Ba Du sat on the ground with a frightened face, looking at Li Wenyuan who was holding a horse lance, no matter what, he couldn't believe that he had been defeated by a Han man in terms of strength.

Hulu, who was watching from the sidelines, hurriedly said, "Young Lang's subordinates are merciful. ”

Li Wenyuan heard Hulu say that he would let his subordinates be merciful, and laughed secretly in his heart, this time the purpose was achieved, so he took back the horse lance, stretched out his hand and pulled up the Batu who was sitting on the ground, and said with a smile: "I have conceded the Batu brothers." ”

Ba Tuk was also open-minded, picked up the broken spear on the ground, waved his hand at Li Wenyuan and said, "Han people, hypocrisy, you, win." With that, Batu took off a silver eagle ring from his finger and handed it to Li Wenyuan: "This is me, the Sochile Department, a token, belongs, a real eagle, a steppe, welcome to the real, warrior." ”

Li Wenyuan was not polite, took the ring and put it on his hand, and said to Ba Duk: "I will definitely go to the grassland to find you, and next time we will try to test your good riding and archery." ”

At this time, Hulu, who had been beside him, recalled Batu in Turkic dialect, took over the conversation and said, "Okay, young man, you have won, this is my bet." After that, he put down a piece of gold, comforted the family a few words, and left with another Hu man, and the other Hu man looked at Li Wenyuan when he left, his eyes were full of fighting spirit. Li Wenyuan smiled and patted the horse lance in his hand, and raised his chin at the Hu man.

Seeing a few Hu people gone, Li Wenyuan praised Xue Rengao: "The momentum of the son is not bad, dare to confront these three Hu people on the spot." ”

"Although I am young, I also know that the territory and the people are safe, just as the master said, when a friend comes, there is wine, and when an enemy comes, there is a hunting fork." Xue Rengao scratched his head embarrassedly, no longer with the fierce momentum just now.

Li Wenyuan laughed, patted Xue Rengao's shoulder and said, "Okay, good, if you have this intention, I will be satisfied." "It's rare to travel once, training historical figures is my favorite thing to do, since the history books record that Xue Rengao is easy to kill, then I want to train him to love the people like a son, a benevolent sage!

At this time, a neighing of horses came, accompanied by the sound of the soldiers' iron armor rubbing, the onlookers were dispersed, Xue Ju rode a horse to the front, turned over and pulled the horse over, Xue Rengao looked up and down: "Is my son injured in any way?" Let the Father see. ”

Xue Rengao didn't want to weaken his previous momentum in front of everyone, so he got rid of Xue Ju's hand and said to Xue Ju: "Back to my father, the child didn't suffer any injuries, and the master broke the spear of the Hu man with his strength and retreated from the Hu people. ”

Xue Juwen looked at Li Wenyuan and asked, "Or will it grow every day?" ”

Li Wenyuan nodded. Xue Ju waved his hand to let the soldiers disperse, and let Xue Rengao go home, and walked side by side with Li Wenyuan towards the Jincheng barracks, and said with a smile: "You saved my life three years ago, and saved my son's life three years later, you are really the lucky star of my Xue family." ”

Li Wenyuan said: "Brother Xue took me in three years ago, how can I stand by and watch, the one who is a confidant dies." ”

Xue Juyi waved his hand and said: "Eh, saying this will be far away from the relationship between you and me, but your strange illness is really strange, your strength is increasing day by day, three years ago you were able to shoot through the pig's head with an iron arrow into the trunk of the tree, now you can shoot through the iron armor?" Whoever fights you in this world has to take care of three points. ”

Li Wenyuan thought about it again and again, and still told Xue Ju about the strange situation of his body, and Xue Ju also invited a famous doctor to diagnose and treat him, but he didn't know the details, they all said that they were gifted with muscles and bones, but there was no hidden disease. Li Wenyuan has not felt any discomfort in the past three years, so he doesn't care about it, but in recent years, the growth rate has become less and less, and it is estimated that he is about to reach the limit.

The two came to the tavern in Jincheng, went up to the second floor to find a place by the window, ordered wine and food, and chatted.

Xue Ju took Li Wenyuan's poured wine and said, "A friend in Jingshi told me that His Majesty the Emperor may have to raise the world's troops to conquer Goguryeo in the near future. ”

Li Wenyuan drank a sip of water and wine, his body was very comfortable, the grain wine in this era was not high, but there was a special fragrant fragrance, he heard Xue Ju say that Yang Guang was going to go east to Goguryeo, and he remembered that he first arrived in the Great Sui was the sixth year of the great cause, and it was Yang Guang's first eastward expedition to Goguryeo.

Later, General Hu'er led the water army against the current into the Hunshui, failed to see through the deception of the Goguryeo people, plundered the place, made the formation chaotic, was defeated by the Goguryeo ambush 40,000 elite soldiers only fled back a few thousand, fortunately, the deputy governor Zhou Fashang who stayed behind led the troops to wait, scared off the Goguryeo pursuers, and Laihu'er was able to return to the ship, but the first battle shattered the ambition of the veteran, Laihu'er led the sailor to return to Haipu and did not dare to respond to the Sui army.

In the end, more than 300,000 people led by Yuwen Shu and Yu Zhongwen were deceived by the deception of Eulji Wendeok, and advanced again and again, and forcibly crossed Sasu, and the soldiers were exhausted, unable to besiege Pyongyang City, and were besieged by the Goguryeo army on all sides, so they led their troops to fight and retreat, and when crossing Sasu, the rear army was attacked by the Goguryeo army, and began to break and flee, unable to retract. It was not until he fled to Yalu Water that Wang Rengong led the army to the rear of the palace and repelled the Goguryeo pursuers before he survived.

At this time, the First Eastern Crusade was a complete failure, and tens of thousands of various ordnance materials were lost in Goguryeo.

Li Wenyuan whispered to Xue Ju: "This Eastern Crusade will be defeated. ”

Xue Ju was shocked, looked around and asked in a low voice, "Why do you say this?" ”

Li Wenyuan said: "The emperor set up an envoy to surrender, and whenever the Goguryeo people surrendered, they withdrew their troops and summoned the surrender envoy to surrender, and the Goguryeo people took the opportunity to repair the city, and when the envoy arrived, they would fortify the city again and no longer surrender. Therefore, there are countless casualties under the city of Liaodong, but it is always difficult to take it, Brother Xue said yes or no? ”

Xue Ju said: "Indeed, as the virtuous brother said, many ministers have written to request the withdrawal of the surrendered envoys, and directly break the city, but they have all been driven out by the emperor. ”

Li Wenyuan said: "This is Your Majesty's plan to kill people with a knife, and the intention of being drunk is not to drink." Although the last Eastern Crusade was a nationwide expedition to Goguryeo, and the crime of hanging the people was not famous, most of the dead and wounded soldiers were government soldiers of the gate lords, and most of the people who were recruited from the world became people's husbands. This is the strength of the emperor who wants to use the hands of Goguryeo to exterminate the family of gate lords, this is to seize power. What's more, during the national war, righteousness comes first, and if you are not careful, you will end up in detail, it is good to die without a corpse, and the most important thing is that the family disappears from the center of power. ”

Xue Ju was also shocked when he heard it, he was originally a military general, and the intrigue was just a military general under his control, which could compare to the silent blade and dark arrow in the court. I heard Li Wenyuan say again: "But this crusade is a little different, before my Celestial Dynasty millions of male soldiers died in Goguryeo, this is not only to use the knife to kill people to weaken the gate valve, Your Majesty also wants to regain face, this time the battle of Goguryeo, I am afraid that it will arouse the dissatisfaction of some gate lords in the country, and when they themselves jump out to rebel, they will return to the court in the class to exterminate them, and at the same time give an explanation to the people of the world." ”

Xue Ju hurriedly asked, "Are those gate valves going to jump out against the Great Sui?" ”

Li Wenyuan took a sip of water and said: "This is unknown, anyway, those who have the strength to rebel are the gate valves who participate in politics in the DPRK and China, and other gate valves should not have the strength." "Just kidding, I have no relatives and no reason in this era, and the previous analysis can be said to be a consideration made by listening to other people's rumors, if you point out who rebelled in this Eastern Crusade, wouldn't it be asking for trouble, more things are better than less things, and it would be good to leave Xue Ju with the impression that he was far away.

Xue Ju also drank water and wine by himself, the two had nothing to say, and when the two parted after the meal, Li Wenyuan said to Xue Ju: "Brother Xue, if the eldest brother is going to Liaodong this time, the younger brother I will definitely accompany the elder brother on a journey." Then he took his leave and returned to his home.

The next day, Li Wenyuan couldn't wait to come to the tailor's shop, and the shopkeeper delivered the goods as promised, and two exquisite cloaks were packed in exquisite brocade silk. Li Wenyuan secretly said that this shopkeeper would do business, and speculated that he made these two cloaks to give them to people with high status, so he specially used the best brocade silk as a package. After settling the payment, he paid more and left the tailor's shop in the hospitality of the shopkeeper.

came directly to Xue's house, reported his name, and was led to the council hall by his subordinates, and saw Xue Ju. It happened that Xue Ju was not on duty today, so Li Wenyuan explained his intention: "Brother Xue, that Qiu Niang has served me very much in the past three years, and the younger brother wanted to ask his brother for Qiu Niang's slave contract, and I heard that my sister-in-law was afraid of the cold, and I heard that the white-haired wolf skin was very warm and comfortable, so I asked a craftsman to make two cloaks, one for my sister-in-law, and one for my eldest brother to repay the kindness of taking in." Immediately, he opened the brocade silk and asked his subordinates to serve Xue Ju to put it on, it fit very well, a complete wolf head was just on the shoulder, and it was the skin of the white-haired wolf king.

Xue Ju looked at Tong Jian for a while, and immediately said: "Brother Xian, you have two life-saving graces for my Xue family, and the slave contract will be wrapped in the eldest brother, and I will send someone to send you to the house tomorrow." ”

"Then there is Brother Lao, and the younger brother still has something to do, so he will leave first." Li Wenyuan saw that his goal had been achieved, so he left Xue's house under the pretext of leaving the house. The next day, Xue Ju really sent Qiu Niang's slave deed as promised, and brought some gold, silver, pearls and jade for Qiu Niang, according to the master's mother, Qiu Niang wanted to serve Li Wenyuan to open a sect in Jincheng where he was not familiar with the place, and he must have some emergency savings in his hand.

Li Wenyuan gave a reward to the subordinate who came to send the slave deed and gold and jade money, and let him go back to restore his life. Then he took Qiu Niang out of the house, went to the Jincheng Household Office, eliminated Qiu Niang's slavery, and bought cloth to make new clothes for Qiu Niang. In short, it is a matter of Li Wenyuan's heart, after all, the beauties around him can leave with a word, and it is a little unhappy after all.

After dinner that night, Liu's mother removed the bowl and took her two little daughters back to the house to rest. Li Wenyuan gathered the brazier and asked Qiu Niang: "Qiu Niang, your record in the household office is a person from Jiangnan, why did you come to this Longxi Saiwai?" ”

Qiu Niang heard Li Wenyuan's question, put down the female red in her hand, dialed the wick and said: "Back to the master's words, Qiu Niang's surname is Shen, she is a member of the Shen family in Jiangnan, and after serving Shen in the Nanchen Palace, the Great Sui destroyed Chen, I and the people in the palace were all beaten into slavery, and the Shen family did not dare to say anything, and then wandered here, seriously ill, hungry, fortunately the first master mother had mercy and saved my life, but she did not treat me as a master and slave, and treated me like a sister. ”

Li Wenyuan listened to Qiu Niang's words, and his heart was also full of emotion, Ju Shi's record in history as Xue Ju's wife is only a few strokes, and the flesh-and-blood reality of being in history is more intuitive. Li Wenyuan even bolder conjectured, if Xue Ju had not died young, and let Li Tang get the land of Hexi horse raising, would it rewrite history?

Li Wenyuan has eliminated Qiu Niang's slavery, and soaked in the medicinal liquid under Qiu Niang's service, this is the last time to soak, according to Xue Ju, Li Wenyuan's muscles and bones have been refreshed as much as possible. In the warm and cool medicinal liquid, Li Wenyuan closed his eyes comfortably and asked Qiu Niang: "Qiu Niang, you are already free, where do you want to go next?" Do you want to go back to Shen's house in Jiangnan? ”

Qiu Niang said without thinking about it: "Since she was beaten into slavery, Qiu Niang is not a member of the Shen family, why go back and ask for hardship." Qiu Niang will continue to serve her master in the future and do my best to repay her master's kindness. ”

Li Wenyuan opened his eyes and said: "Qiu Niang, I don't want you to repay you for restoring your status as a free person, it's just that you are a female streamer, and you shouldn't be a slave, and there should be no slave in this world." ”

Qiu Niang said with a smile on the side: "The master has the world in his heart, and he will definitely make a great difference." ”

was a very ordinary sentence, but it shook Li Wenyuan like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and asked Qiu Niang: "Qiu Niang, who told you what you said just now?" ”

Qiu Niang also seemed to remember something, so she said to Li Wenyuan: "Master, this is all a woman's opinion, and it is not enough to disturb the master." ”

Li Wenyuan suddenly stood up from the bathtub, didn't care that he was only wearing a pair of homemade close-fitting shorts, stepped out, grabbed Qiu Niang's hand and said, "You mean that no one told you that this sentence is in your own mind?" ”

The worries of the world are worried, and the joys of the world are happy. This sentence should not be forgotten by everyone who has experienced exam-oriented education, but should be engraved in the bones. This is the first time Fan Zhongyan of the Song Dynasty said a famous sentence for the first time hundreds of years later, it would not be surprising if the famous Confucian of the time said this, but these words actually came from the mouth of a person who had been a slave for several years, how could Li Wenyuan not be surprised, Li Wenyuan thought for a while, and said slowly: "2018? ”

Qiu Niang came back from the panic in Li Wenyuan's expectant eyes, her lips opened lightly, and she said slowly: "2012." ”