"Your Majesty, you have to make a gesture of pointing out the country, and the minister wants to draw the strong self-confidence of His Majesty, so that as soon as people see His Majesty's demeanor, they can associate the feeling of being confident, swallowing mountains and rivers, and being magnificent." Xia Hongsheng reminded Li Shimin while tracing on the paper: "Your Majesty, please imagine that you have just won a great victory, standing on the top of the mountain, as far as the eye can see, it is the land you have conquered, countless foreign races are prostrate and kneeling down to you under the mountain, and Jieli Khan is dancing to you like a slave......

Li Shimin's eyes were a little straight, Xia Hongsheng constructed the scene he had dreamed of, and a picture gradually unfolded in his mind, the soldiers who swallowed thousands of miles like a tiger, slaughtered the earth-shaking territory, the enemy's army collapsed, and the enemy's leader knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, bowing his head and surrendering. And it was he who controlled all this, standing on the top of the mountain, and the whole earth was under his feet.

"Your Majesty, you are standing on the top of the mountain, shining with the sun and the moon, surrounded by your loyal and brave warriors, you are wearing golden armor, the long sword is pointing, announcing the royal power to the world......" With Xia Hongsheng's words, Li Shimin's eyes brightened, and a sense of majesty and strong pride between heaven and earth suddenly came out of Li Shimin's body, at that moment Li Shimin was like a god descending, Xia Hongsheng's eyes lit up, and he immediately started to write quickly, and at the same time raised his eyes from time to time to look at Li Shimin, but his mouth said: "All the races in the world are prostrate in front." , His Majesty announced aloud: Where the sun and the moon shine and the rivers go, they are all the land of the Tang Dynasty! ”

Li Shimin's eyes suddenly brightened, his eyes were burning, Xia Hongsheng quickly put down his pen and carefully recorded Li Shimin's charm at this moment.

After a long time, Xia Hongsheng put away his paintbrush, got up and took down the paper from the wooden board of the stand, and then stepped forward and put his hands in front of Li Shimin.

Li Shimin has also been holding on for a long time, sitting there and not moving, and he has to be commanded by Xia Hongsheng. I'm afraid this has been since he ascended the throne...... No, since he became the king of Qin, few people dared to treat him like this, but now he is being commanded by a yellow-haired boy for a while like this and that. It's funny to think about. Li Shimin had never seen Xia Hongsheng's method of painting with charcoal, so he was curious, and when Xia Hongsheng was painting, he was comparing and drawing for a while, which made Li Shimin's heart tickle. I couldn't help but run over to take a look. Now that the painting is finally finished, of course, I am anxious to see what Xia Hongsheng has turned him into.

took the paper from Xia Hongsheng's hand, and suddenly there were two gasps, Li Shimin's glasses widened, and Empress Changsun also opened her mouth wide, Li Shimin touched her cheek as if she couldn't believe it, and Empress Changsun also stretched out her fingers with some trembling and poked lightly on the painting.

"It's me!" Li Shimin was a little excited and held the painting in his hand with both hands.

"Back to Your Majesty, this is indeed Your Majesty!" Xia Hongsheng replied respectfully.

"Nonsense! Of course I do! Li Shimin glared at Xia Hongsheng, took the painting in his hand and continued to look at it: "This ...... Is...... It's like what comes out of a bronze mirror...... Here, you all see! ”

Li Shimin handed the drawing paper in his hand to Empress Changsun. After the eldest grandson queen looked at it carefully, she handed it to the concubines next to her, and took turns to look at it, all of them were surprised, and looked at the painting in her hand in shock, revealing an incredible look.

"The Majesty on this painting is exactly the same as Your Majesty, but the concubine feels that the Majesty on the painting is more majestic and majestic, as majestic as the gods descending. Swallow thousands of miles. And His Majesty in front of the concubines is even closer. A concubine next to Empress Eldest Sun opened her mouth and said.

"What my sister said is very true, think about it, Xia Duwei's painting. What we like is Your Majesty's heroism, but what we like is Your Majesty's care and thoughtfulness in ordinary times. Empress Eldest Sun smiled and replied.

Li Shimin was immediately relieved, laughed, and said, "Concubine Yang." Xia Qing made this painting, which was used in the army. In the face of my Tang sergeant, I naturally should be a general. ”

Concubine Yang? Oh, it turns out that this is Li Ke's mother.

"Your Majesty, with this painting, the minister can first try to make a few military merit medals and show His Majesty the effect." Xia Hongsheng said to Li Shimin.

"Hehe, no hurry, no hurry." Li Shimin couldn't close his mouth with a smile, ran to his daughter-in-law and pointed to the painting to comment, and then ran to the concubine to say a few words, and couldn't stop the rhythm at all.

Xia Hongsheng had no choice but to pout secretly, no wonder Wei Zheng wanted to suffocate your bird to death in history, so he rushed to this virtue, it was really annoying to watch! Li Lao Er, hurry up and return the painting to me, and you have to go to business!

Although he has been slandering in his heart, he doesn't dare to reveal the slightest bit on the surface, Xia Hongsheng treats himself as a light bulb, standing there incivility, don't look at indecent behavior, don't listen to indecent behavior, and don't disturb Li Lao'er and his wives who are crazy in front of him to show affection and dog abuse. Two lifetimes of single dogs! Xia Hongsheng suddenly had a feeling of wanting to burst into tears for a moment.

After a long while, Li Lao Er finally remembered that Xia Hongsheng was really standing there, so he took the painting again, unfolded it and looked at it again, and said with a smile: "Haha, I have never seen Xia Qing's painting technique, even the two brothers Yan Lide and Yan Liben, have never painted me so vividly and vividly." Haha, this painting makes me a little bit in love with it. ”

Xia Hongsheng was stunned, don't you want to return the painting to me, right?!

"Your Majesty, since Xia Duwei wants this painting to be of great use, Your Majesty should give the painting to Xia Duwei. Anyway, it's still early, if Your Majesty still wants it, let Xia Duwei paint another one. Empress Eldest Sun said to Li Lao Er Wen Yan beside her.

Xia Hongsheng hurriedly bowed down and took over the conversation, and said: "What the queen mother said is, Your Majesty, it's still early, Your Majesty in this painting is too domineering, let's let Weichen take it away." Thanks to His Majesty's ability to see some of Wei Chen's micro carving insect skills, Wei Chen will draw another picture for His Majesty that is suitable for placing in the house. ”

Li Shimin nodded: "That's it, it's very good." ”

Xia Hongsheng hurriedly went over and took the portrait and put it in the wooden box, then spread out a piece of paper again, and said: "Your Majesty, it just happens that several mothers are here, why don't Your Majesty sit down with a few mothers and draw a picture of Weichen, okay?" ”

"Good, good!" Li Shimin's eyes lit up and he smiled.

"Please also ask a few ladies to get closer to Your Majesty!" Xia Hongsheng said respectfully below.

Li Shimin smiled and watched as those concubines sat beside him, his face was red and full of spring. Xia Hongsheng, who watched it, was red in his heart, alas, what man doesn't have a dream of hugging left and right, whoever sits around so many beautiful women like flowers, and they are all his own, he will be uncomfortable!

However, this little complaint did not dare to be seen by Li Shimin, Xia Hongsheng concentrated on the drawing paper, because there were many people to paint, and it took a lot more time to take some backgrounds, and it took almost twice the time to paint the portrait just now, and Xia Hongsheng finally completed it.

took the painting and dedicated it to Li Shimin, Li Shimin looked at it, immediately laughed, and discussed it with a group of concubines there.

Li Shimin was in a good mood, handed the painting to Wang De, and said, "Wang De, go and frame this painting well!" ”

Wang De obeyed the order and put away the painting.

One piece of music and two paintings made Li Shimin feel very good, and while he was happy, he gave Xia Hongsheng some rewards.

Xia Hongsheng took the painting and left, a little disappointed with Li Laoer's performance. He originally thought that after listening to his words about soldiers and watching his recital about military merit medals and soldiers' sense of honor, Li Shimin would clearly understand the importance of this matter, but looking at Li Shimin's reaction, it did not arouse his attention much.

Secretly sighed, the thinking habits of the ancients could not be changed overnight.

Xia Hongsheng knew very well in his heart that although the strength of a country is not only an aspect of the army, but the strength of the army is the necessary foundation and guarantee for the strength of a country. In later generations, the Song Dynasty was strong enough and the economy was strong enough, but the army was not good, so it was weak, so it could only pay the Khitan every year, and after the Khitan was destroyed, it was difficult to escape the fate of being destroyed. The army must be strong, and the most important thing for the army to be strong is to be spiritually strong, and the sense of honor and patriotism of the soldiers is the cornerstone of the strong spirit of the soldiers. In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in later generations, the equipment of the squadron was backward and sacrificed countless times, but it could still regard death as home, go forward and succeed, and finally drive away the Japanese invaders, relying on the strength of the spirit, preferring to die and fighting to the end. Otherwise, it was like the Beiyang Naval Division of the Qing court, which was very advanced in equipment at that time, but unfortunately it had no fighting spirit at all, so it was impossible to escape destruction.

How to change people's prejudice against military personnel is a very complicated matter, and it is necessary to work not only on the attitude of the rulers and the perception of the people, but also on the self-building of the army. After all, striking iron still needs its own hardness, and if you want others to respect you, you must first have something worthy of others' respect.

At present, the soldiers are mainly government soldiers, and most of the government soldiers were farmers before, illiterate, uneducated, and not very well-educated, and indeed they did not do well in many aspects, which annoyed the people, which is also an unavoidable fact.

How to change the status of military personnel still needs to find a way.

But it just so happens that he has 800 sergeants under his command, and he can manage it by himself, so he can be a "special zone".

"In the second year of Zhenguan, it was a spring, and there was a general who drew a ......circle outside Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty," Xia Hongsheng snorted. (To be continued.) )