When the big bull's loud voice into the hall, Chu Chao Hui's body became stiff, the color of his face suddenly red and white change constantly. He came in before, specially wait in the hall outside the duty of Ma Ren, tonight who look for Zheng Yuming do not let go, heavenly things wait until tomorrow to say, just pondered that no one disturbed tonight to get what they want, did not expect to wish to be broken again.
"Huh, why does Da Niu seem to be arguing with the guards?" Zheng Yuming put down the pamphlet in his hand,and pricked his ears to listen to the sounds outside.
"Hmph, good no eyes to see the guy." Chu Zhaohui resentful low humming, guards have no weapons in hand? How not to split this uninteresting guy!
Zheng Yuming turned back at his words, a smile on his face. "Da Niu is straight, he won't quarrel with the guards for no reason."
"I merely want two people to stay quietly for a night." Chu Chaohui walked behind Jung Yuming and hugged, burying his head in Jung Yuming's neck.
Zheng Yuming patted Chu Chaohui's hand to comfort him, "Chaohui, we have a long time to come, in the future... Well, in the future we have a lifetime."
"Yes, we have a lifetime." Chu Chao Hui embraced Jung Yuming's two hands and tightened them a little harder, as if this could alleviate his depression.
Da Niu stood outside the gate of the palace courtyard, both sleeves rolled up, crossed his arms and roared furiously at Ma Ren. "Brother Huang is having an urgent matter to report to the two lords, how can we delay it until tomorrow!"
After the safety of the royal city, East Sima and South Sima's family members have returned to their respective mansions, Da Niu completed the task to Zheng Yuming here to report, walked to Zheng Yuming's palace courtyard door, saw Huang Zhong and Ma Ren in the negotiation, a want to go in to see Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui, one is blocked without accommodating. Da Niu and Huang Zhong relationship is good, immediately help Huang Zhong yell up.
"My lord is only following orders." Maren's face was expressionless, oblivious to the spittle that Da Niu splattered on his face.
"Ch-ching..." Da Niu see how to say not move Ma Ren, fire, with one hand to push Ma Ren, do not want to fail to push, which makes Da Niu rare up, his strength a great, just pushed Ma Ren with half of the force, the average person in such a force is not able to stand, did not expect in front of the eyes of less than 170 centimeters of the short man but in his brute force under the ripples.
"Da Niu, don't be reckless." Da Niu roared at the palace courtyard gate, making Huang Zhong anxious at the bottom of his heart, he pulled one of Da Niu's arms hard to prevent Da Niu from pushing Ma Ren again. Huang Zhong knew Da Niu very well, he was afraid that Da Niu's brutal temper would come up and really fight with Ma Ren.
Ma Ren was the first captain of the guards, and the guards next to him saw that Da Niu was bullying their family's officer, and they looked eager to try, as long as the officer gave an order, they would immediately rush up to beat Da Niu in a group.
"Da Niu, what is it?" The commotion at the entrance of the courtyard was broken up by Zheng Yuming's words as he stood at the hall entrance corridor clad in a white robe.
"My lord! Huang Zhong has urgent information to report to the two lords!" Huang Zhong hurriedly stepped out from behind Da Niu, bending down and saluting towards Zheng Yuming.
"Come in." For Huang Zhong to force his way into the palace at a time like this, there must be something significant going on. "Da Niu, you also come in." Zheng Yuming turned around before seeing Da Niu still raising his chin in demonstration at Ma Ren, feeling amused.
"Da Niu obeys the order! Da Niu will stand within the courtyard to keep watch for His Excellency." Da Niu glanced at Ma Ren and continued, "No one will let them in without your lord's permission."
When Da Niu finished speaking, he noticed that Ma Ren and the guards' faces became a little embarrassed, and he couldn't help but feel a great sense of exasperation.
"Da Niu, it's the duty of a soldier to follow orders, you shouldn't have a problem with them." Zheng Yuming knew that Chu Chao Hui had specially instructed Ma Ren, and Ma Ren was only strictly following his officer's orders.
"I didn't have no problem with Captain Ma, we're all good brothers!" Da Niu scratched his head and giggled, his head couldn't hold a grudge.
"Your Excellencies, the stronghold's intelligence men captured a messenger on a major road on the northern border, and this messenger had a secret letter stamped with the Jade Seal and the Huben Seal hidden in his possession." Huang Zhong pulled out the secret letter from his bosom and handed it to Zheng Yuming. "My subordinate opened the secret letter only to realize that it was a private letter from the adulterous concubine to the King of Tang."
Zheng Yuming took the secret letter and read it hastily for a few moments, handing it to Chu Chaohui beside him, "This woman will do anything for power."
"Huang Zhong, you've done a good job with your intelligence office!" Chu Chao Hui carefully read the correspondence and praised Huang Zhong. "The Intelligence Office should continue to improve its work in the future, sometimes the role played by intelligence is worth an army."
"Thank you General for the compliment!" When he just entered the hall, the black-faced Chu Chao Hui made his heart apprehensive, now Chu Chao Hui's affirmation of the Intelligence Service made Huang Zhong's heart soar, the person in power in the future of the Wu Kingdom will be the two Zheng Chu's, and the more credit the Intelligence Service gets, the more the person in charge will be honored in the future.
"Go down and take a rest first, it won't be too stable within the king's capital city for a while, the intelligence department has to pay attention to all sorts of unusual things." Chu Chao Hui gave a key task to Huang Zhong, asking him to pay attention to the movements of all forces within the royal city, as long as Zheng Yuming didn't sit on the throne of Wu, Chu Chao Hui wouldn't feel at ease for a day.
"Your humble servant accepts the order!" Huang Zhong bent down and saluted to take his leave.
"Take this with you, and show it to the guards if you have an urgent report in the future." Zheng Yuming handed Huang Zhong a brand new RMB.
"Aye! My lord!" Huang Zhong received the red RMB in an agitated mood, he had stayed in the valley and knew what the red hard paper represented, only the two Zheng Chu's beloved ones had this kind of credentials in their hands.
"Yuming, now summon the ministers of the royal court to the palace to deliberate, I want to get rid of the Tang King before the Spring Festival." Chu Chao Hui looked at the secret letter in his hand and laughed, this secret letter exposed all of Ripple Ji's collusion with the King of Tang, having the King of Tang's nasty handles, destroying the Kingdom of Tang was all justified.
"Continue to use soldiers? It's about to enter a harsh winter, it's tough for the soldiers to fight, and it's difficult to provide logistics." Zheng Yuming is worried, it is now late October, last year at this time, the border of Wu was already freezing, but this year, the northwest winds are not fierce, the temperature has not yet dropped drastically, the temperature in the border area has not yet reached below zero, this year's winter in Wu is warmer than in previous years.
"Fear not, we have small bays to transport supplies, we have a lot more advantages than the Tang army that has no logistical support at all." Chu Chao Hui just wanted to take the Tang army in Wu territory before the temperature dropped drastically, eliminating this Tang army was to eliminate the main military force of Tang, a country without an army to protect it could only be slaughtered.
"I hope this war will not be too long." Zheng Yuming had a headache, he hoped that there was peace and quiet within Wu, so that he could have time to do some good construction, and after the economy had developed, Zheng Yuming wanted to slowly cultivate the democratic consciousness of the nationals, and use the economic development trend of the nationals of Wu to touch the reform of the slavery feudalism system by themselves. Zheng Yuming had already tempted most of the nobles to abolish the slavery system automatically with benefits in Dacheng.
Zheng Yuming's ideals were that the vast majority of the nation could lead a good life, that schoolchildren of the right age could have the opportunity to learn to read and write, and that the legal system governing rights would be enacted in a gradual and orderly manner.
"I want to split my army into two ways this time, one way is to go to the border to join the Tang army with the large army led by the Eastern and Southern Sima, the other way is to send cavalry to the north to pacify the Northern Hou." Chu Chao Hui wanted to solve all the hidden dangers in one go, and if these two wars were then quickly won, the nobles within the Wu Kingdom who were no longer willing to serve Zheng Yuming as the Great King would not have the guts to come out and oppose.
"Luckily, many money was captured, and Dr. Jiang and Ripple Ji stored a large amount of grain and grass in the Wangdu city in order to defend the city for a long period of time." Wangdu grain and grass all fell into Zheng Yuming's hands, without these, Chu Chao Hui's continuous militarization like this, the grain and wealth he had saved for three years could not be supported at all.
After Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui agreed to use troops against Tang and Beihou, they sent people overnight to summon all the ministers and nobles of the royal court into the palace, and those who were not happy to come sent soldiers to invite them by force, so much so that a few timid nobles thought that the royal capital was going to be in great turmoil again, and that they would be the third batch of unlucky ones to be massacred out of the city.
The palace of deliberation is the palace where King Wu received Zheng Yuming for the first time, the high platform throne in the palace is still the same, three feet high green bronze tripod without the curling aroma, waiting for the royal court ministers and nobles in the palace with different looks, some are excited, some are afraid, some are cautious, and some are proudly standing up.
Taifu was the one with a proud look, he coldly stared at Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui who walked in side by side, if Zheng Yuming dared to sit on the throne of the great king, he would headbutt his head and die under the wooden platform.
"Everyone, please take your seats." Zheng Yuming was very polite, he didn't go on top of the wooden platform, but had people set up a desk in front of it, and sat side by side with Chu Chaohui on both sides of the desk.
The way Zheng Yuming took his seat in this way made the Taifu slightly flabbergasted, and after the flabbergast, he realized that his colleagues on the left and right had already taken their seats.
"Tai Fu, please take the seat, the matter that I discussed with all the ridge pursers tonight is very important, I had to send soldiers to invite them, where I offended Tai Fu, I hope that Tai Fu will bear with me." Chu Chao Hui stood up and rushed at the Tai Fu who was still standing in the great hall and bowed.
Tai Fu looked at Chu Chao Hui without saying anything, Chu Chao Hui's face was unchanged, still sincere as hell. "This big event non-tai fu such ridge purser together to participate in order to make the right decision."
Taifu slowly walked to the left side of the first place, his rights in the royal court is not as good as the left doctor, but the prestige has always been the highest, the position in the royal court ranked in the left doctor on the first.
"The Kingdom of Wu cannot be without a lord for a day, I ask the Prince to inherit the throne at an early date." A nobleman thought that Zheng Yuming summoned him so late because he wanted to sit on the throne of the great king earlier, and in his heart, he wanted to be the one to champion the king, so he hurriedly proposed ahead of the crowd.
Chu Chao Hui's heart stirred as he carefully observed the expressions of the various people in the hall, and was disappointed to find that a portion of the people led by the Crown Prince still did not agree with Zheng Yuming's status as a prince.
Zheng Yuming similarly sensed the questioning attitude of Tai Fu's group of celebrities towards him, and he looked down in thought for a moment and waved his hand towards the advising nobles. "The matter of the throne will be discussed after Wu is pacified. Here is a secret letter in Ripple Ji's own handwriting that the border soldiers intercepted at the main road, everyone, let's take a look at the contents." Zheng Yuming had Da Niu send the secret letters to the royal court ministers and nobles one by one to read them.
Taifu was the first to pass through the eyes, and after scanning the contents twice his face turned pale and shriveled above his seat.
In his lower head of the hussar general read, immediately cursed: "adulterous consort scourge of the country and the people, deserved to die, if it is not the kingdom of Wu got the spirit of the late king in heaven blessing, so that the three dukes escaped the hands of this poisonous woman, the kingdom of Wu will be destroyed in the hands of this poisonous woman."
"The lord of Tang is despicable, shameless and insatiable, half of the great misfortune of Wu is due to the greed of the lord of Tang, I, Mr. Wei, request that Your Excellency send troops to crusade against this shameless ruler and return justice to Wu!" Wei Ren was the first one to propose sending troops to crusade against Tang under the authorization of Chu Chao Hui.
"Not bad, we should crusade against this greedy ruler!" The ministers and nobles agreed.
Zheng Yuming glanced at Tai Fu, who looked favorable to the plan of sending troops. After the Ulsan army took the royal capital, many royal court ministers and nobles defected in droves, only the famous people of the royal city led by Tai Fu closed the doors of their houses tightly and did not say a word. By doing so, the Tae Fu did not recognize Zheng Yuming's status as a prince. But the master, like Wang Jie, is a famous scholar, very famous among the vassal states, if Zheng Yuming can obtain the approval of the master, the throne is 100% orthodox.
"Here is also news of the Northern Marquis' unauthorized treason." Chu Chaohui looked around the crowd in the great hall.
"I think that the Northern Marquis is establishing himself in his own fiefdom, so it's not considered treason, is it?" A minister said in a low voice.
"How is it not treason? The fiefs that successive great kings have divided amongst their feudal lords are all part of the Kingdom of Wu, the integrity of the Kingdom of Wu cannot be divided by anyone, if the Northern Marquis' move to establish himself was not treasonous, and the feudal lords of all places followed suit, would the Kingdom of Wu still exist now?" Zheng Yuming coldly grunted.
One of King Wu's concubine brothers was the first to stand up and object, two of King Wu's three concubine brothers had already died in Ripple Ji's seizure of the throne, and this only surviving concubine brother was the first to defect to Ripple Ji, and was the first to show his favor to Ulsan after the king's capital had been overrun by Ulsan. "Not bad, the Northern Marquis did not rise up to help the country in times of crisis, instead he took the opportunity to establish himself, he has already lost his clan qualifications."
Tai Fu looked up at this feudal lord and lowered his eyelids to close his eyes.
With King Wu's concubine brother stepping forward, the decision to send troops against the Northern Marquis was also finalized on the spot. In order to rush to send troops before the cold wave, three days later, Chu Chao Hui and Zhou Cheng led the valley's 2,000 soldiers and the 10,000 Huben who had defected to the north border.
Wei Qing and Zeng You led the additional 2,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry to attack the Northern Marquis, Wei Ren's 4,000 Huben still stayed in the royal capital to protect Zheng Yuming, besides Chu Chaohui, Wei Ren was the second person who wished Zheng Yuming to be safe and sound.
With the departure of the two armies, the royal capital appeared empty all of a sudden. After the remnants of Ripple Ji and Jiang Dafu's forces were completely cleared away, martial law was lifted in the royal capital city, and the people began to come out of their homes to live a normal life.
One night in early November, when a northern cold front enveloped the royal capital, Tai Fu went alone to the royal palace to seek an audience with Zheng Yuming.