I live forever in history

Chapter 66 I have sinned a lot!

"Your Majesty, the number of soldiers returning to the court is indeed as Su Chen said, only less than a hundred people are missing."

Sun Yushi, who went to check the number of soldiers returning to the court, returned to Luoyang.

"The soldiers of the Xin Dynasty and Zhengxi were indeed surrounded by heaven, and in the half a year of the Western Expedition, in the end, less than a hundred people were killed in battle." Wang Mang said.

"Your Majesty, since Su Chen did not exaggerate, I ask Your Majesty to recall him and restore him to his original post." Su Yan said.

Sun Yushi also nodded in agreement.

Just beating himself up and letting him go back to his hometown, he thinks he doesn't have that much face.

"No need, Su Chen has long thought of resigning from office. Even if I want to reinstate him, I'm afraid he won't come back."

Sun Yushi's face turned red.

He was really guilty, because he sent a promising general back to his hometown.

If he hadn't been relentless towards Su Chen before, he wouldn't have thought of resigning from office and returning to his hometown, it's all his fault.

"Sun Yushi, Su Chen's resignation is what he told me before he left for the expedition. It has nothing to do with you, so don't put the blame on you." Wang Mang said looking at Sun Yushi who looked abnormal.

Don't let one of his courtiers live with guilt after Su Chen leaves.

"Your Majesty, you don't need to comfort the old minister." Sun Yushi said a little decadently.

Su Chen is the descendant of Changshouhou's lineage, and his official career in the new dynasty is prosperous.He also has real skills, and through this war, he learned that he was favored by heaven.

Such a person should go further, have a better future, and leave a strong mark in the history books.

But because of himself, he resigned.

Sun Yushi was in a daze all day long, and he couldn't remember exactly what he said at the court meeting, and he didn't know that anyone had greeted him.

When he was sleeping at night, his wife heard Sun Yushi say

"This old man has sinned deeply!"

When Sun Yushi was criticizing himself deep in his heart, Su Chen was taking Wang Zhaojun on a tour.

"Stand here and don't move around. I'll buy you a candied haws." Su Chen said to Wang Zhaojun.

"What is candied haws?" Wang Zhaojun asked curiously.

"This goes back a long, long time ago. According to legend, there was a camel mountain in the past, and there lived a beautiful girl named Pomegranate. Pomegranate fell in love with a man named Su Chen, and they lived together day and night on a mountain. But the good times were not good. Long, the beauty of pomegranate has been known by the emperor."

"The emperor wanted to take the pomegranate as his concubine, but the pomegranate refused to do so. In the end, Su Chen turned into a tree, and the pomegranate turned into a red fruit on the tree. The emperor called it the dregs of the mountains. But people love the strong pomegranate, So call him Hawthorn."

"Are you telling a real story or a fake one?" Wang Zhaojun glanced at Su Chen.

Have you ever lived with another woman before?

By the way, Su Chen has lived for so long, it is normal to have had several women before.

And as for men, it's normal to have three wives and four concubines. I can't be such a jealous woman, but why do I still want to bite Su Chen to death!

"Of course it's fake. I don't know why the nonsense story I made at the beginning has been passed down like this." Su Chen said.

"Hmph! What does that have to do with candied haws?"

"Candied haws are hawthorns wrapped in sugar."

Su Chen explained.

I remember that not long after Liu Bang's death, he was greedy and came up with the candied haws, and taught it to several local people.

It’s just that so many years have passed, it seems that candied haws are only found here, and there is no shadow of candied haws in other places.

"Here, try it." Su Chen handed Wang Zhaojun a bunch.

"Sweet and sour, it's quite delicious." Wang Zhaojun took a bite and said with satisfaction.

"It's delicious to make these gadgets, why is cooking so unpalatable?" Wang Zhaojun's tone was a bit resentful.

She and Su Chen went out to tour the mountains and rivers together, so naturally they didn't bring any maids and servants with them.

So they do all the cooking by themselves, but Su Chen's cooking level is only so good that no one can eat it, and she has learned all kinds of dishes by herself.

"Maybe it's easier to make these gadgets, but more difficult to cook." Su Chen thought for a moment and said.

Yes, definitely so.

……

The new dynasty will not stop its development because of the absence of Su Chen, and the surrounding aliens will not be bullied because of the absence of Su Chen.

In more than ten years, Liu Xiu led troops several times to quell the rebellion within the new dynasty twice, and once to expand the land to the west.

These few wars made Liu Xiu doubt life directly.

Because every time he goes out to fight, the target of the crusade always loses strength due to various reasons, and the war ends very quickly.

It made Liu Xiu, who had studied many military books, very distressed, and felt that he had no chance to display all his abilities.

He even suspected that Su Chen's 'method' was too powerful back then. Even after so many years, those rebels or aliens were still affected.

Back then, when he borrowed the book of war by the Yimai of Changshou Hou, he promised to write a book of war and give it to the Yimai of Changshouhou after he became a famous general.

But in such a situation, he couldn't show a battle to explain his thinking and skills of leading troops, all of which were 'good luck'.

"Since I can't write about the profound and exquisite art of war, I can write about how to deal with bad weather when leading troops. I have a lot of experience in these things."

After a moment of contemplation, Liu Xiu had an idea.

He has experienced such severe weather and disasters as the rock from the sky, hail, university, heavy rain, and land subsidence, and he is comfortable writing about them.

Moreover, the ancients' art of war was already very perfect and exquisite, so he wanted to find another way.

"Great Sima, Your Majesty has summoned you."

"Understood, I will enter the palace right away." Liu Xiu replied.

There is no rush for the book of war, let's write it after I get back from His Majesty.

Liu Xiu entered Wang Mang's bedroom and found Wang Mang lying on the bed with a piece of paper hanging in front of the bed, which looked like a map.

"Uncle Wen is here, look at this map." Wang Mang pointed to the map and said to Liu Xiu.

"Here."

Liu Xiu walked to Wang Mang's bed and looked at the map.

"This is our new dynasty, isn't it very big?" Wang Mang said with a smile.

"I don't think it's very big, the place occupied by Xinchao on the map is still too small." Liu Xiu said with some surprise.

He always thought that the new dynasty was the center of heaven and earth, and there was not much territory around it.

But judging from this map, Xinchao is still not big enough.

"Yeah, Xinchao is not big enough, at least not as big as we imagined." Wang Mang muttered to himself.

He has bigger ambitions, but his body doesn't allow him to.

(End of this chapter)