Madam is a Superstar

"Arrogant soldiers will be defeated."

These four words Sima Zhen can be said to be a bucket of cold water. If it were someone else who said these words,

Zhong Caiping was dragged down and executed in public on the pretext of disturbing the morale of the army, but it happened that it was Sima Zhen who said this.

Zhong Caiping snorted coldly from his nose, "The priest only plays music and makes more Gu people. The priest doesn't need to worry about the rest."

The morning light was faint, and the mountain breeze was a bit cold.

Soon after Zhong Caiping turned around and left, a soldier captain holding a spear came behind Sima Zhen.

"Priest, a new batch of Gu people have been sent to your tent. The general has ordered his subordinates to inform you, asking you to arrest the Gu people as soon as possible after breakfast, so that the army can continue on its way. "

Sima Zhen raised his hand, and the soldier captain nodded respectfully and retreated.

Smoke billows from cooking fires in the camp, and there are piles of burning bonfires and stoves for boiling water.

Sima Zhen walked all the way back to his tent. Everywhere he passed, the soldiers paid attention and greeted him.

Just looking at Sima Zhen walking into the tent, his eyes were filled with fear and fear.

The tent is huge,

But it's very simple. It's more like a tent than a shelter with a few large pieces of cloth surrounding a few trees.

"priest."

The deputy general had a ferocious face, and the murderous aura in his body was even more frightening. It would be no exaggeration to say that he could scare the children on the roadside to tears.

He was holding a thick hemp rope in his hand, and looking back he saw soldiers tied up with hemp ropes.

These soldiers were all wearing armor. They were supposed to die for their country, but now they were treated like grasshoppers, tied up with a hemp rope and strung together.

"Ugh! Uh-huh!"

"Uh-huh!"

There were sixteen people in total, and all they could do was beg for mercy when their acupuncture points were tapped.

With eyes wide open and tears streaming down his face, he looked at Sima Zhen who walked in in horror and shook his head desperately.

"These sixteen people are all those who were unable to support the march of the army yesterday. They still have to trouble the priests to wash their menstruation and cut their marrow so that they can be reborn so that they can serve me, Dongchen."

"Uh-huh!!"

The frightened sounds of the sixteen people begging for mercy were even louder, but their acupuncture points were tapped one after another and they could not move at all.

I could only watch the deputy general drop the hemp rope and watch the tent curtain fall.

While these people begged for mercy, Sima Zhen walked towards a white jade box.

As soon as the box was opened, what came into view were earth-gray insect repellents the size of a small fingernail.

The worms were very fat and crowded together in a dense pile. The moment they saw the light, they screamed like crazy and wanted to climb out along the white jade wall.

Unfortunately, the smooth texture of the white jade was in vain, and the worms could only gather in a group and make a threatening sound of "hiss, hiss," towards Sima Zhen.

In a moment,

The soldiers nearby outside the tent only heard a series of strange short flute sounds, and the more they listened, the more their scalps became numb.

In the tent, sixteen gray worms crawled towards the sixteen soldiers who were standing there unable to move.

All the way up from the armored boots, very fast, crawling with the strange flute,

Until it climbed up to the soldier's face, among the frightening faces as white as paper, it slowed down and crawled slowly into the nostrils.

"Well-!"

The pupils of the sixteen pairs of eyes suddenly dilated, as if someone had had their throats twisted from behind and refused to rest in silence.

The sound of the flute was no longer urgent, and streams of stinky and black poisonous blood flowed out from the seven orifices of the sixteen people.

After a while, the sound of the flute stopped,

"Someone is coming."

Sima Zhen put away the bamboo flute, and when his sleeves shook, he could vaguely see the ancient runes engraved on the surface of the bamboo flute.

In the closed room of the white jade box, the rough door curtain of the tent was lifted from the outside and a person walked in.

The man's eyes were empty and lifeless, and he was holding a copper basin filled with warm water in his hand.

Without Sima Zhen's instructions, he took off the towel from his shoulders and wet it to clean up the smelly blood of the sixteen people one by one.

It takes half a cup of tea,

Led by the soldier who came in with a basin, seventeen people lined up and walked out of the tent.

If you don't look closely, you will notice that these people's limbs are slightly stiffer and lifeless than those of ordinary people.

Some of the soldiers who were boiling water recognized someone they knew among the seventeen people. They clenched their molars and turned their faces aside, their eyes moist.

…

royal palace,

It's the morning of the morning, the emperor sits high on the throne, and hundreds of civil and military officials below are playing speeches one by one. The morning light shines on the gilt dragon chair.

"Your Majesty, once the power of gunpowder is known to other countries, having gunpowder in our court will be like having poison in Dongchen.

The common man is innocent of the crime of harboring the jade. Although our country has no intention of using this magical weapon to attack other countries, other countries may not think so..."

The old minister who was speaking was still talking in a long speech, as if he was not listening to what was happening outside the window.

I couldn't see the other ministers exchanging glances with weird expressions on their faces.

No intention to attack other countries? ? ?

Anyone in the court who thinks clearly can see the emperor's ambition.

Besides, now that they have sharp weapons like gunpowder, wouldn’t it be ridiculous to just attack other countries? ? Wouldn't it be a fool not to fight? ?

"So I thought..."

The old minister was still talking about his ideas and opinions. Some ministers looked towards the high position and said,

But seeing that the emperor listened attentively and showed no signs of contempt, he opened his mouth and was speechless for a moment.

Could it be...that they guessed wrong?

Does the emperor really have no intention of taking the opportunity to dominate the world?

What Baili Xuan is talking about now is just because he is worried that other countries will unite to attack them after knowing that they have gunpowder in the Great Abyss.

It's not that they haven't thought about this, but since the emperor ascended the throne, he has made great efforts to build a strong army.

After the Zhao family's property was returned to the treasury, the treasury was even more full. Looking at the world, the Dongchen Gu people were considered a trouble.

There is nothing to worry about in the other countries. Now that the Dongchen Gu people have solved the problem, the power of gunpowder is enough to withstand a hundred people. How long will it take to fight again?

While everyone is thinking,

Baili Xuan had retreated from the center of the hall to the ranks of ministers. The huge Qinzheng Hall was speechless for a moment.

The emperor's mind is so sharp. Nangong Yu glanced at the minister with sharp eyes and it was clear at a glance.

"Be prepared for danger in times of peace, and you should not underestimate the enemy in court, nor should you fight with other countries. I don't want to say these words to you dear friends a second time."

The coldness in the words is better than the howling and heart-piercing wind in the cold winter of the twelfth lunar month.

It sends a chill down your spine and you dare not take a breath. You bend down and lift up the wide sleeves of your red official robe slightly.

"I obey the order."

In this way, after the courtiers have reported the urgent matters at hand and the others have finished the battle,

We started discussing how to deal with the gunpowder being exposed to the world, and soon someone came out to offer strategies, but unfortunately they were not satisfactory.

When all the ministers were frowning,

Nangong Ze, who was in the position of a prince, walked to the center of the palace and spoke out under the surprised gazes of the officials secretly saying,

"Your Majesty, I think it would be difficult for our court to conceal the matter of gunpowder. Why don't we confess it to all the countries in the world?

Even though all countries will be afraid of our Great Abyss, it is not a deterrent to other countries. Some people are afraid, some are afraid, and some are afraid. "

"In this way, if all the countries unite to attack our country, it may be difficult to unite as one. Furthermore, if our country can take Dongchen into its pocket after this battle,

If the Dongchen Gu people and witchcraft techniques can be used properly, it will be a great help to me, Dayuan. "