The eagle roared across the sky, Geng Shu looked up, and saw a black spot in the distance, hovering under the white clouds.
A galloping horse came from the horizon, and a familiar voice shouted from a distance: "Brother!"
Geng Shu pointed his whip into the distance, frowned and said, "Stop!"
The eagle flew towards Geng Shu and landed on his shoulder pads. Prince Taki slowed down his horse and said with a smile, "Are you done?"
"Who asked you to come?" Geng Shu said displeased.
Prince Taki smiled, rode his horse again, and slowly approached Geng Shu. Geng Shu whipped his whip and tried to fight, but Prince Taki subconsciously avoided it, and then laughed.
He looked back and said to Geng Shu, "It's okay, my aunt let me out. Yesterday, a letter came from the palace, saying that all the Lin Hu people have been captured by you."
Geng Shu turned around, ignored Prince Taki, and rode his horse away. Prince Taki hurriedly followed behind Geng Shu and said, "Father, the king said, don't worry about the next thing, someone will take over and let you go back to the palace as soon as possible."
Geng Shu didn't answer, but Prince Taki caught up, rode side by side with him, and said, "The ministers in the DPRK and China have finally agreed to enter the Yubi Pass. You have to help me, brother, only you can be the striker."
Geng Shu looked into the distance. On the hillside, there was a stone pagoda that the Linhu people had worshipped for generations.
Prince Taki said again: "We have to keep up with food and military equipment in time, and we have to catch them by surprise before winter..."
Geng Shu suddenly said: "Horse racing, go from here to the tower, this is the beginning."
Prince Taki was caught off guard. He didn't expect that Geng Shu would suddenly propose a test, and said hurriedly, "Drive! You have to let me!"
Geng Shu calmly put his legs on the horse's belly and rushed out.
"I let you for four years, but the people in the south will not let you..." In an instant, the voice disappeared from the wind.
Prince Taki shouted, "It's not fair!"
Prince Taki went all out, panting, and rushed his horse down the hillside, only to see Geng Shu slow down and circle the hillside a few times. It has been around three times under the tower.
Prince Taki rushed to the front of the stone pagoda, and Geng Shu came over slowly.
Prince Taki was out of breath. Even if he came on horseback, he was still very tired. He rolled over and got off his horse, lying on the grass in front of the stone pagoda, looking at the sky.
Geng Shu also sat on the ground, looking at the village in the distance under the hillside, the Linhu villages scattered everywhere, black smoke was still coming out, leaving the embers of the war.
Haidongqing flew over and landed beside Geng Shu. Prince Taki reached out to touch it, and the eagle turned his head impatiently, exactly the same as Geng Shu.
"If you are not in the palace, it will ignore me," Prince Taki said with a smile, "Let Feng Yu follow you in the future."
Geng Shu took out some jerky from the marching pocket, and tore it open with his slender fingers to feed it.
Geng Shu said: "It just thinks that you are fine and long-winded. If something goes wrong, of course, it will give up its life and not want it, and it will protect you."
Prince Taki looked at Geng Shu suspiciously, then laughed and said, "Really?"
"I let it do what it does." Geng Shu said casually.
Geng Shu looked at Hai Dongqing in a trance. This eagle has lived in Luoyan City for nearly 20 years. It was donated by Lin Hu people when Juicang was still alive. It was only a young eagle that year. After getting it, Geng Yuan and Juicang raised it together. After Juicang died, no one cared about it and kept it in the harem. Four years ago, Geng Shu passed the garden and saw it, so he untied its ankle and wanted to let it go.
But Costin not only did not leave, but put away his violent temper and accompanied Geng Shu. Wherever Geng Shu went, it would follow.
"It recognizes your father," Juicong replied to this, "of course it recognizes you as well."
Rao is so, Geng Shu completely tame it, and also spent a lot of effort. For half a year, the two brothers, Geng Shu and Prince Taki, worked hard every day to gain its trust. Prince Taki was slapped by an eagle's wing once, half of his face was swollen, and his hand was pecked again, dripping with blood. Fortunately, the injury was not serious and was healed quickly.
After that, Prince Taki kept this flat-haired beast at a distance, but Geng Shu was the only one who kept it patiently. As a result, in the palace, except for Geng Shu's words, this Costin is ignored by anyone.
While speaking, Geng Shu suddenly thought of another eagle-like person, Jie Gui. He always felt that today was a bit unusual, it turned out that Jie Gui didn't follow.
Prince Taki already had a tacit understanding, Geng Shu's face changed slightly, he knew what he wanted to ask, and motioned him to look.
Jie Gui was riding a horse and had already stopped at the foot of the hill, like Geng Shu's loyal eagle, waiting for Prince Taki's dispatch at any time.
Prince Taki was obviously quite impatient with this ugly assassin who was inseparable, and said, "Go back? How long have you not taken a bath? You smell like a wolf."
Geng Shu got up and said, "I didn't despise you, but you despised me?"
Geng Shu went down the hillside, mounted the horse with Prince Taki, went back to hand over, ignoring Jie Gui who was following behind the two, and ordered troops back to Yongdu. An expedition ended here, the summer torrential rain poured, and autumn began to fall on the grassland.
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On the way back to Yongdu, Crown Prince Taki got drenched in the rain and fell ill. Naturally, he was scolded by the Queen Mother Jiang. Geng Shu was also scolded for a while.
"I'm fine." Prince Taki said.
"He is very good." Geng Shu said to Juicong.
Juicong taught a lesson: "Let's go, it's really lawless. When the court saw the case of the Southern Expedition that you planned with your own hands, I can't say that I finally have a few good words to listen to, and then slipped out to find your brother in the blink of an eye, when will I be like a ten-year-old. An eight-year-old?"
This time on the southern expedition, Ju Cong clearly intended to let the prince Taki experience it himself, and most of the decrees and marches came from the prince. Prince Taki officially opened his government a year ago, before he turned eighteen, and his subordinates convened nearly a hundred staff to assist in handling government affairs.
As for Prince Taki, the most powerful people at the moment are no more than two people, Zeng Rong, the eldest son of the Zeng family whose fief is Sanyin, and his brother Geng Shu.
Naturally, the act of leaving the hundreds of staff in the Prince's Mansion and going to the northeast to reward the army really caused an uproar in the mansion.
"That's my citizen," said Prince Taki. "Of course I'm going to meet him. I'm going to coax Zeng Rong, it's my fault."
"How many people have you met?" Juicong asked slowly, "What's their names? What does Patriarch Linhu look like? How many people are there? What do they eat? What do they drink? How many cattle and sheep do they raise
Prince Taki was immediately blocked. Juicong said displeased: "You are just being bored in Yongdu and want to go to your brother to play."
Geng Shu glanced at Prince Taki, that look means you deserve it.
"You are also preparing to open the mansion." Ju Cong changed the topic and said to Geng Shu, "You are a prince and a general, you can't always be an errand in the East Palace, that's where the guests are, always inside. Fuck, what does it look like?"
Geng Shu didn't answer. Empress Dowager Jiang said: "In a few years, you will all be at the age of crowning. You must follow the rules. The court has the rules of the court, and the royal family has the rules of the royal family, right?"
Geng Shu was very respectful to the Empress Dowager Jiang, and when the Empress Dowager spoke, Geng Shu stopped eating and replied, "Yes, Grandma Wang."
"When the manor is opened, there must be a princess. When will my sister-in-law come through?" Prince Taki asked Geng Shu, "Brother married Li Hong's daughter, won't he be beaten?"
Geng Shu was a little annoyed immediately, and stopped Prince Taki with his eyes, not to continue the discussion.
Empress Dowager Jiang said, "That girl is gentle, she won't."
Seeing this, Juicong laughed and joked: "In the past, when my uncle and I talked about marriage, it was the same way. Although it is Li Hong's daughter, it is the Ji family, and the Ji family has a very strange temper. You have to be careful."
Li Hong is also the monarch of the country. This monarch proposed marriage to Yong three months ago, and wanted to marry the princess to the Yonggong. Although this princess is nominally the daughter of King Dai Wu, she is actually an adoptive father, and her biological father is a descendant of the former royal family Ji.
Her name is Ji Shuang.
King Dai Wu's character is fierce, but his adopted daughter is gentle and quiet, and he is not affected at all. I heard that when he was a child, he could read and write, but the prime minister was the best. He was taught by the unfortunate ghost who died under the sword of Geng Yuan. At the age of five, he can write an essay, at the age of five... Before the age of five, the son-in-law will die.
The intention of the marriage between the kingdoms is obvious. Naturally, they want to form an alliance with Yong, and the Yong Kingdom outside Guan is allied with any of the four countries in Guan Nei, which is called Hezong. The four countries jointly protested against Yong, and it was a series of horizontal protests. At first, King Wu's goal for the person Ji Shuang married was the only heir of the Yong Kingdom, Prince Taki.
But Juicong has other plans for his son's marriage, and is unwilling to marry Daiguo in this regard.
A real son cannot marry the Princess Ji family, but a godson can. So Ju Cong discussed with Empress Dowager Jiang and Ju Ling for a long time, and decided to marry Geng Shu and Ji Shuang. Although the previous generation had grievances and grievances from the previous generation, depending on Li Hong's intentions, let the past pass by. , after all, the well-being of the people is the most important thing.
Now just waiting for the reply from Daiguo.
"Your sister-in-law has gone to Yubi Pass to take care of the matters before going south." Juicong said again, "Tomorrow I will summon the courtiers, and the two brothers will reconsider your strategies tonight. God chooses a good day, and after the autumn harvest, he will lead his army to expedition."
"Yes." Geng Shu and Prince Taki replied together.
It was night, and the palace was filled with documents, and a group of aides were clamoring.
Prince Taki was really miserable, while Geng Shu carefully checked all the provisions and military arrangements, including where to camp and where to supply supplies after entering the Central Plains. The biggest reliance of the Yong Kingdom is now the Yubi Pass. This pass spanning the earth for two thousand years has become a strategic location for the transit and distribution of all grain and grass.
As long as it is used properly, given time and the Yubi Pass as the starting point, it will not be a problem to break through the four countries in the Central Plains one by one.
As the night got darker, the staff gradually dispersed, leaving only Geng Shu and Prince Taki in the study.
Prince Taki yawned, and Geng Shu saw him.
"Sleep when you're tired." Geng Shu said in a deep voice.
Prince Taki shook his head vigorously, and said, "Everyone said that this is the most important year in China in the past 100 years. After the Southern Expedition, it will also be recorded in the history books for us."
When Geng Shu heard the words, he thought, just like the joint meeting thirteen years ago in Anyang, where blood flowed like a river, that day also became history.
Prince Taki smiled a little tiredly: "But why do I feel that I don't expect at all when I'm in it? By this time, I don't even know who it's for and what it's for. It's too fast, it's all too soon. Soon, I'm not ready yet."
Geng Shu marked the military newspaper with a charcoal pen, got up, brought the wine jar, and poured a bowl for Prince Taki and himself.
Prince Taki: "Why do you want to drink today? You don't let me drink it on weekdays."
Geng Shu replied: "Suddenly want to drink, you grow up, drink whatever you want, don't always be so obedient, wrong yourself, it hurts to see."
The two respected each other and drank the spirits from the bowl. The wine in Yongdu is different from the wine in the Central Plains. The wine in the Central Plains is sweet, and the wine in the north is like a knife in the throat.
After drinking, Geng Shu looked at the dark night in the garden in a trance.
"Heng'er, he has been dead for five years." Geng Shu whispered to himself.
Prince Taki was caught off guard, and when he heard the name again, he could only comfortably say, "This time we're heading south, maybe we'll be able to find out..."
"Dead." Geng Shu said, "You don't have to ask, my brother knows it, and I know it best in my heart."
Mrs. Zhao was already dead, Granny Wei was dead, Xiang Zhou was dead, and Jiang Heng was dead too.
"Over the years, my brother has often thought that he could have not had to die. The right to do this is for him." Geng Shu finally said, "Stop early."
Prince Taki's face changed slightly. In the past five years, he knew that Geng Shu had never forgotten Jiang Heng. In the eve of the new year, when Vientiane was renewed, Geng Shu would go to the ancestral temple in silence, kneel in front of the brand name "Geng Heng" until dawn.
People always die, and his father's brother, the uncle Ju Lang, who he had never met before, also died. Ju Cong also told him that death and life are destiny, and he should not be too sad. Day after day for five years, Geng Shu seemed to look away, but he never looked away.
Both the court and the court saw that he treated Geng Shu with respect and love, and Geng Shu treated him with affection, but Prince Taki knew in his heart that Geng Shu looked at him through his eyes, looking at another person—looking at that one dead child.
Is Geng Shu really his brother? If you really ask the question, I am afraid the answer will only be more cruel, just like what Geng Shu said to him on the first day of Luoyan.
"I do not know you."