Tang Dynasty good husband

Chapter 97 A Good Poem to Sing

In the city of Chang'an, the haze brought about by the war gradually faded away with the end of the war.

All industries in the city also began to gradually return to normal life, and there were still rumors among the people, who vaguely blamed Li Shimin for the source of the Turkic invasion.

Thinking that this was a natural disaster caused by Li Shimin's rebellious fate, what's more, it even became more and more fierce as it spread, directly threatening that this was just the beginning.

However, this rumor was soon extinguished. After several days of investigation based on clues, the Jingzhao Mansion finally found out that the instigator behind the scenes was the remnants of Prince Yin's party, and Li Shimin directly ordered the execution.

On the other side, news also came from Jingyang County. Of the more than 200 sergeants, less than [-] died in battle.

As for the three people Li Shimin personally awarded, there was no trouble at all. Perhaps the worst one was Qin Chao, who was more or less injured, but that injury was not a big deal to the sergeant.

At the city gate, people's heads surged and there was a commotion.

Cheng Yaojin and Niu Jinda stood here with their family members to welcome the eldest son who had returned from the battlefield.

Although there was a reward before, it was more like a reward in the nature of a pension. If the imperial court did not grant a reward after the sergeant returned to the city, it might cause Cheng Yaojin and Niu Jinda's dissatisfaction.

However, the previous award has jumped five levels, which has never happened in the history of the Tang Dynasty. Under Changsun Wuji's suggestion, this time Li Shimin only rewarded Qin Chao, Cheng Chumo and Niu Jianhu. property and other things, and the rest of the soldiers will be rewarded based on their merits.

Zhongshusheren is a very powerful position. Although he is just an errand runner, no matter where he goes, no one dares to delay them.

But at this moment, Zhou Tongren from Zhongshushe could only stay on the side obediently, in front of Cheng Yaojin, the devil king of the world, at such a time, even Li Shimin couldn't bother him.

A Duke of the State, a Duke of the County, and a member of Zhongshushe, these three people are enough to cause the shock of Chang'an City, especially when the three of them appear at the gate of the city with a large number of people, it even caused a lot of trouble. People's onlookers.

"Miss, let's go back quickly. Mistress will be angry if it's too late." Chunxiao reminded Wang Shishi with a look of anxiety on her face, following closely behind her.

"Wait a little longer!" Wang Shishi looked outside the city, but still saw no one, so she couldn't help but sighed.

"Miss, that guy might have died in the battle? I heard that Jingyang fought fiercely. It is considered good if one out of ten people can come back. The emperor didn't follow the rules and gave rewards out of the rules. Those ministers also looked at the face of the dead. I didn't stop it..." Chun Xiao continued.

Chunxiao didn't have a good impression of Qin Chao, although Qin Chao took care of them on the way from Luozhou to Chang'an.

But Chunxiao always remembered how Qin Chao made things difficult for them a few days before the journey.

Although Qin Chao changed his normal behavior later, and with the contact along the way, Chun Xiao gradually felt that it might be a joke Qin Chao played on them, but Chun Xiao still couldn't figure it out in his heart, and he was unwilling to do anything good for Qin Chao. complexion.

"Shut up..." Wang Shishi's complexion changed drastically, and she reprimanded Chunxiao.

However, she pouted, but Wang Shishi didn't know what to say.

The emperor conferred such a reward and blocked the battle in Jingyang. Now the city doesn't even know what's going on there.

The only news I know is that Jingyang City has been defended.

Based on the emperor's reward, people also began to make habitual speculations. This kind of reward is unprecedented in history. At this time, the only possibility for the court to reward frontline soldiers in this way is that the frontline fought too hard. In order to stabilize the rear, He wanted to recruit more soldiers for the imperial court, so he made an exception to reward him as an encouragement.

To put it bluntly, these rewards are actually for the courage of those people in Chang'an City, and the people in front are probably already dead.

"It's coming! It's coming!" A commotion gradually broke out in the crowd.

Everyone rushed forward eagerly to catch a glimpse. People in the Tang Dynasty were good at martial arts and especially worshiped heroes.

In front of the court, these people were made into heroes in this war. The purpose was naturally to encourage others not to fight timidly, which led to the current scene.

"It looks like there are about two hundred people."

"It looks like this battle was really miserable."

"I've been to Jingyang City before. It's not a big city, but there must be at least a thousand soldiers to defend the city. Now there are only more than two hundred people who have returned..."

There was a lot of discussion in the crowd, and there were different opinions, but each of them sounded very reasonable anyway.

And after hearing that there were only more than 400 people back, Wang Shishi's heart tightened suddenly. Qin Chao's army has more than [-] people. Wang Shishi knows this, even though the number of people who came back is more than others guessed several times, but Wang Shishi was still very worried.

Ever since Qin Chao led his troops to leave that day, Wang Shishi's heart seemed to be blocked by something. She was in panic all day long. She didn't think about the tea and the food was not fragrant. All kinds of things went wrong one after another, which led to... Her aunt kept rolling her eyes and looking for trouble for her everywhere.

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"Chang'an, worthy of being the capital of the world..." Chang'an City has gradually appeared in front of his eyes, looking at the huge city, Qin Chao also felt a lot of emotion.

In later generations, he once visited some ancient cities, but those cities were not original, and many places had been destroyed long ago, and there was a big gap with ancient times in terms of scale and architectural style.

Now that he finally saw the features of Chang'an, Qin Chao still felt a sense of emotion in his heart even though he had seen a megacity with a population of tens of millions in later generations.

Mighty and magnificent, just looking at it from a distance can make people feel a sense of pride and inexplicable excitement.

With the glory, the excitement, and the danger gone, Qin Chao wanted to pretend to show off his thoughts, and after much deliberation, he had to choose a poem that was a little more appropriate to the situation:

"The iron clothes were broken on the battlefield of hundreds of battles, and Jingyang has been surrounded by several numbers. Break out of the camp and shoot the Turkic generals, and lead the remnant soldiers back with a hundred horses."

"What a poem..." Cheng Chumo, who was wearing bright white armor and covered in blood, clapped his hands repeatedly.

As a scholar, Cheng Chumo's appreciation of literary poetry was obviously higher than that of Niu Jianhu and Su Lie, so he was also the first to react.

"Lieutenant, the poem is a good poem, but it just doesn't fit the occasion." Su Lie couldn't help but say a few more words. Although his literary attainments are not good, he has a lot of experience in life. After careful taste, he understood Qin Chao. meaning in the poem.

"That's right, brother, we have clearly won this battle. We didn't lose Jingyang, and we didn't break out of the siege. Instead, we came back upright. Change it, Jingyang has been surrounded for several days, and we defended the city and killed the Turkic generals. This is the right time. !" Cheng Chumo couldn't wait to change the poem, and waited proudly for Qin Chao to adopt his improved version.

Qin Chao glanced at Cheng Chumo angrily, I tried my best to remember that this poem is used to pretend, okay?You're pretending to be so forceful, what should I pretend?

As a result, Qin Chao showed a sad face and said with all his strength, "Has this battle really been won? Has Jingyang really not been lost?"

(End of this chapter)