Lu Maofeng was picked up by Yang Fan from the cold palace, received such courtesy, and had a good impression of Yang Fan, and felt even more honored to hear this errand, and finally had the opportunity to show his skills, and put down his wine glass without hesitation, and said loudly to Yang Fan: "The general just rest assured, the last general will be successful!" ”

The emperor is old, and this spring he has not even been to Longmen, which he must go to in previous years, and it would be a drudgery to ask her to go to the school field to exercise the military formation with a high view. The emperor has the majesty of the emperor, how can he lie or lie on the dragon chair and doze off again? Even if the emperor doesn't watch all of the whole process, it will take at least an hour or two.

Not to mention that the emperor dressed up and traveled to the army to watch the martial arts and then returned to the court, and at the same time had to be accompanied by a large number of powerful ministers and nobles.

General Lu Lang is a martial artist after all, and he can't figure out the trick of this, and thinks that this is a flattering move to cater to the holy will, and the emperor will gladly agree. Yang Fan knew that this proposition would definitely be rejected when it came to Wu Youyi, and at that time, Lu Maofeng would inevitably have to ask his backstage Zhang brothers to come forward.

Seeing that Lu Lang would agree, Yang Fan could already imagine what Wu Yizong's expression would be after hearing about this matter, he smiled, raised his glass to Lu Lang and said, "Come, General Lu, please drink!" ”

Early the next morning, Lu Maofeng, who had finally found a sense of existence in Qianqi, rushed to Yulinwei to ask Wu Youyi for instructions, Wu Youyi frowned when he heard it, and said, "It's pure nonsense, Bixia is old." Traveling to and from the military is time-consuming and laborious, if the dragon's body is affected. Who can afford it? Forbid! ”

Wu Youyi refuted it sternly, and Lu Maofeng was not allowed to argue at all. Just blasted him out. After Lu Maofeng retreated, Wu Youyi thought for a moment, but smiled slightly, called a pro-soldier and said: "You go to the ordnance supervisor and tell the king of Linchuan, just say that Yang Fan's thousand horses have been completed, and the army will be paraded every day, and bixia will ...... It is likely that he will personally go out on patrol and watch the parade! ”

Wu Sizhong, who was on duty in the ordnance prison, got the news from Wu Youyi. couldn't help but be secretly surprised, what kind of things he gave Yang Fan He knew best in his heart that once the military parade, even if only one thousand horsemen participated in the parade, there would be a large number of officials to accompany him.

When the time comes, Yang Fan will let those thousand knights appear in front of the emperor and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military in tattered armor, tattered banners, and rusty swords and guns.

Wu Sizhong was frightened, and immediately called for someone to bring the horses. He personally rushed to Zuo Jinwu's camp to discuss with his brother Wu Yizong.

Lu Maofeng was reprimanded by Wu Youyi, and left ashamed and annoyed, very dissatisfied in his heart. Think about it, if you just go back like this. Even if Yang Fan didn't say anything, it would inevitably cause the generals who were already looking at him unpleasantly to laugh, and Lu Maofeng gritted his teeth. turned around and went to Zhang's house.

Lu Maofeng was very familiar with the brothers of the Zhang family and entered the room. Seeing Zhang Tongxiu, he vented his complaints all at once. Zhang Tongxiu said disapprovingly: "It's just a trivial matter, why worry about it? And you wait here, and go to Fengchen to see Goro and Rokuro. ”

Zhang Tongxiu immediately rushed to the palace by carriage and horse, and now the two brothers Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong have recruited a group of Kyoto teenagers, and they also have their own yamen in the palace: Fengchen Prison.

These beautiful young men are not only beautiful, but also have their own talents, although they are equivalent to Wu Zetian's concubines in Fengchen Prison, waiting for the female emperor's summons, service and even serving at any time, usually doing nothing in Fengchen Prison, but also doing some literary and educational things such as compiling and proofreading poems and songs. Of course, more often than not, they just set up banquets and drinks, gamble and frolic in Fengchen Prison, play the qin and sheng, and bow for fun.

Zhang Yizhi also got a turtle talisman for Zhang Tongxiu's cousin, just to facilitate him to enter and leave the palace. When Zhang Tongxiu passed through the gates with the turtle talisman and arrived at Fengchen Prison, the Zhang brothers were in the hall with more than a dozen beautiful teenagers throwing arrows and throwing pots, and the loser was punished for drinking.

Zhang Tongxiu summoned Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong to the small hall next to them, and as soon as he told them what he meant, Zhang Changzong said: "What's so difficult about this? Big brother, wait a moment, Gorou and I will go to meet the saint! ”

Wu Zetian's energy is not as good as before, but the most important military affairs are still in control, but she has not gone to Wucheng Hall to review the chapters, and sometimes Wan'er only asks the Zhang brothers to read the chapters to her, and roughly make instructions, and then the Zhang brothers use ink in words, and sometimes some things that need to be asked in detail are directly passed on to Wan'er to see.

At this time, she was listening to Shangguan Wan'er's military performance on Lichun Terrace. This matter involves Tibet, Turkic, and Anxi, all of which are important matters in the borderlands, and Wu Zetian does not dare to ignore them, but among the three things, two of the results are haode, so when the two Zhang arrived, Wu Zetian had a smile on his face and was in a very happy mood.

The first of these three things is about Tibet. The dispute between the Tubo kings planted the seeds of suspicion between Yang Fan and them, and finally blossomed a few years later. The Tibetan Zanpu crossbow was finally overwhelmed, and he used a trick to divert the tiger from the mountain, and after transferring the Great Minister's Qinling from the royal capital, he captured more than 2,000 of his cronies in one fell swoop.

On Qinling heard the news of raising troops to rebel, but the concept of the Tibetan people's monarchy was quite heavy, the henchmen in the royal capital were cut off in one fell swoop, and the soldiers around him were afraid of the king's order and did not dare to fight, the Tubo army god on Qinling was defeated and committed suicide, Zampu finally monopolized the power, and on Qinling's surviving younger brother Zanpo took the remnants to Wuzhou.

Tubo Zanpu was furious when he heard the news, and made great contributions in the process of sending a coup d'état, and the Koji Mangbuzhi, who had just been promoted to general, crusaded against the imperial court, and the border army saw that its soldiers were strong and strong, and they were very afraid, but as a result, Tang Xiujing, the ambassador of the Longyou army who was born in the Ming Classics and was born in Confucianism, saw through the reality of Tubo at a glance.

He said to the generals: "On Qinling and other famous Tubo generals have just been swept away, and the new generals of the Koji Mang Buzhi are not accustomed to military affairs, and the sons of the noble ministers are their deputy generals, who look like they are in good armor, as if they are elite, but in fact they are vulnerable. So he wore armor and rode horses as the vanguard, and won all six battles, Tubo was defeated, and the Zhou army beheaded more than 1,500 people, and also captured two Tubo deputy generals.

In addition, on the side of the four towns of Anxi, Bo Lu, a tribal leader of the Western Turks, rebelled against the imperial court and intended to stand on his own. Tian Yangming, the general who defended Anxi, sent troops to attack and was defeated, and then joined forces with Hu Seluo, who rushed to Broken Leaf City to defend the town, and it was always difficult to conquer the city occupied by the rebels, and the two sides were in a stalemate.

As a result, Bo Lu pretended to be clever, in order to break the deadlock, he pretended to surrender, and tried to take advantage of the unpreparedness of the Zhou army to kill him by surprise, but the Zhou army with the imperial Shi Feng Siye saw through his tricks, and pretended to surrender with the plan, and set up an ambush first, Bo Lu was killed on the spot, and the remnants were all attached.

If it weren't for the insatiable greed of the Eastern Turks, who received a large number of expensive gifts from the imperial court, and sent troops to plunder several horse farms set up by the imperial court in Longyou, and took away more than 10,000 male horses raised in prison, Wu Zetian would be even happier at this moment.

Zhang Yizhi was scheming than his younger brother, and when he saw Wu Zetian smiling, he hurriedly signaled that his brother was not busy explaining his intentions, but stepped forward happily and said to Wu Zetian: "What is the great joy of the saint, so happy?" ”

Wan'er smiled and told them about the defeat of Tubo and the pacification of the rebellion in Anxi, and the two brothers hurriedly congratulated the emperor, Wu Zetian sighed regretfully: "It's a pity that the silent sobbing is rampant, and it has repeatedly invaded our dynasty, and the court can only defend passively, let it come and go, and I can't help it." ”

Zhang Yizhi's eyes rolled and said: "The defeat of Tubo and the pacification of the Anxi rebellion show the prosperity of the imperial court. The Turks are not opponents of the imperial court, but they sit on the desert for thousands of miles, empty and vast, if the imperial court sends troops to crusade, they go to the desert steppe to hide, and the conquest is protracted, and the waste of money and food is not effective, and the sage pities the people's strength, which allows him to be rampant for a while. ”

As soon as Zhang Yizhi said this, Wu Zetian showed a smile on his face, and Zhang Yizhi took the opportunity to say: "A few days ago, the sage ordered the formation of a thousand horses, and now the thousand horsemen have just been built, and the thousand horsemen Yang Fan is training day and night.

It is easy to think that now that there are both the great victory of Tibet, the pacification of Anxi, and the harassment of the Turks, the sage might as well agree to come down and review the actions of the three armies, which can not only congratulate the defeat of the Tibetan and quell the rebellion in Anxi, but also magnificently, boost the army's prestige, and drum up morale, so as to scare the Turks. ”

When Wan'er heard him mention Yang Fan, she immediately paid attention. Wu Zetian frowned, and said strangely: "Oh, Yang Fan wants to invite me to parade?" Is there such a thing? How come I don't know? As she spoke, she looked at Wan'er, and Wan'er immediately bowed and said, "Wan'er doesn't know anything about this. ”

Zhang Changzong immediately said: "Of course I don't know, General Yang's idea was rejected when it came to General Wuda, and Changzong also accidentally heard a friend in the army mention this matter, otherwise he didn't know anything about it." ”

Wu Zetian's brows stretched slightly, and he said, "Oh, it's better to veto?" He must have a reason for doing this, so I'll ask him another day. ”

Zhang Yizhi smiled and said: "The saint doesn't need to ask, the reason why General Wu vetoed this proposal Yi Zhi has already inquired, General Wu is worried that the saint, your body will not be able to bear it during the parade......"

Wu Zetian's face sank, and he said unhappily: "I'm so old that I don't even have the strength to review my own army?" ”

Zhang Yizhi was shocked, and quickly knelt down to ask for sin: "The saint forgives the sin, Yi Zhi lost his words." ”

Wu Zetian snorted coldly, brushed his sleeves and said: "You tell Wu Youyi that the military parade is accurate!" ”

Zhang Yizhi hurriedly kowtowed and said, "The minister's order!" ”

Not long after, a young man in a light robe and jade belt, hairpin on his head, powder on his face, well-dressed, with high-toothed clogs on his feet, like a swaggering peacock, staggered in front of Yu Linwei's gate, and said arrogantly: "Holy Commandment, Wu You should accept the order!" ”

Wu Youyi changed his military uniform, invited the angel to the tent to listen to the holy message, and when the young man from Fengchenwei said the emperor's message, he asked respectfully: "I don't know when the saint is going to go to the Thousand Cavalry Camp to parade and watch the martial arts, and the minister should prepare early." ”

The hairpin boy pursed his lips with scarlet lipstick and said, "Maybe it's tomorrow, maybe it's the day after tomorrow, who can say for sure, it's not with Bixia's mind, the general is waiting!" After saying that, he flicked the sleeves of his robe and staggered away.

Wu Youyi straightened up, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It's so fast!" This time, the king of Hanoi and the king of Linchuan are afraid that they will be suffocated" (to be continued......)