Carrying two buckets and reading with a horse, Zhu Houzhao was much more tired than he imagined, and at first he felt that this was a good opportunity to exercise his arm strength.

But after only mentioning half a cup of tea, he couldn't hold on, and his arms trembled, sore and tired, as if they were not his own.

On a cold day, a layer of sweat appeared on his forehead.

"Master, master, I can't hold on."

"Don't want to learn peerless magic skills?"

“... Think. ”

"Oh, then persevere, this is an excellent way to exercise your arm strength, have you heard of Xiang Yu?"

"The history books say that Xiang Yu is a person with infinite strength and can carry the tripod, do you think he was born to carry the tripod, and he was born with great strength?"

The words fell, and without waiting for Zhu Houzhao to answer, Xia Yuan snorted to himself, "No, he also practiced little by little through this bucket, and finally became infinitely powerful, stick to it well, sooner or later you can become like him." ”

Although Zhu Houzhao didn't learn and didn't know how to do it, he had heard of Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, and he knew that this person was indeed powerful.

He also studied Xiang Yu's poems and tried his best to pull out the mountains and cover the world.

Although he only remembered this half of the sentence, it did not affect his admiration for Xiang Yu at all.

Thinking that Xiang Yu was also carrying a bucket to practice arm strength, and then thinking that he could become like him sooner or later, Zhu Houzhao seemed to have inexhaustible strength again, screamed, stretched out his two arms, and the bucket was lifted high by him.

"Master, do you think Xiang Yu mentioned it like this?"

"Yes, that's it, okay, keep reading."

"Yes!"

Seeing that this product should be loud, Xia Yuan's regretful eyes flashed, why does this product always look full of energy?

It's a pity that this product only has two hands, otherwise he would have to find a few more buckets for him to carry.

Outside the hospital.

The few entourages brought by Zhu Houzhao were still guarding outside the courtyard as usual, and the ones who came today were still Gu Companions, but Jinyiwei had a new face.

Gu Dayong looked at the situation in the yard and was frightened and distressed, yesterday's Zama step can be said to be reasonable, at least this Zama step is indeed practiced, but what does it mean to carry two buckets today.

He always felt that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was being smashed.

He stared suspiciously for a while, and finally he turned his head and asked, "Zhang Baihu, can you really train your arm strength like this?" ”

Zhang Bin nodded, "It should be possible, I have practiced like this before, but I used a stone lock and never used a bucket." ”

"Oh." Gu Da sighed, touched his chin with his hand, and turned his head and asked, "This feather also carried a bucket to practice arm strength back then?" ”

"Well, I don't read much of the lowly books, so I really don't know."

At this time, there was a brocade guard who followed Zhu Houzhao's example, tied up his horse, and found two big stones to hold in his hand.

After holding on for a while, he let out a sigh of relief and threw the stone, "No, just carrying it like this, my arms are sore and tired, and I feel that no one can hold on to it." ”

"Then how did His Highness insist?"

"This...."

The brocade-clothed guard was hesitating, and suddenly pointed to the courtyard, "Father-in-law, look, Your Highness has begun to move his arms up and down." ”

At this time, Zhu Houzhao did start to move his arms, and the specific way was to raise the bucket, fall, then raise it again, and then fall again, and so on.

If you just carry it stupidly like that, no one can stick to it at all, Zhu Houzhao in this kind of sourness, he understood the correct way to exercise his arm strength without a teacher.

In this regard, he only wanted to laugh for three minutes and shout, "This palace is so smart that it will die!" ”

Thinking of something, he glanced at Xia Yuan again, and found that Xia Yuan didn't seem to care about his own practice, so he was relieved and bold, and while mechanically repeating and improving the falling movements, he followed Wang Shouren to read.

Reading is not simply following along, he also has to force himself to indulge in it, the reason is of course that he firmly believes that this is to hone his state of mind, but more importantly, only by focusing on the matter of reading, he can ignore the physical exertion.

Lunch at noon was very simple, several flatbreads, a plate of stir-fried vegetables, and a plate of pickled small pickles, which may be a good lunch for ordinary people, but for the prince who is clothed in fine clothes and food, it must be difficult to eat.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Houzhao's hand holding the chopsticks was shaking, but he ate very happily, which was definitely unexpected by Xia Yuan, and even his perception of this product became different, and he felt a little more appreciative.

After taking a bite of pickles, Xia Yuan seemed to remember something, and said, "By the way, you remember to pay for the meal in a while." ”

"Meals?"

"It's the money for eating, you learn magic skills from me, I take care of the food, and you still eat so happily, oh, and your entourage."

As he spoke, Xia Yuan pointed out the courtyard with chopsticks, Gu Banban and those brocade guards were not worthy of the table, and one person was squatting at the door of the courtyard with a big cake and gnawing on it.

"They also eat a lot one by one, so why can't I collect money?"

"You can collect it, you can collect it." Zhu Houzhao nodded again and again, and asked vaguely, "Master, how much do you have to pay for this meal?" ”

"I'm a hermit master, and I'm not greedy for money, so I can just give a hundred taels for this meal, one hundred taels a month, isn't it too much?"

"Not excessive."

Zhu Houzhao shook his head, just one hundred taels, completely trivial.

Filling the remaining bit of bread in his mouth, he promised, "Master, don't worry, I'll hand over the silver in a moment." ”

Seeing that he agreed so happily, Xia Yuan smacked his lips, it was a pity, he knew that it would be two hundred taels, but it was a pity...

However, he admired Zhu Houzhao even more, and couldn't help but take another big cake and hand it over, "Come, good apprentice, eat another one." ”

In the same way, the prince who is so happy to give money must not be starved.

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"A few days ago, Taikang County, Chenzhou Dilong turned over, although the movement is not big, but it must not be taken lightly, the court should give the bereavement pension, and do not delay the allocation of disaster grain, let Your Excellency go to warn the governor of Henan, and supervise this matter with his good life, if someone is greedy, causing the people to die of hunger, I only ask him."

"And the Tatars, now that midwinter is coming, the Tatars have not retreated, but have turned to the Hetao area, presumably because of the lack of clothing and food on their grasslands, just waiting to enter the pass to fight the grass valley, Baoguo Gong was ordered to garrison, what is the situation in the past few days?"

In the warm pavilion, Zhu Youzhu flipped through the notes on the desk, and while talking, several eunuchs standing next to him immediately took up a pen to write down the emperor's words.

As he spoke, he flipped through the notes again, looked up and asked, "Why is there no such thing as a song for the Duke of Baoguo?" ”

"I think it was the clerical office that didn't send it, so the slave will go to the clerical room to ask later."

"The border is lost, it's not child's play, go and ask, go now."

"The slave obeys." The eunuch who replied answered, turned around and ran out in a hurry.

After a short time, the eunuch ran back with a notebook, and as soon as he entered the warm pavilion, he shouted loudly, "Emperor, Emperor, the transcript of the Duke of Baoguo is here, and the clerk's office said that it was just sent by the General Administration." ”

Ignoring the eunuch's excuse and explanation, Zhu Youzhu reached out and took the notebook, opened it and looked at it, his brows immediately furrowed, and after a few more glances, the hand holding the notebook even trembled slightly, "What's going on?" Haven't you been talking about defending properly for the past few months? Then why was the Tatars still able to attack Guyuan, and even turned around and plundered to Pingliang and Qingyang..."

Pingliang, Qingyang is geographically very close to Guanzhong, and Guanzhong is a place of four stops, easy to defend and difficult to attack, if it is to attack Guanzhong, Tatar is stationed here again, that....

Zhu Youzhu didn't dare to think about the consequences caused by it, and then looked down, and when he saw the words on the notebook, he instantly felt that he was in a hurry, and he really attacked Guanzhong....

"Ridiculous!"

As he spoke, he slapped the notebook on the bookcase, "This Baoguo Gong has always said that the defense is proper, and if the defense is proper, why can the Tatars still plunder the hinterland of Guanzhong, and praise him again and again, he deceived me like this?!" ”

Under the power of thunder, several eunuchs in the warm pavilion hurriedly fell to their knees, so frightened that they didn't dare to speak.

There was silence in the warm pavilion for a moment, and the eunuch who handed over the book just now raised his head tremblingly, "The emperor, the emperor, the slave and maid listened to the people in the clerk's room, saying this... This is good news. ”

"Good news? I see the good news of the Tartars! Zhu Youzhu laughed angrily, but with the word good news, he still held back the anger in his heart, and then took a deep breath, picked up the letter and continued to read it.

Looking at it line by line, Emperor Hongzhi's frowning brows gradually relaxed, this is really a good news.

According to the book, although the Tatars plundered the Guanzhong, the ministers and other soldiers used their lives and desperately resisted to drive the Tatars out, killed many enemies, and even robbed back a lot of people and goods.

This is also a common problem of this era, or a kind of 'wisdom' for officials, first hyping up the severity of the enemy's situation and the criticality of the situation, so that the emperor was shocked first, and then turned around, saying that although the front is quite terrible, the minister's ability is very strong, and the matter has been solved perfectly.

In this way, the preciousness of this victory can be highlighted, and the merit can be more demonstrated.

It's just that I pity Zhu Youzhang, his body and bones are not very good, and under this anger, he doesn't know how many days of life he lost.

After reading this recital, Zhu Youzhu sighed, leaned on the sandalwood chair and closed his eyes for a while, then opened his eyes a little tired, and gave an order: "Give an edict to the military department, and let him discuss the reward to the Duke of Baoguo and the meritorious soldiers." ”

"Whoa."

The eunuchs in the warm pavilion sang in unison, and then Xiao Jing got up from the ground and took a cup of ginseng tea, "Emperor, you take a sip of tea and take a break." ”

"Hmm..."

Zhu Youzhu took two sips, only then did he recover a little bit of energy, and then remembered something, and asked leisurely, "How is the prince doing?" ”

“.......”