After Liu Jiande picked up the teacup and took a sip, his eyes fell on the white envelope on the desk, and he called the housekeeper by accident.
"Fu Bo."
The old man who had been the housekeeper of Liu Mansion since Liu Jiande's father was still alive stopped, came to his senses, bowed and said, "Master, what are your orders?"
He casually put the tea cup on the table, hesitated for a moment and then said: "Uncle Fu, what do you think about Prince Yu's personal conquest?"
"Prince Yu?"
Fu Bo was stunned for a moment, and then he came to his senses: "Are you talking about the prince from Northern Xinjiang?"
Liu Jiande nodded slightly: "It's that prince."
A third-rank official in front of the prime minister, and as the steward of the capital's commanding embassy, Uncle Fu, although he does not hold an official position, sometimes knows more information than many lower-rank officials.
And Uncle Fu not only knew about Prince Yu's personal conquest, he also knew what his master's real struggle was.
Liu Jiande briefly explained the envoy sent by King Yu, and asked a little irritably: "Uncle Fu, what do you think I should do?"
Hearing this, Uncle Fu fell silent.
Precisely because he knew what his old man was really struggling with, he didn't know how to say it.
After a while, Uncle Fu finally sighed and said: "Sir, I am old and can't remember many things, but I still remember the first time you followed me to the battlefield and came back. You didn't leave your room all day and night."
Come out."
"I remember that when I entered the room where you were still the young master the next day, you also asked me a question."
Liu Jiande's eyes were in a trance, almost returning to that morning, and he couldn't help but asked the question he asked at that time.
"How could those barbarians be so cruel to the defenseless people?"
"That's exactly the problem."
Uncle Fu sighed again, bowed and said, "If Master has figured out this problem, maybe he will know how to do it."
"Old slave, I won't disturb you, please leave now."
Liu Jiande did not speak, nor did he pay attention to when Butler Fu Bo left the study. He fell into a trance after telling his problems decades ago.
On that question, Uncle Fu, who was not yet a butler at the time, just sighed and said nothing.
Later, he asked his father who was still alive, and his father just sighed and said: "When you figure this out, you will truly know what the tens of thousands of soldiers at the border who are not afraid of life and death really want to protect."
Already?"
Later, his father died in battle, and after taking over his father's legacy, he only wanted to drive away the barbarians and fight every battle, but the question in his heart never had a real answer.
It was just never mentioned again.
Today, after Forbes suddenly raised this question, he suddenly discovered that over the years, he seemed to have found the answer from his father.
In fact, the answer lies in his question.
It’s just the word barbarian.
Barbarians are also human beings, but the concept they have accepted since childhood is that they never regard people outside their own tribe as human beings, but as cattle and sheep that can be slaughtered at will.
In their eyes, all the nearby Dali are covered with fat sheep, which are also the backup food in the year of famine.
This is why when the barbarians are short of food, they don't think of other ways, but just send out their troops and directly carry out the vicious act of looting, burning and killing.
Because this is the nature of barbarians. They wear the appearance of human skin, but in their bones they are no doubt like beasts.
Tens of thousands of soldiers guard the border, not only guarding the territory of Dali, but also the border defense of the human race.
After thinking about it, Liu Jiande slowly exhaled a breath of turbidity.
If what he was guarding was the human race's border defense, then His Royal Highness Prince Yu's personal expedition was to expand the human race's territory.
To deal with wild beasts, it is useless to be gentle. You can only conquer them with force first, and then educate them with etiquette, respect and the words of saints. Only then can the nature of wild beasts recede, and those barbarians can turn into human beings.
people.
Tens of thousands of soldiers guard the border, and apart from their insignificant contribution, what they really want is to protect the human race's border and look for opportunities to expand the human race's territory again.
Compared to the origin of the human race, who expanded this territory in the end, and what does it matter?
"It's me who's in trouble!"
Liu Jiande murmured.
What his father really wanted was for the barbarians outside the eastern border to be pacified, not that they had to be pacified by him.
What His Royal Highness Prince Yu is doing now is to fulfill his father's legacy, but as a son of man, what he wants to do is hide aside and watch the show.
"But I still feel a little unwilling..."
Sighing in his heart, he picked up the letter on the desk.
Now that I have made a decision in my heart, there is no harm in reading this letter.
With this in mind, he casually opened the lacquered opening of the envelope, took out the several folded paper inside, and then unfolded it.
Liu Jiande's eyes fell on the paper full of content, and he was stunned after just one glance.
"Actually, actually..."
The fingers with bulging veins pinched the paper into wrinkles, but the next moment he hurriedly relaxed his strength, fearing that he would accidentally tear the fragile paper in his hand into pieces.
After reading it twice more, Liu Jiande was sure that the contents of the letter were true.
"Father, I hope I can help you fulfill your last wish."
After all, he was already the commander in charge of the local military defense. Liu Dejian finally suppressed the excitement in his heart.
He poured something out of the envelope and placed it on the table. He carefully folded the paper full of words and put it into the envelope. He then pulled out a locked wooden box from the bookshelf at the back and put the letter in it.
Put it in and lock it.
After keeping the letter, his eyes fell on the items he just took out.
A small spanner.
This ring finger is the real token given by His Royal Highness King Yu. With it, he will no longer violate the laws of Dali when he leads his troops to leave his jurisdiction.
Putting the ring finger on his chest and carrying it close to his body, he took a blank folder, opened it and laid it out. After polishing the ink, he took the problem and wrote on it.
After waiting for the ink to dry slightly, he took the official seal of the capital commander and stamped it, then closed the fold, put it into a new envelope, and sealed it with special wax.
"Fu Bo."
"What are your orders, Master?"
When Uncle Fu walked in, Liu Jiande handed the envelope with the fold to Uncle Fu and said, "Send this to the inn and rush it to the capital over 800 miles away."
"Old slave knows."
Uncle Fu took the envelope and glanced up at Liu Jiande.
At this moment, in his eyes, his master no longer had the entanglement and decadence he had before. His high-spirited appearance seemed to have returned to the way he was before he went on the battlefield for the first time decades ago.