In the imperial study, it was clear, and when Li Ang left, Cao Anmin looked at the henchmen of the Black Cavalry Camp who came back with Li Ang, "You also noticed those assassins?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The officer of the Black Cavalry Battalion nodded, "Those people are masters, if it weren't for Marshal Li in advance, I'm afraid..." The officer of the Black Cavalry Battalion didn't say any more, if it wasn't for Li Ang stopping in front of that official road, he wouldn't have noticed that there was an ambush in the forest.

"You go down first!" Cao Anmin's brows furrowed, he didn't count who those who wanted to kill Li Ang, he just sat in the chair for a while, pondering, but the ginseng soup sent by the waiter was untouched.

The next day, the news of Li Ang's return to the court spread in Chang'an City, but to the surprise of the major families, the emperor did not directly summon him into the city, and there was no big reward, and even relieved Li Ang of his military power, but only returned the title of 'General Zhengxi' to Li Ang.

This kind of disposal makes the major families unable to figure out the true meaning of the emperor, but many families still show favor to Li Ang, especially the military and martial families, firstly, Li Ang can be regarded as one of them, and the second is that Li Ang's current power in the army is not large, and he has not touched the interests of those high-ranking families, and Li Ang's affairs in the northwest, they also know a little bit through their own eyeline. Li Ondi can indeed be regarded as the world's number one general. However, his popularity in the army was not good, except for the few people he promoted and favored, most generals did not like his too ruthless nature.

So for those high-ranking families who have deep roots in the military. A military god-like figure like Li Ang is not only not a threat, but it is worth wooing, and for these ancient families, they know very well how to behave in the empire, as long as it does not threaten their roots, they will not care about how many more families there are in Chang'an City. Of course, the status of these family lands must not be too high.

Li Ang himself did not care about the deprivation of military power, and when he expressionlessly handed the sword of the Son of Heaven given to him by Cao Anmin before the expedition to the inner servants at the court meeting in Weiyang Palace, none of the Manchu ministers could guess his thoughts. After the court meeting dispersed, when the ministers who wanted to befriend him wanted to look for him, he had already left Weiyang Palace and returned to his manor outside the city, which was even more strange. It's just that those ministers wanted to break their heads, and they couldn't imagine that Li Ang's request for the emperor to allow him to unload his armor and return to the field in the Weiyang Palace was just a double reed with Cao Anmin, at least in the next few years, Li Ang didn't want to be involved in any court political disputes. Although on the surface, the power of those big families in the court is pitiful, but God knows how many of those officials secretly have a relationship with them. Li Ang knew where his strengths were, let him fight with those old foxes in the court, he didn't think he could have any good end, he didn't fight, so he couldn't fight with him, he still did his duty best, and it would be better to leave Chang'an as soon as possible in the future.

At the court meeting, Li Ang unloaded his armor and returned to the field, Cao Anmin unexpectedly agreed, but with the title of general of Zhengxi Li Ang, the generals below the protection of the army saw him and called him a marshal, which can be said to be an undiminished status, and Cao Anmin went to Li Ang's house three days later, and ordered him to be the title of scholar and prince of Longyuan Pavilion, and entered the palace to teach the prince's literature and martial arts. This surprised the families who originally thought that Li Ang was just like this, so Li Ang's manor outside the city became even more lively every day.

However, after two months, those families and high-ranking families who had the idea of wooing Li Ang were greatly disappointed, because Li Ang never expressed his position on anything in the court, nor did he have any opinions, and he entered the palace to accompany the emperor to talk, or teach the prince, never talked about any things in the court, nor did he express any opinion on the emperor, he was like those veterans who disarmed their armor and returned to the field, and stayed away from any struggle in the court. But despite this, those high-ranking families continued to show favor to him, at least they felt that they could not have a bad relationship with this military god who was trusted by the emperor, and the gesture of not helping each other was acceptable to them.

On the afternoon of May, the weather was refreshing, and Li Ang held his two daughters, teasing his children in the huge courtyard with Lin Fengshuang and Feng Siniang, enjoying the joy of family. In the more than a month after he came back, except for entering the palace every once in a while, he spent most of his time with them, and for him, who had just returned from killing Changshang, being with his family was what he longed for the most, without annoying military affairs, and without having to think about how to kill more people, what could be better?

"Daddy, hug." After more than a month, the children who learned to speak really made Li Ang happy, and now both his son and daughter are very close to him, which even Lin Fengshuang and Feng Siniang can't compare to him, which makes them very happy. After handing his daughter to Lin Fengshuang and Feng Siniang, Li Ang picked up his two sons, and now the favorite thing of his two pairs of children is to hug him, and it is clear, the two brothers will never lie in the crook of their father's arm with their sister, and the relationship between the two half-brothers is surprisingly good, of course, the two little girls are the same.

"Master, the two old men are here." Just when Li Ang was holding his two sons, telling the story that they didn't know if they could understand or not, Cui Hao came in with small steps, the two old men in his mouth were the big Sima and the chief who had returned home, and now the two old men who had nothing to do loved to run to him, although the two were also recruited by the emperor to be scholars of Longyuan Pavilion, but the two refused, the emperor originally wanted them to enter the cabinet and help him master the government, but the big Sima and the chief had already seen through the tradition of the Great Qin for one hundred and fifty years, the emperor and the family fight, The family fights with the family, the civil officials fight with the civil officials, to put it bluntly, it is for the sake of long-term peace and stability, and the whole thing is united. It was okay when the country was founded. But these hundred years have passed, and the interests of such a large empire are intertwined. It's very complicated, the royal family and the family share the world, and no one dares to move the rules and regulations in those big boxes, but those innocuous countries and local areas will have to fight, even the emperor has to follow the rules set by Emperor Taizu

Those families play intrigue tricks, and Da Sima and the chief don't want to help with this rule. You must know that the emperor's father, the dead Emperor Wen, was still young at the time, and they followed a group of treacherous and cunning courtiers to fight under the rules set by Emperor Taizu to achieve their later skills, so the emperor obviously had some cheating requests, and the two ignored them.

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"Here, let me hug me." Seeing Li Ang get up to greet him, Da Sima and the chief snatched the two brothers from his arms and hugged them. When this man is old, he likes children. Da Sima and the chief are no exception, although Da Sima has three grandchildren and four daughters in his own family, but they have all reached the age of not being embraced, so he can only come here with the chief long-distance runner Li Ang. Teasing his sons.

Aunt Sun, who came with Da Sima, was with Lin Fengshuang. Feng Siniang teased the two little girls together, and after all, Li Ang's two sons and daughters should call her mother-in-law and Da Sima father-in-law. And the two little girls are also very sweet-mouthed, and they know how to please the elderly, at least Aunt Sun is much more precious to them than to her granddaughters and grandchildren.

Compared with his sister, Li Ang's sons are much worse, except for his own Lao Tzu and his mother, the brothers don't pay much attention to people, of course, except for their emperor godfather who lives in Weiyang Palace, at least it took a lot of effort to get the two brothers to call them father-in-law, and it depends on the mood of the brothers, if it is not good, it is to let the two old men coax and deceive, just don't say a word, so that the two old people who don't know how many big scenes they have seen just can't get off the stage, But the more this is the case, the more the two old men like it, in the words of the chief, "The two boys have a fierce temperament and have an appetite for them." ”

Seeing that Da Sima and the chief had no intention of letting go of their son, Li Ang knew that these two old men were actually running to him to hint to those high-ranking families that he was their person, and if anyone dared to go against him and find trouble with him, he had to weigh his own weight, whether it was enough to provoke Guo and Zhou at the same time, these two old men really cared about him. Thinking of this, Li Ang looked at his two sons who were killed and did not say a word, "Call my father-in-law." As soon as he spoke, the two brothers looked at each other, and then babbled and called out to their father-in-law, which made the eldest Sima and the chief laugh.

Holding the two brothers, Da Sima and the chief quickly talked to Li Ang about business, "Your idea of causing civil strife among the Guishan people is good, and the military hall is already going on, but when the time comes, you may want your people to go to that Lengyan Jia Greasy Sega, is there a problem?" The chief looked at Li Ang and said in a deep voice.

"Yes, I originally planned to let people go to Guishuang, and it would be better if there was the cooperation of the military hall." Li Ang nodded, but he pondered for a while and said, "It's best to send a master to kill the Pope of the Kushan Futu Sect, I have heard that Lengyan Jia is very jealous of this Pope, only when he is dead, will Lengyan Jia Shiga dare to make trouble." ”

After listening to Li Ang's words, the Great Sima and the Chief Commander thought for a long time before asking, "According to what you said, the Pope of the Futu Sect is a powerful person, and it should be the person in Guishan who can suppress Lengyan Jia Grit Sega, if he dies, will that Lengyan Jia Greasy Sega be uncontrollable." ”

"What we need is a Guishan with serious internal friction, whether it is divided into east and west, north and south, the longer they can oppose each other, the better." The chief looked at Li Ang and said this, with a serious look on his face, Great Qin's tradition has always been that countries that can be annexed will be annexed, and countries that cannot be annexed will find ways to make them split and weaken, in short, they will not be allowed to become strong again until Great Qin has the ability to annex them.

"I've also thought about this, but although Lengyan Jia is well-known in Guishan, his power is mainly in the army of the royal capital, and he doesn't have an advantage, so it can be said that if he is allowed to raise troops to fight for the royal power of Guishan, he will be a troublemaker at most, without the strong support of our dynasty, he will definitely be defeated, but in that case, the price that our dynasty will have to pay is inevitably a little uneconomical." Li Ang expressed his concerns, if he kept the Pope of the Futu Sect, with the hidden power of the Futu Sect in Guishan, if the Futu Sect helped Lengyan Jia, it would be equivalent to him personally adding a strong enemy to Great Qin.

"You're not badly worried. It is possible that Lengyanka is in collusion with the Futu Sect. Da Sima thought for a moment. Then he smiled coldly, "It seems that the Pope of the Futu Sect has to die, what else do you have to do." Let's talk about it together, right? ”

"Lengyan Jia is an ambitious man, barely a hero, but he has a fatal flaw, that is, his background is too poor, according to the tradition of Kushan, he will never become the next king of Kushan." Leon remembered the caste system that had lasted for thousands of years throughout India. couldn't help frowning and said, "Although his mother is also from a wealthy family, compared to his brother, the eldest prince Bodaga's mother can almost be called a pariah, so the nobles and ministers in the Kushan country will not support him, even the generals of the Kushan states." ”

"But among the Kushan people, his prestige is much higher than that of his eldest brother. If he gets into trouble, I estimate that he will be able to take a share of Guishan's three-point world, with his ability to use soldiers. As long as there are no accidents, he should be able to fight with his big brother. ”

"That Pope of the Floating Sect is the only trouble!" There was a cold glint in the chief's eyes. The situation in the land of Guishan is all in the hands of this damn sect, as long as the decisive power of the Futu Sect is missing, then the two princes of Guishan can fight evenly and fight for a decade or two.

"Almost, the Futu Sect is the state religion of Guishan, no matter which side they help, which side can overpower the other party, of course, this is on the premise that our dynasty does not intervene on a large scale." Li Ang nodded, and then said, "My plan is to find a way to kill the current king of Guishan, blame the matter on the Futu Sect, and then take advantage of the chaos to kill the Pope of the Futu Sect, and then let Lengyanga and his brother take the throne. ”

"It's a good plan, but it's not easy to implement." After thinking about it for a while, Da Sima and the chief didn't say anything more, they decided to let Juntang find a way to do it according to Li Ang's wishes, after all, war is not just a matter on the battlefield, think about it, in order to dominate the world, Qin Shi Huang did not plant spies in the six countries and bribe the ministers of the enemy countries, and the war is not despicable or despicable.

"By the way, I heard that you have adopted a lot of orphans?" say

The matter, Da Sima suddenly mentioned the one that Li Ang was currently adopted in the manor, "You'd better find a way to let them go to other places, if there are too many of them, it is easy to be used as a handle." ”

"I see, thank you for the reminder." In response to Da Sima's exhortation, Li Ang replied in a deep voice, and he also knew that the nearly 5,000 orphans in Zhuangzi now were enough to make people think in bad places, "I will send them to the plateau after the training is basically completed." Li Ang told the Grand Sima and the Chief Commander his plans, "There are other people I want to ask the two adults to help them go to the southern fleet. ”

"You want to build a fleet?" Da Sima and the commander-in-chief were a little surprised, you must know that the military expenditure for establishing and maintaining the fleet is much more than that of the 6th Army, although Daqin's fleet is in charge of the military hall, but the military expenditure is raised by the major chambers of commerce in the south of the Yangtze River, and the military hall only needs to take a small part of the money.

"In the future, if I go to Hercy, if I don't have a fleet, I will have a hard time fighting against the Roman navy." Leon nodded, he already had a rough idea of what would happen in Haixi in the future, but he had to be fully prepared before that.

"We can help you find a way to get to the Seven Seas Fleet, but you'll have to figure it out yourself if you're going to have a warship." The Grand Sima and the Chief Commander agreed, and the stronger Leon was in the future, the more trouble he would give Rome, and they would be happy to see that happen.

"Then thank you two adults." Li Ang got up and turned to the chief Sima and said that he could find a way to earn money, but it was not so simple for experienced fleet officers, and it was very interesting for the big Sima and the chief commander to agree to let his people enter the Seven Seas Fleet.

After chatting for a while, Da Sima and the chief executive had dinner here at Li Ang's place, and then returned home satisfied, for them, Feng Siniang and Lin Fengshuang's skills are much better than the chefs at home, and more importantly, here in Li Ang, Chang'an drunk they can drink as much as they want.

At night, after the manor calmed down, Leon practiced his spearmanship alone in the moonlight, he is now dormant, gathering momentum for the future to go west, Hercy is his world, but this war has started now, seeking the world, not only to see who is stronger, but also to see farther and go faster, at least Leon feels that he is ahead of them compared to the Romans, but Rome is a behemoth, and it is not easy to make this behemoth fall apart, All he could do was try to be as prepared as possible.

Suddenly putting away the gun, Li Ang looked at the dark part of the courtyard, where Yuan Luoshen held his double sword and stood quietly, without the slightest sadness or joy on his face. Leon didn't know what to say for a while, and the girl he saved didn't end up on the road of killing as he thought.

"Childe, the spies of the countries in Chang'an City have not been very peaceful recently." Quietly walking to Li Ang's side, Yuan Luo Shen reported the information that the family secret agent had spied on, compared to back then, she has changed a lot now, ruthless and capable, the only thing that has not changed is that she once made an oath to protect Li Ang.

"Keep an eye on them, those envoys on the surface, spend more money." Li Ang didn't think much about it, Yuan Luoshen chose her own path, he had no way to change, only to accept.

"Yes." Yuan Luoshen nodded, and then left the courtyard, she was past the age of longing, and for her now, what she could do for Li Ang was the first thing she considered.

Time flies quickly, in the blink of an eye it is June, the triumphant return of the Great Qin Army finally returned to Chang'an, Cao Anmin wanted Li Ang to enter the city with them and accept the cheers of the people, but Li Ang refused, those soldiers who fought bravely deserved to be cheered by the people, but he felt that he was not worthy, he was just a cold-blooded commander, not a hero.

In June, the Great Qin Army, which went out for a year, wiped out Tibet, cut 400,000 ranks, and achieved a great victory, but in this battle, 5,000 soldiers fell on the plateau forever, which is the eternal pain in Li Ang's heart, and also the eternal pain in the hearts of those soldiers who entered the city, they came back alive, but their robes will never come back.

Under the gray sky, the black legion silently marched in the catkins-like rain and entered Chang'an City.

Wu Gexi by rhino armor,...... Arrows and fallen warriors scramble for the lead. Ling Yu was in a position to ,...... When the sky is frightened, the spirit is angry, and the wilderness is abandoned!

The people of Chang'an, who were waiting on both sides of the city gate, looked at these sad soldiers, the original cheers dimmed, among them, I don't know who hummed the national mourning, at this time, the rain gradually became heavier, as if mourning those fallen soldiers.

Can't get in and out, and don't go back,...... With a long sword, he coerced the Qin bow, and he was not punished. …… The soul of the child is a ghost.

In the sound of the rain, the song became deeper and lower, more and more sad, and at the end of the song, it was tens of millions of people in Chang'an who sang in unison.

The clouds in the sky are like ink, the heavy rain, pouring down, the raindrops of soybeans hit the black iron armor, there is a sound of agitation of gold and iron, in the gray rain and fog, the marching queue, the posture is still upright, the pace is still neat, between the lightning and thunder, suddenly sounded the sonorous sound of the war knife out of the sheath.

Rows of long knives pointed to the sky, and then fell heavily, struck the iron armor on their chests, and with each step, they swung their swords against the armor, and ten miles long street, they marched forward like this, singing in unison the desolate and majestic military song.

Towering mountains and rivers, the canopy of our country.

Reckless and thick earth, bury my bones.

Fierce Qin Feng, great martial arts.

Haohao army soul, bless me Daqin!

In the rain curtain, the sound of long knives hitting armor pierced the sky, and under the ink clouds, the shouting song tore through the sky, echoing in the sky above Chang'an.

In the heavy rain, Li Ang's face was solemn, the people around him didn't know who he was, but they could feel the sadness of the man holding the baby, under the umbrella that Li Cunxiao was holding, the child in Li Ang's arms babbled out of his mouth, and seemed to be singing the vast military song of crying when the long song was crying, Li Ang lowered his head, he looked at the two sons lying in the crook of his arm, and muttered to himself, "Jing Qi, Jing Lin, are you also sad for those soldiers?" The vast and deep singing still echoed in the rain, but it was gradually moving away from them.