Sui Qing returned to the entrance of the small courtyard. He was not worried about anything, he just came to take a look.
Outside the entrance of this small courtyard, there were some people watching before, but now, the onlookers were scared away.
After all, if a dead person is involved, no one dares to get close.
Some people were hiding from a distance and still peeking, but they didn't even dare to show their bodies.
Three corpses were lying on the ground, and next to each corpse stood a living person.
It seems that the three of them have basically the same outfits, with only minor differences.
The clothes are very similar to Sui Qingqu's, more like, everyone has a knife in their arms and everyone is wearing a bamboo hat.
When Sui Qing arrived, the three people looked at him and nodded slightly.
Sui Qing turned around and left.
The three people looked at each other and then turned and left.
The three masters of the Suzaku group died here inexplicably. Before they died, they didn't know who these masters who suddenly appeared were.
Not long after Sui Qing left, an old man wearing a bamboo hat and raincoat appeared at the intersection.
He seemed to be in poor health and was holding a cane.
He raised his hand and pushed the bamboo hat up, and after only looking at the corpses, he turned and left.
The old man smiled softly as he walked and muttered to himself.
"More than stars, you still can't do it."
His crutch seemed to hit the ground with more force than before. When he hit it, water splashed everywhere.
There are so many stars, and the twenty-eight constellations are worthy of being called stars.
When the old man left, there was a smile on his face.
At the same time, Dongbo, Xiantang City.
Kitano Army Camp.
Tuoba Lie was sitting in the Chinese army tent, looking up at the huge map hanging on one side.
General Yuan Qing stepped in from outside. After looking at Tuoba Lie's face, he cautiously called out: "General?"
Tuoba Lie seemed to have just come back to his senses. He looked at Yuan Qingze and asked, "Military affairs?"
Yuan Qing shook his head.
Tuoba Lie understood immediately and waved his hand to signal the others in the tent to go out.
The big tent became quiet, Yuan Qing stood there and did not speak immediately, seeming to be still sorting out his words.
Tuoba Lie smiled and said: "No matter what happens, I won't make you unable to speak. I understand your character, and you also understand mine."
Yuan Qing looked at Tuoba Lie and said, "General, my subordinates feel that the transfer of Nighthawk Camp to Lone Bamboo is inappropriate."
Tuoba Lie hummed: "Is there more?"
Yuan Qingze took a deep breath and plucked up the courage to say, "I think this matter is a little... a little hasty."
Tuoba Lie said: "If you want to say something, just say it directly. You know I won't blame you and I won't take your words seriously."
Yuan Qing received encouragement from Tuoba Lie and took another deep breath.
He looked at Tuoba Lie again and said: "The general is always prudent in his work and never rushes into anything rashly. This time he transferred the Nighthawk Battalion to Guzhu to kill Lin Ye and Ning Weimo, but it was tantamount to being exposed. His subordinates would not
understand."
Tuoba Lie laughed.
He stood up, walked to Yuan Qingze and said, "Do you know why I have always trusted you?"
Yuan Qing shook his head.
Tuoba Lie said: "Whatever decisions I make or military orders I give, others will follow them without fail, without asking why or the consequences."
He patted Yuan Qingze on the shoulder: "As a soldier, it is natural to do this, but if everyone does it, it shows that they do not think carefully and do not care whether the military order is correct or incorrect."
"You are different."
Tuoba Lie said: "Even if you think that something is not good for me, even if you bring it up and think it may offend me, you still have to say that if they have no doubts about my military orders, then your loyalty lies with them.
Above, because you are really worried about me."
Yuan Qingze leaned over and said: "Since I joined the army, I have worked under the general's tent. My feelings towards the general are not just my feelings towards my superior."
Tuoba Lie nodded: "That's good."
He walked to the door of the military tent and raised his hand to lower the curtain of the big tent.
He asked: "Do I care about a forest leaf?"
Yuan Qing did not dare to answer immediately, but after pondering for a while, he shook his head and said: "General, you shouldn't care."
He paused and added: "If the general cared about that guy, he would have got rid of him long ago."
Tuoba Lie laughed.
"What do I care about what he does?"
He walked around and said: "He is a genius, a ghost, or a one-of-a-kind talent. It doesn't matter. He is just a chess piece. He is the emperor's chess piece. He was created by the emperor using a man who has been dead for more than ten years."
piece."
"You just said that if I cared, he might have died long ago. What you said is not quite right. If I cared, even the mother-in-law would have died long ago. I already knew Lin Ye's identity and the emperor.
What will I do? I will keep Lin Ye, just to allow the emperor to move forward step by step."
He looked at Yuan Qingze: "The emperor is the best at making use of people's hearts. He pretended to be confused and stupid before, so that all his opponents were paralyzed and careless, so that he could eat all his opponents bite by bite."
"But it's different now. He wants to be a saint king, so he needs some people to confirm that he is a saint king from the side."
"Sooner or later, he will talk about Liu Jigong's death and look like he is heartbroken, and then he will say that the people he promoted are Liu Jigong's descendants."
Tuoba Lie smiled, with a calm expression on his face.
He said: "The emperor and I have been fighting scheming for not more than ten years, but for more than 20 years. From the day he sent me a secret message and asked me to lead the army to Geling, the two of us have been fighting.
Already."
Yuan Qing stood there, listening quietly, not only daring not to answer, but not even daring to speak out.
The fact that the general said these words directly to him is enough to show the general's trust in him.
Can you just say these words to someone casually?
When Tuoba Lie said these words, Yuan Qingze was also thinking quickly in his mind, hoping to keep up with the general's thoughts.
Tuoba Lie said: "In fact, sometimes, I understand the emperor very well. His father was deeply harmed by powerful ministers. Naturally, he does not want to follow in the footsteps of the previous emperor."
"However, he underestimated everyone's desire for power and overestimated everyone's loyalty to the imperial power."
Tuoba Lie slowly exhaled a breath.
"If you want to be emperor, you can have everyone be your ministers, or you can be your supreme leader and I can be my powerful ministers. Everyone can have fun. This is a stable situation."
"You want to be supreme, but you don't want to let the people who coax you to follow you get the maximum benefit. You just want them to be like cows and horses, and you still think that they should be loyal to you as a matter of course?"
"What is an emperor? Where does the emperor's majesty come from?"
Speaking of this, Tuoba Lie looked at Yuan Qingze: "It's because of the foil of the ministers, but it's just a more serious play. This is not a joke, this is the truth."
"The emperor can destroy one family, two, or three. As long as there are other families that can share the power, no one will jump out."
"But when everyone loses power, will they watch helplessly as the emperor plays the trick of changing the blood of the imperial court every ten or twenty years?"
To be honest, these words scared Yuan Qingze to death.
Tuoba Lie continued: "Being an emperor has majesty, but it requires people's recognition. If you don't recognize it, then your majesty is a joke."
He returned to his seat, picked up the tea cup and took a sip.
"Let's go back to just now."
He looked at Yuan Qingze: "You asked me why I hastily transferred Nighthawk Camp to Lone Bamboo. I won't answer you now. After listening to what I just said, you can guess why I did this."
Yuan Qing asked tentatively: "The court seems to be stable, and the imperial power seems to be more important, but now many people can't stand it anymore?"
Tuoba Lie smiled and motioned for him to continue.
Yuan Qingze thought for a moment and continued: "The general transferred the Nighthawk Battalion to Lone Bamboo and took action against Lin Ye and Ning Weimo. It seems a little rash, but is it actually to give an attitude to the major families?"
Tuoba Lie said: "It's too superficial."
Yuan Qing leaned over.
He started thinking again, Tuoba Lie was not in a hurry, he just sat there drinking tea and waiting for him.
After another half an hour or so, Yuan Qing raised his head and looked at Tuoba Lie and said, "If Nighthawk Battalion succeeds in Lone Bamboo, Wanyu Tower will scold the general openly but will actually thank him secretly. No one will really
If he is willing to give up power casually, he is the prime minister."
Tuoba Lie: "It's a little deeper than I just thought, but it's still shallow."
Yuan Qingze fell silent again. This time he did not rush to speak, but thought seriously about the meaning of the words the general just said to him.
Seeing that he was deep in thought, Tuoba Lie immediately left his seat and walked to the map to look at it. From time to time, he used a charcoal pen to mark some locations on the map.
Time passed like this breath by breath, and Yuan Qingze's eyes kept flickering.
After half an hour, Yuan Qingze suddenly turned around and looked at Tuoba Lie next to the map.
"General, we have support."
Tuoba Lie smiled and asked, "So?"
Yuan Qing then walked up behind Tuoba Lie and said: "Dayu seems to be stronger than before, but there are more and more hidden dangers. People from major families were forced out of the court by the emperor, so they complained and developed hatred.
"
Tuoba Lie nodded.
Yuan Qingze said: "Many people secretly say... say..."
Tuoba Lie turned back and glanced at him: "Hesitating, like a soldier?"
Yuan Qingze said: "General, my subordinates are guilty, and they want to say...Many people are secretly saying that the reason why the general wants to do something wrong but does not do so is because he is afraid of the emperor. The general is waiting for the emperor's death."
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Tuoba Lie raised the corner of his mouth, but was not angry because of these words.
Yuan Qingze said: "But now my subordinates understand that the general is waiting for him and has lost the support of the people."
Tuoba Lie said: "The emperor has not lost the hearts of the people. What the emperor has lost is the hearts of his ministers. Those deserving descendants around Emperor Taizu scolded him the most harshly at this time."
He said: "Some people always say that those who win the hearts of the people win the world. That is a way to coax the people and the emperor. The person who stands at the top has no support from those in the middle and expects the people at the bottom to lift him up.
high?"
His eyes fell on the map again.
"If I don't let Nighthawk Camp go to Guzhu to kill Lin Ye and Ning Weimo, how can the emperor go to Guzhu?"
He took a deep breath.
"The person who knows me best is him, and the person who knows him best is me."
Tuoba Lie's charcoal pen touched the map: "If he doesn't leave Dayu, I really don't have the guts to do anything. I admit it."