Ouyang Xuan moved his body, except for some stagnation on the right side, there was no major problem, fortunately there was no poison on the dagger, otherwise the consequences were really unpredictable. The results of the interrogation were soon presented, Fu Jiezi and Xiao Wangzhi had confessed under torture, and the Confucian Wang clan entrusted them to assist Liu Aiji in eliminating the Huo family to change the letter privately, deceived Ouyang Xuan to Chang'an, and sent four assassins by a mysterious person with a broken arm to carry out the assassination, Xiao Wangzhi and Fu Jiezi were responsible for designing an opportunity to get close to Ouyang Xuan.

After reading the confession, Ouyang Xuan remembered the Yunmengshan man with a broken arm who escaped in the Xingzhou Mountains. Ordered someone to escort the two up, and carefully inquired about the cause and effect, especially the mysterious person, Fu Jiezi, who was covered in bruises, bowed down and replied tremblingly: "King Huixia, this person claims to be the fifth generation of Guiguzi, looking at his face, Jie Zi saw it when he was young, but he never remembered where he saw it." Jie Zi said the truth, and asked King Xia to raise his noble hand."

"The assassin king killed, do you still want to die? It's a shame that you want to come up with such a despicable method, can the sages of Confucius and Mencius teach you these despicable techniques? Take it down and keep it under strict guard." "No!" , Yu Linjun, who was in charge of the guard, stepped forward to gag his mouth with a sackcloth, tied his hands and feet, and escorted him out of the living room.

Ordered Hu Tan, the captain of the left military academy of Yulin, to lead the people of the headquarters out of the villa from the secret road, and went to Weiyang Palace with Liu Aiji's letter and the confession of the two. With the support of the guards, he went up to the city wall and inspected a circle, surrounded by the Han army on three floors outside the villa, and there were 50,000 people. The Yulin army didn't take these people seriously, as long as Ouyang Xuan gave an order, these 50,000 people would disappear overnight, and ordered the Yulin army to exercise restraint and not go out of the mountain villa to attack the enemy without an order.

When the news of Ouyang Xuan's assassination in Chang'an spread all over Huaxia Kingdom, it was almost a boiling of emotions, and before Li Mu gave the order, letters of war came. The current secretary of the Ministry of War, Bai Yang Gu, even entered the palace to meet Ouyang Hong to ask for battle. After Ouyang Hong discussed with Li Mu, except for Peng Fei's Western Army and the Northern Army monitoring the Xianbei people, all the other armies were transferred to the Huahan border. As soon as the edict arrived, all the ministries moved together, and within a day they moved together by rail and road, and there were 3 million soldiers on the Sino-Han border, not including the militia who had retired from hiding in the civilian population, and the militia was also being assembled. If we add the western and northern armies, there are at least 8 million elite soldiers and 10,000 ironclad ships of all kinds. When Ouyang Xuan finished reading Li Mu's report, he also gasped, which almost reached the point where all the people were soldiers. The current population of Huaxia is only 90 million, and it can gather 8 million elite soldiers in a short period of time, which makes Ouyang Xuan a little in a trance.

At the Han court meeting, when the border gates in various places summarized the battle reports, the officials of the Han court were almost paralyzed on the ground, just because they assassinated a emperor who had no real power, and in just one day, they actually displayed 3 million soldiers at the border gates in various places, and the number of troops entering and leaving the customs reached one million. If Ouyang Xuan has three long and two short, the Han family will be burned almost overnight. Liu Aiji discussed with his ministers for a day, and then came up with a final court meeting, killing Xiao Wangzhi and Fu Jiezi, who had committed the assassination, and the Confucian Wang clan who instigated the assassination, and sent an envoy to ask for peace with Zhongnan Villa, on the condition that the number of tributes would be increased.

After listening to the envoy's statement, Ouyang Xuan smiled slightly on the sickbed and said, "Go back to the Ming Han Emperor, I agreed." When you go back, take the two thieves back to the Han Ting and send them down." After speaking, he waved his hand and signaled to send off the guests.

After recuperating in Zhongnan Mountain for more than ten days, the broken bones were initially healed, and the wound could only be seen with shallow scars. News came from the Han court that Xiao Wangzhi and Fu Jiezi were removed from the Nine Clans, the two were beheaded and abandoned to the city, and more than a dozen Confucian clans were killed. Ouyang Xuan also issued an order to withdraw troops, which was changed to a nationwide offensive and defensive exercise. But this change made the Han court fear of China's military strength for three hundred years.

The Han army on the periphery and Ouyang Xuan withdrew the day after sending people into the palace, and Liu Aiji took advantage of this change to give full play to the deterrence and exploration capabilities of the Yulin army, and cleared the remnants of the Huo clan and the people who were not subordinate to Liu Aiji in the court in just a few days, and the government and the opposition were much cleaner for a while. After all the Yulin troops sent back to the camp, Ouyang Xuan quietly took Yi Fei and Ma Ning back to the Xiagu base, leaving a team of Yulin troops to manage the villa and guard the base.

Since Ouyang Xuan abdicated and lived in seclusion, he has never returned to Xia Valley, and now that forty years have passed, Ouyang Xuan is as eager as to go home. Ordered someone to place the Phoenix Emperor and the White Wolf properly, only brought five guards in casual clothes, rode an ordinary horse, and went straight to Xia Valley. The distance of one hundred and fifty is less than a day, and there is also a kind of gasoline-burning car at the base, Ouyang Xuan is useless, due to oil production, the use of cars is currently limited to military, official and royal vehicles. Ouyang Xuan was not in a hurry because of his injury, and he walked forward slowly. He only had swords and daggers with him, and the rest remained at the base. I just want to observe the country of China as a civilian, and the guards are all dressed as civilians, lined with soft armor, and only carry a long sword for self-defense.

The defense range of the base is 100 miles away, and there are no civilians in sight except for the checkpoints and light and dark posts of the Huaxia Army along the way. After passing the last checkpoint in the valley, I saw the pedestrians and villages on the road. Horse-drawn carriages are everywhere, plying country towns. You can also see a little white herdsman's yurt house on the grassland, because it is a Beijing teacher, the herdsmen here practice a rotational grazing system, that is, a family has two plain grasslands and a mountain grassland, and nomadic pastures between the two grasslands every year, maintaining a grassland. The meadows crisscross the meadows, forming an artificial network of ditches without dams, ensuring water infiltration and increasing the water level of groundwater. Around the village are green crop fields, with improved crops such as wheat, corn, peanuts, and potatoes. After nearly 80 years of hard work, drought-tolerant trees and vegetation have been planted in large areas at risk of desertification, such as the Xia Valley (present-day Ordos), the Hetao Plain, and the Hexi Corridor, and the grazing ban has been set up, and vertical and horizontal ditches have been dug to divert water from the Yellow River for irrigation. The land that was originally desertified is now full of green grass, and the entire Hetao area and the Hexi Corridor are now fertile for thousands of miles. However, Huaxia strictly implemented Ouyang Xuan's original measures such as prohibiting overgrazing, over-farming, and mining underground resources, and the rewards for digging ditches and planting trees in the desert and Gobi Desert were still very rich. After the crops are harvested, the straw is crushed, fermented into fertilizer in the cellar and the excrement of people, cattle and sheep is returned to the farmland, and the biogas produced is used for daily life, which has now become a way of life and deeply rooted in the hearts of farmers and herdsmen.

Looking at such an idyllic scenery, Ouyang Xuan was in a very good mood, the poplars and red willows on both sides of the road reflected the brilliance of the sun, shining on his body, which was particularly comfortable. Believing in the reins, walking slowly on the road, there were often galloping four-wheeled carriages smiling at Ouyang Xuan. In the evening, I arrived at a village and town in the thirty miles of Lixia Valley City, the houses are all the kind of Han-style buildings with blue bricks and green tiles carved and painted dragons, the rows of houses are neat and orderly, a ditch passes through the town, the green trees by the canal reflect the afterglow of the sunset, the chickens and dogs bark, the children's voices play, and the adults talk and laugh, so that a village and town under the sunset seems so happy and beautiful. Xinma walked on the spacious road, and Ouyang Xuan was also deeply intoxicated by this idyll.

Seeing that the sun was about to set, I had to quickly find a place to stay, because it was close to the base and not far from Summervalley City, so there were few people coming and going. I had to dismount at the head of the canal bridge, walked to an old man who was fishing, and bowed his hand and said, "Old man, this is polite." Is there a place to stay in the village? ”。

The old man looked up at Ouyang Xuan, and then at the guards behind him, hurriedly threw down the fishing rod, knelt on one knee, and said: "The gunner of the Wuzi Battalion Xin Team of the Wuzi Battalion of the Left Army of the Chinese Three-Year Expeditionary Army, Shan Shi Ding, has seen His Majesty the Emperor Taishang."

The old man's return made Ouyang Xuan stunned, as if the people of the country did not know him much, and even the courtiers who knew him now were only suspended by the Yulin Army. Hurriedly helped the old man up, "I originally wanted to enter Beijing in micro-service, but I never thought that I could meet the old people here, so I couldn't make a noise."

The old man arched his hand and said, "The little one is commanded." It's just that the little one is already old, and His Majesty's face is still the same, and his majesty has not diminished as it was back then."

"There is a spacious house at home, and I have no food for this night," Ouyang Xuan said with a smile.

"Go back to Your Majesty, it's tight, please go with the small one." After finishing speaking, he picked up the fishing rod and fish basket to lead the way, and the guards hurriedly packed up the old man's other things and followed behind Ouyang Xuan. A guard stepped forward to help the old man, but the old man shook him off and said, "I am not old, my legs and feet are sharp," and stubbornly walked across the bridge and into the village on the west side of the river. On the road, I kept greeting people and asking for warmth. After a few old men saw Ouyang Xuan and the guards, they wanted to step forward, but Shan Ding made a gesture, which was very standard in military sign language, so he didn't keep up.

Shan Ding's courtyard is in the northwest corner of the village, the courtyard is not small, the two-story courtyard is planted in the middle, and there are two tall red willow trees in the middle, which seem to be forty or fifty years old. As soon as the old man entered the courtyard, he asked his children to prepare a good meal and clean up an upper room. arranged for Ouyang Xuan to sit down at the desk under the willow tree, and asked his daughter-in-law to boil water and make tea, and was busy with work before and after. The guard handed the old man's fishing gear to the old man's wife, and stood with his sword in his position. Shan Ding looked at the position of the guards of the Yulin Army, poured the tea into his tea bowl a little, took a sip, and then handed it to Ouyang Xuan, and said: "Your Majesty's guards are even more powerful and well-trained now, but it's a pity that the little one failed to choose the Yulin Army back then, and he regretted it all his life."

"It's been nearly fifty years in a hurry, can Shan Gong be properly resettled after he comes back that year?"

"Back to Your Majesty, I was originally under the command of General Dai, and after returning to serve with the border pass, the small one served as Wuxun Sima under the command of General Zhou of Yanmen, and once accompanied General Peng and the seven years of Chinese soldiers out of Yanmen to Zhanhan Valley. With Huaxia's retirement for ten years, the Ministry of War retired from the Ministry of War arranged for a small county to catch the head of the county, and retired from Huaxia for 41 years and then made a field for retirement."

"It's okay, it's not in vain to go on an expedition with me. How are you doing? ”。

"Back to Your Majesty, it's okay, now the house is full of children and grandchildren. Four sons, now two young sons, still serve under General Peng. The other two sons have returned to the county, the eldest son teaches in the village primary school, and the second son has a shop in Beijing. Some time ago, His Majesty was in distress, and his two sons returned to the army, and now they are practicing in Yanmen Mountain, and they will be able to return to their hometown in a few days. After his military experience, his grandson has opened shops, workshops, and tended fields, and now he is also practicing with the army in various places."

"I'm all in the army, who will take care of this family?".

"Back to Your Majesty, it doesn't matter, the little one is from the military, how can the family be backward, the family has its own women to cook, and it is an honor for us to be loyal to Your Majesty. If it weren't for His Majesty creating such a foundation back then, there would have been a small place to stay. If it weren't for the border steward to take in my mother and son, I would have starved to death in Handi. For example, today, it is up to us to maintain it, and we can not tolerate pickling and disturbance. It's just".

"What's so difficult about Shan Gong?" Ouyang Xuan then asked the old man.

"There's nothing wrong with that," replied the old man, turning to the kitchen and asking, "Is the meal ready?" Come up quickly, and don't forget the fish." A woman's voice came from the kitchen, "It's fine, please stay longer."

As soon as the words fell, more than a dozen old men came in the courtyard, and the Yulin guards nervously shook the hilt of the sword, and if something was wrong, the sword was out of the body. The more than a dozen people who came knelt down on one knee in front of Ouyang Xuan, bowed their hands, and reported the names of their original military vassals. There were seven or eight old men who had originally followed the expeditionary force, and five or six border guards, the oldest of whom was the one who resisted the Xiongnu with Ouyang Hong in the Yellow River, and now he is also nearly ninety years old. Ouyang Xuan asked Shan Ding to add some more seats, and a large table made fifteen or sixteen people. Drinking tea, chatting about the past and the current life situation. As the conversation deepened, Ouyang Xuan gradually heard that they were all a little worried. When the food came, everyone simply ate a little and left.

Ouyang Xuan asked Shan Ding to prepare some wine, drank some wine with the guards, and only went back to sleep when he was in charge of the lamp. The guards came in strict accordance with the regulations, and they did not dare to relax at all. Shan Ding and those veterans also arranged light and dark sentinels inside and outside the courtyard wall at night according to wartime, and even a few veterans stood guard at the gate with halberds with Yulin guards.

In the morning, when Ouyang Xuan got up to wash up and saw the veteran standing guard in the water, tears rolled in his eyes. I couldn't bear to bother these old people who should have been living in peace, so I hurriedly ate breakfast and quietly put a gold coin on the table. Only then did he take the guards out of the village under the attention of the veterans and went straight to Xia Valley. On the way, Ouyang Xuan suddenly remembered something, and asked a guard Pegasus to return to the base to give an order, and ordered the Detective Horse Battalion to sneak into Xia Gu City first to find out the news, especially the relatives and subordinates of the crown prince Ouyang Mao, and the other officials and relatives all have the supervision of the Imperial History Supervision of the Sect Province, so there should be no problem. Contact information and location are to be agreed upon by the guards and the horses.

Ouyang Xuan still walked slowly, and when he met pedestrians or villagers, he would talk to them for a while. Thirty miles away, Ouyang Xuan walked for a whole day, and he also met several veterans, and only stayed at the post house in the town outside the east gate in the evening. I found a secluded corner in the store, asked for food and drinks, and chatted with the four guards while eating. The number of guests eating gradually increased, and Ouyang Xuan and the guards pricked up their ears to listen to their talk. It wasn't until the time of the lantern that three gorgeously dressed people entered the store, and the others hurriedly ate their meals and settled the bill and went back to their rooms.