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Text Chapter 12 (11) "Cao Dian" Meeting (2)

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    The third "Cao Dian" meeting held by the Ministry of War was at Si time the next morning.

    Chen Pu walked into the main hall where the meeting was held before the end of the day.

    There were many people attending today's meeting. In addition to the four senior Zhuguo states of Yang Gu, Yanshang, there were also more than ten or twenty actual Zhuguo states, and four or five chief and deputy leaders of the Yeting Guards and the Yulin Army also came.  Obviously, what is being held today is an enlarged meeting.

    The scale of the meeting was so large and the titles of the participants were so high. Chen Pu felt a little nervous and a little excited at the same time.  Although she held the title of Minister of the Ministry of War, Deputy General Manager of the Gyeonggi Camp, Deputy Commander of the Liyuan Camp, and three or four other titles, this was her first time to attend such an important meeting.  The moment she walked up the steps, she felt that her pulse had almost stopped beating. Looking at the gold-winged red robes sitting in silence around a long table in the main hall, she even felt at a loss.  .

    The Ministry of War official waiting at the door showed her where to sit - she was attending the meeting as the deputy commander of the Liyuan Camp, so her seat was arranged below Shangguan Rui, the deputy commander of the Liyuan Camp.  It's the fourth seat on the right.

    She nodded a little, tried her best to walk into the main hall with a solemn expression and walked calmly and sat down. She lowered her eyes and was silent for a moment, feeling that others would no longer pay attention to her, and then quietly took a look at the surrounding situation.

    The person presiding over the meeting was naturally Zeng Ao, the deputy prime minister and head of the Ministry of War; however, he had not arrived yet, and the seat at the north end of the long case was still empty.  The first person in the east is Yang Du; the old general's back is straight and his head is held upright. However, because of Shang Cheng's words yesterday, Chen Pu noticed that the old man's eyes were indeed not as bright as before.  You have to teach people not to dare to look directly.  Sitting next to Yang Du was Gu Shi; Gu Poyang initiated the Eastern Japan Strategy and took charge of the loan to the first three Japanese kings. He ensured the smooth implementation of the Eastern Japan Strategy in terms of money and food, so he was very proud of it recently.  By that time, they were all in their sixties, but their spirits were stronger than before, and their eyes were shining

    ¡°Perhaps he noticed that she was sizing him up, Gu Shi gently nodded to her.  Chen Pu also smiled slightly at the neighbor as a greeting.

    She didn¡¯t see Shang Cheng opposite. She thought he was sitting at the west end like her.  She glanced at Shangguan Rui's head with the corner of her eye.  At the moment, Uncle Ying County is leaning forward, head slightly tilted, covering his cheek, frowning and not knowing what he is thinking about.

    When it was almost time, Zeng Ao came.  Today's meeting officially begins.

    Zeng Ao first reported two pieces of good news to the generals present.  The first piece of news was that the Yanshan Guards set a trap on the grassland between Luhe and Liuzhen, ambushed a group of Tujiec people, killed more than 30 large tent soldiers, and captured a similar number of prisoners.  .  The news caused little commotion at the venue.  Since March, good news like this has come from Yanshanwei every once in a while, and people have long been accustomed to it.  Regarding these good news, at present, everyone basically feels nothing except envy and jealousy.  Hey, if other people want to gain some real military merit, it will be as difficult as possible. Looking at Yanshan, they all regard the grassland as their own garden. When I think about it, I will pick up a handful of green onions and remember.  Just go pull some garlic.  Damn it!  We all have two shoulders to carry our heads, so why do we feel like we are stepmothers when compared with Yanshanwei's?

    Regarding the good news from Yanshan, Zeng Ao just said a few words to express that there was such a thing.  His focus is to tell everyone another piece of good news, which is that Xiao Shangzhu has already taken action in the southwest.  The three thousand soldiers and horses stationed in Rongzhou made a gesture of moving towards Luzhou, trying to mobilize Nanzhao's main forces Kuoman and Xijiangman to leave Rongzhou; at the same time, the five thousand soldiers and horses in Jiazhou divided into two groups and headed south to attack.  Dingkang Village, take a small road to kill Yong'an Town, preparing to eat a group of Nanzhao people in Dingkang Village

    Zeng Ao was worthy of being the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of War. He had a very good memory. He remembered all the locations, cities, forts, soldiers and generals, and he didn't even use a map. He spoke in one breath with his mouth open.  After half an hour, he stopped talking until he had finished explaining the strategy reported by Xiao Jian.

    Then the huge main hall fell into silence.

    Everyone here is wearing a golden-winged turban with more than four double-layered pieces. Except for Chen Pu, even if they are only good at flattering their bosses, they are still much better than the average person, so Zeng Ao¡¯s  After the words fell, not only did no one speak, but no one spoke, and there was no one even holding a cup to drink water. Everyone touched their knees and sat solemnly, as silent as the clay statues in the temple.  What is there to discuss about Xiao Shangzhu's military strategy?  And who can comment?  Then again, the journey from Jiazhou to Shangjing is at least 2,000 to 3,000 miles. I don¡¯t even know which year or month this news came out.Now, if you sit in the yamen of the Ministry of War and discuss things by yourself, what else can it do besides attracting resentment from others?

    Seeing that no one said anything, Zeng Ao had no choice but to go around and ask for names.  The first person he approached could only be Yang Du, the general manager of the Liyuan camp: "What do you think, Duke Fuguo, is going to do with the Jiazhou camp?"

    "Not bad." Yang Du nodded and said.

    After Yang Du, Zeng Ao should ask Yan Gu for his opinion, because Yan Gu is the deputy general manager of Liyuan Camp. In any case, after Zeng Ao asked Yang Du, he should look for him.  But things were so unexpected. Zeng Ao actually skipped Yan Jiu and approached Gu Shi: "What do you think, Marquis Gu?"

    Gu Shi was stunned for a moment, but then a smile appeared on his face, he nodded gently and said, "Very good." Then he lowered his eyelids and closed his mouth, staring at the tea cup and saying nothing.

    Logically speaking, after Yang Du and Gu Shi, Zeng Ao should ask Yan Yan for his opinion anyway, but it was so strange today. The Minister of War did not seem to see the deputy of Liyuan Camp sitting to his left at all.  Instead, the manager approached Shang Cheng, who was sitting under Yan Jian, and asked, "Uncle Ying, do you think this approach is appropriate?"

    At this time, everyone noticed that there was something else in Vice Prime Minister Zeng¡¯s behavior, but they couldn¡¯t taste it for the moment.  Everyone turned their attention to Shang Cheng.

    Shang Cheng covered his cheek with one hand and frowned in pain.  It was obvious that he suddenly suffered from toothache and it was difficult to speak.

    This unexpected situation disrupted the steps agreed upon by Zeng Ao and Yan Jiu.  In the first two meetings, they had noticed that Yang Du was showing signs of fatigue, especially at the end of the last meeting, when Yang Du almost failed to stand up.  The old man's physical strength was no longer enough to sustain several hours of meetings and quarrels.  This is their advantage.  Yan Gu pointed out that no matter Yang Du, Gu Shi or Shang Cheng, they could not make any comments on Xiao Jian's strategy. At this time, he could stand up and praise the strategy, and first overwhelm the opponent with momentum.  , and drag the morning meeting over by the way.  In this way, the meeting time will undoubtedly be prolonged. When Yang Du's physical strength is exhausted in the end, he will naturally have no energy to compete with him for control of the new "Cao Code" audition.  It's a pity that his plan was good, but he didn't expect that Shang Cheng would choose today to have a toothache. If he extended the meeting time, Shang Chengjiu, who looked very painful, would jump out and say, "Another day"  Reconsideration".  Even if Zeng Ao allowed the meeting to continue, it would be useless. Blind Shang also had other ways to deal with it. If he used the excuse of toothache to see a doctor, who could stop him?  If he leaves, today's meeting will be a waste. Yang Du and Gu Shi will definitely come up with a lot of reasons to end the meeting early

    Yan Ji even imagined the most appropriate reason for Yang Du and others to end the meeting.  "Shang Yanshan's opinions and views are very important." This sentence is enough, and everyone has to hold their noses and admit it.  Is Shang Yanshan's opinion important?  not necessarily.  But as long as everyone understands this truth, no one can declare it to the public.  Although everyone knew that he was idle now, they absolutely couldn't say it; after all, the court also wanted to save face.  After all, Shang Yanshan was just awarded the honorary title of Shangzhu, promoted to county earl, but turned around and was left idle by the court. If this spread, it would definitely be unpleasant: the court has not even chased away the birds.  Just hide the good bow first?  The cunning rabbit is not dead yet, and the prime minister is planning to cook the lackey?

    However, even if Yan Gu knew that the idea had been ruined, he still had to continue according to his own strategy.  So when Zeng Ao finally asked him, he still read it from the draft he had already prepared.

    While he was speaking in a cadence and sonorously, Yang Du and Gu Shi, who were sitting opposite him, both looked at him with interesting eyes, as if he was not judging the merits of Xiao Jian's strategy, but on the stage.  Jump up and down the puppet show.  This made him feel more and more frustrated the more he talked about it, the more he talked about it, the more he felt that Shang Xiazi was simply a loser.  But he couldn't give up halfway yet, so he could only grit his teeth and continue talking

    After he finished speaking, the people he arranged in advance held a discussion on some ambiguous aspects of the strategy, and finally the time was postponed to noon.  Then Zeng Ao came out and made a summary, and then announced: The meeting will be adjourned for half an hour. Food has been arranged in the small kitchen of the Ministry of War. Everyone goes to eat first; after eating, the meeting will continue.

    Chen Pu waited until everyone was almost gone before standing up.

    Seeing that Shang Cheng was still sitting there with his hands on his cheeks, she walked over and asked him, "Is it important? If not, I'll call an imperial doctor to look at it for you."

    "I'm getting better this time." Shang Cheng let go of his hand, stood up and said, "Aren't you going to eat?"

    "Of course I want to go." Chen Pu asked him strangely, "If I don't go to the kitchen to eat, where else can I go to eat?"

    "Let's go eat in Ouchi. Dinner will be served in Ouchi now, you can?Have a good meal with your mother.  "

    Chen Pu curled his lips and said: "When I come to the Ministry of War to do business, I always eat in the kitchen. My mother is a Buddhist and eats regular food. When my father went there, he only had green vegetables, tofu, tofu and vegetables. How can it be compared with the kitchen of the Ministry of War?  "

    This is the first time I heard about this matter.  As he walked, he happily talked to Chen Pula: "How about some green vegetables and tofu? It can't be as poor as you said, right? I accompanied my family to Huaibao Li Temple on Women's Day, and I also had lunch in the temple.  For vegetarian meals, there was an unknown amount of sesame oil in the soup, and even the chopped green onions were wrapped in the sesame oil"

    Chen Pu smiled and did not say anything immediately. He walked a few steps before counterattacking him: "When you were a monk at Huaibaoli Temple in your early years, did you have so much sesame oil in your tea and rice?"

    Shang Cheng raised his face and laughed.  His experience as a monk was fabricated and could not stand up to scrutiny. When Chen Pu brought it up, he did not want to deny it.

    However, because of Chen Pu¡¯s joke, the topic of eating vegetarian food cannot continue.  This was at the Ministry of War, and the people who came and went were all unfamiliar faces, and there were many things to say. The two of them couldn't find any suitable topic in their hurry, so they didn't speak anymore, and each of them kept a peaceful smile on their face and looked towards the small room.  Walk.

    After only taking two or three steps, Chen Pu felt something was wrong.  It was so embarrassing for two people to walk in silence like this!  She was about to say something to break the embarrassment, but Shang Cheng suddenly turned around, muttering, "I left something behind and I have to go back to look for it." He opened his legs and hurried away.

    At the moment when he turned around, Shangguan Rui came out of the corner, looked up and saw the two of them, nodded and said hello: "Chen Zhuguo, Uncle Shang, why are you walking so slowly?"

    It¡¯s better to come by chance than by chance!  Shang Cheng stepped forward and stopped Shangguan Rui, pretending to be annoyed and said, "I'm just waiting for you! One by one, brother Zhongwu, do you not take my affairs to heart at all?"

    Shangguan Rui was stunned for a moment, his mind spinning dozens of times in an instant, and he just couldn't remember what Shang Cheng was talking about.  But looking at Shang Cheng's serious look, he didn't feel like he was deceiving himself.  He had no choice but to mutter haha ??and search his mind to recall what happened.

    "Look! I knew you must have forgotten everything!" Shang Cheng said.

    "Haha," Shangguan Rui laughed dryly, rubbed his hands and said apologetically, "Um, um, I'm really sorry How about Zida, can you remind me?"

    Chen Pu also stopped and stared blankly.  She never thought that Shang Cheng would ask Shangguan Rui for help with some personal matters.  Looking at the two of them calling each other "brother", the friendship may not be very deep, but it certainly cannot be said to be shallow. However, one of them is a figure of the Yanshan Clan and the other is a backbone of the Xiao Clan. No matter what, they should not be like this.  So close.  She was puzzled and curious about what kind of entanglement Shang Cheng and Shangguan Rui had. She immediately forgot about the embarrassment just now.

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