Zhang San, please behave yourself!
Chapter 606 - 562: Be sure to speak fiercely, and reprimand harshly!

Chapter 606: Chapter 562: Be sure to speak fiercely, and reprimand harshly!

Zhang San stepped out of the Central Army’s tent and immediately sensed the imminent battle.

At this moment, Lv Chunyang approached.

"Zhang San, I’m leaving."

"Fourth Brother, you’re still so young, why are you... are you..."

Lv Chunyang gave Zhang San a kick.

"If you can’t speak properly, then don’t speak at all!"

"Hehehe... just kidding. Oh right, this is for you!"

Zhang San said and took out a very well-packed wooden box from his Gluttonous Bag, opened it, and handed a bottle to Lv Chunyang.

Lv Chunyang received the bottle with a curious face, opened it, took a sniff, and said, "This is a kind of elixir that helps with cultivating the Seas of Wheels, especially since you’re cultivating the Five Viscera Wheel Seas, it can quickly refine the Seas of Wheels, and even help you find the Divine Treasure nearest to you. But this thing isn’t much use to me, you should keep it for yourself."

Zhang San hurriedly took back the elixir, gulped it down, and then said, "It was originally meant for me to drink anyway, but since the Khan Xing Luohou of Tujue gave it to me, I was afraid it might be poisoned, so I had you check it."

Lv Chunyang curled his lip and walked away.

"Fourth Brother, when will you come over next time for a drink?"

"Let’s not. Every time I come down the mountain, unless it’s for refining my heart through the mortal world, there’s definitely something important that needs to be done. Just like this time, it was the Heavenly Dao that led me here. Otherwise, I wouldn’t bother coming down the mountain. I’m off."

As he spoke, Lv Chunyang pulled out his sword, stepped on it, and whole person soared away on the sword, flying around in a circle before ascending.

At this moment, the people in the military camp watched Lv Chunyang’s departure with an immortal’s grace, filled with envy.

Only Zhang San knew that this guy could have flown straight away, but he chose to take a circle just to show off.

Excessive!

Knowing that the elixir was safe to drink and not poisoned, Zhang San felt a lot better.

He started going back to continue his cultivation. After all, the sooner he found and completed his cultivation of the Heart Divine Treasure, the sooner he could lift the time curse within his body.

During his fight with Xue Lihong, Zhang San had actually felt that sometimes he wasn’t falling behind Xue Lihong in techniques, but rather because his time was simply less than Xue Lihong’s.

Especially in terms of his recovery ability, Zhang San had thought he had met an equal opponent, but after some thought, he realized another possibility was that because of the reduced time he had, his recovery time was also less, resulting in him being constantly pursued and attacked by Xue Lihong.

However, the gap in combat power between the two was not huge. If he encountered someone whose strength was even slightly greater than his own normal state, he feared he would be finished.

With this thought in mind, Zhang San felt an urgent need to start cultivating immediately.

At this time, Changsun Bubai immediately used a special device in the military to send the news of what happened in Two Divisions Mountain to the Capital, sparing no expense of Qi.

Since troubles are prone to arise in the borderlands, there were means to quickly relay intelligence back to the Capital.

At that moment, in the imperial court, Emperor Kaihuang and the ministers were holding an audience.

Suddenly, someone rushed in, holding intelligence that had been transmitted from the borderlands with both hands.

"Reporting to Emperor Kaihuang, a Red Level report has just been sent from the Longyun Path of Lingwu!"

Red Level is the most critical level of intelligence that can be relayed from the borderlands.

Knowing it was a Red Level report, someone immediately took the intelligence to Emperor Kaihuang.

At this moment, many of the ministers in the court also grew tense.

Particularly, the Minister of Punishment and the Magistrate of Metropolitan Prefecture, they knew that the future of Legalism now lay within the Lingwu Army. Wasn’t it just some time ago that he was appointed as General Ningyuan?

Didn’t they recently send troops to attack the Tujue without authorization, leading to the Tujue striking back?

At that moment, Kaihuang spoke solemnly, "Mei Fei took it upon himself to lead troops to attack the Tujue, attempting to kill the young Tujue geniuses who wished to enter the Secret Realm, thereby ruining the Tujue youth. As a result, he failed and lost troops and generals. Changsun Bubai worries about Tujue retaliation and the sparking of a great war. He requests that the Capital immediately muster troops and horses, just in case, and to severely punish Mei Fei. My respected officials, what is your view?"

"Ah—" Shen Erxian, the Magistrate of Metropolitan Prefecture, let out a sigh of relief, and then realized he had sighed rather loudly; everyone was looking at him.

"Magistrate of Metropolitan Prefecture, why do you sigh?"

Second Master Shen felt like crying. I’m naturally worried that Zhang San has brought trouble upon our Legalist school!

"Reporting to Kaihuang, this humble official heard the Red Level intelligence coming from Lingwu and was concerned the Tujue might strike at Great Sui while we’ve just completed autumn harvest and are collecting grain taxes everywhere. Now, hearing it’s only a concern and not that an actual incident has occurred, I’m relieved, hence the sigh," he said.

Kaihuang laughed heartily, "See? Despite being the Magistrate of Metropolitan Prefecture, Shen Erxian is truly concerned for the safety of the entire nation. Be assured, if there is an opportunity, I will also consider sending you out to govern a region."

Shen Erxian smiled on the surface, but felt like crying inside.

I just want to stay in the Capital; I don’t want to go out!

At this point, Kaihuang started to address the real issue: "Now, my respected officials, what do you think? Will the Tujue actually come to strike us?"

People from the Ministry of War naturally said that an attack would come, so preparations had to begin immediately.

But everyone knew that once the military was mobilized, the Ministry of War would be active, and with activity came merit, so even if it wasn’t possible that the Tujue would come, the Ministry of War would still say they would.

However, the Ministry of Household thought the opposite.

After all, regardless of whether the Tujue would attack, mobilizing the army would cost money.

Then, the treasury of the Ministry of Household would be hastily depleted.

Therefore, the officials of the Ministry of Household firmly believed that Changsun Bubai was worrying needlessly.

As for the Ministry of Works, their operations all required funding from the Ministry of Household, so they naturally sided with the Ministry of Household.

And with the Ministry of War unable to garner support, the other officials were just spectators. Also, the people from the Ministry of War were not good at verbal debate, and they were quickly left without a response.

Kaihuang looked around and said, "Since everyone believes the Tujue won’t be launching an attack on Great Sui for the time being, we need not worry about this matter."

The officials returned to their places, knowing that since Kaihuang had spoken thus, it implied no need for preparations.

However, at this moment, Shen Wei, the Minister of Punishment, stood up.

"Reporting to Kaihuang. Since there is a consensus regarding whether the Tujue will launch an attack, we should next discuss the responsibility of Deputy Commander-in-Chief Mei Fei of the Longyun Path for taking it upon himself to mobilize troops. This humble official believes..."

Kaihuang raised his hand and said, "Mei Fei did indeed mobilize troops without authorization, but his intentions were good after all. Therefore, just..."

"If everyone claims good intentions as an excuse to flout the laws, how then are generals to command armies? How are Chief of Staffs to administer officials? Kaihuang... What do you think?"

The latter half of the sentence, Shen Wei, considering Kaihuang’s face, ultimately didn’t voice out loud.

But Kaihuang could still see that Shen Wei meant to punish Mei Fei.

And yet Mei Fei was one who supported him even before he became Emperor, and was also one of his confidants.

If such a small matter led to punishment, it might easily dishearten those below!

"This matter, Mei Fei has indeed gone too far! Summon someone, immediately write an imperial decree. It must be worded strongly, to reproach him severely!"

Shen Wei originally thought that Kaihuang would punish Mei Fei, and this was the outcome!?