"I dare not think about it..." Zhai Chong followed the other person's gaze and turned his head to look at the Jin cavalry on the other side of the river, then looked at the few young armored warriors behind him, and then he said a huge truth in confusion. "My family has eight or nine sons and nephews, but if we could have a Jinshi who became a prefecture governor, I and the old women would have been vegetarians and Buddhists for the rest of our lives! But these guys, who can only use guns and sticks, tattoo and sing songs on weekdays, can only be called the Eight Tigers of Xiping County, and the most capable Old Nine is only called the Ninth Tiger. How can they compare with Lin Xueshi's family who has a bunch of prefecture governors?"
"That's what I'm saying."
Scholar Xiao Lin let go of the hand of the man who had pretended to kneel before, and then followed the steps he had thought of before, imitating the steps of Emperor Zhao, stepped forward and held Zhai Chong's hard hands full of calluses, and then spoke sincerely. "If it were a peaceful time, no matter how rampant your entire Zhai family was in the local area, it would not be as elegant as our Lin family, but what about now? The country is in trouble now, and the emperor has also fallen to this point. I am a scholar who is accompanying the people. When I get on the horse, I will be bumpy and go south. When I get off the horse, my legs will tremble. When I hear that the military is panicking ahead, and when I see the tragic scenes on the road, I will... I will lose control and lose face. It is really useless! On the contrary, you, as the saying goes, learn good martial arts and sell them to the emperor. In the past, the emperor would not accept your goods, but today they did... Commander Zhai must seize this great opportunity in front of him!"
After hearing this, Zhai Chong felt that the other party had hit the nail on the head. If it weren't for this, he would have just been a local tycoon in Xiping. Why would he get involved in such matters... He nodded repeatedly.
"But now there is something." Scholar Xiao Lin took another half step forward and almost leaned against the other person's body and spoke. "General Han's 50,000 troops are all outside. You should know that the emperor has only 4,000 soldiers in the city, and they have to protect the emperor, the four ministers, and hundreds of ministers. So when you came here just now, you, as an experienced person, naturally understood the difficulties of the ministers on the city..."
"I understand."
"It's good that you understand. That's why the emperor asked me to come down and open my heart to show you. I just want to ask Commander Zhai, can you assist me, a scholar who knows nothing about military affairs, to set up a camp under the city with our backs to the city and lean against the water, and together defend the north of the city for the emperor?" Scholar Kobayashi finally revealed his true intentions.
"Does Master Lin want to stay outside the city with us?" Zhai Chong also suddenly realized what was happening, but immediately bowed down to the other party. "I am willing to be loyal to the emperor and serve the master!"
The people around him also came to their senses and followed Zhai Chong's example, bowing and expressing their willingness to serve.
At this time, Scholar Lin turned his head and gestured to Yan Xiaozhong who was a little dazed: "Zhizhou Yan, please go to the city and tell the emperor that the people outside the city are all loyal and filial, and they can be relied on."
Yan Xiaozhong, who had long since recovered, bowed slightly and turned away.
In this way, Bachelor Kobayashi went out of the city alone, appeased a group of local tyrants, and began to build a camp on the spot under the city, digging trenches and building fortifications. Soon, with the entry of Yan Xiaozhong, wine, meat, tents and other things were hung in the city. When Yan Xiaozhong came back in the evening, he brought back a bunch of formal appointments.
Up to this point, the sudden problems caused by the sudden arrival of the rebel army and the vanguard of the Jin army seemed to have disappeared.
The matter was perfectly resolved, and the previous tension in Ruyang City had long since disappeared. Emperor Zhao naturally returned to the backyard of the government office to prepare for dinner and then go to bed early.
However, as the sun was setting, Zhao Jiu sat in the corridor in the backyard of the government office with a great view. He just drank a few mouthfuls of porridge facing the spring breeze and flowers, and then suddenly put down his chopsticks and remained silent... In the final analysis, he always felt that something was wrong!
It's not the kind of crisis awareness that comes from a sixth sense, but the kind of feeling of being in front of a math problem with all the necessary conditions, where you clearly see part of a simple and effective solution but can't figure it out for a moment, and end up having to resort to a stupid method that doesn't suit your taste to answer the problem.
Of course, this is the thinking of a straight male chauvinist who majored in engineering. If Zhao Jiu was not a professional student before traveling through time, but a chef who truly served the people, he should have quoted the more literary and historical way of thinking of "butchering an ox" to analyze his own operations.
The emperor didn't want to eat, but Feng Yi, who was always good at welcoming and serving others, didn't dare to say much. He just stood there with his hands clasped in silence. This was not only because the atmosphere was different from before due to various unexpected events today, but also because this eunuch with the same seniority as Kang Lu and Lan Gui quickly adapted to the emperor's "new temper".
Then, unlike Lan Gui who was already in the highest position among the eunuchs and was therefore cautious, this person quickly integrated into the role and environment and wanted to go a step further and become a regular escort.
He knows how to go along with a person's temper.
However, back to the present, just as it is difficult to kill a cow and difficult to solve math problems, Zhao Guanjia is not a genius. Until the sunset, after a whole night of wind, he still drank the cold porridge in a depressed mood and turned back to the house to rest.
But at midnight of that day, or rather the early morning of the next day, in short, when it was pitch black outside, Zhao Jiu was awakened again.
"What happened?" The weather was warm, and Emperor Zhao came to the back hall wearing only a middle coat and an outer coat. He then met two of the four ministers directly, and then Zhang Jun, Wang Yuan, Liu Ziyu were also there, and even the unexpected Yan Xiaozhong, who was puzzled for a moment.
"Good instructor, I know that there was an incident outside the city." Before he could say anything about the emperor's clothing, Yuwen Xu Zhong, one of the prime ministers, stepped forward, bowed, and informed him seriously.
"What do you mean?" Emperor Zhao's heart sank and he also became serious.
"Reporting to the emperor," Yan Xiaozhong's dark face seemed to be shining in the candlelight, obviously due to the reflection of sweat. "I don't know what happened... It seems that someone was eager to make a contribution, and seeing that the Jin army had few soldiers and they were all Khitans, they secretly crossed the river to rob the camp at night! In the middle of the night, I can only roughly guess that it may be that a few young men of the Zhai family were provoked during the day and wanted to do something, that's all."
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