The furnishings of the outer study of the Guogong Mansion are all half-old.

The tree hut is not old, and the whole family is wearing new clothes, this family is definitely not noble, at most it is a nouveau riche.

The furnishings in this outer study still have the taste of military generals.

On the wall hangs an antique Han sword, a set of plate armor "tribute" from France, and a Western chiming bell on the side of the screen.

The scale-like pendulum swayed back and forth, making a clattering sound.

There was not even a maid pouring water in the house, Liu Yu's father Liu Sheng sat at the table, holding a novel "The Biography of the Ming Heroes" in his hand, and read it with relish.

Today's Dashun Yiguo Duke Liu Sheng is about forty or fifty years old, and he has been pampered for a long time, and he still looks very young.

He was dressed in a blue and blue suit embroidered with a unicorn white ze.

Because of the former Ming Dynasty's self-proclaimed fire virtue, water can extinguish fires, and by the way, he called himself water virtue with the saying of five virtues.

It's just that as we all know, the water virtue in these five virtues is black, such as the water virtue and Qin are all black...... But Dashun's group of old Shaanxi children are very iron-headed, and they have to say that the water is blue.

The "Jiashen Chronicle" of the previous dynasty ridiculed: "The thief is the king of water, and his clothes are still blue, so the army wears blue, and the official hat is also blue." ”

It wasn't until later that the founding of the country was ridiculed by the widows of the previous dynasty as "vulgar and unliterate, ignorant of the five virtues, and water virtue to blue, which is the first strange thing in 2,000 years, and the mud legs sit on the country and the mountains are probably like this", but it has never changed from blue to black, and the head is very iron.

Liu Sheng attacked the duke, and the higher the official rank, the bluer the color. Blue is better than blue, and the duke is extremely noble, so he wants to wear blue.

After Liu Yu entered, he bowed his head and did not dare to look directly.

After all, this is a feudal society, and under the patriarchal system, especially this kind of princely family, it is even more important to pay attention to it. When the father didn't say to sit down, if the son sat down directly, he would inevitably be beaten.

There are a lot of feudal patriarchal, and Liu Yu is still clear about this. The bigger the family, the more rules, although Liu Yu is disgusted in his heart, he has no choice but to accept it.

Seeing his cheap dad watching "The Legend of the Ming Heroes" there, Liu Yu smiled secretly in his heart.

In recent years, the dynasty has become more and more stable, and the nobles have not been able to grasp the military power too tightly, and they are doing some on weekdays - presiding over the wedding of the prince and princess, replacing the royal sacrifice to the royal family, presiding over the Rongen banquet, and even repairing the "History of the Ming Dynasty" in the name - the nobles and nobles are named to show their attention to the previous dynasty, but in fact, they do not do anything, so they put on a name.

Because of the previous wars, the "History of the Ming Dynasty" has not yet been completed, and Liu Sheng still has a job of supervising the "History of the Ming Dynasty". It's just that I am supervising the revision of "History of the Ming Dynasty" here, and I am watching "The Biography of the Heroes and Martyrs of the Ming Dynasty" here, no matter how you look at it, it is a little weird.

For a long time, Liu Sheng put down the book, took off the glasses of the Western missionary, and suddenly asked, "Have you read "The Legend of the Martyrs"?" ”

This book has been written for a long time, and the market life of Dashun is similar to that of the previous dynasty, and it has been widely circulated, Liu Yu nodded, thinking that I had read it in my last life.

"Now that you've read it, do you know what's good about this book?"

"Huh?"

What's so good? Liu Yu was a little confused, how do you say this?

The good part? Fortunately, it's quite lively and interesting?

After holding back for a long time and not holding back a fart, Liu Sheng patted the book "The Biography of the Heroes" and said: "This book, fortunately, after reading it, I feel that Guo Ying should not be named a marquis, how can he also be a duke." In the book, Chen Youliang was shot to death by Guo Ying, and the battle of Poyang Lake was the most dangerous battle for Zhu Ming. Just looking at this biography of heroes and martyrs, I am afraid that Guo Ying's merits are not inferior to Xu Da. ”

"There are many rumors that "The Biography of Heroes" was compiled at the expense of Guo Xun, the sixth grandson of Guo Ying, so it is not groundless. The noble family is the envy of the world, but I don't know that in order to keep the title, future generations can come up with any crooked way. ”

Liu Yu was stunned for a moment, and then he understood, and said in his heart that Guo Xun was a chicken thief, and those who had heard the legend of the martyrs must have heard more than those who had read the "History of the Ming Dynasty".

Thinking of this, Liu Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that he was in a hurry to find himself was not as bad as he thought, it seemed that his cheap father was in a good mood?

"Father's intention is to also compile a book of "The Biography of the Great Shun Heroes"?"

"Guo Yingfeng is the Marquis of Wuding, and there is a duke above, and their family also had an accident later, and the title was almost lost. Now that I'm attacking the Wing Kingdom, why do I have to take such a crooked path? ”

After speaking, he threw a booklet on the table and said, "Take these articles, you take them back and take a closer look." ”

Liu Yu didn't know what it was about, and said in his heart that you weren't going to do this, why are you doing this? After taking those few pages of the booklet, it is not easy to read it directly in front of my father, so I can only take it in my hand first.

"I heard that a few days ago, the junior colonel of Wude Palace, you rated it as a superior?"

When he heard that he was going to praise himself, Liu Yu hurriedly said: "It's a good evaluation." ”

"Well, that's exactly how it should be. As the saying goes, taking history as a mirror must not be overlooked. The former Ming Xungui was weak and incompetent, and the back of the civil fort was full of gentlemen, and finally ended up like this. Not to mention the crooked neck tree in Coal Mountain, which is our family's mansion, it turned out to be the Xu family of the former Ming Dynasty. Xu Da is so heroic, where would he have thought that his descendants would be weak three hundred years later, when he besieged the city in the year of Jiashen, Xu Yunzhen didn't even have the courage to go to the city to fight. You need to understand that only with the country can you rest together. ”

"Yes."

I said this, but I thought in my heart that this matter had nothing to do with me. It's not me who attacks the knight, it's the eldest brother. Even if the eldest brother is gone, he is still a nephew, and it will not be my turn, I will split up in the future, you should tell the eldest brother about this.

"Since you have some talents, it will be good if you can get into the top house in the future. Now that the four sides are not peaceful, what do you think? ”

The three-way method that has changed its flavor is a sharp blade for the imperial power to use honors and nobles to suppress civil servants and mix sand in officialdom.

There is no need to take the formal imperial examination route, and entering the upper hall is equivalent to the graduates of famous universities when the university package was distributed in the previous life, and they have the qualification to be officials here.

or text, or martial arts. Generally, they go to be a guard for a few years, defend the Forbidden City or follow the emperor as a luan guard, and when they are a little older, they will have the opportunity to be released.

It's hard to say where to put it out.

The Wing Kingdom Duke is the top nobleman of the dynasty, and it is very easy to do activities if you want to.

Liu Yu also knew in his heart that when the family reached this position, many things he said did not count, and when he heard his father say this, he pondered for a while and said: "It's all up to my father's arrangement." ”

Now the northwest is not peaceful, and it has been fighting with the Dzungar Department for many years; Tsarist Russia in the northeast was constantly harassing; The southwest side has changed the land and returned to the stream, and the toast is constantly in turmoil.

Liu Sheng didn't say much, and hung Liu Yu for a long time before he said: "The sky will descend on the people, and they must first work hard and work their muscles and bones." The northwest is not very peaceful, and you should prepare early. His Majesty intends to open up the territory, but he is dissatisfied with the children of Xun Gui, who are too sloppy and can't endure hardship, and the requirements of the three shepherds to live in the school for 100 days a year are all bitter and tired, where is this? ”

Liu Yu nodded hurriedly, but there were a lot of question marks in his heart, full of doubts.

Listen to this meaning, this is to give yourself a vaccination? When the time comes, you will go to the Northwest Army for training, and you can't stop going because you feel hard?

But it seems that there is no need to rush to that extent with such a preventive shot, right? Hurriedly asked his little guy to run to find himself, it's unlikely that it would be like this?

And as soon as the court meeting dispersed, the little guy was called to find it, could it be that there was any movement in the court? Are you really going to prepare for the use of troops in the northwest?

was thinking about it blindly, when he heard Liu Sheng ask again slowly and reasonably, as if unintentionally.

"I heard that you went to Dai Guest's Mansion a few days ago?"

A very casual sentence, but it immediately aroused Liu Yu's cold sweat, and at this moment he understood that the previous words were all hors d'oeuvres, and the main dish was here!

In the middle of the court, something big happened.