"You said that the eldest princess spent an afternoon with the emperor in the imperial study yesterday?" Xu De was dressed in a gray cloth dress worn by the people in the house when they were working, and he was busy cutting off the extra branches of the pink flower in front of him, and did not look up at the person who reported it.

"Yes, Lord Wang, as soon as the eldest princess came, she withdrew us and others, and I don't know the specific content of the conversation." There was a scar on the face of the Commander of the Guard, which looked like it was some years old, and when he spoke, the scar seemed to come to life, slowly writhing, and it looked very hideous.

"Well, this king knows, you go down." Xu De cut off the last extra branch, stood up, and with dirt on his hands, he wiped the sweat from his head with his sleeve.

The commander of the guards bowed and withdrew.

"Xu Ge has been back in Beijing for all these years, but he still looks like a soldier." Not far behind Xu De, there was an exquisite pavilion, and someone was sitting in it, and when he saw Xu Ge, the commander of the guards, he was far away, and spoke. This man has gray hair, a slightly chubby body, and although he is a mouse, he has a big beard, and wears a blue robe, but looking at the luster, it is obviously silky. This person is Xu De's advisor Feng Tianshou, and he is also Xu De's closest confidant.

"What is like a soldier, I am, I am also a soldier, there is a problem?" Xu De said angrily, but he stopped by another flower seedling with too many branches, and grabbed it one by one.

"It's the prince, so the eldest princess really doesn't have to guard? In case he conspired with the emperor. Feng Tianshou asked.

"Women's families, what great things can be accomplished." Xu De reduced the branches without buds, so that the flowers could bloom longer, and said: "The emperor has no claws, so the harem is tightly guarded, even if there is a plan, can you still kill me?" ”

"What do you say," Feng Tianshou got up and walked to the emperor's side, and said, "Jingzhong has a lot of complaints about the prince these days, and with the king of Guangnan and the royal clan, the prince still has to be on guard. ”

"Got it, I'll tell you to keep an eye on it." Xu De got up, looked at Feng Tianshou behind him, and suddenly said, "I heard that you have taken another concubine?" ”

"The prince's hands and ears are all over the sky, and my old Feng is in the spring again." As he spoke, the man snorted.

"You old man doesn't cultivate, let's go, go back to Hanshan Zhai to talk." Xu De turned around and looked at the flowers and plants he had trimmed, and most of them looked drooping, as if they couldn't survive. After taking a few steps, I looked at it again, and the flowers and plants were uneven, which was very different from the pruning of the people in the house.

"The prince is not suitable to be a gardener." Feng Tianshou didn't care at all that Xu De said that he was old and uncultivated, and said with a smile.

"I'll go change clothes first, and you go straight over." Xu De ignored Feng Tianshou's ridicule and left on his own, with him, Xu De didn't have to be polite.

Feng Tianshou saw that Xu De was gone, threw the teapot to the scholar beside him, hummed a little tune, and went in the direction of Hanshan Zhai.

The place where Xu De handled affairs during Hanshan Zhai was an independent hut in the middle of the entire Qin Palace, Xu De changed into a crimson robe, and when he entered Hanshan Zhai, Feng Tianshou was already sitting in the house, and he was still holding the basic Xu De buckle down in his hand.

Xu De passed by him and brought a pot of wine from the small table beside him: "Drink some?" ”

"I always thought it was a pot of tea, and the prince could hide the wine here." Feng Tianshou stretched his head over and sniffed it, crying and laughing, "The princess knows, how can the prince deal with himself?" ”

Xu De smiled awkwardly, and was about to pour wine from the teacup, when suddenly, as if remembering something, he put the teapot back in its place, and instructed the maid outside the door: "Come on, this king wants to have dinner with Mr. Feng here." ”

The maid was quick with her hands and feet, and it didn't take long for the original chessboard to be placed on a table of meals, although it was not a big fish and meat, but it was very exquisite, and the seasonal side dishes looked very appetizing. Seeing that the maid had withdrawn from the cold mountain fast, Xu De got up and picked up the teapot and poured wine in the teacup.

"The prince is so Yaxing, Lao Feng has no precedent for eating and drinking like this." Feng Tianshou took a bite of the mixed bamboo shoots, took a sip of wine, his eyebrows almost left his face, flew into the sky, and said, "Lord Wang, this broken jade brew is not easy to find." ”

"Hey, hey." Xu De took a sip of wine and his face was also stretched, and he no longer had the same straight face as in the court: "I am in charge now, and the wine is very difficult to touch, so of course I have to enjoy it when I seize the opportunity." ”

"It is understandable that the prince loves wine, but the princess cherishes the princess, and the prince must also be considerate." Mr. Feng mentioned it intentionally or unintentionally.

"You know, I don't have the same body as before." Xu De put a chopstick perch in his mouth, put the chopsticks down gently, and said: "Thirty years ago, don't say that such a pot is a jar, and I can drink it." ”

"A good man doesn't mention the courage of the year." Feng Tianshou said with a smile: "When it comes to the prince, Lao Feng has a few words to say." ”

"You just say it."

"Du Ping can't be of great use, the prince will consider it again."

When Xu De heard this, the expression on his face calmed down, he thought about the twists and turns that Feng Tianshou had seen just now, and said, "Do you think it is inappropriate to recommend him as the chief soldier of Datong this time?" ”

"It's not right, it's a big mistake." Mr. Feng saw Xu De's question, simply put down his chopsticks, rubbed his hands, and said: "Du Ping is the righteous son of the prince, brave and good at fighting, there is no problem in being a general soldier in other places, even if the prince pulls him out of a town general, it is okay, but not in Datong." ”

Xu De groaned slightly, and said: "I know the fourth child, he is greedy for money and lustful, and he is so happy, do you mean that he will do something extraordinary in the general army of Datong?" ”

"What's out of the ordinary? When he fought Tibet, he was on the front line, and he was notoriously disobedient to commands. The prince recommended him as the chief soldier of Datong this time, presumably because he wanted to bury a nail in the eyes of the tiger head. ”

Yuhutou is the Zhenbei general Yuhuzi who sits in the northern border of the Han Dynasty, speaking of which, he and Xu De can be regarded as fellow villagers.

"This king just looked at the fourth child, so he wanted to put him in Datong, and he wanted him to disgust the head of the tiger in the north, in case there is a change in the capital in the future, he can drag the head of the tiger as soon as possible."

"It's not right, it's not right." Mr. Feng waved his hand as he spoke: "If Du Ping really goes to Datong, he may really fight against the two armies of Yuhutou." At that time, the northern border will be empty, let's not talk about conquering Tibet, even self-protection will be a problem. ”

"That's not right. Is the fourth child really so unaware? Xu De obviously still didn't believe it, and always felt that his righteous son was not so ridiculous.

"Lord Wang, it's not the first time I've told you about Du Ping." When Mr. Feng said this, he didn't speak anymore, but picked up the chopsticks to pick up the vegetables again.

Xu De frowned, and said: "The war on the Western Front is tight, and the war reports of these days say that the counteroffensive of Tubo is somewhat famous, and the second and third can't leave. If I don't occupy the position of this Datong commander, I'm afraid that others will take the lead. Especially the king of Guangnan, the reason why I have not done it all these years is that I am afraid of his counterattack, if he sends someone to sit firmly in the position of the general army of Datong, my Anxi army is afraid that it will be stuck in the west, even if Tubo is defeated in the future, it will not be able to pass the Chen River. ”

"Lord Wang, you must know that you have to zoom in on your vision now, you don't have to be the old team of the Anxi Army, most of my generation are old and disabled, and most of the prince's sons and nephews hold important positions in the Anxi Army, so it is better to pick out a few from the people who have been raised in the court over the years."

"Can you trust it?" Xu De's eyes were in a trance, carefully weighing the pros and cons.

"Don't use suspicious people, don't use suspicious people. The prince has raised them for so many years, and the high-ranking officials have given them enough, so they have to come out and do things. "Mr. Feng is still working on it.

"Lao Feng, did you collect the money?" Xu De's eyes suddenly sharpened, and he stared at Mr. Feng's eyes like an eagle.

Hearing this, the smile on Feng Tianshou's face also retracted, and said, "Lord Wang! I've been with you for 20 years. always wants to give future generations a title of dragon. ”

Xu De laughed, his momentum disappeared, and said with a smile: "Then you recommend it and give me a fold." ”

"Lord Wang, there is no need to list excerpts, I know a person who can definitely be a good soldier of Datong."

"Who?"

"Guo Yi, the head of the military department."

"Guo Yi." Xu De whispered the name Guo Yi twice and asked, "But Guo Huai's son?" ”

"Exactly. This person is a descendant of the Anxi Army, but after Guo Huai's death, he faded out of the Anxi Army, and Defeng entered the military department in six years. ”

"I have an impression of this person, he plays a good gun, has he even saved the second child?"

"Yes. It is said that when he returned to Xi'an City, his armor was tattered, the spear was only half as long, and there were more than 20 large and small wounds, and he lay down for half a month before he slowly recovered. ”

"Why did such a strong general fade out of the Anxi army? It shouldn't be. Xu De was puzzled.

"Guo Yi has just had it, even more so than when the prince was young."

"What do you say?"

"Guo Yi once befriended Xiao Zhengdao, Xiao Zhengdao thought of his life-saving feelings, that is, he looked at him like a brother, but Guo Yi couldn't stand Xiao Zhengdao's arrogance, and after repeated admonitions, Xiao Zhengdao finally turned against him, and was finally forced back to Tianjing City by Xiao Zhengdao."

"The second child is too conceited and arrogant, the next time he returns to Beijing, I will find an opportunity to beat him." There was a pity in Xu De's eyes, Guo Yi was such a figure, he was buried in his own hands, thinking that he Xu De was also called Bole, thinking of this, he was suddenly a little afraid, he himself was still able to find talents, but the group of guys who ate with him didn't know how many talents were driven away behind him.

"Also, Lao Feng, this Guo Yi, will you hate my Anxi Army, when you take office, you will disobey the yang and the yin, and it will be a big deal for me."

"What is the purpose of the prince taking the position of the chief soldier of Datong."

"Of course you know what I mean."

"That's it, you and I know very well how Yuhuzi is, he is a perennial signboard that will not be subject to the orders of the kings outside, I heard that a few days ago, he also went from the Jiuguang Pavilion in Beijing to send an Oiran to the front line tent as a concubine. Guo Yi was able to see his Shangguan on the front line so drunk and indifferent? ”

Xu De nodded while listening, the wine in the cup was at the bottom, Feng Tianshou naturally got up to refill a glass for him and filled it for himself. Looking at Xu De's contemplative appearance, he drank and ate food by himself.

"I'm still worried that Guo Yi has a problem in his heart, which is not good for me."

"My lord." Feng Tianshou couldn't cry or laugh: "Guo Yi is now the best choice, if you hesitate, you really want to be taken first by others." ”

"Well, just do as you say. After the fourth child resigned, he still returned to Xi'an. He raised his glass: "And drink." Squinting and taking a sip of enjoyment.

Hanshanzhai is the place where Xu De and his henchmen discuss and deal with the twists and turns, and it is generally difficult for others to approach except for the few personal guards and accompanying maids, so when the knock on the door sounded, Xu De and Feng Tianshou both understood that the princess was afraid that someone had been sent.

Although Xu De is now powerful and almost an emperor hiding behind his back, when he returned to the Qin Palace, he took off his majestic shell and became a shrunken Xu De. It's not that he's afraid, it's just that Xu De really feels sorry for his little lady.

When he heard the knock on the door, Feng Tianshou knew that Xu De was not having a good time today.

The door opened, and it was Jing Zhi, the maid beside the princess, who just moved her nose and said: "The princess is like a god, the princess will go to the princess to explain it himself." After speaking, he left without looking back, without the slightest fear of Xu De.

"Lord Wang?" Feng Tianshou had a wry smile on his face.

"Leave her alone, let's drink to get down to business." Xu De seemed to be ruthless, drank all the wine in the cup in one go, looked at the teapot, but did not pour a third cup, and sighed with a sigh in his eyes: "Now drinking has to be controlled." ”

"When the prince is healthy, he can raise the altar and drink freely."

"I hope so. Let's play two more games, it is estimated that it will be autumn, and the grain in the west will be ripe, so we will no longer have the effort to play chess. ”

Feng Tianshou smiled and said, "The prince should have gone to find the princess earlier, and the princess is estimated to be scolded with Lao Feng and me today." ”

"It's not the first time." Xu De got up and stretched his muscles, and the maid outside the door came up to clean up the table and brought the chessboard up.

"You're in vain." Xu De once again chose Kuroko.

But before anyone on the chessboard fell, I heard a piano sound outside Hanshan Zhai, a melodious tune, but inexplicably full of fire.

Feng Tianshou, who had just pinched a white piece, listened, quickly put the chess piece back in the chess jar, and said: "Lord, it's getting late, I really have to retire, I'm afraid I won't be able to enter the door of the palace next time." After speaking, he didn't wait for Xu De to react, he ran away like a run, his two scholars didn't react, and saw him go out for a long time before running with the bookcase on his back and keeping up.

Looking at the smooth chessboard, Xu De's embarrassment at first disappeared, he sat for almost a moment, until the night was dark, the moonlight penetrated through the window, and pulled out a long white strip on the chessboard, Xu De did not instruct his subordinates to hold the lamp, just held a chess piece, played in the white, and said softly: "Guo Yi, Guo Yi ......" expressionless, I don't know what he was thinking.

"Death and life are fateful." Xu De suddenly grinned, stood up, threw the chess pieces into the chess jar in the dark, and walked towards the backyard of the palace. He walked away, and all the maids guarding outside the door began to eat and laugh, such a prince, in their eyes, was the most interesting, more interesting than those jokes. I don't know how Xu De would feel if he knew that his majesty was so despised.