Chapter 187: Secret Order with Unclear Intentions
When Lu Fan brought Li Cunxiao and the other four back to the General's Mansion at Beimang Pass, several figures came out from the front hall.
When Lu Fan saw the people coming out, he was immediately surprised.
Because it was none other than Jiang Shang and Lu Chuan.
In addition to the two of them, there was also a little eunuch.
After they came up, Jiang Shang and Lu Chuan bowed to Lu Fan, and the little eunuch knelt on his knees.
"Greetings, my lord (Your Highness the Crown Prince)!"
Lu Fan suppressed his curiosity at this moment, nodded to Jiang Shang and Lu Chuan, and looked at the little eunuch.
"Get up!"
"Thank you, Your Highness the Crown Prince!"
The little eunuch stood up and took the initiative to bow without waiting for Lu Fan to ask: "I came here this time with a secret decree from His Majesty to be delivered to Your Highness the Crown Prince, please check it out."
While speaking, the little eunuch took out a long jade box from the storage ring and held it in both hands to Lu Fan.
If it is a normal decree, it will be announced with an imperial decree. The person who conveys the decree represents Emperor Qian, so there is no need to perform formalities when meeting anyone.
However, except Emperor Qian and the person who conveyed the decree, no one else knows the secret decree.
And the rest of the people are not qualified to know, only the person who receives the decree can view the secret decree.
In addition, the secret decree is recorded in the jade slip, and it can only be opened under specific conditions.
If you want to force it open with external force, the secret decree will automatically break.
Lu Fan knows all these.
So after taking the jade box, he opened it directly and took out the secret jade slip.
I saw that this jade slip was a blood jade slip, and only the blood of the same blood could open the seal.
Lu Fan forced a drop of blood from his fingers and dripped it on the jade slip, and then the blood directly merged into the jade slip, and a bright light flashed on the surface of the jade slip.
Seeing this, Lu Fan directly expanded his spiritual consciousness to explore the inside of the jade slip.
As the spiritual consciousness explored it, the content of the secret decree recorded in the jade slip was also known to him.
Looking at the secret decree in the jade slip, Lu Fan's face suddenly showed an extremely strange look, and his heart was even more confused.
"What exactly does my cheap father want to do?"
The content recorded in the jade slip was to reward him with 10 million low-grade spirit stones, preside over all military and political affairs in the northern border, and allow him to expand the Zhenbei Army or form a new legion.
Ten million low-grade spirit stones naturally made him very excited.
But with the content behind, 10 million low-grade spirit stones are nothing.
Allowing himself to form a new legion is equivalent to giving himself military power with a full 300,000 troops.
Not only did my cheap father give me military power, but it was such a large military power.
Such a thing has never happened since the establishment of Daqian.
"Could it be that my cheap father deliberately gave me military power so that I could rebel and then suppress and eliminate me openly?"
After this guess came up, Lu Fan hurriedly shook his head and threw it out of his mind.
This guess is obviously impossible.
If my cheap father really wanted to kill me, it would not be a secret decree.
Just issue an imperial decree to transfer himself back to the imperial capital, and then issue an order to kill him.
After all, my father is the Lord of Daqian. It is not difficult to kill one or two people. Why is it so troublesome?
"What is the intention?"
Lu Fan frowned and thought for a long time, but still did not understand the intention of his father to pass on this secret decree to him.
It's too weird.
Thinking of this, Lu Fan withdrew his spiritual consciousness from the jade slip.
Crack...
As soon as the spiritual consciousness withdrew, the jade slip shattered and turned into powder and fell to the ground.
Ignoring the jade slip that fell, Lu Fan took a deep breath, took out a low-grade spirit stone from the storage ring and threw it to the eunuch.
"I have received the decree, you can go back!"
It has always been a thing to reward the eunuch who delivered the decree, which is considered a reward for hard work.
The eunuch did not refuse. He accepted the spirit stone with a happy face and bowed to Lu Fan to thank him.
"Thank you for the reward, Your Highness!"
The eunuch thanked him and left happily. Lu Fan also led the group into the front hall.
After sitting down in the front hall, Lu Fan looked directly at Jiang Shang, who was sitting in the first seat on the left, and said with a smile:
"Ziya, why are you two here?"
Originally, he arranged for Jiang Shang and others to stay in Hanyang City to preside over all military and political affairs.
I didn't expect them to come here.
Faced with Lu Fan's question, Jiang Shang and Lu Chuan showed helpless expressions on their faces.
"Lord, we have been restless since we received the news of the barbarian invasion, and we wanted to help.
In addition, we have not received any news from you, so we are really uneasy, so we rushed here.
After arriving, we learned that the invading barbarians were completely annihilated and we won a great victory."
After Lu Chuan's helpless voice fell, Jiang Shang also smiled and said:
"Lord, don't worry, everything in Hanyang City is on track, and Tonggu is here, there is no problem."
After the two finished speaking, Lu Fan smiled and shook his head: "I neglected this matter, I should have passed on some news to you."
Since arriving at Beimang Pass, he has only been concerned about how to repel the enemy and annihilate them all.
In addition to the beast tide that broke out in Beimang Mountain and what happened on the way to Tiannan Pass, he forgot to pass on the news to Jiang Shang and others.
After all, Jiang Shang, Lu Chuan and others were all loyal subordinates summoned by himself.
After knowing the news of the invasion of the Tianwu barbarians, they would definitely worry about their safety. In addition, it was normal for them to worry because they did not pass on the news.
"But it's good that you are here, Ziya, because there are many things to discuss and solve next."
Although the invading Tianwu barbarians have been completely wiped out, there are still many things to deal with next.
Originally, he wanted to use the communication function of the system to discuss with Jiang Shang, Li Si, Fei Yi and others.
Although Li Cunxiao is a commander who is both civil and military after awakening his past life memories, there is still a big gap compared to Jiang Shang, who has unparalleled strategies.
After all, civil officials like Jiang Shang and Li Si are better at thinking.
But now that Jiang Shang has come in person, it saves trouble, and face-to-face communication is better.
As he said, Lu Fan looked at Gu Qing and Gu Yue, the grandfather and grandson, and introduced them to Jiang Shang and Lu Chuan:
"This is Gu Qing, the ancestor of the Gu family, and his great-granddaughter Gu Yue..."
Gu Qing is the ninth level of the Soul Condensation Realm, and Gu Yue has a special physique, so she is also a relatively important person.
So Lu Fan briefly introduced them to each other.
Gu Qing was not stupid either. From Lu Fan's attitude towards Jiang Shang, he knew that Jiang Shang's status was not low, so he politely greeted Jiang Shang with a fist.
After getting to know each other, Lu Fan asked Geng Yan to tell Jiang Shang and Lu Chuan what had happened in the past few days.
Of course, it was mainly for Jiang Shang to hear.
After all, Jiang Shang still had to make plans in the future, and Lu Chuan just listened by the way.
Jiang Shang didn't know what had happened in the past few days, so he listened very seriously.
While listening, he nodded secretly and thought, digesting and absorbing some more important news.
After Geng Yan finished his story, Jiang Shang pondered for a moment and said...