Chapter 41: The Great Army Begins

On July 20, the wind was beautiful and the sky was clear. The www.biquge.info dragon flag with blue edge on a yellow background is erected along the way in the Taimiao Temple, the sound of drums came, Emperor Jingxiao personally led the ministers to hold a ceremony to worship their ancestors, after kneeling three times and knocking nine times, he personally lit the incense, inserted it on the incense burner, and put his hands together.

"Ancestors bless, this time the troops sent to southern Xinjiang can win a complete victory." After that, he bowed three more times.

Then he came to the army that was about to send troops, stood on the high altar facing south, held high the Yue that symbolized the right to command and the power of life and death, handed over the handle of the Yue to Song Zizhou, and loudly announced the edict: "From now on, General Huaihua can rule all military affairs in the army alone." ”

And carefully told Song Zizhou, "My son is young, I must brainstorm on the way out of the army, this time I will go with General Zhennan, if there is any difficulty, you can discuss with him." Don't listen to one family when you go to war, but brainstorm ideas. These 100,000 soldiers are all good sons of my Great Xia, and we must be considerate of them on the journey. ”

Song Zizhou knelt down to receive the order, saying that he must keep in mind his father's entrustment, live up to the trust, and strive for victory.

Standing up and holding a chisel to open the military gate that symbolizes the turn of evil into good fortune.

Emperor Xiaojing led hundreds of civil and military officials to see off the soldiers on the expedition, and knelt on the road to push the wheel hub of the chariot, and once again announced in public: The affairs of the army are not ordered by the king, but by the general.

Although Song Zizhou is only nine years old, he gets up to practice all the year round, is strong and healthy, and does not fall into majesty at all when he straddles a tall horse, wearing a silver armor and a red cloak, Song Ziyu and Song Ziming, who are standing in the crowd, are quite red-eyed, and desperately persuade themselves, what is the majesty in front of him, the important thing is the majesty in the future!

Song Zizhou glanced at the soldiers, and his voice with a bit of internal force reached everyone's ears, "Let's go!" ”

After that, he took the lead and went out of the city gate.

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Zhengrong has been at home for about half a month, during this period Zhao Tian has also finished cleaning up the bran wheat hall, and recruited two guys, Zheng Rong went to see, the two guys are very clever, the bran wheat hall has not been stocked yet, they are not idle, everywhere is cleaned up, even a few pots of moon flowers in the backyard are also trimmed neatly on the windowsill.

Zhengrong asked Zhao Tian to buy a few stone mills, and put them in a corner of the backyard of the bran wheat hall, grinding and selling them now, and the wheat grains are always better luck than flour.

In the anxious waiting, the wheat is finally ripe! The wind blew over, and a golden wave of wheat appeared.

Zhao Tian suggested hiring a few short-term workers in the bazaar, but Zheng Rong refused, "The family is too small, this wheat must not be harvested in a day, and it is easy to say that it is easy to manage a meal, but this accommodation is a problem." I'd better ask the village chief's uncle for help! Tomorrow morning you will take five taels of silver and go to the city to exchange for some copper plates. ”

Since Zheng Rong took the idea, Zhao Tian didn't say anything, and it happened that Li Dai was not at home, so Zheng Rong asked Zhao Tian to rest in Li Dai's house for the time being.

Zhao Tian looked at the grandeur of Zhengrong before, thinking that he was also a rich son, but later he was a little surprised to see them living in these two earthen houses. As clever as him, he could see at a glance that these two earthen houses were newly built, and he told the operation in his mind that the four princes asked people to build houses here, didn't they want to secretly cultivate power? Then I should be regarded as an old man in the hidden house, and I am even more motivated from now on.

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"Zhengrong, since you believe in the village chief's uncle so much, then the uncle won't take Qiao, or is it fifty a day like last time, do you think it's feasible?"

"Cheng, Uncle Village Chief, you find five people and let them come to my house early tomorrow morning to find me!" Zhengrong got up and wanted to leave, but suddenly remembered something, "Uncle Village Chief, can you borrow me for your house?" ”

"Use it, use it casually, it's idle anyway." The village chief said very cheerfully.

In fact, the Zhengrong family has become a fragrant dumpling in Shenma Village, and the people who came to work before were worried that the two children would not be able to pay them wages, so they agreed to help because of the village chief's affection, but the wages of the Zhengrong family were cleared on the same day, so the competition for recruitment this time was still very fierce, and those who came to the village chief's house to visit relatives were about to catch up with the New Year.

"Second uncle, this is my family's newly beaten walnuts, you see that Zhengrong's family is recruiting, can you ......?"

"Dazhu, it's not that Uncle won't help you, this quota has been handed over, this temporary change, I'm afraid people don't want to!"

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"Brother-in-law, you see the relationship between our two families, can you let me do the better work first?"

"Gensheng, this is a job that requires effort, and the owner has an overseer!"

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The reason why the village chief can become the village chief is not only because he can bluff people, but also because he is too kind.

Zheng Rong looked at the five strong men who came to report, all of them had big shoulders and round waists, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Zhao Tian, these people will be handed over to you, you let them take the wheat to the field in the east of the village to dry, that is, the field with a big willow tree."