This large-scale mobilization of officers and soldiers in the North is because Uncle Qinghe wants to purge and replace his direct generals. This is something everyone knows in their hearts, but they did not expect that Uncle Qinghe would say it so straightforwardly.
The generals didn't know how to react for a moment.
Qinghebo looked calm.
"Why should I do this? Because His Majesty has an order to arrest Duke Cheng." He said, "You all know that Duke Cheng conspired to commit treason and absconded in fear of crime. But do you know that Duke Cheng has fled to the north?"
Some people in the room knew about it and some didn't, and there was a lot of discussion. Qinghebo raised his hand to signal them to be quiet.
"General Wei, why did Duke Cheng escape to the north?" he said, his eyes falling on General Wei.
General Wei's face turned red but he didn't know what to say.
"Because Duke Cheng Guo knows that this northern land belongs to him." Qinghe Bo said, "Just because people like you are here, he is sure that he can be protected."
General Wei seemed shy and angry.
"No, uncle, we are officers and soldiers of the Zhou Dynasty. If Duke Cheng is guilty, we will not protect each other." He said, "You can't question us like this. So many officers, generals and soldiers in the north were once Cheng Guogong.
The Duke's subordinates, but the Northland does not belong to him, we are all Zhou..."
Before he finished speaking, Qinghebo smiled and interrupted him.
"Am I questioning you?" he said, holding his hands on his waist and clapping his saber, "Didn't you hear what I said?"
What words?
Everyone looked at him.
"Gong Cheng Guo has fled to the north." Qinghe Bo said, his originally calm face suddenly raised white eyebrows, he took out the saber in his hand and slashed it on the sand table.
The huge sand table was chopped to pieces by him with a crash and fell to the ground.
The sound echoed particularly harshly in the night, but there was silence inside and outside.
"How did he get to Northland?"
Qinghe Bo's angry voice sounded.
"How far is it from the capital to Major Pass? How many troops are there? How many checkpoints are there?"
"He actually drove all this way and no one knew about it?"
He pointed the knife in his hand at General Wei.
"Tell me, how did he do it?"
General Wei's face turned red and white, and he broke out in a layer of sweat. This was not because he was frightened by the cold sword pointed at the tip of his nose.
"Finally..." he said hoarsely.
Qinghebo had already retracted the knife, turned around and looked coldly.
"If there is no one to protect him, he won't be able to fly," he said.
The generals all reacted and nodded immediately.
"Yes, that's it."
"I've long felt that these levels were unreliable."
They said angrily, looking at General Wei with sarcastic expressions as they said this.
"General Wei, what else do you have to say?" Someone else sneered and looked at him sideways, "Perhaps General Wei came to question my uncle this time because he was entrusted by others. The so-called inconvenience in transfer is because of the inconvenience of certain people.
Isn’t it inconvenient?”
General Wei's face turned even redder.
"Old Wei, I can't guarantee whether there is such a person." He said, "But I, Old Wei, will never do this. Although I don't know if Cheng Guogong is guilty of treason, but since the uncle and the court have ordered
If I know the whereabouts of Duke Cheng, I will definitely catch him and bring him back to life."
Uncle Qinghe said.
"Well, General Wei will take people to arrest him." He said calmly, "The imperial court is in a hurry."
Now even the Yongjing Army did not need to go. The other generals looked sneer, and General Wei looked even more ugly.
"Uncle, there is no problem with your doubts, but the general feels that it is not appropriate to do this at this moment. Please put the overall situation first. I believe that most officers and generals in the North, even if they mobilize defenses, please do it slowly.
This really shakes the morale of the army..." He gritted his teeth and said.
Uncle Qinghe looked back at him and smiled.
"It seems that Duke Cheng Guo is really good to you." He said, "Everyone of them retorted with eloquent words and questioned Shangguan's reason."
The other generals were also even more angry.
"Wei Shunqing, you know nothing, don't tell me what to do." Everyone scolded, "Do you know more than my uncle?"
General Wei gritted his teeth and took a step forward with a glare.
"If uncle knew more, why would he have started the war in the first place?" he said loudly.
As soon as these words came out, Qinghe Bo's face suddenly changed.
The turning point in Qinghebo's fate was the Great Battle of Majiahe. He, who had always been invincible, suffered his greatest defeat. This was not because of the ferocity of the Jin people, but because of a mutiny in the army.
Because of this mutiny, he was almost beheaded by the emperor's order. Fortunately, many people begged him to save his life, but he lost military power in the north and left sadly.
This was a past event that Qinghebo did not allow anyone to mention, and he had never been questioned like this before. The other generals were dumbfounded.
"Very good." Uncle Qinghe looked at General Wei and nodded, raised his hand and nodded in a calm voice, "Come on, take it."
"Uncle, I have no objection to you excluding dissidents and cleaning up the people of the country. I also know that this is inevitable. I just hope that you can think about the overall situation and know that the Jin people are still looking at you..." General Wei shouted.
The other generals came to their senses, and without waiting for Qinghe Bo's orders, they swarmed up and held General Wei down to prevent him from speaking any more.
"It is precisely because the Jin people are eyeing him that we need to keep things in order. Otherwise, the rebel Duke Cheng will collude with the Jin people, which will be the greatest danger." Qinghe Bo said coldly, "Take him down and find out who ordered him and what his intentions are.
, disrupting our military defense."
The generals shouted in unison and dragged General Wei away.
"Uncle, what you're doing is wrong... You can't disturb the morale of the army... It's not good for you either..." General Wei struggled and shouted, but soon his voice disappeared with a cry of pain.
After a burst of chaotic footsteps, the courtyard returned to silence.
The soldiers standing outside the official hall still had solemn faces, as if they had not seen anything, while the civil servants who were coming and going were slightly pale and even more silent, lowered their heads and hurried away.
There was also silence in the official hall, sand trays were scattered on the ground, and Qinghe Bo stood in the mess with a dull expression.
"Uncle." A general stepped forward to test, "This Wei Shunqing was promoted by Zhu Shan. He had to be beheaded if he made trouble with his salary. He must..."
Qinghe Bo raised his hand to stop him.
"Needless to say, I won't argue with him about these trivial matters." He said, cupping his hands in the direction of the capital, "The most important thing now is to seize Zhushan and live up to the sacred mandate. If Zhushan is not arrested, Beidi will be the same."
No peace."
The generals responded in unison, and immediately called the soldiers in to rearrange the sand table, but it would definitely not be used tonight. Qinghe Bo asked everyone to disperse, leaving only a few generals around, and he also walked to the side hall to rest.
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"Uncle, the deployment has basically been arranged, there is no problem." A general looked at the defense plan in his hand, "There is just one army that I don't know how to arrange..."
Uncle Qinghe frowned slightly, and a general beside him hurriedly spoke first.
"What you said, Fourth Brother, is that the military orders are falling like a mountain. Isn't it easy to arrange it?" he scolded.
The general who was called Lao Si smiled apologetically.
"That's not what I meant." He said, "It's just that this team is a bit complicated."
"Complicated?" Qinghebo frowned, "How do you call it complicated?"
"It's the Qingshan Army." the general said.
Qingshan Army, when this name is mentioned, everyone including Qinghe Bo has a somewhat complicated look on his face.
Only a few lights were lit in the side hall, which was softer than in the official hall, and there were much fewer people. There were only four or five people sitting in a group, and the atmosphere was less solemn and more peaceful at night.
But their words were not peaceful and gentle.
"This Qingshan Army must be eliminated." A general said with a stern look. (To be continued)