At night, Guo Qi took the things prepared by Li Wuhe to the outside of Gonggong Liu's room; Li Wu knocked on the door.

"Who?" the voice of the little eunuch who was waiting for Gonggong Li came from the room; "Squeak!"

"Lord Wang, General Li, the slave is polite." The little eunuch saluted Guo Qi.

"This king is here to find Gonggong Liu."

"The prince is inside, please, the father-in-law is inside!"

"Let's move everything in!" Li Wu said to the two guards behind him.

After the things were moved into the room, Li Wu and the little eunuch, as well as the two guards, all withdrew, leaving Guo Qi and Liu Gonggong in the room.

"The king came late at night and disturbed his father-in-law's rest."

"Where the prince said, please sit down; The prince came to find the old slave so late, what is the important matter! ”

"The king has written here a thank you sheet and two letters, and I have to bother my father-in-law to bring them when he returns, one letter to my father, and the other to my king's mother; In addition, my father allowed the king not to have to return to Beijing to report on his work this year, and the king prepared some tribute for his father, and he had to bother his father-in-law to bring it back. Guo Qi said with a smile: "The two boxes brought in are even the king's thanks to his father-in-law!" ”

Gonggong Liu opened Guo Qi's tribute list, was startled and said, "Lord Wang, you are not wrong!" So much tribute, this gold and silver plus jewelry, this is 15.6 million taels! ”

"A few days ago, this king handed over a group of bandits, named a mountain carving; This gang of bandits has been haunting the border for more than ten years, and they have a lot of family backgrounds; Now that the imperial treasury is empty, these kings don't use it much, so they will all be handed over to the emperor! ”

"The prince is loyal and righteous, and the old slave admires him so much." Gonggong Liu got up and said to Guo Qi.

"The father-in-law is serious, as a courtier, this is what this king should do."

Gonggong Liu walked to two boxes, one large and one small, opened the boxes and saw the gold, silver and jewelry inside, and was stupid on the spot; Guo Qi smiled and said: "It's a little meaning, this is a hard money for my father-in-law." ”

As a special envoy of the Yellow Gate, Gonggong Liu will get some money when he walks there, and those officials will give 1,800 taels at most, and Guo Qi's shot is 5,000 taels of silver plus a box of jewelry, which will add up to 10,000 taels of silver.

"The prince has rewarded too much, and the old slave can't afford it!"

"Gonggong Liu is just accepting it with all his heart, it just so happens that the king still has some things to ask his father-in-law, and he also asks his father-in-law to tell the truth!"

"As long as the old slave knows, he must report it to the prince."

"This king heard that Guanzhong Daotai Rongzheng and his officials, a total of thirty people, were escorted back to Beijing by their father-in-law, but is there such a thing?"

"There is indeed such a thing, and this matter was done by the old slave himself." Gonggong Liu said to Guo Qi sincerely: "Lord, don't blame the old slave for not reminding you, when the old slave was in the capital, I heard that when the prince came to Yongzhou to take up the domain, he had a feud with Rong Zheng.

This honor is the right-hand man of His Royal Highness the Prince, in Guanzhong Dao over the years, but there is no less filial piety to His Royal Highness the Prince, and now the glory sign falls, it is equivalent to breaking the arm of His Royal Highness the Prince, and the prince will have to be careful in the future. ”

"This king knows, thank you father-in-law for reminding me."

……

This night, Guo Qi and Liu Gonggong didn't have much rest, and got a lot of things about the court from Liu Gonggong's mouth, who is with whom, that and that is in the same group, Guo Qi has learned about one eight or nine is not far from ten, it can be said that the harvest is huge, and the silver and jewelry are also worth it.

Gonggong Liu stayed in Yongcheng for two days, Guo Qi has been with him, although he did not live together, but he did it by eating together, Gonggong Liu was even moved to cry, although as the envoy of the Yellow Gate, the officials everywhere were careful to stammer, but those officials looked down on them from the bottom of their hearts, let alone the feudal kings in various places; And here for Guo Qi, Father-in-law Liu feels that he is highly respected, which also lays a nail for Guo Qi's future activities in Luodu.

From Yongcheng to Xiegushui, when Gonggong Liu left, Guo Qi sent Gonggong Liu all the way out of the border of Yongzhou, and Gonggong Liu was moved; Looking at the envoy of the Yellow Gate who was far away from Yongzhou, the breath in Guo Qi's heart was finally relieved.

After seeing off Liu Gonggong, Guo Qi's life became easier, except for regular daily inspections of the barracks, most of the rest of the time, Guo Qi went to the horse farm thirty miles north of Yongcheng, which occupies a circle of ten miles and is the only military horse farm in Yongzhou, where Guo Qi's only cavalry brigade is stationed (Note 1).

These more than 500 cavalry are the only rapid mobile troops under Guo Qi's command, Guo Qi divided the cavalry troops into two parts: light cavalry and heavy cavalry, of which 200 heavy cavalry and more than 300 light cavalry; The heavy cavalry focuses on training to sprint and break the formation, and the selected war horses are also relatively tall war horses, with strong weight-bearing capacity and fast sprint speed; The light cavalry focuses on training in horse archery, and the horses they use are shorter, but they are very flexible, and the horses have strong endurance and can march long distances.

In the stable of the military horse farm, Guo Qi is holding a brush to wash a group of dark and tall war horses, this BMW is the Dawan horse that Guo Qi got from the Chengnan Racecourse of Jingzhaofu; Guo Qi has been busy before, so he didn't have time to tame it, but now that he has time, Guo Qi is basically tired of being with this horse every day, and Guo Qi also gave it a name 'chasing the wind'.

"Big brother, let's brush you comfortably! I've been waiting for you like this for days, so let me ride two laps! Guo Qi said while brushing the wind chasing the hairs.

"Hum" chasing the wind spewed out a breath of nasal breath from his nose, and he didn't wait to look at Guo Qi, Guo Qi was angry in his heart! "Anyway, Lao Tzu is also a dignified prince, this horn has been serving you for several days, and you don't even give this face!"

"Lord, although Chasing the Wind is familiar with you now, Chasing the Wind is proud in his heart! You can't just please it like this, you have to conquer it. ”

"Conquest, how to conquer? Has this king never trained horses before? ”

"There are two ways, one is to subdue it, but chasing the wind is that the king of horses is too proud, and he would rather be killed than give in; The other is to prove that the lord is stronger than it, the lord only needs to ride on the back of chasing the wind, no matter how the chasing wind gallops, how to stumble, as long as the lord does not fall off the horse, and so the chasing wind is tired and can't run, the lord will naturally conquer it. ”

"Open the stable, as you say, and the king will conquer it now."

Since Chasing Wind has not been tamed, Chasing Wind is not allowed to put a saddle on his back at all; After Chasing Wind was pulled out of the stable, Guo Qi turned over and rode on the horse, Chasing Wind felt that someone was riding on his back, and immediately galloped, Guo Qi only felt that his face was cut by a knife, and the galloping Chasing Wind suddenly stopped, raised his front hooves high, and stood almost ninety degrees.

Guo Qi rode on the back of Chasing the Wind and firmly grabbed the neck of Chasing the Wind, and when he saw that this trick didn't work, he began to stumble, running for a while, stopping for a while, jumping on the spot for a while, anyway, he was going to fall Guo Qi off his back, and Guo Qi grabbed the Chasing Wind with both hands, and his fingers were already buckled into the horse meat; Chasing the wind tossed for an hour before it stopped.

"The lord is finished, it is finished; The lord has become, he has become ......"