Quick Wear: Under the Skirt, All Beings Are Equal

Zhao Lianye closed his eyes and rested in his armor, listening to the people below arguing. His brows slightly frowned, and the servant beside him immediately reminded him: "Generals, please do not be rude."

After all, at the end of the quarrel, the generals had already started to greet their colleagues' ancestors.

Seeing that Zhao Lianye was getting impatient, everyone shut up.

In front of Zhao Lianye, even if their father, who was buried in the ground, were resurrected and crawled out, they would still have to be respectful.

Zhao Lianye's reputation is so terrifying. He ascended to the throne step by step with an iron-blooded hand.

He never cared about the character of his ministers, but only whether they were useful.

He asked casually, "My dear ministers, what do you think of Northern Qi's Prime Minister Tang Ran?"

This issue has nothing to do with the current war. After Zhao Lianye's recruitment, the Northern Qi soldiers also expressed their dissatisfaction with Tang Ran.

The secret agents have reported that Tang Ran has resigned from all military positions and will not participate in the war.

It was this person who Zhao Lianye mentioned again and again.

Everyone looked at each other and expressed their inner thoughts sincerely.

After hearing this, Zhao Lianye almost drew his sword and chopped off a general's head.

After the meeting, Zhao Lianye sneered: "Such a person whom I regard as my confidant and mortal enemy is actually despised by these people who bear the lives of countless soldiers. How can I feel at ease and hand over the fate of the Chen Kingdom to them?"

His face was livid, his hair was a little gray, and his aura was so overwhelming that it made people feel breathless.

The eunuch next to him knew that Zhao Lianye didn't need him to speak.

Zhao Lianye cursed angrily: "I am old, not dead. You are all staring at the position under my buttocks. Apart from this calculation, you can't see anything else."

If it weren't for the contempt and arrogance of the civil and military officials of Chen State towards Northern Qi, he would not have led the army in person at such an old age.

There are two problems bothering him now.

One is Northern Qi, and the other is the issue of the crown prince of Chen State.

Zhao Lianye has several sons, and none of his sons are hopeless.

On the contrary, each of his sons is very outstanding.

It was precisely because he was so outstanding that he was unable to make a decision.

His sons and princesses all inherited the desire for power in his blood. On the surface, they seemed to be friendly and respectful to each other, but in fact they stabbed each other secretly.

He could still suppress it before, but as the princes grew up, the situation was no longer under his control.

Zhao Lianye himself came out of a brutal struggle for succession, and he also prefers the method of raising Gu to select the most suitable heir.

But the premise of all this is that he completely cleared all obstacles.

He knew in his heart that the Chen Kingdom was not a monolithic entity.

Those people are no match for Tang Ran at all.

Tang Ran is definitely a more terrifying person than the previous emperor of Northern Qi, Tang Ran's father, and General Xie. He combines all the advantages of these people, and the sum of their strengths is definitely greater than 3.

Zhao Lianye was indeed a little anxious.

He didn't know how long he could live, and he couldn't watch Northern Qi grow stronger step by step.

If this southern expedition fails, he will never be able to fulfill his dream in this lifetime, to unify the world, to make the nine provinces rise and fall under his feet, and to respect him as an emperor.

Zhao Lianye's personal leadership of the army this time is also an opportunity for his sons.

All the princes are eager to take this opportunity to eliminate dissidents and ensure that they will be the winners in the future.

They believed in their father.

The emperor who had never been defeated in his life and was perfect and impeccable.

The princes of Chen Kingdom know their brothers too well. Once the other party ascends the throne, they will definitely kill them all.

They were not fighting for the throne, they were fighting for their own lives.

But they didn't expect that once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back, and everything, once it happens, may not necessarily be as they expected.

With an arrow shot at the palace gate, the cruel and bloody battle for the throne was completely torn apart, and the entire Hongzi struggle entered a white-hot stage.

During this period, Zhao Lianye also used many methods to completely conquer Northern Qi.

But in the end, without exception, they all failed.

Tang Ran, who was hiding behind the scenes, made him feel frustrated.

This feeling disgusted him, as if his perfect life had a stain on it.

He couldn't help but say a sentence that has been passed down through the ages: "If I were 20 years younger, there would be no such thing as Tang Ran. The world's major events can be destroyed in the blink of an eye. It's not that I lost to him, but I lost to time and the supreme power."

He was very angry, even to the point of losing his mind. After hearing the news, Zhao Lianye roared to the sky and cursed.

Why are all his sons so disappointing that at such a critical moment, they are still being instigated by others and shaking the foundation of the Chen Kingdom?

He is not a god, but an ordinary person.

The so-called war cannot be summarized in one sentence. There are too many complicated situations involved.

Admittedly, there may only be a few brief summaries in history books, but every stroke is written with human lives.

But in the eyes of everyone in Chen Kingdom, Emperor Zhao Lianye is a god-like existence.

So they believed that Chen Kingdom would not be defeated.

Everyone felt that this was an inevitable outcome, and had even imagined the scene of their emperor, wearing armor and holding a sword, standing on the imperial city of Northern Qi.

However, the Chen Kingdom was defeated.

To be precise, it wasn't really a failure.

But in everyone's eyes, spending almost a year without conquering Northern Qi and returning to the capital without any results was a huge failure.

Tang Ran also heard what Zhao Lianye said, and wrote down a sentence: "With the right time, right place and right people, if I, Tang Ran, was born decades ago, I would still be your lifelong enemy..."

Tang Ran and Xie Yun hit it off immediately and used up all the remaining aphrodisiacs and other poisons.

On the way back to the capital, the Chen army set up a killing trap.

Zhao Lianye took a part of the army back in advance and asked his son, whom he had specially brought out for training, to follow closely behind.

When Zhao Lianye went back, he repeatedly warned the other party to be careful and not to be careless, as Tang Ran would definitely set an ambush on the way. However, when his beloved son heard the news that Tang Ran was stabbed and seriously injured on the road, he did not care about anything else and chose the nearest way back.

Tang Ran looked at the corpse of the prince and said indifferently, "I said I would get it back once and for all, Zhao Lianye. All your other sons are eyeing the position under your buttocks. I'm afraid this is the only son who truly respects you."

This prince seems honest and loyal, but his methods are actually more vicious than anyone else's. He has completely inherited Zhao Lianye's coldness and ruthlessness.

No one cared except his father, whom he adored the most.

When he was still a minor, he ordered the killing of the sixteenth princess of Northern Qi.

It was just because he accidentally heard that Zhao Lianye was a little afraid of Tang Ran at that time, so he privately found Mr. Gao, who was most familiar with Zhao Lianye, and after hearing some news, he took action against a little girl of a few years old.

In fact, this prince died in the most embarrassing and humiliating manner.

Compared to what happened to the Chen Kingdom against the sixteenth princess who was only a few years old, these were nothing.

"Little Sixteen, this is real revenge."

The wind blew on Tang Ran's face, as if someone had come by. Tang Ran felt as if a heavy burden had been lifted from his mind, and he felt relaxed.

He estimated that the Chen Kingdom would lose at least 300,000 soldiers this time.

Adding the large and small battles that took place some time ago, there are at least hundreds of thousands of people.

Those who surrender.

Tang Ran smiled and chose to kill him directly.

Xue Nanyin's voice trembled: "Tang Ran."

Tang Ran turned around, her dark eyes were extremely serious, and she quietly looked at the pale-faced girl in front of her carrying a medical kit on her back: "Nanyin, if these people were alive and gathered together, how much harm would they cause to Northern Qi? We have to worry day and night about them suddenly causing chaos. This is irresponsible to the safety of life and property of the people of Northern Qi."

“Besides, their homeland is still there.”

"The food, lodging and transportation of these people is also a huge expense. The current Northern Qi has no way of consuming these hundreds of thousands of laborers, not to mention that these are not ordinary people, but soldiers who have been trained and experienced life and death on the battlefield."

Tang Ran sighed softly and covered her eyes with her hands.

He knew that Xue Nanyin was not a saint, but was a doctor with compassion for these lives.

Tang Ran also knew that war was not something that could be decided by a single soldier.

But it cannot be changed. War is made up of individual soldiers and human lives are sacrificed one by one.

Everyone is unclean.

Everyone's hands were covered in blood.

Xue Nanyin gently held Tang Ran's hand, and took it down, with a trace of compassion in her eyes: "Tang Ran, I know all this, I just feel that the lives of the people in the world are too hard, and there are too few things they can decide for themselves, even including their own lives."

She suppressed her inner discomfort and forced a smile: "In fact, many people are not the beneficiaries of war, but the victims of war."

But what can we do about it?

Looking through history books, it is nothing but a cycle of reincarnation, spring, summer, autumn and winter are all filled with indescribable sadness.

In fact, they won, and won so beautifully. All Tang Ran and Xue Nanyin saw was the red land and the smell of blood that could be smelled from hundreds of meters away.

They can no longer remember what color the land was before.

I can’t remember how many people are buried on this land.

After staying in the Frost Line for a few more months and seeing the city full of flowers, Tang Ran picked a bunch of flowers from the roadside and hid them in her sleeves, then leaned lazily against the carriage.