time, Ning Chen should prepare some local products from the Western Regions for everyone.

But in Ning Chen's place, this is not a thing.

Does Ning Chen need them to read him?
What Ning Chen needs is that they don't think of him well.

Prepare souvenirs for them, isn't that the same as buying them?

Ning Chen would never do such a loss-making business.

So the rewarding team came empty-handed, and then returned empty-handed.

Ning Chen knew that they didn't talk about it, but there must be complaints in their hearts.

But so what?

They could only watch, but they couldn't kill Ning Chen.

With Ning Chen's status today, it is really as stable as Mount Tai.

If they wanted to wait for Ning Chen to make a mistake, they really had to wait.

And even if Ning Chen made a mistake and got into trouble, they didn't dare to take revenge on Ning Chen for ordinary small mistakes.

Unless Ning Chen wants to seek power and usurp the throne.

They can also rush up and step on them with the flow.

They still have to endure the usual small mistakes.

Don't forget that Ning Chen is not only the first-class and champion, but also the dean of Baijia Academy.

He is also the master of the holy way.

These identities are all doomed, they have no chance to take revenge on Ning Chen.

After sending away the team that was rewarded by the imperial court, it is time to study how to continue to take down the Buddhist kingdom in the Western Regions.

Now this task can only be regarded as one-third completed.

When all the [-] Buddha Kingdoms are conquered, it can only be regarded as half completed.

Just when Ning Chen was thinking about how to continue to promote the Buddhist Kingdom in the Western Regions.

The communication jade slip that he communicated with Ding Guohou and the others shook.

Enter the chat group.

Only then did Ning Chen realize that this conversation was actually initiated by Prince Jing.

It was really rare for Prince Jing to take the initiative to initiate a group chat.

"Something difficult, we need our help." Marquis Ding Guo came up and didn't give Prince Jing any face.

Ning Chen originally wanted to protect Prince Jing, but he didn't expect Prince Jing to be very straightforward.

"How long do you need Ningchen in the Western Regions?" Prince Jing asked straight to the point.

King Jing was so straight to the point suddenly, Ning Chen was also taken aback.

"Is the prince asking to take the Western Regions completely, or to take the [-] countries in the Western Regions and then besiege the Western Regions?"

King Jing said: "Take down the Western Regions completely."

Ning Chen pondered for a while and said: "If the prince wants to take down the Western Regions completely, it may not take a day.

The prince should already know my plan.

Therefore, the prince should know that if this plan is to be implemented successfully.

It will take at least a year or two to be possible. "

Prince Jing directly denied Ning Chen's time: "I can't give you such a long time."

King Jing's sudden bluntness made Ning Chen realize something.

Ding Guohou asked very simply: "Is there any movement from the barbarians in the south?"

King Jing said truthfully: "The barbarians have assembled a large army and are preparing to launch a general attack on Jingzhou's defense line.

I need human support now, Ning Chen, I need to transfer [-] of the army in your hands to Jingzhou. "

King Jing has said so, so it can be seen that the situation must be very critical.

Otherwise, with Prince Jing's pride, he would definitely not open his mouth to ask for someone with Ning Chen.

"Okay, I'll ask Zhao Tuo to transfer people to Jingzhou now." Ning Chen agreed without hesitation.

Dingguo Hou stopped joking with King Jing at this time, but asked very seriously: "Why did the barbarians suddenly attack you?"

Prince Jing said, "I'm not sure about this either."

Ning Chen pondered for a moment, then interjected, "Could it be related to my attack on the Western Regions.

Seeing that I am about to attack the entire Western Regions, the barbarians are worried that I will lose the restraint of Wan Yao Kingdom and the Western Regions.

My Wu Dynasty will put all my attention on them.

So they took the option of launching an attack early. "

Prince Jing replied, "There is such a possibility."

Ding Guohou also added: "I think the possibility of this is not small.

Although there is also an antagonistic relationship between the Buddhist kingdom and the barbarians in the Western Regions.

But the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

And I've recently found out some interesting things. "

Speaking of this, Marquis Dingguo purposely made a pass, until Ning Chen asked again: What did you find.

Only then did Ding Guohou continue to speak: "I tracked down the matter of the magic spring and found a rather interesting point in time.

The time when Buddha sneaked into the sealed place was very close to the time when he returned from the barbarians. "

Ning Chen understood what Marquis Ding Guo wanted to say, but just getting close at this point in time couldn't explain anything.

Marquis Dingguo continued to explain to Ning Chen: "You may not be clear about how to open the Magic Spring, even King Jing and I don't know.

I believe that at that time, there should not be too many people who knew this method.

But we don't know, but the barbarians know this method very well.

And the Buddha sneaked into the sealed place not long after he left from the barbarians. "

If this is the case, what happened to the Buddha when he entered the barbarians became very suspicious.

At the same time, the relationship between the Western Regions and the barbarians has become very suspicious.

If there is really ambiguity between the two parties, then this coincidence can have a reasonable explanation.

"If there are really so many connections between the Western Regions and the barbarians, wouldn't the Western Regions be the same as luring wolves into the house? If a wolf enters the house, he will not thank the person who opened the door for him." Ning Chen said.

Ding Guohou said: "Perhaps the person who opened the door thought that after he let the wolf in, he was capable enough to kill the wolf in the room.

And putting the wolf in like this can prevent it from escaping, right? "

Ning Chen sneered and said: "Then if he can't kill the wolf, then he will become an inescapable prey in the room.

And not only that, he will also kill other people in the house. "

After finishing speaking, Ning Chen asked: "Master Hou, can you provide conclusive evidence for what you said?"

Ding Guohou shook his head directly and said: "This is just a relatively coincidental time point, there will be no evidence there.

It has been more than 8000 years, even if there is evidence.

I am afraid that it has long since disappeared with time.

This kind of thing is simply impossible to say clearly. "

Ning Chen said ruthlessly in his heart: "If this is the case, then pure nature must really be destroyed."

Ding Guohou said: "My Red Flame Army in the Western Regions can be temporarily handed over to you to command, and let them fill in the vacancy that you have lost by 5 people."

Ding Guohou sent a Red Flame Army to Hezhou very early to monitor the movements of the Western Regions.

In order to prevent any movement in the Western Regions, they can respond quickly.

Later, after Ning Chen arrived, the Red Flame Army, Ding Guohou still did not call back to his side.

I stayed in Hezhou for a rainy day.

Now it seems that this unexpected need was really met by Ning Chen.

"Master Hou, the Chiyan Army is your own army, so my command is not very good." Ning Chen politely refused while his heart was moving.

What kind of combat power is the Red Flame Army?

That was one of the two most powerful armies in the entire Wu Dynasty.

Being able to command such a powerful army is definitely a dream for a commander.

However, the Chiyan Army is the pro-army of Marquis Dingguo.

On weekdays, except for the orders of Ding Guohou, they would not obey other people's orders.

Even if they were disobedient, no one would do anything to them, because Marquis Dingguo was very protective of his Red Flame Army.

After discussing the matter here, Ning Chen also talked to Zhao Tuo, and asked Zhao Tuo to immediately dispatch [-] Tigers and rush to Jingzhou.

Zhao Tuo was originally Prince Jing's subordinate, and now he is at the request of King Jing.

The arrangement is naturally very fast.

Although [-] Huwei troops were missing, the Red Flame Army of Marquis Dingguo added in, and the overall strength did not drop in any way.

Just when Ning Chen was going to meet the Chiyan Army.

Marquis Dingguo sent another message.

There was a change on the Great Wall of Righteousness.

The Red Flame Army in Hezhou must all return to the Great Wall of Righteous Qi to garrison.

When Ning Chen heard the news from Marquis Ding, he also felt that the current matter had become very difficult.

It's not because of the lack of help from the Red Flame Army that it has become difficult.

The main reason is that Ning Chen really didn't expect that the Western Regions would have such a great energy.

Can affect Barbarians and Great Wall of Righteousness at the same time.

It is absolutely impossible to say that these things are coincidences.

The world is not without coincidences.

But such a coincidence is completely impossible.

Not only Ning Chen didn't believe it, but Prince Jing and Marquis Ding also didn't believe that it was a coincidence that these two things happened at the same time.

"Is the energy of the Western Regions too big?" Ning Chen said in the group.

Marquis Dingguo and Prince Jing obviously did not expect that the energy of the Western Regions, or the importance of the Western Regions, would be so high.

It turned out that the Great Wall of Righteousness and the barbarians were able to launch attacks at the same time to protect the Western Regions.

Fortunately for the barbarians, they have been fighting endlessly with the human race.

But what the Great Wall of Righteousness blocks afterward is the ever-present ruler of this world—gods and demons.

This is a god who doesn't look down on humans and barbarians at all.

But at this moment, they actually took the initiative to expose some of their energy for the sake of the Western Regions.

This is not a good thing for them.

This shows that the status of the Western Regions in their eyes is really very important.

But they couldn't figure out why the Western Regions were so important to them.

If you just want to have the Western Regions, help contain the combat power of the Wu Dynasty.

This doesn't seem to make sense.

You must know that the strength of the barbarians is not weaker than that of the Wu Dynasty.

As for the existences sealed after the Great Wall of Righteous Qi, the human race has no way to solve them.

If there was a way, they would have been dealt with long ago.

Those gods are completely blocked by the Great Wall of Righteousness left by Confucian saints.

Let them have no choice but to step over.

This is how the most powerful forces of the two waves act at the same time at the same time to help the Western Regions tide over the difficulties.

Ning Chen and the three of them really couldn't figure out what was inside.

"The power in your hand is half reduced now. I suggest you retreat to Baijia City. After our side is calmed down, join forces and wipe out the Western Regions in one fell swoop." Ding Guohou suggested to Ning Chen.

From Ding Guohou's suggestion, it can be seen that Ding Guohou is really determined to kill the Buddhist kingdom in the Western Regions this time.

Before, Ding Guohou still preferred to surround them.

But now, Ding Guohou is determined to destroy the Buddhist kingdom in the Western Regions.

It is not a safe thing for the Wu Dynasty or the entire human world to leave such an unknown Buddhist kingdom in the Western Regions.

"I also suggest that you retreat temporarily." Prince Jing also made the same suggestion to Ning Chen.

Of course, this time Prince Jing also made the determination to kill the Western Regions.

(End of this chapter)