Chapter 68: Mental Art

are commanding the envoys

Partial hall

Zeng Hanru sat on the mahogany square chair behind the screen, staring intently at the terrazzo chessboard in front of him. The criss-crossed marble black and white chess pieces densely filled the entire chessboard, he gently pinched a white piece with his hand, and then slowly knocked on the chessboard,

"Ghost Head Knife!"

He snorted softly, brushed his gray beard in his hand, rolled up his sleeves, and carefully picked up a few black chess pieces from the chessboard with his hands, and threw them into the wooden chess box opposite, looking at the chess game he had laid out with a smug look in his eyes.

"My lord, the young man is asking to see you outside the door."

Hearing the tone of the people outside, Zeng Hanru's eyebrows, which were still a little happy, were suddenly shaken off by him, his brows furrowed, and he took a heavy breath out of his nose.

"Nope! Tell him I'm not there! ”

Then he smashed the black seed in his hand into the "gas eye" of the pile of white seeds on the chessboard.

"Dad, don't you think you're here? How do I get someone to tell me you're not there? ”

Sure enough, every time Zeng Hanru heard the person below report that the young prince was coming, the distance between Zeng Ziren and that person would not exceed five steps.

Seeing him walk in with a flattering smile, Zeng Hanru felt a wave of anger in his chest for no reason. He threw the chess pieces he was holding on the chessboard with a bang, snorted heavily, stood up and turned his face away, no longer looking at Zeng Ziren.

Seeing that Zeng Hanru didn't talk to him, Zeng Ziren still walked around to his father and bowed his hand and said, "Dad, you saw that your son was also impulsive last time, so he bumped into your old man." This time, I'm here to compensate you. ”

Zeng Hanru glanced at him and sneered disdainfully: "What? Are you the eldest young master short of silver again? Or are you planning to find a black yarn for someone? Otherwise, how can you think of this father? ”

Zeng Ziren looked very respectful and bowed to Old Man Zeng, and said admittedly: "Dad, this time I really have nothing to ask you, I just came to compensate you." Also, I promise you that I will come to the government office to help you if you have nothing to do in the future, or either go back to the house and stay, in short, I will never go out to cause trouble again. ”

"Give me a hand? As long as you honestly don't produce moths, it will be the blessing of our ancestors! Although Zeng Hanru was still unforgiving, listening to his son's words, his heart was still a little relieved.

Father and son, where is the overnight feud? No matter how loud the noise is, no matter how fierce the noise is, when we meet, he still calls his son, and you call Lao Tzu.

"Smack!"

Zeng Hanru turned around, sat high on the Taishi chair, raised his hand and patted the tabletop,

"Get on your knees!"

Looking at his father's face, Zeng Ziren dared to slack off, and knelt on the ground with his legs bent, looking like he was at the mercy of his father.

Zeng Hanru said to his son Zhengse, who was kneeling on the ground, with a face: "Contradicting the elders and going against the way, if this is placed in your grandfather's place, you will be cut off your tongue." On this occasion, you should also remember it for a long time, and don't let the people below deceive you in a few sentences. One by one, the rhetoric, the women who send the silver are not all valued by the power in your father and my hands, be honest and be a responsible person, even if you are doing good deeds for the Zeng family. ”

Zeng Ziren nodded his head like garlic, and promised: "Yes, yes, father, my son will definitely follow your teachings in the future, and he will not dare to mess around again." ”

Zeng Han Ru felt that after he had passed through that incident last time, Xia Ang's blood should also have taught him some lessons, so he no longer criticized him, and pointed to the chair next to him with his hand, motioning for him to sit down, intending to have a good chat with him.

"My lord, Lord Sun, the political envoy of the Governor, asks to see you."

A call outside the door stopped Zeng Hanru's idea, and he replied, "Please come in, Lord Sun." ”

"Ziren, he should have come to ask me to make an official document for enslavement, I'll go get it myself, you can help me entertain Master Sun here." After that, Zeng Hanru wanted to get up.

Zeng Ziren heard this, his little eyes rolled, and he hurriedly grabbed Zeng Hanru's sleeve and stopped him: "Dad, this political envoy is here, I think it is better for you to receive it in person, and let my son help you get the official document of enlistment." ”

Zeng Hanru thought for a moment, nodded and said, "It's okay, those official documents are on the desk in my study, this is the key to the door, you can go and get them quickly, we will wait for you here." ”

As he spoke, he took out a bunch of small keys from his cuffs and handed them to Zeng Ziren.

Zeng Ziren accepted the result, and then got up and ran to the study.

Zeng Hanru looked at Zeng Ziren's figure disappearing behind the door, feeling that his son seemed to have grown a lot, and he felt very relieved for a while.

In fact, no matter whether Zeng Ziren has really grown up or not, Old Man Zeng is not qualified to evaluate it at all, because in his heart, he has already prepared countless reasons for this only son to come to the round.

But

What he didn't expect was that Zeng Ziren was able to get the official document so diligently because there was another thing in the study.

The Tiger Talisman promised by Zhu Zongchen that as long as he got it, he would be able to make himself famous!

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evening

Pine Ridge Village

When An Yi took Jin Mingyin and An Xin back to the barracks, the sky was gradually darkening, and long before them, Jiang Ruyue and Lin Muzhi stood in the middle of the school field with the newly recruited soldiers, waiting for a long time.

Jiang Ruyue saw An Yi and them walking into the school with people, and hurriedly greeted them, "How is it?" How is Brother An's harvest? ”

An Yi didn't answer him directly, but looked at the crowd in the school field, and asked, "Brother Jiang, this Shuangliu Village and his party have brought back thousands of people, right?" ”

Jiang Ruyue nodded with a smile and replied, "There are more than 1,800 people in total. ”

This number really surprised An Yi, originally thought that Jiang Ruyue and Lin Muzhi would be very good if they could bring back a few hundred people, but they didn't expect to bring in nearly two thousand people at once, so with the more than six hundred people he brought back from Jiangning Village, and the old foundation of eight or nine hundred people, he suddenly had a team of nearly three thousand five hundred people.

With such a scale, in the green camp of Chengdu Prefecture, it is not an exaggeration to say that An Yi has a heavy army. The three battalions under the official Chengdu garrison government are only worth 4,000 people combined, and no matter what the garrison general's face looks like, I am afraid that some major military operations will have to win his comfortable cooperation.

Unconsciously, An Yi felt that he was speaking with confidence,

"I don't have such a big deal as Brother Yue, so don't mention it. However, I brought back two people, and I need to introduce them to Brother Jiang. ”

As he spoke, An Yi turned around and led Jiang Shang's father and son beside him to Jiang Ruyue's face,

"Who are these two?"

Jiang Ruyue looked at the two people, one big and one young, and asked An Yi suspiciously, saying why did he go to the army and recruit a child back.

"This is Jiang Shang, and his father is Jiang Yuanyu, the general soldier of Liaodong during the Liaojin War."

Listening to An Yi's introduction, Jiang Ruyue looked at Jiang Shang carefully, and arched her hand: "Disrespectful and disrespectful, it turns out that Ling Zun is the Jiang general soldier who shocked Liaodong!" ”

"It's already some of the past, and my father has already gone west, so don't mention it." Jiang Shang bowed his hand and saluted back,

Then An Yi looked at Jiang Tianhao, who was beside Jiang Shang, blinking with a pair of big eyes, and introduced: "This child is Brother Jiang's son, he is a good seedling, and he plans to recognize you as a gentleman, I don't know what Brother Jiang wants?" ”

Jiang Tianhao looked at Jiang Ruyue, who was a little thin, and asked suspiciously, "You...... So skinny..... Can you teach me to be a dragon and tiger general? ”

"Tianhao, don't be rude!"

Jiang Shang frowned, glared at his son, and scolded,

Jiang Ruyue hurriedly waved his hand, signaling that Jiang was okay, he squatted down and made himself look as tall as Xiao Tianhao.

"Yes! However, I taught you to do this dragon and tiger general, rely on here. ”

He pointed to his head,

"Not here."

He pointed to his arm, which was not thick.

Seeing Jiang Tianhao nodded thoughtfully, "I understand, are you going to teach me to use my brain?" ”

Jiang Ruyue looked at this child and stroked his head very fondly,

"This is Jiang Ruyue, the person I told Brother Jiang, don't look at his bookish anger, there are millions of male soldiers hidden in this chest." An Yi pointed at Jiang Ruyue and introduced to Jiang Shang,

Jiang Ruyue smiled and waved her hand, "Brother Jiang doesn't listen to his nonsense, he has only read books for a few years, and he likes this child very much, if Brother Jiang is relieved, it is better to hand him over to me, what he has learned in his life will be taught by him." ”

Jiang Shang bowed down when he heard this, "Since this is the case, I can't ask for it." ”

An Yi looked at the two of them, the corners of his mouth lifted lightly, and said: "Come on, since the two of you have already met, there will be more opportunities to greet each other in the future, and today we have to do the most important thing first." Ruyue, call everyone, go to the back camp, I have something to tell you. ”

"Good!"

Jiang Ruyue took the order and left.

The hut that had just been set up in the back camp was crowded with people for a while, An Yi, An Xin, Jiang Ruyue, Lin Muzhi, Jin Mingyin, Meng Qi, and Jiang Shang stood in a circle around the log table in the middle.

An Yi stood in the first place, looked at the circle of people with his rare, unsmiling expression, and said solemnly: "Calling you here today, I will count three things."

The first thing is that we are no longer the small group training that we just came to Chengdu, we have just combined with Ruyue, we have more than 3,500 people, but soon, we will have more people joining, to 5,000, to 10,000. What we used to talk like in our dreams is now just a matter of time.

But I don't want us to see a drop in quality after the expansion of the population.

So the second thing I say is for you to do your part. First of all, Lin Muzhi! ”

Lin Mu threw his hand over, "In!" ”

"1,000 people, form a forward battalion, and the officers and men under your command are mainly heavily armored broadswords, and each battle should be the first in the whole army, fearless of death, charging into battle."

"Command!"

"And then Meng Qi!"

"In!"

"Five hundred people, form a cavalry battalion, and the soldiers under your command are mainly war horses and cavalry, rushing to kill the enemy with thunder and tearing the battlefield."

"Command!"

"Then there's Kim Myung Yin!"

"In!"

"Five hundred people, form a firearms battalion, the soldiers under your command are good at all kinds of firearms, crossbow arrows, your role is to constantly innovate our firearms, in the farthest distance, to give the enemy the greatest damage."

"Yes!"

An Yi turned his gaze to the last person,

"Finally, it's Jiang Shang!"

"In!"

"Fifteen hundred people, form a central military battalion, where the main combat strength of the whole army is, and deploy each battalion in the center."

After listening to An Yi's words, Jiang Shang arched his hand with a panicked face: "My lord, Jiang Shang entered the camp at the latest, and he has no size, how can He De take on this heavy responsibility?" ”

The words fell in his ears, but An Yi didn't put his eyes on him, nor did he pick Jiang Shang up as usual and tell him that he didn't have to. Still looking around at everyone with a straight face, he said slowly: "This is the third thing I want to say!" ”

He paused for a moment, and then said, "You remember, we are no longer stragglers of one or two hundred men, but an army, and if it is an army, it must be forbidden and obey military orders.

In my place, there are not so many whys, whys, what I say is a military order, and if it is a military order, I will immediately carry it out, if I want to ask for your opinion, I will find you in private, do you understand what I mean! ”

"Yes!!"

The crowd answered in unison,

An Yi only then turned his gaze back to Jiang Shang's body, "General Jiang, do you understand?" ”

"Yes, my lord, my subordinates understand!"