Volume 1: First Entering the Tang Dynasty Chapter 75: It won’t happen again
Eunuchs in this era did not have the power to wield power like later generations, so if Li Xiuning really killed the eunuch who announced the decree, it would probably be no different than killing a chicken.
Just when Lu Chen was talking with Li Xiuning, he heard Ye Zhu speaking outside the tent: "The commander-in-chief is discussing important matters with the military advisor in the tent. Sir, please wait for a moment!"
Hearing Ye Zhu's voice, Li Xiuning looked a little unhappy. He was talking to Lu Chen about business, and someone interrupted him. Of course, Li Xiuning would be unhappy.
"Who is making the noise?" Li Xiuning asked with displeasure in his voice.
At this time, Ye Zhu lifted the curtain and entered the tent, clasped his fists and reported to Li Xiuning: "Commander, it's Wei Zheng, the prince of the Prince's Palace in the East Palace, who is out to see the commander!"
"How are you, are you here?" Lu Chen raised his eyebrows and smiled at Li Xiuning.
"If you don't come here, you won't come. If you come here, it will be like a swarm of bees!" Li Xiuning said a little unhappy, "Okay, let him come in!" Li Xiuning waved her hand at Ye Zhu impatiently.
Ye Zhu took the order and turned around to come out of the tent and said to Wei Zheng who was waiting outside: "Go in!" He then stretched out his hand to lift the tent curtain.
Wei Zheng stepped into the big tent and saw Li Xiuning sitting in the main seat, and sitting in the side seat was a young man who was as rich as jade. He was playing with a paper fan in his hand and looking at him curiously. .
There are only a handful of people in the entire Detachment of Women's Army camp who can sit in such a close position with Li Xiuning, and the only one who is so young and handsome is the "strategist" Lu Chen. Seeing Lu Chen's position, Wei Zheng knew in his heart that Lu Chen Who is Chen?
"My lord, Wei Zheng, have met Her Royal Highness Princess Pingyang!" Wei Zheng greeted Li Xiuning in a neither humble nor overbearing manner.
Lu Chen, who was playing with the folding fan, looked Wei Zheng up and down. "Dark" and "thin" were Wei Zheng's characteristics. As for his appearance, he was an ordinary person, with a popular face, but his energy and energy were eye-catching. Bright, it is easy for people to remember this person.
"So this is what the first gang leader in history looks like?" Lu Chen thought to himself after seeing Wei Zheng.
"Wei Qing's family is exempt from gifts. How are my brother and sister-in-law doing lately?" Li Xiuning sat on the main seat and looked at Wei Zheng and asked. When she thought of her eldest brother Li Jiancheng and the plan he had set, Li Xiuning couldn't help but I felt heartbroken, especially when Yuan Tiangang also said that Li Jiancheng didn't have a few years left.
"Back to Your Highness, His Highness the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess are both in good health. I would like to express my gratitude to Your Highness for your concern. I am here this time on the order of the Crown Prince to visit Her Royal Highness the Princess! Now the Crown Prince is in Youzhou and is busy with government affairs, so he is unable to do so in person. Come here, I am here to congratulate Your Highness on the great victory in the battle of Weizhou City!" Wei Zheng's words were similar to Cheng Yaojin's. They didn't recommend the surrender of troops first, they both played the emotional card first, but the same words came from Wei Zheng's mouth When I came out, I obviously felt much more comfortable with that guy Cheng Yaojin.
"Don't His Highness the Crown Prince have any ideas about the troops who surrendered in Weizhou City?" Lu Chen looked at Wei Zheng while waving his folding fan and asked calmly.
"This must be Mr. Lu, the military advisor of the Detachment of Women, right?" Wei Zheng heard Lu Chen's words and turned to look at Lu Chen directly, "You know, the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's ministers, then Weizhou City The surrendered troops are also part of our Tang Dynasty, and sooner or later they are also the subjects of His Highness the Crown Prince. Why should His Highness the Crown Prince worry about this mere surrender of troops?" Wei Zheng said proudly to Lu Chen, "And this time I am here to replace His Highness the Crown Prince. The request for surrender of troops is just because His Royal Highness the Prince lost a lot of troops in the battle with the Turkic cavalry in Youzhou, so he came here to ask for surrender of troops to replenish the supply of troops. How can he have any idea about surrender of troops? Mr. Lu doesn’t know what to do. Is that right?"
"It makes sense!" Lu Chen folded the folding fan and clapped it in his hand. This scholar is really good. He can talk from both ends, but he can still speak to you succinctly. "Then I will lick my face and make the decision for His Highness, and give Mr. Wei five thousand soldiers." , Sir Wei can go to Weizhou City to lead the troops back to Youzhou with a handwritten letter from the commander-in-chief later!"
"Although I am a low-key person, I am here to represent His Highness the Crown Prince. If I only look at the status of the official, I would just give him five thousand troops and let him leave in a hurry. But now I am representing the official. It's His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the East Palace..." Wei Zheng said and cupped his hands in the direction of Youzhou in the north, "Could it be that if His Highness the Crown Prince came in person, would this Detachment of Women also treat His Highness the Crown Prince in this way?" Wei Zheng said and looked directly into his eyes. Lu Chen, staring at Lu Chen, the meaning is very obvious, you can't drive me away, and don't even think about sending me away with 5,000 surrendered troops.
This civil servant's mouth is better than that of the generals. Cheng Yaojin was able to live in the Detachment of Women by playing rogue. And this Wei Zheng moved His Highness the Crown Prince out in just a few words. It really made Lu Chen feel like he was throwing a rat into a trap. No wonder this guy became a The most powerful person in history, he is very talkative.
"Wei Aiqing, don't be angry. The military advisor is just joking with Aiqing, Ye Zhu!" Seeing the smell of gunpowder in their words, Li Xiuning hurriedly called Ye Zhu in, "Take Master Wei to rest!"
"Yes!" Ye Zhu led Wei Zheng out of the tent. Before leaving the tent, Wei Zheng turned his head and looked at Lu Chen deeply before following Ye Zhu out of the tent.
"This Wei Laodao is a bit interesting!" Lu Chen opened the folding fan and shook it a few times, laughing a few times.
You must know that during this period, Wei Zheng was Li Jiancheng's number one counselor. Before Wei Zheng became the "first gang leader", he was a famous "poisoner" under Li Jiancheng. Among many things Li Jiancheng did, They all have the shadow of Wei Zheng in them.
"It's getting late, I should say goodbye and go back to dinner!" Lu Chen said goodbye to Li Xiuning without any surprise.
"Sir, what are you going to eat for lunch?" Li Xiuning asked Lu Chen with some curiosity and expectation. You must know that Lu Chen has come up with a lot of dishes recently. Although there is no greenery at the moment, Lu Chen can always make several dishes with different tricks. Good food.
"Ah?" Lu Chen stood up and was about to leave. When Li Xiuning asked him, he immediately stood on the spot. Lu Chen immediately understood that Li Xiuning was preparing to have a meal.
"We are going to have hot pot at noon today. Are you interested, Your Highness?" Lu Chen looked at Li Xiuning and said.
"I haven't had hot pot for a long time. Sir, don't you mind having an extra pair of bowls and chopsticks?" When Li Xiuning heard the word hot pot, she couldn't sit still. Li Xiuning also made hot pot in her residence, but how to eat it? I can't even taste the taste of Lu Chen's place, but as the commander of the First Army and Her Royal Highness, I can't keep licking my face to eat at Lu Chen's place, so when Lu Chen said that he would have hot pot for lunch today, he immediately regarded Li Xiuning as a foodie The properties are checked.
"Your Highness can go and have a meal in the small courtyard, which is what I wish for!" Lu Chen cupped his hands at Li Xiuning and said with a smile. Hot pot is only fun when there are more people eating it. What's more, there are so many ingredients there, and Li Xiuning just went there and looked the same. It's just a matter of dishes and chopsticks.
"In that case, I will bother you sir!" Li Xiuning said polite words, but his body was not vague at all. He stood up and walked out of the tent, while Lu Chen followed behind Li Xiuning, and the two People went to Lu Chen one after another and took his personal guards to Lu Chen's courtyard.
Lu Chen had already arranged to have hot pot at noon. When he returned to the yard, the hot pot was already set up in the middle of the yard, and the hot pot soup was steaming out.
"You two are back so soon?" Looking at Fang Qi, who was putting a basin on the table, and Meng Ji, who was carrying a basin and walking out of the kitchen, Lu Chen asked curiously, "Shouldn't you two be at Camp Beiwei?"
Do you live and eat with that soldier? Also, where is Su Dingfang?"
"Sir, I'm mixing pickles!" Before Lu Chen finished speaking, Su Dingfang's voice came from the kitchen.
"You still have the nerve to say that you are mixing pickles?" Lu Chen glared at Su Dingfang who came out with the pickles, "Didn't we let the three of you eat and live with the soldiers? You started running back just a few days ago?!
"Lu Chen directly took the folding fan and shined it on each of the three people's heads, and the three of them laughed naively.
"Report!" As Lu Chen folded his fan three times, all three people standing in front of Lu Chen were greeted. Fang Qi, the one on the far left, took a step forward and saluted Lu Chen and shouted loudly.
"Say!" Lu Chen looked at the three guys running back with a sullen face.
"Didn't you hear that the military advisor is having hot pot for lunch today? I have made a plan with Lao Meng and Lao Su and come back to have a meal! Report completed!" Fang Qi saluted again.
"Have a meal??" Lu Chen was infuriated by Fang Qi's rather shameless reason, "A hot pot meal can seduce all three of you into leaving your posts without authorization. What tasks will I dare to entrust to you in the future?"
You?" Lu Chen said with a bit of hatred for iron.
"Report to the military advisor! It's just that the military advisor's hot pot is too tempting. It's not because we are weak in will!" Meng Ji also took a step forward and saluted.
"Report to the military advisor, we are ready to be punished for this hot pot meal!" Meng Jin was followed closely by Su Dingfang.
"What the hell..." Looking at the three people standing neatly in front of him, Lu Chen didn't know what to say for a moment, "Just this once, it won't be the same next time. After this hot pot meal, you will be the three of us in the afternoon."
Each of them carries a load of ten kilometers! Sit down and eat!" Lu Chen could only shake his head helplessly.
"Thank you, Marshal! Thank you, Military Advisor!" The three of them sat directly on the chairs. After thanking Lu Chen, they laughed. It seemed that compared with eating hot pot, carrying a load of ten kilometers was nothing at all.
Li Xiuning had been sitting in the main seat just now, watching Lu Chen reprimand these three guys. When he saw the behavior of these three people in front of Lu Chen, Li Xiuning's beautiful eyes sparkled, obviously he was not seeing each other for a few days.
Lu Chen was very interested in this method of training soldiers.
The way the three of them sat with their heads raised and their chests raised also gave Li Xiuning a different sense of military appearance.