When Wang Lixin was appointed as a scholar of the Duanming Palace, an envoy along the Yangtze River, and an envoy from Jianghuai to make a book and send it to the mansion, Liu Yuzheng and Wang Lixin were discussing the current shape in the study.

Since yesterday's conversation, Liu Yu was invited by Wang Lixin into the mansion and lived in the guest room, and the people in the mansion called him "sir".

I thought that I was going to burn incense and show incense or something, but Wang Lixin listened to the advice of his subordinates, and waved his hand very calmly to know it.

"It's not from the Middle Palace, nor is it from the two mansions, so you don't need to care about it." Seeing Liu Yu's surprised face, he explained two more sentences.

The book was sent to the study by Wang Lin, the eldest son of Wang Mansion, and Wang Lixin opened it and put it on the table casually. Liu Yu took it curiously and took a look, it was almost the same as the letter of appointment in later generations, there was no superfluous nonsense, which showed that the situation was already very urgent.

"Ziqing, how about bothering to submit to the words of the supervisor in the scene?" At this moment, Wang Lixin has transformed into a party leader, although it is a tone of discussion, but the tone is almost an order.

"But there is nothing to say." Liu Yu also stood up and bowed respectfully, looking solemn. The person in charge of the Jiyi script, that is, the responsibility of a staff officer to praise the painting, is a formal official, and many marshals have served in this position.

"Lin'er, you also set off with your father, and temporarily charge the writing machine to write. Immediately take my letter to the Privy Mansion and transfer a forbidden army to listen to it. Wang Lin replied respectfully and turned to leave.

There is a point between superiors and subordinates, and there is inevitably restraint in speaking. Liu Yu knew the old man's style, and he was resolute, and it was estimated that he would leave on the same day, and he would say goodbye to his family, so he also said goodbye, and said that he would go back to the room to pack his luggage.

Among Wang Lixin's official positions, the Duanming Palace bachelor is a rank level, a third grade, and the Jianghuai envoy is sent to recruit envoys along the river, and the solicitation is a practical function, and the specific task is to use the treasury of Jiankang Mansion to raise soldiers to rescue the states and counties along the river.

With the production of the book also sent the official uniform seal letter, Liu Yu took a look at the huge handsome seal, yellow I don't know what kind of jade carving, the first part is carved with a tiger button, and the bottom of the six big characters in seal text "Jianghuai recruits ambassadors".

And although Liu Yu's own text in charge of the machine was requisitioned by the marshal himself, he also had to report to the Ministry of Officials and was qualified to report to the Ministry of Officials in the future. In terms of grade, it is roughly the first grade, which belongs to the lowest level of the ruling class.

Wang's mansion seemed very busy all day, but what Liu Yu saw was that people came and went, there was no hustle and bustle, and it seemed busy but not chaotic, and he didn't even hear the crying of the woman he originally thought, which shows the strictness of governing the mansion on weekdays.

"Come, Ziqing, this envoy will introduce you to a colleague." At dinnertime, when Liu Yu went to eat mixed rice, he saw that there was an unseen person on the table.

"This is the commander of the forbidden army on this trip, and the commander of the Guangjie army is Jin Ming." Hearing Wang Lixin's introduction, Liu Yu looked at the majestic man in front of him, dressed in ordinary clothes, standing up and being half a head taller than Liu Yu, with a visual measurement of more than one meter eight.

This is also a person who left his name in the history books, and there are more words than Wang Lin, the son of Wang Lixin. Liu Yu picked up a glass of wine on the table and walked over to Jin Ming.

"Commander Jin, I have heard of the name for a long time, how fortunate it is, a certain first to do it as a respect." Liu Yu raised his wine glass and saluted, raised his head and took a sip.

"This is Liu Yu and Liu Ziqing, who is currently serving as the chief manager." Wang Lixin saw that Jin Ming was a little at a loss and introduced him.

"Liu Jiyi is tormented, a certain is a rough man, he can't be beg." Jin Ming didn't expect Liu Yu to be so polite, he was really confused, he didn't know him at all, but after being in the army for a long time, he also knew that those who could act as opportune were the chief's cronies and even relatives.

"Where, when I saw a good man at first glance, I had some admiration, so much so that I made you laugh." Liu Yu was also a little surprised when he saw Wang Lixin and the others, knowing that his actions were a little abrupt, so he hurriedly explained.

"Haha, sit, sit." Wang Lixin beckoned everyone to sit down one by one, except for Liu Yu and Jin Ming on the table, the rest were Wang Lixin's nephews. At the end of a meal, although there are also cups to be changed, it may be because they have to be separated, which is relatively dull.

After the meal, Wang Lixin summoned a few people who were going to leave tomorrow to the study and discussed the march around the large map brought by Liu Yu. Liu Yu couldn't interject in such specific military affairs, so he could only stand there and listen.

And that Jin Ming is also worthy of Wang Lixin's favorite general in the history books, pointing to the map and constantly narrating, where to camp, how many miles a day, how to divide the front, middle and rear armies, how to contact each other, when to send scouts, all of which are well arranged.

Early the next morning, Liu Yu went out of the city from Qiantang Gate with the people of Wangfu and walked more than ten miles before meeting the waiting forbidden army. When they saw the comers, the sergeants who had been sitting on the ground immediately stood up and lined up, divided into five columns in a column of 100 people.

Fan Yangli, a big red mandarin duck battle jacket, a cloth hakama wrapped around his waist, tied with a piece of tuguan skin, leather boots under his feet, a spear in his hand, and a bow and crossbow on his back, there were about 100 of the 500 people.

This team of forbidden soldiers is quite tall, basically over 1.7 meters, and their body shape is also majestic, but all of them are covered with wind and frost, and their age is estimated to be a little old.

"No, the young and strong elites have been taken away by Jia Xianggong, that's all, it took some effort, and the maximum is only five or five." Jin Ming looked at Liu Yu and shook his head, and explained in his ear.

Liu Yu was taken aback when he heard this, he was 55 years old, he had reached retirement age, and it was said that the oldest in the forbidden army was eighty years old, which seemed to be true.

The Song Dynasty was different from the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations, the army in the Ming and Qing dynasties ate empty salaries, and the establishment was not satisfactory, and some even only had three or four percent of the personnel on paper. The salaries that were vacated were all divided among the officials.

In the Song Dynasty, on the contrary, his army had the problem of redundancy, that is, overstaffing, taking the forbidden army as an example, it often exceeded two or three percent, and the extra personnel were used as slaves by the officials.

Suddenly, Liu Yu's eyes were fixed on a person, this person was standing in the last row, it was not easy to see, but he was really a little short, probably less than one meter six, standing in a group of people of more than one meter seven looked different.

Walking over to take a closer look, the man looked evasive and lowered his head. Liu Yu became interested, and looked left and right around him, and the man was annoyed by the look and raised his eyes. Liu Yu saw that his neck was flat, and he immediately understood, and walked away with a smile.

I saw Wang Lixin standing in front of the array, raising his hand and saying "hard work". I didn't see any pre-war mobilization or anything, and the whole team began to set off.

Liu Yu followed Wang Lixin behind, he couldn't ride a horse, so he could only sit on a horse and let a sergeant lead him, fortunately, Guangma was small in size, and his personality was also very docile, and he was very comfortable to sit on.

Behind them were baggage wagons, a dozen wagons loaded with armor and equipment, as well as marching rations.

Liu Yu sat on the pony and looked around, this is an extremely well-built official road, paved with hard rammed earth, spacious and smooth. There are various large trees planted on both sides, and there are deep drainage ditches on the sides. On both sides of the ditch are square rice fields, which have not yet begun spring ploughing, and there are only bare ravines in the rice fields.

Jin Ming was behind the front army, bowing his head and talking to people, Liu Yu saw that it was the person he was looking at, and he didn't know which family's daughter was playing Mulan in the army.

"Jin Ming is an old man and an old general, more than ten years, I remember when I was still in Ezhou, he came to join the army, and he took a little sister with him. Oh, it's the one who is talking to him, the two depend on each other, and the relationship is very good. Wang Lixin saw Liu Yu staring at Jin Ming, thinking that he had found something.

"I see, I thought that the men of this dynasty were dead, and I wanted a weak woman to go into battle desperately." Liu Yu laughed, he was just curious, and he didn't want to be nosy.

"You rough man, what did the old man say to you, why did you still take her out, and she mixed into the forbidden army, what kind of system!" Wang Lixin summoned Jin Ming to him and reprimanded him.

"I also know that I can't take a pheasant, I blame her, I have spoiled her since I was a child." Jin Ming spread his hands and looked bitter.

"When the whole army rests for a while, call her over, and the old man will tell her." Wang Lixin waved his hand to drive Jin Ming away.

At noon, the team that had been walking all morning stopped, only to see a group of people burning pots and burying stoves, and some scavenging and collecting firewood.

Liu Yu went to lead the army with the flow of people, he was a little curious, what did the army eat in this era? When I got it in my hand, I realized that it was a coarse grain cake and a bowl of porridge, no oil and no fish, and I couldn't help but sigh, can such an army fight.

took two small armies to deliver food to Wang's father and son, and saw Old Man Wang sitting on a small horse, and a small army standing in front with his head down.

"Let's take a break and eat first." Liu Yu saw that the old man was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, and hurriedly persuaded. is old, but don't have a good one, according to historical records, the old man died this year.

Liu Yu turned his head to look at the little army, lowered his head and rubbed his eyes, probably crying for Xun. Seeing someone staring at her, she raised her head, and there were a few whiskers sticking under her lips, and one of them was crooked, which was very funny.

Seeing the little girl pouting aggrievedly, Liu Yu suddenly had a familiar feeling, as if he had seen it somewhere.

"Don't pull your beard off yet, go eat." Wang Lixin looked at her very funny, and he had to pretend to be stern, which was very hard.

"Ahh Seeing the little girl tearing off her beard hatefully, Liu Yu was taken aback and shouted out, isn't this a sunset?

Bang! The pottery bowl in Liu Yu's hand fell to the ground and smashed to pieces, causing the people around to look sideways, and Wang Lixin and Wang Lin on the side also looked at him puzzled.

The surname is Jin, the brother and sister, Ezhou joined the army, could it be so coincidental?

"Let me ask you, you are from Xiangyang Mansion." Liu Yu didn't care about it, and pulled the little girl.

"Ziqing, you are lighter, this old man knows that his brother and sister are the people of Xiangyang Mansion." Wang Lixin replied on the side.

"Shangying Village, Xiangyang Prefecture?" Liu Yu knew that he was using a lot of force, and he might have scratched the little girl, so he hurriedly let go.

"How do you know?" It was Jin Ming who came over with a meal to speak, and the little girl also looked at him with wide eyes in surprise*.

"Your name is 'Zhu'er' and her name is 'Pheasant', right?" Liu Yu was a little excited, and his tone was a little hurried. Wang Lixin's father and son also stopped the bowl and looked at them.

"Who are you, and why do you know the nickname of so-and-so?" Jin Ming was taken aback, except for a few brothers and sisters, Wang Lixin didn't know this name.

"You were originally three brothers and sisters, and one sister was named 'Pan'er'. Lost ten years ago, right? Liu Yu looked up to the sky, tears came out of his eyes, the sky has eyes, did you hear the sunset?

"Do you know Pan'er, where is she now?" Jin Ming dropped the food in his hand and grabbed Liu Yu's arms.

"Do you recognize my sister, where is she?" The little girl 'Pheasant' also pounced on her and hugged Liu Yu.

"Your sister she, she" Liu Yu didn't know what to say, as soon as he learned the whereabouts of his relatives, he told him that the family had died, how cruel it was.

"Wait a minute." Liu Yu pulled out his hand, only then did he feel a little painful to be caught by Jin Ming, and took out a photo from his baggage, which he washed out in the photo studio when he went home, and wanted to take it with him as a souvenir.

Jin Ming took the color photo handed over by Liu Yu and looked at it, his eyes immediately turned red, that's right, this is his sister who has been separated for ten years, it will never be wrong, the eyebrows and eyes, and the 'pheasant' are almost carved out of the same mold.

"Sister, it's sister!" When the pheasant saw it, she immediately cried and shouted.

"If it's convenient, please inform your sister's whereabouts, and Jin will have a follow-up report." Jin Ming wiped his eyes and solemnly waved at Liu Yu.

"Ziqing, if you know, tell him to listen." Wang Lixin came over and patted Liu Yu on the shoulder, and said softly, the careful old man has already sensed that it may be a murderous letter.

"Brother Jin, don't hide it, 'Pan'er' is Liu's deceased wife, and the reason why he followed the confession was to avenge her." Liu Yu sighed.

"Dead wife? Whoever is harmed, he will be torn into pieces. When Jin Ming heard Liu Yu's words, he didn't stand firm.

"The Mongol Tartars, led by their Great Khan Kublai Khan." Liu Yu's enemies are too strong, and he needs help.

"Jin and that Tartar don't share the sky!" Jin Ming suddenly pulled out the saber at his waist and slashed at a small tree on the side of the road, and the trunk as thick as a child's arm broke in response.

"It's past noon, get up and get ready to go!" Jin Ming returned the knife to the sheath, shouted loudly and walked briskly forward.