"I am so angry~! I am so angry!!!"
Outside the study, Zhang and his soldiers were guarding the corridor. Suddenly they heard Prime Minister Wei's angry scolding in the room. He turned his head and frowned slightly. Although he knew that the general was highly skilled in martial arts, he was still a little worried. After all, there were many things that the general could not do. , but he can.
Thinking of what Mr. Wei had told him when he was in Yanmen before, Mu thought about it, and walked into the study even though there was no shout from Bai Yan.
As soon as he arrived in the study, he saw the panting Wei Xiang in front of the wooden table in the distance, looking furious. When the young man next to him saw him, he quickly stopped Wei Xiang.
Seeing Bai Yan waving his hands to indicate that he didn't have to worry, Zhang nodded, bowed his hands to Bai Yan, and then turned around and left.
In the study.
Wei Xiang Xicheng supported the wooden table with one hand, raised his other hand and waved it, indicating that Xiyan did not need to stop him.
With his trembling hands, you could see how angry and frustrated Xi Cheng was at this moment.
"Old man, old man..."
After Corpse Yan retreated, he raised his hand and pointed at Bai Yan.
"I don't care if you are Bai Yan or Xu Zixiao, if you still consider yourself to be Tian Jin's disciple, now I hope you can think of the face of your dead master and immediately order the Qin army to stop digging canals!"
Having said this, a look of fear appeared in Xicheng's old and turbid eyes, and he pointed to Daliang and asked Bai Yan.
"Did you know that there are many people in the city, Daliang..."
Shicheng never expected that Bai Yan, a descendant of the Bai family in Qin, would actually be Tian Jin's beloved disciple. Xicheng did not understand why the two knew each other, let alone why his best friend Tian Jin wanted to accept a member of the Bai family. But looking back on what Corpse Weir said in the past, it was true that only Tian Jin knew about it.
Although many things have not yet been clarified and have not been asked one by one, the most important thing at the moment is to ask Bai Yan to quickly give the order to stop digging canals.
Once the water of Zhuhe River and Chassis really floods Daliang, Xicheng cannot imagine how many people will die in Daliang City and how many people will be homeless.
"Corpse phase, forgive Bai Yan for not obeying his orders!"
When Bai Yan heard Xi Cheng's words, he cupped his hands and said softly.
Looking at the corpse, Bai Yan then glanced at the corpse beside him. Seeing that the corpse was still in a daze, Bai Yan turned his gaze back to the angry corpse again.
"The corpse is the prime minister of Wei. It is understandable to think of the people of Daliang in the city. However, Bai Yan is the general of Qin. As a general, Bai Yan has to take care of the lives of his soldiers. If Daliang is not flooded, Bai Yan can't imagine how many soldiers will be used. It takes lives to fill up the city wall of Daliang, so many soldiers died in vain under the city tower, Bai Yan's soldiers, as young as fifteen or sixteen, and they all have wives, children and mothers at home, there are countless more."
Bai Yan saluted and looked towards Xicheng.
"The lives of the people of Daliang are life, and the lives of Bai Yan's soldiers are also life! Forgive Qin General Bai Yan for not obeying his orders!"
After Bai Yan finished speaking, he put down his hand. This matter was almost non-negotiable.
"Then I will submit a letter and ask your King of Qin to quickly issue an order to take back the Qin army and no longer..."
Xi Cheng's old face was full of anger, but before he finished speaking, Bai Yan shook his head.
"Why didn't the corpse write a letter asking Wei to surrender to Qin? From now on, there will be no more wars?"
Bai Yan looked straight at Xicheng, one of his mentor Jin Gong's best friends in the world.
"hehe!"
When Xi Cheng heard Bai Yan's words, he laughed angrily and kept shaking his head.
"Qin attacked Wei and made Wei surrender. Shicheng wanted to ask, why didn't Qin surrender?"
Xi Cheng looked at Bai Yan with absurd eyes.
Bai Yan didn't mind and shook his head.
"Natural selection means that the weak will eat the strong. In the past, when the Wei State was strong and prosperous, there were also attempts to invade the territory of the Qin State. Even the establishment of the Wei State was the result of three strong Jin states. Now if the Wei State sends troops to attack the Qin State, it will also To persuade Qin to surrender is not to persuade Wei to surrender! This ideal must be clearer to Bai Yan than to Bai Yan!"
When Bai Yan said this, he looked at Xiang Wei's corpse and raised his hand.
"What if Wei doesn't surrender?"
Xi Cheng asked, looking at Bai Yan.
Bai Yan was silent for a few moments, took a breath, and slowly raised his hand under the gazes of Xi Cheng and Xi Yan.
"The only way Bai Yan can stop the war is by flooding the beams with water!"
Bai Yan said softly.
Following these words, the entire atmosphere in the study became cold instantly. Xi Cheng laughed helplessly and shook his head. It was not until a while later that he sighed heavily.
"You call yourself Tian Jin's disciple, is this what Tian Jin taught you?"
Shicheng asked with a smile, using two words. One was a literal meaning, and the other was to mock Bai Yan. If Tian Jin didn't teach him anything, what qualifications does Bai Yan have to call himself Tian Jin's disciple.
"My mentor taught Bai Yan that to be a minister, one must be loyal to the king, and to be a general, one must be kind and benevolent. The death of his mentor taught Bai Yan a truth, this world needs a wise king!"
After Bai Yan finished speaking, he looked at Xicheng: "One emperor for eternity!"
Mentioning Tian Jin's death, a flash of self-blame and guilt flashed through Shicheng's eyes. He regretted not being able to help Tian Jin in Qi State at that time, and was even more worried that he could not even take revenge. Listening to Bai Yan's words, Shicheng was stunned. , snorted, seemingly not accepting Bai Yan's words, let alone understanding what Bai Yan said.
Because of Tian Jin's death, Bai Yan hated King Qi and hated those stupid and incompetent kings. Xi Cheng could understand, but...
"There is only one emperor in the ages, and he is Ying Zheng? What virtues and abilities does he have in Ying Zheng, so that he is worthy of being called the one emperor in the ages? Can his Ying Zheng be compared to King Wu? King Wen? Can he be compared to the wise kings of all the princes in the world since ancient times?"
Xi Cheng said angrily, looking at Bai Yan, he blurted out questions and indignant words. It can be seen that Xi Cheng also hated King Qin Ying Zheng very much.
In the study room.
Bai Yan could feel Xi Cheng's anger, and only raised his hand after Xi Cheng calmed down a bit.
"The King of Qin can do it, but the King of Wei can't!"
Bai Yan said softly.
In a word, Xi Cheng didn't choke to death. When he saw Bai Yan's eyes looking at Xi Cheng beside him, Xi Cheng still didn't know what Bai Yan's eyes meant.
When Xieyan came, from beginning to end, he did not produce the edict of King Wei, nor did he even mention King Wei.
If at the beginning, Xicheng was still confident and argued with Bai Yan with good reason, then when the King of Wei was mentioned, even Xicheng would be hard-pressed to argue.
It would be a lie to say that he is not disappointed. After all, the corpse in the coffin is the prime minister of the Wei State anyway, and when the prime minister of a country is detained, the prime minister's grandson has already arrived in front of him. The King of Wei, let alone an edict, does not even have a word of mouth.
It was not the first day that Xicheng met King Wei of Wei, so he naturally knew why there were no edicts or messages from King Wei of Xicheng.
Thinking of King Wei's lie, Xicheng was too lazy to argue anymore and his tone softened.
"Don't flood the beams!"
Xi Cheng said, after all, in Xi Cheng's eyes, he could not just watch the beam being destroyed under any circumstances.
"Bai Yan has sent a letter to Xianyang, asking for the king's favor to open a warehouse to increase grain supply and help the people of Wei after the floods flooded the beams!"
Bai Yan still didn't agree to Xi Cheng.
In this matter, Bai Yan had no choice. There were countless soldiers and horses in Daliang City, as well as food and baggage, plus the towering city of Daliang. As a minister of the Qin State and the commander-in-chief of the Qin Army, it was impossible for Bai Yan to order the soldiers. Just use ladders and cannons to attack the city.
Bai Yan is a general. The first thing he needs to consider is that the king is already in Qin. The second thing is the lives of the soldiers.
"The flooded girders, open warehouses for relief, you said it simply..."
Xi Cheng looked helpless and clapped his hands together, looking like he wanted to slap the table and talk.
Corpse Yan has been standing aside, silently watching his grandfather argue with Bai Yan. If from the beginning, when he learned that Bai Yan was Xu Zixiao, he was in a daze and found it difficult to accept it, then now that he learned that Bai Yan had written When he was sent to Xianyang to ask for food and grass, he looked at the young figure in his eyes and felt a sense of familiarity.
I don’t know how much time had passed, but Xi Cheng was still unwilling to give up persuading Bai Yan. At this time, there were rapid footsteps outside the study, and then the soldier guarding the door took a roll of bamboo slips from a man and took it into the study to hand over. To Bai Yan.
After watching the soldiers retreat, Bai Yan opened the bamboo slips and saw a letter from Mr. Wei.
Bai Yan put away the bamboo slips and was not in a hurry to tell Xicheng the news about Mr. Wei. It was not the time yet.
"Xi Xiang, if Zhi Xiang is really concerned about the people of Wei, he can only write letters to persuade the King of Wei to pretend to open the city and surrender to Qin! Bai Yan was ordered to attack Wei, and the king's order cannot be violated. I hope Xi Xiang will forgive me!"
Bai Yan took the bamboo slips and bowed to the corpse to express his apology. Bai Yan had no choice in this matter.
"Since General Bai Yan is determined to flood Daliang, please ask the general to release the body back to Daliang!"
After hearing Bai Yan's words, Xi Cheng seemed to understand what Bai Yan meant, so he turned his head and looked at Bai Yan. Since he couldn't convince Bai Yan, Xi Cheng wanted to go back to Daliang.
"The corpse, the reason why Bai Yan left the corpse here, apart from being his mentor, is also to ask the corpse to personally rescue and comfort the people of Wei after the water flooded the beams. Since the corpse is the prime minister of Wei, even if Wei is destroyed, You can also do good deeds for the people of Wei, and the people of Wei will remember the kindness of Prime Minister Wei for generations to come!"
Bai Yan said to Xi Cheng.
"As for this, I ask the corpse to think twice. Is it more important to be a king whose generals are not as important as dogs, or to the hundreds of thousands of people in Wei!"
After Bai Yan finished speaking, he bowed his hands to the coffin, then stood up, turned around and placed Mr. Wei's bamboo slips on the wooden table beside him.
"..."
When Xi Cheng heard Bai Yan's words, his originally angry eyes suddenly turned into astonishment, and he was instantly made to laugh out of anger at Bai Yan's shamelessness.
Xicheng did not expect that Bai Yan would directly threaten him with the moral principles of the world.
Xicheng knew that if he did not agree, even if he returned to Daliang in the future and lived and died with the King of Wei, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, and all the people of Wei and Wei, in the end, the people of Wei would still resent him.
Think of this.
Xi Cheng finally understood why Bai Yan wanted to imprison him in the first place, but didn't care about the news getting back to Daliang. This was to give him a reason not to be in Daliang, and the people of Wei would not blame him in the future.
Looking at Bai Yan's non-negotiable look.
Xi Cheng asked the last question.
"Tell me, why did Tian Jin accept you as his disciple?"
Xi Cheng hasn't figured this out yet. He has been worried about Daliang's safety just now and has no time to go into details. Now before leaving, Xi Cheng is eager to find out this matter. He doesn't understand why his best friend Tian Jin would accept a boy named Bai as his He is also a descendant of Bai Qi from Qin State, and why this matter has never been known to anyone.
If it weren't for what Xiyan said, even Xicheng wouldn't be able to believe that Bai Yan was actually Tian Jin's disciple.
Bai Yan is actually Tian Jin's disciple?
Is there anything more absurd in this world than this?
"Bai Yan can't tell you the identity of the corpse at this time. When the corpse wanders around in the future, you can go to Yanmen Shanwu. The corpse's identity will definitely be clear by then!"
Bai Yan said.
Mr. Wei is in the Yunzhong Mountains. As long as Xicheng goes to Shanwu, someone will take Xicheng to the Yunzhong Mountains. When Xicheng sees Mr. Wei, he will know the cause and reason.
At present, the Wei Kingdom is not destroyed, and Xicheng's heart is still towards the Wei Kingdom, so let alone his affairs, it is Mr. Wei's business. Bai Yan does not plan to tell Xicheng yet, otherwise once Xicheng knows that Mr. Wei is his mentor, I'm afraid there will be more accidents.
"Yanmen Shanwu?"
Listening to Bai Yan's words, Xi Cheng frowned in confusion, not understanding what this sentence meant.
............
Under night.
Bai Yan was still in his study, handling army affairs. Yang Yan, who had not yet been ordered by the king but was already serving as deputy general, had already led the cavalry to ambush outside Daliang City, waiting for the Wei army to ambush.
As footsteps came, the soldiers came in to report. Soon Bai Yan saw the corpse weir and came to the study again.
"Meet General Bai Yan!"
After Xiyan watched Bai Yan let the soldiers leave, he bowed his hands and saluted Bai Yan.
"How do you think about the corpse? Are you willing to stay for the people of Wei?"
Bai Yan gestured for Xi Yan to take a seat and asked softly.
Xi Yan cupped his hands gratefully to Bai Yan, then stepped forward, came to the wooden table beside him, and knelt down to sit down.
"Grandpa is still thinking about it. I have to thank the general for coming this time!"
Xi Yan raised his hand and looked at Bai Yan.
At least for now, Xi Yan knew that Bai Yan didn't have any ill intentions toward his grandfather, and was even willing to entertain him for his grandfather's sake.
"Whatever you want to ask, just ask!"
Bai Yan knew Xieyan's purpose.
Xiyan sat on his knees behind the wooden table. Hearing Bai Yan's words, he looked at the busy Bai Yan and thought for a few breaths.
"Why did you let us go in Handan in the past?"
Xi Yan asked, recalling his involvement in the assassination of Ying Zheng. After learning that Xu Zixiao was Bai Yan, Xi Yan knew clearly, so Bai Yan knew everything about him, Chen Xu, Tian Sui and others.
But at the beginning, neither he nor Tian Sui nor Chen Xu heard any rumors about them being wanted after returning.
You must know that if Ying Zheng ordered this, neither he nor Chen Xu would be able to live so leisurely in the world. Even Tian Sui would be in countless troubles.
But from that time when they left Handan until now, they have been living in peace.
The only explanation is that Bai Yan couldn't help but not arrest them at the beginning, and he didn't even report their matter to Ying Zheng later.
"Wu Gao probably didn't know your identity at that time!"
Looking at the silent Bai Yan, Xi Yan said, after sunset, he calmed down and recalled the original scenes, and finally determined that Wu Gao probably didn't know Bai Yan's identity at that time.
"If Brother Tian Sui and Brother Chen Xu know that Xu Zixiao is a general..."
When Xi Yan said this, his face looked a little melancholy and helpless. Xi Yan couldn't imagine what Tian Sui's expression would be like if he saw Bai Yan leading the Qin army with his own eyes when his troops came to Qi.
"These are all things in the future! Before coming to Licheng, Wu Gao had already discovered my identity and found..."
Bai Yan looked at Corpse Yan and told him everything about Wu Gao looking for him.
Shiyan, Tian Sui, and Chen Xu have been close friends for many years and have deep feelings for each other. Whether Shiyan did it for the safety of the Shi clan or Tian Sui and Chen Xu, he would not tell anyone about the assassination of Ying Zheng. This is also in vain. Yan was not worried about Corpse Weir's reasons at all.
Not to mention, Wei's demise is imminent!
"Does the water have to flood the beam?"
Knowing the whole story, Xi Yan looked at Bai Yan with a somewhat sad look.
