Chapter 409 Right Prime Minister and Li Xuanjing

Huaizhou.

The 800,000 troops of Daxia were stationed in Huaizhou and its adjacent prefectures, respectively, resisting the invasion of Wei.

Outside Huaizhou City, 300,000 elite troops from Wei began to assemble again.

The difficulty of siege is always greater than that of defending the city. The Xia army defended the city, and its troops enveloped the entire city. To break through this city, it required at least five times the defenders' strength. The Wei State's troops were originally more powerful than the Xia State, and the number of top-level strong men was also The Xia Kingdom is more than twice as fast as it is. Although the front line is slowly pushed, it is still steadily progressing...

Who would have thought that the army was fighting on the front line, but the home in the rear was stolen.

After losing more than a dozen states in succession, the Wei court could no longer sit still, so he had to transfer some troops from the front line to return to defense. Although it stabilized the rear, it also greatly reduced the speed of the front line's attack. One Huaizhou has already attacked. Half a month, it has not been captured yet.

Inside Huaizhou City.

Feeling that the Wei army's troops outside the city had signs of gathering again, the two half-saints of the Wang family issued an order to fight, and their figures slowly took off.

Compared to half a month ago, they are under much less pressure now.

Before, every time they fought, they both had to hold back the three half-saints of Wei.

Fortunately, the two brothers practiced together since childhood. Over the past hundred years, they have mastered a tacit attack technique. Even if they fight against three, they can not lose their disadvantage.

Half a month ago, an enemy semi-saint was transferred away, and their pressure was reduced sharply.

In the past half month, the enemy troops outside the city would gather troops every day. They had become accustomed to the fact that as long as they dragged the two semi-saints and did not let them intervene, the defenders in the city would be more than enough to defend.

They had formed some tacit understanding with the two semi-saints of Wei State.

The daily battle is more like a competition for them.

No one is willing to fight for his life with the same level unless he has practiced for more than a hundred years.

However, today, when the two flew out of the city and planned to have a routine competition with the two Wei half-saints, their expressions changed slightly.

A figure appeared in front of the two Wei half-saints.

The two stood half behind him, with a respectful look on their faces.

After seeing the figure's face clearly, the two half-saints of the Wang family changed their expressions and exclaimed in unison: "Emperor Wei!"

...

Surrender to the state.

The stalemate between the Revolutionary Army and the Wei army continues. In terms of military strength, the Wei State is stronger, but the strength of the Revolutionary Army cannot be underestimated. If it is forced to attack, at least half of the 400,000 troops will be consumed.

Both sides are waiting.

Once the army on the front line decides the outcome, they can free up their hands to break the balance here.

In the state yamen, Li Nuo took his fingers back from Huang Yuan's wrist and shook his head and said, "Your health is not a problem."

Huang Yuan was unsure, "Take it serious?"

Li Nuo nodded and said, "At least, with my ability, no disease has been discovered."

Huang Yuan asked, "Where is the poison?"

Li Nuo said, "No, either."

Huang Yuan trusts Li Nuo's medical skills very much. No one on the mainland should have better medical skills than him, but he still has no idea...

Since that person dared to use this to threaten him, what he asked him to swallow would definitely not be an idle thing.

At this time, Li Nuo asked, "What did you eat?"

Huang Yuan recalled and described it as "a black pill."

Li Nuo asked, "What does it taste?"

Huang Yuan said: "Sour and sweet, the taste is good..."

Medical pills are generally bitter and rarely have a sour and sweet taste. If it is a poison pill, it is even less likely to have a sweet taste. The only one that matches his description is hawthorn pills.

Hawthorn Pills have been online in the court's clinic for a long time. They are mainly used to treat loss of appetite, indigestion, abdominal distension and depression caused by internal accumulation of food accumulation. The price is extremely low and suitable for all ages and is very popular among the people.

Huang Yuan said in confusion: "What kind of poison is Hawthorn Pills?"

Li Nuo shook his head and said, "It's not a poison."

Huang Yuan was slightly stunned and asked, "What are you doing?"

Li Nuo said: "Reinvigorate the spleen and enhance the appetite, eliminate accumulation and stagnation..."

Huang Yuan: “…”

Just when Huang Yuan was at a loss, Bai Yu hurried in and said to Li Nuo with a serious expression: "Mr. Li, the frontline battle report, the four half-saints of the Wang family, Cui family, and Pei family, have fallen..."

Li Nuo looked at the urgent report he handed over, and there was not much surprise on his face.

When the portraits of the two half-saints of Wei appeared in the code, his martial arts cultivation soared to the fourth level and his life span was 60 years longer, he knew that the Wei State would definitely be targeted. revenge.

But unexpectedly, there were only seven half-saints in the six major families, and four were lost within two days.

The Wang family, which owns two semi-saints and the first family of Daxia, all fell.

A semi-saint may be just an accident, but it is extremely unusual for four semi-saints to fall at the same time. With the power deployed by Wei State on the southwest border, it is impossible to deal with the seven semi-saints of Daxia and kill four people. , seriously injured three people.

unless……

Huang Yuan looked at Li Nuo and said with great confidence: "It must be His Majesty who took action!"

The strength difference between ordinary semi-saints is not large. Taixu Zhenren is at the peak of semi-saints. Under normal circumstances, he may not be able to kill a semi-saint who has just entered the country unless he himself has the will of death and is with the other party. Never die.

If the four half-saints can not even have a chance to escape, they must be the intervention of the overwhelmingly powerful person.

There is no one else except the Emperor of Wei.

Unexpectedly, as the emperor of the five major dynasties, he actually dared to leave the capital, go deep into the front line, and take action himself...

If he makes any mistakes, Wei will be removed from the list of the five dynasties soon.

The emperors of the five dynasties cannot be killed. Once he dies as an emperor, the national destiny of Wei will be taken away. Even if the court supports a new emperor, he will not inherit any cultivation.

For this reason, since ancient times, very few emperors have personally fought.

On the border between the two countries, their strength is less than half of that of the capital.

If they are besieged by several semi-saints, even they will have a great risk of falling.

The Emperor of Wei is gambling on the national destiny.

And he won the bet.

The number of semi-saints in Daxia is originally less than that in Wei. The semi-saints of the six major families died or were injured. There was no one to defend the front line. If Li Nuo transferred Taixu Zhenren and his master and uncle to support, the front line advanced in Wei and Chu during this period would be pushed back again...

Could it be that Daxia will really be the first to perish among the five dynasties?

Chang'an

Four semi-saints from the Wang, Cui, and Pei families died, and three semi-saints from the Zheng, Du, and Lu families fled back with serious injuries. The southwest front was completely lost. When this news was passed back to Chang'an, the people of Chang'an were devastated...

The semi-saints of the six major families are the top fighting force of Daxia.

Seven semi-saints, four of them died, and three of them were unable to fight again. How long can the army on the front line resist Wei?

Could it be that His Majesty has to lead the army in person?

Daxia is going to perish...

Zhongshu Province.

On the table of the left prime minister, there is a heavy letter of state.

It is called a letter of state, but it is actually a letter of war.

This is a letter of war from the Emperor of Wei to His Majesty of Daxia.

After the southwest front was completely lost, the army could only retreat continuously. After Wei captured more than a dozen cities, it did not continue to attack, but submitted a letter of state to Daxia.

The Emperor of Wei wanted to fight His Majesty of Daxia.

Although there is not much to say in this letter, Your Majesty is already the last pillar of Daxia. If Your Majesty, who is responsible for the fate of Daxia, fails, Daxia will only be defeated by Wei.

It is meaningless to accept this letter of war or not.

If you don't accept it, Your Majesty can only retreat to Chang'an. As Wei annexes more and more Daxia territory, Your Majesty's cultivation will continue to decline. When the Wei army arrives at Chang'an, Your Majesty will no longer have any cultivation.

But even if Your Majesty accepts it, it can't change the outcome.

The strength of the emperor is closely related to the national strength of the country. Daxia is not as strong as Wei, and Your Majesty cannot win.

The reasons in the letter of Wei are very legitimate.

The emperor of Wei does not want the soldiers and civilians of the two countries to suffer more casualties. If the two armies continue to fight, only the people of Daxia will suffer. He is willing to fight the emperor of Daxia fairly, and the battle between the two emperors will decide the outcome of the national war.

Of course he was willing to do so. In this way, Wei could minimize casualties and would not be taken advantage of by Chu and Qi.

They not only handed over the letter to the court, but also publicized it in various states of Daxia. I am afraid that it will not take long for everyone to know about this. As an invader, Wei stood on the moral high ground and forced His Majesty and the court into a dead end under the banner of doing good for the people of Daxia...

The left prime minister looked up at the sky outside the window.

The sky was blue and clear, and everything was in his eyes, but he could not see the future of Daxia clearly.

Is Daxia about to perish?

Shangshu Province.

The right prime minister looked at the files on the table, and his eyes showed deep confusion.

The southwest border was defeated across the board. Four of the seven semi-saints of the six major families died and three were seriously injured. The power of their family was also hit hard in the defeat of the Daxia army. Countless children in the family were killed and injured, and they could not catch their breath for at least a hundred years...

This is exactly what he wanted.

Several aristocratic families were entrenched in Daxia, sucking the blood of the people. Countless Confucian disciples came one after another, wanting to overthrow them, and shed their heads and blood on this road with no end in sight...

At the moment when many disciples died and his wife and children died, he finally woke up.

It is impossible to overthrow those aristocratic families by relying solely on the internal power of Daxia, and more powerful external forces must be used...

By then, even if Daxia loses some land, it may not be a bad thing for the people on this land if they can get rid of the shackles of the aristocratic families from now on.

The worst case scenario is that Daxia will perish.

If there is really a country that can achieve great unification, after there are no enemies, this country will no longer have to engage in war, and all military expenses can be saved to open academies, build bridges and roads, and improve people's lives. It can create a harmonious society where all people on the mainland can have enough food, can afford to see a doctor, can let the young grow up, the elderly have a place to live, and the widowed, lonely, and disabled can all be taken care of...

If this is really possible, then Daxia will be destroyed.

But what he saw was that after Wei captured Daxia's city, it forcibly took over the court's medical clinic, and the people's medical fees and medicine costs increased dozens of times. The aristocratic families of Wei began to forcibly occupy the land of local people, and the minimum wage decree just issued by the court was also abolished by them...

On the contrary, in Yue State, in the prefectures and counties captured by Li Nuo, one by one, the decrees that Daxia people had never enjoyed were being steadily implemented. That was the country he wanted...

At this moment, he realized that he was wrong, very wrong.

If it weren't for him, Liang would not have sided with Wei, and Wei would not have invaded Daxia so quickly. If Li Nuo had been given a little more time, he might have been able to change Daxia from the root, but now, everything was too late...

After Wei annexed the Daxia state, it was easy to destroy those revolutionary armies.

He is a sinner, a sinner from Daxia forever...

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, slowly stood up and left the Secretariat.

Inside Dali Temple.

King Chun no longer had the intention to play chess. Even though he did not care about national affairs on weekdays, the capital of Daxia was almost dead. As the royal family of Daxia, if he didn't care at all, he would feel a little too much.

He grabbed his hair, looked at Li Xuanjing opposite him, and asked, "Xuan Jing, will Daxia really destroy the country, right?"

After thinking about it, he couldn't think of how Daxia could get out of the predicament. He could not expect his father to kill Emperor Wei in the war. This is indeed a way to break the deadlock, but does the father have the ability?

Obviously not.

He wanted to say something else, and a figure slowly walked in from outside.

King Chun looked at the right prime minister and swallowed up the words he was about to say.

At this time, Li Xuanjing said, "I suddenly want to drink the Snow Pear Jade Soup today..."

Chun Wangteng stood up and said with a smile: "Then you wait here, I'll go back and cook for you..."

After saying that, he turned around and left in a hurry.

When he walked out of Dali Temple and got on the carriage, he looked back.

Did Xuan Jing and the Right Prime Minister have something to say? This was the first time he found a reason to send him away. What he had said was something he could not listen to...

At Dali Temple, the door of the right-related yamen room was moved, and a chair was placed opposite Li Xuanjing's desk.

Sitting opposite the Dali Temple Minister like this, it feels quite a bit of trial.

Neither of them spoke.

silence.

Long-lasting silence.

In the end, the right prime minister first broke the silence and said, "I am guilty of treason."

Li Xuanjing picked up the teacup, moistened his lips, and asked, "What the right prime minister wants to say is whether to plan the assassination of the envoy of Chu in Sifangguan, provoke the dispute between Xia and Chu, or whether the second prince of Liang in the embassy village was killed, you send an envoy I went to Liang State to destroy the relationship between Liang and Xia, and pushed Liang State to Wei State, thereby provoking the battle between Wei and Xia? "

The right prime minister suddenly stood up with a shocked look on his face: "You know everything!"

Li Xuanjing did not comment. The right prime minister wanted to contribute his sinner body to Li Nuoden's arrival in the Dharma Saint. Shocked, he even forgot the purpose of this trip and asked, "Your Majesty also knows?"

Li Xuanjing shook his head and said, "Your Majesty doesn't know."

The right prime minister asked, "Then how did you know?"

Li Xuanjing said: "More than 30 years ago, the son of Zhang Feng, the Minister of Personnel who was killed by Your Majesty for the crime of rebellion, should have been executed, but was protected by the right prime minister. You asked him to change his name to Chen Qi and go incognito. Chu State became the guard of Chu State's mission... These things are not difficult to investigate for Mingjingsi."

He continued to speak: "As for the martyr who killed the second prince of Liang, although it was hidden a little deeper, if you look closely, his teacher is your registered disciple, and he must call you Master... Is it right?"

The right prime minister sat down slowly, and after a long silence, he spoke, "It's you. Since you have known these things for a long time, why don't you tell Your Majesty that I have been against you everywhere over the years, and you can use this to defeat you. I…”

Li Xuanjing shook his head slightly and said, "You just want to use the power of Wei State to eliminate the accumulated troubles of the Daxia family, so that the court will not be controlled by the aristocratic families, and the people will be exempted from the oppression of the aristocratic families... Am I right?"

The right prime minister suddenly stood up again, looking straight at the person opposite him.

He never expected that over the years, the enemy he hated the most in the court was the one who understood him the most!

At this moment, even if he died, he had no regrets.

Li Xuanjing stood up and walked to the right prime minister, held his wrist, and whispered: "Thank you for the hard work over the years..."

The right prince's body trembled slightly, and two lines of old tears rolled down...

When his only son died, he did not shed tears.

When his wife died, he did not shed tears.

The disciples he valued the most did not cry when he was wrongly accused of traitors.

But at this moment, he looked at the elegant man in front of him, and his tears could not stop...