Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

The majestic city tower stands in the morning light. Chenzhou Gate was bustling with people early in the morning, and the smoke from Huainan could not affect the market in Tokyo too much. Vegetables, meat, and various supplies of the entire city depend on trafficking from far and near villages, and merchants from all over the world also come in and out of Tokyo.

At this time, an old eunuch wearing a headdress and robes came to Chenzhou Gate on horseback. When he came to the gate of the city, he could only dismount and wait for the crowd to slowly pass through the gate. There would be a lot of people in the morning. There are two rows of armored soldiers standing inside and outside the city gate. Anyone they think is suspicious will be checked, and others will be less troublesome. They can enter by paying taxes to the officials according to the type of goods they carry.

People like the old eunuch Cao Tai, with gray temples and no hair on his mouth, looked like an eunuch no matter what he looked like. No soldier would talk to an eunuch, and everyone pretended not to notice.

A few days ago, when the queen's guard of honor returned to Tokyo, the eunuch who often walked around the queen didn't see anyone along the way, so he must have gone to do other things. But as a eunuch in the palace, he won't be out for too long, and he will return to Tokyo soon.

As soon as he entered the city gate, Cao Tai suddenly heard someone calling him, "Eunuch Cao."

Cao Tai turned his head to look, and saw that it was Jingniang and the little Taoist girl Qingxu, who had met in Chenzhou, and were very familiar with Qingxu. He hurriedly led the horse and walked over, Jingniang said again: "Is the Queen's health better recently?"

"The miscellaneous family went to Shouzhou, and we only found out after rushing back." Cao Tai said kindly.

Jingniang didn't have much to say, and said directly: "Guo Du envoy asked me to take Qingxu with Eunuch Cao to the palace, and then show it to the queen."

"That's good." Cao Tai said, but he pondered for a moment, looked around, and said in a low voice, "If you have something you want to present to the empress, you can give it to the miscellaneous family first... You will be searched when you enter the palace. This is the rule." He said emphatically, "Even the ministers who have made meritorious service through the ages have to be searched when they enter the outer hall, whether they have weapons. This kind of search is relatively simple; , some of the gates are managed by people from miscellaneous families."

Cao Tai is such a clever and experienced old eunuch, he "just happened" to meet him halfway when he came back, and they suddenly asked to see the queen. Cao Tai could figure it out with his toes, it was not that simple.

Unexpectedly, Jing Niang shook her head indifferently and said: "There is nothing."

Cao Taisui didn't ask any more questions, and asked them to mount their horses and follow him to the north.

As far as the north gate of Da Nei was concerned, the eunuchs took both Jingniang and Qingxu to a house first, and then a dozen court ladies came in and closed the door, and drew a curtain in the room. One of them, an elder, said: "Take off all your clothes, don't leave anything behind. There are hairpins on your head, and all the accessories on your body."

I saw Qingxu covering his chest with his hands, looking innocently and shyly at the middle-aged court lady who was speaking.

But this pitiful expression didn't impress the palace lady, the palace lady snorted coldly: "Don't put on an air! I see a lot of beautiful women every year. I've seen all the ladies. They are all women. See what's so great...Your breasts are so small, and they are usually like that, do you think I will be interested in watching them?"

After hearing this, Qingxu immediately became angry.

The other people beside them have already started to search their luggage, and grabbed a large handful of yellow rune paper from the clean cloth bag. The maid flipped through it casually, and found that it was full of ghostly symbols, and threw it aside. Another court lady was holding Jing Niang's hairpin and pointed it in the direction of the light carefully to see if there was any mechanism.

... After they were checked, Qingxu followed Jingniang out sullenly. Seeing this, eunuch Cao Tai showed a relieved smile on his face.

A group of three entered the Zide Hall silently through the back door. There were several rooms outside the queen's bedroom, and there were court ladies and eunuchs on duty inside. Cao Tai asked Jing Niang and others to sit in a room and wait, and then ran in to report.

Fu Shizhen lay on a bed lazily reading a book, beside the maids of honor, some were fanning their fans, and some were lightly hammering her legs and waist. Cao Tai stepped forward and knelt down at her feet, and said respectfully: "My empress, my family has returned from Huainan."

When Fu Shi saw Cao Tai, he sat up, raised his hand and waved lightly, and the people around him bent over and backed away.

"Get up and talk."

"Thank you, my family." Cao Tai lifted the hem of his robe, got up from the ground, bowed and said, "Jingniang and Qingxu have entered the palace. The slave family has seen the official family and Wang Pu."

Cao Tai said something in a few words, paused for a while, and heard that the queen did not ask questions, and then continued: "The officials only asked the empress to reward Guo Dushi with some property. The officials said that Huainan needs good generals. After the battle, we will recount the previous achievements... The current situation in Huainan is that Shouzhou has not yet been captured.

First, Li Gu's vanguard crossed the Huaihe River in Zhengyang, marched on Shouzhou and defeated the Southern Tang army that had left the city. However, tens of thousands of reinforcements from the Southern Tang Dynasty attacked Zhengyang. Later officials thought that Li Gu was delaying the battle, and handed over the military power to Li Chongjin..."

Fu's eyebrows raised slightly when she heard this, she remembered that when she was still on the road to Chenzhou, she heard that the official used Li Gu as a striker, so she wanted to make a suggestion to change Li Chongjin; but she didn't say anything because of other considerations. Unexpectedly, the officials still used Li Chongjin.

Cao Tai continued: "The Tang army in Zhengyang was defeated and more than ten thousand people were killed. The later officials believed that Shouzhou was going south, so they ordered Zhao Kuangyin to lead the cavalry army to attack Tushan, the Tang army's water and land stronghold downstream;

After the victory in Wokou, the officials immediately ordered Zhao Kuangyin to lead the iron cavalry army to go south to attack Qingliuguan. The Southern Tang guard Huang Fuhui led the army into Chuzhou City. Later, he wanted to go out of the city to fight, but Zhao Kuangyin single-handedly killed him under his horse. Wang Shi took advantage of the situation and occupied Chuzhou. Zhao Kuangyin sealed up the property in the city and handed it over to the officials. "

Fu's heart said: Brother Shao didn't get any property after he beat Shu. He even grabbed the captives and extorted them from Shu. He did a very low job; Comparing the two, it's really a judgment call. Zhao Kuangyin's ambition must be higher than Brother Shao... But she still prefers people like Brother Shao.

Cao Tai finished his report in a short while, and he always picks the important ones and speaks concisely. But he stood there without moving. Fu Shi said again: "After a stick of incense, let Qingxu and others come in to see me."

"Here." Cao Tai then bowed and retreated.

Fu supported his head with his fist, and thought about it again. I can be sure in my heart: in the eyes of the officials, the generals who can fight are more important than anything else, and Li Chongjin can even control the military power of the enemy's troops.

After a serious illness, Fu Shi felt that he understood the emperor more clearly. Maybe a woman really has to look at a man without emotion in order to truly understand him.

Sooner or later, the world will be unified, but no one can tell how long this process will take. Fu could feel that the emperor was in a hurry, he didn't want to leave such a great achievement to the people who came after him, and wanted to do all the important things in Wenzhiwugong by himself.

He is also very wise, abandoning all prejudices, and doing everything to protect the combat power of the Zhou army, in order to open up territories and annex the world. Everyone's future is based on whether they can fight and make military achievements. The emperor gave his courtiers a correct idea: as long as they can fight, everything is easy to say. Only in this way can the generals of the Zhou army be eager to fight and have high morale.

Therefore, Mrs. Fu thought that brother Shao said some inappropriate things in Chenzhou last time, but it didn't matter. As long as he can perform well on the Huainan battlefield, as good as he was in the battle of Shu, the emperor will not care about him; and brother Shao is a person who has made contributions in the battle of Gaoping, if the officials think he is a good general, everything is easy to say.

Not long after, two women, one tall and one short, walked into the palace. It was Jingniang and Qingxu.

But Qingxu didn't go forward, and was left there far away, Jingniang went up to meet with a stack of yellow paper. Fu Shi looked at her with a smile, then glanced at Qingxu who stayed behind, and said, "Pingshen."

Jing Niang raised her head and glanced at Fu Shi. Fu Shi remained calm, thinking: This woman is more courageous than a man.

Jing Niang looked at the many books piled up on the cabinet next to her, and Fu Shi also had a book in hand. She pointed to the pile of books and said, "I ask the queen to allow it."

Fu Shi felt that she was strange, it was purely a feeling, it was different from other people's behavior when they saw the queen, at least there was no extra word. Fu Shi took a deep breath to see what she was going to do, and nodded slightly.

Jing Niang found a book of historical records from the pile of books, and walked up to the queen, but put the book aside. She took out another piece of talisman paper and pointed to the symbols drawn on it: "This is one...two...three..."

Fu Shi suddenly felt a little interesting, and nodded again.

Then Jing Niang pointed to one of them again: "From top to bottom, three numbers. The first is the number of pages, the second is the number of lines, and the third is the number of characters." Then she flipped through the book just now, found a word, and said, "崤."

Fu Shi suddenly realized, and his eyes lit up slightly.

Jing Niang said again: "These ten symbols, how about I write them down?"

Fu Shi shook his head and said, "I remember."

Now Jing Niang was surprised, and couldn't help but said: "Just now I just said it once..." Fu said with a smile: "Remember. In the palace, no one dared to let me say it a second time."

Jing Niang moved closer, and said quietly: "Guo Dushi said, just in case, there is something important to report to the Queen in the future. In an emergency, Qing Xu was sent to the palace to teach the Empress the method of Neidan Tuna. If there are four numbers in the third place on these yellow papers, this one is a report."

Fu Shi asked, "Do you have a paper with four numbers in your hand?"

Jing Niang shook her head: "No, today I was ordered to tell the queen this method."

Fu Shi nodded, thought for a while and said, "Every second and sixteenth day of every month, Cao Tai will go to Dongshi to buy some things for me. If 'he' has anything to say, I will send someone to Dongshi to look for Cao Tai in those two days."

Cao Tai went to buy things for the queen, which was actually a kind of reward job, because the things bought on a special trip were usually at least several times more expensive, an act she acquiesced in.

"Qingxu." Fu Shi smiled and waved to the little Taoist nun in the distance, his love and compassion were beyond words.