Sha Po Lang

Chapter 21 New Year's Eve

It is impossible for the Marquis of Anding to rest at home every day, and the busy day of civil and military officials in Daliang usually starts from the starting point in the morning.For a small number of idlers, Shen Shi can go home and find their own mothers, but Gu Yun is obviously not doing idle jobs.

Even when he is in court, he usually looks for either the emperor or his colleagues. Finally, one day when he has nothing to do and socializing, he still has to go to Peking University for a tour, and rarely returns home before sunset.

In short, living a life that is worse than chickens and dogs.

Therefore, if you want to get Gu Dashuai's personal guidance, you have to catch up with his morning exercise time.

From then on, Chang Geng started to climb from midnight to midnight, every day when the chicken was still dozing off, he led his sword puppet to wait in Gu Yun's courtyard.

The tall, slender young man walked ahead with his sword in his hand, and the sword attendant puppet followed in a hurry, with a pair of iron arms stretched forward, a gas lamp hanging on the left arm, and a gas lamp hanging on the right arm. The food box is like a nocturnal god who delivers meals.

When they arrived at Marshal Gu's place, the old servant who got up early would take the food box and simmer it on the side with a small fire. Gu Yun began to give his godson morning lessons.

The night wandering god who delivered the food became the beaten night wandering god, acting like a cow and a horse, which was very miserable.

After an unconstrained class, the breakfast was ready, the two of them ate separately, and then they went to do whatever they wanted——Gu Yun was going out, Chang Geng went back by himself and waited for his husband to come to guide him to study, after noon, he had to follow the Hou Mansion My family will practice martial arts.

Gu Yun is really not a good teacher, just like Shen Yi, he also has the problem of remembering that every time he comes out, he often has just stopped the iron puppet, and he has already talked about how to arrange heavy armor and how to distribute heavy armor and light armor. The proportion of Ziliujin is the most economical, and even the difference between the horse breeds in the Western Regions and the Central Plains, which sorghum is the most hungry, etc...

Gu Yun probably came back to his senses after this topic circled around the beam in heaven and earth, and asked Chang Geng, "I'm digressing again, right? What did I want to say at the beginning?"

Chang Geng: "..."

The two of them had no choice but to sit on the big feet of the iron golem, listening to the "creaking" sound of the gears turning in the iron monster's body, and pondering together what the theme of running thousands of miles was.

At the beginning, when they heard that Marshal Gu personally taught the art, Ge Pangxiao and Mrs. Cao were very excited and overcame all difficulties. They yawned and ran to listen to it several times, but they only heard one idea from the beginning to the end-what the hell!

Ge Pangxiao privately commented: "I think it's better to listen to Mr. Shen's chanting."

"It's General Shen, why can't I keep remembering it?" Mrs. Cao finished correcting angrily, touched her conscience, and actually chose conscience between a handsome man and conscience, and added, "I feel the same way."

Only Chang Geng has no objection to this, he can stay with Gu Yun for a while every day, and let him guard the door all night long - anyway, falling asleep is a recurring nightmare, nothing to miss.

As if he believed that he would be able to restrain Urbone, he believed that he could become a sharp knife, grinding away a little bit of redundant and bad things every day, including the fantasies about his little adoptive father.

What's more, Gu Yun was just out of order, if he really listened to him, at least what he said was true and reliable.

When Gu Yun was very young, he was taken to the battlefield by his indifferent parents. He didn't live a few years of comfortable life in the palace. At the age of 15, he followed a late general to the south to suppress bandits. , and has been rolling in the ranks ever since.

Except for the iron dragons who are not very familiar with the seven major military branches, all of them have fought against each other, won battles, and suffered a lot of losses, so when talking about their respective advantages and disadvantages, they are very familiar.

Chang Geng listened hungrily, Gu Yun was like a high mountain to him, he looked up every day, it was to find a direction to keep his head down for the whole day, and then step by step to suppress the inappropriate thoughts in his heart idea.

But Gu Yun himself didn't think this was any teaching.

In addition, he specially invited his husband and martial arts master to teach Chang Geng and them. Every morning, whether it was pointing Chang Geng to fight with the iron puppet or talking about his experience, in Gu Yun's view, it was just him finding some time to talk to him. Chang Geng played.

After a long period of observation, Gu Yun didn't think that Chang Geng was suitable to follow his old path, because Chang Geng always acted gentle and restrained in front of him, a little bit stubborn, but overall very reasonable.

Gu Yun felt that when he grows up, he should be a handsome gentleman, not some kind of killer who hides from ghosts.

In a blink of an eye, it's the end of the year.

In the first year of the new emperor's enthronement, he sacrificed to heaven and changed his reign name to Long'an. On that day, he announced that he would amnesty the world.

Since it is the world, of course it also includes the barbarian son Jialai Yinghuo who was imprisoned in the imperial capital.

The emperor held back for more than two months, and used this method to express his opinion in a roundabout way - the old wolf king's condition of adding a [-]-year-old tribute was too tempting, and he didn't want to refute Gu Yun's face in person, so this matter was discussed once. Pressing it once, the accounts of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Marquis of Anding were all delayed until the Son of Heaven sacrificed to the Heaven, and finally saw the outcome.

The two lines of Imperial Forest Army separated from each other, and Shen Yi rode his horse straight in, until he came to the side of Gu Yun who was dressed in light fur armor, and then stopped with a "wow".

Gu Yun glanced at him, turned the horse's head slowly and walked back, Shen Yi hurriedly followed, and said in a low voice: "Marshal, I think the emperor is determined to let the tiger go back to the mountain this time, what should we do?"

"The Son of Heaven's sacrifice to heaven is a golden word. It's a great wish made to God. It's hard to get over it. What can I do?" Gu Yun said expressionlessly, "In order to appease me, I opened my mouth to promise thirty chariots and four hundred steel armors to Xuantieying." , the decree has already been sent down to the Lingshu Academy, and he has done his best for this, so I have the nerve to go on and on over that little thing?"

The new emperor has just passed his thirties, and he is tougher than the late emperor.

Gu Yun has no intention of gaining power, he doesn't care if the emperor is tough or not, but the problem is that the emperor's policy on the border is even more short-sighted than the previous emperor.

The two pondered side by side for a moment, then Gu Yun said: "But it is also a fact that the treasury is empty. The emperor has just succeeded to the throne, and he is more or less impatient—you don't know, yesterday the foreign hairy 'big hat' sent a messenger with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, jerk After talking about it all afternoon, my ears are buzzing now."

"..." Shen Yi was stunned for a moment before he realized, "You mean the Western Pope?"

In the minds of most Daliang people, the foreign-maozi family is very unseemly. If the "pope" doesn't burn incense in the temple properly, he wears a big hat all day long to show his face everywhere, and has to meddle in everything, and the emperor's words don't work. Isn't it going to turn the sky upside down?

Gu Yun nodded: "They said they want to do business. I listened to it for a while yesterday. They want to expand the ancient Silk Road along the Western Regions to create a large commercial route. Both of us will send troops to guard it to ensure the exchange of exchanges. , I even drew the map and the imaginary physical map, and settled a fool's account for the emperor."

Shen Yi smiled and said: "Commercial trade is a good thing, what are you talking about?"

"I didn't say no - it's just that I don't know much about business," Gu Yun said, "But I still feel that if foreigners do business with me, they may not necessarily take advantage of it."

This is the truth.

Western goods have been flowing into Daliang since the reign of Emperor Wu. Those gadgets such as glazed lamps and Western scenery have been very fresh for a few years, but it is a pity that they will not last long, because the imported Western objects are exquisite and exquisite, and many of them have to be burned. As soon as gold entered the Central Plains, it directly heated up the black market of Ziliujin.

At that time, Emperor Wu felt that if things went on like this, the country would not be a country. In order to strictly control the private use of Ziliujin by the people, he prepared both soft and hard tactics. , arrest a group and kill a group, all of them will be punished as treason, and will not be tolerated. First, use a high-pressure iron fist to strangle the lifeline of this country.

Then Lingshu Academy took the lead, gathered a large number of folk long-arm masters, and quickly worked overtime to imitate a bunch of imitation Western goods with similar functions but powered by burning coal.

The hard knife blocked the exit of Ziliujin, and the soft knife directly cut off the market for western goods-even if you can get Ziliujin, who would not want to burn some cheap fuel?In addition, Western paintings are gaudy, and in the eyes of Central Plains people, they are somewhat unworthy.

Genuine Western goods were quickly replaced by imitations, and the goods of foreign merchants could not be sold at a high price in the Central Plains.

On the contrary, it is delicate objects such as silk. I heard that it is very popular among foreign hairs.

Gu Yun said: "Since there is no benefit, there may not be good intentions."

Shen Yi was speechless for a moment: "What does the emperor think?"

The corners of Gu Yun's mouth twitched, revealing an indescribably sour or spicy smile, and said: "The emperor has nothing to fear, he thinks that with my Black Iron Camp guarding the northwest, the beams will be invulnerable, I don't even know I have such a Big thing, do you think I'm worried?"

Shen Yi thought for a while and asked: "Did the emperor say that in front of you?"

Gu Yun smiled wryly: "Not only did he say it in front of me, he even gave me a fox fur."

Marshal Gu's problem of only wearing single clothes all year round is well known to both civil and military courts, that is, when he encounters a white-haired wind outside the customs, what does it mean that the emperor gave him winter clothes? It's hard not to make people worry.

Shen Yi was silent.

Gu Yun: "It's almost time for me to go back to the northwest after the Chinese New Year. Xuan Tieying is always staying in the Beidaying, and the emperor can't sleep."

Thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, the splendid rivers and mountains were condensed into a thread in the words of the new emperor, and they fell on the shoulders of Andinghou.

They felt that he held the three major battalions of black iron in his hand, invincible and omnipotent.

and trusted in him, and feared him.

Gu Yun joked: "What do you think if I die suddenly one day?"

Shen Yi's expression changed: "Where did you come from, bah!"

Gu Yun didn't care too much and said: "There's nothing to be taboo about, life and death are fate, wealth and honor are in the sky, our Gu family doesn't have a long life, not only the life is not long, even the luck of the children is like a weasel's mouse, one generation is not as good as the next generation, the old At that time, Master Hou sighed every day when he saw me, and when he came to me... there is no successor."

Shen Yi: "Isn't there still the Fourth Highness?"

Gu Yun shook his head: "That child is not destined to eat sand—tsk, have a good time, why are we talking about these troublesome things? Hurry up and order me a 'red-headed kite', and I will go home to pick up my son. "

After finishing speaking, he rode forward, leaving Shen Yi behind.

Shen Yi roared angrily: "You didn't say earlier, there are only twenty red-headed kites in the whole city, how can you order them today?"

Gu Yun: "You can figure it out—"

The word "Ban" floated down, Shen Yi's face was blurred by the northwest wind, that Marquis of Anding had already passed away.

Chang Geng was originally reading a book in the house, but the door was suddenly broken from the outside, and the wind and snow rushed towards him, and the rice paper he had not had time to calm down on the table scattered and fled in all directions.

Such an annoying ghost who disturbs people's peace is not a second thought to Gu Yun, so Chang Geng turned around helplessly: "Father."

Ge Pangxiao and Cao Niangzi, one on the left and the other on the right, followed Gu Yun and waved at him together: "Brother, Brother, Master Hou said to take us out to sit on the red-headed kite."

Chang Geng: "..."

Chang Geng didn't like to go out by nature, he liked being quiet and didn't like to be noisy, and he was annoyed when he saw too many people. He used to go to Jiangjunpo to practice swords because his own yard wasn't big enough. Since he arrived at the Marquis Mansion, he didn't have the desire to go out and let the wind go.

In his opinion, is it not good for everyone to gather around a small stove at home to warm up a few drinks and chat a few gossips during the holidays?

If you insist on going out to enjoy the wind and see people, what kind of aspiration is this?

Gu Yun had already taken off his robe on his own initiative: "Hurry up, don't dawdle, Uncle Wang said that you haven't been out since you lived in the Hou's mansion, did you grow mushrooms?"

Chang Geng felt goosebumps all over his body when he thought of the "magnificent scene" in the capital where there were thousands of people and empty alleyways. Even if he went out with Gu Yun, he was unwilling in every possible way, so he dawdled on the spot and made excuses: "Father, you have to pay attention to keeping old age. Someone has to stay to watch the house, I... ah!"

Gu Yun couldn't help but roll Chang Geng into the outer robe, and directly regarded him as a beam that could scream, carried him on his shoulders and dragged him out of the room: "Little boy, you are so particular about it."

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