Zi Hou, for what reason do you laugh? So much so.”
Zhao Wenhua and Hu Zongxian both looked at Zhu Pingan with burning eyes, waiting for his answer.
The atmosphere within the marshal tent was instantly depressing.
However, against the burning gazes of the two, Zhu Pingan hardened himself and laughed for a while longer before slowly stopping his laughter.
“Master Zhao, Lord Hu, why are you so tense and uneasy, shouldn’t you let out a laugh at a great joyous event?”
After Zhu Pingan stopped his laughter, he couldn’t help but say to the two.
Hu Zongxian opened his mouth wide and stared straight at Zhu Pingan with a surprised and puzzled look on his face.
What is going on with Zhu Pingan?
When Lord Zhao and I were in a hurry to catch fire and shirk our responsibilities, he even laughed out loud and said something about it being a great joy?
Taken the wrong medication?
Hu Zongxian was surprised and speechless to the extreme at Zhu Pingan.
Of course, there were also doubts.
Zhu Pingan is not such an irrational person, why is today’s behaviour and speech so abnormal? Hu Zongxian was puzzled.
“Big happy event? The Japanese invaders attacked the Bun Festival at night, causing me to lose the sea festival, Zi Hou you say this is a great joy?!”
Hearing Zhu Pingan’s words, Zhao Wenhua couldn’t help but pull down his face, took a deep breath and slowly glared at Zhu Pingan.
“After the completion of the Sea Sacrifice Ceremony in the daytime, in order to boost the morale of Jiangnan’s anti-Japanese resistance, and in order to uplift the hearts of the military and the people, Master Zhao did not hesitate to risk his own life and use himself as a bait to carry out the trick of luring the enemy. That night, in the dead of night, the Japanese fell for the trick, and more than a thousand Japanese sneaked into the Bun Festival and attacked the marshal’s tent, falling into the dragnet laid down by Zhao Shi.”
“On that night, more than 500 Japanese were beheaded, and the rest of the Japanese had no choice but to jump into the sea, with no bones left.”
“This battle is the first great achievement in Jiangnan since the war against the Japanese, and has greatly encouraged and uplifted the hearts of the army and the people.”
“Congratulations to Master Zhao, congratulations to Master Zhao. Just after sacrificing the sea in the daytime, the god of the sea has given out divine power at night to help my Ming to destroy the Japanese, this battle is enough to prove that the sea sacrifice is a great success. In the future, when the Japanese are annihilated, there will definitely be divine assistance.”
“The student suggests that when daybreak comes, collect the corpses of the Japanese invaders and parade them in the nearby villages, towns, and cities, so that the people at large will know about Master Zhao’s deed of using his body as a bait to lure and kill more than 1,000 Japanese invaders this night, in order to inspire the people’s hearts to a greater extent.”
Zhu Pingan smiled, arched his hand towards Zhao Wenhua, and slowly said.
While Zhu Pingan was speaking, the expression on Zhao Wenhua’s face was richly smacking, from exasperation, to consternation, to shock, to surprise, and finally to great joy.
“Zi Hou, this is mourning and joy, powerful, powerful, worthy of being Zi Hou! This move of veto, simply brilliant!”
After hearing this, Hu Zongxian excitedly and excitedly slapped his thighs with great force, praising Zhu Pingan with positive admiration.
Zhu Pingan smiled and shook his head, correcting, “No, Lord Hu, it’s not about mourning, it’s about celebrating the real thing, the real thing. What I have said are facts. It is a fact that the Japanese invaders attacked at night today, it is also a fact that Zhao Shi stood firm in his tent and attracted the Japanese invaders’ main force to besiege him, and it is also a fact that he killed more than 500 Japanese invaders during the night, although there is no statistic on it yet, but it should not be less than 500. As for the rest of the Japanese invaders, they were chased by Zhao Shi, Lord Hu and I, and jumped into the sea in desperation, with the help of the sea god, these Japanese invaders would never survive, it’s just a pity that there are no surviving corpses, and the deaths are not verified.”
“Right, right, what Zi Hou said is very true, it is my misspeak.”After Hu Zongxian heard this, he nodded his head and corrected himself.
“Good! Great good!”
“That’s right, it was me who risked my life and used my body as bait to lure this batch of Japanese to throw themselves into the net and then kill them all in one go!”
“Just after completing the sea sacrifice ceremony during the day, the gods manifested themselves at night and helped my Ming to eliminate this group of Japanese invaders.”
“This is truly a joyous occasion. I want to report the good news to His Majesty, report the success, report this good news, to His Majesty, and also let His Majesty be happy.”
Zhao Wenhua nodded his head repeatedly, overjoyed, not expecting a change of perspective, tonight’s bad news had turned into great joy.
Turning bad news into good news!
Turning rottenness into magic!
Zhu Pingan, truly very human.
“Zi Hou, worthy of being Zi Hou. At first, Donglou said that he, Lu Bing and Yang Bo were the only three talented people in the world. From my point of view, Zi Hou’s talent is not inferior to them in the slightest.”
Zhao Wenhua patted Zhu Pingan’s shoulder and praised him, at the same time, it also strengthened his idea of pulling Zhu Pingan into his camp.
“Master Zhao is flattering. How can a student be compared to Lord Lu, Lord Yang and Lord Yan.”Zhu Pingan humbly said.
“There’s no fallacious praise, Zi Hou doesn’t need to be presumptuous, you fully deserve it.”Zhao Wenhua said with a smile.
“However, with so many officials, soldiers, and people present who have witnessed tonight’s events, I’m afraid that some people will have a different story.”
Hu Zongxian stroked his chin and raised a concern.
After hearing this, Zhao Wenhua also nodded, he also had this concern, so he turned his gaze towards Zhu Pingan.
“Military affairs are also secret, especially the plan to lure the enemy, it is even more important to keep it secret, otherwise, once it is leaked, which has the enemy’s plan will also fail. Therefore, tonight’s enemy plan, Zhao Shi strictly limited the scope of knowledge, only told Lord Hu, I, well, and Marquis Linhuai know, the main call for troops is Lord Hu’s 2,000 Chinese army, my 800 Zhejiang army, and Marquis Linhuai’s 3,000 Jianghuai army. Nearly six thousand soldiers, enough to make things happen. Everyone else is also unaware of tonight’s plan to lure the enemy, and only by faking it will we be able to make it look real, so that the Japanese will believe it and dive headfirst into the dragnet laid down by Zhao Shi.”
Zhu Pingan slowly spoke after Hu Zongxian’s words.
“Well, yes, exactly. Tonight’s plan to use my body as bait to lure the Japanese deeper into the net, I only told Mei Lin, Zi Hou, and Marquis Linhuai to know about it. No one else knew about it, however, at the beginning of the sea sacrifice, I also ordered them to raise their guard, it’s just that there are some people, who are paralysed and negligent in their duties, hmph, it’s too much of a disappointment to me.”
Zhao Wenhua nodded, deeply impressed.
“Master Zhao, tonight is a big celebration, let’s bypass them this time for now, lest they have a grudge and vilify Your Excellency.”
Zhu Pingan said with a face of consideration for Zhao Wenhua.
Zhao Wenhua thought about it and nodded, tonight’s great victory of baiting the enemy, after all, is not so bottomless, if he punished Yu Dayou and the others, it is inevitable that they will climb up and bite themselves in order to get out of their guilt and responsibility, it is better to let them off the hook, and not to be blamed for their dereliction of duty and loss of troops in the battalion tonight, so I think that they wouldn’t dare to be redundant and get into trouble.
“Similarly, tonight, I am afraid that there are many common people who have also suffered from the calamity of the fish, but also request that you provide compassionate relief, so as to avoid some of the people from misunderstanding and vilifying you.”Zhu Pingan thought of the innocent people who were hurt outside and then spoke.
“This is how it should be. There is still silver left over from the sea sacrifice, for the people who were killed, the pension will be ten taels of silver; for the people who were injured, all medical expenses will be borne by the public.”
Zhao Wenhua listened and nodded, he also knew which was more important, now was not the time to be heartbroken about the silver.
This was also a hush money in disguise.
In addition, the people at the scene had called out to him Zhao Qingtian many times, this was an experience he had never had before, he still had a drop of affection for these people.
