The eldest princess is obsessed with rebellion, but there are six male protagonists

After Su Fengyi returned home, she called Dangui and Wutong and gave them two completely opposite tasks.

Su Fengyi said to Dangui:

"Get ready, arrange the funeral for General Shen. The coffin needs to be large and the coffin needs to be thick, preferably eight inches.

We need the finest ironwood, not fir. If it is not available in the palace, we will look for it outside the palace. If it is not available in the capital, we will look for it in the south.

We must find a valuable coffin so that General Shen can pass away with dignity."

Although the Princess's Mansion had never held a funeral, Dangui was always thinking about other people's weddings and funerals, just in case something happened in the Princess's Mansion. There was no elder in the mansion, and it would be busy and chaotic without any rules.

Therefore, Dangui also gained some experience in this funeral matter and replied:

"Your Highness, we don't have incense, candles, paper money, mourning clothes and white cloth in the palace. Should we prepare them first?"

"Okay, you can do it as you wish. Just do it in a grand manner."

Dan Gui took his leave to find a longevity tree for General Shen. Su Fengyi then instructed Wu Tong:

"Spread the news that General Shen is getting better soon. He can eat a cow in one meal and kill a tiger with one punch. In less than three days, he will be able to fight in the battlefield and kill all the northern barbarians."

Wutong had recently been studying the homework Xie Xuan had given her, and she had gained a lot of insights. After comparing her own tasks with Dangui's, she understood, and asked:

"Your Highness, are you going to use the method of setting up a false formation?"

Feng Yi didn't expect that without Xie Xuan, Wu Tong could comprehend these mysteries just by self-study, so she smiled and said:

"Yes, yes, since you have the insight to figure this out on your own, I will give you a few more words of advice.

The purpose of deliberately creating confusion is to make it difficult for others to see the truth from the false. Therefore, there is truth in the false and false in the true. The key point is that there is truth in the false and false in the true. In this way, the truth is also false and the false is also true.

Do you understand? "

This is a confusing mess of truth and falsehood. Others might have been confused by it, but Wutong felt as if he was blessed by the princess and nodded vigorously:

"understand!"

So in the next few days, the news about General Shen in the capital changed three times a day.

Some said he was alive. It was a palace soldier arranged by Wutong who was similar in build to General Shen. He disguised himself to look 70% like him and would stroll around the streets of the capital from time to time.

Many people saw General Shen “alive” with their own eyes. General Shen looked strong and healthy, and was living a very good life.

Some said he was dead, otherwise why would the Princess's Mansion buy so much white cloth, paper money for funerals, and search the capital for an iron mast and wooden coffin?

In the Princess's Mansion, the only one qualified to use iron mast wood is General Shen.

Some say that the disease is neither dead nor alive. That is because Wutong has specially arranged a dozen little girls to do nothing else every day and just be responsible for decocting the medicine against the wall. More than a dozen stoves are burning all night long, and they decoct the medicine for the whole day.

The strong smell of boiled medicine could be smelled by people three blocks away, and it could not be concealed at all.

Everything is true, and everything is false; there is no certainty.

Su Fengyi asked Wutong to spread these news, which were both true and false, in order to prevent Liu An from laying secret channels in the capital to spread the news.

As a result, even the people in the capital city who were nearby could not figure out what had happened to General Shen, let alone the little prince of the Northern Barbarians who was far away in the sky.

What Su Fengyi wanted was the little prince of the Northern Tartars who was approaching day by day. She couldn't figure out the strength of General Shen, so even if she arrived in Xinghe, she would not dare to act rashly.

Sure enough, a few days later, an urgent report came from the Xinghe border that the little prince of the Northern Tartars had arrived with a large army of 50,000 soldiers, and they captured Xinghe in just one day.

The advantage of the Northern Tartar cavalry in fighting is mobility, speed, and the ability to run away after looting.

According to the Northern Tartars' usual habit, once they had captured Xinghe, they should have marched to Xuanfu without stopping. However, this time the Northern Tartars' little prince went against their usual habit and stationed his troops in Xinghe, refusing to leave.

Su Fengyi showed Shen Quan the urgent report from the Ministry of War and said with a smile:

"What did you do to the little prince of the Northern Tartars that made him so afraid of you? Knowing that you might be alive, he dared not come even a step closer."

Pei Yu had someone deliver the urgent report from the Ministry of War early in the morning. As soon as the express message arrived after traveling three hundred miles, Pei Yu quickly had someone copy a copy and send it to Su Fengyi.

Judging from the time the emperor got up, Su Fengyi might have seen this urgent report before the emperor.

Shen Quan naturally took the urgent report from the Ministry of War and didn't even feel that there was anything wrong at first.

Not until he finished reading it did Shen Quan suddenly realize that since it was an urgent report from the Ministry of War, only the cabinet ministers could have it, and the princess should not have it.

Although Lord Pei and the princess are engaged, isn't this a bit against the rules to keep it a military secret?

Shen Quan had experienced this kind of unruly things too many times in the Princess's Mansion, so many times that he had mastered the way to deal with them, which was to be more flexible in doing things and pretend that everything was normal.

Since the princess asked, Shen Quan did not hide anything and answered:

"Shen didn't do anything. He just killed his whole family in front of him ten years ago."

It is very difficult for people to overcome the trauma of their childhood. Ten years ago, the little prince of the Northern Tartars was only about ten years old. He was young and had been traumatized. No wonder he hated and feared General Shen.

Shen Quan put down the urgent report:

"The Xinghe garrison commander is an old subordinate of mine. I have sent a letter by pigeon, telling him to evacuate the people and supplies from Xinghe.

Xinghe is now an empty city, and the empty city plan was deliberately put in place. The little prince of the Northern Tartars will certainly become suspicious and will not dare to act rashly.

The little prince of the Northern Tartars is just a dying man, there is no need to be afraid of him."

When Shen Quan concluded that the little prince of the Northern Tartars was doomed to die, Pei Yu was in the palace, reporting military intelligence to the emperor.

It is obvious that Pei Yu, the second assistant, is more pleasing to the emperor than Lord Song. The most obvious manifestation is that the emperor actually summoned Lord Pei to discuss matters in the past few days.

The emperor even invited Lord Pei to have dinner with him, and during the meal he specially rewarded Lord Pei with a plate of roasted venison that he had hunted.

It was truly an unprecedented story that shocked everyone in and outside the court.

What's so strange about it?

The first thing that is surprising is that the emperor is actually willing to meet with the cabinet ministers. The second thing that is surprising is that the emperor is actually concerned about state affairs. The third thing that is surprising is that the factory manager Qiao Gui did not stop him or make things difficult for Lord Pei!

Isn’t it strange?

According to the young eunuchs serving in front of the emperor, the factory manager and Lord Pei were actually talking and laughing, and they got along very well.

The emperor often summoned Pei Yu to talk because he suddenly realized that although Qiao Gui was useful, loyal, obedient, hardworking and willing to accept complaints, his family background was too humble, so his knowledge was really not up to par.

For example, if he lowered his status to fight against some little prince of the northern barbarians in the matter of leading the army in person, it would become a big joke that would be passed down for generations.

On the contrary, Pei Yu had outstanding insights, his words were in line with the emperor's wishes, and he never mentioned the late emperor. Naturally, the emperor was willing to summon Pei Yu to talk.

The emperor is the type of person who only starts to get anxious when the situation becomes critical.

Although the emperor would not lead the army in person, the war still had to be fought. Pei Yu asked the emperor to decide on the commander-in-chief a few days ago.

There were several factions in the court fighting fiercely and each submitted a list of names to the emperor. However, the emperor kept putting it off until tomorrow, as there were so many tomorrows. He was only thinking about having fun and did not take the matter to heart. Until today, nothing has been decided.

It was not until he heard the urgent military intelligence report that the emperor began to panic and asked Pei Yu:

"Master Pei, who do you think is suitable to be the commander?"

Pei Yu did not urge the emperor a few days ago because he was waiting for this moment, waiting for the moment when the emperor would make a decision. So he answered loudly:

"Your Majesty, I recommend General Shen, Shen Hongxian."