For the emperor

The first general committed suicide in fear of crime, and the second general was found dead in his own tent a month later.Two consecutive accidents of the chief generals and the hostility of the refugees made Qi's border town really chaotic for a while.Taking advantage of this opportunity, Duan De pressed forward step by step, occupying seven or eight towns one after another.

These small towns are located in the battleground between the two countries, and have been the focus of competition for Cang Qi for a hundred years. Sometimes the surname Cang belongs to relatives, and they change every few years. Every time the owner changes, it means a fierce battle.

This time, Cang Kingdom managed to take over a large area of ​​land without encountering any resistance, which really took advantage of it.

In the past few months, the refugees from Qi State tried to enter Yulan Town many times. Duan De ordered people to guard the city gate strictly. Tens of thousands of refugees flooded in.

Duan De didn't kill them all. According to Cang Kingdom's consistent relief regulations, he was given cold porridge twice a day per head, half a bowl each time, and it was qualified rice porridge that could not be poured when chopsticks were inserted into the porridge.Every five days, the army of the Cang Kingdom will regularly disperse the refugees in the town, and if they encounter stubborn people, they will be executed on the spot.

After such a commotion, there were no major mistakes, but there was a lack of food reserves.General Duan sent three urgent letters to the capital. At this time, the emperor's instructions had not yet come down, so he could only wait patiently.

Cang Tiansu has been so busy these past few days that he didn't know where he went most of the time.Duan Yu came to his camp to find people several times, but he could only squat on the ground angrily and stare at Jing Tian and Xiaosi.

Zhao Liu has been writing letters for three days in a row, scolding the landlord for being cruel and inhumane, and squeezing the labor force of long-term workers.Every time Cang Tiansu read the letter, he rolled his eyes and burned it, Xindao still had time to complain to me, it seems that the young life is still too leisurely.

He raised his hand to touch his thick dark circles, and felt that his upper and lower eyelids were fighting, so he slapped himself hard.This is Young Master Cang, who has not had enough sleep for two hours in No. 16 consecutive days. He is already familiar with this movement, smooth and natural.

This is the way he and Duan De finally came up with to minimize the disadvantages.The number of refugees entering the city was carefully controlled, and about 1 people flooded in every five days. When they were driven out of the city, only six to seven thousand of the [-] refugees who rushed out of the city had actually entered the city for refuge.

When Duan De first heard about this plan, he vaguely accused Cang Tiansu of taking human life for nothing, but when the real refugee wave came, the general didn't even say a word, he just sent his cronies to the refugee camp to deal with the leftovers. Hit the killer.

At this moment, the principle of great unity and equality of all living beings has become the most insignificant thing.

The choice before Duan De is very simple, either pretend to be kind, prevent possible riots with a tolerable loss of food and grass, and take the opportunity to plant his own people among the refugees by distributing porridge.Or just focus on doing good deeds, open the granary, feed the doomed bottomless black hole of refugees from other countries, and let your [-] soldiers go to the battlefield hungry and desperate.

Duan De may blame himself and feel uneasy, but when the real decision comes, the general will not hesitate to do it if he loses the lives of tens of thousands of people from other countries.He was responsible for the soldiers under his command who trusted him wholeheartedly.

Cang Tiansu looked at General Duan, who was strongly condemned by his conscience, who had grown hair from his idle life these days, but whose panda eyes were worse than his own, suddenly remembered what Li Mi had said with emotion.

When the September 911 incident occurred in a big country called the United States, the whole country was shocked, indignant, and furious.When they arrived on the hostile lands of Iran and Iraq, the people cheered and paraded to celebrate.

Everyone cleans the door for himself, and doesn't care about others. Sometimes it is not selfishness, but an instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

In many things in the world, there is no right or wrong, only positions.

Cang Tiansu finally knew where the immature compassion and sympathy that Duan Yu showed from time to time came from.The heart of General Zhenbei, who has been in the army for a lifetime, is far less hard and iron than he imagined.

Confucian general Li Renqiang was the only one in the entire camp other than Duan De who knew about this plan.

He heard Cang Tiansu's original plan from Duan De's mouth a few months ago. The first thing he did was to slap the table and laugh, and the second thing was to break into his tent and pull his collar, with a smile on his face. With a refined smile that was completely opposite to the rude gestures on his hands, he stared closely at his eyes, and said in a low voice, "You really deserve to be his son."

You are truly his son.

Li Renqiang has not been on the battlefield a few times, his body shape and face are different from most generals, he is tall and thin, his skin is pale, and the blue blood vessels are quietly hidden under the thin skin.After leaving a word, he laughed again, turned and left without hesitation.

Cang Tiansu looked at his thin and tall back, then lowered his head to look at his palm, and felt great sadness for a moment.Layer upon layer, the bloody smell all over the sky surged in a breath, and he subconsciously held his breath.

Ruthless and cruel, devoid of conscience, bloody hands, indifferent to thousands of lives.Cang Tiansu's long eyelashes drooped meekly with the movement of the eyelids.

Since when have you become such a person?

He lowered his eyes blankly, staring at the golden boat on his feet, questioning himself in his heart.

Who actually killed your Dude?

At midnight, Cang Tiansu woke up from the seat covered with buckskin.He opened his eyes, first looked down at Duan Yu who was sleeping soundly on the ground with his calf hugged, and frowned helplessly.

Whenever there was an agreed meeting with Zhao Liu, even if he was not needed at all, General Duan still insisted on staying by Cang Tiansu's side for several years, no matter how much Cang Tiansu tried to persuade him, he never wavered.

Cang Tiansu carefully pulled his legs out of Duan Yu's arms, tugged at the white cloth stuck to his knees with drool, lifted a corner of the curtain of the camp tent, and took a look outside.

Xiaosi, who was in charge of the night watch that day, had already returned to her separate tent and slept soundly.

Every day for several years, Cang Tiansu would add a little sleep aid to her and Jingtian's meals. The dose of the medicine was not much, but it could guarantee that the two elders of Zhaori Hall would wake up one or two sticks of incense in the morning than normal. I will yawn again and again, and I will sleep very peacefully at night.

When it was late at night, and one of them was standing outside, wiping his head up and wiping tears, Cang Tiansu, who had never treated his subordinates harshly, would naturally point to the piles of books on the desk, signaling that they could go back to rest first.

It’s okay to say that it’s like this every day for a day or two. Jingtian and Xiaosi, who couldn’t bear it anymore, no longer insisted on keeping watch for him every night. Whenever Cang Tiansu said that he would stay up for a while, he would spontaneously return to the Sleep in a small tent.

After three years, the days of night vigil are far less than the days of no vigil, and it has become a common practice.

Today, the third and fifth teams are in charge of patrolling nearby. When Cang Tiansu lifted the curtain to look at it just now, he happened to see the two teams passing by. Big yawn.

The two teams would cross in front of his tent every time the hour came. The captain of the fifth team had a dark blue purse hanging around his waist.Cang Tiansu thought about his previous order, the dark blue color was already ugly.

Zhao Liu was late for half an hour today.

When the two patrols were far away, Cang Tiansu slapped Duan Yu awake, covered his mouth that was habitual to talk when he woke up, took his hand, and wrote a few words in the palm of his hand.

Duan Yu woke up completely with a jerk, he couldn't see Cang Tiansu's expression clearly in the darkness, after a moment of stupefaction, he hurriedly stood up from the ground.

According to the plan the three of them had planned long ago, Duan Yu took out a jar of wine from under the bed. Duan Yu ruthlessly poured half of the jar into his throat, and waited patiently for a while. Walking squarely, stepping three times and walking out cursing again.

He really doesn't hold a lot of alcohol, he drank half a jar of wine, his heels are like cotton, one foot is deep and the other is shallow, there is no need to pretend, acting in his true colors is already [-]% like that.

Walking around in the barracks late at night, even the only son of a general, is against the rules. Not long after Duan Yu walked out of Cang Tiansu's camp, he was stopped by the captain of the third patrol with a smile on his face.

"It's already this hour, Major General, what are you doing here?" The other party looked at the tent behind him with an ambiguous expression, and said in a strange tone.

Duan Yu opened his mouth, and before he could say anything, a wine hiccup came out first, and went straight to the captain.He hiccupped happily again, and then he said with his tongue out: "My daughter-in-law thought I drank too much, so she kicked me out of bed... Where is my father?"

The captain, who was so smoked, lowered his head and rolled his eyes, thinking in his heart that you still insisted on taking a bath once a day in the twelfth lunar month of winter, and now you stink like this, it would be strange not to drive you out, but it is not easy to say it directly .

He was considering his words, but Duan Yu pushed him away impatiently: "Get up, don't stand in the way, I'm going to sue my father!"

Everyone in the group grinned.Just kidding, Quan Yulan doesn't know that General Duan is a complete wife slave. Although he and the eldest prince go in and out together, it is indeed as good as one person, but he dare not say a single hard word on weekdays. Let him go east to ensure that he will not dare to go west, but now he is using the strength of alcohol to play his prestige.

Besides, I've only heard of married daughters running back to their mother's house to complain to their parents. How can an old man bother his father with the matter on the bed?

The captain knew very well that he couldn't argue with a drunk. Seeing that Duan Yu was slurring his speech, he only said that he wanted to find General Duan, so he had no choice but to coax him with good words and sent two soldiers to send him back to his own camp.

After finishing all this, the captain who watched Duan Yu and the others go away didn't think much, and led his men to continue patrolling.But he circled the land in charge four full times, seeing that the three sticks of incense were almost gone, and the two people hadn't come back yet, just as he was muttering in his heart, two figures came running from a distance in front of him.

At first, the captain of the third team thought it was his soldiers who had returned, and was about to scold him for his indolence, when he took a look under the moonlight, he saw clearly that it was two soldiers from the fifth team.

The other party rushed over and said that when the fifth team was patrolling, they saw Duan Yu and two soldiers in the uniform of the third team lying unconscious in front of the major general's tent. The fifth team leader was startled. He hurriedly led people to search nearby, and at the same time sent them to notify the third team.

When the two teams caught a sneaky and suspicious person near Duan Yu's tent, Cang Tiansu, dressed as an ordinary soldier, had already left the barracks with the token in his hand.

Never underestimate the guarding work of the barracks. Duan De put a lot of effort into it at the beginning, and the positions of each tent were cleverly designed.

If anyone can come in and out at will, it will be meaningless if the battle is not fought.

Two years ago, the young and energetic Mr. Zhao Liu also used the jade pendant he gave him reluctantly after scratching his head and scratching his head for several days to no avail, and when Cang Tiansu thought his plan had failed.

Generally speaking, each camp has its own full-time guards in front of it.If you want to sneak out of the barracks from the inside, as long as you don’t fly out of the sky with a steel wire, if you avoid the full-time guards along the road, you will at least run into a patrol team. In case of encounter, face-to-face with the same team twice.

But as the saying goes, it is difficult to guard against house thieves by day and night, and the strongest buildings often fester from the inside.Now this wicked idea was thought up by Zhao Liu. If he didn't show up on time, Cang Tiansu and Duan Yu would act as the ghosts, taking advantage of the gap between the two patrols, and let one person out to investigate.

It was also for this reason that when Duan Yu proposed to move his tent to the side of Cang Tiansu several times, he was always rejected by the other party without hesitation.

Whenever Young General Duan saw the cold profile of his daughter-in-law-to-be, he would hold the broken boy's heart and scold Zhao Liu viciously from the bottom of his heart.

During the official meeting, when Duan Yu was paralyzed by anesthesia, the place where Zhao Liu brought the two of them was empty and there was no one in sight.After confirming that there was no one there, Cang Tiansu walked into the dilapidated room, checked carefully, but did not see any clues left by Zhao Liu.

Looks like something went wrong...

According to the previous agreement between the two, if Zhao Liu encounters trouble and cannot get out of his body, when time is tight, he will make a mark on a movable brick on the west wall of this room, and if time permits, he will stuff it under there. A note explaining the reason for the no-show.

Cang Tiansu paused for a while, not in a hurry to find someone, but first went to the street outside to look at the refugees lying on the ground, and roughly counted the number of people lying crowded in a street.

Tomorrow happens to be the day to drive the refugees out of the city. Based on the rough calculation of the population density of a street, the total number of refugees should be similar to the previous few times.

Cang Tiansu also received a letter from Zhao Liu two days ago, saying that only [-] refugees have been replaced for the time being.Today, the number of people has matched, that is to say, at least during the day today, Zhao Liu is still busy with the task he assigned, and finally successfully completed the task.

It probably happened at night.

Cang Tiansu stood expressionlessly on the street and counted with his fingers. An old beggar in ragged clothes happened to turn over, and his right ankle was hit hard with his muddy hand.

When his hand touched something, the old beggar woke up with a start. He raised his head and squinted at the officers and soldiers standing beside him, cursed in a low voice, turned back over, adjusted his posture, and fell asleep again.

The eldest prince of the Cang Kingdom subconsciously pushed the small knife in his sleeve away with his thumb, and waited intently for a while, seeing that the other party was breathing long and evenly, obviously he had really fallen asleep.He licked his upper gums with the tip of his tongue, and stepped back silently.

This street is the closest to that dilapidated house, if there is anything, even if you don't set a trap in the house, you must be waiting here for yourself.

Until Cang Tiansu withdrew from the intersection, he didn't see any changes in the crowd spread all over the street.

Could it be nervousness?

His right eyelid twitched uncontrollably, and he bent down to check carefully the brocade-trimmed ink socks on his right foot, but found nothing unusual.After thinking about it, I took it off, carefully controlled it so that it would not touch the place that the old beggar had touched, and gently placed it on the side of the road.

Cang Tiansu sighed in his heart.

He knows his own affairs from his own family. When it comes to the long-term layout, no matter praise or criticism, at least Duan De and Li Renqiang who have seen his methods in the military camp have fully affirmed him, but when it comes to adaptability, he is purely half-toned.

Every time something happens, Cang Tiansu will habitually imagine every possible situation in his mind, as well as various mysteries that will develop step by step, which requires a lot of time and effort. Can't compare to Mr. Zhao Liu who can make full use of his own cleverness.

He needed to wait until dawn, when Duan Yu found an excuse to come out, so that he could slip back smoothly without arousing suspicion from everyone in the army.There is still an hour and a half.And only after meeting Duan Yu and cooperating with Duan Yu, can all kinds of methods be used.

Cang Tiansu thought about it, and decided to go to that dilapidated house to have a look.

Still haven't found anything...

After turning around the house several times, before he could sit still on the dry straw, he felt a numbness in his right ankle, his thoughts sank, and he fell on his back.