Compared with Tong Guan's anxious heart, Li Kui gave people a kind of careless carelessness, after reading the holy decree, after handing it to Tong Guan with both hands, he said slowly: "Since Your Majesty has decided on a candidate, you can just go to Gao Yu for this matter!" ”

Gao Yu?

Tong Guan doesn't look down on Gao Yu, Li Kui's strength is not inferior in front of the court officials. If Gao Yu can really be Li Kui's master, he will use the death begging to rush to Li Kui's idleness?

Tong Guan's voice is not as sharp as Hao Sui's, and it is a little different from most eunuchs, with a hoarse voice but no strong neutral wind. With his beard, he opened his mouth to give people an eerie illusion: "100,000 urgent military intelligence, you are not in a hurry?" ”

"Are you going to teach me to be an official?" After Li Kui said this, his eyes looked at Tong Guan defiantly, and Tong Guan almost pulled out his old fist and Li Kui desperately. Of course, if he really let him do it, he wouldn't dare, after all, Li Kui's prestige was not blown out. As a last resort, Tong Guan could only look at Fan Chunren with a look of help.

Who is Lao Fan?

He has followed Fan Zhongyan to deal with official affairs since he was a child, and he is well-informed, and after he became a general, he soon entered the court. As far as a civil official above the third grade is concerned, he has been a civil official for almost 30 years. Can he be relied on by a eunuch?

The old man looked at the smoky workshop and muttered, "These smoky eyes." As he spoke, he trembled and took out a silk scarf and rubbed his eyes.

Tong Guan's face was bitter, there was no way, when Fan Chunren wanted to pretend to be stupid, the emperor didn't have a problem with him, let alone a eunuch who was nothing.

Besides, Fan Chunren didn't help Li Kui train Tong Guan, which was already very face-saving. After all, his old man has not been going well in the past two years, and it is understandable that he lost his temper.

Tong Guan was helpless, he had a request for Li Kui, but the other party didn't want to see him at all.

The hole cards in his hand are completely useless to Li Kui. Li Kui is a civil official, and whether he listens to the emperor or not depends on his mood. What's more, a dog by the emperor's side?

When it was over, Li Kui smiled at Tong Guan and said: "Qingtang Tubo, it's just a small trouble, even if he defeats Weizhou, with the strength of my Great Song Dynasty, it is not difficult to exterminate it." ”

Tong Guan was depressed, and Li Kui looked like no one in his eyes, and he was indeed very bad. But Li Kui also has enough arrogant capital, and the Xixia people were targeted by Li Kui, starting from Jinmingzhai, no less than 150,000 Xixia troops died in the hands of this goods. Even the emperor and the queen mother of Western Xia let Li Kui die in Yin. With a commodity like Li Bingqian, he can ascend the throne in Western Xia, if there is no Li Kui, let alone this life, it will be impossible in ten lifetimes.

Facing Li Kui, who did not enter the oil and salt, Tong Guan was helpless, so he had no choice but to go to see Gao Yu with a frown. Compared with Li Kui, Gao Yu's foundation is very weak, so weak that he can't stand up in the face of Tong Guan.

The promotion of civil officials has its own set of systems, although most of the children of official eunuchs in Taixue are children, but the promotion channel of the children of the poor family is also very broad. The only measure is talent.

There are many drawbacks of the imperial examination system, and this is the fairest selection system that can be taken out in this era of the Great Song Dynasty.

Although during the reign of Sima Guang, you once wanted to promote the system of elected officials, but the discerning people knew at a glance that this was a stupid thing to do. Under the feudal system, Sima Guang was also stupid in reading. It is conceivable that as long as he really comes up with such a set of things, he will be knocked out of power in minutes.

And for the generals, the head has always been monopolized by the top generals.

If the poor family wants to get ahead, they need great military merit, they also need to meet a boss who is not greedy for merit, and even the appreciation of the court boss. It's not a star and a half that is more difficult than Shizi.

Gao Yu is a son of a poor family, his family is a military family, and he is an orphan whose parents died. He can read and write, and he can meet a good employer like Su Shi, which is simply a blessing after eight lifetimes. But as far as his background is concerned, the infantry commander of Wupin is already the apex of officialdom that he can touch. If you want to go further, opportunities, credits, and even the support of the big guys are indispensable.

Fortunately, because he taught the emperor to bow at the beginning, he was remembered by the young emperor for having such a person.

Just by virtue of the emperor's appreciation, he could not enter the ranks of high-ranking officials in the Great Song Dynasty.

Especially if the top is already occupied.

If someone goes up, someone has to go down.

The only way was to deepen the emperor's impression of him. For Gao Yu, any news from the palace in the capital will be correct, even if he riskes his life, he must do it. Tong Guan brought the news that Gao Yu was a fierce general to Yan'an Mansion, so he should be the fierce general of the Great Song Dynasty in the emperor's opinion.

Reggie?

Gao Yu asked himself if he couldn't be counted, Li Kui's talent can be regarded as a fierce general. But he doesn't mind that he has the aura of a fierce general and fights for a bloody path for the future.

Tong Guan's arrival not only said a lot of good things to Gao Yu. At the same time, he also had the intention of begging Gao Yu to persuade Li Kui. Gao Yu is a scene person, righteous Xiao Langjun, the red man Tong Guan in front of the emperor begged him, he naturally wanted to take care of everything, patted his chest and said: "Don't worry, Tong Gonggong, my brother is the most righteous, I beg him, nine out of ten." ”

"It's not about nine out of ten, it's about ten out of ten. You and I both know that although Qin Fenglu's troops are not many, if we want to gain a foothold in Qin Fenglu, there are fewer people, and we really can't do it. ”

Compared with Gao Yu's indiscriminate boasting, Tong Guan seems to be much more meticulous. After all, when you are on an errand in the palace, you basically can't survive adulthood and should die.

In contrast, Gao Yu seems to be very simple.

But this is also his disguise, or another of his personalities.

Gao Yu is a doer, and immediately sent someone to invite Li Kui. Li Kui traveled and came to Gao Yu's other residence, Gao Yu has a house in the capital, but he is an official outside, and there is no need to buy a house at all, in comparison, his house in Fushi City is not big, but there is a big courtyard where you can practice.

"Brother Xian, brother is all up to you this time!"

Gao Yu didn't need to be polite to Li Kui, although he had the heart to worship under Li Kui, but the problem was that Li Kui didn't agree. Anyway, just treat it as a friend, after all, there is a relationship with Su Men, if Gao Yu speaks, Li Kui will not refute his face.

Li Kui sat on the edge of the dining table with a big grin, poured himself a drink, tore off a leg of mutton and ate it. These days, he has been working day and night in the workshop to improve his technology, but the unit output of oil has not increased significantly, which makes him have the illusion of wasting his time. He was even furious and wanted to get a steam engine to install a façade, but the difficulty was not ordinary. He didn't even understand the local method of oil refining, and he dared to build a steam engine?

As a result, the amount of food has been much smaller recently.

But I didn't expect that after coming to the city, my mood suddenly improved, but I just looked at Gao Yu, forget it, this thing is also a poor person, waiting for his meritorious service to be rewarded. Such an opportunity, for a general, will end if he catches up a few times in a lifetime. When he fought in Western Xia, Gao Yu caught up with half of them and was promoted to commander. But he missed the second half of the expansion, and his luck was not ordinarily bad.

This time, Qin Fenglu was obviously tempted.

Li Kui put down the empty bowl and said to Gao Yu: "Want to be rewarded for meritorious service? ”

Gao Yu smiled and said: "Renjie, I am not better than you, I can be admitted to the Jinshi." It was already luck to be able to pass the test in Kaifeng Mansion. It was only by virtue of martial arts that he was lucky enough to get a place. You are different, and you have a great future. But I can't always be unenterprising, can I? ”

"Qin Fenglu's problems are not small, there are generals who are not in harmony, and there are also lack of preparation. The problem is that you are under the command of infantry, and you are the commander of the infantry, so it is not easy to fight cavalry. "Li Kui is now talking about the art of war, and no one in the Great Song Dynasty Wenwu dares to say that he doesn't understand. On the contrary, when I heard him talk about military affairs, I had to show a very insightful pandering to cover up my shortcomings.

In the first 20 years of Gao Yu's life, he basically did not have any contact with the army.

Even he felt that he should be a country literati in the future. But in the first year of Shaosheng, he was unexpectedly recommended by Li Kui to teach the emperor to bow, and his life changed.

What was the reason for his recognition by the Emperor?

Li Kui?

There is Li Kui's reason, and he roars hard!

"Good shot!"

"Your Majesty is mighty!"

"Wen Cheng Wu!"

These slogans were not shouted in vain, and of course they only left a good impression on the emperor and had little effect. It wasn't until he lay in the hospital bed for half a year that he realized that these were all false. If he wants to break through the restrictions of the goal, he has to make meritorious contributions. Why did Li Kui dare not even give Tong Guan face, the credit of this goods could crush Tong Guan to death.

Even, Tong Guan was refuted by Li Kui, and he didn't dare to get it back from Li Kui, so he had to ask for him.

This is the gap, and at the same time it makes Gao Yu's heart hot. Why, he can't be ranked as the third duke, this goal is a bit ambitious, and he retreats to the second, what about the palace marshal?

With a goal, Gao Yu also has motivation.

These days, he not only picked up his not-so-clever kung fu, but also studied the art of war. Of course, it didn't work. Yan'an Mansion is no longer fighting, and he feels like he is trapped. Finally, Tong Guan brought the ambition to conquer the land of Hehuang, which combined with him, and he decided to fight once.

But if he really gave it a go, he found that the generals under his command, Feng Zhang, Nian Xi and others, how could they be compared with Luda and Ruan Xiaoer under Li Kui?

The greed is certain, but what he is even more greedy for is Li Kui's influence on Fei Lianjun. If he gets Li Kui's support, Cheng Zhijie will definitely release people, Gao Yu wants cavalry, at least 2,000 cavalry. The difference between bringing 3,000 people and 5,000 people, don't look at the only 2,000 people, but if there are 2,000 more cavalry, he will have more chances to move.

In order to give Li Kui confidence, Gao Yu also let go and shouted to his cronies: "Gao Peng, bring the general's Daguan knife over." ”

"Here comes uncle!"

Gao Peng is Gao Yu's family, and Gao Yu was disgusted by his brother. But after the expedition, he figured out that on the battlefield, it was still reliable for relatives to come. Of course, if you are afraid of death, you have to be brainy and obedient.

While speaking, the two guards came over with a big knife that looked like seventy or eighty pounds, and the moment Li Kui saw this big knife, he was obviously stunned.

His eyes then looked back and forth on the nephews of Gao Yu and Gao Peng, and the confusion and incomprehension in his eyes seemed to be questioning Gao Yu: "Are you kidding?" ”

Even Gao Yu, who was thick-skinned, didn't dare to look at Li Kui, and his old face slowly turned red, especially the abrupt garlic nose on his face, which was even more red and shiny.

Gao Yu walked among the soldiers, grabbed the handle of the Daguan knife with both hands, and roared angrily: "Get up!" ”

It really got up, and to Li Kui's surprise, Gao Yu was able to dance this weapon that seemed to be heavier than his three-pointed and two-edged blade.

After a slash that seemed to be very methodical and imposing, Gao Yu put away the knife, stood on the ground hard, and said to Li Kui: "Brother, brother, I understand, since Your Majesty thinks I am a fierce general, I must be a fierce general." ”

What kind of logic is this?

The emperor can be misunderstood because he does not know.

But you're the one who is going to war, and you can't joke with your life?

Li Kuihu suspiciously snatched the Daguan knife from Gao Yu's hand, as soon as he got his hands on it, he knew that it was a good thing, this thing was in the same vein as the Xuanhua axe that his second brother-in-law Cheng Zhijie installed as a façade, I am afraid that even the craftsman is the same person.

Li Kui said in a deep voice: "What are you crazy about? ”

He didn't expect that Gao Yu would one day become a good face like Cheng Zhijie. Take out a big knife of Xibei goods and put it on the façade.

"Brother, this is an opportunity, my parents died since I was a child, and I am not as good as my career, although there are tens of millions of people, I have no reason to retreat." After Gao Yu said this, a trace of death appeared on his face. He wants to fight with his life to get out of the past, but Li Kui is not good to say.

He weighed the Daguan knife in his hand and slashed hard at the stone lock in the courtyard.

The big knife split in the middle, and Li Kui then threw the big knife on the ground and said to Gao Yu Zhengse: "You have decided?" In fact, if you want to be promoted, you don't have to work so hard. ”

"Brother, you don't understand, I'm a martial artist, a martial artist without roots. Even if His Majesty is kind enough to let me occupy a high position, how many people will have to resent. At that time, Di Dashuai had countless military exploits, even if he was protected by the first emperor, he still died depressed. I don't have Di Dashuai's lofty ambitions, I just want the Gao family to enter the Jiangmen Gaodi, this life is full of comfort! ”

Gao Yu has never confided in his ambitions, even if he is familiar with Li Kui and Li Yun, he has never said his ambitions.

Compared with Li Yun, with a clan brother like Li Kui, his achievements in the future will definitely not be low. Besides, Li Yun has repeatedly performed miraculous feats, and if he is a few years older, it is a matter of time before he is promoted.

He's different, he has no other way but to work his own.

Li Kui saw that Gao Yu didn't seem to be a fake, so he said, "How do you want me to help you?" ”

"Renjie, don't say anything else, my brother wants cavalry, two thousand cavalry."

Gao Yu didn't think about the difficulties, but there was no turning back when he opened the bow, and he had to fight for himself once in his life. Even if you fail in the end, you have no regrets.

"Do you want Ruda?"

Gao Yu was stunned, Luda was the number one fierce general in Li Kui's hands, so the cavalry was not a problem. Gao Yu has always lacked a strong general, if there is Luda by his side, he has the illusion of strength to break through the sky. Gao Yu's tears of emotion immediately fell: "Brother, don't say anything, it's all in the wine." ”

Li Kui came forward, and Cheng Zhijie had no reason to refuse at all.

3,000 infantry, 3,000 cavalry, 2,000 crossbowmen, plus generals like Li Yun, Luda, Lu Qian, and Pang Wanchun, there were enough 8,000 people, plus auxiliaries, all 10,000 miles away. almost hollowed out the foundation of Fei Lianjun, and his eyes when he looked at Li Kui at this time were particularly complicated. You must know that if Li Kui had today's achievements, he should have hugged his thighs back then, and now he is relying on Gao Yu, although he has also got his wish, but it is always almost meaningful.

Fortunately, the moment he looked at Gao Yu, he felt a little more settled.

It turned out that Gao Yu was not a waste, and would only follow the emperor's ass and shout hoarsely: "Good ball!" The little people.