In the eyes of ordinary people in Liyang, Beiliang is now a dead land, and it is a matter of time before life is ruined, so when a carriage drives from Hezhou to Youzhou, instead of fleeing from Beiliang abroad, it seems to be going upstream. ， The groom was a one-armed man with empty sleeves, holding the reins of the horse with only one hand, and trying to control the carriage as firmly as possible, but fortunately compared to the humble carriage, the horse pulling the carriage was quite tall and strange, and did not need to be bothered by the middle-aged groom to control it.
An old man bent down slightly and lifted the coarse cloth curtain that shielded him from the wind and sand, and looked forward over the shoulder of the one-armed man, silent, and did not put down the curtain for a long time.
The groom turned his head and whispered, "Dad, if I'm not mistaken, there are still more than ten miles to see the boundary monument of the two states of Youhe." ” The old man nodded, his expression a little dazed.
Ma Fu frowned and said: "Even if Bei Liang has always refused the will of the imperial court, but after all, my father is the nominal deputy economic envoy of Bei Liang Dao, so Xu Fengnian still dares to riot and kill people Since this is the case, why should my father lower his value so much to curry favor with Bei Liang, if it is spread to the capital."
The old man simply left the carriage, sat behind his son, waved his hand to interrupt the words of the temporary groom, and said with a smile: "Some rumors have spread to Tai'an City, and how can the foundation of my Yang family never be in the center of the temple, since the defeat of Guangling Road, your father went to the capital to wait for the sin, from His Majesty the Emperor to the small six or seven soldiers of the Ministry of Foreign Lang, who has given his father a good face, not to mention anything else, the tens of thousands of Jizhou veterans cultivated by my father, the court said to take it away, you went to Jizhou as a deputy general, but it was just for you to bring three thousand soldiers and horses, This is still based on the premise that you need to restrain Yuan Tingshan, otherwise, Huchen, you don't want to bring a single soldier back to Jizhou. ” Ma Fu is Yang Huchen, who lost an arm in the battle with the remnants of Western Chu, and now Han Fang, who is the loyal martyr of that family, is the same as the deputy general of Jizhou, Yang Huchen not only wants to prevent Yuan Tingshan from supporting troops in Jizhou, which is an important border area, but also a pawn for the Liyang Zhao family to monitor the Han King Zhao Xiong.
And the old man, of course, is Yang Shenxing, the deputy envoy of the imperial court's new seal of Beiliangdao, one of the eight generals of the four expeditions and four towns in the past, this year in the capital can be said to have lived a bleak life of being bullied by dogs in Pingyang, not to mention, but also to be seen as jokes by officialdom colleagues, from time to time was pulled out to drink, saying that it was to help the old general drink to relieve his sorrows, in fact, it was similar to pulling out to walk the monkey, changing the way to sprinkle salt on the wound of the old man, when it comes to the ability to observe words and colors and fall into the well, almost all of the Beijing officials are great masters.
If it weren't for Yang Huchen's appointment as the deputy general of Jizhou by the Ministry of War, it means that His Majesty the Emperor has not completely lost patience with the Yang family, and I am afraid that the old man's personnel who went to Beijing to see him off this time would not be a situation of three or two kittens and dogs, but one of them would be saved.
This time, the old man passed through the western part of Gyeonggi and Jihe states, although the old man himself did not have the idea of trying to win over people, but the situation that no one cared about along the way still made Yang Huchen, a son, feel very cold.
Thinking about the Yang family's dispatch of troops from Jizhou to Guangling, what a grand occasion it was at that time, the local feudal officials who were not at this level of the county guard, did not want to occupy a seat at the Yang family's private banquet.
Probably sensing Yang Huchen's resentment, the old man patted his son's shoulder and laughed softly: "Huchen, I can't complain about the cold state of the world, since my father became a general, our Yang family has been used to being powerful in Jizhou over the years, and it is not a good bird. ” Yang Shenxing looked around, the scene of Hezhou is not much different from Jizhou, in the end it is the northwest border, after autumn, the grass is as yellow as the earth, and it is not as beautiful as the green scenery of half the city in the south of the Yangtze River.
The old man slowly closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and said with emotion: "On the other hand, retribution comes early, which is also a good thing, it's too late, maybe the imperial court won't even give you the opportunity to make up for your merits as the deputy general of Jizhou, not to mention that my father is much luckier than Yan Zhenchun, who has died on the battlefield, don't you look at Zhao Kui now as the second-in-command of the Southern Expedition second only to Lu Shengxiang, this old guy is also an ant on the hot pot at the moment, Dad dares to bet with you, if he loses the battle, let alone compare with his father, maybe he can't even compare with Yan Zhenchun, Because the imperial court's love for our Spring and Autumn veterans has been used up on me and Yan Zhenchun.
So when my father went out of Beijing this time, his mood was not as bad as outsiders imagined, to be honest, after leaving the Tai'an City that made people walk on thin ice, Dad's mood was much better, and he also figured out a lot of things along the way. ” Yang Huchen was relieved, no matter what, as long as his father didn't have too many depressions in his heart, it was a good thing, and he was confident that he would make a comeback with the Yang family.
Yang Shenxing smiled, "This time, my father privately sent a secret letter to Qingliang Mountain, imploring Beiliang to send an envoy to pick me up at the border of Youzhou, as long as I can't see each other, I, Yang Shenxing, will not step into Beiliang at all, and will wait on the border all the time."
I, Yang Shenxing, am a figure who has been a great general, and now I put on such a pitiful posture of being inferior, of course, it is not a heroic act, but how can everyone in the capital wait for me Yang Shenxing to die in Beiliang The bad news comes out, or I was humiliated by Xu Fengnian on a certain occasion, I don't want them to fulfill their wish.
The face is empty, the inside is real, the Yang family is in turmoil, the father is the face of the Yang family on the court table, if it is gone, it will be gone, as long as Huchen regains a firm foothold in Jizhou, after five or ten years, the face will run back to the Yang family's pocket, even if you don't want it, maybe others are willing to kneel and beg you to accept it. ” Yang Huchen lowered his head, his eyes were a little red.
The father behind him who never obeyed the old man, the general Yang who had been standing up to the sky since he could remember, would make him Yang Huchen feel really old.
Yang Shenxing sighed, "Now I'm afraid that the young King of Beiliang will be angry with the Yang family because of the imperial court, and he will be dissatisfied with you because of his father as this deputy envoy, after all, Jizhou is not too far from Beiliang."
In the past, Xu Xiao thought about the old love, and rarely pointed fingers at Bei Liang, but now Xu Fengnian is the master, looking at the movements of Bei Liang in Xu Fengnian's hands in the past few years, it is obvious that Bei Liang is extremely sharp, and no longer deliberately hides his edge.
In the final analysis, Bei Liang and the imperial court are only short of the step of tearing their faces.
This trip to the cold is both a risk and an opportunity.
Huchen, you can do your Jizhou deputy general with peace of mind, your father has his own plans in Beiliang, from now on, you should remember a few points, first of all, you don't want to entertain any local generals in the old department of Jizhou, secondly, grasp the degree of kinship and distance with Han Fang, and finally, get closer to the new envoy Han Lin, and play the role of not hesitating to act as a pawn for him, and the Yang family will be able to have a place in Tai'an City in the future, Han Lin is very important.
Han Lin is different from the average protégé of Zhang Lu, on the surface, he is not as good as Zhao Youling Yin Maochun, and even inferior to Yuan Yu Wang Xionggui, but in the mind of today's son, Han Lin is the most worthy of reuse, the reason is very simple, Zhao Yin Wang and the three are all first-class ministers who were promoted by the first emperor, and they have almost reached a high position that cannot be sealed, and Yuan Yu and Han Lin belong to the characters who can only be reused after His Majesty ascended the throne, but unfortunately Yuan Yu did not perform well and has been completely abandoned, so as a result, The Son of Heaven will tilt all his expectations to Han Lin alone, which is the biggest advantage for Han Lin.
Han Lin seems to be the most angular-free one in Zhang Lu back then, but it is precisely this kind of moderation that is not equivalent to mediocrity that is the biggest reliance in officialdom. ” For some reason, the more Yang Huchen listened, the heavier his mood became.
Yang Shenxing chuckled: "Does it sound like I'm telling you my last words Huchen want to fork, Dad just said that this trip to Beiliang, Dad didn't have the slightest intention of death, let alone force himself for the sake of the face of the court." ” Yang Huchen was a little embarrassed.
Yang Shenxing said earnestly: "Since the travelers of the Great Qin Dynasty have transformed into deep-rooted gate valves, the warriors of my generation who carry knives in their hands, the pen and ink in the history books, have never been very glorious, those big people who have left their names are always inseparable from the four words of the feudal town, but the wealthy families who hold the pen in their hands are often linked to several generations and several dukes, and the inheritance of a hundred years can not be called the door valve, and it is often two or three hundred years or even longer in history, on the other hand, we have a few feudal towns who have lived to be 100 years old and can have three generations and fifty years of scenery, That's all a miracle of smoke coming out of the ancestral tomb.
Now don't look at the imperial court's vigorous suppression of the power of local military generals, everyone is in danger, compared to Yan Zhenchun and Zhao Kui, these old guys, my father sees a longer term, and in the future, Liyang may not be unable to appear a century-old surname that belongs to military generals, to do this, the blindly loyal Han family is a lesson from the past, and the Beiliang Xu family is " Speaking of this, Yang Shenxing suddenly shut up, and in the end, there was only a long sigh, "Xu Xiao, not a hero" Yang Huchen was a little puzzled.
Xu Xiao, a general recognized by the world as unruly, if he is not a hero, can he still be a hero Yang Shenxing smiled and asked, "Huchen, who do you guess Beiliang will let come to the border of Youzhou to be a villain?"
Yang Huchen, who had thought about this question for a long time, said softly: "It stands to reason that it should be sent by Youzhou Assassin Shi Hu Kui or Youzhou General Huangfu Huangfang, but now that the war is in full swing, these two may not be able to get out, but even if Bei Liang has the intention to embarrass his father, I think the worst will let a Youzhou county guard come forward."
As for Li Gongde and Song Dongming, who are roughly equivalent to their father's rank, the possibility is very small, after all, one is going to sit in Qingliangshan, and the other is responsible for the construction of the new city, I don't expect Xu Fengnian to be so prosperous, and if it is really one of the two Li Song who rushed to Youzhou, I have to wonder if Xu Fengnian is ill-intentioned, and when the time comes, whether my father agrees or not, I will personally escort my father all the way to Liangzhou. ” More than ten miles away, in a flash.
When Yang Huchen saw the road boundary monument, he also saw four or five riders waiting by the post road.
Among them, there is a horse that is particularly eye-catching, in addition to his youth, there is also a feeling that makes Yang Huchen feel strange, just like when he saw the legendary martial arts master for the first time when he was young, such as seeing a high mountain.
It's like meeting the emperor for the first time in the palace of Tai'an City last year, like being on the edge of the abyss.
Yang Huchen even forgot to turn his head and said in a trembling voice: "Dad, it seems that he came in person." ” After Yang Shenxing approached the border, he sat in the carriage and closed his eyes to recuperate, and after hearing Yang Huchen's trembling voice, he wondered a little, could it be that Emperor Hu Kui had arrived, or it was simply Li Gongde and Song Dongming who came, otherwise, with his son's heart, he would definitely not be so flustered.
When Yang Shenxing, who was in a heavy mood, lifted the curtain, at noon, he felt that the sun above his head was a little dazzling, the old man squinted, and when he saw the ride clearly, Yang Shenxing was stunned on the spot.
Suddenly, this old man, who had not lost his fighting spirit even if he went deep into the Beiliang Tiger's Den, really felt that he was indeed old for the first time.
Without waiting for Yang Shenxing to get out of the car, the rider took the lead in galloping, glanced at Yang Huchen, the fierce general of Liyang who acted as a groom, and then smiled at Yang Shenxing: "Lord Yang has a good son. ” Yang Huchen was a little speechless for a while when he heard the young man's comment.
The old man who was not called General Yang laughed, not angry, and said loudly: "At this point, Yang Shenxing is far inferior to the general" Yang Shenxing, who was able to be a general of the Eight Classics, shouted a general respectfully.
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