Early the next morning, Chen Ao woke up from the sound practice. He opened his eyes and couldn't help but pull his arm out of the sleeping Miao'er pillow, and couldn't help but say, "Hey, isn't this the palace? Why is there such a cry?" He thought about which damn eunuch was making trouble. He pulled his shoes and opened the window. He saw Zhou Heng shouting orders to run alone by the pavilion not far away.

It was golden autumn at this time. The golden morning light shook the awesome eyes and awesome said in a slight sting. He said angrily: "Get out!" and picked up something next to him and smashed it down.

Zhou Heng, who was under his head, looked up and saw Chen Ao, smacked his tongue, and hurriedly ran away with his head in his arms.

Miao'er whispered lazily on the gums: "It's early in the morning, don't frighten Zhu'er."

Chen Ao hurriedly put on his clothes and went out of the Manjushri Pavilion. He saw Zhou Heng still leaning over, hooking his hand at him, and signaling him to come.

Zhou Heng quickly walked over and said with a smile: "My cousin got up so early."

Chen Ao said with a straight face: "What are you just now?"

Zhou Heng smiled bitterly and said, "I have to practice this time every day, and it is the same whether I am in school or not."

Chen Ao had no choice but to take him, so he shook his head and said, "If you want to practice, go to a remote place to practice. Look, isn't that OK?"

Zhou Heng shrank his neck and said, "Isn't it said it's the residence of the concubine? Will people be irresponsible when they see it?"

Chen Ao stopped talking.

Seeing him like this, Zhou Heng asked carefully: "Cousin, did I say something too much yesterday?"

Chen Ao said bitterly: "It's not too much..."

Zhou Heng immediately became excited and said, "That's good, I thought I was saying something wrong. My cousin, when I came to Longxing Mansion, I was very bored in the palace every day. I want to go out of the palace and meet Instructor Han and all the doctoral classmates?"

Chen Ao suddenly felt happy and thought to himself that it would be best if he left. If he had known this, he would not have left this disaster here.

Chen Ao took Zhou Heng's hand hypocritically and said, "Cousin, is it because you can't live here? I haven't seen you for so long. I usually have their own things. Now I've finally gotten idle and I want to talk to you more!"

Zhou Hengda was moved, and held Chen Ao's hand tightly, and said emotionally: "Cousin, I, Zhou Heng, don't have many relatives, I usually can't get along with my father, my mother stays in the Buddhist temple all day long, and my sister often preaches, but my cousin is the closest to me. Since my cousin is trying to keep me, at worst I can go and see them, and I will come back to the palace in a few hours."

Chen Ao looked flattered on his face and cursed in his heart, "I'm a pig, why are you polite to him?" He immediately said, "But what if my classmates keep you?"

Zhou Heng slapped his chest and said, "Don't worry, even if you are holding the nine-headed cow, I will definitely come back on time. I know that my cousin is very bored when he stays here. No matter what, even if you are a sea of ​​swords and fire, you will come to talk to me."

Chen Ao smiled embarrassedly and said, "What you said is right..."

Zhou Heng said goodbye and jogged towards the palace gate. Chen Ao looked at his back and immediately called an eunuch, saying, "I will send the emperor to Han Shizhong, and tell him that no matter what method he uses, he will keep Zhou Heng. If he doesn't keep him, he will ask Han Shizhong to come and see him!"

The eunuch looked at Chen Ao in confusion, confused.

Chen Ao said coldly: "Go quickly!"

The world was finally clear. Chen Ao returned to the pavilion to tease Chen Zhu for a while, and then obediently went to the warm pavilion to read the book for a while, and his mind was already thinking about returning to Song.

Fortunately, Han Shizhong was not disgraced, and he didn't know what method he used to make Zhou Heng disappear for a few days. Chen Ao also began to get busy. Since he was going to travel far, he had to explain many things. He summoned Yang Zhen, Wang Zhao, Gui Thorn, and Wu Da and Li Qing for several days. He gave a lot of instructions and finally explained it clearly. In terms of government affairs, if something big cannot be decided by even the three provinces, he can send it to Bianjing quickly.

As for the military preparation, just keep an eye on the Mingwu Academy and the newly trained imperial guards; however, the border troops in various places must also start to disrupt the personnel appointments of some military generals, eliminate the old and weak, and establish a military training department from the Mingwu Academy, go to various places to inspect, supervise and inspect the results of training in various places, and verify the situation of empty salary.

Doing this will not only provide a check and balance on the garrisons in various places, but also improve combat power. When the warriors from the Mingwu Academy are released in the future, it will be the time for a large-scale training nationwide.

However, this time, the scale of abolishing the old and weak is quite large, with more than 500,000 Xia troops, almost 30% of them were removed, leaving only 350,000. On the one hand, there are too many old and weak, and there are still many old soldiers in their seventies in the army. Not to mention fighting, it is difficult for such people to marches. Of course, they allocated money to send them back to their hometowns. However, even so, the defense of the Jurchens in the north has not relaxed. After all, most of the Xia troops were stationed in the Song realm area in the past, and now Song and Xia cannot have another conflict. A large number of southern border troops can be moved to the Qilian Mountains.

I originally thought that everything could be explained clearly in ten days and half a month, but I didn't expect that it would take October. Since that's the case, Chen Ao could only spend the next year with Miaoer. It was the harvest season. Almost every household used Xingu to grind glutinous rice flour to make small dumplings, make vegetarian dishes fillings, and then steamed them to "Zhaitian" outside the gate. The Taoist temples in the city and Taoist disciples all had sky poles, and yellow flags were hung on the poles, and the flags were written with words such as "Heaven and Earth Water Palace", "Good weather", "Good national peace and peace", "Eliminate disasters and bring blessings".

There were many Han people in Xixia, and Dangxiang people were already deeply sinicized. In addition, Li Ganshun advocated state gifts when he was in power, so this festival was just the same as the Song Dynasty, and it was even better than that. It was also very lively. Chen Ao ate a vegetarian group with Miao'er in the palace, and also steamed a lot of them in the palace to send them to Mingwu Academy and Wubei School Captain. Then he went to greet Li Ganshun. The palace where Li Ganshun lived was called Shengyuan Palace. A yellow flag had been erected at the door of the palace, with the words "Full weather" written on it. Seeing Chen Ao, Li Ganshun seemed very happy and waved his hand to ask him about his return to Song. When he heard about returning to Song, Miao'er's pretty face showed a little displeasure. At this time, he tried his best to act like he was unwilling to interfere, and just said a few words to return to Xixia when he had nothing to do.

Chen Ao and Li Ganshun had a conversation for a while, and Li Ganshun smiled bitterly: "The great Xia governs the country, but he wants to enter Bianjing as a minister, just like Zheng Heng is in charge of Zhou's office. I don't care about your affairs. Since Da Xia is in your hands, I will only ask about these things." After saying that, he laughed: "It's better that I have a lord to accompany you."

Then he asked the wet nurse to carry Chen Qi. At this time, Chen Qi could turn over and become more and more dishonest. As soon as he fell into Li Ganshun's hand, he looked at the wet nurse's chest and cried loudly.

Chen Ao cursed in his heart, "If you have milk, you will be your mother." After sitting with her for a while, she left the Shengyuan Palace.

At this time, the Jurchens finally had news, Wanyan Aguda finally surrendered, and the jewelry and silver coins worth one billion were prepared, and thousands of Jurchen warriors were sent to the Qilian Mountains. Xixia sent people to count them. After confirming that, the two sides made a deposit, and there was no mistake in the middle. Thousands of big cars are now traveling back and forth between the Qilian Mountains and Longxing Mansion, transporting this huge wealth. In order to protect these treasures, five thousand imperial guards were escorted, and it was impossible to place them all without a month. These things can only be temporarily stored in the inner treasury. Thinking of this shocking wealth, Chen Ao felt as if he had held the whole world in his own hands, and he was full of energy.

On October 18th, Chen Ao finally rode his horse out of the palace and led a team of guards out of the city from Dongyang Gate. Outside the city, nearly 7,000 infantry troops, the navy captain had been waiting for a long time, and led by Han Shizhong to protect Chen Ao to the south.

When entering Xixia from three sides, the future was uncertain, and I don’t know how many people were staring at it. The towns along the way were hesitant and swaying, and the attitude was cold. Now when Chen Ao returned, it was another situation. Whether it was a Han official or a foreign general, Chen Ao Ren was ready to welcome him before he arrived, and he was extremely eager.

Chen Ao walked quickly and did not stop. It took only ten days to finally pass the Song realm. When he stepped into this place, Chen Ao had a long separation, which made the lieutenants enter Xihe for a while.

At this time, Xihe was no longer just a simple military center like before, and business gradually became prosperous. When merchants came, there were naturally many warehouses and taverns, which were very lively. Tong Guan still went out of the city to greet him. However, Chen Ao, a man who came with Tong Guan, vaguely remembered that this man was wearing a python robe and was full of energy. He was standing in front of Tong Guan, and Tong Guan, the first boss on the three sides, had to stand on the lower right side of him.

"Duke Chengguo..." Chen Ao called out the man's name.

After the founding Duke of Cheng, Wang Xin, the Wang family once reduced his title. Later, Shenzong thought about the contributions of their ancestors, and thought that there were too few dukes in the court. Since the titles of the Song Dynasty were rarely inherited, there were only a few dukes in the time of Shenzong. So with a big stroke, they actually asked them to replenish their ancestors' kindness. However, the Duke of Chengguo did not have much relationship in the capital, so although he was a county duke, he was not very prominent, and even some marquis were not as good as those of some marquis. Chen Ao had had several dealings with Wang Xin, but he was not very familiar with him. He only remembered that this guy wanted to make up for his friendship.

I just don’t know why he came to this town. Looking at his high spirits, it seems that he has been in full swing recently.

Wang Xin is not old, around thirty years old, and he looks young. Perhaps because he always has a tail between his legs in Bianjing City, he always maintains a humble smile on his face.

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Chapter completed!