When Nangong Ye saw Zhang Kuang returning to the topic, he turned around and looked in the direction of the main hall of the palace, and then stopped in his tracks.
When Zhang Kuang saw the old man suddenly stop, he also quickly stopped his steps.
Nangong Ye turned around and looked at Zhang Kuang, who also stopped, and directly raised the wine bag in his hand and took a big sip of wine.
Immediately, he first hung the wine bag back to his waist, then gently pulled out the tobacco bag from his waist, and skillfully lit a pot of tobacco.
"Brother Zhang, would you like to have a pot?"
Zhang Kuang glanced at the cigarette pouch and matchbox that Nangong Ye handed to him, smiled lightly and took out the cigarette pouch from his waist to signal.
"Old man, I can just do it myself."
Nangong Ye smiled lightly and nodded. He took a long puff of tobacco from the tobacco bag and then began to ponder to himself with a thoughtful expression.
Zhang Kuang saw the thoughtful look in Nangong Ye's eyes and knew that he was thinking about the question just now.
So, he chuckled and threw away the matchstick in his hand, puffing away at himself while quietly waiting for the results of Nangong Ye's thinking.
After a long time.
Nangong Ye came back from his thoughts and looked up at Zhang Kuang who was quietly waiting for his answer with a somewhat complicated expression.
Feeling Nangong Ye's eyes on him, Zhang Kuangdeng smiled and raised his hand to casually slap the light smoke in front of his eyes twice.
"Old man, have you thought about it yet?"
Nangong Ye looked at Zhang Guang with a smile on his face, took a puff of his cigarette, and nodded with a slightly complicated expression.
"Yeah, I've already thought about it."
"How to say?"
"Brother Zhang, I have thought carefully about the question you just asked.
I think it’s better for us not to send anyone to investigate.”
After hearing Nangong Ye's answer, Zhang Kuang raised his hand and stroked the gray beard above his chin, and turned his eyes slightly curiously.
"Why? Old man, aren't you curious about who leads the 300,000-strong army?
Aren’t you curious how the 300,000-strong army managed to avoid the eyes and ears of the many scouts and spies under our command and quietly entered the territory of the Kipchak State?”
Nangong Ye listened to Zhang Kuang's two questions and nodded without hesitation without even thinking about it.
"Brother Zhang, to be honest, of course I am curious.
Three hundred thousand troops, that’s three hundred thousand troops!
A total of 300,000 battle-hardened troops quietly entered the territory of the Kipchak State, but the two of us were not told at all about it.
Faced with such a situation, how could I not be curious about it?"
After Zhang Kuang turned his head and blew out a puff of smoke, he raised the wine bag in his hand and took a sip of wine to moisten his throat.
"Nangong Ye, you are curious about the 300,000-strong army, and I am also curious about it.
If that's the case, then why don't we send someone to Gubus' side to investigate?
Anyway, we are conducting the investigation openly, so even if His Majesty knows about this matter, he should not blame us."
After Nangong Ye gently took a puff of dry smoke, he raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the main hall of the palace.
"Brother Zhang, let's talk while walking."
Hearing this, Zhang Kuang chuckled and nodded.
"OK."
Immediately, the two old foxes continued to rush towards the main hall of the palace.
"Brother Zhang, I understand everything you just said.
However, the two of us can only have a little curiosity about this matter.
Apart from that, the two of us should do our own things down-to-earth and do nothing else."
When Nangong Ye said these words, his tone was filled with a hint of helplessness.
Listening to Nangong Ye's helpless tone, Zhang Kuang rolled his eyes and thought for a moment, then turned to look at Nangong Ye with a melancholy look.
"Old man, the tone of your words makes me very worried!"
"Hehehehe, Brother Zhang, as human ministers, you and I have to do this!
Besides, brother Zhang, don’t you have any worries in your heart?
With your character, Brother Zhang, if you had no worries in your heart, I'm afraid you would have already sent people to the territory of the Kipchak State to investigate the situation of the 300,000 troops.
Why do you keep talking about this matter with me here?
In a word, not only do I have concerns in my heart, but you, brother, also have concerns in your heart!
And the concerns in your heart, brother, may not necessarily be any worse than the concerns in my heart.
It may even be a little bit more."
As Nangong Ye spoke, he turned around and glanced at Zhang Kuang, who was smoking a dry cigarette, with meaningful eyes.
"Brother Zhang, my guess should be right, right?"
Nangong Ye's words were very straightforward, so straightforward that they directly illuminated Zhang Kuang's thoughts.
Zhang Kuang saw that Nangong Ye had spoken so clearly. He raised the wine bag and brought it to his mouth. After taking a few sips of wine, he looked at Nangong Ye with complicated eyes and nodded gently.
"Brother Nangong is Brother Nangong. The thoughts in my heart cannot be hidden from your eyes at all.
You're right, I, like you, have deep concerns about this matter!
Three hundred thousand troops, that's a whole three hundred thousand troops.
We were in His Majesty's study earlier. As soon as I heard His Majesty talk about food and grass, I was instantly confused.
Later, when I gradually realized why His Majesty asked the two of us to act like this, I felt a huge wave of emotions in my heart.
At that time, the only thought in my mind was, what on earth is Your Majesty going to do?
In front of us are hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers from the left and right armies of the Western Expedition led by our two brothers, and one hundred thousand soldiers and horses from the second army of the Western Expedition led by that boy from Dingbang.
Later, there were the Anxi Protectorate and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses from the countries in the Western Regions who could provide assistance at any time.
In addition to our four armies, there is also a treasure fleet commanded by Haining Houan Jianghe of the Great Dragon Celestial Dynasty on the vast ocean ahead!
The treasure fleet commanded by Marquis Haining also has tens of thousands of elite troops who have experienced hundreds of battles."
When Zhang Kuang said this, he took a long puff of dry cigarette and looked back again at the direction of the courtyard where Mr. Liu lived.
"The two armies of the Western Expedition on the left and right, the soldiers of the Anxi Protectorate, the joint troops of the Western Regions, the second army of the Western Expedition led by that boy from Dingbang, and the tens of thousands of elite soldiers and horses under the command of the Marquis of Haining.
I made a rough estimate and found that our six groups of soldiers and horses, all added together, have already exceeded one million people.
With such a strong force, Your Majesty actually mobilized another 300,000 elite troops from our Dalong territory.
This! This! This, this, this!
Brother Nangong, tell me, what does our Emperor want to do?
Does he act like this because he wants to wipe out all the foreign barbarians in the West?"
Nangong Ye gently took a puff of the cigarette and nodded to Zhang Kuang with a strange look in his eyes.
"With His Majesty's ambition, this may not be impossible!" ()