Yan Beixi left the imperial study.
There was a relaxed smile on his face.
The sunlight fell on him, and he felt warm and comfortable at that moment.
Emperor Xuan did not express his position clearly, but he had already expressed his position.
That's good.
It’s time to retreat. If you don’t retreat now... it will be too late!
He sees the current situation more clearly than anyone else.
Fu Xiaoguan's departure was inevitable, but Emperor Xuan was not very friendly towards it.
Especially releasing Qin Huizhi!
In addition, he rejected Dong Kangping's nomination for the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue and transferred Chang Huan, the director of the Hangzhou Weaving Bureau.
In the second half of last year, there were several seemingly inadvertent transfers and appointments in the court, but Yan Beixi's old eyes saw them clearly.
This is both a divestiture and a backup plan.
For example, the Ministry of Commerce now has an additional deputy minister, who was Yuan Xiqing, the former Minister of the Secretariat.
The Ministry of War also replaced a vice minister of the Ministry of War. The new vice minister had served as the commander-in-chief under Peng Chengwu of the northern border army.
It seems ordinary, but it is not ordinary.
Yan Beixi believed that Fu Xiaoguan would definitely find a way to allow the Yan clan and the Dong family to retreat safely, but he was already eighty years old and did not want to put the fate of hundreds of people in the Yan clan in the hands of Fu Xiaoguan.
So he needed to break away, stand outside the situation, and find a way out for the Yan family in a place where no one was paying attention.
And this retreat is neither to surrender to the Yu Dynasty nor to rely entirely on the Wu Dynasty, but...Fan State!
No one knew that it was Yan Beixi who let the people from the Xue and Xi factions leave when Xue Dingshan rebelled!
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Yu Wendao brewed a pot of tea.
He poured a glass for Emperor Xuan before speaking, "When I was in Fenglin Mountain, I went to Xishan Academy several times. I played a few games of chess with Qin Bingzhong and talked a lot with him. Among them, we talked about Qin Huizhi..."
Emperor Xuan took a sip of the teacup. It had been brewed for a while and tasted bitter. "What did Qin Bingzhong think of Qin Huizhi?"
Yu Wendao shook his head, "Old Qin said... don't judge people's right or wrong behind their backs."
Emperor Xuan put down his teacup and smiled slightly, "Then his meaning is very clear. He doesn't think highly of his nephew."
“So, I believe that now that the Yu Dynasty is at peace, with Fu Xiaoguan creating the model for the Wofeng Dao, the other thirteen Daos can simply follow suit… The Yu Dynasty should focus on execution, stability, and preservation.
Even if Yan Xiang is enjoying his old age, I think Yan Shidao is more suitable than Qin Huizhi."
Yu Wendao did not mention that the loyalty of the Yan clan to the Yu Dynasty was obvious to all, and the rumor that one family had three prime ministers was also spread by his mother herself.
Of course, he didn't know that Queen Shang was suppressing the Yan clan by publicizing that the Yan clan had three prime ministers.
Emperor Xuan smiled. He looked at Yu Wendao, his son who had not learned much literature but had learned a lot of martial arts. It seemed that after a year of training in the Divine Sword Army, he had developed a good eye.
Of course he knew that Yan Shidao was more suitable than Qin Huizhi, but the current situation did not allow him to choose Yan Shidao as prime minister.
So he did not discuss this issue with Yu Wendao, but said:
"Tomorrow at the Grand Court, I will enthrone you as Crown Prince. My original plan was to have you attend court and learn the art of governing, but now I have another, more important matter for you to attend to."
Yu Wendao bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I will obey your command!"
Emperor Xuan raised his head, frowned slightly, and his face was solemn.
"You know the fighting power of the Excalibur Army better than I do."
"Official Fu has now mobilized 30,000 soldiers from the Divine Sword First Army, leaving Fenglin Mountain and heading straight for Yanshan Pass..."
Yu Wendao was shocked. Didn’t Fu Xiaoguan say that he wanted to send these 30,000 people to Wofeng Road to build the road?
Why did you go to Yanshan Pass?
"I had a long talk with Fu Xiaoguan before the New Year. He said... he wanted to use these 30,000 men to build a great empire for the Yu Dynasty!"
Yu Wendao felt very uncomfortable. Damn it, Fu Xiaoguan, you were clearly going to attack Huang Country, but you lied to me...!
Emperor Xuan looked at Yu Wendao's surprised expression and said with a smile, "Don't you believe it? I do believe in him. He might really be able to do it. So I sent an imperial edict to Peng Chengwu, asking him to cooperate with Fu Xiaoguan and fight against the barbarians."
"I tell you this to make you understand how important a strong army is to a country!"
"Since its birth, the Divine Sword Army has fought the rebel Gong Shenchang in Pingling Mountain, the 150,000-strong Xihua rebel army at Qipan Pass in the Qinling Mountains, the 150,000-strong Xuedingshan rebel army at Jianmen City, the Black Guards of Prince Hui in Minshan Mountain, and finally the Moon Worship Cult deep in Minshan Mountain..."
Emperor Xuan heaved a long sigh and said with deep emotion, "You've never been defeated! With such a powerful army, I ask you...are you afraid?"
Yu Wendao's eyes widened, then he shook his head, "Don't be afraid, this is the army of the Yu Dynasty, isn't it great?"
Emperor Xuan grinned. He looked at Yu and asked, "You will be the future ruler of the Yu Dynasty. Think again, is this Divine Sword Army truly part of the Yu Dynasty?"
Yu Wendao was stunned for a while. He thought of the scene he witnessed at Fenglin Mountain - Fu Xiaoguan used a military flag and a military song to make the 30,000 soldiers of the Divine Sword Army excited and loyal to him.
So... is this army Fu Xiaoguan's, or the Yu Dynasty's?
If the Yu Dynasty wanted to mobilize this army, would they obey the court?
Thinking of this, Yu Wendao was suddenly shocked. That's why Fu Xiaoguan said that his father wanted him to train a team of 100,000 people. It turned out that its purpose was to guard against the Divine Sword Army!
Fu Xiaoguan clearly knew it, but he didn't do anything... He was about to leave, so he didn't care about it?
"This son feels that Fu Xiaoguan's loyalty to Yu Chaozhi...is evident to heaven and earth!"
"I, your father, ask you, what will happen to Fu Xiaoguan a hundred years from now?"
A hundred years later?
Yu Wendao pondered for a long time. With Fu Xiaoguan's ability, a powerful Wu Dynasty would inevitably be born. There would certainly be no problem with Fu Xiaoguan controlling the giant ship of Wu Dynasty, but if the person at the helm was changed...how should Yu Dynasty face it?
"Fu Xiaoguan has already headed north. He's going to attack the Huang Kingdom, but you know that the Wu Dynasty has already assembled 200,000 troops on the Wuyi border! Wu Dalang isn't one to use his brain, and now I'm almost certain that this was Fu Xiaoguan's plan!"
Yu Wendao asked in surprise, "What is the connection between these two wars?"
"Look at the map more often. You have to be like Fu Xiaoguan and engrave the map in your mind!"
Yu Wendao's face flushed slightly, and Emperor Xuan continued, "I am now certain that Bai Yulian has been transferred to the Wu Dynasty by Fu Xiaoguan, and has trained a larger and more powerful Divine Sword Army!"
Yu Wendao suddenly opened his mouth and Emperor Xuan's expression became more serious.
"30,000 Divine Sword troops attacked the Huang Kingdom, 200,000 Wu Dynasty border troops invaded the Yi Kingdom... and secretly there was another army that no one knew about!"
"The most terrifying thing is this army. I am extremely worried that they will suddenly appear on the land of the Yu Dynasty!"
“If there are a hundred thousand of them, who can stop the Yu Dynasty?”
"Therefore, you must immediately train an army like this with all your strength, named... Tiance Army!"
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