Time flashed to the early spring of the twelfth year of the Great Calendar, the Tang Dynasty gradually had the breath of spring from the south to the north, and in the past few months, several major events also occurred in the Tang Dynasty, one was the official canonization of the crown prince, Yongwang Li Shi was canonized as the prince of the Tang East Palace in December, followed by the collapse and liquidation of the Yuanzai Group.

Yuan Zai and his entire family were executed, confiscated tens of millions of family property, imprisoned, deposed, and dismissed more than 30 officials, under the repeated persuasion of Han Yun and Liu Yan and other Xiangguo, the Son of Heaven Li Yu reduced the punishment of the Yuan Zai group, and Yang Yan and others were only demoted and released.

In just two years, Li Fuguo, Yu Chaoen, Yuan Zai and other powerful and high-ranking officials were liquidated successively, and various properties and houses worth more than 50 million yuan were confiscated, which was equivalent to a year's financial revenue of Datang, and Datang's finances improved slightly.

Li Yu immediately increased the investment in the northwest armies, increased the number of troops, and increased the investment of resources, and at this moment, the Shuofang army and the three towns of the surrendered city defeated Xue Yantuo's army in Fengzhou, and annihilated the enemy with 15,000 people.

Li Yu was overjoyed, and issued a decree to commend Duan Xiushi, Guo Song and other generals, and named Duan Xiushi as the king of Zhangye County, and Guo Song was promoted to Yiwei General by one level, and changed his position from the envoy of the soldiers and horses of the three towns to the envoy of the three towns, and appointed him to concurrently serve as the assassin of Fengzhou.

At the same time, Li Yu also gave millions of money, 300,000 horses of silk, and rewarded the Shuofang army and the soldiers of the surrendered city.

In the imperial study, Li Yu was in a good mood today, and took a little time to show his son the way of the emperor.

"The way to be an emperor lies in balance, you said that this victory in Fengzhou is mainly the credit of Guo Song, I don't deny it, but why is my reward slightly biased towards Duan Xiushi and his Shuo Fang army? The key is that Fengzhou is under the jurisdiction of Shuofang's army, and Guo Song sits in Fengzhou as the deputy envoy of Shuofangjiedu, so when rewarding him, he should pay attention to the first and then the secondary, which is a principle, and it is not good for Guo Song to exceed the rules. ”

"Erchen is worried that the Fengzhou soldiers will not be convinced!"

Li Yu laughed, "Don't worry! Duan Xiushi is a smart person, he knows how to distribute rewards, and he will never let Guo Song's subordinates suffer, the key is that as superiors, we can't rely on personal preferences to do things, we must pay attention to the rules, and we must grasp the way of balance. ”

"Erchen understood."

After a pause, Li Yu said again: "A few days ago, you asked me how to arrange Cheng Zhenyuan and Lu Qi and others, I heard that your master Zhao Kuan hates them very much, and he wants to kill them all, his thoughts are beyond reproach, but I want to remind you that he is considering the problem from the position of a courtier, but you are not, you must look at this matter from the perspective of a superior." ”

Li Shi hurriedly bowed down and said: "This matter is also very troublesome, I implore my father and emperor to teach my son!" ”

Li Yu got up and walked out of the window, looked at the plum blossoming tree outside the window, and said for a while: "You have to remember a folk saying, called the water to the clear is no fish, the so-called loyal ministers and traitorous ministers are only the people's and low-level officials' view of right and wrong, for the superior there is only the difference between obedient ministers and undesirable ministers, for us, the monarchy is the first important, balance the monarchy and the relative power, balance the interests between the major power groups, and firmly control the military power and the government, this is the primary matter for the superior to consider, anyone has his role in the court, The key is that you have to be able to control them, if all the court officials are virtuous and good-looking, the Son of Heaven will have nothing to do, so sometimes put a few black fish in the pond, the pond will be more vibrant, and everyone will count on the Son of Heaven to catch the black fish. ”

"Erchen understands, Lu Qi and Cheng Zhenyuan are such black fish."

Li Yu nodded, looked back at his son Li Shidao: "I need to remind you again, people like Lu Qi and Cheng Zhenyuan can be used, the key is that you have to be able to control them, like Cheng Zhenyuan, if you can't control him, he will be the second Yu Chaoen, understand?" ”

"Thank you for your father's guidance, my son understands!"

Li Yu smiled slightly: "As for Guo Song, you don't have to pay too much attention to him, he is a wild wolf, more suitable for survival in the remote and remote frontier, maybe one day, he will give you a surprise." ”

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At the beginning of February, Toyosu was still a world of snow and ice, but the snow was much less than the heavy snow cover of more than a month ago, the ice on the river was thinning and it was no longer possible to walk up, the animals were reactivated, and the sky was full of cheerful birds.

There was a long cry in the sky, and a huge black shadow hovered over, and the birds below were so frightened that they fled in all directions, and the woods instantly became silent, and it gathered its wings and landed on the highest tree, and looked down on the earth with a sharp gaze like a king, and it suddenly flapped its wings and flew eastward.

At this time, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and I saw a group of cavalry galloping forward, everyone holding bows and arrows, and the leader was Guo Song.

After a winter in Jiuyuan County, I finally waited for spring to come, although it was still early spring, and the spring was cold, but everyone was already impatient to go out of the city to hunt.

Toyosu is flat, vast, and lush in its vegetation, and the once fertile land is now barren, but it has become a paradise for animals, and in this fertile land, there are a large number of hares, wild boars, black bears, wolves, red deer, wild sheep, foxes, leopards, and so on.

Although it is a cold spring, the animals are generally thin, but the fun of hunting lies in the harvest, this team of more than 100 people came out in the morning, only half a day, hunted more than 20 pheasants and dozens of hares, the big prey has not yet been hunted, in Fengzhou is the most hare, it can be said that it has been almost to the extent of flooding, and the meat of the people of Jiuyuan is also based on rabbit meat.

"It's really boring, where did the big guys go?"

In a pine forest, everyone took a short rest, and Liang Wu looked at a bunch of hares, muttering and complaining.

A soldier said with a smile: "General Liang, when the snow does not melt, you have to go to the south to hunt big guys, there is less snow in the south of Daqing Mountain, you can find grass, there are more deer herds there, so leopards, wolves and other beasts also go to the south, our area is mainly rabbits, roe deer, pheasants, maybe you can meet wild boars." ”

Liang Wu glanced at Guo Song in the distance and whispered, "Since there is only big prey in the south, what are we doing by the Yellow River?" ”

Another soldier smiled: "I know, Guo Yuanjun wants to hunt the silver fox!" ”

"What is the Silver Fox?" Liang Wu asked suspiciously, he lived in Lingzhou, which was not far away, why had he never heard of it?

"General Liang doesn't know, the silver fox is a unique treasure in Fengzhou, and there are also in the wolf mountain in the north, which can only be seen in the snow in winter, and the fur is shining silver, but it is extremely difficult to hunt, I heard that a good silver fox skin will be sold for two thousand yuan in Chang'an."

Liang Wu's eyes lit up, obediently, two thousand times! Won't you make a fortune if you hunt one?

At this moment, a rapid chirp came from the sky, and Guo Song shouted: "Everyone get on the horse and find the target!" ”

Everyone got on the horse one after another, Guo Song had already urged the horse to rush out, everyone followed, ran out of less than a mile, Guo Song had already seen a silver fox galloping on the snow in the distance, and the fierce son flew above its head, several times stretched out its claws to catch the silver fox, but was skillfully thrown off by the fox.

Guo Song galloped and shouted, "Fierce boy dodge!" ”

The fierce son flapped his wings and flew off the ground, only the silver fox was running parallel to Guo Song, dozens of steps apart, at this time, Guo Song controlled the horse with his legs, pulled out an arrow, drew a full bow and shot an arrow, the silver fox staggered in the snow and fell to the ground.

The crowd urged their horses to catch up, and they gathered around them, only to see an arrow coming in through the eye, so that they could get a complete fur, and the skill of the arrow amazed everyone.

A soldier exclaimed: "I heard that someone shot the White Wolf King in the Wolf Mountain a few years ago, we can't believe that there will be such archery. ”

Guo Song smiled and picked up the silver fox on the ground, this is an adult male silver fox, with a strong physique, smooth fur, at least three feet long from head to tail, and it looks silver in the snow.

"Two thousand runs!"

Liang Wu shouted enviously, and everyone laughed.

"Let's move on!"

Guo Song turned over and smiled: "Let's see if we can hunt a few more?" ”

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The higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment, everyone was eager to hunt a few more silver foxes, the facts also proved the preciousness of the silver fox, they searched for two days, still found nothing, only Guo Song hunted one, but hunted a lot of other prey, including a wild boar.

Everyone had no choice but to end their hunting trip and return to Jiuyuan City.

In the afternoon, everyone turned to the official road, although there was still some snow on the official road, but it did not affect walking, only to see a caravan in front of it was slowly moving in the direction of Jiuyuan County.

This was the first caravan that Fengzhou had seen this year, and Guo Song was quite interested and urged the horse to chase after it.

The caravan was very large, at least two or three hundred mules, carrying heavy bags on both sides, and there were about ten people in the caravan, led by an old man, who saw an army coming up, and hurriedly ordered the team to stop, and when he saw that it was a hunting army, he breathed a sigh of relief, this kind of army would not make trouble for himself.

"Uncle, where did this come from?" Guo Song asked with a smile.

"We came from Taiyuan and planned to go to the city of Xishou."

"Now go to the Western Surrender City?"

Guo Song shook his head, "I'm afraid that Wolf Mountain is still blocked by snow, and I can't pass it." ”

"We know, so let's stay in Jiuyuan County for a few days, and then rush to Xishou City, and after early spring, the goods can be sold at a good price, and we can also buy cheap goods."

Guo Song thought for a while and asked, "If it weren't for the heavy snow blocking the road, would my uncle still go to Jiuyuan City?" ”

"I still have to go, I have to supply some dry food, and I have to pay taxes in Fengzhou, and I can only go to Xishou City to trade when I get the tax bill."

Guo Song smiled, it seemed that he should also prepare to go to the West Surrender City.