In the small hall of the side hall of Xuanzheng Hall.

Han Mochu was dressed in court clothes, and sat quietly with a cup of snowy cold tea bestowed by the imperial court.After the court meeting, he originally wanted to take Gu Xiu to a small street in the West Market to eat a bowl of rose glutinous rice balls, and then return to the camp in the suburbs of Beijing for military training.The glutinous rice balls are boiled with milk, and even the soup is filled with rose honey brewed by the shop itself. The glutinous rice balls are also Gu Xiu's favorite kind of sweet and soft taste, almost comparable to Princess Qingzhao's craftsmanship, and it only takes two Ten Wen a bowl.But the quantity is limited, only three hours a day.

Not wanting to walk out of the gate of the Xuanzheng Palace, Cui Shang, the old eunuch next to the king, brought him here and told him to wait here.

Han Mochu didn't know how long he had been waiting, anyway, when the king came, the tea in his hand was already cold.

Along with the king, there was also that little white cat-like Mr. Nanxi.It has been a long time since Han Mochu asked for an order to leave the palace with the army.All these years, his appearance still hasn't changed at all, he is still full of style and luxury.

"My minister, Han Mochu, has met His Majesty and Mr. Nanxi."

"Flat body." Gu Hong put his arms around Nan Xi's waist, and sat half leaning on the large reclining chair in the main seat.

"Your Majesty, I haven't seen Han Canjun for a long time. Compared with previous years, Han Canjun is much rougher." Mr. Nan Xi raised his phoenix eyes and looked up and down at Han Mochu in front of him.

Han Mochu, who returned from the battlefield, had human blood on his hands, no matter how gentle his face was, it was difficult to conceal the killing between his brows.

"Back to Mr. Nanxi, I'm serving in the army right now, so I'm slovenly on weekdays, so I'm naturally a bit vulgar." Han Mochu bent his eyes and smiled warmly, still shining with a distracting charm.

"Okay, I called you here today to talk about business." Gu Hong slapped the man in his arms punitively on the buttocks, signaling him not to interrupt right now: "You have also seen the farce of the court that day, and it was also because of you. Yes. I came here today to ask you carefully, Zhan Wang usually trusts you more than you, and you have entertained many court doors for him, how come there is no one who speaks for him to protect his capital?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Zhan has always only allowed ministers to make friends and not form cliques." Han Mochu showed a look of distress, and said softly: "I will act according to Your Highness, and only have heart-to-heart friendship with all ministers."

"If he doesn't allow it, don't you know how to weigh it? He is young now, how can you listen to him in everything?" Gu Hong, the king who was about to speak out, was a little anxious.

"As the official of the County King's Mansion, I naturally have to act according to His Highness's orders."

"Fortunately, you have been his young teacher for the past few years. Why didn't you persuade him to do anything inappropriate in his reign? I let you enter the palace in the past to teach my children how to know how to advance and retreat. Sophisticated. Why did you learn to be stubborn with him?"

"Your Majesty, please forgive my stupidity. I think that the job of a prince's junior teacher is to train His Highness to be a useful prince to His Majesty. I only know how to be a dutiful courtier."

"Duty? Then tell me what your duty is?"

"The duty of the minister is to assist His Majesty and share his worries."

"Since you know that you want to assist His Highness, then do you know that there are undercurrents and turbulent currents in this ancient court? There are many things in the world, and he is young. As a young teacher, why don't you know how to help him? When the water is clear, there will be no fish." Hasn’t Mr. Yi Ji taught you such a simple truth?”

"Returning to Your Majesty, Mr. Yi taught me how to be a pure minister since I was a child. No matter what happens in the court, the only way to be a minister is to serve the monarch wholeheartedly. As for those complicated things, they are not serious. It is of no benefit to the country, and it is of no benefit to the king." Han Mochu bowed to the ground: "I am willing to do my best for Your Majesty, I am willing to do my best for His Majesty."

King Gu Hong instantly felt that he had really asked nonsense, the old days were too old!If Mr. Yi Ji from the ancestral dynasty could break through the way of officialdom, he wouldn't have gone to Baiming Mountain with a bamboo mat to hide from the world.The two masters and apprentices are both talented and resourceful people, how could they be so pure and innocent when they are in the officialdom?He also taught his own son to be so innocent, and he didn't even have any defense against others.

"Han Canjun, why did you go to the border and become so stupid when you came back? Your Majesty didn't call you here to express your sincerity." Nan Xi, who was leaning against Gu Hong's arms, covered her lips and smiled lightly: "Your Majesty's The meaning is to tell you not to make His Royal Highness Zhan Wang so lonely, accept the gifts that should be received, give the gifts that should be given, and leave the favors that should be given away, and His Highness will do what other princes and princes do."

"Mr. Nanxi doesn't know something. Your Highness has a strict order. If you give or receive it privately with the courtiers, you will be punished by eighty sticks." Han Mochu frowned slightly, and said respectfully: "If I act like this, I'm afraid Your Highness will blame me."

"His Royal Highness the King of War is devoted to the army. He usually manages the storeroom of the mansion or something? Do you insist on receiving gifts in front of him? Make friends with those people in front of him? Your Majesty wants you to be in court Do you understand that the hall and His Highness will open up more doors and will help you more in the future?"

"This... I understand, I will do my best."

King Gu Hong squeezed his sore and swollen eyelids, he was very glad that he had Nan Xi who would always understand him in his arms.

As a king, he actually wants to teach the people around his son how to make friends for his son, which sounds unbelievable.

Fortunately, all the things he couldn't say were spoken through Nan Xi's mouth.

On the next day of the Great Court, without any warning, King Gu Hong awarded Han Mochu, a secondary official of the fourth-rank office in Zhanwang's mansion, the official fourth-rank official title, and also rewarded him with the post of chief of the army.

According to the system of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the highest official in the county prince's mansion can only be from the fourth rank, and the one who can be assigned to the official fourth rank is either a prince or a prince.

This move of the king clearly expressed his attitude.

He values ​​Gu Xiu and intends to support Gu Xiu.He obviously didn't care about the crimes committed by Gu Xiu's ancestral clan.

The king's attitude toward whom determines the direction of the court.With this decree, the eyes of civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty looked at Gu Xiu and Han Mochu instantly differently, and they became good colleagues who are affectionate and affectionate.

On the palace road back towards Li Palace, Gu Xiu still had a cold face all the way, no matter who came up to greet him, he would be indifferent.

Han Mochu was different, he was newly appointed as a high-ranking official and received a reward, even if it was pretending, he had to pretend to be happy.Whoever says congratulations to him, he will also say congratulations and congratulations.

Originally, it only took a quarter of an hour to walk the palace road every day, but it took less than half an hour today.

At the gate of the inner palace, Han Mochu politely declined the invitation of several high-ranking officials to send them off in their own carriages, and together with Gu Xiu, they stepped on the horses parked in front of the palace gate.

"Your Highness, why is your face so ugly?"

"nothing."

"Your Highness has won the king's heart now, so you don't have to be too restrictive about some things."

"Yeah." Gu Xiu's expression was still very bad.

"Your Highness, are you thinking that the civil and military faces in the palace have changed too quickly? Do you feel at a loss?"

"No."

"Then what is His Highness thinking?"

"This king is thinking." Gu Xiu raised his handsome and resolute face, and said solemnly with a sullen face, "Is the rose glutinous rice balls in Xishi Xiaojie sold out?"

In the 19th year of Yongxi, on the [-]th day of September, there was an urgent report from the border.

In order to fight for an inch of land in the Jiang Kingdom, the Koguryo Kingdom, which had always been subject to the Great Zhou Dynasty, broke out wars during the autumn harvest season in August.

King Gu Hong sent three waves of envoys to negotiate peace with him in order to calm down the war. The three peace talks all ended in failure, and Goguryeo officially declared war on the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Because this battle is about the face of the country, the royal family must go to the war to show the country's prestige.King Gu Hong immediately issued an order to order Gu Xiu, the king of war, to gather troops and horses and set off on a certain day.

At noon, on the passageway from the palace outside the Xuanzheng Hall, all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty saw the only little prince in the palace who had not yet been crowned king, holding His Highness Zhanwang's shoulder and crying so heartbreakingly.

"Seventh brother, you've only been back for a few days! I won't let you go! If you leave, I'll be left alone! I'm going to let the emperor take back his life!"

Gu Xiu stood where he was, motionless, being hugged by Gu You, tears and snot rubbing his sleeves.

"Sixth brother, the military order is like this, besides, I will be back in at least six or seven months."

"Six or seven months..." Gu You raised his head from Gu Xiu's arm, and cried louder: "No! I don't agree! You agreed that Shangyuan would throw pots for me this year! You agreed on this year's birthday The one who took me to the suburbs of Beijing! I don’t agree!”

"I heard that there are white tigers in Goguryeo." Gu Xiu endured the sharp pain like his ears, and exhausted all his patience and whispered: "On the way back, shall I bring a tiger cub back with you as a birthday present?"

"I don't want it! Why do I want that thing!" Gu You ignored the courtiers who were obviously talking about it, and pawed at Gu Xiu with both hands and feet: "I don't care! I don't want anything except my seventh brother!"

"Since the Sixth Highness is so affectionate and friendly, why don't I ask His Majesty for an order to let the Sixth Highness accompany the army." Han Mochu, who had been standing aside and watching, finally opened his mouth, and with one sentence, Gu You's half-truths and half-fake tears were completely wiped out. Hold back.

"Then... the army is still..." Gu You climbed off Gu Xiu rationally: "Let's forget the army, I can't walk if I wear that armor."

Gu You stretched out his hand to wipe the teardrops on his face, and his face turned faster than the weather in July and August.The torrential rain will fall when it says it will fall, and it will clear when it says it will be sunny: "Seventh brother, you have to take care of yourself. You have to hide from the blind sword, and run back if you can't win. At worst, you won't be a general, even if you are gone. Salary, Sixth Brother can afford you too."

"Okay." Gu Xiu breathed a sigh of relief, and straightened the sleeves of his court clothes: "If I am defeated, I will come back. Let the sixth brother take care of me."

A few days before Gu Xiu was about to go to war, another pile of protective treasures were sent to the army by Bao Fu, the little eunuch next to Gu You.

Compared to Gu You, Su Che's attitude towards his brother's upcoming battle is obviously much calmer.

All kinds of medicines for epidemic diseases that occur frequently in autumn and winter seasons are neatly prepared with the ones prepared by Han Mo. There are also medicines for knife wounds, sword wounds, burns, and scalds. Wuji Dan is a more powerful Wushuang Wuji Dan.

According to Su Che, the efficacy of this medicine is three times that of the original bottle of Wuji Pill, and ordinary sword wounds can be healed with only two pills.And repeatedly emphasized that this medicine is extremely precious, and no one is allowed to use it except him, Han Mochu, including Gu Xiu.

Han Mochu also felt that Gu Xiu didn't need such a powerful wound medicine.

Because he will guard Gu Xiu and never let him get hurt so badly.

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