Chapter Ninety-Six: The Feast

(I added a parenthetical note to the title, because not long after, this title will still appear, of course, the parenthetical is the shopkeeper~)

The first thirty years of Qin's founding were in turmoil. In the fourteenth year of the Qin calendar, the first emperor of the Qin State who was in the prime of life, that is, the Qin Xianhuang in the mouth of the world today, passed on the throne and went to the unknown place, but whether he is still alive now is unknown.

Very few people know the reason for Qin Xianhuang's abdication. Now it seems that except for the dragon vein warrior who lives in the legend and does not know the truth or falsehood of the legend by Emperor Qin, only the general Xiang Wu and the current emperor are left.

The little emperor is actually not small, the same age as Shen Xiaolie. In the eyes of many, this is a mediocre and incompetent emperor. Emperor Qin founded the country with martial arts, and his own strength was still above the dragon generals.

In the battle of Liankong City, the world thought that Chi Yannan, the first in the world, and Shen Chaoya, the former dragon general, were finally defeated because the masters of the four generals of the Emperor Star and the Divine Soldier Absolute General Battalion were all dispatched.

But in that battle, the little emperor and Xiang Wu knew that it was Qin Xianhuang who defeated the first in the world. It's just that Chi Yannan was already dying and seriously injured, so that battle can't explain who is strong and who is weak.

It's just one thing for sure, the former Qin State, the emperor, not only had the highest power, but also had the strongest force.

But looking at today's little emperor, his power seems to be hollowed out, and he is even more powerless. Whether Emperor Qin Xianhuang can still be counted on, the little emperor does not know, because the great father seems to be doing something terrible and mysterious, which seems to be more attractive than the throne, of course, the current emperor is not known for life and death.

Shen Chaoya, the first loyal general of the empire that he also liked very much, just knew this secret and was about to be killed by his own father.

That secret, the little emperor doesn't know, Xiang Wu doesn't know, and Shen Xiaolie shouldn't know either.

So that day, when he received the edict written by his father a long time ago, facing Xiang Wu who was kneeling outside the main hall, he insisted that Xiang Wu wait for a day, and everyone knew that Xiang Wu knelt.

In the end, Shen Xiaolie was pardoned. People know that the son of the prime minister's family is a real genius, but they don't know that in fact, the current emperor is also an amazing child.

He was only two years older than Shen Xiaolie. He was only nine years old when he did these things. But he has already begun to cultivate a group of absolutely loyal people for himself.

He had actually heard it a long time ago that the children of the Shen family and the children of the Yan family were geniuses among geniuses, so he wanted to know what Shen Xiaolie, the son of a traitorous general, would do.

Over the years, he has been looking at it, and he has handed over all the political affairs to the Yan family, because he knows one thing, Yan Fannai, the old officials of the Manchu Dynasty are very jealous of their father. So before it is determined that his father is dead, the Yan family will be a sharp sword.

He was also paying attention to the son of the Yan family, Yan Xing. At the same time, he also pays attention to the general stars of the empire, Di Yueluo, and Di Yundu.

These are all newcomers who have appeared since he ascended the throne, or since the departure of the first emperor.

He needs real henchmen. You can use it for yourself. He also knows one thing, now he seems to be above 10,000 people, in fact, the military power is in the hands of Xiang Wu, Xiang Wu thinks he can be trusted, but the political power, in the hands of Yan Fan, Yan Fan can only say that he can be trusted temporarily.

So in order to show his trust and blind obedience to Yanfan, he pushed a lot of things to Yanfan for no reason, and became an emperor who seemed to be mediocre and incompetent and greedy for pleasure.

He's waiting for an opportunity.

Then over the years, he heard about Shen Xiaolie. said that Shen Xiaolie had been reduced to a stupid waste.

This statement has been circulated in the mouths of every official, and they are overjoyed to talk about it. At that time, the little emperor realized that there were people like him.

He began to pay attention to Shen Xiaolie slowly and secretly, only to suddenly realize that Shen Xiaohunt was still different from himself. He is not as tolerant as Shen Xiaolie. His spies told him that Shen Xiaolie was beaten every day, and he had also suffered humiliation under his crotch, and some people even bullied his sister, who was only eight years old at the time, in front of Shen Xiaolie.

In the eyes of the little emperor, Shen Xiaolie is too enduring, such a person is terrifying.

He thought that before the military test, Shen Xiaolie would not show his talent, and after the Ming Zheng family's plot against Tie Li Guo, he pushed all this to the Yan family.

He heard that the child of the Ming Zheng family was a very good and upright person, and finally beat Wang Chengyu for stopping Wang Chengyu from **** a nine-year-old girl.

He also heard that Ming Zheng had become very good friends with Shen Xiaolie in the past half a year since he entered the academy.

The little emperor thought that Shen Xiaohunt was different from himself, and Shen Xiaohunt was more ruthless. So he thought that no one from the Ming family would come to save him this time.

It's just that I didn't expect that the next day, I woke up with words and walked in the imperial garden, and intentionally or unintentionally knocked on the side after knocking on the Ming family's disposal results.

Something unexpected happened to him, and Yan Xing said very frankly, Shen Xiaolie pleaded, saying that he could find evidence to prove the innocence of the Ming family in the first month of summer.

This incident surprised the little emperor for a long time, and it was not until he went to visit the military test competition that he understood.

I originally thought that Shen Xiaolie was different from me, but now it seems that there are more differences.

He underestimated Shen Xiaolie, and also underestimated the son of the Ming family who had passed away.

And the results on the day of the military examination, although he had already had a hunch that Shen Xiaolie would be a blockbuster, he never expected that he would be shocked to this point.

The people who participated in the military examination were different from the political examination, and those who came to be selected were those who were in the wisdom battalion of the divine soldiers, and the military examination was mainly based on courage and strategy.

Shen Xiaolie's score in terms of bravery, that is, in martial arts, is very low, and when people think as always, this waste wood will be at the bottom as in the past.

People heard the chief examiner, who is now the Divine Soldier Absolute General Ouyang Xi's sigh.

Then, it didn't take long for the sound to come, huh, oh, ah, like that.

The first part of the trial is the game.

This kind of game is not Go, but a simulation of two armies playing 300 chess pieces on two huge sand tables. All the people in front of them were wiped out by Ouyang in a few rounds.

This sand table confrontation is the favorite pastime of the people in the army, there are mountains, rivers, forests, deserts, swamps, snow, flats, and dangerous shoals on the chessboard, each chess piece, in different positions, different terrains can take different steps. And there are two such chessboards, because the two people who play chess must be ensured that they cannot see each other's moves. Therefore, two people face each other in two different rooms.

In the college, it is divided into a room for examinees and examiners. In the barracks, there are two different tents.

Such a game is played by three people, the third person is responsible for setting and recording the chess, and is also the arbiter. In the military, such games are often played between officers and officers, and the third person is mostly the personal guards around them. Or when they think that a soldier is worth cultivating in strategy, they will also let that person be the arbiter and observe how the two generals march and set up.

The opponent's chess cannot be seen, unless it is at a very close distance, and the person who plays the chess will put the other side's piece in the sight of the person who has fallen the piece. Once you get away from a certain number of steps, you will take it again.

Therefore, how to ambush and how to set up a suspicious array, on this huge sand table, it is all like on the battlefield.

The little emperor was also watching from afar. Even Yan Xing, who has already won the first place in the political exam, came.

The examination of the military examination was formulated in the ninth year of the Qin calendar, and now it has been thirteen years, and in the past thirteen years, the best assessment results, in the strategy of this link, is the current examiner Ouyang Xi, Ouyang Xi as the current god soldier and the general of the battalion, the results at that time were tied with the examiner at that time.

And the examiner at that time was the current general Xiang Wu.

Xiang Wu's ability to march and fight, even the opponents of the entire empire would not question it. Therefore, Ouyang Xi was able to tie with Xiang Wu on the sand table before joining the army, which was not easy, and now Xiang Wu also admitted that in terms of strategy, after years of actual combat, Ouyang Xi has surpassed himself, and he is a ghost talent in the marching formation.

Most of the candidates in front of him were easily wiped out by Ouyang Xi, and even three hundred, he only used half of them.

It's just that in this matchup, the onlookers outside noticed that the time seemed to be longer than the previous ones they thought were the best.

Some people expected that this waste was deliberately not falling for a long time and was delaying time. But people noticed that when the arbitrator entered the examinee room where Shen Xiaolie was, he came out almost immediately after entering, but instead entered the examiner room of Lord Ouyang Xi, and it took a long time to come out.

There was some uneasiness. The Emperor was a little surprised. Yan Xing was thinking about something with a blank face.

After many rounds of back and forth, the arbitrator was still the same, and he came out immediately after entering Shen Xiaolie's examiner room, and before he could enter the examiner room, Ouyang Xi came out by himself.

There are still a dozen or so people who have not taken the exam, although they are all just taking the military exam in a formality, and like everyone before, most of these people are more concerned about the political exam.

But Ouyang Xi's next words made them unhappy.

"The people in the back don't have to take the test, and the next few rings of organ assessment, horse test, and military test don't need to continue to test, so that the brothers are ready to call it a day." In the second half of these words, he didn't pay attention to everyone onlookers, but said to his personal guards.

People were a little at a loss, and they didn't know why this Lord Ouyang suddenly interrupted the military test, but they were still a little uneasy in their hearts.

Doctor Wang Zheng asked: "Lord Ouyang, the military examination has been completed in every link over the years, and it has never been interrupted, and there are still more than ten candidates who have not participated, and I don't know why it suddenly stopped. ”

Ouyang Xi looked impatient, and said extremely unkindly: "This is my military department's business, don't worry about it, as for the rest of the candidates, if you think that you can kill me Ouyang Xi with only fifty sons, you can find me in my mansion later, Lao Tzu lost today, and he lost so badly, I won't take the test!" Fuck. Prepare a sedan car! ”

Although this Ouyang Xi is a great Qin general, he is notoriously short-tempered.

Ouyang Xi had to be angry, on the chessboard, they couldn't see each other's chess, but this candidate seemed to be cheating, calculating his every move and the position of every piece. He thought that this candidate, like the previous candidate, did not know the art of war at all.

In the first few steps, he found that there was a lot of favorable terrain that the candidate did not occupy at all, so he concluded that the candidate was just playing the piano indiscriminately.

But soon, a useless son he had buried on a sand table marked with a forest area was eaten. At that time, Ouyang Xi was still laughing, he had buried so deep and such a remote son was actually found, but the large army had already marched to the candidate's side but was not noticed. He thought that this candidate really didn't know anything.

But as he walked, he wondered, why he had not seen the arbitrator draw the candidate's chess pieces, could it be that his position was not the candidate's position?

He did not go any deeper, but chose to retreat. But when he retreated, he was suddenly intercepted.

When did you run behind yourself? Ouyang Xi secretly said in his heart that it was not good.

So he stopped in the middle, and used a few pieces to try, five pieces, five directions, two of which were intercepted, so he took the other three directions as the route of travel, but he didn't take a few steps, and all three directions were ambushes.

Ouyang Xi had already sensed the crisis. Every thought of oneself, the motive of the temptation, the route of the march, as if all of them were known by the candidate.

He just wondered that no one would line up their pawns in the swamp and the treacherous shoals, because the chess pieces in that place were extremely weak. Therefore, Ouyang Xi concluded that this candidate must have been extremely lucky, and he just chose a route that could not be exposed to his line of sight and outflanked him, three hundred chess pieces, so the opponent's current arrangement must be very dense.

As long as you find a piece, you can find a piece of piece. But Ouyang Xi didn't expect that he had miscalculated again. He marched many steps, slowly expanding the search area in a circle, but it was empty.

In the end, inexplicably, Ouyang Xi kept throwing away his son in a place where he thought there should never be an ambush.

After dozens of rounds, he threw in the towel. He wanted to continue playing, but he couldn't do it anymore because all of his 300 pieces were eaten.

And Ouyang Xi's chess is not bad after all, and he suddenly understood why his judgment was repeatedly wrong.

Because that candidate was only fifty of them, he carefully recalled every step ahead, and if he removed those empty spaces, and then recalled the range of his killing, he would understand.

This is not to blame Ouyang Xi, if he faced Xiang Wu, he would definitely have thought of this possibility earlier. But what he didn't expect was that he was only facing a candidate, a candidate who had never fought before, how could such a candidate have the courage to dare to deal with himself with only fifty pieces?

He laughed angrily, and ended the confrontation.

People had no time to care about General Ouyang's feelings now, because they couldn't believe what was happening in front of them.

Ouyang was the one who washed the horses, and he had asked his subordinates to prepare a sedan chair. And when they saw Ouyang Xi with an angry face, they changed their hearts and minds for a moment to pick up the person in the examination room, and after ordering someone to send him to the sedan chair, people only felt a little chill.

The expression on Yan Xing's face was extremely complicated. He's regretting it. I regret not killing Shen Xiaolie before today. He looked at the shocked look of the crowd. He smiled self-deprecatingly.

The little emperor laughed very happily, and he said to himself: "I still have to learn how to endure, haha, happy, really happy." ”

Shen Xiaolie walked onto the sedan chair with a calm face. Before entering the sedan chair, he glanced at Wang Zheng and Wang Chengyu, father and son.

He left a message.

"Enjoy the last spring."

……

Shen Xiaolie will be sent directly to the military headquarters next, because of the special period, he will soon have to go to the front line of Frost River to face the Tieli people.

For Shen Xiaolie, Baiyang Academy will always belong to the past.

It's just that the people standing in Baiyang Academy now, the expressions on their faces are very exciting, they have been officials for many years, and they naturally know that they are a group of people who have been deceived by a child.

They were restless, some of them forced their composure, said some cruel words, cursed that this waste would die on the battlefield, and some of them trembled. The father and son of the Wang family snorted coldly, he didn't believe that Shen Xiaolie could do anything in two or three months.

Ouyang Xi looked at the expressions of this group of people, and suddenly felt that it seemed that he was not the most angry today. He laughed, laughing that the army would have a real brain in the future.

But when he walked into Shen Xiaolie's candidate room and wanted to see how Shen Xiaohunt arranged the other two hundred and fifty chess pieces that had not moved in the end, his laughter stopped abruptly the moment he saw the sand table.

Not only did the laughter stop abruptly, but he even wanted to set fire to the sand table.

The two hundred and fifty chess pieces were neatly arranged in two words.

"Concession."

(I also want to return to the martial arts conference early, but as I write, I write too much about what was originally very simple, cough cough, tomorrow, tomorrow will be the end of the memories!) Start the love between the shopkeeper and the scholar! Ahh )

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