The King of Liang, the feudal lords outside the town, and the generals inside

After capturing Zhangju Mountain and Jieyangzha, the next target is Pingzhou City. The guards of Pingzhou City, Dong Ci and Mu Fengyi, have a close friendship.Under Mu Fengyi's persuasion, Dong Ci opened the city and surrendered.

So far, since the rise of troops in Sichuan and Shu, he has successively attacked the city and pulled out the stronghold to accept soldiers, and with the addition of some newly recruited soldiers, Baiyu has nearly 30 soldiers, and the soldiers are vigorous and their morale is high.

At this time, Cen An had also finished rectifying military affairs in the Northwest and led the army to the south to hand over the thieves.

After a period of experience, Bai Yu gradually began to get acquainted with many generals, big and small, and also understood how to act as the master to dispatch the army under his command. The relationship between him and the generals was also very harmonious.Under Bai Yu's rule of rewarding those who deserve merit and punishing those who commit crimes, everything is orderly and peaceful.

Although Bai Yu did not clearly distinguish the ranks of the generals, they all defaulted to Qin Ran as the leader.When discussing to resist Cen An's army that day, they disagreed because of one incident.

The cause of this incident was the rebellious but unstoppable White Horse Army.This cavalry made great achievements in attacking Jieyangzha. They infiltrated Ding Zhao's camp with a mere few hundred people and turned Jieyangzha upside down.With such a strong combat power, some of the generals present may be slightly inferior.

But everything has two sides.The most troublesome question is, who will directly lead them?

Qin Ran's idea was to choose one of them as the chief general, but Mu Fengyi objected, he said: "This cavalry is self-contained, if the chief general is also one of them, I'm afraid they will not obey discipline, and they will not lose their tails .”

Qin Ran asked him, "Then who do you think is suitable?"

Mu Fengyi scanned the crowd, and his eyes fell on the newly arrived Dong Ci.Dong Ci understood his eyes, shook his head again and again and said: "I can't do it, I just surrendered, how could they obey me?"

Mu Fengyi looked at Yuchi Yuanhe again, he was not happy either.This is also normal, the White Horse Army is a hot potato, whoever picks it up will feel uncomfortable.It would be fine if they were obedient and obedient, but if one day their temper came up, who would be able to control someone who couldn't be beaten by wild wolves?

Qin Ran said: "I also think Dong Ci is suitable. We all have our own strengths. I am good at leading the army to charge forward, Mu Fengyi is good at running surprise attacks and ambushes, Yuchi Yuanhe is good at defending the city, Dong Ci, you are not the best at training soldiers ?"

"The last general trains soldiers, they are all normal soldiers..." He muttered, "But General Qin said that, do we lack an all-rounder commander? The kind who can do everything?"

Everyone was silent for a moment, Dong Ci's words made them think of someone naturally.

Mu Fengyi coughed lightly, breaking the embarrassment, "That..."

The curtain was lifted, Bai Yu walked in, everyone stood up and saluted immediately, Qin Ran stepped aside, wanting to give the main seat to Bai Yu.

But Bai Yu didn't go to sit down, straight to the point and said: "From now on, the White Horse Army will be under my control and follow my orders directly."

Qin Ran heaved a sigh of relief, and finally unloaded the big rock.

"As for the commander-in-chief, I can't help it. But it doesn't matter. It's good for you to work together and discuss together."

"Yes."

Bai Yu nodded, "Okay, you guys continue, I'm leaving."

The moment Bai Yu finished speaking, her figure disappeared in front of everyone.He came suddenly and left even more suddenly, they didn't have time to see each other off, Qin Ran was stunned for a long time before sitting down again.

Qiu Ye followed Bai Yu, wondering, "Your Highness, why..."

Bai Yu said: "Do you know why there is such a sentence as 'the king's life will not be tolerated'?"

Qiu Ye shook his head.

"A lot of times it's not that the generals deliberately disobeyed the emperor's orders, but that the emperor didn't understand the situation in the army, and some of the orders he issued were originally wrong. This is the reason. If I interfere too much, it will only let They are tied up and unable to concentrate on the war. It seems that the greatest role of a commander is not how many things he can do in person, but having such a backbone, the soldiers have hope no matter whether they win or lose."

Qiu Ye suddenly realized, and said: "Your Highness is well versed in the way to understand the Lord."

Bai Yu smiled and said, "Stop flattering."

Everything is going on as planned until this day.

This solar eclipse came suddenly, and all the officials were discussing state affairs in the court hall. Just as they were about to go down to court, they saw the bright sun that had been shining brightly disappearing little by little, and the sun was covered, leaving only a golden halo.The ministers were shocked.

The early court was not completed, and the emperor immediately summoned Si Tianqin and Cui Jin to the palace to face the saint, and he said: "My lord, I watched the sky last night and found a comet entering the Big Dipper, and today I saw a solar eclipse. All masters are in great trouble! Forgive me for your courage, there will be disasters in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the day when the world will change masters is not far away!"

There was no sound in the court hall, everyone looked at each other, with different expressions, and stole their eyes to see the emperor in unison.The emperor's face remained unchanged, and he said calmly: "Is Aiqing talking about King Liang? King Liang has raised his army for nearly a year, how come there are comets attacking Beidou and solar eclipse until now?"

Cui Jin said: "Reporting to the Holy Majesty, I have carefully studied it, and the year star travels to the end of the year, not the Yizhen or Fangxin where King Liang is. It seems that the owner of this astrology is not King Liang."

Now the emperor was confused, "When Sui Xing travels to Piaobi, he will travel near Shangjing. Isn't that a good thing? I'm in Shangjing, so the astrology should be favorable to me."

Cui Jin shook her head, "No, Your Majesty, I'm afraid there is another more dangerous person near Shangjing who is plotting to steal the Great Zhou Guozuo. Sui Xing travels to the end of the Pleiades, the main thing is that person's wish is fulfilled, and the comet offends Beidou and solar eclipse." , it is His Majesty..." At this point, he dared not speak any more.

The emperor did not speak, and the expression on his face was not very good-looking.

A few days later, rumors spread from somewhere that someone had actually seen King Liang near the capital, Shangjing.

People are surprised when they first hear it, but when they think about it, they can't help but feel horrified.

A well-known wandering Taoist priest in the rivers and lakes made a fortune for Baiyu.He wondered: "On the fifth day of the ninth month of the Renchen year, King Liang's birth date is extremely precious. But the strange thing is, how did I calculate the fate of two King Liang?"

Immediately afterwards, rumors came from nowhere, and everyone said that the tomb of King Min was empty.

There is no need for more guidance, everyone will instinctively connect these things, and then add fuel and vinegar to spread it.It didn't take long for a story that was both grotesque and deeply compelling to gain widespread acceptance.To make a long story short of this story, the King of Mercy did not die.

Although the emperor declared that Baiyu's biological mother was Concubine Kanggui, the paper couldn't contain the fire. Everyone knew about the twins born to Empress Shuyuan.As for the dead baby that Empress Shuyuan showed to the Queen Mother back then, some people have given a "reasonable explanation" now.

When Bai Yu heard about this, he immediately went to ask Kui Zheng, who couldn't laugh or cry, and said, "This is all a rumour, why do you take it seriously? If that child was still alive, I would have told you a long time ago."

"Those people said that because twins are an unlucky sign, if the royal family gives birth to twins, they always keep only one, but the mother and concubine are reluctant. So when the father was alive, he made preparations for her, waiting for the mother and concubine After giving birth, another baby was used to replace him, and the prince who was supposed to be executed was sent out of the palace. Unexpectedly, the father passed away before we were born, but his arrangement at that time still saved my brother." Bai Yu stared at him firmly. Looking straight, he asked him, "Master, since my concubine was able to send me out of the palace to you, couldn't she leave a letter and mention it?"

Zhengzheng said: "I have the letter, I showed it to you, she only said that I should take good care of you, and that the throne should belong to you, she exchanged her and your brother's two lives for you to leave the palace safely, I hope you When I grow up, I can take back the throne and avenge them."

Bai Yu was a little disappointed.

Cui Zheng said again: "Think about it carefully, if your younger brother was really alive at that time, and the dead baby that the queen mother saw was not him, then why didn't your mother and concubine hand you both to me, and insisted on separating them? Me, who else can she trust outside the palace? Besides, your concubine mother has clearly stated in her letter that she will exchange her and your brother's two lives in exchange for your safe exit from the palace."

Bai Yu glanced at Qianzheng, frowned and didn't speak.

Chu Zheng understood, "You don't believe what I said?"

Bai Yu didn't answer him, but said: "I'm not sure whether the letter was written by my concubine mother or not. But such a rumor suddenly spread in Shangjing, it can't be groundless."

Qianzheng sighed, his tone was difficult, and he was about to cry, "Since you don't trust me anymore, I don't need to say too much, if you can see the so-called King of Compassion with your own eyes someday, then blame me."

"Master, that's not what I meant..." Bai Yu looked at Quezheng, feeling a little sorry.

"I know, I've been plotting a lot in secret to force you to rebel, and you've been blaming me in your heart. But I didn't do this for myself, and I won't be the one who sits on the throne in the future."

"Master raised me up so that I would not marry for the rest of my life. I will engrave all these kindnesses in my heart and dare not forget them." Bai Yu said, kneeling in front of Kui, and looking up at him, "However, until now, I had to come up with an idea that maybe Master was just doing it for my mother’s last wish, or for the throne, rather than out of pure love for me. If Master really loves me, he would wish me a happy life and fulfill what I want, Rather than imposing your own wishes on me, and saying that it is for me. I understand this from Yan Xun's mother."

Bai Yu's words made Qi Zheng feel dazed for a while, he looked at Bai Yu blankly, and said for a while, "You, how can you say such a thing?"

Bai Yu said: "There are many things I didn't understand when I was young, but now that I think about it, they all make sense. We were so poor at that time, we could make do with food and clothing, but Master put a lot of effort into cultivating me. I am stingy. The two gentlemen that the master invited to teach me taught me not the books that ordinary literati read for fame and fame, but how to govern the country as a wise king and sage."

Cui Zheng was silent for a while, and asked him back, "Is there anything wrong with this?"

"If you stand in your position, Master, there is nothing wrong with it." Bai Yu stood up, bowed deeply to Qi Zheng, turned and left.