C555 King chu's motivation

There was only one thing that the emperor was most concerned about. He opened his eyes wide and asked, "Who made the first move?"

Gao Shenghai handed over the military report, "It's said that it was at the break of dawn. It seems that it was all done at the same time."

The emperor opened the military newspaper and took it under the lamp to read. There were a few lines of words, but he stared at them for a long time before sitting back in his chair. After a moment of silence, he said, "Let the Prime Minister come over."

Gao Shenghai agreed, then bowed and left.

The Prince Chu would probably move as well. This way, it would also prevent the citizens of the world from talking freely about it, and if he did not break the agreement, then it would be the Prince Chu and the crown prince. In the end, they were brothers, attacking at the same time, could this be considered as having a connection? Fortunately, Bai Changjian's reaction was not slow. In the beginning of the battle, he had won a draw, and this was definitely the only time he had won against the Prince Chu. The teacher's words were true, Bai Changjian was his lucky general, and was able to help him achieve greatness.

They all knew this principle, and the reason why they agreed to it was because they did not have the confidence to win. Now that everything was ready, it was time for them to see the light of day.

Prime Minister Bai had also just received the letter and was rushing over. His expression did not look too good.

The Emperor asked, "Does the Prime Minister know?"

Naturally, Prime Minister Bai knew what he was asking about. He cupped his hands and replied, "Yes, this subject just heard that General Bai and Prince Chu are fighting."

"Does the Prime Minister know who picked the first contestant?"

"This …" The Prime Minister Bai was sweating profusely. The Emperor had not ordered Bai Changjian to go to war on his own, so he would be sentenced to death if anything went wrong.

He hesitated for a moment, then said, "This subject received news that the Prince Chu's men attacked a place called Little Man Town, and then the General Bai burned their boat."

The emperor laughed, "The two places are very far apart, and it would still take more than half a day for them to disappear. Prince Chu attacked us in the morning, and General Bai was also burnt in the morning, almost at the same time.

Prime Minister Bai was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and said, "Your majesty the Emperor, my son is bold and presumptuous. This subject has no means to discipline him. Please punish him."

"Prime Minister, please rise. I do not have any intention of blaming you, on the contrary, I am the one who started this battle well, it was us who was too indecisive previously, if General Bai did not take action, they would not be able to hold it in, and so on. Good, you draft a declaration of war personally, Prince Chu declared war, and I am forced to accept the challenge, so that the people of this world will understand our helplessness."

Back then, when the emperor transferred Bai Changjian to Wei Shui, the Prime Minister Bai knew that such a day would come. It was laughable that even at this time, the emperor still did not forget to put on an appearance of a benevolent lord.

"Yes, your subject obeys." The Prime Minister Bai muttered to himself for a moment, then said: "Your majesty, the Prince Chu is cunning, and is also a good warrior in battle. Compared to him, the General Bai is still lacking, after all, he is young and vigorous.

The emperor, however, disapproved and glanced at him, "The Prime Minister is trying to bolster others' morale and extinguish his own prestige, but his own son is not, I am confident in him, additionally, the more people there are, the better. The General Bai is the General Dian Yuan whom I have personally appointed, it is not good to send people to tie his hands and feet, it is good for him to be young and vigorous, but he is not afraid of tigers at all when he is young.

The Prime Minister Bai wanted to send someone over, because he was afraid that if they were to lose, Bai Changjian would not have to shoulder the blame alone. However, after thinking about it again, if they were to lose, the Prince Chu would definitely fight all the way to Lin An, where would the Emperor be able to protect himself? Prince Chu hated Bai Family, and forced Emperor to get off the stage. He was definitely going to take care of Bai Family the first time, but unfortunately for him, Qian Fan was gone, otherwise, he would have been able to say a few words on behalf of Bai Family.

The last time the Prince Chu went into action, it was because the Emperor tricked him into saying that he had captured an imperial concubine. This time, the imperial concubine returned to the sky and the Prince Chu once again instigated a civil war. Did the Prince Chu think that the death of the Princess Chu was related to the Emperor?

The enmity they had over their wife was irreconcilable. Without Bai Qianfan, the Prince Chu had become a wild horse that escaped its restraints. The Prime Minister Bai trembled all of a sudden. They were afraid that this battle would not be a good one …

"Does the emperor know the reason behind the sudden dispatch of troops from the Prince Chu?"

"Naturally, their motives are the same as ours," the Emperor said slowly.

"Your majesty has forgotten, the Princess Chu's great funeral just now …"

The emperor frowned, "The Prime Minister means that the Prince Chu sent out their troops because the Princess Chu died? But what does this have to do with us? Can it be that we have killed Princess Chu? "

"Clearly, someone had misled the Prince Chu."

The emperor finally understood. "You mean the crown prince? The crown prince killed the consort and ended up bringing disaster to us, that's why the Prince Chu took us to the north and sought for justice from us? "

"I'm afraid so." The Prime Minister Bai said, "As long as we find evidence to prove that we were framed by the Crown Prince, the Prince Chu would definitely turn the tables on the Crown Prince. Why don't the Emperor use the Prince Chu to get rid of the Crown Prince, and then everything will be over with."

The Emperor pondered for a long time before asking, "What happened after that? How was I supposed to take care of him after the Prince Chu got rid of the crown prince?"

"We will use the Prince Chu to kill the crown prince and welcome the Prince Chu back to the capital. We will set up a grand feast for him, and once he enters the palace, we will immediately seal the gates and kill him."

After a long while, he said, "With the things that happened before, it probably won't be an easy thing to lure the Prince Chu into the palace. Furthermore, the crown prince has always been impenetrable, so how can we find evidence of him killing the consort?"

The Prime Minister Bai said, "That's not difficult, if there is no evidence, why can't we create one?" His eyes flashed, "Even if there is no such thing, we can make it real for him."

The emperor had the pride of an emperor. If he could, he wasn't willing to rely on the Prince Chu, and it wasn't easy for him to get rid of the shadow of the Prince Chu. Now that he had to return to the past, he wasn't willing to.

"The Prime Minister's words make sense, but the two armies have already started a war, time is of the essence, it will not be easy to make the Prince Chu believe our evidence," the Emperor lightly knocked on the table with his slender fingers, "What I mean is, if we win, we have to take them all in one go, if we lose, we can then throw out the evidence and let the Prince Chu decide for himself, what does the Prime Minister think?"

Prime Minister Bai laughed bitterly in his heart. He said so many things in order to preserve his life, and he had even lost it. What was there to be proud about? He only hoped that the Marquis Prince Chu would leave him a path to survival on Bai Qianfan's account.