Chapter 249 The Shadow of the Emperor
Wang Pu came outside the gate of Jinxiang Hall and reminded Guo Shao not to act rashly at the Iron Cavalry barracks. Guo Shao had no intention of moving around, but he still accepted Wang Pu's reminder.
Guo Shao has now lost the determination to take all the consequences before taking action. After all, seeing that he is determined to win, he is more inclined to seek stability; he wants to stabilize the fruits he wins first, and then he is willing to seek more.
It is necessary to wait until all 20,000 troops on the left wing of the Hujie Army are in place, and the Privy Council has stabilized most of the imperial guards before it dares to move the Iron Cavalry.
At this moment, Wang Pu put a few pieces of paper on the table and pointed with his finger: "This is the defense map I asked for yesterday, but the current situation is no longer suitable for implementation. This is a military order approved by the government, and the order must be cancelled again."
"The official has issued an order for the queen to supervise the country. For the time being, you only need to ask the queen for revoking the military order." Guo Shao said. Seeing Wang Pu pushing forward gently, he subconsciously thought it could be shown to him, so he picked it up and took it a look.
Soon Guo Shao understood, the rough drawings and pictures and texts were all clear to him, and it was much better to understand than to describe them in ancient texts. He couldn't help but look up at Wang Pu.
Wang Pu said calmly and as if nothing had happened: "I just completed the work yesterday. After asking Deputy Envoy Wei to discuss it together, then I met the official's request for an order. Unexpectedly, it was out of place after a day, and the situation was really changing."
"It's true." Guo Shao nodded seriously, "But no matter how the situation is, the foundation of the Zhou Dynasty cannot be changed; for the sake of the government's clear government, both moral integrity and ability, and good loyalty and righteousness, the ministers cannot change, otherwise it will hurt the country's vitality. When the emperor sees the queen, he will definitely submit a message."
Wang Pu picked up his stuff and said, "I have something else to do, so I will say goodbye first."
Guo Shao hurriedly got up and sent it to the door before he finished.
Not long after, Jingniang came to see her. There were soldiers in this house. She walked up to Guo Shao in armor and whispered in his ear: "I set up a spy near the Iron Cavalry camp. I just got the news that Zhao Kuangyin was in the military camp of Fengqiu Old Gate."
Guo Shao thought, Fengqiu’s old gate was in the north of the city, and that guy really wanted to go north to Northern Han Kingdom?
He paced back and forth a few steps in front of the table, and immediately called the deputy general of the personal soldiers, Lu Chengyong, and explained: "You immediately lead your personal soldiers and light cavalry to go out from the inner and outer gates of the south of the city, and go around outside the Fengqiu New Gate in the north city. When you see a horse team leaving the city, you will block it. If it is Zhao Kuangyin's people, you will catch it!"
Lu Chengyong asked, "Can you kill?"
Guo Shao said without hesitation: "Catch anyone who can be arrested, and those who cannot be caught live are killed!"
Lu Chengyong clasped his fists and said, "Get orders!"
Guo Shao now has less than 10,000 troops in his hand (Gao Huaide's army is not very useful in fighting a civil war), and he has to be deployed inside and outside the imperial city to prepare for the battle and dare not take risks... Although the situation is favorable now, it is difficult for Zhao Kuangyin to turn defeat into victory, so it is best to escape as soon as possible; but what if they can't afford to lose, they will defeat the net?
Just guessing alone cannot make Guo Shao feel at ease, he must be prepared. Zhao Kuangyin's Iron Cavalry Army has more than 10,000 troops in each battalion. Although he knew that Zhao Kuangyin had no chance to mobilize troops and form combat effectiveness (his subordinates were still waiting for promotion and earn money, and he did not want to fight with his own people at all. Once the barracks move, they would be attacked immediately before gathering troops), as long as the troops were still there, it was like a sharp sword still hanging in Guo Shao's heart.
...At present, Guo Shao is not afraid of Zhao Kuangyin running away, and he even wants him to run away. The situation will be truly stable as soon as he runs.
But Zhao Kuangyin showed no sign of running away. Guo Shao thought for a while and remembered someone: Zhang Yongde!
If Zhang Yongde can win over and use Zhang Yongde's prestige in the front office of the palace, he can order him to mobilize the squads of the Crane Army to gradually and slowly enter the defense zone of the Iron Cavalry in northeastern Tokyo; first to divide and surround the Iron Cavalry camps, at least they are completely unable to twist together.
Guo Shao immediately stood up and went out, wanting to see the queen again, and tell her what she thought.
He found a eunuch at the main entrance of Jinxiang Palace and asked him to go in and report to see him. After waiting for a while, the eunuch came out and said, "The Empress is going to move to the emperor's bedroom to live, and ask the Zajia to take General Guo to the emperor's bedroom to meet the saint."
Guo Shao suddenly felt an inexplicable jealousy in his heart. It was all warring, and the queen was still willing to live with the official family... After all, she was a couple for several years, and Guo Shao had no reason to blame her, but she felt unhappy.
Humanely, it is a one-day favor for couples, not to mention many years of couples. After the Battle of Gaoping, Guo Shao saw the emperor and the queen enter and exit together, and saw them in the military camp and court. After the Battle of Gaoping, Empress Fu also made a special trip to Daxiangguo Temple to fulfill his wishes and pray for blessings to the officials. At that time, Guo Shao led his troops to guard him, so he saw it with his own eyes. In the early days of the Battle of Huainan, Empress Fu followed the emperor in person despite the hot weather and almost died.
According to what Guo Shao saw and heard, Fu Jinzhan still had some feelings for the emperor, especially when Fu often went to and from military and political occasions in the past. This time the emperor was so ill that he was so ill that he was so suspicious that he was under house arrest... But one or two things obviously did not mean that the couple had a severance of gratitude. He believed that Fu's actions this time were because of rights and safety, and had nothing to do with feelings.
What's more, Fu Jinzhan is obviously not a kind person. She is about to lose her husband now, so it is impossible for her to feel uncomfortable at all. After all, humans are not cold-blooded animals, and they are somewhat emotional.
Guo Shao sighed secretly. It was really tormenting to not be sincere to a married woman. It was really a tormenting thing to share her heart with other men... Fortunately, Fu Ermei, at least Fu Ermei's heart belongs to him alone. In fact, this kind of woman with a high status and a big backer, no one can force her to force her; as long as she is a little better to her, she does not need to cheat and cannot "fraud". Moreover, they are ancient women, even though the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties was open to the rise of Neo-Confucianism, they still adhere to the influence and constraints of Confucian ethics and have different ideas.
He followed the eunuch into the back hall of Jinxiang Hall through the corridor, and was taken to a palace room. The imperial doctor directly boiled medicine in the house outside, and there was a smell of Chinese medicine inside; the emperor should be in the dormitory inside.
Guo Shao came to the door of a warm-house-like room and saw a gorgeous big bed inside with people sleeping on it.
The room looks inexplicably gloomy. It is sunny outside, and there is a beam of sunlight coming in on the roof, but the light is not as bright as it is outside... A dim room, a beam of pale light.
It was a bit like a prison, too dense. This situation was not something that others wanted to imprison the emperor. At first he chose it himself, but he was lying down, but later it was impossible to move a special bedroom.
There were a group of women in the dormitory with colorful ink on their faces not washed yet (it was probably not easy to wash off for a while), and the eunuch Cao Tai was also there. There was also Queen Fu sitting beside the bed. She might have just felt someone coming, so she looked back.
"Bad...husband!" Suddenly the person on the bed cursed in a slight breath. Isn't it the voice of the official family?
Guo Shao suddenly felt cold and immediately felt intuition... The emperor could still speak! He felt a little scared, and he actually dared to fight in front of the powerful master who had won all kinds of battles!
This kind of mood is unreasonable, and it is inexplicably awe. Guo Shao was not a high-level person in his past life. When facing such an emperor, his mentality would be shocked. He has the consciousness of a modern person, but he is also a person. Not to mention seeing an emperor, even if he saw a leader with a big belly and a fat head in his previous life, he would be a little afraid... If modern people are so equal, the scenes of people on TV being excited when they see a local official, and they would be unable to kneel down, which would not be so common.
Guo Shao finally calmed down and kept reminding himself: Even the emperor is in trouble now! The emperor cannot jump up and hit me when he is seriously ill!
He bowed quietly: "My minister, Guo Shao, pay homage to Your Majesty, Empress."
"Get up." Fu Jinzhan said coldly, then waved his hand to Cao Tai. Cao Tai immediately greeted the women and quietly retreated.
Fu Jinzhan looked up and down Guo Shao and said, "Come here."
Guo Shao felt mixed feelings and walked over with a stinging bullet. He couldn't help but see how sick the emperor was in bed.
I saw that the emperor was really sick and was so weak that he could not help a woman. The black spots on his face became deeper and deeper, and his complexion was weak. If it weren't for the difficult breathing, he would look like a lifeless dead person. Even the once powerful figure would have only ugly and dead breath at this time.
The Fu Jinzhang next to her formed a sharp contrast. Although she was in her twenties, she still had the vitality of youth for some reason. Her white appearance and beautiful colors were everywhere full of beauty of life.
Guo Shao suddenly had an illusion that in this dark room full of mystery, he saw two images. One represents death and the other represents life.
It seems that people from two worlds are husband and wife. No matter how powerful the big man is, the most intuitive feeling is... it is like a flower is stuck in a piece of rotting cow dung.
The depleted and inelastic skin is like a frozen dead skin, and the lesions are like rotting corpse spots, the rising meridians and the moving black and gray maggots.
The mystery of the emperor is because he is tall and cannot usually approach him or observe him. But now Guo Shao has observed for a while, and gradually has the courage. He suddenly glared at him in an impulse and said, "I want to achieve greater achievements here and completely defeat him!"
"You have defeated him, although it is taking advantage of his weakness." Fu Jinzhan sneered. Her expression looked strange, and she had no awe of the emperor.
Perhaps no matter how powerful a person is, he is a mortal. If he is too close to others, he will be seen through his powerful coat.
Guo Shao said boldly: "I want to do what the officials have done and what he cannot do! In this way, I can truly stand up from the shadow of the emperor!"
Fu Jinzhan suddenly said coldly: "What does General Guo want to do to become an emperor? It's nothing. All the emperors in this world have obtained the foundation of the previous dynasty by seizing the foundation of the previous dynasty. Taizu, the emperor on the bed, and the soldiers of the Zhou Dynasty were all ministers of the (later) Han Dynasty."
Guo Shao said it was too early to say this now, and his prestige and strength were not enough...
Chapter completed!