Chapter 43: A Tribute to the Prince

On this day, Guo Xing found Guo Jun and said, "Second brother, I plan to let people buy some sacrifices, and I want to pay tribute to my eldest brother in Beijing" The prince's grave is twenty miles away from Beijing.

Guo Jun smiled when he heard it, "Your sister-in-law has already prepared the sacrifice, I originally wanted to tell you at night, you said it first" The two brothers thought of a piece, made an agreement, and paid tribute to the prince in Beijing.

At night, in the palace, the queen found the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, I want to go to Sheng'er tomorrow to have a look, these days are ......", the queen said that she couldn't go on here, with tears in her eyes.

Emperor Guo Wei's face was also gloomy for a while, his eldest son and himself were very intimate, father and son were of the same heart, and in a blink of an eye, the white-haired man sent the black-haired man, so he said, "Jun'er and Xing'er will go to Beijing tomorrow, let's go out in casual clothes early in the morning, I'll accompany you" got the emperor's approval, and the queen also cried silently.

Early in the morning, before dawn, Guo Jun took his eldest son Guo Hu and Guo Xing together, with the sacrifices, and hurried towards the prince's mausoleum, the perennial soldiers got up early, and only Guo Xing's more than 400 people followed, with these 400 people, you can't take it down even if you are 2,000 people, so the security force is enough.

The prince's mausoleum is only more than 20 miles away from the Beijing Division, there are special personnel responsible for guarding, I was surprised to see so many people coming, I don't understand what's going on, at this time, a soldier came forward and said, "Prince Jun and Prince Wu came to worship the prince together, and led the way in front of the head."

As soon as the steward saw that the person was wearing the standard armor in the Great Jin Army, there was no doubt that there was him, and the prince who could lead the troops to transfer troops in the Great Jin Dynasty was the two, and this time they came together, Guo Xing and Guo Jun led a group of soldiers to the prince's mausoleum, and their own soldiers came to place sacrifices.

Guo Jun and Guo Xing came over together, looking at the prince's spirit card, when they left Beijing, the two were still talking happily, and in a blink of an eye, the yin and yang were separated, and the tears of the two were down, and they couldn't control their crying, "Big brother" The two brothers knelt on the ground and cried at all.

The people next to him were also silently crying, burning yellow paper, lighting incense, the eyes of the brothers were red, and no one spoke, Guo Jun thought of when he was a child, the prince took him to play, the brothers ate together, went to school, practiced martial arts, and so on, Guo Xing thought of the prince's various maintenance of himself, including the gifts he brought to himself when he was not out of the palace, etc.

On the side of the road that is still some way away from the prince's mausoleum, there is a group of people parked, although they are all dressed by the people, but they are free and have a momentum, as if they are waiting for something, and after a while, they see a person coming from the direction of the mausoleum, and they came to the old man and said, "Back to the old man, the existing people in the prince's mausoleum are worshiping the prince."

The old man's eyes lit up and he asked directly, "Who is it", and when a group of people left the capital and had not yet arrived at the prince's mausoleum, they received a report that there were people in the prince's mausoleum, and the old man arranged for someone to investigate.

The man replied, "It's Prince Jun and Prince Wu, and Prince Jun's eldest son, with five hundred men."

The old woman next to the old man also had red eyes after hearing this, and said sadly, "Now, these two brothers are still thinking about their eldest brother."

The old man nodded and did not speak. Scared, he patted the old woman's hand next to him and said, "Let's go back, come back another day, let their brothers stay longer" The old woman nodded with tears, and the group turned their heads and walked towards the capital.

Guo Xing practiced swordsmanship twice in front of the mausoleum, and the people around him couldn't understand it, Guo Jun could vaguely understand a little, and said in his heart, how high is Xiao Shi's martial arts, and now he can't understand it, and his heart is gloomy and sad.

Guo Hu also incense his uncle, Su Hu, Wang Han, and Zhou Tai also incense one by one, and took a morning in the mausoleum, and in the afternoon the group left the prince's mausoleum, turned around and joined the army, and hurried to Beijing.

When it was dark, the group rushed to the capital, and there were people waiting at the city gate, Zhou Quan was also waiting for Guo Xing at the city gate, when Guo Xing led the troops into the grassland to raid, Zhou Quan wanted to follow, and in the end Guo Xing gave a strict order to not go.

These days, the thoughtful days are also very sad, I can't eat or sleep, I am worried about this Guo Xing, I am very happy to hear the news that Guo Xing was killed from the grassland, especially when I get the news that Guo Xing was ordered to enter Beijing, I will let people clean the palace every once in a while, and wait for Guo Xing's arrival.

Seeing the arrival of the two, a small eunuch appeared and said, "Two princes, the emperor has a decree, waiting for the two in the imperial study, and the others will be staying in the barracks, and Prince Tongwu will return from the grassland to stay at the post station, and face the saint tomorrow morning."

Guo Jun and Guo Xing received the order, and under the arrangement, Guo Jun asked Zhou Tai, "Brother Zhou, are you going back to the house or going to the post station?"

Zhou Tai said directly, "I'll go to the post station with my brothers, and I'll go back to the house tomorrow after the saint."

Guo Xing nodded and said, "Okay, you are familiar with Beijing, take your brothers and settle them"

Zhou Tai bowed down and saluted and said, "Yes", Guo Jun's side also arranged it, a thousand cavalry were stationed in the camp, and the soldiers escorted the princess and the princes back to the house, and the brothers went straight to the palace with a whip.

The palace is quiet, since the death of the prince has been very quiet, no one dares to pick the head, the above two bigwigs are in a bad mood, to pick the head is to find death, Guo Jun and Guo Xing brothers entered the inner and went straight to the imperial study, and the emperor Guo Wei was waiting for the two in the imperial study.

In the morning, the emperor and the queen went out of the palace in micro-clothes, and went to the prince's mausoleum just to meet the two brothers to worship the prince, not to say, the two old people were very comforted, especially the queen, women are more emotional, Guo Jun don't say it, the relationship with the prince is very deep, the two brothers have grown up together since childhood, Guo Xing is not back and has not returned home to worship the prince first, proving that Guo Xing is also a temperamental, remember the good of people, and he loved him when he was a child, unlike the other brothers who are all white-eyed wolves, jumping up and down to earn the position of the prince。

In the hearts of the two old men, the impression of the two brothers is a straight line, in fact, the queen met with Concubine De after returning to the palace, and spoke highly of Guo Xingneng's behavior of worshiping the prince as soon as he came back.

After the report, the two entered the house to give the emperor Guo Wei a salute, the emperor Guo Wei looked at the two of them is old and relieved, these two children have the ability and affection, they are their own thousands of horses, and said, "Wang Tao, move two stools" Wang Tao arranged for someone to move two stools and put them down according to the place designated by the emperor, the emperor nodded to the stool, which means that you sit down, Guo Jun has experienced it before, so he will naturally do it, Guo Xing does not know what it means to be polite and naturally do it.

At this time, Emperor Guo Wei spoke: "I called you here today to listen to your views on the grassland, Jun'er, you can talk about it first."

"Yes" Guo Jun responded, paused, thought for a while and said, "After a big battle this year, our losses with the grassland are not small, and in a few years, the safety of the border can be guaranteed, and now is the time to recuperate."

"Xing'er, you can also talk about it" Emperor Guo Wei didn't say anything about Guo Jun's words, and asked Guo Xing directly.

Guo Xing thought for a while and said, "It's nothing more than two points, one is to recuperate internally and accumulate resources, and the other is to summarize the gains and losses of the whole army in this war, and fight again in two years, we can't coexist with the prairie, and there can only be one king in the world."

Emperor Guo Wei nodded when he heard this, the two children's statements were good, but one focused on the border pass, and the other looked at the whole world, Emperor Guo Wei said: "Your views are good, we really have to prepare for another confrontation with the grassland people in two years, Jun'er, you must increase the construction of cavalry in Yunzhou, get ready."

Guo Jun replied, "Yes".

Then Emperor Guo Wei said, "Xing'er, you have led troops to raid the grassland this time, and you have made a great contribution, what reward do you want?"

Guo Xing shook his head when he heard this and said, "Father, the sons are already princes, if you want to reward them, it's good to give the sons more gold and silver, the sons love money more."

The emperor Guo Wei and Guo Jun next to him also laughed when they heard it, Wang Tao saw the emperor's smile for the first time after the death of the prince. Guo Wei said with a smile, "I remember that when you were one year old, you caught a gold ingot, and now it's really good, you really love money now."

Guo Jun also laughed next to him, Guo Xing's face immediately turned red, after Emperor Guo Wei saw Guo Xing's face blushing, he laughed even more, Guo Xing, this child has grown up since he was a child, and he has a sense of arrogance in his heart, it is rare to see his face change, Guo Jun looked at Guo Xing's embarrassment, and laughed with haha, Guo Xing is too rare like this.

For a time, it was the father's kindness and filial piety, and he was happy, the emperor left the two of them to have dinner in the palace, and when eating, Guo Jun chewed slowly, Guo Xing did not have so many rules, and he had a big meal, and after eating, he let the two of them go out of the palace, and told the two to participate in the morning court tomorrow.

The brothers went out of the palace and separated after walking for a while, Guo Jun returned to the house, Guo Xing went to the post house to take a look, the brothers arranged it well, and told Zhou Tai and the three of them to get up early tomorrow and go directly to their palace to have an early court with themselves.

After telling him, Guo Xing went back to his palace. The subordinates had been waiting for a long time, and Zhou Quan stayed in the gatehouse, and when he saw Guo Xing coming back, he hurriedly greeted him and said, "Lord Wang, you can be regarded as coming back,"

Guo Xing looked at it and said, "Okay, the house is talking" After speaking, he took Zhou Quan into the mansion and came to the main hall to sit down and drink tea.

"There's nothing going on in the house," Guo Xing asked.

Zhou Quan bowed down and said, "Lord, there is no big event, but there is one thing that needs to be decided by you, Lord."

Guo Xing was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "What's the matter?" and Zhou Quan said one thing, Guo Xing heard it, and his head hurt for a while, how could such a thing happen in his house.