The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1397: friendship
Chapter 1397 Friendship
“General Cheng, who gave you the idea to come to the palace to force my elder sister?” Bai Qingqi asked.
Hearing that Bai Qingyan had made a special trip to the military camp just to help them solve their doubts, but they had resorted to the act of dying for advice, Cheng Yuanzhi felt extremely guilty. He turned around and glared at Lu Yuanpeng, saying, “It’s all because of that brat Lu Yuanpeng. The two countries have already signed an alliance, and only dying for advice can make General Bai withdraw his decision!”
“I…I…” Lu Yuanpeng straightened his back, saw his father-in-law’s furious eyes, and hurriedly said, “I also heard it from General Guan Zhangning in the Tiger Eagle Army! General Guan Zhangning said that he has followed Sister Bai for so many years and knows Sister Bai very well! Sister Bai must also want to attack the State of Yan, but she is troubled by the fact that Yan is too humble and is using the lives of the soldiers that Sister Bai cares about the most! That’s why I told General Cheng that even if we die… we can’t let the villains of Yan succeed!”
Guan Zhangning…Yunlan!
Bai Qingyan looked at Bai Qingqi.
Bai Qingqi stepped forward and whispered in Bai Qingyan’s ear: “Eldest sister, Guan Zhangning is in the army… Although I have abandoned him, I have not yet taken action to deal with him. I just have someone monitor him. The original intention was to follow the clues to find out the Xiliang people who are still lurking in our Bai family army. After all, someone saved Li Tianfu, which means there are still people in Xiliang. I am afraid that Xiliang will not exist. If these people are not eliminated, they will do something at a critical moment in the future. I really didn’t expect this chaos to happen.”
Bai Qingqi always has his own considerations when doing things, and Bai Qingyan understands it.
She frowned: “Deal with it as soon as possible.”
After Bai Qingyan finished speaking, he turned and walked towards the higher steps, and Wei Zhong hurriedly followed.
“Little White Handsome!”
“His Majesty!”
When Cheng Yuanzhi and his companions saw Bai Qingyan walking up the stairs, they all stood up and tried to chase after him.
There was the sound of soldiers’ armor rubbing against each other behind him. Without even turning his head, Bai Qingyan shouted sternly, “Kneel down!”
Cheng Yuanzhi and others knelt down hurriedly, looking at Bai Qingyan’s back as he walked up the high steps and calling him “General Bai” and “Your Majesty”.
Bai Qingqi and Bai Qingyu sighed, then followed their eldest sister and left.
It was not until the figures of Bai Qingyan and her two siblings disappeared on the white marble steps that Lu Jinxian hurriedly helped his old father up.
“Generals, you have misjudged His Majesty!” Taiwei Lu sighed, and shook his head with Cheng Yuanzhi, Shen Liangyu and Liu Pinggao. “This strategy of gambling the country was decided by His Majesty long before the expedition to Xiliang, and it was discussed with Yan State. Your Majesty cares about the people of the world and is not after his own power. He has truly engraved the ancestral motto of the Bai family to protect the people and live in his character, and lives in what he says and thinks! All the generals are the people that His Majesty relies on and trusts the most, so the fact that the generals left the camp without permission and gathered together to force the emperor to abdicate really chills His Majesty’s heart.”
“General Lu, please stop talking. I am already too ashamed to face myself. I am almost dying of shame!” Shen Liangyu sat on his heels, full of regret, feeling that he was too impulsive.
“When it comes to gambling on a country, the difference between winning and losing is… one country’s monarch is like a jade pendant, and another country’s monarch is like dirt! All the generals are worried about Your Majesty, and I understand that!” Taiwei Lu whispered, “But as a person trusted by Your Majesty, I shouldn’t use this method to appeal to Your Majesty. The generals are away from home all year round, and they don’t know that in the court of our Great Zhou, the monarch and his subjects have always spoken frankly. Perhaps it’s just like the generals discussing tactics in the tent of the late King Zhenguo when they were on the march!”
Cheng Yuanzhi suddenly understood.
“My dear generals, although His Majesty has ascended to the supreme position, he has always been the young commander of the Bai Family Army. He has never changed! General Zhu Wei… no matter when, please remember this!”
After Commandant Lu finished speaking, he asked his son to support him as he walked out of Wude Gate.
“Weng Weng…Weng Weng!” Lu Yuanpeng stretched his neck to call his own father-in-law, but his father-in-law didn’t even look at him.
Lu Yuanpeng felt it was over!
He was not afraid that Sister Bai punished him to kneel here. After all, he could still feel that Sister Bai cared about them and treated them as her own people, which was why she was angry and punished them.
But if their father-in-law ignores him, he will be very angry when he returns.
When General Lu came out of Wude Gate, he could not help but sigh: “Your Majesty… has mastered the art of being a king. After today, these generals who have been punished will surely be more loyal to Your Majesty.”
Bai Qingqi walked to the door of the main hall and was about to go in when he suddenly turned to look at Wei Zhong and whispered to him, “The generals gathered and knelt down to beg you to take back the military power of King Hancheng, but you believed in your words. Please, Eunuch Wei, try to pass the news to King Hancheng’s mansion without leaving any trace, so that King Hancheng can feel at ease… and serve the country after knowing it.”
Wei Zhong quickly responded: “Don’t worry, King!”
As long as the news reaches King Hancheng’s mansion, his wife will certainly tell King Hancheng that the general had died advising Bai Qingyan to take back King Hancheng’s military power. She only hopes that King Hancheng has gained his elder sister’s trust and will not let her down.
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That day, twelve generals, led by Yongding Bo Cheng Yuanzhi, knelt on the high white marble steps for the whole night.
During the morning court session, officials walked up the steps from both sides, looking at the twelve military-clad generals, their hearts pounding…
Some people have also heard that the twelve generals left the camp without permission yesterday and knelt here to plead with Your Majesty to withdraw the alliance with the Kingdom of Du and take back the military power given to King Hancheng.
Later, I don’t know what His Majesty said, but the twelve generals admitted their mistakes and continued to kneel here.
The bright morning light made the white marble steps shine brightly. In the dazzling golden color, twelve masculine generals in armor knelt upright at the foot of the high steps of the magnificent hall, causing the court officials to look back frequently.
At the morning court session, General Lu was the first to stand up and demanded that Bai Qingyan severely punish the twelve generals who had left the camp without permission and gathered to cause trouble. This also showed the attitude of the Lu family, that they did not support Lu Yuanpeng’s making trouble.
After the morning court session ended, Wei Zhong came to convey the imperial edict. Because Cheng Yuanzhi, Shen Liangyu, Liu Pinggao, Wang Jin, Lu Yuanpeng, Sima Ping and other twelve generals had left the camp without permission and gathered a crowd to discuss state affairs, which should have been a serious crime, but in consideration of the military achievements these twelve men had made in the battle to destroy Xiliang, they were pardoned the death penalty, all their rewards were cancelled, and all their military positions were removed, and each of them received fifty military sticks.
Although Bai Qingyan knew that Sima Ping followed Cheng Yuanzhi and the others, he actually wanted to stop them… to buy time for Wei Zhaonian and stop the people who were about to cause trouble.
However, if Sima Ping was singled out and not punished, it would inevitably damage the friendship between Sima Ping and his comrades, so Bai Qingyan punished them together.