Overlord's Road to Ancient Emperors

The eldest prince stopped Li Xu at the gate of the palace, grabbed his collar and gestured his fist at him, "You'd better calm down, don't do anything bad to father, what overseas fairy island, That's all a lie, what on earth are you trying to do?"

Li Xu broke away his hand, pushed his fist away, stroked his collar, and said with a smile: "I can't see that Brother Huang is quite filial, but did you not listen carefully just now, as I said, There are no immortals, it's just that the father doesn't believe it, but how long has the father been eating the elixir, why didn't the elder brother advise him?"

How could the eldest prince not know the power of the elixir, but the emperor has been taking the elixir for several years, and he has already persuaded what should be persuaded, but now it seems that he is troubled, and the emperor was obviously angry just now, so he didn't To touch the mold head.

"Anyway, this king will keep an eye on you, don't think that you can act recklessly if you have the chance to win."

"Brother Huang is too worried. I also have something to persuade Brother Huang. The things you did in the northwest are really not human affairs. You bought a lot of generals and asked them to serve you as masters. But you have visited the Northwest How do the people live? Does anyone care about their lack of food and clothing? Does anyone take care of their hearts when they are afraid of war? Once the people are overwhelmed, the Northwest Army will eventually be the one to fight back."

The eldest prince is naturally superior, so he doesn't care about how the lowly people live. "Don't scare people here, what can a group of lowly people do? And I have been in the northwest for ten years, and I have been living in peace."

Li Xu and him have nothing to say, "You should be glad that the Huns are not ready to go south, otherwise, Great Yan will be in danger."

The eldest prince looked at Li Xu's leaving back, frowned and asked the guards beside him, "Did you receive a military report yesterday?"

"Yes, it is an urgent letter sent by the general, saying that there seems to be some changes on the side of the Huns. The new King of the Huns is Nuhar, the former seventh prince. He is leading troops to attack other tribes that do not obey him. It is said that more than half of the grassland has been laid down."

"Go back to the mansion!" The eldest prince hurried back to the mansion, and asked Huang Junshi to question him, "Even if Nuhaer conquered the entire grassland, he must have no troops to go south, right? People always die in wars."

Huang Junshi has a different opinion, "The Huns do not make a living by farming. When he dominates the grassland, it is estimated that it will be in autumn and winter. Winter is when the Huns are most short of food. After the turmoil in the past few years, the life of the Huns is even more difficult. Well, then, in order not to starve to death, they are more likely to go south to rob. Nuhar is a warlike person, otherwise it is impossible to defeat other opponents. He will definitely lead his troops to attack Dayan, it is only a matter of time. "

The eldest prince remembered the taller map in Li Xu's study, and said through gritted teeth: "I suspect that Li Xu is already making preparations before the battle. He will definitely let the Northern Frontier Army be in his hands. Say, he is Didn't you expect the Huns to send troops?"

Military Master Huang didn't want to go against his will, and said honestly: "King Shun is far-sighted, and he does everything with a purpose. He proposed to cut military expenditures to rectify military affairs, and he gave the frontier soldiers the way to make money, just to buy people's hearts. Now who doesn't say How is he? This morning, has the emperor made trouble for you?"

"No."

"That's a good thing. It shows that the emperor still cares about King Shun and doesn't want his family to dominate. This is the prince's opportunity, but you don't have to think about it too much. You are definitely not his first choice for the crown prince."

The First Prince glared at him, blaming Huang Ying for telling the truth, it's good for everyone to know this, why bother to say it.

"Then did the emperor show displeasure towards King Shun? Oh, you may not have noticed, did he reward King Shun or even reward him?"

"nor."

"Then it shows that the emperor is not as fond of King Shun as outsiders think."

"But..." The eldest prince told him what happened in the morning, and at the end, he said angrily: "Li Xu is just an old fox, he has grown a few more hearts than others, and when he mentions Father Emperor Xiandao, he gets excited gone."

Huang Ying also had to admire Li Xu's quick wit, he must have seen that the emperor was not happy with his series of actions, a prince, his hands were stretched out to the frontier soldiers, they were all the emperor's confidants, but now he heard King Shun, how could he be happy?

King Shun also realized this, so he used the overseas fairy island to divert the emperor's attention. The emperor's health is getting worse day by day, and what he cares about most is the chance to live a long life. There have been legends about the overseas fairy island in all dynasties. It is not surprising that the emperor will be moved .And in the past, the fairy island was just a legend, but Li Xu said that he built a sea ship and had a caravan, no matter what, before the emperor saw this caravan, he would not do anything to King Shun.

"My lord, it's not right for a subordinate to ask a question, do you still want that position?"

The eldest prince rolled his eyes at him, "What's your problem, is there anyone who doesn't like that position?"

"Subordinates think, with King Shun around, it will be very difficult for you to have a chance. If you really want to achieve great things, you have to get rid of King Shun."

"Oh, how do you get rid of it? You don't want to be my king?"

"King Shun doesn't like to accompany too many guards. When there is no one around him, what if he succeeds?"

The eldest prince was walking around in the study, uneasy. It is said that Li Xu has been assassinated more than once since he came to the capital. It is not so easy to assassinate a prince.

"There is an inseparable guard beside Li Xu. It seems that his martial arts are very high. There is also Kou Xiao who often guards by his side."

"It's impossible for General Kou to guard him [-] hours a day. That guard...he feels very strange to me. He doesn't look like a man in the Jianghu, but a professionally trained soldier like you."

"It's so strange, Li Xu is surrounded by soldiers."

Huang Ying didn't know how to explain, but that's not the point. "After all, he's only one person, or we can start with the little princess. The little princess went to Xishan. It's better to start there than the capital. I heard that King Shun values ​​this daughter very much."

The eldest prince pondered for a long time, then shook his head and said: "No, Li Xu only has one daughter, and it's normal for him to value her, but it is definitely impossible to give up the throne for her. Without his daughter, he can still have a lot of troubles. If the matter between him and Kou Xiao If it's true, then the daughter born to this ex-wife can't value anything more."

"Then what do you mean?"

"What shit means, are you thinking about how to assassinate Li Xu now? Now you are thinking about how to save this king's life. Li Xu is much more ruthless than this king. If he wants the Northwest Army, the next step is to kill him." king."

Huang Ying smiled unkindly. It turned out that the eldest prince was still awake. Before returning to the capital, the eldest prince was very confident, as if he could lead the 30 Northwest Army to flatten the capital, kill all competitors, and ascend the throne .

But the reality made him sober. In this intriguing court, except for those troops far in the northwest, he couldn't compete with King Shun and the ministers in the court. However, King Shun's excellence was beyond Huang Ying's expectations.

He had never met King Shun before, and only heard a lot of his comments from the eldest prince, as well as news from the outside world. He thought he was just an elegant, smart, and kind prince, but it turned out to be obviously not the case.

"My lord, why don't you surrender to King Shun?" Junshi Huang bit the bullet and suggested, and he retreated silently to the door.

Sure enough, the next moment a jade ornament smashed to pieces at his feet, and with the First Prince's skill, it didn't land on him, which showed that he was not very angry, maybe it was just because he couldn't save face.

"Get out, don't say that again!"

Huang Ying quickly rolled away, stood in the courtyard and looked at Gao Qiang opposite, next door was Prince Shun's palace, should he explore the way first?

The eldest prince was walking around the room like a raging lion, and he roared outside: "Huang Ying, get the hell out of here!"

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Li Xu returned home very late that day. After dinner, he listened to the new housekeeper report on the development of the next door. When the next door was under construction, he had someone secretly tamper with it. There was a secret road leading to the next door from the garden of his house. , and it just leads to the yard of the study, and you can hear a lot of corners in the dark.

After listening to the report, Li Xu felt better, and then wrote a letter to be sent to Nanyue, asking Qin Zuxin to bring people and goods to the capital before the Mid-Autumn Festival.

After he went to Beijing, Qin Zuxin took the boat out to sea, went to the island that Kou Xiao discovered before, did a lot of business, and brought back many rare treasures, and then he went to sea again, going even further, He just got the news that he brought back a lot of good things this time, and a whole boat full of people.

Qin Zuxin always knew that Li Xu was short of people. He did a human trafficking business. He bought a boat with a few bolts of silk and satin. The young men and women were all strong and strong, and imported the first batch of foreign population for South Vietnam.

Although Li Xu doesn't like buying and selling people, if the other party is willing, they will be good citizens when they come, so there is no psychological burden.

There was still a month before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Xu persuaded the emperor to order the generals of the frontier army to come to the capital to visit their relatives. These frontier generals have a general's mansion in the capital, and most of their family members are also in the capital. It is normal for them to come back to visit their relatives.

Three days later, the eldest prince entered the door next door at night and sat awkwardly opposite Li Xu. Throw people out.

Seeing that he didn't talk about the main point, Li Xu simply spoke up and asked, "What does the emperor think of the Huns?"

The eldest prince pursed his lips and said contemptuously: "A group of barbarians, what can I say, they are rude and cruel, and they don't understand etiquette."

"Then if there is an opportunity to make the Xiongnu more chaotic, is the emperor willing to take action?"

The eldest prince looked at him vigilantly, "What bad idea are you thinking again? I warn you, don't plot against me, otherwise everyone will be killed!"

"Don't get excited, Brother Huang, listen to me first." Li Xu poured him a cup of tea, and then expressed his thoughts, "You must have heard about the Huns, Nuhaer is a He is courageous and cruel by nature. He is warlike and looks at Dayan covetously. Once he unifies the grassland, his next step will definitely be to lead his troops to attack Dayan. Dayan has lived too comfortably for more than ten years. Small battles are constantly going on. Those elite soldiers who have experienced in the past have almost retreated, and now those soldiers in the frontier army are no match for the Xiongnu soldiers at all, you don’t want to refute this, big brother?”

"Then how can it be? My Dayan can have millions of troops at any time, how many people are there for the Huns? How many troops can they dispatch?"

"If I were Nuhar, I would only need [-] cavalrymen, and I would be able to attack Dayan like a bamboo shooter. Before Dayan was ready to return to defense, I would be able to attack all the way to the capital, do you believe it?"

"It's not that easy!" The First Prince frowned and retorted.

"Soldiers are expensive and fast. One hundred thousand Huns cavalry is no joke. Even 20 Yan soldiers may not be able to resist, unless we can prepare early and have a city wall to rely on."

"You keep talking."

"We have to make preparations early. We can't wait for the other party to gather troops to launch an attack before defending, so this king has made a detailed plan." Li Xu clapped his hands, and someone outside sent a big sand table in. Thumbnails from east to west.

Shock flashed in the First Prince's eyes, the sand table was so realistic, and the sand table in the military was only for a certain location, but no one had ever made such a large and detailed sand table.

Li Xu pointed to a few places with a stick, which is the main city of the Extreme Frontier Army, "If I were Nuhaer, I would definitely not go to these places when I led my troops south. The border of Dayan is long, even if there is the Great Wall." There are many places that can enter Dayan without any loopholes. However, the location of the King's Court of the Huns is to the west, closer to the northwest, so I predict that he will attack from a certain position in this section...

The two cities of Liangzhou and Changye are both possible, and the defenses are weak. If you capture these two cities, you can march eastward. After getting the news, the Northwest Army can only chase after them, but the Huns cavalry are extremely fast. , it is difficult to catch up, the northwest is sparsely populated, it is easy for them to fight all the way, and they will not encounter resistance until Shangjun.

My plan is to draw some troops from Liangzhou and Changye to make it look like they are powerless to resist, and let them retreat if they resist casually, and take the initiative to give up these two cities. "

"You're crazy!" The eldest prince exclaimed, "Even if they are two small cities, they would lose part of their troops if they want to take them down."

Li Xu continued: "Then, when they enter the northwest territory, they will definitely march in a hurry, try not to engage in battle with the Dayan army, and reduce casualties, but they will not bring much military rations, and all the supplies they need must be robbed in the northwest, so they must not just go to school from a young age. There is no way to grab enough food in the villages and towns, so he will choose one or two medium-sized cities with weak troops, quickly attack and plunder, and even massacre the city, so as to avoid the leakage of news as much as possible.”

"So, we must stop them before they find this target. If they are willing to give up one or two cities, it is actually best to wait for them to lay an ambush on the way to Shangjun. At this time, they have a little bit of sweetness. I am not as hungry and thirsty as when I first came here. Even after killing people and seeing blood nerves in a state of excitement, people will become lazy and lethality will be greatly reduced. However, there is a natural canyon five hundred miles away from Shangjun. The only way to Shangjun is also the best ambush point."

"Okay! That's it!" The eldest prince slammed the table down. He knew the canyon, and he would pass through there when he returned to the capital, and knew that it was indeed a good place to ambush.

Li Xu stretched out his finger and shook it, "I've said it before, that's the best place, but the premise is that one or two cities or even more must be given up, but this king is not willing to part with it, it is a living life, it is the big swallow. civil."

The eldest prince retorted disapprovingly: "If sacrificing them can wipe out the Huns army at once, then it is worth it, otherwise it will be Sergeant Dayan who will die."

"It's different. The duty of the common people is to live a good life. The duty of the sergeant is to defend the country. A group of unarmed civilians should not be allowed to sacrifice for Dayan. Moreover, the frontier soldiers should also experience some blood."

"It's easy to say, but what if the Huns are not stopped? Who will bear the consequences?"

"One yard is one yard. I chose this place as the first ambush point." Li Xu clicked on a certain place on the sand table. It was neither a valley nor a forest, but a complex terrain of Danxia landform. Changye is not far away.

"This is not suitable for large soldiers to fight, but it is suitable for ambushes by small groups of troops. This kind of terrain is not suitable for cavalry to walk fast and unstable. It should be able to weaken their troops appropriately."

"But how do you ensure that they will go here? This place is not on the way."

"What if we intentionally reveal the news that our Northwest army is waiting for them here?" Li Xu pointed to another place, "I can lure them into this area."

"What if it doesn't work?"

"Then keep fighting." Li Xu threw away his stick, he didn't want to discuss tactics with the eldest prince, this should be what generals who are good at fighting do, and many of what he thought were suggestions from Kou Xiao.

"Oh, I forgot to mention one point. This is the second one. First, we should send people to the Huns to create some chaos. Don't let Nuhar's unification road go too smoothly."

"I still have people over there, but it's not easy to create chaos? It's not bad if you don't reveal your secrets."

Li Xu looked at the eldest prince cheerfully, and joked: "I didn't say I would do anything bad, I just want to discuss business with Nuhar."

"You are crazy!" The eldest prince said for the second time.

"Don't worry, they need food, drink, and clothing. The grassland resources are scarce. This business can still be done, and it can affect their livelihood for a whole year. Nuhal is definitely willing to put down the war in his hands and spend some time talking about business. .”

The eldest prince finally left with his heart full of thoughts. I don't know if such a result counted as a surrender, but tonight he also saw that Li Xu actually understands military affairs, and he speaks clearly and logically. He doesn't know whether it is his own thinking or someone taught him.

He returned to Zhenbei Prince's Mansion in a daze, Huang Ying didn't even dare to show his face, fearing that he would be an eyesore if he couldn't afford to let this person appear by himself, it wasn't until the next day that he learned from him that King Shun was really going to attack the Huns.

However, he did not expect that King Shun would think of doing business with King Hun. If it was someone else, he would suspect that the other party was in collusion with King Hun, but this person was King Shun, so he would only think that King Shun was plotting against him again.

Has King Shun ever done a loss-making business?Shouldn't there be?