"The child visits his father, the king, and the queen mother." The little one bent down and bowed, looking serious.

Therefore, seeing this, the queen Guo Weier, who has always regarded this child as her heart's meat, couldn't help but have a heartfelt proud smile on her face.

"Wu'er, hurry up and excuse me. Come, come to the queen mother. "In this era, there is no such thing as a poor child and a rich daughter. Compared with her youngest daughter, Guo Weier undoubtedly loves her eldest son more.

After holding her son in her arms, the queen mother who was full of grace couldn't help but be like an ordinary mother, boasting to her husband that she was an excellent child who was extremely sensible no matter how she looked at it.

And what can Zhang Shihua, as a husband and father, say.

So after smiling, the three of them couldn't help but walk into this side courtyard.

"Queen Mother, is Brother Yu'er's illness cured, and the child wants to play with him. It's spring, and I've heard that there will be celebrations for the people outside the city, but the children haven't seen it yet. When the time comes, can the child go and see it with Brother Yu'er? ”

As soon as the little one entered the hospital, he couldn't wait to say these words to his mother. And for this, Guo Weier, who has always loved her son, is naturally unacceptable.

However, the matter of his son going out of the city still needs the nod of his husband.

When the little one looked at his mother with his expectant eyes, our queen mother couldn't help but smile at her husband.

"Okay, then we'll all go out as a family. It's been a winter at home, even if the family goes out. Seeing that his wife and children had the idea of going out, Zhang Shihua, as a husband and father, naturally agreed.

After all, he was bored with all kinds of official duties all day long, and he took advantage of the time to go out to relax.

"Oh, that's great!" Over there, when he saw his father, he agreed directly. Xiao Zhang Xi, who is still fun-loving by nature, couldn't help but cheer for it.

So much so that he didn't notice that his father picked up a book he had thrown on the ground from a corner at this time.

"Xi'er, you threw this book on the ground!" Holding the "Thousand Character Text" that was thrown on the ground by his son, Zhang Shihua's tone couldn't help but be a little unhappy.

So seeing this, the little guy who was respectful and afraid of his father couldn't help but subconsciously hide behind his mother.

"Come here." Seeing his son's appearance, Zhang Shihua couldn't help frowning, and waved his hand in front of him with a slightly serious wave.

"This "Thousand Character Text" is a gift from my grandfather to you in the New Year. Your grandfather is so eager for you to learn seriously, why are you so ignorant! After that, Zhang Shihua, who has always been majestic, brought a bit of sternness in his tone.

Seeing this, the little guy who was only five years old and was very in awe of his father, his eyes suddenly filled with tears, and he said aggrievedly: "Father, the child is wrong, the child will never dare anymore." ”

"Brother Hua, Xi'er is still young and ignorant. Now that he knows he's wrong, don't blame the kid. "Mother Guo Weier, I can't see the tears of my heart the most.

Therefore, when the child wept, she couldn't help but ask her husband for intercession.

"Hey!" In this regard, Zhang Shihua could only sigh. handed the book of "Thousand Character Text" in his hand to his aggrieved son, and couldn't help but put away his sternness, looked at his son, and said seriously: "Wu'er, in this world, no matter what your identity is, but if you don't have real talent and real learning, others will not really respect you."

My father doesn't want you to become a bachelor, but the heart of serious learning can't be lost at any time, do you understand? ”

"Child, child understood." The smart little guy hurriedly nodded.

Seeing this, Zhang Shihua, as a father, couldn't help but touch his son's head with relief.

But it was Fang Cai's words, which were really inspired by Zhang Shihua. There is a saying that is really good, "the book is less hated when the book is used". Although Zhang Shihua is now a prince of a land, he has power that is difficult for ordinary people to reach.

But over the years, in order to be able to govern this huge territory under his rule, he was not scolded as a "vulgar martial artist who doesn't know poetry and books", and he also sought advice from those prestigious bachelors and good students under his command in his free time to improve his literary literacy.

After all, even if you are powerful, it is difficult for others to respect a rough person who is full of vulgar words.

"Wei'er, maybe it's time for Xi'er to officially enroll." When he returned from his son, he said this to his wife on the way, and the husband.

"This, of course, is good." Suddenly, hearing this, Guo Weier was stunned for a moment, but she still smiled happily.

She had wanted to do this for a long time, and she was naturally happy that her husband had brought it up now.

"I heard that Yiling Wang Shiyuan was born as a Jinshi and is very talented. And Hu [] South Liu Sanwu, Jiang [] Xiluo Furen, are the wise men recommended by Prime Minister Lu Cheng to the king before his death, maybe they can teach Xi'er. ”

"Wang Shiyuan, as a jinshi, his talent is indeed not shallow. And that Liu Sanwu, a family of eunuchs, his father Liu Pingye once served as a bachelor of Hanlin in the Yuan Court, and Liu Sanwu also served as a promotion all the way, and it is not a problem to teach and educate people.

As for Na Luo Furen, this person has an upright personality and is loyal, and the villagers praise him as an honest man, but he also has the appearance of being a teacher. Zhang Shihua said this, then turned to look at his wife beside him, and couldn't help but smile and said: "But I don't think about it, my wife doesn't leave the house, but she looks at people first-class!" ”

"Xianggong Kexiu is going to make fun of me, and the concubine is not all learned from Xianggong. Isn't it often said that living in Zhilan's room for a long time means dissolving with it? ”

"Oh, hahahaha." As the head of a country, although he has long been accustomed to flattery.

But when he heard his wife say the same, the husband still couldn't help but feel sincerely proud.

"By the way, Xi'er is still young. If he is left alone to study at home, he will definitely not want to. In this way, Wei'er, you can find some sensible and intelligent children from Xi'er's playmates, and go to school with Xi'er. ”

"Okay, it's still thoughtful." In this regard, Guo Weier agreed without saying a word.

So just like this, this Shizi companion class with the characteristics of Da Chu can't help but appear.

In order to be able to climb the big tree of the prince and realize long-term investment, in this palace, I couldn't help but set off a storm of lady diplomacy.

……

Time passed day by day, and with the passage of time, the war between the north and the south intensified day by day.

Let's talk about Jiangsu and Zhejiang first, after becoming independent, the ambitious Zhu Yuanzhang has occupied Wuyuan Prefecture like a race against time, and most of the western part of Zhejiang is included in his bag. And with the victory against Zhang Shicheng, he began to actively expand to the more fertile eastern Zhejiang.

In the more eye-catching north, Mao Gui, a rare general in the Red Turban Army, who is both good in military and political affairs, wise and brave. At the beginning of this year, he not only defeated the Yuan Dynasty general Bulan Xi with Hao Shiqiao in one fell swoop, but also used a strategy to sow discord between the chief soldier captain "Niu Dicai" and the general Dong Shuxiao.

As a result, this fierce general of the Yuan Court, who had repeatedly defeated Mao Gui, was dismissed from the military by his own people, and then died tragically in Nanpi County.

In this way, no one on the east Zhufu Road of the mountain can resist Mao Gui's soldiers, so that Mao Gui easily occupies the entire east of the mountain, and further threatens the Yuan Dadu, which is already three shocks a day.

Although a few years ago, a partial division under Mao Gui's account coincidentally advanced the troops to Jizhou. But when the Yuan court reacted, the lone army that went deep into the division was also defeated in the heavy encirclement of the Yuan army and failed to make contributions.

But even so, Yuan Dadu's fear of Mao Gui, a wise and brave red scarf general, could not help but surpass any of the rebel generals.

Therefore, when the Yuan court saw that Mao Gui had completely occupied the east of the mountain and swept the Zhufu Road in Jinan, the panicked Yuan court couldn't help but crown the right prime minister of the Central Plains Province, who had been unwilling to contribute to the battlefield of the Central Plains, as the right prime minister of Zhongshu and ordered his commander-in-chief to lead the military affairs in the east of the mountain to resist Mao Gui's troops.

However, I have to say that compared to the loss of Badulu, who died on the battlefield, this noble uncle from the Hongji clan is really too bad.

Just when Mao Gui captured the Qing Dynasty and Cangzhou, occupied the Changlu Salt Field, and greatly revitalized the Tuntian, and the officials and the people collected two of the fields to collect the hearts of the people in the east of the mountain, Tai Buhua, who was crowned as the right prime minister of Zhongshu by the Yuan Ting, not only did not dare to lead the troops to fight with Mao Gui, but also took this opportunity to start an internal fight.

First of all, "the thief is very strong, and the military should give priority to food and salary." Han Xin marched in the former Han Dynasty, Xiao He fed food, and Fang Jincuo painted, as good as the prime minister, if the Taiping army ** was given, the matter could be helped, otherwise the soldiers could not enter. As an excuse, he wanted to get rid of his political enemy back then, the Han He Taiping, who had served as the right man for a period of time in the Tokhtar era.

Then he casually found an excuse to remove his deputy, Timur, who had completed the Privy Council.

So in order to protect himself, He Taiping, who ascended to the position of prime minister of the Yuan court as a Han Chinese, found his ally in the court to supervise the imperial history fan Erhai. Then let Emperor Yuan, who was extremely sensitive during this time, think that Tai Buhua has already given birth to rebellion.

In one fell swoop, Tai Buhua, who had not been able to sit in the position of the right prime minister of Zhongshu, was dismissed, and instructed Tai Buhua, the most trusted general, Liu Ha to assassinate his father and son on the way back to Beijing.

Therefore, before the Yuan Court and Mao Gui fought, they were already in chaos inside.

And Mao Gui was also able to take advantage of this opportunity to easily pull out the last nail inside him and destroy the defenders of Banyang Road who were stubbornly resisting for more than a month.

Mao Gui has won such a succession of battles, and Liu Futong in the middle of the road is naturally not in bad form.

Taking advantage of the famous general of the Yuan court, Chakhan Timur, that is, the king of Ruyang in the Heaven and Dragon Slayer, was dragged in Shaanxi Province by some remnants of the Red Turban Army, and he could not withdraw to help for a while.

Liu Futong couldn't help but command the army that went north from the middle road to Dadu, conquered Datong in the west of the mountain in one fell swoop, drove his soldiers and horses into the Jinning Road, and burned the flames of war in the entire North China.

Therefore, at this time, the Yuan court was simply anxious, and everyone was panicking.

And the Yuan court is like this, and what is the situation of Nanchang City, which is surrounded by hundreds of thousands of legions on the side of Jiang Xixing Province, is even more needless to say.

Surrounded by a group of guards, the right prime minister of Jiang Xixing Province Huo You Chi climbed the city wall, and with the help of the light of the morning sun rising from the eastern horizon, the dense Chu army camp outside the city and countless black-clothed soldiers couldn't help but meet his eyes.

So far, it is the third day of the third month of the eighteenth year of Zhizheng.

For more than three months, Nanchang City, which is the seat of Jiang's westward provincial administration, has been surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Chu troops for three months.

In the past three months, the more than 40,000 defenders in Nanchang City have fought desperately.

But when he saw that the moat built with the Gan River as the water source had been filled by countless Chu soldiers, as the fire of the provincial right Cheng, you knew that they had no chance of winning.

Look to the north of the city. Hundreds, one after another Chu soldiers pushed all kinds of siege equipment towards this side again.

The huge, beast-like catapult, the return cannon, could be said to be one after another, spread horizontally, and it was spread out for miles, and the number was simply innumerable. In addition, in front of the murderous army, the siege equipment such as nest cars and rushing cars are also dense, and just looking at it from a distance can't help but make people despair.

And retracting his gaze, turning to look at the northeast corner that was also "cared for" by the Chu army, there was one iron cannon after another flashing with a cold and cold light.

The number of artillery pieces was also terrifying.

Placed on the ground and arranged in all directions, all of them add up to hundreds of artillery pieces (Note 1).

So sometimes in retrospect, I really don't even know how they persevered in the past three months.

But now there is obviously no time for the fire to think about this, because with the earth-shattering sound of artillery, the siege has begun again.

"Kill, !!" Densely packed, an endless stream of Chu soldiers rushed towards the city like a tidal wave under the cover of artillery and catapults.

On the side of Nanchang City, although there were still more than 100 barrel guns in the city at this time, after the siege of the city in March, the ammunition for this kind of artillery had already run out. Therefore, in the face of the Chu soldiers who were frantically slaughtering this side, the Yuan court defenders in Nanchang could only fight back with trebuchets.

But even then, the boulders that fought back were scattered.

After all, the timber that could build trebuchets in the city was already very rare after three full waves of trebuchets had been replaced. And those wood and stones that were removed from ancestral halls and dwellings are really not forbidden.