Chapter 166: Clearing the Way Up and Down (Part 2)
"Is there such a thing?"
Zhao Jiu, who was dressed in a bright red robe, was slightly startled. "The Ten Commanders are imitating the Taizu's oath of brotherhood?"
"Your Majesty!" Ma Gao, the leader, was lying on the ground in a panic. "Your Majesty, you know that the ten of us who swore brotherhood are just ordinary sworn brothers. It is a common thing in the martial arts world to seek loyalty. How dare we say that we are following the example of our great grandfather? How can we say that we have evil intentions?"
"Your Majesty, please let me know that this matter is truly unforgivable!" Wanqi Xie stood there condescendingly, not even looking at Ma Gao, but just raised his hand and pointed at him and continued to confront him sternly. "After the Ten Commanders formed an alliance, they became a separate entity. From then on, if one person disobeyed, all ten would follow. If one person prospers, all prosper. If one person suffers, all suffer. Then, the tens of thousands of troops of the Tokyo garrison were completely uncontrollable... With such people gathering a large army inside and outside Tokyo, wouldn't they be holding the safety of the emperor and the court in their hands and manipulating them at will?"
"We have no wrong intentions, how dare we manipulate the emperor?" Ma Gao became more and more afraid as he listened, but he looked at Yue Fei and Yue Pengju in front of him on the left. "General Yue, please save our brothers from the Tokyo garrison! You must know that we are innocent!"
Yue Fei opened his mouth to speak… He was already familiar with these people and had a relationship with them. Moreover, according to Emperor Zhao’s arrangement, the Tokyo Garrison would be disbanded immediately and should be merged with his Jeju Pacification Office and organized into the Imperial Camp Vanguard, which would be his subordinate.
When a subordinate behaves like this, I should have spoken up to defend him.
However, the problem was that Yue Pengju was half a scholar, and he knew from the beginning that this oath of brotherhood of the ten commanders would cause great trouble. It would be fine if you really ended up in the underworld, but now that the government has unified its organization, I'm afraid no emperor can tolerate such behavior by his own imperial army. However, the people kneeling in front of him almost included 80% of the family assets of the Tokyo Residents' Office, and they were the greatest legacy left by Zong Ze. Moreover, they had just fought hard for several months, risking their lives to fight for the country, and were authentic national heroes. How could he not save them?
These complicated thoughts went through Yue Fei's mind for only a moment. After a moment, Yue Fei gritted his teeth, stood up, bowed to the official behind him, and said seriously:
"Your Majesty, good teacher. Your Majesty knows that these people's oath of brotherhood was indeed ill-considered, but most of them came from humble backgrounds and acted rashly. If they were to harbor ill intentions, that would be too serious. Your Majesty, please consider their meritorious service in the battle of Changshe and give them a lighter sentence..."
After all, Yue Fei was a newly promoted general and was favored by the emperor. Moreover, those who were truly in the know knew that he was from Hebei and was the specific candidate chosen by Emperor Zhao to take over the Hebei exile group of the Tokyo Liaison Office (that is, the so-called Ten Commanders who were kneeling now), and his position was also extremely stable.
He is a famous figure in this mountain!
In fact, if it were not for this reason, how could the upper and lower levels tolerate a twenty-six- or twenty-seven-year-old general? Even Li Yanxian and others' rejection of Yue Fei would never stop there.
Therefore, once he opened his mouth, many people were slightly moved and prepared to wait and see the situation in order to curry favor with him.
However, the officials below the emperor still sat still, and Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun, Li Yanxian and other generals just watched this scene coldly, without any intention of expressing their opinions... Especially Han Shizhong, as the one trapped in Changsha, as one of the commanders of that battle, and as the top general in the army at present, he could not be avoided if he wanted to talk, but this Han Taiwei did not move! Instead, he looked coldly at Yue Pengju, who was eager to protect him before the troops were even started!
If the civil and military officials remain silent, who will dare to speak up?
"Your Majesty." Wan Qi Xie waited for a moment, and seeing that only Yue Fei stood up to persuade him, he felt relieved and sighed. "I think what General Yue said is really ridiculous... Because some things can be judged by the heart? The world's affairs are judged by deeds, not the heart! I also think that among the ten commanders, perhaps eight or nine out of ten are loyal, but you must know that Taizu was also a loyal minister of the Chai family, but why did he replace Zhou with Song? Wasn't it because a group of brothers in the army gave him the yellow robe?"
Things had come to a dead end. Not to mention those of the Ten Commanders who knew a little about the allusions, even Yue Fei felt that he was too young and too impulsive... Because he had long thought that things would lead to this sentence, and he had long known that this time it was really Ma Gao and others who had committed a huge taboo. He had even guessed that the current situation was most likely deliberately created by Emperor Zhao, and that he wanted to rectify this matter, but he still couldn't help but bump into him.
But why?
Yue Pengju asked himself and soon came to the conclusion. Firstly, it was due to his own personality; secondly, Zhang Suo died and Zong Ze died too. The sudden death of these two superiors, whom he regarded as half fathers, left him with a psychological threshold that he could not cross for a while; thirdly, it was because Emperor Zhao’s performance in the previous few months had left him with an extremely good impression, making him forget that this young man in a bright red robe, with no expression when he didn’t speak, was actually an official, an emperor.
And he is an emperor with the surname Zhao!
Not to mention what the people below were thinking, Zhao Jiu, who had no expression on his face, almost couldn't hold back and almost laughed when he heard the words "Taizu was also a loyal minister of the Chai family"...
You must know that he brought both Wang Shan and Wanqi Xie from Tokyo, but in order to avoid making things worse, he only reminded Wang Shan and let this general who was loyal to him in front of Zong Ze come out and explode himself so as to bring up this topic and make use of it. However, he never instructed Wanqi Xie to play the good guy, but only asked Scholar Kobayashi to play the supporting role when necessary. Unexpectedly, this guy jumped out on his own and acted in such a situation.
Is it true that an emperor likes treacherous ministers?
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