The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 404: disappointment
Chapter 404 Disappointment
In the hall, he saw the palace maids kneeling on the ground, shaking like sieves, not daring to breathe, fearing that the emperor would be angry and any of them would be unlucky and lose their lives if they were not careful.
Upon hearing the news, the prince rushed into the palace and heard the emperor yelling and cursing in the bedroom. He hesitated and did not dare to go in.
It was the young eunuch who quietly told Gao Demao that the prince had arrived, and Gao Demao hurriedly stepped out to greet him: “Your Highness, please come in quickly!”
The prince did not move his feet and looked at Gao Demao: “Father… is he very angry?”
“That’s right! Before the war report came back… the reports from the new governor of Yanwo and Li Mingrui, the son of the left prime minister, arrived one after another. Your Highness Prince Liang failed to deal with the disaster relief issue, which aroused civil unrest. Now the whole of Yanwo is waiting for Your Majesty to send troops to suppress the rioters! Your Majesty was already full of anger, who knew that in less than half a cup of tea, the news of the war between Daliang and my Jin State came! How could Your Majesty not be angry?”
The prince moved his fingers. It seemed that the person he sent had accomplished the task. He was very happy.
This time, there was a civil unrest in Yanwo and a war broke out in Chunmu Mountain. The two things happened to happen at the same time. According to my father’s personality, Prince Liang would definitely be taken out on him.
Gao Demao saw that the prince seemed to be much calmer than when he first arrived, and his eyebrows were inadvertently stained with joy. He hurriedly said: “If the prince has a good idea, please tell His Majesty as soon as possible. His Majesty has a headache… and is still angry. If this continues, I’m afraid something bad will happen!”
The prince cleared his throat and said, “Don’t worry, sir. Let me think about it again and try to be cautious.”
The prince’s mind was working rapidly. Now Daliang and their Great Jin were already at war, and there was civil unrest in Yan and Wo. Their Jin was short of soldiers!
He thought of Bai Qingyan. In the battle between Chunmu Mountain and Daliang, perhaps a commander with the talent of Bai Qingyan would be needed to defeat the larger force with the smaller one.
As for Yanwo… Prince Liang has messed up now. No matter how he cleans up the mess, his father cannot blame him. Besides, the people who rebelled in Yanwo are just low-class people. Compared with the elite soldiers of Daliang, it should be quite easy to deal with them.
Having made up his mind, the prince followed Gao Demao into the main hall and saluted the emperor in a proper manner: “Your Highness, I pay my respects to you, Father.”
“They are all good candidates recommended by you!” The emperor threw the memorial directly in front of the prince, and walked back and forth in front of the desk with his hand on his forehead in anger.
The prince was frightened and kowtowed quickly: “Father, please forgive me. I didn’t know that the King of Liang would do things like this. I recommended the King of Liang, and now that something has happened… As the elder brother, I naturally have to clean up for my younger brother. I beg you to let me personally lead the troops to Yanwo to quell this civil unrest.”
Seeing the prince’s sincere and frightened look, and thinking that his son was also trying to help his brother, he was really kind-hearted. The emperor closed his eyes and said, “The war in Daliang and the civil unrest in Yan and Wo are urgent matters. It will take time to transfer the troops stationed in Rongdi back. If the garrison of Dadu is taken away… Dadu will be empty.”
The prince stood up and said, “I would like to recommend the Princess Zhenguo to your father. The Princess Zhenguo is the eldest granddaughter of the King of Zhenguo. She is best at defeating the enemy with fewer troops. Your father can send someone to Shuoyang to pass on the order and order the Princess Zhenguo to Chunmu Mountain to take over the position of commander-in-chief. With the Princess Zhenguo here… it will be able to intimidate Daliang to a certain extent!”
The emperor clenched his teeth tightly as his head began to ache again. He raised his hand to cover his forehead, walked around the desk and sat down on the dragon throne, closing his eyes and thinking carefully.
The emperor had thought about sending Bai Qingyan, but even though Bai Qingyan was a girl, the emperor was very afraid that Bai Qingyan would become another King Bai Weiting.
After all, Bai Qingyan’s style of doing things is more decisive and ruthless than that of King Zhenguo. Whenever he takes action, it causes huge waves and he will never give up until he achieves his goal.
What the emperor was even more afraid of was that what if Bai Qingyan took advantage of the civil unrest in Yanwo and went to Chunmu Mountain and boldly led his troops to rebel?
At the beginning, King Zhenguo Bai Weiting had made an oath to the emperor. The emperor was quite wary of Bai Weiting, let alone Bai Qingyan, who was even more ruthless than Bai Weiting.
Seeing that the emperor remained silent for a long while, the prince raised his head and looked in the emperor’s direction, saying, “Father, I have confidence that the Princess Zhenguo will be able to help our Great Jin solve the problems in Daliang. I will also do my best to deal with the Yanwo uprising.”
The emperor looked at the prince with a serious face, tapped his fingers on the table and asked, “Before leaving Dadu, Bai Qingyan went to the prince’s mansion. Did she mention the battle of Chunmu Mountain to you? Did she say…if Daliang and my Jin State went to war, she would ask you to recommend her to lead the army?”
The prince saw the defensive look in the emperor’s eyes and shook his head quickly: “It is true that the Princess Zhenguo cares about the battle at Chunmu Mountain, but she never asked me to recommend her to lead the army. I thought… the Princess Zhenguo’s concern for the battle at Chunmu Mountain was entirely out of loyalty to our Jin State. I am willing to risk my life to guarantee the Princess Zhenguo’s loyalty to this point!”
The emperor recalled what the prince had told him about the divine deer, and thought that his son had let down his guard against Bai Qingyan and had trusted him too much, probably because of the divine deer.
“After Bai Qingyan…did he mention the matter of the divine deer in front of you again?” asked the emperor.
The prince shook his head: “No, it’s just as if it never happened, so father… I believe in the loyalty of the Princess Zhenguo, please believe it too.”
The emperor gritted his teeth and couldn’t help but think of the oath Bai Weiting had promised him.
But even with the oath, when Bai Weiting’s reputation grew higher day by day, when the people in the border areas regarded the Bai family in Dadu as their savior and completely forgot that he was the emperor of Dajin, he would still be uneasy.
The emperor closed his eyes and said to the prince, “You can use Bai Qingyan, but you must not trust him! And you must suppress her… Otherwise, her reputation will rise day by day, higher than yours, which is definitely not a good thing! The art of being an emperor… is to use both kindness and power. The more capable the minister is, the more you cannot let him become too powerful. Do you understand?”
The prince was stunned. Was his father teaching him how to rule people?
“Although I don’t fully understand what the emperor said, I will study it carefully after I go back! I won’t let the emperor down!”
The emperor nodded, looked at his son who looked very educated, and said to Gao Demao: “Gao Demao, pass the order…order Bai Jinzhi, the Princess of Gaoyi County, to rush to Chunmu Mountain to assist General Zhang Duanrui.”
The prince originally wanted to ask the emperor whether to let Princess Gaoyi lead the troops, but he was afraid that his father would think he was stupid, so he resisted the urge to ask.
“Prince, lead your troops to Yanwo early tomorrow morning to suppress the rioters! Bring that idiot Prince Liang back to me!” The emperor gritted his teeth when he mentioned Prince Liang.
He couldn’t even provide disaster relief, and he actually thought that King Liang was the white tiger foretold in his dream. Now it seems that he was overthinking, and King Liang probably doesn’t have the ability to do that.
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