Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

"This calligraphy, tsk tsk..." In the political affairs hall, Wang Pu was holding a warrant written by the queen mother, looking intoxicated there.

This room is only separated from the outside hall by a wall framed with wooden skeleton paper. It was a busy scene outside, some were clacking with their abacus, some were writing at their desks, some were talking, and some clerks were hurrying between the files to deliver books. In the lobby of the entire political affairs hall, there are not a hundred officials and officials working in office, at least eighty. The noisy voices and busy scenes are like the beating heart of a big machine, which cannot be stopped automatically. Everyone has their own responsibilities.

Li Gu and Fan Zhi had just opened the door and came in when they heard Wang Pu's voice.

"Let me see." Li Gu stretched out his hand and got the paper from Wang Pu.

Li Gu's eyes lit up immediately, and he said: "Unexpectedly, the Empress Dowager has good handwriting, and now I realize... good handwriting! Good handwriting!" He praised several times in succession.

Wang Pu said: "Just reading the words, I can only feel the spring breeze blowing on my face, haha! It's rare."

"That's right, I can't practice it even if I want to, but can a man practice the charm in this word?" Li Gu tucked the note into his sleeve while talking.

Wang Pu stared at him immediately and said: "Li Xianggong, what do you mean? The eunuch sent it here, and the note is for me!" After speaking, he grabbed Li Gu's sleeve and wanted to reach out to touch it, completely disregarding etiquette.

Li Gu covered his sleeves and pointed to the memorial on the case: "There are more words written by the Queen Mother!"

Fan Zhi hummed and said: "The memorials that the Queen Mother can personally approve must be very important. In order to collect calligraphy, the political affairs are delayed, and you are taking the national affairs as a trifle!"

Li Gu smiled without saying a word. Wang Pu picked up a memorial and took a look at it: "Fan Xianggong, take a look."

Fan Zhi brought it over to read Zhu's commentary, he was taken aback for a moment, and pondered: "Let's re-copy the memorial, and then file it in the name of the Zhengshitang. We can keep this thing..."

"Isn't it good?" Wang Pu said seriously, "how can national affairs be trifling?"

...

In the Si Ya Office in front of the hall, Zhang Yongde, Shi Yanchao, Yuan Yan, Zhao Chao and others at the commander level of Xiangdu were looking at the official... detailed account of the rewards for the soldiers issued by the Privy Council.

Maybe the lower-level soldiers are more concerned about money, the small soldiers are poorer than the generals, and the family members need money for various livelihoods. But Zhang Yongde and other generals didn't care much about the copper object, they didn't have much shortage; the generals only cared about the Queen Mother's attitude.

Especially Zhang Yongde, who has been cautious lately, even talking less loudly than before.

Shi Yanchao said coldly: "The late emperor is gone, and the queen mother is the best in power. All these years, why don't you know what the queen mother is? I don't think there is anything wrong. It's boring for us to sit like this, so let's just break up!"

Zhang Yongde said calmly: "The most reassuring officer in front of the palace is really your deputy capital. In the Eastern Han (Northern Han) battlefield, General Guo was rescued several times and finally saved your life. How could he be willing to touch you?"

"What does Zhang Dianjian mean by pulling those things?" Shi Yanchao asked with a displeased face.

"Fuck!" Zhao Chao scolded after hearing this, "Don't talk about that relationship, you write a letter to ask the Queen Mother to withdraw the Hujie army gathered in front of the Si Ya Office in front of our palace. It makes us feel very uncomfortable to put it there."

After hearing this, Shi Yanchao was furious, slapped the armrest of the chair, pointed at Zhao Chao and said, "Damn it, who the fuck? I'm going to abolish you now!"

Zhao Chao's face turned pale, he didn't dare to confront him. On the eve of the Battle of Gaoping that year, he dared to disobey and dissuade the late emperor, but was imprisoned in the middle of the march; when he attacked Huainan, he killed more than 3,000 soldiers overnight. Zhao Chao was also a violent person, but he was a bit hypocritical in front of Shi Yanchao.

This guy Shi Yanchao flattered people in front of the late emperor from time to time and was very disgusting, but he was really short-tempered, big and tall, with a long white face and lantern eyes, which was very stressful.

He has a great reputation in all countries in the world, and he is the number one general of the Forbidden Army of the Great Zhou Dynasty! The battle is very fierce, and he is not afraid of death, and few people who fight alone are worthy of him. Zhao Chao fully believed that if he provoked this guy, he would be beaten severely at the very least.

At this moment, Zhang Yongde said coldly: "Shi Yanchao! In front of your colleagues, who do you destroy? Mr. Zhang doesn't dare to command and destroy a compartment if he wants to, or you can do this inspection!"

"It's better to do the inspection by Zhang." Shi Yanchao said coldly, and finally listened to Zhang Yongde's persuasion.

Looking back to the left and right, Zhang Yongde said helplessly, "Forget it, leave!"

Zhao Chao left the Si Ya Office in front of the palace, and joined Yang Guangyi, the commander of the Iron Cavalry Army. Yang Guangyi came up immediately, and asked in a low voice, "What do the people in the front office say?"

"Everyone has their own ghosts, and we can't talk about it at all." Zhao Chao said in a low voice coldly, "After Zhao Dushi (Zhao Kuangyin) left, it was a mess, and no one was useful! Well, everyone has to muddle through, and wait until we go to the outer town!"

"The court wants to release us?" Yang Guangyi asked.

Zhao Chao snorted coldly and said, "A queen mother, if she is not scared by so many big men in the imperial guards, what else would she dare to do? If she is not afraid, there is no need for a vicious dog to stand in front of the hall to guard the door for her."

"The Queen Mother is still very popular in the Forbidden Army." Yang Guangyi reminded.

Zhao Chao said: "The benevolent woman, the soft-hearted person, it's okay to plead for someone's favor in front of the late emperor with a pitiful face." He laughed, "In my opinion, the queen mother must not be able to kill people. If she dares to kill people, she will not be afraid of evil spirits looking for her life at night!"

After hearing this, Yang Guangyi felt relieved, and laughed a few times: "The Empress Dowager is indeed worse than the first emperor by a little bit, maybe we really worry too much... how can a woman suddenly become black and merciless?"

"She will only use money to go to the army to buy people's hearts." Zhao Chao said again, "I think back then when the old man killed three thousand soldiers with one sentence, the blood flowed like a river, without blinking an eyelid!"

Yang Guangyi sighed again: "It's a pity about our future... The queen mother probably won't ask us to take charge of the forbidden soldiers again."

Zhao Chao glanced back, tilted his head and said, "It's too early to talk about this. How many dynasties have been changed over the years, I don't think the Zhou Dynasty is far away. It's not necessarily a bad thing for us to go to the local area as a Jiedu envoy, and to be people like Fu Yanqing and Wang Zhang."

Yang Guangyi thought for a while, then whispered: "I dare not say that."

Zhao Chao said: "You and I have known each other for so many years, what are you afraid of? Look at the disintegration of the imperial army, who will lead it; Zhang Yongde? The queen mother is not afraid that he will lead the troops out and proclaim himself emperor directly!"

Think about it, when will tens of thousands of elite soldiers fight to the original place, who will fight? Is it possible to rely on the 20,000 infantry in the left wing of the Tiger Jie Army to fight the country? They still have to stay in Tokyo to guard against house thieves. The woman had no choice but to burn incense every day and beg the surrounding countries not to mobilize troops.

It is even more useless to ask for help. The first emperor has beaten him all over the years from the Northern Han Dynasty, the Shu Kingdom, the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Khitan, and he has offended everyone. Can other countries respond to Da Zhou's begging for favor? At that time, I will really lose my face! That day will not be too far away. Throughout the present and past, no weak person can occupy the place of the original four wars in troubled times! "

... Shi Yanchao came out from the front of the hall, just in time to meet Guo Shao who was riding from the Hujie army's garrison.

Shi Yanchao remembered that Zhang Yongde, the chief minister in front of the palace, mentioned that his life depended on this young man, so he felt shameless. Although he has no malice towards Guo Shao in his heart, he just can't let it go: Do ​​you want me to be the number one warrior in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the oldest man with the highest military strength in the world, and show gratitude to the young juniors one by one?

So with a cold expression on his face, he sat upright on the horse with his head held high, looking straight at Guo Shao.

Guo Shao dismounted first, and then clasped his fists and saluted the army, "I don't want to meet Marshal Shi here!"

Shi Yanchao clasped his fists casually out of affection, and sat on the horse's back as a response: "So it's General Guo." After saying that, he patted his horse and walked straight away, very rude.

A big-headed general next to Guo Shao looked angry and kicked the horse's belly. Suddenly Guo Shao grabbed him and said, "Third brother, General Shi is famous all over the world, and it is inevitable to cherish his reputation. That is, I have a little friendship with him. If other generals are ignored, he has already given me a lot."

After hearing this, Shi Yanchao felt very comfortable. Xindao Guo Shao is a knowledgeable person, Shi Mou has such a temper, it is not for that person that the old man would not bother to talk about it, then Zhao Chao claims to be very good at killing prisoners, he is not a grandson in front of the old man!

Before he could go far, he heard Guo Shao praise sincerely behind him: "A hero, a strong man! As tall as a mountain, this is the appearance of a man. Only when there are such strong men in the Zhou Dynasty can we maintain our dignity!"

Shi Yanchao was secretly refreshed when he heard it, and he knew that he should have said a few more words to him.

... Guo Shao walked into Donghua Gate and entered the government office of the garrison. Luo Meng was very dissatisfied and said: "Everyone I met recently nodded and bowed to the eldest brother. That man named Shi really regards himself as someone special."

"He is a character." Guo Shaodao, "Besides, such a person is not so dangerous. Why should we care about him? What I said in front of him is also the truth. The Zhou Dynasty really needs a fierce man like Shi Yanchao."

Luo Meng hugged the helmet and patted his head: "I still want to see how everyone respects big brother."

Guo Shao patted Luo Meng's shoulder: "Third brother..." He didn't know what to say for a while, so he gave up. Anyway, Guo Shao didn't believe that people in Tokyo really respected him so much in a few days, most of them were just afraid of the power for a while.

He changed his mouth and said with a smile: "If I didn't hold you back just now, you wouldn't be able to get off the stage. Do you still dare to go up and compete with Shi Yanchao?"

Luo Meng paused for a moment.

Guo Shao said with a smile: "Shi Yanchao has fought all over the north and south, and he has never met an opponent in single-handedly fighting against generals from various countries. Zhang Yuanhui, who used to be known as the number one fierce general in the Northern Han Dynasty, was also afraid of him three points. He is very powerful, and the third brother is no match for him."

"Didn't Zhang Yuanhui be chopped off by the elder brother?" Luo Meng refused to accept.

Guo Shaodao: "I took advantage of the unpreparedness and used a hidden arrow to kill. If I hit head-on, I guess I won't be able to catch two moves right away. Don't worry about this thing, it doesn't matter if you can't beat it, we rely on the soldiers in our hands to fight."

The two chatted for a while, at this time a soldier came in and said: "My lord, the judge from the left hall of Kaifeng Mansion came to ask where you are."