Hu Yinlian's eyes were already red.
Qu Duan ignored the people in the cell and continued to talk to Wu Jie: "Big Wu, do you see... I have been in the army for twenty years, and you have been in the army for seventeen years. You have fought for the country and risked your life many times, but you are only a general and a supervisor. And this person, just because he read a few sentences of books, although he is of no use to the country, he can become a prime minister at the age of thirty, and can decide our life and death with a single word... How unfair is that?"
Wu Jie wanted to say something but stopped.
But Qu Da immediately shook his head and corrected himself: "No, if we talk about studying, you and I are both educated people, and I can write poems and verses, so why can't I become a deputy envoy of the Privy Council at the age of 40? People like this most likely get high positions by being close to the emperor, and today you brothers have entrusted my life to such a person?"
Not to mention Wu Jie, everyone else in and outside the prison didn't know how to respond, and Hu Yin, the person involved, had already become breathless and couldn't even speak.
"Well." Qu Duan sighed again, but seemed to have calmed down, then turned his head to face Hu Yin in the cell. "I, Qu Da, boast of my military talent and loyalty. If I meet a serious minister, I will voluntarily argue with him, but if I meet someone like you, I am not willing to argue at all. If you say I am a rebel, then I will rebel. If you want to find an excuse to kill me, then you can kill me. I have nothing to say... I just want to tell you one thing. Between me, Wang Shu, and Wang Xie, who is the one who harms the country, who is the useless and incompetent one, and who has tried his best to stabilize half of Guanxi. The people of the five routes of Guanxi naturally know this, and the five routes of Guanxi also naturally see it clearly... People like you can't stop the gossip! And the history books will give me an explanation in the future!"
At this time, seeing that Wanqi Xie covered his face and remained silent, Hu Yin was still angry. Wu Jie finally took a step forward and knelt on one knee for the first time towards Hu Yin, who was angry:
"Zhongcheng, Qu Da's crime is clear, but he is just domineering and wants to get rid of Wang Shu to monopolize the military power. He is definitely not a traitor, otherwise he should have colluded and been on guard. Why did he come here so easily to see Zhongcheng today? I just ask Zhongcheng not to punish him directly because of his offensive words..."
For some reason, Wan Qixie, who had been covering his face, almost wanted to laugh: "Wu Dujian, I just want to ask you, even if General Qu is as you said, he has no intention of rebelling, and we want to kill him today... then killing him is certainly unjust, but considering his character, can't we also say that he brought it upon himself?"
Wu Jie on the ground was unable to refute.
Qu Duan, on the other hand, could not help but sneer when he saw that it was not the young Zhongcheng who was speaking: "You civil officials, do you all treat us military commanders at the front as grass? If I had not rebelled, you could have killed me, a great general, but you cannot humiliate me so easily..."
"He is stubborn and domineering, he looks down on his colleagues and humiliates his superiors, he often violates restraint, he makes big claims and boasts about himself, but he has no military achievements at all... How can you say he is humiliated?" Wanqi Xie also sneered in the prison.
"Are you civil officials qualified to talk about your military achievements?" Qu Duan became furious again.
"How did you defend Nanyang? Who fought at Changsha, Yanling?" Wanqi Xie pointed out. "While you were wasting time in northern Shaanxi, the people you mocked in your poems fought bloody battles in the Central Plains and drove the Jin army out of Henan! Are you qualified to talk about your military exploits in front of the two of us?!"
"You two defended Nanyang? You two fought at Yanling-Changshe?" Qu Duan was getting more and more angry. "If you dare to answer me in person, where would Han Shizhong and Yue Fei be? Moreover, you boasted of your great victory at Yanling-Changshe, saying that you wiped out more than a dozen Meng'an, but you don't know how many Jin soldiers you killed, and whether you killed innocent people to take credit for it?"
"Qu Da!" Wu Jie was also driven mad by Qu Duan. "Is it true that the Jin army escaped from Henan? Is it true that Wanyan Loushi gave up the advance and turned to Hedong? With your temper, you deserve to die today!"
"What do you know? Am I afraid of death?" Qu Duan was still fearless, still raising his armor. "I just want to tell you that although the Central Plains win, it will win, but it may not be such a big victory. And if the Central Plains win, won't the people in Guanxi have no hardship? Why reward so many generals, but be stingy with official positions in Guanxi? Isn't it because it's next to the government, everyone can be a lucky person!"
"In that case, how about you also go to the emperor's house and be a lucky little man?" Hu Yin, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke, but he didn't know when he had calmed down. "I, Hu Mingzhong, don't know military affairs, but there are always people in the court who know military affairs. You say I am not worthy of talking about military achievements, but there are always people in the court who are worthy of talking about military achievements in front of you... When I came, the emperor allowed me to make an arbitrary arrangement. I can give you the highest standard and allow you to go to the emperor in Tokyo and be the deputy commander of the imperial camp. How about that?"
Wu Jie breathed a sigh of relief.
Qu Duan was slightly startled, but then he shook his head and smiled: "They are just afraid that killing me here will shake the morale of the army, so they coaxed me to Tokyo to kill me!"
Wu Lin, who had been silent, couldn't stand it any longer: "Qu Da! This is not okay, that is not okay, do you have to do everything in the world? If we really want to kill you, based on your nonsense just now, the Zhongcheng forced us brothers to fight here, can you really survive?"
Qu Duan opened his mouth to mock, but Wu Jie stood up and pushed him: "Qu Da, don't push your luck. The court has won a great victory in the Central Plains, and the people are loyal to it. If they really want to kill you, why do they have to go through so much trouble? Whether it's the Zhongcheng or Yuwen Xianggong, if they really want to kill you, you won't have any luck. And when we get to Tokyo, it's the emperor who makes the decision. If the emperor wants to kill you, it's the emperor's will, and it has nothing to do with Zhongcheng Hu."
Although Qu Duan was known to be both a scholar and a warrior, he was still no match for Wu Jie, not to mention Wu Lin was beside him. So, the two sides pushed and shoved each other for a while, and Qu Duan was pinned down, and someone tied his hands.
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