"It turned out to be your Lord's idea to send the Grand Master of the Enshrining Hall to Qingzhou?"
"The emperor also received the news from Qingzhou, so he came to visit you... The nominal visit is actually to find a solution?"
"If the emperor cannot be satisfied, I'm afraid he will break in, and then there will be trouble..."
Xiao Liu was lying on the bed, his face looked a little unsightly, beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and his thoughts were spinning rapidly.
At this moment, Empress Liang Zhao, who was standing in the courtyard, was certain that Zhou Zhenwen was not in the room.
Although the voice coming from the room was consistent with Zhou Zhenwen's, with Zhou Zhenwen's character, even if he was seriously ill, he would invite himself into the house instead of letting himself stand in the yard. No matter what, he was still the emperor, and to neglect the emperor would be with him. Zhou Zhenwen always has a different style.
Zhou Zhenwen has been in the imperial court for many years, from being the number one scholar to the first minister of the cabinet, with power in both the government and the public, and he has never made any mistakes in his methods and righteousness.
"Your Majesty, please come into the room for a detailed discussion!" Xiao Liu imitated Zhou Zhenwen's voice and said rather elegantly.
Um?
Let me come in?
Empress Liang Zhao was also a little surprised. This guy pretending to be Zhou Zhenwen was so brave. This was the crime of deceiving the emperor!
"Since Zhou Aiqing invited me, I will not be respectful." Empress Liang Zhao was not polite, strode into the room, sat down on the chair, and looked at the figure behind the curtain, "Zhou Aiqing, can you think of any other ways to break the situation?"
Xiaoliu's thoughts kept spinning in his mind, and he kept recalling Zhou Zhenwen's method of doing things, and responded: "Your Majesty, for the current plan, the only way to deal with Qingzhou is to use troops."
"Mount troops?"
Empress Liang Zhao secretly laughed in her heart, this pretender's methods were not very clever!
She pretended to be confused and continued to ask: "How to mobilize the troops? I hope Zhou Aiqing will make it clear!"
"Although martial arts masters are difficult to deal with, they are still slightly weak in the face of thousands of troops. Dahuang has also had a precedent of killing masters. They only need to use the Powu Crossbow and Raging Dragon Artillery to cover them. There's no turning back!" Xiao Liu said coldly with a rather strong tone.
Empress Liang Zhao nodded slightly. How to deal with a martial arts master? She also knew that a martial arts master was extremely powerful and had the courage of a thousand men. He could decapitate an enemy general among thousands of troops. He was extremely powerful.
But as long as we are human, we will have weaknesses. As the saying goes, everyone has his time.
Even a martial arts master cannot go against heaven and reverse the laws of nature. Otherwise, with the number of masters in the wilderness, they would have been annexed by the Heavenly Wolf Kingdom and the Nine Nether Kingdom. How could they still exist today?
If the martial arts master wants to escape, it is indeed difficult to kill, but it is not completely impossible to deal with. As long as you use a special bed crossbow, powerful artillery, and a strong attack, you can kill the master!
Between countries, martial arts masters are the core combat force, but on the battlefield, they still rely on military strength and national heritage.
Do you really think it is that easy to capture the heads of enemy generals with thousands of troops?
Once the Grandmaster is exhausted, he is just a stronger person, and he will suffer under countless soldiers, crossbows, and artillery!
But the price that needs to be paid is too high.
"In this case, Qingzhou City will be ruined..." Empress Liang Zhao was too lazy to ask. The level of this pretender was too low. If it were the real Zhou Zhenwen, he would probably tell him directly and let him take the lead. Soldiers, come and solve the rebellion in Qingzhou.
"Qingzhou City is important, but if we can keep the Grandmaster of the Sirius Kingdom and inflict heavy damage to the Sirius Kingdom, I think the price is still worth the risk!" Xiao Liu continued to say in Zhou Zhenwen's voice.
"Haha." Empress Liang Zhao stood up and laughed: "Does Zhou Aiqing have any other plans?"
"Well..." Xiao Liu didn't understand why Empress Liang Zhao suddenly stood up, nor why the other party looked unhappy. Did he say something wrong? Or is it that the strategy he said does not suit his wishes?
"My ability is limited, so I only want to come up with this plan for now. When my health recovers and I come up with other plans, I will go to the palace and report to Your Majesty." Xiao Liu didn't understand what went wrong, so he could only say this.
"Okay, since Zhou Aiqing is unwell, I will not disturb Aiqing's recovery." Empress Liang Zhao shook her head. Naturally, she would not be stupid enough to reveal that Zhou Zhenwen was not in the Zhou Mansion. Although she did not know whether the other party went to Qingzhou, she has already I don't plan to pursue it anymore.
She had to admit that her attitude towards Zhou Zhenwen had changed now.
Now Dahuang needs to rely on Zhou Zhenwen, and she also needs outstanding ministers like Zhou Zhenwen!
If it were in the past, before she got the empress simulator, she would definitely have caught Zhou Zhenwen's excuse for deceiving the emperor and put him in jail!
but now......
Forget it, let him be!
As long as she doesn't rebel, she thinks she can accept whatever Zhou Zhenwen does!
"I am not feeling well, and I hope your majesty will forgive me!" Xiao Liu breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that Empress Liang Zhao would get angry and tear open the curtain and rush in to find out.
If that was the case, he would have no choice but to knock the opponent unconscious.
"Um."
Empress Liang Zhao hummed lightly and strode out of the courtyard.
"Your Majesty." Members of the Dragon Guard quickly came forward to greet him.
"Get up and go back to the palace." Empress Liang Zhao said directly without saying anything.
"Yes." The members of the Dragon Guard quickly walked out of the Zhou Mansion and arranged a carriage to greet them.
...
A few days later, Zhou Zhenwen returned to Zhou Mansion.
"You said His Majesty has been to the Zhou Mansion before?" Zhou Zhenwen frowned slightly and asked, "Did he notice anything unusual?"
Xiao Liu also frowned, hesitated for a moment, and then said truthfully: "Sir, Your Majesty seems not to be satisfied with the strategy I told you. Maybe he saw something, but he didn't expose it."
"Really?" Zhou Zhenwen smiled slightly, took a sip of tea, and said with a smile: "That means there is a city and the little emperor has grown up, not bad!"
"Retell your conversation to me..."
"Yes, sir." Xiao Liu nodded and vividly recounted the conversation he had with Emperor Xuan a few days ago in a ventriloquism mode.
Until Xiao Liu said... Although martial arts masters are difficult to deal with, they are still slightly weak in the face of thousands of troops... When he said this, Zhou Zhenwen stretched out his hand to interrupt his answer, He smiled and said, "This is wrong!"
"If I were to answer, I would say that Qingzhou's rebellion is a foregone conclusion. His Majesty should inform the Dragon Guards to unite with the local aristocratic families as soon as possible to control surrounding counties and prevent total chaos in Qingzhou. As for the mobilization of troops, this matter cannot be It’s up to me to bring it up.”
"Your Majesty has his own arrangements in mind. He must know exactly how to handle the situation in Qingzhou!"
"As for how to solve the Qingzhou problem, I have given three strategies: upper, middle and lower. The current changes are also among the three strategies. I came to ask you, it is just a test."
"He wants to know where I've been?"
"Why are you claiming to be sick at home at this time..."
Hearing this, Xiao Liu immediately understood, nodded, and said: "Yes, this subordinate has neglected his duty."
"It has nothing to do with you, just keep repeating it." Zhou Zhenwen waved his hand and didn't care.
"Yes, next..."
Xiaoliu recited the conversation between the two in full.
Zhou Zhenwen nodded and said: "He did not expose you, which proves that he does not want to get rid of me now. It seems that our Emperor is not as simple as it seems on the surface. He has seen through the situation and knows that without me Help, he cannot wrest power from the Queen Mother.”
"Your Majesty has shown kindness, and as a minister, I naturally have to respond."
"I'll tell you two things."
"First, when Feng Qian enters the capital, you send someone there and hand him some information as a tribute to his trip to Qingzhou."
"Second, you go to the Wuhen Sect and take my warrant. This is the letter I wrote. Give it to the Wuhen Sect owner in person, and he will tell you what to do."
Zhou Zhenwen handed a letter and warrant to Xiao Liu.
"Yes, sir." Xiao Liu took the things and carefully put them into his arms.
"Go." Zhou Zhenwen waved his hand, indicating that Xiao Liu could leave.
"Yes." Xiao Liu bowed and turned to leave.
Zhou Zhenwen looked at the map of the wilderness on the wall, thoughtfully, and thought to himself: This cannot continue, the implementation of things must be accelerated! We must get rid of the Queen Mother as soon as possible and let Emperor Xuan officially take power!
"One thing about this system of traitorous ministers is that it must be done for traitorous ministers and powerful ministers in order to be rewarded. If you do things for loyal ministers, there will be no reward at all!"
"You must bully the emperor and plunder the imperial power in order to get rewards. But now that Emperor Xuan is not in power, how can I bully him? How can I get benefits?"
"We must help him to his position as soon as possible!"
"It is the greatest benefit to taint the imperial power without rebelling."
"Currently, the chief minister of the cabinet, the Grand Bachelor of Zhongji Palace, and the Prince's Young Master are already at the top of the official ranks. There are almost no first-grade officials alive in the wilderness. I have reached the end of my first-grade and second-grade officials."
"Well... we still have to learn from Cao Cao and be a minister of the Han Dynasty for the rest of his life. No matter he is Sikong, general, prime minister or King of Wei, they are all ministers. Only in this way can there be room for promotion. Otherwise, we will maintain the status quo and want to gain a lot of I'll be honest, it's really difficult to achieve immortality..."
"Hmm...wait a minute, can I follow Dong Zhuo's path of sleeping on a dragon's bed, being debauched and immoral?"
"Xiangguo, Grand Master...be the young emperor's sub-father?"
