Chapter 511: The Great Governor of the Punishment of Rebellion (5k)
What a sword dance...
In the hall, when Zhao Duan and Yu Xiu heard this sound suddenly, they were stunned at the same time, turned their heads and looked out the hall, and their eyes passed through the hall, and they were stunned to see that the woman in white clothes in the courtyard had appeared outside the hall at some point.
Xu Zhenguan's simple white face had no expression on her face, her hair was hanging down from the back of her head, and her right hand was raised in front of her chest, with her slender jade fingers clamping the green jade flying sword.
The flying sword that was originally extremely explosive and destroyed was as peaceful as a quail in the hands of the empress, motionless, as if dead.
Behind the Empress, around her, the servants of the Zhao family and Eugene Hua and her daughter also walked out, but they did not dare to get close. "Your Majesty...Your Majesty?" Zhao Duan's mind buzzed, and his intuition as a man told him:
Things are not good!
But fortunately, Zhao Jun was a casual person. After a brief moment of surprise, a bright smile appeared on his face and he stood up and greeted him eagerly: "Your Majesty, why are you here? You didn't inform the palace servants early, so I can sweep the bed to greet you."
Xu Zhenguan sneered and refused to answer. "Yuxiu has met Your Majesty." At this time, the female Taoist nun also stood up, walked out, and bowed to the empress in a calm and gentle manner.
Xu Zhenguan's phoenix eyes were cold and his eyes turned back and forth on the man and woman in front of him several times. He looked at Yuxiu with a smile and said, "It's you. When did you return to Beijing, I didn't know that I came here."
At the same time, she threw it away, and the dead green jade flying sword in her hand was like a swimming fish, and it was inserted back to the waist of the female Taoist nun.
After a pause, she looked at Zhao Duan again and said lightly: "Don't Zhao Qing explain it?"
Danger...Danger...Danger!
Although Zhao Duan lacks love experience, no matter how stupid he is, he still realizes something is wrong and hurriedly said: "The priest of Yuxiu suddenly visited me, I didn't know before."
As he said, he looked at Yuxiu for help.
Although the two were innocent, Zhenbao was just unhappy because of Xiao Dong'er's existence, so he turned around and another woman came to his house... The key point was that he didn't expect that he would take the time to come back for a while and the empress chased the house. "I have heard of Lord Zhao's reputation for a long time and I am curious. I will come back to Jingte to ask for advice this time." Yuxiu calmly explained.
The empress said "Oh" and said, "Ask for advice."
"Yes, yes," Zhao Duan recalled the golden crow flying knife and bowed to Yuxiu with a smile:
"Thank you for your advice."
Yu Xiu glanced at him with complicated eyes and suddenly shook her head: "Since Your Majesty has arrived, I must be in trouble. I will not bother you. Let me say goodbye." After saying that, she nodded to the empress again and turned away.
The shock in my heart spread a little bit.
A moment ago, although she suppressed her cultivation, she was slightly inferior in the competition with Zhao Duan... This result made it difficult for the proud Yuxiu to accept.
Based on his previous comments on Zhao Duan's strength, he couldn't help but feel like he was burning.
"Son of Heaven and Earth... Is it as rumored that talent is beyond the reach of humanity?"
Walking out of Zhao's house, Yuxiu turned her head and looked back at the plaque on the lintel. She was not depressed, but her eyes became brighter.
The god revelation in the altar of the Fang human race is more accurate than she expected.
When thinking about some of the words she had obtained from the secret information from southern Xinjiang, she pursed her lips and was determined to win Zhao Duan
——Obviously, the words she said to Zhao Duan just now were still reserved, not all.
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Yuxiu waved her sleeves away, as if she was coming gently.
Only Zhao Duan was left alone facing the female emperor who was angry and came to him.
"Your Majesty, there are so many people outside, come into the house to talk?" Zhao Duan squeezed out a smile.
Xu Zhenguan looked calm and felt the gaze of Eugene Hua and her daughter. She turned her head and showed a kind and warm smile at the mother and daughter: "My mistress of the Zhao family will do it yourself. I will discuss things about Zhao Qing."
The main focus is on a different attitude.
And then, in the face of the mother and daughter's flattery, they followed Zhao Duan to the study in the mansion.
In the study room.
With a creaking sound, Zhao Duan turned around and looked at the empress's back:
"Why is Your Majesty?"
Xu Zhenguan stopped pretending after entering the house, her face became cold, and she walked to the main seat of the desk in anger to sit down. A deputy official and the pose of interrogating the criminal in the court, looked down at the scumbag Zhao, and punched him:
"I can't come? I'll disturb you from meeting Yuxiu?"
Zhao Duan sweated coldly and sweared that he had nothing to do with him.
Xu Zhenguan didn't really think that the two had anything to do with each other, but he was a little unhappy, so he just listened with a stern face and refused to comment.
Seeing this, Zhao Duan gritted his teeth and walked to the empress with courage, and said nothing: "Your Majesty hasn't been here for a long time. Speaking of which, the last time Your Majesty taught me the painting skills. I have been studying hard these days and have achieved some success. Why not draw another one for Your Majesty?"
Last time, the two did teach paintings in this study.
At this moment, there are portraits of the empress's ink and wash style hanging on the wall.
Xu Zhenguan snorted: "I have reviewed the memorial for most of the day. Do you still want me to be a 'model' for you?"
The word "model" is a "new word" invented by Zhao Duan. She remembered it last time.
Zhao Duan's eyes rolled: "Your Majesty will be in trouble with national affairs and will definitely have a sore body. I happened to learn a new massage technique to relieve fatigue."
As he said that, his two dirty hands pressed on the empress's tender shoulders and gently kneaded them.
Xu Zhenguan twisted first, "struggled" symbolically, and then snorted and let him do it.
Zhao Duan smiled slightly, and his ten fingers skillfully changed their techniques, surrounding the beauty's jade neck and exerting force on both shoulders.
This was also learned from a blind massage master near his work department in order to make progress in his previous life.
"Yeah..." The empress didn't care at first, but gradually, she felt a numbness coming up. She couldn't help but squint her eyes slightly, and she let out a light hum in her nose, and her tight skin relaxed.
She had never been really angry, and she wouldn't really think that Zhao Duan and Yuxiu had any relationship.
The reason why she pretends to be angry is more because the woman is thinking about making trouble. As an emperor, her possessiveness is only higher than others.
This will lead to a step, and she also took the opportunity to defy the rampage and her tone softened:
"What did she look for you for?"
Zhao Duan did not hide it either. He said this, but it could not be hidden anyway.
"The missing imperial guards of the royal family in the previous dynasty? Which national treasures?"
Xu Zhenguan frowned slightly: "Is she pursuing those things?"
Zhao Duan was familiar with pinching his shoulders, and inexplicably remembered a short video I had watched in his previous life - a foot massage guest asked the technician to sit down, rolled up his sleeves and pressed his feet for the technician...
The eyes couldn't help but move down, and looked at the embroidered shoes with gold thread under Zhenbao's skirt.
Ask, "Your Majesty knows what are the national treasures?"
Xu Zhenguan said, "I know some things, but they are all objects that are extremely tempting to practitioners. However, for hundreds of years, many people have found nothing.
She is likely to be in vain.
As for the divine enlightenment of Laba... it may not be true. If you are moved, you will at least reach the peak of the world. Be sure to bring enough masters and go there."
As an emperor and a "heavenly man", Xu Zhenguan is not very interested in finding the treasures of the previous dynasty six hundred years ago. "I thought so too, and I didn't agree to her." Zhao Duan agreed with her.
Xu Zhenguan said with satisfaction and suddenly said: "That Xiao Dong'er, I have seen him. According to your proposal, the court will appoint officials and send an army from the Five Military Camps to assist the Xiao family to quell the remnants of Qingzhou Road." Zhao Duan hurriedly said: "I have nothing to do with that widow..." Xu Zhenguan raised his lips and interrupted him: "I know." Huh... You understand everything, and you still eat inexplicable jealousy... Zhao Duan kneaded his shoulders and said:
"Your Majesty's wise eyes are like a torch. I know that those rumors in the market will not catch your eyes... After all, everyone in Dayu knows my love for You..."
Xu Zhenguan enjoyed the sweet words of the loyal dog, and his mood improved, but suddenly opened his eyes, and his eyes were filled with anger:
"Where do you get your hands?!"
"...Haha, your hands are slippery, your hands are slippery." Zhao Duan awkwardly pulled Lushan's claws back from the empress's collar, feeling the fingertips were smooth and breathtaking.
The empress sneered, too lazy to expose the dog thief's despicable thoughts, and then said:
"In the daytime, before you come back, Ma Yan sent me some memorials. The interrogation about Li Yanfu and those officials was over." Zhao Duan tentatively kneaded her fair and fair neck with his hands and said: "What will Your Majesty do?" Xu Zhenguan said calmly and firmly: "Behead Li and Decision. All the Li Party, who are involved in the rebellion, will be beheaded in public at Caishikou in the past few days. The three clans will be killed." Well, the latter one is because most of the family behind the Li Party is in the Huai River and belongs to the "enemy trapped area", and cannot be executed for the time being.
As expected, as soon as the news came out, this group of local tyrants would completely stand on the side of the Eight Kings.
"What should we do with King Heng and his son?" Zhao Duan tentatively said: "Closed? Cut off the title? Beat a civilian?"
This time, the empress was silent for a longer time before she said calmly: "After the interrogation, beheaded with the Li Party thieves."
"Your Majesty will decide." Zhao Duan sighed softly, not too surprised by the result.
No matter how much the empress cares about family affection, from the moment the vassal king rebelled, there was no room for turning around.
What's more, as the first prince to be arrested, everyone is very concerned about what the outcome is, because this represents the court's attitude towards this rebellion.
Xu Zhenguan continued: "Beheading Li Yanfu and King Heng's son is not only a shocking and showing strength, but also a counterattack for the court's next counterattack "Flag Sacrifice".
The news of the empress returning to the capital has spread. It is conceivable that the rebellious vassal kings in various places should have turned into strategies of separatist, occupation and digestion of territory.
For the court, the most urgent task is to counterattack while those territory is not completely controlled by the vassal kings.
No mistakes, one poem, one post, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one read!
Once you miss this time window, it will be difficult to remove the vassal king's sect after it takes root completely.
"Now, the King of Yanshan on Tieguan Road is blocked by Luo Kedi's army in the city of Jubei; King of Hejian was restrained by Duke Tang and was contained in Xiping Road... The most threatening are only two rebels, King Jing and King Mu.
One of them swallowed Jiancheng Road and the other swallowed Yunfu Road. The two armies each occupied half of the Huai River Road, and Xue Shence led his troops to block the road.
The current crisis in the capital has been resolved. Shenji Camp, Wujun Camp, and some imperial guards should be mobilized to Linfeng Road to cooperate with Xue Shence to recover the lost territory. "Xu Zhenguan analyzed calmly. "I was just about to tell Your Majesty this," Zhao Duan also became a little serious: "This time the Shenji Camp defeated the Qingzhou Army, and now his morale is so strong that he is heading south. I am interested in leading the army as this vanguard. "
Xu Zhenguan was silent for a while, his body remained motionless, his head twisted, and his eyes were staring at him like a lacquered look:
"King Jing and King Mu are different from King Heng. Your firearm is indeed powerful, but as the Grand Master said, it was unexpected. Now that King Heng is defeated and the news spreads, they will naturally be wary and deal with it. It is impossible to replicate the results of the battle." Zhao Duan grinned and said, "I know. So, I don't plan to use this ignition device to really be a general who leads troops and fights. I am an amateur. I can make me verbal and can't fight." Xu Zhenguan was stunned and said, "Then why are you..." "Because your Majesty needs it." Zhao Duan said seriously:
"At present, when the front line is sealed, what is most urgent is not troops or firearms, but confidence and trust. The news of Your Majesty's return and the news of the defeat of the Qingzhou soldiers can provide confidence for the front line, but Your Majesty finds it difficult to trust the front line military generals, including Xue Shence.
Similarly, the soldiers on the front line also have to worry about the views of the capital. In order to avoid rifts between the monarch and the ministers, many decisions must be made in letters to the capital city... This time, the fighter opportunity has passed, so Your Majesty needs a trustworthy and important person to go to the front line to supervise the army."
As a "civilian" for two lifetimes, Zhao Duan knew nothing about war, but had never seen a pig or seen a pig run.
He looked through some historical information about the "civil war" in his previous life and felt particularly deeply about the trust between commanders and frontline soldiers in the large system.
In particular, in the context of Zhao Shixiong, Wei Xianzong, and the commander of the two imperial guards in the imperial city, the empress... and the entire court inevitably put a big question mark on the loyalty of the generals who led the troops outside.
Under the general situation of separatist rule and joint siege, how can we ensure that the generals on the front line do not surrender to the enemy?
Sending "inspector" and "inspector" is the only way to think of.
After thinking about it, the most suitable candidate is Zhao Duan.
The impossible rebellion in the absolute sense, and the record of destroying the Qingzhou rebels, proves that they can be a good supervisor.
It also has the title of "the emperor" and its reputation. To a certain extent, it can flexibly "take first and report" on the front line, so that the battle will be avoided from being constrained by the rear of the capital.
"For me..."
Xu Zhenguan was stunned for a moment, and her heart seemed to be hit, her eyes were soft, and she compared her two ways to operate the same angrily as she was just now... She felt a hint of guilt in her heart.
Zhao Duan continued with a smile: "I have already thought about it. When I lead the Beijing camp to help, I will first meet Xue Shence to stabilize the morale of the army. Then... Since the two vassal kings tore the Huai River, each occupying half of them, and artificially formed two battlefields of the "East and West Lines", then we can cooperate with the Xue Shumi Envoy to touch the two anti-kings.
Ha... I am very familiar with the dog things of King Jing, but King Mu of Yunfu is still unfamiliar. There is also the general of the southwest border army, Zhao Shixiong, who is the same sex as me. I heard that his name is almost grinding, and I was curious whether this person was three heads or six arms."
Xu Zhenguan smiled softly with her eyes. She raised her head slightly, looked at the energetic "Little Imperial Guard" and said softly, and there was a faint hint of admiration in her eyes: "Since you have a decision, what do you need, just say it." Zhao Duan pondered for a moment, staring at the empress with a fiery look, her eyes drilled into the open collar.
Xu Zhenguan just said lightly: "You can't break the defense."
"..."
So Zhao Duan broke his defense and gave up and said, "I want manpower, such as Wei Xianzong."
The empress's eyes moved. She had already known about the meeting between Zhao Duan and Yuan Li in the afternoon - Mo Chou had reported to her as soon as possible.
Understand that this is the stairs Zhao Duan has found for him, nodded happily:
"Okay, for you. What else do you want?"
Zhao Duan: "I want a title that is equal to Xue Shence."
The empress said, "I can appoint you as the 'Grandmaster of Punishment', which is higher than the governor and has the power to supervise and restrain him. What else do you want?"
Zhao Duan fell into deep thought again, and then he suddenly lifted the chair and turned the chair with the empress sitting on her head ninety degrees.
Then, he squatted down in the latter's blank gaze and was ready to move: "Your Majesty, you have pressed your shoulders for a long time. Do you want to press your feet too?"
Xu Zhenguan's expression was dull, with three points of shock in his eyes, three points of confusion, three points of confusion, and one point of disgust...
Next second.
The palm-sized embroidered shoes kicked over with a palm-clearable embroidered shoes: "Get out!"
Zhao Duan dodged in advance, retreated to the door, muttering:
"I lost my temper again, I don't even take your money..."
After saying that, before the empress got angry, he applied oil to the soles of his feet and pushed the door out.
But behind her, she did not have the expected killing of the sword, and only a angrily voice came: "What's your massage method?"
She felt it was good and was about to wait until she returned to the palace and let her female officials learn it too, and press it for herself if she had nothing to do.
Zhao Duan didn't look back and said nonsense: "Eighteen touches."
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The sunset sinks into the ground and the sky light disappears.
The empress had a simple supper in the Zhao Mansion and then got up and returned to the palace.
Zhao Duan did not go to the palace to join in the fun. After drinking and eating, he turned around and returned to his bedroom.
Light the candlestick.
Wait for the orange flame to soak the room.
He stood on the empty floor, took out the silver scroll, shook it gently, and the red half-body armor dropped with a "bang".
Accompanied by, there are also "crackling", a lot of strange and various weapons and magic weapons.
Pile into a hill.
Not only these, Zhao Duan also pulled out two large boxes from under the bed, and there were similar things inside.
These are all the spoils seized in the battle of Baihua Village and the treasure house of "bewitching the real people".
"If all the things were fed to the Red Flame Saint Armor, they should be able to restore them to their peak state, right?"
Zhao Duan held the book "Zoroastrianism" given to him by Zhenbao, and opened the page corresponding to the "Sacrificial and Refining" formation.
Soil the specially prepared cinnabar with a brush, and a complex hexagram array was drawn on the floor.
After the task was completed, he placed the Red Flame Sacred Armor in the center of the magic circle.
Then, he stood in the "spell casting position" of the formation, pressed his palm towards the cinnabar on the floor, and crossed into the majestic aura.
"Shits—"
The scarlet cinnabar suddenly burned, the entire magic circle swept away the mysterious halo, and an illusory blazing flames burned.
The "Red Flame Holy Armor" in the center of the formation lit up, and gradually, the armor floated up on its own, as if worn by an illusory fire god.
"Rumbling..."
The black human face mark in front of the armor suddenly twisted and deformed, opening its "bloody mouth", revealing the black "hole" of the hole.
The red armor also turned into a furnace.
Waiting for feeding and sacrifice.
"Is this enough?" Zhao Duan swallowed, turned his head to look at the messy magic weapons and weapons like a hill beside him, and a strong premonition came to his heart: "Maybe, the holy armor I fed would be stronger than in the hands of King Heng."
(This chapter ends)