Golden Stage

What kind of hot spring soothes the tendons and activates the collaterals is all nonsense. After Fu Shen soaked in it, not only did his legs not heal, but his waist was almost useless.Exhausted, he hid far away on the other side of the pool, pointed at the contented culprit and said, "Don't come here. Stay away from me."

Yan Xiaohan said sincerely and innocently: "Shall I rub your waist for you? Nothing else."

Fu Shen: "No need, get out."

Yan Xiaohan fell silent, and Fu Shen closed his eyes for a moment to rest his mind. Hearing that he hadn't moved, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous. He suspected that he had spoken too seriously. He felt as if he kicked someone out of bed just after falling asleep, which was not gentle and considerate. So he let out a breath silently, intending to coax him along.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he realized that Yan Xiaohan had "floated" from directly opposite him to the side at some point. If he had hesitated a little longer, maybe this person would have succeeded in a surprise attack.

Yan Xiaohan: "...how about you close your eyes and sleep for a while?"

Fu Shen: "..."

"That's really not good," Fu Shen said helplessly, "I'll feed you to relieve your boredom? Why don't you just stew it in a pot and eat it?"

Yan Xiaohan gave him a flattering smile silently.

The water was shimmering and rippled, his eyebrows and eyes were stained with water, and his outline became clearer and more distinct. His long black hair floated by his side, and there were a few erythematous hickeys on his shoulders, neck and collarbone that exposed the water. It was so touching as to scorching eyes, and even the green mountains and beautiful waters in his eyes were overshadowed by it, which made Fu Shen droop his eyes and frowned. He felt that if he continued to look at it like this, he would not be able to hold back his own hand to light the beacon fire.

He also grew up eating the grains of the world, and Yan Xiaohan didn't absorb the aura of heaven and earth more than others, so how could he grow up like this?

Seeing Fu Shen closing his eyes like a monk seduced by a monster, out of sight and out of mind, Yan Xiaohan knew that he was tacitly acquiescing, so he approached him with a smile, and carefully pulled him into his arms: "Jing Yuan .”

Fu Shen snorted.

"It's nothing, I just wanted to call you," Yan Xiaohan said, "It's so beautiful, I'm afraid it's just a dream."

Maybe it was because of the pain, but now thinking about it, I still feel palpitations. Even if I hold the greatest fulfillment in my life in my arms, I will still recall the feeling of being alone and sleepless.

His worries are not unreasonable, regardless of the impermanence of God, after Chang'an is recovered, Zhao Xicheng will stay here to wait for the imperial order, but the Northern Yan cavalry will continue to move eastward, and separation is almost imminent. Saying goodbye at this time is tantamount to being strict Xiaohan directly gouged out a piece of flesh from his body.

Fu Shen took his hand out of the water to play with, and suddenly said, "I don't know how our family is doing now."

"Ok?"

"Although this place is good, it's not my hometown," Fu Shen lazily said, "You can let your 'happiness' go for a while, and it won't be too late to sigh with emotion after recovering the capital."

Yan Xiaohan couldn't help lowering his head to his ear, and said in a low voice, "You mean...after returning to Beijing, we can do the same in our pool...well!"

Fu Shen gave him an elbow back, causing a series of splashes: "Excellent."

Yan Xiaohan wrapped him in his arms with both hands and feet, and while being rude to him, he said seriously: "Okay, don't make trouble, let's get down to business, and when things settle down here, I plan to take a trip to Sichuan."

Fu Shen frowned: "Planning to see the Supreme Emperor?"

"Well," Yan Xiaohan said, "after the capital incident, Feilongwei and most of the forbidden troops and the small half of the capital camp followed the Supreme Emperor Xishou. You have also seen it. Although I can barely speak in the new dynasty, I have a great relationship with Shu Dagen. Compared with the deep Jiangnan aristocratic family, it is still too shallow, and there are too few people available under it, so it is not an option to go on like this."

"So you want to get the old department back from the Supreme Emperor?" Fu Shen asked, "Why should he agree to you?"

Yan Xiaohan, however, refused to go any further and bought a pass: "The mountain people have their own tricks."

"All right," Fu Shen knew that he wouldn't act recklessly, and he didn't intend to interfere, so he said, "You know what you know. What do you need me to do for you?"

Yan Xiaohan babbled nonsense: "Let me go after I'm full?"

Fu Shen pushed him headfirst into the water.

The two were messing around in the villa, and Yan Xiaohan threatened to make up for what he owed for a year, but the time was really limited, so Fu Shen could talk about it, cede the land for compensation, and make a lot of unreliable promises. Reluctantly coaxed him to offset half a year's account first, and leave the rest to Houjing.

Two days later, the two went down the mountain and returned to the city.Fu Shen sent Yuan Huan, one of the generals of Northern Yan from Ganzhou, to stay in Xijing, while Yu Qiaoting continued to lead the army eastward to prepare for the capture of Luoyang.With the Northern Yan Army as an example, the Xiangzhou Jiedu Envoy also followed the example and sent trusted generals to stay in Chang'an.Zhao Xicheng originally thought that if Chang'an was laid down, it would belong to the new dynasty, but he didn't notice it at a glance, and it turned out to be "three divisions".He was good at leading troops to fight, but he was not good at these intrigues, and Yan Xiaohan was handed over by him and sent to the Beiyan barracks. Now he finally realized that something was wrong, so he went to invite Yan Xiaohan, and at the same time made people rush back to Jinling to invite him Purpose.

It's a pity that this time I didn't even see Yan Xiaohan's face. Fu Shen invited him out of the Northern Yan Army's garrison just as he was, with a polite and cold face of "how old are you?"

Not long after, the Jiangnan court issued a decree ordering Zhao Xicheng to continue the Northern Expedition and join forces with Beiyan cavalry to recover Luoyang. Chang'an was temporarily ruled by the three parties, but Yan Xiaohan was not mentioned at all.

In August, Luoyang recovered.

At the end of August, Yan Xiaohan went to Sichuan to meet the Supreme Emperor, and news spread that the Imperial Army and the old Beijing camp had been reorganized into the Tianfu Army, and the Jinling court was in an uproar.

Only Emperor Changzhi seemed to have expected it long ago, and issued a decree to confer Yan Xiaohan as the first envoy of the Tianfu Army, to classify the Tianfu Army as the emperor's pro-army, and ordered him not to return to the court, but to go north to join Zhao Xicheng and regain the capital.

It wasn't until this time that the Jiangnan party in the court realized that Yan Xiaohan's offending against Tianwei and being expelled from the center was a scene that the monarch and his ministers jointly staged for them from the very beginning.

With the obstruction of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, the matter of the Northern Expedition has been delayed.If Yan Xiaohan hadn't dealt with Concubine Xue Shu in an almost provocative manner, Xue Sheng, the head of the Four Jiangnan Scholars, would not have given up on the Northern Expedition in order to kick him away, and agreed to the imperial court sending troops to encircle Chang'an with Beiyan cavalry.

They made a wrong calculation. Emperor Changzhi was talented and ambitious. Although he often had no ideas, he was not without ambition. He had experienced prosperous times, but he was finally unwilling to settle for a corner in the south of the Yangtze River. In his bones, he still longed to return to the Central Plains and rule the world.

When Yan Xiaohan was ordered to form an imperial court army that was independent from the Jiedu envoys in various places, he once pointed out two paths for Emperor Changzhi.One was in the Ming Dynasty, which was to reorganize the remnants of the defeated army and recruit new soldiers, which is the army under Zhao Xicheng's current command.The Jiangnan army has uneven personnel and low combat power. It is purely a motley army put together improvised, but it is enough to show it off.The other one is in the dark, and it is also the most important mission for him to leave Jinling.

Those who accompanied Emperor Tai of the Yuan Dynasty to hunt west were all the elites of the Beiya Forbidden Army and the Beijing Camp.The Forbidden Army is Yan Xiaohan's confidantes, and the Beijing Camp is the royal family's confidantes. The Tianfu Army composed of these two groups of troops is the real pro-army that Emperor Changzhi and the future new dynasty can rely on.

When Xue Sheng thought he was eating sand on the front line, Yan Xiaohan had already reorganized the Tianfu Army in the middle of Sichuan; when Xue Shangshu finally realized that he was put together by Yan Xiaohan again, Yan Xiaohan Xiaohan has already led this group of elites to the battlefield, and joined the Beiyan cavalry who had just conquered Luoyang.

At this point, the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River have completely fallen into a disadvantage. It is imperative to regain the Central Plains and unify the north and the south. Even if they pull Emperor Changzhi from the throne now, they will not be able to stop the local army that has sprung up like mushrooms after rain, let alone stop The Beiyan Army and the Tianfu Army brazenly marched north.

At the end of the year, good news spread frequently from all over the country, and all the south of the lower reaches of the Yellow River were restored. The Northern Yan Iron Cavalry and the Tianfu Army joined Keqingling, Luzhou and other five places, and approached Yuanzhou, the important town where the main force of the Tatars lived.At the end of the new year, the Jiangnan imperial court even sent people to send a large amount of food, grass and armaments, generously bestowing on the Heavenly Rejuvenation Army, and a secret letter from the emperor's imperial pen to the Marquis of Jingning.

When Fu Shen returned to the camp at night, the sky was gloomy as if it was about to snow.His hands were numb from the cold, and when he opened the tent door, a warm and warm fragrance rushed over his face.At this moment, the commander's tent, which should have been dark and deserted, was brightly lit. "Jiu", who had occupied the magpie's nest, was leaning on the bedside to read the military newspaper. When he heard the movement, he looked over with a smile, put down the book, and stretched out his hand to him.

With such a person there, the simple camp seemed to become a fairy palace.

The dry and cold hands were put into warm palms, Fu Shen bent down, and deliberately put his cold cheek on the side of his face: "Why are you running here again?"

Yan Xiaohan said without shame: "It's almost Chinese New Year, how can I let you stay in the empty room alone? I'll warm the bed for Lord Hou."

Fu Shen shook his head and smiled, with a face full of helpless connivance of "I can't do anything with you", he grabbed his chin and kissed him.

It's funny to say that the Tianfu army, from the commander to the ordinary soldiers, seems to have made up their minds to hug Beiyan's cavalry's thigh tightly.Since the confluence of Luoyang, the Tianfu Army has become the little tail of the Northern Yan Army. On the one hand, the two coaches have a close relationship.

Furthermore, Yan Xiaohan's experience in leading troops is still relatively inexperienced, and he often needs Fu Shen to watch over him, so when others are not paying attention, Yan Xiaohan would come to the Northern Yan Army's camp to look for Fu Shen almost every night." ask for advice".Fu Shen had already ordered his own soldiers not to stop him, and over time, everyone got used to it. Even when Yu Qiaoting saw Yan Xiaohan leaving Fu Shen's tent in the morning, he greeted Yan Xiaohan with a normal face and told him to "eat before leaving".

"What are you looking at?" With his help, Fu Shen took off his armor, changed into light homely clothes, went to wash his hands in a copper basin filled with hot water, and while drying off, he heard Yan Xiaohan say, "The imperial court is here. According to the news, the Zhe people and the Bohai country sent envoys to Jinling to discuss peace."

Fu Shen sat by the bed, opened the iron buckles on his boots one by one, and said, "I guess so, what did they say?"

"With the Yellow River as the boundary, the south should be returned to the imperial court, and the north should be ruled by the three clans. The north and the south should not invade each other, and trade routes should be opened. Jiangnan will give tens of thousands of coins to the Tartar, Zhe, and Bohai clans every year," said Yan Xiaohan. He smiled softly, "Their emperor still wants to sworn brotherhood with the emperor."

Fu Shen soaked his feet in the hot water, and sneered lazily: "Oh, what a big tone, soldiers are coming to the city, do you think these people are all here to go to the market?"

Yan Xiaohan said: "The emperor will not waver for the time being, but there are many people in the imperial court who advocate peace talks. Especially the Jiangnan faction is unwilling to use the strength of the south to support the north. I'm afraid there will be some controversy over this matter."

"Let them quarrel," Fu Shen sneered, "It's really strange. Whether to discuss peace or not, the people in the north of the Yellow River don't count, and the soldiers on the front line don't count. On the contrary, it's these adults who live firmly in the rear. Sending away half of the Central Plains with just a touch of the lips - Daydream is not such an approach."