"Boss Li, you can't do this. You can't just ignore us. What are we going to do without the general?!"

The Hu merchants at the market were panicked.

Is the emperor of the Great Zhou seriously ill? Why doesn't he want such a large piece of land and put up boundary markers on the base of the city wall? !

Boss Li didn't reply. Instead, Hu Shang's friend poked him on the arm and said, "I asked you to learn some Da Zhou characters, but you didn't. Now you're suffering from your lack of education! Look carefully, what's the difference between that stone tablet and the boundary tablet of Yunzhou?"

Hu Shang was about to cry: "You clearly know that I can barely read, yet you still let me read!"

The friend had no choice but to explain: "The Yunzhou boundary monument says that it was Gu Nanxi who established it! But here it was Emperor Xuan of Zhou who established it!"

Hu Shang blinked, finally understood, and said unhappily: "Damn, you scared me so much! I almost thought the general didn't care about us!"

What Boss Li said made the people of Yunzhou understand everything!

"Haha, I said the general wouldn't just sit there and wait to die!"

"That's right. Since the imperial court does not recognize the kingdom that the general conquered, then we should not take advantage of the general!"

"Oh, I am dying of laughter! Those gentlemen in the court would not think that just setting up a random stone tablet is a boundary marker, right?"

"Stop making trouble! They don't even notice how much blood of Tartars has been shed under the Yunzhou boundary monument!"

"The boundary marker erected by the general is the Yunzhou boundary marker! As for this one, haha, it's just a stone tablet!"

"Oh my, when I think about all the people from the Hu Shang grasslands who will see this stone tablet when they enter and leave Fuming Town, and then ask what this stone tablet is about, the scene is too beautiful to imagine!"

"This is such a disgrace to my grandma!"

Wang Jiuhe's face turned pale. He was panting heavily and wanted to say something, but found that he had no words to say.

At this moment, his mind was blank. He didn't dare to think about how to report to the emperor after returning to Kyoto? !

Jiang Cheng obviously also realized the seriousness of the matter, and smiled to smooth things over: "General Li, stop joking. It's not a good look to be standing at the city gate at this time. Isn't this embarrassing for the general?"

Boss Li was unmoved: "General, what's there to be ashamed of? The monument she erected is at the foot of Wuzhou City!"

"Under the city of Wuzhou?" Wang Jiuhe and Jiang Cheng blinked, not understanding why the topic turned to Wuzhou again.

Wasn't Wuzhou already ceded to the Tartars? Da Zi guarded the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun very strictly, so how could he allow Gu Nanxi to move the boundary marker to the city of Wuzhou?

Boss Li got angry when he saw their stupid looks. It was because there were too many people like them in the court. They were ignorant and unaware, and often acted like laymen guiding experts. That was why the Great Zhou was in such a predicament today!

"I think Lord Wang is not aware of this. After the general pushed the boundary marker northwards for 1,020 miles, it was only ten miles away from Wuzhou City!"

This distance of ten miles is equivalent to nothing!

Boss Li is very confident that no Tartar would dare to come out from the south gate of Wuzhou and set foot in these ten miles!

Wang Jiuhe and Jiang Cheng felt that they could understand the meaning of each of Boss Li's words, but when they were put together, they could no longer understand anything.

Did he mean that Gu Nanxi had conquered all the vast grasslands south of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun? !

In just a few years?!

Haha, don’t be too outrageous, this is not the way to brag!

Wang Jiuhe: "Boss Li, I understand your desire to protect Gu Nanxi, but some things should not be joked about. The Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun are the concern of our entire Great Zhou Dynasty, not a tool for you to flatter Gu Nanxi!"

Seeing these two people refused to believe him, Boss Li finally couldn't hold back and cursed: "You flatter me! You are pulling your mother's shame, you owe me a beating again!"

"If you have the ability to recapture the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, don't even ask me to flatter you. I'd be willing to lick your shoes. The key is whether you can do it, you idiot!"

Boss Li started to curse at the people, and the people applauded.

"Boss Li scolded well! These people deserve to be scolded!"

"Boss Li, you are good at talking, please say more!"

Wang Jiuhe was about to explode. He was born into the Wang family and had been around great scholars and high-ranking officials since he was young. How could he have been scolded in such vulgar language? !

"You, you..." Wang Jiu talked to you and me for a long time but couldn't say a word.

As if that wasn't infuriating enough, someone picked up a branch and drew a line along the stone tablet.

Then, he would jump over the road, then jump back again, still shouting, "Oh, I jumped over it, oh, I jumped back again, jumped over it, jumped back again! Hey, why doesn't anyone care about me?"

Those who knew him laughed and scolded him for being too naughty.

The people around were also laughing so hard that they were falling down.

At this moment, the stone tablet engraved with [Established by Emperor Xuan of Zhou] became a complete joke.

Some children thought it was fun and jumped on it, but their parents stopped them: "Don't be silly, this is the Yunzhou boundary monument carved by the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty."

The child was not convinced and turned around to question: "The general used his knife and the blood of the invaders to prove the majesty of the Yunzhou boundary monument. What did the Emperor of the Great Zhou rely on? If you can prove that it is your territory by simply erecting a stone monument, then I can do the same!"

The kid stuffed it in a rage: "Is it because I don't want to own the alleyway next door? It's because I can't beat the fat kid next door! If carving a stone tablet was useful, I would have carved it long ago!"

The innocent words of the children were like sharp knives, piercing Wang Jiu and his group's hearts so hard that blood dripped from them.

It's not that they don't know this, because outside Yunzhou, where are the boundary markers to the south and west?

The reason why they dared to do this was simply because they were sure that Gu Nanxi would uphold the dignity of the imperial power!

However, no one expected that Gu Nanxi would give up this time!

Gu Nanxi almost said it out loud: "The territory I conquered is mine! If you recognize it, then it belongs to the Great Zhou. If you don't recognize it, he is from Yunzhou!"

Wang Jiuhe wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. Sure enough, a woman who could climb to the position of Yunzhou Governor and hold on to this position was not an ordinary person!

Wang Jiuhe underestimated Gu Nanxi after all!

"Sir, let's go back first." Jiang Cheng used the excuse that it was getting late and pulled Wang Jiuhe to flee. The laughter of the people could be heard around them.

Inside the post station, Wang Jiu and Jiang Cheng looked at each other.

"Gu Nanxi is so mean! Isn't this just trampling on the emperor's face? She even dragged everyone passing by Yunzhou to come and see! It's a waste of the emperor's title of Marquis of Loyalty!"

Jiang Cheng coughed twice and reminded: "The Loyalty Marquis is a humiliation given to Gu Nanxi by the emperor."

Gu Nanxi also reacted and said, "Women have the most vicious hearts! They are petty and narrow-minded! I thought she had really let this matter go, but I didn't expect that she still holds a grudge until now!"

"Stop cursing and think about what we should do. We must not let this stone tablet stand any longer! If we continue to stand it, we will become the laughing stock of the whole world!"

Wang Jiuhe raised his head and lamented: "This Yunzhou is simply the grave of the imperial envoy!"

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