In the twelfth year of Zhenguan, September 21, this day is a good day of high and cool autumn, the weather is sunny, the wind is beautiful.

Du He took Luo Tong, Wang Dezheng, Fang Yiai, and Liu Renliang to wait for the transmission near the Wende Palace.

Wende Hall is the place where the new bureaucrats salute, the Gaen bureaucrats salute, and the foreign bureaucrats resign, and it is suitable to canonize the position here.

Du He, Luo Tong, Wang Dezheng, and Fang Yi's lover were all wearing a brand new armor, and with a happy face, everyone was in good spirits and looked majestic. Liu Renliang was dressed in a clean and neat Confucian dress, with a slightly protruding forehead, colorful eyebrows, bright eyes, a thin face, and a five-inch long beard.

Fang Yiai grinned and teased Liu Renliang: "You changed your skin, you fake gentleman, you became a real gentleman in the blink of an eye, it's very different?" ”

This Liu Renliang is different from ordinary Confucian scholars, and he does not pay much attention to appearance. At the same time, the style of Confucian clothing is peculiar, mostly round top hats, square-toed shoes, wide sleeves and long front coats, which are not conducive to walking, let alone standing on the march. Therefore, when marching and fighting, in order to facilitate the journey and deal with some unexpected accidents, he only wore tight-fitting clothes and never wore Confucian clothes, and he lost the unique elegance of a scribe.

Fang Yiai's surname is frivolous, seeing that Liu Renliang does not have the appearance of a gentleman, but he is called Mr. by a person, this playfulness is together, and he is nicknamed "Mr. Fake". Now I see that he is wearing a Confucian costume, and he is very charming, and he also laughs and makes fun of him.

Liu Renliang gave him a blank look, not as knowledgeable as him.

"Come, Mr. False, how about you look at me? This is what my mother personally asked the craftsman to create for me, and it looks particularly powerful to wear! Fang Yiai didn't intend to let go of Liu Renliang, and turned around in front of him, complacent.

Liu Renliang raised his eyelids, glanced at him twice, and said, "The armor is good, but it's just a little clumsy!" ”

"You ......" Fang Yiai was furious.

Du He saw that the two of them quarreled again, and had some headaches, the two were not the same kind of people, but they often quarreled, and I don't know what the reason was, "Okay, don't argue, don't look at what the place is, make people laugh!" ”

Liu Renliang looked at the sky with both eyes, with a look that I didn't know and didn't care about me.

Fang Yiai didn't dare to disobey Du He's words, and snorted lowly.

They were waiting outside, and suddenly they heard a voice, "The emperor has arrived!" ”

Everyone looked slightly upset, knowing that the critical time was coming.

After the officials in the main hall paid their respects, they saw an old eunuch with a white face and beard walking out, shouting at the top of his voice: "The emperor has a decree: Xuanzhongwu General Zuo Weiwei Zhonglang will Du He, Zuo Lang will Luo Tong, Right Lang will Wang Dezheng, Captain Fang Yiai, Bing Cao Shen Military and Long Shi Liu Renliang enter the palace to meet him!" ”

After this sound, Du He and Luo Tong, who had low official positions, were qualified to enter this Wende Palace.

Du He glanced at it quietly and learned a little about the general situation in the hall: Li Shimin is at the top, needless to say, he has a smile on his face, and he is in a good mood! On the steps in front of the hall was the crown prince Li Chengqian, and it was completely conceivable how bad his mood was, with a gloomy face, as if everyone owed him 2580,000 yuan. Under the hall are the civil and military ministers, almost all the dignitaries of the court are solemn on both sides, and one by one they will sit on their knees respectfully, with different expressions. The top of Wenchen is the eldest grandson Wuji, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, and the top of the generals has been replaced by Hou Junji to Li Ji.

After Hou Junji stepped down, Li Shimin reappointed Li Ji as the secretary of the military department, and with his fame and merits, he already had the posture of completely replacing Hou Junji.

For Li Ji's succession, Du He also wholeheartedly supports. In terms of the use of soldiers, although Hou Junji is also a famous general in a hundred battles, he is inferior to Li Ji, not to mention other aspects, except for martial arts and cavalry shooting, Hou Junji has few things that can compare with Li Ji.

The eldest grandson Wuji's chubby face showed a smile like Maitreya Buddha, and he was still so "harmless to humans and animals"!

Fang Du and the others each looked at their children, with a relieved smile on their faces, and Li Ji also looked at Du He with an appreciative expression. He was ordered by Li Shimin to train Du He well, and he usually took care of him from time to time, Du He was like an apprentice in his eyes, and he also showed a heartfelt smile when he saw him achieve such an achievement.

Du He recorded everyone's expressions in the bottom of his heart, whether he was friend or foe, and he was able to make a preliminary judgment.

Li Shimin took out a book of merit on the royal table, and counted the merits of Du He, Fang Yiai, and Luo Tong in front of everyone.

At the end of this, he suddenly shouted: "Du He stepped forward to listen to Feng ......"

"The minister is here!" Du He took a step forward and answered in a loud voice.

Li Shimin said loudly: "This time, our army marched westward to Xuanzhongwu General Zuo Weiwei Zhonglang and appointed Du He as the vanguard general, with a weak brigade of 70,000 male divisions of the Western Turks, and then Zhiding Gaochang, threatening the Western Turks, and forcing the landing of Ashina Buzhen to capture the Khan Futu City. Aiqing is loyal to the country, a resolute champion, a leader in a hundred battles, and an enemy of ten thousand people. The right to achieve the goal, and the success and action are meritorious; The prestige is clear, the division and the cultivator remains unchanged, and he is specially awarded to General Zuo Weiwei, and a bounty of 300, 10,000 silk cloth, silk Luo, and silk each. ”

As soon as these words came out, the ministers of civil and military affairs in the palace were in an uproar.

Du He was stunned at first, and then overjoyed.

This reward is not insignificant: don't look at the difference between just the words Zuo Weiwei Zhonglang and General Zuo Weiwei, the problem is gone.

This is like the gap between the regimental commander and the army commander.

The troops led by Zuo Weiwei Zhonglang are no more than 3,000, and it is because Li Shimin is extraordinarily generous that Du He can command 5,000 troops, but today's General Zuo Weiwei is a real general. This general is not a slogan, not a small general who can only live under people, but a general who can lead tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

If there is a war, with this identity of General Zuo Weiwei, he can completely sit in the position of deputy commander of the whole army. When there was no war in peacetime, he could manage 10,000 to 20,000 people in his hands, and when war came, he could lead a large army of more than 50,000 and fight alone.

This is a position that really holds great power and holds real power, and the people who held this kind of position in the Tang Dynasty were at least after the age of thirty or forty, almost all of them were those generals who had experienced a hundred battles, and Du He was seventeen years old, and he was in this position of Zuo Weiwei General, which was unique in the Tang Dynasty.

He is even fully prepared and waiting for the opposition of others.

But unexpectedly, apart from whispering and discussing privately, no one in the Manchu Dynasty stood up to oppose it.

Du Hezheng felt strange, and unexpectedly saw Li Chengqian's helpless look, and suddenly understood in his heart that it was not that they didn't want to object, but that the merits they had made in Gaochang were enough to match this identity, and they couldn't oppose it if they wanted to!

(To be continued)