Volume 3 The Struggle for the Country Chapter 97 From the first rank of the general of the Zhenguo
Chen Zuyi pretended to be the eldest prince and walked into the palace with Pei Xin and the three of them, his face was full of waves, just like the former eldest prince walked naturally on the road to the imperial study, as if he had walked hundreds of times.
Pei Xin and the three looked at Chen Zuyi, who was calmly walking in front, and they were also relieved. At first, I was afraid that he would be too nervous to show his feet, but now it seems that he and others are too worried. Along the way, the three of them were secretly observing the gang leader, who is also the current eldest prince.
At first, they really thought that Ben Jilan himself was here, but after continuous conversations with Chen Zuyi, they knew that it was the helper, and they were worried at that time, for fear that one of them would not be good, and the three of them would be afraid that they would follow the three clans!
"The eldest prince has arrived!"
Just as Pei Xin and the three of them were still thinking about their hearts, they suddenly heard the announcement of the attendants in the inner court, and it turned out that the four of them had already come to the outside of the imperial study.
"Enter!" The voice of the guard was heard in the hall.
Chen Zuyi took the lead and walked in, and after entering the door, he took five steps in front of the imperial case, lifted his robe and fell to the ground. Pei Xin and the three of them also hurriedly bowed down.
"Son-in-law Benkieran. Apu. Manajagana to meet his father! ”
"Praetorian Guards Qianhu Peixin, Deputy Qianhu Datu, Haja See Your Majesty!"
"Well, excuse me!"
Only then did Chen Zuyi get up from the ground and stand there respectfully.
"Ben Kilan, this king asked you to go to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute, why haven't you returned for a long time?" Manajagana asked in a flat tone, and those who knew him well knew that this was a sign that the king was about to be angry.
Chen Zuyi was still calm and abnormal, "Back to my father, at the end of the year before last, Erchen led three generals and a guard soldier to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and got lost due to a storm at sea halfway, but fortunately, the fleet led by Erchen was not damaged, and finally arrived at a place called Luzon. ”
"Erchen sent people to inquire in many ways, the local officials and the court have never heard of our Bo Ni country, I thought that there was no hope of coming back in this life, but fortunately, two months ago I met a caravan from our Nanyang in Luzon Island to replenish at the port, so I asked for a lot of money to come back to the route map!" What Chen Zuyi said was sincere, and even Pei Xin and the three of them almost believed it, and Mana Jagana nodded even more.
Although Manajagana usually doesn't treat this eldest son very well, no matter what, he is his own son, after all, the other party has his own blood flowing in his body. He listened to his eldest son tell about what happened this time, and the dissatisfaction in his heart had long since disappeared. Looking at his face that was much darker and thinner than before, the feeling of licking the calf came spontaneously, and his tone was gentle.
"That's it! Since you have been afflicted, this king does not blame you. It's a pity that the inner library is nervous now, and the reward of the Celestial Empire, which I was expecting you to pay tribute back to, is now hopeless! ”
"Back to my father, although my son failed to reach the Ming Empire this time, he traded all the tribute things in Luzon, got 1 million taels of gold, and brought back 10,000 quintals of local specialty coffee beans!"
"Oh?! A million taels of gold?! My son is joking with his father?! When Manajagana heard that there was a million taels of gold, he looked at his eldest son in disbelief. This is a large amount of property in the Bo Ni country, and even he, the king, has not had a million taels of gold for more than ten years.
"It's true, my father can send someone to check on the ship in the port!" The corners of Chen Zuyi's mouth unconsciously revealed a small arc.
"Good! Good! Good! It's worthy of my unicorn! For my father, I am worried about the emptiness of the inner treasury and cannot reward meritorious officials! You've done my father a great favor! Manajagana ignored the pen holder on the bookcase and came to his eldest son, and the more he looked at it, the more pleasing it became, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it.
"Since my son has helped my father a lot, what reward do you want?"
"The son is satisfied that he can share his father's worries, and he has nothing to ask for!" Chen Zuyi's words are very beautiful, but they are more than a step stronger than the previous Ben Jilan.
"Oh~, where is this talking! Although you are the eldest prince, you don't appreciate it for your merits, and you don't chill those meritorious officials? To be bold, there is nothing to be allowed to be a father! ”
Chen Zuyi pretended to be excited, and said in a choked voice: "When I was in Luzon, my sons thought about their father's voice and smile and Dundun's teachings day and night. Now that he sees that his father is still healthy, his son has nothing else to ask for! ”
Mana Jagana was hit by Chen Zuyi's words in the soft part of his heart, and he couldn't help but raise his hand to rub it, the eldest son, who had not looked down on him before, was warm in his heart, and muttered: "Idiot! It was my father who treated you coldly before! I feel ashamed! ”
Pei Xin and the three of them were stunned to see the scene of father and son's filial piety, they were all like falling into a dream, they couldn't believe it, and secretly pinched their thighs to bruise, always thinking that the dream had not woken up.
Chen Zuyi saw that the atmosphere was almost done, so he stopped sobbing and said, "When Erchen landed at the port, I heard that the Javanese army had withdrawn, I wonder if my father has any plans to recover the lost territory?" ”
"Alas! That's that easy! Although our Javanese army retreated, there are still more than 50,000 people stationed on the front line, plus the garrisons of several southern provinces, they still have at least more than 100,000 troops in our Borneo, we are barely defending, where are the troops to regain lost territory! ”
Manajagana sighed helplessly, it was really difficult for him to be the king! Originally, I thought that the country was going to be destroyed, but who knew that the enemy's army retreated. He wants to regain the lost territory, but his own troops are not only numerically superior, but even the combat power is very far behind the enemy, so how can he regain the lost ground!
"Father, listen to the sons, the Luzon Kingdom is about the same size as we are now, but the big countries next to it dare not come to attack, does the father know what the origin is?" Chen Zuyi smiled lightly and looked at Manaja Gana with gray hair and beard.
"Oh? Why is that? Manajagana was attracted by the Grand Prince's words.
"Although there are not many Luzon troops, they are very strong, and they can still win against their ten times the enemy!" Chen Zuyi showed a look of yearning.
"Oh? Is this true? Manajagana looked at the three Praetorian guards behind the eldest prince.
"It is true! The Great Prince is not exaggerating! The three of Pei Xin replied at the same time.
"Although Luzon's troops are strong, after all, they are 108,000 miles away from us, so what is the way to Hunai?" Manajagana sighed helplessly.
"Father, I and the three three thousand households have learned his training method, just now that the war has stopped, we can train our own elite soldiers!"
Chen Zuyi's face was full of expectation, Mana Jalan Gana was about to be reprimanded, and when he thought that he had brought back a million taels of gold in his life, and then he worked hard to learn the way to strengthen the country, his heart was soft again. I really didn't see it before, this boss is not a little stronger than the second and fifth children, it seems that Wei Lao Pifu insists on standing up, and he has long seen his extraordinary! It's a shame that my own father has never found out! Now let me see how capable you really are!
"Ben Kiran, as a father, you can be trained by your army, do you dare to make a military order?" Manajagana was not an indecisive king, he did what he thought of.
"Why don't you dare! However, my father wants to assign the three Pei Xin and the more than 1,000 Praetorian Guards who accompanied me as assistants, and I am sure that I will create an invincible iron army within half a year! Regain Sibu and West Kamantan provinces in one year, and the whole of Borneo in three years! Chen Zuyi assured with pride.
"Good! Ben Kiran listens to the seal! Manajagana said loudly: "The eldest prince Benkiran has brought back a million gold to fill the inner treasury through many hardships and dangers, and has done a great job!" Awarded the rank of general of Yipin Zhenguo, the governor of all the troops in Sarawak State on the front line, and the king flag can be done cheaply! ”
"Thank you, my son, I will never give up!"
"The Praetorian Guards Qianhu Peixin, Deputy Qianhu Datu, and Haja are specially named Peixin as the cavalry captain of the four grades because of their meritorious service to the guardian, and Datu and Haja are the cavalry captains of the four grades, and you and others are all under the account of the eldest prince!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty! The ministers will do their best to assist Your Highness! ”
Manajagana said this so that the attendants around him could record it and announce it to the whole country in the form of an edict. Among them, it is not the general of the Zhenguo who is all powerful, but the combination of the governor's front-line army and cheap actions, that is the proper emperor of the soil, and the life and death power of those front-line officers and soldiers is in the hands of one person. It can be said that if you are born, you will live, and if you die, you will die! If the fifth prince heard the news, he would probably cry to death in the thatched house at home. The border army force that he has worked hard to manage for five years is afraid that he will be ruined by a cheap act!
"Don't be too happy, if you can't recover the whole of Borneo within three years, you can be a rich man in the future!" Mana Jagana said lightly. His plan was clear, if the eldest son had the ability to reclaim the whole of Borneo, what if he was the crown prince, such a capable king would be a blessing to the nation. If he doesn't have the ability, then there is no need to worry about standing up or standing up.
Although this decision is not very fair to the eldest prince, it does not give him a chance to succeed to the throne openly! The second prince can only wait for his brother's failure or success to determine his success or failure, which is not a kind of sadness!
"Son's command! If you can't recover the lost land, what face will a good man stand in heaven and earth! ”
Chen Zuyi's arrogance made Mana Jagana nod his head. I guessed in my heart that it might be this storm at sea that made him change when he was worried about being a child. In the past, every time he saw a good man, he was always in the state of a daughter's house, which made him always bored, so he had the idea of establishing a son. Looking at today's high-spirited man, he is overjoyed!
"Wu'er will rest in the capital for a few days, and then set off for Sarawak in seven days! Your mother also misses you! Mana Jagana said with a smile.
"Erchen is going to say hello to his mother, the military situation is like fire and cannot be delayed, the sooner we train our elite soldiers, the sooner my father will be at ease! Erchen will lead the troops to set off tomorrow! Chen Zuyi said seriously, in fact, he was afraid of seeing the so-called concubine.
If his father, the king, can't tell the truth from the fake, then his own mother must be able to tell the difference with intuition. No matter how similar he imitates, it will be two people after all!
After leaving the imperial study, Chen Zuyi sent the three of them home to reunite with their families who had been separated for more than a year. Because tomorrow they are going to separate again, although this time they are in the country, but the war is in chaos, who knows if there is a life to come back! He himself walked with heavy steps towards the harem, where there was his mother, and how this level should not be passed, it depends on his fate!