Li Siye was sewing quilts at home, and the heralds of the Metropolitan Protectorate knocked on the door outside the courtyard. Tian Zhen wielded a stick in the courtyard and sparred with Fujimu's wooden knife.

"Someone is coming, open the door."

Tian Zhen slashed horizontally with a stick, Fujimaki hurriedly lowered his head to avoid it, and this guy took it down again, while shouting: "Fart!" Whoever loses will go open! ”

The inside of this door was very happy, and the herald couldn't go outside, so he could only shout and ask through the wall: "Li Shuzheng, is there something wrong at home, do you want me to go to the capital to move troops!" ”

Li Siye bypassed the fighting ground between the two and walked through the courtyard to open the door for the herald.

The herald crossed his hands and said: "Li Shuzheng, I will escort you to the mansion to discuss matters." ”

Li Siye knew in his heart that the days of making money easily by himself had passed, and he was going to arrange a job for him immediately.

"Wait a minute, I'll be there right away."

Ignoring the two who continued to fight, he pulled his horse out of the stable, turned over and mounted, and ran in the direction of the capital.

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Li Siye walked out of the mansion of the Duhu Mansion, his head was still a little buzzing, and he was actually assigned to the green onion collar to guard and arrest? Isn't this just going to manage a border post? Sure enough, the influence of the prince's close ministers is still working.

It's not a big deal to guard and capture the envoy, isn't there still a few hundred people under his hands, and there is a greater advantage that Emperor Shangao is far from being restrained, and even if you don't act as a demon, almost no one can remember you.

He walked out of the mansion, led the horse and prepared to go back, and happened to meet Cao Zhenqing, the law of the Duhu Mansion, who was more close to Li Siye, and every time Li Siye came to the Duhu Mansion to order something, he liked to go to Lao Cao's duty room to drink tea for a while.

Cao Zhenqing saw him from afar, beckoned to him and rushed up, and the two walked side by side on the streets of Qiuzi City.

Lao Cao was very sensitive to the affairs in the Duhu Mansion, and took the initiative to ask him: "What did the Duhu ask you to do in the Fuzhong?" But if there is a real vacancy, you will be asked to take office? ”

"It's not a loss to Lao Cao, my guess is really good, I was sent to guard the green ridge."

When Cao Zhenqing heard this, his eyebrows raised involuntarily, and his smile looked very reluctant: "You have been idle in Qiuzi Town for a few months, and it is not bad to have a place to go, congratulations." ”

Cao Zhenqing's words were already vague, and he sounded as if he had been sentenced to death.

Li Siye hurriedly asked, "What?" Lao Cao, isn't this place good? ”

"It's really not good," Cao Zhenqing felt the need to popularize knowledge for him: "Do you know where this former green mountain guard has been caught?" ”

Li Siye sighed in his heart, and hurriedly said, "Could it be that it has returned to Jiuquan?" Is this green ridge so dangerous? ”

"No, no, although the Green Ridge is bitter cold, it is not dangerous, and the Green Ridge is set up to guard the city, but it is just to maintain the safety of the Green Ridge Trade Road, protect the two or three post stations in the Green Ridge, and by the way, monitor the Hu'er of the Big and Small Bolu Kingdom. This place is important, but few people want to take the initiative to go because it is too remote and bitter cold......"

"Most of the guards who guard the city are dead in office, so if you come to this place, I am afraid that there will be no hope for promotion in this life."

Cao Zhenqing's words were very tactful, probably because he was afraid of hurting Li Siye's not fragile heart. Guarding the border fortress of the city is important and important, but it is not important. Because it is not a place where soldiers must fight, and it is not a key point in geography, the Tang Army's placement and capture is only a kind of compensatory control over the blind spot of the military town.

Just as the Tang army of Anxi also set up a bowl and a state in the depth of the Green Ridge and built the city of Saole, which choked the main road in and out of the Great and Small Bolu Kingdom, the Tangju Ridge, compared to the city of Saole, the defense of the Green Ridge is only an insignificant point, and its insignificance is enough to make it a forgotten corner.

Li Siye opened his mouth and asked Cao Zhenqing rhetorically: "Do you mean that as long as I am a guard of the Green Ridge, I will have to stay here for the rest of my life until I die of old age?" ”

Now that Li Siye has recognized the situation, Cao Zhenqing might as well say it more bluntly: "Don't say it's the Green Ridge guard, even the rest of Anxi guards and captures the city, and they are all white-haired guards." ”

There was no need for Cao Zhenqing to explain to him again, and Li Siye could have such a picture in his mind, a white-haired old man standing on the head of a stone city in iron armor, looking desolate at the land he had spent his life guarding.

I used to think it was good to come to Yao, but now I feel too unreasonable, you have to let the family work until retirement, and you have to let them die in the line of duty and die in office.

Then again, most of the feudal bureaucrats either died in office, or were killed in office, and those who can return to their hometowns are basically rare animals, as for the feudal emperors, dying in office is their normal fate, and they can't die in office, but they are very miserable.

"Do you mean that if I become a catcher, I will have no hope of promotion in this life?"

Cao Zhenqing smiled with a relieved tone: "This matter is also uncertain, maybe you are a good person, and you can make great contributions to the position of the envoy, and you will definitely be promoted."

Although Cao Zhenqing said this, from his expression, it was almost difficult for the guard to be promoted.

The two said goodbye to each other at the intersection of the street, Li Siye invited Cao Zhenqing to eat hot pot at home, Cao Zhenqing didn't know what hot pot was, but politely declined: "It's not too early today, when you leave, I'll give you another pick-up."

Li Siye led the horse back home, Tian Zhen and Fuji Mu had already thrown knives and guns, and the two sat in the courtyard in circles, shabu meat in the hot pot.

"Don't eat it, leave me some." He led the black fat into the stable, and said nonchalantly, "You two are ready to prepare, and I will take up my post in a few days."

Tian Zhen jumped up from the ground excitedly and asked, "Did you really take office?" What did you do to protect you?"

"The Green Ridge Guard."

Tian Zhen followed up and asked, "Does this official have real power?" Can you lead the troops? How many people?"

"Yes, in charge of a small city, there are about two or three hundred people under my hands."

Fuji Mu frowned slightly: "Green Ridge, this place is a bit remote and bitterly cold, I heard that there are only two or three months of spring and summer in a year, and the rest of the season is all cold winter."

Tian Zhen didn't care about suffering: "When you come to Anxi as a soldier, isn't it to suffer?" It's nothing to suffer a little, as long as I can make a contribution, I don't care. ”

Fujimaki followed up and changed his tone: "I can stand it, as long as I can go into battle and learn something."

Li Siye was embarrassed to tell them that the place where the Green Ridge was guarding was a bit out of place, and under normal circumstances, there would never be a war. Let's hide it first, wait until they get to the green ridge, and let them slowly experience it for themselves.

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