Mind reading, the emperor saw my fist hard

Chapter 316 Xie Jiajun’s Choice

border town,

A border city of Dai Viet, with a very simple and clear name, called Border Town.

The atmosphere in the border town is particularly depressing today because the angel of the Dai Viet Emperor has come again.

According to custom, every time the angel came, he brought rewards for Xie's army, but those rewards were all things that could not be eaten or used.

Sending some good food and fodder to Xie's army would be better than this reward.

In addition, General Xie also has to endure the angel's weirdness.

This time, the angel was the eunuch of the Emperor of Dai Viet. He stood in General Xie's slightly simple hall and spoke very impolitely.

"Xie General, so many people fled to Daqian this autumn, why didn't you stop them?"

General Xie Guohua of Dai Viet's Xie Family Army's eyes bulged. What do you mean he couldn't stop them? Hundreds of thousands of civilians? How many people were there in his Xie Family Army? He wanted to stop them, but how could he?

They are not superhuman, and the people just leave quietly, and it is impossible to stop them.

But this could not be said so much. Xie Guohua could only bow his head and clasp his hands: "Eunuch Chen, it's not that I didn't try my best, I really was powerless. There were too many people running away, and we couldn't stop them. We also had to guard against the wolf riders on the grassland, so..."

"Humph!"

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Eunuch Chen.

"I don't understand this, and I don't want to understand it, but His Majesty is very angry about this matter. This year, the Xie family army's food and grass will be reduced by half."

"What! Food supplies reduced by half!"

How could the soldiers of Xie's army survive? There was not enough food to begin with, and Xie Guohua had to find a way to fill it. Now the food supply was reduced by half, how could the soldiers of Xie's army survive?

Eunuch Chen raised his eyes and said, "Why? You are not satisfied, but you have to accept it. It's your fault that you are not doing your job well."

"Don't forget your family in the capital!"

Xie Guohua suddenly became dispirited. How could he meet such an emperor? He was too young and could only see the threat posed by Xie's army but not the contributions they had made to Dai Viet.

He kept trying to weaken the influence of Xie's army, without thinking that in the entire Dai Viet, apart from Xie's army, who else could resist the wolf cavalry on the grassland.

Without Xie's army, it is not known whether he, the emperor, can still sit firmly on the throne.

Not only that, he was threatened with his family all day long and didn't know how to appease him at all, but he had to endure it for the sake of his family in Beijing.

After Eunuch Chen left in a swagger, Xie Guohua breathed a sigh of relief, sat on a chair and drank a cup of tea. It was really troublesome to deal with such a eunuch who was close to the emperor. One could easily offend him if he was not careful.

At this time, the deputy general came out from the back of the hall and said to Xie Guohua angrily: "General, if it were you, we should just join Daqian! I've had enough of this kind of life where neither the front nor the back can be relied on."

"Shut up!"

Xie Guohua said sternly: "My Xie family has been loyal to Dai Viet for generations and will never betray."

The adjutant ignored Xie Guohua's scolding: "But General, if you don't betray, that dog emperor will force you to betray. The food and grass have been reduced by half. Where can we find so much food to fill the gap? Can we just watch our soldiers starve to death?"

"Shut up! I won't betray Dayue. If you don't shut up, I'll take care of you myself."

"General!"

"Shut up!"

The deputy general could only shut up, but his heaving chest proved his anger.

Suddenly, Xie Guohua's personal guard ran in quickly, dragging a man.

"General, something happened in the capital!"

Xie Guohua recognized at a glance that the man dragged in by his personal guards was his confidant who stayed in the capital, helping to pass on information. Why did he come here in person? Could something have happened in the capital?

Thinking of this, Xie Guohua's face suddenly changed, and he rushed to his confidant: "What happened in the capital?"

The confidant rode as fast as he could and it took him several days to reach the border town. He was just forcing himself to stay awake. "Master, someone in the court impeached the young general for leaving the capital without permission, mixing in the envoys to Daqian, and having an affair with the princess."

“Even…even…”

"Oh! Just tell me quickly, why are you hesitating?" The deputy general was so anxious that he almost jumped up.

This person was obviously on the verge of collapse, but he was still not happy with what he was saying. He really wasn't worried that he would faint in the middle of his speech.

"Some even say that the general wants to emulate Dai Viet's ancestors and become emperor as a son-in-law."

The founding emperor of Dai Viet was once the son-in-law of the previous dynasty. This was not a glorious thing, although the founding emperor was under the banner of clearing the court and eradicating treacherous officials.

But a rebellion is a rebellion, and the one they are rebelling against is their own father-in-law, so this matter is a taboo for the emperors of Dai Viet throughout the dynasties, and generally no court officials would mention it.

Now that some court officials have brought up this matter, it is simply a poke in the lungs of the Dai Viet Emperor.

General Xie's expression froze. He really hadn't thought about this, but he really wanted to take advantage of the princess. After a moment of hesitation, General Xie immediately asked, "What is the situation in the capital now?"

“Hu…Hu…”

The confidant took two breaths with difficulty and continued to answer the question: "The general's mansion has been surrounded, and no one is allowed to go out. His Majesty has issued three imperial edicts in the court, asking you to hand over your military power and return to the capital. As for the rest, I don't know."

After he finished speaking, the confidant rolled his eyes and fainted. The deputy general flipped the confidant's eyelids and got the result.

"Traveling day and night, I'm tired."

The deputy general stood up and bowed, saying, "General, the messenger will be one day later than this person, but will arrive at the border town in a day at the latest. You should consider the retreat of the Xie family army."

"Should he tie himself up and return to the capital, where his entire family would be executed, or should he take the Xie family army and surrender to Daqian?"

Xie Guohua couldn't make up his mind for a while. As the commander-in-chief of the Xie family army, he needed to consider the life and death of his soldiers as well as the life and death of his own family.

"Wait for three more days. We'll talk about it after the imperial edict arrives."