When Emperor Liu Chan and his entourage crossed the Zouma River and the city of Chengdu came into view, the sunset was already looming thousands of miles outside the sky.
Seeing the emperor's doubt that "there was no hatred in his heart", Zheng Pu couldn't help but smile.
How could there be no hatred in his heart!
We are two unrelated people, but this old thief has repeatedly provoked and slandered him, which is intolerable!
The reason why he is hiding now is that he has not fully thought out the revenge plan and has not waited for the opportunity to defeat him.
Facing such a vicious dog, if he was injured but not killed, wouldn't he be subject to more criticism?
"I certainly have hatred in my heart."
Smiling softly, Zheng Pu said slowly, "Human beings are not grass and trees, and I am not a sage. The cavalry general humiliated me for no reason, how can I not have hatred in my heart? However, this matter is a personal grudge between me and him; and he
To hurt others with your words is a breach of morality, not against the laws of the country. Although I hate it, how can I ask Mr. Liu to punish him?"
"This is a great thing to say!"
After listening to this, Emperor Liu Chan raised his palm and praised, "Zijin's clear distinction between public and private affairs is really heartbreaking! I have heard that both the government and the public have said that Zijin's nature is similar to that of the old days of Fa Xiaozhi, but this is not the case now. In the past, when Fa Xiaozhi was appointed as the minister,
He used power to repay personal grudges, but Zijin didn't listen."
After praising him, before Zheng Pu could say any modest words, he raised his eyebrows slightly with a hint of joking, "However, Confucius said that repaying kindness with kindness and repaying hatred with directness. Since Zijin hated it, he didn't know what to do with his desires.
Repay it?"
"Unjust is doomed to destruction!"
Zheng Pu nodded and smiled, "If one day he violates the law, I will definitely write to Liu Jun to punish him! At that time, I also ask Liu Jun to consider that my wife is the sister of the queen, and the punishment will be more severe."
Well.
Unable to help it, the emperor became speechless after hearing this.
Just now I praised him for being able to distinguish between public and private matters, and then he started to speak out of favoritism.
It's just that it feels so good.
Because Zheng Pu gave him the feeling that he was first treated as a flesh and blood person, and then as a reverent monarch.
This is also a feeling that is difficult for him to experience.
For example, the older prime ministers Zhuge Liang, Li Yan, Zhao Yun and Wei Yan, or those who followed him successively such as Zhang Bao, Guan Xing, Fei Yi and Dong Yun, all loved him, kissed him, respected him, admired him, and feared him.
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But that's because he is the emperor of Han Dynasty.
So they just regarded him as their monarch.
Everyone was persuading and warning him how to be an effective monarch at a time when the Han Dynasty was in decline, and not to let down the difficulties of the late emperor in starting a business and the four hundred years of prestige of the Han Dynasty.
Although, this is a responsibility that he cannot shirk.
However, he is first a person who eats all kinds of grains and possesses seven emotions and six desires, and then he is a monarch.
Especially since he is still very young.
He has never experienced the young man's colorful clothes and angry horses, his youthful frivolity, and his high-spirited and willful behavior. When he was designated as the crown prince, he was deprived of the seven emotions and six desires of an ordinary person, and could only study hard.
Read and prepare how to be a good monarch.
Day after day, year after year.
After being depressed for a long time, he would occasionally have the urge to leave.
It's like stealing a half-day of leisure, letting go of all your thoughts, and quietly feeling the cycle of the four seasons of spring breeze, summer rain, autumn frost, and winter snow. Or you can temporarily take off your identity as a monarch, put yourself into another role, and experience the difference of another life.
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The world is wide and life is long.
While we are working hard to revitalize the Han Dynasty, we occasionally give our ambitions a break for the sake of a better start.
For example, you can calm down, look back at the road you have traveled, and then think about the journey you are about to embark on.
To make up for the shortcomings, the lessons learned from the past serve as guides for the future.
However, he is the representative of the herdsmen of heaven, and he is called the emperor who is lonely and ignorant.
Therefore, many people’s desires are wiped out passively or actively.
Only Zheng Pu dared to joke with him and talk jokingly, which made him feel vaguely like they were friends.
Perhaps, Zijin herself is not aware of it.
This child treats people with a vague respect for "each other as human beings", and then differentiates based on talent, education, family background, identity, status, good and evil, etc.
Emperor Liu Chan vaguely made a conclusion in his mind.
Naturally, he misunderstood.
Because in Zheng Pu's subconscious, there is no difference between people.
A hundred years later, they will all be nothing more than dry bones in a cup of loess.
What's the difference between high and low?
Life trajectories are different, but everyone is equal until death.
Furthermore, those who are poor and poorly buried can still return to dust and return to dust.
And those who were born as nobles and nobles, even after being buried in the earth for thousands of years, could not escape the fate of having their graves dug up.
For example, Dong Zhuo ordered Lu Bu to excavate the imperial mausoleum, or the author Cao Cao set up the official position of collecting Ming weapons, or Sun Quan occupied Jiaozhou and sent people all over the mountains and fields to search for Zhao Tuo's tomb. How can you be complacent if you are born into a noble family!
There was a brief silence.
The emperor, who was thinking a lot, suddenly smiled.
Anyway, the chariot general Liu Yan was the late emperor's guest, not his guest.
"Since Zijin has already asked for permission, I can't refuse, so I'll just accept it."
Emperor Liu Chan waved his hand, "If such a day comes, he will be severely punished for his unethical behavior."
"good!"
Zheng Pu smiled brightly and said softly, "Liu Jun, a gentleman's words are hard to catch up with."
"Hahaha~~~~"
Such words also made Emperor Liu Chan smile widely and raise his eyebrows, jokingly saying, "Could it be that Zijin wants to high-five me and swear an oath?"
Zheng Pu was speechless and just raised his hand.
"Snapped!"
A loud clap, accompanied by words of laughter, drifted in the rays of light on the way back.
The moon is above the treetops, and everything is silent.
In the small house of the Zheng family in the west of the city, the moonlight shone in through the window curtains, casting a mottled white color.
It also made Fu Qian, who felt guilty, sleepless.
After returning from the outing, Zheng Pu called him to the study and gave him a lecture.
It was not because he was angry that he privately reported his hatred of "Scar Pu" to the emperor; it was because he had learned military tactics for several years and was not prudent when dealing with situations, and did not think ahead or behind.
"The Book of Zhou says, 'When a general wants to defeat him, he must assist him; when a general wants to capture him, he must support him.' Now that the chariot and cavalry generals have humiliated me, I have not yet reached a time when I can be cured. What's the point of showing it to the emperor?"
?For example, when two armies are facing each other and the enemy is not yet ready to win, why not be patient first and tempt him to make mistakes again, in the hope that a decisive battle can be won?"
"The Chariot and Cavalry General is an old minister of the late Emperor. If I argue with him angrily, even if I win, I will gain the reputation of being a vengeance. Instead of losing both sides, why not wait for the opportunity? Those who seek the enemy must first seek themselves. If you cannot protect yourself,
, what’s the point of hurting the enemy?”
"If the chariot general does not practice virtue, he will inevitably have more grudges with others. This is an opportunity for us to take advantage of. If we use a little trick to graft others on, it can become a conspiracy to kill people with a borrowed knife. Why bother to report it to the emperor? What if the emperor writes a letter?
If you blame me, you will definitely scare the snake and make them wary. How can I retaliate against evil?"
"Furthermore, now that the imperial court is gathering troops to leave Liangzhou, the prime minister is working hard day and night. Although I have been humiliated, how can I cause the prime minister to worry about my private affairs again?"
"Although Gong Yuan's words were well-intentioned, they were erroneous. We should take this as a warning in the future!"
The words of both blame and instruction were spoken with a hint of anger and regret.
And Zheng Pu did not hide it, he was prepared to be so ruthless that Liu Yan would never recover.
He also made clear his expectations for Fu Qian, that everything must be planned and acted upon, and that one day he can grow into a commander who thinks everything through, no matter how big or small!
Such a heartfelt speech full of high expectations made Fu Qian extremely ashamed.
I feel that I have let down Zheng Pu’s generous teachings over the past few years.
Fortunately, he is still young and still has the opportunity to move forward.
But now he is tossing and turning, because Zheng Pu just gave him an instruction and gave him a test.
Said: "You will be ten to six in a few months. I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to return to Chengdu and ask the emperor to grant you a duty to join the army. However, after this incident, I realized that your knowledge is not enough for the job, so I decided to leave."
Let's give it up. Since you reported this matter to the emperor, you claimed that it was difficult to reconcile. Then, I will give you a chance, and you can take revenge on your own initiative for humiliating me. There is no need to tell me how to do it.
When this is accomplished, I will ask the Emperor to grant you the authority to lead the army."
Master and disciple are like father and son.
Zheng Pu regarded his own humiliation as a test, and it was not unreasonable to leave it to him to take revenge.
This made Fu Qian both excited and frightened.
Excited, one is that as a disciple, he has been gnashing his teeth against the cavalry general Liu Yan for a long time! Now that he is allowed to plan his own revenge, he is naturally happy and encouraged. The other is that he is being told something for the first time, and Zheng Pu plans to let him
He has led the army in training.
After becoming a general, how can a good man not look forward to the day when he can fight with an iron horse?
Fear, on the other hand, is the fear that due to lack of intelligence or poor thinking, the matter will be handled badly and Zheng Pu will become a laughing stock.
Especially since he already made a mistake once.
Therefore, he carefully recalled in his mind the military books he had read before and Zheng Pu's guidance on clearing up doubts, thinking about how to "transfer flowers and trees" and who could "borrow the sword to kill people."
If you know yourself and the enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger.
He also tried hard to recall the people who the Chariot and Cavalry General Liu Yan had offended, or the ways in which he was criticized by people of his time.
There are still people he can turn to for help.
Likewise, Zheng Pu's purpose of getting him used to thinking about problems with a commander's mind was vaguely achieved.
Half a month later.
The sun passed midday and headed west.
Zheng Pu, dressed in a wedding dress, sat on his horse and walked slowly to the residence of the Marquis of Xixiang in the north of the city.
In front of him were his retinues Qiyacuo and other tribesmen clearing the way; on both sides were Zhang Biao, Zhao Tong, Xiang Ping and Ma Zhong's son Matthew and other temporary guests; behind him was his disciple Fu Qian driving a carriage to welcome the bride.
Weddings and twilight ceremonies are all held at dusk when yin and yang intersect.
At this time, in etiquette and customs, the evening ritual is divided into three steps: the front ritual, the evening ritual, and the latter ritual.
The first rite is "to accept the gift, ask for the name, accept the gift, accept the levy, and ask for the date"; the second rite is when the bride gets up early the next day, takes a bath, and carries a bamboo vessel filled with dates, chestnuts and glutinous rice to wait outside the door of her parents-in-law's bedroom. "Jujube"
"Li" means to get up early, "Li" means to tremble, and "酶xiu" means to cheer up.
The process of the evening ceremony is divided into welcoming each other, paying homage to each other, facing each other, washing one's hands, holding hands together, tying the knot, untangling, tying hair, and holding hands.
Now Zheng Pu went to greet him in person.
Perhaps it is because Zhang Fu is a relative and he is now quite famous.
On the way to welcome the bride, the streets and huts were crowded with scholars and common people, some watching the fun, some trying to please, some not seeing each other but coming to congratulate her, etc.
Bustling and noisy.
They also asked Qi Yacuo and other retinues to clear the way in front of them. Even if they yelled and persuaded and were sweating profusely, they could not make the team go faster.
The journey from the west of the city to Zhang's Mansion in the north was only half an hour, but now it had already been two quarters of an hour, and they had only walked two or three miles out of the small house, which was extremely fast. It was not easy to use the general's guard of honor to drive them away.
Things turned around half a quarter of an hour later.
In front of me, I saw more than a hundred horsemen wearing armor coming at full speed, causing the common people to avoid the way.
The Tiqi riders are the personal guards of the Emperor's imperial army, also known as Er.
A general with a white face and no beard, no older than a weak crown, and eight feet in length came out from the crowd, came to Zheng Puma, bowed his hands in salute, and said in a loud voice, "I have been ordered to clear the way and protect the general's dignity."
After saying this, without waiting for Zheng Pu to reply, he turned around and started to lead the way.
The emperor personally opened the way for the army, and with such favor, I dare not say that it is a scorpion, but it can be said to be an honor.
However, Zheng Pu was actually curious about the general.
At the time of the Northern Expedition, it would be a pity that such a majestic man did not attend the war in person.
When I was young, I went to Zhang Mansion.
Zheng Pu, who was surrounded by everyone, realized that the Emperor and Empress Zhang were already there, and the hall was full of distinguished guests and officials. Zheng Pu couldn't help but move forward quickly and salute.
"Hahaha~~~~"
The Emperor, who was full of joy, held up his palms and laughed loudly, saying, "Why are you so late, Qing Zheng? You asked me to wait with the Queen, and I was punished with a glass of wine!"
"Punishment!"
"Punishment!"
Needless to say, on such an occasion, the guests are indispensable.
Unable to resist the warm hospitality, Zheng Pu was allowed to drink many cups before being led to meet the new couple.
Or it could be that the Han Dynasty has banned wine making, and Zhang's house did not have enough money to prevent Zheng Pu from getting drunk.
As soon as they arrived at the villa, they saw three or five maidservants standing in front of the cave with their hands down, happy in their clothes and faces, and surrounding the little girl of the Zhang family who was sitting on the cave in the middle. They had buns in tall buns, bright faces with dark eyebrows, and round shoulders.
Cut into shape, the waist is as plain as expected, the neck is extended to show off the neck, and it is decorated with beautiful clothes. A pair of bright eyes are looking forward to it. There is no shyness in the face, and it is more elegant and elegant.
So beautiful~~~
When Zheng Pu met for the first time, his heart beat with dismay.
Because his father Zhang Fei had passed away and his eldest brother Zhang Bao was serving in Longyou and could not return, the emperor Liu Chan and his second brother Zhang Shao went to greet Zheng Pu on their behalf.
Empress Zhang of the Xiahou family was sitting next to Zhang Yan, whispering about getting married.
After bowing to the venerable master, bowing their heads to listen to the instructions, accepting the dowry, the husband and wife sat across from each other, went through trivial etiquette, and then left.
When Zheng Pu went to get the bride to stand up, he discovered that the Zhang family's daughter was seven feet two inches tall.
The hairpin in his high bun is almost as long as his body.
In a year or two, you should be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with me, right?
It seems that Brother Wenrong mentioned her strong temperament and superb swordsmanship during the previous chat~~~
With admiration for his wife's appearance and length, Zheng Pu held Zhang Yan's hand, bowed to bid farewell to the emperor, Xiahou family and others, and slowly left the house and boarded the car to return.
The way back was still escorted by the emperor's own troops, and it was smooth and unobstructed.
Moreover, the dowry was not much. When Zhang Bao recruited troops, he had already spent a lot of money on his family, so he traveled very quickly.
Just in the brilliant rays of the sun, we slowly arrived in front of the small house in the west of the city.
