Hao Sui hurriedly brought the map and asked two servants to unfold it in front of everyone.
Zhao Xu had already stood up from the dragon chair, walked down the steps, came to the crowd, and looked at the map with them. Wu Zhi took a few steps back, he would not join in the fun.
"Ah! There really are these places!" A moment later, an exclamation came, and everyone exploded. On the map, around the northwest border, these places mentioned by Wu Zhi were clearly marked, and from far and near
Judging from the results, it can indeed be connected together, and it is really possible to form the situation that Wu Zhi mentioned, in which the Dangxiang people crossed the Wuyan Gorge and surrounded Pingxia City, and our army from several directions gathered to encircle and annihilate the Dangxiang enemies!
"What a monster! How does he know the names of these map places? Moreover, the construction of Pingxia City in the Song Dynasty was a decision made by the imperial court in March this year. How did he know about it? Is there really someone who knew it from birth?"
Zhao Xu and all the civil and military ministers were not calm at all, and looked at Wu Zhi with an inexplicably strange look.
Originally, everyone was just watching the fun and laughing, waiting for him to come to court, and it was Cai Jinggong who was the reason Zhao Xu summoned Wu Zhi. It was Cai Jinggong who said in a weird way, "The number one scholar has great talents, so we might as well invite him to discuss countermeasures."
", and encouraged Zhao Xu to summon Wu Zhi to ask for advice, and Zhao Xu believed it! Only then did this little eighth-rank official come to court to discuss something new.
All the civil and military ministers wanted to see Wu Zhi's confused and nervous look, but unexpectedly, Wu Zhi was not afraid of the situation, calm and composed, and seemed to be well prepared. He was able to talk eloquently and proposed such seemingly
The clever strategy is surprising, and although he is young, he should not be underestimated!
Zhao Xu was also amazed. He was not only surprised that Wu Zhi knew so many maps and terrains and knew the secrets of the court, but he was also a little interested in the strategy Wu Zhi said.
Maps are extremely confidential for the imperial court, especially the border and city defense maps, which cannot be lost to the outside world. Most people will not have the opportunity to see it. Many ministers in the court have not had the opportunity to see it. Wu Zhi is familiar with it.
This is what makes everyone surprised and puzzled.
"How did Wu Qing learn about these border fortresses?" Zhao Xu was also curious, and immediately lowered his face and asked solemnly.
Wu Zhi smiled slightly when he saw this. He knew that there would be such a question, so he bowed and saluted, and explained without thinking: "Reporting to Your Majesty, my master Zhou Tong told me this, so that I can investigate it carefully. He once traveled all over the world, and came to
After crossing the northwest border, he is now serving as the commander-in-chief of the imperial army in the capital. I asked you about it before, so I told you!"
Wu Zhi put the blame on Zhou Tong. He didn't believe that Zhao Xu and everyone else would be so bored that they asked Zhou Tong to confront him.
As expected, Zhao Xu just said "Oh" after hearing his explanation and stopped asking. Zhao Xu more or less knew that there was Zhou Tong, the chief instructor of the Forbidden Army, but a martial artist was not worthy of his concern.
So that’s it! After hearing Wu Zhi’s explanation, all the civil and military officials breathed a sigh of relief. It turns out they weren’t born knowing it! After they were relieved, everyone looked at Wu Zhi with more contempt and less passion.
and awe.
Wu Zhi saw everyone's eyes changing again and again, and sneered in his heart, but on the surface he was calm and took it calmly.
Amid everyone's discussion, Zhao Xu sat back on the dragon chair, looked around, and continued the court meeting.
"Master Wu is a disciple of Zhou Tong, so he must know some martial arts?" After a moment of silence, Zhang Chun, who was standing at the front of the row, suddenly said coldly, with a bad tone. He is the prime minister, the head of the hundred officials.
, but how could he be happy when Wu Zhi had stolen all the limelight in today's meeting?
"Zhang Xiangming, I have indeed practiced martial arts, and my martial arts skills are not bad!" Wu Zhi ignored his state of mind and said with a neither humble nor arrogant attitude.
Although modesty is said to be a source of many benefits, excessive modesty is tantamount to pride, so Wu Zhi does not intend to be modest anymore and just tells the truth.
"Oh! My martial arts skills are okay. Does that mean that Mr. Wu's martial arts skills are superior? I wonder if Mr. Wu can show his skills for everyone to see and open their eyes?" Cai Jing, who was standing behind Zhang Chun, couldn't bear it anymore and took over Wu Zhi's words.
, asked with a smile on his face, looking like he was gloating about his misfortune. He also wanted to see Wu Zhi’s joke.
"Yes! Lord Wu, show me your hand and open your eyes to everyone!" After hearing this, everyone started to boo, and they all had bad intentions.
"Are you playing monkey? Let's take a look!" Wu Zhi felt unhappy, but was too lazy to respond to them. He just stood proudly and looked at Zhao Xu steadily without saying a word.
When Cai Jing and others saw that Wu Zhi, a small eighth-grade sesame official, ignored them, they became a little angry and stared at him hatefully, but they did not dare to get angry. The emperor was still watching from above!
"Ahem! What do you think of this?" Zhao Xu was already a little moved when he heard Cai Jing's words. He also wanted to see Wu Zhi's martial arts, but when he saw Wu Zhi looking at him intently,
Himself, he quickly suppressed the thought in his mind and changed the subject. After all, the occasion was wrong, and he didn't take it seriously. How high a martial arts skill could a new top scholar, a weak scholar, have?
"I dare to ask Mr. Wu, how do you know that the Dangxiang people will definitely go to Moyan Gorge? And also besiege Pingxia City? Why do the Dangxiang people station troops in Tiandu Mountain and Yanzi Mountain? Can you predict it beforehand? If not, it is deceiving the emperor!
"Some people took the opportunity to make trouble. During this period, Wu Zhi was so popular that many civilized politicians were jealous!
"Yes, Mr. Wu, you are committing a serious crime of deceiving the emperor!" Some people started to boo.
"You're stupid!" Wu Zhi sneered and scolded, staring at the booing officials as if they were idiots.
"You! You..." The scolded official's hands and feet were shaking with anger and he did not dare to refute.
"That's enough! There's no need to accuse anyone! They're talking about predictions, how can they deceive the emperor?" Xu Jiang scolded in a dark voice with a dark face.
General Xu is a centrist. Although he can't stand Wu Zhi's behavior of praising the new party and belittling the old party, he is still relatively upright and has a sense of justice. Wu Zhi said that it was his own prediction. How can he deceive the emperor? So he
What's more, I can't stand the ugly faces of the ministers and scholars in the DPRK who look down on each other.
"Thank you Xu Shangshu!" Wu Zhi heard this, turned around, smiled and bowed to General Xu, thanking him for speaking up for him. He was secretly convinced that this General Xu was worthy of his friendship.
"Wu Qing's strategy sounds good, do you have any other suggestions?" Zhao Xu asked in a deep voice with a cold face.
Zhao Xu also had a lot of dissatisfaction and bitterness in his heart. These ministers were usually pampered, and they would give up their picks whenever the court hired people. They couldn't even come up with a big idea, and they knew that dogs bite dogs and do nothing. But as the emperor, he was divorced.
If you don't use them, you still have to reuse them. It's really a dumb thing to eat Coptis chinensis, and it's hard to tell. Now that Wu Zhi can come up with such good countermeasures at a young age, he appreciates it no matter whether it can be implemented or not.
Naturally, I have to protect Wu Zhi's face.
When all the civil and military officials heard the emperor's question again, they fell silent for a moment, lowering their eyebrows and lowering their heads, like an old monk in meditation. If they had a good strategy to retreat from the enemy, they would not be slapped in the face by Wu Zhi, a young boy.
Zhi's outstanding performance makes them incompetent. In terms of age, they can all be Wu Zhi's fathers or even grandfathers; in terms of experience, I dare say they must be many times richer than Wu Zhi; but in terms of talent, Wu Zhi is now talented
As their fame spread far and wide, they felt as if they were powerless and felt particularly unhappy.
For a long time, when no one answered, Zhao Xu realized that he couldn't ask anything. He was a little annoyed and quickly winked at Hao Sui next to him.
Hao Sui understood the idea and immediately shouted loudly: "If there is something to do, withdraw from the court!" Seeing that everyone was indifferent, he followed them and shouted, "Retreat from the court!"
"Best farewell to Your Majesty!" Wu Zhi and everyone bowed and shouted.
Zhao Xu stepped down from the dragon chair under the watch of everyone, walked to the side hall, and left slowly. Before leaving, he took a deep look at Wu Zhi, feeling incomprehensible. Hao Sui followed closely, following suit.
After Zhao Xu entered the side hall, the civil and military ministers began to leave the Chuigong Hall one after another. Of course, Zhang Chun went first, followed closely by An Tao, Li Qingchen, Zeng Bu and other important ministers, and then the others left in sequence. Wu Zhi did not move.
, waited for them to leave before leaving.
Wu Zhi walked out of the Chui Gong Hall and went down the stone steps. As he walked, he nodded to the palace guards on duty on both sides. The palace guards were flattered and saluted him one after another.
Entering the square in front of the palace, everyone had not gone far. They were divided into many teams in twos and threes. Zhang Chun was walking slowly in the middle alone. An Tao, Xu Jiang, Lin Xi, Huang Lu and others were chatting and laughing together.
Cai Jing, Cai Bian and Xing Shu were walking aside chatting and laughing. Li Qingchen, Zeng Bu, and An Dun were walking with a gloomy expression and talking to each other. The other people were also in groups, and they were really distinct.
!Seeing Wu Zhi approaching, many people stopped and looked sideways at him, and some began to whisper and point.
When Wu Zhi saw this, he laughed it off, smiled and nodded at them, and walked forward calmly. These people are his seniors and should be respected. As the saying goes, it's not strange to treat others with courtesy!
When everyone saw that he was quite polite and not frivolous, the unhappiness in their hearts immediately dissipated a lot, their faces brightened a little, and some people also greeted him.
As he was walking, Hao Sui's high-pitched and urgent voice suddenly came from behind him: "Xiang Zhang, Mr. Wu, please stay! I have something to call you two!"
After hearing this, Wu Zhi had to stop and turned to face Hao Sui, who was running over panting. After a while, Zhang Chun also turned back from the front. Everyone looked at each other sideways with bitter expressions. Everyone was already worried about the official summoning Prime Minister Zhang Chun alone.
It was commonplace, but now it was accompanied by the private summoning of Wu Zhi, an eighth-grade junior Beijing official, which was unheard of, and everyone was a little uneasy.
"What's the matter?" Zhang Chun asked in a low voice.
"We don't know, the two adults can just go with our family." Hao Sui shook his head, he was also puzzled. He just knew that Zhao Xu looked more excited after returning to the imperial study room in the side hall of Chuigong Hall, and he couldn't wait
He ordered Hao Sui to hang up the map, and then stared at the map in a daze. After a while, he made this decision.
Hao Sui led the way, and Wu Zhi and Zhang Chun followed him into the imperial study.
As soon as he entered the imperial study, he saw Zhao Xu sitting behind the desk writing. When he saw the two people coming in, Zhao Xu immediately told Hao Suidao: "Give me a seat!"
Hao Sui casually brought two small embroidery stools, one was placed in front of Zhang Chun, and the other was placed in front of Wu Zhi. Zhang Chun thanked him and sat down, but Wu Zhi also bowed to express his thanks but did not sit down, only stood quietly.
He didn't dare to sit next to the embroidery stool. He was too young to be frivolous!
When Zhao Xu and Zhang Chun saw his orderly advance and retreat, they couldn't help but nod secretly: "A boy can be taught!"
"You two gentlemen, I have called you here to discuss something!" Zhao Xu said straight to the point.
"I have thought about it carefully and feel that what Wu Qing just said is quite reasonable. However, the battlefield is changing rapidly and fighter opportunities are fleeting. It is very important for a general to respond to changes. I am thinking about who can be a commander? Who can be a general? And who should be a general?
How can we arrange the arrangements so that we can compete for the merits?”
Zhao Xu paused for a moment after saying this, looked at Wu Zhi, and asked sternly: "What else does Wu Qing have to say? But it doesn't matter!"
At this time, Wu Zhifang had the opportunity to observe Zhao Xu closely at close range. In fact, Zhao Xu was only a year or two older than him, but his face looked much older and pale, weak and weak, and his eyes were dim and dull, as if he was unable to do what he wanted. This short-lived
The emperor only had less than three years left, Wu Zhi couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness and sigh in his heart, what a trick of fate!
When he was distracted, he heard Zhao Xu ask him. Wu Zhi was stunned for a moment, then put away his thoughts and pretended to be thoughtful. The answer was ready, but he had to pretend to be thoughtful, otherwise it would be difficult to explain.
After a cup of tea, he said in an orderly manner: "Returning to Your Majesty, I believe that Mr. Zhang Kai should be the commander-in-chief and command the northwest army; Zhong Fu, Zhe Keshi, Yao Xiong, Yao Gu, Yang Weizhong, Guo Cheng, Liu Zhongwu
, Miao Lu and others were appointed as generals, each leading a group of troops. At the same time, Lu Jifu was ordered to lead the army on Yanyan Road, Wang Wenyu led the army on Xihe Road, Sun Lu led the army on Huanqing Road, and other groups to assist. I thought that I could first lead Guangzhou
Place spies in the public, go deep into the enemy's territory, spy on intelligence, spread rumors, and show our army's determination to defend Pingxia City to the death. Secondly, hoard more supplies in Pingxia City, use Pingxia City as bait, ambush the Moyan Gorge, and lure the enemy.
If an enemy invades, we will defend the city and move troops back to support. The reinforcements will be placed on the periphery to paralyze and harass the enemy forces surrounding the city. If the enemy advances, we will retreat, and if the enemy is tired, we will harass. At the same time, we secretly cross Chencang, take the initiative to attack, and send out several large armies to break in.
In the enemy's territory, seize the back roads and wait for opportunities to annihilate the enemy. From what I see, Tiandu Mountain and Yanzi Mountain are both strategically important places. The enemy will station troops here, and several armies can gather around and annihilate them. By then, the main force of the enemy will be annihilated.
Hui's vitality is greatly weakened and the army is defeated. Our army can take advantage of the victory to pursue it, and it will definitely compete for its merits and kill countless enemies. At the same time, we can take advantage of the situation to regain a lot of lost ground and show off the power of the Song Dynasty!"
Speaking of this, Wu Zhi thought for a while and then continued: "Your Majesty, you can rest assured. This time the party members invaded the border, they seemed to be menacing, but they were just paper tigers. There is nothing to be afraid of. We will retreat after we are sure to win!"
Zhao Xu and Zhang Chun listened to Wu Zhi's eloquent talk. They were calm at first, but later on, the more they listened, the more surprised they became. The more they listened, the more they felt that his strategy was extraordinary. The more they listened, the more they felt that it was reasonable and feasible. The more they listened, the more excited they became.
If this strategy is followed, it is really possible to successfully retreat the enemy soldiers. When Wu Zhi said "paper tiger", both of them were stunned for a moment, confused.
"What is a paper tiger?" Zhang Chun asked after Wu Zhi finished speaking.
"The paper tiger is not a real tiger, but a metaphor for the enemy to be a paper tiger that breaks into pieces when touched." Seeing their confusion, Wu Zhi quickly explained.
"Oh, paper tiger! Good! Good! What a good metaphor!" Zhao Xu couldn't help but laugh. Zhang Chun beside him couldn't help but nod his head.
"Zhang Qing, what's this plan?" Zhao Xu looked at Zhang Chun and asked.
"Your Majesty, this strategy is feasible and wonderful! You might as well give it a try." Zhang Chun stood up quickly, thought for a moment before nodding. He had completely lost his contempt for Wu Zhi at this moment.