As the sun sets, the land is dyed red.

"Poof! Kiss! Kiss! ”

In a spacious school field, Zhu Youxiao pointed at the wooden man in the distance, charging again and again, stabbing again, charging again, stabbing again, and stabbing again and again, each time accurately stabbing at the throat and heart of the wooden man, leaving deep dents. With such a quick and boring training, he practiced a thousand times before stopping and changing to a long sword.

Compared with the simplicity of the spear, the sword has more moves, but it is not very flashy, but because the movements are accurate and fast, it looks full of momentum and powerful damage. Between tossing and turning, there was no cold light flickering, but it was full of murderous opportunities, and the moves were all aimed at the vital points of the human body. He practiced this trick a hundred times before stopping.

After taking the white towel handed over by Wang Chengen and wiping his sweat, Zhu Youxiao finished today's training, returned to the house, and soaked in the medicinal bath.

Sitting in the bathtub, Zhu Youxiao closed his eyes and meditated, saying some military words such as marching in a queue, while next to him, Liu Shimin was writing hard with a thick goose feather, and quickly copied down what he said. Such a scene has been seen every day since Zhu Youxiao came here.

At this time, it was already the forty-third year of Wanli, and he was already ten years old, and according to the algorithm of the Ming Dynasty, he was already eleven. At this time, it has been since he was grounded, and in the past four years, he has not left the house and has not taken a single step out of this humble house. almost cut off communication with the outside world, if it weren't for Wang Chengen and Wei Zhongxian taking turns to go out to inquire about the news and come back to tell him, he wouldn't even know that he had been replaced as the head of the court.

Ten-year-old Zhu Youxiao, because of his good exercise, good food, and medicinal bath tonic, is already about 1.5 meters tall, which is half a little adult. Placed in the homes of ordinary people outside, at this age, this kind of size, it is also half a strong laborer, and he can work in the field. It's just that Zhu Youxiao's face still looks unusually young and naïve, which makes people suddenly feel that this is still a child.

The steel-cast iron-like muscle blocks protruded from him one by one, looking extremely powerful. His strength has not been accurately tested, and I don't know how much, but the stone locks he usually uses to practice arm strength are hundreds of pounds, and they are used for one-handed exercise, and the lead balls he uses to practice the muscles of his body are two hundred pounds, such strength appears in a child who is only ten years old, and it is unbelievable to say it.

This is still his adolescence has not come, if it is developed again, and supplemented by a more appropriate breathing exercises, his future strength, I don't know how terrible it is. Qi Jin and Yu Zhigao often exclaimed, calling him the first general in the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty. can be compared with Chu Han Xiang Yu and Three Kingdoms Lu Bu. The two of them joined forces, and they were no longer Zhu Youxiao's opponents.

Every time he heard such praise, he just smiled indifferently, there was no pride in his heart, only he knew how much suffering he had endured, starting at the age of five, five years of uninterrupted hard training, before he learned his current martial arts skills. In five years, he got the true biography of the two veterans, and the rest is only the accumulation of time.

The narration record in the room continued, and as the topic turned in, the record gradually came to an end, and a few minutes later, Liu Shimin picked up the pen and wrote down the last word.

After sorting out the paper, Liu Shimin began to copy a copy again in the pavilion style. The one just now was written entirely in cursive, and in many places it was in shorthand that only he could understand, and no one would understand it if he didn't rewrite it. The entire text is written in the vernacular, so anyone who is literate can understand it. It's just that whether you can grasp the deep meaning is unknown.

The pavilion must be written one stroke at a time, and the writing is extremely slow, but this is the final cost, and it must be neat to be compiled together with the previous compilation. Fortunately, in the past two years, Liu Shimin has done this kind of work every day, and he has already developed an excellent temperament, and this is the last part, which is a very good character that he copied, unhurried, and slowly written down stroke by stroke.

By the time everything had been copied, an hour had passed.

"Master, it's all finished, you can see it." Liu Shimin held the white paper full of handwriting in both hands and respectfully presented it.

However, Zhu Youxiao didn't catch it, but made a fuss, got up from the barrel, walked to the side, scrubbed and dried his body, and changed his clothes. The medicinal bath, which I began soaking in at the age of five, ended completely today.

After all the cleaning was completed, he took the white paper handed over by Liu Shimin, glanced at it, and after confirming that it was correct, he handed it over again: "It is bound into a book with the previous one, and then I will bring it over." ”

"Yes, sir." After taking the blank paper with both hands, Liu Shimin respectfully stepped back.

Then, Zhu Youxiao began to have dinner. Although the place where he lives is simple, what he eats is not simple at all, and it is full of great supplements such as tiger bones and bear paws. For his food and clothing, even if he is grounded, Wanli has never lost a point, and it is even more generous than before.

On the contrary, Ciqing Palace, since he left, it has completely fallen silent, and the crown prince Zhu Changluo is almost closed, no different from being grounded. And Zheng Guifei seems to have stopped, and there has been no action all this time, and the battle for the heir seems to have subsided.

On the contrary, the power struggle in the court is in full swing, and it can be glimpsed from the displacement of the first assistant, the first assistant of the Donglin Party Ye Xianggao stepped down, and the leader of the Zhejiang Party, Fang Congzhe, became the sole minister and was in charge of the government.

Looking at the abundant food on several cases, Zhu Youxiao's appetite increased greatly, and his stomach gurgled twice. He has been exercising and practicing martial arts all year round, and his consumption has greatly exceeded that of ordinary people, and this table full of tonic ingredients has just met his consumption and picked up his chopsticks.

After getting rid of the shackles of various rules, he almost forgot about the etiquette of this life and restored the casualness of the later life. After he had a hearty meal, Liu Shimin walked over with a half-worn thread-bound book. From the exposed paper on the side, it can be seen that the last pages are very new, unlike the previous ones, which bear the traces of flipping.

Even the edges of the pages are a little uncleanly cut, which makes the whole book look a little awkward. The whole book was held horizontally by Liu Shimin, with the spine facing him. There is no difference between this book and ordinary thread-bound books in the world, except that the binding style is different, and on the blue cover of the book, four big characters are neatly written - Infantry Drill Dictionary.

Holding the book, Liu Shimin walked forward quickly but gently. This is the request of the master after coming here, saying that he is not used to the slow walking posture in the past. Four years have long made Liu Shimin accustomed to all this, and even he ingeniously combined the speed required by the master with the gentleness required by the court in the past, forming a fast but silent pace.

This unique thinking made Liu Shimin stand out among the many eunuchs who accompanied him, and was reused by Zhu Youxiao, serving as a secretary, life secretary, herald and other positions, no longer just a small eunuch in the record, but made up for the vacated position of Cao Huachun, and became one of the three eunuch giants around Taisun.

Walking quickly and quietly has become Liu Shimin's instinct, he didn't bother a little thought, but still had room to look at the book in his hand with strange eyes, there were too many things in this book that made him feel strange. For example, it is written with goose feathers, for example, the opening of the book is facing right, and the text is horizontal, and it is written from left to right.

These are nothing, they can only be regarded as the master's personal hobbies, and what shocked Liu Shimin the most was a strange character called punctuation used in the book, dividing sentences into reading pauses, expressing tone, and clarifying the meaning of behavior. Liu Shimin can be regarded as a full reader of poetry and books, and he deeply knows how huge the impact will be if this kind of thing is really circulated and promoted.

That's really a renaissance of the words of a saint!

Interpreting the Four Books and the Five Classics, the words of the ancient sages are no longer the exclusive authority of the reader, but the person who compiles the book with this strange set of characters. To put it simply, it is a struggle for the right to speak, and to read the words of the sages according to the wishes of the rulers. Liu Shimin may not know the meaning behind the right to speak, but he can deeply understand the impact behind it.

It's too big.

After learning this set of characters, he often tossed and turned, unable to sleep all night, for fear of being killed by the master. Fortunately, as time went by, he let go of his worries after discovering that the master didn't mean this.

Liu Shimin's thoughts, Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting upright and washing his lips and tongue, didn't know, after cleaning his mouth, he wiped his hands clean, took the thick book, and slowly opened it.

The book was turned page by page, and his fingers ran over the solidified black handwriting. Zhu Youxiao's eyes were a little blank, he didn't look carefully, just rubbed page by page, as if what was in his hand was not a book, but a supreme treasure, a peerless beauty.

However, compared with the two, the significance of this book to Zhu Youxiao is definitely priceless. In the past two years, he has gathered the military materials in his mind, as well as the two military classics that Qi Jin presented to record Qi Jiguang's handwriting, and the method of arranging and training the infantry phalanx drill.

In the past two years, he has done two things, training martial arts, and compiling this infantry phalanx drill code. In fact, there is not much content in the whole book, just some parts such as queue training, the formation of the spear phalanx, and the transmission of military orders.

The entire code was completed by Zhu Youxiao alone, and he did not reveal it to Qi Jin, Yu Zhigao, or Sun Chengzong. There is a good saying, if the king is not secret, he is a minister, and if the minister is not secret, he still has a sense of confidentiality about these core things. What's more, at this moment, he needs to be low-key, not public, and it is better to be low-key so that everyone forgets him, before that big case.