For the sake of Lu Hengshan's desperate death advice, Meng Tianjue finally relented, and finally only dismissed Chu Pingchuan from military power, but still retained the title of general of Zhengxi for him, and did not ask for his life. However, for Chu Pingchuan, there were no soldiers under his command, and the title of the general of the expedition to the west was more like a satire for him.

After the death of the court, Shoufu Lu Hengshan's originally unhealthy health deteriorated, and he only lingered on the sickbed for more than a month before he died of depression.

When Chu Pingchuan unloaded all the military affairs at the border pass and returned to Shengjing, he heard the news that Lu Hengshan was driving a crane west. On the top of Lu Hengshan's mourning hall, he wrote an elegy on the spot, and after returning home, he vomited blood and fell ill in bed.

"On the side of the drum and pipa mound, hanging sword branches, seven feet of body remnants of fragrant grass, full of blood sprinkled to the empty forest. If he returns to the east when he turns into a crane, he is willing to visit the mountains of Luyou from now on, order the water of the Gull League, consume the splendid heart, and spend half a lifetime. Teach the loess to be buried, and call the ghost male. ”

Chu Pingchuan's whole life was basically spent on the battlefield. In order to guard the border for Dasheng, he ignored his wife, who was in love with him, and had nothing to do with him, only Feng Ze, a righteous son. He has an upright heart and doesn't have many friends, and Lu Hengshan is one of his rare best friends. Now that I learned that my friend died for him, the grief in my heart can be imagined.

This elegiac couplet, he is not only for Lu Hengshan, but also for himself.

Chu Pingchuan also fell ill. Feng Ze learned the news, rushed back from the border pass sleeplessly, and when he arrived at the general's mansion in the starry night, Chu Pingchuan was already on the verge of dying.

Before dying, he grabbed Feng Ze's hand tightly and said earnestly: "Ze'er, our Chu family has always taken loyalty and patriotism as the family motto, and the children of the Chu family must defend their families and defend the country all their lives, gallop on the battlefield, and never return even if they shed the last drop of blood." But...... You are not surnamed Chu, in the future, you can do whatever you want, remember, to be a man, you must not forget your original intention......"

"Father, Ze'er has long regarded herself as a child of the Chu family, and she will definitely remember the Chu family's family motto and your teachings." Feng Ze choked up, and his resolute and rigid face was full of sorrow.

"Okay, it deserves to be my good son Chu Pingchuan." The corners of Chu Pingchuan's mouth pulled a slight smile, and then slowly closed his eyes.

A generation of famous generals who have been standing at the border all the year round and have made countless contributions to Dasheng passed away suddenly.

After Lu Ziqing died of his father Lu Hengshan with hatred, he was disheartened and wrote to invite himself to serve in Qiongzhou.

Qiongzhou is located in the southernmost part of Dasheng, remote and remote, rampant with miasma, and the local tribes are extremely difficult to manage, and officials with even the slightest connection are reluctant to go to work there. Now that Lu Ziqing invited himself to go, Meng Tianyu naturally agreed. It happened that the Qiongzhou Taishou had an excerpt a few days ago, and asked to return to his hometown on the grounds of old age, and Lu Ziqing took this gap and became the next Qiongzhou Taishou.

Mrs. Chu was heartbroken after Chu Pingchuan's death, and washed her face with tears every day, until she finally fell ill, and died not long after. In just a few dozen days, Feng Ze lost his parents one after another, and the whole person lost weight under repeated blows, and after being silent in the General's Mansion alone for a period of time, he also made a break to the court and asked to be stationed in Jinyang Pass.

Since Cao Xun was captured, Meng Tianyu was having a headache over who to send to guard Jinyang Pass.

Compared with the Zhengyang Pass in the northwest, the defense of the Jinyang Pass in the northeast is also very important. The Yin Shuo, who claimed to be an orphan of the previous dynasty, unknowingly built a country called Dongyue in the northeast where birds don't lay eggs.

But who knows whether the identity of Yin Shuo's orphan from the previous dynasty is true or false? In Meng Tianjue's eyes, Yin Shuo is at most just a careerist who covets his country under the banner of being an orphan of the previous dynasty. He has always been extremely disdainful of such people.

It's just that he didn't expect that the strength of this Dongyue country actually exceeded his expectations. A few days ago, in Eagle Hill on the eastern border of Beidi Kingdom, Dongyue fought with Beidi, and he was able to wipe out the 5,000 elite cavalry of the He family's army, and even He Liancheng, the most prestigious protector general of Beidi Kingdom, was killed!

Although He Liancheng is young, he can be regarded as a famous general in the world, and after many years of fighting with Beidi, Meng Tianjun also knows a little about the combat effectiveness of the He family's army. The Dongyue Army was able to annihilate the entire army of He Liancheng, and it seems that Yin Shuo should not be underestimated.

Meng Tianyu finally realized this at this time, and then recalled the words that Lu Hengshan said before the death of the Jinluan Palace, and subconsciously felt a little remorseful.

Of course, he knew the abilities of Lu Hengshan and Chu Pingchuan. It's just a pity that they are loyal to Da Sheng, not themselves. This is absolutely not allowed for a superior person, at least for him.

However, regret is useless, Lu Hengshan and Chu Pingchuan, the two old guys, seem to have made an appointment, and they will die one after another, and Jinyang Pass really needs a general who can handle it.

Meng Tianjue thought about it, and it seemed that only Feng Ze was the most suitable, and now that Feng Ze proposed it himself, of course he pushed the boat along the river and agreed. Although Feng Ze is Chu Pingchuan's righteous son, he is upright, loyal and patriotic, and believes that he will not do anything rebellious.

So since the battle of Shangyongcheng, the Dasheng cabinet has made a big adjustment, and finally fulfilled Meng Tianjue's wish, the old ministers of the first emperor were all suppressed, the dead died, the sick, and the sick and painless were also cold, and they all wrote to the old man to return to his hometown.

When these news reached the northwest, Shen Qianmo sighed. It seems that Meng Tianjue's mediocrity is really beyond her imagination.

Now that Lu Hengshan and Chu Pingchuan are dead, the next successors of the Lu family and the Chu family have chosen to stay away from Shengjing, and Ning Hou often claims that he is sick and cannot go to the early dynasty, and on the grounds of old age and frailty, he has repeatedly written to ask for the surrender of military power. Meng Tianjue pretended to keep it a few times, and finally agreed after Ning Hou wrote for the fifth time.

However, Meng Tianyu also rewarded Ning Hou for taking the initiative to hand over the military power. His reward was to elevate the title of his daughter Ning Wu to the rank of concubine. So Ning Wu, who had been in the palace for less than four months, changed from Ning Cairen to Ning Concubine. And Dasheng's cabinet was naturally pinched by Rong Huaizhong.

However, no matter how much Shen Qianmo regrets and sighs about this, this incident is just Dasheng's internal struggle after all, and has nothing to do with the northwest. For Meng Yuanheng, no matter how tragic Dasheng's infighting is, it is none of his business.

Only Cao Xun was a little disappointed in the imperial court after hearing the news of the deaths of Lu Hengshan and Chu Pingchuan one after another, but he still did not agree to Shen Qianmo's suggestion to persuade him to join the northwest.

Shen Qianmo was no longer strong, and ordered Cao Xun to be put back. So Cao Xun calmed down in the Xuanwang Mansion for more than two months, and returned to Fufeng City. But he didn't expect that after returning to Fufeng City, what awaited him was imprisonment.

The new general of Fufeng City put Cao Xun in prison in the name of Xuan Wangfu's fine work. The reason is that he suspects that Cao Xun has defected to the northwest, and thinks that he has returned to Fufeng City this time to seek information for Xuanwangfu.

Cao Xun listened, and his eyes were about to split. For more than two months, he has adhered to his integrity in King Xuan's Mansion, and has refused Princess Xuan's kind words and persuasions many times, but he didn't expect that he was indiscriminately thrown into prison when he returned to his own territory.

He endured with all his restraint, hoping that the court would give him a chance to explain, but the next news made him lose control in an instant.

When his lieutenant Guo Wei and Chu Pingchuan's former lieutenant Chen Yinzhi secretly came to see him in the prison, they told him that a few days ago, the emperor had sent someone to seal Cao's mansion and intended to take his family as hostages, threatening him to tell him the real purpose of sending him to Fufeng City this time.

Is it tolerable or unbearable, Cao Xun is really hot now. He has an old mother, a wife and children, and the old mother is old and frail, and his wife is pregnant, so she must not be able to withstand the fright. Now that he has been taken hostage by the imperial court, and the mansion has been seized by officers and soldiers, how can you make him not be anxious.

In desperation, he smashed the cell door with one punch, and fought his way out of the encirclement with Guo Wei and Chen Yinzhi, intending to rescue his family.

There are tens of thousands of Dasheng defenders stationed in Fufeng City, and the three of them are invincible with two fists and four hands, and they are struggling to break through. Fortunately, they soon had a helper.

It's the same group of young people who were in Shangyong City last time, but this time they are no longer opponents, but allies who fight side by side.

After a bloody battle, they finally fought their way out of the thousands of troops. Out of Fufeng City, the group of young people took them to Mocheng again.

In King Xuan's mansion, Cao Xun saw his long-lost family, his mother, wife and children, all of them were safe.

It turned out that King Xuan and Princess Xuan had already expected such a move in the Dasheng Imperial Court, and had arranged for the palace guards to go to Shengjing in advance to secretly protect the Cao family.

After Cao Xun learned of this situation, he didn't say a word, but agreed to live in the original courtyard again.

For several days, he sat quietly in the small courtyard, looking up at the northwest sky, and he didn't know what he was thinking. Shen Qianmo didn't bother him anymore, and he didn't mention the matter of persuading him to surrender.

Finally, at noon that day, Cao Xun walked out of the small courtyard and came to see Meng Yuanheng and Shen Qianmo. In the flower hall of the palace, he bowed to the two of them and said, "Subordinate Cao Xun, see the prince, the princess." In the future, I am willing to go to the soup and follow the dispatch of the prince and princess. ”