Chapter 162 The Little Thoughts of Little People

Qiu Yu was stunned by Fang Jie's idiot's words, and then raised his hand in annoyance to pat the chair. Fang Jie shook his head and said, "Don't take it off. This is the public thing. What if you add another guilt to me because of your anger, who will I cry?"

Qiu Yu stared at his hand that he stretched out, and asked silently for a while, "You just accept your fate?"

Fang Jie lay down on the stone bed, looked at the roof and said in a plain tone: "Maybe you don't understand me, I have never been an appointed person... But what else can I do now? Cry, yell, scold, smash things?"

"hehe"

Fang Jiexiao: "Sir, I was really angry when I woke up, just as angry as when I just figured out the reason for this incident on Banyue Mountain. When I saw a guy in a flying fish robe sitting in front of me, my first reaction was to strangle him to death. But in a flash, I calmed down and gave up the idea of ​​strangling him to death."

Qiu Yu asked: "Because your heart is dead?"

Fang Jie shook his head: "Because I'm sure I can't beat him. Although he is a one-armed guy, I'm definitely not his opponent, and I may even be strangled to death by him."

He took his gaze back from the roof and looked at Qiu Yu and said, "I was hiding in a big tree on Banyue Mountain. When I watched the young monk from the Buddhist sect kill Liu Shuang and the others, what did you think I wanted to do the most at that time?"

"It's escape."

Fang Jie didn't wait for Qiu Yu to answer: "At that time, I had already guessed seven or eight points. I wanted to escape because I knew I was powerless to resist. The enemies I faced in the past were just those guys who didn't like me. They had a deep background but I didn't take it seriously. But this time it was different. It was not the one standing in front of me, but the Sui court... What should I fight for? What should I not accept it?"

"So I wanted to escape, but I was thrown away as soon as this thought came out. Because I knew I could not escape... My friend was still in the Sanjin Hou Mansion. It was at that moment that I understood why Sanjin Hou Wu Yidao looked at me with admiration and why he was so kind to let my friend live in. It turned out that he had known that this day would happen, and my friend lived in the Sanjin Hou Mansion... It was a prison."

"The ridiculous thing is that I ran to beg him..."

Fang Jie smiled and said, "I only now know how naive I am. I always thought I was a smart person. Just as you have been saying, I thought about it for a long time while lying on this cold and hard stone bed. I found that every day I took from entering Chang'an City, every step I took was walking on the routes set by others and living in the life arranged by others."

"It's very stupid - I thought everything was developing according to my own wishes and plans. In fact, it was like a puppet who would move the thread, and I would be proud of the various wonderful movements I showed to entertain myself."

Fang Jie has always been very calm, and the calmness makes Qiu Yu feel more and more sad.

"Sir, you asked me just now if I had accepted my fate... I have been thinking about this question for the longest time, and then I am sure that I can do nothing except wait for the fate that should come as I am now. I do not have high cultivation and cannot break through this stone chamber. I will not be able to clone it, and I cannot save all my friends in Chang'an City. You know, there is a woman who is very important to me who is now in the Great Inner Guard Department. She is my internal organ exposed outside of my body. She can be penetrated anytime and anywhere."

"I always thought that Mr. Zhuo was so eager to let Miss Xiaoyao enter the Great Inner Guards because she was really good for her and really took a fancy to her potential. It turned out that since then, the court had already arranged how to control me. It was really difficult for them to work so many big people like me."

Fang Jie smiled and said, "Wait, there are meat here for three meals a day. If I want to drink, I will tell the guards outside. It won't be long before the wine brewed from Shenquan Villa will be delivered. I tried it. In the morning, I said I wanted to eat the hot noodle soup and small buns at the door of my shop. They actually ran four streets to buy it for me... This day is pretty good. Although it is simple and dark,...at least I don't have to worry about anything. I don't have to think about whether I will be poisoned to death when I eat, and I don't have to worry about someone killing me secretly, because now, if they want to kill me, they will definitely notify me very seriously, you deserve to die."

"Thank you"

Fang Jie said gently: "Thank you for coming to see me, that's enough. Everything is good here, but when I want to chat with those guards, they always look at me like idiots. Maybe they will still scold me in their hearts - they are stupid, and they still want to chat with someone when they die."

"But I really want to keep talking. Only by keeping talking makes me feel peaceful."

Fang Jie said: "I need peace now."

Qiu Yu's nose was sour, she turned around and left without saying a word. Fang Jie watched her back disappear behind the iron gate, retracted her gaze and continued to look at the roof.

The roof is very dark and there is no starlight and moonlight.

He did not close his eyes and kept staring at the dark place. After staring like this for a long time, Fang Jie suddenly smiled. No one saw that his smile was completely different from the smile he had when he faced Qiu Yu before, cold, and even a little cruel.

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Changchun Garden

Dome

Minister of War, Mou Liangbi, bowed and placed the combat plan formulated by the Ministry of War on the table in front of the emperor, then took a step back and said: "The documents sent by the Ministry of War have sent people to each road have been sent out. The time sent people have been calculated according to the distance of the distance, so the time for officials from each road to receive the documents will not be more than two days. The specified date is also calculated according to the distance, so the officials from each road have no time to do anything other than to start preparing immediately."

The emperor seemed not in a hurry to see the combat plan, nodded and said, "Once I announced this, the voices of opposition in the court will be as surging as a wave of a river. I have no time to deal with these people, so how can I still have time to reason with the guys in the local area? They wrote the memorial and sent someone to Chang'an. I still have to explain patiently. The time will be delayed will last for several months. I simply did not give them this time, and only asked them to send all the food and grass supplies and soldiers to the northwest according to the prescribed date. If it is too late, I will beat them to the board."

He picked up the teacup and took a sip, took the combat plan over and said, "This thing is just a plan, but how can any war be carried out in a constant manner according to the plan? Once the war begins, the situation of the war changes rapidly. If the court officials blindly follow the plan, the one who suffers in the end will be the Da Sui Erlang on the front line."

"I understand."

Mou Liangbi said respectfully: "Once the war begins, the Ministry of War will never point fingers at the battle situation ahead. The generals will fight as much as they should, and I will not participate. Chang'an City is thousands of miles away from the northwest border. When the news arrives in Chang'an, it will be outdated. If you follow this news, it will definitely not be a good thing."

"You can understand, it's good."

The emperor said: "However, I don't plan to let you stay idle in Chang'an City."

He looked at Mou Liangbi and said, "Leave the Ministry of War to Zong Lianghu to watch. You will get off and go to Shandong Road in two days. Calculate the days, the people and food I arranged in advance have arrived at Shandong Road. Although I have sent Prince Xu Yang Kai to take charge, he is familiar with military affairs and is not good at those trivial matters in logistics. Yang Shanchen, the governor of Shandong Road, is a clerk, but he is a literati, and fighting... Of course, he can't count on what literati can do. He, next to Shandong Road, is an important rear. Yuan Chongwu is arrogant. If there is no one with weight to reconcile, he and Yang Shanchen may not be harmonious."

After saying this, the emperor smiled with a self-deprecating smile: "If Huai Qiugong heard me say this, I'm afraid he would blow his beard and stare at him again."

Mou Liangbi said: "I obey the order and start in two days."

"Um"

The emperor said with a hush, "Yesterday... Pei Yan, the Minister of the Yellow Gate, suggested that I recruit soldiers from the fiefs of the royal palaces. What do you think?"

"ah?"

Mou Liangbi was stunned for a moment and was shocked.

He had long heard that the Huangmen Minister Pei Yan was a vicious and scheming. But he had never worked with this person and did not know Pei Yan's behavior. But after hearing this suggestion, he immediately had a general impression of Pei Yan. This person was indeed a little capable of being the Huangmen Minister. This proposal was a bit too vicious.

When the emperor was going to fight westward, the country would inevitably be more or less unstable. Now the only ones who could threaten the court were the princes who were enfeoffed in various places. They had their own fiefs, and the people's taxes were handed over to them instead of the court. They had their own army, and although they were not large in number, they were well-equipped and well-trained. If... if the situation of the war was not good for the Sui Dynasty, these princes would be a force that should not be underestimated.

At this time, Pei Yan, the Minister of the Huangmen, proposed to let the princes' private soldiers participate in the war, in fact, in order to eliminate future troubles. Moreover, Mao Liangbi firmly believed that once the soldiers on the battlefield, they would definitely die first, so that the princes would have no only power.

"Mr. Pei's suggestion is indeed a matter of old and conspiring to the country, but... I dare not agree."

"Tell me what you think."

The emperor asked.

"I think that the war is imminent, and Your Majesty wants stability, unity and stability. If the war is not started, we will recruit soldiers in the royal palace before the war begins... In fact, this is destroying this stability. I dare to say something offends the power of heaven... At this time, those who Your Majesty believe in should believe more. Those who Your Majesty do not believe in should believe, even if... they are just appeasement."

Hearing this sentence, the emperor couldn't help but smile and said, "I have rejected Pei Yan's proposal."

He looked up at Mou Liangbi and said seriously: "Now I can leave the war to you with confidence. You are more mature than Pei Yan and more knowledgeable than him when to do what."

"I thank Your Majesty for your trust!"

Mou Liangbi leaned over to salute, but couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Fortunately... Fortunately, he didn't follow the emperor's words, this supreme thoughts are as deep as the sea.

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Next to the lotus pond in Changchun Garden, the proprietress wearing a blue floral dress looked at the blooming lotus flowers in a daze. After returning from Banyue Mountain, she found an inn to recuperate and did not intend to have any contact with anyone in the court. It was a coincidence that she joined forces with Taoist Heli to deal with the old monk. What she hated the most were the bald monks in the northwest of the Sui Dynasty. There was no reason for good or evil, but because of her hatred.

But she also knew that since she entered Chang'an City, she would be unable to escape.

So when the eunuch who sent the order found her and asked her to meet the saint in Changchun Garden, she was not surprised at all. She did not resist, but came calmly.

The little eunuch Mu San, who was standing on her side, leaned forward slightly, looking very respectful to the village girl. But he didn't say anything and dared not disturb the beautiful and rustic woman's contemplation. In fact, he didn't know that this woman was thinking nothing, just staring blankly.

When Mu San saw the Minister of War, Mou Liangbi, coming out of the dome, he quickly said to the village girl: "It's time to go now, Your Majesty is still waiting for you."

The boss lady nodded and turned to the other side of the Qionglu. Mu San led the way in front, respectfully: "I heard you came from Fan Gu?"

"yes"

"Mr. Xiao Fang also came from Fan Gu, and he has a good relationship with his servants."

He said with a smile.

"Um"

The proprietress glanced at the little eunuch, was silent for a while and said, "What do you want to say?"

"I heard... Lord Xiao Fang, it's not a good time recently..."
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