As the sun set, a magnificent motorvoy trembled and drove into the solemn and majestic general's mansion.

"Xuan! The Emperor's Message! ”

"The Great Zhou Emperor sent an edict to the mighty general He Jin:"

"When I heard that the general had recently reported good news, and when it was spread to the ministers, I was overjoyed, and the people of Wangcheng were full of joy.

This time, the general fought hard, and the rebels retreated timidly, and the thieves were defeated in a battle.

The general is the important minister of the country, and he is specially awarded the title of the Great Pillar State, and he is rewarded with 5,800 households, and he is given to enter the court with a horse and a sword, and he sits and listens to the government.

And give green corundum sword tools, amber screens, purple beauties, blood patterns of Huang, the general's heirs, the eldest son marquis, 800 households, eternal replacement!

The rest of the generals under the command of the general will also be rewarded, which will come later.

I have ordered the horses to gallop to the princes of various places, and to transcribe the seals on a certain day, and to enter the temple to play the souls of the previous emperors in the name of the general.

The country of the Great Zhou Dynasty is not easy for eternity! ”

As a white-faced chamberlain chanted aloud, the other chamberlains of the palace mission stepped forward with a respectful smile and displayed all the things given by the emperor one by one in front of the person sitting in the hall.

The man's face was hidden in the shadows of the empty hall, and the expression on his face could not be seen clearly, and his majestic and broad body was completely immersed in a rattan chair made of sandalwood, with a strange curvature at the corners of his mouth, and the cold light in his eyes had made the attendants tremble in the hall.

The round-faced chamberlain also had a flattering smile on his face, and from time to time he took his flickering gaze away from the edict, and glanced at the silent general, trying to see the excitement of feeling the ultimate favor on his face.

But contrary to his expectations, He Jin, who was sitting in the hall, had no expression from beginning to end.

If you have to say that there is a change, the curvature of the corners of the mouth is becoming more and more obvious, and the complexion is just colder and harder, which looks a little ugly.

"Is that all?"

He Jin suddenly asked lightly after a while.

The round-faced chamberlain only felt a tremor in his heart, and the coldness in his words became clearer and more obvious, and he muttered secretly in his heart, and remembered that before leaving, the inner supervisors rumored that the general was a cold, ruthless, and moody person.

Now that the rumors are true, the round-faced chamberlain is walking on thin ice more and more, and the general is probably not very satisfied with this rich gift, and he secretly smacks his tongue.

The round-faced chamberlain didn't dare to show it, but he was still full of flattering smiles: "That's what is written on this edict, it was hastily written by His Majesty when he heard that the general had returned victoriously and hastily ordered Zhongshu Province to write it, and the official reward seal was probably written by the ministers of Zhongshu Province and sent over." General He is the pillar of the dynasty, and this is not to be hasty. ”

"This is a gift from my emperor's nephew, or a gift from my sister!"

The sword of green corundum is a ritual weapon that can only be used by the royal family, the purple bi and the blood pattern of Huang are the two ritual vessels used by the emperor to worship the sky, which have always been only given to the unique ministers of Anguo, and the amber screen is a very exquisite plaything, which is placed on the bookcase, carved from a whole piece of amber, and I don't know which generation of emperors collected treasures, at this time it was also transferred from the imperial treasury as a gift.

The fat attendants were already frightened, and the underwear behind them was already wet with cold sweat, and when they heard the moody general ask coldly, they were already prostrate and knelt down, just kowtow!

"Come to think of it, my three-year-old nephew is probably still drinking milk on that nurse, how can he understand this!

These must have been advocated by my noble sister without permission and sent without the consultation between the Zhongshu Province and the prime minister!

Go down, thank my sister for me, say I'll go see her in a moment, and let her be relieved first! ”

The trembling chamberlains got up and saluted in a panic, and there was no trace of the swaggering and proud bearing and majesty of the others in the past, and they only cared about the far-fetched smile and bowed back, which provoked a burst of ridicule from the other generals sitting in the hall.

The soldiers sitting in the hall were shocked by the nobility of the items given by the emperor, but just now, because of the majesty of the general, they did not shout in praise when the inner servants announced the decree.

He Jin looked at the inner servants, like homeless wild dogs on a rainy night, his expression was pitiful and panicked, and he hurriedly withdrew from the door, and let out a disdainful chuckle from his mouth.

"A gelding dog without eggs, it's disgusting to see the wives chirping.

I don't know what the palace wants this kind of thing for, but I stained my eyes with white and gave the order to go down, and they will not be allowed to come in the door of my general's mansion in the future, and if they want to come in, they will climb in! ”

He Jin's fat body slowly stood up, like a black bear that went out to hunt after winter, a layer of light armor was firmly on his body, and the whole person looked extremely strong.

The general's low curse made the already noisy generals in the hall laugh a little more.

"You've been getting more and more out of the rules lately, am I indulging you too much!"

He Jin squinted his eyes and swept through the hall with a cold face, and the laughter stopped abruptly, and the atmosphere seemed to freeze for a while, no one dared to pant loudly, and they all got up and knelt in front of the wooden chair.

"Ever since we entered the royal city in April, you have been carried away and spent all day drinking and unscrupulously recklessly on every form, and now you are not even restrained by your own subordinates!"

Looking at the people in the hall who were kneeling down in unison, He Jin's face softened, and his huge body slowly paced on the middle road, and his voice became a little colder.

"Do you think this is the Queen Mother's favor to me? This is clearly a warning!

We simply cleared out a few small bandits near the royal city, and rewarded me with so many precious items.

Well? Your rude behavior has made our honorable Empress Dowager of the Great Zhou fearful!

She is telling me clearly that she can give me whatever I want, but she can't cross her bottom line! ”

He Jin's fat face had a chill on it, and the coldness in his tone made the generals kneeling in the hall feel like they had fallen into an ice cellar.

"I'm afraid you have forgotten, this Great Zhou Wangcheng is not our family's final say, and at this critical juncture, I don't want my pretentious sister to drift away from us!"

"Obedience!"

"Obedience!"

"The subordinates are going to be strict with military law! Strict military discipline! ”

The generals in the hall hurriedly buckled their heads and said yes, indicating their intentions, and there was no more arrogance before.

"Well, it's good to know, don't talk about you, you can all go up to the sky with your buttocks, and those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety, and nothing can go wrong at this juncture!

Get up, take these things yourself, and it's a reward for you to clean up the rogues this time! ”

He Jin's bloated body bent hard, sat back in the main seat, picked up the glass jade cup and took a sip of wine, and said lazily.

The kneeling generals suddenly let out a sigh of relief, only to feel that the familiar warmth behind them had returned to their bodies, these were old men who had followed He Jin for many years, and naturally knew that the general had finished his breath, so he got up and stepped forward with a smile to choose the items he liked.

"I heard that Wangcheng has been a little unpeaceful recently, is there a young man named Dong Zhuo, some are not very stable!"

He Jin took another sip of wine, expressed himself comfortably, his eyes rolled, as if he suddenly remembered something, and said lightly.

"Back to the general, it seems that he was crowned King Zhaowu at the court meeting not long ago! The lowly position has already made the spies watching, and if the general finds it an eyesore, should we ......"

When the general in Tsing Yi heard He Jin's question, he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, with ruthlessness in his eyebrows, and looked at He Jin's face and said tentatively.

"There are a lot of people, it's not a character who can be on the stage, it's probably just a dog who is kept to take care of the home!

You can't use such a rough method, take your time, the water in this royal city is very deep, maybe you will drown that day! ”

He Jin's original action of bowing his head to drink was stunned for a moment when he heard the words of his subordinates, a few fine lights flashed in his eyes, and after a while, he put down his wine glass, waved his hand and said indifferently.

"Yes!" , the Tsing Yi general retreated stupidly.

Looking at the generals under their command who had picked out items that they were satisfied with, but they didn't leave for a long time, He Jin raised his eyebrows, put down his wine glass, and looked straight at them.

"General...... I have been with the general for twenty-one years, and I have a sentence I want to say to the general. ”

A middle-aged man sitting at the door stood up and said respectfully.

"I know what you're thinking, and I know what you're going to say, but don't you have to mention it now?"

"Please give your subordinates a chance to vent the turbidity in their chests!" The middle-aged general said in a deep voice.

"Well, then, let's talk about it."

He Jin sighed silently, looking up at the gorgeous roof, his gaze was deep and far, as if looking at the clear sky through the gap in the roof, and as if he was not looking at anything.

"The king of Bingzhou has 20,000 light horsemen and dares to divide most of the continent counties, and the queen mother only has 5,000 gold guards in her hands, and the prime minister has only relied on Qingzhou Dong Xiao'er recently.

Let's talk about the feudal princes, the Marquis of Chu, the Marquis of Tang, the Marquis of Baili, and the Marquis of Wu...... One by one, the incompetent people have already disobeyed the orders of the imperial court by virtue of the fact that there are a few armored men in their territory.

Not to mention those big families, when will they put the little emperor in their eyes?

But the general has 50,000 iron horsemen under his command, and as long as the general rides on the horse and raises his sword, each of the 50,000 people obeys the general's orders.

If anyone doesn't listen, we'll cut off his head.

We are also guarding the Shanhaiguan and Tongguan passes, and if we want to enter the royal city, these two checkpoints are the places that must be passed.

The general used to lead his troops to fight as the overlord of the world, and he was unscrupulous, but now, we are like a dog on a chain in this Yangyang Wangcheng, acting forward-looking and backward.

Is it because we don't have the courage? Or did the general not have the courage? The middle-aged general asked loudly.

"After the death of the first emperor, I was removed from my armor, and your hearts have been cold for a long time, right?"

He Jin asked in a low voice.

"Yes! General, the hearts of the brothers have been cold for a long time.

For many years, the brothers have been waiting for the dynasty to produce another emperor like the first emperor, another northern expedition, open up the territory and expand the territory, as a martial artist, isn't it such a glory to wait for all your life?

But after the death of the first emperor, what kind of exclusion did you suffer, general, the three-year-old little emperor was simply a pawn in the hands of the queen mother, and the three-year-old little emperor in Tianyuan City, did the general think that the emperor was really the emperor of the same bloodline as the first emperor?

Why do eagle-like ancestors give birth to sheep-like offspring? ”

The middle-aged general took a deep breath, "General, what are we guarding and delaying now?" ”

"If a thing is no longer guardable, it is better to destroy it and start over. Do you all think like this in your hearts? ”

He Jin's eyes exuded a breathtaking light, staring straight at the generals who had followed him for many years, one by one his clear brothers!

The generals who were originally sitting in the position came out of the column at this time, their faces were calm, and they bowed.

"Is it just for the sake of the false name of the word 'loyalty'? What can the Great General teach us who are confused? ”

The generals kowtowed.

"You've been in the army for twenty-one years, have you ever thought about why you want to join the army?"

"The subordinates don't know others, what the subordinates know is that the subordinates saw the general return victoriously at that time, and the general climbed the tower and said, we are wearing swords and holding swords, life and death together, for the peace of the country and the glory of the brothers!"

The sergeant gritted his teeth and said, "But do we still have peace in the country now?"

We watched the iron hooves of the princes fighting chaotically, the rogue was everywhere, the court had no way to stop it, our brothers died in battle, and no one was sorry for them.

Who says what to us?

Just go to the fight, go to fight, why do we fight!

Brothers don't understand! Brothers, I hope the general will give us a way! ”

"It's not that you don't understand! You know it in your hearts! ”

He Jin's voice suddenly became high-pitched and excited, "You have already thought about it. You are happily waiting for me to rebel against the imperial court's decree to remove my armor at that time.

For in this way I will have an army of 50,000 and come to the king's city.

No prince can stand against us, no force is faster than us.

There is no force in this world that can stop me He Jin from swinging his army to break through the walls of the royal city, this is a good opportunity for a lifetime!

Isn't it?

You have prepared your sabers and will fight with me on the walls of the palace!" Isn't it? ”

"Yes!" The middle-aged general who spoke did not hesitate.

"The general just killed me, and I also want to say this, the lives of the brothers are sold to the general! Not for sale to the little emperor!

How many emperors did the Great Zhou change, the brothers didn't bother to care.

The brothers don't recognize the king's flag! The brothers are here with the battle banner of the general! ”

He Jin was silent and didn't say a word for a long time.

He finally sighed: "If it was when I was young, you said this to me, or I would have carried a knife and stepped on the war horse with you."

Let him be a prince, let him be a prime minister, let him be an emperor, and he can't stop my war horse.

But I'm too old. ”

"The general is not old!" All the generals were shocked, "How could the general say such a thing, the general is in the prime of life!" ”

"I'm getting old,"

He Jin smiled self-deprecatingly, "It's so old that it's hard to even ride a war horse, and I'm so old that I always think about too many complicated things, and I don't have the urge to kill people with a smile after drinking." ”

"Zhang Hong, in fact, you have been with me for twenty-one years, and you haven't understood why you set foot on the battlefield after all!"

He Jin sighed lowly.

"I ......" The middle-aged general couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

In fact, in the veins of every man, there is a desire for this vast world.

Together with his brothers, the idea of following a hero to win the world has driven many young people to set foot on the battlefield, even if they can never return to their hometown.

But do you really understand what the world is?

The world is not an empty thing, and if you want to gain the world, you must first destroy it.

Then I ask you, you should have killed a lot of people in your years of fighting, but you haven't felt this way, because you haven't had the opportunity to kill more people who have nothing to do with you.

It seems to you that you are killing the enemy, but you don't have to be the enemy. ”

"The world is actually a living thing!"

He Jin sighed in a low voice, "It's not just a glory, it's a bargaining chip!" ”

All the generals were silent, speechless for a long time.

"But if you want me to do it, then let's try it together!"

"The last general will follow the general to the death!"

The mountain furnace is boiling with the best water and incense, and the fragrance spreads in the silent palace room little by little.

At this moment in the morning, the sky in Tian Yuan City was extremely high and light, pure and transparent.

In the distance, there was a long ringing of the ancient bell, and it was already midday.

A carrier pigeon climbed over the palace wall high into the sky and landed lightly in front of the window.

A pair of rouge-coated jade hands untied the bamboo tube on the pigeon's feet and took out the leather paper inside.

The women sat high on the steps, the servants and maids stood in two rows, the morning sun shining through the fine windows and shining golden spots on the thick woollen carpet.

This winter is cold early, and a thick pot of charcoal has been placed in the attic.

The lotus flowers on the pond have withered, and only black branches are left across the water, and thick snow is floating on the water.

The long wooden bridge, made of natural sandalwood planks, leads to the attic in the distance.

The servant of Tsing Yi stood alone at the end of the wooden bridge, holding his hands on his sleeves, bowing slightly, waiting quietly.

The sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, accompanied by the sound of heavy iron boots.

The burly body wrapped in black gently pulled the reins of the horse in front of the wooden bridge, and the big horse that seemed to be cast of iron stood silently in front of the slave, the war horse neighed, the horse stared at the person in front of him, and He Jin was also staring at the slave in Tsing Yi.

If it were someone else, looking at such a black divine horse and a burly man with a fierce and vicious spirit, plus a team of black-clothed guards behind He Jin, he couldn't help but be frightened, but this green-clothed slave was unmoved, he still stood with his hands bowed, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

The smile is indifferent and kind, which makes people involuntarily give birth to the meaning of closeness, but after looking at it for a long time, it feels a little wooden, because the smile seems to be engraved on the corner of the young man's mouth, no matter how time passes, nothing has changed.