Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. At this hour, for the Emperor to summon them to the palace, it must be no small matter.
Su Ruojin looked at Xiao Yanchu, who also shook his head slightly, indicating that he didn't know what it was about either.
Even Xiao Yanchu didn't know.
"Your Highness, General Su, General Su, the Emperor is waiting in the palace. Why don't you come with us?" the eunuch urged.
The emperor's summons had no choice but to obey, and the three of them entered the palace together without delay.
The eunuch led the three of them to the Imperial Study. In addition to Xiao Chenyi, the Duke of Dingguo, the Left and Right Chancellors, the various ministers, and the generals of the capital were all present in the Imperial Study. It could be said that all the important officials of the capital were there.
Everyone kept their heads down, not daring to breathe, creating a very oppressive atmosphere.
Xiao Chenyi also sat in front of the imperial desk with a gloomy face.
Xiao Yanchu nodded slightly and sat down to the side. Su Yunfeng and Su Wenzhou knelt down and bowed in accordance with etiquette, saying, "Your Majesty, we pay our respects."
Xiao Chen didn't let the two of them get up. Instead, he picked up a booklet from the table and threw it at Su Wenzhou.
"General Su, explain this to me properly, what's going on?"
Su Wenzhou didn't dodge; the booklet hit him directly on the head and fell to the ground.
Xiao Yanchu's eyes narrowed slightly when he saw this scene.
Su Wenzhou picked up the booklet with a suspicious look, opened it, and was shocked. He looked up at Xiao Chenyi and asked, "Your Majesty, what's going on?"
The booklet in Su Wenzhou's hand was none other than the defense deployment map he had adjusted after arriving in Mo Han.
Generally, the defense map is kept by the border army commander and is not sent back to the capital.
Because the defense deployment is adjusted periodically, there is no need to send it back to the capital at all times, as the emperor has a map of the national army's deployment.
If that's the case, why does the Emperor possess a map showing the defenses of the Mohan region?!
Xiao Chenyi scoffed, "Su Wenzhou, is this your Mo Han's defense map?"
Su Wenzhou looked at it carefully again, and it was indeed the deployment map he had adjusted.
He hurriedly kowtowed, "Your Majesty, this is indeed the Mohan defense map that I just reviewed."
"Are you curious why the defense map you just adjusted is in my hands? Heh, I'm curious too, because this defense map was actually obtained from spies in the Northern Li!"
"General Su, tell me, why is the defense map you just transferred in the hands of the Northern Li people?!" Xiao Chenyi demanded sternly.
Military intelligence leaks are a major issue for any country.
Moreover, Mohan can be said to be the most important defense line on the border of the Great Chu. If its deployment map falls into the hands of the enemy, the consequences will be unimaginable once the two armies go to war.
The Emperor's words, "The defense map is in the hands of the Northern Li people," sent a chill down Su Wenzhou's spine.
If someone with ulterior motives uses this to make a fuss, it wouldn't be unreasonable to accuse him of treason and collusion with the enemy.
However, Su Wenzhou also knew that the Su family had just been exonerated from the crime of treason and collusion with the enemy. At this time, the emperor only summoned him instead of sending the imperial guards to arrest people directly from the Su family. It seemed that the emperor had not yet made a decision on this matter.
"Your Majesty, I do not know how this defense map ended up in the hands of the Northern Li people. But since the defense map has been leaked, I, as the commander-in-chief, have an inescapable responsibility. I beg Your Majesty to punish me."
Su Wenzhou lowered his head. He had been transferred to a post not long before being escorted to the capital for the crime of treason against the Su family. He really didn't know what happened afterward.
However, as the commander-in-chief of Mohan, regardless of how the Mohan defense map ended up in the hands of the Beili people, he also bears inescapable responsibility.
Xiao Chenyi raised his eyes to look at the ministers in the imperial study, "Ministers, what do you think I should do?"
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