"Master, Master, it's not good." Butler Qi hurried to Qi Heng's study with a trembling mouth.

Tonight, Qi Heng sent all the Qi family members out and hid in the study alone, waiting for news.

I waited all night and saw no one.

"What's the matter?" Qi Heng stood up upon hearing the sound and walked to the door in a few steps.

"Master, it's not good, something happened to our family," Butler Qi trembled.

"The people I sent out to investigate came back and reported that my wife and young lady were missing. I felt strange, so I sent people to check other people. The master's aunts were also missing. No one can be found now."

Butler Qi felt that the sky was falling.

"How could this happen? Send someone to look for him again and ask what's going on. He's only in Jincheng in the middle of the night. Where can he go?" Qi Heng stood with his hands behind his back.

His thoughts drifted to the sky, and after thinking for a moment, his eyes widened and his eyes became surprised.

"Prepare your horse"

"Yes"

"Master, where are you going?" Butler Qi didn't know why, but seeing the master's expression, he felt that something big was going to happen.

Butler Qi's hunch was right, something big had happened.

All the dignitaries and ladies in Jincheng know that His Majesty is going to recruit troops again. Now there are only one or two male family members left in the family, and they are unwilling to let them go to the battlefield at all costs.

No, taking advantage of the dark night and high wind, these people quietly prepared to leave the city with their gold, silver, and their families.

The gatekeeper of Jincheng is the nephew of these ladies.

Everyone was unwilling to give up their lives. Not only the guards, but also many soldiers at the city gate knew that they were going to the peak and were preparing to run away. When they returned home, they also packed up their things and prepared to run away.

This spreads to ten, and spreads to hundreds.

Soon there were many horse-drawn carriages in the streets and alleys of Jincheng.

The family members sent by Qi Heng were busy inquiring about the news at first, but when they were discovered by the other party, some directly killed them and silenced them, and some directly encouraged the other party to escape with them.

Everyone knows that if you go to the battlefield, there will be few survivors.

As soon as Qi Heng realized something was wrong, he immediately rode to the city gate.

Seeing that all the torches at the city gate were extinguished, people from Jincheng took advantage of the dark night and high winds to leave the city one after another with their carriages and family members.

The soldiers at the city gate have long since disappeared, and Jincheng is heading towards the city gate one after another.

When Qi Heng saw this, his expression changed drastically and he asked, "Where are the soldiers guarding the city?"

The sound was deafening. When the fleeing people who were rushing out of the city heard the sound, they were so frightened that they whipped their horse whips hard: "Dedede" the sound of the horse's hooves became clearer.

On the street, everyone kept silent in a tacit agreement. When they met someone, no matter whose family they came from, they flicked their whips and rushed directly to the city gate.

Qi Heng shouted twice but no one answered, so he dismounted and rushed to the city gate.

Looking closer, I saw that the keys to the city gate had been broken.

"Where is the city guard?" Qi Heng was still unwilling. How could this happen?

"General, General, we haven't found the ladies, what should we do?" The guard hurried forward.

The people leaving the city heard Qi Heng's shouts and became more and more anxious now, fearing that the city gate would be closed accidentally.

"Look, look for it" Qi Heng lost his mind.

"Quick, let's enter the palace." Qi Heng quickly mounted his horse. He must find His Majesty as soon as possible and seal the city gate.

The guards kept up with Qi Heng's pace.

However, it's too late.

Many people at the city gate heard Qi Heng's shout. Everyone knew it and pretended not to know it. If they didn't know it, those who knew it told each other.

Soon, the people in Jincheng who wanted to escape received the news. They got up in the middle of the night to pack their things, and in the early morning they had someone drive a carriage out of the city.

Qi Heng first took people to the entrance of the palace and shouted that he wanted to enter the palace to see His Majesty.

Although the guards at the palace gate knew it was Qi Heng, they were very disgusted with him knocking on the palace gate in the middle of the night, but they did not dare to refute it.

After the guards shied away, His Majesty didn't know the news until the fifth watch.

Qi Heng entered the palace with despair. As soon as he saw His Majesty, he told him what happened at the gate of Jincheng.

His Majesty's face changed greatly when he heard this, and he immediately ordered the imperial guards to go to the city gate to guard the city gate.

The Imperial Guards had been the Imperial Guards all their lives, and they were suddenly sent by His Majesty to guard the city gate. They felt very aggrieved.

Qi Heng blocked the palace door halfway again, making him feel even more uncomfortable.

"His Majesty...."

After this incident, Qi Heng's mind had lost its sense of proportion.

Emperor Wei was woken up and his head hurt at the moment.

"Your Majesty, we can't raise any more troops," Qi Heng choked and said.

Your Majesty was woken up in the middle of the night. At this moment, Qi Heng's words felt harsh.

"What did you say?" Emperor Wei looked unhappy.

Qi Heng was angry: "Your Majesty, we can't raise any more troops. Now there is only one male out of ten in David. You don't know how important it is to rest with the people."

"In the past ten years, the tax collection of the treasury has been reduced year by year. Now it has shrunk to only one-tenth compared to ten years ago. Does your Majesty still want to destroy the country?"

Qi Heng was so excited that he no longer cared about the friendship between the king and his ministers.

Over the years, every time His Majesty raised troops, everyone would draw their anger towards him, and he was the person who least supported the raising of troops over the years.

But His Majesty used him as a shield every time.

It was okay once or twice, but after more times, no one believed these words at all.

His Majesty thought that with Qi Heng standing in front of him, he could sit back and relax.

The current situation is not the result of His Majesty's own actions.

'Aiqing Shenyan, didn't you say that you have already contacted a foreign race? Emperor Wei's face turned extremely dark, his lips tightened, and he showed no intention of letting go.

Qi Heng paused and said: "Foreign tribe, why should the foreign tribe obey your command? Your Majesty, have you forgotten that it was the foreign tribe who chased us to Jincheng back then, and the capital of Wei Dynasty had long been occupied by Emperor Jin?"

He had lost his sense of propriety at this moment, and his speech was also stained with thorns.

Emperor Wei remained silent, looking at him with eager eyes, as if he was going to explode at any moment.

He has never been willing to mention this matter, it has always been a thorn in his heart.

"Your Majesty, don't you understand that if you raise troops again, David's people will flee to the Jin Dynasty.

Your Majesty, please don’t forget that the border towns of Jin are all guarded by the King of Jin. As long as he gives the order, he will gather all the people who fled to Jin. Do you think David can still survive?”

"The Xianyi people in the north are eyeing David. Your Majesty thought they could give up attacking David. With such a good opportunity, wouldn't the Xianyi contact other countries to jointly attack David?"

Qi Heng's eyes were dim. When he looked at Emperor Wei's eyes, which were becoming increasingly purple, he knew that all his words were in vain.

When Xiaocheng's 50,000-strong army was originally transporting supplies, he was procrastinating, and in the end, 50,000 soldiers died at the hands of Jin's army.

Now, it was just a group of people fleeing, so how could he take it to heart.

"Ai Qing, don't you want to go on an expedition?" Emperor Wei spoke coldly, holding a frosted bright yellow dragon robe in his hand. He looked outside the house. Wu Jin looked eastward, and just now he could clearly see the light outside the house.

"Yes, I don't want to go"

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