For the emperor

After Duan De left, Duan Yu locked himself in Duan De's tent and did not take a step out of the tent all night.The generals didn't know how to persuade them, they were afraid that they would add fuel to the fire if they went in rashly, so they had to keep hinting to Cang Tiansu to go in.

Cang Tiansu would enter the main tent with the meals for the two of them on time every day, put the plate next to Duan Yu who was holding his head silently, and touched his trembling shoulder.

He didn't say anything, and silently finished his meal, then moved Duan De's usual office chair, sat beside Duan Yu's bed, and read the military reports piled up like a mountain.

On the evening of the third day, Duan Yu stood up staggeringly, fell headlong into his arms, knelt on the ground, supported the rattan chair that Duan De had used for decades, and cried loudly.

Cang Tiansu stroked his messy hair with one hand, and lightly stroked his shoulder with the other hand, staring at a corner of the tent, silent.

After a while, after the other party's crying subsided, the eldest prince of the Cang Kingdom lowered his head and carefully examined Duan Yu's expression at this time. He saw that he was biting his lower lip, his eyes were red, and he couldn't even breathe out smoothly. .

Cang Tiansu lightly touched the opponent's almost bitten lower lip with his slightly cool fingertips, and leaned the back of his hand over, with a gentle tone and soft voice: "Ayu, I will accompany you."

Without the slightest hesitation, Duan Yu opened his mouth and bit his hand desperately, while biting hard, tears flowed down uncontrollably.

Cang Tiansu bent down, put his head on his shoulder, closed his eyes lightly, and waited for Duan Yu to recover, then said softly: "I killed your father."

"...Daddy said that the Qi people killed him." Duan Yu let go of Cang Tiansu's hand, swallowed the blood in his mouth, and stared at him blankly, "Who do you want me to believe? "

Cang Tiansu was silent.

In his opinion, he was indeed the one who forced the general to death, although his original intention was not so.But in Duan De's opinion, I am afraid that Cang Jinglan is the chief culprit who killed him.

When the young major general knelt on the ground, bet his life and wealth, and swear allegiance to the little children, did he already think of this day?

Since he knew it was death, why did he stretch out his hand in the first place?Are you the foolish farmer who does not know that the fangs of vipers kill?

Let him fail in the struggle for the throne, be exiled to the frontier, or simply be given to death, wouldn't it be a one-and-done thing?

Without Emperor Cang Jing of the Wuji Continent, there would be no Li Mi, no Yi Hao, no Concubine Yong, no queen, no Cang Tiansu, and no later idiots complaining about women.

There is no beginning and no end.

Patting Duan Yu's broad shoulders over and over again, Cang Tiansu closed his eyes wearily.After three years, he finally plucked up the courage to look directly at the entanglement and pain that had taken root in his heart.

How nice it would be if nothing happened. Fifteen years have passed, and he is still curled up comfortably in the cold palace, without dealing with military affairs, staying up all night, wielding butcher knives, or marching troops.

Every day, I only need to eat, sleep, be in a daze, and roll my eyes at the nurse who laughs heartlessly.

I, we, have long been unable to return to before the encounter.

The [-] Northwest soldiers wrapped their arms in black gauze and wore white scarves on their heads. Under the leadership of a major general in white clothes, they took four nights and five days to completely level Pingye City.

Blood flowed like a river in Pingye City, men, women, old and young, no one was spared.The corpses of hundreds of thousands of people are piled up on the ground, and no one collects them. At a glance, they are piled up like rotten wood.Under the foot, it is impossible to pull it out.

A road around the city was cleared out of the corpses all over the sky.The coffin of General Zhenbei passed through the city, and the soldiers on both sides offered incense, candles, paper and silk, and blocked the way to pay homage.

Duan Yu lowered his raised arm slowly.The coffin was then gently placed in the center of Pingye City by the four of them.The major general's eyes were slightly red, and he held back abruptly. He turned his head and nodded at the generals standing outside the city gate, stroked the coffin lid for a while, and ran out of the city quickly.

Cang Tiansu lit two torches and handed one of them to Duan Yu.The Major General gritted his teeth and threw the torch into the city with a red nose.

Cang Tiansu patted his shoulder, raised his arms in the air, and made a gesture. The soldiers standing around the city lit torches one after another, and threw them vigorously towards the city.

It is impossible for the corpses to pile up here forever, and it is impossible for the Northwest Army to bury everyone one by one.In order to prevent the plague, Cangtiansu ordered that all be burned. The fire burned for several days, and the stench was still clearly audible dozens of miles away.

"Yan Wangye must be waiting for me in the endless hell." Cang Tiansu always thought that he could be indifferent to anything, but when he really saw the piled up bones, he realized that he didn't care.

Duan Yu shook his head lightly at the side: "I am the real murderer. When the time comes, I will definitely wait for you inside with Lord Yan."

The two looked at each other, and both smiled wryly.Everyone was killed, and the city was burned. From here, I can’t help but feel that I am hypocritical and hypocritical to express a few insignificant emotions.

It's not that there is no emotion in my heart, but it's just that no matter how much I blame myself, I can only pile it all up in my heart.

Li Renqiang walked over with heavy steps, glanced coldly at Cang Tiansu, then straightened his body and said: "Received the latest news, the people near Pingye City, someone once saw the inside of the city during the massacre. The tragic situation, and now the most serious villages are already crazy."

The villages where someone went crazy belonged to the side of Qi State. When Duan Yu ordered the massacre of the city, Cang Tiansu had already ordered people to seal the road from Cang State to Pingye City, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving.As for Qi Guo, they sent people to spread the news that Cang Guo's army was about to massacre the city, just to attract people to watch.

At the beginning, it was just to arouse the fear of Qi people, so as to facilitate the future confrontation. As for the result that a large number of people would go crazy, it was not in Cang Tiansu's imagination, and he himself did not expect that the real scene would be so terrible.

Several nearby towns were taken over one after another without encountering the slightest resistance.By the time Lidong needed a truce, one-fifth of Qi's territory had already fallen into Cang's hands.

The Northwest Army is running out of food and grass, and the intelligence network in the army has sent news that the imperial capital has sent a special envoy to escort the food and grass to the place where the army is stationed.Zhao Liu's message contains more content, and I specifically mentioned that the envoy's surname this time is Liu.

It's almost time, if you don't take advantage of this time to play tricks, you may not have a chance next time.Cang Tiansu moved the letter to the lamp and lit it, looked at the fire, and fiddled with his wet hair in a good mood.

Duan Yu came in from the outside, saw him like this, happily picked up the clean towel on the stool, and wiped the hair of Young Master Cang, who never liked to dry himself after a shower.

Cang Tiansu squinted his eyes and let him rub, and hummed in a low voice: "Wait, the fun is about to begin." After three years of careful planning, now it's finally time to reveal the cards.

According to the normal situation, it would take about four months for the envoys of the imperial capital to arrive here. If it is the Liu family, they will not delay it for half a year.

Although the power in the army is now delegated to the generals, the long-faced job of writing letters to the emperor is done by heaven.

When Duan De was there, because the journey from the imperial capital to the military camp was only three months, he was used to setting aside three and a half months of military rations, and Cang Tiansu took precautions. When he was six months old, he wrote to Emperor Cang Jing to ask for food.

Anyway, the Northwest Army has just completed the transition of power, and the news from the two sides is not clear. If there is something different from the past, the ministers of the DPRK and China cannot make a big fuss about it.

Cang Tiansu wrote a letter to plead guilty, saying that when the refugees were rescued, too much food was distributed, which led to a shortage of food in the army.The person who was in charge at the time is no longer there, and no matter whether it is true or not, those who want to criticize can only choose to believe it.

"Susu," Duan Yu suddenly thought of something, lifted the curtain and looked outside, and saw that there was no one standing guard outside the door except Xiaosi, so he ran back and said in a low voice, "Uncle Li asked me, why are you still Won't you take back your power?"

Since Duan De's death, the relationship between Li Renqiang and Cang Tiansu has dropped to a freezing point. Unless necessary, they will not say a word. This time, asking Duan Yu's mouth, I am afraid that I really can't hold back.

Cang Tiansu shook his head, and also lowered his voice to the lowest level: "Ah Yu, your father was able to subdue them by relying on his military achievements. I have no merit or virtue now, even if I forcibly take back the military power in the hands of the generals, I will still be able to conquer them." It’s not necessarily possible to instruct them to move.”

A big question mark appeared on Duan Yu's head: "Why? Didn't you manage it well before?"

"In the past, there was a general on top, and on the surface I was in charge, but in fact, everything can only be carried out with his consent." Cang Tiansu patiently explained.

Not having military merit is the biggest problem he faces now.His previous victories were all based on his ideas, but once his strategy failed in any battle, if he was held on to again, the prestige he had built up in the army was likely to collapse in an instant.

Without actually killing a few people on the battlefield, it is difficult to convince this group of wolves who are living on the edge of their swords.Seeing this clearly, Cang Tiansu simply let go of his hands, as long as he is in control of the general direction, let them mess around in private.

Duan Yu's eyes widened when he heard this: "Then what should we do?"

Cang Tiansu laughed, dipped his hands in the tea, and gently wrote the words "Killing Liwei" on the table.

"Who to kill?" Duan Yu opened his mouth wide, without making a sound, silently mouthing his wife-to-be.

The eldest prince of the Cang Kingdom no longer responded to any questions this time, he bent his lips at him, picked up the unfinished battle report on the table, and started to read it.

Duan Yu didn't care either, pulled a chair and placed it next to him, sat down on it, carefully observed Cang Tiansu's side face, and moved his head closer with a blushing face.

While paying attention to the other person's expression, he sniffed carefully.The faint fragrance entered his nostrils, and General Duan's face flushed even more.He carefully swallowed his saliva, pinched his left hand hard with his right hand, and as if making up his mind, he rushed over quickly and kissed his face hard.

Duan Yu jumped up with a "chuckle", not daring to see Cang Tiansu's reaction, he stumbled out and knocked over a stack of books piled on the ground during the process.

Cang Tiansu dropped a few pieces of tissue paper on the ground, and was stunned for a while, raised his hand to touch the wet skin on his face, put his hand down and looked at the glistening saliva on his fingertips, his eyebrows curved, Suddenly laughing very harmlessly.

Half a month later, the camp of the Cang Kingdom army advanced another five hundred miles with difficulty.

The young general of the Northwest Army was lowering his head and tidying up the messy desk. The real commander of soldiers and horses in the army, Xu Shan, rushed in and slapped the sandalwood table hard: "Prince, we are in the grain storage area in the valley. Someone took it!"

"I know." Without raising his head, Cang Tiansu pointed to the battle report on the corner of the table, indicating that there were detailed descriptions on it, and he had just read it.

The corners of Xu Comp's mouth twitched violently, and veins popped out on his forehead: "The grain and grass are burned, why do you react to such a big thing?!"

What a joke, just last night, several hundred soldiers from Qi State pretending to be civilians took advantage of the lack of guards in the barracks, and went straight to the grain storage area overnight, without even hesitation, and burned the grain warehouse to nothingness. If there is nothing wrong with it, no one will believe it.

"General Duan mentioned to me a few months ago that there is a very high-ranking spy in the army." Cang Tiansu sighed quietly, with a slightly different tone from usual.

After hearing this sentence, Xu Xi became even more angry: "You already know that there are spies, why did you deliberately mention the location of the grain storage at the meeting this time?"

That's half a year's supply for 10 people, almost one-third of the most fertile land in Cang Kingdom—Yunzhou, the fiefdom of Prince Cheng, which turned over one-third of the total grain that was handed over to the state treasury in one season. Can't bear it.

Not to mention that it will take several months for the reserve food and grass to be delivered. After so many days, 10 people will go hungry together?

Just as Xu Zhi finished speaking, he suddenly came to his senses, hurriedly picked up his paw that was still on the table, stepped back several times, looked at Cang Tiansu warily and stopped talking.

Yes, knowing that there are ghosts in the army, how could the announcement be the correct location for grain storage.I'm afraid the fire burned all night, and what was burned was not real food and grass, but a pile of things that this guy put there to make the trick more real.

This kid is too ghostly, he always talks like this to his own people, what is inside and outside the words are all hidden traps, if he continues to babble with him, he may be caught in it at some point, so he has to guard against it!

Cang Tiansu finally looked up at him: "General Xu..."

When the eldest prince of the Cang Kingdom was in a meeting, the first thing he did was to summarize what each general had done in the past few days. The negative comments always made up the majority, and what he said made sense, no one could find out. The place retorts.Now when every general walks out of the main tent, his head is covered with cold sweat and his face is ashamed.

It was the first time Xu Shan saw this person talking to him so politely, his scalp went numb, and he waved his hand to interrupt him: "Yes, I was wrong, I was wrong, if you have something to say, just say it!"

Cang Tiansu took out the military order he had just written from his sleeve: "In the past few days, I have placed people next to each general to closely monitor their every move. It's just that as a general, I don't want to use this Use means to deal with your own subordinates."

Xu Hui shivered for a moment, and pulled out a smile that was uglier than crying: "I understand, I can take care of this matter." Who would let himself get mad and come to Xingshi to ask the crime?He was on the point of hitting the gun, isn't he looking for a scapegoat... It would be strange if the brothers thought that they were being watched by someone they had arranged for them, so they didn't skin themselves alive.

He took the military order and looked at the delicate handwriting on it. He was even more surprised, and raised his head and said, "Didn't you bring Guard Jing from the palace?"

Cang Tiansu raised the corner of his mouth at him, but did not answer.

Xu Comprehension immediately understood that he shouldn't have asked this question. He nodded and fastened the general order to his belt: "What if you catch it? Just chop off your head and hang it on the city gate?" This is the usual practice in the army to deal with traitors. Seeing that Cang Tiansu's eyes were wrong now, after thinking about it, he asked one more question.

Cang Tiansu propped his chin and was silent for a while. When he spoke again, his eyes were clear and his smile was faint: "When I was young, my nurse once told me about a very interesting punishment."

Xu Shan looked at this amazing smile, but felt a chill all over his body, as if falling into an ice cellar, and couldn't say a word for a while.

From his angle, he could clearly see the waves of light flowing in the other party's rare and bright eyes, converging into a piercing hatred in the deepest part.

Cang Tiansu leisurely raised his hand, and his long sleeves and long clothes moved with the wind: "That kind of punishment is called a thousand cuts."

"This kind of punishment is to tie people up with fishing nets, and then the executioner cuts off the small exposed meat. It is necessary to ensure that [-] pieces of meat are cut off, and each piece of meat cannot exceed two taels. When you come down, the prisoner must still be angry." The unique cool voice of his youth spread out in the empty military tent, revealing a gorgeous but cool taste.

"I will execute the execution myself." Cang Tiansu lightly moved his fingers, the light in his eyes was like a dream.He had woken up countless times in the middle of the night, and the only thing he could do was to imagine that one day he would be able to truly vent his hatred.

To Jing Tian, ​​to the Queen, and to everyone involved in this matter.

When he is still powerless to reality, he chooses to daydream.

Cut to pieces.

In his mind, he had already repeated this punishment hundreds of times.

Now, it's time to wake up from the dream.