Liu Ling was very relaxed when he returned home. He was helped into bed by Xiao Nizi Liu Meier in a daze and continued to sleep. In the hazy state, he seemed to feel something soft touching his forehead, but
He didn't care either.
At four o'clock in the morning, when the sun was still lazy, Liu Ling jumped out of bed. Whether in battle or at home, Liu Ling got up at four o'clock every morning to practice boxing and it had become an unshakable habit for him. In his previous life,
It was because of his weak body that he couldn't afford to get sick, so Liu Ling set up harsh and harsh living habits for himself in this life.
Before Liu Ling was sixteen years old, he was surprisingly similar to his last life. Both were bedridden and dying for a long time. The difference was that in his last life, he had parents who loved him, but in this life, he could only rely on himself. Liu Ling
There is another thing that the two lives have in common, that is, the only thing to spend time while lying in bed is reading a book.
It doesn't matter the type of book, he likes to read as long as it's words.
Facing the morning breeze, Liu Ling walked to the small martial arts field in the backyard. The so-called martial arts field is just a flat piece of land of 100 square meters. However, although the sparrow is small and has all the internal organs, the martial arts training items are basically in this small martial arts field.
They are all available. Stone locks, ranging from fifty kilograms to three hundred kilograms. On one side of the small martial arts arena is a weapon rack. Although Liu Ling's favorite weapon is a spear, he has dabbled in eighteen kinds of weapons.
No matter in the previous life or in this life, Liu Ling has a common idol, that is, the ever-victorious general of the Shu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period, the mighty general Changshan Zhaoyun Zhao Zilong in white robes and white armor.
For this reason, Liu Ling was particularly fond of long spears when he was practicing martial arts. Although he had not been taught any marksmanship, all the moves were figured out by himself. But even Zhao Er was sent to the home of Zhao Yun's descendants by Liu Ling.
After five years of studying marksmanship, it was difficult to defeat Liu Ling after returning.
This is not to say that the Zhao family's marksmanship is not as good as Liu Ling's own marksmanship. The first reason is that the Zhao family's marksmanship is no longer complete after so many years of inheritance. Secondly, Liu Ling is a monster with two lifetimes of memory. He has never been very modern.
Study the marksmanship routines from a different perspective, eliminate all useless tricks, and instead add some simple and practical tricks.
Although Liu Ling only started to practice martial arts slowly when he was sixteen years old, he has already mastered martial arts after nine years of hard work.
Liu Ling first did warm-up exercises for a while, then jogged more than a dozen times around the small martial arts arena before walking up to a row of stone locks. Stone locks ranging from 50 to 200 kilograms had been idle for a long time, and even the 300-kilogram stone locks
It's not difficult for Liu Ling to lift it with his current body. But in terms of arm strength alone, there is still a big gap between him and an alien like Hanasaburo.
In his last life, Liu Ling didn't believe that there was any qinggong that could fly around in this world, nor did he believe that there was any internal power that could crack monuments and crack rocks. But in this life, what Liu Ling saw with his own eyes made him have to
I believe that the human body has unlimited potential.
Later, Liu Ling summarized it and found that this is actually a very common thing. Comparing it with modern people going to school, it can be clearly explained why few people in modern times can practice martial arts to perfection. A student
Starting from elementary school, there are six years of elementary school, three years of junior high school, three years of high school, and four years of college. At this time, I am about 22 or 23 years old. If you include self-study after school, you will study for an average of about six or seven hours a day in class.
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Starting school at the age of seven, studying six hours a day until graduating from college. It took sixteen years, and college students are a very common group in modern times. To change the way of thinking, if a person starts practicing martial arts at the age of seven, he will study martial arts six hours a day.
What will happen when you turn 23 years old from 18 hours old?
In ancient times, the options for children were very limited. The two most common choices were studying hard to gain fame and martial arts, joining the army and becoming a general. It is common in modern times to spend sixteen years in school to graduate from university.
, it was common in ancient times to spend sixteen years practicing martial arts!
Therefore, Liu Ling feels that the fundamental reason is that not many people in modern times are willing to endure hardships and have such great perseverance to practice martial arts. This was not the case in ancient times. Isn’t the allusion of hearing the chicken dancing is a proof of this?
Take Hanasaburo, for example, whose arms are more than a thousand pounds strong. In modern times, he would definitely hit the Olympic weightlifting gold medal and even set a new world record. If he were allowed to participate in archery competitions, I am afraid that 10,000 organizations around the world would be suspicious.
He took stimulants.
Liu Ling bent down and lifted up the three-hundred-jin stone lock. He lifted the stone lock up with one arm. He moved the stone lock for a moment and then threw it into the air. Then he caught it, turned his body and used the force to throw it up again. This was repeated.
, he didn’t stop until his body started to sweat slightly.
Just as he was about to take out his waxwood spear from the weapons rack, he saw his servant Old Wu Tou running over in a hurry.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"
Liu Ling turned around and said with a smile: "Old Wu, what's going on?"
Old Wu said breathlessly: "Your Majesty, the imperial edict is here!"
Liu Ling smiled calmly. He had expected that there would be an imperial edict for him today, but he didn't expect it to come so early. However, he was relieved when he thought about it. The second emperor brother Liu Zhuo had just ascended the throne as emperor.
It can't be hurt. With his second brother's temper, he won't be bedridden.
The morning court meeting at Chenshi was forced to be moved to Maoshi by Liu Zhuo. This shows that the new emperor wanted to do something well.
Liu Ling smiled and said, "I understand. You take the imperial envoy who read the imperial edict to the living room to rest first. I will come after changing my clothes."
Old Wu responded and trotted back to the front yard tremblingly.
Liu Ling didn't want to keep the imperial envoy waiting for a long time, so he immediately returned to his room to change clothes. In fact, what Liu Ling was most uncomfortable with in this era was the red tape, which could torture people to death. For example, when receiving an imperial edict, according to the rules
They were bathing, changing clothes, setting up tables and burning incense, and they had to wear formal clothes and kneel down to receive them, which was so verbose that it gave people a headache.
As soon as he opened the door and walked into the bedroom, Liu Ling saw that the little girl Liu Mei'er was already standing there obediently holding her own robe of the general king. Liu Mei'er, who had just finished washing, had an air of pure beauty and exquisiteness.
There was a gentle smile on her cheek. As soon as Liu Ling saw her, she felt very comfortable in her heart.
"This slave has met the prince. Good morning, prince."
Liu Meier saluted and bowed heartily.
Liu Ling smiled and said: "Where do you get so many rules in your own home?"
Liu Mei'er said: "Rules are rules and cannot be abolished. If I don't even have rules, wouldn't I lose your prince if I tell you?"
Liu Ling stretched out her hand and tapped Liu Mei'er's forehead: "Poor mouth!"
Liu Meier stuck out her pink tongue and smiled mischievously. Thinking of secretly kissing Liu Ling on the forehead last night, the little girl suddenly blushed again. She helped Liu Ling change her clothes and said:
"Your Majesty, there is an imperial edict coming so early. I thought it must be a good thing, a great thing." She helped Liu Ling get dressed and took a step back to take a look. Then she stepped forward and smoothed out the wrinkles on Liu Ling's clothes with her hands.
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"My slave, please congratulate the prince first."
Liu Meier said with a chuckle.
Liu Ling scratched her nose lovingly and said, "Go and seal a red envelope worth one hundred taels of silver. You'll need it later."
After giving the instructions, Liu Ling walked to the living room. At the door of the living room, two young men were setting up the incense table. Eight imperial guards in yellow official uniforms stood on both sides of the incense table. These eight people stood there as if they were nailed to the ground.
The eight nails remained motionless.
"Oh, my lord, your servant Xiao Liuzi has saluted you."
When Liu Ling heard the voice, he saw a eunuch wearing a brand-new eighth-grade eunuch uniform and running out of the living room to greet him. This eunuch was not very old, about seventeen or eighteen years old. He was not tall and thin, but had a handsome face.
Shang Baibaijingjing looked energetic. Liu Ling recognized that this person was Xiaoliuzi, the eunuch of the Zhengtai Palace promoted by Emperor Liu Zhuoxin. This Xiaoliuzi was originally just a low-level eunuch in the tea room in the palace, because he was related to the original eunuch.
Guo Si, the eunuch in charge of the inner court, had been bullied during festivals. After Guo Si died this time, he did not expect that his fortune would turn around.
Liu Ling originally had a good impression of this little Liuzi, but this time he smiled knowingly when he saw him coming to announce the decree.
"It turns out to be Eunuch Qi, thank you for your hard work."
Xiaoliuzi's surname was Qi and he was from the original city of Taiyuan. Because his family was poor, he entered the palace at an early age.
"My lord, you are going to kill this slave."
Xiao Liuzi kowtowed to Liu Ling respectfully, then stood up, bent over and said to Liu Ling with an apologetic smile. Originally, according to the rules, even if Xiao Liuzi's status was lower, since he was the imperial envoy who read out the imperial edict today, he was performing his duties as an imperial envoy.
There is no need to salute to anyone.
However, since Xiao Liuzi could sneak into the position of eunuch in the Zhengtai Palace so quickly, he is obviously not a stupid person. He naturally understands that the emperor was promoted by Liu Ling, and he, a temporary imperial envoy, may not be a fool in the eyes of others.
It's really not as bad as a stinky fart, and there is nothing wrong with kowtow. If you can curry favor with Liu Ling, it will not be easy for you to fall to the still vacant position of eunuch in charge of the inner courtyard.
After the little Liu Ling exchanged a few pleasantries, he immediately said: "My lord, I'm sorry."
He took a deep breath, and his expression immediately became solemn.
"The Ninth Brother of the Emperor, General Wang Liuling takes over the order!"
Just when Liu Ling was about to lift his robe and kneel down, Xiao Liuzi quickly stretched out his hand to support him and said: "The emperor gave special instructions before the slave came. The general and the king do not have to kneel to receive the order."
Liu Ling still knelt down and kowtowed politely and said, "I thank you, Lord, for your kindness." Then he stood up with the help of Xiao Liuzi.
"By God's blessing, the emperor issued an edict: The emperor's ninth brother, the general Wang Liuling, is loyal to the country and has devoted himself to the country. He has fought for the country in all directions since he was sixteen years old. He has won every battle and promoted the prestige of the Han Dynasty. His military merits deserve to be awarded, so Jin is Zhong.
Prince, you are given a seat in the court, but you are not allowed to kneel down."
Thousands of eloquent words followed, all of which were compliments and awards. After Liu Ling heard it in his left ear, it flew out of his right ear again, as if it was a breeze blowing on his face. The words in these scenes are not much different, listen.
Too much and it gets boring. Xiao Liuzi finally finished reciting it. Liu Ling just wanted to thank Xiao Liuzi and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, I will have another decree later."
Liu Ling took the first imperial edict with both hands, and then saw Xiao Liuzi taking out the second imperial edict from his sleeve robe.
"By God's blessing, the emperor issued an edict: The loyal prince Liu Ling will also take charge of the post of general from now on."
This imperial edict is not as prosperous and beautiful as the previous one. It is just a few hundred words, but it is of great significance. The meaning of this edict is to hand over all the military power of the Northern Han Dynasty to Liu Ling's hands. This trust,
In the eyes of the current emperor Liu Zhuo, only Liu Ling is worthy.
Liu Ling was shocked. He drafted a memorial to resign from military service and placed it on the table in his study room. Not only did he not resign from the military post, but he was also given the post of General of the Army and Horses.
But Liu Ling also knew that even if he refused, his second brother Liu Zhuo would definitely not agree. Now that the Northern Han Dynasty is facing internal and external troubles, if he resists the decree, the situation in the court will definitely be in chaos. He can only slowly find suitable talents to support him, and wait for the situation in the court.
After you are stable, you can mention the matter of withdrawing from the court.
When Xiao Liuzi saw Liu Ling about to salute again, he stopped him again.
"My lord, don't be in a hurry to thank me. I still have an oral message from the emperor to give you."
Liu Ling was stunned for a moment, then bowed again to listen to the order.
Xiao Liuzi said with a smile: "General, don't be surprised. The emperor said: Lao Jiu! Have you slept enough? If you have slept enough, come and help me. If you haven't entered the palace before noon, I will bring all the civil and military officials of the dynasty with me."
Tomorrow, follow me to your palace for an early court appearance."
Liu Ling was stunned and couldn't help but smile bitterly. (To be continued)
