Early the next morning.

In the barracks outside Wanping County, a team of soldiers and armor rushed out of the camp on horseback in full armor.

Zhu Gaoxu took Wang Bin, Song Meng, and a newly formed team of personal soldiers.

In Zhu Gaoxu's new 100-person pro-soldier team, mainly veterans, there are a small number of tenant soldiers, but there is no one in Han Wang's village, just the captain of the pro-soldiers, but Zhou Hu, the fierce general in the village.

They rode thirteen horses to Yuquan Mountain (northwest of Beiping).

Later generations of Yuquan Mountain is one of the three mountains and five gardens in Beiping, located in the west side of the Summer Palace, the most famous Yuquan Mountain is the spring water on the mountain, it was approved by Qianlong as "the first spring in the world", the drinking water of the Manchu Dynasty Palace is the Yuquan landscape, every day there is a waterwheel from Yuquan Mountain to use the water in the palace, every day the Xizhi Gate is opened, the first to enter the city, it must be the waterwheel that transports water.

The people of Beiping may not have felt that the local water quality is particularly poor, anyway, the water used by the county king's mansion is not from Yuquan Mountain.

Zhu Gaoxu led people all the way to run wildly, and he had already seen the foot of Yuquan Mountain at three o'clock.

The scenery here is good, and there are many officials and generals in Beiping who are willing to live here in seclusion.

But Zhu Gaoxu later found that this side is very close to Beiping, and some people may be thinking that it will be more convenient to wait for one day to go out of the mountain again.

Such as this Sun Yan.

Sun Yan followed Zhu Yuanzhang to cross the river in his early years, and then followed Zhu Di, first guarding on the right side of Yanshan, and then guarding in Yanshan, and the official reached a thousand households, he was born in 1339, and was 55 years old when he was 55 years old.

To tell the truth, Sun Yan will be willing to retire, mainly to move his son's position, now the Ming Dynasty does not say, just Beiping Dusi, there are several veterans over sixty-five years old, Sun Yan retired at fifty-five, is quite young.

"Lord Wang, the scenery here is really good, wait for me to come and take care of the elderly." Wang Bin jumped to Zhu Gaoxu's side, looked at the beautiful scenery around him and couldn't help but smile.

Zhu Gaoxu said quietly: "The policy of the imperial court is not necessarily completely reasonable, in the eyes of this king, Sun Qianhu is both civil and military, brave and strategic, is a rare good general, as long as he is in good health, he can work until he is seventy years old." ”

"And you Wang Bin, your ability is also known to this king, and you can do it until you are seventy years old." He blurted out the policy, and I don't know if Daming has this statement, but it doesn't matter, the important thing is that everyone can understand the words later.

Wang Bin's face turned red, and he had an embarrassed expression: "As long as the prince does not dislike it, the last general will bow --- - do your best, and then --- after death."

"It's just a matter of doing your best and dying." Song Meng laughed.

"That's what you mean, Ni Niang, Song Meng, have you read a book?" Wang Bin looked vigilant, usually military generals who have read books, are more popular.

Recently, there have been more people around the prince, all of whom seem to be very strategic, and Wang Bin, the officials of hundreds of households, are also a little nervous, after all, they are afraid of being replaced.

Zhu Gaoxu immediately said lightly: "It doesn't matter whether the generals read or not, the most important thing is loyalty, there are many military generals in the world who are illiterate." In fact, he wished that he would arrange for everyone to learn literacy at once, just like the later novels, but he certainly can't do that now, and he won't say that.

Wang Bin was immediately overjoyed, the prince really wouldn't dislike us, in terms of loyalty, of course, we were the first, and couldn't help but look at Song Meng proudly.

A few people walked forward while laughing.

After a while, a large field appeared in front of them, which proved that there were already people nearby, and they rode over, passed by the farmland, and saw a farm yard not far from the roadside, and a farmer at the door.

"Go and ask, where Sun Qianhu lives, be polite." Zhu Gaoxu whispered.

"I'll go." As soon as Wang Bin spoke, he drove, and Song Meng on the side had already rushed out.

Wang Bin shrugged helplessly.

Zhu Gaoxu was silent on the surface, but in fact, he felt in his heart that Song Meng, who had read books, was smarter.

But as he said, in this world, wisdom is not important, loyalty is important.

"When the big things are settled, in the future, Wang Bin, you will send your children to study, this king wants to set up a academy, and the sons and nephews of the brothers can study together, and they can all become big officials in the future." As a descendant, Zhu Gaoxu certainly knows how to paint flatbread, which is also what his cheap father Zhu Di is good at.

Anyway, just open your mouth, brag and don't break the law, the key is to hold the hearts of your brothers.

Wang Bin was even more excited when he heard it: "I listen to the prince for all my humble duties." ”

If the son can be a civil official, then he doesn't need to inherit his own hundred households, after all, most people still want to be a civil official rather than a military general.

When the two were talking here, Zhu Gaoxu saw Song Meng riding over, and then cautiously jumped off the horse, as if he had taken a treasure banknote, and respectfully handed it to the farmer, the farmer did not accept the treasure money, handed it back, and pointed to a certain place with a smile on his face, Song Meng hugged his fists from time to time, thanked him, and then got on the horse and came back.

"If you ask someone else, no matter what your status, it is better to be careful and respectful than to be condescending, Song Meng did a good job." Zhu Gaoxu muttered to himself.

Wang Bin listened thoughtfully, he thought in his heart, if he had just passed, he would definitely ride all the way to the farmer, and he would not get off the horse, and then loudly reprimanded: "That old man, do you know where Sun Yan and Sun Qianhu are?" ”

If the old man has a bad attitude, he must whip a horse whip in the air to scare and scare him.

Wang Ye said that Song Meng did a good job, and he should learn like this in the future, Wang Bin quickly understood the essence, and he must learn the way that Wang Ye likes to do things.

Song Meng ran back halfway, glanced at Zhu Gaoxu from a distance, and turned his horse's head.

"Let's go, keep up." Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand, and everyone continued to move forward.

There was a path in front of them, and on the left was a river, and they followed the river to the north, and slowly came to the foot of the mountain, where they could hear the sound of the spring flowing clearly, and the mountain spring fell from the top of the mountain and flowed into the river, where the famous spring is.

When they turned a corner and entered the west of the foot of the mountain, the front suddenly opened up.

About fifty paces away, there is a relatively large courtyard, surrounded by vegetable patches and fruit trees.

But in the courtyard, there is a lot of equipment for martial arts.

I saw a young figure standing in the courtyard, holding a bow and arrows in his hand.

I was facing a tree more than sixty paces away from the courtyard, and I didn't know what I wanted to shoot.

Suddenly, the young man probably heard the sound of horses' hooves behind him, and quickly turned around, and saw more than a dozen horses running over, his expression was anxious, and he opened his mouth to say something.

Plopping and fluttering, there was a sound in the trees, and several birds flew up.

"Ahh The young man was in a hurry, so he quickly turned his head, swished, and shot an arrow.

His archery skills should be good, in a hurry, he turned his head and shot, but he didn't have time to aim, and with a bang, an arrow passed by a bird's back, and he almost hit.

A look of chagrin suddenly appeared on his face, probably blaming the armor for suddenly coming over and startling the bird.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu and their horses had already rushed to the gate of the courtyard, less than a dozen steps away from him.

Song Meng saw his expression and smiled: "I'll help you shoot." ”

The man on the horse, twisting his waist and stretching his bow.

At this time, a bird has already flown far away, and the distance should be more than a hundred paces.

With an ordinary foot bow, it is almost difficult to shoot so far.

But Song Meng's two-stone bow is only worse than Zhu Gaoxu's three-stone bow.

Crash, there was a strong sound of collapsing strings in the air.

A cold light flashed in the air, and a bird fell in the distance.

"It's amazing." The young man on the other side shouted for joy.

Everyone looked at each other, and it was actually a girl's voice.