On an autumn night, the sky was high and the dew was thick. The distant wind carried the fragrance of grains and blew away the dust clouds in the sky. A full moon slowly poked out in the southwest sky.
The cold moonlight shines on the earth, which is slightly dark. In contrast to this, the stars in the Milky Way become more and more brilliant.
The entire moon worship activity is said to be very short, but in fact it goes back and forth, and the day is quite compact.
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In the Longtai Palace, Zhao Yong, who had worked hard for a day, was hugging his beauty to sleep.
"I want to make money, I want to get ahead!" Zhao Yong, who was lying on the couch, was suddenly sweating profusely and talking in his sleep.
The sky and night outside were getting dark, and the silk screens on the elegant rosewood windows were rustling in the wind.
Zhao Yong suddenly felt that he was in his past life. The bank's loan collection phone calls came one after another. The debt collectors stood outside the door and insulted him wantonly with unpleasant words. His former friends looked at him with cold and mocking eyes. Looking at him, his relatives also regarded him as the god of plague.
Even the mother, who has reached retirement age, cannot live a long life because of his unfilial son... The mother finally fell ill because of the high-intensity physical work, and the family's source of income has been cut off. The original bank All the savings in the family have been used to fill his hole. Does the family still have money to treat his mother?
On the hospital bed, the seriously ill mother wanted to take a bite of watermelon. It happened to be winter. Where could I buy watermelon? Looking at his mother's withered face, his heart hurt like a knife.
Maybe without him, my mother's life would be easier.
"Mother……"
At this time, Zhao Yong was shaken awake. He suddenly sat up, opened his hazy eyes, and stared blankly at the person who woke him up.
A female voice came to my ears: "Your Majesty, you have a nightmare."
"I have a nightmare...I have a nightmare..." Zhao Yong repeated mechanically.
Si Yue gave him a distressed look, stood up, took the silk handkerchief with a folded edge, and wiped the sweat from his face.
"Did your king dream about the late queen?" Si Yue asked softly.
Zhao Yong nodded blankly, then shook his head. Then he stood up and turned over, took the silk handkerchief in her hand and wiped it on her face casually.
Zhao Yong took a long breath and asked outside the door: "When is it now?"
"Your Majesty, there are three moments of ugliness." The eunuch's voice came from outside the door.
As soon as the eunuch finished speaking, there was another burst of rapid footsteps outside the bedroom.
Before Zhao Yong could ask questions, the eunuch ordered Chen Zhong's voice came from outside the door: "Your Majesty, the red feather messenger has sent an urgent report from the border!"
Zhao Yong was startled for a moment, and then he was shocked. The vague thoughts in his mind just now disappeared completely.
He is very clear about the role of the Red Feather Courier. It cannot be used for non-emergency military situations. What about emergency war at the border?
Could it be Qin? That shouldn't be the case. The Qin State just punished its envoys for showing favor to Zhao a few days ago, and now they are attacking? And judging from Qin's recent foreign wars, Qin mainly puts Wei and Han first in its opposition.
At the same time, he started a war with the three Jin Dynasties. Is Ying Si out of his mind?
"Where is the messenger now?" Zhao Yong asked hurriedly, not allowing him to guess blindly. He would know after a while.
As he spoke, he asked Si Yue to change his clothes.
"The messenger is waiting for the king's summons outside the palace!" Chen Zhong replied outside the door.
Zhao Yong said: "Quick message! We are calling all the officials into the palace to discuss matters!"
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In the brightly lit side hall of Longtai Palace, except for Li Dui who was stationed in Wucheng, several people who stood at the pinnacle of Zhao's power gathered together again. Wu Guang is considered a new member. Since Yao Lan and Zhao Yong confirmed their marriage, Wu has once again reached the top of the Zhao Group. The Wu family is a long-established aristocrat of the Zhao Kingdom, and marriage with the Zhao family is considered ancient.
The news that the Red Feather Messenger had entered the capital could not be concealed from several important ministers in the palace. They each had their own spies in Handan.
Although it was already late at night, everyone knew the urgency of the situation, so a few people received the king's order and hurriedly followed the palace people into the royal city.
Zhao Yong sat on the king's couch and looked around His Highness. Seeing that all the ministers were solemn, he nodded slightly and asked the eunuch to order General Chen Zhong to slowly read out the emergency report that had just been sent from the border:
"I, on behalf of the county magistrate Lou Xu, personally wrote to the king: I am offering sacrifices to the autumn harvest, and patrolling for the king, and all the people are respectful. I, Zhao, have received God's blessing and a wise ruler. The grains will be plentiful and the livestock will be prosperous. Today, I have obtained the land. All people live in peace.
However, when the subordinates visited Guodi (Yuanping, Shanxi), they happened to meet Hu Qi! Five hundred Hu cavalry wanted to plunder our people, but I led the crowd to attack them and captured the Hu chieftain. The ministers then interrogated him, but Chief Hu refused to arrive and said clearly, "I am a Hu from Loufan, and I want to join Lin Hu to sacrifice and attack Zhao in the autumn." 'I know that this matter is very serious, but I dare not make an arbitrary decision. Erhu plans to invade Dai, and Dai is afraid of danger. The red feather was specially ordered to be sent to the king quickly, Wang Mingjian.
On behalf of the county magistrate, the building is slow. "After Chen Zhong finished reading, he passed the silk book in his hand to the ministers.
Zhao Yong had already read the contents of the letter in advance. In just one hundred and ten words, he described all the dangers of Daichi. Originally, Zhao Yong thought it was the Qin State that invaded the border, or even if it was bad, it was the Qi State. He never expected that it would be Lou Fan and Lin Hu.
The autumn wind has hit Zhao Guo again. I don't know when the Hu people also contracted the bad habits of the Chinese countries and became treacherous.
"I have long told the king that the Hu people are not capable of making plans. Now that the Erhu invades my land of Zhao again, I am afraid that what he is wearing is the armor and stomach obtained from the trade with my Zhao people." Zhao Cheng said quietly after reading the silk book in his hand. said.
Zhao Yong yawned, glanced at him, and said nothing.
Fei Yi bowed and said: "People's hearts are unpredictable, and the Hu people's betrayal of the alliance was not planned by Zhao. Moreover, the king's original intention to form an alliance with Hu this time was to stabilize the border areas of our Zhao country." After Fei Yi said this, he paused. He continued: "Erhu's betrayal of the alliance has become a foregone conclusion, and there is no point in arguing at this time. I looked at what the county magistrate said in the silk script, and his words were full of anxiety. The barbarians are coming menacingly, and the borders of Dai are as long as Erhu's. If we invade with all our strength, Daidi may be in danger. I think it is better to send more troops to Daidi as soon as possible."
It is disrespectful for Zhao Cheng to use his ministers to discuss the emperor, and it is even more unreasonable to say that it is in a public place. Moreover, Zhao Cheng forgot that Fei Yi was also a descendant of the Hu people, so his words inevitably meant a bit of generalization.
Zhao Cheng also reacted to Jing Feiyi's point. He hurriedly bowed to his superiors and said, "What I just said was biased. I apologize."
Because Zhao Cheng was angry about the military reform, he just spoke nonsense.
Zhao Yong waved his hand, indicating that it was okay. He was indeed at fault in this matter.
Zhao Cheng pointed to the sand table in the center of the palace and continued: "Your Majesty, the land from Jinyang to Daidai is only three hundred miles away, why not drive Jinyang's troops to support Daidai."
Jinyang recruited troops just before and after the Autumn Festival. It was originally to prevent Qin from stealing the border. Now Qin is showing favor to Zhao. Now it seems that Jinyang's troops can be transferred north to control the Hu.
As soon as Zhao Cheng finished speaking, Wu Guang, the former county magistrate, put forward a different opinion: "Your Majesty, it is common for Hu people to invade the border areas in autumn, but in the past, most of the Hu people's invasions were caused by Hu soldiers. The two tribes of Lin and Hu have always been at odds with each other. Now that Erhu and Erhu have been raised together and invaded our Zhao land, I feel that there may be something wrong behind this."
Wu Guang has been acting as the county magistrate for many years and has dealt with the Hu people all year round. He can be said to have a good understanding of the living habits of the Hu people and the grievances and resentments among the various ethnic groups. He could faintly smell a conspiracy behind the barbarian invasion.
