In the Ministry of Rites's "Celebration of the Birthday of the Holy Monarch in the 22nd Year of the Eastern Common Era", after the three birthday celebrations of "Offering Prisoners", "Yemen Military Parade" and "Forbidden Military Exercises", it was the Son of Heaven who announced the system, because "the soldiers of the guard army worked hard and made great achievements", so "Tetra Gon allowed to stay in Beijing for three days, and gave the royal flowers, royal coins and wine", and then the generals of the guards led the troops to cheer and thank you and withdraw from the inner city. The Son of Heaven returned to the throne, set up a banquet in the Gyeongbok Hall to wash the dust of the generals of Weizhen, and sent the prince and the civil and military ministers to the barracks to comfort the officers and soldiers under review. However, because of the brilliant achievements of the Yanshan Guard, today's martial arts exercise is even more powerful, and the Eastern Yuan Emperor was very happy, and he casually issued an edict without consulting with anyone, and Jiaen authorized the Yanshan soldiers to stay in Beijing for ten days. He apparently forgot one thing. Just an hour ago, he rashly proposed to let Yan Shanwei perform the martial arts first, but he was rejected by the two vice ministers. Now, he has once again made a decision that does not conform to the imperial system. Fortunately, this time, the prime ministers did not refuse. After all, today is the birthday of the Son of Heaven, and it is a festive day, and everyone can understand that the Holy Monarch occasionally has some careless mistakes and omissions; And Yan Shanbing's performance is really exciting. Therefore, the prime ministers and officials did not take it too seriously, and acquiesced to the decision of the Son of Heaven.

This sentence was conveyed by the loud shouts of the forbidden army above and below the city, which immediately attracted loud cheers from the Yanshan soldiers, and at the same time taught the other parade troops to be both envious and jealous.

As the former admiral of Yanshanwei, Shang Cheng was naturally the best candidate to send condolences to the Yanshan soldiers. He's happy to do it. For him, it was a real hardship to accompany the emperor to dinner. Be careful of the gentleman's deceit, so you can't drink too much wine; You must observe the way of your courtiers, so you can't eat too much food; If you are unfortunate enough to be called by Emperor Dongyuan to accompany you to the throne, looking at a large table full of wine, meat and dishes, but you can't move your chopsticks, and you have to deal with talking carefully, what is the difference between this and suffering and suffering? Besides, his family knows his own affairs, he has never been a cautious character, he likes to be idle when he is happy, regardless of time, place and occasion, he is a nonsense in the southeast and northwest, who knows which sentence will cause trouble if he is not careful? He didn't want to stir up any more glass and celestial spheres! Instead of trembling and staying in the Gyeongbokgung Palace, it is really better to go and drink wine and eat meat with the old subordinates to be relaxed and happy!

The civil official who went with him to visit Yanshan Bing was Zhenqian. As the left squire of the military department who is in charge of the promotion and transfer of personnel in the army, Zhenqian has an advantage in this regard, and he has been in Yanzhou for more than a month, and he knows many people in the Yanshan Guard, so he can avoid the feeling of strangeness when everyone meets.

Seeing off Emperor Dongyuan, Shang Cheng took forty or fifty carts loaded with all kinds of gifts from the imperial court, and went out with Zhenqian to the temporary station of the Yanshan Army in the outer city.

The barracks where the Yanshan Army was temporarily stationed was the largest garrison of the Third Command of the Plains General's Mansion. In order to settle these 3,000 Yanshan soldiers, the soldiers and horses originally stationed here were temporarily moved to other places, leaving only two guards to guard the commander's yamen and armory. Guo Biao and Sun Zhongshan took Shao Chuan and Zheng Qi to Gyeongbok Hall for a banquet, and now it is Fan Quan and Qian Laosan who are "in charge" in the barracks. The two of them knew two days ago that Shang Cheng was coming over today, and the team did not disband after returning from the reading, they lined up on the playground, and then a series of military orders came down, and the entire military camp was immediately under martial law. When all the affairs are arranged in place, there are no mistakes in checking again, and the vanguard of the escort convoy has arrived. Fan Quanqian hurriedly straightened his clothes and armor, and walked out of the barracks with a large group of officers to greet him. Watching from afar Shang Cheng approaching with the war horse, Fan Quan led Qian Laosan took half a step wrong, and all the officers took half a step forward, holding their hands on one knee in front of their foreheads, and said in unison:

"See the General!"

Shang Cheng got off the horse with a smile, waved his hand, and said, "Get up." When the officers got up and stood up, they pointed to Zhen Xiang and said, "This is Lord Zhen Zhen, the left attendant of the Ministry of War, who is in charge of everyone's promotion to the rank and position." If you want to be promoted in the future, you must tie up the real adult today. ”

Fan Quan and Qian Laosan know Zhenqian. Last summer, Zhenxiang went to Yanzhou with Zhu Xuan to investigate Li Shen's case, and as important figures in Li Shen's case, both of them had dealt with Zhenxiang. Compared with the old scholar Zhu Xuan and Ye Xun, who are not welcomed, Zhenqian, the squire of the military department, is obviously much more approachable, and the impression left on them is very good. At the moment, listening to Shang Cheng's tone of voice was very casual, obviously he had some friendship with Zhenxiang, so he gave another military salute to Zhenxiang with his crossed arms, laughed and greeted him, one pulled the reins and pulled the bridle, and the other enthusiastically supported Zhenxiang's arm to help him get off the horse. Qian Laosan tugged on the reins and said to Shang Cheng seriously: "General, just rest assured, although Lao Fan and I are from the infantry army, we are all cavalry soldiers at the moment. Both of us have very few other skills, only one thing that is unusual when it comes to the ability to pat on the back, who else can be more professional than us? ”

Shang Cheng raised his head and laughed, scolded a vulgar sentence, and said: "Okay, you are a third Qian, I haven't seen you for a few months, and your ability has risen!" This sycophant is just right! As he spoke, he nodded lightly at Zhao Shishi in the crowd. He had already seen the stones. But there were so many people gathered here that he couldn't talk to him alone, so he had to express his feelings with his eyes. The stone grinned at him as well. When he turned his head to talk to the others, out of the corner of his eye, he saw the stone suddenly lower his head and quickly wiped it on his face with his hand......

He tried his best to restrain the heat rushing in his chest, and led Zhenqian to introduce everyone here one by one. Tu Xian, who was the leader of Li Shen's personal army earlier, made great contributions to the defense of Northern Zheng, and is now the founder of the country; Mi Chong, Xue Xun "went through the back door" to the army of Yanshan, and was the first to enter the ancestral court of the Exhaustion Ci when he broke through the poor mountain, and awarded an acre of Xuntian; Tian Xiaowu, who was still a cavalry lieutenant before he sent out the army, now has twelve silver nails embedded in his belt, and has been promoted to brigade commander; Su Zha, when he entered the grassland, was only a lieutenant of the seventh rank of the Admiral's Palace, and now he is also a sixth-rank officer with twelve silver nails, and he also holds the title of founding man. There is also Fan Qi, the current battalion captain of the first battalion of Yanshan, the founder of the fourth generation, with the news of the two great victories of the Yanshan Army spread all over the world, he also became famous in the first war......

Although he had heard of Fan Qi for a long time, after listening to Shang Cheng's introduction, Zhen Qian was still a little surprised. If he hadn't seen Fan Qi leading three thousand Yanshan soldiers to drill on the tower of the imperial city just now, he would never have believed that the man in front of him with a wooden expression was also a general! This is the "Seven Generals" who were famous for their fierceness and bloodiness when Mo Gan stormed the Great Horde?

Shang Cheng smiled and said, "You also listened to that drum lyrics?" What is sung in the drum lyrics is all the artistic processing of folk artists, and it is just a false rumor. This is the real Seven Generals! He turned his head to Fan Qi and said, "Brother Qi, how are you at home?" You have been knighted this time, and my aunt and sister-in-law are afraid that they will grin at the back of their heads. ”

Fan Qi was obviously very bad at words, and after listening to Shang Cheng's words, he nodded vigorously and said, "General Yu, they are all good, they are all good." He would just say "all right" over and over again.

Shang Cheng knew his temperament, turned his face and said to Zhen Qian: "My seventh brother usually doesn't like to talk, but going into battle to fight is a first-class ability. The ability to command and dispatch is not bad. As he spoke, he lowered his head, pretended to talk to Zhenqian, and said in a low voice, "Yiyi has little land at home, so he was a sheepherd who helped people herd sheep before joining the army, and two or three hundred sheep were packed up by him, and the sheep came out obediently with a snort in his nose, and went back obediently with a snort." Do you think that even the goats have been trained by him to look like this, let alone a group of small soldiers? These words were heard clearly by the officers gathered around them, and everyone looked up and laughed. Someone even blamed me and said: "If you teach me, the 'Seven Generals' in the play book should be changed to 'General Sheep'!" ”

Once again, this apt suggestion drew laughter from the crowd.

Zhen Qian also smiled and leaned back and forth. He wiped his tears and asked, "Is the Seventh General related to Uncle Ying?" Fan Qi has the nickname of "Seven Generals", and he is no longer good at calling Shang Cheng's military position now, so he respectfully calls Shang Cheng the knighthood. He is indeed very strange, two people have one surname Shang and one surname Fan, why does Shang Cheng call Fan Qi "Seventh Brother"? Moreover, seeing Shang Cheng talking and joking with these officers, some calling names, some shouting nicknames, pointing at them and laughing and scolding casually, he was obviously very familiar with these officers, and it was impossible to make an exception only to Fan Qi. Thinking of Shang Cheng mentioning Fan Qi's mother and wife just now, are the two of them really relatives?

"The seventh brother is my aunt's uncle, brother and uncle who didn't have five clothes on the door." Shang Cheng explained.

"Oh." Zhen Qian nodded. He arched his hand towards Fan Qi again, and was about to say a few more words to Fan Qi, followed by Fan Quan and Qian Laosan next to them, who were already pulling everyone, Fan Quan said: "Hurry up and get out of the way!" Leave anything to the wine table to say, and first invite the general and the real lord to enter the barracks. Qian Laosan also said: ", what are you doing standing here?" Do you want to shoot on the back? I'll say hello to you first, and no one will be allowed to rob me later!" I'm going to shoot the big general and the real adult's ass first! ”

A group of officers laughed and got out of the way.

Zhen Qian asked in a low voice as he walked: "Zida, what do you mean by this 'sycophancy'?" ”

"It's what it means to flatter your boss." The soldiers standing guard at the gate of the Shang Cheng Dynasty's military camp returned a military salute.

“…… Is there an allusion to this? ”

Shang Cheng smiled and said, "That's the case, you see, don't the people of Tuqi like good horses?" In them, a good horse is a symbol of status and rights, and if a subordinate wants to meet his boss, the best way is not to praise his boss, but to praise his horse, praise the horse and praise the horse, and praise the boss to praise the boss's horse as a good horse in the sky and on the earth, and the boss will be promoted to his official as soon as he is happy? ”

“…… Really? "Zhen Xiang is a little unfaithful.

"It's just a folk tale, and it can't stand up to scrutiny."

Until the soldiers of the sixth battalion were reviewed, and the people were also sitting at the dinner table, Zhenqian was still suspicious. The Turks are praising horses, how did they become sycophants? When the people of Tuqi greet their bosses, is it just to slap the butt of their boss's horses?