Xiao Guan, Pingbei General's Mansion

After finishing the business, the time was also noon, and Yan Kui left the two of them to eat in the house.

"Diao Qing's kid sent someone to bring me a jar of good wine a few days ago, the Tao is a fine wine left by the previous dynasty, and it has been stored for fifty or sixty years, and you will all taste it in a while, to see if there is such a god as the kid said."

Previously, Diao Qing was Yan Kui's deputy general, and in many wars, he made a lot of contributions to Yan Kui, and now he is promoted to the general of Wupin Miscellaneous and returns to Beijing to serve in the forbidden army.

The fifth grade in his early twenties is not very powerful, but he is in the forbidden army.

Just as Beijing officials are more valuable than local officials, there is also an unspoken rule in the Northern Jin Dynasty army, the forbidden army is sent abroad, and it is promoted by one or two levels, so don't look at Diao Qing is a five-grade person, go out to show his name, and the general four-grade generals dare not provoke.

Of course, with Diao Yidao's old man to protect him, even if he is not in the forbidden army, he does not dare to bully him.

But no matter what, Diao Qing turned around on the battlefield, not to mention that he was uninjured and painless, and there were three more pages in the merit book, and he became a rare handsome figure in the second generation of the generals of the DPRK, which made many people blush?

This jar of cellar wine that is more than 50 years old is said to have been sent by Diao Qing, but it is actually a generous gift specially prepared by his father Diao Yidao to thank Yan Kui for taking care of Diao Qing.

It's just that both of them are generals, and it is not easy to make friends, so they don't have to provoke the emperor's taboo, so they were transferred by Diao Qing.

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Yan Kui ordered a banquet of wine, and the people below served him diligently, and a table of top-class noodles and the fifty-year-old cellar brew sent by the father and son of the Diao family were placed in front of the three of them.

Yan Kui waved his hand to let the guards next to him leave, and called Guangshan to accompany them, and the four of them were under the gazebo, eating and drinking around the wine and food.

Maybe it's because this jar of wine is really good, a few people chatted and chatted, and they talked about Diao Yidao, who sent wine.

"Second brother, I heard that Diao Zhengbei wants to be the general of the Quartet, this matter is really fake."

Gong Fa stepped forward to refill Yan Kui's glass of wine, and asked with some curiosity.

Yan Kui took a sip of his cup, sneered and asked, "Beiling is thousands of miles away from the capital, where did you hear such rumors?" ”

"I still need to hear that it has been spread all over the army, saying that after Di Shuai made the general, there was an empty general on the left and right, and His Majesty preferred the rear general Peng Shuai to be the former general, and the vacant rear general was replaced by Diao Zhengbei." Gong's speech was chiseled, as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

Yan Kui shook his head with a smile and turned his head to look at Chen Xingxiao: "You have also heard similar rumors. ”

Chen Xingxiao bowed his head and replied respectfully: "I heard some of it, in fact, since His Majesty's holy decree to crown the general was issued, there have been rumors about this matter in the army, and then it has become more and more intense with time, and even the people have begun to appear such voices. ”

Yan Kui nodded and sighed: "This is someone who stabbed it." ”

"Someone harmed General Diao, second brother, what do you mean by that?"

Gong Fa and Guangshan next to him were puzzled, but Chen Xingxiao was smart and thoughtful, and when Yan Kui saw this, he asked him to talk about it.

It's all his own people, Chen Xingxiao didn't give in, and opened his mouth to say his thoughts: "Your Majesty's intention to promote General Diao to the Quartet should be true, or to reveal this meaning to people, but unintentionally or after being specifically inquired about, and then inform some people who have a heart."

These people didn't want General Diao to take the throne, so they spread the matter widely, and when the matter became big, His Majesty would inevitably dislike General Diao, and the promotion was put on hold. ”

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Chen Xingxiao said and looked at Yan Kui: "Second brother, my brother's guess is a little bit successful." ”

"Eight or nine is not far from ten."

Yan Kui smiled and said, "Although I don't know the inside story of this matter, I am here, and I can also see the situation of the Qing Dynasty."

Since the promotion of the general, there has been a vacancy in the generals of the Quartet, and His Majesty does intend to replace one, and Diao Yidao is also one of the popular candidates. ”

Gong Fa understood what was going on, and while he was sorry for Diao's knife, he was also a little curious.

"Second brother, General Diao was calculated, so who is likely to take advantage of this."

"I don't know."

Yan Kui shook his head honestly, and then said with a wry smile: "The situation above is too complicated now, and it can be called a treacherous situation.

The former general is vacant, the right general Sha Qianying was reprimanded because of the defeat in Qingnan, and the holy favor is in danger, although the later general Peng Shuai has made great contributions in the national war, but he was poisoned and killed, and now he is still victimized, and he is old, and no one can guarantee how long his old man can support him.

Among the generals of the Quartet, the lack of the lack, the defeat of the defeated, the old and the old, except for the left general Han Shuai, are all riddled with problems, plus the terminally ill Admiral of the Nine Gates, the current military seven giants are not as strong as they were back then.

Who is up and who is down, don't say it's me, I'm afraid even Your Majesty, I guess I can't say clearly. ”

Gong Fa was stupid after hearing this, he has only been in the army for less than two years from a patrol leader, and now although he has five official residences, he is fighting and practicing in the military camp, how can he understand the colorful and complex and intertwined situation of the imperial court.

Now listening to Yan Kui's analysis, Gong Fa was confused and ignorant, and finally his head was stunned and didn't know where to turn, so he said.

"Since it's not clear, it's better to let the second brother take the position, with the second brother's ability, what Quartet generals and Nine Gate Admirals, wouldn't they all do."

Yan Kui was stunned by this, and then laughed: "I want to do it, but I don't have enough qualifications, not to mention those third-grade heavy generals, that is, there are many generals and deputy generals in the fourth rank who are better than me."

If you want to be promoted to the second rank, unless Ji Linbing comes to fight with us again, I will arrest this old boy, and I can almost impress Your Majesty. ”

Gong Fa also knew that he had made a joke, so he scratched his head with a smile, but he still said stiffly: "You don't need Ji Linbing to send it to the door, when the new army is trained, my younger brother will personally lead the army to Mingjing to catch that old thing and present it to the second brother." ”

"Okay, the second brother is waiting for you for a day." Yan Kui gave a face-saving sentence.

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Full of wine and food, Yan Kui asked people to remove the residual seats, and a few people sat and drank tea and food, Gong Fa was a person who couldn't stop talking about it, and he didn't stop half a cup of tea, and chattered again.

"Second brother, my eldest nephew has been three months old, has he been named?"

"At the beginning of March, I was born, and now it is just over March, and the name has not yet been given, my mother's meaning, the child's life is thin, and it is not good to give a big name before the age of one, so I can save the blessing.

Now your sister-in-law has given her a milk name, called Yuanbao, and follows the order of my brother's nephew Duobao. Speaking of his son, Yan Kui couldn't help but show a warm smile on his face.

"That's how it should be, my aunt is thoughtful."

Gong Fa agreed with Chen's arrangement, the medical conditions were not developed in these years, and children were prone to early death, so they should pay more attention to increase longevity.

"It's a pity, the second brother is entangled in military affairs, and the eldest nephew was born in March, and it is difficult for the second brother to even see each other."

Gong Fa shook his head and sighed, and Chen Xingxiao quietly kicked him next to him, this stinky mouth, isn't this a pot that can't be opened.

Yan Kui's face was also a little lost, but he still smiled: "It doesn't matter, it's good that everyone is safe, when we settle down here, and Yuanbao is over his first birthday, I will send someone to pick them up." ”

"Okay, I'll pick it up myself." Gong Fa consciously lost his words and took the initiative to remedy.

Chen Xingxiao ignored him, looked at Yan Kui, and said with a smile: "Before, the second brother sent He Chun back to Qingyuan, I thought it was to pick up my sister-in-law, but now it seems that He Chun has another difference." ”

Yan Kui nodded, didn't hide it, and said bluntly: "I want He Chun to invite Xu Yu, I didn't have time before, and now that the war is suspended, I have to transfer our military division."

Marching and fighting, we are doing it, but this officialdom communicates back and forth, and gives advice in case of trouble, Xu Zijun can beat you and me more than a step.

In addition, I have been promoted to General Pingbei here, and I am afraid that there are a lot of situations in Qingyuan, He Chun has an alert personality, let him go and keep an eye on the point, and at the same time arrange the family affairs of a few of you.

I used to have my neck on a knife and didn't dare to think about my family, but now that I have taken up an official position, it's time to repay my relatives and friends and buy a family business............"