The rise of the prince

Chapter 723 The Road to the North
Time passed quickly, and in mid-November, Yan Shen and Xiao Hongqi were responsible for guarding Xia Guo's weapons going north, and Di Zhi's injury was almost healed, so he insisted on going south and presided over the formation of the navy with Shen Lin.

At first Li Xingzhou refused because he was afraid that his old injury would recur, but Di Zhi asked again and again, and he agreed.

There has also been bad rumors in the past few days, because of the matter of buying weapons for Xia Guo.

There are so many people calling and participating in such a big movement, the Privy Council, the Ministry of War, the Military Supervision, and the New Army, so many people are involved in all links, it is impossible to hide it, and it will soon be full of storms.

In fact, some people in the court objected, but he is the future grandson of the emperor, a privy envoy, and the commander of the new army. He has great power in his hands, no one dares to say, but the outside world is different.

Early the next morning, Yue'er came back angrily and complained to him, saying that when she was shopping for vegetables with the maids in the house in the morning, she heard some chess players talking about him by the river for "traitoring the country and capitalizing on the enemy", saying He sold weapons and arms to Xia Guo, and he was a traitor.It was good to have a prince in the past, but now that the prince is dead, his true nature is exposed, and his true nature is exposed.

Yue'er almost cried angrily.

Li Xingzhou laughed loudly, and while comforting the little girl, he asked her why she didn't teach them a lesson.

The little girl pursed her lips and told her grievances in detail. She wanted to reason with them, but she felt that she would not be able to explain it. She would find someone to teach her a lesson, and some people would say that the palace was bullying others, so after thinking about it, she felt that there was no way. I was so wronged that I almost cried.

This made Shiyu and the others laugh. They were angry at first, but they couldn't get angry, so they took Yue'er to comfort them.

Li Xingzhou didn't pay much attention, it would be strange if no one said anything.

But as far as the present is concerned, he has taken a few steps very solidly. Fang Xin, the envoy to the Kingdom of Jin, is orderly and well-done. Next, it will be up to He Xu.

Seeing that another year's New Year's Eve is approaching, every household is busy, and there are more people on the street.

"My lord, are you sure about going back this time? I heard that the Tatars use the same knives as the Khitans. I have seen that the Khitans' knives are all light and narrow-edged scimitars. They fight on horseback and use light weapons. That's good, with the speed of the horse, no matter how light the knife is, it can severely injure the enemy.

Our country uses sabers differently. It is heavier and has a wider blade, in order to be able to kill in foot combat. The Tatars are definitely not used to it. "The new army all turned their heads to He Xu and said.

At this time, they were on their way to the north according to orders. They had already passed the Datong Mansion and reached the territory of Jin Kingdom. The Xia Kingdom was in the midst of war. They could not go to the Northwest Desert, but they had to go north to Datong from Taiyuan and take the Yinshan pass.

Snow has started to fall in the north, and the road is not easy to walk, so I walk very slowly.

He Xu took a breath to warm his hands. The short withered grass on the side of the road was covered with a thin layer of snow, and the horseshoes creaked on it, "Iron they must want, you don't know, the grassland has the least salt and iron, and most of them are iron." They all flow from the south, and they are afraid that the knife is not thick, because if the knife is not thick, there will be less iron."

Dutou nodded, "Master He is more knowledgeable."

Indeed, the knives used by the Tatars are different from those in the Central Plains. Everyone on the grasslands rides horses. With the speed of the horses, the knives don’t need to be thick and heavy. Today's prairie scimitars will be thinner, and their knives will be curved, the more curved the better, so that when cutting people on horseback at high speed, there will be less resistance and they will not be pulled off the horse.

This is different from Jingguo soldiers who fight with their bodies most of the time, so the weight of weapons needed to increase lethality is different.

But He Xu was not worried, he had traveled to the grassland many times, and knew the situation on the grassland, what they lacked was not a knife or a spear, but iron.

Speaking of which, he was still a little unconfident. His brother-in-law who appeared out of nowhere, the noble grandson of the emperor, was suddenly entrusted with such a heavy responsibility.

At first, he thought it would be difficult to get along with. After all, he was not good at flattering the powerful and powerful, so he chose to run around.

After finding out that my sister was infatuated with a dude, I was somewhat worried. He was free and easy, but not heartless. He was still very concerned about my sister's lifelong affairs.

At the beginning, he proposed to take his sister to Jiangzhou, just to see the legendary capital disaster, but he didn't expect that after seeing it, it was completely different from what he thought and guessed.

It wasn't as domineering as the legends were, nor was it as pedantic as he imagined, but in short, it made his eyes shine.

What was even more unexpected was that now he would entrust such a big task to himself.

To be honest, no matter in the heart of his father or his peers, he is a typical representative of "incompetent". Every time he returns to Beijing, his father frowns and teaches him a lesson. He sneered.

What should a person of his age look like in the eyes of his parents and peers? He should marry a wife and have children, read books and talk about Taoism, be arty, hang out in small groups, get together from time to time, make friends, and recite poems from time to time. Fu, sometimes sitting on the world, that is the right way, and it will be sought after by people.

Like Yan Junru after the banquet, he has gained a very good reputation in this way, but he can't do it, and he doesn't like it.

He likes the world, he likes to be self-reliant, he likes to bargain, no matter what, it will cause a lot of jokes.

Scholars, farmers, businessmen, Scholars!Farm!work!business!Everyone understands the truth since he was a child, but he can't do a good job as a scholar, and the last businessman is still a businessman who has worked hard all over the country and has no fixed place. In the eyes of others, what is he if he is not a fool? ?
Therefore, every time he talks with his peers, most of them will not say good things to him. He can hear it, but he can only laugh it off.

But when he laughed it off, others took him as a fool and went too far.

But only the King of Jin had never expressed contempt or suspicion towards him since the first meeting in Jiangzhou, and he even saw excitement and joy on the face of the young prince.

Then he asked him a lot about what he had seen and heard outside of Jingguo, and after listening to him explain in detail, he laughed happily again, not the ridicule he was used to, but a hearty laugh
It was the first time that He Xu felt respected and understood, so he remembered King Jin's explanation and went north to inquire about the grassland. At that time, he only went to the vicinity of Yinshan Mountain, but he ventured north to inquire.

But this time, the important task of negotiating with the prairie people was not entrusted to his cronies, nor did he instruct the ministers of the court, but to him.

Such a big event was entrusted to him. His peers who laughed at him in the past, and his heartbroken father, looked at him differently.

Before leaving, the king of Jin repeatedly asked him to return safely if things could be done.

For He Xu, since he was a child, he likes to travel all over the world, and he likes to buy and sell business instead of studying. He has never been so valued by others.When he set off, he just bowed his hands and didn't say anything to guarantee, but he made up his mind early on that this trip must have results.

(End of this chapter)