Chapter 31: The Class Teacher

In Hangu Pass, the school field was divided into two teams, one team was led by Wang Yi and deputy general Zhou Zhe, and the other was Meng Wu and Meng Tian standing at the front of the team. Meng Wei stood on the high platform on the school field and said: "Today we are going to regain the land that belongs to our Qin State, and at the same time, a group of men and horses are going to the northern border of our Qin State to guard the territory of our Qin State, so today, the two teams set off at the same time, hoping that the soldiers of our Qin State will go out to win the battle and return triumphantly." ”

As soon as Meng Fu's words were finished, all the generals and soldiers on the school field shouted loudly, "Return triumphantly", "Return triumphantly", and their morale instantly rose to the extreme. Seeing that his words had a good effect, Meng Fu nodded, and then said, "Let's go!" The two teams marched forward, backward and backward.

Meng Wu and Meng Tian, father and son, led the army from Hangu Pass, and finally arrived at Xianyang City after several days of marching. Meng Wu stationed all the soldiers outside the city, and then took Meng Tian and Du Hui into the city to meet with King Yingzheng of Qin.

Ying Zheng learned that Meng Tian returned victorious on his first expedition, and even almost shot and killed the commander of the Six Nations Alliance, Xin Lingjun, on the battlefield, although there were violations of military regulations in the later sneak attack, but fortunately, he not only rescued his father Meng Wu later, but also recruited the generals of the enemy army, adding thousands of soldiers to the Qin State, which was more meritorious than demeritorious. So after inquiring with Wang Qian, the current general of the Qin State, Ying Zheng agreed to allow Meng Tian to build his own camp and recruit troops and horses on his own to reward Meng Tian's merits.

Early the next morning, Meng Tian got up early, put on his court clothes, and prepared to follow his father to the court. Because after returning home yesterday, Xiangguo Lü Buwei sent someone over and told Meng Wu and Meng Tian that they wanted their father and son to go to the court together tomorrow, and the King of Qin wanted to canonize Meng Tian, and at the same time ordered to send a large army to aid the northern Xinjiang, and the people who came also brought a set of court clothes for Meng Tian.

Everything was packed up, Meng Wu walked in accompanied by his wife, and seeing that Meng Tian had already put on his court clothes, Meng Tian's mother asked, "How is it, Tian'er, is the size of this court dress okay?"

Meng Tian said to his mother: "This dress is just right, I just don't know how anyone in the palace knows my size?"

Meng Tian's mother glanced at her husband and said to Meng Tian with a smile: "This is the news of your victory a few days ago, and the king is very pleased, so he ordered someone to ask me about the size of your clothes, saying that he would make a court dress for you. At that time, I couldn't believe that you had just turned fourteen years old this year, and you were able to get court clothes and go to the court to meet the king, which is rare in the history of our Qin State, and the size of Yi'er They also want to go over, I think it won't be long before Yi'er can go to the court every morning like you. ”

Meng Wu then said beside him: "Your mother is right, I also came back victoriously with your grandfather when he attacked Wei, and the first king gave me court clothes, allowed me and your grandfather to go to court together every day, and promised your mother to marry me. Now my Meng family has really grown into a big tree of the Qin country, father, I and your brothers can be officials together in the same hall, which shows the king's love for my Meng family. ”

Meng Tian bowed down to his father and mother and said, "The teachings of father and mother, the child should keep it in mind, and the child will definitely live up to the king's heart for my Meng family." ”

This is Meng Yi also came in, and saw that his father, mother and brother had not yet set off, so he hurriedly said: "Father and mother, why haven't you gone out yet, eldest brother, you will miss the hour immediately." Big brother, your military general's court uniform is really good-looking, you look at my civil official's court uniform, I feel ugly. ”

Meng Wu said to Meng Yi: "Yi'er, don't talk nonsense, you can be given the position of Changshi by the king now without an inch of merit, and it is already a great honor to take over Li Changshi's position, how can you still say this." Okay, now that Tian'er is ready, let's go. Then he led Meng Tian and Meng Yi to the chariot at the door, got on the chariot and went to the palace of King Qin.

King Qin's Palace, inside the main hall. When Meng Wu walked in with his two sons, most of the generals came forward to congratulate, praising the Meng family for having a young hero, and the Meng family army had a successor, and so on. Although Meng Yi has now been given an official position, he is not yet qualified to go to the court, so after entering the main hall, he left and went to his office, that is, the side hall of the palace, where he helped to sort out the daily bamboo slips, classify the bamboo slips that Qin Wang Yingzheng corrected yesterday and prepare them, so that the officials who played them back. Meng Tian's official uniform is a captain's court uniform, which is divided into seven levels of official titles in the Qin army: captain, chief, pawn chief, uncle, captain, barnyard general, and general, and at the same time, the post of commander is set up above the general to command all the troops of Qin. The official position of the Qin army is different from the title of the domestic military merit, the title represents your status in the Qin State, but the military rank represents how many men and horses you can command, and the two do not conflict with each other but complement each other.

At this time, Lü Buwei walked into the main hall and saw that Meng Wu's father and son were receiving everyone's congratulations, and they also walked over. When everyone saw that Lord Xiangguo had come over, they hurriedly made way for him. Seeing Lü Buwei walking towards his father and son, Meng Wu hurriedly grabbed Meng Tian's robe and bent over to Lü Buwei. Lu Buwei laughed and helped the father and son up.

Lü Buwei said to Meng Wu and Meng Tian: "General Meng, a few days ago, I saw General Meng Xiao in the palace competing with the guards around the king, I didn't expect the little general to make contributions on the battlefield so quickly, he is really a hero out of a young man, the tiger father has no dog, congratulations." ”

Meng Wu said to Lu Buwei: "Lord Xiangguo has praised it falsely, Tian'er is indeed very good on the battlefield, but he is still too young now, I hope that Lord Xiangguo can teach more in the future, so that he can establish more meritorious deeds for my Great Qin on the battlefield." As he spoke, he pulled Meng Tian and saluted Lu Buwei again.

At this time, King Yingzheng of Qin had already entered the main hall and was walking towards the throne, when Lu Buwei saw this, he said to Meng Wu: "No problem, this is what I am looking forward to." The king has arrived, and let's go to court. Then he turned around and walked towards his position, and many civil and military generals also found their seats one after another. Meng Tian didn't know where he should stand when he went to court for the first time, so he followed Meng Wu to stand together.

King Yingzheng of Qin sat on the throne and accepted the worship of everyone, and when he saw Meng Tian standing next to his father and looking at him, he smiled at Meng Tian and ordered the chamberlain next to him to start reading out the reward for Meng Tian.

The chamberlain took out the bamboo slip with the content of the reward, cleared his throat, and read: "The king has a decree, the grandson of the great general Meng Fu, the son of the general Meng Wu, and the son of the Mengjia family, Meng Tian, who is smart inside and outside, and has the way to lead the troops, although there are disobedient orders on the battlefield, but the widow thinks that there is a reason for it, and no longer pursues it, and then sends troops in time, adding thousands of soldiers to my Qin country, and the widow specially appoints him as the post of captain, gives him the title of the left chief, leads 10,000 troops, and allows it to set up its own battalion, named the Mengjia Army, which is the personal guard of the widow, guarding the border between the widow and the Great Qin. ”

After hearing this, the ministers below began to whisper, they couldn't imagine that the King of Qin loved the Meng family so much, Meng Fu and Meng Wu had fought on the battlefield for so many years, and the king did not allow him to set up the banner of the Meng family's army, but everyone tacitly agreed that the army led by the Meng family was the Meng family's army, and now the only one with its own banner in the entire Great Qin army is Wang Qian's army, which is the Wang family's army. Now Meng Tian is only fourteen years old, but he was rewarded by the king, and he also gave him the reward of setting up his own banner, and personally built the name of Mengjiajun for him, such an honor is really too great.

Lu Buwei also didn't expect that King Yingzheng of Qin would reward Meng Tian so heavily, and glanced at Yingzheng on the throne suspiciously, and understood in his heart that this King of Qin had begun to cultivate his own descendants, and it seemed that he had to think about his own way back, otherwise maybe one day the young king's knife might be on his neck.

Meng Wu and Meng Tian were already stunned below, Meng Wu thought that Meng Tian would be rewarded by the King of Qin, but he didn't expect that there would be so many rewards, not only to correct the name of the Meng family's army, but also to allow Meng Tian to lead 10,000 troops, which is really too much reward. As for Meng Tian, he still didn't understand what the impact of these rewards had on him, he only felt that he could finally lead the troops, and this feeling was really refreshing.