"My god is actually His Royal Highness, the eldest son of the Tang Dynasty!" The corners of Xue Wanjun's mouth trembled slightly: "But why did Your Majesty let His Royal Highness the Emperor's eldest son come down to attack Gaochang?" ”

Looking at Xue Wanjun, Hou Junji smiled mysteriously and said: "I'm just guessing, but I'll talk to you today, but if it comes out of my mouth and into your ears, I won't be responsible later, even if you go out and say it, I won't admit it." ”

"Lao Hou!" Xue Wanjun was speechless and said, "The two of us are old brothers, are you still worried about me?" Then I heard Xue Wanjun say anxiously: "Say it quickly!" ”

"Good!" Hou Junji nodded, followed and looked around, then lowered his voice and said to Xue Wanjun: "Old Xue, let me tell you this, His Royal Highness, the eldest son of the emperor, should be the most trusted person of His Majesty."

In fact, this time His Royal Highness Li Zhan came with the sword of the Son of Heaven in his hands, and the purpose of this time is according to what His Majesty said to me, it is to take a plant from Gaochang, I don't know what it is, however, I don't believe it a little, what kind of plant will let his lost eldest son take risks?

Therefore, I analyze, Your Majesty asked His Highness to come down this time to get military merits. ”

"Why do you take military merit?" Xue Wanjun said a little incomprehensibly: "What does His Royal Highness want military merit for?" ”

"Hey, why don't you have a brain, because Your Majesty needs a prince to suppress the Tang Dynasty army for himself, some people's military merits are too high, and they are a bit high."

As soon as Hou Junji's words were finished, Xue Wanjun on the side immediately exclaimed: "British duke! ”

After Xue Wanjun finished speaking, Hou Junji nodded and said: "You are still smart, ** not leaving ten is to suppress the British Duke, Your Majesty must have trust in your son, His Royal Highness the eldest son of the emperor, one is His Majesty's eldest son, the other is His Majesty's sister-in-law, the military power is in his hands, Your Majesty can rest assured." ”

"But the prince?" Xue Wanjun looked at Hou Junji on the side, and then swallowed the words behind.

However, Hou Junji smiled and said: "It's okay Lao Xue, just say it, you are worried that the position of the prince will be taken away by His Royal Highness the Chief, hehe, you can rest assured of this, His Royal Highness does not want the position of the prince."

Maybe you will think that I am lying, let me tell you this, tell you clearly, the horseshoe, the Zhenguan plow, and the sweet potato that has recently cured the plague are all from the hands of His Royal Highness Chang, and if he wanted the position of prince, the current prince would have given it up a long time ago.

But our eldest highness just doesn't like the position of the crown prince, but plans for his own brother everywhere, he is really a good big brother.

What's more, His Royal Highness likes my family Guangliang and Ruixin very well, especially Ruixin, His Royal Highness said that the child born by Ruixin will be cultivated by himself, hehe! ”

Hou Junji didn't say anything more about the rest of the words, and the meaning was already very clear.

At this time, Xue Wanjun arched his hand again and again: "Old Hou, then congratulations, you have a good grandson in the future, and my old Xue can also get some light." ”

"Haha easy to say, easy to say, what we have to do now is to not let His Royal Highness have something, before coming, His Majesty said that if His Royal Highness has something, let me cut myself, and I don't need to go back."

"Shhh Xue Wanjun was shocked and said, "Your Majesty is so fond of His Royal Highness? ”

"Lao Xue, tell you so, it is this His Royal Highness who drew a knife and said that His Majesty will tolerate rebellion!"

Hou Junji's words made Xue Wanjun shocked, and then he listened to Hou Junji continue: "So old Xue, remember that you can provoke anyone in this Tang Dynasty, including His Royal Highness the Prince, but don't mess with him, because if you provoke him, it will not end well." ”

Xue Wanjun nodded again and again.

"Is it delicious?" Li Zhan sat in the shade of a tree and watched Feng Ming eating watermelon.

Haha Li Zhan never dreamed that he would actually find a watermelon vine here, and there were three big watermelons growing on it, however, there were also tiger soldiers who saw it, but they didn't know what a watermelon was, so they only dared to look at it.

However, Li Zhan recognized the watermelon at a glance.

In ancient times, the word "watermelon" was first seen in the book "Trapped" written by Hu Qiao during the Five Dynasties, Hu Qiao was originally the secretary of Xiao Han, who was the secretary of Xiao Han of the Xuanwu Army, followed Xiao Han into the Khitan, and later Xiao Han was killed, Hu Qiao could not return to the country, became a prisoner, stayed in the Khitan for seven years before returning to the Central Plains, and after returning, according to what he saw and heard in the Khitan, he wrote the book "The Trap Record", which was recorded in the book: Then he entered Pingchuan, there were many plants and trees, and he began to eat watermelon. Yun Khitan broke back to this kind of plant, and planted it with cow dung covered shed, as big as Chinese winter melon and sweet.

However, Hu Qiao's taste of watermelon in the Khitan does not mean that watermelon was introduced to China in the fifth dynasty. From the Five Dynasties to the Northern Song Dynasty, there is no record of watermelons in various historical books, and the Song Dynasty had a developed economy, and if watermelons had been introduced and started to be planted at this time, they should be seen in the book records.

Watermelons were really introduced to the Central Plains and planted on a large scale in the Southern Song Dynasty, nearly 200 years after Hu Qiao, the first person to eat melons.

But from an ethnic point of view, the Khitan are now assimilated by the Han and disappeared into history. The Liao State it established is now also part of China, and if you look at it this way, it makes sense to say that watermelons were introduced to cultivation during the Five Dynasties.

If you want to expand the scope a little more, for example, the Tang Dynasty once controlled the Western Regions for a long time and set up administrative and military units to protect the government, then during the Tang Dynasty, watermelons can be said to have been introduced to China, but at that time, only the border areas could eat watermelons, and the Central Plains and Han regions were still unblessed.

After Li Zhan saw the watermelons, he was really surprised, although he didn't know why these watermelons appeared here, but Li Zhan could tell that these watermelons were ripe and could be eaten.

Although it is only May, the hot weather here has already ripened these watermelons.

Li Zhan directly picked the three watermelons, and then cut them one by one, everyone looked at the appearance of the watermelon, and they all showed surprised expressions, because they had never seen a watermelon, and it was the first time they had seen such a watermelon, so they all showed surprised expressions.

After Li Zhan cut the watermelon, after eating a piece of it, he asked everyone to spit out the watermelon seeds when they ate it, so that everyone began to eat it.

"It's so sweet!" After Feng Ming took a bite, he looked at Li Zhan with a smile.

Li Zhan laughed and said: "Not only sweet, but watermelon can also quench your thirst and relieve your heat and irritability." Eat watermelon in summer, and you don't need to grab the medicine. ”

"Really!" Li Sheng walked over from the side and said, "Then I'm going to eat one more piece, I won't get sick if I eat this thing." ”

"I'm going to eat an extra piece too!" Lin Dong also squeezed over.

Looking at the way the two were scrambling, Li Zhan laughed.

"What's a watermelon?"

Li Zhan only opened two watermelons on his side, and there was one watermelon, and Li Zhan sent it to Hou Junji's big tent.

Xue Wanjun stared at the watermelon for a while, still not knowing what this watermelon was.

At this time, Hou Junji also followed in front of the watermelon and said: "Your Highness said that this watermelon is the king of fruits in summer, and it is very delicious!" ”

"Shhh How old do you say this Elder Highness is, why do we know things we don't know? ”

Regarding Xue Wanjun's surprise, Hou Junji said with a smile: "How many times have I told you, our Royal Highness is not an ordinary person, he invented Dingxi, as well as his knowledge, to be honest, I feel that even the old guy Kong Yingda is less than half of His Royal Highness." ”

"It's quite powerful, this may be the reason why His Majesty likes him, how about that, cut it, let's have a piece of it by ourselves." Xue Wanjun smiled.

Hou Junji nodded, followed by the two of them to cut the watermelon, and then ate it one by one, of course, when the two of them ate, they also spit out the watermelon seeds, because this was Li Zhan's explanation.

After taking a bite, the sweetness of the watermelon, to be honest, neither of them likes to eat fruits, after all, they are military generals who eat meat and drink wine, and the fruits are too vegetarian, but this watermelon makes the two of them full of praise.

While eating, he was amazed, and he was surprised by Li Zhan's insight.

After a day of rest in Crescent Spring, the next day is to continue the desert march, the next destination is Yizhou, and when you arrive in Yizhou, the war will begin.

Because Yizhou is the boundary of Gaochang Kingdom in front of it, but what everyone didn't expect was that after the Tang army arrived in Yizhou, the scene they saw made all the Tang troops slightly angry.

The entire city of Yizhou was directly burned beyond recognition.

Gao Hu looked at this scene and said to Li Zhan beside him: "Son, these Gaochang people are really ruthless, I have been here before, Yizhou City dare not say that it is very prosperous, but it is also where tens of thousands of people live, and tens of thousands of people have been burned down by a fire."

Why is it so bad? ”

Li Zhan looked at the ruins of Yizhou City, and also sighed and said: "Blame us, we have been waiting all the time, and I don't know what we are waiting for, now it's okay to wait until our compatriots are slaughtered and killed!"

But this is not the end, our compatriots in Datang were killed, so the other party must pay back with blood. ”

Before he finished speaking, he heard the excited shouts of the Chinese army, and then Li Zhan heard Hou Junji's faint morale-boosting voice, to be honest, Li Zhan also admired Hou Junji very much at this time.

This Hou Junji is not in vain, he knows how to seize the best opportunity to inspire his army, and you must know that at this time, encouragement can get twice the result with half the effort.

Soon, Li Zhan heard the excited shouts of the Chinese army again, which made Li Zhan smile slightly, and his morale was over.

Sure enough, that night, Hou Junji ordered Xin Fang'er to be the striker, and to attack the moraine, you must know that the moraine is an important military town, and if the moraine is defeated, it means that Gaochangguo is completely exposed to the swords and guns of the Tang army.