sbdcsierra Chapter 886 Who Should I Admit My Mistake To First
Chapter 886 Who Should I Admit My Mistake To First
As the saying goes, a man's reputation is like the shadow of a tree. When King Chu came to rule the Western Regions, all the monarchs of the Western Regions, except the monarch of Kangguo, the suzerain of the Nine Zhaowu Clans, were terrified.
Especially after the King of Chu issued the decree "Recruit soldiers from various countries as vassal troops to follow the Tang army to attack the two rebellious Khans of Western Turkic Khaganate. Anyone who violates the order will be executed!", the Western Regions once again became the center of the vortex of the whole world.
"Your Highness, you are taking too much risk by doing this..." On the wall of Yumen Pass, Wang Xuance looked at His Highness the King of Chu, who was holding the parapet with one hand and looking at the dust in the distance. He couldn't help but have a bad feeling in his heart: "Your Highness, you can't get fat in one bite... Besides, His Majesty doesn't intend to let you accomplish everything in one battle, so why bother?"
"Xuan Ce, do you think I'm angry with that tyrant?" Li Kuan turned around and looked at his trusted retainer: "You underestimate me too much!"
“Your Highness, I was just imagining things. I know I was wrong!” Upon hearing this, Wang Xuance hurriedly bowed to Li Kuan and said, “But in the current situation, the enemy is numerous and we are few. We have no advantage in terms of timing, location, and even people… I am not suggesting that Your Highness should keep the enemy at bay. I just think that it is too difficult for us to accomplish this. Moreover, even if we succeed this time, it is hard to say what rewards we will get…”
"Xuan Ce, you are a little lazy now." Upon hearing this, His Royal Highness the King of Chu smiled and then said, "If it were you in the past, you would have already started to offer me advice by now. How come you have become the person you hate the most - like Dou Shu'er, who likes to give advice?"
"Your Highness, I will write down what you said and tell Lord Dou later." Wang Xuance saw that it was meaningless to persuade him with kind words, so he began to change his mind: "If Lord Dou knew that you were going to fight with the foreign tribes outside the Great Wall right from the start, I don't know if he would be so angry that he would lead his men north overnight and kill you..." Wang Xuance was halfway through his words when he saw that the angry King of Chu was approaching him quickly, so he quickly changed his tone: "I will keep you by my side and not let you be in danger!"
“Ah…” His Highness the King of Chu still liked Wang Xuance’s unruly appearance in front of Dou Shu’er before, but unfortunately, now this fellow’s bottom line has begun to become flexible: “Don’t just say nice things, kid, in fact, don’t I know that what you are saying is right?
That foolish monarch had never intended to let me sweep the Western Regions so quickly, and he didn't even have a strong desire to attack the Western Turks. Why? Because right now, the focus of the Tang Dynasty is all on the interior of the country. The people need to recuperate, the noble families want to continue to expand in the Central Plains, and most of the officials in Chang'an City only care about their own career advancement...
My father, the incompetent emperor, and Prime Minister Fang and Prime Minister Du, what they want is a relatively stable external environment - the countries around the Tang Dynasty should be able to check and balance each other, and no one should dominate. Haha... Their ideas are good, but God will not let a dynasty prosper forever. From ancient times to the present, it has always been "some storms and some clear days". So, Xuan Ce, we must take advantage of the time when we are strong to help our descendants fight the wars they are going to fight!
Otherwise, when the situation changes in the future, the foreign tribes in the northern desert will trample on the Central Plains and go south to capture the dragon. By then... the Han people in the Central Plains will probably be like 'more than a hundred years, several generations, human lives are worthless, and there will be no unity in the nine provinces' - whenever this king thinks of this, he feels that he has not done enough! "
"Your Highness——" All along, Wang Xuan...
"Boom!" Suddenly, a ghostly figure flew past His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu, and then... kicked.
“Crash…Bang!”
"No, Zhenxuan, what are you doing?!" His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu, who had already fallen into a certain emotion and couldn't extricate himself, began to feel unwell when he saw Zhang Zhenxuan, who came out of nowhere and suddenly did this to him.
No... I am counting on you to "make peace with the generals" and help me pacify the Western Regions...
But you guys started the fight first?!
What the hell is this?!
“Your Highness, I kicked you because Lord Xie asked me to help.” Zhang Zhenxuan saw that His Highness the King of Chu was running towards Wang Xuance who was lying on the ground with a look of heartache on his face, and he couldn’t help but said unhappily: “Besides, you don’t need to be so worried, I didn’t use much strength!”
"Then I'd like to ask the little Taoist priest to kick me again!" After Zhang Zhenxuan finished speaking, before His Royal Highness the King of Chu could say anything, Xie Minlin came out from the corner of the attic not far away with a gloomy face: "You traitor! I should have punched you to death at the beginning, and I didn't teach you the art of strategy. It was completely unnecessary!"
"Ah?" The "former hammer king" who had already rushed to Wang Xuance's side and was about to check on his injuries, raised his head and looked at him after hearing what Xie Minlin said: "Do you also want a more fashionable hairstyle?"
After saying this, His Royal Highness the King of Chu lowered his head and glanced at the depressed Wang Xuance. He could not help but frown and cursed at his two "civil and military" retainers: "I really want to beat you two to death!"
If you have defeated my Li Si, how can I "make the Qiongzhou famous" in the future? How can I "unify the outside world"? How can I let my descendants hear the elegant language of the Tang Dynasty no matter where they go? !
"Your Highness... don't make excuses for Xuan Ce anymore." Although Wang Xuan Ce felt that he had no strength in his body at this moment, he knew that this was just caused by the temporary surge of blood and energy, and Zhang Zhenxuan had held back on him.
What's more, he knew exactly why his teacher was so angry.
I had indeed crossed the line.
Although it was right for me, as a retainer of the Dou family, to put the master at the center of everything, my mistake this time was that I acted on my own initiative and turned a blind eye to His Royal Highness the King of Chu's request for me to give him advice. In fact, I even wanted His Royal Highness the King of Chu to turn his attention to Chang'an...
Even if you have a clear conscience, from another perspective, you may be suspected of adding fuel to the fire.
So it was not unfair for him to be kicked by Zhang Zhenxuan.
"Will you dare to do it again next time?" Just as Wang Xuance was silently thinking about the whole story and the key points of the matter, Xie Minlin also came to Wang Xuance.
"Teacher, it's my fault." Wang Xuance said as he tried to struggle to get up and apologize to the teacher.
"You are such a stubborn kid! Who should you admit your mistake to first?" Xie Minlin couldn't help but frowned deeply upon seeing this.