Yangzhou Army Barracks.

Several generals were gathering together to discuss matters.

These people, like Liang Yuan, have followed them all the way since Zhong Bai started the army in Yangzhou, and have a deep friendship.

To them, Zhong Bai is undoubtedly equivalent to the lord.

Among them, there is a man named Wei Qing with a higher position and an intermediate officer in the Imperial Army. Of course, Zhong Bai tried his best to promote him before.

Now that Lu Bolin has already incorporated this army on the grounds of the emperor's imperial edict, these Yangzhou generals naturally feel a little frustrated.

Someone said, "I heard that something happened to the young master. It was because he was killed by a treacherous minister like Lu Bolin. What should we do."

"In addition, after the incident between the young master, Liang Yuan and the others had already gone to Qinzhou and returned to General Xiao. General Xiao and Prince Baba were friends, and were humble and had great ambitions. In my opinion, it would be better for us to surrender too!"

"That's right! I'm really frustrated to ask my Yangzhou army to stay under an old thief like Lu Bolin! I can't stay anyway!"

Everyone was filled with righteous indignation. Wei Qing first looked around for a week, then pondered: "Well... we need to plan this matter well."

They were discussing how to run to Qinzhou, but at this time, a soldier hurried over, then took out a letter, knelt on one knee and said, "General, there is a secret letter."

"Oh?" Wei Qing heard this, quickly took it and looked at it carefully.

After he finished reading, the other generals around couldn't help but start asking: "General, who is the letter..."

"It's from Liang Yuan." Wei Qing said, and said again: "He told us that it was General Xiao's intention, so that we can continue to stay in the Imperial Army."

"This..." Several other people looked at each other, and some people said, "Brother Wei, how do we act now?"

"Well..." Wei Qing narrowed his eyes: "Listen to General Xiao first."

"In addition, there is an accident. We all have to find a way to show our loyalty to Lu Bolin."

"I understand!" everyone responded in unison.

But don’t underestimate Wei Qing and others. They are all used to fighting and fighting a lot of tough battles and leading troops is excellent. Once at some point, if they unite and launch a mutiny, it will be very terrible!

In this way, Zhong Bai's affairs, on the surface, have been calmed down.

A few days later, Xiao Yuan also returned to Qinzhou.

Zhong Duoduo's eyes were still crying red, and she, who was usually lively and cute, became taciturn.

Xiao Yuan felt a little distressed, but he didn't know how to comfort him, but soon he thought of someone, Gu Xue.

I saw Zhong Duoduo and Gu Xue well before, but now that I don’t have a female companion by Zhong Duoduo who can accompany her, Xiao Yuan asked someone to call Gu Xue over.

On the other hand, he also began to arrange Zhong Bai's funeral.

Now Gu Xue and Xiao Yuan have not gotten married yet, so she lives in her own home. After she arrived, she met Xiao Yuan outside Zhong Duoduo's room, and couldn't help but complain: "This is such a big deal, you

Why are you still standing here? Don’t comfort me!"

Xiao Yuan shook his head helplessly, and then signaled to the room.

Gu Xue looked at him angrily, then quickly stepped forward and knocked on the door: "Duoduo, it's me."

Hearing her voice, after a while, Zhong Duoduo finally opened the door.

Her eyes were red and her eyes were swaying. Looking at Gu Xue at the door, she couldn't help it. She rushed into Gu Xue's arms and hugged her and cried, "Sister Xue..."

"Cry, cry, cry, cry..." Gu Xue comforted softly.

Looking at this scene, Xiao Yuan sighed secretly and then walked away.

The next day, Zhong Bai's funeral.

The scene was very grand, and Xiao Yuan gave supreme etiquette.

Not only did all the soldiers of the Qin army arrive, but some high-ranking officials and wealthy merchants in Qinzhou heard that this was the prefect's righteous brother, and they even came uninvited.

The entire scene was covered with white cloth, and everyone's head was wrapped in white cloth, and a mourning atmosphere.

Xiao Yuan lifted his clothes and knelt down first, clasped his fists and said, "Brother Zhong!"

As he knelt down, the soldiers of the three armies and all the nobles below dared to stand. In just a moment, they all knelt down...

Zhong Duoduo was wearing plain clothes and knelt there, tears falling.

Gu Xue was by her side and comforted silently.

Liang Yuan and others had red eyes and sore noses. They kowtowed seriously in front of the first master.

Yu Xiaoyuan's great gift to Zhong Bai was also moved by their original subordinates.

Zhong Bai died like this. If he had met a wise king in the world, he would definitely be a loyal minister and general who would support the world.

This is a young talent, and his military talent can definitely be ranked first-class general in command, and he is gentle and elegant.

Such a person died young and died at the hands of a foolish emperor.

Shang Rui's actions are tantamount to breaking his own arms!

If Zhong Bai is here, he will definitely protect the empire for ten years. However, now, the empire has no talent as a king and a sensible person, and the rest are only flattering and scammers.

After the funeral, Xiao Yuan put away his grief and summoned all the officials and generals of Qin in the prefect's mansion three days later.

This time the convening has special significance.

Many officials and generals from Qin, who were summoned by him, rushed over. The hall of the prefect's mansion was overcrowded, and many county magistrates were even squeezed outside the hall.

After all the people arrived, he was located directly above and said straight to the point: "I want to continue to expand the army in Qinzhou and temporarily reserve 200,000 troops."

He didn't say anything nonsense, just a simple sentence, but it was undoubtedly sending a signal.

Because according to the imperial system at that time, the Qinzhou army could not exceed 100,000, which was because it was necessary to resist the Xirong and other prefectures and counties, with fewer restrictions on the troops.

Hearing this, Shangguan Wenruo was stunned, but before he could speak, Su Yi had already knelt on one knee and said with his fists:

"Abide by the lord's military orders!"

How smart he is, that is a direct change.

Seeing this, the officials and other generals did not hesitate and knelt down one after another, saying in unison:

"Abide by the lord's military orders--"

These generals were all Xiao Yuan's confidant, and all the soldiers of the Qin army followed his leader, and there was nothing to say in the army.

As for officials, he promoted them all.

This is a change from superiors to retainers.

From this moment on, people no longer called Lord Xiao Yuan, but the lord.

What this represents, there is no need to say more.

A few days later, under the operation of the Love Concubine, Shang Rui sent another imperial edict to Qinzhou, ordering Xiao Yuan to report his duties.

If I go, can I still come back alive?

Xiao Yuan sent the eunuch away from this imperial edict, but then he passed it back to Shang Rui, with only eight simple words:
Chapter completed!