Chapter 20: Confused Tang Ming
Zhu Neng was very happy, and he won the victory against Yao Guangxiao, and came out of the palace without even riding a horse, and slowly walked home with a few guards. Without paying any price, he asked for Tang Ming from Yao Guangxiao's hands, thinking about Lao Yao's embarrassed face when he left, the corners of his mouth unconsciously cracked again.
Zhu Neng is Zhu Di's cronies, outstanding achievements in the Battle of Jingyan, can be called the first fierce general, all the way to follow Zhu Di in the southern expedition to the north and made great contributions, Zhu Di ascended the throne after he was named the governor of the left capital, the prince of the country. Although he is old and no longer as brave as he was back then, his reputation in the army is incompetent.
Chengguo Mansion, covers an area of extremely wide carved railings and painted buildings, small bridges and flowing water have a special atmosphere, the night is late, most of the slaves have turned off the lights and slept, only some are still on duty in turn. There was a burst of cheers on the martial arts training ground in the backyard, accompanied by the sound of orderly footsteps in chaos.
Zhu Neng didn't need to think about it to know that his son Zhu Yong must still be practicing martial arts, waved his hand and retreated from the guards behind him, and walked away. When the slave on duty in the martial arts training ground saw Zhu Neng, he leaned down to bow and waved his hand to let him enter it without much courtesy.
"Yong'er!" Zhu Neng saw that Zhu Yong was intoxicated with martial arts training, and he didn't notice that he was coming, so he had to interrupt him.
"Dad, you're back!" Hearing this, Zhu Yong threw away the weapon in his hand, ran quickly in front of Zhu Neng, and shouted.
"Well, Yong'er! That's all for tonight, get some rest. Early tomorrow morning, you will rush to Weihaiwei with this holy decree, accompany Tang Baihu on a trip to Suzhou, and then protect him to return to Beijing. Zhu Neng smiled all over his face, he handed over this task to his son to carry out, his intention was already obvious, hoping that Zhu Yong could make friends with Tang Ming.
His own son immediately won his true inheritance of kung fu, and he has been on the battlefield several times with him, and his performance is remarkable. It's a pity that his head is not very flexible, and he has refused to read since he was a child, and now he can't read a few big characters, which is also a thorn in Zhu Neng's heart. The war in China has come to an end, the world is about to be peaceful, and it is difficult for military generals to be promoted by military exploits.
"Oh, Dad, what kind of people in this Tang Baihu want the child to escort him all the way!" Zhu Yong was obviously stunned, it was the first time he had received such a task.
"Don't talk nonsense, don't ask anything, you just need to remember one thing, no matter what needs this Tang Ming has, you must try to satisfy him, and also, when you return to Jingshi, the relationship between the two of you must be like brothers, which is especially important. Okay, go back to sleep! Zhu Neng stuffed a brocade box directly into Zhu Yong's hand, turned around and left.
What else could Zhu Yong say inexplicably, so he had to wait for dawn with questions in his head. He was full of curiosity about Tang Ming's identity at the moment, it was strange that his father, Cheng Guogong, the first military general of the dynasty, would say such a thing.
The weather in June was like a hot sun, and the scorching sun scorched the earth without obstruction, and the sergeants of Weihaiwei were all more than half darker than before in such a season.
Li Ba walked bare arms and dozens of sergeants on the training ground, and the high temperature of nearly 40 degrees could not stop the enthusiasm of these people for exercise. After this period of training, the 300 sergeants of Weihaiwei seem to have become accustomed to it.
Tang Ming seems to have become an alternative existence in the army, others are all practicing hard, only he always holds up a big umbrella every time, takes Xiaobai to make some chilled wine, and sits comfortably watching the sergeants drill. In ancient times, there was no other entertainment, and this seemed to have been regarded by Tang Ming as the only entertainment item every day.
Xiaobai was lying on the edge of an iron basin, and from time to time he would stick his head into it, and a large ice cube was placed in it. In order to spend this summer comfortably, Tang Ming had to find ways to cool down, and finally made ice cubes out of saltpeter after several failed experiments.
Today's temperature seemed to have risen a little more, and after Tang Ming watched it for a while, he lost interest. I was about to take Xiaobai to find a cooler place to escape the heat, when I heard a sergeant come to report that someone from Beijing was coming. I was thinking of calling Li Ba to take a look together, but I saw a few people in full armor walking towards here.
The leader was a young man, very young, and Tang Ming suspected that this person was at most one or two years older than himself. This person seemed to be very coquettish, even in such a high temperature, he was still walking around with his armor fully armed, seeing his sweaty face, Tang Ming was very doubtful that he would faint from heat stroke after waiting for him.
was immersed in fantasy, and suddenly heard the young man shouting loudly: "Where is Tang Ming of Weihaiwei Tang Baihu!" ”
Everyone was attracted by this angry shout, and they all turned their heads to look at the source of the voice, and Li Ba walked towards Tang Ming even more suspiciously.
"It's down there!" Tang Ming was puzzled, but he still got up and replied.
Zhu Yong followed the sound and looked at it, only to see that under a large parasol, a young man stood with his hands arched, and a huge white wolf lying beside him, and then looked at his face, looking weak. Zhu Yong immediately frowned, just such a person, his father actually asked him to pull the relationship. Helplessly, this was a death order given by his father himself, and he Zhu Yong didn't have the courage to disobey it, so he had to take out the brocade box with a black face and pull out the holy decree: "Weihaiwei Tang Baihu receives the decree!" ”
When Tang Ming heard this, he immediately knelt down and sang the promise, but after waiting for a while, he didn't see his follow-up, and when he looked up, he saw Zhu Yong with a green face, observing the holy decree, but he didn't read it. And this guy seems to have taken the holy decree in the opposite direction, don't think about it, it must be that this guy is illiterate.
Zhu Yong was indeed illiterate, as soon as he opened the holy decree, he was immediately blinded, in order to hide the embarrassment at the moment, he directly put away the holy decree, handed it to Tang Ming to see for himself, and said with a smile: "Tang Baihu is his own person, and the etiquette of receiving the holy decree is exempt, you can just see for yourself." ”
Tang Ming rolled his eyes, but he didn't expose Zhu Yong, but let him sit on his recliner, and personally poured him a glass of ice wine, and then opened the holy decree and slowly observed.
Tang Ming directly omitted a large paragraph of Huang'en's mighty words at the beginning, and when he saw his life experience mentioned later, he was slightly shocked. I thought: "I am a person who has traveled through here, and my life experience is there, but it says that I am from Suzhou, my father is Tang Shichang, and my brother Tang Tianhao." ”
What is this? Tang Ming was completely confused. When I saw that I was going to transfer myself to the Beijing Division as an official, I would give myself an official position of 'integrity'.
It also said that he was allowed to go to Suzhou to recognize his relatives, and then go to Beijing to report to Zhu Neng? The content of this holy decree made Tang Ming confused, he was obviously a member of Zheng He's family, why was he suddenly transferred to Zhu Neng? And the question of this life experience is also full of questions? What the hell is going on here? Tang Ming thought about it for a while.
Zhu Yong took a sip of wine with ice curiously, and a chill went straight to his heart, and he was instantly refreshed. This was out of control, Zhu Yong drank a jar of wine cup after glass, expelled the heat from his body, and then took off his helmet with satisfaction.
As soon as Tang Ming turned around, he saw Zhu Yong's lazy appearance, smiled and inquired: "I don't know what the military master is called, and what is the official residence?" ”
Zhu Yong drank Tang Ming's wine and seemed to have a better impression of him, and when he heard this, he waved his hand and said: "I am Zhu Yong, the son of Chengguo Gong of the Zuo Governor's Mansion, and Zhu Yong is also the official worship guard." ”
"It turned out to be Zhu Shoubei, and I hope Zhu Shoubei can explain something here, I don't know if it's okay?" Tang Ming suddenly picked up a jar of wine from Xiaobai's side and slowly added a few pieces of ice.
When Zhu Yong saw this, he was about to drool, and replied casually: "But it doesn't hurt to say it's okay, you and I will be officials in the same dynasty in the future, so you don't need to be polite." ”
Pouring a cup full of Zhu Yong, Tang Ming opened his mouth and asked: "The lower official has just entered the army, and he really doesn't know the rank of the officer in the army. ”
Taking a sip of the wine that had just been poured up, Zhu Yong motioned for Tang Ming to continue filling up, and then said: "Your Majesty just issued an order not long ago to change the military ranks, from small to large, small soldiers, army commanders, team management, defense, conduct, garrison, guerrilla, generals, deputy generals, and general soldiers. Your ethics are not small, I think my garrison is also on the battlefield, and I have made several military exploits. Although I don't know what credit you have made, but from a hundred households to integrity, it can be regarded as a jump of two levels, this is still in my father's pro-army, although the power is not large, it can be regarded as a thousand generals of the guard. ”
Tang Ming was a little clear, and just as he wanted to ask again why he had risen to the rank of ethics for no reason, he saw Zhu Yong pointing to the soldiers who were still running on the training ground and asked, "What are those people doing, how are they jumping around like monkeys on a hot day." ”
Li Ba glanced at Zhu Yong when he heard this, a trace of disdain appeared on his honest face, and he said in a loud voice: "This is my Weihaiwei's unique body forging technique, which makes the garrison smile!" ”
The most unaccustomed thing is that after these generals or everyone in the Beijing Division, Li Ba has always thought that these people are all rice buckets, and they usually only bully the soft and fear the hard, and run rampant in the market, if they really encounter some hard bones, they will clamp their tails and be people.
Zhu Yong laughed when he heard this: "Just by jumping around on the training ground like this, it can also be called the art of forging the body, hahaha...... Doesn't that make people laugh out of their big teeth? With such soldiers, I can pull two of my men out at random, and I can fight more than a dozen. ”
An unknown smile appeared on the corner of Li Ba's mouth, and he said in a dark voice: "If the garrison doesn't believe it, you can have a fight with my Weihaiwei soldiers, and if you are injured, you will bear the consequences." ”
"Hahaha...... Come on, this garrison will let you see how powerful my imperial army is! Zhu Yong seemed to have settled on Li Ba, and agreed without hesitation.
Tang Ming originally wanted to stop it, but Li Ba pulled him away, seeing that the matter had come to this, he couldn't say much, so he could only shake his head and sigh and prepare to watch a good show.
Weihaiwei's soldiers have been training for a long time now, and if the two armies are fighting, Tang Ming is not sure how good they can perform. After all, these soldiers in Weihaiwei are currently only elite training, which is different from the mode of fighting in the army. But Zhu Yong now has more than a dozen subordinates around him, and there is no suspense in such a competition, so he can only pray for Zhu Yong silently, hoping that he will not be beaten too ugly later.