In late spring, the grass grows and the warbler flies.

At this time, the two carriages one after the other, slowly drove out of the north gate of Liangzhou City, in front of the relatively simple carriage, Chen Qingniu and the county lord of Anyang sat side by side, Zhu Zhenying was pointing at a map of the situation in the northern border pass, this kind of map with the garrisons of both sides of the enemy and us are marked with detailed maps, undoubtedly belongs to the military aircraft secret, but for this woman who can freely enter and exit the study of the vassal king, it is not difficult. While concisely introducing the important border passes between the two countries, she told Chen Qingniu about the comparison between the strength and weakness of the two countries' troops, as well as the situation of the border generals and more distant temples.

The Great Sui has a vast territory, compared with the Suzaku Dynasty at the peak of national strength, there are two or three more territories, different from the three strong dynasties of the Suzaku and the Southern Tang Dynasty, which are heavy on military and light on literature, or both civil and military, since the founding of the Great Sui, three hundred years of the whole country, are all civil officials, deep-rooted, often seven-grade civil officials, can serve as tens of thousands of troops of the supervising army, the position is humble and powerful to the extreme.

Speaking of this, Zhu Zhenying remembered a joke and said happily: "Every year for the Son of Heaven to patrol the border passes, inspect the territory of the fence, according to the usual is just a member of the military department, last year the Great Sui Imperial Court dispatched an unprecedented right attendant of the military department, which has shocked the government and the opposition." So much so that Yang Yuanzhen, the famous retreat lord of the Great Sui, almost regarded that group of Qincha as swaggering and deceiving characters, if the two sides could really fight, it would be fun. Although Yang Yuanzhen said that the governance, leadership and education are not worth mentioning, he is a veritable top monk, and on the southern territory of the Great Sui, I am afraid that only this guy dares not to take the scholars of the Mountain Cliff Academy in his eyes. ”

Zhu Zhenying suddenly said: "The combat strength of the Great Sui Border Army has always been mediocre, but remember one thing, on the battlefield, you can be a Baisheng general, you can kill tens of thousands, tens of thousands, tens of thousands, but you must not kill any academy 'gentleman' by mistake!"

Seeing Chen Qingniu's frowns, Zhu Zhenying smiled, "If it is said that the two armies are clashing, accidentally harming some 'reading seeds' who abandon their pens and follow Rong, or deliberately use the smoke of gunpowder to sharpen their hearts, it is reasonable, after all, the sword has no eyes, as long as the identity of the main general is big enough and the backer is strong enough, the two major academies of the Great Sui generally turn a blind eye." But if it involves the life and death of a scholar or a Confucian gentleman, it is by no means a trivial matter that can be dealt with vaguely, and no king of the Great Sui Dynasty can afford this kind of big trouble. ”

Chen Qingniu knew that the two major academies of the Great Sui, the Daguan Academy and the Mountain Cliff Academy, each had a Confucian sage who was a scholar and a celestial man, overlooking the worldly world of the Great Sui.

Now there are some situations, there is no need for the county lord of Anyang to be like when the two first met, she must break it up and say it thoroughly, so that Chen Qingniu can understand, just like the confrontation between the Suzaku and the Great Sui Dynasties, it stands to reason that with the majestic national style and strong military strength of the Suzaku Bird, let alone breaking through the fragmented southern border line of the Great Sui, it would have been possible to directly attack the capital of the Great Sui.

It's a pity that the literary style of the Great Sui is the best in Nanzhan Buzhou, one of the orthodox Jisui Xue Palace, a total of 72 academies, only six in Nanzhan Buzhou, and there are two Confucian academies in a country at the same time, the entire Jiuzhou, only the Great Sui has this honor!

In the territory of the Great Sui, the Daguan Academy, the Mountain Cliff Academy, the north and the south confront, complement each other.

The reason why I spend time with Da Sui is very simple, it depends on the owner to beat the dog.

Before Zhu Zhenying, he had already focused on several famous generals in the southern Xinjiang of the Great Sui, as well as several "righteous gentlemen" who were well-known in the two dynasties, and after thinking carefully, after making sure that there was no omission, the county lord of Anyang had the heart to be sentimental.

The grass is green, and the parting feeling is as lush as grass and trees.

But this is just Zhu Zhenying's unrequited love, the Chen Immortal Master who rushed to the border battlefield next to her does not have much sadness, on the contrary, Chen Qingniu is full of expectations for this trip to the border pass, he has just gotten a document from the Xiliang Domain, which is an appointment to him, the "son of the Chen family of Baima County, Liangzhou", which is freshly baked, and has not been warmed up by Chen Qingniu, and is now in the bag that Xie Shiji is carrying.

As long as you go to the Wuwei General's Mansion set up in Ma Weijun Town, the order is put into the file, and it is recorded, after the official handover, Chen Qingniu is the lowest military general officially recognized by the Vermilion Bird Imperial Court, from the eighth grade.

The edict is covered with His Majesty's "Treasure of the Imperial Decree", the head of the head is "Fengtian Edict" four words, the armor sunflower is introduced, the gold scroll is plastered, the font is used in the willow leaf seal dedicated to the military attaché, and the cloud dragon auspicious pattern is painted.

According to Zhu Zhenying's small talk, she once beat a child of anointing in the capital, and his father happened to be the chief official of the Ministry of Industry's Imperial Bureau, which was responsible for the production of edict documents.

Ma Wei Military Town, among the nine military towns under the jurisdiction of the Xiliang Domain, is well-deserved first in terms of scale and importance, so General Gao Dajiao, who is also the chief general of this military town, has the right to control the remaining eight towns. The highest-ranking military general that a vassal king of the Suzaku Dynasty can appoint independently is from the third rank, and the rank of Wusan official is all Yunlu general, as for the real power of the official, it depends on the specific situation.

Like the tall Jiao in Ma Weijunzhen, Zhu Hongying can not pass through the military department of the imperial court, but only needs to take out one of the top letters from the large stack of treasure documents sent to the mansion by the imperial court every three years, and write the name of the tall Jiao and the position of the border army. However, this kind of important edict involving the solidity of a country's feudal barriers, not only the military officials will stare at it, but even His Majesty the Emperor will definitely see it himself, and under normal circumstances, the Suzaku Emperor will not arbitrarily interfere in local military affairs and feudal affairs, but this dynasty is not without precedent for the Son of Heaven to issue a decree to reject the appointment of a feudal king.

Due to the long border between the northern part of the dynasty and the Great Sui, the imperial court set up all the official generals' mansions with the word "north" in one breath on this long and winding line, Zhengzhen Anping, four-character generals, southeast and northwest, a total of sixteen generals, standing for the imperial court, with the right to open the government, if the title of general is increased, it can be faked. This is almost the general practice of nearly 100 large and small dynasties in Nanzhan Buzhou, and the rank is reduced in turn, which is from the second rank and from the third grade.

Zhu Zhenying finally said worriedly: "As the trend of the Great Sui Temple becomes more and more confusing, even our Xiliang Border Army has to shrink the front, so as not to become a bird out of the forest for the northern border defense. The reason why I didn't give you a higher official body this time is that my father also has the intention of maintaining it, last year, the waiter of the Great Sui Rite Department inspected the border, and the time spent in the border area with Xiliang was second only to the first place in the southern Xinjiang of the Great Sui. The Jianguan here, far away from the General's Mansion of the Peking University, is naturally the top priority of border defense. And the movement of that squire, also affected the whole body, our imperial court quickly made a response strategy, the original location of the rightmost Pingbei General's Mansion, directly replaced to the closest to the eastern gateway of Xiliang Niangzipo, and Ma Weijun Town is only six hundred miles away, that Pingbei General in the spring of this year, just led the troops to settle in Niangzipo, under his command of soldiers and horses, is all elite cavalry!"

Chen Qingniu noticed Zhu Zhenying's restlessness, and asked curiously: "From the general of the third grade, it is worth taking your father, a vassal king with hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, seriously?"

Zhu Zhenying smiled bitterly: "If it's just an ordinary general, don't say a flat-character general, as long as it's not a military general who will definitely increase the rank of general, my father will not be afraid, but this person's identity is extraordinary, and he was the hereditary Duke of Liangguo after the few founding feats left in my Vermilion Bird Capital." You must know that the most important title in our dynasty, even if the military achievements are remarkable, it is still easy to worship the general, and it is difficult to be crowned a king. The county king is second-class, the prince of the country is equivalent to the title of the county king, from the first product, according to the etiquette system given by the Jisui Xue Palace, the ancient son of heaven divided the thirty-six countries, and now within a country, at most thirty-six princes, but in the Suzaku Dynasty, the mansion with the plaque of the prince mansion is still less than thirty, plus the ups and downs of the sea for hundreds of years, and the endless bloody conspiracies, it is conceivable that the current grandfather of the country is so rare, it seems that there are only a handful of five or six princes left. The earliest general Pingbei was a veteran, very old, at the end of last year, he failed to survive the winter, died on the bed of the general's palace, the old general had no children under his knees, so the choice of the general has been undecided, the court temple is noisy, the court will quarrel, the military department continues to quarrel, boiling, it is rumored that until Chinese New Year's Eve, His Majesty the emperor made up his mind and temporarily summoned a prince to the palace to meet him. ”

Zhu Zhenying paused for a moment, looked at Chen Qingniu, and said helplessly: "It is actually the most unknown Duke of Liangguo in the capital, and there has been no gossip into the market, and no one mentions it in the Gaomen Valve, only that he is a young grandfather who is about to not even be able to keep his ancestral home." ”

Chen Qingniu took over with a smile: "Then it happened to be this 'Liangguo Gong' who had no way to govern his family, who came to serve as the new general of Pingbei and became a neighbor with your Western Liangbian Army." ”

Zhu Zhenying whispered: "I never believe that His Majesty the Emperor will casually bring out a mediocre prince, in the important place of Beiguan, both to open the mansion and to fake the festival." ”

Chen Qingniu stretched, "No wonder you want to throw me to the westernmost Tiebei Military Town, far away from Ma Wei Military Town, and even farther away from Pingbei General's Mansion." ”

Zhu Zhenying said patiently: "Not only that, because the two sides in the Ma Wei area can only stand still, so the battles on the side of the Tiebei Military Town are small but frequent, and both sides have tacit understanding, so they are all contact battles that meet on a narrow road, hunt each other, collect military merits, and in recent years, it is said that the border is too peaceful, and the border army of the Great Sui is safe, in fact, the bloody battle of dozens and hundreds of men and horses has not stopped." ”

Chen Qingniu asked, "Didn't you say that the Great Sui soldiers and horses were weak?"

Zhu Zhenying rolled his eyes and said: "That's just a general statement, the general trend is like this, it doesn't mean that it can gain the upper hand everywhere, not to mention that the Great Sui is only turbulent in the court, plus some green and yellow, and it can't be called a corrupt foundation." Moreover, looking at the history books, even those dynasties that eventually overthrew the country, at the end of the last years, there are always some pillars of the country who stepped forward to try to turn the tide.

Chen Qingniu nodded, this is indeed the case.

Sending you on a long journey, you must say goodbye in the end.

More than ten miles north of Liangzhou, there is a small hillside, I don't know who gave a nondescript name, called "immediately turn back", awkward and vulgar, but it has been passed down for hundreds of years, and has never changed.

Zhu Zhenying lowered the curtain, sighed softly, and asked, "Do you really need the palace to follow you to Ma Weijun Town?"

Chen Qingniu shook his head and said: "The Iron Tablet Military Town seems to be far away from Ma Wei, but the speed of the news transmission between the military towns is definitely beyond my imagination, I don't want the original battlefield experience of real swords and guns to become a trip of the Liangzhou General Seed Brother to gild." ”

Zhu Zhenying's smile was far-fetched, " This trip to the north, there are post stations along the way to rest, and there is never a large number of horse thieves haunted, I think it will be safe and secure to arrive at Ma Wei's general's mansion, but to the border line, after turning westward, we must be more careful, whether it is scout wandering, or enemy infiltration, as long as it is on the border, Xiliang and Da Sui have always been extremely ruthless, many young and strong generals who have lived outside the pass for a long time, the most bloodthirsty and violent, like to kill for fun, when no one can kill, even pretend to be a horse thief and rogue, secretly intercept and kill transit merchants, come and go like the wind, and even not for money and goods at all, the father is also very troubled by this。 ”

Chen Qingniu nodded and said, "I'll pay attention." ”

The carriage slowly stopped, Zhu Zhenying got up, and after bending out of the carriage, she originally felt that with the indifference of the Guanyin Immortal Master's indifferent heart, the idea of lifting the curtain and seeing her leave did not arise in his heart. Unexpectedly, Chen Qingniu not only walked out of the carriage, but also got off the car and talked to her.

First of all, instructed.

"I know that you have a good memory, but the stakes are very high, I have to say it again, every month the white ape will hand you two to three tailed koi, be sure to hide it in the frozen snow in a jade box made of cold jade, and then send it to the Iron Monument Military Town where I am on time, this matter must not be the slightest mistake!"

"Then you help me in the territory of the vassal king, pay attention to the selection of jade, because compared to other treasures, this is a large number, the easiest to pick up, remember the first choice of sheep fat jade made of sacrificial ritual vessels, the second choice of the kind of inheritance orderly, especially by the Confucian sage, moral gentleman to handle the object, and then you have to believe in your own eyes, these purchases, back and wait for me to return to Liangzhou City, I will have a lot of money for you, according to the market price, if the gold and silver are not enough to repay, as a Guanyin Sect practitioner, I have the confidence to repay the debt. ”

"I left a lot of valuable things in the courtyard of Yuanjiapu, it's not that I don't want to take them away, but I really can't take them with me, so you help take care of them,"

After that comes the reminder.

"Don't enter Beijing easily, even if you want to go, say hello to me in advance. ”

"Don't trust anyone except your mother. ”

"The medicine collection temple in Liangzhou City, the City God Pavilion, and the Shanghu Lake outside the city, these three places must be paid attention to, I always feel that something is not right. ”

"Lu Fazhen, the ghost in the wedding dress, one person and one ghost, seems to regard each other as enemies, and no matter what the truth is, you should be especially careful. ”

......

Listening to those chatter, Zhu Zhenying's eyes were already red with emotion.

Chen Qingniu was indifferent to this, his face was as usual, but he took out two jade medals from his sleeves, one large and one small, each with holes to wear a rope in order to wear it.

But only by looking carefully can you vaguely see that there is a flash of fireflies in the jade plate.

Chen Qingniu handed it to Zhu Zhenying, and said solemnly: "This is a pair of jade cards, after I became a guest of the Guanyin Sect, I practiced sword Xiaocheng, out of interest, I began to warm one of the jade plates, instilled sword qi into it, and after saturation, I began to warm up the other piece before going down the mountain, but the time was in a hurry, and the sword qi contained was only half of the former.

If you encounter danger, sword qi will shoot out from the crack in it, faster than a crossbow arrow. ”

Zhu Zhenying sat in the carriage behind him, and under the escort of dozens of elite horsemen and the palace enshrinement hidden in it, he returned home.

Along the wide post road, Xie Shiji continued to drive north.

Chen Qingniu sat behind her, leaning against the wall of the car, and said with emotion: "Antique treasures, glory and wealth, stunning beauty, once you are in the home of the emperor and the general, you can find it everywhere, and you can get it at your fingertips." It seems to be relaxed and comfortable, and it is conducive to the cultivation of people without distractions, but in fact, it is most easy to make people depressed, if I am not the eight parts of the body to make trouble, I can't tolerate a moment of slackness, maybe I will have to worship a virtue with many palaces, get by, and finally gradually distance from the avenue. ”

There are willows planted on both sides of the post road, and the willow branches are swaying in the wind, like a slender and graceful woman, dancing.

Chen Qingniu muttered to himself: "At that time, on the Lotus Peak, I was more concerned with the three things of Qi Refining and Refining the Sword, and I didn't pay attention to the pattern of the Nanzhan Continent, otherwise with the height of the Guanyin Sect, looking down on a continent, there would be no cover, and there would never be any worry about seeing flowers in the fog." As a result, I only know that the Great Sui is in the midst of external and internal troubles, and a young queen mother is listening to the government, which is tantamount to a woman in charge of the country, competing with the queen for the palace, in addition, at most, it is to add some palace secrets that even Zhu Zhenying only treats as jokes, saying that the concubines of the two women are all over the court, and the minister Qin Zhidao is the minister of Wen Youfu, and the general Han Xiangyang, who is known as the first person in the southern frontier Gong, are all coerced in it, but I don't even know whether they are chess pieces of Rouge Mountain and Linglong Dongtian. ”

Chen Qingniu returned to Liangzhou City this time, and returned to his hometown in a young and ambitious manner, which is only a very small part of the reason, and more is to hope that now that he is standing on the shoulders of Guanyin, he can see people and things farther away.

Who planted the two dragons in his eyes in the first place?

Why didn't you just kill the trouble, but so troublesome and tortuous?

Or is it a big deal?

In addition, on the lotus peak, those who are in this mountain are covered by clouds and mist.

Chen Qingniu raised his head and stretched out a palm, and the bright sunlight passed through his fingers, shining on the young man's treacherous eyes, and his expression was flying.

He slowly clenched his fists.