"I wonder what the fourth son of Xiao is talking about when he comes to the patrol department?" Since it was already past Haishi, Qu Tugai really couldn't figure out what the reason for this noble family's late-night visit was.

"Come and give credit to Master Qu Tu! I just observed the sky at night and counted with my fingers. I found that the white tiger star is bright and will stop at the west gate early tomorrow morning. I came here to inform the general that there may be a sword fight tomorrow morning.

occur."

Qu Tugai was a little angry after hearing Xiao Zhuo's remarks, and said jokingly: "Fourth Young Master Xiao, it seems that you have been successful in cultivating Taoism over the years! For your father's sake, I won't argue with you.

If you have nothing to do, go home and go to bed immediately, don't amuse me here! I can't do anything to Yuan Tiangang, but if you are so arrogant, I can still deal with it!" Seeing that Qu Tutong was about to call someone in to arrest him

After driving out, Xiao Zhuo said quickly: "General Qu Tutong! No, no, no, no, no! Let's put it this way, did my father go to your brother's house to find General Qu Tutong this morning?"

"So what?" Qu Tugai had to be cautious when he heard Xiao Zhuo ask about this matter. He was also present when Xiao Yu went to see Qu Tu Tong this morning. When he heard that Xiao Yu was preparing to join forces with hundreds of officials to enter the country for the tenth time,

When admonishing, he sincerely admired Xiao Yu's integrity. However, he knew better that the powerful officials headed by Yu Wenhuaji would definitely try their best to stop them, and they would definitely use all kinds of verbal and written attacks, and quarrels with each other.

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"Since my father has gone to see your brother, does the general know about the discussions between my father and your brother?"

"Does Young Master Xiao have any opinion on that matter?" Seeing that Xiao Zhuo did not mention the matter of remonstrance, Qu Tugai followed suit and was vague. It was not that he was suspicious, but Xiao Zhuo's behavior really made him uneasy.

Throughout the ages, there have been many cases where fathers and sons have different hearts, and relatives have turned against each other. Xiao Zhuo was also on good terms with Yu Wencheng. He didn't show up on weekdays, but he came to look for him at this stall. He spoke as if he was trying to trick him. How could he let this happen?

He is relieved.

However, Xiao Zhuo did not answer him. Instead, he walked to the table and sat down, asking, "Has General Qu Tu heard about Chu Xiuyuan?" As soon as he asked the question, Xiao Zhuo felt something was wrong, so he changed his words.

: "It's the case where the person in charge forcibly recruits women from the common people and exploits wealthy households!"

"I've heard a little about it!" Qu Tugai didn't understand why Xiao Zhuo suddenly mentioned this matter. "But I can't do anything about this matter. I am only responsible for the security of the capital. Besides, the draft was carried out by people in the palace according to the order.

I have no right to hold people accountable, but if the people complain about their grievances, they should go to Luoyang Order, and I have no right to interfere!"

"What the general said is true. But has the general ever thought about why no one reported it to the imperial court when the person in charge did illegal things in the imperial city? Obviously, someone secretly colluded with him.

As a result, the road to Tianting was blocked, and besides Yu Wenji, who else has this power in the court? If we alert the Holy Emperor about this matter, wouldn’t it increase the chance of winning by 10% when we make a remonstrance!

"

Although he finally knew Xiao Zhuo's intention at this time, Qu Tugai still couldn't help feeling that Xiao Zhuo thought of things too simply! "Master Xiao, it's not that we haven't thought about this matter, but Yu Wenhua and Zi Ren

Before becoming the Prime Minister, the internal and external affairs were well communicated. From the ministers in the six ministries in the court to the Luoyang Order, they were all accepted as party members. Even if someone was willing to report the matter, they might not be able to send it to His Majesty.

But your father is now only focused on the Eastern Expedition, which has made Long Yan furious, and no one dares to mention this matter for the time being."

"What if someone robs Chu Xiuyuan tomorrow? General, you should be able to take care of it, right?"

"This is true!" Qu Tugai stood up excitedly, looked at Xiao Zhuo carefully, and secretly sighed that Xiao Zhuo was worthy of being Xiao Yu's son, and he did not hesitate to risk his own life to achieve such a great cause. But the next moment his face showed up again

With a sad face, "But even if I arrest someone, they can only hand it over to the Criminal Department for processing. After the processing is completed, three to five days have passed, and tomorrow will be too late!"

"Then what if this person is the young Marquis of Beiping Mansion?"

"Ah!" Qu Tugai looked out the door in embarrassment. Only then did he realize that the person Xiao Zhuo said who robbed Chu Xiuyuan was not him. "I'm afraid that's not possible. Mr. Cui of the Punishment Department has always been upright, let alone Peking.

The young marquis of the palace, even if he is a relative of the emperor, he may not give priority to the trial."

"General Qutu misunderstood! What I mean is that if the young Marquis of Beiping Prefecture robs Chu Xiuyuan, with the general's ability, I am afraid he will not be his opponent at all!"

After hearing what Xiao Zhuo said, Qu Tugai slowly sat down. He admitted that Xiao Zhuo was right. He had witnessed the confrontation between Luo Yi and his backer king Yang Lin back then. And he believed that even now, he might not be able to

He has gone through ten moves under Luo Yi, let alone the son of Luo Yi who has gained the true inheritance of Luo Yi.

"As far as I know, General Tianbao will be on duty and return home early tomorrow morning. As long as the general can delay for a moment and let General Tianbao arrest the person, with General Tianbao's style, he probably won't send the person to the Ministry of Punishment, right?

"

While Xiao Zhuo was drinking, he was recalling his visit to Qu Tu Gai last night. Beside him, Qu Tu Gai was having a drink with Su Dingfang. One of them praised the other for his prowess, the other for his bravery. It was true that heroes cherish each other.

, we met so late that we completely forgot that the two of them were fighting each other just a moment ago!

The Eastern Expedition has come to an end. In the court hall, although the Holy Emperor used his imperial power to suppress the opinions of the ministers, he was finally interrupted by Luo Cheng's robbery of Chu Xiuyuan. After asking for the reason, the Holy Emperor became even more furious and directly

Yu Wenhua and his position as prime minister were removed. Xiao Zhuo knew clearly that what the Holy Emperor hated at that time was not Yu Wenhua and his clique for personal gain at all, but hatred for what had already been a foregone conclusion, but had to give his father's favor because he had to give it to his father.

The courtiers gave an answer and had to postpone the Eastern Expedition. But it was only postponed for one year! In the spring of next year, the war in Liaodong will resume. And in the time before the war, because of the imperial order,

During the recruitment, soldiers and horses from all over the country will gather in Beiping Prefecture. At the same time, tens of thousands of laborers will be recruited in Liaodong to build warships for the battle across the sea in the coming year. The people have just escaped from the battle of the canal, but they have entered the battle of the Eastern Expedition. It can be said to be a disaster.

Not a blessing!

On the surface, his father's ten admonitions to conquer the king seemed to be successful, but only Xiao Zhuo himself knew that it was a complete failure. It was just that the ending came a little later, but it was more cruel! He was to blame.

Isn't he himself the culprit? Originally, if the Eastern Expedition to Goguryeo were to begin this year, the Holy Spirit would not be able to muster too many troops in a hurry. At best, it would only be four or five million. Even if it were defeated, it would still have the strength that a big country should have. But now there are more

With one year of preparation time, Beiping Prefecture will probably gather no less than one million troops next year, and what will be the outcome of these one million troops? Xiao Zhuo can't figure out why this million-strong army failed, let alone how it failed!

Is it just because of destiny? Millions of soldiers! Even with the numerical advantage, they can crush Goguryeo! When he entered Luoyang, he was thinking about whether he could save the fate of the Sui Dynasty, especially after seeing his father,

But I didn't expect that everything I did would accelerate its demise!

"Come! Brother Xiao, have a drink!" Su Dingfang shook the wine bowl and wanted to touch it with Xiao Zhuo, "Brother Xiao, I didn't believe it when you told me outside the palace today that the young Marquis and I would be fine in the palace. No.

Thinking of it, the emperor really let us go. Tomorrow I will go back to Beiping Mansion with the young marquis. We will not come back until we are drunk today, come on!"

"I said Brother Su! Your Majesty let you go because you are from Beiping Prefecture. If Your Majesty wants to successfully march eastward next year, Beiping Prefecture is the best place to garrison troops. How could Your Majesty let Marquis Jingbian do it at this time?

Not happy!" Although Qu Tugai did not follow him into the palace, his brother, as the general who led the army, had already analyzed how to deploy troops and how to fight when the Holy Emperor first proposed the Eastern Expedition. At this time, he took advantage of the drunkenness and also

He expressed his guess. "Hey! By the way, your young prince, why doesn't he come to drink with you?"

"Young Master, he..." Su Dingfang looked at Xiao Zhuo and didn't know what to say. Because he and Xiao Zhuo were old acquaintances, even though he had misunderstood that Xiao Zhuo had betrayed him, after Xiao Zhuo explained the reason outside the palace

, and he was relieved. He was responsible for state and private affairs. But as the young marquis of Beiping Prefecture, how could Luo Chengcheng endure being used like this? It would be a great honor to allow him to come over!

"Okay, Brother Dingfang, I understand! Come! Have a drink." In fact, Xiao Zhuo was originally worried about how to meet Luo Cheng, because he had invited Yu Wen Chengdu to come with him before, but Yu Wen Chengdu had to spend a whole day and night to come with him.

Gang, fought fiercely with Luo Cheng and Su Dingfang for a while, which made his body even more exhausted and refused. If the two really met, Xiao Zhuo believed that Yu Wencheng could face it calmly, but Luo Cheng really couldn't guarantee it.

The three of them drank two more jars of wine before each of them staggered back home. Seeing Qu Tugai and Su Dingfang walking away, Xiao Zhuo also set foot on the road to Shangqing Temple. Approaching the gate, Li Chunfeng looked at Xiao

Zhuo staggered in and hurried over to help him, walking him step by step to where Yuan Tiangang was before slowly retreating out the door.

"Chunfeng, go and cook some sobering soup for your uncle." Yuan Tiangang ordered.

"Yes! Master!"

Yuan Tiangang looked at the young man who was walking away, and then at his junior brother who was a little confused at his feet. He looked a little more confused. "Junior brother, why are you doing this? For filial piety? For righteousness? Or not?

Are you willing to just follow the destiny like this? But because of your small move, more than a dozen families in Beiping Prefecture were killed at the hands of Yu Wen Chengdu, your closest friends almost died, tens of thousands of workers once again fell into disaster, and dozens of

Thousands of soldiers will also die on the battlefield next year! You want to save the world, but you harm the people! Compared with the lives and deaths of the people, is your filial piety more important?" Yuan Tiangang sighed softly, while Xiao Zhuo curled up.

His body also moved at this time.

"Brother! Have you ever done anything 'spiritual'?" Xiao Zhuo slowly sat upright. When he raised his head, his eyes seemed to be full of infinite pain and vicissitudes. Time flies, what kind of state of mind do you have to have?

Indifferent to the fact that hundreds of thousands of lives perished due to his own fault, it is no wonder that Xiao Zhuo cannot let go.

"Yes." Yuan Tiangang replied softly.

"What's the matter?" Xiao Zhuo had always felt that Yuan Tiangang was like an outsider with an immortal demeanor, and he was even more immobile when faced with difficulties. He never thought that his senior brother would actually have some vitality.

"Regicide!"

"What!" Xiao Zhuo was also frightened by Yuan Tiangang's words. Because according to Yuan Tiangang, what Yuan Tiangang did was regicide. But now that the Holy Sage is still alive, it means that Yuan Tiangang failed. And

Aren’t the consequences of failure in this matter even more serious than yourself?

"I once specially injected the demonic power into the candle, and then lit it when Your Majesty came here. The demonic power in the candle wandered around the room, frightened by the spiritual power of the Sanqing Saint Ancestor, and then it would find a hiding place. The best thing is

There is no better hiding place than the human body, but I cannot take shelter in it. The demonic power can only hide in His Majesty. As expected, after returning to the palace, His Majesty was in a state of confusion, and all the imperial doctors were helpless. Just when they were about to die, they

I suddenly recovered, and I lost 30% of my cultivation because of it. So even though I know that the current queen is a monster, I can't kill the monster immediately before you come."

"Senior brother, when you lured the demonic power into Your Majesty's body, didn't you know the identity of the Queen, and you still dared to do this?" Xiao Zhuo was puzzled by this. Although Your Majesty has demonic power entering your body, unless the Queen, who is also a demon clan, does not agree with Your Majesty,

Otherwise, he must be aware of it, and once the queen discovers it, it is not difficult to get rid of this demonic power.

"I know!" Although the matter has long since passed, Yuan Tiangang still seems to still have fresh memories. "However, on the way back, the demonic power has invaded all the limbs and bones of Your Majesty. I will use the technique of puppet stand-in and use spiritual needles to seal the Qi of Your Majesty's whole body.

Acupoint, if the queen wants to get rid of the demon power, she must defeat me first! But what I never expected is that in addition to the demon clan of the queen, there is also a spirit clan by your side. This spirit clan uses its own flesh and blood as a weapon.

He used his spiritual power to break through my blockade, causing everything I did to ultimately fail."

"Eldar? Who? What Eldar"

"Zhu Gui'er, the noble concubine of Qingfangyuan! I have never seen her, so I don't know what kind of spiritual tribe she is, but she can coexist with the queen, so she must be from the cat tribe!"
Chapter completed!