Is the news reported by Lu Mu true?
Of course it's true.
At this moment, Sima An, the general of the Dangshan Army, was leading his general Bai Fangming, holding the reins, standing not far from the high slope where Zhao Hongrun and his party chose to spend the night, smelling the light from the bonfire.
The aroma of roasted lamb.
"Hmm...it smells so good."
Sniffing the fragrance greedily as if intoxicated, Bai Fangming licked his lips and murmured with some lust: "I wonder if they would be willing to share it with me..."
"..." Sima An glanced at Bai Fangming coldly and said nothing.
He had seen the shamelessness of this general under his command for a long time, so he was not surprised.
"Hmph! There are Yin Rong all around. If you spend the night in a place like this and light a bonfire, do you really think that those Yin Rong are all blind?" Sima An snorted with an unhappy look on his face.
Seeing this, Bai Fangming glanced at his general helplessly, and said as if he was amused: "General, you are really worried about the safety of His Highness Prince Su. Just say it directly, why bother beating around the bush?"
"When did I say that I was worried about His Highness Prince Su?" Sima An looked cold. After a slight pause, he frowned and explained: "I just think this matter is inappropriate."
"What's wrong?" Bai Fangming scratched the root of his neck and said casually: "Less than two miles from here, there is the military camp of our Dangshan Army. If His Highness Prince Su and the others are attacked, just shout, our Dangshan Army
You can hear it...Who would be so ignorant as to attack His Highness Prince Su?"
"Hmph!" Sima An glanced at Bai Fangming with a look that said, "You're still far behind." He said coldly: "Those who have been defeated since ancient times have always had such undisciplined and childish ideas as yours."
"Yes, yes, be cautious. I remember the purpose of our Dangshan Army." Bai Fangming said perfunctorily.
At this moment, Lu Mu, the Zongwei beside Zhao Hongrun, left and came back. He cupped his hands and said to the two of them: "General Sima, and this general, His Highness King Su has invited you."
"Lead the way." Sima An nodded and said.
At this moment, Bai Fangming said with a smile: "General, just escort me here. You can go by yourself. I will go to them and ask for some pieces of mutton to try."
After saying that, without waiting for Sima An's attitude, under Lu Mu's stunned gaze, he ran to the bonfire in the distance and asked for barbecue from the Zong Wei and Su Wang Wei.
Vaguely, you can still hear the voices of Bai Fangming, Zong Wei Mu Qing and others.
"Hey, hey, what are you doing? I baked this... Who are you?"
"Don't see outsiders, don't see outsiders. My name is Bai Fangming. I'm from the Dangshan Army. I'm accompanying my general here to see His Highness King Su... My general is a proud man. He couldn't lose his face to admit his mistake to His Highness Prince Su, so he
Take me with you...Why are you so stingy? It's just a piece of meat..."
"There is also raw meat there. If you want to eat it, you can grill it yourself."
"Don't be so jealous. We have to get along with each other in the future, right? Huh? You're already burnt. Brother, can you handle all this?"
"Do you want love!"
"Well...brother, can you share some of the barbecue in your hands with me?"
Listening to the voices coming from not far away, a strange look appeared on Lu Mu's face.
"It is said that the Dangshan Army, which is strict in killing, actually has such a shameless and shameless general... Well, is it a straightforward and open-minded general?"
Lu Mu secretly glanced at General Sima An in front of him, and faintly noticed that this general seemed to be on the verge of an explosion. He didn't know whether it was because of Bai Fangming's shameless behavior of asking for barbecue from the Zongwei, or because he was embarrassed by Bai Fangming. After revealing the purpose of their trip, they became angry.
No matter what the truth was, Lu Mu always felt that if he and the general continued to stay here, the general might draw his sword and rush towards the general named Bai Fangming.
"General, please come this way."
"Hmm."
Lu Mu quickly invited Sima An to where Zhao Hongrun was.
At this time, Zhao Hongrun was still standing on the high slope, looking at the Dangshan Army's military camp, but Mi Jiang and Shen Yu were no longer around. Obviously, the two people left to avoid suspicion.
"General, please."
Lu Mu took the initiative to take the reins from Sima An.
Sima An nodded, and under Lu Mu's surprised gaze, he took off the weapons on his body and handed them to the latter.
"General Sima An is really a very rigorous general..."
Seeing Sima An adjusting his armor after taking the initiative to hand over his weapons, and then walking towards the high slope, Lu Mu couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
After all, many times, a person's character can be seen from a small thing.
Just like taking off your weapons, to be honest, this is a common practice and a time-honored rule. But the problem is that he, Lu Mu, did not mention it. After all, he did not think that Sima An would harm His Highness, but even so, Sima An still took the initiative to hand over the weapons. Weapons appeared, as if it were a matter of course.
This shows that this general is a general who pays great attention to "rules".
"Let them talk slowly."
After looking ahead, Lu Mu led the horse and left.
At this time, Sima An had come to Zhao Hongrun's side, stopped half a body behind, and stared in the same direction as Zhao Hongrun.
But he didn't take the initiative to speak.
"What a proud man..."
Zhao Hongrun glanced at Sima An beside him with his peripheral vision, and sighed secretly in his heart.
But having said that, since Sima An showed signs of surrendering and came forward on his own initiative, he didn't want to ask for more.
So, he opened his mouth and said: "This night is really like an umbrella canopy of stars... Has the general ever climbed up and looked at the night scene like this since he became Gaoguan?"
"..." Sima An raised his head and glanced at the starry night sky, then glanced at the dark distance, and said calmly: "I am a rough man who cannot understand such elegance as His Highness Prince Su..."
"Ha, in fact, Brother Sixth Prince is what the general calls an 'elegant person'. I, the king, am just arty." Zhao Hongrun chuckled lightly, and then laughed at himself: "Standing here, to be honest, I, too I don’t feel as elegant as Brother Liu Wang, I just feel that... compared to the heaven and the earth, human beings are really too small."
"..."
Sima An looked at Zhao Hongrun with a flash of doubt in his eyes, because he felt that the words spoken by His Highness seemed to contain some deep meaning.
However, he had no time to take care of this issue at the moment. He said in a deep voice: "His Royal Highness King Su left our Dangshan Army's camp in a rage this evening, but stayed here again. Is it because he was waiting for the last general?"
"Yes!" Zhao Hongrun admitted without any disguise.
Sima Anlue was a little surprised by Zhao Hongrun's honesty. After thinking about it, he asked: "If General Mo doesn't come, His Highness King Su will really regard our Dangshan Army as a traitor in ten days and lead the Shang Shui Army to conquer it personally." Our army?"
"Yes!" Zhao Hongrun nodded.
"..." Sima An opened his mouth, and then said in an incomprehensible tone: "Your Highness, you know that if you really do this, Your Majesty and the court will also punish Your Highness for this matter..."
"Of course I know this." Zhao Hongrun said lightly.
Come to think of it, to frame a general at the level of "Sixth Battalion of the Garrison" as a treason without authorization, and then lead an army to conquer the country. To be honest, there is not much difference between this and treason against the country.
It is no exaggeration to say that no matter how much Emperor Wei doted on Zhao Hongrun in the past, he would severely punish the latter for this incident, which would even affect the relationship between father and son. After all, Sima An was once the Zongwei beside Emperor Wei, and they The relationship between Zhao Hongrun and Shen Yu is deeper than the relationship between Zhao Hongrun and Shen Yu.
"Why? Why did His Highness do this for those Yinrong people?" Sima An asked with a frown.
Zhao Hongrun did not answer Sima An immediately, but changed the topic and asked: "General, do you know that in fact, many of the people in Daliang City were descendants of the Liang Kingdom?"
Sima An was stunned when he heard this, and then he understood what Zhao Hongrun wanted to express, shook his head and said: "That's different... Maybe they were once descendants of the Liang Kingdom, but now they have been included in the Wei Dynasty. As a We are proud of Wei people..."
Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun smiled and asked: "Then the general has any conclusion that the 'Yin Rong' in the general's mouth will not become a member of our Wei people in the future?"
"Huh?"
Sima An looked at Zhao Hongrun in surprise and asked in astonishment: "His Royal Highness King Su...want to absorb Yin Rong into our Wei people?"
"Does the General object?"
"This..." Sima An's face showed a look of contemplation.
It's no wonder, after all, with the precedent of "Liang Guo", Sima An naturally can't say anything too specific. After all, to be honest, he is not a real Wei person. Even Zhao Hongrun, the blood flowing in his body Isn't his blood mixed with the blood of Guliang people and Guzheng people?
Hundreds of years after the Zhao family with the Ji surname moved out of Longxi, the bloodline of this pure Wei people may have long been confused with Liang, Zheng and other ancient people due to marriage relationships.
Therefore, strictly speaking, the "races that are not our own" that Sima An thinks of actually refer to "foreign races that refuse to be integrated into the Wei people."
"I am not angry that the general killed the Jie people. After all, as a Wei person, I also feel that those Jie people live in the territory that belongs to me, the Wei Dynasty, but they still speak ill of me, the Wei Dynasty. Provocation is really abominable... But General, among the people of Sanchuan massacred by the Dangshan Army these days, many of them, in my opinion, are friendly to our Wei Dynasty and can accommodate the people of our Wei Dynasty. People from the two tribes, this is what this king cannot tolerate."
Looking at Sima An, Zhao Hongrun said unceremoniously: "If a country wants to stand firmly in troubled times, it needs a strong army, and whether the army is strong depends on its weapons and equipment and the soldiers themselves... I can boast that I The Smelting Bureau can build more than ten or two hundred thousand sets of weapons and equipment within a year, but our Smelting Bureau cannot produce more than ten or two hundred thousand soldiers... That year, the Shangdang was defeated, and our Wei Dynasty was in ruins. In more than twenty years, the land of Sanchuan can only be handed over to the people of Sanchuan today. Why? It is nothing more than the soldiers and adult men who died in that great defeat, which greatly damaged the vitality of our great Wei Dynasty. Therefore, In my opinion, the foundation of a country lies in its people... Last year, I conquered the Chu State and attracted more than 400,000 Chu people. In the eyes of the general, those people should be enemies, right? But those Chu people Now living in the three counties of Yanling, Changping and Shangshui, he has chosen to become a Wei man. Can this be regarded as the fact that this king has "killed" more than 400,000 enemies? Just by releasing a piece of news, there are More than 400,000 Chu people were voluntarily "killed" by me, but I didn't waste a single soldier. The general felt that the efficiency of Dangshan's army in killing the enemy was compared with the efficiency of "killing the enemy" by me. Higher or lower?"
"..."
Chapter completed!