"I don't have much time left now. I need to know which part of the troops will be mobilized by the soldiers participating in the Six Nations Trial this time?"
Zheng Quchi didn't ask Wang Zebang, Wei Yao and others to follow her into the palace during the day, because she deliberately wanted them to move outside more freely and conveniently, so that they wouldn't have to get in the way when investigating things.
Wang Zebang nodded: "We have investigated this matter clearly. In addition to the imperial soldiers who are the Changxu soldiers guarding the capital, there are also some soldiers who are guards from nearby places. They have no experience of going out to fight and usually live in the Acropolis. , farming and training, but these soldiers and Changxu soldiers will take turns to switch defenses, so they are not completely without combat effectiveness. These three forces, except for the Fu soldiers who regularly go to the Hussar Mansion and Chaqi Mansion for centralized training, are relatively stronger. "
After Zheng Quchi finished listening, she slowly digested it for a long time. She scratched her cheek and said, "I don't understand much about dispatching troops and generals, but I can tell that these troops who are preparing to participate in the Six Nations Trial are ours." Most of those who worked together from Sheng Jingdong and the West have never participated in professional collective training or large-scale battles, right?"
Wei Yao's foxy eyes were slightly curved, and he said with admiration: "Yes, Madam is too modest. You can't explain it, but you hit the nail on the head about their shortcomings."
"If I say I don't understand, I really don't understand. I'm not humble. If you know the problem but can't solve it, you don't understand." Zheng Quchi said very honestly.
Wang Zebang shook his head and said: "Madam, in fact, it is not difficult for any experienced general to handle this problem. The difficulty at present is that there are only three days left before the Six Nations Trial Troops. If you want to It is impossible to build a makeshift skirmisher into a well-coordinated elite force without enough time."
What he said makes sense.
"There is one thing that I have never figured out. There are officials from the DPRK and China behind this city. Don't they want to win in the Six Nations Trial? Why did they send such an army, and why did they let someone who had just come back know the truth and falsehood? Are you still going to be the commander-in-chief of the confirmed heir apparent?"
Other countries also picked and picked, and chose again, and they were bound to bring out the most powerful and powerful armies to shock the other five countries, but they were lucky enough to just make up their troops casually, and even their generals and adjutants were temporarily rushed to the shelves.
Wei Yao squinted his eyes. The candlelight on the table was flickering with sparks. There was a dark look in his eyes: "This matter is indeed strange, but currently Ye State does not have any sophisticated army. Before the general was established, Before the Four Elephant Army, Ye State had a Forbidden Army and a Beiye Army, all of which were trapped in the wars of other countries and no one returned. Now the newly added government troops are barely able to cope, but compared with those armies from other countries who fought hard, There is absolutely no comparison.”
Wang Zebang answered: "In the past few years, Ye State has relied on its generals for external wars and defenses. If we ask those people in the capital to go to the battlefield, I am afraid that none of them will be able to accomplish anything."
Zheng Quchi did not expect that it would be like this. The Ye country, which was as big as Nuo, had declined to this extent. It is no wonder that the ministers and ministers of Ye, a powerful country, had to be so groveling and smiling when facing the generals of other countries, for fear of offending them.
"They are afraid that they have decided that this game will be lost."
Wei Yao and Wang Zebang also expressed their acquiescence to this statement.
Because they will lose, there is no need to struggle, let alone bother to prepare anything. As for dragging her and Yuan Xingzhou to test the troops of the Six Nations, it is pure entrapment and taking the blame.
"Madam, why did you agree then?" Wei Bu asked her what she thought.
There was no room for refusal, but she resolutely chose to accept.
Zheng Quchi recalled his mood at that time and said: "I'm not convinced, unwilling, and don't want to lose."
She said "no" three times in a row, each one more serious than the last.
The two were stunned when they heard this.
Not convinced? Not willing to give in? Don't want to lose?
It sounds like someone has used provocation to make him lose his mind and made an impulsive decision.
"Madam, you are acting out of emotion..." When the words came to his lips, he felt that they would not sound good if he continued to say them, so Wang Zebang swallowed them anyway.
But he hesitated to speak, so how could Zheng Quchi not understand.
She sighed slowly: "I have also warned myself that people must think twice before doing anything, take every step carefully, think deeply, and don't be simple-minded and hot-headed. But if you just wait and see what happens in everything, then the country of Ye will really be doomed." ." She raised her head and looked at their puzzled eyes: "Look, when it comes to national strength, no country can compare with us. Compared with the quality of the military, we probably can't compare with it. Compared with national defense and economy, we can't compare. Even if they are compared to the abilities of the king and the officials in the court, who can see that these people have been corrupted now?"
There was fire in her eyes, it was just a small flame that was originally lit, but now it was growing bigger and bigger.
"Under this situation, do we still need to think about it? You can tell with your toes that we are going to lose. You see, they all think so, but like this... we should just lie down and let us be ridiculed, stepped on, and humiliated. ? Along the way, the Ye country I saw was a country with no ambition at all. Outside of Ye country, we people were laughed at and insulted by other countries. I have heard and seen it, and so have you. Bar."
She recalled what she heard and saw when she went to Julu Country to join the "Jichun Craftsmen's Guild".
"Many people don't even dare to say that they are from the Ye Kingdom, for fear of being discriminated against and expelled by others. But that time, at the lantern-laying ceremony of the Jichun Craftsmen's Union in Yongfeng Mountain, I stood at the top as a leader When I was speaking, I thought that no one from Ye State was participating at all, and even if there were, they probably wouldn’t dare to show their faces..."
Speaking of this, she smiled slightly: "But I was wrong. I clearly heard their excited and loud responses below. There are only a very few people. Compared with the large number of people in other countries, they are as small as The stars are actually people from our Ye country. They usually hide their heads and dress up in disguise for fear of being recognized by others, but at that time, they felt a sense of pride. They were no longer afraid of people's words and eyes, and were brave He followed me and stood in the light."
After she spoke for a long time, she was out of breath, but she stopped and slowly adjusted her breathing evenly, while Wei Yao and Wang Zebang were always listening to her carefully and attentively.
"So I think it's not that Ye State is hopeless. It's just trapped in a dark quagmire. But as long as someone throws a life-saving rope to it and stands in the light, it can let them see that it's not desperate yet. I believe they can save themselves and climb up one by one."
Her words sounded ideal, like a princess imprisoned in an ivory tower who did not know the sufferings of the world. However, it was her childish heart with firm ideals and beliefs that allowed her to survive in this dangerous world where everyone is in danger. Inside, carve out a path forward courageously.
After hearing this, Wei Yao was greatly touched. He said: "Madam is right. I'm sorry that Madam saw all these selfish, ugly and cowardly faces today, but she still persisted in herself and did not become discouraged or hesitant. Even I..." Even I had thought at the beginning, in such a corrupt country, with such a group of moth-like existences, is it still worth our recklessness and indifference?"
"But the general relieved us. He said that there are doctors who can save the injured people. They dig out the carrion, squeeze out the poisonous juice, use scorching fire to stop the bleeding, and use several doses of strong medicine. After a lot of pain of life and death, they can finally be healed. After a new life, people are so difficult to treat, but they are still not given up easily, not to mention that it is a large country with tens of millions of people."
"My subordinates know that the general does not have a loving and charitable heart. He never sympathizes or empathizes with others. He behaves extremely and cruelly towards his enemies. However, the general has a righteous heart, which is the same as his wife." Wang Zebang road.
After Wang Zebang finished speaking, he added: "Wasn't Madam curious before about why we would follow the general?"
He looked at Wei Yao, who looked back at him, and Wang Zebang said: "Because we are like-minded, because the path we want to take, the direction we are looking at, and the place we want to reach with all our strength are the same."
Wei Yao looked at Zheng Quchi and said: "Madam, now you are also on the road of working hard with us. When I first saw Madam, it seemed to be destined, and I felt that we would be the same person. "
This time, they really had a heart-to-heart conversation, without hiding their hearts and revealing their truest side.
Although Zheng Quchi was a little moved by what they said, and looking at them, it seemed that she was also moved by her words, but at this moment, a truth came out of her heart that was very inappropriate.
... Brother Wei's "first glance" and her "first glance" were definitely not the same, because she never thought that she would be the same person as them.
Even at the beginning, she simply wished she could stay as far away from them as possible.
Never would she have thought that the more she wanted to run away, the more entangled she became with them. In the end, she became their general's wife. Such a bizarre development was so unbelievable that she had never dreamed of it. Come.
It's so pitiful that she was only sixteen years old in her life, and she had experienced forced marriage, marriage, fraud, widowhood, widowhood, defending the country for her husband, etc. She had experienced a harsh life in the twenty years before she traveled through time. It's still far less than the sum total of the past six months.
After some emotion, she said: "The feelings that should be expressed have been expressed. Now let's get down to business. In fact, the Queen is right in what she said. I just thought that I was just a plain-headed commoner before, and I just wanted to be alone. Na Chengxiang suddenly has more responsibilities on his shoulders, and he is in a position where he can do the best for the world. If he reaches out if there are benefits, and if there are difficulties, he steps back, wouldn't he be like them?"
"So I have not shied away from the Six Nations military test. It's just that I don't understand the matter of dispatching troops and generals, so I'll leave it to Yuan Xingzhou, who deserves it and is straightforward. I'll go to the weapons inspection tomorrow to take a look."
Wei Bu heard that Zheng Quchi seemed to have a plan in mind and was willing to support her, but said: "Ordnance Supervision? But that place requires a gold seal to enter and exit at will. It is the most strictly guarded place by the military."
The Ordnance Supervision is an extremely important manufacturing and management organization of military equipment in Ye State. The local foundry department is also divided into it. The Ordnance Supervision determines the manufacturing methods of various weapons and unifies the manufacturing specifications of weapons. , and finally the reformed weapons were distributed to various casting departments for unified smelting and forging.
"The golden seal, is it the golden seal of the three armies that King Ye asked the queen to spit out?"
"That's right."
"The queen said that she would send it to His Royal Highness later, but I don't know if she would deliberately delay it until the Six Nations military trial is over." Zheng Quchi became a little worried.
"Don't worry, I will personally go to Yanchun Palace to retrieve it tomorrow morning."
Yuan Xingzhou's voice suddenly came from the door of the room.
Zheng Quchi looked over reflexively and asked subconsciously: "Are you back?"
When did you come back? How long has it been sitting in the corner?
yuan The body of the fat pig waiting to be slaughtered was unbearable, so he naturally sent us away."
Zheng Quchi's mouth twitched when she heard this. This person has such a venomous mouth. She asked: "You just said that you would ask for the gold seal tomorrow morning? Will the queen give it to you if you want it? King Ye said so today, but she still didn't give it. , used a delaying tactic and left. If you go tomorrow, I'm afraid you will only come back without success."
"I have my own way."
Wei Yao and Wang Zebang stood up and saluted Yuan Xingzhou: "Wei Yao (Wang Zebang) has met His Highness."
"It's getting late, you should go back."
He glanced at the two of them indifferently, and opened his mouth to order them to leave.
Wei Yao and Wang Zebang subconsciously looked in the direction of Zheng Quchi, but saw her pouting at them and gesturing in the direction of the door. The meaning was obvious - people were under the eaves, so evacuate first.
"Madam, Your Highness, that subordinate will take his leave first."
The two of them also always kept in mind the madam's teachings, and they must establish a good relationship with each other as superiors and subordinates before the other party becomes successful, so as to lay a good foundation for assisting the king in the future.
When the two left, they heard the lady in the room asking His Royal Highness.
"Did you hear the conversation we just had?"
"This is the first time I have heard of an adjutant arranging tasks for the commander-in-chief. I am responsible for dispatching troops and generals, and you are responsible for the weapons inspection?"
"I don't dare to send His Highness the Crown Prince. It's just that we are in the same boat now. There are specialties in the art. You are responsible for the outside and I am responsible for the inside. Each performs his own duties and the work is not tiring."
"That sounds very reasonable. Therefore, in order for you to successfully take over the Weapon Lin, she, Bo Ji, must give you the gold seal you want, whether she is willing or not... she must give it to you."
After Wei Yao and Wang Zebang heard His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's words, they lowered their eyes and concentrated, without showing any emotion.
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After walking out of Baibu Hall, Wei Yao suddenly paused and frowned: "Oops, I forgot to tell my wife that the trial army of Julu Kingdom will arrive in Shengjing tomorrow, and they will also bring Shen Jiang's corpse. For identification by Ye State."
Wang Zebang was speechless: "You can forget such an important thing?"
"Me? What about you? Why didn't you say anything just now?" Wei Yao was amused.
"... Let's talk about it tomorrow. I wonder if Madam will feel sad when she sees that corpse?" Wang Zebang was thinking.
Wei Yao understood Zheng Quchi: "She should feel uncomfortable, but she is not sad. After all, the relationship between the madam and the general was like two threads, and they have not been twisted into a hemp rope at all."
Wang Zebang is not blind. They have all been married and have children, so they naturally understand the emotional affairs between men and women.
(End of chapter)
