The prince is very fierce. The shadow of the dragon scales. Chapter 45: The lantern of the wolf Taoist palace sways in the wind and snow, and the Hanyuan Palace is silent.

The palace maid stood outside the hall with her head down, her eyes full of fatigue. The eunuch brought a tea tray to the desk in the hall and bowed to dissuade him:

"Master, it's too late, it's time to go to bed."

The light of candlelight illuminates the vast study room, and a small amount of smoke ignites from the copper incense burner of Turtle Shou.

On the wall are maps of the two countries, marked with the main deployment of the East-West Front. On the large desk, memorials and files are piled up into mountains, even blocking the eunuch's view.

Behind the neatly listed files, Jiang Lin, the emperor of Qi, was wearing a nightgown, still looking at the files in his hand under the candlelight, and seemed to have never heard of the eunuch's words.

The eunuch sighed in his heart, and did not dare to persuade him anymore, but just stood outside the desk and bowed and waited.

The case file in Jiang Lin's hand was just sent by the Eastern Front, and what he said was nothing more than one thing:

After a winter of silence, King Su Xu You began to dispatch warships into Chu. After a brief estimate of the hidden stakes, there were no less than three hundred ships, including twenty full of "Wukui Cannons", and no less than two hundred.

"Wukui Cannon" is the name of the Four Kings of the East and Northern Qi. It refers to the 3,000-pound giant cannon of the Western Liang Army. It has nearly five to eight miles per gun. Its houses are divided into all the people and houses, and its killing power is comparable to that of contemporary Wukui.

In the battle formation where the heavy cavalry group charges, even if there are only two gates, this thing can be dispersed, even if there are only two gates, the "Iron Rosha" that Northern Qi is proud of. The four kings in the east cannot stop it at all. It is easy to imagine how much pressure Jiang Lin is at this time.

The metallurgical technology of Northern Qi was excellent. As soon as he learned about this kind of weapon, Jiang Lin secretly arranged for military weapons to imitate it.

However, the Xu family kept the military weapon workshop too tightly. On the battlefield, people outside the Xiliang Army did not allow people from close contact with artillery. It was too difficult to imitate it by just watching from a distance. So far, they could only hear a sound. It would take at least two years to assemble the army and generate a certain amount of combat power.

The Xu family will definitely not leave it for two years to Northern Qi. We hope that the four kings in the east will delay it. Not to mention two years, if they can hold it for two months, Jiang Lin can praise him, "Although they are defeated, they are still honored."

What will happen after the Xu family destroys the four eastern kings and targets the Northern Qi Dynasty? Although Jiang Lin did not go to the front line battlefield, he can completely imagine it.

What we should think about now is not how to invade Chang'an to get back the lost land of our ancestors, but how to preserve the current foundation of Jiang's family.

Although the situation is critical and the future is almost predictable, it is not a dead end.

The advantage of Northern Qi is that it has a huge depth, half nomadic and half farming, and it is really impossible to defeat it, so it can move north. As long as you show your enthusiasm for slept with firewood and tasting gall in the desert, it will be difficult for the Xu family to drive away all Northern Qi.

Dayue was not so rich that she could do whatever she wanted. First, there was floods in the south of the Yangtze River and drought in Shu, and then the rebellion of the Four Kings. The Xu family entered Chang'an, and wars were everywhere in the southeast, west and north. In a year or two, it almost took decades of accumulation. If the Western Liang army had not had too much advantage, the court would have fallen apart.

As long as Dayue fights, the Northern Qi Dynasty will not be in chaos, and the advance and retreat are well-founded and step by step, it can also be dragged until Dayue cannot afford it.

After all, there is no well-connected river on the grassland, and Jiang Lin doesn't believe that the Xiliang army can chase the cavalry with three thousand kilograms of heavy artillery on the flat grassland.

But it is easy to unite people's hearts when they are in a great victory. When they are defeated, they want the whole country to advance and retreat to turn the tide, but it is difficult to reach the sky. This test of the authority and dominance of the power has reached a harsh level, and if you are not careful, you will be doomed.

The scolding sounds loudly, old but full of energy.

The eunuch outside the hall quickly lowered his head and left Hanyuan Palace gently. Otherwise, when the emperor scolded the prince, he would have to go to the late emperor to bury him.

Jiang Du was frightened by Jiang Lin's scolding and hurriedly knelt down in the study:

"My son...My son is punished and sent someone to deal with Liu Wuye a few days ago..."

When Jiang Lin heard this, he was even more angry. He turned around and glared at Jiang Du with his tiger eyes:

"This kind of trivial matter requires the king of a country and the prince to discuss it in the middle of the night? I really want to split your mind and see if it is filled with paste!"

“…”

Jiang Du was stunned, opened his mouth and speechless. Nothing was right, and he felt that his father was deliberately provoking, but he dared not say this.

Jiang Lin stared at Jiang Lin, but he didn't see his answer for a long time, and his face became even more angry:

"If you do it, with your temperament, you can come to me in the middle of the night to seek credit. If you haven't been here for so many days, you think I'm stupid and can't guess the result?"

Jiang Du lowered his head a little and said nervously:

"Father, my son and minister have no negligence. He arranged someone to deal with this matter that day, but Liu Wuye was too cunning..."

Smack

The tea cup hit the ground, and the cold tea splashed Jiang Du all over.

Jiang Lin's hair and beard were all wide, and he walked to the desk and pointed his hand at his son who was kneeling on the ground:

"A nameless man was ambushed by the prince of a country without knowing it. Do you think the other party is cunning? Is he Xu Buling? Can all the troops come and go like the wind?"

"No, it's just the person who arranged it, something went wrong..."

"Who did you arrange?"

Jiang Lin was so angry that he pointed to Guiyan City outside the hall:

"Who can't be used in the court outside? You are the prince, sending a message to Zuo Qingqiu. How dare he say something irrelevant? Can he let a son of a merchant run away from his eyes?"

Jiang Du was sweating heavily and gritted his teeth and said, "The National Master is busy with all kinds of things every day, and he was in Mazongling a few days ago..."

"What does this have to do with you?"

Jiang Lin paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, furious:

"You are the king, he is the minister! He eats the salary of the court and dies exhausted from outside. He is also loyal to the country. You need to worry about other people's safety? Even if you don't mention Zuo Qingqiu, you can just find an official who can go to court to arrange this matter. How dare he mess up the matter for you?"

Jiang Du opened his mouth, hesitated for a long time, and lowered his head and said:

"Son minister, I have known Liu Wuye for a long time and have a deep friendship. If the people from the court take action, he will definitely be able to guess that it was the instructor of the son minister..."

Smack

Jiang Lin raised his hand and slapped it on Jiang Du's face, staggering Jiang Du.

"A dead person, are you afraid that he will know that it was your commander? What are you afraid of? Are you afraid that he will become an evil spirit and come to settle the score with you?"

Jiang Du quickly got up and knelt down, gritted his teeth and said:

"I am really sorry for the conscience of heaven and earth when I was young, and doing such ungrateful things..."

"You fucking know how ungrateful?"

Jiang Lin's eyes were filled with bloodshot, and he sweared:

"Since you know that you are sorry for your conscience, why do you still have to do it?"??

Jiang Du was stunned and raised his head, with a faint anger in his eyes:

"It was the father who asked his son minister to do it..."

"You do whatever I ask you to do? I ask you to die, will you go?"

“…”

Jiang Du clenched his fists, looked at Jiang Lin who was "stubborn" and said in a hard voice:

"The son respects the order of his father and emperor, and there is no fault! A real man should not be a woman's kindness, and I have no complaints to kill Liu Wuye..."

"Then have you done it? Have you killed it?"

“…”

Jiang Du was speechless again.

Jiang Lin raised his hand and pointed at Jiang Du, cursing angrily:

"You still know that a real man cannot be a woman's kindness? You really have such ruthlessness and he can run away? If you don't want to kill him, tell me, what can I do to you?"

When Jiang Du was faced with this almost "unreasonable" scolding, he gradually became angry and angry. After all, Jiang Lin was not the first to say that he wanted to destroy him. If he didn't do it, what should he do if he was ruined?

But I dare not say these words in person.

Jiang Du just gritted his teeth and said, "Father, my son is obedient to his father since he was a child, and he never neglected his duties. This time, he killed Liu Wuye and accidentally failed, but he did not fail. My son didn't know where the mistake was. Why did my father always dislike him?"

"You think about it yourself!"

Jiang Lin brushed his sleeves and said coldly: "I don't know where I am wrong. What's the use of me telling you?"

Jiang Du's body shivered slightly, his breathing fluctuated rapidly, and he gritted his teeth and said:

"My son is right, I can't think of it! My son has never done anything wrong since he was a child, so he has something to do with Liu Wuye. In ancient times, there were monarchs like me. Just talking about my ancestors of Jiang, there was Qi Xuanzong..."

Jiang Lin said coldly: "Have you said you were wrong in this?"

Jiang Du raised his head, his face sometimes blushed and sometimes white:

"Since the father thinks it's right, why should he instruct Liu Shanpu to kill his son? Why should he let his son kill the most cherished person around him?"

"You fucking won't stop me? The fifth-rank censors in the court dare to stop me from my edict. You, the prince of your country, can't you protect an unknown man with deep affection?"

Jiang Lin asked angrily, his eyes full of anger that was full of hatred.

He only has Jiang Du's son. He doesn't understand what Jiang Du is afraid of?

He had no choice at all, and had no other heirs.

Not to mention an irrelevant little man, even if Jiang Du caused a huge disaster, he could only eat Coptis chinensis and help Jiang Du wipe his butt.

This situation could be figured out with a little brain. He didn't understand why Jiang Du was so cowardly. When the "opponent" had no way to go, he didn't even dare to say the word "no".

Jiang Du lowered his head, his eyes twitched slightly, almost gritting his teeth, and said word by word:

"The father is the king of a country. He is in charge of the people in the world and the people are killed. The ministers cannot disobey..."

"You don't dare! You are stupid! If you have any view of the overall situation, any ambition, and even a little greed, you won't kneel here today."

Jiang Lin's eyebrows were so angry that he jumped straight, and he was too lazy to look at Jiang Du again, so he turned around and scolded:

"You think about what you are wrong today. If you can't think of it, you will get out of the Beihai and let the sheep goats go forever tomorrow.
To be continued...