Although the medical skills of the human race in the Shang Dynasty were far different from the primitive era when Ru Mao drank blood, and there was great progress in the current era, because there were few doctors specializing in medical skills, the average life expectancy of people was still not long. Therefore, it has always been a custom for businessmen to make a big deal about someone's birthday before the age of fifty, except for the full moon and the first year of birth, even if they are able to hold a banquet. And after knowing the destiny of heaven, every ten more years of life is regarded as a blessing given by ghosts and gods, so from the age of fifty, every ten years old must be a big deal.

Huang Gon, a military minister of the Great Shang Dynasty and a general of Huben, will hold his 50th birthday banquet in Chaoge tonight.

Huang Gon is fifty years old this year, and he can already be called an old minister, saying that he is a military commander, but in fact, he has far more than 12,000 troops under his command, and he is only a real power figure after Taishi Wen Zhong and the newly appointed hussar general Yao Gao. During the reign of Emperor Yi, the great victory of the attack on Dongyi was a great victory for the imperial court when Wen Zhong, who had just entered the palace from Biyou Palace, as the main commander, and Huang Gon as the deputy commander.

With the hussar general Yao Gao being transferred to the west to guard the Di people, Huang Gon, who had always been trusted by the Yin royal family, took office and became the person who controlled the 100,000 guards in Gyeonggi, and served as the most trusted general of the Shang kings in all dynasties. Originally, many officials in Beijing thought that Huang Gon was just a military commander who was a few years old and would never do anything and despised the Huang family, and Huang Gon's eldest son Huang Feihu was far less than his father who joined the army before he was fifteen years old to kill the enemy. Therefore, in addition to the contacts between the military lineage, Huang Gon and the rest of the civil officials and so on have never had much contact, although the carriages and horses at the door are not deserted, but they are not prosperous, how can it be as busy as today, and there are countless Beijing officials who come to give gifts and congratulations?

In addition, the news that was originally only circulating in the market has become more and more popular recently, which has added a fire to the prosperity of the Huang family.

The young daughter of the Huang family will join Zhuhuang!

Although there is no news of the concubine in the Zhuhuang Palace, if this news comes true, Huang Gon, who is now a general of Huben, will become the second national master with real power in his hands after Jiang Huanchu, the marquis of Dongbo, how can such a red and purple character not be sought after?

Today, the high threshold of the Huang family is about to be broken by an endless stream of guests, but there are still many people who come to visit, even the officials who really can't spare time to come, they also arrange for their housekeepers to bring a thick gift list, and the big and small housekeepers in the house are busy, but fortunately, they are all old people who have been singing for a long time, and they are finally not lacking in etiquette.

Fuzhong is responsible for such a big event, but fortunately, Huang Junshuai's house is big enough, and a table of banquets is lined up, and many high-ranking guests are seated, and they even borrow cooks from many restaurants in Chaoge to cook delicious food. There were already many guests sitting in the courtyard who were chatting with tea instead of wine, and suddenly a shrill voice sounded in the main entrance, and the guests all stood up in fear and looked respectfully at the old eunuch with a sharp voice who slowly walked into the mansion.

"The holy decree has arrived, and Huang Gon has received the decree!"

Huang Gon, who was wearing an ochre green suit, was not tall, he could even be said to be a little thin, fifty years old, his sideburns were frosty white, and he had begun to be a little hunched over, but he had been fighting abroad for many years, and naturally had the demeanor of an iron-blooded soldier who had retired from the battlefield, and no one dared to despise this thin old military commander. He was prepared when Zhao Gonggong just left the palace gate, and took a group of family members to the hall of the house and knelt down.

The pale-complexioned and gloomy old eunuch opened the holy decree and said:

Lonely heard that General Huang was on his 50th birthday, and he should have come to congratulate him in person, but because of the heavy government affairs, it was difficult to withdraw, so he was given 100 pearls, 1,000 brocades, and 1,000 catties of refined salt......

Congratulations?

The officials who heard the content of the holy decree were all moved, and they should know that the Shang was respectful and orderly, and the etiquette was extremely strict, and Di Xin had also congratulated his courtiers on his birthday before, how could he have heard that this arrogant emperor was so polite to whom?

Isn't that rumor true? General Huang's youngest daughter really wants to enter the palace as a concubine?

The guests thought about it in their hearts and didn't talk about it, but even if Gonggong Zhao was an old man in charge of the palace to pass on the decree, he was a little dry after reading this long list of gifts, and such a heavy gift made many people confirm what they thought in their hearts. However, people like Huang Gon naturally invited Zhao Gongan to sit down, serve good tea with the palace royal tea cup, and then quietly put a string of perennial wear fragrance can calm the mind of the white sandalwood bracelet quietly into Zhao Gonggong's sleeve, Zhao Gonggong's arm was slightly raised, and the bracelet slid into the pocket of the big sleeve very naturally, and the snow-white face that was already smiling was wrinkled happily like a white chrysanthemum.

Zhao Gonggong took a sip of the "Baoyun Tea" that he had just picked before Qingming, and left the fragrance between his teeth, and said with satisfaction: "Old General Huang is always so polite, which makes the old slave flattered." He and Huang Gon have been in contact with official affairs for many years, and they are familiar with each other, and there is no unfamiliarity in his words.

Huang Gon smiled and waved his hand: "Father-in-law Zhao don't want to make fun of the old man, there will be a banquet in the house for a while, and a few glasses of birthday wine will be invited to appreciate the light." ”

"It's not the old slave who shirks. Father-in-law Zhao looked embarrassed, and stood up with excuses, "There have been too many things in the palace recently, and these two glasses of wine are owed first, and the old slave will come to disturb him in the future." ”

Knowing that Di Xin's control over eunuchs is different from that of Emperor Yi's time, Huang Gon did not stop Zhao Gonggong, and let him leave after a few greetings.

At this time, it was getting late, Huang Gon put away the smile when he talked with Zhao Gonggong just now, looked at the sky in the courtyard, and listened to the noisy conversation of the guests. ”

Except for Yabigan and Taishi Wenzhong did not arrive, the princes from all walks of life also returned to the fiefdom after the end of the weekly sacrifice, and the rest of the Beijing officials were basically all present.

Most of the heroes in the army are good at drinking, Huang Gon himself was the first class in the camp when he was young, even if he is pampered in Chaoge now, two or three catties of wine is still not a problem, especially today is his great joy, naturally he does not refuse, after drinking a wine, he has blushed in the year of knowing the destiny of heaven, and he is full of wine and is helped into the room by his favorite youngest son to rest. The young man was in his twenties, with a long body and a snow-white complexion, although he was the son of the old general Huang Gon, he had a bookish air all over his body, not like a disciple of a general, but like a son of a scholarly family.

The young man leaned on to his usually taciturn father, and listened to his chatter helplessly.

When a man is drunk and not unconscious, it is often the time when he talks the most, especially when he is middle-aged, the pressure is getting bigger and bigger, and the blocks in his chest are accumulating more and more.

"Your father and I joined the army at the age of fourteen, and at the age of fifteen cut off the head of the first Sidi. ”

Huanggon stumbled to sit down on the edge of the bed.

"Our old Huang family, your grandfather was a small official in Hanyang, Jingzhou, and he never mixed up with an official body in his life, I was only sixteen years old when he died, and I had just become a military commander, and I couldn't send him to the end, and your grandmother died soon after. After the two of them left, I never returned to Hanyang. After he finished speaking in a hoarse voice, he took a sip of sobering soup under the service of his son, and frowned irritantly at the spicy and sour taste.

"Dad went from a nobody to the position of a general, but the bigwigs in the army who didn't take it seriously fell down, some of them went crookedly, and some of them didn't do anything, but they were killed by their father. Qian Zhen, the general under the account of Nanbohou E Chongyu, was in a desperate situation when I was a brigade commander in the south twenty years ago, and the plan arranged before the war was that he would lead his troops to help me and kill the barbarians. But he coveted military merits, and he didn't reap the benefits of the fisherman until our army was completely annihilated, and it was you, Uncle Han, who desperately rescued his father. ”

"Later, Lao Han died, and all the soldiers I brought out from Sidi died. ”

"Later, when I became a military commander, I personally went to southern Xinjiang to kill all his nine clans, when he knelt down in front of E Chongyu and begged me to kill him to save his family, and even Nan Bohou interceded for him. ”

"But I cut off his head in front of E Chongyu, E Chongyu didn't say a word, and gave me countless gold and silver maids. ”

Huang Gon, who had frosty white temples, had a ruddy face because of drinking, but his voice was so cold: "I killed him to avenge those brothers who lived and died with me, but I killed him because I didn't want to have any sin to take revenge on my father in the future." ”

When the young man heard this, his face turned much paler, and he pursed his lips and did not say a word, but nodded.

"Dad is telling you this, I want to tell you that only enough strength can ensure a better life, and I don't want you to join the army early, after all, our old Huang family is different from more than 30 years ago, and we have to rely on my father to fight for his life on the front line. ”

"What is power? The cultivator is the realm, the military general is the military power, in the face of absolute power, everything is fake, heaven and earth, ghosts and gods, the people...... Or a king?"

"Today's son is wise and martial, young and promising, but if it weren't for his own talent and a gray coat to escort him, that chair would have been replaced a long time ago. ”

The last two words of Huang Gon's previous sentence were very soft, and even the young man who was close to his father didn't know if he heard it or not, but the young man knew what his father meant, and a cold sweat suddenly broke out on his back. Especially when he heard his father's last sentence, he was even more vigilant to release his mind to find out if anyone was eavesdropping around.

"Dad knows in his own heart, being a Tiger Ben general who holds the forbidden army in his life has come to an end, and His Majesty will not allow a henchman who has not been personally trained to hold power. So the prince doesn't want to do it, can he cross the river and tear down the bridge with the old Huang family, who has no foundation, and still give us grace, which is already benevolent and righteous. ”

"So I'm going to send your sister to the palace, this is to take the initiative to hand over the lifeline to Your Majesty, and then let you have intersected with Your Majesty since you were a child, and then go to win military merits after this incense love, and your future will be fine. ”

"When you become the commander of the army, your father will abdicate. ”

"Feihu, you are extremely talented, you have cultivated to the peak of refining at the age of twenty-two, and you can rest assured that you will go to the military father, after you arrive in Dongyi, follow Jiang Huan Chu's old fox to study hard, the burden of our old Huang family, you will have to pick it up in the future." ”

It was as if Huang Gon, who had vomited out the depression in his chest overnight, was full of wine and fell asleep soundly, leaving only the young man named Huang Feihu with a pale face and firm eyes.

One day after the 50th birthday of the tiger general Huang Gon, the fifteen-year-old youngest daughter Huang Xinyao entered the Zhuhuang Palace, the first concubine of the Great Shang Emperor Xin, and the twenty-two-year-old eldest son Huang Feihu joined the army of Jiang Huan Chu as a pawn and fought in the East China Sea.