Chapter 430 Return to Beijing

When Shangguan Wan'er stepped into the imperial study,

Li Zhao waved his hand to signal all the attendants in the palace to leave. Even her most trusted eunuch, Wang Chengen, was sent away.

In an instant, only Li Zhao and Shangguan Wan'er were left in the huge imperial study.

"Wan'er~"

Li Zhao whispered the name of this confidant, or friend, who had grown up with her since childhood.

It was only in front of Shangguan Wan'er that she showed a hint of exhaustion and a girlish frailty.

"First tell me how the situation is in the southwest? I want to hear the truth." Li Zhao, who was rubbing his brows, whispered, but there was a hint of doubt in his tone.

"yes."

Shangguan Wan'er stood up respectfully and talked about her experiences during her trip to the southwest.

"Your Majesty, according to Wei Chen's observation, the chieftains in the southwest are harboring evil intentions!"

Speaking of this, Shangguan Wan'er's cold eyes flashed with a hint of murderous intent.

On the surface, these southwestern chieftains were afraid of the power of the Li Tang court, so they just chose to submit to the court again and stopped their troops.

In fact, they each have other plans, and they plan to sit on the mountain and watch the fight between tigers and tigers.

After King Wu and Li Tang fought to the death, the chieftain waited for the opportunity to make another move.

At that time, whether it is to join the King of Wu or to sell the hundreds of thousands of troops from various tribes of Tusi at a good price.

It is still a good choice to follow Xixia's example and divide one side into another.

In this world, Xixia was not established before the Li and Tang Dynasties. At the end of the previous dynasty, the Li family split from the northwest.

Even after Li Tang was established, the late emperor still had trouble dealing with Xixia's stubborn problem.

Looking at the state of Xixia, there are countless terrains to rely on.

The first emperor of Li Tang once sent 200,000 troops to conquer, but they came back defeated.

Therefore, the Western Army, one of the Li and Tang border armies, was just established to guard the northwest and contain Xixia.

Obviously, this southwest chieftain intended to learn from the experience of the Dangxiang people and establish a dynasty belonging to the chieftain tribe in the southwest.

After listening to what Shangguan Wan'er saw along the way, Li Zhao fell into deep thought.

If possible, the imperial court should have sent out heavy troops to beat the restless southwestern chieftains one by one.

However, the southwest was trapped in the quagmire of King Wu's rebellion, unable to extricate itself and unable to deal with it.

"King Ning asked me to report a few days ago, hoping that the imperial court would mobilize troops to station in Sichuan and Shu to coordinate the encirclement and suppression of the Wu King's rebels."

Li Zhao handed a memorial to Shangguan Wan'er.

"Will the imperial court please mobilize troops?" Shangguan Wan'er frowned slightly when she heard this.

As someone close to Li Zhao, how could she not know about Li Tang's current difficulties?

The border troops in various places must not move lightly. The slightest movement of the border troops will definitely make the king with a different surname feel dissatisfied.

From a certain perspective, Li Tang's border troops also served the purpose of intimidating kings with different surnames.

Therefore, the only ones that can be mobilized are Jingying and Yulinwei.

Of course, deploying county soldiers from local areas is also a method.

However, there is a question mark as to the combat effectiveness of these county soldiers.

"Then Wang Ziteng has been training the Beijing camp for almost half a year. I wonder what the results are?"

Shangguan Wan'er didn't pay attention to the situation in the Beijing camp, so she planned to ask Li Zhao.

But as soon as he finished speaking, he saw that the emperor's face looked a little ugly.

"Um?"

Shangguan Wan'er was startled.

Then I heard Li Zhao say in a muffled voice: "That Wang Ziteng is a piece of trash!"

Why did Li Zhao let Wang Ziteng serve as the governor of the Beijing camp?

It is nothing more than valuing the other party as a descendant of martial arts and hoping that Wang Ziteng will integrate the martial arts in the capital for her use.

From a certain point of view, Wu Xun, as a co-existence with the country, is the best knife in the emperor's hand.

But what?

Many descendants of Wu Xun in Beijing were all abandoned by Zhao Kuangyin when he was the Minister of the Ministry of War.

During Zhao Kuangyin's time, all generals with martial arts backgrounds in the capital camp held positions of leisure and enjoyment.

Now Li Zhao wanted Wang Ziteng to rectify Wu Xun, but he didn't expect that the other party would play Zhao Kuangyin's tricks.

It's not that Wang Ziteng also wants to wear a yellow robe, but Wang Ziteng is too smart.

How can a smart person be willing to do the things of a sinner?

In half a year, the Beijing camp, originally scheduled to have 140,000 soldiers, had recruited less than 80,000.

Most of the Twelve Guards in the Beijing Camp are short of vacancies, and they are all newly recruited soldiers who are simply not equipped for the war.

In other words, Li Zhao could only mobilize 80,000 Yulin Guards.

"Let Prince Teng lead the Yulin Guards to Sichuan and Shu?"

Li Zhao, who had just raised this idea, immediately dismissed it.

joke.

If Yulinwei is sent away by Wang Ziteng, she will be the lonely person she was when she first ascended the throne.

It's not that Li Zhao doubts Wang Ziteng's ability, but that he can't afford to gamble.

"Your Majesty, has General Yulin not come back yet?"

Shangguan Wan'er had heard about Lin Chen's secret order before, and led the Yulin Guards to Shandong to frighten King Chai Rong of Qi.

Nowadays, many bandits have subsided in various parts of Shandong, but in the territory of King Qi, a group of bandits under the banner of Liangshan is still powerful.

I don’t know where this Liangshan bandit has attracted so many bandits.

Moreover, these bandit leaders stared at the King of Qi, causing the King of Qi to write a rare letter to the court, asking for a large army to conquer the Liangshan bandits.

When Shangguan Wan'er learned about this, she had a vague guess in her mind.

This Liangshan bandit was probably Lin Chen's handiwork.

have to say.

After all, Shangguan Wan'er knew Lin Chen well, and she was right.

But she wasn't quite sure where Lin Chen went next.

Hearing this, Li Zhao also had a hint of anger on his face.

"I don't know where Lin Chen went!"

When Lin Chen went to attend the Zixiao Kunlun Conference, he sent a memorial to Li Zhao and talked about Xiu Mu.

However, Li Zhao didn't expect it.

Lin Chen rested for more than half a year!

Could it be that... my Yu Lin general has met with an accident?

Shangguan Wan'er was speechless for a moment.

"If the situation is urgent, your majesty may transfer a veteran of the border army to lead the Yu Lin guards to Sichuan."

After all, the most important thing is that the King of Wu rebelled.

Li Zhao also knew that this was a helpless solution, and nodded in approval.

As for the main person that Li Zhao and Shangguan Wan'er talked about, he finally returned to the capital after a lot of twists and turns.

"It's been a long time since I came back, but it's still prosperous."

Lin Chen sighed while riding his horse.

If it were normal, Xiao Zhao would have agreed at this time.

But Lin Chen had other arrangements for her, so she was not by her side.

Yes.

Yue Lingshan looked out of the carriage and looked at the scenery of the capital curiously, the place where she would live in the future.

Yue Lingshan, who followed Lin Chen back to the capital, was actually quite nervous.

She was afraid that she, a martial girl with a humble background, would be despised by other women in Lin Chen's room.

Fortunately.

Yue Lingshan knew that Lin Chen had not yet married a wife, and most of the women in the mansion were concubines.

This made her breathe a sigh of relief.

After all, Yue Lingshan had also been taught a lot of dirty things in the backyards of high-ranking families by her mother Ning Zhongze.

Thinking of this, a trace of sorrow appeared in the eyes of this pretty girl.

"Fight for favor?"

Yue Lingshan seemed to think of something, and her pretty face was full of blush.

"I don't know if the posture my mother said can really win favor..."

Yue Lingshan subconsciously muttered to herself, planning to find an opportunity to try.

Of course.

Lin Chen, who still didn't know what Yue Lingshan was thinking, returned to the Lin Mansion in the capital very low-key.

But the women in the mansion looked at Lin Chen, who had not returned home for a long time and brought back a new sister, and their eyes were full of resentment.

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