After Wei Xian resigned from office, he had been a noble man for most of his life, but now he is like a scoundrel. Neither the emperor Zhao Yumin nor the ordinary people can understand Wei Xian's thoughts.
"Soldiers are formidable, and great cadres should spread their strength throughout the world!"
This was the first thing Wei Xian said to Su Ce after he came to Suzhuang.
When the entire Daqian court was promoting the reduction of standing troops, Wei Xian jumped out, disguised himself as a rogue, and lobbied many nobles.
"Daqian is surrounded by wolves, with Luosi in the north, Shiwei in the east, Liuzhao in the south, and Hu in the west. An Neng lives alone in a corner."
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Wei Xian's words do make sense, but Su Ce understands that Wei Xian is not the only one who can see clearly.
Da Gan has the ability to spread military power across the world, but people's hearts are unpredictable. Da Gan has been fighting for hundreds of years, fighting every year, and people are tired of war. This cannot be done simply by looking at how many soldiers there are and how powerful their weapons are.
At least Su Ce is temporarily tired of war. War is a continuation of politics, not a normal forerunner.
Su Ce went fishing not only not to want to see Wei Xian again, but also to treat his illness. Yes, Su Ce was very clear that he was ill and it was serious.
The old man's soldiers were awakened in the night, and the murderous incident was downplayed by the government intentionally or unintentionally. However, such things were just an open secret to the nobles. As one of them, Su Ce also knew these things.
Generals are arrogant and domineering. In fact, the root cause is that there is no army at their side, they act according to their hearts, and the uneasy feeling in their hearts makes these generals arrogant and domineering. They just hope that the people around them will be afraid of them, so that they can feel at ease.
There are military laws on the battlefield, so the government's military orders prohibit it, but there are no rules to restrict the killing itself.
Su Zhuang made Su Ce feel at ease because he had relatives here, but Su Ce himself knew that he was indeed sick.
Living a peaceful life, Su Ce often recalled the scenes of guarding the border, and often woke up from his dreams. In his dreams, he always thought of Hungry Hu outside Xiaohe Beacon Fort.
Recently, Su Ce always wears coarse clothes and wanders around the village. He doesn't go to the school grounds to watch the training of a hundred personal guards. Su Ce has never been to the military room where Su Ce's weapons and armor are kept at home these days.
Su Ce found that he was subconsciously avoiding people and things related to the war.
Until four days ago, Su Ce was awakened by the cry of a night owl in his sleep. Su Ce went to look for the knife under his pillow but could not find it. Su Ce shouted to defend himself, jumped out of bed and looked for the knife in the room. Wang Lan was frightened. He had to hug Su Ce's back, but the petite Wang Lan couldn't stop Su Ce's actions at all.
Until Wang Lan's cry awakened the eldest grandmother and four maids in the courtyard.
The eldest aunt swung her palm to chop the back of Su Ce's neck, but Su Ce kicked her several meters away, breaking the beautifully carved door.
Four maids hugged Su Ce's limbs. Li Chang, who lived in the front yard, also heard the cries in the inner yard and thought a thief was coming. He quickly rushed to the east inner yard with the ten guards on duty at night. I saw Su Ce carrying Wang Lan on his back in the courtyard, with four maids hanging on his legs.
Su Ce, whose eyes were red, startled Li Chang. Li Chang blocked Su's father and mother who were coming over, and asked the maid to take Wang Lan from behind Su Ce.
At this time, Su Ce was still shouting: "Kill the enemy! Kill the enemy!"
After Wang Lan and the maids exited the courtyard, Su Ce picked up the bamboo pole on which clothes were hung to dry and waved it towards the bodyguards, because the bodyguards were wearing leather armors. The homemade leather armors were not made of large leather armors. It's made like this, just to protect the chest and abdomen.
This reminded Su Ce of the Jiuhu people. The Jiuhu people rushed to his home. Su Ce shouted angrily: "Bring your life, Chief Thief!"
Li Chang had already reacted at this time and hurriedly gave instructions to everyone.
"Guyuan throw away the weapons, close the door, and hold the general back."
"Master and Madam, go to the West Inner Courtyard!"
The door to the east inner courtyard slowly closed behind Li Chang. Li Chang quickly ran back to his room and pulled out a wooden box from under the bed. Inside was his armor. Yes, Li Chang once served as captain of the team and made meritorious deeds.
On the fourth turn, when he quit the army, he brought back his armor, put it on in a panic, and rushed out of the house, putting on his tusita as he ran.
Pushing open the door of the east inner courtyard, he shouted at Su Ce: "General, a great victory."
At this time, the ten guards in the courtyard had already fallen to the ground. They also knew what state Su Ce was in. They stabbed and swept him away, then fell to the ground and pretended to be dead.
The nurse closed her eyes and pretended to be dead. Li Chang looked at the frantic Su Ce. The bamboo pole in Su Ce's hand had turned into pieces.
"Victory?" Su Ce breathed out, and then a feeling of fatigue came to his heart, and his eyelids felt heavy.
"Big victory!" Li Chang shouted.
"It'll be great if we win!" Su Ce wanted to sleep, but he didn't forget his responsibilities.
"How many casualties are there?" Su Ce supported his body with a bamboo pole and asked Li Chang.
"Countless enemies have been killed, but our army was not injured!" Li Chang shouted loudly, pretending to be ecstatic.
"Haha, I won, I won..." Before he could finish his words, he fell down and hit the guard who was lying on the ground. The guard on the ground groaned.
Li Chang asked the nursing staff to carry Su Ce back to bed. He wore armor and stood guard outside the house, shouting from time to time: "Great efforts will bring victory!"
The nurses were originally Su Ce's personal guards. They were handicapped and could not follow Su Ce on the battlefield, so they discussed with Mr. Su. From now on, they would serve as nurses and let one hundred people serve as personal guards until these children grew up.
When he got older, he happened to be working as a personal guard for Su Ce in the army.
The next day, Su Ce didn't wake up until noon, and learned from Li Chang's mouth the ridiculous things he did last night.
Fortunately, Dudu has been following Su's father and mother in the west inner courtyard these days. Last night, he was so frightened that he burst into tears.
Su Ce knew that he needed to rest now, so Li Chang bought a lot of soothing medicine. Su's father also knew that his son was suffering from hysteria, so he comforted Su's mother and told Wang Lan that as long as Su Ce rested for a while, the hysteria would naturally be cured.
Li Chang selected a person named Zhou Kang from the old group of personal guards, which is now the nursing home. The Su family is now considered a big family, and Li Chang needs to take care of many things, and Li Chang cannot spare time.
Time, let Zhou Kang follow Su Ce closely.
Zhou Kang is a very honest man. He is two years older than Su Ce. His family is also in Suzhuang. He is favored by Li Chang. Zhou Kang relies on his steadiness and stability. You must know that Li Chang is not the one who was missing his fingers now.
The soldiers can no longer hold their swords.
Li Chang is now considered a number one figure in Chang'an City.
The world only knows about Li Chang, but not the uncle of Jingyang County. But this is fine, because most nobles first hand over their family's property to reliable people like this.
I travel to three places: Baiguo Niang, Nanshan Xinzhuang, Chang'an Xinzhai, and Li Chang. I change my pants every few months because the pants worn by horseback riding are too easy to break.
Zhou Kang and Su Ce are also old acquaintances. Su Ce still remembers that when he was charging into the battle, Zhou Kang was always by his side. He was very good with a spear. However, he was the first to charge and suffered the most casualties. He injured his thigh.
, the Jiuhu people's arrows were smeared with dung, and a piece of flesh as big as a child's fist was gouged out of the thigh. The tendon was injured, and I can walk, but I can't run.
For the past two days, Zhou Kang and Su Ce lived in a small hut next to the Weishui River. The small hut was eight meters long, four meters wide and five meters high. It had two rooms. Su Ce lived in the inner room. Zhou Kang
Kang lives in the outhouse.
This is a purely wooden riverside cottage. It was built by the villagers of Suzhuang in one day. The wood was chopped from a forest next to Suzhuang. More than 200 people had nothing to do for a day, so they chopped wood to build the house.
In the evening, straw was laid on the house, and Su Ce and Zhou Kang moved in at night.
The furnishings in the house are very simple, there is not much except the bed.
When Wei Xian came, he also met Su Ce here. There was no doubt that Su Ce rejected Wei Xian.
This should be the first meeting between Su Ce and Wei Xian.
Wei Xian, who went to the secretary to monitor Su Ce's experience, on the one hand lamented that Su Ce was lucky, on the other hand he also admired Su Ce's courage and determination. After all, he could charge through the enemy's formation and kill him. This is not something ordinary people can do. Individual bravery
, making decisions on the spot, there are too many things to test in the battle.
It's just that Wei Xian didn't expect that Su Ce would reject him. After all, as a rising nobleman, Su Ce was still so young and his future prospects were limitless. However, after Su Ce refused, he just fished and ignored him.
Wei Xian had been in Suzhuang for two days, so he didn't know that Su Ce had suffered from hysteria just two days ago.
"Boy, I'm leaving today, but remember to clean my small courtyard from time to time. In a few days, I'll take a concubine and bring her over to live there for a few days." Next to Wei Xian, Su Ce was sitting on a bamboo chair.
Xian was sitting on the bamboo stool that originally belonged to Zhou Kang, while Zhou Kang was standing on the path leading to the small hut by the river a hundred meters away.
"Okay, Mr. Wei, Ce will send someone to clean the small courtyard every day." Su Ce tilted his head and looked at Wei Xian, who was wearing a raincoat, and ignored the constantly shaking fishing rod.
Wei Xian stood up, smiled, pointed at the fishing rod in Su Ce's hand, and asked, "If the fish is hooked, why don't you take the rod off?"
"Wei Gong, Ce has been living in the Wei River for two years. In the summer, no one in Suzhuang goes to the river to play, just because the Wei water is turbid. Wei Gong carries the world in his heart and belly. There are many clear water rivers to cleanse one's body, but Ce does not!" Su Ce stood up!
The body didn't answer the question, and the fishing rod was carried into the river by the fish.
"I have many clear rivers, so it's not a bad idea to share some with you. If the Wei River is so turbid for you, why not go down to the river! The fish can't afford the rod when it's hooked, and now the rod has been brought to the river by the fish. How can we fish without a rod?" Wei Xian knew.
Su Ce was unwilling to wade into this muddy water. In fact, until now, Wei Xian had not found a noble person who supported his idea. Otherwise, he would not have found anyone with the same ideals among the county officials.
"Wei Gong is very righteous. This pole has been lost. If the people's support is with me, if I lose one pole today, I will have a hundred poles tomorrow. I might as well stay one more day. There were some chores at home in the past few days. The housekeeper Pai Xiu at home has a bad temper and neglects Wei Gong.
Ce is a good cook, Duke Wei might as well try it!" Su Ce waved to Zhou Kang, asking Zhou Kang to come over.
"If there's delicious food, don't tell me earlier!" Wei Xian saw that Su Ce was interested in staying one more day.