After Li Shimin finished sacrificing to the temple, the next thing was the celebration banquet.

In the First Battle of the Northern Expedition, such a great victory was achieved, and it was impossible for the court and the emperor not to give a banquet to the soldiers who went out to fight.

The scale of this Qinggong banquet was unprecedented, in addition to the banquet of the Northern Expedition Yiying soldiers, clans and officials above the five palaces in Beijing, even the leaders of the Yiying tribe and other foreign nations who returned to the grassland were invited.

No one dared not to give face, all the people who received the invitation sent envoys, and the leaders of the various tribes of the grassland were even more knowledgeable.

They not only sent people to Chang'an to congratulate, but also wrote letters one after another, asking Li Shimin for the title of Grassland Heavenly Khan.

In the face of such an honor, Li Shimin would not refuse, he pretended to refuse a few words, and accepted it smoothly.

On the day of the celebration banquet, Li Shimin rewarded countless soldiers, and Li Jing, the commander of this battle, was greatly praised by him and was named the color of defending the country.

At the night banquet, Li Shimin laughed and patted Li Jing's shoulder in front of the hundreds of civil and military officials and many foreign leaders present: "Pharmacist, it is really my blessing and my Datang to have a peerless famous general like you." ”

"In ancient times, there was Wei Huo Mobei and the wolf was the son-in-law, and now I have Li Jing in the Tang Dynasty to lead three thousand iron horsemen to sweep Yin Mountain, which is really great! Great! ”

As soon as Li Shimin's words came out, all the generals present were jealous and envious, and from this moment on, Li Jing's status as the first general of the Tang Dynasty could no longer be shaken, and he himself was named the god of war.

In the face of such an honor, it is impossible to say that Li Jing is not half excited in his heart, he is a typical late bloomer.

Since he was a child, he studied military strategy with his uncle Han Baohu, and he worked very hard, and he was extremely talented in the art of war......

However, in his early twenties, his attainments in military strategy are no longer trivial, and Han Baohu praised him more than once back then, saying that his future achievements are far above his own.

Yang Su, who was good friends with his uncle, praised him more than once, but he was not ambitious in the Sui Dynasty.

And since the death of his uncle Han Baohu and the absence of Yang Su, who admired him, he had no way out at all, and it was not until Li Tang that he began to emerge temporarily.

Now he is fifty-nine years old, and his lifelong pursuit and ambition have been recognized in the Northern Expedition, even if years of stumbling and tempering have already made him feel as stable as a rock, and in the face of such glory, he can't help but feel surging excitement.

But he is not the kind of person who is dizzy when he is rushed by honor, after the initial excitement has passed, it is followed by hidden worries, since ancient times, the military generals are too powerful, and the wind is too much, which is not a good thing......

Don't talk about Li Jing's thoughts, but say that his wife Zhang is still not asleep at the moment, she is holding a book in her hand, crooked on the collapse and looking slowly, the small stove in the next room has already boiled sobering soup, obviously waiting for her husband to return.

Zhang is not the daughter of a famous family, she was born in the rivers and lakes, three years younger than Li Jing, and the two met when they were young.

With the backgrounds of the two of them, there should be no intersection, let alone getting married. But emotional things are sometimes unclear, the two of them fell in love at first sight, and finally broke through many obstacles and became husband and wife.

Their relationship is legendary, and so is their marriage.

Because their union is not appropriate and the household is wrong, at the beginning of marriage, they were not favored at all, but after they got married, they lived a life that everyone envied.

The couple has walked hand in hand for nearly 40 years, and they have never said a word, and there are no concubines in the family.

The couple had two sons and a daughter, all of whom were born to each other, and those who had been ready to see their jokes ended up keeping their mouths shut.

Around midclock, Zhang, who was reading a book, heard the movement outside, and immediately put down the book in his hand and went out.

When he walked outside, he saw that his husband had returned, and the two guards were probably afraid that he would drink too much, so they followed him closely.

"The lady hasn't rested yet." Although Li Jing drank a lot of wine, but his amount of alcohol was really extraordinary, he showed a little sober at the banquet, and after returning home, the wine dispersed a lot, and he was still very sober.

"I know you're going to drink a lot of wine tonight, so I've prepared some sobering soup for you, but I'm old, and I can't take good care of my body." Zhang glanced at her husband, took him from the guards, and helped him into the house.

After entering the house, Zhang did not greet the maid, and personally went to the compartment to bring out the decanting soup, smelling the wine that kept spurting out of her husband's mouth, Zhang handed over the decanting soup in his hand a little helplessly: "It's still warm, drink it quickly." ”

"Thank you lady, with the lady here, I, Li Jing, will definitely be able to live a long life." Li Jing took it, raised his head and drank it in one sip, and after drinking the sobering soup, he burped again, spit out a few mouthfuls of wine, and then said to Zhang with a smile.

Xu was the reason for drinking a little more, so he turned on the light and looked at his wife's face that was no longer young, he had a little impulse in his heart, and his hand couldn't help but stroke his wife's face.

"When you're old, don't make a fuss, what happened at the banquet? What's wrong? Zhang slapped her husband's hand angrily, and saw that although he had a smile on his face, his eyebrows were entangled, and he asked a little uneasily.

Zhang's eighteen-year-old married Li Jing, it has been thirty-eight years, these years of getting along day and night, so that she knows every movement and expression of her husband in her heart, outsiders may not be able to see Li Jing's thoughts, but she can see at a glance that he has hidden worries.

"Your Majesty has crowned me as the Duke of Weiguo." Li Jing was silent for a while before speaking.

"Northern Dao victory, you have made such a meritorious achievement, and it is a matter of course to be named a national duke, what is there to worry about?" Zhang's strange way.

"In addition to appointing me as the prince of the country, Your Majesty continued to praise me at the night banquet tonight, comparing me with Wei Huo, and even referring to me as the god of the Tang Dynasty.

"But I must not be the hairy boy in my twenties, after the initial excitement has passed, there is only more anxiety left in my heart."

"You must know that the wood is as beautiful as a forest, the wind will destroy it, the Northern Expedition, my meritorious army is already big enough, Your Majesty will praise it like this, it will inevitably arouse the dislike and jealousy of many ministers."

"Since ancient times, military generals have been too sharp, and they are all taboos, even if the monarch is broad-minded and not suspicious, other courtiers will also find trouble." Li Jing no longer concealed his true emotions in front of his wife, he held his wife's hand, sat down on the low chair, and said with a bitter face.

"What's so embarrassing about this, if someone joins you, you will resign from the reward and military power, and let go of being a rich idler." After hearing this, Zhang pursed his lips disapprecatingly.

"You, if I really become an ordinary idler with no official position and no position, don't you get angry?" Li Jing was stunned when he heard this, looked at his wife and asked.