Cao Bianjiao's strength is worthy of a good general. However, it is easy to move things, it is difficult to make meritorious contributions, and it is easy to be frustrated, so it is necessary to seek courage and be martyred. Cover the destiny of heaven, and those who do it are not the ones who do it.

Woohoo, General Cao, forever, never forget!

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"The first emperor did not start a business and the middle way collapsed, today under three points, Yizhou is tired, this Cheng is in danger of survival..."

It was already late at night, and under the bright light of the study, half of the centenarians were still tirelessly reading books. The old man read Zhuge Kongming's "Teacher Table" of the Three Kingdoms. I read it word by word, and there was no pause in between.

When I read it, I couldn't help but put down the book, looked up at the window, and meditated quietly. On the windowsill, linden incense is lit to repel mosquitoes. Under the reflection of the light, the cigarette smoke spread in all directions.

Smelling the faint fragrance, the old man felt a sense of comfort in his heart, in the end, it is the famous fragrance of Xiyi, which not only repels mosquitoes, but also can be appreciated, which is much more clever than the smoke and fire in the temple.

After a long time, I shook my waist from side to side, after all, I am old, and I have lost the energy of my youth, which will also make me feel tired.

was about to instruct his subordinates to prepare for washing, but the housekeeper outside came to report: "Master, Vice General Yan Suicao asked someone to see the master." ”

"Adjutant General Yan Suicao?"

Hearing this official name, the pupils in the old man's eyes widened sharply, and the previous feeling of exhaustion suddenly disappeared, and he raised his hand and used the word "please": "Invite someone soon." ”

"Yes, sir."

The butler answered outside, and after a while, he led a young man to push open the door.

The young man is very young, about ten years old, eyebrows like double swords, eyes like stars, heroic, very outstanding, even more rare is that the figure is very tall, to that station, no need to make a move, it makes people's eyes shine, can't help but praise: what a young man!

Perhaps because of the dust, there was a faint layer of dust on the young man's face, but he didn't look sloppy, but it gave the young man a heavy feeling.

After seeing the half-hundred-hundred-year-old man, the young man bowed his head and said respectfully: "Little nephew Cao Bianjiao has seen Master Qiu!" ”

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This Lord Qiu is naturally Qiu Hejia who is the governor of Liaodong on behalf of the Son of Heaven. He was born in the 41st year of Wanli Township, and he was known for his good conversation. In the first year of Chongzhen, the imperial court ordered all prefectures and counties to recommend those who knew the soldiers, and a total of ten people were raised in the world, divided into Qiu Minyang, Song Yihe, He Tengjiao, Zhang Liang, Liu Kexun, Liu Yingyu, Sun Yuanhua, Xu Qiyuan, Chen Xinjia, and the last person was Qiu Hejia.

After Qiu Hejia was recommended, he was first appointed as the head of the Ministry of War, and when the "change of his own life" was made, the Manchu Dynasty did not dare to come out, and Qiu Hejia asked himself to supervise the army, and the imperial court took him as the supervisor of the Shuntian General Soldier Ma Shilong.

Later, the golden power was great, the four cities of Yongping were lost, and the cardinal assistant Sun Chengzong was blocked at the gate, and the sound was blocked. Zhang Fengyi, the governor of Jiliao, was supposed to be ordered to command the troops and horses, but no one was nowhere to be found, and Fang Daren, the governor of Shuntian, was too old to move at all, and the army of the king of Zhulu Qin was leaderless and mixed together.

Qiu Hejia felt that the country was difficult, and he had no way to repay the country, so he was willing to go with one body. It is said that Ma Shilong sent troops to open the gate, led Sun Chengzong to help, and then personally led the army into Kaiping. When the Houjin army came to attack, he led his troops to refuse, and the Houjin army could not attack for a long time and retreated. Later, Qiu Hejia ordered the deputy generals Zhang Hongmo, Jin Guoqi, Liu Guangzuo and others to fight, and supervised the general Cao Wenzhao and others to fight in Zunhua. Under his co-ordination, the Ming army finally recovered the four cities and drove the Jiannu outside the pass. After the war, Emperor Chongzhen gave a gold plaque of "leaning on the Great Wall" to show his merits, and awarded him the post of imperial history of the right capital, and the governor of Liaodong and the jurisdiction of Shanhaiguan.

The people of the time have praise: Wenchen led the troops, the first to recommend Sun Jingluo, and the second to raise Qiu Hejia!

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"Nephew, please get up!"

Cao Bianjiao's appearance is very similar to his uncle Cao Wenzhao, especially the spiritual head, which is really carved out of a mold. Qiu Hejia is more and more happy, Xi Cao's general has another tiger, and Daming has added another tiger general. He and Cao Wenzhao are friends of the same generation, and Cao Bianjiao is naturally his son and nephew. When the children of the deceased come to visit, they naturally rejoice.

Overjoyed, regardless of his identity, Qiu Hejia stepped forward to help Cao Bianjiao up, and moved a chair for him with his own hands, signaling him to sit. Cao Bianjiao hesitated for a moment and sat down calmly. The housekeeper brought another bowl of tea here, Xu was drinking it badly, Cao Bianjiao took it and drank it, and it was like drinking wine. Fortunately, it is herbal tea, otherwise I am afraid that I will have to take a mouthful of bubbles. But when I drank in a hurry, I choked, and I even coughed, and I didn't know how to hide it at all.

The housekeeper watched from the sidelines, dumbfounded, and said in his heart that he was the nephew of the dignified deputy chief soldier, but how could he not understand any etiquette, such rudeness?

Qiu Hejia likes this Cao Bianjiao's true temperament, although he is a civil official, he has never liked those sour courtesies, and he has dealt with those generals all the year round, and he is naturally a little close to the martial artists in his heart. The more Cao Bianjiao is like this, the more he feels that this son is amiable, and he is vaguely an uncarved piece of jade!

After smiling and signaling the housekeeper to serve another bowl of tea, he said in a harmonious voice: "Yansui is here, thousands of miles away, and the virtuous nephew has worked hard all the way." ”

Hearing this, Cao Bianjiao hurriedly put down the tea bowl, wiped his mouth, and said: "Back to my lord, the little nephew is not from Yansui, but from Lintao." ”

"Lintao?" Qiu Hejia was stunned for a moment, didn't Cao Wenzhao serve as the deputy chief soldier in Yansui, why did this little Cao come from Lintao?

Seeing that Qiu Hejia was confused, Cao Bianjiao hurriedly got up and said: "Uncle doesn't know, my uncle killed Wang Jiayin, the leader of the mutant people who guarded the river meander, last month, and was promoted to the chief military officer of Lintao with merit, and the little nephew has always been by my uncle's side, so he also followed my uncle to Lintao. This time the little nephew came to see the adult, it was the intention of the uncle. As he spoke, he reached out and took out a letter from his bosom and handed it to Qiu Hejia.

Qiu Hejia stretched out his hand to take it and looked at it carefully, although he and Cao Wenzhao had not worked together for a long time, they got along very happily, and naturally recognized his handwriting. In the letter, in addition to greeting him, Cao Wenzhao only said that his nephew Cao Bianjiao was an adult, and hoped that Governor Qiu could take care of him on his behalf, and did not say much else.

Cao Wenzhao is also a general soldier now, how can his nephew come to my Liaodong? Besides, even if he wants to train his nephew, he can send him to the ancestral shou, how can he be sent to me, the new governor with no name?

Qiu Hejia was confused, raised his eyes and glanced at Cao Bianjiao, who may have been instructed by his uncle, so he said it himself immediately:

"When the little nephew came, the uncle once confessed, the boy should serve the country, make meritorious contributions, now the east is entrenched outside the pass, eyeing me Ming, it is the time of my generation's life, although there is chaos in the pass, but in the end it is not as big as the danger of the east captive, so the uncle let the little nephew come to Liaodong to join the army." After a pause, he said: "Don't hide it from the adult, the reason why the little nephew doesn't go to the grandfather's uncle's place and comes to the adult's place is the little nephew's own will." ”

As soon as he heard that Cao Bianjiao was coming to join him, Qiu Hejia suddenly became interested, and asked him with a smile: "Oh, what do you mean, for what?" ”

Cao Bianjiao said very frankly: "The little nephew heard my uncle mention my grandfather many times, and I always felt that my grandfather's leading troops was a little twilight and too conservative, and the little nephew himself advocated attacking, and the adult's methods were exactly what the little nephew wanted, so the little nephew defected to the adult." If he served under his grandfather's account, the little nephew was afraid that he would not be able to achieve his life's wishes. ”

Cao Bianjiao is young in the end, can the word twilight be easily said? What's more, it's still his uncle's old boss, who really doesn't know how to measure.

In other words, I am afraid that I already think that this son is light and thin, and the fledgling does not know the height of the sky, and there is no one in his eyes. But when Qiu Hejia heard it, he had a feeling of tickling, Xiao Cao said that he didn't have his opinion of Zu Dashou!

But this can no longer be said, Qiu Hejia coughed lightly, and asked Cao Bianjiao with a smile: "At a young age, you have your life's wishes, but it's rare, but I don't know what your life's wishes are?" ”

Cao Bianjiao opened his mouth without pretentiousness and said: "It's not my intention to wait for the seal, but I hope the sea is peaceful!" When he said this, he looked at Qiu Hejia with an arrogant face, and there was a resolute look on his young face.

It's not my intention to wait, but I hope the sea is flat!

This is a poem by Qi Jiguang, a famous general during the Jiajing period of this dynasty, Qiu Hejia doesn't know, but now he listens to it, and it is really a kind of pride.

Attaboy!

Qiu Hejia secretly praised: Sure enough, he is a good nephew trained by Cao Wenzhao!

He gave a high-five: "Okay, I'll take you under the account, but I want to see if you're as heroic as your uncle!" ”

Cao Bianjiao raised his head and said, "My lord will wait and see!" ”

"Good, good, good!"

It's been a long time since I've seen a young man with such a true temperament, and he is the nephew of his friend Cao Wenzhao, Qiu Hejia can't help but see if this Cao Bianjiao is really as he said in the future, and can be in the Ming Dynasty.

How to arrange this little Cao? Qiu Hejia groaned slightly, and said to Cao Bianjiao: "You will take on a thousand generals under my name, and when you have made military achievements in the coming days, I will ask for an official for you." ”

"It's all up to the adults." Cao Bianjiao had no intention of being dissatisfied at all.

In fact, what kind of official he is, Cao Bianjiao really doesn't care, if he comes to Liaodong to be an official, he really underestimates him. Uncle Gui is the general soldier of a town, and it is not a trivial matter to casually get a general guerrilla for his own nephew. Anyway, those homeless people can't help fighting, there are hundreds or thousands of heads, and there are as many battles as there are. But what he wants in his life is to learn from Qi Jiguang - it is not my intention to wait for him, but I hope that Hai Boping will be peaceful, how can this be compared with the big and the small!

Cao Bianjiao's appearance Qiu Hejia saw it in his eyes, and saw that he didn't care about his official position, so he added a little appreciation. pulled Xiao Cao to sit down and chatted with him about Cao Wenzhao's recent situation.

"A few months ago, I read the Tang newspaper and said that there were famines in the Yansui area for many years, and the people were exiled and rebelled from thieves. But I don't know what the situation is now? ”

chatting and chatting, it was natural to talk about the civil unrest in Shaanxi. Recently, Tang News has published a lot, but the real situation Qiu Hejia is still very worried. What he said in the Tang newspaper may not be true, just as when he came to Jinzhou, many of the newspapers sent to the imperial court were covered up, and it was difficult for outsiders to get a glimpse of the truth from them.

"Don't hide it from my uncle, as far as the little nephew sees, the situation is not optimistic. As far as Shaanxi is concerned, there are quite a lot of thieves, such as Lighting Lamp, Li Laochai, a dragon, sweeping the king, Shangyun Dragon no less than 100 people, and there are tens of thousands of homeless people under the head of each thief, and hundreds of less. Speaking of this, Cao Bianjiao suddenly stopped, and said a little heavily: "There have been disasters and famines for many years, and the court has no way to provide relief, and if it continues like this, the foundation of the country will be shaken." ”

Hearing this, Qiu Hejia did not feel alarmist, but also felt the same way: "Under the famine, the people have nothing to eat, the bold thief raises his arms and shouts, the ringers gather, attack the government and plunder the county, and the officials and troops suppress it everywhere, just like tearing down the east wall to make up the west wall, suppressing this place and reversing that place, how is it a head." Alas, but if the court cannot make the people work in peace for a day, there will be no end to this thief chaos. If this goes on for a long time, it really responds to the trend of sparks. Your uncle led the troops to quell the chaos, and there were many dangers, and if you were not careful, you would be doomed. ”

Hearing Qiu Hejia say this, Cao Bianjiao's face darkened, and he couldn't help but worry about his uncle when he thought about the chaotic scene of the state capital he saw before he came.

There are Donglu outside the pass, and there is civil unrest inside the pass, God seems to hate our Ming Dynasty, the northwest has been in drought for several years, the people are not living, the chaos has been revealed, as a Ming courtier, but there is nothing to be done, for a while, Qiu Hejia is a little sad.

Although Cao Bianjiao was young, he also saw that Governor Qiu looked haggard, and knew that it would be better to let Lord Qiu rest as soon as possible, otherwise the old man's body would not be able to withstand it. He was about to get up and leave, but before he could speak, he saw a clerk running in in a hurry, and seeing that the governor did not care about saluting, he hurriedly said:

"My lord, Tanma is in a hurry, Jiannu has surrounded the Songshan Grain Army!"

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Author's note: Guanmen, that is, Shanhaiguan.