The devil is coming

Chapter 184 Assassin
There was silence for a moment in the greenhouse.
Zheng Fan tried his best to be as natural as possible, but then he showed a wry smile.
He underestimated the enemy.
Of course, the whole process of the matter, the so-called general trend, and whether Zheng Shoubei underestimated the enemy had nothing to do with it.
It can only be said that those who can sit on the dragon's throne don't have fuel-efficient lamps.
There are nearly 70 troops on the three sides of the Qian Kingdom, and they are the most capable troops in the Qian Kingdom. Originally, if they went south to return reinforcements, the two marquises of Zhenbei and Jingnan would lead 20 cavalry directly on the plains. It is entirely possible for this army to be eaten.
As long as this battle is fought, the northern part of the Qian Kingdom will lose most of its ability to resist. But right now, if the troops from the three sides of the Qian Kingdom do not return to help, they will remain like nails and even send some troops to secretly make the northern expedition. The empty country of Yan.
So no matter how rampant the Zhenbei Army and the Jingnan Army are in the north of the Qian Kingdom, they still cannot completely eat this piece of fat into their mouths and digest it at the same time. Instead, it will be stuck there like a fish bone.
Simultaneously,
The Barbarian Royal Court will take this opportunity to try to break free from the control of Zhenbei Hou Mansion, because they have been waiting for this opportunity for a hundred years.
As for the Jin State, due to the reason of the death of the lips and teeth, there is a high probability that it will send a large army to attack the Yan State, and this is almost a certainty, otherwise the Yanjing Forbidden Army and the rear camp of the Jingnan Army would not have been dispatched to the empire so early. The easternmost defense line.
However, Dayan's most powerful field regiment was trapped in the north of Qian Kingdom. It could not advance any further. To retreat, not only did it have to give up the fat that was almost in its mouth, but it also had to face the Qian Kingdom. counterattack.
For a moment, Zheng Fan felt a little chilly in his heart.
Dayan, which was originally in a good situation, suddenly fell into a situation where it was waging war with three parties.
Emperor Qian saw that Zheng Fan had stopped talking and said:
"To be honest, I have to thank him, Ji Runhao, for the free pay from the Three Sides and the Forbidden Army. In the past, no one dared to touch this huge sum of military expenses, not even me.
But now, with the help of your Yan people's sword, help me, help Daqian, to break open this pustule.
Tell me, how should I thank your Majesty? "
"But most of the northern part of Daqian has been destroyed."
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter." Emperor Qian shook his head indifferently and said: "The wealth of our country, Daqian, is south of the Qianjiang River, in Jiangnan, and the taxes in Jiangnan account for [-]% of the annual revenue of our treasury.
The three sides have been abandoned for too long. Chu County and Beihe County are even poor counties. They may be considered rich in the eyes of you Yan people, but in the eyes of us Gan people, they are considered poor places.
The only one who is slightly affected is Xishan County, but even if Xishan County is destroyed, it is still a cost-effective deal for me.
Don't be afraid of your jokes. I am very redundant in my work. Although it looks glamorous on the outside, the treasury is almost running out of money.
Three redundants, one is redundant soldiers, I will send up wave after wave of Xiang troops for you to disperse. The three sides and the generals of the Forbidden Army and the dignitaries standing behind them will not dare to have anything to do with the matter of empty pay. What I have concealed is that I can take advantage of the general trend and extend my hand into these two armies with justifiable reasons.
There were so many redundant officials in the north who had neglected their duties, been killed, and surrendered, and it was just a matter of time to clean up a wave of them.
The third one is the Taoist monks. You Yan people do not believe in Buddhism or Taoism. You destroyed countless temples and Taoist temples along the way, which also helped me a lot.
What's more, in order to protect themselves, some temples and Taoist temples took the initiative to hand over their stored grains to you Yan people. This is another good excuse for me. I have long seen this group of people who do not work in production but do not have to pay taxes. Outsiders have been uncomfortable for a long time! "
Speaking of excitement,
Emperor Qian stood up and
He even turned around in a circle,
Regardless of his age, he is really elegant and chic.
Perhaps, it is in line with the aesthetics of this era, but Zheng Fan really can't appreciate it, perhaps because there are too many performance artists in later generations.
"Your Majesty," Zheng Fan said.
Emperor Qian stopped and said:
"What else do you have to say?"
"Any idea, at the beginning, is wonderful."
"I understand, so I didn't let you meet with the officials. I'm very happy now, but the officials are probably the most anxious and uneasy, that is, the gentlemen in the court. In the peaceful and prosperous times, they were all top-notch experts. But in troubled times, they can only be mere showpieces."
"Your Majesty, the foreign minister thinks that your Majesty may have too beautiful thoughts."
"Are you so stubborn?"
"It's impossible for Qian Guo to summon a huge army all at once!"
"Give me three years, and I can train a real 80-strong Forbidden Army!"
Emperor Qian bent down, looked at Zheng Fan sitting on the blanket, and said:
"Actually, I am worthy of being an emperor, and I am very ordinary, but there is really nothing I can do about it.
Just like two children, one was a cattle herder and the other was a woodcutter. They sat together under a big tree all afternoon and did nothing.
But the boy who was herding the cows had already eaten enough grass for his cows, but the boy who was chopping wood had not chopped any wood.
Do you know what this means? "
Zheng Fan suddenly felt angry and irritable in his heart;
To be honest, Zheng Shoubei has never regarded himself as a Yan person in the true sense, but as the place of his "birth" in this world, and the country where he has struggled all the way, his emotional bias is naturally inevitable.
Emperor Qian continued:
"One is poor and the other is rich. We all have different foundations."
Emperor Qian flicked his long sleeves,
"Da Qian has more capital. He Ji Runhao is a powerful person and has risked everything to start this war. I don't like to play with money, and I usually don't play card games, but I understand a truth. The more you think about it, When you win, you tend to be more likely to lose.
My family has a strong foundation, and I can lose one, two, three, or many, but he, Ji Runhao, cannot afford to lose, not even one! "
Zheng Fan found that at this time, he had been completely suppressed by Emperor Qian in terms of momentum and painting style.
However, Zheng Fan still stood up, bowed deeply to Emperor Qian, and said in a deep voice:
"Your Majesty, if we can't eat this piece of meat from Qian Guo, then I, Dayan, will not leave it there intact waiting for you, Qian Guo, to pick it up again."
"What do you mean?" Emperor Qian's eyes flashed with a sharp look.
But Zheng Fan was not afraid at all and said directly:
"Your Majesty should know that our Yan army has been very restrained since going south."
Li Fusheng could be said to be holding it back, but he was still enduring it.
"That's because we, the Yan Army, believe that the next piece of land will be the land of the Yan State, and the people on this land will be the people of our Yan State.
If it really comes to the situation that Your Majesty said,
I, the more than 20 cavalrymen of Dayan, will no longer seal their swords.
Since the land of Gyeonggi, we have been slaughtering and plundering all the way back. Your Majesty, you can let the armies on the three sides continue to hold on. My butcher knife of Dayan will be bloody all the way back!
It is impossible to say that the chickens and dogs in the northern part of the country will not be left;
But it’s not difficult to find nine out of ten rooms!
Even if the Qian country is as rich as the south of the Yangtze River, it will not be easy to face a completely devastated north, right? "
Emperor Qian's voice deepened,
Road:
"I can accept it."
The emperor's character can say that these are my people, but the next moment, he can fly yellow paper for his own people.
"What about the Chu State? Facing a Qian State whose vitality has been greatly damaged, will the Chu State continue to remain indifferent?"
"Okay, I feel like an envoy, but do you know what your problem is?"
"The foreign minister doesn't know."
"Too natural."
Emperor Qian walked to the table, picked up a bunch of grapes, put it into his mouth, chewed it and said:
"The King of Chu is old and has been bedridden for a year. Each of the four princes of the Chu Kingdom has a fiefdom and has troops at hand. Do you think it is still possible for the Chu Kingdom to send troops to the outside world?"
Zheng Fan was silent.
"Of course, if you Yan people really come back with a killing spree and completely destroy all the northern counties of my Daqian, I will really feel sorry for you. However, it is not a bad thing. Sometimes, how can we make it happen?" It is really difficult for everyone from the imperial court to the people to hate something.
It's okay now, you Yan people, just go ahead and do it. I can calmly calm people's hearts later and shout out the slogan of the Northern Expedition.
It may be a loss to the country, but it is beneficial to the dragon chair. "
Zheng Fan took two steps back, bowed and said:
"Foreign ministers are taught."
"It's also strange. Maybe it's because it's rare for me to meet someone with such a congenial temperament who can speak freely in front of me, so I inevitably talk a little more today.
Zheng Aiqing, let's do this, you can stay in our country, I promise you a future! "
Zheng Fan immediately knelt on the ground,
A smile spread across Emperor Qian's face,
Road:
"Did Zheng Aiqing agree?"
Zheng Fan shook his head,
Road:
"The foreign minister is a little dizzy."
"Why?"
"The foreign minister almost thought that it was the army of the Qian Kingdom that was approaching the city of Yanjing, not our army of the Yan Kingdom."
After saying that, Zheng Fan stood up again, without any fear as he had done before.
"What's wrong with what I told you before? Tomorrow, your Yan army can attack the city and take a look at this Shangjing City, but you can bite it off!
Wait and see, when the barbarians and the Jin army invade the hinterland of your Yan country, how will your Yan country respond!
Destiny is not in Yan! "
Zheng Fan sighed and said to Emperor Qian:
"Your Majesty, the foreign minister would like to ask you a question."
"But it's okay to ask."
"Your Majesty, have you ever fought in a war?"
"what?"
"Have you personally carried a knife and led a charge on the front line?"
"Never."
"Oh, no wonder, your majesty, although I am a foreign minister, but because of the food that your majesty has given me, the foreign minister wants to give advice."
"Say."
"Your Majesty, battles are fought with sword after sword, not by sitting in this warm room and leaning on this soft blanket and talking.
No matter how much your Majesty says, it can't change the fact that our Dayan army has already appeared outside your capital city.
Not to mention anything else, just in case someone joins forces with the Yan army outside my city at this time and goes to the capital to say that it has fallen, it may also fall.
In this world, there has never been a city that will never fall.
If that's the case, Your Majesty, what's the meaning of what you said to the foreign ministers earlier? "
"Are you laughing at me?"
"The foreign minister doesn't dare. In fact, the foreign minister doesn't know how to solve the situation that your majesty just mentioned. But there is one thing that the foreign minister knows very well, that is, no matter how much you say, no matter how nice you say it, you can't stop the sword. sharp.
The foreign minister has only recently learned to fight and has been on the battlefield many times, so the foreign minister understands the truth better.
The court is a court, and the means are means, but they are completely different from fighting on the battlefield. "
After all,
Zheng Fan bowed and bowed:
"Your Majesty, the Foreign Minister has said everything that needs to be said. Your Majesty, the Foreign Minister has also taken your teachings to heart. The Foreign Minister feels that it is time for him to leave."
"You just scolded me, and now you want to leave?"
"If the foreign minister does not leave the city tonight, one hundred thousand of His Majesty's people will be buried with him in the capital tomorrow. Foreign minister, it doesn't matter."
"Haha, don't worry. If the two countries are at war, I will let you go. I also want you to help me pass a message back. I will settle the previous accounts with Ji Runhao one by one in the future."
"The foreign minister accepts the order."
"Go down."
"The foreign minister retire."
After walking out of the greenhouse, a chill hit him immediately, and Zheng Fan shivered subconsciously.
I looked back at the warm spring house behind me. Alas, after living in Cuiliu Fort for a long time, the living conditions have really deteriorated a lot. In the past, there were still two houses in Hutou City, and I could still have a hot spring bath at night. pool.
I don’t know when this day of hard work will come to an end.
Suddenly,
The words that Emperor Qian said earlier came to mind,
Not even a single soldier of the three armies of the Qian Kingdom can go south.
Zheng Fan's heart suddenly sank.
Don't be last,
Did Dayan arrive first?
Walking out and passing through the corridor, the silver-armored woman was still standing there.
Zheng Fan couldn't help but look at her a few more times.
To be honest,
At this time, Zheng Shoubei was the only one who could still enjoy the hardships.
The woman from the Silver Armor Guard was also looking at Zheng Fan.
When Zheng Fan walked past him,
She suddenly said:
"I heard that Yan people are good at riding and shooting?"
hiss……
Zheng Fan nodded and said:
"I am also good at riding and shooting."
"Is it?"
The female silver-armored guard had a look of disbelief on her face.
"In the future, if there is a chance, we can give it a try and learn from each other. By then, the girl will know that what I said is not a lie."
"There is evil in your eyes."
"Girl, you are wrong." Zheng Fan suddenly felt shocked.
"Will the Yan people attack the city tomorrow?" the woman asked.
"I don't know, probably, I'll just show off. As you know, it's so cold, so everyone has to find something to do to stretch their muscles, otherwise it's easy to get cold."
"Then I will compete with the Messenger tomorrow."
"what?"
Zheng Fan suddenly felt that something was a little wrong. It seemed that that guy Qianhuang had said something wrong?
"Your Majesty the Messenger will also participate in the siege tomorrow, right?"
"If nothing else happens, it should be possible, but I am at the bottom of the city, and you, girl, are inside the city. Unless we are broken into the capital tomorrow, it will probably be difficult for us to meet each other."
"It doesn't matter, I can go down and find the envoy."
"No, why does the girl care so much about me?"
"Because the way the envoy looked at me when he came over earlier made me very uncomfortable. I wanted to kill you with a sword, but you are an envoy. You cannot die in Shangjing City tonight, so I can only do it in Shangjing City." I will find an opportunity to kill you tomorrow."
"Girl, I think men's matters should be resolved between men. I..."
"I don't have a man."
"Sorry, I'm clumsy."
"I'm not married yet, so I can only handle my affairs personally."
"what?"
Not married?
Suddenly,
A sword floated out and appeared behind the woman, as if it was spiritual, whispering on the side of her cheek.
This is really high-end technical work.
Bullshit ninth-level warrior,
I am an eighth-grade warrior who can’t even do this, I can’t even think about it!
What a widow, what a concubine, what a wonderful thing, Qian Huang, you old and disrespectful bastard!
"I remember your envoy's name is Zheng Fan."
"I think we..."
"My name is Thyme Lan."
Zheng Fan's eyes immediately widened and he blurted out: "The Baili Sword is..."
"Brother."
"..." Zheng Fan.
Zheng Fan left in a daze. At this moment, Dayan's national destiny and future were no longer in his consideration, and the trend of the war had also been forgotten.
What Zheng Fan was thinking about right now was that the biological sister of Baili Jian, one of the four great swordsmen, said she wanted to kill him?
The Baili Sword shouldn't be weaker than the Shatuo Que Stone, right?
No matter how weak her sister is, she can't be that weak if she can show Emperor Qian the door, right?
With this depressed mood, Zheng Fan walked a long way forward.
What he didn't know was,
after he left,
Thyme Lan looked at the sword floating in front of her,
Frowning slightly,
Said to himself:
"You said that you sensed the final screams of the three swords in him. Did that fool Yuan Zhenxing die in his hands?"
Thyme Lan's mind immediately flashed back to her childhood.
The man with greasy hair and three swords on his back pushed a wheelbarrow piled with candied haws in front of him.
To my younger self at that time:
"Call me uncle, and these candied haws will be yours!"
When he called "uncle",
This man who liked to carry three swords on his back smiled like a fool, as if he thought he had taken advantage of his brother.
That fool who has been living a life of poverty even though he has an excellent swordsman training.
That's it,
Gone?
Thyme Lan is a little puzzled.
Fortunately, the swordsman's style of acting is very simple. No matter how untied the knot is, he can remove it with one sword.
Either the knot is broken up, or the sword is broken,
It's all over.
.........
Under the guidance of the little eunuch holding a lantern, Zheng Fan got into the carriage again. Inside the carriage, the blind man was wiping his mouth, while A Ming looked indifferent.
"The food of the Qian people is really good." The blind man said with emotion. Then he looked at Zheng Fan and said, "My lord, what's the matter?"
These exchanges all take place in a black channel constructed with mental power, so there is no need to worry about being eavesdropped by outsiders.
Zheng Fan rubbed his face vigorously with both hands.
Road:
"Something happened."
In the black channel, Zheng Fan told the story again and did not miss Baili Jian's sister.
"Huh, widow?" A Ming smiled first.
"Why are you laughing? How many swords can you block?" Zheng Fan asked.
A Ming shook his head and said: "My lord, this is simple. Just don't go out alone. In the camp, does she dare to come in directly?"
At this moment, the carriage has left the palace, walking on the curfewed streets, heading towards the north city gate.
Suddenly,
More than a dozen men in black suddenly appeared in the houses on both sides, each holding a crossbow and aiming at the carriage.
The blind man's complexion suddenly changed and he shouted urgently:
"There are assassins!"
(End of this chapter)