In the unbearable and dry days, Jiang Yansi could only find a way to change the fate of himself and hundreds of Badong children through the way he had always hated, that is, to let his grandfather Jiang Jiliang find a way to divert them from the army of recruits to the armies of the Ming Kingdom.

After Jiang Jiliang heard the news, he discussed with Zhu Pengliang and spent a lot of money, but although the strength of the two of them is very important in Badong, for the Ming Kingdom, it is just a drop in the ocean.

The two begged their grandfather to sue their grandmother, but they couldn't find a real way.

Seeing that there was no way to think about it, the two thought of the emperor for a hundred miles, maybe it was difficult to do, and it would be a matter of course with his words, but the emperor was not something they could see if they wanted to, even though they participated in the shares of all the armories in the Ming Kingdom, but this did not mean that they were qualified to enter and leave the court.

Jiang Jiliang thought of a way, he asked Zhu Pengliang to gather the old folks of Badong and go to Jinling to see the emperor together, the reason was to beg Baili Wuji to fulfill the promise he had promised to accept the children of Badong every three years.

This reason is Baili Wuji can not refuse, in the battle of his army to attack Shu to occupy Gyeongju, how many Badong children shed blood and sacrificed for this, in public and private, Baili Wuji can only agree.

And the moment they saw the emperor, before Jiang Jiliang and the others could speak, Baili Wuji threw out a dumbfounded proposal to smuggle ordnance to Zhou Guo and the Guiyi Army.

Jiang Jiliang's reaction was quite fast, and when he heard that Baili Wuji was going to send the Ming army to disguise himself as a caravan to protect along the way, he thought to himself, great, as long as Jiang Yansi's department is included in the caravan, then there is no need to plead with Baili Wuji for this matter.

Things were inexplicably resolved.

Jiang Jiliang hurriedly sent a message to Jiang Yansi. Get him ready.

But at this time, something changed.

The imperial court began to mobilize some of the 50,000 recruits, and Bailiyi's Fourth Army moved from Goryeo to Yanyun. He went down to Taiyuan from Yanyun to the south, and the commander of the capital also changed from Bailiyi to Ding Siji, and the army was reduced by three percent, and he was in urgent need of supplies When the commander of the new army informed Jiang Yansi that the Badong battalion was ready to be transferred to the Fourth Army, Jiang Yansi was in a dilemma.

On the one hand, it is the family industry of the Jiang family, and on the other hand, it is the longed-for Fourth Army of the Ming Army.

Seeing Jiang Yansi's hesitation. Zhu Guichao was a little anxious, anxious for Jiang Yansi.

"Bohan, I just want to advise you. That is, don't forget the purpose of our military service. If it is just to reorganize the Padang battalion into a caravan, why do you and I need to join the army, just lead the township in Padang, with the financial resources of your and my family. It is not difficult to recruit hundreds of villagers. We all have a responsibility to revitalize our family. But you don't want to enter the official career, only to make contributions on the battlefield, where to go, you have to think twice. ”

Zhu Guichao actually already had a clear goal in mind, if Jiang Yansi chose to be a caravan, then he would part ways with Jiang Yansi and lead a part of the Badong battalion soldiers north to Taiyuan. He didn't want to go back to Padang and spend time every day preparing for the imperial examination. He needed another way of life.

Jiang Yuping, his wife, who has read poetry and books since childhood, has heard and seen it since she was a child, and has the same ambition as her mother Chen, that is, she hopes that her husband can get ahead and glorify his ancestors.

When she knew that Zhu Guichao was going to join the army with her brother Jiang Yansi, although Jiang Yuping was reluctant, she gave the greatest support with all her heart, and the man was determined to be in all directions, she would rather be a widow for half her life than have nothing to do with her husband.

Zhu Guichao was fortunate to marry such an empathetic wife, and he also strengthened his determination to make contributions on the battlefield, change his way of life, and let himself establish his career with martial arts.

Jiang Yansi was indeed contradictory in his heart, how could he not know the benefits of going north to enter the Fourth Army, at least he had the opportunity to face the Khitans, and only by participating in the battle was the most direct and effective way to make meritorious contributions.

However, the price of this path is life, and he, his younger brother, as well as the two brothers of the Zhu family and hundreds of Padang children, brought them out in order to give them a way out, not a dead end.

Jiang Yansi had no choice but to ask for leave of absence from the camp to ask his mentor Bian Ho for advice.

"There is a man who dies in the end, early and late. You can choose to do nothing until you die, or you can choose to die vigorously, everyone's opinion is different, the choice is naturally different, the key is how you face your deepest desires. Bian Hao looked at this beloved disciple who he trained single-handedly, and watched him change from a scholar to a soldier all the way, Bian Ho had a kind of vertigo in his heart to be reincarnated, perhaps, he was his own thoughts, his own sustenance.

But Bian Ho didn't want to force Jiang Yansi to make a choice, he wanted Jiang Yansi to make his own choice, even if he chose to go back to be a caravan.

"Teacher, disciples have been taught since childhood, gentlemen do not stand under dangerous walls, not to mention that the future of hundreds of Padang children is now pressed on the shoulders of disciples, if there is a good one, how to go back to face the elders of his hometown."

Jiang Yansi still hasn't said a word, that is, he has regretted it now, he shouldn't be angry for a while, and bring his younger brother Jiang Yanzhao out, if this goes, the two brothers are killed in the north, then the Jiang family will be broken. He was indeed indecisive, and if he was alone, he might have made the decision to go north.

Bian Ho smiled kindly, this fierce and bloodthirsty general in the past, now he can no longer find a trace of fire in him, maybe being in adversity is the best way to hone a person.

Bian Ho raised his hand, stretched out his index finger and dipped it in the tea bowl, and then wrote the word "human" on the table.

Jiang Yansi looked puzzled, revealing a confused expression.

Bian Hao smiled and said: "Bohan, this one goes to the left, you have to go to the right first when you start writing, and then to the left when you put out the pen." You look at this glyph, the pen is right, and finally the hand is left out, so that the glyph is flattened and straightened. This is called wanting left and right ....... ”

Jiang Yansi was still confused, and he didn't understand what this desire to leave and right had to do with whether he went north or returned to Padang.

Bian Ho continued: "If you regard saving your life and making meritorious contributions as left and right, then if you want to save your life, you need to make meritorious contributions and have enough military power before you are qualified to save the lives of others, including yourself." Take a good look at the current situation, the northeast of Babei is blocking the army to suppress the border, but you are still hesitating how to save the lives of your hundreds of people, hey....... ”

Gun Ho sighed unappetically.

Jiang Yansi somewhat understood, what Bian Hao said about saving his life is not exactly to protect the lives of himself and hundreds of Padang children, but the lives of tens of millions of Ming people, of course, including the lives of Padang people. The front of the Blockade army is approaching, only a few hundred miles away from Padang, and if it is really to be broken into by the Blockade Army, then at that time, needless to say, to save their own lives, tens of thousands of Padang people will be killed. (To be continued......)