Ayimu asked again, puzzled, "Husband, if you leave with the 200,000 Zhenxi Army, won't that give those Western Region countries that are hostile to the Zhenxi Protectorate an opportunity to take action?"
Sun Hao smiled and said, "Don't worry, the two gentlemen have already made proper arrangements.
Even if the Western Regions united and formed a coalition army against the Zhenxi Protectorate, they wouldn't gain any advantage and might even lose both the army and the woman."
Sun Hao's eldest son, Sun Kai, suddenly ran to Sun Hao's side and called out in a baby voice, "Happy New Year, Daddy, and good health!
Daddy, it’s time for you to give me New Year’s money!”
Sun Hao picked up Sun Kai, who would be four years old after the New Year, and then waved to a eunuch steward behind him.
The eunuch steward immediately brought over a tray with both hands, which was piled with bulging little red cloth bags.
Sun Hao picked up a small red cloth bag and gave it to Sun Kai, "Daddy has already prepared New Year's money for you."
Sun Kai, a chubby boy, opened the little red cloth bag without hesitation. Seeing two gold ingots inside, he happily turned around and shouted to a group of brothers and sisters, "Come and wish Dad a happy new year. Daddy has given us gold ingots!"
Since Luo Xuan's health was damaged after giving birth to two daughters for Sun Hao in succession, the doctor said that Luo Xuan might not be able to conceive again in the future, so Sun Kai was tacitly appointed as the young marshal of the Zhenxi Army.
Amid the laughter and chatter of his wives, concubines, and children, Sun Hao couldn't help but drink a few more glasses, and was finally carried back to his room.
When Sun Hao woke up the next day, it was already noon. At this time, Sun Hao discovered that there was an extra opportunity for annual signing in the "annual signing system".
Afterwards, Sun Hao found a secluded place in the Zhenxi Protectorate and used up the opportunity of this annual signing.
Unexpectedly, this annual contract opportunity made Sun Hao hear three ghostly voices.
"Congratulations to the new advisors: Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui."
"Congratulations on signing in the powerful generals: Ran Min and Liu Yu."
"Congratulations to the signing of the powerful generals: Yang Dayan and Xiao Mohe."
The intelligence values of Fang Xuanling (Sui and Tang Dynasties) and Du Ruhui (Sui and Tang Dynasties) are 99 points, the same as Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong.
Ran Min (Jin Dynasty), Liu Yu (Jin Dynasty), Yang Dayan (Northern and Southern Dynasties) and Xiao Mohe (Northern and Southern Dynasties) are all powerful generals with a combat power value of 100 points.
With the addition of two more strategists with a wisdom value of 99 points, Sun Hao decided to leave Pang Tong in the Zhenxi Protectorate as well. This time, he would only bring Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui with him when he entered the pass to wipe out the bandits in the northern states.
As for the four "hundred-level" generals Ran Min, Liu Yu, Yang Dayan, and Xiao Mohe, they will also be brought along by Sun Hao this time to help command the hundred-man army of the personal guard.
Compared to Sun Hao's New Year's Eve, Sun Zhe, the Minister of War who was far away in the capital, had a very bad New Year's Eve this year.
On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, Sun Zhe's two adopted sons, Cui Xiaojin and Cui Xiaojun, had their legs broken in the street.
Wei Hu, the commander of the imperial guards who had followed Sun Zhe into the capital, reported to him with a wry smile, "Sir, the one who broke the two young masters' legs was the fourth son of the Left Prime Minister's family.
The cause was a conflict between Young Master Xiaojin and Young Master Xiaojun and the fourth son of the Left Prime Minister's family in a brothel."
Upon hearing this, Sun Zhe couldn't help but curse, "You two bastards, even during the New Year you didn't forget to hang out at a brothel, you deserve to have your legs broken!"
At this time, Cui Xiumei, Sun Zhe's current wife, said coldly: "Even if Xiaojin and Xiaojun are bastards, it is not Lu Zeng's son's turn to teach them a lesson.
I must seek justice for Xiaojin and Xiaojun in this matter!"
Lu Zeng was the left prime minister of the Liang court. He and the right prime minister Fan Ziyong were known as the two most powerful ministers of Liang and almost completely controlled the government.
In the court of Liang State, only King Yong'an Chen Su dared not to give face to these two prime ministers.
Sun Zhe hurriedly persuaded his wife, "Amei, please don't do anything rash.
This is the capital, not Ganyang City or Xuanyang City.
Now that I no longer have military power, I cannot afford to offend the Left Prime Minister."
It would have been fine if Sun Zhe hadn't tried to dissuade her. This advice only made Cui Xiumei even angrier, "I told you not to go to Beijing! Don't go to Beijing! But you wouldn't listen!
If it weren't for Hao'er in the Zhenxi Protectorate, controlling hundreds of thousands of Zhenxi troops, perhaps your official hat as the Minister of War would have been taken away long ago.
Now both of your adopted sons have had their legs broken, and you don't even dare to fart. Are you still a man? "
After Sun Zhe married into Cui Xiumei's family, the woman has always been stronger than the man in the family. That is why Sun Zhe directly threw Sun Hao to his younger brother Sun Mao to raise. In order to take Cui Xiumei's feelings into consideration, he only visited Sun Hao once in more than ten years.
Seeing Cui Xiumei getting angry, Sun Zhe said with a wry smile, "At that time, my position as the Grand Commander of Huaide Protectorate was already in name only.
In addition to the more than one thousand soldiers under my command who also obey me, the military power of the Huaide Army's vanguard, rearguard, southern guard, and northern guard all fell into the hands of those generals who came from the imperial guards.
The left and right guards of the Huaide Army are still firmly controlled by the Wang family of Quan'an City.
Rather than being a puppet commander-in-chief, it would be better to come to the capital and serve as a minister of the Ministry of War. At least his rank would be raised, and he would be a second-rank official in the court.
Besides, it was an imperial decree, so I had no choice but to obey it!"
Cui Xiumei said angrily: "I have long asked you to transfer a group of generals from the Cui family to the front and back guards and the north and south guards of the Huaide Army to help you control the military power.
But you simply disagreed, preferring to hand over military power to those generals from the Imperial Guard rather than give the Cui family's children any chance. You deserve to be sidelined."
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