a month later.
As soon as Kumoti, who had just returned to the DPRK, got the news that Hua Mulan was "depressed and bedridden" as soon as she returned to the capital, she was really surprised.
Hua Mulan had served under his account. Back then, he was a real man who did not frown even when he fought hard on the battlefield. How could he be "depressed" because of some nonsense rumors
Many rumors say that it was because His Majesty hated that Hua Mulan had insulted Princess Xingping, so he did not want to revive him, and put him under house arrest in the Nanshan Mountains. In the end, he was stagnant in his heart and could not see anyone.
It is also said that because Hua Mulan offended a lot of people, these people took the opportunity to fall into the trap, forcing His Majesty to make a statement and deal with Hua Mulan first.
No matter which one it is, it reveals a bad message, that is, "Mulan has fallen out of favor".
The surprised Kumoti immediately sent someone out to inquire, but the result he got back was different from the rumors from the outside world. Although Hua Mulan lives in Nanshan, she actually went to recuperate. He injured his shoulder when he rescued His Majesty, and there was a big problem with his entire shoulder.
In order to prevent Mulan's intensive use of martial arts from causing his injuries to worsen, Tuoba Tao asked him to go to Nanshan, a place with few people and secluded people, to recuperate.
The same is recuperating Nanshan, two different rumors, but the results are two completely different.
One has fallen out of favor and is in jeopardy, while the other is the day when Saint Grace is in full swing.
After weighing it in his heart, Kumoti finally chose to go to the palace to ask Tuoba Tao what happened.
Once you enter the palace, you can't get out.
Tuoba Tao insisted on keeping him in the palace.
"You don't have many people living in your house in Beijing, and it's strange that you live in a lonely place. Why don't you live with me in my palace, or you can talk about this expedition..." Tuoba Tao was surrounded by this brother all day today. . "Why did you fall into the water? When I first received the news, I thought I heard it wrong. You are such a cautious person..."
Tuoba Tao suddenly looked at Kumoti suspiciously, until he saw that Kumoti raised his heart.
"Hahahaha..." Tuoba Tao's expression changed from suspicion to sudden realization. He patted Kumoti on the shoulder and laughed: "Could it be that it was not me who saw that I was so scared that my feet slipped? Hahahaha..."
Kumoti put his heart down and shook his head amusingly.
"Your Majesty is too imaginative. It's just that next time something like this happens..."
"I demoted your aunt to a commoner, do you blame me?"
Tuoba Tao interrupted Kumoti's words.
"..." Kumoti saw that he had finally detoured to this topic, so he simply let go and made a clear statement to Tuoba Tao: "Your Majesty, I have already figured it out. This outcome is the best, and all I can say about my aunt is…”
He sighed.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness of not killing."
Tuoba Tao's brows and eyes widened at once, and he was also full of emotion about this matter: "The seeds of disaster have been planted several generations ago, but the decision of the ancestors is not under my control. Now I can. If we solve it early, we can avoid hurting innocent people. For their descendants, I will also deal with them leniently... "
"Yes." Cuomoti nodded. "There's one more thing, I think it's better to say it. In the Montenegro camp, a suspect who killed a ghost committed suicide. He used the spring of the crossbow machine. I gave him the spring."
"what?"
Tuoba Tao thought about it.
"That's not Mulan's..."
"Not only that, on the day of the Mulan competition, an assassin had already planned to assassinate Cui Hao, but Hua Mulan broke through the matter and told me about it, and I took advantage of the situation and found the person who planned it. As a general from the Wang family, I coerced and lured him to dispel the idea of assassinating Cui Hao, and forced him to return home after being injured, so this matter was settled, and the subsequent competition went smoothly..."
Kumoti looked at the thoughtful Tuoba Tao, and continued: "Most of the military households in Montenegro have joined the army, and the relationship between the parties is complicated, so is killing ghosts. His parents and sisters are all under the control of the old master, even if they have already blogged. In such a position, he still has to take the blame for the real assassin. He knows that I rescued Hua Mulan, so I hope I can give him a convenience so that he can die quickly and not involve anyone. "
"Why did I kill the ghost? He said that his family was in the hands of the old master. If he pleaded guilty, he might be punished by the nine clans. If the whole family is to die, it is better to commit suicide first, because there is insufficient evidence, His Majesty may not harm his family, and his family can escape."
"His old master was originally a general under King Wei's account...and a family feud of the clan..." Kumoti said calmly: "I promised to save his family, and then gave him the machine spring."
Tuoba Tao said nothing and listened to Kumoti's "surrender" expressionlessly.
"I have always wanted to maintain the 'peace' between the imperial clan and His Majesty. I originally thought that when His Majesty's strength became stronger and stronger, the clan would naturally know that some things could not be done. And you are gracious and kind, and you are with the late emperor, The ancestors are completely different, and there is a tolerance for people. As time goes by, those unease will dissipate with time, so in those years, I have done a lot of wrong things."
Kumoti had already figured it out in the river, and he didn't want to deceive Tuoba Tao all the time, so he simply told everything he had done.
"After killing the ghost, I found the grandson of King Wei directly. I knew the ins and outs of the matter, and I was willing to hide the truth for them, so the family of the ghost sent it to me quickly. I settled them in my fief. As an ordinary herdsman, he lied to them that Killing Ghost had died in battle. I was his commander, so he took care of them. Killing Ghost’s family was grateful to me, and he never asked him why Killing Ghost died.”
"Later the Wang family's wealth was collected for the purpose of rebellion. Wang Jin was in Chang'an, and his aunt saw that there was no way to hide it, so she hid the things in my other courtyard. Ku, I also had a feud with her because of this. But I didn't expect her to have the courage to do it herself in addition to providing money..."
Kumoti's eyes were full of sorrow.
"She is self-inflicted, and I can't control it."
"Apart from that, is there nothing else?"
Tuoba Tao didn't show any surprise, and continued to say: "Do you still have any knots in your heart? Let's just finish the conversation with the two of us."
"The time of Montenegro..."
When Kumoti saw that Tuoba Tao wanted to know everything, he began to think back carefully, starting from when he discovered that Montenegro was wrong, and talked about the actions of the clan he discovered that year.
He had already left life and death aside, and he had no family fetters. He returned from a great defeat to the country of Yan. It was more like "atonement" and "repayment", and he would not have anything to hide.
There are many things that Kumoti said, many Tuoba Tao had already known through the clan under interrogation, and there were some things he didn't know.
Gradually, a conspiracy that had been laid out for at least ten years was revealed little by little in front of Tuoba Tao, and some things even made him open his eyes in shock.
"What are you talking about? Are there any of them among the people who cultivate the history of the country? They want to erect a monument to reveal all the previous incidents?" Tuoba Tao shouted in disbelief, "We are from Xianbei! The old rules of Xianbei, brothers die Now, it's normal for the younger brother to marry his sister-in-law, and the elder brother to marry a younger sister-in-law, but they actually want to make history?"
"Not only that, the late emperors and ancestors killed so many clans, and many of them were unjustly murdered. They played tricks in the history of the country, but they deceived the top and the bottom, so that they could inform the world about their injustice in the future and be responsible. Cui Hao, who wrote the history of the country, even though he only got a name, he didn't get a good end."
Kumoti said helplessly: "Before they were worried that Cui Hao would find out what they were doing in the history of the country, because Cui Hao is too smart, so they wanted to assassinate Cui Hao during the Black Mountain Competition. The assassination failed. , they found that Cui Hao had to deal with too many government affairs every day, and he didn't have time to watch the historians who were cultivating the history work every day. He just read a batch of manuscripts every three months. Those proofreading documents, the history of the country is too complicated, my Xianbei people have no written language, and many materials are incomplete, and I have to ask the elders of those clans, which gives them another opportunity..."
He did not dare to say that the day when the national history was completed was also the time when Xianbei was ashamed.
"You've been hiding such a big thing until now..." Tuoba Tao sighed with some resentment: "Am I being too happy? Or am I too heavy on martial arts and light on literature? You won't talk about the history of the country today. , I almost forgot."
Every dynasty had to revise the history of the country. The Xianbei had no written language, and before the Sinicization was not enough, many Han ministers refused to serve in the imperial court, so the revising of the history has been delayed until now.
Cui Hao is the chief officer, but the chief officer has always been a name. Many ministers of the Han people are unwilling to write history for the Xianbei people, so most of the historians are from the Xianbei.
It also gave them an opportunity.
If one day the "original" national history is announced to the public, it will become the laughing stock of the world if you want to delete it. But the words and deeds of the Xianbei clan when they were ignorant were seen as barbaric and shameless now, but in the eyes of the Hu clan at that time, it was their way of life. Tuoba Tao always wanted Wei to become the "Orthodox of the Central Plains". If these scandals were made public, the orthodox status would be shaken.
"If I don't find out, how are you going to stop it?"
Tuoba Tao asked his brother curiously. From his point of view, if the history is to be repaired for more than ten years, the project is so huge that it is extremely difficult to stop it.
Kumoti touched Pei Jue on his waist, and replied a little embarrassedly: "I must... I want to burn down a few rooms of Your Majesty..."
"You... you..." Tuoba Tao's eyes widened. "There aren't many books in the library. Once you've finished burning them..."
"That's a no-brainer."
Kumoti's face was slumped: "I thought at the time, even if I tried to get impeached, I would try to burn everything. But then I thought about it, at that time, it is not certain that I will still be alive, so I just Thinking about the idea of burning it in the past few years, once the manuscript is burned, Cui Hao will definitely be alert, start to pay attention to this matter, and personally support Xiu Shi..."
The library burned down, someone must be responsible, and Cui Hao, the chief of history repairs, should be held accountable for it.
Once Cui Hao pays attention, those clans can't play any tricks in Cui Hao's hands.
"You thought you were doing something secretive, but there are already traces of it. As early as when I was enthroned, an egret official once secretly reported that you were close to the clan." Tuoba Tao smiled bitterly, "Luo Jie once warned me. Pay attention to your movements. Hua Mulan once thought that you were in collusion with Wang Jin and wanted to harm me. I have always believed in you. If you really want to deal with me, you don't need to be so troublesome. That cup of poisonous tea back then... "
"Your Majesty, please don't mention that again."
What happened to that cousin back then was a pain in the hearts of both of them.
Such wonderful characters have since disappeared into the world, and even if the history of the country is rebuilt, they will not be mentioned again.
Sometimes, Kumoti even felt that it would be better to drink the whole cup of poisonous tea himself, so as not to struggle so hard later.
"Speaking of Hua Mulan..." Kumoti turned the subject bluntly, "I thought Hua Mulan would go out of the city with Baiguan to welcome our class teacher back to court. Why are there rumors that he is recovering in Nanshan?"
"He is indeed recovering."
Tuoba Tao's head also hurt a lot. After casting the spell, Tuoba Huang, who had obtained divine power, was able to run around very quickly, but Hua Mulan's vitality was severely damaged, and it took half a month to raise it.
Because he never thought of the "best of both worlds" method, Tuoba Tao was a little afraid to face Hua Mulan, so he didn't make a decree to let Hua Mulan go home, but just let the prince run more diligently, and he often drove to Nanshan's other palace. , but each time it stayed less than an hour.
"It's just in time for you to come back. Help me to persuade him. He is so young, he wants to get rid of his armor and return to the field..." Tuoba Tao said with a headache: "He said he was tired and didn't like fighting. Listen, I'm just now. When it was time to use him, he told me that he was tired of fighting and wanted to go back home!"
"Your Majesty has promised Mulan something before but it didn't come true?" Kumoti's first reaction was that something happened to Tuoba Tao that annoyed Hua Mulan.
He knew that Hua Mulan's temper was by no means a random person. Unless he was disheartened, he would not take the initiative to ask for it.
"I look so absurd?" Tuoba Tao's nose crooked with anger, "I'm even planning to expand the Hu Ben army to 50,000!"
"That's the matter of Princess Xingping, Your Majesty..."
Kumoti continued to speculate.
The more Tuoba Tao listened, the more irritable he became. Then he thought that Kumoti had told him everything, and it would be meaningless for him to hide it from him. He simply took a deep breath and looked at Kumoti and said, "Forget it, I'll tell you. What the hell is going on, you can help me with the details..."
The place where they were discussing was originally an unmanned waterside pavilion, and the guards were patrolling the shore to protect it. Tuoba Tao was not afraid that others would listen, so he simply said to Kumoti: "Actually, Mulan is a woman."
This time, Kumoti, who has always been calm, can't calm down.
"That's impossible!"
Kumoti cried out: "He used to sleep with me in the same room... He... he was like..."
"Uh? Sleeping together under the same account? Oh, you are talking about night time..." Tuoba Tao was shocked and changed his color, and then he thought that Hua Mulan used to be Kumoti's personal soldier, so he would never have any affair. Otherwise, Kumoti wouldn't have known that she was a woman, so he shivered a few times in a funny way.
"What's the matter, I took off/dressed/clothes/ in front of her! There are people in the military who open up to urinate..."
Kumoti tried his best to think about He Mulan's face on the woman, and the whole person shivered when he thought about it.
"Your Majesty, don't joke with me. You say I'm a woman, and some people believe me. How could a warrior like Hua Mulan..."
Kumoti was quite calm. When Helian Mingzhu heard him last month, he ran away with his ears covered like a lunatic.
Tuoba Tao held back in his heart for so long, and he didn't believe it to anyone who heard it. Now, the bad taste came up, just using this incident to ease the embarrassing atmosphere between the two, he said with a smile: "I wanted to reuse him before, so I just used it. Pai Su and Jun went to check the details of the Hua family, and guess what? The Hua family has only two daughters, the one named Hua Mulan is the second daughter of his family, and the only son is not yet an adult..."
Kumoti frowned.
"There are other possibilities, such as the family's son and nephew joining the army for the uncle..."
"But she told me herself." Tuoba Tao smiled unhurriedly, "Grandpa has no eldest son, Mulan has no eldest brother, I would like to be a saddle horse for the city, and from now on I will fight for you..."
Tuoba Tao laughed and patted Kumoti on the shoulder.
"She herself said she was a woman, but she was not really beautiful. She was tall and strong, and she learned martial arts from her father. After entering the military camp, no one recognized her as a woman. Besides, You've also seen that beautiful comrade of hers..."
Tuoba Tao was referring to Di Yefei.
"Do you think that with him, who would think that Mulan is a woman? Haha, haha, even me, I wouldn't think that Mulan is a woman!"
"Wipe this general's back!"
"Tell me to be a squire..."
"Lord General, how long has it been since you took a bath?"
"More than two months. It's very comfortable to grasp, and then wipe it with your thick calluses!"
"You Jun eats too badly. You are so skinny, where is your strength?"
Kumoti, whose face was already green, suddenly remembered the past in his mind, but his whole body was a little dizzy, and his body was a little shaky.
What did he do then
By the way, he pinched Hua Mulan's chest and said—
"Hahaha, your boy looks thin, but your chest is very strong..."
What are these in front of me? Huh? Why are there stars flying in the sky? Isn't it daytime? Or was he soaking in the water for too long and his brain was flooded
Kumoti helped the pillars of the water pavilion to avoid falling into the water. Tuoba Tao, who was next to him, was lying on the stone table with laughter, unable to move.
"Hahahaha, I knew it would be like this! Hahahahaha! I'm just waiting for you to be like this! Hahahaha...hahahaha..."
"Your Majesty, don't laugh for now..." Kumoti gritted his teeth and said: "If Hua Mulan is really a woman, then she has no choice but to 'deceive her'. Have you ever thought that there are so many people around her. Married guards, if it is rumored that she is a woman, how will she marry in the future? How will she live?"
"Cheat to death? No, no, I once told her that even if she was a woman, I would use her." Tuoba Tao sat down on the stone table in the water pavilion with some distress.
"Hua Mulan is different from other courtiers, she has no selfishness. Maybe sometimes she is a woman, and sometimes she is ridiculously persistent, but like you and me, she is a person with faith in her heart, not for fame. Li Lufei is a cowardly mediocre person."
"Although she is a woman, she is as knowledgeable and capable as a man. There are many women in this world who deserve the respect of others. My Empress Dowager is one, Mrs. He is one, and Hua Mulan is even more detached from 'men and women'. Category is just a hero worthy of reuse."
Tuoba Tao put away his teasing expression and asked Kumoti seriously: "I ask you, I can reuse criminals, subordinate ministers, and even enemies, why can't I reuse a woman? Just because she is a woman. ?"
"Your Majesty, of course you can always reuse her, but only if she is willing. Now, since she is tired, she must have sensed the discomfort brought by being a woman. Women age much faster than men. When she is 30 years old, if she has no children and no daughters, she will be in a state of shame all her life, even if she is a king and a general, what's the point? Do you let her face the wall for the rest of her life as soon as she returns to the general's mansion? "
Kumoti knew what Tuoba Tao meant, but the risk was too great, and he did not want both of them to choose this path.
"Choosing to cheat to death can at least return life to the original right track. Although she is not beautiful, but with her own wealth, it is possible to recruit children. She is so skilled in martial arts, and it is impossible for an idle man to make her suffer... "
Kumoti suddenly appeared in front of Mulan wearing women's clothes teaching her husband, and she couldn't help shaking her head, throwing the terrifying scene out of her head.
"This is good for you and for Mulan."
"I, the Great Wei, already have a female official." Tuoba Tao said suddenly: "Yucui has done a good job as a guest of Honglu Temple, and everyone praises her."
"That's different."
Kumoti scratched at the post a little irritably.
"She holds military power! Military power!"
Tuoba Tao was even more incomprehensible now.
"It's military power, but what does that matter?"
"Women in charge of soldiers are really not a big deal for us Xianbei people, but from the perspective of the world? If you want to become a 'Son of Heaven' from the Great Khan, the orthodox status is essential. If you let a woman Commander, does this count as 'justifiable'? How many men are willing to condescend to women?"
Kumoti tried to persuade Tuoba Tao from "influence".
"I know what you said."
Tuoba Tao gave a willful high five.
"But I just want to use Hua Mulan!"
"You really..."
Kumoti had the urge to go crazy.
Tuoba Tao's face was full of expressions, "I'm self-willed, I'm unreasonable, I'm honorable, what can you do with me?"
Kumoti calmed down, resisted the urge to throw Tuoba Tao into the lake, and turned his head to the lake.
There are no lotus leaves in the lotus lake in March and April, but the wicker on the bank has spit out new green, and everything looks prosperous.
Baimeng Book
He took a deep breath and let it out slowly, making his thoughts clear and calm.
"Your Majesty, if you want Hua Mulan to take over the military as a woman, it will be a long-term process, and it cannot be accomplished overnight. She is a woman and joins the army on her father's behalf. Will bring private soldiers to join the army. Because you have already sealed a female general, there are rules to follow, and the second and third female generals are not impossible. "
Tuoba Tao heard that this clan brother was starting to think carefully about this matter, and was overjoyed: "Yes, yes, I also think it's too difficult, so I asked you what to do!"
Kumoti closed his eyes and continued to analyze: "Although Hua Mulan has no selfish intentions, once a woman becomes a parent, she will inevitably plan for future generations, such as Aunt Duanping..."
"It's not a problem, Hua Mulan doesn't have Guishui."
Tuoba Tao looked at Kumoti, who suddenly turned his head with a haunted expression, and couldn't help laughing: "If a woman washes the army tent with blood every month, do you think she can hide her identity? Mulan has a hidden disease, has never passed Guishui in the future, and will have no descendants, so she has not been flawed for so many years."
He also shook his head regretfully: "This is really a pity, Daochang Kou said that her divine power may be passed down through the bloodline, even if her descendants do not have any, there may be other descendants in the future, or other descendants. Such ability. But things in the world are so fair, she has strengths that other women don't have, and there are other women who have shortcomings that she doesn't have."
"... This is a place where you can do something, but it's too cruel for a woman." Kumoti received two explosive messages today, and he was already a little dizzy.
Helpless, Tuoba Tao was still eagerly waiting for his opinion, so he could only calm down and continue to think.
"Besides martial arts, what is Mulan's biggest advantage? Prestige!"
Cuomo couldn't help rolling his eyes when he thought of this.
"But because of Princess Xingping and you moving her to Nanshan, her reputation is about to lose a lot, and it's probably a matter of time before it becomes a laughing stock in all countries..."
"When her female identity is revealed, she will naturally be defeated without attacking."
Tuoba Tao was not worried at all.
"Yes, not only can it be defeated without attacking, but it can also completely defeat Juqu Mujian's vicious thoughts. It just doesn't do her any good. The most appropriate way is for her to reveal her identity as a woman, and then tell everything. The original reason, and proposed to disarm and return to the field... "
Kumoti said with a cold expression.
"But I want to use her..."
"Yes, so, Your Majesty, you can't agree, but let her go back for a while and think about it." Kumoti looked at Tuoba Tao, who was full of puzzled expressions, and really felt tired in his heart and brain, and sighed faintly. gas.
"Your Majesty, the question now is not whether you want to use Hua Mulan, but Hua Mulan is tired and doesn't want to fight any more. What's the use of a general who has no fighting spirit? Hua Mulan can't figure out for herself where she is in a day. If you insist on anything, it is impossible to truly change back to the original 'General Tiger'."
"You mean..."
Tuoba Tao touched his chin.
"Moving people with love?"
"In addition, this year, Hua Mulan has been in the army for seven years. In seven years, she doesn't know how many blood and tears she has shed and how many friends she has. This is an experience that a woman raised in a boudoir cannot have. Even ordinary soldiers are disarmed and return to the field, I will also keep recalling the days when I was in the military, as long as it is someone who has been on the battlefield, these have already been embedded in the bones, and they can't go away at all..."
Cuomoti is sure of this.
"She has so many people in the army, there must be many colleagues who don't mind her identity as a woman at all, I hope she can stay, and when the time comes, as long as your majesty helps her, and then try to find her friends in the army, Being able to persuade them to come to Pingcheng will surely calm the worries in Hua Mulan's heart."
Kumoti is born with a delicate touch to the human heart, so he cuts off Mulan's fear directly from the source. "Hua Mulan doesn't want to join the army anymore, it's not that she doesn't love life in the army, it's that her personality is too good, she is worried about causing trouble to others, and worried that her identity as a woman will be revealed sooner or later and affect everyone's life. I'm worried that my comrades in the army will one day be disappointed..."
Tuoba Tao's expression gradually became solemn, and he nodded slowly.
"Not only that, the Hua family seems to have been living in torment."
Kumoti sighed in his heart.
He knew that once he made this move, with Hua Mulan's character, he would not be able to get away from work and return to the field.
But for a woman like her, even if she is really disarmed and returns to the field, after spending a while in the countryside, she will understand where she belongs in the end.
The place where Dawei needs warriors is not only the battlefield. In such a chaotic world, who is not his own warrior
This is an era that only talks about heroes, regardless of other times!
"Your Majesty, I can only make suggestions. You are the emperor who is respected by the world. Let the world see your courage, and let the colleagues of Hua Mulan and those who understand the usefulness of Hua Mulan feel your sincerity!"
Kumoti bowed to Tuoba Tao.
"Please let the people of the world see that it is not that you want to keep Hua Mulan as an official, but the people of the world want to keep Hua Mulan as an official, and it is the army who wants to keep Hua Mulan as an official! It is not that you need Hua Mulan, but the great Wei needs Hua Mulan. Mulan, the army needs Hua Mulan, and the people need Hua Mulan…”
"That's the only way to get the best of both worlds!"