More Chapter 40 Gan Ying selected

Liu Qing had breakfast, and saw that the sky was dark, and layers of dark clouds were squeezing the sky, as if they were about to fall, so depressed that it seemed that the whole world was quiet. The indifferent wind shuttled, destroying and ravaging the flowers on the branches, and the weak little flowers and grasses had been subjugated to the ground. It is the mountain rain that is coming, and the wind is full of buildings!

The sky overhead, glowing with gray-blue light, shone miserably on the earth, and then, with a thunderclap, the rain finally fell.

Liu Qing stood up, pushed open the window, and let the rain blow on his face, the refreshing and cool feeling made his heart feel a little happier.

Zuo Xiao'e stood beside her, she was about fourteen years old, with a melon face, beautiful and elegant, with a slight hint of innocence in her demeanor, she picked up a robe and draped it on Liu Qing's body. Liu Qing looked back at her and smiled, and asked, "Your sisters have been here for a few months, are you still used to it?" ”

Zuo Xiao'e nodded and said, "Lord Wang, you all treat us very well, it is much better here than being bullied in the palace." I thought that our fate was miserable, my father was killed, my brother disappeared, and I was in the palace, and I just resigned ourselves to fate! Who would have thought that meeting Your Majesty would give us a place to return, and it would be time to run! ”

Liu Qing sighed: "Dou Xian's party doesn't know how many people have been harmed, I was in the palace when I was young, and my father was the master for me, loving me and my brother Zhao, after my father went, I didn't have a few days of stability, trembling in the palace every day, like walking on thin ice, if it wasn't for Brother Zhao, I might have spent the rest of my life in Qinghe." Come to think of it, I don't know how much suffering I have to go through in my life, but I still don't know what the result will be in the end, it's really a sigh! If you feel good here, just stay in peace, I am in a mess every day, and I don't know how to take care of you. ”

He looked at the rain outside the window, and was silent for a long time, and the distant past in his heart seemed to come up again, and the impression of his mother had faded without a trace. He was convinced that his emotions were suppressed, but they were not overly complicated or distorted, he was just very dazed and didn't know how to go next.

The emperor often came to him for help, he knew that the help he wanted was not something he could give, and even the emperor himself had no way to get rid of the existing fortune, what kind of ability could he have as a prince who had been suppressed for a long time? The emperor came here just to beat Li He, that fan-like figure.

He didn't know what Li He thought, there are all people, some people need power, some people need money, and some people need women. But Li He seems to have no desires, he just reads in the house every day, practices martial arts in the court, and even the beautiful Zuo Da'e he sends, he treats him with courtesy, without a trace of exceedance. The silver he gave to Li He was also intact, what was such a person for?

And what about himself? He lived in such a decadent way, without surprises, without brilliance, he was grayish-yellow, like a windy sky in autumn, and there was not even a trace of sunlight. It seems that the splendor of flowers has nothing to do with him, he is only fourteen years old, and he has such a long life, such a cold and indifferent world, he lives so sadly.

If Sui'er, he thought of Deng Sui, the sunny girl, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, only during that time, he was smiling. Her beauty, her sensibility, her intelligence, her shyness, and her softness all blew away the gloom in front of him like a warm wind, and warmed his heart.

He once thought that he would stay with Sui'er all his life, ride the world, and no longer return to this palace dispute, this chaos between the government and the opposition. As long as there is Sui'er in the body, no matter what is in the body, it is a floating cloud for him, and the scenery of such a woman in the body explosion will always be bright, and the mood will always be bright.

But the changeability of the world made him lose Sui'er, and his world fell into boundless darkness forever, he couldn't forget what Deng Xun said when he rejected him, and he couldn't forget what Li He said to him. After his death, what blessing did he have? He will never be able to be accompanied by the sun in this life, and what hope is there in the future, even if there is a lot of glory behind him, his life will be like a hell, what is the use of him. It's just that he can't involve Sui'er, if she is bound to enter the palace and accompany Brother Zhao, his intervention will make her fall into a place of no return, how can he bear it?

A long sigh came from his mouth, and he had been standing in front of the window for a long time. Zuo Xiao'e looked at his handsome face, and couldn't help but feel distressed, although she didn't know what he was thinking, she knew that he must have countless heartaches and troubles. A prince with no shortage of food and clothing, what is he worried about? couldn't help but ask out loud: "Lord Wang, are you worried about state affairs?" Everything has its own fixed number, and the Dou family has done many evils, and the heavens will punish them. ”

Liu Qing looked at her beautiful little face and smiled reluctantly: "What state affairs do you know as a little girl?" He thought in his heart, Sui'er really understands, that kind of intelligence, how can a little girl have a high theory? She's at ease.

There was a wry smile on the corner of Zuo Xiao'e's mouth: "Yes, how can I understand state affairs as a little girl, it's just that everything I have experienced is related to traitorous ministers, and I just feel it in my heart." The worries of the heart are like bandits. Quiet words and thoughts, you can't fly. I only hate that I can't be born as a boy and avenge my parents. She lowered her head, tears crept up in her eyes, and then quietly fell again.

Liu Qing sighed softly, couldn't help but walk over and gently wiped away her tears. The tentacle skin was slippery, and my heart couldn't help but wave, and I hurriedly withdrew my hand. I hated myself for being so light, and I thought of Sui'er's little hands, which were so slippery, and my heart was tight, and I even felt like crying.

Zuo Xiao'e's face was flushed, delicate and abnormal, Liu Qing's dejected figure was reflected in her eyes, and her heart was beating non-stop. She has been in love with King Qinghe for a long time, but she knows that her status is low, and it is really difficult to match, but she is in deep love, full of shackles, and she only says that there is no hope in this life, and it is good to silently guard him. It's just that he stroked his cheeks, and his heart has long been lost, and he only hopes that he will be moved by his heart, remembering the sentences in the "Book of Songs", holding his hand, and growing old together. My heart was pounding even more, just hoping that this man would become the only one in his life.

When he looked up shyly, he saw Liu Qing's eyes full of tears, and his face was extremely miserable, not only shocked, but also frightened, I don't know why he is like this. I had to call softly: "Lord Wang, what's wrong with you?" Is it Xiao'e that makes the prince sad, prince, you say something, Xiao'e can't change it in the future? ”

Liu Qing waved his hand and sat down on the floor, his heart was sour, Sui'er, Sui'er, his heart was calling countless times, a lovesickness, but it was caused by Xiao'e, and his heart was sore.

Zuo Xiao'e stood on the spot in a daze, neither to leave, nor to stay, but she didn't know how to deal with herself. I can only hear the sound of rain outside the window, cleaning the dirty world and the dusty heart. The rain became heavier and heavier, and he refused to stop, as if he understood the feelings of miserable people, and the loneliness was heart-wrenching. The sad raindrops seem to have also dripped into people's hearts, cold and shining.

A wave of loss hit her heart, Zuo Xiao'e lowered her head, bowed to Liu Qing, exited the door, and the moment she closed the door, tears and blindfolded her eyes.

The heavy rain continued to rain for a long time before it slowly turned lighter, and then it gradually stopped after drenching for a long time. The air was covered with a layer of moisture, and the hot and dry weather immediately refreshed.

Li He sat empty in the room, finally able to come out to breathe, stretched his waist, and walked towards the pool. Thinking that the water in the pool had risen a lot, he turned around and stepped towards Liu Qing's study, he hadn't seen this little prince for a few days, and he didn't know what he was doing.

As soon as I passed through a few rockeries, I heard Gan Ying's loud laughing voice: "Those people are screaming strangely, don't dare to come up again, if the master sees it, he will be happy!" ”

"What am I happy about?" Li He hadn't seen his apprentice for half a month, not only was he in a good mood, but he asked with a smile!

Seeing that it was him, Gan Ying trotted a few steps, half-knelt down and bowed, "Master, is this good health?" The apprentice is back! ”

Li He helped him up and saw that he was wearing a moon-white embroidered brocade robe and a brown velvet jacquard brocade robe. Only a crimson belt is tied around the waist, which looks refreshing and capable, and it can't help but shine in people's eyes. Yin smiled: "I heard your voice from afar, why did this trip go smoothly!" He looked at Liu Qing again, and saw that although he was smiling, his face was tired, and between his eyebrows, there seemed to be infinite melancholy.

He knew that this king, who had been cautious since he was a child, and who had many accidents, was very melancholy in temperament, and often felt sorry for himself.

Liu Qing saw him looking at him and smiled: "Sir, Gan Ying is back, we should celebrate, come here, set up a banquet, and we will have a good time!" ”

"It's like a dream!" The person was sitting in the pavilion, and Gan Ying said with a red face.

"Your Majesty asked me to go to Ban Chao and told me that soon he would be on another mission to the Western Regions, and that he would select eighteen warriors to follow him at this time. He knew that I was learning martial arts from my husband, so he asked me to try it, and he also told me that if I could serve in the army, I would definitely be promoted in the future. Gan Ying excitedly elaborated on the trip.

Ban Chao is the elder brother of Ban Gu, the word Zhongsheng, he was born in the family of Shi, and he is the historian Ban Biaozhi, but he threw his pen from Rong and became a famous general of the Eastern Han Dynasty who stabilized the frontier.

This time, Dou Xian returned to the dynasty with a great victory, and Emperor He issued an order to let him return to the dynasty to prepare for the future.

At this time, he attacked the kingdom of Shache and killed its king. With a small number of his subordinates, he overthrew the puppet power established by the Qiuzi State in the Shule State, re-established the elder brother of the late king of Shule as the king, and established a new pro-Han regime.

In the years that followed, Ban Chao subjugated Shache, Yueshi and other countries, and was appointed as the protector of the capital. He asked for peace, danger and plough, and almost all the warriors who followed him had died on the battlefield, so when he returned to Beijing, he decided to choose eighteen more brave and resourceful warriors to accompany him.

After Emperor Han He met with Ban Chao, he learned of his idea, and later recommended Gan Ying.

Although it was recommended by Emperor He, Ban Chao did not give Gan Ying any privilege. In the school field, there are 17 warriors who come to the candidates. Ban Chao is in his fifties, his hair is a little gray, he is wearing a general's handsome uniform, sitting upright above the school field, with a long beard, a strong body, and a glittering wisdom in his eyes. His voice was clear and loud, and he shouted, "Seventeen are divided into six teams, and they compete with each other in groups of two, and the winners compete with the winners, and the four winners of each team come to me." ”

"Roar, roar, roar!" The warrior let out a deafening roar that echoed through the sky of the school grounds.

Then the competition began, Gan Ying was divided into the fourth group, his first opponent was a tall man named Sunan, he remembered the teacher's teachings, did not hurry, calmly responded, and knocked the man to the ground. When he looked up, he saw Ban Chao standing outside the crowd, staring at himself intently.

The second opponent, the first opponent, and the fourth opponent, Gan Ying won easily, and the official in charge of his group no longer let Gan Ying go, and he was the rightful winner. Gan Ying stood on the sidelines and watched the battle, his eyes were blazing, watching every movement of the contestants, thinking about how to deal with it if it was himself, these people only had one person named Qin He, and his martial arts were outstanding, and when Qin He was the second to be selected and stood next to him, there was a smile on his face that only a winner had. Gan Ying smiled, he remembered Master's words, there are always people above themselves, we must learn everyone's strengths with an open mind, guard against arrogance and rashness, don't panic for any action, and be the head of all movements, and the source of victory.

Therefore, when the rest of the people stood proudly next to him, he still smiled humbly. At this moment, he saw Ban Chao again, looking at him with burning eyes.

When the last remaining twenty-four people stood in front of Ban Chao, he walked by each of them, stopped, and stared, but did not look at Gan Ying again. Finally, he cleared his throat and said, "You are the best of these warriors, and I am proud of you. He paused, ordered someone to open a map, pointed to the dots on it, and said: "In these places, I have stored food, and in these places, I have stored weapons, and my people are here." He pointed to a dot above.

"The enemy is below me, but I have no food and no weapons, how can I win?" His gaze swept over everyone's faces, looking at the expressions of each of them, except for Gan Ying, the rest of the people were either deep thinking, some seemed to be confident and eager to try, and some looked depressed and didn't know how to answer. Only Gan Ying's face was expressionless, and her clear eyes were shining.

"You!" Ban Chao pointed at Qin He and asked, "What do you say is the best thing to do?" ”

Qin He thought for a moment and replied: "There is a small one next to it, you can avoid the enemy, go to get weapons, and then return from behind, surround the enemy, and then kill them." ”

"You! You tell me? Ban Chao asked again, pointing to a thin-faced sergeant.

"Fuck it, rush over!" In a word, everyone laughed.

Ban Chao looked at the others again, so he asked Gan Ying: "What about you, what do you want to do?" ”

Gan Ying said lightly: "First of all, it is a big taboo for generals to store food and weapons separately, so this is a scheming commander. Secondly, if this is the case, you can make a part of the soldiers in the center to attract the attention of the enemy soldiers, and divide into two teams, one team to get food, to prepare for long-term battles, and the other team to take weapons. At this time, the team will join forces together, and then come to a life-and-death duel, it is possible to win. ”

When Ban Chao heard this, he laughed, pointed to the twenty-four warriors and said, "Listen, this is the real good way!" Only by leading troops can we always be invincible. ”

His gaze swept over Gan Ying's face and asked, "You are Gan Ying recommended to me by His Majesty!" Well, Your Majesty is really a talent. If you can be martial, you can come to serve in our army. As for these twenty-four people......"

He pointed to six of them: "When you were victorious just now, your faces were arrogant, but just now you were squeaky and unclear, you can't understand your answers, and you have courage but no strategy. He shook it and said: "Although my Han Dynasty has made the Quartet surrender, we are nine deaths outside, if there is no resourcefulness, it is not beneficial to take the way of death, just go back!" ”

He looked at the eighteen capable warriors and said, "I'll leave the capital in a month, you all go back and prepare!" ”

Speaking of this, Gan Ying sighed: "I have always heard that Master Ban is a loyal and good general, and if this is the case, Master, I have infinite worship in my heart, and I have no regrets in this life if I serve under his command!" ”

Li He was originally a vegetarian diet, and he calmly picked up a few bites of light food, and when he heard him say this, he put down his chopsticks and said: "Yes, my original intention was to let you serve in the army and gallop the field, and now I have met the master, and it will be unlimited in the future!" ”

Liu Qingdao: "It's just that it's bitter cold outside the plug, between life and death, you have to endure hardship!" ”

Gan Ying's eyes shone brightly, "I'm not afraid of hardship, my husband was born between heaven and earth, just to make meritorious contributions and do his best for the country and the people." ”

Li He patted his hand and said, "Gan Ying, you are still a few days away from departure, and our master and apprentice have often been together in the past few days, and I don't know when we will be able to see each other again." ”

"Hmm!" Gan Ying nodded vigorously, since she was a child, she followed her master to practice martial arts, just like her biological father, and now that she is separated, she is really reluctant, and when she nods, tears want to flow out.

Li He smiled: "Why, you still have to cry, you are already an adult, although you are my apprentice, you should have set up your own door a long time ago, sooner or later, can't you see it?" ”

He looked at the King of the River again, and saw that he was drinking depressedly and without speaking, so he said again: "Lord, do you remember what I said to you?" Your merit is to make Your Majesty a master of a generation, personal gains and losses, if you always take it to heart, what is the joy of life. I remember you wrote a little poem! ”

"On a bright moonlit night, when people are ignorant, Tianjiao Chengyue laughs over the clouds. The husband carries a guest on his back, and the journey is twilight. If you ask about the things ahead, cheer up and provoke the long river. Liu Qing was slightly surprised and sighed: "Yes, sir, this is what Xiao Wang wrote." ”

Li He laughed and said: "Lord Wang, such a good poem shows that you are not a person who loves children, why can't you think about everything?" With the word 'put' in everything, everything can be solved! ”

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Postscript: Ban Chao

The idiom "throwing pen from Rong" means that the scholar joins the army. Ban Chao is not only the etymology of the pen, but also the role model and ancestor of the past generations. Ban Chao had great ambitions when he was young, was filial and rigorous, and had outstanding eloquence. Later, his brother Ban Gu was called into Luoyang as an official, and Ban Chao and his mother moved to the capital together. At that time, his family was relatively poor, and Ban Chao copied books for the government and earned a meager salary to supplement his family.

According to the "Dongguan Han Ji", one day, he was bored with copying books, so he stopped copying, threw his pen and sighed: "The eldest husband should follow Fu Jie, Zhang Qian's meritorious service in foreign lands, in order to win the title of marquis, and An Neng can write for a long time!" After being ridiculed by others, Ban Chao said: "Xiao An knows the ambition of a strong man! ”。 Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty appointed him as the Lantai Lingshi, and was later dismissed.

If you don't enter the tiger, you will get the tiger

In the sixteenth year of Yongping (73 years), Ban Chao accompanied Dou Gu, the commander of Fengche, to attack the Xiongnu. Dou Gu used Ban Chao as a fake Sima and sent him to attack Yiwu (in the area of present-day Hami City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region). Ban Chao defeated the enemy army in the Pu Sea, and was appreciated by Dou Gu, so he sent him as an envoy to the Western Regions. Ban Chao went to Shanshan Kingdom (present-day southeast Xinjiang) southwest of Lop Nur, when the Xiongnu were also fighting for the king of Shanshan. When Ban Chao first arrived in Shanshanguo, the king treated Ban Chao very politely, but suddenly became cold after a few days. Ban Chao realized that "there must be a Xiongnu envoy coming", which caused King Shanshan to hesitate, and then used a trick to get the exact news. Because he held a meeting with 36 companions, he said: "I am waiting in the Desperate Realm, and I want to make great achievements; And the Hun envoys came only a few days before the king began to snub us. If we are sent to the Huns, it will be difficult to survive", and said, "If you don't enter the tiger, you can get the tiger, and the plan of today is to attack it with fire at night." That night, Ban Chao led his subordinates to set fire to the Hun envoy's tent and beat drums, causing the other party to panic. Ban Chao personally killed 3 people, the soldiers killed more than 30 people, and the rest were burned to death. The next day, Ban Chao displayed the head of the Xiongnu envoy to the king of Shanshan, shocking his people, and Shanshan returned to the Han Dynasty. Ban Chao left the famous sentence "If you don't enter the tiger, you can get the tiger" in this battle. The emperor and Dou Gu admired Ban Chao's wisdom and courage very much, and Dou Gu wanted to increase the number of people for Ban Chao, but Ban Chao refused.

Weizhen Western Regions

Later, Ban Chao traveled from Shanshan to Khotan, which was a powerful country in the Western Regions at that time, and King Guangde led other countries to attack Shache and kill its king. Ban Chaozhi, Guangde is not very polite to it. The country believes in witches, and the sorcerer said to Guangde, "Why do the gods want to return to the Han, and the Han envoys have a bad horse, and they need to take the shrine to the gods." Yu Shude sent someone to Ban Chaoma, and Ban Chao asked the wizard to fetch it himself, and then angrily beheaded the wizard and sent the head to Guangde. Guangde had heard that Ban Chao had killed the Xiongnu envoy in Shanshan, and he felt very frightened, and surrendered to Han because of the killing of the Xiongnu envoy. Ban Chao even led his few subordinates to overthrow the puppet regime established by the Qiuzi State in Shule (the capital of present-day Kashgar, Xinjiang), re-establish the elder brother of the late king of Shule as king, and establish a new pro-Han regime.

Later, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty died, and Yanqi (now Yanqi ** Autonomous County, Xinjiang) took the opportunity to attack the Han Dynasty, and Qiuzi and others also sent troops to attack Shule. Emperor Zhang of Han ascended the throne, worried that Ban Chao was isolated and helpless, and issued an edict to recall him. Shule, Khotan and other countries were very worried about this, and Ban Chao broke the two cities that Shule rebelled against Qiuzi, and Shule was restored.

Pacify the nations

At the beginning of its establishment, Ban Chao led Shule and other countries to attack Gumo Shicheng (now northwest of Wensu County, Xinjiang). After that, he wrote to invite soldiers, intending to take the opportunity to pacify the Western Regions and get the support of Emperor Zhang.

After defeating the rebel generals of Shache (present-day Shache County, Xinjiang) and Shule, Ban Chao wrote a letter requesting a joint attack on Qiuzi with Wusun, which was approved by Emperor Zhang. In the first eight years of the establishment, Bai Banchao was the commander of the army, but Li Yi, who was responsible for escorting the envoys of Wusun, did not dare to advance because of the offensive of Qiuzi after arriving in Khotan, and then wrote a letter claiming that the recovery of the Western Regions could not succeed, and at the same time slandered Ban Chao as "comfortable with foreign countries and no internal concerns". However, Emperor Zhang believed in Ban Chao's loyalty and ordered Li Yi to obey Ban Chao's dispatch, but Ban Chao did not hold a grudge against Li Yi and still sent him back to Beijing.

In the following year, Ban Chao joined forces with Shule and Khotan to attack Shache, and Shule Wang Zhong was lured by Shache to rebel. Ban Chao changed the name of Shule's mansion to be the king, and beheaded him when he surrendered the year later, opening up the passage to the south.

In the years that followed, Ban Chao subjugated Shache, Yueshi, Qiuzi, Gumo, and Wensu (present-day Wushi County, Xinjiang), and was appointed as the protector of the capital, by which time most of the kingdoms of the Western Regions had surrendered to the Han Dynasty. In the sixth year of Yongyuan (94 A.D.), Ban Chao sought to level Yanqi, Weisu (northeast of Yanqi ** Autonomous County, Xinjiang) and Yuli (now south of Korla City, Xinjiang), so far more than 50 countries in the Western Regions have been attached to the Han Dynasty. In the second year, Ban Chao was named the Marquis of Dingyuan