"What happened later?" He Qian asked dissatisfiedly and poked him with the bamboo stick in her hand.

"Later, it was gone later." Li Xingzhou spread his hands.

"Ah, you lied to others. You clearly said that there were 81 difficulties. How could you say so much? Why didn't you lose it?" He Qian pouted, put her hands on her hips. The boss was dissatisfied with her expression that you couldn't deceive.

Li Xingzhou was also helpless. He did not memorize the original work of Journey to the West. He remembered all the things he saw when he was a child. Then he talked to two girls in vernacular, but how could he remember the whole story?

"Oh, you are a story-teller, even more arrogant than me." He smiled and poked the little girl's forehead. The little girl grimaced back, and Yue'er also came over and looked at him with bright eyes: "The prince said one more, it sounds nice."

On the stone table on the other side, Qiu'er was verifying her manuscript paper. The old ship of Weijia Shipyard has been demolished and the construction of a new ship will officially begin tomorrow. Driven by the new contract, the workers began to gradually become enthusiastic and couldn't wait to start construction.

Shiyu is also helping. She has been following Qiu'er recently and is almost inseparable. Li Xingzhou doesn't understand what's going on, but Jiao helps Qiu'er record and calculate. After all, she is the number one talented woman. She doesn't even talk about her talent and agile mind, and she is definitely not stupid. She also learns from the bottom, is proficient in planning, and can read and write, which is just right for Qiu'er.

In such an era, there are not many people who know mathematics and literacy.

"Stop listening to the story. Let's talk about it one day when you have time. Let's have three fighting landlords." Li Xingzhou suggested.

He Qian's eyes suddenly lit up, and Yue'er nodded repeatedly: "I'll go get the playing cards." Then she rushed into the small room. That was their treasure and she was very careful in keeping it.

He Qian looked around, stared at him for a while, and then said, "Hmph, you are so amazing. How long have you been? There are beautiful women in the yard."

Li Xingzhou looked at her with a funny look: "Are you praising Wang Po for selling melons? Are you boasting about yourself?"

"Hmph, I am born with beauty." He Qian said as if she remembered something, and said angrily: "I asked others to choose the perfume last time. As a result, I was the one I chose from, so I didn't like Narcissus."

There are currently two major sales channels for perfumes in the royal palace. One is sold in Zhenbao Pavilion, and the other is that many royal relatives and powerful people in the capital directly ordered it. The sales volumes of the two are similar. However, no matter how in short supply, he will leave some for giving away people, and He Qian is definitely indispensable.

Seeing her angrily moaning, her mouth was almost rising to the sky, Li Xingzhou quickly smiled and said, "Yes, yes, yes, I will ask your sister Shiyu to take you to the store tomorrow. You can choose it yourself at that time, but you can only pick two bottles at most."

The little girl was happy: "I only have one bottle, and I can't use it if I have too many."

Yue'er's voice came from the room: "Criminal, I counted it, there were few cards, I'll look for it."

"Well, look for it slowly, don't be anxious, the more anxious you are, the less you can't find it." Li Xingzhou replied loudly.

"OK....."

He simply stepped back and lay on the comfortable lawn behind him. He sucked deeply the fragrance of the soil and green grass, and felt refreshed.

From time to time, laughter from Ajiao and Shiyu from afar came from time to time, Qiu'er would laugh from time to time, relaxing all of a sudden, and the long-term pressure disappeared.

"What are you doing? Not serious?" He Qian walked around in her black pony boots and looked at him from a high point.

Li Xingzhou stretched and said, "What are you doing, take a break."

"How could you rest like this?" He Qian kicked him in the leg, then squatted down and grabbed the grass beside him: "Why haven't you gone to Kaiyuan Mansion these two days? If you don't go, I'm so bored. Everyone else is afraid of my father and dare not play with me."

"I have to lead the imperial guards these days, and I can't go." He answered with his eyes closed.

"Imperial Guard?" He Qian was a little embarrassed after hearing this: "Hmph, I didn't expect you to have some skills, then... Then you won't go to Kaiyuan Mansion in the future."

He nodded lazily.

"Oh..." the little girl answered in disappointment.

"If you are bored, you can come to the palace to play. Jiao, Qiu'er, Yue'er and poetry are all there, you can play with them." Li Xingzhou lay on the grass to comfort her.

He Qian poked him with a small wooden stick: "What about you?"

"Well, why do you think I'm taking over the imperial guards? The emperor wants me to go to the south. It may take a long time to come back." Li Xingzhou smiled and felt helpless. He was also powerless to control the old emperor's decision.

The little girl was stunned for a moment: "Nanfang? Are you going to go to war?"

"Hahahaha, I want me to fight." Li Xingzhou said funnyly: "I am just an unknown man, I just go to cheer for the drums. But if I really fight, the rebels in Suzhou will be a mob, but I am an enemy of one another." He said lazily, bragging is not a big deal anyway.

After a while, I found that the little girl didn't say anything back and was slightly puzzled: "Why don't you say it anymore."

"What are you saying? You're going to be a foe, shameless. I've been cured last time, and I'll brag... You still laugh, but as I said, Li Xingzhou found that her tone was wrong, and stood up slightly, and found that the girl's eyes were full of tears, and she was almost falling out.

"Haha, can I cry like you? What's wrong? How come Miss He has become a little slug?"

"You're just a slug!" He Qian kicked him hard: "I almost died when I met an assassin last time. I dare to go to the south with such a terrible ability."

Li Xingzhou grabbed the girl's ankle with quick eyes and hands: "I was like that last time to save you, and the little girl is talking sarcastic now."

"You have to care!"

He laughed and sat up and said, "It's not a separation from life and death. I'm not going to fight, I just go to drink tea. I'll be back after a year or two."

"real?"

"Of course it's true." Li Xingzhou simply stood up and patted the grass clippings on his butt: "It's not far from Beijing to Guazhou, and it takes only two or three days to travel by boat, but I'm very happy that you can care about me."

"Hmph, who cares about you?" He Qian pulled back his feet with force.

After a while, Yue'er jumped and came out with playing cards.

The three of them started fighting against the Landlord.

......

The situation has become increasingly chaotic recently.

The greater the power, the greater the responsibility. Although chaos is the ladder to rise, once you get involved, you will inevitably be unable to help yourself. After all, once you get involved in this vortex, you will be destined not to have the final say alone, and you need to compromise, weigh, and fight each other.

The next afternoon, Li Xingzhou took more than 30 guards he had trained and Yan Shen to the imperial guard camp outside the city.

The Shenwu Army Camp is about three or four miles away from the capital, and it takes less than an hour to get from the royal palace to the camp.

The imperial guard camp is very large and fragmented, spreading at the foot of the mountain, spreading in a vast area of ​​dozens of miles.

At the door, the tall wooden camp gate blocked their way. When the soldiers in Wanggang saw someone coming, they hurriedly came up. Li Xingzhou handed over the emperor's document to him. The sergeant in brown, black and hard leather armor hurriedly knelt down and said, "The villain is greeting the army commander."

Li Xingzhou just nodded and signaled him to exempt him from giving him a gift.

The sergeant returned to his post and said something to the people on the wall of the camp. Then, the thick wooden door slowly opened inside.

He led everyone into the camp and found that it was much wider than he had imagined. He could see the tents and houses that were invisible at first sight, and there were soldiers patrolling around, and some war horses running back and forth. The dust in the distance was flying, covering the sky and the sun.

Li Xingzhou found a young man next to him and asked about the location of the Central Army's tent and was heading there.

Unexpectedly, I turned around a stone house with old walls filled with half dry firewood to cook. I happened to meet the oncoming Zhong Daoyu, as well as Wei Chuan, Zhao Guanghua, and Tong Guan beside him.

They were all riding horses, followed by eight personal soldiers wearing hard-clad armor and holding general's flags. The two flags in front were the general's flag and the flag with the black "tom" written on the purple background.

"God General, come here well." Li Xingzhou stopped his horse and bowed his hand.

Zhong Daoyu looked at him deeply, then bowed his hands blankly: "The prince is so majestic."

"No matter how powerful he is, he is not as powerful as a general. He is in charge of the new army and plans to restructure the imperial guards with one hand. He works hard and has made great achievements and is famous." Li Xingzhou smiled.

Wei Chuan and Zhao Guanghua, who were beside Zhong Daoyu, both lowered their heads. They knew that the biggest contributor in this matter should have been Li Xingzhou, but because... they were not glorious in their work, they now fell on the general.

"The prince said that the general is wise and powerful, and has a deep thought for the country and the king. He is really a role model for us." Tong Guanlian took the opportunity to flatter him, and he didn't know the whole story.

Li Xingzhou was also amused by the clown, and rushed forward and patted him on the shoulder: "Hahaha, Lord Tong is really a sensible person. If you work hard with the general, you will definitely make a fortune in the future."

"Hahaha, the prince is joking, but I thank you for your son Ji Yan. You and I will be colleagues in the future. If there is any inconvenience, the prince will give the order." Tong Guan also bowed happily.

Li Xingzhou glanced at Zhong Daoyu and said, "General, my subordinates say goodbye." After saying that, he passed by, and the evil spirits behind him slowly followed him with thirty cavalry.

......

The commander of the first wing of the new army was Zhao Kuo. He was a thin and smart man. The tent was located north of the camp. Li Xingzhou was very polite and respectful when he came. He first introduced some things to the army to him, and then accepted the documents from his Privy Council and the Ministry of War, and asked someone to take them to the place where the 10th Army was stationed.

The 10th Army Camp is located in the southeast, and it will take about half an hour to walk from the Central Army.

After walking along the loess avenue for a long time, Li Xingzhou, from afar, saw the camp on the hillside. It was sparsely populated and there were large open spaces. Most of the camps were permanent buildings made of stone and wood. From afar, dust was flying, and the shouts of killing were shaking the sky.

"General, it's time for training at this afternoon." The sergeant leading the way explained.

He nodded: "Then go to the training ground."

The sergeant agreed and took them to the direction of the training ground. The training ground was in a depression, very wide below the camp where they were stationed, and the ground was covered with yellow sand, about as big as three football fields. From a distance, many sergeants were training in the yellow sand, all of whom were shooting guns at horse stairs.

At this moment, the soldiers guarding the outside of the training ground discovered their arrival. The soldiers leading the way stepped forward and said a few words to him. The young man hurriedly ran to the training ground.

Li Xingzhou was not in a hurry to go over. Soon, the imperial guards there probably understood what was going on. The instructor asked the imperial guards to stop training and gather together. He looked from a distance and estimated that it was a level. It took about ten minutes for more than 2,000 people to assemble.

It is indeed more well-trained than straitors, but there is still a gap compared to modern military forces that focus on discipline and teamwork. The gap is not about physical fitness or skills, but about different military concepts.

Seeing that it was almost the same there, Li Xingzhou rushed over.

There is a wooden platform in the south of the training ground. It is where the teacher usually gives orders. He got off the horse and walked slowly forward. Several coaches led the way and welcomed him to the platform. Thousands of eyes gathered on him. If an ordinary person had his legs weakened first, he would have seen such scenes in his previous life.

As soon as he came to power, a general in full armor knelt down on one knee: "Di Zhi, deputy commander of the 10th Army in the New Army, met the commander."

Di Zhi? Li Xingzhou was confused, and then he remembered that it was Dutou who patrolled the city with him. He helped up the young man kneeling on the ground. It was Di Zhi, "Aren't you Dutou?"

He was curious, and he was at the deputy commander of the army, but there was a huge difference between them!

Di Zhi smiled and said, "Crown Prince, when the assassin made a rebellion last time, his subordinates were brave in combat because of their contributions to protecting the emperor. After returning, they were promoted by Shangguan and became the deputy commander of the 12th Army, and later became the current tenth Army."

After saying that, he pointed to the densely packed people below and said, "Criminal, below is most of my 10th Army. Please command the commander to review it."

Li Xingzhou nodded. He came today to hand over military power.

Before he could speak, a few men hurriedly came to the stage and stood two large flags on the left and right, with the word "Li" written on it, the flag representing the royal family on the pale yellow bottom, and the other one was a white black background, with the flag of the imperial guards written by the commander of the army.

Looking at the many curious eyes below, Li Xingzhou raised his breath and shouted: "I am your new commander, Prince Xiao, and General Ranger Li Xingzhou!" As soon as he said this, he seemed to have made some solemn promise.

The men below all knelt on one knee and shouted, "I have met the commander!" The sound shook the sky and echoed in the open training ground.

Li Xingzhou nodded and said, "You are now the 10th Army in the New Army. Do you know why they are called the New Army?"
To be continued...