Liu Mingzhi quickly put on his clothes, and regardless of his manners, he opened the door and walked out.
Seeing Song Qing standing at the door with an anxious expression, Liu Mingzhi tied the silk ribbon on his coat and asked: "Did the border army soldiers go to war with Tsarist Russia and Spiesmult half a month ago?"
Damn it, it's already over October, and it's probably already snowed two or three times in the Spieth Grassland on the border of Xinfu.
It's freezing cold, how could the war start at this time?
What is the specific situation? How many troops does the enemy have? How is the combat effectiveness? Did the frontier soldiers suffer? "
Liu Mingzhi asked several questions in a row, which made Song Qing confused for a moment before he figured out how to answer so many questions.
"Your uncle didn't have time to tell me the specific situation in detail. After ordering me to find you to enter the palace, he hurried to the cabinet.
However, the frontier army did not seem to suffer a loss. It is said that Zhou Baoyu and Ye Baotong received the news of the border patrol and immediately mobilized nearby troops and horses to meet the enemy. After several confrontations, the frontier army officers and soldiers made a lot of gains.
The specific situation will only be known after entering the palace. "
Liu Mingzhi jumped up and put on his boots, waved his hand and rushed downstairs.
"Then what are you talking about? Hurry up and enter the palace."
"Okay, why don't you fix your hair?"
"Tidy up as you go."
The two of them walked quickly downstairs. Just as they reached the first floor, Liu Song hurried in from outside the restaurant. When he saw Mr. Liu walking down the stairs quickly, his eyes lit up and he hurriedly greeted him.
"Master! It's great to find you. Go back quickly. Mrs. Bizhu is about to give birth."
Liu Mingzhi paused, his expression happy but his brows furrowed slightly.
"How could it be such a coincidence?"
"Ah? What did the young master say was such a coincidence?"
"It's nothing. Has the midwife passed?"
"Everything is ready, just waiting for the young master to go back and hold the baby!"
Liu Mingzhi turned his eyes and glanced at the troubled expression on Song Qing's face. He hesitated and patted Liu Song's shoulder.
"Liu Song, there is an emergency military situation at the border. Master, I must go to the palace immediately to summon the officials to discuss matters.
You go back and tell Yun'er, Sister Ya and the others, and ask them to comfort Bizhu and give birth to the child in a down-to-earth manner.
Young Master, as soon as I finished handling the border issues, I hurried back to the house.
Go back quickly. "
Liu Song was stunned for a moment and immediately reacted. He also knew the importance of the emergency military situation and the young lady's delivery.
"Yes, please excuse me."
"Lan'er!"
"Uncle, my servant is here, what are your orders?"
As Young Master Liu walked towards the outside of the restaurant, he ordered Lan'er to say: "Go upstairs from time to time and take good care of the distinguished guests."
Lan'er looked at Young Master Liu and Song Qing who had disappeared outside the restaurant. They raised their necks and responded loudly as they listened to the distant sound of horse hooves.
"knew."
"Be brave, the palace gate is not allowed... I will respectfully welcome your majesty back to the palace."
Liu Mingzhi didn't have time to exchange greetings with the imperial guards at the palace gate. He stopped Song Qing, who was about to dismount and enter the palace on foot. With a wave of his hand, the two of them galloped towards the cabinet again.
"Hush!"
"Hush!"
The two of them got off their horses one after another and hurried towards the door of the cabinet.
"Where is the Ministry of War?"
Song Yu was holding a document and talking about something to Xia Gongming, the chief minister of the cabinet. When he heard the inquiry, he turned around and replied subconsciously: "I...I, my minister Song Yu, am here to see your majesty!"
A group of cabinet officials also noticed Liu Mingzhi walking into the palace at a leisurely pace, and hurriedly stood up and bowed.
"I will see you, Your Majesty."
"No gifts, no gifts at all."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
The stove in the palace was burning brightly. Liu Mingzhi took off his cloak and threw it to Song Qing. He faced Xia Gongming and Song Yu and walked over.
"Battle report or document?"
Xia Gongming handed the two documents in his hand to Liu Mingzhi: "Reply to Your Majesty, one copy each of the battle report and the document. Your Majesty, please sit down and read it."
Liu Mingzhi took the two books and sat down on Xia Gongming's chair, looking down at them.
After a while, Liu Mingzhi's frown gradually relaxed, and a faint smile appeared on his face.
Putting the two documents on the public case, Liu Mingzhi glanced at the cabinet officials in the Zhou Palace: "Before I came, did you read the contents of the two documents?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, I already know the contents."
"As long as you know, the coalition forces of the two countries have another hundred thousand troops this time. It's not too much to say too much, and it's not too little to say that it's too little.
What do you think of their uninvited and secret sneaking into our border areas? "
Song Yu picked up the pot and poured a cup of hot tea into Liu Mingzhi's hand: "Your Majesty, before you arrived, I was discussing this issue with Xia Shoufu and other colleagues.
Although winter has just entered the northern border, according to past practice, it should have snowed heavily at this time.
It is a big taboo to use troops in winter. After all, neither humans nor horses can stand it. It is really contrary to common sense to suddenly start a war at this time.
The old minister had been thinking about this issue on the way to the cabinet, but so far he had no clue. Just when he was about to ask Xia Shoufu and the others what they had in mind, His Majesty entered the palace. "
Xia Gongming nodded in agreement: "That's true. Your Majesty has personally read the contents of the two documents.
The veteran remembers that not long ago our border patrols discovered traces of the coalition forces of the two countries. At that time, there were only about 5,000 troops.
Now it seems that these five thousand troops are the enemy's vanguard troops.
According to the document, these five thousand vanguard troops were divided into five groups. Before winter came, they had been wandering back and forth between Yinshan Mountain and Spieth Grassland. They had no intention of engaging in war with our border guards.
However, when the cold winter came and the grassland was covered with heavy snow, they suddenly gathered towards the border of Spieth Grassland.
It is unreasonable to say that they want to take advantage of the cold winter, when our frontier soldiers are recuperating to keep out the cold, to carry out a sneak attack. After all, they have not made any attempt to sneak attack on the tribal camps in our new mansion after they gathered there.
It seems that this gathering is just a simple gathering.
The general reason for the war this time was that my border patrol scouts discovered that they were too close to the Lulu tribe's camp. When they were driving them away, they launched an attack on a group of soldiers and horses of my border patrol scouts.
Then we attracted 100,000 enemy soldiers and horses who never showed up later into our Yinshan territory, and had a fierce battle with the supporting soldiers and horses of the guards who had received the scout's message.
In such a strange situation, the veteran really can't figure out what the enemy forces of Tsarist Russia and Russia want to do.
At this time, if you want to take advantage of the cold winter to launch a sneak attack while our dragon soldiers are recuperating, it will be equally detrimental to their own situation.
And it is extremely disadvantageous. First of all, they are tired troops, but our border guards are waiting for work.
Furthermore, in terms of food and grass, we can easily mobilize enough food and grass nearby to supply it, but it is extremely difficult for them to mobilize food and grass.
It’s okay for the barbarians in Tsarist Russia not to understand the right time, place, and people, but among the enemy there is Spismult, the original Great Khan of the Western Turks.
He was dominating the grassland back then, so it was impossible for him to not understand the weather and environment on the grassland.
But...this...this veteran is really confused! "
"The ministers and others are also confused. They are completely confused about the enemy's unreasonable behavior."
"To start a war against a powerful enemy who occupies the right time, place and people, are there enough people in Tsarist Russia to ignore the life and death of tens of thousands of troops?"
"I'm not afraid of going to war with them, but I don't feel confident in fighting this kind of war."
"I wonder what your Majesty has to say?"
Liu Mingzhi looked at the puzzled expressions of many officials, smiled and took a sip of tea.
"Because of the treasure.
They are not here to fight us, but are here to dig for treasures. That's why their behavior is so weird that you can't understand it. "
