"Why?" Zheng Ji asked directly.
Hu Chong closed his eyes and seemed to be accumulating strength: "At the foot of the mountain... there must be Shannan Guard soldiers ambushing you. Your Highness, once you go down the mountain, you will be regarded as a member of the Liyun Village bandits."
It's not that Zheng Ji didn't expect this.
"Does it mean that if I stay on Mount Toshi, I won't be regarded as a bandit?"
Hu Chong's reasons did not convince her.
She led Chang Ding and her soldiers to Mount Li in advance. This was a secret. Neither Yun Cong nor the forces behind her had expected it.
In this case, why are there Shannan Guard soldiers guarding the mountain?
Unless...these Shannan Guard soldiers are ambushing another group of people.
No matter from which point of view, it is the most dangerous for her to stay in Liyun Village. She is very likely to face attacks from both the Liyun Village bandits and Shannan Guard soldiers.
Hu Chong is the captain of Lingzhou Prefecture. As a military general, it is impossible not to know this.
She wanted to know the real reason why Hu Chong stopped her from going down the mountain.
Hu Chong fell silent. He struggled to look at Zheng Ji: "Your Highness, do you... want to eradicate the shortcomings of Shannan Guard in one fell swoop?"
"The shortcomings of Shannan Guard? What are you referring to?" Zheng Ji asked rhetorically.
Hu Chong's question was a bit strange. What does eradicating Shannan Guard's shortcomings have to do with her coming down from the mountain?
However, facing General Shannanwei in her previous life, she was more patient with Hu Chong.
"The shortcomings of Shannan Guard are not in the defeat of the bandits...not in the private arsenal, but in...but..." Hu Chong gasped, his expression gradually becoming excited.
"He...he has military power stolen by others!"
He might have been too excited, which affected the wounds on his body and made his face distorted a few times.
In comparison, Zheng Ji seemed very calm.
Hu Chong knew more than most people, but in his opinion, the Shannan Guards colluding with the bandits in Liyun Village and setting up a private weapons depot were not real problems.
The real problem of Shannan Guard is that its military power has been stolen!
Zheng Ji immediately understood what Hu Chong was referring to and was silent for a moment.
After a trip to Lishan and meeting Zheng Xun, she realized very clearly: What Hu Chong said was indeed correct.
Whether it was the inability of the Shannan Guard to suppress the bandits or the appearance of a weapons depot in Lishan, in the final analysis... it was all military power that was stolen!
The dynasty had sixteen guards and two major military guards, and military power was divided among eighteen generals.
Although the eighteen generals have military power, this is because the father "divided their command and dedicated themselves to their duties." However, the situation here in Shannan Wei has obviously deviated from the normal situation.
In other words, the person who can really drive the Shannan Guard soldiers has been quietly changed.
Otherwise, Liyun Village would have been destroyed long ago, and there would be no weapons depot.
Hu Chong knew too much, and the key clues Zheng Xun mentioned were also in this person. Zheng Ji originally planned to ask more carefully after going down the mountain, but now it seems...
"Since you think the military power has been stolen, who is the thief?" Zheng Ji asked.
Hu Chong shook his head: "I...I don't know..."
This answer was within Zheng Ji's expectation.
No matter how much Hu Chong knew, he was still just a captain of Lingzhou. How could he possibly know who was really driving the Shannan Guard?
"Then, whether I go down the mountain or not, does it have anything to do with eradicating the shortcomings of Shannan Guard?" She asked again.
The matter of military power was too sensitive and too complicated. Even if she wanted to resolve Shannan Wei's matter, it would take a lot of manpower and material resources, and it would not happen overnight. .Ь.
From what Hu Chong said, it seemed that she could solve these problems by staying here in Liyun Village.
Hu Chong raised his voice slightly and said: "Your Highness, what do you think...to eradicate the shortcomings of Shannan Guard...in the final analysis, what should be done?"
What to do?
There are too many things to do, including tracking down the escaped bandits and the missing weapons depot, tracking down who among the generals of Shannan Guard were involved in this matter, and tracking down who is behind Shannan Guard...
There were too many things to do, so she felt that Hu Chong said it was impossible to remove them all at once.
Hu Chong didn't seem to care about Zheng Ji's answer. He asked and answered his own question: "Your Highness, I think... there is only one thing that needs to be done."
"oh?"
"Your Highness, this matter is too simple...just...just replace General Shannanwei with another one!"
Zheng Ji saw that Hu Chong's hand had been put down and clenched into a fist, with veins bulging on the back of his hand.
It's hard for him, an injured person, to perform such violent actions.
Hearing this, if Zheng Ji still doesn't know what Hu Chong wants to say, it would be unreasonable.
She smiled and said, "You mean, if I stay in Liyun Village, I can kill Ling Hanxiao openly?"
"..." Hu Chong's eyes shrank and he was speechless.
Hu Fang beside her was even more pale. She felt a chill on her neck and wished she could hide herself.
Help, what are you talking about? Could she hear these words?
She doesn't dare to listen, let alone is not qualified to listen!
"Your Highness, you..." Hu Chong finally found his voice and felt that he couldn't answer the words: "What you said is really..."
"What? Isn't that what Captain Hu means? Everyone knows how difficult it is to replace a general. No one knows who is behind Ling Hanxiao. Tell me, why do we want to kill him? Why do we have to be aboveboard? Kill him?"
Although she also knew that Shannan Guard had such serious shortcomings that General Ling Hanxiao could not get around it, but were these just guesses?
What if Ling Hanxiao didn't know about it?
Maybe Ling Hanxiao was also used?
She didn't see any of the weapons arsenal mentioned by Hu Chong and Zheng Xun, and she didn't even fully understand the details of Liyun Village.
Why are you so eager to kill a Shannanwei general?
"Your Highness, Ling Hanxiao has contacts with Yun Cong. This armory was set up by Ling Hanxiao under Yun Cong's instructions. The weapons they forged privately are hidden in Jinglingbo Mansion! These are what Brother Pei and I found, and the evidence is also there. Lingbo Mansion..."
"Ling Hanxiao has a private arsenal, shouldn't he be killed? If you kill Ling Hanxiao, the Shannan Guard generals will be leaderless. By then, whether His Highness wants to suppress the bandits or clean up the Shannan Guard, it will be easy." xь.
Zheng Ji nodded and said: "If it is true, he should be killed. However, after killing him, the gain outweighs the loss."
Even if Ling Hanxiao deserves to die, it needs to be decided by her father and not by her as a princess.
Furthermore, even if Ling Hanxiao is killed, will it really solve Shannan Guard's shortcomings?
Maybe it will be self-defeating, and it will become impossible to prove it, but it will help the people behind it to close the loopholes.
Therefore, Hu Chong must not have told the truth, or in other words, what he really wanted to say has not been said yet.
"Captain Hu, you don't have to beat around the bush, just tell the truth." She was patient with Hu Chong, but her patience was limited.
Hu Chong didn't know what he was thinking of, and his expression had an indescribable indifference.
Immediately, he said: "Your Highness, what if I say... If you don't kill Ling Hanxiao at this time, you won't be able to leave Lizhou alive?"
