The gardenias and peonies planted in the courtyard have bloomed, bringing with them a subtle fragrance.
The osmanthus trees in Han Dynasty have not bloomed yet and will wait until September. Gao Mingyue told Li Xia that the osmanthus flowers will be more fragrant and they will make osmanthus cakes to eat.
Li Xia looked at the flowers and trees along the way before passing through the courtyard gate and saw four wives and concubines standing by the path.
A while ago, he was used to seeing the blood and fire on the battlefield, but now he felt more and more... that beautiful girls were really pleasing to the eye.
The gauze skirt swayed slightly, and they gathered around and talked.
More often than not, it is Han Qiaoer's voice.
"Brother Li is really back. Yesterday he said there was a war in Hanzhong, but I didn't feel it at all. Also, Sister Gao is here... ah, tell me?"
Gao Mingyue smiled and said, "I'll talk to him in private."
"..."
After talking and laughing, back in the hall, Li Xia washed up, changed clothes, and sat down to eat.
Han Qiaoer held her chin in her hands, very happy, and asked: "Is Brother Li coming back from the war now?"
"That's not true. I'm just coming back temporarily. I have to rush back to Longxi tonight." Li Xia reached out and pinched her mouth and said, "Don't talk nonsense. I'll come back in a few months. Then I won't be so busy."
Yes, I will play with you more in the future."
"Uh-huh, uh-huh... Okay, by the way, my dad is getting married."
Han Qiaoer had a good memory and was the closest to Li Xia. He recounted the recent events in Hanzhong like a basket.
Afterwards, Tang Anan knew what was going on and took her and Nian'er down first, leaving Li Xia and Gao Mingyue to talk alone.
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"It's been four months, right?"
"Well, the clothes are thick and it doesn't show."
"let me see……"
Li Xia squatted down and pressed his face against Gao Mingyue's belly, feeling guilty.
"I'm afraid of giving birth because I'm afraid that at this time, you're pregnant and I'm away from home, not caring about you."
Gao Mingyue held his head tenderly and said, "It's okay. There are many more mothers-in-law in the family. Liu Niang and An An are busy every day and take good care of me. You are the hero who calms down the troubled times.
, don’t worry about me..."
She whispered for a long time, trying to forgive Li Xia's heart.
Li Xia squatted there for a long time, as if falling asleep.
It's like feeling the bloodline he left in this world...
Finally, Gao Mingyue said softly: "My legs will go numb if I keep squatting. You have to leave tonight, so why don't you go and sleep for a while first?"
"It's okay to sleep on the horse. It's a newly learned skill. I was just thinking that it's only in these days that you can be so tolerant of me."
Gao Mingyue didn't understand what he meant, so she pulled Li Xia up, refusing to let him press against her belly any longer.
She leaned into his arms and asked, "Can you come back before the end of the year?"
"If Liu Heima can be surrendered, it should be possible. Otherwise, with my military strength, even if I can take the opportunity to win a few battles, it will be difficult to capture many cities in Guanzhong, or I will not be able to hold them after they are captured, which will make it even longer.
Jiu... I'm telling you about the situation again. In short, this opportunity is rare, and I have to seize it. If I can win Guanzhong in one fell swoop, I can slowly accumulate in the next three to five years."
"I understand, take Guanzhong and let the people recuperate, and we... will also recuperate." Gao Mingyue responded.
She consciously said something very powerful, so she quickly changed the subject and asked: "Then when you come back this time, is your trip in vain?"
"I won't run away in vain." Li Xia refused to admit it and said, "It's better to come back and understand the situation in person, so I feel confident. Then I can fight against Liu Heima in a decisive battle. I can stabilize his momentum."
"It's just too hard."
"Were you scared when the enemy invaders entered the country yesterday?"
"Actually, I had a long sleep and didn't get up until the afternoon." Gao Mingyue said, "Ms. Liu came here specially and said it didn't matter. Mr. Wu had expected everything."
"That's good. Speaking of Wu Qian, I was caught and scolded by him just after I entered the city. He just said that I supported the stupid emperor now and told me not to be disobedient."
"What should we do?"
"It doesn't matter. I regain my homeland and live with the people. As long as I do the right thing, they will support me. They will also gradually find that following my ideas is a good thing. This is the righteousness. I said to the people in the north
I want to dominate the world, but I only tell people in the south that I want to help the country. It seems that it is easy for people in the north to expose me, but it is not possible, because the righteousness is to live a good life, and gradually they will be on my side..."
Li Xia liked to talk to Gao Mingyue about what was on his mind. When he said this unconsciously, thinking that she was pregnant and feeling tired, he stopped and said, "Anyway, it doesn't matter if Wu Qian scolds her."
"It is precisely because Mr. Wu is willing to remind you that he values you very much. You should not be angry with him."
"Well, if we don't talk about this, don't get too tired."
"I won't be tired. My belly is only so big, but everyone is too concerned about it and cautious. I feel a little embarrassed."
Li Xia smiled.
Gao Mingyue also laughed and asked, "Didn't the Wang family give you their daughter as a concubine?"
"The Wang family was uprooted, not only because Wang Shixian followed Kuoduan to Shu and was no longer useful, but also to intimidate other generations."
"Dad said that I want you to go to the Li Family Dragon Palace to offer sacrifices. There are several Li clan members over there in Longxi, and many Shatuo people claim to be descendants of Li Keyong. This matter should be very important."
"I understand, wait until I finish this battle." Li Xia said.
"When you finish the war, dad will go to Longxi to offer sacrifices in person. Then, will you take An An and Nian'er with you?"
"Why?"
"Lest other women take the opportunity to come in." Gao Mingyue said with a smile, "You have no one to take care of you in Longxi, and you all stink."
"Does it stink?"
"Well, I don't dislike you..."
As the couple chatted together like this, Li Xia relaxed her mind and gradually figured out her next thoughts.
He had to return to Longxi, because the elite troops were there, so he had to launch the offensive from Tianshui instead of Dashan Pass.
But if you want to take Guanzhong, you still have to subdue Liu Heima, otherwise Sichuan and Shu will not be able to bear such a war if they attack the cities one after another...
After relaxing here for half a day, news came that Shi Jun had sent someone to report the victory. Li Xia knew that he would not be able to stay in Hanzhong for long.
"By the way, will Mingyue write a letter of surrender for me?"
"What kind of surrender letter?"
"I have met an enemy. This time I plan to learn from his approach and send an envoy to occupy morality before fighting."
Gao Mingyue was a little lazy and asked: "Can you ask An An to help you write? She has good vocabulary."
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"I plan to send the prisoners along Chencang Road in more than ten days and hand this surrender letter to Lian Xixian. There are several purposes. One is to let him know that Liu Yuanli has been wiped out and that he thinks I am in Hanzhong.
I happened to send troops from Tianshui and caught him off guard; secondly, I made the officials and gentry in Guanzhong understand that my king's army entered Guanzhong and did not want the war to spread to the people, but Lian Xixian refused to surrender; thirdly, I made the officials in the north suspect Lian Xi
Xian and I have friendship, which can be regarded as a estrangement..."
Tang An'an spread out his pen and ink in the hall, holding on to the brush, listening carefully to Li Xia's words, and asked: "Don't you really want to recruit him?"
"I want to, but if I talk too much, he won't give in. So I can only achieve these goals."
"Okay." Tang An'an asked again: "Should we recruit him in the name of Lang Jun or in the name of Song Ting?"
Li Xia said: "I didn't ask talented people like Wu Qian and Lu Xiufu to help me write it."
"Understood."
"Of course, don't make it too obvious, lest Lian Xixian frame me."
"good."
"Let me ask you to help me draft it and turn it into more powerful words. As for the title at the beginning, you can help me draft it."
Li Xia said, walked a few steps, and began to talk in deep thought.
"Lian Xixian, you were born in Uyghur, changed your surname to Han, studied Confucianism, and your reputation spread throughout the north. When you govern Guanzhong, you can be said to care about the sufferings of the people, and you also used strategies to defeat the Hunduhai army. You are indeed an important minister of the founding of the country.
He must have great abilities and great ambitions..."
Tang Anan frowned slightly and wrote quickly.
"Gongyun's knowledge of the state, the development of his talents for the future, the peace and support of the people, the determination of the people of Qin and Long, the plan to win, and the suppression of the chaos in Hunduhai. Those who have the means to found the country will definitely have great achievements and the ambition to shine in gold and stone.
…”
After Li Xia finished speaking these few sentences, his tone gradually changed.
"With your talents and learning, if you can meet wise kings like Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and assist them to pacify the world and establish their achievements, you can also become famous ministers like Xiao He, Zhang Liang, Fang Xuanling, and Du Ruhui, and win the title of Qing Shi
You will be praised by future generations. But you secretly turned your back to Kublai Khan.
Kublai Khan said he wanted to practice Chinese law, but he couldn't even speak Chinese. He didn't really admire Chinese learning. The so-called "ancestral changes" are just in name, and his hypocrisy is evident. He believed in Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism.
, seems to believe in everything, but in fact he believes in nothing, and all he wants is his own power.
Compared with the founding kings of previous dynasties, he was just a descendant of Temujin's grandson. He relied on the tens of thousands of lives slaughtered by his ancestors to become powerful and wanted to steal the Central Plains. However, he had betrayed his people, refused to practice Han law thoroughly, and had repeated thoughts.
, how can he be called a Mingzhu if he can’t even tell who he is? I dare to assert that he does not really have the ambition to establish a great cause..."
When Li Xia said this, he frowned and said: "In this paragraph, you have to help me quote scriptures and scold Song Ting with the same momentum as Yao Shu's letter to me."
Tang An'an was a little girl, but she wanted to write a book to scold the emperor of the North. She was worried that her momentum would be weak, but she followed Li Xia's words anyway.
Li Xia added: "It can be foreseen that the dynasty you tried your best to establish for Kublai Khan will not only not be as prosperous as the Han and Tang Dynasties, but also will be considered by future generations to be inferior to the Song Dynasty, which only has half of the country left.
No one will regard you as Xiao He or Zhang Liang. Your name of Lian Xixian will be unknown in the history books. Later generations will know Jia Sidao who fought crickets, and they will not know that you are Lian Xixian. Your magnificent ambition in life
, how many people know?
From this point of view, you are the loser, completely defeated. Your talents have been let down, and your achievements have been wiped out, which is right. Because your aspirations are completely contrary to what you have done."
Li Xia paused and added another sentence seriously.
"Here, we need to add another word 'Sorry' and 'Sorry'."
After a long time, Tang Anan's slender hands stopped and he looked back at what he had written, feeling that it was a little less powerful.
She thought for a moment, and then wrote down the words that were passed down by Banque more than seventy years ago...
"The capital of Yao, the soil of Shun, and the seal of Yu."
"There should be a half-shameful minister Rong in the middle!"
"Thousands of miles away, the smell is so bad, but the heroes of the ages are still here, when will the majesty be restored?"
"Why should Hu Yun ask? The sun will come from within!"
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Half a month later, north of Dashan Pass, there was a large tent of the Mongolian army.
"Zhongmin hasn't arrived yet?"
Lian Xixian and Liu Heima sat opposite each other, both with a look of worry on their faces.
It was midsummer. Liu Heima was wearing thick armor and his forehead was already covered with sweat. He said in a deep voice: "Counting the time, no matter what, he should have reached the back of Dashan Pass."
Lian Xixian counted with his fingers, the worry in his eyes getting stronger and stronger.
The reason why he dared to send Liu Yuanli was, firstly, out of helplessness, secondly, because this was not the first time that the Mongolian army had gone deep into the enemy's territory, and thirdly, he thought that as long as he broke through Dashan Pass, at least he would not lose any troops...
However, until now, Dashan Pass has not been conquered for a long time, and he has gradually realized that it is not good.
"If something goes wrong, I would be ashamed of Mr. Liu."
Liu Heima's expression changed, he closed his eyes, calmed down his emotions, waved his hands and said: "Perhaps Wu Lang was greedy for merit and hit Hanzhong first..."
Lian Xixian was about to speak when he suddenly heard shouting from outside the tent.
"Report! Dasanguan sent an envoy to ask for an audience..."
Lian Xixian stood up and left the tent. When he looked around, he saw someone staggering towards this side. He was not wearing armor, his hair was disheveled, and he looked embarrassed.
After that, Liu Heima also came out of the tent, his expression changed dramatically.
He clearly saw that it was Xiao Quan, the deputy general beside Liu Yuanli, who came.
And it seems that Xiao Quan was clearly captured by the Song army...