For the emperor

In the autumn of the 22nd year of Emperor Jing of the Great Cang Kingdom, the news of Chengyue's battle spread to Jingjing City of the Cang Kingdom, and the two-year peace in the Wuji Continent was finally broken in one fell swoop.

The general pattern of the relationship between the four kingdoms of Wuji was established more than 100 years ago when Chengguo was founded. Among the four kingdoms, Cangguo and Qiguo are the enemies of life and death. The contradictions are irreconcilable, and the real hatred is as deep as the sea.

At this time, before Cang Tiansu were two alliance documents from different countries. Since ancient times, political rhetoric has been repeated over and over again, but he still can’t get rid of the frame. Li Renqiang, the leader.

Emperor Cang Jing sat on the resplendent dragon chair, stroking the tabletop with his left hand, resting his right elbow on the armrest, touching his temple with his fingertips, his peach blossom eyes facing the heavy phoenix eyes of the sky, gently Blink.

He plucked up the courage to make a small show of goodwill, but found that the eldest son was not moved at all, Cang Tiansu looked calm and composed, took a sip of the tea cup, but never raised his eyes since then.

Emperor Cang Jing secretly sighed in his heart, immediately restrained his sadness, and waited patiently for the generals present to circulate the two alliance documents.

"You are all the pillars and pillars of our Great Cang Kingdom. It is because of you who lead the army and fight against life and death that we have the great national prestige of our Great Cang Kingdom today." To be an emperor, you need to understand what it means to be relaxed. These generals are all the generals of the Cang Kingdom who are good at fighting. Cang Jinglan did not hesitate to praise him. He praised him first before continuing, "You have also seen that Chengyue and Yue are at war. There is not much difference in the strength of the country, and their respective envoys are staying at the post station, waiting for my reply."

With clear and thorough eyes, Emperor Cang Jing swept over everyone's faces slowly and heavily, and his voice was deep and magnetic: "When the Great Cang Kingdom was founded, the Taizu once said that the world will be governed by all lovers. Today's decision will definitely affect the situation of various countries in the next few decades or even hundreds of years, and it is related to the ups and downs of the Great Cang Kingdom, so I want to ask you all about your thoughts."

None of the generals below chose to be the first to speak out. After all, the First Prince was also there. No matter his status or prestige among the people, he should be the first to speak up.

Cang Tiansu had other plans, although Emperor Cangjing clearly asked them the question of choosing an alliance partner, in fact, it was also alluding to the international relationship between Cang Kingdom and Qi Kingdom.

To use the simplest example, Yueguo is a herbivorous buffalo, and Chengguo is a wild lion hunter. For Emperor Cang Jing, is there really a fundamental difference between choosing to join the lions to swallow the buffalo or to help the buffalo resist the lion?What Emperor Cang Jing wanted was to swallow both the buffalo and the lion, and use their flesh and blood as food to become a part of the Cang kingdom.

This question that was left for everyone to discuss is actually meaningless at all. Which country to choose is not in line with Emperor Jing's original intention. He raised his eyes and looked at the emperor who was pretending to be stupid. Endless joy bloomed.

Cang Tiansu had a subtle expression, grabbed the teacup and took another sip, quietly lowered his head to listen to the emperor's roll call, and asked the generals present to express their opinions one by one.

After the whole circle of people finished speaking, Emperor Jing raised his hand and pointed at Cang Tiansu, his smile was much gentler than before: "Tiansu, what do you think?"

"I believe that we don't need to mix things up. Now that the strength gap between Chengyue and Yue is not obvious, they won't take too much bargaining chips to form an alliance with Cangguo. Absolutely won’t get more than a quarter of the land.” He paused for a moment before continuing, “Instead of pinning our hopes on benefits that are far away, we might as well focus on Qi Guo, who is dying.”

Ten years ago, the land area of ​​Qi State itself was the largest in the Wuji Continent. Now it lost more than half of its territory due to the battle with the Northwest Army, and the remaining less than half of the land area is enough to be at the same level as the entire Cheng State or Yue State.

What's more, the land in the east of the Promise Continent is generally rich in water and grass, and the soil is fertile. Both Qi Kingdom and Cang Kingdom are large agricultural countries. How can Cheng Kingdom, which focuses on animal husbandry, compare with it?

As long as Cang Kingdom stands on the sidelines and takes advantage of the fierce battle between Cheng State and Yue State to encroach on the whales and swallow Qi State, the other two countries will have no time to spare. In order not to make such a powerful enemy, they will probably not interfere.

The only question is whether the now weak Cang Kingdom still has the ability to go to war with the Qi Kingdom.

As soon as Cang Tiansu finished speaking, Emperor Jing's eyes lit up in vain, showing that he had thought of such a rogue method a long time ago, but it was just that no one came up with it for a long time.

At that time, all the generals chose a single country without exception. It is not that these people all have the ability to come up with a better solution. My heart is clear.

The only difference is that some people don't say that they don't want to be stupid, while others want to leave this opportunity to Prince Yong, who is deeply favored by the emperor.

Sure enough, Emperor Jing sighed with an expression of "You still understand me in the world", looked down at the teacup in front of him, and looked up deeply at Cang Tiansu. After repeating this six times, he just slapped the table and laughed. Said: "What my son said is true."

The eyes filled with "I am so happy that we are in harmony" made the eldest prince of Cang Kingdom bow his head and drink the third sip of tea silently. Li Quan rushed over to refill his teacup with great hospitality.

Emperor Jing smiled at him again, and then he became serious, and said in a deep voice: "From today onwards, the Pingyang Army and the Central Army will be merged, with Zhang Guangwen as the chief general and Li Guangde as the deputy general. The two troops in the northwest and southeast have increased to 30, Li Renqiang, the leader of the Northwest Army, will rush to the frontier tomorrow, and if there is any trouble, I will allow you to do it cheaply."

Acting on the cheap, the translation means that when you encounter an opportunity to take advantage, in order to prevent delays, you can directly make decisions without reporting to the emperor.After all, the battle report was sent from the northwest to Jingjing, and it was transported to the northwest after the emperor's instructions. It would take a few months to go back and forth, and everything would be delayed.

Li Renqiang looked at Cang Tiansu who was sitting quietly in front of him without any trace, without any hesitation in his mouth, he solemnly agreed immediately, and couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart.

Although he didn't show it, General Li is already full of worries. Duan Yu has no definite news yet, and he is still in a state of life and death. The war is about to start. This situation is really too bad. .

Li Renqiang had planned well at first, but Duan Yu did something stupid to escort Master Ningyuan and made a big mistake, and his position was captured by the emperor's public avenge to the end. When the country is at war, he can be promoted again by virtue of his military merits.

Unexpectedly, the man has not been found yet, and Emperor Jing has already transferred him away from the capital.What Li Renqiang is most worried about now is not Emperor Cang Jing, but the person he is most worried about is Cang Tiansu who is usually as close as a person with Duan Yu.

Cang Tiansu was very interested in Duan Yu on weekdays, that's right, but it was also against General Duan of the Northwest Army who held the Duan family's power in his hands, not Duan Yu who had nothing now.

Duan De's bloody lessons learned before his eyes, Li Renqiang understood very well that it is unrealistic to talk about feelings with the Cang family, especially Cang Tiansu is such a thorough Cang family, Li Renqiang really can't be optimistic enough to convince himself Cang Tiansu has confidence.

Emperor Jing reorganized the army, and a group of people discussed the details until midnight. After the incident, he still stopped Cang Tiansu, and said a lot in a roundabout way. Of course it's not to guard against you, it's just that swords have no eyes on the battlefield, if I hurt you, how can I feel at ease.

What he said made Cang Tiansu lose interest, and he didn't want to talk to him anymore.When we met yesterday, Emperor Cang Jing looked at him with a pitiful look of extreme grievances and cautiousness. I don't know why, but it was just a matter of one night, and the emperor's whole mental state was completely renewed.

Cang Tiansu even frowned specifically to reminisce, he remembered that his relationship with Emperor Cang Jing seemed to be far from reaching the level of subtle mutual tacit understanding shown by the other party.

He was the emperor who couldn't figure it out, and finally got rid of the shy state. Cang Tiansu looked at Li Quan who sent him out of the palace as usual, thought for a long time, and when he was about to leave the palace gate, he softly tried: "Eunuch Li, This king is watching, father is in a good mood today?"

Look at you, you have to pretend to be stupid when you have reached this point, don't you be shy?That's right, shouldn't you be ashamed of this kind of thing?Li Quan smiled ambiguously at him, thinking that he was a young man with a thin skin, and he was not a little bit unreasonable. He said with a smile: "I heard that you sent the civilians who were wronged by the Liu family to the fief yesterday?" Afraid of the sky Su didn't understand, so he deliberately added: "Is it called Li Gouzi?"

Damn it, after Cang Jinglan found out that the person who gave the queen the secret drug was his subordinate, he really wanted to be wrong, and the smile on Cang Tiansu's face froze a bit.

Li Quan babbled and said: "It's not that I'm a slave who talks too much. You usually come to see the emperor more when you have something to do. The emperor wants to save face. If you don't talk about it, you are actually looking forward to you in your heart. Every time you come, the emperor I don't know how happy I am."