November 28, the third year of Dalong's reign.
The weather in the capital is getting colder and colder. However, as the Spring Festival is approaching, the people of the capital, instead of spending their days leisurely at home, are spending more and more time wandering on the streets.
But most of them linger in teahouses and restaurants, have a few drinks with relatives and friends who have returned from a long trip, and then go to Tianxiang Tower, Zuichun Tower and other fireworks places to have a cool time.
Liu Dashao, who was still guarding his two small stalls for the rest of his life, met the Forbidden Army soldiers sent by Song Qing to invite him to the palace, saying that they had an urgent military intelligence report.
For some unknown reason, the pretty Tao Ying did not come on time to be a qualified housekeeper today.
I guess it's approaching the Spring Festival, so the house should have its own things to be busy with.
Young Master Liu waved his hand to signal the Imperial Army officers to return to the palace first. He stood up from the couch and stretched, then turned to look at Ren Qingrui, who was sitting in front of the stove, still dressed as a book boy.
This girl was holding a book of poems and was reading it tirelessly, murmuring a few words softly from time to time, as if commenting on the quality of the poems.
"Girl, my brother has to go to the palace for something. Keep an eye on the stall. If there are customers coming, keep it if you can. If not, forget it."
Ren Qingrui picked up the tea on the side and took a sip, and replied without raising her head: "Yes, sister knows, Da Guoguo, you go and do your work first!"
"Tsk, tsk, you only need to appreciate poetry once. What's so interesting about staring at a book and turning it over and over again?
If you want to kill time, just pick up a masterpiece written by your brother from the nearby bookstall, which seems better than these poems. "
Ren Qingrui suddenly raised his head and stared at Mr. Liu faintly: "Dirty!"
Young Master Liu's expression froze, and he waved his hands angrily and walked towards the outside of the shed.
"Keep an eye on the stall. It's not easy to make some money. Just don't let your brother see you."
"Hey, go ahead and do your business."
As Young Master Liu rushed toward the palace gate, he turned the ring on his thumb and muttered: "Ha, jab, jab, it should be a curse word, right?
It doesn’t seem to be the case!
Skull hurts! "
"We respectfully welcome His Majesty back to the palace."
"No gifts! Keep warm!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Young Master Liu exchanged greetings with different Forbidden Army soldiers as usual, and then hurried towards the Qinzheng Palace.
"Your Majesty, Song Qing, is here to see you."
Liu Mingzhi glanced at the Qinzheng Palace where only Song Qing was alone, and waved his hand casually: "Without courtesy, what other urgent military information is there? The battle report of the Western Expedition Army? Or the battle report of the Northland?"
"Your Majesty is indeed very clever and can guess right."
"Okay, there are no outsiders in the palace, so stop flattering me falsely and come up with the battle report!"
Song Qingshan laughed a few times, took out a letter from the armor on his chest and handed it to Young Master Liu: "A letter from the Western Expedition Army, and another good news has come. You will not believe it after reading the content. "
Young Master Liu looked at the damaged paint seal on the envelope and said nothing.
In addition to secret letters, Song Qing can read any good news documents. This is the right given to him by Young Master Liu.
"The army of the Western Expedition is headed by Marshal Zhang Kuang on the left, and Nangong Ye is the Marshal on the right.
See Your Majesty!
The way of heaven is clear and the cause and effect cycle.
Tianzhu, the barbarians of the two countries are devouring the land. They do not know how to be kings, and they slaughter the people of our great dragon without authorization.
The two ministers and two others commanded hundreds of thousands of troops and were ordered to march westward. It lasted about a year and finally ended in the third year of Dalong's peace...
If a rebel from a small country is killed, he can be immediately escorted to the capital to await your Majesty's trial.
Long live my emperor, long live me.
The minister was arrogant, Nangong Ye paused. "
After Liu Mingzhi read the contents on the letter, his eyes were filled with uncontrollable excitement, and the corner of his mouth raised a smile that looked down on the world.
"Okay! Great.
The two tiger commanders indeed lived up to my high expectations and actually completed the Western Expedition one year ahead of schedule.
OK, I can finally let go of my hanging heart.
OK, God bless my dragon.
OK, I can finally have a good sleep. "
Song Qing looked at Liu Mingzhi's uncontrollable excitement, and sighed in his heart, wondering how happy his third brother, who never showed his emotions easily to others, was so happy at this moment.
"Your Majesty, will you immediately issue an order from the Ministry of Rites to announce it to the world, so that the whole world will celebrate and all the people will rejoice?"
"No, let's suppress it first. I will wait until the Chinese New Year to announce it to the world. I will be even more happy.
I want the people of the world to see that although I, Liu Mingzhi, am a rebellious minister and traitor who rebelled and usurped the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, I can still make my Great Dragon Heavenly Dynasty dominate the world, conquer all barbarians, and even all nations in the future will come to court.
I have been waiting for this day for too long!
The wait has been too long.
Someone come! "
"His Majesty?"
"Ask Xiao Chengzi to come to the Qinzheng Hall immediately for an audience!"
"According to the order!"
Song Qing looked at the little eunuch running towards the harem outside the palace, and looked at Young Master Liu hesitantly: "Your Majesty, do you want a heavy reward?"
"Why, can't you?"
"It's not wrong, but how should I reward him highly?
After all, this is the contribution to the destruction of the country, and how to reward it needs to be carefully considered!
Brother, I dare to tell you something from the bottom of my heart. Marshal Nangong Ye on the right wing is the old uncle who is moving forward!
What's more, the Empress Dowager Nangong Meng is still alive, has good prestige and knows a lot of people.
If the reward is too small, it is not worthy of the achievement of destroying the country; if the reward is too high, it may endanger the imperial court! "
Liu Mingzhi narrowed his eyes and immediately understood the meaning of Song Qing's words. Knowing that Song Qing was considering his throne, his heart couldn't help but warm up, and he patted Song Qing's shoulder with a faint smile.
"Good brother, I have brothers and the cornerstone of my unification of the world is here. I have just destroyed two small barbarian countries. What is there to worry about?"
As far as the two small barbarian countries of Tianzhu and Dashi are concerned, they are not enough for the officers and men of the Western Expedition Army to take credit and be proud of themselves!
To be arrogant, if it was really just to destroy Dashi, the two countries of Tianzhu would not need to mobilize 400,000 local elite soldiers to guard the border.
With just a piece of paper in the hands of Zhang Mo, the commander-in-chief of the Anxi Protectorate, and the kings of the Western Regions, the soldiers and horses they gathered were enough to defeat the small barbarians of the two countries and defeat them.
Brother, in order to unify the world, I only gathered a million troops in the face of the increasingly powerful former Jin and Turkmenistan countries.
Why do we need an army of 800,000 to conquer two small foreign barbarians?
If Uncle Zhang Kuang and Uncle Nangong dare to take credit for annihilating two small barbarian countries with five scum, then they are not worthy of commanding hundreds of thousands of elite troops on the left and right. "
Song Qing was stunned for a moment, and then asked in astonishment: "Are the two countries of Tianzhu and Dashi so miserable in your eyes?"
Liu Mingzhi held the envelope in his hand and patted his palms gently, with a flash of contempt in his eyes.
"Brother, you know me. I will never look down on any enemy, because I know that an arrogant soldier will be defeated.
But I don’t underestimate the enemy, which does not mean Tianzhu. In my eyes, the two countries of Dashi will become evenly matched enemies.
My younger brother is always worried about the long journey to the mountains, and the soldiers traveling through mountains and rivers may suffer from acclimatization.
But my younger brother never doubted anything about the combat effectiveness of the soldiers.
Now the facts are before our eyes. In about a year, our Western Expedition has been completed and we have successfully captured the barbarians of the two countries.
Maybe you don't understand it this way. How about I give you an example and make a clear comparison? "
"Listen attentively and would like to hear the details."
“Since the 26th year of Dalong Xuande, our dynasty has been separated from the former Jin, Tu, and Three Kingdoms, and there have been constant disputes.
Twenty-seven years, twenty-eight years, plus the first year when the father changed his name to Ruian, to the end of December of the seventh year of Ruian, the father passed away.
The eldest brother Li Baiyu succeeded to the throne from the first year of Taihe to the second year of Taihe. The child Li Ye succeeded to the throne from the first year of Yongping to the third year of Yongping.
In the first year of Taiping, my brother, I proclaimed myself emperor. It took me, the great dragon, a full fourteen years to successfully unify the world.
For the unification of the world, fourteen good years were spent.
We set out to conquer the countries in the Western Regions, regained the Hetao, and lost the territory of Heshuo. The three countries continued to fight for the unification of the world. During this period, only our army, Dalong, invested a total of nearly two million troops.
If you add in the military strength of the former Jin and Turkmenistan, it will be even less powerful.
The three kingdoms together suffered millions of casualties and casualties before finally unifying the world.
And our Western Expeditionary Army is going to the Western Expedition this time.
It took less than a year to capture Tianzhu and conquer the two countries.
In addition to the time consumed in delivering letters on the way, it means that the time for the Western Expedition Army to actually fight in the two countries was only about three or four months at best.
Three months, compared to fourteen years.
Do you think Tianzhu and Dashi are worthy of attention in my eyes?
Rewards must be given, but as far as the main generals of the Western Expedition Army are concerned, they are not even worthy of a promotion.
Brother, what I want to reward are just ordinary soldiers.
However, these generals have to reward them and reward their direct children with titles.
Generals like Zhang Shuai and Nangong Shuai are not enough to be crowned kings.
To be crowned a king means to seal the territory.
For the sake of the overall situation, this throne cannot be rewarded.
The main reason is that they don’t get enough credit! "
"If that's the case, then why do you need to mobilize another 400,000 local elite troops?"
Liu Mingzhi smiled lightly and stuffed the letter in his hand into his sleeve: "I said politely more than once that she couldn't see through me and always felt that I had big intentions.
But she still couldn't explain why.
She was right, brother, I really have big plans.
Life is full of vegetation and autumn.
Since I have this ability, brother, I must do what I can for my children! "
Glancing at Song Qing's seemingly enlightened expression, Liu Mingzhi smiled bitterly and shook his head.
“When we have many children, our brothers are also worried.
They are all brothers and my own flesh and blood. If they fight to the death for this place that is as big as my palm, I will feel sorry for them because they are brothers and I am their father!
In this case, I, the father, should take the opportunity to secure a territory for them where they can settle down and live in the future.
It saves them endless money and makes it difficult for me, my brother, to enjoy my old age in peace. "
Song Qing nodded clearly and looked at Young Master Liu with complex eyes: "You... your plans are so big, they are simply the aspirations of the world!"
"No! If possible, brother's goal is the stars and the sea!"
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Set a small goal first, such as remembering in 1 second: Shukeju
