Chapter 26 Tiger
The next day, Lu Qi continued his class duties, and the class members were still not close to him, but the eyes when they met obviously showed respect for Lu Qi, and soldiers often respected the strong.
Five days passed in a flash. On this day, the Emperor of Zhou walked out of the Chuigong Hall, and there were two young men beside him, one wearing a bright yellow robe and the other wearing a purple king robe. Lu Qi was on duty, but he knew that the two young men, one was the Prince of the Great Zhou and the other was King Cao. The two brothers were just over one year apart, and they were both handsome figures in their early twenties.
Lu Qiwei lowered his head and stood respectfully, and suddenly heard: "Lu Tianfeng, please follow."
"No!" Lu Qi was surprised when he heard this, but responded quickly.
With the four Banzhi, he followed the emperor and walked through the door and through the corridor. However, he arrived at Houyuan. Houyuan was a large garden and a leisure place in the palace. Lu Qi came for the first time and after scanning, he felt that the scenery was much worse than that of the Suzhou Palace.
After walking dozens of meters in the back garden, we arrived at a narrow open space. There was a half-closed warm pavilion at the narrow end of the open space. However, there were many women and three children in the warm pavilion. As soon as the emperor came, they went out to the warm pavilion to pay their respects. Lu Qi glanced at it and stood with his eyes. Other Ban Zhi stood with his eyebrows down.
"I'm here to see the emperors' martial arts." Emperor Zhou said gently.
"Father, son minister's bow and arrow have made great progress." A 14-5-year-old prince immediately responded confidently.
"Okay, set the target." Emperor Zhou said gently, and immediately a eunuch rushed to set the target and get the bow.
The target was laid out, and Lu Qi was speechless when he saw it, and it was only thirty steps away. But he knew the bow the prince was holding. It was a very exquisitely crafted bow, only one meter long and the bow body was a little thin. Lu Qi probably was half a stone bow.
The prince put the arrow on the bow and glanced for a while before shooting it out. Not bad. The arrow hit the target edge, but it didn't take off the target. Emperor Zhou nodded and said nothing. Then the prince, who also used a thin bow. He flew away and actually wiped the target. The prince's face became embarrassed. He took the arrow and pulled the bow and shot again. Fortunately, he hit the target, and was close to the bull's eye. The prince smiled.
Then there were two princes of the thirteenth and fourteenth. Even the arrows were not shot at the target. They stepped aside with a very uneasy expression. Emperor Zhou looked calm. Finally, it was King Cao. The eunuch took the initiative to remove the target fifty steps away. The bow that King Cao used was a ox-horned bow, which was obviously a top-grade military bow. He shot it with an arrow and hit the target fifty steps with one arrow. Although he did not hit the bull's eye, he was also called the archery technique.
"You can also shoot an arrow each to let my son know more." Emperor Zhou turned around and smiled.
"No!" Lu Qi and his five squads responded with military salute.
Banzhi went out to shoot arrows one by one, using the military bows used by King Cao. The four squads all shot arrows without any slightest, obviously they were all agile. It was Lu Qi's turn to pull the arrows, and then lifted them and shot them out, and the arrow hit the bull's eye.
Ah! The 14th Five-Year Plan prince lost his voice. The Emperor Zhou raised his eyebrows. Lu Qi turned around and wanted to set the bow. Unexpectedly, Emperor Zhou said peacefully: "Lu Tianfeng, your archery skills are so good that you should have unique skills. Let me show you."
Lu Qi was stunned and said, "No!"
A eunuch took the initiative to send the quiver. Lu Qi took it and hung it on his waist, then looked straight at the far target and started a unique skill performance. But seeing him constantly taking arrows and shooting them out quickly, one by one, one by one, and one by one, shot the quiver in an air. Thirty feather arrows were inserted regularly on the target, none of which was off the target.
Jing! Lu Qi turned around and saluted the Emperor Zhou army, then set off a bow and a quiver, and walked back to Banzhi's queue silently. Emperor Zhou nodded calmly and said, "Good archery techniques, like you, are not many in the Great Zhou."
"I should have been the third archery technique in Xinghua Army at the time." Lu Qi responded respectfully.
The Emperor of Zhou nodded and suddenly someone said, "Who are you? Can you be my master?"
When Lu Qiyi saw that the fifteen-year-old prince was talking, he saluted with his arms and said respectfully: "I dare not be your master."
"Don't you want to teach me?" the prince said a little aggrieved.
"I can teach Your Highness the archery skills at any time, but my archery skills have been practiced hard since I was five years old. Even if Your Highness is practicing hard now, he will not reach the level of my minister. Moreover, I believe that Your Highness has a noble background and does not need to study the ultimate military and martial arts. You should learn more about the martial arts and know more about the wars that have happened in ancient and modern times. That is the foundation for becoming a famous general." Lu Qiqili responded.
The prince said oh, and actually said, "Thank you for your advice."
Lu Qi was stunned and then said respectfully: "Your Highness has promoted me."
The Zhou Emperor always looked calm. After Lu Qi's speech fell, no one spoke any more. The Zhou Emperor said, "You can do whatever you want, Lu Tianfeng, follow me."
"No!" Lu Qi responded and went for a walk with the Emperor of Zhou.
These days in the palace, Lu Qi learned that the Zhou emperor had the habit of walking with a single minister. Sometimes he called a class to take a straight walk, sometimes he was a minister, but he never walked alone with the eunuchs. The eunuchs in the Zhou Dynasty's palace had extremely low power, and they were just serving and sometimes they also acted as officials to pass on the imperial edicts. However, the emperor's oral orders were almost conveyed directly by the imperial edicts.
After walking together for a while, the Emperor of Zhou said peacefully: "I think you will hide your weakness."
"Your Majesty, there is no need to hide your weakness. Your Majesty is an emperor of martial arts like Emperor Tang. He will not be jealous and reject brave generals. If Your Majesty is jealous of martial arts, then the Great Zhou will not be the strongest country." Lu Qi replied respectfully.
The Emperor of Zhou smiled indifferently, and then said melancholy: "I am not as good as Emperor Tang. I have been in power for so many years and have not made much achievements. The world is still divided."
"I think Your Majesty is comparable to Emperor Tang. In the early Tang Dynasty, foreign races were eyeing each other and often plagued the border. At that time, it was Emperor Tang's hard work to govern the country that laid the glory of the Tang Dynasty for hundreds of years. Your Majesty was very similar to Emperor Tang. The stable people's livelihood and Qingming administration of the Great Zhou Dynasty, as well as the unyielding resistance to the foreign races, was already very difficult." Lu Qi said gently.
Emperor Zhou looked into the distance and thoughtful, and after a while he said calmly: "I feel like I have listened to Zhang Yongde's words."
Lu Qi was stunned and said, "I heard a lot about the reputation of General Zhang Yongde when I came to Dazhou. I feel that I can't compare with General Zhang."
"Zhang Yongde is a great talent. I have relied on it for many years, but I have also been concerned about it for many years. Just like you, you are also a great talent. I want to use it, but I am worried that raising a tiger will cause trouble." The Zhou Emperor said calmly, his frank words were shocking.
"I understand Your Majesty's thoughts. I am in Tang State. It is because I show my strength that His Majesty has repeatedly refused to be compatible. I was in Xinghua Army and silently endured at the bottom for five years. After returning home, I just wanted to make a family prosperous, but I didn't want to go to the capital. I was unintentionally involved in the struggle for power. I left the situation step by step for living. I didn't want to fight, but I couldn't wait to die. Now Your Majesty also said that raising tigers is a problem. I feel that I am incomparable to the tigers of the Great Zhou Dynasty." Lu Qi said it peacefully.
Emperor Zhou looked at the distance silently, and Lu Qi also stood up silently. In fact, he knew that the biggest crisis in Zhou State was not an external trouble, but an internal trouble formed by the meritorious officials. Emperor Zhou did raise a lot of tigers, and used tigers of different forces to form restraints. Every military official tiger dared not rebel and usurp the throne.
"You are very good at speaking and can see clearly." Emperor Zhou spoke peacefully.
"I am talking nonsense." Lu Qi said respectfully.
"It is sometimes difficult to hear the truth," said the Zhou Emperor with a smile.
Lu Qi smiled bitterly, and the Zhou Emperor walked away again. Lu Qi followed him and listened to the Zhou Emperor gentlemanly: "Tianfeng, do you say that you should be the chief of the crown prince or the virtuous."
Lu Qi was stunned. Emperor Zhou's tone was obviously close, and he actually asked him about the major affairs of the country where he established the crown prince. He thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, I think that if the eldest prince is not very incompetent, it is best to establish the eldest prince, otherwise it is easy to suffer from Xiao Jiang."
"But you are talking to Zhang Yongde." Emperor Zhou said calmly.
Lu Qi pretended to be stunned and said, "Your Majesty, Marshal Zhang is also inclined to become the eldest son."
"He is not inclined to be the chief, but he is strongly advocating the establishment of the eldest son." Emperor Zhou said calmly.
Lu Qi nodded, and the Zhou Emperor said again: "The prince's heart is weak. I am worried that he will not be able to defend the foundation of the Great Zhou Dynasty, so he is determined to establish the crown prince. King Cao's military and military skills are not as good as you, but it is OK."
Lu Qi thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, I don't know your highness, so I dare not speak nonsense. However, I believe that the crown prince should focus on civil and military strategies."
Chapter completed!