In addition to greatly enhancing Li Shimin's prestige, the Battle of Shallow Water Plains also made Li Zhenghang out of the limelight. Li Zhenghang naturally knew that this expedition was Li Shimin's intention to cultivate his own forces.

From the third grade to the second grade, it seems that it is only an increase in official rank, but the meaning is completely different, it is simply a world of difference. That is a great increase in power, even greater than the power of Pei Wenjing when he was alive.

Compared with Gao Junming's subordinate products, on the surface, it seems that the official position is a little shorter, but Gao Junming, the "hussar general", is already an honor in the past, which can be regarded as a recognition and reward for his former expedition to the south and the north, and his hard work.

The human eye always has to look forward.

The original military department Shangshu Mansion has now become the residence of important ministers of the imperial court, and for a while, the guests are like clouds and the door is like a city. Almost every day, people visit, and all those who come, Li Zhenghang does not refuse to come, and greets them with a smile. and commanded the porter to "not slack off." The grand banquet and hospitality in the house broke the tranquility of the former Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of War.

There were a lot of "old friends" who came to visit-support Li Jiancheng. At this time, of course, Feng Derui is indispensable, although this person writes a good article, but he has no literati spirit, and he is bent on getting promoted and making a fortune. He had some friendship with Li Zhenghang before, but he still felt that it was insufficient, so he came to visit the Prime Minister with a heavy courtier, intending to attract Li Zhenghang's attention in order to get the opportunity to be promoted in the future. But he forgot that Li Zhenghang does not accept gifts, let alone heavy gifts.

The porter saw that Feng Derui brought a heavy gift, he knew the old man's temper, and hurriedly reported to Li Zhenghang.

Li Zhenghang was a little annoyed when he found out: "This Feng Derui! Not again. Then he instructed the disciple: "Put the gift money in the gatehouse first, and then return it to him when Feng Derui leaves." ”

In addition to "old friends", there are also "new friends" - Li Shimin's followers.

The two forces are often intertwined in the lively Shangshu Left Servant Mansion at this time.

Many of the people who came after came with heavy gifts like Feng Derui, and Li Zhenghang also retreated one by one. Attaching to the powerful and giving gifts from time to time is commonplace in officialdom. The so-called "courtesy is still exchanged", but some people's "courtesy" is too heavy, and it is clearly purposeful. When Li Zhenghang was promoted, he could only rely on refusal to keep his innocence, so as not to be called "arrogant".

But even if he doesn't accept gifts, he "feasts the ministers" every day, and gathers forces from two sides, which has already exceeded the norm in the eyes of the master. Li Zhenghang was frightened and finally decided to turn away the visitors from thereafter.

Every time someone visits, Menzi's answer is the same: "Our old man is suffering from a deep disease, and now he is in the sick period, and he is recuperating from his illness, so he will not see a guest." In fact, Li Zhenghang has no illness, he has always been very healthy, maybe he is fishing in the backyard at the moment.

Everyone ate the closed-door soup, and they felt really uncomfortable, and they lost the opportunity to "climb the dragon and attach the phoenix". Life is like this, if you miss the opportunity, it should be yours and will not be yours again, so there are many complaints. What just got promoted and put up a shelf; What is so rude to Corporal Xian, and there will be his good fruit to eat in the future; What's so great, isn't it Li Shimin's exceptional promotion? Not necessarily capable of it. thought that he was being co-opted by Li Shimin, so he proudly forgot his name and surname...... Voices come and go.

Among the many voices, the top number of inspectors Zuo Linghong and the owner of the Imperial History Stage, Bo Wei Qingyu, were the most criticized. The two arrived at the gate of the mansion at the same time, and they were originally full of enthusiasm, but they waited outside the door for three hours, and finally failed to see Li Zhenghang.

The two adults were very angry in their hearts.

In this case, ordinary people with normal emotions will often hate Li Zhenghang from now on, and even have outrageous behaviors. However, these two seem to be very calm, and they are also officials of the imperial court, so they will not lose their sense of proportion for such a trivial matter. After the two of them left the Li Mansion, they gathered at Zuo Linghong's Mansion, as if they wanted to talk about something.

Zuo Linghong ordered his subordinates to set up the oven and other utensils, and now killed a few quails and roasted them calmly. Wei Qingyu sat next to him, his face full of sadness, and he saw that the petite flesh turned from red to white under the scorching fire.

"Lord Zuo can really sit still, the situation of the two of us today is like quail on this fire!"

Zuo Linghong turned over the two strings of quails, then roasted them, pondered for a moment and said: "Lord Wei, you have to calm down, we made quails today, but it is uncertain who will be the roasted quail on this stove in the future." ”

"Lord Zuo means Li Zhenghang, he ......"

"Let's see, as soon as he was promoted, he put up a shelf, and there are more people who hate him."

The roasted quail was steaming, and the fragrance filled the room, Zuo Linghong poured wine, and Wei Qingyu enjoyed the delicious taste of this world. Eating roasted quail and taking a few sips of freshly brewed wine, the two seemed satisfied.

The door of Li Zhenghang's mansion was closed, and all dignitaries were eliminated, leaving only children like Gao Ziang to enter and leave freely. Although Li Wanning is a daughter, she is very interested in military knowledge. All day long, he pestered Brother Ziang to ask questions about the war to recover Western Qin.

Gao Ziang was really not very interested in Wan Ning's question, Wan Ning asked him and answered him, he only thought about the peace charm that Wan Ning gave him.

Gao Ziang took out the blessing bag containing the peace charm, stroked it, and said, "Sister Wanning, thank you for giving me the peace charm." went to a foreign place to fight, thanks to the protection of this peace charm, he turned evil into good fortune many times. ”

"Brother Ziang, look at what you said, it's just a peace charm, how can it be so powerful? It's your brother, you have your own natural appearance. After a while, Wan Ning then asked, "What danger did Brother Ang encounter?" ”

Gao Ziang turned his face sideways, pointed to a scar on his face, and said, "Sister, look, this scar is a scar left by the cold arrow released by the enemy. At that time, I was standing on the city wall with the King of Qin and your father, but I didn't know that the other party released a cold arrow, and the arrow rushed towards me, and when my life was at stake, fortunately, His Royal Highness the King of Qin pulled me away in time, otherwise I would have almost died in Huangquan. ”

Wan Ning stared at the scar with frightened eyes, her heart palpitated, and before she could calm down, Gao Ziang continued: "Another time, I almost fell off a galloping horse, and after a while, my kung fu miraculously turned the danger into a disaster, and it was your father who caught me in time, and now I am a little scared when I think about it." ”

The more Wan Ning listened, the more thrilling she felt. I knew that going to the battlefield was a terrible thing, and I was powerless to shelter and even more powerless to stop it, so I could only pray.

The next day, the market was more lively than usual, Li Wanning and Gao Ziang met to play in the market, followed by a large group of maids and servants. Vendors of all kinds lined the road, and the wide streets were filled with crowds of people. There is a lot of traffic, a lot of people, cars, horses, and sedan chairs, but everything is also smooth and orderly, and it is a thriving scene.

A wave of welcoming relatives came from far and near, and the red team was very conspicuous, becoming a beautiful scenery on the street. In people's consciousness, it should be the handsome and handsome groom who happily marries his own beautiful lady as the protagonist of the wedding. However, the bridegroom seemed to be older, already gray-haired, his face was wrinkled, and he was preliminarily judging that he was also approaching the age of sixties, and rode triumphantly. The groom is this virtuous, I really don't know who the bride in the sedan chair is.

The sedan chair gradually reached a crowded place, but the bride rushed off the sedan chair and fled into the crowd.

"Chase! This little hoof is running away again! The bridegroom shouted to his subordinates, and he himself dismounted and chased after him.