Chapter 354 after retirement

Shi Yan took his big iron sword from Hang Yunsan’s hand, lifted the hem of his clothes and wiped the sword’s body, glanced at the thousands of soldiers who were silent and solemn below, and looked back at Hang Yunsan and Wang Datou who were beside him.

“We can outsmart the first three countries. At present, the effect is very good, but after all, it is not enough. We need a war, a war that can prove our strength and deter surrounding countries.

In this battle, they will be beaten in pain, and they will be afraid of it. In the next hundred years, as long as they remember today, they cannot help but tremble! ”

Wang Datou and Hang Yunsan’s hands were shaking with excitement. After experiencing many things with Shi Yan, the two of them had a bit of perseverance and calmness in their eyes, and they looked at Shi Yan full of trust and admiration.

Shi Yan put away the big iron sword and suddenly asked the two of them, “Do you know why the Three Kingdoms in the front chose to outsmart them, while facing the nomads on the grasslands, it’s all about war and blood?”

Wang Datou felt that he had a right to speak on this matter, and when he talked about the nomadic people in the grasslands, he hated it so much: “His Royal Highness, our family has been a soldier in the Wuhai area since the generation of my grandfather and grandfather.

To talk about the likes of Moganguo and the like, they just use the resources in their hands to exchange a lot of gold and silver for us.

But the offal on the grassland is different. Men don’t farm, women don’t weave, and they live by cattle and sheep, but people can’t only eat beef and mutton.

So they come to our border all year round to **** food and women, and what our border people have on hand, they rob them. From generation to generation, almost every border resident has a **** feud with those offal!

We border people are ordinary peasant women, who can lift up the hoes and kitchen knives at hand to fight with them when the offal comes in. It’s not that they are born strong or that they don’t work hard. The elderly and children in the family, livestock and food, and even women themselves must become The goods in the hands of those chops are better than death! ”

Hang Yunsan patted Wang Datou’s shoulder and concluded, “this is a feud!”

Wang Datou has his own reasons. He thinks that it is hatred, resource grabbing, and the grievances of the border people who cannot be resolved. These things cannot be resolved without war and blood.

From Shi Yan’s standpoint, there are thousands of reasons left in the end: Li Wei, shock and awe!

“The nomadic people of the grasslands are invincible across the grasslands with iron hooves, and they come and go to the frontier as if they are in a no-man’s land. Their men are born to ride horses, and they have grown up on horseback since childhood.

This is our goal! ”

In normal times, he would lead ordinary cavalry, and any general would not have the courage and confidence to face the grassland iron cavalry.

But this time, Shi Yan led a group of physically strong masters from the Zhexian clan. These masters were beaten as sandbags in the dark guard camp for a year, and they developed a strong obedience and discipline. , and was led by Chief Wang to train and learn the fighting skills on the battlefield like ordinary soldiers.

“Exactly, since our black iron cavalry came out of the mountain, it has never fought the enemy with real swords and guns on the frontal battlefield, and soldiers who have never seen blood are not real soldiers after all.

Then let the world see the power of our black iron cavalry! Let His Highness also see, fighting alone, our old king is far inferior to you, but the housekeeping skills of our old king’s family are not something that others can easily learn! ”

Wang Datou rubbed his hands excitedly, and Hang Yunsan rolled his eyes in anger. Who is this talking about?

“Don’t you just want to learn your family’s military training skills? If you don’t teach it, you won’t teach it. It’s boring to talk about it every day!”

“Hey, Brother Xiaosan, it’s really good that my brother doesn’t teach you. Our old Wang family doesn’t teach anyone except our son. It’s the same saying that our mother is here. You say that you are my son. ?”

Early the next morning, the black iron cavalry appeared on the border of Wuhai, and wiped out all the small groups of nomadic cavalry who came to loot on the grasslands thirty kilometers away from Wuhai City. The direction of the cavalry when they came, secretly found the camp where they were stationed.

A head-to-head war was waged.

In the eyes of the nomads, this unreasonable war was launched. The number of participants in the war reached 20,000. In just one morning, it ended with the victory of the Black Iron Cavalry.

The black iron cavalry went all the way north, with unstoppable forces and flexible fighting methods, in just one month, they wiped out tens of thousands of nomadic cavalry.

It is rumored that wherever they passed, there was no grass, crows hovered, and the shadow of death shrouded the grasslands. They were all dressed in black armor, black helmets, and black face scarves. They were ghosts and ghosts, and they killed decisively. The thick **** aura lingered for three days, as if death had descended.

Until this time, the reputation of the black iron cavalry was completely spread from the nomads to Wuhai, and spread throughout the entire Great Zhou.

In the imperial palace of the capital, the courtiers were shocked by the letter sent by General Wuhai Shouguan. There were too many things in it that shocked them and made them unable to figure out what to do.

Can’t figure out how?

Ever since His Majesty announced that His Highness the Crown Prince will take thousands of people to go to war, is there anything normal that happened one after another?

First, within eight months, quickly let Yue Lin, Mo Gan, and Mo Yu take the initiative to seek trade and trade with North Korea. For this reason, they were even willing to give up certain benefits to win over Da Zhou. thing.

Now, although the Wuhai defender did not know who the leader of the black iron cavalry was, they knew in their hearts that it must be the person of His Royal Highness, the time, the number of people, and the unexpected style, all of whom were in line with His Royal Highness.

His Highness really didn’t make a move. When he made a move, it was amazing. Whenever they thought that what they saw was the pinnacle of His Highness’s life, he always let everyone know that they thought too little.

For example, this time, who would have thought that the invincible nomadic cavalry across the grasslands would be so weak in the face of the black iron cavalry led by His Royal Highness? !

Their highness was about to kill the grassland king all the way, Wuhai defender was terrified and pleasantly surprised, and wrote to ask your majesty, would Wuhai send troops to help the black iron cavalry?

To be honest, the emperor was also shocked when he saw the letter. He was the one who secretly mobilized food and grass for his son. He knew his whereabouts and grasped his path, but he could only guess at his son’s purpose.

But at the end of the day, he really never imagined that the thousands of people his son had brought would have achieved what they are today.

The most beautiful dream I never imagined.

Because a long time ago, some courtiers predicted: “If you want to go to war with the grassland iron cavalry, the people will have to recuperate for ten years. At that time, every household will recruit troops, consume five years of national treasury taxes, and consume the civilian people’s ten years of grain storage, and train soldiers for at least two years. , more than half of the casualties, a tragic victory.”

It is almost the whole country to fight with the nomadic cavalry.

But such a thing was accomplished by the black iron cavalry led by his son with less than 10,000 people!

What the emperor thought of, the courtiers below also thought of it. This father and son are both civil and military, trusting each other and cooperating with each other tacitly, so that many of their conspiracies have nowhere to be placed.

So recently, they have become silent, and the emperor’s reforms and amendments have been carried out very smoothly.

This kind of news cannot be concealed. People do not know when, various legends about the black iron cavalry have been circulated. Among the grassland tribes, the black iron cavalry is like a death descending. In the hearts of the people in the Central Plains, it is an invincible god, a pure The black dress has also become a symbol of invincibility.

After the door **** of His Royal Highness the Prince who was still alive like Zhong Kui, the black iron horse door **** who is completely black and can’t see the nose and eyes has become popular in various households.

This custom is especially evident in border areas.

At night, the child kept crying, and when the elders in the family said, “Cry again and let the savages on the grassland take you” to frighten the child, the child learned to talk back while crying and hiccup: “Yes, hiccup, there are black iron riders, I’m not afraid!”

Even so, the emperor was still worried about his son’s safety. No matter what outsiders said, the emperor knew that it was his son. When he was a child, he would hug his leg and cry. Son, is a man of flesh and blood.

People get hurt, they bleed, they die.

How can you not worry?

But the emperor’s worries did not last for half a month, and the order sent by the imperial court to the generals of Wuhai was worthy of the Wuhai territory. A piece of news that shook the Great Zhou Dynasty was transmitted all the way from Wuhai in an expedited manner of 800 miles. When they arrived in the capital, Hongling hurriedly sent a fast horse into the capital, and on the night of the 16th day of the eighth lunar month, the black iron rode, and the news that Mu Er Shanyu was captured alive spread throughout the Great Zhou Dynasty.

The remnants of the grassland tribes retreated three hundred miles, and they will no longer be able to invade the border within ten years.

Once the news came out, the whole world was shocked. After the shock, the inside of the Zhou Dynasty rejoiced and cheered, but the small countries outside the Zhou Dynasty felt deep fear and fear.

So far, countries that were previously noncommittal about the decision on commerce and trade between the two countries have sent their envoys to Dazhou to observe the ceremony and discuss the future friendly relations between the two countries.

As for what ceremony?

Naturally, it was Moore’s surrender ceremony.

It was also at this ceremony that everyone saw the style of the world-famous black iron cavalry and knew that the leader of the black iron cavalry was His Royal Highness the Prince of the Zhou Dynasty.

I don’t know how many people secretly made the idea of ​​iron cavalry, but after this surrender ceremony, the black iron cavalry disappeared from everyone’s sight. After decades, they never appeared in front of the world, and no one knew their specific whereabouts.

Since then, under the auspices of the emperor, the Zhou Dynasty has carried out a series of reform measures to develop people’s livelihood and promote prosperity, and reformed many outdated laws, gradually filling the vacancies of some laws and making the laws more strict and fair.

Externally, the surrounding countries of the Pan states expressed their surrender to the Zhou Dynasty, and the countries traded with each other, as if there were signs of the prosperity of the great powers.

The courtiers have long since given up the idea of ​​alienating the father and son of the heavenly family. They are single-mindedly minded to make some achievements. At the beginning of the prosperous age, they will make contributions and strive to leave their own strokes in the history books for future generations to read.

In the 30th year of Taiping, the emperor was sixty-five years old. He had a strong body and could eat two bowls of rice and a plate of braised pork for a meal. His beard, eyebrows and hair were not gray. He was the healthiest old man in the entire court.

When fighting with the courtiers, the voice was loud and penetrating, and the guards outside the Hall of Supreme Harmony could clearly hear every word of the emperor inside. Hit the board.

The guards thought to themselves: Hey, we are the kingdom of heaven. Every year, every month, every day, every moment, I don’t know how many people from Fanzhou desperately squeezed into the capital to see such prosperity, and how many people want to see ours with their own eyes. Lord, kowtow to the old man.

If you let them know that the sacred emperor of the Celestial Dynasty and his ministers in their minds are like this neighbor scolding the street, I wonder if the three views will be shattered and their hearts will be shaken?

Whether outsiders will be shaken, the ministers can’t say, but at the moment they are shaking.

Because when the emperor suddenly went to court, he told them lightly: “I have decided to place Zen in the crown prince and be a stable emperor.”

This makes people very caught off guard, why?

Because everyone has long been prepared that the emperor can live to be eighty years old, and the prince is only a prince all his life!

The emperor is in good health. He was neither blind nor deaf when he was hunting this year. An arrow could shoot through the eyes of an eagle in the sky.

In addition to being extraordinarily capable of doing things on the battlefield, the prince returned to the capital, and it was really a posture of not caring about everything and wanting to be an idle prince. Thirty years as a day.

Everyone gradually accepted the strange tacit understanding between the father and son.

The tacit understanding that we have cultivated with the emperor for decades, sweat and tears, diligently develop us into a kingdom of heaven, and we have not enjoyed this prosperous chapter yet!

The leading boss, you suddenly said no. This makes us little brothers very frightened!

No matter how frightened, the forty-three-year-old prince finally ascended the throne.

Before everyone had time to get in touch with the newly appointed boss, and test each other, after half a year of ascending the throne, he lazily told everyone: “I have decided to place Zen in the crown prince.”

Listen to this person’s familiar tone, and look at this attitude of not taking the throne seriously. People who don’t know see it and think they are biting the buttocks of the throne of Da Zhou, and they all sit on it impatiently, “I Doing my best for you, the world is not worth it”, making these ministers familiar with each other again and again.

Skilled once again accepted His Majesty the new Emperor.

This His Majesty is twenty-nine this year, the Queen’s concubine, the eldest son, the concubine, the firstborn, and the eldest son. He is high-spirited, diligent, knowledgeable, and good at responsibilities. He promotes young officials and treats older officials kindly. He does all the work that the emperor should do.

Very good, the ministers are calm.

At first glance, this person is going to be the emperor seriously, that’s it! No need to sleep at night worrying that the emperor will quit his job! Finally got a good night’s sleep, thank goodness!

And what happened to Shi Yan, who retired early, and his father?

“Now the Quartet surrenders, all nations come to congratulate, the people are prosperous, happy and healthy, and the new things that appear every day are dazzling and dizzying! You know, whether it is the court or the rivers and lakes, the most eye-catching new things in recent times. What is it?”

“Why don’t you ask? Of course it’s the Prosperity List! The Prosperity List produced by Idlers Pavilion covers all aspects, including the Weapon List, the Master List, the National Color List, the Yushu List, the Virtuous Minister List, etc., only those we can’t think of, just There is nothing that the Idle People Pavilion can’t do!”

“It stands to reason that this list not only involves the rivers and lakes, but also the court. How can the officials in the courtroom be willing to let the idler’s pavilion judge? Could it be that there is some great person behind the idler’s pavilion?”

“Hey, Xiongtai, you are behind the news. My uncle’s uncle’s cousin’s uncle’s third aunt’s uncle has reliable information in the courtroom. Naturally, the elders in the courtroom were unhappy at first. Can not be conspiracy.

Anyway, it’s their big men, how can they be judged by us low-level people who have no identity?

I also requested your majesty to send troops to conquer the idler pavilion! ”

“What about later? What about later?”

“Hey, where’s the aftermath? I heard that His Majesty was sitting high on the dragon chair, without lifting his eyelids, he calmly said the word “oh”, and then there is no more.”

“How come there is no such thing? What is your Majesty’s attitude towards the Idleman Pavilion? Seeing that this prosperous world list is published once every six months, and the second issue will be released in the middle of next month, the imperial court can really tolerate the Idleman Pavilion doing this? I have heard reliable news that there is a new Mingjun list on the list of your Excellency Idlers.

How embarrassing would it be if our Majesty was not on the list?

But our Majesty has only been on the throne for less than a year, and he is on the list, which makes no sense! I don’t believe that the imperial court can watch the idler pavilion stomping on His Majesty’s name! ”

“Cough, I know a little about this matter, but the dear brother just now knows only one of them and does not know the other. The ministers facing up saw His Majesty that day and did not expressly object, and privately ordered the military divisions of the five cities, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Dali Temple. The people jointly handle the case, look for the traces of the Xianren Pavilion, and arrest these extrajudicial madmen.

And guess what? ”

“What’s the matter?”

“Oh, fortunately, I didn’t do this with a lot of fanfare that day, otherwise the big men in the court would lose their faces, and all the people they sent were broken, and even something that could not be provoked was involved in the back. .

It seems that there are some great people involved in it! ”

“What can’t be offended? What’s a great man? Is there anyone more great than Your Majesty?”

Yes, some people must have their own considerations in private, anyway, in the capital, above the court, no one is rushing to send troops to clear the idler pavilion.

It was only after eating the gall of a bear’s heart and a leopard that he dared to destroy it.

When the black iron cavalry disappeared for 30 years, it became a little wild cat?

As soon as the expert makes a move, he will know if there is any. Anyway, the Wucheng Soldier and Ma Si, who has not fought for decades, will be dug up by others in one round.

Really embarrassing.

The ministers could hardly imagine that His Majesty the Emperor looked at them as if he were looking at piles of trash.

But they also feel wronged in their hearts, who is the other party? That is the famous and mysterious black iron cavalry, the Taiping Emperor who created the prosperous world with one hand, the Huaiwu Emperor who single-handedly carried Kyushu, plus a nearly 80-year-old old country that still has a bohemian love of freedom. male.

Whoever encounters these people will only be defeated!

After returning to God, the courtiers knew that they were tricked by His Majesty. His Majesty must have known about it long ago, but instead of saying it, he didn’t say it, and he also induced them to take action with an ambiguous attitude.

This shot, it was really painful to be beaten.

That’s it, I would like to thank the other party for showing mercy and not treating them as real enemies.

It’s really hard to be the minister of Lao Xie’s family!

“What’s so difficult about this? Father, grandpa, if the two of you are more involved, get a list of treacherous officials and change it every month, and list all the most treacherous people in the court, so that they can enjoy a good time in advance. How does it feel to be scorned by thousands of people?”

This is what the emperor wrote in his letter to his father.

The emperor said that he was really not ready to take over the throne now. According to the tradition of their old Xie family, the emperors all lived very long, and the throne was handed over to the prince. Before him, the youngest prince was His father, Emperor Huaiwu, was also forty-three years old, and his grandfather impatiently watched a group of lousy old men in the courtroom take the initiative to meditate.

He thought about how it would be his turn to be in his forties or fifty years before he could ascend to the throne, so after his father became emperor, he was very calm for a time, carrying his luggage and taking his children to defect to the old prince, wandering the world.

As a result, it was not successful. On the way, he heard the news that his father had given him the position of Zen, and he hurried back to Beijing to attend his enthronement ceremony, as busy as he was in the field.

The emperor continued to write: “How good you were to the child when you were a child, how ruthless you are now, and you haven’t received a letter for half a year, the child misses it very much…”

Of course, Shi Yan would definitely not reply to the emperor’s crooked letter, he could guess the end by simply reading the beginning, and he was really puzzled: “Dad, you said that this child is the emperor’s How can people be so greasy and crooked? Like you or like me? Don’t you feel like your teeth are crooked?”

Zong Chixian has no right to speak on this matter, but the old man knows it very well: “Like his grandfather, he married a woman all his life. goosebumps.”

He didn’t like to hear these things, so the old man stroked his beard and asked Shi Yan with great interest: “My grandson, if you want to talk about playing, you should play. Grandpa has been floating on the rivers and lakes all his life, and he never thought of such a game. rivers and lakes.

Do you know how many beauties have privately inquired about the Idlers Pavilion and wanted to give us gifts in order to have a name on the National Beauty List?

There is also the Yushu list, which is similar.

Relying on these two lists every year is enough to support the black iron riders we put outside. At the beginning, my grandfather thought that these two lists were very tacky. What could be the point of just relying on appearance? Who knows that these two lists are the most popular and most competitive.

Then again, it was also hard for the children of Hei Tieqi. There was no war during the Taiping years, and they could only do some intelligence-gathering errands to pass the time. ”

The National Beauty List, as the name suggests, is a list of the most beautiful women in the world.

Yushu Bang, as the name suggests, is the ranking of the most beautiful men in the world.

Shi Yan didn’t answer the old man’s question: “You think it’s hard for them, but they are happy for themselves. Didn’t you see Hang Yunsan lurking in the market all year round?”

Zong Chixian also understood very well: “Hei Tieqi is from the Zhexian clan, most of them have lived in the extreme north of one-third of the land since they were born. They are very simple and have never seen the outside world of flowers.

Later, Yan was brought back to the capital by Ayan, entered the dark guard camp, and killed many people on the battlefield. He never experienced the life that a normal person should have.

Now let them experience the taste of the market, the fireworks in the world are the most heart-warming, and it should be unforgettable to linger. ”

The old man looked at his son and grandson who had no blood relationship with him, got up and looked at the window and saw the lanterns outside. explain.