Li Zhi was talking to Cui He there when he saw the captain of the personal guard running in and said: "Sir, here comes the imperial edict! The eunuch who announced the edict is waiting outside the door!"
Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, but he didn't know what the imperial edict was for at this time. He said, "Let the eunuchs come in."
Li Zhi put on his official robe and walked out of the room. He saw the servants and five eunuchs walking in from the outside. He held up an imperial edict for a eunuch and walked towards him.
Seeing the first-grade official uniform on Li Zhi, the eunuch came up and said with a smile: "Master Taibao, the emperor's decree has arrived!"
Li Zhi nodded, knelt down with several of his guards, and shouted: "Your Majesty, Li Zhi, accepts the order!"
The eunuch nodded, opened the imperial edict and said: "The emperor ordered the emperor to ravage Sichuan and Chu, defeating the army. The intruders broke out from Shaanxi and must be guarded against. These two thieves are not soldiers of Li Zhi.
The horses cannot be controlled. Li Zhi urgently mobilized his troops and horses to go south. He has a deadline of one month to break camp. First, he will defeat the thieves and then defeat the intruders."
Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that the emperor would come to assign him a task again.
After thinking about it, Li Zhi accepted the imperial edict, and asked the eunuch He Wei: "What is your surname, father-in-law?"
"Our family name is Huang."
"Eunuch Huang, please tell the emperor that I have no troops this month."
The eunuch named Huang froze when he heard this, secretly thinking that Li Zhi actually wanted to resist the order again, and his face suddenly looked very ugly. He asked sarcastically: "Master Taibao, why can't we fight this month?"
Li Zhi said: "My wife is going to give birth this month, and I want to stay by her side. Giving birth is a big deal, and my wife is timid. If I don't accompany her, she might have a fetal abnormality, which will be troublesome then."
It’s over. I can’t break camp and send out troops until my wife has given birth.”
After hearing what Li Zhi said, Eunuch Huang looked very embarrassed. From ancient times to the present, he has never heard of an army being unable to fight because of a woman giving birth to a child. Li Zhi has begun to pay less and less attention to the emperor's words.
, because the wife gave birth, so she had to resist the decree.
"Master Taibao, Zhang Xianzhong's power is getting stronger day by day. If it is delayed for another month, it will be even harder to quell. If it hadn't been an emergency, the emperor would not have mobilized the troops of the Taibao."
Li Zhi shook his head and said: "There is nothing we can do about this. If the emperor can't wait, he can mobilize other troops to defeat the thieves."
Eunuch Huang became worried and said: "If the Taibao doesn't send troops, our family won't be able to explain it when we go back. We won't go back to the capital anymore, so we will live in the Taibao's house. When the Taibao sends troops, our family will return to the capital."
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Li Zhi smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. I have many rooms here. I'll pack up a few rooms for you to live in."
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In the Palace of Qianqing, Zhu Youjian heard the report of the young eunuch and sat helplessly on the throne.
This Li Zhi is paying less and less attention to himself as the emperor. He asked him to fight within a month, but he actually resisted the order because his wife was about to give birth. As the emperor, he is still in the eyes of Li Zhi.
Does it have any weight?
If his wife gave birth and could not lead troops to fight, how many military attachés of the Ming Dynasty would be able to fight abroad? If other generals had answered Emperor Zhu Youjian like this, Zhu Youjian would have taken away his official position long ago.
However, Li Zhi is different. Li Zhi is the last armed force that Zhu Youjian can rely on. It is the last strong army in the Ming Dynasty that dares to fight and can fight. Even the Tatars are afraid. At this scene, Zhu Youjian is really
They could only wait patiently for Li Zhibing, without any ability to investigate Li Zhi's crime of resisting the imperial decree.
Zhu Youjian sat awkwardly on the throne, speechless.
Wang Chengen looked at Zhu Youjian and said, "Your Majesty, this is a good thing!"
Zhu Youjian was stunned and asked: "How is this a good thing?"
Wang Chengen said: "Master Taibao is not afraid that the Xian thief will become bigger again within this month, and will not send troops until next month. This shows that Master Taibao is confident and is 120% sure of annihilating the Xian thief and the intruder. It is precisely because the Taibao has this confidence,
I don’t care about the one month or two months it takes to dispatch troops.”
Wang Chengen held up his hands and said: "My slave congratulates the Emperor. I want to come and present a thief. The trespassers will be eliminated by the Taibao after this battle. It is estimated that within a few months, there will be no more big robbers in the Central Plains."
Zhu Youjian looked at Wang Chengen and knew that Wang Chengen was stepping down for him. Although he was very embarrassed at this time, he couldn't help but admire Wang Chengen's eloquence.
Zhu Youjian looked at Yang Sichang's newspaper again, thinking of the extremely critical military situation, and couldn't help but sigh deeply.
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On August 27, Cui He gave birth.
Li Zhi held Li Huan in his arms and stood in the third courtyard of the General Military Mansion, waiting for news about the midwife in the room. Li Zhi's subordinates, important relatives of the Li family, all stood behind Li Zhi and waited.
Li Zhi loved his wife very much, and Cui He was naturally a very important figure in the eyes of the generals in Fanjiazhuang. What's more, Cui He was the imperial conferred first-grade wife, and this status was inherently different. Cui He's birth of a son was also a major event in Tianjin.
All of Li Zhi's subordinates, as long as they were slightly related to Li Zhi, were here.
At this time, Li Huan was lying on Li Zhi's shoulder. He was being held by Li Zhi, looking around among the relatives, feeling quite contented.
Li Zhi patted Li Huan on the back and said, "Li Huan, you are going to have a younger brother and sister!"
Li Huan asked: "Dad, you can't tell me clearly, are you the younger brother or the younger sister?"
Li Zhi spat: "I don't know now, I'll find out later. Do you want a younger brother or a younger sister?"
Li Huan said seriously: "I hope it is a younger brother. My younger brother can help me handle my affairs and join me in conquering the world in the future."
Li Zhi sneered, put Li Huan on the ground, and spat: "How old are you, and you have such a loud tone? Who taught you? Go ahead and play by yourself!"
Li Huan rolled his eyes and walked away. He walked to his uncle Li Xing and held Li Xing's hand. Li Xing saw that Li Huan's big eyes were cute and hugged Li Huan again. Li Huan was hugged again and was very proud.
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Li Zhi was observing his son's character there when he saw Eunuch Huang walking up. Eunuch Huang had been staying at Li Zhi's house this month with a sad face. Now that he saw that Mrs. Li Zhi was really about to give birth, he was worried about gain and loss, so he came up to ask.
He said: "Grand Governor, if my wife gives birth smoothly this time, the Grand Governor cannot break his promise. He must march south."
Li Zhi smiled and said, "Don't worry, Eunuch Huang."
Everyone waited for an hour and suddenly saw Cui He's maid Ju'er running out of the house.
Ju'er found Li Zhi in the crowd and shouted to Li Zhi: "Master, my wife has given birth to a daughter!"
Relatives around him raised their hands and congratulated Li Zhi: "Congratulations, sir!"
"Lord Congratulations!"
"Congratulations, brother-in-law!"
When Eunuch Huang heard that the delivery was successful, he was all smiles. He raised his hands and said to Li Zhi, "Congratulations to the Governor!"
I have a daughter!
Li Zhi frowned with joy, straightened his clothes, and strode into the room. (To be continued.)
