Chapter 131 Another Year

March of the fourth year of Zhenghe: Wang Huan was crowned, and Prince Yan sent people to congratulate; Taoist priest Wang Laozhi was ordered to go to Beijing through Xiangyi, and Prince Yan greeted him in person, stayed for three days, and asked for Taoism; In the spring, there was no rain on the roads of Gyeonggi, and Prince Yan led the crowd to draw water and open a canal to fight the drought.

In April of the fourth year of Zhenghe: Shengdetang Leather Workshop and Garment Workshop started production; Sixty students from Prince Yan's quasi-righteous craftsman class and arithmetic class entered the workshops of Shengyi Hall; Prince Yan reviewed the two societies and awarded a number of gold bowls and silver bowls for those with outstanding martial arts and outstanding archery.

In May of the fourth year of Zhenghe: Fuzhong changed Chongwentang to lecture on martial arts, and introduced dozens of scholars and good soldiers from nearby states to discuss the army here, and Prince Yan repeatedly came to listen in person, and the house was martial and martial; Prince Yan felt Guan Yunchang's loyalty and righteousness, and built a temple to worship Emperor Guan.

June of the fourth year of Zhenghe: There was no rain in the great drought, the grain fields in Zhulu Prefecture were not harvested, the hungry people poured in, Prince Yan asked for disaster relief, the saint was approved, the palace opened a warehouse to release grain relief, Prince Yan went to administer medicine, took in orphans and widows, countless living people, and the victims felt the kindness of the prince and established the ancestral hall.

In July of the fourth year of Zhenghe: the royal palace included hundreds of hectares of barren land, repaired canals to divert water, distributed agricultural materials, and resettled displaced people, costing tens of thousands of yuan.

August of the fourth year of Zhenghe: the autumn grain harvest, the palace funded the bidding competition, with the gold and silver bowls as the chips, the villages actively competed for the bid, and the society Ding taught the high pet bow horse skillfully won the first place; After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Prince Yan led the crowd to hunt in autumn...

"Dutou, how much more do we have to go?" Night had fallen, a small army camped in a valley, and Lei Zhenshan brought a bundle of dry firewood next to the bonfire and put it down to ask Zhao Zhong, who was looking at the map.

"Judging from the map, there are still more than 100 miles, according to the order, we must arrive tomorrow evening, but there are two rivers in the middle, and I don't know the water conditions of the road, so it's hard to say whether it can pass smoothly" Zhao Zhong re-folded the map according to the original folds, wrapped it in oilcloth and said.

"Dutou, we've been walking for five days, and we're still so far?" Li Lei, who was on the side, put his frozen hands on the fire and said that they had been out for five days, and they had been marching on foot for about 200 miles every day, and they had chosen deserted paths, and they had to carry more than 40 catties of equipment on their backs, which required a lot of physical exertion.

"What so much nonsense, the second master must have his reason for letting us do this, your team is on duty tonight, don't let the fire go out, Erwa, you go find some water to boil more water, and burn everyone's feet" Zhao Zhong said with a straight face, he is now the head of the capital of A, and Li Lei is the captain of team B.

"Yes, I'll arrange it right away," Li Lei agreed, and immediately got up to find a few gang leaders to set up a sentry.

Hearing the instructions of the head, Erwa added some firewood to the bonfire and carried the bucket to the creek to carry water, Erwa was a large Lei Zhenshan, because he was familiar with the small guys in the house, everyone also called him Erwa, he was originally a blacksmith in the workshop, and he could be an apprentice in another year, he heard that the palace guards were recruiting soldiers last year, and he did not discuss with his family and immediately went to the house to sign up, he pondered that he had studied for two years, and practiced martial arts with his father since he was a child, but he had never ridden a horse, but he often rode the donkey raised at home, and he thought that he had a 'friendship' with the prince It's a big deal to go and talk to him, but I didn't expect that the person in charge of recruiting soldiers was Zhao Ren's old acquaintances, so I agreed immediately.

When the second baby went home, he was afraid that his father and mother would complain that he was the master and went to be a soldier, but he didn't expect that when he said it, his father and mother were happier than him, so he asked him to protect the prince well, and it could be regarded as repaying the prince's kindness to their family. He only learned that it was not easy for him to be a soldier when he entered the guard, and Zhao Ren was not merciful to his old friend at all in training, and he would fight the same as others.

After gritting his teeth and surviving these few months, he understood why Zhao Ren and the others treated him like this, and understood that being a soldier is not the same as the common people, and it is not easy to be a good soldier, and he learned a lot of new things in the following days, and his grades are among the best in the whole battalion, and now he is a communicator with Dutou, but he is unwilling to do this, and he wants to go to the gang to be a soldier Although he is very tired these days, but thinking that the prince has been marching with everyone with the same weight, he doesn't feel anything.

"Hurry up and die in a hundred battles on the frontier, the bones of the thousand autumns are fragrant, next to the water on the side of Taihang Mountain, and the clouds are on the long wall. Resist power, remove national thieves, the spirit of martyrs is bright, the head can be lost, the body cannot be surrendered, and the blood will turn into a cadre..."

"Lian Po is a hero of a hundred battles, Jian Fan thinks of Zhao, Fu Boma leather shroud is returned, and the old man is strong. Resist power, get rid of national thieves, our generation of young people must work hard, work hard, the coming day is a big disaster, the responsibility is on my shoulders"

The second baby carried the water and walked back, suddenly a loud song sounded, he looked into the valley, the prince was waving his hands in the firelight to direct everyone to sing, and the second baby couldn't help but sing loudly...,

The water of the two babies was not used to burn their feet, they were poured into the kettle, and the troops only went on the road overnight after an hour's rest, and after a night of rapid travel, they arrived at their destination in the early morning, in the middle of a large mountain, where there were no warm houses, no steaming meals, and even the dry food they carried was eaten.

All of them, including the prince, trained in the mountains without any supplies, and they not only had to train in normal mountain warfare, learn the skills of feeding and surviving in the wilderness where food and lodging were hopeless, know how to identify wild vegetables for consumption, learn how to use traps to catch prey or catch fish, how to find water and light a pile of wet wood without any tools, but also learned many combat skills.

Not only do they have to endure all kinds of physical torture during training, but they are also extremely mentally stressed, and they must be ready to accept sudden assignments (*). Some were asked to march long distances in the dark of night according to a map, and many of them arrived exhausted after many disorientations and many more unjust paths, only to find that a group of fierce masked men awaited him.

They would be thrown into a dark cave for the night, accompanied not only by the fear of the unknown, but also by the screams and whipping of their companions, followed by endless interrogations, demanding that they explain how they used their weapons, where they got them, what they came here for, where the prince was... After asking countless questions and receiving an unknown number of fists, they would be tied up blindfolded and banished into the wilderness, and then the sound of hundreds of horses galloping towards them would be heard, and all they could do was wait for death...

As time goes by, no one knows when the training will end, and the amount of training is constantly increasing, they tend to start training at the end of the day, and it will not end until the evening, or even later, they do not get the slightest opportunity to relax, many people find that due to lack of sleep and adequate diet, their judgment is affected, these are no longer a test of physical strength, but a challenge to willpower

Just when everyone's physical and mental endurance was about to reach the limit, they were pleasantly surprised to find that a better day was coming, and suddenly there was food, a warm tent, endless meat, endless wine, and their beloved war horses also came to their side... The days that followed were also full of hardships, and they had to take care of not only themselves but also the horses that sat down, but they were already in heaven than the previous days.

At this time, it was not only the soldiers of these personal guards who felt uncomfortable, but also the countless bandits who haunted the Baili Funiu Mountain. The cottages that have been in business for many years have been uprooted one by one, all the gold and silver have been swept away, countless lives have disappeared in the light of knives and thunderous gunshots, and the cottages that have been in operation for many years have been turned into ashes in the firelight. More than a dozen cottages in order to survive, reunited and reunited, gathered more than 2,000 people, ready to find an opportunity to destroy this group of haunting and impermanence of the killing gods, but was ambushed on the road, until the next spring was warm and blooming was found by the people who entered the mountain, and the bodies of the killed bandits spread all over the valley.

When the first snow fell in the lunar month, people finally looked forward to the prince and his guards, but the people in the house suddenly found that their children had become strangers, and there was no longer the previous childishness, but exuded a chilling faint murderous aura and indescribable maturity and self-confidence.

The Spring Festival of the fifth year of Zhenghe is still peaceful, now the whole palace has thousands of hectares of fertile land, nearly 10,000 households, a radius of 30 miles has all become the territory of the prince, the first establishment of the palace four Zhuangzi after continuous expansion, almost integrated, is collectively known as Da Zhao Zhuang, the outer edge of the two Zhuangzi and last year's new two Zhuangzi are collectively called Xiao Zhao Zhuang, still divided by the southeast and northwest, but all add small characters, the past Beifu has become the center of Xiao Zhaozhuang, the Baishui River is widened and dredged again, flowing through the entire area, if you look down from the air, The two palaces are like the eyes of the two yin and yang fish in the Taiji diagram, and the Baishui River is the boundary of yin and yang.

After the Spring Festival, He Qufei began to preach the "Seven Books of the Martial Classics" and the "General Essentials of the Martial Classics" in the morning, and there were more than 20 companions in the class, who were the subordinate officers above the captain of the prince's personal guard and the members of the battalion headquarters. In the afternoon, it was the time for him to meet guests, and as the reputation of the martial arts hall spread, more and more scholars came to visit here, and the prince set aside a courtyard for them to live in, so that they could discuss the art of war with He Qufei. He Qufei has already taken off the hat of martial arts at this time, he is in the fifth grade, and he has the weight of the king, he has no inferiority complex in the past, he lives more chic, and he is also willing to discuss some academic issues with his colleagues and enrich his works.

At this time, the palace also found that the Lu Da couple who had disappeared for two years had returned to the palace, still living in the original small courtyard, and their son had already walked around, planting trees and raising flowers as in the past, and nothing seemed to have changed.

The prince was still idle, and every day after lunch, he would take the guards and a team of guards on duty to Beifu, and would not return until the next morning. The northern mansion is still heavily guarded, and the original inner courtyard is even better, and the guards standing guard outside have been ordered, and those who trespass can be cut down first and then played, without waiting for orders.