After the rebirth, the queen took the Meiqiang tragedy script

Chapter 178
Wenxuan Palace has never been so lively.

Gu Haiwang's defeat in battle was beyond everyone's expectations.

Chen Yuansi immediately pointed out that the defeat in this battle was entirely due to Gu Haiwang's underestimation of the enemy, which can be seen from his saying that the enemy would be defeated in March.

"This is not the time to pursue responsibility. The most important thing right now is how to fight the next battle. I will remember the merits and demerits of rewards and punishments. When this battle is over, no one will be left behind. Of course, the premise is——" Ye Qinghuai paused, and said, "At that time, there will still be great things in this world, and there will be Zhuqing and I."

Although Ye Qinghuai's words were serious, they were not all alarmist.Once Beidi crossed the Baishui River, there would be no natural barriers to defend the entire Yunzhou.

If you go south from Yunzhou, you will be Zhongzhou, and if you come from Zhongzhou, you will be Shengjing.

For the Beidi army, which is mainly composed of cavalry, the journey of two thousand miles is only three days.

Beidi is different from Dajing in that it is not governed by Confucian etiquette. All the villages passed by when going south to Dacaogu have been looted, burned and killed by soldiers and civilians, young and old.

Once the Dajing court ceases to exist, there will be no rewards for meritorious service or severe punishment.

Perhaps it felt the unprecedented crisis brought by Beidi's army, or perhaps it was Ye Qinghuaixiao's righteous rhetoric that made a difference. The cabinet quickly reached an agreement, no longer blame each other, and there was no previous situation of procrastination and buck-passing.

The meeting didn't take long. The work of Chen Yuansi, Su Hongwei and Yu Jianghui was mainly about people and food. The three of them left Wenxuan Hall to do business after receiving their respective tasks. Wen Xinzhong went to Qintian Supervisor to check the auspicious day.

Gu Shihai, He Qingchang and Ye Qinghuai were left to discuss the deployment and candidates of each army.

When it was getting dark, the little eunuch outside the Wenxuan Palace suddenly came in and spread the word that Li Jianyun, the servant of the Ministry of War, was begging to see him outside the palace gate.

There are only five cabinet ministers who can enter and leave the palace without notification, so if it is not an urgent matter, most of the courtiers will report it to the court in the morning of the next day.

At this time, Li Jianyun was asking for the face saint outside the palace, thinking it was an urgent matter.

"Pass." Ye Qinghuai ordered immediately.

Li Jianyun was quickly brought into the palace.

But he didn't come to meet Sheng, he came to see He Qingchang.

"My lord has ordered my subordinates to report immediately once the identity of Tu Ge is found out. The scouts have just received news." Li Jianyun didn't say much, and said directly to He Qingchang.

He squatted down and looked at the emperor and Gu Shihai.

"Don't be shy, just say it directly," He Qingchang ordered.

"Tug is not from Beidi, but I am from Chaoyunzhou. His real name is Chu Boliang. He used to be..." He paused and said, "The commander of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry Vanguard Battalion under the King of Beidu."

After speaking, he took out a military newspaper and handed it to Ye Qinghuai.

The expressions of the three people in the room suddenly changed.

"There is no Beidu king in Dajing, only the criminal minister Lu Yuxing. How many remnants of Tiger and Leopard Cavalry are in the Beidi army?" Gu Shihai was the first to ask.

Li Jianyun said: "According to the report from the scouts, when the tiger and leopard riding incident happened, the vanguard battalion led by Chu Boliang was performing a mission in Beidi. After the incident, their team disappeared. The following year, led by Chu Boliang, these people established a stockade called Xingyunzhai in Baishan to do some border business. There were about a few hundred people in the village. Three years ago, Xingyunzhai was suddenly disbanded, and these people should have joined Beidi's army."

Gu Shihai frowned, and said: "The mutiny of the tiger and leopard riders happened 20 years ago, right? These people are still here."

After speaking, he looked at Ye Qinghuai, and was about to say something when he saw the emperor staring straight at the military newspaper in his hand, as if in a daze.

"Your Majesty?" He couldn't help calling out.

Ye Qinghuai did not hear his voice at all.

She stared at the word "Chu Boliang" on the military newspaper, and countless images flashed through her mind.

This is not the first time she has seen the name.

The last time I saw this name was also in the military newspaper.In the military newspaper of the rebellion in Yunzhou in the previous life.

At that time, his name followed Lu Yanchen's, and he was the deputy commander of the rebel army.

Ye Qinghuai suddenly understood why Beidi's battle situation in this life was completely different from the previous life.

The reason why the Beidi war in the previous life was quickly quelled may not be because the imperial court sent Gu Haiwang to lead the army to go out, but because Lu Yanchen, who returned from Ding You's hometown, was in Yunzhou.

At that time, something must have happened between Lu Yanchen and Chu Boliang.

Either Lu Yanchen subdued Chu Boliang in the Beidi Army, which made the Beidi Army vulnerable, or Chu Boliang voluntarily left the Beidi Army and encouraged Lu Yanchen to rebel.

Ye Qinghuai suddenly remembered that when Gu Haiwang went to war, Lu Yanchen went to the palace to ask her to go with the army, and his attitude was very persistent.

Could it be that he already knew something?
"His Majesty!"

Gu Shihai shouted and pulled Ye Qinghuai's thoughts back.

Seeing the three of them looking at him, Ye Qinghuai collected his thoughts and asked, "Why does this Chu Boliang contribute to Beidi?"

The three of them were silent for a while, and He Qing said: "Probably because of the old incident between Lu Yuxing and Hubaoqi. Back then, Lu Yuxing colluded with the enemy and rebelled, and the army joined forces on a large scale. There were many people who complained. In the following years, there were several rebellions in Yunzhou because of this incident, but they were all suppressed."

He pondered for a moment, and said: "I just didn't expect that after more than 20 years, there are still remnants of crimes. But this makes sense, why Beidi's tactics suddenly changed, and even used our dam mechanism."

"If the person who formulated the Beidi marching route was Lu Yuxing's remnant party, then their purpose for this expedition is not only to plot against Yunzhou, but they have only one purpose." Gu Shihai moved the flag on the sand table marking the main force of Beidi to the position of Shengjing.

These people who have been away from home for 20 years, what drives them to go south to kill the enemy is not the desire to plunder, but the old grudge and hatred for Dajing.

For a moment, Ye Qinghuai seemed to hear the fighting and screams that filled the palace in the previous life when the imperial city was breached.

Since she was reborn, she has been trying to figure out where Lu Yanchen's fifty thousand rebels came from, and now she finally has some clues.

Ye Qinghuai couldn't help thinking, maybe Lu Yanchen was only bewitched by Chu Boliang, and it was not his original intention to rebel.

However, for such a big matter as rebellion, for Lu Yanchen, who always abides by the etiquette of emperors and ministers, if it wasn't his intention, who could use anything to coerce him into rebellion?
A flash of light suddenly flashed in Ye Qinghuai's mind——

Lu Yuxing, king of the northern capital, was also surnamed Lu.

But this idea was quickly rejected by her.

Lu and Chu are both common surnames in Yunzhou, the same surname doesn't mean anything, not to mention that Lu Yanchen is 25 years old this year, and when he was born, Lu Yuxing had already been executed by all his families.

Besides, if he was really someone from Lu Yuxing, how could the late emperor trust him so much, even entrusting Yingwei to him.

At least in the eyes of the first emperor, Lu Yanchen was more trustworthy than Ye Qinghuai, his own "son".

(End of this chapter)