After seeing off Concubine Hui, another two days passed.
In Marquis Shen's Mansion, General Ling Suling bowed slightly, cupped his fists and saluted: "Mr. Shen."
Shen Yi waved to him to sit down, and then said: "I have met Your Majesty."
Ling Su nodded and said, "I've seen it before."
Master Shen reached out to pour him tea and asked, "What did your Majesty say?"
"I didn't say anything. I rewarded the last general with something and said I would give Ling Zhan a promotion."
Lord Shen said with a smile: "Ling Zhan is related by marriage to the clan, and his relationship with the royal family is indeed closer."
Ling Su nodded and said: "Apart from that, Your Majesty didn't say anything else. He only said that the last general should lead the army well."
He looked at Shen Yi, and after being silent for a while, he asked: "Mr. Shen, will the general's headquarters be stationed in Miyun from now on?"
Shen Yi thought for a while and replied: "At least you can't move until the situation in the DPRK stabilizes."
Ling Su nodded first, then lowered his head and said, "Mr. Shen, I have one thing to ask for."
Shen Yi handed over the tea and said with a smile: "You tell me."
"The last general..."
"I want to go back to my hometown in Linhai."
He looked up at Shen Yi, pointed to the white hair on his temples, and whispered: "When I followed you, I was only thirty years old. More than twenty years have passed, and I am already over fifty this year."
"For more than twenty years, I have rarely returned to my hometown. Every year when I worship my ancestors, my children go there on my behalf. I..."
"A little tired."
He looked at Shen Yi and said in a low voice: "General, I am getting older now, and all the injuries I suffered in my early years have come to me one by one. The older I get, the more I miss my homeland."
Shen Yi looked at him, and after being silent for a while, he sighed: "Brother Ling, are you serious?"
"How can this be false?"
Ling Su stood up, bowed and clasped his fists and said: "Mr. Shen, outsiders may think that I, Ling Su, am a cheater, or that Ling Su is unstable, but for more than twenty years, Ling Su has never said half a word in front of Mr. Shen. What a lie!"
Mr. Shen pressed his hand and motioned for him to sit down. After the latter sat down, he lowered his head and thought for a moment before silently saying: "In his fifties, in his prime, Brother Ling is not one of those fifth- and sixth-grade generals. Officer, if the new emperor gives you another title, are you afraid that you will be demoted from the first rank?"
"It's not a matter of grade."
Ling Su lowered his head and said, "Mr. Shen, I will tell you the truth."
"Since we captured Yanjing, the former right-line army generals have been fine. The old generals like General Xue and General Su no longer recognize the generals at all."
"For more than ten years, I have never been happy."
He looked at Shen Yi and sighed: "The general thinks he is a Huai'an soldier, but they no longer recognize him."
"In addition, in the past few years, injuries from his youth have really caught up with me, and I have been thinking about whether I can go back to my hometown in Taizhou and rest for a few years."
“The first is to nourish the body, and the second is to return fallen leaves to their roots.”
After hesitating for a moment, Mr. Shen said, "Brother Ling, do you mean to let Zhang Meng take over your position?"
Ling Su lowered his head and responded.
"But Zhang Meng is not much younger than Brother Ling."
Shen Yi sighed and said: "That's it, Brother Ling will lead the army for another three years, at least until the new dynasty is stable before mentioning this matter again. After three years, if Brother Ling still thinks so, I will write a letter to resign on Brother Ling's behalf. "
After Shen Yi said this, Ling Su naturally couldn't say anything more. He could only nod, then sighed and said: "Mr. Shen, the entire Huai'an army."
He looked up at Shen Yi, his eyes a little sad.
"I will have the deepest feelings for the Huai'an Army in the end."
Shen Yi nodded slowly: "I know, after all, when the anti-Japanese army was first established, Brother Ling was in charge."
Ling Su stood up and said goodbye, sighing: "But now, the general doesn't know me anymore, so I can't be considered a Huai'an soldier."
Mr. Shen also stood up and sent him out all the way.
"Brother Ling, although the Huai'an Army no longer exists, as long as Brother Ling feels that he is a Huai'an soldier, then Brother Ling will be a Huai'an soldier."
The two parted at the gate of the Hou Mansion. Before leaving, Shen Yi warned: "Brother Ling should pay attention to cultivating more new people in the past few years. Don't wait until ten or twenty years later, the original Huai'an Army has become another Huaihe Navy." ."
Ling Su turned around, bowed his head deeply and clasped his fists.
"General... obey your orders!"
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In the afternoon after Ling Su left, Shen Yi received an urgent letter from Jiankang. After receiving the letter, he hesitated for a moment, then went all the way into the imperial city and came to Zhongshu to find Zhang Jian who was dealing with political affairs. Mr. Zhang.
Nowadays, Zhang Jian has also obtained the position of assistant to the government, so he has a great say in Zhongshu. He can almost compete with Song Yuan, ranking second among the five ministers of Zhongshu.
After seeing Shen Yi, Zhang Xiang pulled Shen Yi to sit down, while pouring tea for Shen Yi, he sighed again and again: "After the new dynasty, things in Zhongshu have become more and more complicated day by day. My brother has been home in the dark for several days in a row. In previous years, Why do you need to be so busy?"
Shen Yi took the tea, took a sip, and said silently: "In the past, Emperor Wu stayed up until midnight almost every night."
After hearing this, Zhang Jian's expression froze, and then he smiled bitterly and said: "If you don't mention this, I feel bad if I mention it."
"Emperor Shizu...what a pity."
Shen Yi said "hmm", took out the letter from his sleeve, handed it to Zhang Jian, and said silently: "My Sanlang sent it from Jiankang. Uncle Zhao has been ill since he learned that Emperor Wu died. Very ill."
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Zhang Jian quickly took it and after opening it and looking at it, the expression of the Prime Minister became a little panicked.
"Mentor...Mentor..."
After repeating two sentences, he murmured: "I wrote a letter to my teacher a few days ago. Zhao Da said in the letter that my teacher's illness is not very serious. This... this..."
He was a little panicked.
"What should I do..."
Shen Yi sighed and said: "Uncle Zhao is already over 70 years old after all. He is suddenly heartbroken and his condition will naturally be difficult to recover from."
"Where's Zhao Er?"
Zhang Jian asked: "Has Zhao Er gone back?"
"I went back a few days ago. It must be the eldest brother of the Zhao family. I wrote him a separate letter."
Zhang Xiang lowered his head and sighed: "Logically speaking, I, a disciple, should go back and have a look, but now, Zhongshu really has no way to distract himself."
Shen Yi said softly: "Senior brother, it is naturally difficult to leave the capital at this time. I am very restless and want to go out and walk around."
Zhang Jian lowered his head to drink tea, then shook his head and said, "You can't leave Jiankang so easily. Brother, I will ask Zhang Lian to rush back to Jiankang later."
Mr. Shen looked at Zhang Jian, and after a long while, he said silently: "Unknowingly, the elders..."
Zhang Jian smiled bitterly and said, "You are only in your early forties, but my brother is already over fifty."
"At our age, there are some things we have to face."
Zhang Xianggong looked at Shen Yi, hesitated for a moment, and asked: "What do you plan to do in the future? Will you continue to lead troops to conquer Liaodong and conquer the Tatars?"
After listening to Zhang Jian's question, Shen Yi thought about it seriously and replied: "It should be Su Ding and Yuan'er who went to fight in Liaodong. As for the Tatars... we still have to fight, but their cavalry is too flexible, so it is not difficult to defeat them." , it’s too difficult to destroy them.”
"It is better to impoverish the Tartars than to fight against them."
"How to deal with the Tatars has been included in my plan. I will just push it forward bit by bit in the future."
Mr. Shen lowered his head to drink tea and continued: "As for senior brother asking me what I want to do..."
He sighed: "To be honest, now I want to go back to Nanjing to visit Master Zhao, and then transfer from Nanjing to Jiangdu, and go back to my hometown to relax for a few years."
Zhang Jian shook his head.
"You are one of the four assistants, how can you get away?"
"Yeah, I can't escape."
Shen put down the tea cup and said silently: "Before his death, the late emperor asked me to take care of the court for a few more years and not to cause any trouble to the court. I agreed to his request. There is nothing else to do now."
"Only..."
Master Shen put down the tea cup and looked up at Zhang Jian.
"I have been the caretaker of the imperial court for several years."
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