In the deserted imperial palace, after the autumn rain, the autumn wind blows the autumn leaves. Yan Dongwu, the newest concubine of this dynasty, sits under the plane tree and tells some interesting anecdotes about the streets to the mother-in-law. There are no taboos, and the harmonious relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is far beyond imagination outside the palace. This talented girl from Beiliang, who was just overwhelmed by Xu Weixiong, smiled and talked about the red leaf inscription. The gentle, courteous and thrifty prince immediately picked up a sycamore leaf that fell and couldn't be swept away, stood up solemnly and bowed: "Also ask the lady to write a poem, and I will grind it for the lady."
The empress Zhao Zhifeng Guanxiapei who was sitting beside her was plain, but she was extremely dignified and elegant. The combination of toughness and softness in governing the harem really makes all the favored empresses feel creepy. Not long ago, there was an empress who was thrown into the cold palace. She washed her face with tears every day in Changchun Palace and secretly spent three hundred taels of gold to buy I got a sentimental poem with extremely lingering rhetoric, but in the end it was actually sent to Her Majesty by the Queen herself.
Zhao Zhi looked at the petty fights between the princes and concubines, the corners of his mouth slightly turned up, and he glared at this son, who was regarded as the most ancestral spirit among the princes, without getting angry, but the tone of his words slightly leaked the secret , "I don't have a good job, I'm a lot worse than my wife in learning, and I don't know how to make progress."
The prince, who is well known in the capital, said helplessly: "A woman's lack of talent is virtue. Queen Mother, you should teach Soochow a lesson. She is full of talents and learning, and she is more than enough to be a Guozijian Jijiu or a big yellow gate."
Yan Dongwu also followed Zhao Zhi's example and glared at the open-mouthed husband, then pinched him under the table.
Zhao Zhi stretched out his hand and patted his son's forehead, "Does it mean that Sang scolded Huai? Or did you scold me and Soochow together?"
When the prince smiles, his handsome face will be filled with recognizable warmth, very gentle and intoxicating. Such a refined man, born in an emperor's family, can really make all the ladies in the capital flock to him like crazy. Back then, he Marrying Yan Dongwu, a girl from Beiliang, who is the daughter of a civil servant in Beiliang, really made the whole capital feel incredible. However, the facts proved that the two were a perfect match. Yan Dongwu made several appearances at the palace banquet, and he could not find a single fault, which made many powerful old foxes who had lived in the capital feel very pleased. The prince held Yan Dongwu's cold little hand, faced the queen Zhao Zhi, and said with a smile: "I'm scolded, you two, both of them are extremely talented and learned, and I am the most lovable wretch in the world who will embarrass the empress. The two girls are impartial, when they are here, they love their mother more, and when they are back home, they love their mother more."
Zhao Zhi joked, "If Feng Ya listens to this, let's see how you end up!"
The prince sighed sadly: "This dead girl, I have been in vain for twenty years. In the past few years, I have looked for the emperor's younger brother more times than me."
Zhao Zhi said calmly, "When she gets married and suffers from grievances, she will know who really loves her."
The prince shook his head and said, "I don't want her to endure hardships, I'm so worried."
Zhao Zhi laughed again, "Your daughter-in-law is still here, and you can't talk too much. You can't hurt your sister for a lifetime, and it's useless to rely on you."
Yan Dongwu said softly: "Princess Sui Zhu has a really good temper."
Zhao Zhi nodded.
The prince stretched out his hand to hold a yellow and fallen leaf, and said with emotion: "It's so cool in autumn."
In the gloomy sky, thunder was rolling without warning.
The prince frowned and said, "It sounds like Dong Lei."
Zhao Zhi, who likes a clean field of vision, gently brushed off a sycamore leaf that had just detached from the table, raised his head and squinted to the west.
The prince listened to the thunder, smiled and quietly threw away the autumn leaves in his hand.
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Gu Jiantang, who destroyed the Spring and Autumn Kingdoms, was in charge of the military department with the rank of a general of the first rank after Xu Xiao made him a king with a different surname. He was one rank higher than the other five ministers, and became the nominal head of the generals of the Liyang Dynasty. The vassal king, the chief assistant Zhang Julu and the leader of the remaining party Sun Xiji were alongside him in the imperial court. Last year, he rushed to the northern border of the empire to personally handle all the border affairs, so he rarely participated in the court meeting, but no one dared to write a letter because he "understood" General Gu's hard work. Take off the official title of Minister of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of War is still the watertight Gu Dang "General's Camp", and no water will enter. As a first-class border minister and the leader of the Gu Party, Gu Jiantang has almost never had any private contacts with Zhang Julu except for staying overnight in the palace. This time he returned to Beijing and visited the residence of the chief assistant for the first time. I don't mind whether His Majesty the Emperor suspects that civil and military forces are at the same level, or that Beijing officials are colluding with each other. This kind of official taboo that power officials in all dynasties have feared like a tiger has become a trivial matter on Gu Jiantang's side. The general went out in casual clothes, and brought along the new guerrilla school lieutenant Yuan Tingshan, who was not sure whether it was his adopted son or his son-in-law. There were several pairs of eyes staring at him behind the doors of most of the residences of Liyang's important ministers on the same street. After Gu Shangshu stepped out of Bi Yaner Zhang Shoufu's mansion, he quickly reported it to his master who was waiting for news.
No more, no less, exactly half an hour. Not enough time to drink two pots of tea! What great military affairs can we talk about
Yuan Tingshan, who had been wandering around after entering the mansion, followed the general into the carriage, but couldn't find any clues from the face of the number one swordsman in the world. Yuan Tingshan, who fought hard, felt very regretful.
Yuan Tingshan has an impatient temper who can't sit still for a moment. The silent carriage allows him to spend his days and years. Only when he drives out of the street where there is a great Bodhisattva sitting inside any gate on both sides, he can't help but speak He asked, "General, what's going on?"
Gu Jiantang ignored it.
Yuan Tingshan is usually the most naughty habit of Lao Tzu in front of everyone. He is a little bit better in front of General Gu. He dare not make a mistake. After all, he still sincerely admires the prospective father-in-law in front of him who has military achievements, military achievements, and force, but is weak. Originally, what he admired the most was Tu Xuxiao, a man with a different surname who was called king. Later, he attacked and killed the widow Xu Zhihu in Jiangnan Road, and was easily injured by that young fairy who could cut luck with a sword. Unable to make a good relationship, he turned to pester Gu Jiantang. At that moment, Yuan Tingshan could only mutter: "If you don't say it, you don't say it, I'm too lazy to guess."
Gu Jiantang said flatly: "You don't need to worry about the rivers and lakes in the north, I will let you go to Jizhou."
Yuan Tingshan frowned tightly and said: "Jizhou? The old nest of the loyal Han family? It is said that Zhang Shoufu copied and beheaded for the sake of standing up. General, you did not lose your efforts at that time, did you?"
Gu Jiantang glanced sideways at Yuan Tingshan, who shrank his neck and said in a low voice, "Anyway, there is no official who is not cruel. How many people have I killed? Compared with you, I'm nothing!"
Gu Jiantang's tone did not fluctuate, "When you arrive in Jizhou, you don't need to report to me for murder. When it comes to the impeachment of the imperial court, I will help you stop it."
Yuan Tingshan was pleasantly surprised: "Really?"
Gu Jiantang closed his eyes.
Yuan Tingshan laughed and said: "One day there will be a big battle to fight, but don't let me be promoted to a high-ranking official, otherwise Beiliang will be overwhelmed by then! Laozi and His Royal Highness surnamed Xu are married. A vendetta."
Gu Jiantang closed his eyes and sneered, "It's up to you?"
Yuan Tingshan leaned against the wall of the car with the back of his head in his hands, and said with gloomy eyes: "There will come a day. Let's see whose knife is more capable of killing people!"
Gu Jiantang said slowly: "There may not be a chance."
Yuan Tingshan was shocked and said: "General, what do you mean by this?"
Gu Jiantang smiled without a smile, laughing so hard that Yuan Madgou, who was not afraid of anything, felt his scalp shudder for a while.
"Sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, but this time those who sit on the mountain will have to go down the mountain."
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Jiange, as the main point of the dynasty's control of the West, stationed a considerable number of veteran soldiers, equipped with both infantry and cavalry. few.
The stroke of eight thousand cavalry is roughly a complicated situation of three-party competition. Among them, three thousand cavalry belonged to the lonely and lonely without parents. Hundreds of elite cavalry went hunting deep into the hinterland of the Western Regions. Their hands were bloody and black, and they were very unpopular among their colleagues. At this time, they led three thousand cavalry to strangle a group of plateau bandits. In addition, although the general who commanded the three thousand cavalry was not Gu Dang, who clearly belonged to the Shangshu Department of the Ministry of War, he had always been regarded as a more orthodox Beijing official dispatched by the Ministry of War. Cavalry is a native of Jianmenguan. Cavalry general He Yan has always been a fool, and has been relatively aggrieved. There are few troops under his command, and there is such a spineless leader at the stall. Although the combat power of two thousand cavalry is not impressive, But they have not been able to find any profit. The strange thing is that the forces of the Jiange are intertwined and poach each other's corners. The two thousand people are staggering, but they don't cross the wall.
Jiange uses Ruan Dacheng, the direct descendant general of the Gu Party who controls eight thousand infantry, as the commander in name. Today he watched two thousand cavalry leave the camp without permission. He was scolded all over, and he was about to ask his staff and confidantes to write an impeachment memorial, suing the Ministry of War for He Yan's leaving the customs without a reason. But Ruan Dacheng stopped when he was dictating and let his staff polish the writing to the end. He Yan is the most treacherous and slippery guy, why did he suddenly take the wrong medicine? When he personally went to intercept them just now, the two thousand cavalry even rushed out of the city at all, and they all had an outrageous posture to kill when they blocked the road. Ruan Dacheng almost thought it was a mutiny, so he had to avoid his edge. Thinking about it now, Ruan Dacheng calmed down, and made his calculations more serious. He picked up the memorial from the desk, took the paper and burned it slowly, and said to the astonished scribe: "Change a letter." Secret letter, you find a trustworthy postman, send it to the capital in five hundred miles, and hand it over to Shangshu yourself."
At this time, a white and beardless man who was busy with travel and dust broke into the big tent. Ruan Dacheng was annoyed at the incompetence of the guards at first, but after seeing his face, he quickly became surprised and anxious, and was about to say a few words to curry favor, it was clearly from an eunuch The eunuch in the palace stomped his feet fiercely, pointed at Ruan Dacheng's nose and scolded: "It's useless, why didn't you stop He Yan's two thousand riders?!"
Ruan Dacheng was dumbfounded, thinking of remedies.
The eunuch who had served the queen diligently in the palace for many years waved his sleeves and left, leaving a sentence that made Ruan Dacheng's legs weak, "Ruan Dacheng, you just wait to get out of Jiange! Waste!"
The inexplicable Ruan Dacheng stayed where he was, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses. There was no third person in the big tent, and this powerful general still only dared to slander in his stomach: "Damn it, do you have any eggs, you eunuch?!"
Outside Jianmen Pass, two thousand riders rushed like a torrent.
Far ahead, there was a man with a cloak that was blown out of a bright red python by the strong wind because of his horse galloping wildly. His head was full of silver threads.
The gas is extremely domineering.
He stopped Cao Changqing three times in Liyang Palace.
Once a senior official was only a hundred steps away from His Majesty the Emperor.
They were all blocked abruptly by the head of the world's eunuch.
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Before, the white fox of the Northern Liang Palace went downstairs and left the pavilion face-to-face, which even alarmed the Northern Liang King.
Xu Xiao asked with a smile: "So you're out of the cabinet?"
Bai Hu'er said with a calm face: "Take a breath. Come back as soon as you go."
Xu Xiao put his hands into his sleeves naturally, and asked, "Isn't that included?"
Bai Hu'er nodded, "Naturally."
On this day, Nangong Pushe, known as the most beautiful woman in the world, left Liangzhou without a trace.
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Almost at the same time, in the vast Western Regions, a horse rides slowly.
The man in white was carrying a deep purple spear.
The gun head is not inlaid for the time being, making the gun more like a stick.
Gun name plum wine.