Purple Mansion Hall.
All the officials of the three provinces and six ministries were gathered in the hall.
"Eunuch Liu, His Majesty is in such a hurry to call us over. What is the matter?”Liu Yuan asked.
Everyone else also turned to look at Liu Zhuo, obviously having the same question in their hearts.
After all, the morning court session had just ended. Why did he suddenly gather everyone?
Liu Zhuo smiled helplessly."My lords, please wait patiently. I'm just a servant. How would I know what His Majesty wants?"”
"Aiyo, Eunuch Liu, don't joke around. You've been following His Majesty since many years ago, and you've even assisted His Majesty in governing the country. Your weight in His Majesty's heart is much higher than ours!”Fang Xuanling teased.
Liu Zhuo was stunned for a moment and said,"Lord Fang must be joking!"
In reality, Liu Zhuo was already overjoyed. At the same time, he couldn't help but pay more attention to Fang Xuanling, thinking that he was a good person.
"Alright, sirs, calm down. I'll go and see if His Majesty has arrived!”Liu Zhuo smiled and walked out of the hall.
From time to time, Liu Zhuo's voice could be heard from outside the hall.
"Your Majesty has arrived!"
"We welcome Your Majesty!"
The officials of the three provinces and six ministries cupped their hands and paid their respects.
Jiang Chen led Guo Jia and the others into the hall.
"Belly ministers, get up!”
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Everyone looked up and saw a few people behind Jiang Chen.
Other than Yu Huatian and Cao Zhengchun, who everyone was already familiar with, there were two other people who were unfamiliar to them.
Jiang Chen naturally saw everyone's doubts, and he also wanted to use this opportunity to confer a certain official position on the two!
Therefore, Jiang Chen said,"These two are the wise men I recruited. They have made great contributions to me. Therefore, I will reward them according to their contributions. I will reward Guo Jia as the Grand Tutor and enjoy first-grade treatment!"”
Guo Jia immediately stepped forward and respectfully cupped his hands."Your humble subject! Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Jiang Chen nodded and then looked at Zhuge Liang.""Zhuge Liang will be awarded the title of Grand Protector and enjoy the treatment of a First Rank!”
Zhuge Liang also hurried forward and bowed respectfully,""Your humble subject! Thank you, Your Majesty!"
The officials present were surprised that Guo Jia and Zhuge Liang, two people they had never heard of, had reached Rank One.
However, after thinking about it, he felt relieved. Although Zhuge Liang and Guo Jia had high ranks, the Grand Preceptor and the Grand Protector did not have any real power. They were not considered subordinates and were more of a symbolic honorary position.
Therefore, it was not surprising that they were given such official positions because of their contributions to Jiang Chen!
After the reward was over, Jiang Chen went straight to the point and said,"I'm sure all of you are very curious as to why I suddenly became anxious and summoned everyone here for a meeting, right?”
Hearing this, everyone could not help but nod.
Jiang Chen's expression was cold and he seemed a little unhappy. He gave Yu Huatian and Cao Zhengchun a look.
The two of them instantly understood and each took out an envelope.
Yu Huatian read from the letter,"According to the intelligence of the West Chamber, the Eight Nobles of the East River have been plotting for a long time. Long before Shang Yang's reform, the Eight Nobles of the East River had the intention of rebelling. They had gathered many times in Taiyuan Prefecture in the North Capital and were closely monitored by the spies of our factory!”
Hearing this, all the civil and military officials present instantly exploded!
They had never expected that the Eight Nobles of Hedong Dao had already begun plotting a rebellion before Shang Yang's reform!
"In that case, their excuse of resisting the law and rebelling was actually just a pretense?”
"But, in this case, what is their real purpose for rebelling?”
"Could it be that you want to leave our country and establish your own country?”
"Or is it that there are other forces involved?”
The
civil and military officials discussed animatedly. They were all very surprised.
At this moment, Cao Zhengchun took out another letter and read,""The East Chamber's spies received an urgent order from the capital to investigate the truth behind the rebellion of the Eight Nobles of Hedong. They discovered that Wang Shichong of the State of Zheng of Henan Province was involved in the rebellion, providing financial support and weapons to the Eight Noble Families.”
Hearing this, all the officials present exploded again!
They had never expected that the Eight Noble Families had other motives behind their rebellion, and that there were other countries involved!
"As expected! I was right!"
"I was wondering why the other aristocratic families didn't rebel, but the few aristocratic families on the eastern border rebelled. It turns out that there's another mastermind behind it!”
"No wonder they are so confident. They even have 50,000 soldiers. I don't believe that there are no other forces supporting them!”
"Damn! This Wang Shichong, that damned brat! How dare you have designs on our country!"
"Your Majesty! We must make him give us an explanation!”
"That's right. Although we won this battle, we also suffered losses. We must make Wang Shichong compensate us!”
"If you don't pay, we'll fight!”
All
the officials roared.
Especially Li Jing and the others, they were even more furious and wanted to fight at the slightest disagreement.
After all, in their eyes, Wang Shichong was simply too much. He dared to play dirty and instigate the rebellion of the eight nobles in Tianwu Kingdom. He deserved to die!
In fact, this information was all fabricated by Jiang Chen. He just called Yu Huatian and Cao Zhengchun in advance and asked them to cooperate with him.
They used the East and West Chambers to spread rumors!
He was just looking for a reason to go to war!
As Guo Jia said, if you want to add a crime, why worry about no excuse?
If Jiang Chen wanted to attack Wang Shichong, why couldn't he find a legitimate reason? The rebellion of the eight nobles in the east of the river just happened to come in handy again, dissipating the last bit of warmth!
In this way, Jiang Chen could legitimately follow the wishes of the people and send troops to attack Wang Shichong!
If there was no reason, Jiang Chen would rashly send troops. Not only would it affect the people, but the prestige of the emperor might also be affected.
It could be seen how important a reason to send troops was!
At this time, Jiang Chen looked at the reaction of the civil and military officials and was extremely satisfied, but his expression was still cold. He said coldly,
"Hmph, how dare you dream of disrupting my country and causing the people of Hedong to fall into the suffering of war. If this matter is over, I don't agree, and my people and officials won't agree either. I will definitely find Wang Shichong to demand an explanation and justice. I can't let this go!”
"My, my nation, my subjects, they were able to defeat the Turks and subdue Longxi. How could the tiny State of Zheng offend them so easily? Wang Shichong was the second son of a prodigal son! You should be killed!"
Hearing this, the anger in the hearts of the officials was ignited again.
Li Jing immediately walked out of the court and cupped his hands."Your Majesty, Wang Shichong deceived the people, killed the last emperor of the previous dynasty, and became the emperor himself. He is truly despicable. Now, he dares to harm our country. The ancients said that it is impolite not to reciprocate. We have absolute reason to send troops to attack this thief. I believe the people of the world will respond to our call and obey the destiny to kill this thief!”
"Good! Great!"
Jiang Chen slammed the table and stood up."My dear minister is right, so I will send Xue Yong to lead 50,000 infantry troops from Tongguan to Hedong Road, from Puzhou to the south of Hedong Road to the west of Henan Road. They can directly reach Shanzhou and take down the three cities of Xiashi, Shengchi, and Xin 'an in the east of Shanzhou. Then they can directly enter the eastern capital of Henan Province (Luoyang) and destroy Wang Shichong's nest!”
"Here!"
Li Jing saluted. Xue Yong was a member of the Ministry of War, and since Jiang Chen gave the order, he was naturally in charge.
After arranging everything, Jiang Chen waved his hand and said,"Since you've already made up your mind, you can leave now!”
"Here!"
The officials present cupped their hands and prepared to leave.
But Jiang Chen stopped Li Jing at the end.
After everyone left, Jiang Chen smiled faintly,""My dear minister, were you dissatisfied with my arrangements previously?”
"I don't dare!" Li Jing was shocked and hurriedly cupped his hands in denial.
Jiang Chen smiled and said,""Stop pretending. I can see it. Are you blaming me for not sending you to lead the army to war?”
Li Jing's mouth twitched. He didn't expect his thoughts to be seen through by Jiang Chen, so he stopped pretending and said,""Your Majesty, this lowly subject has many abilities, but I can't fight. Although the Minister of War is in charge of the army, I'm only a civilian. This lowly subject is just a boor, and it's really a bit uncomfortable!”
"Why are you so anxious? Good steel should be used on the blade!" "Do you know why I left you last?" Jiang Chen asked.”
"I don't know!" Li Jing shook his head.
Jiang Chen smiled faintly."This time, my target is not Wang Shichong, but Liu Wuzhou in the north. This thief has wild ambitions. He has always relied on the support of the Turks to invade the south. If he goes south, he will definitely invade the east of the river.”
"Although there is no conflict between our country and the Eastern Turks for now, Liu Wuzhou is like a thorn, and it is very likely that he will become a sword in the hands of the Turks, occasionally brandishing it at our country. Thus, Our true goal is to remove this thorn!”
Hearing this, Li Jing was shocked. He didn't expect Jiang Chen's real goal was to get rid of Liu Wuzhou and recover all the areas north of Hedong Road so that there would be no more hidden dangers in the north of Wu Country!
"Then what His Majesty said earlier…" Li Jing was slightly stunned and asked in confusion.
"What do you think?" Jiang Chen glared at Li Jing. Although Li Jing was the God of War and was good at war, he was not good at politics.
Li Jing was slightly shocked, and then he reacted and exclaimed,""His Majesty is trying to create a diversion to lure Liu Wuzhou to invade our country's Hedong Road. Then, he will send an ambush to annihilate him in one fell swoop!”
"That's right!" Jiang Chen smiled faintly,"I now order you to deploy 150,000 infantry, 100,000 archers, and 50,000 cavalry to form a three-armed legion. The commander of the army will be Zhuge Liang as the main force to ambush Liu Wuzhou. As for the generals of the Ministry of War, you can let Zhuge Aiqing choose a group to leave!”
"Here!"
Li Jing cupped his hands in obeisance and agreed.
However, Li Jing was more or less unconvinced. He couldn't understand why Jiang Chen left him at the end to transfer troops for others!
Moreover, what he couldn't understand the most was why he had to lead an army for this seemingly weak person who didn't have the demeanor of a general. He must be crazy!
Jiang Chen didn't explain further. He pushed an envelope on the table forward and said,""Dear minister, take a good look at this letter when you get back. You'll definitely like it.”
Liu Zhuo hurriedly picked up the envelope and presented it to Li Jing.
"Alright!" When Jiang Chen saw that everything was settled, he slowly stood up and said,""Dear ministers, please leave and get busy!”
"Your Majesty, I will take my leave!"
Li Jing, Zhuge Liang, and Guo Jia cupped their hands and bowed before leaving the hall.
As soon as he left the hall, Li Jing looked excited. He felt that Jiang Chen was mysterious and made people curious!
So, he changed his mind. Since Jiang Chen didn't say when he had to read it, he immediately opened the envelope and read it.
As Jiang Chen said, Li Jing couldn't help but laugh.""As expected, Your Majesty still hasn't forgotten about me!”
Zhuge Liang and Guo Jia both looked at Li Jing with curiosity. What was inside the letter that Jiang Chen gave Li Jing?
Of course, Li Jing didn't say that Jiang Chen gave him the envelope alone, so it was naturally top secret.
Thus, he immediately brought Zhuge Liang back to the Ministry of War and began to mobilize his troops and make preparations!
At the same time, Jiang Chen returned to the hall and looked at the "Dingyang" Liu Wuzhou and "Zheng" Wang Shichong. The two different tablets were thrown into the brazier at the same time.
"Announce to the world that I am going out to crusade against Wang Shichong for the people!”
Jiang Chen looked at the burning flames and said calmly.
"Here!"
Liu Zhuo promised to declare that he was going to take the throne and immediately began to announce the Emperor's order to crusade against Wang Shichong!
At the same time, the East Chamber and the West Chamber began to spread the rumors under the manipulation of Yu Huatitian and Cao Zhengchun!
A rumor swept across the country like a hurricane!
Although the rumors were false, the more people spread it and heard it, the more people believed it. As long as more people believed it, the rumors would no longer be rumors, but the truth!
In a teahouse in Chang 'an.
"Have you all heard?"
"I've heard that the eight nobles rebelled not because they resisted the law!”
"Yes, resisting the law is just a pretense!”
"Is it true or false? Then why did they rebel?"
"Why else? Of course it's for money and power!”
"Hurry up and tell us what happened!”
Hedong
Road, Taiyuan Mansion, and the streets and alleys of the North Capital were abuzz with discussion.
"Damn it, during the rebellion of the Eight Nobles, my mother was killed because of Wang Shichong! He is the real murderer!"
"Your Majesty is wise! To seek justice for our people, seek justice for our people!”
"Your Majesty, the people of Hedong Road thank the Emperor for avenging us and seeking justice for us. We are willing to send troops to attack Wang Shichong!”
"This body has such a wise master, what can I ask for? What can I ask for?"
"The emperor's grace is vast! The emperor's grace is vast!"
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