Chapter 159

Hua Yang applied a thick layer of ointment on Chen Jingzong, and the two injuries were wiped off, and the palm-sized porcelain bottle was almost bottomed out.

Chen Jingzong was still lying on the bed. After riding for seven days, he put in a lot of effort just now. If it wasn't for the beautiful long princess sitting beside him, Chen Jingzong would have fallen asleep immediately.

Fang Caihua Yangguang was concerned about his injuries, and only then did he realize that he just lay down on the bed she had just made up not long ago, covered in dust, and smelled of alcohol all over his body.

Just looking at the injury on his back, Hua Yang didn't say anything, just change another bedding in the evening.

"To beat you like this, Mr. Qin must also be a brave general."

After washing his hands, Hua Yang sat by the bed and chatted with him.

Chen Jingzong had already tilted his head and looked at her quietly: "Are you praising him, or me?"

Hua Yang: "Praise you, you were born in a civil servant's family, and you can even fight with the son of General Qin."

Chen Jingzong: "Why does it sound like you are praising General Qin again?"

Hua Yang: "Who in the world does not praise General Qin, he can praise me a lot."

Chen Jingzong was silent.

Hua Yang: "Before you left Beijing, you were still holding "Records of Military Training" to revisit it. How does it feel to meet a real person today?"

After being married for such a long time, Hua Yang had already discovered that Chen Jingzong had little interest in the subset of the Book of Songs, but often read the book of war and war strategy.

"Records of Military Training" was written by General Qin. It compiled various methods of training troops and formations of General Qin. After it was written, it was submitted to the emperor for reading. After viewing it, the emperor praised it and ordered the court to distribute it widely. Chen JingzongHe also collected a set early, which shows that he admires General Qin very much in his heart.

Chen Jingzong first asked her: "What do you think of him?"

Hua Yang said with a smile: "Of course I admire it very much."

Chen Jingzong: "I admired him very much at first, but when I heard him flatter me indiscriminately to make the old man happy, my admiration was reduced by two points."

Hua Yang: "It's not easy for him. You have a smooth career, so it's understandable that you can't understand it for a while."

Chen Jingzong said unexpectedly: "Why are you so old-fashioned?"

Hua Yang: "Because I grew up in the palace, I hear and know far more than you. For example, I know that when General Qin was transferred from the coast to Ji Town as the commander-in-chief, it was his father who recommended him. I also know that,When General Qin first arrived in Jizhen, those viceroys disapproved of his method of training troops, and General Qin refused to obey their control. There was a lot of unhappiness between the two sides.His father strongly supported him, and he transferred three governors in a row, so that General Qin could fully display his military training ability. If it were you, would you be grateful for your father's kindness?"

Chen Jingzong: "We should be grateful, but he won't be so obvious."

Hua Yang: "He doesn't understand his father's temper. If his father likes this kind of flattery, but he doesn't do it right, wouldn't he offend his father?"

Chen Jingzong suddenly looked at her meaningfully for a while.

Hua Yang raised his eyebrows.

Chen Jingzong laughed and said, "In your eyes, these old men are all treasures, so I haven't heard you say anything bad about them."

Hua Yang glared at him: "Father, Mr. He Ge, General Qin, none of them have contributed to the country. I can't respect them too much. But you, don't always talk about 'old man', you have more than fiftyWould you like to hear others call you that when you were young?"

Chen Jingzong thought of Qin Yuantang's tanned face, touched his own face, and asked: "I may often go to the battlefield in the future. If I am so tanned, will you dislike me?"

Hua Yang didn't want to answer this kind of question and was ready to go out.

Chen Jingzong grabbed her wrist, and she was not allowed to leave unless she said anything.

Hua Yang paused, and said: "I respect the old man the most. When you become an old man, maybe I will see you more pleasing to the eye than now."

Chen Jingzong: ...

In the General Military Mansion, Qin Yuantang led his two sons back home, and the father and son went directly to the study.

Qin Yuantang taught his eldest son first: "Why do you have to be so serious when you fight with the son-in-law?"

Qin Jidao: "Father, I think the son-in-law is a man of temperament. If I lose too quickly, he will notice it and will not like it."

Qin Yuantang: "It doesn't matter whether the son-in-law is happy or not, the important thing is to make Pavilion Elder Chen look good."

Fortunately, the son-in-law has some skills, so it is not shameful to lose this battle.

Qin Ji was silent for a moment, and said: "Look, son, Pavilion Elder Chen doesn't seem to be a flatterer."

Qin Yuantang stroked his short beard, frowned and said: "Their civil servants are the best at pretending. Their thoughts are deeper than the sea. You can't just look at the surface. In short, you should be more polite to Pavilion Elder Chen and the son-in-law these days. You must notOffend them."

Qin Ji nodded.

The second son, Qin Lv, was still young and more bloody, he refused to accept it and said: "Father relied on real skills to lead troops to fight, why did he bow his knees in front of Pavilion Elder Chen?"

He felt uncomfortable seeing it, and felt sorry for his father, a man of strong bones, who had to be a low-key boy in front of civil servants.

Qin Yuantang looked at his youngest son, and said calmly, "You don't understand. Back then, I had a friend in the same robe. During the war, because of Shangfeng's mistake, the enemy soldiers escaped. This matter was known to the court, and Shangfeng pushed him to take the blame., Everyone was put in prison, I also thought he was doomed this time, I didn’t want him to have a friend in Jinyiwei, that person helped him deliver money to the Chief-of-Staff at that time, so he survived.”

"There is also my Shangfeng, who was a teacher-student relationship with the Chief-of-Staff at that time. When the Chief-of-Staff was there, he had a successful official career. Later, when the Chief-of-Staff collapsed, he also lost his official position. PoorA generation of famous generals wasted the rest of their lives in vain."

"What does this mean? A military general can't just fight. There is no one in the court, and he may be dismissed at any time. Even if he barely hangs up his position, he must be restrained by the local governor everywhere and cannot use his hands and feet."

"Being a father is not about being a covetous official, coveting the little salary, but being a father who is reluctant to watch the soldiers go to waste. Only when I secure the position of the chief soldier can I continue to train them, continue to serve the court, and continue to protect the soldiers.Jiaweiguo, do you understand?"

Qin Ji nodded heavily, and Qin Lu's eyes turned red.

Qin Yuantang smiled and patted his youngest son on the shoulder: "It's just a momentary stoop, it's no big deal, being a father is considered a blessing, Pavilion Elder Chen is not greedy at all, otherwise I would have to bother to tinker with gold and silver for himjewelry."

Qin Ji was a little worried: "But you also said that the backing is overwhelming, in case the Chief-of-Staff is replaced in the future..."

Qin Yuantang: "Pavilion Elder Chen is only three years older than me. He is both the emperor's mentor and the late emperor's minister. As long as he is in good health, he will be a Chief-of-Staff for another ten or twenty years.It doesn’t matter how the court handles it. As for you, the future depends on your own good luck. I can only teach you skills, but I can’t make your future.”

Qin Ji and Qin Lu knelt down together, being able to be reborn as their father's sons was the greatest fortune in their lives!When the father is old, they will go the rest of the way by themselves!

After resting for a day, Emperor Yuanyou, accompanied by the Inner Pavilion and the side generals, formally accepted Duoyan's surrender.

The leader of Duoyan was named Dong Hu. When he had to bow down to the fifteen-year-old Prince of Central Plains with red lips and white teeth, Dong Hu felt very aggrieved.

If it wasn't for the Great Wall winding thousands of miles at the border, and Qin Yuantang, who is a master of soldiers and is especially good at fiddling with formations and firearms, he would have led his cavalry all the way to Capital City!

Dong Hu was not very good at hiding his emotions, and his face full of flesh made the old elders look long.

Emperor Yuanyou kept smiling all the time, and he was indeed in a good mood.

All the leaders on the prairie are good at fighting. If I don’t have good skills, I can’t convince the generals in the tribe. And the emperors in the Central Plains pay more attention to knowing people and being good at tasks.Yangzi, as long as the civil servants and generals around him are reliable, the emperor of the Central Plains can still sit back and relax and enjoy the offerings of his subjects all over the world.

Dong Hu looked down on him, and Emperor Yuanyou also looked down on Dong Hu's brutality.

The Inner Pavilion headed by Chen Tingjian has already drawn up the terms of the peace talks. Starting this year, Duoyan will continue to bow down to the court and pay tribute every year.

Dong Hu aggrieved and agreed, and after signing the peace agreement, he gave Qin Yuantang a hard look.Just wait, when Qin Yuantang dies or leaves Ji Zhou, it will be the time when their Duoyan iron cavalry will make a comeback!

Hua Yang did not participate in today's surrender of Duoyan. The men on the prairie are all similar in appearance. She has already met the envoys of the Tatars who offered horses, and she is not interested in Duoyan and his party.

After the peace talks were over, Emperor Yuanyou rested in Jizhou City for two days, and now he was going to climb the Great Wall. It was not only to inspect the reinforcement of the Great Wall in this area, but also to watch the exercise of the 100,000 frontier troops prepared by Qin Yuantang.

Compared with Duoyan's surrender, the Great Wall and his party are more desirable.

The nearest section of the Great Wall to Jizhou City is Xifengkou, which is sixty miles away.

More than 50,000 Beijing troops guarded Emperor Yuanyou's holy car. They set off in the morning and arrived at the frontier army camp stationed at the entrance of Xifeng in the evening.

The sky was already dark, and a towering and thick city wall could be vaguely seen above the lofty mountains, as if a long dragon was lying on its back. The north wind whizzed in like a dragon chant.

Hua Yang stared blankly at the long dragon.

In her previous life, she did not come to Ji Zhou with her younger brother, and naturally she never experienced the majesty and magnificence of the Great Wall with her own eyes.

Emperor Yuanyou looked away, and saw his sister beside him was still admiring the majesty of the Great Wall.

Hua Yang tilted his head if he felt something, and the siblings looked at each other and smiled.

This is their north gate.

During dinner, Emperor Yuanyou called his sister, brother-in-law, and Qi Jin over to accompany him.

"The mountains are steep, shall I prepare a soft sedan chair for my sister?" Emperor Yuanyou was worried that his sister would not be able to climb the Great Wall tomorrow.

If Hua Yang came to play by herself, it would be okay to prepare a soft sedan chair, but she followed her younger brother to watch the frontier military exercise, so many soldiers watched, and she was the only long princess sitting in the sedan chair, which seemed too useless.If you are really squeamish, you should go to enjoy the flowers and grass. Since you have worked so hard to come to this important place, then you should go to the countryside and do as the Romans do, and really climb the Great Wall once.

"No, I can go up by myself." Hua Yang said with great ambition.

Emperor Yuanyou looked at Chen Jingzong.

Chen Jingzong suggested: "If the long princess is interested in elegance, how about I accompany you to the top of the peak tomorrow morning to enjoy the sunrise at the border?"

Hua Yang asked his younger brother what he meant: "Is the emperor going?"

Emperor Yuanyou said with a smile: "When I'm gone, the elders of the pavilion must also get up early. It's the elder sister and the son-in-law who will mobilize the teachers."

The couple set off alone, and when the elder sister couldn't walk, the son-in-law could carry her up, no one would see her, and the elder sister didn't have to worry about being teased.

Emperor Yuanyou was very satisfied that the son-in-law was so considerate of his sister.