Zhao Xuan was so eager to return home, but because his legs and arms were cut by Kui Ji's sword, he could not ride a horse, so he could only lie down on a four-wheeled carriage to return to the country. Since the four-wheeled carriage is not as fast as riding a horse, Zhao Xuan asked Bo Yao to hurry back to the capital of Zhao to gather troops.
From Dacheng to the mouth of the pharynx, there were avenues all the way, which were in good condition and suitable for four-wheeled carriages to travel. After passing through the throat and entering the territory of Zhao, the road became rugged and the four-wheeled carriages could not be used, so Zhao Xuan could only switch to horses to catch up with the road.
Returning to the capital of the Zhao Kingdom from Ulsanda Castle, it took Zhao Xuan's monarch and officials eight days. By this time, 20,000 troops drawn from the throat of Wu had already marched to the border of Tang under the leadership of Wei Qing. The 20,000 troops selected from the military camps outside of the royal capital Kang City were ready to depart at the Gao Ma Di ferry port, and the Nambu port was nervously loading supplies onto the cargo ships, with the big ships going north by the sea channel and the slightly smaller wooden ships being transported by the inland river to the wharf within the northeastern counties, and then transported to the border of Wu and Tang by vehicles and livestock.
Bo Yao rushed back to the royal capital three days earlier than Zhao Xuan, took Zhao Xuan's handwritten order and started to mobilize troops in the whole country, it would take ten days to gather the troops and horses for the Tang invasion, while the mobilization of military supplies and provisions would take about one month. The Zhao army was all ready to march out and walk to the Zhao-Tang border, it would take at least a month and a half.
When Zhao Xuan returned to the royal capital, he didn't even return to the Crown Prince's residence and went to pay his respects to the King of Zhao first.
"Ahem! To be so dimwitted as to send assassins to assassinate Xuan'er and the Duke of Wu, this Tang Lord is simply looking for death?" King Zhao coughed as he counted down the Tang King.
He already knew from Bo Yao that Zhao Xuan and Zheng Yuming had been stabbed, and now that he saw Zhao Xuan, he was first concerned about checking his son's scars. Zhao Xuan's wounds were healing well, and the level of the Minghui Valley healer who treated him was higher than the level of the healers in King Zhao's palace.
"My child has already made an agreement with the Great General of Chu that the two countries will march together to attack the Tang, and whoever captures the city of the Tang, the city will belong to whichever country owns it." Zhao Xuan told the King of Zhao the details of the agreement he signed with Chu Chao Hui.
"So, it's a race between the two countries on the speed of the attack?" The King of Zhao was worried that the Zhao army could not rob the Wu army.
"Yes, that's why my son asked Bo Yao to come back first to mobilize his troops." Zhao Xuan was just worried that Zhao's army would arrive at the Tang border later than Wu's, so he sent Bo Yao to hurry back quickly first.
"When the troops are mobilized, Xuan'er will lead the army to set out with half of the grain and provisions first, and the rest of the grain and provisions will be raised by Lone, so that they can arrive at the Tang Kingdom as early as possible. Cough! Cough!...." This time, the felling of Tang was a good opportunity for annexation, and it could be said that the time had not come again. The King of Zhao, despite his own old age, wanted to help his son to march out early. It was the King of Zhao's lifelong pursuit to make his country strong.
"Father, your body..." Zhao Xuan looked at his father worriedly.
King Zhao waved his hand, "I can still hold out for you for a few months."
The King of Zhao likewise knew that Tang was rotten, and that it would fall quickly if there was an honorable reason to send troops against Tang.
When Zhao Xuan attacked Wei, it only took half a month for Wei to fall because Wei was unprepared. Although Tang was twice as big as Wei and did not know how to defend itself like Wei, it was a miracle that Tang could survive three months in the face of Zhao and Wu's simultaneous attack.
Monarchs hated assassins the most, and if assassins were not suppressed, monarchs would all have a lower safety margin. The Tang King's sending of assassins to carry out assassinations this time was really a fall from grace, and once the reason for the crusade came out, none of the Great Qin vassal states would speak up for the Tang King, who could be said to be in a desperate situation on all sides, with no assistance.
"Child is tired of father's hard work." Zhao Xuan thought about it and realized that his father had made the best suggestion, if he set out a few days earlier, he would be able to attack the Tang Kingdom a day earlier, and the more Tang land he could grab would be more.
"It's only right that Zhao's descendants work hard for the gods of the earth and grain." King Zhao uttered this admonition again that Zhao Xuan had heard since he was a child.
The ancestor of King Zhao was originally from the same family as the Son of Heaven of Great Qin, and his family name was Win. From the time when the state of Zhao had grown in strength, Zhao Xuan's ancestor took the state name as his family name, and he no longer claimed to be a descendant of the Win family, and that is why the King of Zhao claimed to be a descendant of the Zhao family.
"Yes, my child will remember it for the rest of my life!" Zhao Xuan habitually bowed his head to accept the admonishment.
The King of Zhao looked at his son with satisfaction as he looked like he was being taught, he stroked his white beard and asked about the situation in Wu, "Has Xuan'er ever seen the ruler of Wu?"
"No, the ruler of the Kingdom of Wu is not in Dacheng and has been staying in Nambu." Zhao Xuan hesitated for a moment and told his father what it had seen in Dacheng County Mansion. "After Gong Zi Ming was injured, it was Great General Chu Chao Hui who held the inside and outside."
The King of Zhao's eyes narrowed slightly, "Treating the monarch as a poseur and making the pair of langs hold the court, sooner or later, this Duke Ming will bring a heinous disaster to the Kingdom of Wu."
"That's what the child thinks."
Zhao Xuan and his father smiled at each other, civil unrest among their strong neighbors was something they couldn't wait for.
Zheng Yuming did more than twenty days, can not do it. He has nothing to do all day, Chu Chao Hui is so tired that he falls asleep every night, Zheng Yuming heartache.
"You don't want to get up so early, lie down again." Chu Chao Hui had gotten up lightly, not wanting him to just get off the ground, Zheng Yuming also got up and dressed.
"My injuries are mostly healed, it's always possible to go to the study to approve documents." Zheng Yuming also no longer felt uncomfortable within his body, as long as he didn't exert himself too much, it wouldn't hinder his body's recovery.
"Really good enough to do official business?" Chu Chao Hui returned to sit on the edge of the bed.
"I asked Kang Kyu yesterday, and he said it's fine to do half a day of official business." Jung Yuming moved his left shoulder, where the wound was healing well and the scabs that had formed on the wound had fallen off.
"It's okay to do official business, is it okay to do private things?" Chu Chao Hui came close to Zheng Yuming and grabbed one of his hands and pressed it under his abdomen.
"Want it badly?" Jung Yuming's hand was hard where he pressed it.
"What do you say?" Chu Chao Hui breathing aggravated, the two separate north and south patrol on the separation of half a month, arrived in the city after the rendezvous, but also because of Zheng Yuming's injuries, so that Chu Chao Hui continued to be a monk for more than twenty days. The two before and after has nearly forty days without intimacy. Now Zheng Yuming said that he recovered enough to go to approve documents, Chu Chao Hui immediately remembered his sexual happiness.
Chu Chao Hui here love, Zheng Yuming is similar, separated for too long, desire accumulated too strong. The result of too strong desire is to forget Jiang Gui's command to have intercourse only after January, and to relive the interplay of spirit and desire in the cool morning.
Woody, who was lying in front of the bed, heard a loud noise, perked up his ears and raised his head, and found the two men on the bed folded together. Woody blinked his doggy eyes for a moment before getting back down and closing his eyes again. The reason why Woody didn't mind his own business this time was because Woody thought that his master hadn't suffered any losses this time, because his master was riding on Chu Chao Hui.
An hour later, Chu Chaohui refreshed to leave the bedroom, feel that he can go to the study office of Zheng Yuming lying on the bed huffing and puffing. In the afternoon, Jiang Gui came to Zheng Yuming pulse, staring at Zheng Yuming looked at a long time, until Zheng Yuming blushed almost can not carry, only to pull out a small porcelain bottle handed to Zheng Yuming, expressionless command Zheng Yuming leisurely use, the number of times do not frequent.
At night Chu Chao Hui came back and took the porcelain bottle and studied it for a while, and suddenly laughed out loud. Jiang Gui gave Zheng Yuming's medicine is not his own production of any good medicine and tonic, but the aphrodisiac used by the Wu army against the Lang. In fact, this kind of aphrodisiacs named a booster drug is very inconsistent with the name, the main role of this drug is not a booster, is to reduce the lower position of the person's back point injury. Jiang Gui sent Zheng Yuming this drug, is to imply that Zheng Yuming can open abstinence, only to abstain.
Being able to resume deep sub-communication made Chu Chao-hui delighted, although the communication had to be controlled in terms of frequency, time, and force. However, this kind of good day is not long, in the middle of July, one month after Zheng Yuming was assassinated, Chu Chao Hui once again left Zheng Yuming's side and led five thousand soldiers and horses from Ulsan to take three thousand material flag ships north to the small bay. Wu's army has already assembled at the border of Tang, the army's required food and provisions have been transported in place, Chu Chao Hui must personally command the army to fight at the front line.
When the flagship that Chu Chao Hui was riding on went north, Zhao Xuan mobilized Qi's 50,000 soldiers and horses and also prepared to swing north.
"Madam, His Highness is back!" Crown Princess Zhao's maid hurried in to report.
"Oh, Your Highness has returned?" Prince Consort Zhao was pleasantly surprised and stood up in a flash from the soft collapse. Zhao Xuan returned from Wu at the end of June, and spent most of his time in the military camp coordinating and scheduling. The Crown Prince's residence only came back three or four times, and each time he came back very late, and after he came back, he didn't go to the backyard to cozy up with his concubines, and only slept in the study. Nearly a month, the Crown Princess only saw her husband twice, and each time they met, Zhao Xuan only said a few words to her.
"Yes, His Highness is summoning the steward in the study right now." Zhao Xuan came back early today.
The Crown Princess had already wanted to lift her feet outward, but suddenly paused again, "Go and carry the Grand Duke here, the Grand Duke hasn't seen His Highness for a long time."
"Yes!" The maid led the order to go to the back room to hold Zhao Xuan's eldest son.
Before the maid could carry Zhao Xuan's eldest son out, Zhao Xuan had already sent someone to invite the Crown Princess to the study.
The Crown Princess hurriedly rushed to Zhao Xuan's courtyard with her maid holding her son in her arms, and before entering the courtyard gate, she caught a glimpse of your daughter's maid poking her head around the corner, and the Crown Princess snorted coldly, even if Zhao Xuan didn't send someone to invite her, the Crown Princess had the right to go to the study to see Zhao Xuan, whereas your daughter, as a concubine, even though she had given birth to a second son for Zhao Xuan, your daughter couldn't come to see Zhao Xuan in private without being summoned.
"Your Highness!" After the Crown Princess entered the study and saluted her husband, she turned around and carried her son to Zhao Xuan.
Zhao Xuan's eldest son is three years old, speak already very eloquent, only Zhao Xuan's eldest son with Zhao Xuan time is not much, to their own father is relatively strange, refused to get close to his father. The crown princess pressed her son to greet Zhao Xuan with a salute, the three-year-old child where happy.
"Alright, Rui'er is still young, don't push him." Zhao Xuan waved his hand to stop the Crown Princess from moving, Zhao Xuan's eldest son named Rui. Zhao Xuan himself was not close to the King of Zhao as much as he was when he was a child, Zhao Xuan felt that this was irrelevant.
"Is His Highness departing again?" The Crown Princess handed her son over to her maid, and seeing the traveling bag organized in the study, she knew that her husband was going to lead the troops to fight in the Tang Kingdom.
"Well, I'm going on an expedition to the Tang Kingdom this time, so you'll be in charge of the affairs of the house, and you need to bring Rui'er and Jing'er to ask for peace at Father's place every day." Zhao Xuan entrusted his wife with both the household affairs and visiting his father to ask for peace.
"Yes, concubine saves!" The Crown Princess smiled faintly, this was all a housewife's duty.
"Your Highness, your daughter Ji and the young son are here." The Crown Princess' smile had not yet dissipated when your daughter Ji brought Zhao Xuan's concubine son, Zhao Jing, outside the door to ask for an audience.
"Oh, let them come in." Zhao Xuan didn't have anyone summon the concubine and concubine's son, but since Zhao Xuan's expedition was imminent and he also wanted to see his youngest son, he didn't blame the concubine for overstepping his bounds.
"Daddy! Hug!" As soon as your daughter Ji entered the study with Zhao Jing in her arms, the two-year-old Zhao Jing, unlike his first brother who was afraid of being born, opened both his arms as soon as he saw Zhao Xuan.
"Jing'er is growing quite fast." Zhao Jing grew chubby, with pink skin that was very pleasing to the eye, and Zhao Xuan hugged his concubine son and pinched his son's cheeks.
"Your Highness! Madam!" Your daughter's Ji timidly greeted Zhao Xuan and the Crown Princess.
When the Crown Princess saw your daughter's feigned appearance, her heart flushed with nausea, the Crown Princess suppressed her heart's disgust and squeezed out a smile. "Your daughter Ji don't be too polite, wait on the side."
Your daughter's teeth bit her lip slightly. "Aye! Madam! My concubine has heard that His Highness is going on an expedition, and she and the maid of the room are rushing to make a cloak for His Highness, hoping that it will help to shield him from the wind and cold."
"Oh, where's the cloak?" Zhao Xuan put down the cute concubine. He took the cloak from your daughter's hand, which was a light green color. As soon as Zhao Xuan saw the color of the cloak, he suddenly thought of the clothes that Zheng Yuming was wearing before he said goodbye, which was similar in color to the cloak.
The Crown Princess looked at Zhao Xuan holding the cloak with a gentle expression on her face, and her heart grew more and more furious.