Empress Xiao remained calm and asked, "Borrowing troops?"
Soldiers are important matters of the country, the place of life and death, and the path to survival. We must pay attention to them.
Zhang Zilu fired his bow at this time and did not turn back. He said bravely: "I, Zhang Zilu, would like to borrow five thousand elite soldiers from Her Majesty the Queen to help me launch an attack in Western Shu! Once I capture two cities, I will return them in full!"
Empress Xiao blinked and said: "An uprising in Xishu? My five thousand elite soldiers must have been known to Xishu before they left Daliao, right? By then they will send heavy troops to pursue and intercept them, and these five thousand elite soldiers may not have arrived in Xishu yet.
The Shu realm is completely devastated, right? Do you think you have a chance of success?"
"Your Majesty the Queen, our entry into Shu will naturally be carried out quietly. We can break it into parts and act in batches to ensure the safety of the elite Khitan troops."
"But in the end, Shu will know that I loaned troops to you. When the time comes, they will be angry and join forces with Zhou to attack Liao. What should I do?"
"At that time, I had already begun to attack Shu. How could they still have the energy to attack Liao?"
"How confident are you in attacking Shu?"
"Three points!"
"You dare to take action when you are only three-point sure?"
"My adoptive father once said that as long as a person is three-point sure, he should go for it, instead of waiting until he is seven-point or even ten-point sure. By then, the opportunity may have been missed!"
"I didn't expect your adoptive father to be so insightful!"
"yes."
"I think Mr. Zhang has extraordinary magnanimity, so your adopted father must be extraordinary!" This is clearly asking who Zhang Zilu's adopted father is!
"My foster father is a scholar of heaven and man, and has unparalleled martial arts. He reestablished the Demon Sect in Western Shu and is known as the Demon Lord."
"Oh, it turns out he is the leader of the Demon Cult, whom I have admired for a long time." She didn't know much about the world, but she could still write fancy articles, and it was just a matter of lifting a sedan chair.
Zhang Zilu said happily: "It turns out that Her Majesty the Queen also knows the name of my adoptive father!"
Empress Xiao changed the subject, "You just said that if you borrow something, you must repay it. Do you want to repay the five thousand elite soldiers in full?"
"good!"
"How can I return the jade in full? Is it the return of the complete jade to Zhao, or the return of the jade in vain?" This sentence hits the point! The original loan you lent was 5,000 elite soldiers who were capable of recruiting and good at fighting, and you returned 5,000 old, weak, sick and disabled people.
What's going on?
"Master Zhang, as a soldier, you must be aware of the major events of the country, the place of life and death, and the path to survival. Five thousand elite soldiers have fought bloody battles several times. How do you ensure that no one is injured or killed?"
When Zhang Zilu saw Xiao Hou's calm expression, he couldn't tell whether he was happy or angry. Since he has come to this point, why should he back down halfway? He said bravely: "Of course I can't guarantee that there will be no casualties! But!
, I can guarantee that if one person is missing, I will return ten people in the future! Ten strong young laborers, plus ten cows, ten sheep, and a hundred taels of gold!"
"Who can I ask for if you don't pay me back?" The queen suddenly stared at Zhang Zilu and asked.
"The queen is saying that she is missing a guarantor?" Zhang Zilu's eyes turned and suddenly stopped at Feng Jiuxiao, "This is easy to say. I can trust Mr. Feng as a queen. I suggest that Mr. Feng be my guarantor. I
I swear to God here that if I break my promise in the future, I will die by Mr. Feng’s sword!”
In fact, what Empress Xiao cares about is not the small issue of guarantor at all. What she thinks about is the world structure in the next ten years after Zhang Zilu raises an army with 5,000 elite troops!
When he made such a fuss in Xishu, failure was an outcome and a direction. Success was also a possibility, and things would develop in another direction.
If Zhang Zilu succeeds, he will attack the city all the way, advance with great momentum, and soon take over the entire territory of Xishu. Then? What will he do next? Where to go? Will he stop here, or will he regain Long after he has won it?
Looking at Shu? Will it become the second Great Zhou in the future, eyeing Yanyun all day long for sixteen weeks, wanting to regain the Han Dynasty, and even thinking about the Northern Expedition to attack Daliao? This is a bad side.
But it is not entirely correct to say that there is no benefit at all. If he can really capture Western Shu, then Daliao can completely use the contradiction between Western Shu and Dazhou to provoke Western Shu to attack Zhou! Once Western Shu and Dazhou go to war, I
The opportunity for Khitan's southern expedition has arrived!
If Zhang Zilu fails, but Shu will suffer heavy casualties, Shu will naturally blame Daliao for this debt. When the time comes, they will join forces with Da Zhou, and Daliao will also have a headache!
Everything is a double-edged sword, it depends on how you deal with it!
Empress Xiao pondered for a moment and said, "Young Master Feng will be the guarantor, I agree."
Zhang Zilu's eyes were filled with joy, but he knew that he should not get carried away in such an occasion, so he kept his expression calm.
But after hearing Empress Xiao say something else, Zhang Zilu's heart skipped a beat and sank again!
"In the past, Shi Jingtang borrowed troops from Emperor Xiaowu Huiwen of the Liao Dynasty, Yelu Deguang. He regarded Emperor Xiaowu Huiwen as his father and called himself the son emperor."
Zhang Zilu's expression changed and he didn't say anything for a while.
Tuoba Xuan said: "Mr. Zhang, those who achieve great things in ancient times have always ignored trivial matters. A man can bend and stretch. How can you not pass this test?"
Zhang Zilu's face turned blue and white, and he finally seemed to have figured it out. He smiled and said: "The Imperial Master is right, Han Xin still has the humiliation of his crotch, and he is a man who can bend and stretch himself! As for what Zhang can do to satisfy Her Majesty the Queen, I respect you
Please make it clear, Her Majesty the Queen!"
Feng Jiuxiao stood calmly beside him, but sighed in his heart: Power can make a high-spirited young man lower his proud head, and make him humbly put down all his dignity. Zhang Zilu's current hobby still has a little dignity of a man.
!
The queen smiled and said: "I am more than ten years older than you, why don't you call me mother?"
Zhang Zilu suddenly knelt on the ground with a thud and prostrated himself, "The queen is on top, my son Zhang Zilu is here to greet the queen!" Everyone was so shocked that their jaws almost dropped to the ground! Wang Sheng and Duan Muyan were shocked! They knew that Zhang Zilu had
Ambitious, but I didn’t expect that he would change so much and so quickly! In order to pursue power, he would do whatever it takes. In the past, everyone could only guess how far he would go by any means, but now they finally know what “doing anything” means! Zhang Zilu
She is really humble, but the queen is different. She really knows how to take advantage of the opportunity. She is worthy of being the real core figure of power in the Liao Empire! Everything she says and does is calculated, and she has adopted a godson in an instant!
The queen seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and said calmly: "Get up and talk." Zhang Zilu stood up quickly.
"After you have accomplished this, you must double the compensation for any loss of Liao soldiers. For every loss, I want you to return ten young men and women, twenty cattle and sheep, two hundred taels each of gold and silver, and twenty pieces of cloth and silk.
match!"
Zhang Zilu blurted out: "No problem!"
Compared with the supreme throne of the Emperor of Western Shu, are these nothing?
Feng Jiuxiao said at this time: "You guys are really interesting. I haven't agreed to be the guarantor yet, and you are already discussing the future affairs?"
Zhang Zilu said with a smile: "Although the world is big, there is no other person besides Mr. Feng who can be my protector, Mr. Wan Wang." He clasped his fists with both hands and lowered his body very low.
Seeing how humble he was, Feng Jiuxiao couldn't help but feel sad for him. She could only say, "Okay, I can be the guarantor, but you have to agree to one condition!"
Zhang Zilu was startled.
Others' conditions are nothing more than money and beauty. If Feng Jiuxiao asked for conditions, it would definitely not be a trivial matter!
"What conditions?" Zhang Zilu's throat raised and his eyes closed.
"You tell me first whether you agree or not!"
"Promise!" Zhang Zilu gritted his teeth and said. He believed that Feng Jiuxiao would never make some weird requests, such as asking him to harm himself or asking him to be his godson.
"Okay! Just remember what you said today! I'll tell you when I think of it!"
Thanks to: Yudong, Die Xinyi, Three Wolves Don’t Die Hard, and Xue Chujian for their strong recommendation and support!