Chapter 126 I feel ashamed
Lu Sen had always believed that there were no such things as "immortals, gods, ghosts and monsters" in this world.
It was not until I encountered the crystal ball with mysterious power and saw the Lishan Sect that I knew there were ghosts and gods in this world.
Although it didn't seem to be strong, it still made him feel a little bit of urgency.
But it's just a 'little bit'.
The system home has strong defense capabilities, but complete defense is sometimes too passive, so intelligence collection is also very important.
This flying, almost completely invisible reconnaissance eye can make up for one of Lu Sen's shortcomings.
Of course, the prerequisite is that the flight distance is far enough.
However, Lu Sen believes that anything produced according to the system formula will not disappoint him.
Because it concerned the well-being of his wife and the entire family, Chang Wei did not dare to delay for a moment and immediately took Lu Sen to his wife's parents' home.
In a very ordinary adobe yard of a farmhouse, Lu Sen got the yellow wooden sign that Qin Yatou mentioned.
This thing is very "beautiful". It is carved with many layers of patterns using a very powerful craftsmanship. At first glance, it looks like a black tortoise, but upon closer inspection, it is actually a topographic map.
Moreover, this thing is very thick, only as big as the palm of your hand, but quite heavy.
It is estimated to weigh about three pounds.
Originally, the owner of the house, a middle-aged man with a simple and honest face, was unwilling to give up the property. After all, no one is a fool, and the wooden sign looked very extraordinary.
But when Chang Wei told the middle-aged farmer about Lu Sen's identity and what had happened before, the middle-aged farmer immediately handed the sign to Lu Sen.
This is certainly closely related to Lu Sen's excellent reputation among the people. Another reason is naturally that ordinary people are extremely afraid of such things as gods, ghosts, demons and monsters.
Lu Sen left a small silver ingot as a payment for the wooden sign.
Moreover, he had specially checked on this farmer's family and made sure that no other people were infected by this distorted spiritual energy for the time being.
Lu Sen returned to the system home, looked at the yellow wooden sign, and chuckled.
Make a lot of money.
Mutated Sect Token: The spirit tablet held by the leader of the Tianji Sect was made from a broken branch of Fusang wood a long time ago. It could originally produce a trace amount of spiritual energy naturally, but now the heaven and earth have changed, and the spiritual energy produced has deteriorated and turned into something ominous. Unless you can eliminate this deteriorated spiritual energy, bad luck will slowly accumulate.
On this token, Lu Sen saw a large mass of dark fog surrounding it. After tearing it off, it quickly turned into three strands of deteriorated spiritual energy.
Moreover, this thing can continue to produce transformed spiritual energy, although the speed is a bit slow.
The deteriorated spiritual energy can not only be used to make hidden eyes, but also to make some special puppets. Unfortunately, these puppets require a lot of special materials, and even with the deteriorated spiritual energy, they cannot be synthesized for the time being.
Lu Sen put the wooden sign into the wooden box, and then began to synthesize the Hidden Eye.
Soon a small, almost completely transparent eyeball appeared in front of Lu Sen.
This thing doesn't look very bad, it's just that its pupils shrink from time to time, which is a bit creepy.
Lu Sen "used" this thing without hesitation.
His eyeballs turned into a stream of light and sank into Lu Sen's body. After a few breaths, he felt as if there was something more in his body.
Just by concentrating slightly, he understood how to use this ability, as if it were instinct.
He silently said "summon", and then he saw an eyeball as big as a basin appear in front of him and look at him.
Immediately, a strange picture appeared in his mind, and he could see himself from another angle.
He controlled his eyeballs to fly up into the sky, then went to the third-floor window. Looking inside, he could see Yang Jinhua humming softly and arranging things in the room.
When Lu Sen controlled his eyes and moved closer, Yang Jinhua seemed to sense something. She turned her head, frowned, looked at the window, and called softly, "Sir?"
Lu Sen controlled his eyes to fly forward to the window. Because he was much closer, and Yang Jinhua was a martial artist, she had recently practiced the art of combined attack, and her skills had improved by leaps and bounds. She could already vaguely sense many things that were not normally visible.
For example, the stench of spoiled spiritual energy.
As it approached, Yang Jinhua saw an eyeball as big as a basin, almost transparent, and was startled. She subconsciously pulled out the whip wrapped around her waist and was about to swing it, but she stopped and said helplessly, "Sir, don't scare me."
After shaking his eyeballs up and down to express affirmativeness, he immediately left the small building and flew into the sky.
After flying high into the sky, Lu Sen knew the flying distance range of this eyeball.
Because only within the range can you see everything clearly, but in the distance there is a spherical fog cover that covers the entire area.
"With the low mountain as the center, it's about two kilometers..." Lu Sen thought for a while, and soon understood the relationship between the eyeball and his flying distance: "I am level 2, so the control distance of the Hidden Eye cannot exceed two kilometers?"
In other words, if I can live to be seventy or eighty years old, then the flight radius will be seventy or eighty kilometers?
That's pretty impressive.
In fact, even if the flight detection distance is only two kilometers, it is very useful, because this thing flies very fast and can see far. Even at an altitude of one hundred meters, it can clearly see the little rabbit running on the ground.
Lu Sen controlled his eyes to fly around the low hill, but suddenly he saw a man dressed like a eunuch, riding a horse, accompanied by four guards, climbing up the hill.
Lu Sen 'disbanded' the Hidden Eye, stood up, and went to the yard. Not long after, he saw the eunuch jogging towards him.
The other party stood outside the fence and bowed to Lu Sen and said, "Master Lu, the emperor sent me here to pass on a message. You must go to court tomorrow. There is something important to discuss."
Lu Sen thought about it for a while and agreed.
When the eunuch saw that Lu Sen agreed, he breathed a sigh of relief and left immediately.
Lu Sen didn't think too much about it. He had decided not to bother with the affairs of the court now. He might as well go to court tomorrow. He hadn't been there for such a long time anyway, so it wouldn't hurt to go and watch a show occasionally.
In the early morning of the next day, Lu Sen appeared at the palace gate. This time period was considered relatively early, and there would not be many people waiting at this time in the past. However, this time, most of the court officials had arrived, and they all looked serious.
Something really big happened!
Lu Sen understood as soon as he saw the expressions of the crowd.
He didn't say much, but just walked to the side of the Prince of Runan.
The little green turtle was still lying on the shoulder of the Prince of Runan . When he saw Lu Sen, he smiled slightly as a greeting, and then said, "My dear son-in-law, when you go to court later, watch more and talk less, and don't get involved in unnecessary troubles."
Lu Sen raised his eyelids and nodded in agreement.
The palace gate opened soon, about a quarter of an hour earlier than usual.
When the civil and military officials entered the hall, Zhao Zhen was already sitting on the dragon throne waiting for them.
At this time, Zhao Zhen had a white cloth tied on his head. His eyes were dull and there was a big dark circle under his eyes. It was obvious that he had not rested well and looked extremely listless.
But his cheeks were bright red, as if he was full of blood, which looked extremely contradictory.
"I won't waste my time talking nonsense today, let's get straight to the point." He held his forehead with his left hand and pressed it hard before saying, "Military intelligence was sent from the northwest yesterday. The Yongxing Army suffered a great defeat. More than half of the 200,000 soldiers were killed or wounded, and the Xixia cavalry chased them. Di Qing from Qinfeng came to the rescue, which stabilized the subsequent rout, but the army also lost about 50,000 soldiers and retreated 50 miles. The morale of the entire army plummeted."
Upon hearing this, all the civil and military officials showed expressions of horror.
Only a few important officials who had received the intelligence early, such as Bao Zheng and Master Pang, did not change their expressions much.
It’s just that their expressions have never been very good.
Lu Sen sighed softly. He had had this feeling a long time ago.
I just didn't expect it to come true.
But think about it, this is not surprising. The enemy was at the gates of the city, and with a little more effort, they could have taken down Xingqingfu, the capital of Western Xia. However, because they were afraid of the threat from Liao, they delayed the war for more than a month.
More than a month... In a battlefield where speed is of the essence, it was enough time for Xixia to redeploy its troops from the rear.
At that moment, an official stood up and angrily shouted, "Why did the Zhe family make such a big mistake? We were clearly in an advantageous position, but they could not capture Xingqing Prefecture and even caused the army to be defeated. They deserve to die. Your Majesty, I propose to strip all the officials of the Zhe family and order the three clans to tie their hands, return to the capital to plead guilty, and wait for their fate."
It's no wonder that the censor was so angry. Anyone would have their blood pressure rise when they heard that a war that was supposed to be victorious had turned out like this.
"Don't blame the Zhe family." Zhao Zhen waved his hand gently.
Another censor stood up and asked in confusion: "He is the Grand Marshal of the Yongxing Army. All the strategies were formulated by them. Now that a big mistake has been made, shouldn't they take the blame? And we, the civil officials, have to take the blame for him..."
As if he had thought of something, the censor was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized something and bowed his hands again: "Your Majesty, please do not blame me for speaking without thinking. I will swallow my previous advice back."
After saying this, he retreated back to the group of ministers with a fiery face.
Not only this censor, but almost everyone guessed what happened on the front line.
Military supervisor...seize power.
Previously, the military supervisor of Yongxing Army Road was Lu Sen. Lu Sen was on good terms with the Zhe family and could even be considered a half-relative. Therefore, Lu Sen would definitely not say anything about the Zhe family's military strategy. Even if he had any opinions, he would discuss them properly.
But the current military supervisor, Wang Anshi, is different.
This man is notoriously stubborn and opinionated, but he has deep insights into government affairs, so his opinions are always correct.
Master Pang also admired this young man and took good care of him, so Wang Anshi was able to enter the court and discuss state affairs with other ministers at the age of 30.
In order to train him, Master Pang even went against the majority opinion and sent him to Yongxing Army Road to take over Lu Sen's position of military supervisor.
As long as the conquest of Western Xia is successful, Wang Anshi will be able to rise three thousand miles to the top, enter the Secretariat, and become a new important official in the court.
But I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen.
Among the civil and military officials who can stand in the court , few are idiots.
They knew that with the ability of the Zhe family, even if they could not capture Xingqing Prefecture in a short period of time, they would not be defeated to this extent.
Someone must have forcibly changed the Zhe family's military plan.
As for this person, there is no other speculation except that he is the military supervisor.
Master Pang felt his forehead twitching and he couldn't help but face turning red, then blue.
At this time, Zhao Zhen stood up and said angrily: "In addition to the great defeat of the Yongxing Army, the envoys sent by Xingqing Prefecture arrived at Sifang Pavilion yesterday. They handed over documents, demanding that the Song Dynasty bow down and admit defeat, cede Qinfeng Road to them, and send Master Lu to them and go back to Xingqing Prefecture with them. Otherwise, the Xixia army will continue to advance southward, capture Xi'an, and flatten our Dongjing City."
At this point, Zhao Zhen's face had turned completely red. He threw the ball of paper in his hand to the ground heavily and said, "This is too much. This is too much."
This is the letter handed over by the Western Xia envoy last night.
Almost everyone's eyes were on Lu Sen.
Lu Sen's expression was strange, as if he was smiling but not smiling.
Everyone couldn't tell what Lu Sen was thinking, so they turned their attention back to Zhao Zhen.
At this time, Zhao Zhen had stepped down from the dragon throne, walked up to Bao Zheng, and angrily asked, "My dear Bao, do you have any good ideas at this time?"
Bao Zheng lowered his head and said slowly: "The imperial guards in the west of the city can move now."
"What's the point of moving? The common people don't know the combat power of the Imperial Guards. Don't you understand it?"
This was a rare occasion when Zhao Zhen directly criticized Bao Zheng.
Under normal circumstances, he would definitely not dare to do this, but it is not surprising that he did this in his extreme anger.
Bao Zheng shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter. The imperial guards are weak, but that depends on who is leading them. If we are led by scholars, we will definitely be weak, but if we are led by military officers, we should be able to fight."
"Who will lead the troops?" Zhao Zhen asked angrily, "The Cao family, the Wang family, or the third son of the Zhe family? Do they still have the talent to lead the army now?"
The Cao family and the Wang family were almost becoming civil service families, but Sanlang of the Zhe family was a playboy. He had been a hostage in the city of Bianjing since he was a child and had never been to the battlefield.
Bao Zheng said slowly: "The emperor has forgotten a great talent."
"who!"
"Marshal Mu."
Zhao Zhen was stunned for a moment, then he laughed heartily in frustration: "Lord Bao, do you mean to let Marshal Mu resign again? If so, this would be the second time she has saved such great men as us. Can you arrogant scholars tolerate this?"
None of the civil and military officials spoke, and most of them lowered their heads.
Zhao Zhen laughed even louder when he saw this, and there seemed to be some helplessness and sarcasm in his voice: "Marshal Mu returned victorious in the past, and you made things difficult for her, stripped her of her power, and suppressed the Yang family to this point. Now the military situation is critical, and Tokyo is in danger, and you want people to fight to the death again... The Yang family has died, leaving only the only son and the woman! Do you still have any shame? Anyway, I feel ashamed!"
The roar burst out heavily and fell back into the hall.
All the officials were scolded and dejected.
After Zhao Zhen finished cursing, his cheeks turned red as blood. He let out a breath of anger, turned around and wanted to sit back on the dragon throne, but after taking two steps, his eyes suddenly went dark and he fell straight down.
