Noon on the third day of the Lion Camp expedition.
In Shilipu, east of Pingliang City, the King of Han grabbed a spoon and dug into the watermelon and ate it happily.
As he ate, he frowned and looked at the melon farmer: "I'm eating melons from you, and you keep looking at them. Have you never eaten melons?"
The melon farmer stood beside him and was greedy. He nodded and said: "Your Majesty, I have never eaten this before."
King Han glared and said, "Have you ever eaten melons as a melon grower?"
How could this happen?
King Han was not so happy after eating. He looked at Cao Huachun. Cao Huachun looked at him and said, "Your Highness, you must be more virtuous and pay for food."
"Who says otherwise? I don't know that he has never eaten melon."
After that, King Han looked at the half of watermelon in front of him, pushed it over and said to the melon farmer: "Come on, try this half. It's okay. Eunuch Cao will give you money later."
Cao Huachun stood aside and stared when he heard this: "Your Highness, who do you see bringing money out of the palace to do business?"
"Hey, I don't even have any money to pay back my father-in-law."
King Han rolled his eyes at Cao Huachun and continued eating. After two bites, he looked up at the melon farmer and said, "Then...let's give me a melon on credit. Let's see who wins or loses on the front line."
The melon farmer refused to eat, but still looked at King Han pitifully.
"No, it's useless for you to look at me like this. If you win the battle on the front line, I will lend you a few taels of silver. If you lose the battle, whoosh..." Along with the pronunciation, King Han raised his hand and pointed to the north:
"The defeated army tied me to a tree."
"When Eunuch Cao stays with me, who can give you money?"
Cao Huachun rolled his eyes: "Your Highness, this servant is still back in the palace to serve the emperor, and I won't keep you company!"
King Han glanced at him angrily and said in his heart that you don't even know how to flatter and deceive others, so you just took advantage of the eldest companion of Prince Xin's palace, otherwise you won't be able to become a figure in this life.
Zhizhou Qiang, the governor of Ningzhou, stood aside on Sunday. Seeing the King of Han making fun and jokes with great ease, his heart was beating with anxiety. He kept standing at the door of the express delivery shop, looking eastward.
There were more people standing outside the shop, including a bunch of generals and lieutenants, dragging their families with them, looking eastward.
Everyone is waiting for the news of the victory or defeat to come back.
Zhou Qiang got really tired of listening to the two people chatting in the shop on Sunday. He turned around and took out the melon money from the money bag embroidered with Ruyi on his waist. He put it in the hand of the melon farmer and said: "The king tells you to eat, so you can eat it. Don't be afraid."<
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Seeing the money, the melon farmer thanked him profusely, but he did not hold the melon and start eating it. He just looked at King Han cautiously and said, "I want to give the melon to my baby. Your Majesty..."
King Han waved his hand, and the melon farmer walked out with half a melon in his arms. Then he said to Sunday with an unhappy face: "Zhou Zhizhou, you are wrong. If you have money, you should first lend it to me, and then I will give it to you."
Money!"
Zhou Zhouqiang didn't have the thought to buy a melon for more than ten cents at this moment. He waved his hand and said: "It's not much money, so why don't you borrow it?"
"What do you mean by borrowing or not borrowing? You know nothing!"
King Han was still anxious: "I gave him the melon money. If there is a rebellion in Pingliang in the future, he will think of me eating melons and giving him money, so he can stay at home well! You just gave me the money and don't worry about it. Just pat your butt and leave."
It’s useless!”
Cao Huachun and Zhou Zhouqiang looked at each other and were stunned for a long time. Cao Huachun shook his head and said: "If His Royal Highness the King of Han uses his mind in the right place, he will become a wise king of the Ming Dynasty."
"Boom!"
King Han rolled his eyes and said to himself that Xiao Wang knew nothing. Xiao Wang didn’t even know how to pay for eating melons, and it was all taught by the big king.
He raised his finger to the sky and said: "With a knife hanging above your head, everyone will be wise."
Cao Huachun didn't comment on this. As far as he knew, sometimes even if a knife is hung above their heads, many people can't be virtuous.
King Han ate another mouthful of melon, spitting it out like a pea shooter.
After vomiting, he looked at Sunday Qiang, who looked calm and like a playboy: "Hey, we don't have any money, how can you be rich?"
"Earned at Lion's Camp."
Zhou Qiang said matter-of-factly: "I didn't bring any money. Commander Cao said that the commander's son should be enlightened in two years, so he asked me to write a short article."
"Son, son, his mother-in-law doesn't even have a son like him?"
King Han rubbed his chin with a surprised look on his face. Isn’t this a big deal?
"Where is it? Why haven't I heard him say it?"
"The doll I picked up is in Zhenyuan."
King Han shook his head regretfully, too far.
You don’t want to be born in the same year, the same month and the same day, but you want to die in the same year, the same month and the same day.
Not only can he be the big brother, but he can also extend his life directly through metaphysics, which is the best of both worlds.
King Han even wanted to dance. For him, the happiest thing in the world was to leave Pingliang.
If you leave Pingliang, you can live for more than ten years.
If you stay in Pingliang, you can live for decades.
These two things must go hand in hand at least in this life, right? If you want to go together, the easiest solution at present is to be with the eldest son of Liu Chengzong's family.
In this way, I might be able to leave Pingliang, and I will definitely live a few more years.
I get ten thousand shi of salary every year, and I don’t have to do anything. Don’t worry about the confusion of seniority, I can happily change my father.
However, Sunday Qiang poured cold water on it: "The water in the Qinwangzhuang dam was cut off, and the commander heard the baby crying in the ruins, so he rescued the baby from its mother's arms. When the child grows up, he may not be finished with the clan."
Cao Huachun, on the other hand, looked at King Han and Zhou Zhouqiang and didn't know what he was thinking.
Suddenly, he raised his hand to Zhou Qianggong and asked: "Zhizhou Zhou, I heard Governor Yang said that General Liu is recruiting General Liu and recommending you to the fourth rank. I will first congratulate Mr. Zhou."
"Thank you very much."
Sunday Qiang smiled and hugged his fists, then shook his head and said: "To be honest, after staying in Liu Shuai's camp for a long time, Zhou felt a lot in his heart. He has no intention of pursuing an official career and plans to resign and return home."
"Wait a minute, there is actually a good place to go."
Cao Huachun said forcefully to Sunday: "The emperor said that Liu Chengzong can do good things and needs someone to carefully persuade him... Qinghai Xuanwei envoy Si Tongzhi is the fourth grade."
"Don't?"
"Don't!"
The previous sentence was said by Sunday Qiang. He finally felt that he was out of the sea of suffering. He wanted to throw him to Qinghai all of a sudden. He was unwilling to do anything for public or private reasons.
Yu privately returned to Zhili in the north to study, and could eat fresh seabass from Nanjing every day through the Cao River. What kind of fairy life is that? Isn't it much more beautiful than following Liu Chengzong in fear?
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Although I followed Liu Chengzong around and saw different things from a different perspective than a traditional literati, especially now that I am no longer a rebel, it was like a very attractive adventure.
But Sunday Qiang is not sure that he will fulfill the emperor's instructions. Will Liu Chengzong rebel one day? If the emperor in Beijing can't reach Liu Chengzong, can he strangle his son in Baoding?
Farewell to the last one, it’s the King of Han.
Cao Huachun just smiled at Sunday. Quan Dang didn't hear his rejection, but asked King Han: "Your Highness, you think it's inappropriate?"
King Han didn't think anything was wrong, he just felt that he had neglected Zhou Qiang a little during this period, and was afraid that Zhou Qiang would go to Qinghai and wear small shoes for himself at Liu Chengzong's place.
But can you say this to others?
He thought for a while, looked at Zhou Zhouqiang, shook his head and said: "I am not hindering Mr. Zhou's official career, but it is too hard. Let's do it this way. I heard that in the past, merchants from the Tea Horse Road would bring bowls of Yunnan candies when they went to Uzbekistan.
, every time I go to the mountains to get sugar to eat."
After that, he said forcefully to Sunday: "I will send a letter to Lanzhou and ask them to prepare more to relieve the pain of my husband's fatigue."
Sunday Qiang was so confused, when did I agree to enter Qinghai!
Are you making arrangements for me now?
As he said that, King Han's eyes lit up, and he raised his hand and pointed up at the side of his head: "Yes, I have to prepare some for the king."
He added in his mind, maybe the commander-in-chief will forgive my debts when he is happy!
Seeing Cao Huachun very worried, why did the descendants of Emperor Taizu become like this?
At this moment, the servant from the palace in front ran very fast, shouting as he ran: "Come back, come back!"
King Han couldn't sit still anymore and threw half of the melon on the table. He slurred in his mouth and almost choked: "Win the battle or lose the battle?"
"Victory, great victory!"
King Han stood up and spit out a bunch of watermelon seeds, pulled the man's sleeve from his sleeve and wiped his mouth, ran out of the express delivery shop, jumped up high, and shouted to the generals and lieutenants: "You can't die!"
"Hide all the paper money for me... Loess is used to pave the road, and pure water is poured into the street!"
Suddenly, there was chaos. Those who hid the paper money, those who hid the wreaths, those who wrote the elegiac couplets picked up the suona and snare drums, threw the mourning sticks into the courier shop, and picked up the water basin on the spot.
When Liu Chengzong returned with the Lion Battalion, everything was in order.
Several princes and princesses of the Han Dynasty, led by the King of Han, went out of the city ten miles away. Each held two large banners on the left and right, beating gongs and drums to make a noise. Zuo Shu Wei Fan went out to fight, and the right Shu flag was raised in victory. The generals and lieutenants each brought their families and led sheep and prepared them.
Welcoming wine along the road.
King Han was so happy that his face blossomed. He grabbed the reins in front of him and kept saying: "The little king knows that the king will win when he goes to war!"
Liu Chengzong searched for Yang Dingrui on horseback and asked: "Sir, does His Highness the King of Han really know that I can win?"
Yang Dingrui smiled and nodded: "I know half of it."
Liu Chengzong thanked the vassal clan for their kindness and was not in a hurry to return to the city to discuss the purchase of a cemetery with the King of Han.
After returning to the city, Cao Yao went into battle despite being injured and cooked a Shaanxi authentic Henan donkey meat roast.
This may be the most expensive donkey meat fire he has ever done in his life. Four donkey meat fires were exchanged for 200 acres of the King of Han's cemetery.
Originally, one hundred acres was enough, but the King of Han said that he was afraid that the fallen soldiers would fall asleep and be crowded, so he must give two hundred acres.
Later, Liu Chengzong discovered that the King of Han actually didn’t even know how big a hundred acres of land was.
Because he was afraid of another rebellion in the future and others digging up the graves of his fallen soldiers, the King of Han chose a place where the graves would never be dug up.
In the Jiuding Meihua Mountain to the east of Pingliang City, two Korean kings and an emperor from two dynasties are buried, which is considered a geomantic treasure.
The two Korean kings were King Han Gong of Han Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty, King Wanyan Heng of Han who was the best polo player in the Jin Kingdom, and his son Wanyan Yangti.
There is also the emperor with the shortest reign in Chinese history, the last emperor of the Jin Kingdom, Wanyan Chenglin.
Wanyanheng was originally King Rui, but he died in the rebellion of King Hailing. His family members brought his and Yangti's bones to Anding, where Jin Wushu's old tribe was located, for burial. Seven years later, he was rehabilitated and granted the title of King of Han.
Seventy years later, in Caizhou City, the Allied Forces of Mongolia and Song Dynasty came to the city. The emperor Wanyan Shouxu in the city did not want to be the king of subjugation, so he passed the throne to Wanyan Heng's grandson Wanyan Chenglin. Before the enthronement ceremony was completed, the city was destroyed.
The defeated soldiers took Wanyan Chenglin's body and fled to Anding, where they were also buried.
Liu Chengzong thought this place was nice and lively. He wanted an emperor to have an emperor, a prince to have a prince, and he could play polo when he had nothing to do, so he wouldn't be lonely.
At the funeral, he asked King Han: "Will you bury it here too later? It's a nice place and lively."
"I'm not going to bury it. Who the hell can I beat if I go down there?" King Han said with a shameless face even if his life was not in danger: "The rest will be bullied."
A funeral was being held for the fallen soldiers here. A message was sent to the soldiers from Tang in the east, and another troop came to station in Jingchuan. They came from Ningzhou, with only three to five hundred people.
This unit was much more well-behaved. They stationed themselves at the foot of Jingchuan City and stopped moving. They asked the local people to come and send a message to Tangqi, saying that they were the people of Yang He, the governor of the three sides, and they were not here to fight. Don't do anything.
Later, the general came over on his own and signed up as Zuo Guangxian.
Liu Chengzong knew this man and asked him to come over.
The year they left Yuhebao, Zuo Guangxian was still serving as an officer in Xuanfu, and was asked by Governor Yue Hesheng to work as a firearms instructor in Yansui Town.
However, Liu Chengzong and his brother were released before it was their turn to teach Yuhebao.
Zuo Guang came over first and was very embarrassed. He saw a funeral being held here from a distance, and secretly thought that he came at the wrong time.
Who brings money when going on an expedition? Does he follow the etiquette but not the etiquette?
Anyway, I came here shamelessly, and I was a little too nervous to straighten my back.
The funeral scene was so terrifying that, not to mention the army, a lot of princes had to stand back. Zuo Guangxian stood at the end of the procession very self-awarely and followed the funeral procession.
He followed him for a long time. Liu Chengzong was puzzled in front and asked: "Didn't you say that Zuo Guang came first? It's been so long and he still hasn't come?"
King Han said: "I've been here for a long time. Just now, several lieutenants from Fengguo were bowing in front, and there was an unknown person in the middle. It should be him."
Liu Chengzong was dumbfounded: "Go and find him, I don't know Lieutenant Fengguo either."
As expected, this matter still needs to be done by knowledgeable people. King Han went over to look around and without asking any questions, he accurately picked out Zuo Guang who was hiding in the team.
In the past, even if He Renlong was in front of him, Zuo Guang would not lower his posture when speaking first, but now the form is different. He saluted first and then asked: "General Liu, do you have your official seal?" "Yes, my eldest brother hasn't come over yet, what's the matter?"
Zuo Guang first said: "After the governor sent me to clear the way for the general, if there is nothing else, let's set off as soon as possible. If the official position of the general's brother is not available, I will give it to him on the way, so hurry up and take office."
Cao Huachun was not happy: "Why do you ask me to teach you on the road? Do you want me to follow you to Xining?"
"Oh, father-in-law." Zuo Guangxian didn't dare to offend anyone and said with a smile: "The general doesn't mean that. Governor Yang wants General Liu to take office as soon as possible to avoid too many troubles in the local area."
In fact, the meaning is very clear, that is, let Liu Chengzong get out of here and stop fighting anywhere.
Cao Huachun snorted: "Just wait, wait for General Liu to come over and set off after being awarded the official position."
"You guys don't know how to talk to military generals properly, do you, General Zuo?"
Liu Chengzong said that Yang He had a good idea. Taking the emperor's companion to Xining would be good for them to intimidate Xining guards and local officials.
He smiled and asked Zuo Guang first, then turned around and said: "Let's go then, Eunuch Cao, let's go to Xining for a tour together. Will King Han go?"