Wang Zhongsi, a native of Qi, Taiyuan, lives in Zheng County, Huazhou. His father, Wang Haibin, was the prince's right guard, Feng'an military envoy, and Taigu Nan, who was famous for his bravery in Longshang. In July of the second year of Kaiyuan, the Tubo invasion, the imperial court appointed Xue Ne to assist General Yulin, for the history of Longyou's defense, led Du Bin, Guo Zhiyun, Wang Sui, and An Sishun to resist, with Wang Haibin as the vanguard. The Tubo army crossed the Wujie post on the western boundary of Weizhou, won the battle hard, and killed and captured many enemy soldiers.

After this battle, the Tubo army attacked Wang Haibin's department, but the generals were jealous of his merits and did not move, Wang Haibin was outnumbered and died in battle.

After Wang Haibin consumed more than half of the Tubo army, the rest of the generals led the army to attack, beheading 17,000 enemies, and obtaining 75,000 horses and 140,000 sheep and cattle.

Xuanzong was very sad when he heard the news of Wang Haibin's death and ordered him to be posthumously crowned as the general of Zuo Jinwu.

Wang Zhonghei, formerly known as Wang Xun, when he was nine years old, because his father died in battle for the imperial court, he was awarded the title of Chaosan Doctor, Shang Ran Fengyu, given the name of Zhonghei, and was supported in the forbidden palace for many years. When Suzong Li Heng was a teenager, he often went to Wang Zhonghe's house and played with him.

When he grew up, he was resolute and rarely spoken, and he was quite martial, and Xuanzong discussed the art of war with him because he was a child of a soldier, and he was unexpected. Xuanzong said to him: "Then he will be a good general!" In the eighteenth year of Kaiyuan, Xuanzong granted his father the post of protector of Anxi.

After that, Zhonghei followed Hexi Jiedu and Xiao Song, the secretary of the military department, and recommended Wang Zhongsi as a soldier and horse envoy. In the twenty-first year, he was promoted to the general of the left leading army, the deputy envoy of the Hexi crusade, the general of the left Weiwei, the purple gold fish bag, the Qingyuan man, and the acting governor of the school.

Wang Yu, the righteous brother who once talked about Huangfu Weiming, was framed and demoted to Zuo Guoyi of Dongyang Mansion.

Later, Du hoped to plot to occupy the new city, and some people said that the talent of the loyal heir was enough to accomplish it, and if he wanted to win, he had to win. Hope immediately played a request, and the emperor ordered the loyal heir to go to Hexi. Captured the new city, the loyal heir made remarkable achievements, and was awarded Zuo Wei Weilang as a general, who was in charge of the marching soldiers and horses.

In the autumn of that year, the Tibetan soldiers marched south to avenge the occupation of Xincheng, and the enemy army approached the officers and soldiers, who were outnumbered, and the soldiers were afraid. Wang Zhongsi then led his troops to ride his horses forward, rushing left and right, and those who blocked all dodged, rushed out and turned back, killing hundreds of people, and the thieves began to be confused. The three armies attacked from both flanks, and the Tibetans were defeated.

Due to his outstanding military achievements, the emperor awarded the general Zuo Jin Wuwei the same member, and soon after that, he also served as the general of the Zuo Yulin army, the deputy envoy of Hedong Jiedu, and the military envoy of Datong. In the twenty-eighth year, he was also the governor of the state and the governor of Hedong, and the general of Yunlu. In the twenty-ninth year, he replaced Wei Guangcheng as the festival degree envoy of Shuo Fang, and weighted the east section of the river many times.

In the first year of Tianbao, he was also the governor of Lingzhou. In this year's Northern Expedition, he fought with Xi Nu in the Sanggan River, defeated him three times, captured a large number of his men and horses, Yaowu Mobei, and returned triumphantly. At this time, the Turkic Yehu had internal difficulties, and the loyal heir led a strong army to deter him, and the Usumish Khan was afraid and asked for surrender, but the change could not be delayed. The loyal heir then used a counter-strategy between the three tribes of Basimi and the Lulu and Hui tribes, and attacked the Mishi Khan and defeated him. Wang Zhongji then sent troops to crusade, seized his right wing and returned, his Xiye Hu, Viga Kedun, Nanxi killed Glado, led more than 1,000 of his tribe into Beijing to worship, so he awarded Zuo Wuwei general. The following year, he defeated the Nujun and Turkic armies. Since then, the outside of the fortress has been stable, and the captives dare not come to attack. In the third year of Tianbao, the Turkic Ba Ximi and other nine families surnamed Ye Hu jointly attacked the Khan of Usumish and passed his head to the Beijing Division. In four years, the loyal heir was awarded the Hedong Festival interview envoy. In May, he was named the Duke of Qingyuan County.

Looking back on his life, Wang Zhongsi in the small courtyard looked at the bright moon in the sky with some distraction.

"General, there is a visitor!" a tall and sturdy man walked in from the corner gate and saluted Wang Zhongji with his fists.

"Alas......" Wang Zhongsi suddenly sighed: "Please let him in!"

"Yes, General!" the man turned and left.

After a short time, a man wearing a dark hooded coat walked into the courtyard, but the two restrained guards behind him stood outside the corner gate after the man entered the courtyard.

"Tadashi, long time no see!" the man removed his hat from his head, revealing an elegant face, about forty years old, with a three-inch short beard, and his eyes glowed with obvious joy.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, you shouldn't have come!" Wang Zhongji sighed and saluted.

"Don't worry! With Ah Da Ah Er here, the internal guards still can't figure out my whereabouts!" At this moment, Li Heng exuded a strong self-confidence in his gestures, and the prestige brought by the status of the noble man of that day was soul-stirring, no matter who saw it, he would never be able to connect with His Royal Highness the Prince, who was usually silent.

Looking at this friend since childhood, Wang Zhongsi was speechless for a long time, so he had to shake his head and smile bitterly.

"Okay, don't keep a straight face! I came to you today for a good deed!" Li Heng stretched out his hand to hook Wang Zhongsi's neck, just like when he was a child, patted Wang Zhongsi's shoulder hard, and said with a smile.

Wang Zhongsi's steely face also had a smile on it at this moment: "Let me concurrently serve as the envoy of the Hexi Festival?"

"You know everything!" Li Heng was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Also, how can this well-known news escape the scouts of our General Wang?"

Wang Zhongsi arrived in Chang'an in the evening, and as soon as he learned of his arrival, Li Heng spent a lot of effort to avoid the eyeliner of the internal guards and ran to meet him. I wanted to tell him the good news in person, but I never thought that although Wang Zhongsi had just arrived in Chang'an, he had already known the news.

"Now that you know, then I won't say more, and then I will send people to operate with all my strength to ensure that you can take the post of Hexi Jiedu envoy!" Li Heng continued.

Seeing that Wang Zhongsi was about to speak, Li Heng continued: "Don't be in a hurry to refuse, listen to me!"

"Hexi is an important town, with more than 100,000 soldiers and horses under his command, and most of them are veterans who have been in battle for a long time, and I can rest assured when I hand it over to you!

"Now I have only a few big soldiers left in the military besides you, and it will take time for them to grow up. For that, you need to hold up for them!"

"And ......"

Looking at Li Heng's momentum of talking endlessly and pointing out the country, Wang Zhongsi seemed to have some unknown friends of his own.

Maybe it's because it's been too long, and the memory is a little biased...... Maybe it's because the other party has become the prince, and the difference in identity has brought a strong contrast...... Perhaps when he was a child, by the pond in the backyard of his home, the appearance of the young man wielding a small wooden stick and whipping the world had gradually blurred in Wang Zhonghe's heart......

Feeling his friend's distraction, Li Heng stopped his analysis of the situation and asked aloud, "What's wrong?"

Wang Zhongsi was silent when he heard this......

After a long time, he asked with difficulty: "Do you want to be the emperor so much?"

Li Heng was also silent after hearing this, he looked at Wang Zhongji deeply, and sighed after a long time: "Since you have become a prince, if you say something rebellious, how can anyone want to be a prince for a lifetime?"

"But the Holy One is still alive, and he doesn't mean to demean you, why are you in such a hurry? After the Holy Lord goes to the west, the throne will be yours sooner or later!"

Wang Zhongsi couldn't understand why Li Heng was so anxious.

Wang Zhongsi can't understand it because he has never been a prince!

Li Heng has been a person for almost ten years, and he has felt this feeling of being above 10,000 people under one person for almost ten years. In the past ten years, Li Heng has been living in this excitement, apprehension, expectation, and fear all the time, and this feeling is about to drive him crazy!

If he didn't do something, Li Heng really couldn't imagine that once he couldn't bear it anymore, he would follow the footsteps of Li Chengqian, Li Tai and other predecessors.

"You know? When the peasants in the countryside drive the donkeys, sometimes they just hang a turnip in front of the donkey, and then the donkey will keep stretching out his head to bite the turnip, and he will keep stepping forward, so that the peasants don't have to do anything, and let the donkey run. ”

Li Heng finished telling the story with a smile, then looked at Wang Zhonghe, and said with a resolute face: "I am the donkey!"

"But no one is robbing you!" Wang Zhongsi still couldn't pay attention.

"Haha! No one grabbed it?" Li Heng laughed loudly, then stared at Wang Zhonghei and said: "You are wrong! The emperor's seat was originally snatched! The founding king snatched the emperor's throne from the world's heroes, and the princes had to snatch the throne of the crown prince from his brothers, even if he sat on the throne of the prince, he had to guard against other brothers, even if there was no prince to rob him, he would still have to rob the emperor with him! What to rob? Grab the minister! Grab the army! Only the prince who has someone and an army in his hands can truly control his own destiny and not be deposed by the emperor without a word! Only then will you have the destiny to wait until the time comes!"

"Because there is only one way to the emperor, and there is only one throne of the emperor!"

Lee Hyung ended his speech with this sentence.

Wang Zhongsi looked at Li Heng, and his childhood memories were partly clear and partly blurred......

"I don't know you anymore!"

This is how Wang Zhongsi feels about Li Heng now.

"It doesn't matter, when that day comes, everything will be back to normal! When the time comes, you will still be you, and I will still be me, and then the two of us will definitely be a pair of monarchs and ministers who will leave their names in history!" Li Heng said proudly.

Wang Zhongsi smiled bitterly for a long time, and sighed in his heart: "At that time, I'm afraid that you are no longer you, and I am not me anymore!"

"Okay, let's not talk about this!" Li Heng only kept that domineering spirit for a moment, and then laughed lightly: "We haven't seen each other for many years, let's talk about something else!" By the way, what about Xiao Zhen? Why didn't you see him, our family Yu'er was always clamoring to compete with him!"

Wang Zhen is the only son of Wang Zhonghe, just over 20, and Li Heng's eldest son, Li Yu, is only 19 now.

Speaking of his son, Wang Zhongsi finally let go of his cold face.

"The stinky boy can't do anything, and he is about to die of sorrow!"

"Haha! You're worried about just one? My bunch of children are almost ready to form a polo team! I'm annoyed to death by arguing all day long!"

"Who made you have nothing to do with so many births!"

"Is this what I want to give birth to? It's okay to be forced! For the sake of the country, we must spread out the branches!"

Could it be that those palace maids will take the initiative to climb into your bed?"

"Huh, how do you know? There are a few people who have climbed up on their own initiative!"

……

Just when Li Heng and Wang Zhonghe's old friend were reunited, a piece of black cloth was gradually disappearing from the wall of the small courtyard to the black shadow below.

It was a figure, somewhat slender, and as soon as he got off the wall, he immediately ran along the road he had come from......

The figure has been going north, bypassing Chongrenfang, and coming to the door of the flower house in Yongxingfang.

I didn't go to the main entrance, just jumped lightly, and after I was exhausted, I stepped lightly on the wall, and the figure crossed into the courtyard of the flower house as light as a bird.

This time, he didn't use a sword!

Coming to the backyard, in the hall, several people were already waiting.

"Uncle, second uncle, eighth uncle, ninth uncle, I'm back!" As soon as the figure entered the hall, he lifted the black cloth cover on his head and greeted him with a smile.

That handsome face is a little more weathered than ten months ago, and it looks more mature!

"Haha, Xiao Yan is back! I'll just say it! Those guys like Ah Da Ah Er, as soon as they hear the name, they know that they are miscellaneous fish, how can they find out that I have trained the apprentices by myself?" Lao Ba poured a big sip of wine, covering up the worry that had been on his face, and laughed heartily.

"Fart! Light body kung fu is obviously taught by me, okay! Just your size, you can only fiddle with a few pieces of broken iron, tracking this kind of thing, when have you done it well?" Lao Jiu immediately said.

"Phew, if I don't boil Xiao Yan's muscles and bones every day, can I make his kung fu grow so fast?" the eighth retorted.

"I ......"

Lao Jiu wanted to say more, but the boss of the flower immediately stopped him: "That's enough! Let Xiao Yan report the results first!"

As soon as the eighth and ninth children heard the eldest brother's words, they immediately stopped.

That slender figure is naturally the young Xiao Yan! Ten months have passed in the blink of an eye, and the young man's height has also increased a lot.

Hearing the uncle's question, Xiao Yan hurriedly said: "That person went to a small courtyard in the south of the city and met a person!"

"Who did you see?" Hua Da's expression was visibly nervous.

"A middle-aged man in his forties, listening to the name of his subordinates, this person should be a general, and the person who asked me to follow the uncle later said that the general's son has a single name. ”

Xiao Yan only received the task, but he didn't know anything about the target of the track.

"Shock, Wang, Zhen, Wang Zhonghei!"

Hua Da's big eyes immediately widened, and his heart was shocked!

"Did you hear me right?" Hua Da didn't want to believe it, but it was just that the matter was important and he had to get accurate information.

"Uncle, don't worry! That person's two guards are of average level, and I am very close, so I will never hear it wrong!" Xiao Yan said proudly.

Hua Da fell into deep thought......

Outside the hall, there was a sudden scolding: "Stinky boy is not ashamed! Without you, I will follow behind to wipe your ass, you kid would have already seen the king of Hades!"