Zheng Yida has been an orphan for as long as he can remember, and he has been able to grow up with the help of his neighbors in the village in the past few years, but what self-reliance can a six- or seven-year-old little hairy head have, and finally embarked on the road of begging.

Because he didn't want to trouble the people in the village anymore, Zheng Yi packed up his baggage and left on a cold winter night, leaving quietly.

Zheng Yi decided to go all the way east, he heard that it was the most prosperous place in the whole continent, and even the beggars there were very rich.

But a child is a child after all, after walking for a day and a night, he was lost in the wind and snow, and after three days, there was not much dry food left in the baggage, even if Zheng Yi ate it tightly, it was completely exhausted after a week.

Wind and snow, low temperature, hunger, Zheng Yi took a step forward, and suddenly felt that it was dark in front of him, and then he lost all consciousness.

Zheng Yi felt that he was asleep, so cold and cold, there seemed to be a quilt in the distance, he tried very hard to grab the quilt and cover it, but no matter how he grabbed it, it was just a little bit, really only a little bit.

At this moment, the quilt moved on its own, unfolded, and then covered his body. When the quilt was covered, there was a burst of incense, which was a very good smell of sandalwood, which he had smelled in the house of the only teacher in the village, and this kind of sandalwood was not something that ordinary people could afford.

After that, Zheng Yi felt so warm, grabbed the quilt and pressed it on his shoulder, and suddenly felt warmer.

"Young master, his fever seems to have subsided. Zheng Yi's ears moved, and in a daze, he seemed to hear someone talking, and then he felt something warm pressing on his forehead.

"Go get some hot water again. ”

"Yes. ”

Zheng Yi's fingers moved, and the surroundings were warm, a feeling he felt he had experienced when he was very young, when his mother was still in infancy.

Zheng Yi opened his eyes and saw a very good-looking young man with a beautiful face, who smiled when he saw that he had woken up.

"You're awake. ”

Zheng Yi didn't know how to describe this young man's voice, but he thought it sounded good.

"This is here?" Zheng Yi looked around, it seemed to be a cave, there was a fire next to it, and he was really covered with a quilt with beautiful patterns embroidered on it, which was exactly the same as what he dreamed in his dream!

"You passed out in the snow, I will save you when I pass by, if there is no one at home, follow me in the future. The young man took a bowl of hot soup from his subordinates and pushed it in front of Zheng Yi.

Zheng Yi was surprised, and didn't understand how this young man could see that there was no one in his house anymore, and then he thought about it carefully, and felt that if the general couldn't even see this, would it still be a general?

Later, Zheng Yi knew that the person who rescued him was called Liu Xueding, who was a famous family in the south of Chen State, and that year Liu Xueding happened to enter Beijing to be summoned by a father and friend who was an official in the court.

Liu Xueding was the later Liu Zhanguo, and his family originally wanted him to be a scribe, but who knew that he went against the family's vision, and became a general, or the biggest general in the world.

Later, Zheng Yi became Liu Zhanguo's secret guard, that is, the so-called dead soldier, which was requested by Zheng Yi himself, Liu Zhanguo originally arranged Zheng Yi to be his personal guard, although he also had to block the knife for Liu Zhanguo when necessary, but it was much better than the dead soldier, and the dead soldier had to do a lot of unsightly things.

Suddenly, there was a slight sound of footsteps in front of him, which brought Zheng Yi, who was hiding in a tree and falling into a memory, back to reality.

After seeing the person who came, Zheng Yi glanced around, and after finding that there was indeed no one else, he jumped down from the tree, quickly stepped forward and knelt on one knee, and said softly: "My subordinates meet Madame." ”

The person known as Madame did not respond to Zheng Yi, time seemed to freeze at this moment, and everyone fell into silence, and after a long time, this woman with a good temperament looked like she came out of that kind of educated family before she asked, "When will he come back?"

"Madam, the general ......" Zheng Yi knew that Madame knew what the general was going to do, and it was impossible for the general to come back, but Madame asked like this, she must have expected the general to change his mind.

"Don't blame him, he has his things to do, and he has suffered during this time, but the child is about to be born, and I'm afraid he will have regrets. Madame touched her belly and looked like it was really time to give birth.

"Madam, said the general, her name is Xiao Nian. Zheng Yi didn't know how to comfort him for a while, so he could only bring the words that the general had told him.

"Xiao Nian, did he say it or did he say it?"

"The general said you can't die. Madame first muttered softly, and then suddenly said to Zheng Yi.

Zheng Yi reached under the breastplate and the hand that had just held the dagger suddenly paused, and looked blankly at the general's wife in front of him. Liu Zhan Guo was about to die, he originally planned to follow the general, and now that the task is completed, he has no regrets, so he was ready to take out a dagger and die, but he didn't expect to be stopped by his wife.

"Chu'er is still young, and I still need your protection. Mrs. looked at Zheng Yi, in fact, she had already thought of a name for the flesh and blood in her abdomen, the surname Liu Mingchu, which means the beginning of the year, "Xiao Nian" coincides with "Chu", in some places, Xiao Nian also means the beginning of a year, and "Chu" has the same meaning.

Actually, the name has a deeper meaning, but it ......

Zheng Yi clenched his fists, the general has a life-saving grace for himself, if the general is not there, the wife and the young master, orphans and widows are indeed not safe, and they have the responsibility to stay and protect them, which is worthy of the word "righteousness" in his name!

So, Zheng Yi followed his wife back to the orphanage village.

The orphanage village is a very special place, where all the widows and orphans live, the men have died on the battlefield, and some of the wounded soldiers have lost their ability to take care of themselves.

This orphan village was run by Long Ke'er, just because she was too kind to see that these soldiers and relatives who sacrificed their lives for the country were helpless, but she seemed to forget that she was just a weak woman.

Although the imperial court will issue pensions, in some places, these pensions all go into pockets that should not be paid.

Standing at the entrance of the village, Zheng Yi looked to the south, and seemed to see a comet piercing the sky, and seemed to see a bright sword light splitting the sky, and then seemed to hear the chanting of the Buddha, and finally, there seemed to be the roar of the general.

A great general died, and he was still the number one general in the world, which was supposed to make the entire continent shake three times, but it turned out to be like a needle falling into the sea, and the splash was only so small, and there was no splash at all.

On the contrary, it is the matter of the eight countries ceding the territory that makes the Chen country excited, it was just around the time of the New Year, every family put up lanterns, after hearing the news, some people deliberately added a few more red lanterns, which led to the good business of the lantern shop, it is said that the lanterns of the entire Chen country were bought out, and some merchants hurriedly ran to other countries to buy goods, and in the end, the price of a lantern was actually raised to one hundred taels of silver!

Seeing this, some of the big men all followed the coaxing, and a hundred taels of silver could sleep in Yanchun Building for one night!

On the ninth day of the lunar month, Liu Feilong and 100 soldiers of the Feilong Battalion under his command were disarmed and returned to the field, vowing not to participate in anything related to the military and military affairs......

On the thirteenth day of the lunar month, Liu Hu, the general of the Tiger Battalion under Liu Zhanguo, disarmed and returned to the field, and the 100 soldiers under him also dispersed......

On the fifteenth day of the lunar month, Liu Yang, the general of the Suzaku Battalion under Liu Zhanguo, returned to his hometown due to a recurrence of an old disease, and a few months later came the bad news, and his condition deteriorated and it was difficult to come back, so he scattered all the 100 soldiers under him......

On the sixteenth day of the lunar month, there was an abnormality in the two million Liu family troops under Liu Zhanguo......

On the eighteenth day of the lunar month, one million Liujia troops were scattered and distributed to other generals......

On the twenty-first day of the lunar month, the remaining one million Liujia troops were assigned to the four fierce generals under Liu Zhan Guo who had not left, each leading 250,000 troops, guarding the four gates of the east, west, north and south of the Chen State......

From then on, the two million Liujia troops were assimilated into one million, and the remaining one million became the garrison of the Quartet, which could no longer be gathered without the order of King Chen.

Of the seven fierce generals under Liu Zhanguo, three left, and the remaining four became border guards, and if there was no accident, they would end up on the border......

On the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, King Chen made Mu Qing a pillar country, and he was also the head of the six departments and the head of the three dukes! It is not an exaggeration to say that Mu Qingquan leaned towards the government and the opposition!

On the same day, a loud cry broke through the quiet night from the orphan village, and the men and women of the village shouted wildly to the sky to celebrate the arrival of this new life.

On the first day of the new year, King Chen changed his name to "Xiande" and included the land ceded by the Eight Kingdoms into his territory, and since then, Chen has become the largest and brightest point on the map.

In the fifth year of Xiande, the number of Chen's army expanded from 3 million to 6 million, and the investment in military affairs accounted for more than 70% of the annual treasury revenue.

In the seventh year of Xiande, the number of Chen's army stabilized at 8 million, and the other eight kingdoms became cautious, and some kings began to regret signing such an agreement with Chen, but it seemed too late.

On the Chinese New Year's Eve of the ninth year of Xiande, King Chen feasted the courtiers, looking at the martial arts in the center of the field, with a smile on his face, this is the widow's soldier; looking at the night scene in the distance, the smile is even worse, this is the widow's mountains and rivers; looking at the endless sky, smiling, this is the world of the widow!

In the tenth year of Xiande, King Chen was crowned emperor, and changed the name of the country to "Wei", known as "Emperor Wei", in order to show his authority and announce the world, "I" is the emperor's exclusive self-title. From then on, those who regarded themselves as "I" were regarded as contempt of the imperial power and would be punished.

In the eleventh year of Xiande, Emperor Wei sat up in a rainy night, shouted for the inner servants outside, and the inner attendants who took care of Emperor Wei's living hurriedly pushed the door carefully.

In the twelfth year of Xiande, the news of Emperor Wei's sudden stubborn illness spread all over the world, and the kings of the other eight kingdoms sneered one after another, this is the prosperity and decline!

In the thirteenth year of Xiande, Emperor Wei's stubborn illness was difficult to eradicate and became a chronic disease, and his health deteriorated.

One night, he sat around the fireplace with Mu Qing of Zhuguo, and when he felt that the manpower was poor, he heard Mu Qing's advice: "Your Majesty, the eldest prince is not small, you can arrange him into the cabinet, and the old minister will take him to handle some affairs." ”

Emperor Wei's face changed slightly, and after Mu Qing left, he issued an order overnight to urgently recruit the generals of the Quartet into Beijing.

In the thirteenth year of Xiande, the military power of two of the four generals was withdrawn, and the other two were also weakened in disguise, and the approval of Emperor Wei was required to mobilize the army.

In the fourteenth year of Xiande, natural disasters broke out in Wei, and the DPRK and China were also divided into multiple factions, and they saw that chaos was about to arise in Wei.

In the fifteenth year of Xiande, several generals of Wei returned to their hometowns, and Emperor Wei suddenly found that many of his soldiers were old, except for the two million soldiers recruited in the past eight years, among the remaining nearly six million soldiers, nearly four million soldiers were over thirty-five years old, of which two million soldiers were over forty years old, and nearly 500,000 soldiers were over forty-five years old!

These veterans are far from catching up with the young ones in terms of physical fitness.

In the sixteenth year of Xiande, Emperor Wei's illness worsened, and at the same time, he found that since Liu Zhanguo left, there was no young talent comparable to him, and there was no one who could compare to the seven fierce generals under Liu Zhanguo, which was quite a bit of a withering genius.

However, what is terrifying is that the other eight countries have produced many geniuses, and it is like a blowout, and among the students who graduate from the Minglu Academy every year, Wei has never entered the top 20! This is a very shameful thing for Wei, a great country!

For this reason, Wei decided to select the best ten young people in the country and give them the best resources, in the hope of being able to turn the tide with these ten people.

These 10 young people are known as the "Seeds of Hope".

"Seeds of hope?" On a certain hill not far from the orphan village, Liu Chu looked in the direction of the imperial capital, and in three months, he would be sixteen years old, and he had already met the basic age requirements for joining the army, and it was time to go out.

"Young master, Madame has already cooked the meal. Liu Chu heard the familiar voice behind him, turned his head and responded with a smile.

Zheng Yi's expression froze, as if he saw a young general.

"Old man, I heard that you also entered Beijing at the age of sixteen, and you were supposed to be a civil official, why did you enlist in the army? Liu Chu muttered.

When Liu Chu was twelve years old, his mother Long Ke'er told him everything, and from that time on, he understood what he was going to do in the future.

The great rivers and mountains that the old man exchanged for his life, even if the country's surname is Chen or not Liu, he has to protect it.

Half of this gamble has gone through, and in the second half, it's time for him, the son, to end it.

The children of the poor families are in charge of the family early, and the children of the general's family are early to defend the country.