Chapter 288: Reward after the war

The way home is always pleasant, the closer to Chang'an City, the more enthusiastic the team becomes, and Chen Fei finally understands the meaning of the word "homesickness".

There are his friends in Chang'an City, his father, and the one in his heart. As long as you return to Chang'an, life can return to the normal track.

Isn't it beautiful to be lazy and slippery every day, and occasionally rub some oil?

Looking at the increasingly busy crowd on the official road, the dead air brought back from the border battlefield seemed to be washed away little by little. There is something called "peace" that is fermenting, invisible and intangible, but it can make people linger.

When the people on the road saw this marching army, some of them burst into cheers, and then they all made way for the army, and those who drove oxen carts or camels led them to the side of the road, and looked at the victorious army with respectful eyes.

Chen Fei was riding on the horse, a little uncomfortable with the eyes of these people, but Cheng Chumo was very calm and seemed to enjoy it.

I don't know who in the crowd shouted: "Datang Wansheng." The whole road shouted, Chen Fei was overwhelmed by this scene, but he also felt a little proud in his heart?

So as he shouted, he gradually puffed up his chest and enjoyed the glory.

There is still an hour away from Chang'an, and there are scouts in front of him to report: His Majesty is ten miles out of the city to personally greet the returning army.

It was a great honor for the soldiers to go out of the city to greet them, and when the news reached the army, everyone cheered and puffed up their chests to show pride.

When the outline of Chang'an City appeared in front of them, everyone had a smile on their faces. Li Ji ordered all of them to dismount and walk to Chang'an.

So all the soldiers dismounted, lined up in the shouts of the commander, and walked towards Chang'an City in a majestic manner.

After walking a little further, I saw Li Shimin's car and the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military trains standing to greet each other.

"All stopped!" Li Ji gave the order loudly. After the army stopped marching, he and Cheng Yanjin and the other four people tidied up their clothes and strode forward.

When they walked in front of Li Shimin, the four of them knelt on one knee and clasped their fists. "The last general Li Ji (Liu Lan), see Your Majesty!"

The army behind them also knelt down on one knee, clenched their fists, and shouted: "See Your Majesty!" ”

"Hahaha!" Li Shimin saw that the mouths of the four people were crooked, so he walked up to the four of them, helped them up one by one, and didn't say anything, just laughed, which provoked the four generals to not hold back, and also laughed with Li Shimin.

"What are they laughing at?" Chen Fei saw a few people laughing heartlessly, and he didn't understand it very well.

"Hehe, I don't know, but I want to laugh too, hehehe" Cheng Chumo laughed stupidly, but soon, he couldn't laugh.

I don't know what Li Ji said in Li Shimin's ear before, Li Shimin gestured to his side, and a little eunuch ran to the army with a smoke, shouting: "Where is Captain Yilu Chen Fei?" ”

Chen Fei immediately came out: "Captain Chen Fei is here." ”

The eunuch politely stepped forward and guided Chen Fei in front of Li Shimin, and Cheng Chumo's teeth itched with jealousy.

"The last general, Captain Chen Fei, see Your Majesty."

Li Shimin looked at Chen Fei with a smile and lifted him up: "Haha, don't talk so much about etiquette, little baby, today you are a great hero who has broken Songzhou!" ”

Hearing Li Shimin praising him, Chen Fei only smiled in agreement.

"It is said that it is a great hero, but the result is not at all." Chen Fei pursed his lips and secretly slandered in his heart.

"Haha! Okay, since it's my heroic hero of the Tang Dynasty, I'm reluctant to let you continue to be a loose official from the seventh grade, Chen Fei listens to it! ”

"Huh?" Chen Fei was stunned for a moment and immediately reacted, kneeling down on one knee excitedly. "The last general will listen to the seal!"

Li Shimin took out a volume of holy decrees from the eunuch on the side, winked and smiled, and then said to Chen Fei: "Chen Fei, the captain of Yilu, because he is good at studying ingenious things, therefore, I specially ordered him to be the young eunuch of the strange workshop, and the official residence is from the five grades, and in addition, because of his contribution to the recovery of Songzhou, I specially named him the county uncle of Zhaoying, and gave him 1,000 acres of fertile land and 700 households!" ”

As he spoke, he handed over the holy decree directly to Chen Fei. Except for a few of the surrounding ministers who knew the content of the holy decree, the rest of the people were a little dizzy when they heard the news.

This fifteen-year-old baby has never even performed a crown ceremony, and he was directly named a county uncle?

Although it is the last lord of the seventh rank, it is also a title anyway, how many people in the list have been officials in the court for more than ten years without a title, some people are not convinced, and want to open their mouths to plead, but when the words come to their mouths, they don't know what reason to refute.

Although they are young, they are not small! More than 100,000 Tubo people are in Songzhou, and a group of veterans of the Tang Army have nothing to do with him, but they were easily cracked by this kid's tricks, and they can't accept it!

So the ministers hesitated, no one made the first bird, and the matter of Chen Fei being named the county uncle was decided in everyone's hesitation.

Chen Fei took the holy decree in a daze, and then thanked Li Shimin in laughter, and then was kicked away by Li Shimin.

Then there is the reward for meritorious deeds, Chen Fei, a great meritorious hero, has already been rewarded, and the next is Li Ji and others who led the army to the battle. They are already extremely popular ministers, and it is impossible for the official to have any more rewards, but the rest of the things have been rewarded a lot, and they grinned for a long time.

Cheng Chumo also made a lot of contributions because of this battle, and he was promoted two levels in a row, and now he is also a middle-level and upper-level general in the army. Even Yin Ping has military merits, and was exceptionally awarded a small lieutenant by Li Shimin, the kind of official title is lower than Chen Fei's lieutenant Yilu, which can be regarded as meaning.

Yin Ping didn't feel anything about this, he didn't care about this kind of thing.

In the evening, Li Shimin was holding a celebration banquet in the Taiji Palace, and Chen Fei and others were invited to attend, and before that, they could go home and wash up.

When he walked to Cheng Mansion, Cheng Yanjin rode a horse and came to Chen Fei's side inexplicably.

"Kid had a good day?"

"Huh? It's okay. Chen Fei was reading the content of the holy decree, and found that he couldn't understand what was written on it, so he had to take it back. It's better to give this thing to Daddy and let him offer it, anyway, it's useless in his hands.

"Hehe, he was named a county uncle by His Majesty at a young age, which is really rare in ancient times." Cheng Biting Jin's tone was a little strange, Chen Fei couldn't figure out whether he was praising himself or mocking himself.

"What does Uncle Cheng mean?"

Cheng Yanjin stared at Chen Fei with a smile and said, "Boy, I said that you are still a little too tender, you have to learn more about officialdom, especially the system of officialdom." ”

The system of officialdom? To be honest, Chen Fei of the Tang Dynasty officialdom really didn't understand much, and he humbly arched his hands. "Please also ask Uncle Cheng for advice."

"Haha!" Cheng Yanjin smiled and patted Chen Fei's shoulder: "That's right, the old man is in a good mood today, and I will talk to you."

In the end, Cheng Yanjin muttered in Chen Fei's ear, and then laughed and left, leaving Chen Fei stunned in place, with a wonderful expression.

After a long time, he let out a desolate cry of being deceived: "Damn, what reward!?" It turned out to be on sale! I'm crying! ”