"Wechen greets Your Majesty." After entering the palace and seeing Li Longji, Zheng Peng saluted respectfully.

Li Longji personally helped Zheng Peng up, and said with some emotion: "Zheng Aiqing has suffered. ”

"Don't dare, this is what Weichen should do."

After Li Longji sat down, he said casually: "Give me a seat." ”

Gao Lishi moved an embroidery pier for Zheng Peng, and said with a smile: "Zheng Jianjun, except for those important ministers in the court, few can have such treatment as you." ”

After Zheng Peng heard the words and thanked him repeatedly, he sat down diagonally.

Li Longji looked Zheng Peng up and down, and asked blankly: "Zheng Aiqing, this time back to Beijing, the pace is not slow." ”

Zheng Peng was injured and far away in the Western Regions, Li Longji thought that Zheng Peng would not return until at least a month later, but he didn't expect Zheng Peng to come back so quickly, so fast that when Li Longji heard that Zheng Peng was arrested outside Chang'an City, he immediately thought that he had recognized the wrong person.

"Weichen is concerned about Your Majesty, and when he heard His Majesty's call, he hurried all the way, hoping to see His Majesty as soon as possible."

"Oh, yes" Li Longji said angrily: "If it weren't for the fact that you have made a lot of contributions in the Western Regions, I would really think that you were cowardly and fled the battlefield." ”

Zheng Peng immediately said with a wry smile: "Don't dare to deceive Your Majesty, Weichen as a supervisor, although he has been on the battlefield, he has always stood in the rear, and he has no chance to go to the front line. ”

Gao Lishi said with a smile on the side: "If you need a prison army to participate in the war, then the main general can be withdrawn." ”

Li Longji was in a good mood, and when he heard Zheng Peng say so "frankly", he smiled indifferently, and said with some concern: "I didn't suffer anything in the Western Regions, but I almost returned to Chang'an and suffered a lot, and my body is okay, right?" ”

Greetings, it is a very common thing for ordinary people, but these words came from Li Longji's mouth, and they were very good for the courtiers, Zheng Peng hurriedly said: "Your Majesty Xie cares, it's okay, it's all some skin injuries, and small setbacks are used as incentives." ”

Li Longji nodded with a smile, his face suddenly changed, and he said with some seriousness: "Although this matter is an extraordinary, if you can properly keep the holy decree that day, this kind of thing will never happen, Zheng Peng, it is disrespectful to lose the holy decree, I ask you, are you guilty?" ”

The companion is like a tiger, just now he was still concerned, but in the blink of an eye, his face was frosty, and he turned his face faster than turning a book.

Zheng Peng hurriedly left the embroidered pier to ask for guilt: "It's all the carelessness of the ministers, please forgive your majesty." ”

On the surface, Zheng Peng was a little disdainful in his heart: this trick again.

Zheng Peng knows Li Longji's character very well and likes to be in control, and for him, his favorite game is to play a stick to show the majesty of the emperor's power, and then give a sweet date to show the generosity and love of the Son of Heaven.

Guo Ziyi is really a refinement, Zheng Peng sighed secretly in his heart.

Yao Chong dealt with the Kelaiyi incident, and most of them could be properly handled, but the lost holy decree was not recovered, and he turned this matter into a confused account.

Obviously, Yao Chong did it deliberately, if he really found the holy decree and followed the vine, it would be even more solid that Hong Feng and his people ignored the emperor's order, and the involvement was too great, and the real mastermind would definitely be found, so that Yao Chong couldn't take his son out no matter how hard he tried.

Before entering the palace, Guo Ziyi said that the emperor's mind was difficult to guess, but he asserted that the reward was definitely not as rich as imagined, because Zheng Peng's official position and background were a problem, and in order not to make Zheng Peng's expectations too high, he would knock it at first.

When this happened, even when he asked for a reward, he didn't dare to open his mouth.

Li Longji snorted coldly, and then spoke: "Seeing that you are doing well in the Western Regions, it is also out of righteous indignation in the Kelaiyi, so I will spare you for the time being." ”

"Thank you, Lord Long." Zheng Peng said a little depressed.

The sin is forgiven, but when Li Longji mentions the merits of the Western Regions, he will not offset the merits of the Western Regions with the merits of this "negligence", right?

That's a big loss.

Li Longji looked at Zheng Peng, and suddenly said: "Zheng Aiqing, your request, I have promised me as you wish, haven't you forgotten?" ”

Zheng Peng's heart moved, and he immediately said respectfully: "Your Majesty, I don't dare to forget." ”

In order to enter the officialdom and get closer to Li Longji as soon as possible, he did not take the imperial examination route, but tried every means to enter the Zuojiaofang, and later rose too slowly, and the path of the music official was relatively narrow, Zheng Peng set his sights on the Western Regions, and on the condition of making a new military song, he sought a position of deputy superintendent from Li Longji.

In fact, this decision and risk is very correct!

Li Longji's eyes lit up, and he immediately asked, "What about the new song?" ”

"Your Majesty, because I was injured halfway, the song is only half completed, please be merciful."

"What is the majority?" Li Longji frowned and said a little unhappily.

According to unofficial statistics, 2 in the Qin Dynasty, 31 in the Han Dynasty, 11 in the Three Kingdoms, 16 in the Jin Dynasty, 78 in the Five Dynasties and Sixteen Kingdoms, 59 in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, 3 in the Sui Dynasty, 22 in the Tang Dynasty, 55 in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, 18 in the Song Dynasty, 35 in the Jin Liao Xixia, 18 in the Yuan Dynasty, 16 in the Ming Dynasty, 12 in the Qing Dynasty, as well as the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Northern Yuan, others such as Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Hong Xiuquan father and son, and even Yuan Shikai, who was only two months old as Emperor Hongxian, There are a total of 408 emperors, and among the more than 400 emperors, Li Longji likes music the most.

There are more than 10,000 musicians and musicians in the inner teaching workshop, left and right teaching workshops, and pear orchards, that is, the emperor can afford to raise them, and the emperor in the prosperous age can provide for them for a long time.

With this matter in mind, Li Longji took the initiative to bring it up after a simple exchange, and when he heard that it was not finished, he was a little unhappy in his heart.

If Zheng Peng hadn't been injured for the country, it is estimated that he would have to turn his face.

Zheng Peng respectfully handed over a piece of paper, handed it to Gao Lishi, and then forwarded it to Li Longji.

When Li Longji took it in his hand and looked at it, Zheng Peng said: "Weichen is stupid, and he only writes words and a small piece of rhythm. ”

Li Longji didn't speak, at this moment, his eyes were deeply attracted by the lyrics on the paper, and on the top of the paper were written four words of dragon flying and phoenix dancing: Loyal to the country!

This is different from the traditional song and tune, as soon as he saw the four big words of Jingzhong and serving the country, Li Longji had an inexplicable good feeling in his heart.

Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, the shore of the land, it is not the king's ministers, the world is the emperor's world, the country is also the emperor's country, and the emperor's natural hope is that the courtiers can serve themselves loyally.

Looking down, just looking at two sentences, Li Longji's expression changed:

The wolf smoke rises, and the rivers and mountains look north.

The dragon rolls, the horse neighses, and the sword aura is like frost.

It's just a few sentences, and a majestic heroic righteousness seems to come from the paper, giving people a heroic spirit of fighting on the battlefield, and the text is concise and concise, which can be regarded as the finishing touch.

The opening chapter was extremely extraordinary, and it immediately attracted Li Longji to continue to look down:

The heart is like the water of the Yellow River,

Who can fight in all directions.

Hatred is mad and the knife is headed,

How many siblings are buried in their bones.

Reading four sentences in a row, the style changes from heroic to tragic thoughts, making people think of their comrades in the army who once fought together, and thinking of those brothers who are buried in the battlefield, majestic with heroism, heroic and tragic, just like a hundred flavors of life.

What a pity to die to repay the country,

I sighed and was even more speechless, full of blood and tears.

The horseshoe goes south and people look north,

People look north at the grass and yellow dust.

I will defend the land and reopen the territory,

The dignified Tang Dynasty wants to let the Quartet come to congratulate!

Li Longji read the rest of the words in one go, and when he read the last word, he slapped the royal case and yelled: "Okay! ”

In just a few words, it seems that there is a soldier who is loyal to the country, forgets life and death on the battlefield, and is willing to defend the territory and reopen the territory for the Tang Dynasty to jump out of the paper.

No matter what dynasty, every emperor is proud of expanding his territory and spreading his prestige, and it is the ultimate dream of every emperor to be congratulated from all directions.

The lyrics of this song were simply written on Li Longji's heart, and it resonated with Li Longji at the first time.

Li Longji suddenly patted the Gao Lishi on the side, and hurriedly asked, "Your Majesty, are you okay?" ”

"It's okay" Li Longji waved his hand, raised his head and said to Zheng Peng: "Aiqing is really a genius in the world, this poem alone is enough to laugh at the literary world, rare, really rare." ”

When Li Longji was watching, Gao Lishi also stretched his head over to look, and when he heard Li Longji's words, he couldn't help but say: "Although the old slave is said to be incomplete, after reading Zheng Jianjun's words, a wave of blood swelled in his heart, and he can't wait to put on armor and go into battle to defend the territory and reopen the territory for the Tang Dynasty, good, really good." ”

Although Gao Lishi is a eunuch, his literary attainments are not bad, otherwise he would not be able to help Li Longji correct the recital, and when he finished reading it, he couldn't help but feel emotional.

This time, it is by no means to echo Li Longji.

Great, Zheng Peng's heart is light, this level is over.

This song is a minor change of the lyrics of "Loyal to the Country" sung by a singer surnamed Tu in later generations, Zheng Peng liked this song very much at that time, and he had to listen to it several times a day for a while.

Zheng Peng just wanted to be modest, Li Longji seemed to think of something, and immediately asked: "By the way, Zheng Aiqing, didn't you say that you thought of a small rhythm and sang it for me." ”

Seeing such exciting and good words, Li Longji couldn't wait.

"Wechen is afraid that he won't be able to sing well."

"If you want to sing, you can sing it, nonsense." Li Longji was a little impatient.

Zheng Peng coughed a little embarrassedly, suddenly raised his voice an octave, and began to sing: "The dignified Tang Dynasty wants to let the Quartet ...... Come and congratulate! ”

Just singing a sentence, Li Longji's face turned pale, and a look of surprise flashed in his eyes.

The song is like an article, the ending part is a summary of the above, it can be said that the essence is, a song with a good ending, it must not be much worse, Li Longji is a music and rhythm master, and you can hear the extraordinary in it when you listen to it.

A no-clothes song, sung for thousands of years, the feelings between comrades, the cruelty of the battlefield vividly described, however, the times are different, the situation is also different, the no-clothes song was made in the predicament, the tragic melody in the song is too heavy, however, now the Tang Dynasty is rich and strong, powerful in all directions, and then singing without clothes, it seems a little incommensurate.

It is different to be loyal to the country, advocating serving the country and expanding the territory, and vividly describes the strength of the Tang Dynasty, especially the last sentence, which is written in Li Longji's heart.

Gao Lishi saw that Li Longji didn't speak, so he put on a straight face and said on the spot: "Zheng Peng, you are so bold, you dare to discount what you promised Your Majesty, this is the crime of bullying the king, and you still don't admit your guilt?" “

"Don't be in a hurry" Li Longji suddenly waved his hand and said: "Slow work produces meticulous work, a good work requires the accumulation of life, the precipitation of time and the polishing of the work. “

After a pause, Li Longji added: "After I write it, I will be rewarded." ”

Zheng Peng could have sung it on the spot, but he didn't want Li Longji to think that it was too easy for him to write, it seemed that he was working hard, and most importantly, he would soon face Cui Yuan, a deep-rooted famous family, or a bad general with all means.

With Li Longji's obsession with music, if he doesn't finish this song for a day, Li Longji won't let himself have an accident for a day, this is Zheng Peng's little abacus.

"Wechen obeys." Zheng Peng immediately responded.

Li Longji admired his loyalty to the country again, and said with a satisfied face: "Zheng Aiqing, you went to the Western Regions this time, grabbed iron, countered rewards, and skillfully broke the city, each of which is a great achievement, tell me, what reward do you want." ”

The rewards and punishments are clear, in order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the courtiers, Zheng Peng has made so many contributions, and the special plus is a battle to attack the city, and the first credit should be credited.

After taking Liancheng, the situation in the entire Western Regions changed, laying a firm foundation for the counterattack on the Great Eclipse.

After making so many contributions, he was not rewarded, and he spread it to win the hearts of soldiers all over the world.

A lot of people are staring at it.

Zheng Peng's eyes rolled, and he said with some joy: "Your Majesty, Weichen... Can Wechen make a request? “

"Absolutely." Li Longji said generously.

"Weichen is a very empty and contented person, he doesn't have much requirement for rewards, but he has a wish since he was a child, that is, to be a general, riding a tall horse to marry his beloved girl, through the matter of guest arrival, I saw Zuo Xiaowei's fresh clothes and angry armor, General Wei is even more majestic, here Weichen dares to be Zuo Xiaowei's general, please Your Majesty."

"Ahem" Li Longji was drinking honey tea, and he choked when he heard the words.

Zuo Xiaowei's general, this is not much of a request?

The generals who guard the capital are the three main products who hold real power, not only require a clean net worth and strong martial arts, but also be a person trusted by the emperor, the generals of the twelve guards in the capital, most of them are from the emperor's relatives and relatives, Zheng Peng wants a general with one mouth, which is simply excessive.

Colliers reprimanded: "Bold! Your Majesty is not asking you to give you the reward you want, not to make you delusional and make excessive demands. ”

This kid is usually quite clever, but why is he so confused this time, Gao Lishi is a little puzzled.

Don't look at the deputy supervisor army in the Western Regions, but it doesn't make much sense when you get out of the Western Regions, in the final analysis, Zheng Peng, the deputy supervisor, is only a temporary official position, and once the task is completed, it will be withdrawn.

An insignificant judge of the teaching workshop, under the mere five grades, wants to be a general Wei who holds real power when he opens his mouth, but he doesn't sit on Qingyun so quickly.

Zheng Peng said with some cringe: "Yes, yes, Gonggong Gao is right, it is I who did not think it through, please forgive your majesty." “

Li Longji was in a good mood, seeing that Zheng Peng was a little depressed, he said with a smile: "Zheng Aiqing, General Wei is not very proper, even if I agree, the civil and military officials will not be able to pass the level, so let's think about other rewards." ”

Zheng Peng pondered for a while, and suddenly said: "Your Majesty, the minister's dream when he was a child was to become a general, ride a tall horse to marry his beloved woman, the general has no hope, then Weichen hopes to fulfill his wish behind, riding a tall horse to meet his beloved girl, can you ask Your Majesty to be a moon old?" ”