Chapter 14 Paying Respects to the Prince

"Your Majesty has arrived~"

The officials were originally standing at the gate of the city in a bustling manner, and when they suddenly heard the holy car, they hurriedly lined up and stood up, knelt down and saluted, and shouted in unison: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

"Get up. www.biquge.info Shi Hu waved his hand, motioned to flatten his body, and then sat down and asked, "How is it?" Have you all arrived? ”

Shi Shi replied: "Back to my father, the officials and the royal family have all arrived. ”

"Send someone to see, where is Shi Zhan?" Shi Hu commanded.

"Your Majesty, I'll go!" Shi Min volunteered.

"Hehe, you just stay by my side obediently, Shi Yong, you send someone to take a look." Shi Hu instructed Shi Yong beside him.

"Yes."

Shi Yong said, and was about to go down to arrange people, when a voice came from the lookout tower on the city tower: "I saw them, it's General Shi Zhan's handsome banner!" ”

Everyone looked around, and after a while, a large group of people appeared in their sight, only two or three miles away from the city gate.

"Haha, here, drumming, music, you go out of the city with me to greet you."

The civil and military officials followed behind Shi Hu, walked out of the city gate, and walked out of the city.

At this time, Shi Zhan and Wang Shicheng, Li Changzheng led the army to the vicinity of Yecheng, and they had already seen the tower of Yecheng from a distance.

"The order goes down, the army is stationed outside the city, and you are not allowed to leave the camp without my order, let alone enter the city, and those who violate the order will be beheaded. Li Chang and Wang Shicheng followed me into the city. ”

"Yes."

The herald immediately gave the order and shouted loudly: "The general has an order, the army is encamped on the spot, everyone is not allowed to leave the camp without permission, no one is allowed to enter the city, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!" ”

Suddenly, Wang Shicheng said: "Big brother, look, a large group of people have come out of the city. ”

Shi Zhan looked in the direction of Yecheng, and sure enough, a group of people came out, and vaguely heard the sound of drumming and music, and the group of people walked straight to this side.

"Your Majesty must have come out to meet us, come with me." Shi Zhan said, galloping away on horseback, followed by Li Chang and Wang Shicheng.

Shi Hu saw that Shi Zhan had brought two people over on horseback, so he smiled and said to the people around him: "Look, he saw me coming to pick him up, so he ran over first. ”

Shi Hu said, then stood in place and stopped. Shi Zhan and others rode to a hundred steps away, then stopped the horse, Shi Zhan got off the horse and tidied up his uniform, handed over the reins of the horse to Li Chang, and then walked to Shi Hu on foot, kneeling and bowing, Li Chang and Wang Shicheng were the same: "The minister was ordered to conquer Xianbei, fortunately not disgraced, now the army is triumphant, the minister led the left and right vanguard Li Chang and Wang Shicheng to come to His Majesty to return his life, the results of this battle are all recorded here, please see Your Majesty." Shi Zhan said, handing over a report.

Shi Hu took the report, looked at it roughly, and then shouted happily: "Okay!" Worthy of being my son! Get up! As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to help Shi Zhan up.

Shi Hu held the report in his hand, turned around, and said to the civil and military officials and royal nobles behind him: "This battle lasted more than ten months, and Shi Zhan and his subordinates made great contributions. ”

After Shi Hu finished speaking, he turned around and said, "Shi Zhan listens to the seal." ”

"In!" Shi Zhan knelt on his knees and prostrate at Shi Hu's feet.

"Feng Shizhan is Xihua Hou, a marquis of a product, giving 10,000 gold and 3,000 households." Shi Hu lowered his head and whispered in Shi Zhan's ear, "Zhan'er, how is it?" Is Lao Tzu's reward satisfied? ”

Shi Zhan was stunned for a moment, and replied in a low voice: "It doesn't matter if I want to be rewarded or not, the key is that my soldiers are born and died for Your Majesty, and Your Majesty can't fail to reward them." ”

Shi Hu straightened up, stroked his beard, laughed, and then said: "Li Chang and Wang Shicheng, crowned as the generals of the left and right garrisons, can enter the court to discuss matters, each will be given 2,000 gold, 1,000 households, and the rest of the soldiers will be rewarded according to this battle merit, and the families of the fallen soldiers can be exempted from taxes for three years." ”

After Shi Hu finished speaking, he whispered to Shi Zhan again: "How is it?" Is that okay now? If you continue to reward it, Lao Tzu's treasury will be exhausted. ”

Shi Zhan smiled "hehe" and kowtowed to thank him: "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

"Get up." Shi Hu smiled and pulled Shi Zhan, then turned to Shi Min and shouted, "Min'er, come here." ”

Shi Min walked out of the crowd, then knelt down and kowtowed, and said, "The child has seen his father. ”

Shi Zhan smiled slightly, grabbed Shi Min's arm with his right hand, and violently exerted force, trying to pull Shi Min up, Shi Min knew that his father wanted to test him, and also pressed down, Shi Zhan was stunned that he couldn't pull Shi Min up, and then said with satisfaction: "Get up, it seems that your father has not been at home for more than half a year, and your martial arts have not been wasted." ”

After Shi Min got up, he looked at Shi Zhan and smirked, Shi Zhan patted him on the shoulder, and then said to Shi Hu: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for taking care of the dog for more than half a year." ”

"What are you talking about, Min'er is my grandson, I should take care of him, go, go back to the palace, I will give you a big celebration banquet today."

As he spoke, he grabbed Shi Zhan's hand and walked back. Some of the civil and military officials on both sides smiled and nodded slightly to Shi Zhan, while others squinted at Shi Zhan with expressionless faces, Shi Zhan did not deliberately pay attention to the expressions of these people, because Shi Hu talked to him from time to time.

After Shi Zhan entered the city, Shi Hu ordered the officials to go back first, and went to the palace at three o'clock in the Shen to celebrate Shi Zhan's achievements together. Shi Hu and his sons returned to the palace, and of course, Shi Zhan's father and son also returned to the palace together.

Along the way, Shi Hu kept talking to Shi Zhan about some things, and Shi Min followed behind King Qing and King Yan and others, after all, he was a junior.

Everyone came to the Hongwu Palace, the Hongwu Hall is a side hall, Shi Hu generally drinks and feasts with the concubines and sons here, it can be said that it is Shi Hu's family gathering place.

Shi Zhan helped Shi Hu to sit down, and then stepped aside, Shi Hu saw Shi Zhan standing, so he ordered: "Sit, you all sit down, Zhan'er, you sit here, get closer to me, I still have something to say to you, Min'er, you also come here, sit next to your father." ”

Everyone sat down one after another according to Shi Hu's instructions. Shi Zhan glanced at King Yan and King Qing and the other princes, and saw that King Qing was staring at him, his eyes were a little cold at first, and suddenly he smiled and nodded at Shi Zhan.

Shi Zhan felt a little inexplicable, so he didn't continue to look at Shi Zun, and turned his head to look at Shi Hu. Shi Hu was instructing the chamberlain to do something, but he didn't see the two of them looking at each other.

The chamberlain nodded silently as he listened, and then withdrew. Shi Hu flicked his sleeves, and then said to the princes: "This night is a celebration banquet, together with the officials, this daytime is our family banquet." You all let go of eating and drinking. ”

"Yes, Father." The sons replied in unison.

"The Fifth Emperor Brother annihilated Dugu Nanxin's 60,000 Xianbei army with 50,000 horses this time, and his self-loss was only 12/12, which is really incredible." Spirit King Shi Yan said suddenly.

"Seventh brother, although since ancient times, it has been a common thing for soldiers to kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 themselves, but the fifth brother is the first good general of my Zhao country, how can you use ordinary thinking to measure the fifth brother?" Shi Zun took over.

Shi Zhan smiled faintly, looked at Shi Zun, and said: "The ninth brother has won the prize, and this time he was able to win, thanks to the desperate killing of the enemy by the soldiers, I can't talk about any good generals, I just have a heart that is loyal to Your Majesty." ”

"The fifth brother's loyalty to his father is well known, and I propose that everyone give the fifth brother a drink." Shi Zun said, the first to raise his glass.

Seeing Shi Zun like this, the rest of the people also raised their wine glasses and toasted to Shi Zhan. Shi Zhan politely took a sip of the wine in the glass, and then said, "Thank you brothers for your kindness." ”

"Zhan'er, this time with Xianbei, you can annihilate the army of 60,000 Dugu Nanxin with 50,000 horses, and you can only lose less than 10,000 horses, it is really a shocking battle, I am also very strange, to say that this Dugu Nanxin is by no means stupid, come, tell me, how did you fight this battle?"