Chapter 110: Lecture on Martial Arts
After Zhao Huan gave the order, he immediately returned to the palace, but he liked Yue Yun's martial arts and straightforwardness, and every time he was summoned, he looked for a place in the palace, and ordered Yue Yun and others to test each other's martial arts with the Banzhi guards.
It's just that although he is diligent and has a good teacher to teach, his foundation is too thin, compared with ordinary soldiers, his riding and archery martial arts are naturally strong, and when he meets ordinary generals, he is not weak, compared with Yue Yun, a talented and experienced enemy of 10,000 people, his kung fu is more than a little bit worse. After a few times, Zhao Huan also knew that he was fine, so he kept his clumsy and did not make a move, and only watched Yue Yun compete with the royal class in his spare time.
On this day, Yue Yun entered the palace, but he met Li Xianzhong, who was on the right side of the scattered duty, the two were about the same age, they were both young talents, and they were both strong in martial arts, although Li Xianzhong made great contributions in the Taiyuan War, and was selected by Zhao Huan to enter the palace as a commander and Ban Zhi, compared with Yue Yun, no matter the fame of the war, they are very far apart. He is also a high-minded and arrogant person, he was not convinced in his heart, in the past few days, Yue Yun has repeatedly defeated the palace class, everyone is holding their breath in their chests, secretly instigating Li Xianzhong, but they want him to compete with Yue Yun.
Both of them are young and vigorous, and as soon as they meet, they are like a thunderbolt and flint, and they are about to do it immediately.
Fortunately, Zhao Huan was watching from the sidelines, and he gave a few words of advice, and secretly gave Yue Yun a look, asking him to leave room for Li Xianzhong.
Yue Yun was very clever, and when he looked at the emperor's eyes, he already knew what it meant. When he immediately started to fight with Li Xianzhong, he was unhurried, stabbing and shooting, and the fight was very lively. Where did the onlookers see that Yue Yun intended to give in, shouting and shouting, applauding for Li Xianzhong.
Zhao Huan's martial arts are average, but he is very old-fashioned, and he has already seen that Li Xianzhong is indeed not Yue Yun's opponent, if he hadn't ordered Yue Yun to keep his hand. I'm afraid that I will be knocked to the ground long ago. This kind of half-truth and half-truth competition is very meaningless, Zhao Huan glanced at it for a while, but his mind was already wandering outside the world.
His marriage date is approaching at this time, and it is funny to think about it, he was married once in his previous life, he has a son and a daughter, and Zhao Huan's body is also a queen. Zhu Hou Xiande. When the north hunt did not want to be humiliated and threw into the water to die, with this excuse, Zhao Huan enjoyed the blessings of Qi people in the harem, and nothing was delayed in the past few years, since the prince Zhao Dun was born, in the past half a year, there was the second son of the emperor Zhao Zheng, and the emperor Ji Dejin came to the emperor's family in turn, counting, it is already two daughters and one daughter. Zhao Dun's mother, Zhu's mother, is more expensive than her son.
has been named a concubine, and there are many other side concubines and beauties.
Such and such. The status of the crown prince of Zhao Dun has actually been determined a long time ago, and the rest of the princes will be born one after another, afraid that if the emperor has an accident, the embarrassment of having no one to succeed the emperor in the world no longer exists.
As for the emperor without a queen, it has become the emperor's family affair, and it is not a matter for the doctors and the people to worry about.
Zhao Huan's own psychology is actually based on solving physical needs. With his insight and experience, it is impossible to value love like a teenager. And the harem women are mostly from humble backgrounds. In addition, the internal and external guards are tight, and there is no possibility of making waves.
The Song family has no relatives to cause trouble, and there are no eunuchs in charge of the country, but they have the right to hang the curtain with the queen mother. Zhao Huan doesn't like to be left in power, so the most trusted and relied on prime minister Li Gangyuan is in Xiangyang, leaving only the governors in Chang'an. There is no woman in the harem who is equal to him, so he has less constraints now, and he will have to find a way to keep the system in the future. Don't let your descendants have the disaster of the heroine as the country.
Sima Guangdi's history books say that although Empress Zhenzong was from a humble background, she made a lot of contributions to the Song Dynasty, and it was the Queen Mother who indirectly caused the party strife.
The people of the time boasted that the queen mothers of the Song Dynasty were all wise and protective of the country, but Zhao Huan had a different understanding of these.
Zhao Huan is not a saint after all, this country is bound to be taken over by his descendants, and any drawbacks he knows need to be eliminated in the bud.
Marrying Zheyuexiu, Zhao Huan has always been thinking about gains and losses in his heart.
It is undeniable that he has an unusual affection for this beautiful girl who has a tradition of being a general, speaks and does things smoothly and directly, and has an extraordinary appearance and appearance, but when he marries, he has a stake that does not match his feelings at all.
Before the establishment of the queen, he had officially canonized Zhao Dun as the crown prince, and the title had been decided, even if the queen gave birth to a son-in-law in the future, she could no longer compete for the throne. And after the noble and noble queen Zhiyuexiu entered the palace, needless to say, the benefits of the outside world also had a great suppressive effect on suppressing the jealousy and power grabbing of the harem women who have appeared recently.
Thinking of this, Zhao Huan could only shake his head and smile bitterly.
I thought that the emperor was the honor, what are some women in the harem? Don't you know that the most difficult thing in the world to deal with is your own woman. No matter how you are, you are a big hero and a hero, but the other party is a finger twister with low eyebrows and a bent waist. Could it be that you slapped the smiling woman on the face as soon as you were fine?
Therefore, Zhao Huan was troubled by these open and secret battles, but he couldn't pay attention to them. In the end, you can't send a team of forbidden troops to drag them all out and kill them all, and when it comes to their own hearts, this kind of thing is inevitable. A man has only one favor but is not one, and the servants who wait, the monthly portions, rewards, and decency in front of people, all make those poor women who were originally pure and lovely gradually transform. And who is the one who has always been a figurine, but not Zhao Huan?
I can only blame myself for not being a saint, Zhao Huan shook his head and smiled bitterly.
But there was something strange in the smile that soon followed. He and Zheyuexiu met when they were admiring the lanterns, and in fact, they met each other when they visited Zhe Keqiu. As soon as Shangyuan Lantern City saw it, the emperor often used the excuse of micro-service, in the name of visiting the old lady, to run to the old lady of Zhe when he had nothing to do.
It didn't take long for everyone in the Folding Mansion to know that the emperor was interested in Folding Yuexiu. Logically, not long after the emperor, he had already issued an edict and ordained Zhiyuexiu as the queen.
Naturally, he can't spend his life with this eldest lady of the folded family. There are a lot of Song people's words, but unfortunately not all of them are good stories. Besides, his identity and status, if he makes such a scene, his image will be greatly damaged. He is going to marry Zheyuexiu to appease the Jiangmen family, fix the hearts of the Western Army, and soothe the harem, which is not a tender and bitter love story.
With his identity, his experience, and his retribution, how can he really have any personal feelings about his children in his heart?
The creatures in heaven and earth are all under control, and what they ask for is what they want, this is a man's mind!
When he was in a daze, Yue Yun flew the spear in Li Xianzhong's hand with a sword, the two of them exchanged weapons, Li Xianzhong was still invincible, and he also vaguely felt that the other party was merciful under his hands, although he was arrogant and confident, he was not a person who could not afford to lose with his careful eyes, and he hugged his fist towards Yue Yun at the moment, and said with a smile:
"Major General Yue's martial arts are strong, and I am far inferior, so I will admit defeat and admit defeat."
He is tall, handsome, and has a unique temperament that can only be found in a century-old general's family, and after the defeat, he is no longer entangled, nor has he ever been pretentious, but calmly admits defeat. Such a bright and upright demeanor, but he also taught Yue Yun to admire it very much, and he also respectfully returned the salute at the moment, and said with a smile:
"Where, I just won the general's trick by tricks."
Zhao Huan came back to his senses and was happy to see that they were so like-minded, and immediately ordered: "Reward the two generals with a newly created horizontal knife." ”
The horizontal knife is also commonly used by the Tang people, and the Song Dynasty gradually lost, commonly known as the "Tang like a big knife", because it is not easy to build, and the war at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the loss of craftsmen, the loss of technology, and there is no economic strength to support the creation and matching of the horizontal knife, so it is gradually lost to the world. The Song Dynasty and Japan did not have a tributary relationship at that time, and the Japanese did not put the weak Song Dynasty in their eyes, and they have never been as respectful to the Chinese kingdom as the Tang Dynasty, but because of the trade between the two countries, the Japanese gradually became popular in the north and south of the river, and became a family heirloom that required a lot of money to buy.
Zhao Huan has a unique psychology towards Japan that only later generations have, not only hate the war between the two countries, but also admire the other party's national studious and tenacious, in order not to give the other party any opportunity to make money and despise China, take advantage of the opportunity of armament, and recruit craftsmen, and even secretly send people to Japan to steal the forging process of the horizontal sword, and finally can inherit the lost craft again.
The emperor is about to hold a happy event, and even the atmosphere in the palace is filled with an indescribable joy. Several chamberlains listened to Zhao Huan's order, and happily took out the newly created brand-new horizontal knives and held them in front of the two young generals.
Yue Yun and Li Xianzhong looked at each other and smiled, took the knife with both hands, and thanked Zhao Huan again, first took down his original saber, and then tied the horizontal knife around his waist.
Zhao Huan's face was full of spring breeze, first called the two of them forward, and then called the dozens of guards in the inner hall to come over, and said with a smile: "Yue Fei and Li Xianzhong, one is a family, the family has a martial arts, and the other is also a martial arts from his father since childhood, and he has been in battle for a long time, and if you lose to them, it is actually nothing." In the past, most of the guards in Tokyo's inner temple were taken from the family, and there were many people with extraordinary martial arts, although you were the elite of the army selected that day, you could not be compared with the children of the family. ”
Everyone looked at each other, not knowing the meaning of what he said. In fact, there are competitive children in the family, and they are naturally stronger than the military men from the ordinary people, but there are also many children of gentlemen, and all eighteen kinds of martial arts are scarce. At that time, although there were many children of families with strong martial arts in Tokyo, there were also many children of the forbidden army who could not even carry Lu rice and needed to hire someone to carry it on their behalf.
But Zhao Huan frowned and said: "Since the Jurchen chaos, the country has lost a lot of land, and it is even more touching that talents have withered. From the current point of view, there are many generals in my hands, and under the generals, there are many cowardly talents. How many are really like Yue Yun and Li Xianzhong? So in the past few days, watching everyone perform martial arts, I actually have a plan in my heart. From the beginning of Chang'an, we should build martial arts halls in various places, select generals who are strong in martial arts and have been in battle for a long time as instructors, and select those who are brave and intelligent in the scattered and straight to study in the hall. ”
Li Xianzhong is a general, but he has never heard of such a method, Yue Yun is also suspicious, but no one dares to question the emperor's decision in person, the two of them immediately bowed down and replied: "Obey Your Majesty's holy order." ”