Since it was the emperor's personal expedition, the imperial driving line was naturally located in the Xue family's compound in the most noble place in Linyu City. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info this compound is two miles in radius, and it was changed into a palace by the official family, which is a good place.

And the place where the teacher of the Son of Heaven, the eunuch Wei Gonggong of the celebrant and the eunuch Bingpen, is also a good place not far from the emperor's line.

After turning a few screens across the hall, Wei Qi and the cell head followed the back hall steward of the Wei Mansion for a long time, before they were led to a wide guest hall, today in order to see Wei Gonggong, the cell head specially changed Wei Qi into a long robe, and the two pretended to be ordinary people, followed Wei Gonggong's carriage and horses, and then entered the city.

The two arrived in front of the hall, only to see a pair of ancient paintings hanging in the middle of the guest hall, in a big water tank in front of the hall, goldfish swam around in threes and twos, and the antiques on the shelves next to them were displayed, and the end was a good sense of grace.

The steward of the back hall led Wei Qi to sit down on the ebony chair in the hall, and made a pot of red robes on the handstand next to him. The cell boss patrolled beside him for a long time, but he didn't see the steward receiving him, so he had to rub and want to sit next to Wei Qi. After the steward finished making tea for Wei Qi, Yu Guang swept the cell head and coughed lowly. The cell boss was also interested, and immediately straightened up in fright, and did not dare to sit again.

The steward of the back hall didn't look at him either, he bowed to the guard, and the fluent Beijing film came out, and said, "Master, you rest, Grandpa Wei is here." With that, he glanced at the cell head and snorted. The head of the cell did not dare to stay any longer, and walked out with the steward.

Wei Qi ignored the two of them, crossed Erlang's legs, and drank tea slowly to himself, until the tea was halfway down. But listening to the sound of footsteps behind the hall, the brocade curtain on the hall was lifted, and a white-faced nobleman with a melon skin hat and the appearance of a wealthy merchant in brocade turned in from behind the hall with two strong slaves.

Wei Qi stood up when he heard the sound, and bowed deeply in front of the hall, but the white-faced nobleman seemed to be no one in front of the hall, and snorted, his voice was sharp, and it seemed that it was Gonggong Wei. As soon as the sleeves of Father-in-law Wei's robe flicked, he sat on top of himself. The two strong slaves beside him also didn't seem to see Wei Qi at all, they lit the incense one after another, brewed the tea cup, stuffed the cigarette pouch with the best imperial tribute tobacco, and carefully presented it to Gonggong Wei. After that, a strong slave knelt on his knees, put his feet on a small stool made of golden silk nanmu, and kneaded it slowly, while the other strong slave turned behind his father Wei and pinched his shoulders for his father-in-law.

Wei Qi kept bowing down in the hall, but he didn't see any feedback from the hall.

After bowing for a stick of incense, I suddenly heard Father-in-law Wei spit out a puff of cigarette leisurely and said, "Hey, am I really old these days?" This look is really bad, who is standing below, why can I only see two feet? I don't know if it's a human or a dog? After that, he took a puff of cigarette again, and his face was leisurely and enjoyable.

When Wei Qi heard this, his back seemed to stiffen, and after being stunned for a moment, he saw him swing the placket of his robe, bend his knees, and then kneel down, put his hands on the ground, and kowtowed.

Wei Huan saw that he didn't have time to blow out a puff of cigarette, choked in his throat, coughed repeatedly, and after a while, he pointed a cigarette gun at Wei Qi, and laughed sharply: "Hahahaha, four-legged, look, it's four-legged, it turned out to be a dog, the dog is good, the dog is good...... Dog, bark a few times with your father-in-law, what's your name? As he spoke, he turned his head to beckon the strong slaves to look at them together, and the two strong slaves also echoed and laughed together.

Wei Qi put his forehead on the ground and replied: "Slave Wei Qi, please say hello to my father-in-law!" ”

Wei Huan's eyelids raised slightly, and he impatiently squeezed out some words from between his teeth, and said, "Yo, it turned out to be Uncle Wei Qiwei who made a big fuss in the colosseum!" Uncle Wei is so pompous, even our post has to be postponed for a day? As he spoke, he shook the cigarette ash from the cigarette pouch on the hands of the strong slave, and said, "Hey, why is Uncle Wei kneeling underneath, is it that Uncle Wei is hot, so he is looking for some coolness on the floor below?" ”

When Wei Qi heard this, he kowtowed again and said, "Father-in-law, Wei Qi is indeed hot." ”

When Wei Huan heard this, he couldn't help but laugh, he originally thought that Wei Qi looked like a lonely scholar in the colosseum, he must be the hardest backbone, and yesterday he resigned his invitation and made this Wei Gonggong angry. But he didn't expect that at this time, this Wei Qi would be so spineless, but it was against his appetite. He had finished humiliating Wei Qi at this time, and when he saw Wei Qi being so mischievous, he suddenly lost the interest of continuing to play, but his toes were empty, and he said: "It's cold and cold, don't kneel." ”

Wei Qi kowtowed again, stood up slowly, took a whole long robe, and his expression did not fluctuate, and sat down in the original seat, just with his hands on his knees, feeling quite restrained.

Wei Huan enjoyed this sense of oppression, his eyes squinted at Wei Qi, then put down the cigarette pouch in his hand, took out a letter from the sleeve of his right hand and held it in his hand, slowly unfolded it, and then turned the letter, literally facing Wei Qi, and said, "Uncle Wei, this is what you wrote?" As he spoke, he took the word to his eyes and read, "Mo Shouhui? Ouch, hey, Uncle Wei, you are really amazing, you knew five days ago that Wu Hui was going to be punished by His Majesty? Speaking of this, I couldn't help but squint my eyes even more, and the light passed through my eyes. He received this anonymous letter a few days ago, there were only four words on it, "Mo Shouhui Ceremony", he didn't take it seriously at the time, just reprimanded the person in charge, but unexpectedly two days later, Wu Hui came to visit and gave him several exquisite calligraphy and paintings. Unexpectedly, the next day, the emperor took charge of the general, so he tied up Wu Hui, although he was not implicated in taking bribes, but it also made Wei Gonggong sweat coldly.

Thinking about it afterwards, Father-in-law Wei suddenly felt that there was a lot of strangeness between several things, and he couldn't let him accept Wu Hui's gift to reveal it, so Father-in-law Wei found the family member and arrested the cell head who sent the letter to ask about the situation, and after learning that it was Wei Qi, Father-in-law Wei thought that this Wei Qi was indeed not simple, and there must be a plan, so he asked Qian Ning to make an appointment to meet Wei Qi. Unexpectedly, Grandpa Wei rarely put on a smiling face, but he met Wei Qi's cold ass, and the old eunuch was angry, but he became more curious about this Wei Qi, and wanted to see it more and more. So after today's humiliation, Wei Huan didn't have an inch, so he asked the right question.

Wei Qi heard Wei Huan's question, rolled his eyes up, and glanced at the two strong slaves who were kneading Wei Huan. Seeing this, Wei Huan smiled, raised his fingers, and waved back, and the two strong slaves got the order, bowed, and retreated.

After Wei Qi waited for the two strong slaves to withdraw, he bowed forward slightly, and said respectfully: "Wei Qi doesn't dare, Wei Qi only knows a little about the situation, feels that his father-in-law is wronged, and he can't bear it, so he reminded him." ”

Wei Huan knew that he was getting to the point, the corners of his mouth grinned, and he smiled: "Yo, wronged? Who can give our family grievances? ”

Wei Qi expanded his mouth with his hand at this time, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty! ”

When Wei Huan heard this, he couldn't help but shake his whole body, and his eyes couldn't help but widen. Thinking of the situation when the emperor beat Wu Hui on the big tent, he knew that Wei had a deep meaning after saying this, and his index finger couldn't help but tap on the sandalwood tabletop, and said with a smile: "Joke, when today's son has to be called Mr. Ben-in-law's life, how can we be wronged?" This is already a bit unconfident.

Wei Qi was still restrained, looked at Wei Huan, and said in a low voice: "The saint of today will not, what about the saint in the future?" After saying this, he seemed to suddenly notice the aphasia, and quickly reached out to cover his mouth.

His words had a pun meaning, listening to Wei Huan's ears, suddenly Wei Huan frowned and thought about it, after a while, Wei Huan seemed to finally taste a charm, suddenly slapped the sandalwood table, and scolded loudly: "Bold minion, you dare to curse today!" Aren't you afraid that I'll take you right now? Angry, he looked at Wei Qi below and submissively, seemed to be frightened by himself, didn't dare to speak, and felt itchy in his heart, wanted to hear how Wei Qi explained, so he sat down again, and hummed: "Hmph, look at your bear-like, you don't have the courage to do so, what you just said about the future saint, but what else do you mean?" The last sentence is hooked at the end of the rhyme, just to see what Wei Qi will say.

Wei Qi seemed to be very hesitant at this time, as if he deeply regretted what Fang Cai said, and he didn't dare to resist Wei Gonggong's questioning, so he held back two words with difficulty for a while: "King Qin." ”

When Wei Huan heard this, his face turned a few times, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes suddenly deepened, as if he forcibly suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, he knew in his heart that the emperor was his last supporter, if King Qin had a different heart, it would be difficult to do. But he was also quite jealous of King Qin on weekdays, and when he heard that King Qin had a secret secret, he couldn't help but be interested. So between this worry and joy, the old eunuch also forgot to take the shelf, stared at Wei Qi and asked: "Your Majesty has been in charge for more than a year, and in February, a dragon son was added, which is the time to make great efforts." And King Qin is a prince who grew up in the same palace as His Majesty, and he has had a deep affection since he was a child, how can he have a second heart? ”

Wei Qi cautiously retorted at this time: "The King of Qin is sitting alone in the Xuandu at this time, and His Majesty is personally leading 200,000 troops three hundred miles away, won't the King of Qin be afraid that His Majesty will think that he has a bad heart?" ”

Wei Huan was aroused at this time, looked at Wei Qi, seemed to hesitate for a moment, and said: "Your Majesty is going to strip the military power of the Queen Mother's party, so that it is conducive to controlling the situation and eliminating the Queen Mother's henchmen." ”

Wei Qi replied: "Then on the day of the triumph of His Majesty's army, how can a regent prince with considerable prestige in the court guarantee that he will not be implicated? How can there be any guarantee that the front of this army will not become a sword? ”

When Wei Huan heard this, he seemed to have an epiphany, and opened his mouth to say: "Then Wu Hui ......" but he didn't know what to say.

Wei Qi received at this time: "Father-in-law is wise, even if Your Majesty trusts King Qin, it is impossible for King Qin not to be in danger, and to solve this situation, there should be two solutions." At this point, he stopped.

Although Wei Huan's culture is not high, he wants to climb to such a high place, but he is scheming. He knew that although Wei Qi was talking about King Qin at this time, it must be related to himself, so he also paid attention and said, "You can talk about it." ”

At this time, Wei Qi suddenly lowered his head, as if he was extremely afraid: "The matter is too big, and the slave doesn't dare to say it." ”

Wei Huan raised his eyebrows and shouted, "This seat asked you to say it!" ”

When Wei Qi heard this, his whole body trembled, and said, "Father-in-law, don't be angry, the slave will say this." One of them is to cut off His Majesty's ears and eyes; The second is to cut off His Majesty's life......"

Wei Huan was even more interested, he had never heard of these words, so he said, "Oh? ”

Wei Qi continued: "It is more difficult to cut off Your Majesty's life, so if it is not a last resort, King Qin should first cut off His Majesty's ears and eyes, that is, to prevent His Majesty from accepting information that is unfavorable to King Qin. ”

Wei Huan thought about it and nodded.

Wei Qi said again: "The father-in-law and His Majesty are as close as masters and apprentices, and Your Majesty's father-in-law is also a great contributor, and the judgment of the father-in-law on weekdays also has a great influence on Your Majesty, and the father-in-law can be regarded as His Majesty's eyes and ears, which is the reason why the King of Qin needs the father-in-law to say good things." However, now that his father-in-law is away with the expedition, King Qin can't control it, and it makes sense to let Wu Hui, a member of the Shence Party, give gifts. And to ensure that His Majesty's ears and eyes are clear, and try to replace Gonggong Wei, it is the complete strategy! ”

When Wei Huan heard this, he snorted angrily and scolded: "He dare? ”

Wei Qi said: "The father-in-law is angry, Wu Hui's incident seems to be the act of the King of Qin's sycophancy on the surface, but then there is another layer of meaning, once Wu Hui gives a gift, there is a way to let His Majesty know, Your Majesty will have doubts in his heart, and feel that his father-in-law and the King of Qin are colluding." And at this moment, it is wartime, and Your Majesty will definitely have a bad heart, which will naturally be unfavorable to your father-in-law. At this time, if there are any more people in the army who pass on the private affairs of the front back to Beijing, leave them as a mark, and then expose them by the King of Qin, it will be really difficult for the father-in-law to distinguish himself. In short, no matter how King Qin acts, his father-in-law must be a nail in King Qin's eyes. ”

When Wei Huan heard this, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, Wu Hui He only felt strange, but he never thought of such a situation, at this time, he couldn't help but feel anxious in his mind, he suddenly thought of a trick, and hurriedly said: "Then according to you, there are traitors in the army?" And slander me with these messages? Who is so bold? ”

Wei Qi suddenly knelt on the ground at this time, kowtowed, and said: "Father-in-law atoned for his sins, the reason why the slave knows this is because these letters are written by the slave!" King Qin is the elder in my sect, and Wei Qi has no choice but to give him his life! ”

When Wei Huan heard this, he stood up in shock, stretched out his feet and was about to kick Wei Qi, but suddenly felt that something was wrong, and he didn't care about Wei Qi, who was kneeling on the ground, paced a few steps in the hall by himself, and muttered: "You, you Demon Sect people are really dirty!" Xiao Milling, you bastard, dare to play tricks with our family, our family is going to crush your eggs! He walked back and forth a few times with his hands in his hands, reflecting on the beginning and end of the assassination case in his heart, and suddenly felt that what Wei Qi said was quite reasonable, if King Qin was really an elder of the Light God Sect, it was not impossible to use his subordinates to set up a situation to assassinate him, thus causing turmoil in the court. But he still had doubts in his heart, so he glanced at Wei Qi on the ground and said, "Wei Gongzi said this to our family, aren't you afraid that His Royal Highness King Qin will go back and cook you?" ”

Wei Qi kowtowed like pounding garlic at this time, and said: "The slave knows that King Qin is difficult to become powerful, and when he assassinated Qin, he wanted me to abandon it, and it was not a long-term solution to follow King Qin, so he wanted to abandon the secret and turn to the light." As he spoke, he suddenly said loudly: "The slave's surname is Wei, and the father-in-law's surname is Wei, five hundred years ago, they were originally of the same clan, if the father-in-law does not give up, I beg to accept the slave as a godson." ”

Wei Huan looked at the soft bone in front of him, and suddenly felt happy in his heart, what he loved most was such a flattering person, plus this person was quite talented, and he was also the envoy of the Bright God Sect, and he could be the king of Qin, and there were not many godsons who controlled him, so he said: "Why do you want to be our family's child?" There was a faint cold light in his eyes.

Wei Qi knew that he had already made most of the steps in his plan to climb up to Wei Huan, and he was sure in his heart, and his mouth seemed to tremble with excitement: "Wei Qi wants to follow his father-in-law to be prosperous and rich!" As he spoke, his forehead was already on the ground.

"Oh, how does my father-in-law know that you are not Mu Yun's barbarian spy?" Wei Huan sneered. He had already known that Wei Qi had gone to see Mu Yun, so he didn't say anything about it, and he didn't ask until Wei Qi thought that he had relaxed his guard against him. At this time, Wei Qi replied that there was only a slight difference, and Wei Huan had his own way to make this soft bone regret coming to this world.

When Wei Qi heard this, his eyelids couldn't help narrowing, and he knelt on the ground and said loudly: "Father-in-law Mingjian, the child is also a last resort!" ”

When Wei Huan heard Wei Qi say this, the curiosity in his heart was also aroused, the corners of his mouth grinned, and he snorted coldly: "Oh? ”

Wei Qi didn't dare to stand up straight, and still bowed down and said: "Father-in-law doesn't know, that Mu Yun is the messenger of the army in my God Sect!" Saying that, he kowtowed and said: "The giant gate turns qi into darkness, so the envoy of the giant gate is the one who acts in secret." And the envoy of the broken army is the one who teaches the military power, the killing knife of the king of Qin. The reason why the child went was because the child was a giant gate and had the responsibility of contact, but the child hated the King of Qin to the bone, and went to see Mu Yun to gain his trust, so as to provoke him to have something to do with the King of Qin. Speaking of this, Wei Qi suddenly straightened up, his teeth clenched, and his face was hideous, as if he wanted to skin King Qin alive.

Seeing this, Wei Huan thought carefully about Wei Qi's words, which was not very inappropriate, and he had been in the whirlpool of power for a long time, and he also knew that Mu Yun and King Qin were close, and Wei Qi couldn't make up this nonsense, so his face finally turned calm, yawned, and said: "Alas, my father-in-law is also tired, since he is a child of our family...... Let's take it in," he said, flicking his left hand, lifting the tea bowl, taking a shallow sip, and said, "But our child, how do you provoke it?" As he spoke, he sat down and put his legs on the Nanmu stool.

Wei Qi was interested, hurriedly stepped forward, pinched Wei Huan's feet, and said while pinching: "Wei Qi has a trustworthy cousin, Hu Zhongxian, who runs a silk business in the capital, and is the messenger in the sect on weekdays. It's just that if this matter is to be successful, I have to ask my father-in-law to recommend my cousin to meet someone. ”

Wei Huan rolled his eyes and said in a manly voice: "Who?" ”

Wei Qi replied: "Deputy Commander of the Sword Guard, Yan Mu. ”

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In the west of Liaoxi, in the east of the Huanggu, in the yak skin tent of the chief of the Arc Detention Tribe, Ku Chierdan held an overturned mare's milk wine bowl in his hand, and suddenly sneezed loudly and woke up from his sweet dream. Seeing the sturdy wife who was packing up the wine utensils next to her, she couldn't help but nag in the ancient language: "The wolf of the steppe drinks strong wine for a living, how can he take his life?" ”

His wife glanced at him fiercely, and replied: "I have never seen a wolf who only drinks and does not run, my dear chief of the arc, you are now the laziest chief of the grassland, and now you want to confiscate the horses, cattle and sheep of the arc, but you dare not resist, only dare to use me to be angry!" As he spoke, he lifted the felt curtain and got out of the tent.

He looked at the figure of his wife going out, and helplessly patted the felt, carried a bottom-out wine jug, and stepped out of the big tent from afar.

At this time, the sun was setting, and on the vast grassland, the huge sun wheel shone on the snow, and there were still sparse cattle and sheep walking on the snow. At this glance, you can see that in the pastures of hundreds of miles, the herdsmen are already driving their cattle and sheep back to the circle.

Looking at the increasingly desolate pasture, Kuchildan sighed in his heart, if it was in previous years, there would not be so few cattle and sheep. Now not only is the climate cold, but also has to deal with the secluded conscription, and now the winter has become a problem among the tribes......

He shook his head, staggered, walked to a horse outside the tent, and without making a move, turned over on his beloved black horse.

The horse was destroyed by him, and immediately kicked it and flew away, and ran out of the tent like a child.

Lying drunk on horseback, he let his mount gallop away, and when he saw the herdsmen, he straightened up, took off his felt hat on his horse, saluted the herdsmen, and then "called for the rate" and urged the horse forward.

When the herdsmen saw this chief, they were all unhappy. They knew that this Kuchildan was once the number one rider of the steppe, and could sleep on horseback, but they did not know since when this once active and brave chief became a middle-aged fat man who lived by wine. Now that the grassland has reduced production, the cold is coming, and he is still being bullied by the secluded in the east, this chief seems to be drunk to death, and still does not want to forge ahead. Many of the Arc herdsmen had quietly emigrated to other tribes, and the herdsmen who remained had no intention of pinning their hopes on their drunken chieftains.

Ignoring this, Kuchildan drank the last sip of the liquor to the sunset, then threw the flask away and ran towards the sunset. Suddenly there was a cry next to him, and a small wild horse was speeding up, the horse was red all over, and there was a white stripe on all four hooves, although the tooth age should still be a young horse from the size of the horse, but at this time the foot strength was already extraordinary.

However, for riders like Khuchierdan, the pleasure of riding a horse lies in mastery and conquest, and speed is secondary.

He kicked on his feet, leaned back, looked sideways at the knight on the little red horse, was suddenly slightly stunned, and said, "Suo Zhe, where is your brother?" ”

When the young knight Suo Zhe heard this, he laughed and said, "Father, you have drunk too much, and the eldest brother went north according to your orders last month!" As he spoke, he urged the red horses to catch up quickly, and the red and black horses chased and galloped across the grassland.

Kuchildan also laughed at this time, and said, "No wonder you rode his lightning and raced against my dark clouds." But no matter how fast the lightning is, it can't draw the dark clouds! "Saying that, he didn't admit defeat, and galloped on horseback.

After running for a while, almost to the desert on the edge of the steppe, both horses were slightly slow, and Kuchildan suddenly reined in his horse, and the horse's hooves dragged a long cloud of dust on the grass, and the lightning that Sozhe rode was obviously poorly trained, and ran out for a long distance before stopping. Sozhelema returned to Khuchierdan's side, but saw Khuchedan sitting firmly on horseback, and the decadent drunken fat man was gone, replaced by an ancient man whose eyes were full of sunset, yellow sand, snow and grass.

Suo Zhe didn't get off the horse either, and said to Kuchierdan: "Father, the old guy Murong is holding a birthday banquet in Jianchang, and the envoy sent by the Huanggu Yuba Khan is Haziriqi, but he has been killed by our people!" As if he remembered something, he said: "We have already produced a lot of iron sand, and when I catch some craftsmen and come back, step up smelting, it seems that it should be no problem to make 100,000 knives and guns next year." ”

Hearing this, Kuchildan laughed and said, "Old Baba is indeed deaf, how can he send a lamb like Haziriqi to be a messenger?" Sozhe, you keep an eye on the mines. As for that Jianchang, your father and I are also the black cavalry general of the ghost wolf lord, so it is natural to go to Jianchang to make trouble at this moment! With a dozen horses, and with a long laugh, the horses' hooves kicked up the snow and dust, and the black horse had galloped back the way they came.

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"The Ancient Chronicle": "At the beginning of the third year of the great cause, iron and tin mines appeared in the eastern arc of the ancient wilderness, and the herdsmen gradually became good at smelting, so the military iron did not need to be in Hexi, and the momentum was gradually increasing. ”

"Youyan History": "In the sixth year of Zhenglong, Hailing led 130,000 cavalry to the south, with the generals Lu Huanxian, Ku Chierdan, and Hu Luhuan as the vanguard, Han Changgong and Wang Xun of Jinyuan County as the flanks, and with Fusang, Qiangben, and Huanggu League, about Qi. ”