When Zheng Fei was carrying out an operation to buy horses for Lianliao, the crown prince Zhao Heng was also about to arrive in the southeast after a long journey, and Xuanfu made Tong Guanqin lead various civil ministers and military generals from the southeast to go out of the city for thirty miles to greet him, in order to show his respect for the prince.

It's just that the greeting team has arrived at the meeting place on time, but there is still no one on the road, Tong Guan immediately sent a few people to ride fast horses along the road to investigate the progress of the prince and his party, and the rest of the people rested in place, waiting for the arrival of the prince, only Tong Guan took his righteous son Tong Shi Min and several relatives to ride to the high ground and look into the distance,

If others see this scene, they will think that Tong Guan is worried about the safety of the prince, and find the traces of the prince and his party as soon as possible with high vision, but the real situation is not like this, only Tong Shi Min, who is closely following Tong Guan, can see the deep expression on Tong Guan's face at this moment.

Tong Guan's figure is still burly, and the horse he rides is still a BMW in a million, from behind, Tong Guan's majestic back can still give people a strong sense of visual impact, but as the person who is most familiar with Tong Guan, Tong Shimin can still see that his father-in-law's hair is much grayer than half a year ago, and his back is slightly bent than half a year ago.

Tong Shi Min looked at the back of this old man who adopted himself and gave all his love, and suddenly had a very sad feeling, he knew that his father-in-law did not come here to see the prince quickly, he just wanted to be quiet, and enjoy the peace one last time before the arrival of an upcoming struggle without gunpowder but more cruel than the battle on the battlefield.

It's a pity that Tong Shi Min is also wrong, Tong Guan is not enjoying any tranquility, but is thinking quickly about a series of things......

At first, Tong Guan just thought that there was just a civil unrest in the southeast, and since it was a civil unrest, it was just a group of people making trouble, a rabble, and it was not simple to suppress the civil unrest? What's more, for the sake of safety, he also asked the imperial court to transfer Liu Fa, the general of the Western Army, to help him quell the chaos.

But the result was completely unexpected, first his request was rejected by the imperial court, and Liu Fa and his 50,000 troops were not sent to the southeast, but to Jingdong.

Then, after he arrived in the southeast and led the army to engage in a few battles with the Qishan bandits, he also found that these so-called rebels were not the imaginary rabble at all, these thieves were disciplined, tenacious, scheming, and quite well-equipped. In contrast, the officers and troops in the southeast are lax in discipline, their armaments are deserted, and their personnel are extremely unorganized, and the shortage of troops of 1,000 people is generally 40 percent or more!

This is not over, because of the emperor's years of "Huashi Gang" devastation, the people everywhere are also one-sided on the side of the Qishan bandits, and every day countless people flee from the imperial court to the places controlled by the Qishan bandits; When the imperial army attacked a city captured by thieves, the defenders faced were often the people of the whole city, in addition to the thieves; When the Qishan bandits attacked the city of the imperial court, the officials and soldiers not only had to resist the attack of the thieves, but also beware of whether the people in the city would take the opportunity to make trouble and attack the officials and soldiers to open the city gate and let the thieves enter the city;

This battle is simply unfought, after several battles, Tong Guan not only failed to attack the city and defeat the Qishan thieves as planned, but suffered all the hardships of the thieves, and lost several cities in a row!

Fortunately, Tong Guan is worthy of being the veteran commander who has been in charge of the northwest military affairs for more than ten years, he quickly stabilized his position in the face of successive defeats, and finally stopped the decline of the losing streak in a very short period of time through a series of powerful measures to rectify the army.

It is not easy for Tong Guan to lead the southeast army that is more like a "rabble" than the thieves and the thieves to fight like this, and as time goes by, the southeast army has gradually found some sense of war under the governance of Tong Guan, although it has not yet won any big victories over the Qishan bandits, but it has become more and more difficult for the Qishan bandits to get cheap from the southeast army as easily as before, and the situation has actually begun to tilt slowly towards the imperial court.

Tong Guan has been writing a chapter to the emperor, truthfully stating the current precarious situation in the southeast and the degree of depreciation of the imperial army, please be more patient with the emperor, but the emperor doesn't care about you, the emperor only needs the results of the battle, and in the case that Zheng Linfeng has become a feudal town and threatens the Great Song Dynasty all the time, the emperor urgently needs to quell the southeast rebellion in the shortest possible time, so everything Tong Guan did after coming to the southeast is still no different from failure in the eyes of the emperor!

Tong Guan had long expected that the emperor who was eager for quick success would give him another problem, but he didn't expect this problem to come so quickly, but it was so difficult!

The prince is actually here, and he is fully responsible for the southeast rebellion, and even he has to be controlled by him!

The prince's arrival in the southeast does not only mean that Tong Guan loses the military power of the southeast army, nor does it only mean that the emperor has lost confidence in Tong Guan, it directly shows that the emperor has changed his long-standing attitude towards the prince, and the situation of the East Palace dispute has changed dramatically, and the prince who was originally at a disadvantage suddenly regained favor, which is not good news for Jiawang Zhao Kai, and it is not good news for the ministers of the Jiawang faction headed by Tong Guan, Liang Shicheng and others, especially this time the prince came to the southeast, is directly overriding Tong Guan's head, whether it is out of old resentment or to clear the obstacles for the future, the prince may take the opportunity to attack Tong Guan first!

Tong Guan was very worried, worried that the prince only knew how to talk on paper, and driven by the psychology of being eager to establish meritorious deeds, he would ruin the good situation that he had built up with great difficulty, once that was the case, the southeast bandits would fail, and once the southeast bandits failed, the emperor would carry this black pot on his back in order to save the prince's face.

"Carrying the black pot" This kind of thing Tong Guan is very familiar, he did this kind of thing when he was in the northwest, the credit for winning the battle is on himself, and the generals who have their own leaders in the defeat of the battle carry the black pot, he never thought that one day he would face this unfavorable situation.......

At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded beside Tong Guan,

"Dad, it's cold in high places, put on a cloak." It turned out that Tong Shi Min took out the cloak to put on Tong Guan,

Tong Guan was awakened, he turned his head and saw that it was Tong Shi Min, his deep face immediately faded, and he took the cloak and put it on his body with a loving smile towards Tong Shi Min.

"Daddy......," Tong Shi Min wanted to speak and stopped,

"Huh? Is there anything else going on, kid? Tong Guan doubted,

Tong Shi Min thought about it and said to Tong Guan very seriously, "Dad, no matter what happens, the child will always be with his father!" ”

Tong Guan was stunned, looking at Tong Shimin's young, still childish but extremely firm face, a warm current couldn't help but rise in his heart, although this child is not his own flesh and blood, but after so many years of getting along day and night, they really have a family relationship comparable to that of their own father and son.

"Kid, it's all right." Tong Guan smiled at Tong Shi Min, "How big a storm Dad hasn't experienced, what is this?" ”

Tong Shimin seemed to feel the power from this man again from Tong Guan's smile, and nodded vigorously at Tong Guan, grinning at Tong Guan with teeth, although he looked silly, there was a strange magic that could make Tong Guan inspire,

Tong Guan turned his head again and secretly clenched the hand holding the reins, a trace of determination flashed in his eyes, he suddenly found that he also had something to fight for, that is, Tong Shi Min, although this child is not his own flesh and blood, but his surname is "Tong", and he calls himself "Dad", he is still very young, in three months, it is the day he gets married, his future is still very long, he will have his own children in the future, his children will call themselves "grandpa", and maybe he does not just have one child, maybe two, three, Even four or five, when the time comes, there will be a large group of children around him calling grandpa, asking themselves to give candy ......,

Tong Guan can't help but feel a little excited whenever he thinks of this scene, he is a eunuch, and it is the biggest dream of every eunuch to enjoy the joy of family, and it is also the dream that he dares not hope for, but he is now so close to this dream, it is almost within reach, he doesn't want to give up, he wants to do his best to protect this dream ......!

"Dad, here!" Tong Shimin stretched out his hand and pointed ahead,

Tong Guan looked, and sure enough, a long line appeared on the road,

"Let's go!" Tong Guan turned the horse's head and walked with a whip,

What's so great about the crown prince, what about having the emperor to support you, don't mess with eunuchs, especially don't mess with a eunuch who can fight!