Valley Emperor

The capital of the Tang Empire, inside the Imperial Palace of Chengtianfu Jinling City.

The huge floor-to-ceiling glass windows of the conference room were blocked by thick curtains, and the sunlight outside the windows could only occasionally penetrate through the gaps.

The conference room is filled with stars, and the generals from the army, navy, and guards are sitting on a huge rectangular table, but it is different from the previous military strategy conference. In this meeting, there are still several people. A soldier in a special uniform.

The color of the military uniforms on them is not the dark blue military uniform of the army or the dark blue of the navy. Well, these two colors actually look the same.

The color of the military uniforms on these people is pure black. In addition, the style of the military uniforms is not the same as the military uniforms of the army and navy.

These people are the generals from the fleet of the Datang Western Trading Company. No, they should be said to be the senior managers of the company.

The Datang Western Trading Company fleet, although it is a legal armed force within the Datang Empire due to the existence of the Western Ocean Trade License, is not an official armed force, so the armed personnel in their company fleet are not soldiers. Rather, they belong to armed employees.

Although its rank is also based on the military rank system, the title is naturally different, and the senior generals of the company's fleet are also senior managers of the company.

However, the senior armed managers in these company fleets were not much different from the other soldiers present except for their clothes. Their words and deeds, and even their sitting posture, were exactly the same as those of the army and navy soldiers.

Because the armed employees in the fleet of Datang Western Trading Company are all military veterans, and some senior positions are naturally held by middle and senior military retired generals. In fact, in many cases, the military directly Deploy active-duty generals to serve in the past.

Just to avoid suspicion, before being transferred to the post, he will retire and serve as a retired soldier.

But after the term expires, they are often transferred back to the military, um, in the name of recruiting retired personnel to serve again!

Therefore, in the fleet of Datang Western Trading Company, although ordinary soldiers and middle and low-level officers are all real retired soldiers, the senior generals are actually only active servicemen dressed in the skins of retired soldiers.

In other words, in fact, the fleet of Datang Western Trading Company was also under the control of the military of the Datang Empire.

Otherwise, do you think the Army and Navy would really let a so-called trading company control such a huge armed force?

Impossible!

The company fleet is just the skin of the company fleet. More often, you can think of it as the fourth official armed force of Datang.

There are more than 20 senior generals sitting in this conference room, but it still makes this conference room quite empty, this conference room is really big.

At the same time, these people also closed their eyes and meditated, and did not whisper to each other, but waited for the arrival of the Son of Heaven!

According to the usual practice, the Holy Son of Heaven will come in at any time at this time. This is also the reason why many generals are sitting upright and closing their eyes to raise their hearts. They do not want the Holy Son of Heaven to come in and see themselves. Chatting with colleagues.

However, after a quarter of an hour, many generals couldn't help it, because the clock in the corner was already pointing at 10:20 in the morning, and according to the previous notice, the meeting should be at exactly 10:00. It started. For this reason, most of them actually entered the palace one after another at nine o'clock, and began to wait for the meeting to be held.

And the Holy Son of Heaven, Li Xuan, has always been a very punctual person, or in other words, a person who is one-of-a-kind. He said that the meeting would be held at ten o'clock, that is, the meeting would be held at ten o'clock, and there was rarely an advance or delay.

But now, the Holy Son of Heaven Li Xuan has not arrived at the conference room!

Many people began to look left and right, but they did not get any answers from others.

About ten minutes later, when the needle on the clock pointed to ten thirty, there was a sound of footsteps at the door, and then a second-class secretary of the Hanlin Academy walked in quickly and said: "His Majesty is about to arrive, please pick up all the adults!"

finally come!

This made many generals who thought that something unexpected happened and the meeting might be canceled were relieved. They immediately stood up one by one and stood in line at the door.

They are sorted according to their military rank and position, and there is no confusion at all!

About two minutes later, with a loud voice, "Your Majesty is here!"

All the generals raised their heads and raised their chests in unison, their legs were standing side by side, their hands were hanging down, their fingers were close together, and their eyes were all turned to the door!

At this moment, everyone saw Li Xuan, the Holy Emperor with a light beard at the corner of his mouth, walking in slowly!

Today's Holy Son of Heaven, Li Xuan, did not wear casual clothes as usual. Instead, he was wearing a very special military uniform that belonged to Li Xuan alone.

Li Xuan dressed in this way was very common more than ten years ago, especially during the Unification War, Li Xuan often went out to lead the army to go on expeditions in person. With the attributes of his horse emperor, Li Xuan often wears military uniforms.

But in the past ten years, Li Xuan rarely wears it like this. Whether in private or formal public occasions, Li Xuan is either in casual clothes or a dragon robe dress. Pure military uniforms are rarely used. Wear it again.

When everyone saw the uniform of the Holy Son of Heaven Li Xuan, they felt that the Holy Son of Heaven Li Xuan attached great importance to today's military strategy meeting of the Imperial Army, the Battle of Malacca and the Indian Ocean Raiders.

But what surprised them was that there was a person behind Li Xuan!

As the emperor, Li Xuan naturally followed a large group of people wherever he went. When he was in the front hall, most of these people who often accompanied him were important officials in the court, such as the minister on duty in the imperial study, the minister of walking, and in addition There are also the special secretaries of the Imperial Academy in the Secretariat of the Imperial Academy and the Imperial Guards of the Imperial Academy Guards Office.

But today, the ministers of the DPRK and China did not see it, because today is a military strategy meeting, those civilians will naturally not come to meddle!

Except for the two special people, the secretary and the guard, everyone saw a familiar and unfamiliar figure!

This figure is very young, only fifteen or sixteen years old. In addition, he is not too tall. It can only be said to be of medium stature, and even looks slightly thinner. His face is five or six points similar to Li Xuan in front of him. Looking closely, many veteran generals who have experienced the founding stage feel that this person is very similar to the place where Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven, ascended the throne.

This son is also dressed in a military uniform, but the military uniform on his body is not an ordinary military uniform. Instead, it is the same as the military uniform on Li Xuan's body. People wear it like this because it is Li Xuan's own design, and the military uniforms set up with reference to the modern military uniforms of later generations are very different from traditional costumes.

The military uniform on this person is exactly the same as Li Xuan's uniform in style, but there are differences in the texture and other details. It is four dragons, but it is also a five-clawed golden dragon.

Based on this military uniform, especially the four five-clawed golden dragons on it, anyone who has a little knowledge of Datang's clothing etiquette can know that this is none other than His Royal Highness Li Hao, the Crown Prince of the Datang Empire.

The reason why everyone felt unfamiliar and familiar at first glance was because although most of them had met Prince Li Hao, they had never met him very often. Most of them met only once, at most two or three times. That's it, because Prince Li Hao has always been reclusive, and although he also attended the Royal Academy, since he was established as the Imperial Prince, he has been in a class by himself, without any classmates!

Those aristocratic children who are also studying in the royal school basically can't see him, let alone those foreign ministers.

But although I have only seen him once or twice, in view of the importance of Li Hao, almost every courtier will try to imprint his appearance in their minds as much as possible to avoid the appearance of seeing the prince but not recognizing anyone. embarrassing thing.

When these generals saw that Prince Li Hao was also behind Li Xuan, and he was wearing a special military uniform like Li Xuan, many people were a little stunned.

The Son of Heaven actually brought the Crown Prince to attend the Imperial Military Strategy Conference. This is the first time in the world!

No, this is not just the Imperial Military Strategy Meeting, but any formal meeting such as the morning meeting held every day or the small court meeting held once every three or five days.

Prince Li Hao has never appeared!

The only few public appearances in formal occasions~www.wuxiaspot.com~ were at the Spring Festival State Banquet, and on weekdays, courtiers, even Liu Bagou, would hardly see Prince Li Hao.

But today, Crown Prince Li Hao is attending this Imperial Military Strategy Meeting with Li Xuan, and the political implications here are definitely not small.

Could it be that His Majesty intends to let the Crown Prince participate in government affairs?

This is the guess of many generals present!

However, Li Xuan naturally didn't know or care about the guesses of these courtiers. He just brought Prince Li Hao to the meeting according to his established plan. This meeting is just the beginning, and Li Xuan will follow up on Li Hao's training. Make a series of special arrangements.

On the other hand, Li Hao, who was following behind Li Xuan, although his face was plain as water, only showed a very professional smile when facing the courtiers' eyes, but he was still a little nervous inside.

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