During the Gyeongju riots, the imperial historian frantically impeached Pei Cifu, who proposed the "Ten Concerts of Military and Political Affairs", and said that "this military rebellion is a man-made disaster, and it is an unpopular disaster of the new policy", as if he wanted to crucify Pei Cifu on the pillar of shame that brought disaster to the country and the people, and he could never turn over.

Pei Cifu was idle at home and had not been to the court for half a month.

When Chu Zhixia came to visit, Pei Zhang and Pei Cifu threw pots in the court. Pei Cifu and Chu Zhixia saluted each other, and then left under the pretext of watching the tea.

"Long time no see," Pei Zhang greeted her with a smile, "You've cleared." ”

Chu Shixia also smiled: "You look very good." ”

"I heard you're going to Gyeongju." Pei Zhang said, "The cabinet suppressed the news, and the prefectures and counties near Gyeongju frequently sent troops and were defeated repeatedly, and His Majesty waited for this matter to be brought back to ask for the guilt." You were only fifteen years old when you came to the imperial capital, but did you learn your second brother's ability to lead troops into battle? ”

"Haven't you heard the storytelling?" Chu Zhixia raised one eyebrow, a little smug and a little joking, and said, "In the mouth of Mr. Storyteller, our surname Chu will kill people when he is born." The old custom in the clouds is to feed the blood of the Beidi people to babies who are not full moon, and when they grow up, they are all murderous demons. ”

Pei Zhang laughed loudly.

Chu Zhixia rolled up his sleeves like a little old man, leaning on the pillar behind him, smiling easily and brightly.

"It's not a good job." Pei Zhang shook his head and said, "If you don't have all the certainty, you really shouldn't take it." Especially with His Royal Highness King Qi, if he has three longs and two shorts, our plans will all fail. ”

"It may not be safe in the imperial capital, hasn't our Royal Highness the King of Qin sharpened his sword a long time ago?" Chu Shixia shrugged his shoulders and said, "When the emperor sees the misfortune of the people, it will be the luck of the family and the country." I'll protect him. ”

Pei Zhang couldn't tell her, smiled helplessly, and said instead: "I heard that Your Majesty has given you the right to cut first and then play, and you have the right to command the armies of the six states in the south of the Yangtze River. You couldn't be more beautiful now, and your two brothers don't have this treatment. ”

"You're wrong, this holy decree has not been issued in the cabinet." Chu Zhixia said, "Your Majesty has given His Royal Highness the King of Qi the status of the minister, and he has the right to cut first and then play; Give me the Golden Drum Order, and have the right to command the armies of the six states in the south of the Yangtze River. ”

Pei Zhang said: "This is not entirely a good thing. Your Majesty is bound to win this matter, have you ever thought about the consequences of defeat? ”

Chu Zhixia leaned on the pillar, tilted his head to look at Pei Zhang, and said, "Pei Gongzi, if you say this kind of thing before the war, you will be condemned for disturbing the morale of the army." ”

Pei Zhang smiled, took out a white feather arrow from his hand, and presented it to Chu Shixia with both hands: "Then I wish General Chu invincibility." ”

Chu Zhixia smiled freely, took the feather arrow and spun it around his fingers, throwing it far away at the quiver in the court. The feather arrow drew a perfect arc in the air, and it fell into the pot with a "dang" sound.

"I will guard the imperial capital, Miss Chu doesn't have to worry." Pei Zhang said softly.

"Then live until I return triumphantly, Young Master Pei." Chu Zhixia patted him on the shoulder and said.

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Racecourse.

When marching and fighting, food and grass are the most important, and horses are secondary.

The Beidi people are good at cavalry, and the Chu family started with foot soldiers, and in order to restrain the Beidi people, they have also devoted themselves to studying cavalry for many years. The tiger and leopard riding under Chu Mingxiu is the product of the Chu family's hundred years of accumulation, and the horses are meticulous from breeding selection to breeding and training. The friendship between the war horse and the owner is deep, and there is often a good story that a war horse is only tamed by one master in his life.

"It's too late for you to raise a horse slowly, so let's pick one yourself."

Chu Zhixia led Cheng Yuan, Sun Yan, and the people selected by Yigan Yu Lin Wei and Jiangwutang to narrate in an orderly manner, "Wanbei horses are produced in Wanzhou, northern China, with strong endurance, the best at long-distance travel, and they are not afraid of severe cold and heat; The green horse is bred with the Beidi horse, and the temperament is violent, and the horse can fight with the lone wolf, which is difficult to tame. ”

The manure in the horse farm was piled up and the stench was stinking. These young people who were about the same age as Chu Zhixia were unaware of it, and they looked left and right excitedly. In the stables, a pair of round black eyes reflected their figures, either warm or indifferent.

Chu Zhixia said a few words, and the official in charge of raising horses took over the mission. Chu Zhixia simply sat idle, looking at the shining eyes of these young people who didn't know what was ahead.

These people are carefully selected by Cheng Yuan, with an innocent family background, a pure heart, and a tenacious personality.

Chu Zhixia took Bai Ziche to the south, and what he was most afraid of was the harmful horses in the team, delaying major events or harming Bai Ziche. These young men have practiced martial arts all their lives, just to mix and eat in the army, and dare to think about it in the hope of making great achievements and becoming knights - but many of them, many of them have never even seen blood.

Chu Zhixia stood aside and watched coldly.

The green horse is fierce, unlike other docile horses, and as soon as someone approaches, it fiercely spews out two white gases from its nostrils in demonstration. Most people chose Wanbei Ma, and Sun Yan, who was eager to choose Qinghu, also retreated a little.

No one wants this fiery horse to throw itself off.

Just then, a commotion swept across the racecourse. Everyone looked over curiously, only to see a row of people in prison uniforms pressed to their knees.

Several people were surprised what this was going to do, and Cheng Yuan and Sun Yan had already looked at Chu Zhixia. Chu Zhixia slowly stepped forward with the snow in the stream, walking calmly. Cheng Yuan's eyelids jumped as soon as he saw the sword, and he had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"These people are the officials who were questioned about the land invasion case in Binzhou." Chu Zhixia explained succinctly and forcefully, "Originally, I was going to ask the queen of the autumn to be beheaded, and the left and right were people who were about to die, so I specially pleaded with Your Majesty and borrowed it to teach you a lesson." ”

Hundreds of teenagers stood up straight, looking at the famous eldest lady of the Chu family a little nervously. Chu Zhixia's reputation in the imperial capital is very bad, some people say that she is unruly and absurd, and some people say that she is good for nothing except her surname Chu.

When these teenagers saw her for the first time, they were slightly amazed by her appearance, and they couldn't help but wonder if such a girl could really lead troops into battle. She didn't even look as old as a few of them. But when Chu Zhixia really spoke, no one dared to put his beak in his mouth, and few people even dared to look her in the eyes.

Chu Zhixia's wrist flicked, and the drinking stream snow slipped out of the sheath, like a pool of clear snow water. The person kneeling on the ground trembled, but he still stared at Chu Zhixia with a breath.

"Look, do you think I don't dare kill you?" Chu Zhixia held the sword in one hand and asked with a gentle smile.

"You don't have the power—"

The sound of drinking the snow cutting through the skin was silky and fluent, and many people didn't even have time to see Xia's movements clearly before they saw a line of blood spurting out. Chu Zhixia sideways the blade of the sword, and the blood flowed down the silver-white lines, submerging into the black earth.

"Do you see clearly?" Chu Zhi Xia Zhen removed the blood beads on the sword and looked sideways at the silent teenagers.

"This time I went south, not to play, nor to go to Jiangnan safely and then go home. You have been chosen to protect His Royal Highness King Qi, and if you are attacked by bandits and rebels, you should do so. ”

Chu Zhixia looked at everyone coldly and said, "If you are afraid, you can leave now." Don't come to the front and look ahead, just bury your worthless life in vain, and even affect the robe. Then I will finish you with my own hands. ”

Sun Yan stood in place for a long time, standing up straight and not moving. There were a few people in the crowd who fell to the ground and vomited, and some stood up after vomiting, staring straight at Chu Zhixia; Some of them ran out after vomiting.

"Not afraid?" Chu Zhixia chuckled, and stepped aside with his sword in his backhand, "Then let's come one by one." ”

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Chu Zhixia put the drinking stream snow aside and wiped the blood on his hand with a white silk handkerchief. Human blood is sticky and can't be wiped clean no matter what. Chu Zhixia was half-sitting on the straw pile, and Cheng Yuan walked in front of her at some point.

"What's wrong?" Chu Zhixia asked without raising his head.

"Somebody threw up again." Cheng Yuan sighed, "Miss's trick is really ......"

"I don't even dare to kill people, and if I take them out, I'm just sending them to death, what can I do?" Chu Zhixia threw aside the blood-stained silk handkerchief and said naturally, "I will take the guards of the Autumn Leaves Mountain Residence with me." ”

Cheng Yuan nodded, "Do your subordinates have anything else to do?" ”

Before Chu Zhixia could speak, a huge shadow enveloped them. The horses, so white that they were not mixed with a trace of impurities, paced, their manes hanging down like a handful of sprinkling snow. It has a slender body, powerful limbs, and toned muscles that vibrate like flowing water.

"Snow Skull?" Chu Zhixia was stunned.

Xue Cheng leaned down and stretched out her warm tongue to lick the blood off Chu Zhixia's hands.

The snowmane horse is a special horse in the clouds, and it is rumored to be the blood descendant of the sweat and blood horse, and it has the ability to travel thousands of miles in one day. But Chu Zhixia knew that this was just a gimmick, the snowmaned horse was born in the grassland under the mist mountain in the clouds, and the cubs were extremely difficult to survive and difficult to tame, but they had the advantages of Wanbei horse and Qinghu.

The snow-maned horse is extremely precious, and the snow-maned horse is one of the best, and there are not a few horses in the entire cloud.

The horse supervisor tried his best to ignore the bloody scene of the young men in the distance stabbing the criminals, and forced a smile at Chu Zhixia: "It's Xue Cong." There was only one snow skull in the entire imperial capital, and when it was just delivered, the three princes were clamoring for it, but His Majesty did not allow it. ”

Chu Zhixia raised his hand and stroked Xue Cong's head, looked at Ma Jian and asked, "When was it delivered?" ”

"It was sent last year when General Chu made a surprise attack on the Beidi Baisha Department and made a war exploit." Eunuch Ma replied respectfully, "General Chu said that the day when you will be useful." So we fed it carefully and didn't show it to you until today. ”

Chu Zhixia smiled dumbly.

It turned out that Chu Mingyan and Chu Mingxiu had already guessed her plan before they saw her, and even brought this tame snow horse thousands of miles away, waiting for her to ride this horse to fight or return home one day.

Chu Zhixia couldn't help but imagine that Chu Mingxiu was riding a snow skull at the foot of Tianhao Mountain in his spare time, and said to this rather spiritual horse: "Good horse, you have to bring my sister home safely." ”

Then he would take the trouble to take the clothes worn by Chu Zhixia and give it to Xue Cheng to sniff to help it get familiar with the taste of the future owner. In the tent in the distance, Chu Mingyan repeatedly rehearsed the treacherous situation in the imperial capital on the chessboard.

It's as if Chu Shixia has never left home.

Chu Zhixia gently put his cheek on Xue Cong's face and said in a low voice, "I will definitely win." ”