Fu Rui's twenty-nine years are no different from the past, the academy usually recruits students in the spring, and most of the students in the academy are close to home.

Even if there are some scholars who don't go home, they will be invited to participate in some poetry parties or something at this time, so the academy at this time will be much more deserted.

There is also Cao Huabin, who is known as the most irresponsible mountain chief in the history of the academy, and now that it is almost the New Year, he still doesn't know where to go to visit the mountains and rivers.

He threw all the academies of this Nuoda to Cao Huawen to take care of alone, which made the latter jump to scold his mother more than once, you know, Cao Huabin's mountain chief seal is still in his hands and has not been taken back!

Originally, no matter where Cao Huawen looked, he was also an elegant middle-aged Confucian scholar, but as long as he faced Cao Huabin, he would not be elegant no matter what.

In the past, when a large number of scholars were in Beijing, this capital was indeed much more lively than in previous years, and after getting used to the hustle and bustle of those scholars on the streets, now that they are gone, even the streets of the capital seem to be much more deserted.

However, compared with the past, this year is different from the past, because this year is the ten-year visit to Beijing by Xiao Shanyu, the king of Liaodong, and every time he comes back, he can bring back some good news on the grassland, and he can beat those grassland barbarians to the ground every time.

Xiao Shanyu has been guarding the border of eastern Liaodong for many years, and it can be said that he has worked hard for him, but he neither likes to show off nor pay attention to pomp.

Therefore, when the people in the capital were still speculating whether he would come back on the 26th of the lunar month, or on the 27th, he had already lived in the royal palace in the capital.

When it comes to people who can live in the royal courtyard when they return to the capital, no one else can have this qualification except him, not to mention anything else, just by virtue of his achievements in the three eradication of the grassland when he was young and the lone army spanning thousands of miles, he just wants to live in the palace, and the custody of Chu Zheng will raise his hands to welcome.

Since the royal palace has the word royal, it is naturally top-notch in all aspects, not to mention others, just the nickname of a small palace can know that he is not good, and even the personal soldiers brought back by Xiao Shanyu are not crowded here.

At this time, in one of the gardens of the royal annex sat an old man with gray hair and a seventy-year-old man.

But although this old man is old, he still doesn't want to serve the old, even if he returns to the capital, he still wears the same clothes as when he went to the battlefield.

Besides, his body and bones are indeed healthy, and there is no appearance of a seventy-year-old man between the dragons and tigers.

I saw that this old man was wearing a purple and gold crown with a bundle of hair, wearing gold chain mail, a Jiuquan exquisite sword at his waist, and a square auspicious cloud boot. It seems that when he was young, he must have been a handsome battlefield star.

It's just that although this dress is good, the old man himself still doesn't admit defeat, but he can't hide the old man's increasingly dry face, and his old appearance really makes people can't imagine that he is Xiao Shanyu, the king of Liaodong who supports the sky in Liaodong.

In addition to him in the garden, there was a person sitting opposite him, it was Lu Xiangrui, who had worked hard to open the academy all over the world in recent years.

In the past few years, he has actually advised Chu Zheng more than once to repair the academy, but Chu Zheng has prevaricated with such and such reasons, in the final analysis, it is the achievements of Jinghua Academy that have not really made Chu Zheng moved.

Recently, his relationship with Chu Zheng fell to the freezing point, and he was angry with Chu Zheng when he was sulking, so he hadn't been to the early dynasty for a long time.

"What is the situation at the border recently. ”

The stone table in front of the two was full of all kinds of fruits, but they didn't move their mouths, although Lu Xiangrui was a civilian official, he also knew a lot about military affairs.

"In the past two years, it can still hold on, but in a few more years, it will be difficult to say, in addition to more and more wolf horses, there are also steppe barbarian infantry has gradually become the climate, now they are not just flowers, even if they can occasionally cross the border, but that is nothing more than looting, but in the future it will be different, with infantry, that is, with the ability to storm the city and defend the city and camp, when they are aiming at my Dachu country. ”

Hearing Xiao Shanyu's analysis, Lu Xiangrui tapped lightly on the table and didn't know what he was thinking.

"Then in your opinion, how many black armor Xuanqi are needed now to ensure that Liao and Jin Erzhou are foolproof?"

Xiao Shanyu counted out five winter dates from the fruit bowl and placed them on the table.

"If you look at it in the long run, then at least 50,000 Black Armor Xuan Riders will be enough. ”

Lu Xiangrui gasped, and then stopped talking, he seemed to be thinking about how to make up for the huge gap of 50,000 black armor Xuan Riders.

After thinking for a long time to no avail, Lu Xiangrui sighed softly.

"Alas... If only Su Wang's old boy was here, he has the most ghost ideas on how to raise money and recruit soldiers!"

Xiao Shanyu immediately laughed along with him.

"If he is willing to contribute, don't say 50,000, even 100,000, he can conjure it! This old thing just likes to pretend to be confused with his cleverness, but ah, when it comes to people in the capital who can still sit down and chat with me, you can count one, as for Su Wang's old fox, he can only count half of it." I don't know if I can pull him out for a drink when I come back this time!"

Probably a little happy in his heart, Lu Xiangrui picked up one of the five winter dates and threw it into his mouth.

"I guess you can't drink this meal, he's still the same as he was decades ago, I'm afraid that his daughter-in-law will be like a mouse meets a cat, and dare to sneak out to drink." ”

"That's true, fortunately, I was smarter at the beginning, and I knew how to marry a knowledgeable person, otherwise I would have been the same as the old boy surnamed Suna. ”

Speaking of this, the two of them laughed happily together, but I don't know why, the hearty laughter of the two fell into the ears of others, but there was always an inexplicable sour feeling when they heard it.

At the beginning, they worked hard to build the country, but now they can't even drink a meal, what can this be if this is not sour?

......

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, today's court meeting will be the last court meeting in the twenty-ninth year of Fu Rui, Xiao Shanyu was able to stand in the first row of the military general position with Dou Xianxian, the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses of Great Chu, by virtue of his outstanding merits.

In the previous era of war and chaos, these two people did not make an appointment to roll in the pile of dead people together, so the two would seem to be very harmonious when they met once every ten years, after all, it was a fateful friendship of licking blood on the knife edge together.

"King Liaodong, do you have any good news to tell you about this time when you return to Beijing? I and the ministers are waiting to hear it!"

Xiao Shanyu, who was still greeting Dou Xianxian, was pulled back to his senses by Chu Zheng, and he walked to the center of the hall with his head held high and saluted Chu Zheng respectfully.

"Back to the emperor, to say that the battle situation in the past ten years is a little fun, the first five years, we can still completely suppress those barbarians on the grassland, the next three years, we can only take a small advantage in some local battles, and now in the last two years, they have been able to fight back and forth with our Great Chu, we have only the power to defend the city and have no way to fight back. There are also the Turkic tribes in the east, they used to be peaceful, hiding in the woods and not coming out, but after they saw that the steppe began to grow bigger and stronger in the past two years, they also had some different thoughts. ”

Xiao Shanyu said a lot of crackling, Chu Zheng's brows were furrowed deeper and deeper, but he just didn't see him speak, Xiao Shanyu had no choice but to say it by himself for this scene.

"Your Majesty, I have said that you still can't understand it, now if you want to break the situation, there are only two ways, either give me generals or give me soldiers, anyway, you can choose one of these two methods, I can do it, whatever you want. ”

Xiao Shanyu's words amused Chu Zheng, and he pointed to the nose of the king of Liaodong and scolded with a smile.

"You have always been honest, we have also learned from Su Wang, Lu Xiangrui, and them, you can sprinkle and roll around here in me, so where can I reason! Is it possible to run to the ancestral hall of the former emperor to hold his old man's tablet and cry? You are not ashamed to be old, and if you don't learn the good, you will learn some bad. ”

This Xiao Shanyu is a military general in the end, not as thick-skinned as Lu Xiangrui, who is a scholar, and when Chu Zheng said this, he immediately blushed embarrassedly, so he quietly slapped a sycophant that was not light or heavy.

"Hey, hey, your majesty, you have a unique vision! I just learned a little trick with Old Man Lu yesterday, he said, this trick is to make the crying child have milk to drink!"

"Go, go, what crying child has milk to drink, what do you think of me? Nurse? You are too bold, you are really not afraid of being beheaded. ”

Xiao Shanyu pretended to shrink his neck and touched the back of his head.

"Your Majesty, this is not going to be beheaded! Besides, Lu Xiangrui's head has to be blamed for finding someone to blame, he taught him, and he wants to cut off his head. ”

The loss is that Lu Xiangrui is still sulking with Chu Zheng, so even if this is Fu Rui's last court meeting in the twenty-ninth year, he still didn't come, otherwise the two would have to fight at this time.

"Okay, okay, I fulfilled your wish, that is, the soldiers can't be given to you for the time being, even if I tell you that there is a group of black-armored Xuanqi behind the scenes, it can't be easily used, as for the general, I don't know that there is a minister in the court who is willing to go with the king of Liaodong to guard Liaodong!"

Chu Zheng unconsciously glanced at the pile of generals as he spoke, and he realized that the group of strong generals back then had grown old over the years, although they could still lift their swords and mount their horses, could they really retreat from the enemy army?

The power of the tiger still exists, and it is difficult to resist the power of the wolves!

As for the remaining young descendants, they have not experienced the big battles of their fathers, they are still just young children who only know the art of war and have not seen the battlefield, if they are transferred, it will be good not to cause trouble to Xiao Shanyu.

His eyes stopped a few veterans who wanted to stand up, Chu Zheng thought about it, let them retire in the capital, and after working hard for his Chu family all his life, he would not end up with a miserable end of being old and going into battle!

But at this time, he was also a little embarrassed, and the words had already been spoken, so he couldn't count!

Just when Dou Xianzhang wanted to stand up against the pressure, a voice came from the front.

Although Erchen has been back in Beijing for three years now, he is still familiar with the military aircraft and military affairs, and besides, Erchen is really the most suitable candidate for this Manchu Dynasty. ”

Chu Zheng followed the voice and looked at his second son, with some incredulity in his eyes.

"You're really going!"

Chu Tianxiong's eyes flashed with some determination, but he still nodded seriously.

In fact, at this time, not only Chu Zheng, but even the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, including his elder brother Chu Wushuang, all looked at him with a surprised expression.

To tell the truth, he hesitated for a long time to make this decision in his heart, he knew that as soon as he went this time, everything would be empty in the three-year layout in the capital, and he would have to start again when he came back in the future.

But his family and country are in danger, and he thinks that as the second prince of this huge empire, he has the responsibility to stand up and take on this matter if he is able.

Chu Zheng thought for a long time and nodded heavily, just like his son said, he is indeed the most suitable candidate in the current court.

"You can go, you can go! In addition, transfer some of the small flag officers in the previous martial arts academy from all over the country, it's time to put them on the border to grind, if the effect is good, the matter of vigorously opening a martial arts academy will be put on the agenda, and the batch of black armor Xuanqi who are still training in the Bianzhou military camp, you go and get 10,000 to go with you!"

"Yes, Father. ”

This own son is really his own son, and just now he said that there are no extra troops, but now he still squeezes out 10,000 from between his teeth.

And Chu Zheng only today completely woke up from the glorious achievements of those old ministers, and he knew that it was time to train a new group of young generals.

......

That night, in Chu Tianxiong's mansion, Chu Wushuang came to the second brother's mansion alone, and this was also his first time in three years.

"Do you really want to go? don't you want to think about your efforts in Beijing all these years?"

The two of them each raised their glasses and touched them gently, the two brothers hadn't drunk together in years.

"Now that I have made a decision, I have naturally thought it through, this is to guard our Chu family's own country, no matter how you do, you will not regret it. ”

Chu Wushuang listened to his brother's words and nodded thoughtfully.

"I'll wait for you to come back, during your departure from the capital, I won't move anything about your power connections or anything else, and when you come back, the two of us will compete fairly together!"

Chu Tianxiong poured his brother's wine glass full of wine, he didn't look at Chu Wushuang, but stared at the wine that flowed like a pillar from the wine jug without blinking.

"Actually, in my heart, I don't have to compete with my brother for any throne, but I have been in the army for many years and have seen too many human tragedies, so I have to fight for those soldiers who died on the border and those who are about to die on the border no matter what. Big brother, maybe you think that this world has been peaceful for a long time, but this is my thousands of good sons and daughters of Dachu who exchanged their lives for it. ”

Having said this, the wine in the wine glass was just full but not overflowing, and Chu Tianxiong raised his wine glass and looked directly at Chu Wushuang.

"Big brother, if you have the chance, I really hope that you will go to the border to take a look, see the faces of those soldiers, see how fierce and brutal the steppe wolf ride is, and when that time comes, maybe you will be able to understand what I am thinking. ”

Chu Wushuang took the wine glass handed over by his second brother, and drank it all after glancing at Chu Tianxiong's sincere eyes.

"I'll go!"