In the palace, the old emperor held his grandson in his arms, and there were family letters in front of him.

"Grandpa, this is a letter from Li Wuqu to his family, why is it here?"

"Where does he have a family, his parents died early and grew up eating imperial grain. His ancestors have been in the army for six generations, and he once helped Taigaozu fight the world. ”

"Isn't it written here? Shimizu Village, my wife is guarded. ”

"I asked people to look for it, but there is no village called Qingshui in the world, and there is no Weixi woman who lives in Qingshui Village. This is just an idiot's wishful thinking, and I will act with him instead. This letter may be for me to see the harm of this Wu Dynasty, which lies in those royal relatives and wealthy families. ”

"Li Wuqu is a sword that is unparalleled in the world, and grandpa didn't have the blessing to find it at this age. When you ascend the throne, you must reuse Li Wuqu. ”

"The mother concubine said that Li Wuqu is a bad person."

"What did your father say?"

"My father doesn't dare to talk about my mother's concubine, I usually listen to my mother's concubine."

“.”

The palace suddenly became quiet, and the old emperor exhaled slightly and asked, "Are you sure it was Ling Niang who said it?" ”

The little emperor nodded a little frightened, and then he was sent out of the palace.

The next day, the emperor gave the crown princess death.

The crown prince was dizzy due to great sorrow, and the little emperor ran into the palace to cry, and all he could see was the dying old emperor.

"Establish filial piety as the emperor, and make you the prince, you must not listen to the words of the family, the scholars and gentry are all white-eyed wolves who are not familiar with it. With Li Wuqu...... Li Wuqu can help you eradicate them. ”

"Woo woo grandpa, my mother is dead......"

"The eunuch has drawn up another holy decree, if one day the princes of the world are in turmoil, they can enter the king of Jingqin and support orthodoxy."

"Your Majesty, what if he rebels?"

"I believe in him...... I believe in Him. ”

The old emperor let out his last sorrowful cry, the light under his eyes quickly dissipated, and the last thing he threw was not his own grandson, but the table of family letters from different years.

At the beginning, he reused this teenager for three reasons, one was that he had no background, two was capable, and three was that he was really upright.

Even if he beat his son many times and couldn't get out of bed, the old emperor still liked this 15-year-old champion. And sending him away from the capital later was also a helpless move to save his life, Li Changsheng was too sharp, and it was very likely to attract death.

Especially this reckless boy killed the prime minister's son.

But I didn't expect the other party to give me another surprise, he is not only a literary champion, but also a martial champion.

So the old emperor promoted him again, as long as he had merit, he would be promoted to the maximum. The reason why Li Changsheng was able to command the entire Beijun army in three years was due to his credit.

What really made the old emperor orphan was that he was not greedy, he was not greedy at all.

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[Letter to wife, ten years away from home, special letter to tell ...... peace]

[Disasters broke out in various parts of the Wu Dynasty, and some people said that the emperor was not virtuous, and the heavens sent disasters. I say that officials are not virtuous, and they swallow up fertile land and harm the people. 】

[In Layue, Beijun was hit by a disaster, and I released my warehouse to save the people, and ended up in prison. Fortunately, there was a foreign invasion in the west, and the court asked me to pacify the west. 】

[Xi'er, I have returned from a great victory, but more than half of my brothers have been killed or wounded. The imperial court could not afford to pay food, and the soldiers were weak, and they were afraid of rebellion. The imperial court ordered me to suppress the soldiers who begged for military salaries, and I took them to ask the family to pay the military salaries first, and to quell the chaos of the army.

[The military merits have arrived, the world is in turmoil, and the people are about to revolt, so I hope that my family will rush to Beijun. 】

Li Changsheng put the envelope away, and at this time, the cell happened to be opened, and his subordinates held the armor and said, "General, Hu Qi is attacking, and the imperial court will let you go out again." ”

"What about the salaries and the grain?"

"The imperial court said that it would be delivered in a few days, and it is said that a large number of merchants over there in Taojiang Commercial Town have been arrested, and they should be able to get together soon."

At this time, the Wu Dynasty was already crumbling, the treasury was empty, and there were many disasters year after year. If it weren't for the general's crusade to maintain the overall situation, the world would have been in chaos a long time ago. A few years ago, the rebellion of King Wei was also suppressed by the general, and the other princes did not dare to move now because Li Wuqu was there.

He really dared to kill the prince, and the emperor would really protect it.

But it still can't change the momentum of Wu Chao's declining West Mountain, maybe it is really the will of heaven that cannot be violated, even if there is an invincible general, it can't change the trend of chaos in the world. Everyone is gearing up, especially those princes.

The emperor is old and bedridden day and night, and it is already the limit to be able to protect the general.

The subordinate hesitated and said, "General, the grain and grass have not arrived and there is no military pay, or we should make another plan." As long as you give an order, this North County will be for you."

Before he finished speaking, Li Changsheng just cast a gaze, which made him tense his body and not dare to say more.

"Who told you to say that?"

The subordinate hurriedly knelt down on one knee and said profusely: "It's the heart of the subordinate who is covered with lard for a while, and no one asks me to say it." It's been a hard time, and it's almost a problem for the brothers to eat, how can they fight? ”

"Let those princes come out, and I'll go to the door to ask for it."

[Tell the guard, today I killed another prince, and found 10,000 taels of silver from my home, with military salaries, grain and grass. 】

[Hit Hu Cavalry, win. 】

At the end of the year, Li Changsheng, who had just returned from repelling Hu Qi's victory, received news that the emperor had died and the new emperor had ascended the throne.

The world was suddenly surging, and countless people turned their eyes to Beijun and to this invincible 100,000 elite soldiers.

If he has no foreign enemies in the Wu Dynasty, if he changes hands against the world, if he changes hands on the throne of King Qin.

Li Changsheng led the 100,000 Beijun army to move, and in an instant, the world was turbulent, and within a day, more than a dozen holy decrees were issued from the capital and sent to the princes in various places. Just when the whole world was on guard against this invincible general, he did not see any soldiers out of Beijun for ten consecutive days.

A few days later, more than 100 cavalry left Beijun, and they brought a batch of special gifts, the king of Beiyi.

Li Changsheng planned for 5 years, led the army into the mountains to destroy Beiyi, and opened up thousands of 800 mountains in a land of 100 miles of territory. In one fell swoop, the greatest threat to the north was eliminated, and for the first time in 200 years, the Wu Dynasty extended its tentacles of power into the mountains.

When the news came out, the world was shocked.

The crumbling fortunes of the Wu Dynasty seem to have been given a booster.

Li Changsheng was stationed at the border as always, and he never made any moves, and it lasted for a year. He received a holy decree from the court to transfer 50,000 elite soldiers from the Beijun Army to defend the Beijing Division.

He agreed, and 50,000 people still fought the barbarians and attacked the horses.

These soldiers brought out by Li Wuqu were scattered and integrated into the forbidden army of Gongwei Jingshi, and some high-ranking generals were given marriages. At the same time, as they entered, many legends about Li Wuqu began to appear in the capital.

"We don't know what kind of person Li Wuqu is, but one thing is for sure. As long as the general charges, military merit is as simple as catching grasshoppers. ”

"The general will always eat and live with us, he is like an old man full of knowledge, there is nothing he does not know."

"Li Wuqu's medical skills are superb and can cure the plague."

"The general is Li Wuqu, who has never lost his way in leading troops to fight, and knows the trend of mountains and rivers better than those barbarians when he walks in the mountains."

"Give the general 500 people, and you can fight 100,000 people."

and so on, from the princes and nobles to the low-level people, they are very interested in this invincible Li Wuqu.

But soon this kind of discussion was banned, especially in the forbidden army, and anyone who discussed Li Changsheng was given 30 big boards.

After another two years, the Beijing division transferred troops to garrison important towns in the south, and 50,000 soldiers went to 30,000.

20,000 people were stationed in the bitter cold land of Beijun, if it was placed in the past, the imperial court would definitely not dare to be so reckless. But now the situation is different, Beiyi has been destroyed by Li Changsheng, and there is no need to worry about barbarian invasion in the next hundred years.

As for the Hu cavalry of the grassland, they only need to defend the city, and more than 20,000 people are enough.

Li Changsheng also allowed it, because there really wasn't much need for troops here. Sending troops elsewhere can recruit fewer soldiers, and can also reduce military salaries, and if the military pay is less, the people can pay less taxes.

At the end of the same year, 10,000 people rode north.

The North County is short of troops and military supplies, and some of them are aimed at the point where there are no swords available. Ask the court for money, but the court has no money. To ask for troops from the imperial court, you must guard the pass.

Beijun has been isolated, or some people's fear of Li Changsheng has exceeded their own safety. Li Changsheng had offended too many people before, and he barely left himself a way out.

Without the support of the old emperor and the trust of the new emperor, no one could tolerate this great god.

They hoped that Li Wuqu would be defeated once.

Beijun resisted Hu, and people were not there, Li Changsheng led five hundred elite cavalry and traveled five hundred miles. When the Hu people attacked the city, they raided their base camp and beheaded the bandits, and the Hu people scattered and fled.

The gate of the northern county was wide open, and the soldiers rushed out, and under the front and rear attacks, they destroyed 8,000 enemies, almost annihilating the group.

Later, Li Changsheng ordered another 2,000 cavalry, drove straight into the grassland, and wiped out 30,000 tribes in a row, and the rest of the tribes had to retreat from the hundreds of miles outside Beijun.

Another major problem is lifted.

Li Wuqu won again, and there was a cheer in the streets and alleys of the capital, but there was a dead silence in the palace.

Five years later, Li Changsheng conquered the mountains for the second time and destroyed the Northern Barbarians.

Eight years later, Li Changsheng conquered the Northern Plains and exterminated the Hu Division.

Ten years later, fifteen years, eighteen years, nineteen years...... Twenty years......

Li Changsheng is already a veteran with gray temples at the age of 45, although 45 years old is not old, but years of fighting have left him with too many diseases, and he looks like premature aging.

Fortunately, he finally swept everything away and felt that it was time to return home. And it happened that in the same year, the emperor died again, and the old emperor had the talent of the ancestor "little emperor grandson" ascended the throne.

"Spread Li Changsheng back to Beijing."

After 20 years, Li Changsheng returned to Beijing again, he did not bring a single soldier and rode into the city alone. I don't know if it was suppressed by the court, after Li Changsheng was let in at the city gate, there was no longer a special person to greet or escort him.

But Li Changsheng's prestige has already spread all over the world, countless people crowded on both sides of the road, looking at the white-haired veteran with admiration on their faces, some people kept chanting Li Wuqu, and some even fell to their knees directly.

On the contrary, the court was slapped hard, and Li Changsheng's prestige made people even more jealous.

Stepping into the court, I met a young emperor in his 20s.

"Li Changsheng, meet the emperor."

"Bold!"

The eunuch pinched his voice and rebuked angrily: "Why don't you call yourself a minister? General Li, even if you have great military merits, you have to do your best as a courtier. ”

"The eunuchs dare to bark at me?" Li Changsheng just raised his eyebrows slightly, and he was so frightened that the other party couldn't hold back half a word.

"Whoever believes in me is the king."

The young emperor on the stage looked a little ugly, and said with anger: "Old General Li, the elder of the three dynasties, is my elder, you don't have to care about these etiquette, Old General Li doesn't know how old he is this year?" ”

"Forty-five, the year of no confusion."

"You look like you're 60 years old, it's really hard General Li. Now that the world is at peace, does the general want to take a break? You can't work all your life, it's a bit too hard. ”

Not long after the young emperor ascended the throne, it was obvious that the city government was not deep, and his words were so direct. The silent minister's expression was slight, and more people showed an unknown smile.

Li Changsheng's choice to enter Beijing is the biggest mistake, even if you have great ability, in the end it is just a matter of a glass of poisonous wine.

"I'm really tired, I should be disarmed and returned to the field."

At the end of the early dynasty, Li Changsheng left the capital on a horse after submitting a letter of resignation, even if his former subordinates tried their best to dissuade him, he did not stay.

In fact, he knew that if he could enjoy his old age in peace if he stayed in the capital honestly, the emperor and his ministers would not allow him to leave alive.

Even if you have great prestige and merit?

But he just wants to go home now.

One man and one horse walked on the official road, followed by thousands of armored forbidden soldiers behind him, among which the eunuch in red clothes holding a pot of wine was extremely conspicuous.

Li Changsheng didn't seem to notice it, and just followed the direction in his memory, looking for a village named Qingshui.

It's a dream that should wake up, and if it's not a dream, there's no need to wake up.

(End of chapter)