Chapter 313

Before getting on the carriage, Fang Xie looked at the black boy Yan crazy, but didn't ask anything. But Yan Kuang obviously understood the meaning in Fang Xie's eyes, so he shook his head. When Chen hum and Chen ha came back, they said that they didn't eat steamed stuffed buns because they were filled with fish, and the most disgusting thing they have so far is fish.

Fang Xie naturally wouldn't believe there was any steamed stuffed bun with fish, so he knew there must be a problem.

If the black boy doesn't say it now, Fang Xie doesn't intend to force him.

He nodded slightly, then turned to the back of the team and boarded huaiqiu's carriage.

"I can cross Mangdang Mountain today and reach the Yangtze River ferry before dark. Thanks to Huai Lao's teaching, I learned a lot of things I had never heard of before. I just didn't expect that the journey was so fast that I would be separated in a flash."

Huaiqiu smiled and said: "There is no feast that never ends. No matter how long we stay together, we will eventually be separated. When we get to the Yangtze River Ferry, I will go down the East and you will go West against the current. I'm afraid we will never see each other again after we say goodbye. Jue Xiao... It's not easy for you to listen to my bad old man's nonsense on the way. I know that young people don't like me What kind of old man chat, because you will think what I say is too pedantic and smelly. "

Fang Xie shook his head: "everyone is young, but you have passed and I have just arrived. If I use the place I have just arrived to ridicule the place you have passed, it is the performance of the most ignorant idiot."

Huaiqiu said fairly, "it's good that you can understand this. But most young people in the world don't understand this. In their opinion, the old people are decaying wood and have no merit at all."

Fang Xie said, "if you don't listen to the old man's advice, young people will decay faster."

Huaiqiu smiled and said: "Most young people think it's boring to talk with us. I like to pretend to be noble, so I'm too lazy to do hypocritical things to support young people. But you don't see me, I don't see you. Just don't touch each other's dislike. You're different from most people, but this sentence has been liked by me since I was young 。”

"That's right..."

He sighed slowly, looked out of the window and said gently: "I remember when I was young, I also saw my father unhappy... I always felt that what he said was useless, that he was too honest and dull, and that every word he said was meaningless. At that time, I always felt that I was right, and he... Was a person who could only make tofu and nothing else."

"When I was this age, I suddenly found that many of the words I said now were what he had said. He was stupid and dull, but he was not without wisdom. Maybe he was the same when he was young. He could not see the constraints of the old man and listen to the education of the old man."

Fang Xie nodded: "in fact, a large part of the so-called wisdom comes from accumulation. Perhaps the road taken by young people is just repeating the frivolity of their parents when they were young."

"You are an orphan."

Huaiqiu looked at Fang Xie and said, "orphans are usually a little lonely, but you are different. No one beat you, scolded you and restrained you when you were a child. Instead, you know that those are not the prejudice of the old man against you."

"Maybe it is because no one restricts me... That I understand earlier than others."

Fang Xie smiled: "huailao is full of emotion today."

"I find you more and more likable, and I'm going to be reluctant to part with you."

Huaiqiu smiled and said: "When you first came to Chang'an City, I didn't see you at all. Even when you presented the arithmetic small character method and pinyin annotation method in front of your majesty, I didn't think you were a genius. In just over a year, you climbed to this height. I always thought it was luck... But I suddenly understood a truth after spending a month with you."

"People... In fact, where has been successful by luck? Even if there is, it belongs to those who are more prepared."

He looked at Fang Xie, and his eyes were full of appreciation: "I said a lot of things these days. At the beginning, I told you these things because of your Majesty's explanation. Later, I hope to tell you more. You are successful now and will be successful in the future. The experience I know may not help you much, but it may also make you less detours."

"Leave Chang'an, leave the imperial court..."

Huaiqiu shook his head: "I had this idea ten years ago. At that time, your majesty just ascended the throne. But your majesty didn't allow me to stay. Later, I thought it was just that I was greedy for power and position and couldn't let go of some things. The older I was, the more greedy I became. I thought I could work for the Yang family for a few more years to repay the appreciation of the real emperor. I used this excuse to keep myself in office If you can't get up and down, you're still complacent. "

"Ridiculous..."

Fang Xie said, "Huai Lao, I don't know if I should say something."

"You say"

"Maybe it will take you a long time to get used to it when you return to your hometown. Without chaotang, you only have countryside, without colleagues, only villagers, without glory, only plain... You will feel idle and boring. Because I know that you are not old yet."

"Ha ha..."

Huaiqiu couldn't help laughing: "you still heard my reluctance. You little fellow is as cunning as a fox."

He paused for a moment, and suddenly said in a strange tone, "but it's better to retire now. Maybe his wife can spend a few years before he dies."

Hearing this, Fang Xie's heart suddenly moved.

……

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Huaiqiu's official words seem to mean that the world will not be peaceful for a few years. How could he say such a thing in his capacity? Even though he had returned home from his old age, Fang Xie was surprised to say such words from his mouth.

"Huai Lao... I don't understand what you mean."

Huaiqiu put down the window curtain and stopped looking at the beautiful scenery along the way: "if you don't understand, you don't understand. You just need to do your own thing. No matter how the world is, it's still the world."

Fang Xie was even more surprised.

Huai Qiugong didn't seem to want to continue on this topic. He was silent for a while and asked, "if I'm right, general Lu, who was crippled by you around Ye Jinnan, is already deeply buried under the Loess?"

Fang Xie was slightly stunned and did not deny: "yes"

"I knew you'd start with him."

Huaiqiu Justice: "To cha Luoyao, the man surnamed Lu is a good candidate. Besides, you have personal grudges with him, so I guess it's not difficult for you to kill him. It's strange if you don't take advantage of this talent according to your style of work. You deliberately don't look at that man all the way, just deliberately making him angry? He's getting more and more uncomfortable, so you can only leave the team first. And you've always been Waiting for him to leave. "

Fang Xie smiled and said, "fortunately, Huai Lao, you are not an official in the Ministry of punishment or Dali temple."

Huaiqiu shook his head: "it's not hard to guess. Ye Jinnan is afraid that he's regretting now. He didn't think of it at that time, which doesn't mean he can't think of it now. When you get to Yongzhou, he finds that Lu didn't go back, and he immediately knows what happened."

"Huai Lao means that it will not be easy for me to go to Yongzhou this time?"

Huaiqiu Gong shook his head after being silent for a long time: "after all, you are an imperial envoy. If Luo Yao really just wants to ask his majesty to marry you, even if you are not regarded as a guest of honor in Yongzhou, you will not be embarrassed. Although Luo Yao's style is direct and even cruel, his city is also unpredictable. Even if he knows that Lu's tooth is going to die, he should not pursue anything."

Fang Xie couldn't help sighing: "Your Majesty asked me to drag Luo Yao for half a year, that is to say, I have to stay in Yongzhou for at least two months. How can I spend these two months?"

"It's up to you."

Huaiqiu said fairly: "what I can teach you is nothing more than things in the court... As for how you spend two months in Yongzhou, don't pretend to be poor in front of me. If you don't even have this ability, your majesty won't send you south."

"Pregnant with old age"

Fang Xie paused for a moment and suddenly asked, "if you go beyond the rules, do you think the northwest war can be successfully calmed down?"

"Northwest is not difficult, but if you add other places... It will be difficult."

Huaiqiu thought for a moment and asked, "I heard that you once made a general plan for your majesty, blocked the waterway with a navy, cut off all the grain routes between the three northwest roads and the mainland, and planned to seal the three rivers and mountains into a wasteland?"

Fang Xie nodded: "I regret my immature idea when I say it."

"People like you will never regret it."

Huaiqiu smiled: "although this strategy is not easy to implement, it is not an option for the imperial court. Your majesty is bent on recovering the three roads in the northwest and letting you delay Luo Yao for half a year. It is also to mobilize the army to transport food and grass. However, your Majesty's personal expedition will enable millions of troops to empty the national treasury in half a year... It seems to consume more than your strategy of sealing instead of fighting."

"If we seal the waterway with the powerful navy of the imperial court, it will only take half a year. The rebels will have to March eastward. It's not easy for the rebels to cross the river without warships. Let the rebels attack once, we'll block it once, kill it if we have a chance, and retreat if we don't have a chance. Although it's a little stingy, it's good for the imperial court. Give the imperial court two years to fill the Treasury, train soldiers and courage, and then enter again There should be no defeat in the war. "

Hearing these words, Fang Xie reluctantly shook his head: "it seems that your majesty can't wait for these two years."

"Does your majesty just want to go back to the northwest three?"

Huaiqiu smiled: "I have served your majesty for more than ten years, and I know something about your Majesty's temperament. Your majesty insists on fighting against rebellion, but actually he still has the idea of entering Mengyuan. The two thousand mile grassland of Mandu banner has been drawn on the territory Map of the great Sui Dynasty, and your majesty will cut it off again?"

"Still playing?"

Fang Xie frowned: "the Treasury can support the army for half a year at most. If we use troops against Meng Yuan... Can the imperial court... Carry it?"

When he asked about this sentence, he suddenly thought of what huaiqiugong said just now that there might not be peace in a few years. He was suddenly surprised. Vaguely, he seemed to understand what huaiqiugong meant.

"That's why your majesty hasn't made up his mind yet. That's why he sent you to Yongzhou in the southwest."

Huaiqiu is fair.

Fang Xie said, "if there is no chaos in the southwest, your majesty will open his hands and feet to fight... However, if there is no chaos in the southwest for a while, it does not mean that there will be no chaos in the future. If the Imperial Army spends a few years in the Northwest, the National Treasury is empty and the military readiness decreases sharply, the southwest... May not be stable."

"Huai Lao, I'm afraid I've betrayed your Majesty's trust. If I can't find out anything, won't I miss a big event?"

Huaiqiu smiled and said calmly, "in fact, it's not difficult to say. You just need to remember that people must be guilty if they want to make a mess, no matter who. So you can see some clues from Luo Yao's attitude towards you. If he is indifferent to you, he will still be the arrogant general. If he is warm and attentive to you... You should be careful."