I open a history tutorial class in Daming

Chapter 78 What happened to Huo Qubing?

The course started on time at noon the next day.

This time, the system did not pull the students in in advance, but that did not prevent them from whispering.

The seating in the lecture hall has gradually evolved into another pattern.

Sitting in the front row were two good students, Zhang Liang and Zhu Biao. They were not afraid to make eye contact with Song Shen and be called to ask questions. For good students, sitting in the front row meant they could hear more clearly and see more clearly.

Besides, people like them who read a lot, often stay up all night reading, even when they were young, they were not short of money, but as we all know, vision problems usually have little to do with whether you are willing to turn up the lights. So, yes, they are both a little nearsighted.

Sitting behind Zhang Liang and Zhu Biao were Liu Che and Zhu Yuanzhang respectively. This was easy to understand, as both of them had poor academic performance in class. If they didn't sit close to the top students at home, they would have no one to ask if they didn't understand something.

It was also because of the two academic masters in the front row, Ying Zheng sat next to Zhu Yuanzhang, and Li Shimin sat next to Liu Che. These two lonely middle-aged men had no emperor of the same dynasty to keep them company, so they could only listen to the special treatment of Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Che.

The other four members of the Zhenguan Five sat in a row, obediently sitting in a row behind Li Shimin.

The one sitting at the back...is naturally Zhu Qizhen, who suffered from group discrimination and ancestral bullying in the class.

After you are seated.

While Mr. Song was still looking through the teaching plan, Li Shimin whispered to Liu Che:

"Emperor Wu of Han, can you switch places with me?"

Liu Che:?
Liu Che looked over with a look on his face that said, "Are you okay with your brain?"
"Why should I change seats with you? The person sitting in front of me is my ancestor. Although he is not a member of the Liu family, he is better than a member of the Liu family. If I change seats with you, what should I do if I don't understand in class?"

Li Shimin was prepared for this, and said with a smile:

"I just flipped through the history books this morning. Emperor Wu of Han, you should be about 30 years old now. Is the current queen Wei Zifu? Has she just given birth to a child?"

Liu Che was not a fool, and naturally realized that Li Shimin was using the history of the Han Dynasty to exchange for his position.

He was silent for a moment, then said calmly:
"Yes, that child is my eldest son, named Liu Ju. What, do you have something to say about him?"

To Emperor Liu Che, Liu Ju was not just a legitimate eldest son.

Emperor Wu of Han ascended the throne at the age of sixteen. In the following ten years, the harem failed to give birth to even a son. The ministers were even prepared that if Emperor Wu of Han died without having a son, they would support King Huai'an Liu An to ascend the throne.

Liu Che knew all these things, but his inability to give birth to a son was his own problem. He could not blame his ministers for finding a way out for the future of the Han Dynasty, but he just kept holding his breath. It was not until the spring of the first year of Yuanshuo that Wei Zifu, who had given birth to three princesses, finally gave birth to Liu Che's first son, Liu Ju, that he finally felt proud.

Even because of his son Liu Ju, Liu Che's throne of queen, which had been vacant for more than a year, was given to Wei Zifu. In this way, Liu Ju could rightfully become his eldest son.

Since it concerns his son, there is no way Liu Che would not want to listen.

Li Shimin touched his chin and felt that he had learned Zhu Yuanzhang's routine - everyone present currently attached great importance to their eldest son or crown prince, and if he brought this up in the future, at least Liu Che and Ying Zheng would definitely be interested!

"As far as I know, Liu Ju was made crown prince at the age of seven. He had a good reputation when he was young, but after Huo Qubing and Wei Qing died one after another, without the help of powerful relatives, some people began to make plans to frame him."

"And you, Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che, believed in ghosts and gods when you were old, and you also favored treacherous officials. So when you were sick, a treacherous official reported to the crown prince that the crown prince and Queen Wei had cursed you in the palace, and you believed it. Not only did you believe it, but a large number of people went to search the crown prince. In a rage, Liu Ju burned to death those witches who had come to his palace to frame him, and was forced to forge an imperial edict to send troops to defend himself."

"You and the crown prince fought for five days in Chang'an, with tens of thousands killed and wounded, and blood flowing like a river. This is the famous witchcraft disaster."

"Is this news significant enough?"

Li Shimin's calculations were quite clever.

Before the get out of class ended yesterday, Zhu Yuanzhang only told him the date of Empress Zhangsun's death and that Crown Prince Li Chengqian would be deposed in the future, but he never explained the specific process. This made Emperor Li II extremely anxious and he even cried while hugging the Empress.

Putting himself in Liu Che's shoes, he felt that his story about Liu Ju was much better than Zhu Yuanzhang's half-hearted approach, and it was very sincere, so Liu Che would definitely be grateful to him.

Wouldn't this bring the relationship closer?

Isn't it easy to do such a trivial thing as changing positions?
But what he didn't expect was that Liu Che's focus was not on Liu Ju, but on another matter.

"Wei Qing is naturally my great general, a close minister, and also Juer's uncle. It is natural that you regard him as a powerful relative. But what about Qu Bing?"

Liu Che frowned and asked:
"Qubing is the nephew of Zifu and Wei Qing. He is only fourteen years old. Although he is good at riding and shooting, he is only a palace attendant. How can he become the powerful relative you mentioned... Can his position in the future be compared with Wei Qing's?"

Li Shimin was stunned for a moment.

When he was reading the history book, he only focused on the part about Liu Ju, but did not pay attention to Huo Qubing's age. He did not expect that when Liu Che was thirty years old, Huo Qubing was only fourteen and had never been on the battlefield.

But when Li Shimin heard Liu Che ask such a question, he felt very angry.

Damn it…that’s Huo Qubing!
Just this name alone made the Huns tremble with fear for a hundred years! ! !

His Majesty Li II gritted his teeth and pointed backwards:

"Of the four people behind, two are my prime ministers, and two are my generals. Did you see the one in armor? His name is Li Jing. Six years ago, he personally led his troops to destroy the Turks, who were basically equivalent to the Xiongnu in the Tang Dynasty. This achievement is beyond doubt, right?"

"Come, go ask him how he feels about himself compared to Huo Qubing." Liu Che readily looked at Li Jing, who was dressed in armor and looked dusty, with an inquiring look.

Li Jing said succinctly:
"He's worth five of me."

Cheng Yaojin added:

"Old Cheng, I am also a military commander, and I was granted the title of Duke. Huo Qubing is worth ten of me."

Liu Che: !!!
Zhu Qizhen sat behind Li Jing and Cheng Yaojin.

The God of War of Tumubao heard the previous conversation and poked his head out at the right time, his face full of envy:

"Yes, if I had a Huo Qubing in Tumubao back then, the mere Wala would be nothing. Even if he only led 800 people, he could have killed 100,000 Wala soldiers."

"Alas, even if I could have a Wei Qing, that would be fine..."

Liu Che:? !!!

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard them discussing Huo Qubing's affairs, he also became anxious and stretched his neck to interject:

"Why, why are you talking about Guanjun Hou? Doesn't Liu Che know his ability? He is Guanjun Hou, the bravest of all the armies, and the first one among us Han people to be granted the title of Wolf's Lair!"

Zhu Biao in front turned around, nodded and added:

"The Records of the Grand Historian: Biography of the Xiongnu says -"

"The general of the Han cavalry marched out of Dai for more than 2,000 miles and fought with Zuo Xian Wang. The Han soldiers captured more than 70,000 captives of the Huns, and Zuo Xian Wang's generals all fled. The cavalry was granted a post at Langjuxu Mountain, Zenguyan, and Linhanhai before returning. After that, the Xiongnu fled far away, and there was no royal court in the south of the wall."

"All future military commanders will take him as their role model. Few will dare to say that they are better than the Champion Marquis."

"In my humble opinion, among all the military commanders, there are only five who can be ranked before Huo Qubing and Wei Qing over the past thousands of years: Sun Wu, the grandson of the emperor; Bai Qi, the Marquis of Wu'an; Xiang Yu, the Overlord of Western Chu; and Han Xin, the Military Genius."

Liu Che had completely lost his ability to speak.

He thought it was great enough to have a general like Wei Qing in his life, but he never expected that he had such a great treasure in his hands that he had not yet discovered, and that man was only fourteen years old!

Even Zhang Liang, who was sitting next to Zhu Biao, couldn't help but look back when he heard that Liu Che had a young general who was second only to Xiang Yu and Han Xin.

Unlike others, he, Xiang Yu and Han Xin were from the same era, and Zhang Liang knew better than anyone else how good these two guys were at marching and fighting.

But according to what people in later generations said, Liu Che actually had two such powerful generals?

One is Wei Qing, the other is Huo Qubing. They are uncle and nephew, and both are relatives of the Empress of Liu Che's family... Maybe the Liu family's ancestral tomb caught fire, so this kid got it? No wonder he can be called Emperor Wu of Han. With such a military commander, who wouldn't have abundant martial virtues!
"…You are so lucky."

Zhang Liang could only silently pat Liu Che's arm to simply express his envy.

Li Shimin took advantage of Liu Che's surprise and whispered:

"I gave you such a great gift, why don't you plan to change seats?"

Liu Che nodded dazedly, stood up like a zombie, and exchanged seats with Li Er like a wandering soul.

He no longer cared about whether he had classes or not, or whether he had a good position or not. His mind was filled with only one thing -

After class, when we return to the third year of Yuanshuo, we must bring Huo Qubing and Wei Qing, the uncle and nephew, here. We must let Huo Qubing enter the military camp early, so as not to waste such a talent!!!

On the podium.

"Cough cough."

Song Shen coughed twice and looked at the group of students below who were whispering to each other without any rules.

No one knew what they were talking about; even Zhang Liang and Zhu Biao, two good students, were led astray.

When everyone's attention was drawn to the cough and they stopped whispering, Song Shen pretended to be calm and said:

"At the end of last class, we talked about rubber trees, right?"

"Teacher, I want to correct a mistake of my own. I didn't look through the materials carefully before, so I remembered some things wrongly. The origin of the rubber tree is actually the same as sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn. They are all in America."

"Its origin is Brazil in South America, and its climate is similar to that of Southeast Asia, both of which are tropical. So after the decline of the rubber planting industry in South America, Southeast Asia became the new rubber kingdom. This is my fault, and I apologize to you, teacher."

"Now that I've corrected that, do you still want to hear about rubber trees?"

The eyes of the people below became like those of wolves again.

"Listen, teacher, you are talking!"

Damn it, why are there so many good things in America?!
(End of this chapter)