Chapter 232: An Unexpected Gift......
"Accident?" Hearing this, Shi Heng's brows couldn't help but raise slightly, and his eyes fell on Guo Shun's face again. He knew that when Guo Shun dealt with him, he knew his temper very well, and he would never say any nonsense in front of him. Since he mentioned it, I'm afraid this accident is not small, maybe it will be related to himself.
Shi Hengran's eyes couldn't help but narrow slightly, it seemed that there was only one thing related to him recently, and that was ...... Could it be that something went wrong? The more suspicious Shi Heng cleared his throat and said in a deep voice: "Please also ask Gonggong Guo to make it clear." ”
Seeing the change in Shi Heng's expression, Guo Shun smiled secretly in his heart, and the expression on his face was quite embarrassed. "General, this matter, originally our family didn't want to tell you in person, after all, if our family said it, it would make people misunderstand that we are provoking the relationship between you and your great benefactor."
"But if you don't say it, our family is afraid that the general will keep you in the dark, and when the time comes, if you don't say anything after being reprimanded by the Son of Heaven, you won't have time to refute."
Listening to Guo Shun slowly say these two words that seemed a little absurd and inconsequential, Shi Heng's ruddy face suddenly became gloomy and dark, and his eyes were like sharp knives stabbing at Guo Shun's white and beardless face.
With a big hand, all the servants who were originally standing in the hall withdrew from the hall, and Shi Heng shouted in a deep voice: "Guo Zhenshou, what do you mean by this?" Although his voice was still balanced and calm, anyone could hear the anger in his words.
"General, what do you think our family can mean?" Guo Shun sighed, took out a letter from his arms, stepped forward, and respectfully handed it to the desk beside Shi Heng with his own hands. "This is written by our godson, of course he doesn't dare to deceive our family, let alone tell lies. What's more, I'm afraid that in a few days, the envoys of the Long Live Lord will also be here, and at that time, the truth will naturally be clear. ”
Shi Heng didn't talk nonsense, picked up the letter, and after folding it, as soon as it entered his eyes, Shi Heng's brows couldn't help but raise upward, and his original face was just slightly gloomy, but after he finished reading the letter, even if it was like the bottom of the pot, it was not an exaggeration to describe it as a bullfight.
With a loud bang, Shi Heng slapped the letter on the desk viciously, with such force that the tea cup on the desk almost overturned. The knee-long, well-maintained long beard was windless, and in a pair of sharp eyes, various emotions such as shame, anger, and confusion were completely entangled.
-------------------- "This, this can't be ......" for a long time, Shi Heng spit out such a sentence from his mouth with difficulty, his voice was as hoarse as sand, and his empty expression revealed his inner unwillingness and struggle.
"General, our family, I also hope that the godson heard it wrong, or read it wrong, alas...... General, our family has taken their leave first, and I hope that the general will take care of his health. Seeing Shi Heng like this, Guo Shun already knew in his heart that Shi Heng was afraid that he had already believed in Jiucheng, but at this time, Guo Shun, who was deeply heartfelt, naturally knew very well that he didn't need to do anything anymore, all he had to do was to leave and let Shi Heng think it through.
"Dad, do you think this will work?" When Guo Shun left Shifu, there was a person next to him, it was Guo Shun's stepson Guo Rui, but Guo Rui at this moment was wearing a set of flying fish suits with brocade clothes, carrying a spring knife at his waist.
"Hehe, didn't Lord Banzai tell you?" Turning his head and glancing at his stepson, Guo Shun's shrewd triangular eyes couldn't help but feel a little more doting and loving, but more of them were indeed gratifying.
Guo Rui in the past, although he was also filial piety and shrewdness, but ah, his intelligence was not used in the right way, but he was his only stepson, and he was reluctant to call and scold, I only hope that he will one day be able to understand his stepfather's mind and be able to pass on the incense to himself.
didn't expect that he would actually bump into Zhu Qizhen's muzzle, so that after weighing the pros and cons, he had to bite the bullet to see Zhu Qizhen. To tell the truth, although Guo Shun originally had the intention of handing over this stepson to the Son of Heaven for polishing, he felt more that the Son of Heaven would leave Guo Rui behind, and he was afraid that he would take him as a hostage. But that month ago, when he saw Guo Rui, who was like a different person from his mental outlook to his conversation, Guo Shun understood Zhu Qizhen's intentions.
And Guo Rui, this kid, in Xuanfu, really suffered a lot, first went to serve nearly three months of hard labor, but I have to say that this kid has brains and is smart in doing things, and after the three-month labor period expired, his performance was quite good, and Zhu Qizhen accepted him as his guard.
Of course, if you want to be a guard by your side, it doesn't mean that you can just be given a piece of clothing, who is Zhu Qizhen, a traverser who came from later generations, can you put people who have not been tested and worried around? Naturally, after Guo Rui became a new guard, he was directly sent to the guard team, and after months of polishing and training with the Son of Heaven's army, he finally came out with some human appearance.
Therefore, this time, in order to take advantage of Shi Heng, Zhu Qizhen simply sent Guo Rui, who had been reborn, over, which not only showed his recognition of Guo Shun's obedience and hard work since his son, but also reunited the father and son, after all, Guo Shun and Guo Rui had never met since the last time they said goodbye.
"Your Majesty didn't say whether it was feasible or not." Guo Rui shook his head, and then added: "Your Majesty only said that at least with Shi Heng's surname, this matter is promising. ”
"Hehe, it's worthy of being a long live lord, and I can see it more clearly than our family, who has dealt with Mr. Shi for many years." Hearing Guo Rui's words, Guo Shun couldn't help but shake his head and smash his tongue again and again.
Seeing the puzzled gaze cast by Guo Rui, Guo Shun patted the stepson's thick shoulder. "Long live Lord Shi Heng's surname has been thoroughly grasped, and, judging from the performance of General Shi today, I am afraid that things are not without opportunities."
Hearing this, Guo Rui's eyes couldn't help but light up: "Then what should we do?" ”
"Hehe, what's the hurry, have you heard the old saying, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, you're still too young, although it's much better now than in the past, but how can you still be a little frizzy when something happens, look at the long live of the people, it's not a few years older than you......"
"Dad, that's long live Lord, can I compare?"
“…… You kid, it's okay, go back to the house quickly, we really have to sum up the ...... that Your Majesty passed over."
-------------------- squeak...... A large wooden box was opened, and the old man standing in front of the wooden box couldn't help but squint his eyes slightly, because with the opening of the lid of the box, the things in the box were reflecting the sunlight from the sky, but they were transformed into a kind of snow and seeping light.
Old Ara, who only glanced at it, was able to determine that the wooden box contained these were definitely not goods, but the kind of good scimitars that the warriors of the steppe dreamed of.
You know, since the fall of the Yuan and Mongolians, the Mongols no longer have excellent craftsmen, and there is a lack of fuel in the steppe, it is difficult to create a good scimitar, and most of the scimitars in their hands are actually passed down from their fathers, tinkering, and of course, they will also be obtained from other khanates through trade. Even many of them were imported from Han Chinese traders.
In the past two years, under the repeated wars, the damage of the rear blade is not small, but although the trade with the Ming Dynasty was temporarily resumed last year, the problem is that Zhu Qizhen is too thief, and even one or two iron tools have not been transported to the grassland, but anyone who dares to smuggle iron tools to the grassland will be confiscated, and if it is a knife, the head will be hung directly on the border fort.
What's more, at the end of last year, under the order of the extremely corrupt Yexian, all the departments of the grassland had to brave the wind and snow to attack Xuanfu stupidly, but they didn't even catch a single hair, but there were quite a lot of losses, because, in addition to the damage of the war, the cold is also a great enemy.
Moreover, the armies of each department were dumbfounded when they arrived under their respective targets, because, I never thought that the soldiers of the Ming army were so despicable, pouring the head of the city into an ice castle, and the walls of the city wall were slippery without leaving a hand, not to mention that they had to brave the artillery fire of the Ming army and the falling wood and rocks to attack the city, even if they played a climbing competition, they would be in danger of falling down and dying.
In this way, the siege of the various armies naturally seems to be much more cautious, and because of their caution, the soldiers in the tribe are not killed or injured, but coupled with the cold without arms and legs, this is also a lot, at least after that battle, the warriors who were killed and injured in the hands of the Ming army only accounted for forty percent of the total casualty rate, and nearly sixty percent were frostbite. This made the grassland tribes even more unwilling and resentful. The target, of course, is that the second Khan is also first, if it weren't for his anger, how could the grassland tribes be in that difficult natural environment, and go to find abuse?
And after this battle, Ah Ra's heart is really itchy, because the complaints of the grassland tribes are full of complaints, how can he not hear them? Moreover, many tribes, more remote, and obedient tribes, were dissatisfied with the winter offensive of the first one, and the tribes that had already rebelled, had heard no less than seven or eight times by this spring.
It's a pity that when he was last year, he also had to be ordered to attack the Ming army's border fort, and he was very embarrassed in his heart, and he was worried that Zhu Qizhen would be annoyed by this, but who would have expected that Zhu Qizhen not only did not annoy himself, but also sent the most powerful confidant Yuan Bin around him, and also brought himself a generous gift......
(To be continued)