vrcanaries Chapter 505 Military Situation
Chapter 505 Military Situation
In fact, grandfather doesn’t have to answer this question.
Whether his grandfather trusted him or not, he had no choice.
"These rebellious sons! Your Majesty is still trustworthy, otherwise he would have taken action against our Huo family long ago. Huo Yuan, you did the right thing. Now that they have bumped into you, you really can't just stand by and watch."
"But, no matter what, you must protect yourself. You are not alone now, you have a wife and children. By the way, your wife is a good..."
Huo Yuan held his grandfather's hand.
"Well, my wife is fine. She is now protected by His Majesty and the princess, and has made great contributions to the world. She will be fine. I will be very careful. Grandfather, I will bring her to see you if I have the chance."
Huo Yuan really wanted his grandfather to meet his grandson's wife and to reassure the old man.
"Grandfather is satisfied to see you once. It's too dangerous. Don't worry. Grandfather is very happy. You are lucky. You can find such a good wife in the countryside."
Huo Shizhong said no more and took off the hair crown on his head.
"Take this. It contains the military token of our Huo family army."
Although he handed over his military power and the tiger talisman.
But that was the imperial army, and the Huo family, over several generations, also had a lot of power, especially the Huo family army.
The Huo Family Army was founded by his grandfather. He once followed his grandfather to conquer the world and the army continued to grow. After Emperor Taizu of Xia ascended the throne, his grandfather led the Huo Family Army to surrender to the court.
It was not until he took charge of the Huo family that the Huo family army grew stronger and stronger, causing the royal family to be wary, and he took the initiative to hand over the Huo family army.
Later, the Huo family troops were injected into the army in batches and followed the army to guard the territory. Many of them have become generals and are distributed in various military camps.
Although they are now under the control of the imperial court on paper, and perhaps many of them have begun to sincerely submit to the imperial court, there are always some who are still willing to follow the Huo family.
Huo Yuan has been on the battlefield all the time, so I think he feels deeply about this.
The Huo family soldiers in the barracks are even more loyal to him, unlike other soldiers.
The Huo family's military talisman has been issued, and the Huo family's military spirit is still there, so there must be people following them.
In fact, he has always understood that the eldest and second brothers spared his life because they did not find the military token, otherwise he would have been dead long ago.
He originally thought that the military talisman would go down into the earth with him and be taken underground.
Unexpectedly, it came in handy in the end.
The eldest and second oldest brothers relied on being members of the Huo family to win over people in the army, thinking they could accomplish things. In fact, they still took orders from the Huo family's military command.
Of course, it is not ruled out that there are people behind the boss and the second in command, and they may have already taken control of the court's army. This is what really worries people.
As long as Huo Yuan takes out the military token, the Huo family soldiers in the army will raise their arms and call for action, which is always the last trump card.
Huo Yuan obviously knew this truth, so he put the hair crown into his arms and kowtowed heavily again.
"Grandfather, take care."
Huo Shizhong took out an identical hair crown from under the bed and put it on his head. When he heard the noise, he immediately directed him to work.
The bed was not difficult to repair. After some hammering and nailing two nails, Huo Yuan left the Huo family with those people.
That night, the couple entered the space.
Shen Yuan directly opened the hair crown and took out the military token inside.
"You and Grandfather suspect that the current military leaders have been bribed?"
After Shen Yuan's explanation, Su Wanwan also realized the power of this military talisman. It turned out that the Huo family used to have its own army, but these people have now been dispersed in various military camps.
Su Wanwan was also shocked.
Shen Yuan looked solemn.
"It was my uncle and my second uncle. But they may have only won over the former Huo family army. I'm afraid it won't be possible to accomplish anything if they only rely on the Huo family army and the few soldiers they privately raised. So I suspect that the army has already defected."
This is roughly the conclusion Huo Yuan came to based on the information he had obtained a while ago.
"But, given the temperament of my uncle and his men, I'm afraid they can't play such a big game, right? What's more, the Huo family army is thinking that the Huo family might surrender to them. There are so many generals in the army. Not to mention others, even the current Marquis Wu'an, how could he surrender to my uncle and second uncle of the Huo family?"
Su Wanwan has also listened to Shen Yuan's analysis of the current military situation these days. After Mr. Huo handed over the military power, it fell into the name of Marquis Wu'an, who commanded all the troops in the world.
I heard that Marquis Wu'an is nearly sixty years old. He is a chivalrous man and is loyal to the court.
The most important thing is that Marquis Wu'an has no children or grandchildren, only an adopted son, and he seems to care nothing about fame and fortune.
He and the Huo family once guarded the territory in the south and the north, and both made great contributions to the Great Xia Dynasty.
Mr. Huo was also very optimistic about him. After the military power was handed over, it was Mr. Huo who proposed to hand it over to him.
Shen Yuan rubbed his wife's head:
"My wife is really smart. Marquis Wu'an will not submit to my uncle and his men, nor will he necessarily submit to anyone. For this kind of thing, we don't necessarily have to win over Marquis Wu'an, who is in charge of the army. We can also succeed by winning over other generals in the army."
"I just think he's a little suspicious."
Shen Yuan frowned. His grandfather trusted him too much. In this world, besides his grandfather, Marquis Wu'an was the most popular among the people.
Wu'an Hou Pang Rong was nearly sixty years old, but he had no evidence against him and his history was very clean.
Even there is no negative news about his adopted son.
He seemed like a perfect man. When he was young, his wife was infertile, but he did not abandon her. Even after his wife died many years ago, he never remarried and just adopted a child by himself.
There wasn't even a concubine in the mansion, and of course, no mistress either.
Everyone said that he was deeply in love with his wife and that he was a lovesick man.
What a perfect person.
Shen Yuan didn't think there was anything wrong with this at first. If it happened to him, he was afraid that he would be more perfect than him.
Thinking about his own wife, he can definitely do the same.
Once a man falls in love with a woman, he will probably never be able to let go of her even if that woman leaves.
He would give his life for his wife.
He felt that he admired Marquis Wu'an.
So he really didn't want to doubt Marquis Wu'an, but he was a very cautious person, so he still asked someone to investigate Marquis Wu'an.
After checking, we actually found the problem.
The Sun family, the father-in-law of Marquis Wu'an, was sentenced to death because of corruption, bribery, and even rape of women. In the end, they were involved in cheating in the imperial examinations.
This matter caused a lot of uproar at the time. Marquis Wu'an and the late emperor were about the same age, and they both learned martial arts from the same master, so they could be considered to have a fellow-disciple friendship. The late emperor also relied heavily on this fellow disciple. There was news in the palace that for the sake of Marquis Wu'an's wife, he wanted to keep a bloodline in the Sun family.
But Marquis Wu'an refused. He was willing to put the interests of the country above his own and had no intention of pleading for the Sun family.
When people knew about this, they began to praise the noble character of Marquis Wu'an and his wife, but in the end the entire Sun family was destroyed.
But, in fact, Shen Yuan's people found out that the crimes of the Sun family were committed by Marquis Wu'an!