The steady old man with quite kind eyebrows is the head of the Yang family of Guangling, Yang Yanguang.

With the relationship between the Yang family and the Zhao family, Yang Yanguang should not have appeared here and stood with Sun Meng.

Yang Yanguang was silent for a moment, "From ancient times to the present, Hu Lu has never completely stopped the border, and prevention is also necessary. ”

"Does Yang Hou really believe that just Beihu, a group of savages who were almost slaughtered by the imperial army a hundred years ago, have the ability to threaten my prosperous Daqi with a group of barbarians who have been submissive and groveling to the Great Qi all these years, and who have paid tribute every year?"

Wu Su stared at Yang Yanguang with wide eyes, "If Beihu really covets Daqi and has a heart of disobedience, Princess Beihu will personally enter Beijing to ask for guilt?!"

Yang Yanguang didn't speak, as if he had nothing to say.

"Yang Hou, are you willing to be called Uncle Yang from now on?" Wu Su chased after him.

Yang Yanguang's brows squeezed together.

"Yang Hou, although you and I have never been in harmony, because the competition for a hunting ground has caused nearly a hundred servants to die, but the dead are only servants, and there is no mortal enmity between us. This time, Zhao Xuan is extremely negative to you first, and the decline of the Zhao family is already obvious, what should be done in the future, I hope you will think about it more. ”

Wu Su, who was firmly on the same front as Sun Meng, hoped to win over Yang Yanguang and deal with the Zhao family together.

Sun Meng looked at the scenery from the railing, and did not interject when Wu Su was talking to Yang Yanguang.

Of course, he hopes that the Yang family will join his camp, not to mention that the Yang family is also a general, just by virtue of the relationship between the other party and the Zhao family, if he can fall to himself, he can greatly increase the prestige of the Sun family and deal a heavy blow to the prestige of the Zhao family.

The world has been peaceful for a long time, and now it is a glorious and prosperous era, and there is no war in the four seas, and the Sun family wants to go further at this time, enter the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, obtain greater authority and more benefits, and strengthen the family.

Sun Meng was not worried that the Yang clan would not come to his side.

In his heart, the decline of the Zhao clan is the general trend, and the strength of the Sun clan is also the general trend, and when it comes to the autumn hunting ground, the Sun clan Junyan will knock down Zhao Ning and other future backbones of the Zhao clan in front of the emperor and the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces, and the difference between strength and weakness will make Yang Yanguang understand whose ship to get on.

"Eighteen Honors...... Eighteen noble families, too many. ”

Sun Meng looked at the bloody sun on the distant mountain, his heart was like a mirror, and he secretly thought: "This is not the beginning of the dynasty that needs to conquer the Quartet, the princes of the world are numerous, and the dynasty will win the final victory, and the more warriors the better."

"In peacetime, so many generals and nobles hold military authority, and have the strength to cause chaos and even endanger the dynasty, that is the source of instability.

"It's time to prune and prune.

"The civilian officials suppressed the generals, and the center gathered the military power, which is also the general trend, in the face of the general trend, those who follow it prosper and those who rebel die. Rather than waiting for the civilian officials to deal with us, it is better for us to take matters into our own hands, so that we can still have the initiative and have a choice.

"In this trend, if my Sun clan wants to swim against the current and take advantage of the situation to strengthen itself, we must overthrow and solve the biggest nobles, or cut off or annex the weak nobles. When only half of the generals are left, the civil officials should be satisfied. Even if they still want to chase and fight, I'm afraid that Your Majesty will not be willing.

"Civil-military diversion...... In the final analysis, it is the civil and military checks and balances, and there is really no general, who will balance the power of the scholars and the civil official group?

"And at that time, my Sun clan will also become extremely powerful after receiving the benefits of multiple generals. Once I can shock all the generals, let the generals obey the Sun family, and make the military say nothing, who can help me?!"

......

The huge team walked for two days, and arrived at the foot of Fuyun Mountain at three o'clock on the second day, and the teams of the noble men set up camp respectively.

Because of the late hour, there will be no activity on this day. Whether it is a ritual or a hunt, it has to wait until the next day. After the hunting, it is the competition between the disciples of the family.

"Third brother, I heard that the Yang clan arrived in the capital early, why didn't they come to our house?" Zhao Ning watched the servants set up tents and asked Zhao Xin beside him. He was in retreat some time ago and didn't know much about the outside world.

Along the way, none of the Yang clan came forward to talk, according to the relationship between the two families, in the past, when they were hunting in the autumn, as long as they were camping, the other party would come to find the people of the Zhao family.

Zhao Xin's face was complicated: "When they returned to the capital, they did not go to our house. Not only that, I heard that my grandfather invited Yang Hou to a banquet several times, but the other party refused. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Ning fell silent, he had expected that after the hereditary marquis of the Yang family became an earl, the other party might resent the Zhao family, and now it seems that this situation has happened.

"Beihu is plotting against each other, and it is imperative to strengthen the defense of Yanmen Pass, not to mention ...... The reason why the Yang family's title was lowered was not because they had a conflict with the Wu family, and nearly 100 people died for a mere hunting ground...... That's the handiwork of civil officials, how can we blame it?" Zhao Xin looked a little angry.

Zhao Ning didn't answer, looking up in the direction of the Yang camp.

Whether the Yang family will turn against the Zhao family or not, what the determining factor is, he knows it in his heart.

Zhao's strength.

The Yang family is only a marquis, the Zhao family is a duke, and he is the largest relative of the dynasty, the Yang family and the Zhao family are related, and for more than a hundred years, they have received countless benefits. This relationship will not be completely broken because of the Yanmen Pass.

Yang Yanguang has not seen Zhao Xuanji for a long time, on the one hand, he may be angry, on the other hand, there must be more important reasons.

For the big family, the interests of the family always come first, if the Yang family is stranger to the Zhao family, there is only one fundamental reason, that is, the Yang family has made friends with another family, and they think that it is stronger than the Zhao family.

Moreover, the relationship between this family and the Zhao family is definitely not harmonious.

Zhao Ning's gaze moved away from the Yang camp and moved to the Sun camp.

After the decline of the Zhao clan in the previous life, Sun Meng entered the Dadu Governor's Mansion, and the Sun clan became the first nobleman of the Jiangmen.

"The Sun family has indeed been full of talents for generations. Zhao Ning is very clear about this.

Suddenly, his pupils shrank slightly, and he saw two young people walking side by side at the edge of the camp, bathed in the golden glow of the sunset. The evening breeze in the mountains blows the green silk and clothes, adding a lot of poetry and making the picture look particularly beautiful.

Zhao Ning, who was slightly distracted, felt that he was tapped on the shoulder.

Turning his head, Zhao Qiyue's delicate and white face came into view, and the other party's bright eyes were full of concern and worry, "Don't look at it, there is no grass at the end of the world." With your ability, you will have a good match in the future. You don't have to be a wife stone, let people look down on it. ”

Zhao Ning was still a little upset, but when he saw Zhao Qiyue, who was standing on tiptoe to pat him on the shoulder, he was obviously in a weird posture, but he had a serious face, so he couldn't help but smile.

"Don't worry, sister, I won't be entangled in this, I'm just distracted and thinking about other things. ”

Zhao Ning explained from the bottom of her heart, in Zhao Qiyue's opinion, it was to cover up the embarrassment with lies, but she did not debunk it, but nodded her head and solemnly believed Zhao Ning's words.

Then, Zhao Qiyue glanced at the pair of men and women strolling, and the chill in his eyes seemed to freeze the other party to death.

The man is seven feet tall and has a face like a crown of jade, and deserves the evaluation of being handsome, and it is even more rare to behave properly and appear polite; the woman is also tall, white and beautiful, and has a fresh and refined temperament, looking like a crane from a distance.

The man's name is Sun Kang, he is Sun Meng's grandson, and he is also the leader of the younger generation of the Sun family. Now that he is not yet seventeen years old, it is said that he is only one foot away from the late stage of the Imperial Qi Realm.

The woman is Yang Yanguang's granddaughter, Yang Jiani.

A few years ago, Yang Yanguang brought this woman to the Zhenguo Mansion, let her and Zhao Ning know each other earlier, and intended to give Zhao Ning as his wife. With the relationship between the two families, Zhao Xuanji should have agreed, but Zhao Ning was resolutely opposed at that time.

There is only one reason, the other party is too fat, twice his weight, and he is holding a large bag of pastries and halva all day long, and he does not stop eating his mouth full of dregs for a moment, which makes Zhao Ning very disgusted.

Zhao Xuan doted on Zhao Ning very much, so he didn't decide on this matter immediately, thinking about it in a few years. Besides, as long as the two families maintain their in-law relationship, the specific candidate is not the most important, Yang Jiani is not treated by Zhao Ning, so she can change one.

Unexpectedly, the eighteenth year of the female college changed, and within a few years, Yang Jiani turned out to be slim and became a well-known beauty in Jiangzuo. When the other party went to visit relatives, Zhao Xuanji asked Zhao Ning again, and the latter did not continue to object.

Although this matter has not yet been completely decided, it is a foregone conclusion in the hearts of the two families.

Later, Zhao Yujie entered the Zhao family, although Zhao Xuanji did not interfere with the emotional life of the young man, the Zhao family knew in their hearts that with Zhao Yujie's birth status, even if she married Zhao Ning, she could only be a concubine.

This is now the case.

"What kind of heart does Yang Hou have? He actually let his granddaughter swagger with the Sun family in front of the public, do you still want etiquette? This is obviously to make our Zhao family unhappy!"

Zhao Xin's face was dark, and he wanted to say a few more words, but when he saw Zhao Qiyue looking at him with an unkind face, he hurriedly shut up.

......

The next morning, the emperor took the civil and military officials to burn incense and worship the sky on the high platform that was built, and a complete set of autumn hunting ceremonies was completed, and it was almost noon. The nobles rested for an hour, and just after noon, the emperor led everyone to begin the hunt.

10,000 yuan from the forbidden army set off early, from the two wings of the Fuyun Mountain hunting ground, the mountain beasts concentrated to drive to the established area, convenient for the emperor and nobles to gallop horses and hunt.

The emperor symbolically shot down a tiger, and the eunuchs carried it around for display, and returned to the high platform built on the mountainside overlooking most of the hunting ground amid the sound of the mountain and the tsunami. The civil and military ministers also understood it, and followed the emperor.

The purpose of autumn hunting is to cultivate the martial arts of the dynasty on the one hand, and on the other hand, to inspect the young noble children of the school. Sometimes it is also used to practice the art of war.

At this time, Zhao Ning galloped wildly, and together with the children of the Zhao family, he shuttled between the mountains, forests and grasslands, and the iron tire bow in his hand sounded from time to time, harvesting the prey he fancied.

In a short time he hunted many elk and wolves, all of whom were led by his servants. These are either tonight's treats, or they will bring the fur back, and even if they don't use it, it's good to reward it to their minions.

According to the custom, after the hunt is over, the children of the nobles will be ranked according to the number and type of beasts they have hunted, which is also part of the autumn hunting competition.

Ordinary animals, Zhao Ning didn't look at them, and after moving his hands and feet, he did everything possible to find the real beast. Soon, he heard an angry roar in the woods not far away, and immediately rode his horse and galloped over.