Five miles outside Yunxi Town, two scholars dressed as teenagers, each leading a thin horse, rushed to the road unhurriedly.

The two of them are one in front of the other, the one who is the leader, the face is like a crown of jade, the eyes are like bright stars, there is a tear mole under the right eye, wearing a cyan robe, holding a vermilion wine gourd, talking and laughing, and behaving quite Confucianly, but they have experienced a long journey from Dongjing, the capital of the Great Qi Emperor, to sleep in the open air, and a journey of thousands of miles, which makes the scorching sunlight a little dim.

The young man is sixteen years old, and he is the son of Wei Tuqiao, Wei Yuhan, the saint of today's Great Qi.

The young man in the back, named Xu Hun, is dressed in red and has dark cloud sleeves, which is about the same age as Wei Yuhan, but compared to the former, he has a gray face and deep cheeks, but it is difficult to hide the delicate spirit of a young man.

Wei Yuhan stood under the scorching sun and said with a smile: "The Lingtai has nothing to do and is closed every day, and there is no other way to seek happiness." ”

The latter was sweating from the scorching sun, and he had no interest in fighting at all, and he didn't hurt this close friend Yaxing, and pointed to the gourd in Wei Yuhan's hand.

Wei Yuhan threw the gourd in his hand, Xu Hun caught it, raised his head and drank all the wine in the pot.

You said: "It is advisable to sit alone in the drizzle and cold wind, and the beautiful scenery on a warm day is leisurely." ”

Wei Yuhan nodded and smiled: "Wonderful, wonderful!" Wine with poetry can afford true rhyme, wine is good wine, and poetry is also good poetry. ”

After thinking about it, this kid was clearly using poetry to ridicule him Wei Yuhan.

Then he scolded: "You're boring." ”

For a long time, neither of them spoke.

Wei Yuhan tried to break the embarrassment: "The red leaves are late Xiao Xiao, and the long pavilion has a scoop of wine." The remnant clouds return to Taihua, and the rain passes through the middle strip. ”

Xu Hun shook the gourd in his hand, looked at the scorching sun, and scolded with a smile: "You are blind to me, this scorching sun, cloudless, where does the rain come from." ”

After thinking for a while, he said: "The high trees are still dense, and the distant mountains are more sunny." Under the leaves of Huainan, he consciously realized the Dongting wave. ”

"It's okay, I'm starving to death, and I'm still chanting poetry, my son Wei, if the world's knowledge can't fill the stomachs of the people and falls into the empty space, it's all bullshit."

Wei Yuhan shook his head: "Rotten wood can't be carved, not to mention that your poem is so-so, when this trip is over, I want to participate in you with my father, what a prodigy Xu Hun, in vain." ”

The two laughed together, two thin horses, two teenagers, and their identities were very different.

Xu Hun couldn't understand that a dignified second prince of Qi couldn't be put in charge of the country, shouting about the place of fame and reputation, and he couldn't learn real talents, so he resolutely switched from the Guozijian to Taixue, and mingled with the children of the seven-grade officials, enjoying himself. Although it is born in the side room, the eldest and youngest are in order, and the inheritance cannot be unified, but this is too cheap, it is equivalent to the children of a rich family who put a private student full of scriptures and literature and five cars on it, and shouting that he wants to go to the school to find a sour Xiucai to study, what kind of system!

This Tianhuang nobleman Wei Yuhan has done a lot of deviant things, such as escaping from the palace three months ahead of schedule and disappearing, which caused the lord of the country and the prime ministers to want to break their heads, and even wondered if it was a killer sent by the Great Zhou who tried to seek benefits in the name of the second prince.

As a result, the second prince was just incognito, passed the provincial examination one after another, and when he was about to win the first place in the palace examination, his identity was recognized, and the Chinese military officials were implicated by him, and when he mentioned this person in private, he sighed and complained.

It's a little bit bad, extremely pedantic, and reading completely by rote memorization, no, I heard that Yunxi Town is here as soon as it opens, and is clamoring for him to take it here to find the real treasure, without bringing thousands of guards, relying on his own refiner Five Realms cultivation, he dares to take him thousands of miles away, come here, and be comfortable with his mother.

Wei Yuhan didn't understand, Xu Hun, the son of Xu Ran, the current waiter of the Ministry of Rites, was obviously the first prodigy in Daqi to pass the Tongzi Ju, and no one could match his attainments in arithmetic, law, calligraphy, poetry and song.

There is only one point, Wei Yuhan and Xu Hun see the same thing, and everything is the most taboo and overkill.

At present, the Great Qi and Great Zhou are in harmony, and the two countries will eventually have a war, and I have experienced a ten-year rebellion, and after three generations of Great Qi monarchs have worked tirelessly and worked hard day and night, so that we have the capital to reluctantly confront the Great Zhou.

And hard work in the early years, mediocre in the later years, indulged in lust, ignoring the government and politics, delegating power to relatives and eunuchs, seems to have become a common disease of kings, looking at the court and the opposition inside and outside, a peaceful, can not help but be complacent, it can be said that the king is also a person, most of them are inevitably vulgar.

Daqi had already won the throne, and it was through the civil strife of the previous dynasty that he sent troops in one fell swoop, without much effort.

It seems that he was overly worried that the generals from all over the country would follow suit, and the emperor used a banquet to force the military to buy and sell, and released the military power of the generals from all sides, and gave the emperor's heirs and ministers a thousand taels of silver to appease the heroes. However, if a military general is outside the military affairs of a certain prefecture, a civilian official must be appointed as a general judge, go together, and suppress everywhere.

Wei Yuhan remembered that his father said such a sentence: "If the country has no external worries, there will be internal troubles." There are no side things on the outside, but they can be prevented. Only treacherous and dangerous; If it is an internal trouble, it is terrifying. The emperor's intentions must always be remembered. ”

Above the court, somehow suddenly turned around an atmosphere of emphasizing literature and suppressing military force, and when the two officials met, the military attache had to give way to the civil administration. It is said that it is to make the sergeants familiar with the localities, but in fact it is to prevent the army from being stationed for too long and forming a close relationship with the locality, and constantly changing the generals of the unified army, so that the soldiers do not know the generals, the generals do not know the soldiers, the soldiers are tired and frequently change guards, not to mention the labor and loss of money, and the war is as suitable as paper paste.

Not only that, the king's suspicion is also reflected in more places, promoting literary affairs, so that a group of old and rough generals who have no ink on their chests learn poetry and songs, and there have been a lot of jokes for this, and whenever the war happens, the generals also need to fight according to the king's formation, if they are not subject to military orders, it is a capital crime to win.

Over time, in order to protect their lives, this group of military attachés speculated on the king's thoughts, not seeking merit but seeking no fault, only making promises, and having no military blood.

There are some words that Xu Hun is inconvenient to say directly to Wei Yuhan, and he is bored in his heart, and he wants not to vomit and be unhappy, but he only dares to make a little temptation: "The saint is now obsessed with calligraphy, claiming to be drunk and writing, is it really like a rumor, bewitched by the Yin and Yang family?" ”

Wei Yuhan shook his head: "Don't ask me about this, I don't know what happened to my father." ”

After a long time, he said slowly: "To be a military general of my great Qi is really a little aggrieved, the civilian officials lead the Privy Council, a group of civilian officials who don't know the art of war at all, selling their reputations, and the soldiers who should protect their families and the country in order to protect themselves, carefully start to write poems and songs, putting the cart before the horse, how absurd." ”

"Only I am a big Qi Cao Bing, and I am really a big husband."

Xu Hun nodded, the general Cao Bing, known as the Great Qi Confucian Tiger, the only martial artist of the Nine Realms in the Great Qi, a relative of the royal family of the previous dynasty, Emperor Taizu won the throne and the yellow robe was added, and he had the merit of righteousness. Cao Bing is cautious, well versed in the way of introverted, ten years ago led 100,000 soldiers and horses, and within three months to recover the sixteen kingdoms of Yanyun that the vassal king had divided.

However, Cao Bing is also a civilian official in charge of the army, and he meets the generals in the streets and alleys, slowly makes way to make way, so that the scholars who have a very harsh evaluation of the generals in Daqi regard them as a model of perfect military generals.

Compared with those generals who like to use the ears of captives with wine and kill them brutally, Cao Bing is much more merciful, and even in order to avoid the soldiers from slaughtering the city, they do some unsightly deeds, so they lie that they are ill and delay the siege of the city again and again. It was also under Cao Bing's desperate words that thousands of royal relics of the Southern Dynasty were not reduced to lowly status and allowed to be mermaids.

This Confucian tiger has been a great qi for me and has lasted for hundreds of years.

Wei Yuhan muttered; "There is only Cao Bing in the whole country, God bless me Daqi, and it is also my Daqi who is unlucky."

Xu Hun fell into deep thought, now the lord of the country has delegated power to civil officials, and the civil officials above the court have formed a party for personal gain, divided into multiple factions, within two years, the law alone has been changed dozens of times, a good military department, the power is completely taken away by the Privy Council, how many soldiers are out, what soldiers are recruited, all have to be nodded by the eunuchs of the Privy Council, and they have been completely reduced to a show.

The most outrageous thing is that in the past few years, Cao Bing led 100,000 troops, and a group of long-term invasion of the land of the Great Qi in the northbound grassland reckless decisive battle in the Blue Wolf Valley, a big victory, somehow suddenly returned to the court, and then a total, it is said that it is a group of Wenchen who is full of bad water in the stomach, flipping through the classics, there is a good life in the sky, the general has killed countless enemies, there is a wound to the heavens, there is not a rebellious heart, my Great Qi is the country of the Ethereal Continent, can not be killed all.

So Daqi won a big victory in the house and crushed, from a lot of indemnity to a little less, whether it is winning or losing, it is ridiculous.

Wei Yuhan looked into the distance, the outline of Yunxi Town had already appeared in the distance, but in his heart, what the fate of Daqi was, he couldn't see.

"Everyone knows that there will be a big war in the Great Qi and Great Zhou in the near future, and I am very confused, what kind of world can make this country, black and white, upside down. It's like buying a pearl and holding the imperial power and wealth in your hands, God knows if one day it will become a fish on the board and be slaughtered. ”

Xu Hun smiled: "When the water is clear, there are no fish." ”

Therefore, Jiang Hun is the dragon, and after the Confucian tiger, there is me Xu Hun.

Yunxi Town, next door to Xia Ze's ancestral house, the swarthy man's daughter, nicknamed Yingying, wearing a pink jacket, is sitting on the stone pier outside his house, looking at Xia Ze's ancestral house next door, I always feel a little weird.

In the fantasy of the ancestral house that was covered by spells, Wu Xiao, the former land lord of Yunxi Town, followed by a group of elves and ghosts who had not yet transformed under his feet, facing a picture of flowing water hanging in the air, brick by brick, and the little girl called Mu Tao set up a military order, and within three days, Xia Ze's ancestral house would be returned to its place, and it would not be done at all, if she dared to delay, she would send it to the Heavenly Master Mansion of Longhu Mountain.

In addition, it is necessary to move the fat and ointment of the people and the family wealth that were looted before.

When Wu Xiao built the wall, he would scold angrily every time he thought of this. If it was signed by Mu Tao, it would be okay, but it was Xia Ze, a mud-legged hillbilly, it was really disgusting, you must know that the mud man still has three points of anger, but according to his years of experience, the jade pendant on the kid's neck is very strange.

In the opposite alley, the woman who had begged the swarthy man to sell her daughter to her was lying on the wall, staring at the girl, with a fox's tail wriggling under her dress.