"The white-headed man is here!" On the bank of Hangou, a boy servant rushed to report.
"Did you also call me Pulsatilla?" Sima Zhong scolded with a smile.
The servant boy was young, about thirteen or fourteen years old, with thin skin and tender flesh, white teeth and red lips. He had a slightly frightened look on his face and said: "Pulsatilla is followed by several fierce men, carrying knives and bows. My eyes are always wandering around my slave, with a lustful look on my face."
"Hide quickly." Sima Zhong waved his hand and said.
The servant boy hid in the convoy like a frightened rabbit.
There were many soldiers standing outside the motorcade, and they also looked at the boy servant with malicious eyes.
The servant boy blinked his eyes and almost cried.
"Your Majesty Su Jun pays homage to the Crown Prince." A loud voice came from the front, attracting everyone's attention.
"General Su, please rise." Sima Zhong sat there, supporting himself with both hands, while looking at this man carefully.
He is not young, he must be over fifty.
He has good facial features, a long body, gentle and elegant movements, and a decent and generous manner. It seems that he has been disciplined since he was a child.
But his beard looked like it hadn't been groomed for a long time and was a little messy.
His brows were frowning subconsciously, as if there was always some unsolved problem. Even when he was meeting the prince, he still couldn't relax completely.
His eyes were even more complex, with a look of loyalty and compassion brought about by studying since he was a child, but also a feeling of resentment and disappointment that slowly accumulated after being despised by others.
This is a military leader who has experienced severe beatings in troubled times and has a heavy burden on his shoulders.
Therefore, when he was forty years old, he was mentally and physically exhausted, and his head was full of white hair, so he was nicknamed "Pulsatilla".
Sometimes he would be irritable and yell at others. In the early years, he would reflect on himself and feel that this was ungentlemanly. But now it is getting harder and harder to control his emotions because everything around him is rotten.
Sometimes he would turn a blind eye to the suffering of the people, and even take the initiative to cause pain, because otherwise it would cause pain to himself. He knew deep down that this was wrong, but he had become accustomed to paralyzing himself with "this is how the world is".
What the saints teach cannot be adapted to every situation.
Sometimes, he would be very angry with the court's attitude.
Although he knew that the imperial court had its difficulties, and the Jiangdong clan did not want to see them go south, the imperial court had to compromise and block people like them from the refugee army in Jiangbei, but he was still very angry.
Pulled by various complex emotions, Su Jun was white-haired, anxious and angry. His whole figure was like a volcano that was motionless on the outside but boiling endlessly on the inside, and could erupt at any time.
The factor that caused the volcano to cool down slightly, which is ridiculous to say, was the loyal and patriotic education that Su Jun received in his youth. But how long can this be maintained?
Sima Zhong didn't know Su Jun's complicated heart. He just sat there, looking like a wealthy young man.
He said: "General Su blocked my journey to the west, but I don't know why?"
Prince Xi Ma, Chen Da and others stood behind Sima Zhong and watched quietly.
Su Jun was silent for a moment and only said: "Zu Yue has insufficient troops, so he has sent people to Huaihe many times in the past two months.
Huailing, Guangling and other counties lured old troops and moved family members from the military academy."
Chen Da frowned and looked at Shen Zhen, the crown prince's concubine.
"Oh?" Sima Zhong was a little surprised: "Why are there not enough troops?"
Su Jun looked at him deeply, and finally did not give a clear answer, but said: "Xu is the Shao Bing Dazhao.
He was worried. Since April, Major General Zushi Shouchun has dispersed three thousand native soldiers, and everyone is congratulating him. Someone must fill the gap of these three thousand men."
Speaking of this, it is already a bit explicit.
Sima Zhong was still thinking, but the faces of the guards in the East Palace who had been leading troops all year round changed.
Can a martial artist know a martial artist?
Even if Zu Yue hasn't rebelled yet, he must have had this idea.
This Su Jun is also unreasonable. He speaks hesitantly and refuses to tell the truth. How conflicted are you in your heart?
I'm afraid this person is not another ancestor, nor is he very reliable.
"General Su, do you think the Grand Master will ever—"
Sima Zhong finally reacted, with a look of shock on his face and he was speechless.
"I can't say for sure." Su Jun said, "Prince Yingrui, I think there must be a way to test it."
Test? Yes, yes, test!
Thinking of this, I already had an idea in my mind, and at the same time I was very emotional. Sure enough, I still want to go down there and take a walk.
Many people in Jianye despise the white-headed man, saying that he is a good scholar, but he is willing to be a refugee commander. To tell the truth, the elders in Jianye talk impassionedly, as if everything in the world is very simple, just like seeing patterns in the palm of a hand, they look down on him. There are many people like Liang Emperor Shao Xun.
However, Sima Zhong felt that General Yingyang Su Jun was very capable and had a ruthless vision. He could tell through clues that Zu Yue might have counter-intentions.
Thinking of this, he immediately became anxious and decided to send a second batch of envoys to Beijing, as Chen Sujun said.
At this time, he was so blessed that he immediately said: "General Su, I have decided to go to the imperial court.
Please set up Qiao County. Is General Su a native of Changguang, Qing Dynasty? Maybe we can set up Qiao Ting and Ye Er County in Tangyi County. What is the general's opinion?"
Su Jun's expression changed and he asked: "Who are these two counties used to house?"
"All members of the general's clan and subordinates can settle here, occupy land, inspect the government, and conquer the same county as the main county." Sima Zhong replied.
Su Jun secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
After all these years, there has been a comfortable thing.
He has eight thousand people under his command, and many of them have children who were born in Jiangbei. The eldest are already in their teens, but they are like lonely ghosts with no idea where they belong. Now there is finally an explanation.
He prostrated himself on the ground and said loudly: "The prince's kindness will be engraved in his heart."
"General, please get up quickly." Sima Zhong said, "Let me tell you about the ancestral agreement."
"This matter is easy to hear." Su Jun said: "The prince can send people to Shouchun, summon the ancestors to Guangling, ask about the disaster and prevent the river. If he is open-minded, he will definitely come. If there is something wrong in his heart, he will mostly shirk it and just give up.
You’ll know after you try it.”
When Sima Zhong first heard this, he nodded repeatedly, but gradually his face turned pale, and he couldn't help but ask: "What if I break the ancestral promise——"
Su Jun was displeased: "How can there be a perfect plan in this world?"
Sima Zhongshu is uncertain.
****
The sky is blue and the fields are vast, and the grass is blown by the wind. Among the wild grass of Wu Palace, Sima Rui looked at the garden and forest being built. He felt much more comfortable, so he ordered a family banquet to be held here, so that the whole family could reunite and be happy.
Before the family banquet started, he carefully read the letter sent back by the prince.
There is nothing wrong with establishing the Wei clan in Tangyi County, Ting County, and Yesan County. It was what he wanted to do after the founding of the country. The prince's move was in line with his wishes.
In addition, Wang Chong of Langya has also become much more sensible.
Just now he proposed to analyze the Danyang Jiangcheng County area, establish Langya Kingdom, and lead Linyi County to settle the more than a thousand households of Langya people who followed him there.
The two sons both mentioned the establishment of Qiao County and Qiao County, which showed that they were careful and Sima Rui was very happy.
But while I am happy, I am also a little worried.
Is Zu Yue really disloyal?
Sima Rui is not Sima Zhong. He has rich experience and knows that things are not that simple.
As far as the court is concerned, how many of the military leaders in Jiangbei are loyal? It's a fine line between rebelling and not rebelling.
First of all, the imperial court did not trust them, otherwise why not let them cross the river?
Secondly, the imperial court has been restricting them intentionally or unintentionally, and they themselves should be able to feel it, so they will definitely become disengaged.
But lack of loyalty does not mean that you will rebel. These are two different things.
After thinking about it, I gradually became worried.
"Why is Your Majesty so sad?" Your concubine Shi walked over and asked softly.
Sima Rui sighed softly and said, "People's hearts are unpredictable."
Shi laughed lightly and sat down directly next to Sima Rui.
Sima Rui turned his head away in embarrassment.
This woman was still a young girl when he met her. She was extremely depressed and had only one brother to rely on.
It was so immature back then, but almost twenty years have passed in a blink of an eye.
Nowadays, she has a mature charm, with a natural smell of meat all over her body, and her chest is like a pig full of energy. She turns around slightly and is about to touch his face.
When she was in Dunlun, she lived like a female leopard with amazing strength, which was difficult to control.
He liked this ten years ago, but he hated this ten years later.
"Yesterday, Zu Na Zu Shiyan reported secretly that his nephew Zu Daozhong has disappeared." Sima Rui said leisurely: "Miao has two sons. The eldest son is in Zu Yue's army. The younger one was originally in Jianye, but now he has disappeared. Where do you think he went?
"
"Your Majesty should send someone to question the ancestral servants," Shi said.
"I've already asked." Sima Rui smiled and said, "It turns out that he was picked up a few months ago, and he may have reached the end of his life."
Shi felt his hair standing on end.
"Do you think I'm pretending to be confused, or questioning Zu Yue?" Sima Rui said.
Shi was speechless, sighing secretly that the prince was really lucky, and he just wanted to catch him for his mistakes...
As far as the matter at hand was concerned, she felt that it was very difficult and difficult to deal with.
"What did the Prime Minister say?" Shi asked.
Sima Rui did not answer directly, but raised the letter in his hand and said: "The prince wants to summon his ancestors to Guangling, but I refuse. The prime minister said that we might take advantage of Shao Xun's inability to gather troops for the Northern Expedition."
The Northern Expedition is false, but the deal with the ancestral covenant is true.
Director Wang's opinion was very clear: If Zu Yue hadn't moved all his family and ancestors away, he could still tolerate it.
But his ancestor Daozhong had been secretly taken away by him, and he quietly moved his military school family members in Xuzhou, so there must be rebellion.
You can't pretend not to see it at this time, because once Shao Xun pacifies Liangzhou and the Zuyue preparations are completed,
Then he is likely to be born with Shouchun.
The best way is to gather people from all walks of life and march into Huainan in the name of the Northern Expedition, and act accordingly.
Sima Rui hasn't really made up his mind yet.
But he knew very well that there was no time. This matter was extremely important, and even the Jiangdong clan would be frightened, so this time we should work together.
"That's all, let's have the banquet first." Sima Rui shook his head and said.
Not far away, Langya King Sima Chong, Princess Zhuge Wenbiao and his wife had appeared. Zhuge Wenbiao also had two younger sisters. The second sister was slightly older, eleven or twelve years old, and was called "Zhuge Wenbao". The younger sister is only two years old, and her name is "Zhuge Wenxiong".
Crown Princess Shan Yinan's car also arrived.
It's great to have the whole family reunited, but I don't know if such a beautiful time can last forever.
Sima Rui looked up to the north.
Where he couldn't see, one ship after another had begun to gather.
Chapter completed!