Yan Qixuan's house is located at No. 36, Mi Lane, Dongjiang, and it is also a relatively generous house in Beijing.

The original owner of the house is surnamed Liu, and he is a relatively famous outsider in Dongjiang Rice Lane.

In the house, Liu Yuanwai guided Xu Liang and others to visit the house with a painful face, and introduced while visiting: "Xu Gongzi, in front of Liu's house is the Yamen of the Chaoting Gate, the east side is against the Chongwen Gate, the west side is against the Zhengyang Gate, and the north is Chang'an Street. And you don't have to worry about the safety of living here, no thief dares to withdraw from the wilderness near the Yamen of the Gate......"

Liu Yuanwai chattered endlessly in Xu Liang's ear, and pointed to a few pots of flowers and plants placed outside the corridor, and said: "Look at it, this is the precious flowers and plants that Liu specially purchased from the flower market this summer, although it doesn't cost a few dollars, but it took a lot of effort, isn't it?" Alas, if it weren't for Liu's business turning to the direction of Jiangnan, I wouldn't be able to bear to make a move on such a good house. ”

Xu Liang frowned, and when Yan Qi saw this, he shouted at Liu Yuanwai: "I said Liu Yuanwai, whether your house is good or not, my son-in-law will judge by himself, and there is no need for you to sell melons in this princess, sell yourself and boast." ”

Liu Yuanwai is no stranger to this big shopkeeper who is all over the world, and after listening to Yan Qi's words, he laughed twice, shook his hand and said: "Come on, you guys just take your time, I don't talk much." ”

The group looked at it for a while, looked inside and outside the house, and when they came out of the front yard, Yan Qi came to Xu Liang and whispered, "My lord, what do you think?" If it doesn't work, the subordinates also fall in love with the other two, but the location is slightly more remote than this one. Why don't we go to the next one? ”

Xu Liang is actually very satisfied with this house, the location of the main house is quite good, in the middle of Zhengyang Gate and Chongwen Gate, and the surrounding roads are transparent. It is very much in line with Xu Liang's requirements.

Xu Liang groaned, and when he saw Rou'er following timidly, he said to her, "Rou'er, what do you think of this house?" ”

Rou'er obviously didn't expect Xu Liang to ask herself, so she suddenly panicked and looked at Xu Liang crampedly. said: "Childe asked Rou'er, how can Rou'er know if she is a subordinate?" Childe, Childe is satisfied. ”

Xu Liang smiled and said, "Rou'er's opinion is very important, because you and your grandfather will live here in the future!"

"Huh?" Rou'er exclaimed.

Xu Liang asked again: "Rou'er, do you like to live in such a big house?" ”

Rou'er lowered her head and said softly, "I, I don't know." ”

Xu Liang laughed. Said to Liu Yuanwai: "Liu Yuanwai, this house is my son." ”

When Liu Yuanwai heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, and said with a smile: "The prince is a cheerful person at first glance, so the price of this house Liu Mou is two thousand five hundred taels, and you will give two thousand four hundred taels." ”

Xu Liang said categorically: "Two thousand taels!" Fixed price. ”

Liu Yuanwai's face changed. Said: "Childe, this." How does this work? It's cut too hard, my house is in such a good location!"

Xu Liang raised his eyes and looked at the sky, and said indifferently: "At this price, if you are not satisfied, let's change another one." ”

Liu Yuanwai looked bitter and said, "You add more...... Two thousand two hundred taels! ”

Xu Liang listened. The corners of his mouth twitched, and he said to Yan Qi: "Shopkeeper Yan, where is the next one?" Take me to see it. ”

Yan Qi said, "The next one is near Chang'an Avenue." ”

Xu Liang nodded, and walked out the door, followed by the others.

Liu Yuanwai was stunned. He's been in business for so long, and he's never met anyone who does it! Isn't it all about you coming and going, compromising little by little? How can there be a bite to die!

Seeing that Xu Liang and the others were about to leave the gate, Liu Yuanwai stomped his feet, chased after him and shouted: "That's it, this son, it's up to you!" ”

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The house was bought, Yan Qi changed the door number of the customized Dongjiang Courtyard, and then called dozens of Tsing Yi guards to sweep around, and Tietou went to the Teaching Workshop Division to buy four or five maidservants, and added some daily utensils.

The next day, Xu Liang got up early in the morning and danced a set of wearing knives in the courtyard.

Xu Liang wiped his hands with a hot towel and said to Rou'er: "I was busy cleaning the house yesterday, so I was in a hurry. I see that in addition to the blue bricks, there are black tiles and red walls in this house, which is too monotonous at a glance. Go back and ask the iron butler to buy some flowers and trees. ”

Rou'er responded, "Yes." ”

Xu Liang threw the towel back into the basin, turned around and returned to the study, the bookshelf was naturally empty, there were no ancient books, Xu Liang took out the secret report sent by Jingshi Qingyi Wei early in the morning and read it. After a while, Rou'er made tea and brought it in, carefully put a cup on the desk, and was about to quit on tiptoe, Xu Liang beckoned: "That day, your grandfather said that you can still read and write?" Come, give me two sentences? ”

"Huh?" Rou'er was taken aback, and said coyly: "I, I don't write well." ”

Xu Liang said: "It's okay. With that, he pushed a piece of white paper in front of Rou'er, and pointed to the brush on the pen stand.

Rou'er was helpless, her face turned red, she carefully picked up the pen and wrote a few words, and like a frightened rabbit, she threw down the pen, covered her face with her hands, and said shyly: "I wrote ugly, which made adults laugh." ”

Xu Liang took a look and was silent for a while.

Rou'er covered her face with her hands and waited for a long time without waiting for Xu Liang's mocking words, she couldn't help but let go of her hand and asked worriedly, "My lord?" ”

Xu Liang sighed, and his tone was very sad: "I want me Xu Liang to be dignified, a talent, but I don't have the talent to write calligraphy!" After a few years of penning, the handwriting is not even as good as a country girl! Alas! ”

Rou'er looked at Xu Liang blankly and looked at him in surprise.

Seeing this, Xu Liang took out a letter he wrote to Tsing Yiwei and said indignantly: "This is what I wrote." ”

Rou'er took it and looked at it, with a suspicious expression on her face, and said in a half-hearted manner: "The handwriting of the adult, cough, shows the heroic style......

Burst! Xu Liang looked at Rou'er with a strange expression, and then became even more angry, accusing her: "Little girl, be honest!" ”

"Ugh!" Rou'er stood helplessly, not daring to look at Xu Liang.

Xu Liang got up and gave up his seat. Pointing to the chair, he said, "You sit here, write a letter for me, I say, you write!" ”

Rou'er looked at Xu Liang in amazement, for a long time, in Xu Liang's threatening eyes. Obediently sat down.

Immediately, Xu Liang walked in the study with his hands behind his back, and said as he walked: "Suqin Lady personally opened: Xianggong, I have been in the capital for a few days, and now I am looking for a house, three in and three out, sitting in the north and facing south, which is extremely convenient......"

borrowed Rou'er's hand to send a letter to Pingliang Mansion, and Xu Liang went out of the city with an iron head and came to the camp of King Qin's army outside Yongding Gate.

The camp of the Qinwang army is full of food and grass at the moment. The morale of the army was also stable, and the battalions strictly abided by military rules and discipline, and there was no attack on the surrounding people.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Sima Qiudao, He Huchen, Huang Daozhou and others gathered around Xu Liang, quietly waiting for Xu Liang to make a statement.

On the table in front of Xu Liang, there was a holy decree placed on the ground. It was the holy decree that was read by officials directly sent by the Ministry of War to the army yesterday, when Xu Liang, Tietou and others were looking at the house in the rice lane of the Dongjiang River. Then he was busy taking care of the house, and he never sent anyone back to the barracks, and Huang Daozhou, Sima Qiudao, He Huchen and others couldn't find Xu Liang for a while, so they didn't notify Xu Liang of the holy decree.

Xu Liang was silent for a long time. asked: "Your Majesty wants our Qin Wangjun to be assigned to Lord Sun Chengzong, does the governor know about this?" ”

Huang Daozhou said: "After receiving the holy decree, the lower officials and others sent someone to send the news to Tongzhou on a fast horse. Presumably, Lord Hong got the news and will return in the next two days. ”

Xu Liang groaned. Said: "Actually, our original plan was to fight a few battles with Lord Sun Chengzong, earn some military merits and then go back, now that Your Majesty has issued a holy decree, it will save us a lot of trouble." The order was sent down, and the battalions were ready, stepped up training, and waited for Hong Zhongcheng to return to the camp before making plans. ”

"The last general commands!" The crowd shouted in response, and then they rushed out and went back to the camp to prepare.

His subordinates all went out, but Xu Liang pondered it in the military tent. Shaanxi's Qinwang army is not very prominent among the many Qinwang troops, and since entering Beijing, Xu Liang thinks that the Qinwang army is very low-key, except for contact with the military department, there is no contact with other high-ranking officials in the court, even if there are officials in the court and the central government know that the Qinwang army in Shaanxi, it is not outstanding to the point of letting Emperor Chongzhen personally give an order.

Who in the end told the emperor about the Shaanxi Qinwang Army?

Hong Chengchou rushed back in the afternoon. And when Hong Chengchou came to the barracks with him, there was also an old man in a red robe.

Xu Liang led the generals in the army to greet him out of the door, and after saluting Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou pointed to the old man and said aloud to Xu Liang and others: "Everyone, this is the scholar of Wuyingdian, Sun Chengzong, the secretary of the military department, Lord Sun!" ”

Swish! The eyes of Xu Liang and the others fell on Sun Chengzong in an instant. Sun Chengzong in front of him had a thin face, a well-defined face, a long beard, and a pair of eyes flashing from time to time under his gray eyebrows.

When Xu Liang and the others looked at Sun Chengzong, Sun Chengzong also completed his observation of Xu Liang and the others. Sun Chengzong took two steps forward, stood in front of Xu Liang and others, his face sank like water, and said: "Your Majesty issued a decree to temporarily assign you to the official to wave down, although this is the emperor's will, but the official uses the army, and has its own official standards, like those stragglers outside the capital, the official does not look at it." Whether you can follow the official into battle to kill the enemy will be known after the official test. ”

When Sun Chengzong met, he didn't have any politeness, and his ruthless words made Xu Liang's faces a little ugly, and Xu Liang said unconvincedly: "Lord Sun is very right. Our soldiers in Shaanxi are naturally not comparable to those crop soldiers outside. ”

Sun Chengzong stared at Xu Liang, raised his eyebrows, and said in a deep voice: "This must be Xu Liang, the general of the Liang army?" ”

Xu Liang bowed his hand slightly and said, "It's Xia Guan." ”

Sun Chengzong said expressionlessly: "I have heard for a long time that Lord Xu is quite disciplined in training, and the combat power of the Liang army is extraordinary, and this official has never seen it in person, but today this official wants to open his eyes." Sun Chengzong aggravated his tone abruptly and shouted: "Order, the whole army is assembled!" This officer points soldiers! ”

After hearing this, Xu Liang smiled faintly, and begged Sima and said, "Blow the trumpet, gather!" ”

Sima Qiudao turned around and ran towards the barracks.

Sun Chengzong smiled coldly, turned his head to Hong Chengchou and said, "Lord Hong, let's go." ”

Hong Chengchou bowed slightly and said, "Lord Sun, please." ”

Sun Chengzong went straight past Xu Liang and walked towards the barracks.

Xu Liang and the others followed, and Huang Daozhou leaned into Xu Liang's ear and muttered in a low voice: "My lord, this Sun Chengzong seems to be a bad person." ”

Xu Liang chuckled: "In the past, I saw that Sun Chengzong trained the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, the first strongest army of the Ming Dynasty, and his vision was high, so he naturally looked down on other soldiers. ”

When the group entered the camp gate, they heard the sound of a hurried horn in the camp, and then there were chaotic and urgent footsteps in all parts of the camp, and the footsteps from all over the camp gradually converged to the open space in the center of the camp.

Sun Chengzong walked in unhurriedly, heard the sound of the horn, paused slightly, and said to Hong Chengchou: "I will gather the generals to order troops, mostly drumming and giving orders, limited to three-way drums. The Qin Wang Army brought by Lord Hong used the sound of the horn as the trumpet, which was fresh and tight. ”

Hong Chengchou said with a smile: "The horn is the original way of the Liang army, and it is also true that the Liang army is the main force in the Qinwang army, and the horn is used to order the troops. ”

Sun Chengzong listened, glanced at Xu Liang, and was noncommittal.

After a cup of tea, Sun Chengzong finally stood in front of the assembled Liang army. At this time, the Liang army had basically been assembled, and a neat phalanx of more than 10,000 people was presented in front of Sun Chengzong and others.

Sima Qiudao ran to Xu Liang with a serious face, hugged his fists and said: "Report to your lordship, the 15,000 people of the Liang army have been assembled, please give me instructions!" ”

Xu Liang turned to look at Sun Chengzong, glanced at him demonstratively, and said in a deep voice: "Please Lord Sun to give a lecture." ”

Hong Chengchou frowned, looked at Xu Liang, and stopped talking. And Sun Chengzong heard Xu Liang's demonstration, and did not speak, walked to the front of the military formation with a straight face, and carefully looked at the hastily assembled army. The military formation of 15,000 people, according to Sun Chengzong's impression, when so many people are gathered together, there will be some noise, even if it is the posture of standing and the gesture of holding weapons, it will be different.

Looking at it carefully, Hong Chengchou's stiff face finally had a hint of surprise, just from the standing posture of the Liang soldiers in the military formation, in the Liang army's military formation, whether it is an ordinary soldier or a sentry officer, the general, the battalion owner and other generals, regardless of soldiers and generals, are all chest and abdomen, looking straight ahead, and the standing position is extremely neat, vertical and horizontal.

Sun Chengzong thought to himself, the distance from the gate of the camp to the assembly point was not far, and it was only half an hour to walk all the way, and the 15,000 people of the Liang army, in just half an hour, were able to perform this step, which was already very good. Even with Sun Chengzong's conceit back then, there is no guarantee that the Liaodong soldiers he brought out will be able to perform better.

Like a thawing river, Sun Chengzong returned to Xu Liang and the others, finally with a far-fetched smile on his face, looked at Xu Liang, nodded appreciatively, and said, "This official underestimated you and your Liang Jun before. I want to apologize to you. ”

Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling person, Xu Liang saw that Sun Chengzong finally stopped keeping a straight face, so he also arched his hand and said, "Lord Sun is polite." ”

Sun Chengzong nodded, and turned to Hong Chengchou and said, "Lord Hong, this official orders you to take your Qinwang army to pull out the camp early tomorrow morning and move to Yutian City. (To be continued......)