Yaonan Che hurriedly said: "Yezhi is half Tang Dynasty." In a few words, he revealed Gongsun Yezhi's identity.
The man in green's eyes lit up, and he nodded: "Very good, tell her to continue practicing this swordsmanship. I will check again in half a year. If she can pass my test, I will accept her as my disciple."
"Then if I practice well within half a year, can you accept me as your disciple?" Yaonan Che said hurriedly.
"And me!" Xuezhi said eagerly.
The man in Tsing Yi said coldly: "My martial arts cannot be passed on to foreigners."
Yelvxuezhi shouted: "What's so great, people don't care about it!" He turned around and ran away.
Yaonan Che gritted his teeth and hissed: "Sir, we Khitans have been wiped out by you Tang people. The military and political officer said that we are already Tang people. Is he lying to us?"
The man in Tsing Yi was stunned, stared at him for a long time, nodded and said: "What you said makes sense, well, if you can pass my assessment in half a year, I will accept you as my disciple."
Yaonan Che said happily: "Thank you sir."
The man in green said calmly: "Don't call me sir, my name is Gao Junhui, and I am a ranger." He glanced at Gongsun Yezhi and said: "Teach her Tang language within half a year."
Yaonan Che responded repeatedly.
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It was December in the blink of an eye. A few days ago, the north wind blew and it suddenly started snowing. Heavy snowfall for several days in a row froze the Hun River near Daying in the north.
There are two large camps in the north and south directions of Nansu City, namely the North Camp of Zuowu Army and the South Camp of Yingzhou Fubing.
Wu Chengsi spent most of his time in Beiying, because it was freezing cold, windy and snowy these days, making it impossible for the army to conduct daily training.
Under his orders, the army had to run in the snow every day.
On the white ground paved with heavy snow, the soldiers of the Zuo Wu Army made a long footprint, which looked like a long snake when viewed from a high altitude.
Next to the team, Wu Chengsi was riding on a green horse, wearing a royal blue brocade leather jacket and a white cloak on his back. He was driving the horse slowly while reading the letter.
His expression at this moment was very solemn. This letter was a secret letter written by Wu Mei to him. It was personally escorted by one of Wu Mei's personal female officers and a team of Qianniu Guards.
The content mentioned above has reached the level that "if ordinary people know about it, they will be silenced by Wu Mei." The female official also said that Wu Mei asked him to burn it immediately after reading it.
The beginning of the letter was normal. Empress Wu asked him about the situation of the Liaodong war.
After going through the previous battles, she had already attached great importance to Wu Chengsi's military opinions, and even asked him when the war could end at the earliest.
Wu Chengsi himself has thought about this problem. If everything goes well, the army will be able to end the war next year.
However, Wu Chengsi's goal was not only Goryeo. If conditions allowed, he also hoped to weaken the strength of Silla and the Mo brown people.
Then, the letter listed the candidates for the Wu family at the royal banquet and their seating arrangements. Wu Mei asked him if he had any objections to the seating arrangements.
In previous years, Wu Chengsi always sat in third place among the Wu clan, but this year he ranked first. Naturally, there would be no objection.
After him, Wu Yizong also surpassed Wu Huaidao and sat in second place, while Wu Huaidao fell to third place.
Wu Youji, Zong Chuke, and Wu Sansi were seated four, five, and six respectively.
After seeing Zong Chuke's name, Wu Chengsi frowned slightly. This person was also Wu Mei's nephew, but he was not a biological nephew. His mother was just Wu Mei's cousin.
In previous years, Zong Chuke was ranked very low, but this year he was in front of Wu Sansi. I don’t know why.
These are all trivial matters, the most critical content of the letter is at the end.
Regarding the poisoning of King Pei Li Xian.
Li Xian's body has fully recovered under the joint treatment of Li Zhiying and Deshan Tang. The treatment process uses the method of fighting poison with poison, which is extremely dangerous.
In the letter, Wu Mei said something that Wu Chengsi had to pay attention to: "Xian'er has changed and he no longer respects his brother. I am really worried."
If it were in an ordinary family, this sentence would be normal. Children will grow up sooner or later. Parents feel that their children have changed and are no longer normal. Fighting and fighting with brothers and sisters is just a normal thing.
But this is in the emperor's house.
The words came from the mouth of Wu Zetian, a woman with extremely high political sensitivity. If it was just a trivial matter at home, Wu Mei would never have written it in the letter.
According to Wu Chengsi's guess, the meaning behind this sentence should be interpreted as follows: King Pei is showing signs of competing for the throne.
In history, Li Xian directly inherited the position of crown prince after Li Hong's death.
Generally speaking, except for a few weirdos, the prince should have some ideas about the position of crown prince.
Whether it is history books or the memory of the original owner, Pei King Li Hong was a smart and outstanding prince. He probably saw that his brother was in poor health, so he kept it secret and decided to torture his brother to death.
Although Emperor Li Zhi has headaches, his health is pretty good and he still has nearly twenty years to live. It doesn't make much sense to become the prince now.
So what exactly caused Li Xian to suddenly decide to fight for the throne? It can be said that Li Xian was the only prince who had ever fought against Wu Zetian, and his end was tragic. He was the only son killed by Wu Zetian.
If Wu Chengsi had traveled through time with Li Xian, he would certainly not have waited for the prince to die of illness. But the problem is that Li Xian didn’t know history, so why did he suddenly fall off the track of history?
There is also the attitude of Emperor Li Zhi. He loves King Pei very much, as much as the prince. How will he react when King Pei competes for the throne?
In contrast, Wu Mei seems to be relatively indifferent to King Pei, and her attitude is temporarily unclear from the letter. It seems that the only way is to return to Beijing as soon as possible to find out her thoughts.
Wu Chengsi is currently leading troops away from home and will only be back for about a month during the Chinese New Year. Even if King Pei fights for the throne, it will not have much impact on him.
He liked this kind of military life very much. Wu Zetian now only relied on him and had no fear. It was a good opportunity for him to expand his influence in the army.
No matter how the situation in Beijing changes, as long as he becomes stronger and stronger, he will be able to better cope with all situations in the future.
At the end of the letter, Wu Zetian hoped that Wu Chengsi would return to Chang'an as soon as possible. It seems that there were many things that were difficult to say in the letter and she wanted to discuss it with him face to face.
According to the practice of the Tang Dynasty, the New Year is the most important festival of the year. As long as the war is not particularly tense, the generals guarding the border will return to Beijing to attend the royal banquet and receive commendations and rewards from the emperor and empress.
Generals at the level of Wu Chengsi, Li Ji and Xue Rengui are all eligible to return to Beijing to attend the night banquet.
Wu Chengsi was supposed to return to Beijing with them, but since Wu Mei was in such a hurry, he had no choice but to go back early.
After thinking for a moment, Wu Chengsi ordered a soldier behind him: "Go and ask General Pei and General Black Teeth to come to Beiying."
"Yes!" The soldiers went to lead the troops.
In the snow, the soldiers continued to jog. Wu Chengsi ordered Han Cheng to lead the soldiers in training, and then he reined in his horse and returned to the military camp.
Not long after waiting in the commander's tent, Pei Xingjian and Hei Te Changzhi arrived in the snowy weather.
A fire was set up in the commander's tent. Wu Chengsi sat beside the fire, pointed at the wooden table opposite and said: "Two generals, please take a seat."
The two hung their cloaks on the wooden stand and sat down by the fire.
Hei Te Chang said: "General, I heard that you asked Liu Shenli to be responsible for settling those Khitans."
Wu Chengsi nodded and said, "Yes, is there any problem?"
Hei Te Changzhi said in confusion: "Isn't it enough to just hand over all those Khitans to the imperial court for resettlement? Why should we waste so much time?"
Wu Chengsi picked up the fire in the iron basin with an iron clip and asked without answering: "General Black Teeth, I heard General Luo say that you plan to attack the Turks, right?"
Hei Te Changzhi blushed. He asked Han Cheng about it afterwards and learned that Wu Chengsi had no intention of attacking the Turks, so he never mentioned the matter.
Unexpectedly, Russell refused to let him go.
"The general just mentioned it, just to give you an idea. As for whether it is feasible or not, of course I want to listen to your opinion." Hei Te Changzhi said sarcastically.
Wu Chengsi smiled and said: "You have plans to attack the Turks, which shows that you have seen their threat. So let me ask you, what is the biggest advantage of the Turks over the Tang Dynasty?"
Hei Te Changzhi thought for a while and replied: "It should be the ability to ride and shoot, right?"