Murong Fuxing said: "I think Prime Minister Shangguan is right. To become the ten generals of the country, you not only need strong strength, but also need to understand strategic deployment. Ye Yun is young and has never led an army to fight. He is brave but not resourceful. Clearly unqualified for the position."
Finally, the old man holding a fly whisk stood up and said: "We in Xia are full of talents, with countless strong men from the four major families. Why do we have to let a yellow-haired boy hold the position of the ten generals of the country?"
There is no doubt that this old man holding a fly whisk is Lin Tianying, the head of the Lin family, who holds the position of national advisor in the court!
The heads of the four major families have expressed their opinions one after another. Except for Nangong Wudi, the marshal of the country, the heads of the other three major families are opposed to Ye Yun's position as the general of the country.
"Why are you so sure that Ye Yun is brave and reckless?" King Xia asked the patriarchs of the three major families.
He had long expected that these three old guys would not agree to let Ye Yun become the general of the country so easily.
The purpose of their doing this was to reserve the position of General Zhenguo for someone from their family, thereby further expanding their family's influence in the Xia Kingdom.
Naturally, King Xia couldn't let their wishful thinking succeed.
After all, the four major families already hold enough official positions. If the four major families continue to infiltrate the political power, the royal status of his Dongfang family may not be guaranteed.
This is exactly why he named Ye Yun one of the ten generals of the country.
Only Ye Yun, who is outside the four major families and holds the position of the ten generals of the country, can prevent the power of the four major families from continuing to expand.
"Since Your Majesty thinks that Ye Yun is brave and resourceful, why not let Ye Yun compete with all the civil and military officials?" Lin Tianying said.
Murong Fuxing then echoed: "That's right. Let Ye Yun compete with hundreds of civil and military officials. If Ye Yun is really brave and resourceful, he will definitely not fall behind if he competes with hundreds of civil and military officials."
Shangguan Haoming nodded in agreement: "If Ye Yun can defeat hundreds of civil and military officials, it means that he has the ability to serve as the ten generals of the country. But if he cannot defeat hundreds of civil and military officials, Your Majesty should think twice before taking action!"
King Xia did not speak, but fell into deep thought.
However, Nangong Wudi, the marshal of the country, said very confidently: "It's okay, let Ye Yun compete with all the civil and military officials, it can also prove Ye Yun's strength, so that he can convince the public."
After hearing the words of Marshal Zhenguo, King Xia also nodded.
Then, his eyes fell on Ye Yun: "Ye Yun, do you have the confidence to compete with all the civil and military officials?"
Ye Yun looked at King Xia, and he could see King Xia's thoughts at a glance.
Obviously, King Xia hoped that Ye Yun could become the general of the country, because he did not want the position of general of the country to fall into the hands of the four major families.
Although to Ye Yun, it didn't matter whether he was a general or not, but now that he had been involved in this political dispute, he could no longer stay alone and could only help King Xia.
Ye Yun said confidently: "Since the chiefs of the clan want to test me, then just go ahead and come over."
Hearing Ye Yun's words, Lin Tianying immediately sneered and said: "That's not a small tone. I want to see where your kid's confidence comes from!"
After saying that, Lin Tianying winked at a young man in the court.
The young man understood this and immediately stood up, clasped his fists at Ye Yun and said, "I am the fourth-grade scholar Lin Zhengqi. Brother Ye, let me come and meet you today."
"What do you want to compare?" Ye Yun said nonchalantly.
Lin Zhengqi said with a smile: "I heard that Brother Ye's talent in martial arts is astonishing, so I won't compete with him in martial arts. May I ask if Brother Ye is good at other skills besides martial arts?"
At the end, Lin Zhengqi's words clearly contained a hint of sarcasm.
He has always been self-righteous and looks down on those who are brave and foolhardy.
Because in his opinion, those brave and foolhardy people are useless except for fighting. He is completely a barbarian with well-developed limbs and simple hair!
Seemingly hearing the sarcasm in Lin Zhengqi's words, Ye Yun sneered and said: "I don't know many skills, such as weapon forging, medicine refining, puppet making, chess skills, troop formation, strategic layout..."
Ye Yun talked a lot, which made all the civil and military officials present confused.
Ye Yun had explained all the fields they could imagine.
There aren’t many fields that can be called conferences?
This is pretty much everything!
"Are you sure you know what you just said?" Lin Zhengqi looked at Ye Yun in surprise and asked.
Ye Yun nodded and said calmly: "I understand a little bit."
Hearing Ye Yun's words, Lin Zhengqi couldn't help but sneer in his heart.
You only have a little understanding, but you dare to use it to compete with civil and military officials?
This is simply asking for trouble!
"Since you said you know a little bit about chess, let me compete with you to see if you know a little about chess!" Lin Zhengqi said with a sneer.
He dare not talk about other skills. This chess skill is his best skill. He is fully confident that he can defeat Ye Yun in the field of chess.
"Okay." Ye Yun agreed directly without even thinking about it.
As soon as Ye Yun finished speaking, Lin Tianying waved his hand: "Play chess!"
Soon, a square stone table was carried into the hall by the guards.
On this square stone table, there is a rectangular chessboard with two formations carved on it.
One is a blue array.
One is a red array.
These two formations are both effective magic formations. They are independent of each other, but they can form a whole with them.
This is the most common chess game in Xia Kingdom!
The gameplay of this kind of formation chess is very simple, that is, the red and blue sides use their chess pieces to compete in the formation diagram, and they can win by eliminating the opponent's layout.
Lin Zhengqi smiled and said: "Brother Ye, don't say that I am invincible. Let's do this. If I can't defeat you within fifty steps, I will lose this battle. How about it?"
After hearing Lin Zhengqi's words, all the civil and military officials admired him.
You know, this kind of formation is like a theoretical confrontation between two armies.
The duel process is extremely cumbersome. Players have to treat the chessboard as a battlefield and lay out formations on the formation diagram. It usually takes hundreds of moves to end a game.
Sometimes it is not surprising that when you encounter an opponent in chess, you will make thousands of moves.
But now, Lin Zhengqi was so confident that he said he would defeat Ye Yun within fifty moves. This showed that he didn't take Ye Yun seriously at all.
Although the idea of ending the game in fifty moves sounds exaggerated. However, none of the civil and military officials present felt that Lin Zhengqi was talking big words. Instead, they felt that he could probably do it.
Because Lin Zhengqi is a genius in the field of chess, looking at the entire Xia Kingdom, there are very few people who can defeat him in chess!
If his opponent is also a chess genius, then it would be a bit of a boast to end the game in fifty moves.
And Ye Yun is just a first-level martial artist. It only takes fifty steps to deal with him, which is more than enough!
