Chapter 100: The Border Sword Before the Family Sword Falls

The Liyang Dynasty has two anomalies, one is Xu Snapdragon, even if he has become a king with a different surname, the generals under his command still like to honor him as a great general. Another one is Gu Jiantang, although he did not have a king as a vassal, but during the more than ten years of serving as Secretary of the Ministry of War, the generals of the military to his private respect, but also most of the great generals, and now has become the only Liyang head of the super first grade of the Great Pillar of the State, in the two Liao border, is still known as the great generals. After the Spring and Autumn War, on the merits of the reward, compared to Xu Primrose, the battle is inferior to a younger Gu Jiantang, undoubtedly more popular with the old faction of the Liyang nobles and the dynasty of the new nobles, and so on the death of Xu Primrose deserved to become the first person of the military sector of the Liyang big brother left the capital, in charge of the entire north of the military and political, no matter whether it is the Gu Jiantang itself in the hands of the authority, and in the Liyang dynasty and field of the word of mouth and wind rating, have straight-line rise. Even the slowest Beijing officials, also know that far from being crowned as an old minister this statement of the great general Gu Jiantang, to become the pillar of the three dynasties, is only a matter of time. Because don’t forget Gu Jiantang is also a among the martial arts evaluation of the master, to his majestic body and vigorous energy, and then last two or three decades is too easy, so the side will be jealous of the saying, in Gu Jiantang here never apply.

In Gu Jiantang into the master of the two Liao after the reorganization of the perfect, plus twenty years ate up countless military pay silver away from the sun dynasty east line, known as solid as a golden soup. The two Liao border troops are not Gu Jiantang’s head, especially before General Gu resigned as Secretary of the Ministry of War, Tai’an City of the two Liao in the shape of a bottomless pit of military pay is still occasional objections, after Gu Jiantang left the capital and went north, although there is no backbone of the Gu Lu began to gradually disintegrate, but the imperial court’s support for the eastern line of the two Liao more and more spared no effort, the border generals of the war rewards, the original court will also be wriggling and pinching, can be delayed to drag, can be reduced, and now also began to flow smoothly. Now, it is beginning to be unimpeded, and without discounts. With such a commander-in-chief, the two Liao border troops have a new outlook, coalescing a rare military spirit. There are even private rumors that General Gu may be able to go one step further, since Xu Snapdragon is a great general, he is, Xu Snapdragon was a great pillar state, he is also, so Xu Snapdragon is a king of a different name, what is wrong with him Gu Jiantang? Who in the world does not know that the court is always on the lookout for Northern Liang, but it has always trusted Great General Gu!

The morale of the eastern front is high, especially after the northern barbarians even blatantly split their troops to press the border, almost everyone in the two Liao generals have gone to the commander’s tent to ask for war, since the northern barbarians are clearly afraid of the soft and determined to fight the northern Liang, but still have the courage to use 200,000 to 300,000 such a small force with us to call for a fight? Is it enough for our eastern border troops to stuff their teeth? But no matter whether it is in the spring and autumn war has followed Gu Jiantang’s direct line of old, or has been in the two Liao steadily fight promotion Gu Lu “outsiders”, have not been able to let the great general nod, and later, and even a lot of generals are not tired of the great general directly cold face bombed out of the tent.

About to enter the winter, the two Liao cold wind, the coldness is already through the bones. In the official road leading to a Fort E, the first rider of the man wearing a slightly old expensive fox fur, under the fox fur is still bright as new years of iron armor, behind is two hundred bow and horse familiar with the elite cavalry. The man is no longer young, frosty sideburns, but at a glance, in his body will never show the slightest fatigue twilight, and can even clearly recognize his kind of iron temperament full of hard edges and corners. It is difficult to imagine such a man nearly fifty years old, but also a man who did more than ten years of Beijing officials, so far have not been the official field to wear away a trace of sharpness, on the contrary, that up to more than ten years of hibernation, such as ten years of day-to-day sharpening of the knife, the more grinding, the knife, on the contrary, the sharper.

Need to know that the old fur on his body, the significance is extraordinary. When the Zhao room Ding the world, the late emperor of Liyang according to the merit of the reward, civil officials and military generals promoted and rewarded the residence of countless, but by the late emperor of the fox fur, only a handful of three people. At that time, among the civil officials, only the youngest chief minister in the history of Liyang, the blue-eyed son of Zhang Julu was awarded this honor. The only military generals who had fought for the Zhao family, sword by sword, were Xu Snap and him!

After gifting the talismanic sword Nanhua to that interesting young man, he now all but dangled a most ordinary border army battle sword. However, no one dared to deny that he was the number one expert in the world’s swordsmanship. Unlike the Jianghu that set of top swordsmen each leading the way, the world with the sword, even if the title of the master of the title of the sword everyone, seem to be with this person is a hundred thousand miles short of, no wonder the martial arts evaluation said that the world of the sword intention, he alone accounted for half of the river.

There is a dusty cavalry from the western trail into the official road, behind the man two similar-looking young lieutenant one slightly frowned, a younger, will smile, the whole two Liao, only that girl and that crazy dare to block the road so. There is no way, who let them one is their own old man’s most beloved daughter, one is half son and half son-in-law figure. These two border real power lieutenant is not come to the two Liao gold plating of the capital city family son, they can have today’s official position military power, that are relying on the battlefield in the pile of dead people crawling and rolling out of the military achievements, Gu Donghai, Gu Xishan, are the Liyang Dynasty most family will be seeded children, not one, but two young people back then are from an ordinary pawn to do, in the counting of the merits of the promotion of the lieutenant, even their top boss did not even know their true identities. Until they all became the sole control of a side of the military affairs of the lieutenant, to be among the vision of the two Liao high-level generals, they were still as the son of the Secretary of the Ministry of War’s identity, only to be familiar with the seat of the capital’s officialdom of the generals to recognize, only then is considered to be the water fall out of the water.

The cavalcade of a man and a woman naturally rode alongside Gu Donghai Gu Xishan without any bias.

Gu Xishan said to the guy in a very nonchalant manner, “Crazy Yuan, coming empty-handed? You kid is so uncouth? Aren’t you afraid that this future uncle of mine won’t be polite with you either?”

The young swordsman who was addressed as Crazy Yuan grinned, revealing a mouthful of chilling snow-white teeth, and wagged his chin at the woman beside him, “Still being polite my ass, your sister almost burned down the Thistle Goose Castle with a fire this time! Gu Xishan, your family sells vinegar, right? Such a big jar of vinegar, when she makes such a mess, the entire Two Liao can smell the odor of vinegar.”

The woman smiled and didn’t say anything.

Gu Xishan laughed out loud and said, “You’ll be satisfied with you, if anyone else dares to do this, the male thing will not be castrated under the wine? Don’t say is the woman of the goose castle, is the princess county lord, she also can go up on the two slaps, this time she is in the goose castle but give people face, you kid will burn high incense!”

The young man with the sword on his waist is the world’s first famous sword Nanhua sword is trying to speak, but the corner of his eye glanced at the back of the tall man in front, or stop.

No matter how heartless and bear-hearted he was, he wouldn’t dare to say what his unmarried daughter-in-law wasn’t in front of this old husband.

Gu Xishan glared and asked, “Yuan Tingshan, did you really come empty-handed?!”

The young man who now had most of the power of Jibei in his pocket laughed, “I just chopped off more than six hundred heads of northern barbarians, you want them? I’ll have someone bring it to you later?”

Gu Xishan was a bit envious and asked in a low voice, “Yuan Tingshan, why don’t I go to Jizhou with you? It’s been years since we’ve been here and there’s still no war to fight, but you seem to be doing a lot of business over there, so I’ll go and work for you as a lieutenant.”

Yuan Tingshan, who was a hotshot in both Liao and Jizhou, said disdainfully, “Captain? No way, will you work as a horseman?”

Gu Xishan cursed.

Gu Donghai laughed it off, he had always been kind to Yuan Tingshan, his brother-in-law, and had never put on the big show of a famous general, let alone showing the slightest hint of the eyes of a top nobleman’s son who looked down on the lowly grassroots of the rivers and lakes. On the contrary, this time Yan Fort recognizes Yuan Tingshan this son-in-law, or he personally pulls the strings to match, otherwise Yan Fort no matter how is the Jizhou powerhouse, also dare not know how to live with their Gu family wrist. Although their father had never verbally recognized Yuan Tingshan as his adopted son or son-in-law, the fact that he had brought Yuan Tingshan along with him on his two trips to the capital was enough to explain everything to the capital and the two Liao.

Gu Jiantang suddenly called out to Yuan Tingshan.

The latter hurriedly patted his horse to follow.

All three siblings consciously slowed down their horses.

Gu Jiantang said flatly, “You delivered a report to Tai’an City.”

Yuan Tingshan’s lips pursed up in death, not explaining anything.

Gu Jiantang’s tone remained without a hint of emotional fluctuation, “Donghu is no longer a member of the Gu family after she married you.”

Yuan Tingshan was struck by lightning, but was still unwilling to bow his head and said in a deep voice, “Great General, don’t worry, I can afford to raise her!”

The corners of Gu Jiantang’s mouth seemed to glow with a cold smile, Yuan Tingshan strangled the reins and stopped his horse violently.

In addition to Gu Beihu, who had made up his mind to marry the chicken and follow the chicken and marry the dog, who also followed suit and stopped, the bewildered Gu Donghai Gu Xishan all continued to follow Gu Jiantang as he continued to travel to that E Fort.

She cautiously asked, ”What’s wrong? Did you upset my father?”

Yuan Tingshan bared his teeth in a headache-like manner.

The group of cavalrymen he brought with him also had the good sense to stop at the side of the road.

Yuan Tingshan rubbed his chin and said, “Your father is really interesting, he’s obviously the one who wants to eat up those 200,000 or so Northern Mang armies the most, but he just wants to be a stone Buddha. After I handed out that folding, to your father all the benefits and no harm, your father still did not agree! I just can’t figure out what it’s like to be this big pillar country!”

Gu Beihu was shocked: “Your folding is not with the Ministry of War to ask for credit?”

Yuan Tingshan tilted his head and spat a mouthful of spittle, “A few hundred barbarian heads is not military service, I’m too ashamed to say it! I want to do is also a big deal, this time is to help the Zhao family emperor to kill a person, his head is worth hundreds of thousands of northern barbarians!”

Gu Beihu was stunned.

Gu Jiantang looked back to the south, his eyes complex and obscure.

Tai’an City’s warm as spring imperial study, Zhao Family Emperor personally walked to the center of the study, squatted down and personally used tongs to rattle the charcoal in the fire bowl, aside the close serving Emperor’s Secretarial Supervisor’s Head Seal Song Tanglu bowed his back and trotted, his broken steps were silent, such as a spirit cat walking, but one could see the trepidation of this Han Sheng Xuan successor. Zhao’s son of heaven holds a folding, Song Tanglu know this clearly, is the Jibei popular character Yuan Tingshan with 500 miles of expedited delivery, as for the secret folding on the head of what to write, before Han Shengxuan as the eunuch in charge of the seal of the time, you can browse and then discretionary whether to hand over to the emperor and whether to transfer to the Ministry of War, but now set up in the palace of the residence of the Lang, the hand, even if the big red Song Tanglu never to touch it. The Zhao family’s son of heaven carried the secret fold, placed on the burning charcoal fire, only just lit a corner, hesitated, retracted his hand, knocked on the edge of the fire pot, extinguished the fire.

Inside the imperial study, there are four or five not too old living room, still buried in the case of writing down the pen like flying, does not seem to notice this side of the bizarre light.

The charcoal fire reflected the pale face of the Prince of Zhao.

A big eunuch clad in a bright red python robe said softly outside the room, “Your Majesty, the Right Sacrificer of the State Scholarship Academy, Jin Lanting, seeks an audience.”

The Zhao Family’s Son of Heaven’s arm hung in the air, lost in contemplation, as if he had not heard the voice that was not too light and not too heavy just right.

Song Tanglu held his breath and bent his head, not daring to speak either, but with one hand extended behind his back, he gently waved his hand to the outside of the house that did not cover the door.

That same big eunuch who was bending his waist and bowing his head as usual could not see the subtle movements of the Secretary’s Palace Seal, but immediately began to pull back.

The Zhao family’s son of heaven slowly returned to his senses and blandly said, “Granted.”

Song Tanglu softly said, “Your Majesty.”

The Zhao Family Tenno gave a low, inaudible hmmm.

Soon Song Tanglu silently moved a small embroidered pier, the Zhao family’s son sat in front of the fire pit, and the sealed secret folders were resting on the front lapel of the yellow dragon’s robe, which happened to be placed on an embroidered seated dragon, with teeth and claws, and brilliant patterns.

Jin Lanting who had a beautiful beard crossed the threshold, and was about to kneel and worship, when the Zhao family’s son of heaven said softly, “Exempt.”

Zhao Family Tienzi stretched out his hand, Song Tanglu hurriedly moved another pier, the flattered Jin Lanting thanked him and carefully sat down.

Zhao family son of heaven looked at this born in northern Liang scholar, looks between the eyebrows of the haze faded a few points, and pleasantly said: “Sanlang have something to report?”

Jin Lanting look frank and resolute, the whole person as a god possessed general, rather like a generous to die posture, respectfully said: “I do have something, should be delivered to the zhengzhang, but I thought should be face to face to state to your majesty!”

Jin Lanting got up, bent over and took a few steps back, flung himself down hard, threw himself on the ground, and slowly said, “The microminister, Jin Lanting, wants to impeach the chief minister, Zhang Julu, for ten major crimes!”

Weak minister.

Chief Minister.

Inside the Imperial Study Room, almost all of the Heavenly Prince’s close ministers’ rising langs had their wrists trembling.

The Zhao family’s son of heaven was silent.

In the Eastern Palace, Crown Prince Zhao Zhuan was alone, standing under the golden birdcage that housed a stupid parrot with a learning tongue, whistling in a happy mood.

He said to himself, “Purpose is the world’s number one power traitor throughout the ages, trespassing on power by avoiding it. Let me do the math ah, there are several piles of sins.”

“Manipulating the dynasty’s handle, dictating.”

“Raising border troops and squandering the national treasury.”

“Colluding with the eunuch Han Shengxuan.”

“He framed the loyal Han family for personal grudges.”

“Inaction in governance led to the restoration of Western Chu.”

“What else? I can’t seem to think of any more.”

Speaking of this, His Highness the Crown Prince smiled, “It’s really hard for this Jin Sanlang of ours.”