Under the leadership of Zhao Gang, they finally met Prince Shengda, looking at the delicate face, dark complexion, and a sickly look, if it wasn't for Zhao Gang's introduction, who would have known that he was once the prince of Xingguo!

Shengda saw them on crutches and said, "I finally saw you, I've worked hard all the way, blame me for being a little inconvenient to walk these days, it's really rude." ”

Ma Jiguang was stunned and said, "Your Highness, what are you talking about, we are late, and we are guilty." ”

Sheng Da lowered his head and waved his hand and said: "Uncle Ma, hurry up, you can't help it, I am no longer Your Highness, you don't need to be like this, and you don't need to blame yourself, you will treat me as a junior of the same township in the future!" ”

"Your Highness, don't say that, this time I came to tell Your Highness that the original removal was not from the heart of the first emperor, in fact, the first emperor has always missed His Highness."

"I understand, and I understand that my father was really forced to do so at that time, but it's rare for you to come here today, so don't mention some sad things."

"I'll first introduce you to Uncle Ma, the fierce man on my left is called Shang De, and the uncle with a sturdy body and beard on my right is called Ye Peng.

"Hello two heroes."

"This is Tamagawa, I saw you when I was a child. Now I have grown up a lot and are a lot more handsome. ”

Ma Yuchuan said in disbelief: "I have seen the prince in Xia Ma Yuchuan." ”

Why are you the same as Uncle Ma, don't call me the prince in the future, you will treat me as a friend in the future, just call me Xiaoda like Brother Zhao!

Zhao Gang said, "Oh, they have lived in the imperial city for a long time, and the official tone will not change for a while, and when you live here for a few days, I guarantee that you will become the same as me, and you will be arrogant." ”

Sheng Da smiled, let's go! Come into the house and talk, these two friends and I happen to be drinking, and now that you're here, let's not get drunk today.

Zhao Gang smiled and said, "Okay, don't get drunk!" ”

Ma Jiguang whispered to intercept Zhao Gang and said, "Isn't the prince in poor health?" How dare you let him drink. ”

Zhao Gang said: "You think I want to!" Even if we block it now, when there is no one at night, he will still find wine and secretly drink it himself. ”

Yuchuan said, "It seems that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince feels that there is no hope, so he is willing to fall." ”

"Not really! But when the time comes, you should follow him first, and wait for him to talk about important things after he eats, otherwise he will skip meals and concentrate on studying things. ”

"Got it"

After three rounds of wine, five flavors of food, and a lot of short words in the parents, Zhao Gang finally couldn't bear to shoot the case at this moment and said, "If you want me to say, why don't we dare to form an army and fight them head-on, don't you see that Tuoba Hao will revolt?" ”

Sheng Da put down his wine glass, sighed, and said: "Tuoba Hao's family is strong, and he himself has 20,000 soldiers and horses, plus the tiger and wolf army of Weiting, it is a strong combination. But what about us? I didn't say anything, and there was always famine and disease, and it was a fantasy to compare us with Tuoba Hao. ”

Xiao Chuan said, "Your Highness, why are you so sure that there is nothing?" Your Highness, you don't lack anything! ”

Sheng Da smiled, "I don't lack anything, how come I don't know." ”

"Your Highness, you only think about your father, have you forgotten your mother?"

"My mother, how could I forget, she was also killed by the demon queen! Blame me for my incompetence and incompetence to avenge my mother. ”

"Your Majesty, if you want to take revenge, you don't know one! Have you forgotten that you also have a grandfather who is a businessman? Like His Highness, he hates the demon queen to the core. ”

"Grandpa? Oh, yes! You don't say I really forgot, but now I have forgotten what he looks like, what else can I expect my grandfather to do! ”

"Your Highness has a way is better than no way! Although we haven't been in touch for a long time, we are blood relatives, and the most important thing is that you all have a common enemy, which is the key to untying the knot. ”

Ma Jiguang also said at this moment: "Your Highness, I know the royal family, he is not as complicated as you think, most of the time he resigned and went away, he did not love the red tape in the palace and the mutual suspicion and use of family affection, but as a businessman, he can travel freely in the world." ”

"So it's not so much that the emperor has a holiday with the first emperor, but that he is not suitable to be an official in the court at all."

"But even so, why should my grandfather help me? Is it because he also wants to kill the demon queen? ”

Ma Yuchuan said, "That's right, the prince knows very little about officialdom, and he doesn't know how to lead troops to fight, he wants to take revenge is nothing more than spending money to hire a few killers to assassinate, but after so many years, it has never succeeded, and the prince's heart must be more anxious than His Royal Highness." ”

Ma Jiguang said, "Besides, the most important thing is that the prince only has such a daughter, the queen, and His Royal Highness is the only grandson, who can he help if he doesn't help you!" ”

Sheng Da was a little hesitant and his expression was much heavier, was he really sure about a grandfather he hadn't seen for a long time? Although we are related by blood, after all, we have become distant and strange due to the relationship of time, what is the difference between helping me and helping an outsider. Besides, what do I have, Xingzhou is just a small continent that has no taste to eat and is a pity to abandon, and the three county towns I occupy are only border towns in Xingzhou, and most of the people here are untouchables from humble backgrounds and exiled by the imperial court, what can they win for me.

Looking at my strategist, although Ma Jiguang is the former third duke, but Sikong Xiangguo also mentioned to him that his apprentice has a strategy but no courage to do things timidly, the advantage of such a person is that he is loyal in peace, and the disadvantage is that it is difficult to become a big weapon in the troubled times, and it is too much, such a strategist can be used in politics but not easy to join the army.

Looking at my generals, although Shang De and Ye Peng are excellent in martial arts, they are at most deputy generals from the perspective of their skills, Zhao Gang I haven't seen him shoot until now, and the deputy generals who are not worthy are not clear, these three people are not very famous in this place in Xingzhou, how to talk about being comparable to those generals who can fight well in the demon queen.

And myself? What is the use of having a retribution and indignant anger, and it is just self-deception for me to raise troops to revolt like Tuoba Hao.

Yuchuan didn't say a word when he saw Shengda's disappointed expression, and he guessed in his heart. He boldly said Sander, I am young, can I ask you a few questions.

Sand said to him, "But it doesn't hurt to say it! ”

"As a person who practices martial arts, are you afraid of gangsters?"

Shang De said: "I practice martial arts, one is self-defense, and the other is Anliang, so what is there to be afraid of in the face of gangsters." ”

"But what if the gangsters are stronger than you? What do you want to do if you know that you are invincible? ”

"If you can't fight the enemy, then outwit it. In short, give in to the gangsters, I would rather die in battle. ”

"Okay, it's really a body of liver and gall Yuchuan admiration, can I ask Ye Peng a few questions?"

Ye Peng smiled slightly, as if he understood what this baby meant, and he also said to him: "If it is the question just now, I will answer the same as Brother Shangde." ”

Yuchuan bowed deeply and said, "I heard that we have 5,000 soldiers, and it is a big crime to recruit troops and buy horses privately, which is not a small threat to a court, not to mention the imperial city far away in the sky, let's just say that now if Xingzhou sends 50,000 soldiers to crusade, what should you do in the face of ten times the enemy." ”

Ye Peng snorted coldly and said, "Don't say that 50,000 is 500,000, in the face of a hundredfold enemy, I am not afraid." ”

"Why?"

The environment around these three counties is extremely harsh, and even the locals here rarely walk through the forests, and the miasma between the forests and those poisonous flowers, birds, snakes and insects are enough to resist the walking of thousands of horses.

Zhao Gang couldn't help but say, "The people here used to think that this forest was a poison, but now this forest has become their protective umbrella to hide from the troubled times. ”

Yuchuan was very satisfied, and he asked the prince, "Although we are a small city on the edge of Xingzhou, we have unexpectedly gained a unique starting point, with this starting point, we can raise troops and store food, enter other towns in the Xingzhou area, and retreat to defend the invasion of thousands of troops and horses." If it is used properly, it will be easy for the whole Xingzhou to work together. ”

"Also, most of the people here are poor people, who have suffered a lot, but whenever they eat a little sweetness, they will rather fight for it desperately."

"And what we lack now is nothing more than a little sweetness, if Prince Shengda doesn't even have the courage and doesn't want to try, then at this moment I think Qi Zhanying and Yu Xiao deserve to win the world."

Shengda said: "Try? What if it fails? Have you ever thought about it? ”

Yuchuan said, "There is something in the world that can definitely succeed, even if we have the strength of Tuoba Hao, will we definitely be able to defeat the national thieves and demon queens sitting in the imperial city?" Even if we had a million soldiers, would we be able to win the world? ”

"People are doing it, the sky is watching, and things are man-made, not destined by God. Always face problems with pessimistic thoughts, even if His Highness has everything, it will eventually be reduced to zero. ”

"Enough, you remember that I can't gamble the lives of the people on that small one in ten thousand possibility."

As soon as Ma Jiguang wanted to say something, he was ordered to be evicted by Shengda.

He shouted loudly, "Get out, for the sake of my respect for you, get out at once." ”

Yuchuan stopped his father and pulled his father to wave his sleeves and leave.

……

At the gate of the hospital, Ma Jiguang and his son argued and said, "Xiaochuan, you were too impulsive just now, you have to be considerate of him properly." ”

Father, I don't think it's necessary, I'm afraid that what the first emperor told you will not have a chance to come true, and Prince Shengda has no intention of taking the throne.

"Don't be too arbitrary, at least he didn't say in person that he had no interest in the throne. So you have to give him some time, he just doesn't have confidence, he's been demoted to this, he's disabled, and his father has just passed away, so it's natural to have a little negative emotion! ”

"It stands to reason that I think he has given up on himself and complained for the rest of his life. So don't get your hopes up for luck, father. ”

"It's really not good, so I can only play that trump card, I believe that with his qualifications, he will be able to create a miracle."

At this moment, Zhao Gang came over and shouted, "Ma'er, what are you father and son discussing?" ”

Ma Jiguang looked back and said, "You dead fat, scare me." ”

Zhao Gang said: "Didn't you say a few more words to Brother Da?" Why don't you wait for me? ”

Ma Jiguang said, "You are also the lord of a county, you are not busy with government affairs, you are not for the people, you are wandering around all day long." ”

Zhao Gang said, "Hey~ Don't mention that, I feel upset when I mention it, it's all trivial things about my mother-in-law, don't go!" Besides, didn't I say it in my letter? I thought that in a few days after my resignation, the new county order should take office. ”

Ma Yuchuan said, "Uncle Zhao, what are you going to do if you don't become an official?" ”

"Bandits, this Xingzhou is surrounded by mountains, and it is the most suitable for bandits, do you know North Bend City?"

"Is there anyone in this criminal continent who doesn't know North Bend?"

"Then you must not know that there is a big ear mountain outside the North Bend City, this mountain used to be a barren mountain, which greatly hindered the caravan to come and go, but this mountain recently I don't know which rich lord has opened a small mountain road, this road has a lot of oil and water, all of them are some passing caravans, and I have set up a few cottages there, usually to collect a protection fee or something."

Yuchuan asked with some curiosity: "Aren't the newly opened roads generally supervised and protected by the government?" Besides, when you say that this road is still a road to get rich, isn't there an official mission to confront Uncle Zhao? ”

Zhao Gang said: "This is also strange, I haven't seen any official errands in the past month since I was there, and they have given us protection money quite happily." ”

"Then Uncle Zhao, can you take me to have a look?"

"Of course, I'm here to take you there."

Ma Jiguang said, "I have other things, you guys go first!" ”

Zhao Gang was not polite, he carried Ma Jiguang, a thin man, and said, "You have been inking since you were a child, I don't eat this set, just go now, don't shirk." ”

"Okay~~ You won, can't I go?"

~~

They came to Zhao Gang's cottage to see, I really have to admire Zhao Gang, these cottage buildings are really okay, not only the end echoes, each other into a corner, located to the road, and easy to defend and difficult to attack, without 5,000 elites I am afraid it is difficult to capture this serial cottage.

Ma Jiguang praised, "Dead fat, I haven't seen it for a few years, and I'm getting better and better, it's really amazing." ”

"What's the matter, don't say that I'm blowing here, even if the official mission comes, I'm not afraid."

"Well, you built the cottage so strongly, you didn't invest a lot of money!."

"What is the investment of money, I can return to my capital in less than half a year with this road."

While showing you to see my other brothers and sisters, he exclaimed, "Come out and meet my good friends, little ones." ”

In an instant, all the people in the cottage heard Zhao Gang's roar and came here one by one, including strong men, women and children, and the old and weak, who dragged their families together, not a thousand, but eight hundred.

Brothers and sisters, this is Fa Xiao, who grew up with me, Ma Jiguang. Next to him was his eldest son. They came from the imperial city and used to be the third duke, but now they are no longer officials, so they will accompany me to be the leader of this cottage, and everyone will see the second master together.

"See the second master."

Ma Jiguang said, "Fat, what are you doing, I didn't promise you." ”

Zhao Gang said: "Do you think I took you to visit in vain?" Brother Da doesn't know the goods, I'm not confused, you are the second master of this cottage. ”

Ma Jiguang pulled Zhao Gang aside, aren't you messing around?

"Why am I messing around, if you don't be the second master, do you still want to be an official?"

Ma Jiguang couldn't answer for a while, it is true that he still has some way to go now, he has no power to tie the chicken, so he has no place to use, to put it bluntly, since the moment he resigned, he has returned to the appearance of the poor scholar before.

But although he is not an official, he still wants to be an official in his heart, and in this life, Ma Jiguang is probably really useless except for being an official.

Seeing his father waving his hand vigorously, rejecting Uncle Zhao's good intentions, Ma Yuchuan came out at this moment and persuaded him, "Father, don't let down Uncle Zhao's kindness, being a bandit is not necessarily a bad thing these days, in today's troubled times, it is a great blessing to have a plan to survive." ”

"Hey~ Yes, yes, you little boy, you are even in line with me, so don't shirk it."

Ma Jiguang said firmly in his heart, "I will never be the second master, you die of this heart!" With that, he left.

Ma Yuchuan and Uncle Zhao said, "Uncle, my father may not be able to accept it for the time being, please Uncle Zhao let me have some time and let me communicate more with my father." ”

Zhao Gang smiled, "Okay, you are his son, you definitely understand your father, he will hand it over to you, I welcome you here at any time." ”

"Thank you, Uncle Zhao."

"My own family, what's polite."