They waited until dark, but those people still didn't come back. Even if Prince Jin Li Zhi was a fool, he should know what was going on. Only then did he calm down. It seemed that the prince's hat was of little use here, and these people didn't buy it at all.
When the King of Wu was on his eastern expedition to Fusang, King Li Zhi of Jin thought his third brother was too weak. He thought, "You're the general personally appointed by the imperial court. What are you afraid of?" If any of your men disobeyed, you could just remove them.
But now he finally understood the helplessness of his third brother. You guys were parachuted in from the imperial court, and you have no idea how the soldiers below grew up, let alone empathize with them.
Although Li Xiang is also a member of the royal family, he won everything he had with his sword and gun, and participated in almost all the wars of the Tang Dynasty. If you want to reach his level, you still have a long way to go!
Only the officials of the Prince of Jin's mansion were left in the room. The rest had basically left. We couldn't let them stay here at night. Your mansion wouldn't even give us food. Are you going to starve all the officials of the Tang Dynasty to death? If these officials were gone, who would govern Annan tomorrow?
"Tell me what to do now! Weren't there a solution before? Why is there nothing left now? I've really lost face today. If I don't save my dignity, I won't be able to survive here in the future. If word gets back to Chang'an, I'm afraid even the younger generation will look down on me."
Although Prince Li Zhi of Jin is quite smart, most of his cleverness is just small tricks that are not very effective when used in the right way. Now that something like this has happened, this guy immediately started to panic. If he had a capable person under his command, he would not have been able to act recklessly in his fiefdom.
The young eunuchs were all timid and didn't know how to deal with this matter. The main reason was that they had never seen before that even if there were people in Chang'an who didn't buy into the prince's ideas, those people would never say it out loud. At most, they would try to trip you up in secret. But these people in the front-line army were different. If they were not satisfied with you, they might turn against you on the spot, no matter whether you were a prince of the court or not.
What's more, you're a powerless prince of the imperial court. How can you manage these killers with just an imperial edict? How can it be so simple? If it were really that simple, the King of Wu would have had hundreds of thousands of troops under his command when he marched east to attack Fusang, and he wouldn't need to retire in Chengdu now.
"Speak up, speak up, you dead men!"
Prince Li Zhi of Jin had asked several times, but none of his subordinates had come forward to offer any advice, so this guy couldn't help it anymore and started beating and kicking his subordinates, hoping that they could tell him a solution.
But these people were originally eunuchs and had not read much. If they were talking about small matters such as the struggles in the harem, they would still know how to deal with them. But now they are talking about military and national affairs. If they say something wrong, not only your own life will be in danger, but also the lives of your entire family. They may be taken out of the Meridian Gate and beheaded. Who dares to speak nonsense on this matter?
"Yes, yes, Your Highness can write all of this into a memorial and report it to the Emperor, so that the Emperor can punish them..."
A young eunuch couldn't bear the beating anymore, so he had no choice but to speak out this bad idea. If this could be considered an idea, then I guess everyone could say it.
"Bullshit, what the hell is this idea? If I rely entirely on my father, then I'm useless, right? If I report this information, my father will definitely be disappointed in me. Now I have no chance. I'll beat you to death, you bastard, you're trying to get me killed."
Li Zhi's mind hadn't lost its rationality, so he could still reason about this. If you had to go to the adults for everything, what would you do? If you were just a three-year-old child, you could do this, but now you have a three-year-old son. If you still do this, the court will probably send you back to your original fiefdom to rest.
After tossing and turning for a whole night, Prince Li Zhi of Jin still couldn't come up with a useful solution. Although he sent notices to officials at all levels on the second day, asking them to continue to come to the palace to discuss matters, officials at all levels did not immediately come up with a plan to deal with it. They all fell ill.
“Rampant… Really rampant…”
After seeing the reply letters sent by officials at all levels, Prince of Jin Li Zhi really couldn't stand it anymore. You guys don't take the dignity of the court seriously at all. Is this how you fool a prince of the court?
The people below didn't dare to make any rash suggestions. There were 16 eunuchs in total when they came, but now there are only 9 left. Those people were beaten to death by this prince. I don't know if this is a common problem of the Li royal family, who always take out their anger on their subordinates.
While Li Zhi was getting angry, in a nearby tavern, all the people who were supposed to attend the meeting with him gathered there.
"Lord Changsun, it's not that we don't want to fight, Your Highness. He's been teaching us a new concept, which is to pay attention to the casualties of all soldiers. Blindly attacking Vietnam without the support of naval warships is not impossible for us, but do we really lack these three months? Because in these three months, our army will suffer thousands or even tens of thousands of casualties. I think if Your Highness were here, I'm afraid you wouldn't allow such a thing to happen, right?"
Huo Qubing spoke frankly and said that many people found it strange that Huo Qubing had Li Xiang's trust, because the two of them only met a few times a year, but Li Xiang was able to entrust his safety to Huo Qubing. From Li Xiang's rise to the present, there were only two generals guarding him, one was Su Dingfang and the other was Huo Qubing.
If there wasn't absolute trust, how could Li Xiang have given Huo Qubing this mission? So even though this guy was just a small general, no one dared to underestimate him. Although his position was low, he represented the absolute trust of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince...
