Cui Mingde was relieved when he heard that Princess Changle couldn't say that they could see each other. Not only because it is more convenient to speak without her, but also because this Princess Changle finally has the consciousness of being a princess.

Whether it is Li Tang in the past, or Wu Zhou today, although there are many approachable princes in the clan, they are just "lonely" and "servant" when they write letters to others, and they are not formal, and few people can be really approachable to Princess Changle. Sometimes Cui Mingde even feels that this princess is not like a princess at all, but more like the daughter of an unofficial and untitled people's family. At that time, people valued their family background, and the deliberate condescension could be called a corporal of Lixian, who really regarded himself as a civilian, but he was inevitably despised by others.

Thankfully, she finally got it.

Cui Mingde pulled the corners of his mouth silently, set his eyes on Dugu Shao, and saw her pick up the wine glass and drink another glass.

Cui, Song, and Pei are not people who talk much, this banquet was expected to be lively with Dugu Shao alone, but who knew that she was just drinking as soon as she came, and a reception banquet was deserted, even Song Fuyou couldn't stand it, and he had nothing to say for a while, but he couldn't, so he had to call a musician to help the fun, so he added some voices - but it was still embarrassing.

Cui Mingde glanced at Pei Lansheng slightly apologetically, and just wanted to get up and pour wine for her, but saw Pei Lansheng and said: "The concubine is the first time to come, and I don't know the position in the house, can I bother Song Niangzi to lead the concubine around and recognize the way?"

Song Fuyou glanced at Cui Mingde, nodded and said, "The two of you are here to rest for a while, and the concubine will take Ah Zheng around." ”

Dugu Shao didn't speak, only Cui Mingde laughed, politely agreed, seeing the two of them go out, even the waiters and musicians in the house suddenly withdrew, so they moved the seat to the opposite side of Dugu Shao, and last night I thought about how to open my mouth all night, and I really met, Cui's little Erniang, who has always been good at persuading, was speechless, and could only call a low "Ashao".

Dugu Shao sullenly poured a glass of wine into his mouth: "I know." ”

Cui Mingde was not surprised: "Princess Changle?" Seeing Dugu Shao shaking his head and saying, "Wei Si", Fang raised his eyebrows slightly: "She is very lenient." ”

Dugu Shao glanced at her: "What is the difference between her telling me and Li Er telling me, or you telling me?"

What's the difference? It's just a matter of selling you a favor and giving you more time to think about countermeasures.

Cui Mingde smiled bitterly in his heart, thinking that his face must be like this, but after being in the palace for a long time, his heart and face have long been two different worlds, and no matter how turbulent his heart is, his face is not shocked: "What do you mean?"

Dugu Shao snorted from his nostrils: "A few years ago, you were going to marry me, what happened in the end? A few years later, my mind is the same as then, and it has not changed in the slightest. If you want to push me, I... It's a big deal to go to the frontier again, and I'd rather die in battle than get married. ”

Cui Mingde looked at her: "A few years ago, you only disobeyed your father's orders and joined the army without authorization, and the worst result was only a beating, and a few years later, you disobeyed not only your father, but also you alone." ”

Dugu Shao lowered his eyes: "If this is the case, then I have no other way but to commit suicide before the will is made." ”

Cui Mingde didn't expect her to say it so quickly, although she knew that she was just talking, she still frowned, and said with a little reproach: "You said it lightly, you Aya is over seventy years old, and you are getting decrepit, you go... Aren't you afraid that he won't be able to stand it under his sorrow?"

Dugu Shao raised his head suddenly, staring at Cui Mingde with his eyes, Cui Mingde saw that her eyes were red at this moment, and her eyes were full of tears: "I don't even care about death, what are I still thinking about these living people?"

Cui Mingde shook his hands, quickly lowered his head, took a deep breath, and said, "Did Wei Huan teach you this?"

Cui Mingde heard a loud bang, and when he looked up, he found that Dugu Shao overturned several cases, moved forward, and was close to Cui Mingde, she held a scimitar in her hand, the tip of the knife poked in the heart, because the blade was extremely sharp, although it was not forced, it had pierced the clothes, and the flaws were not exposed to the sun, revealing a small piece of skin as white as snow, and was cut by the blade A very thin one, there was a bright red blood line slowly oozing out from the inside, converging in one place, turning into a bright red blood drop, slowly flowing through the chest, stopping slightly at the □□, shaking for a while, and falling into the clothes。

Dugu Shao smiled brightly: "She didn't teach this, you taught it." You and I have made a wish that in the future, we will become generals and prime ministers together, and we will prove to the people of the world together that we can do whatever a man can do. Thou hast said unto me, Whosoever cannot do it, he is not worthy to be a great woman, and to stand without face in the world—I have done what I can, what about you?"

Cui Mingde sighed: "At that time, it was just to comfort you, so I said a few nonsense, and you still remember it to this day." ”

Dugu Shao looked at her coldly: "Didn't you also remember it now?"

Cui Mingde pursed his lips and said, "It's easier said than done." Whether it is the affairs of the court or the affairs of the soldiers, it is not child's play, you have experienced the battle of Changqing, you should know these truths. ”

Dugu Shao said: "I naturally know these truths. In the battle of Changqing, I led thirty-two people to charge, and only seven survived, one of whom broke his leg and one broke his hand. My father fought in the north and south, never had a defeat, and he was a famous general in the army, and when he was old, he always told me that he never wanted to fight again in his life - but if you asked him if he regretted it at the beginning, he always shook his head and smiled. How can there be a perfect wealth in the world, you and I are in such a family, if you want the honor of the family, you naturally have to bear the responsibilities of the family, this is still the truth you told me, how did you get here, but you forgot?"

Cui Mingde was silent.

Dugu Shao looked at her deeply, and said slowly: "Since I was a child, I have been raised as a man, and before dawn in the morning, I was called up to practice riding, archery, boxing, guns, knives, and swords. I can't practice as good as the old soldier in my family, and I want him to say, 'Why aren't you a man', and if you practice well, I heard him sigh 'It's a pity that you are a daughter'. There are no male children in my family, and when my father leaves, my sister and I are in charge of the affairs of relatives and friends, tribesmen, domestic servants, and family affairs, and many of them are handled by the outside world, because I am a girl, and I am either deceived or despised by others. At that time, I envied you people who had brothers, who could be your daughters at home, reading and painting in your spare time, or teasing birds and playing the piano, and when you were busy, you could only do needlework, learn to be girls, and memorize one or two verses in your stomach, you can be called a talented girl, and are sought after by the world. Then I told you these words, but you said, I envy that I can go out and wrestle in the sea, and I don't have to be a bird in a cage. You said that men are born with the right to fight hard and work hard outside as they please, but women are deprived of the freedom to achieve great things from birth. You said that the world domesticated us into beautiful women, not for our good, but to encircle us into birds with broken wings, unable to break free from the control of men. I remember every word you said then, but now you yourself are going to push me into a cage and not allow me to fight for my own will. I don't understand. ”

She took another step closer, so close that her face almost touched Cui Mingde's face.

Cui Mingde looked at her red eyes, and then at the knife marks on her chest, and after a long time, he finally sighed: "Put the knife down." Seeing that Dugu Shao refused to move, he took out a handwritten letter from his sleeve and handed it to Dugu Shao: "Put the knife down." ”

Dugu Shao put down the knife, took the handbook, slowly unfolded it, only glanced at it, and then looked up at Cui Mingde: "Anbian Ten Strategies?"

Cui Mingde took out a handkerchief and carefully wiped the blood stains on Dugu Shao's chest: "Your Majesty wants to give marriage, but it is because it is beneficial to give marriage." If there is no benefit to the marriage, or if the harm outweighs the benefits, the marriage will naturally be done. ”

Dugu Shao said: "The advantage of giving marriage is that it can not only envelop my Aye, but also consolidate the Wu clan. The only drawback is that I have lost the only girl I am - but I am not a figure worthy of the court, and this disadvantage is nothing. ”

Cui Mingde nodded slowly: "So what we have to do is to make you worthy of Your Majesty's retention." ”

Dugu Shao moved his gaze back to the handwritten book, and read the article in the format of the letter word by word: "Ten strategies for military training, seven strategies for Tuntian, three strategies for border trade, set up a room, reverse a room, and use Hu to control Hu..."

Cui Mingde said calmly: "Your Majesty has killed all the famous generals of the Manchu Dynasty in order to ascend the throne; after several conquests, his mind is on crusading against rebellions, and he has no time to take care of the frontier; in just a few years, he has lost the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, and it is now impossible to protect the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate - if this is the case, it is really a shame for Your Majesty and the imperial court." If someone can come up with a plan to settle down at this time, the Sacred Heart will be pleased, and this person will also be important, and if it can be effective, it may not be impossible to enter the cabinet within a few years. If you really want to do this, you have to take advantage of the fact that the situation is not decided, and when Your Majesty has free up his hands and deals with side affairs wholeheartedly, there will be no room for you, a little general, to discuss and lead troops to make meritorious contributions. ”

Dugu Shao looked at her intently: "This is indeed a talent, worthy of His Majesty's retention, but the person who proposes these things may not necessarily do it himself, even if he does it himself, it may not necessarily be a backyard woman." Isn't there a lot of officials and □□ mothers around Your Majesty himself, who are drawing plans from the side?"

Cui Mingde smiled faintly: "If these strategies are to be implemented, there must be people who are familiar with military affairs and Hu Qing to sit in the frontier, especially the strategy of using Hu to control Hu, unless a person who knows the countries of the Western Regions well and often deals with the Hu people, he is not competent." And your ancestor is from Xianbei, and there are many Hu Nu tribes under your father's seat, and you can speak the language of the Hu people, so you are an excellent candidate. And you have your father behind you, a general in the army, how much you have to be decent, partial and young, the official position is neither high nor low, do a good job, it is the promotion of the saint, the Luonan Gong is upright, there is no risk of supporting the army and self-respect, and there is no danger of rewarding and rewarding, if you don't do well, it is a little woman who sees it, it is harmless, and it is not worth the DPRK to make a big move, you yourself will be removed from your post at most, and you will get married, without too much involvement, and you will not lose your father's face, if you are Your Majesty, are you willing to delay the marriage for a few years, and try you first?"

Dugu Shao pursed his lips and said, "What about a few years later?"

Cui Mingde said: "After a few years, it can be one year, two years, three years, or eight years, nine years, ten years, the frontier is eventful, who can say that in the future? Drag it out for a while, and when you are older, stay in the barracks for a longer time, the more no one will want to marry you, and Your Majesty will not be able to force people to marry an old woman who has been weathered for a long time and has been rolling in the pile of men on the border for several years? If you are lucky and your credit is higher, Your Majesty will not be able to wronged you to marry—do you understand?"

The corners of Dugu Shao's mouth grinned, he took it back, and then grinned again: "I knew you had an idea, but unfortunately I didn't force you, and I always refused to say it-this Anbian Ten Strategies is not easy to write, I'm afraid you have been thinking about it a few years ago? Did I start paying attention when I was in Changqing? But I didn't tell me a long time ago, and I guessed for six or seven years." ”

Cui Mingde rubbed his forehead and said tiredly: "I'm just a harem woman, I have never been on the battlefield, and I have never been the lord of the court, I have come up with some ideas, but I am just Zhao Kuo talking about the army, and it has not been done yet. ”

Dugu Shao said with a smile: "It's a blessing to have three points to calculate, I thought I would do it with only one point." ”

Cui Mingde said unhappily: "The matter of Bing Ge is very important, since you should plan and move, you are taking such a risk, how can it be done by the boss?"

Dugu Shao said: "I know, 'go to the army to fight', but the ancients also said, 'put it in the place of death and then live', only one point of planning, it can be regarded as a place of death, and if you put it to death, there will be an afterlife - you see Wei Si..."

Cui Mingde's face immediately changed: "Don't mention her." Seeing that Dugu Shao was taken aback, Fang eased his tone and said softly: "The battle of Changqing is just a rebellion in the Ping Kingdom, involving hundreds of thousands of people, but this matter is different. You've never done any of this, everything... Think again. ”

Dugu Shao saw her solemn face, so he put on a hippie smile: "I know." ”

Cui Mingde said again: "You first read my long strategy from beginning to end, figure it out for yourself, if you don't understand something, just come and ask me." After reading it, present this strategy as soon as possible. After all, I can't follow you all the time, if Your Majesty allows it, then I have to ask more veterans and elders in the army before I leave the capital, and ask your father if you don't understand something, Tuntian is not a new thing, all the frontier roads, guards, cities, and towns are doing it, and the rest of the policies also have precedents to follow, ask more, think more, and listen more to everything... You know what?"

Dugu Shao nodded slowly, gently stretched out his hand, and held Cui Mingde's hand: "You are in the capital, you have to take care of yourself." ”

Cui Mingde hesitated for a moment, didn't pull out his hand in the end, just smiled: "I'm here, away from the sword soldiers, what's there to worry about? With you. If you do not come back alive, the day the news of your death comes will be when I write to your majesty asking for mercy to let me out of the palace and allow me to be married. ”

Dugu Shao held her hand tightly and hugged her hard: "Don't worry, I will definitely be with you." ”

The author has something to say: yesterday I thought it was already Tuesday, but in fact yesterday was Monday, and today is Tuesday... Didn't get it wrong about the promised update time......

Dugu Shao's frontier life and Cui Mingde's line and other texts are finished... Well...

Exegesis:

1. Guarding and catching: The Tang Dynasty frontier military system, the big ones have roads, such as the Tianshan Road, etc., and the small ones are guards, cities, and towns, and are governed by the city lord and town lord.

2. City side: The so-called "city side" means that the Tang court moved the border ethnic minorities to the interior ("internal migration of the Tibetan people") and placed them next to the military town city, maintaining its tribal organization, "light taxes, and sending their own saddle horses to serve in wartime." "Ethnic minority tribes are relocated to military towns and cities in the interior, where they can graze their cattle and some engage in farming, and collect very light taxes and fees. Moreover, the imperial court sent officers every year to conduct military training for them. Once there was a border war, these people prepared their own horses and armor to follow the battle. Chengbang was not only an important creator of the great martial arts of the Tang Empire, but also had a great influence on the history and military affairs of the late Tang Dynasty.

3. Tuntian existed in the time of Tang Gaozong, in order to solve the problem of grain and grass for the army, but the Tuntian system has always been developed, and the generals who can do a good job in Tuntian can usually be appreciated by the imperial court.

4. The civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty were not as clear as those of later generations, and they often worked part-time as civil and military officials, or successively served as civil and military officials. Therefore, the ultimate dream of officials at that time was to "become a general and become a minister".

5. Zetian's mother only married for the first time in her forties, and at that time, because of the high gate asking for a lot of bride price and the household marriage law, there were many people who married or did not marry at the age of 20 or 30, so although marrying later would be regarded as an old girl, it was actually acceptable. Especially after Gaozong, the population developed, unlike when Taizong was in a hurry to reproduce people (so various regulations stipulate that you must marry on the thirteenth and fifteenth, and marry a wife on the fifteenth and twentyth, otherwise you will collect taxes from your parents).