The western suburbs of the capital.

There are continuous Xishan Peaks here, with springs everywhere, gathering into large and small lakes and ponds in low-lying places. The Yuquan Mountains flow from west to east into Kunming Lake, becoming the largest water surface in the western suburbs. Large areas of rice fields have been cultivated here, and the scenery is unique.

As early as the Liao Dynasty, Yuquan Mountain Palace was built here. In the Ming Dynasty, it attracted many officials and nobles to occupy the countryside to build villas. Especially in the Wanli period, Li Wei, the man who was favored by Wuqing, built a large-scale construction here. First, he built Tsinghua Garden, which is known as the first garden in Beijing. Later, Mi Wanzhong guided the lake water outside the east wall of Tsinghua Garden, and built the elegant and beautiful "shaoyuan", which means "a spoonful of seabed". In the empty suburbs, pavilions, towers and pavilions appeared and the lake and mountains complemented each other, becoming a famous garden gathering place for the suburbs of Beijing.

After Liu Jun became emperor, although he did not have a major renovation of the palace, he did not like the Forbidden City with high walls and deep palaces. Therefore, he also took a fancy to the beautiful landscape and pastoral area of ​​the western suburbs. Over the past few years, he gradually built a beautiful royal garden here, becoming the summer palace where Liu Jun escaped the summer heat every summer.

The Summer Palace is composed of several gardens, with an area of ​​more than 5,000 acres. It not only has the Qinzheng Hall, the Imperial Study Room, but also the Cabinet, Privy Council, the Censorate, the Parliament, the General Office and the Military Affairs Office. The gardens are beautifully built, but they are all spent on the emperor's inner treasury. No treasury is used, nor are there any free requisition of civil servants. The garden halls are paid truthfully, whether in materials or labor. Even during the construction of this luxurious and huge royal garden, many jobs were created and even paid a lot of taxes to the government.

May is approaching and midsummer is not coming, but Liu Jun has come to the summer palace in advance this year to avoid the noise and listen to politics.

Liu Chenggong, the Right Military Academy, came to the imperial study with his shiny horse boots.

"I want to meet the Lord."

The guard officer in charge of the squad is also a Right Military Academy. He and Liu Chenggong are old colleagues who have known each other for a long time. It is a bit strange to see his serious appearance.

"Why, Lord Viscount has something urgent to see Your Majesty?" He smiled and said, Liu Chenggong is extraordinary among the guards' personal army. Although his mother is a Japanese woman, his father is the famous governor of Central and Southern China Zheng Zhilong. The Zheng family is not only a top rank in the court. Especially their family has a great influence in the navy, and their Zheng family is also the most famous maritime business group in the Han Dynasty. It is said that the industrial value of the Zheng family exceeds 100 million yuan, but because of the Zheng family's status in the court, it is not on the list of rich men in the big Han Dynasty.

Liu Chenggong was not only Zheng Zhilong's eldest son, but also the emperor's adopted son. He also gave him the surname when he was accepted as his adopted son. At that time, the emperor was also the adopted son of Chongzhen, so Zheng Sen followed the surname Zhu and gave him the name Chenggong. He was called Xiaoguo's surname. Later, the emperor established the country, so Zhugong naturally changed his name to Liu Chenggong.

From being with the emperor at the age of sixteen, from a young scholar back then to the Viscount of the founding of the Right Military Academy, which is full of military style, Liu Chenggong has been deeply trusted by the emperor. For several years, whether it was the imperial commander or the private visits he was in Beijing, Liu Chenggong must have been inseparable from the emperor.

Therefore, the best hero in the eyes of the major sects in the capital today is the best Viscount Liu Chenggong. He is nearly twenty years old. He is of good origin and handsome. He is so trusted by the emperor. Who would not want to take such a young man back and be a son-in-law?

Although Liu Chenggong is only at the Right Military Academy among the guards, everyone understands that the influence of the emperor is no weaker than that of the generals, and even ordinary generals do not have so many opportunities to meet the emperor every day. Speaking of which, the Right Military Academy has the influence of the general.

What's more, the father of the Guo family recently won another big victory in Myanmar.

Not long ago, before the rainy season in Myanmar, the southern expedition led by Zheng Zhilong was confronting the Dongyu army for a long time in Malay City. However, a battle of fighting against the west suddenly came. Zheng Zhilong continued to bluff around Malay City with a small part, attracting the Dongyu army and its reinforcements. Then he led the main force to secretly leave, circled around, and directly killed the city of Awa, the capital of Dongyu, behind.

In the previous months of stalemate, Zheng Zhilong successfully made King Dongyu mistakenly think that his army had successfully blocked the Han army. However, he didn't know that it was just Zheng Zhilong fishing and had been performing to the Dongyu army and conveying the wrong message to them. The purpose was to try to transfer the Dongyu army and its allies from the mountain, attract Awa, and transfer it to Malay City.

As a result, Zheng Zhilong succeeded in the end. Under the Han army's continuous increase in troops and desperately attacked', the people of Dongyu increased their troops to Malay City little by little, and finally concentrated all the elite troops in Malay, and Awa in the rear gradually became an empty city.

When the time is ripe, especially when the rainy season is approaching, Zheng Zhilong kept spreading false news, trying to withdraw his troops before the rainy season arrives, waiting for the November rainy season to end and fight again. As a result, the defenders of Malay City and King Dongyu of Awa City all relaxed more and more.

No one expected that when they all thought Zheng Zhilong was really going to withdraw his troops, Zheng Zhilong had already formulated a sneak attack plan. He used the evening to secretly evacuate the main force day by day, and finally came up with an empty city plan.

When Zheng Zhilong led 20,000 elite troops suddenly appeared at the city of Awa, King Dongyu was stunned, and the ministers in the city were also confused. No one understood what was going on. The Han people were going to withdraw? Isn’t the Malay solid? Where did these damn Han people come from? Did they come from the south sea? But weren’t the English already helping them defend the coastal areas of Yangon and other places, and were still preparing to transport their cannons and guns?

Zheng Zhilong carefully planned a big move for several months, of course not just to scare the people of Dongyu. Facing the empty air defense of Dongyu Awa City, Zheng Zhilong did not waste any time. He immediately launched an attack as soon as he appeared. Various artillery large and small concentrated on bombarding the city walls, and the infantry even deployed the line arrays and followed the gaps opened by the artillery.

The people of Dongyu guarded Malay City for half a year and did not let the Han army cross the thunder pool. They really thought that their elephant formation, the artillery and guns they bought from the English and Dutch people, were very powerful, not weaker than the Han army. But when the Han army launched an attack on Awa City like a tide, they realized, "Damn, something is wrong."

Why can the Han army's cannons start to bombard the city wall at such a long distance? Why do they have so many cannons? They hit so far, and there are shells that can directly hit the defenders' heads and then explode suddenly? Why are there any short-body giant cannons that can bombard hundreds of kilograms of stones into the city?

There are too many people in Touo.

Why did the Han army's muskets shoot so far and so quickly? Why were their guns not affected by the rain and wind blowing under them?

No one answered their why. Zheng Zhilong's 20,000 troops attacked Awa. It took only half a day to attack the city. Then, after another half a day, the resistance in the city was cleared. King Awa failed to escape and was blocked directly in the palace and caught him.

Zheng Zhilong was blocked in Malay City since the attack launched by the twelfth month of the New Year. He did not make a concerted effort to fulfill his slogan of entering Awa City for New Year's Eve dinner. Although it was nearly half a year late, he still rushed in.

After taking Awa raided, Zheng Zhilong took advantage of the situation to attack Malay City and surrounded it.

The Dong-soo army in Malay City received the news that Awa was captured and the king was captured, but when they saw that part of the Han army who should have been standing opposite them suddenly appeared behind them, they finally realized that they were being fooled.

Now the Dongzhao people in Malay City are anxious to fight to break through and go south, but Zheng Zhilong is not in a hurry.

They now siege Malay City to death one after another. He was so anxious about it. Malay City has many soldiers and horses. Various people, elephants, and allied troops have pieced together more than 100,000 people, but the money and food consumed every day is also quite amazing. Before, King Dongyu tried to raise food and grass for them. But now, the city behind Awa has been occupied by the Han army.

Their north, west, east, and south were full of Han troops, and their water and land were blocked. Such a large army could not advance or retreat. It lost supplies, so Zheng Zhilong had no need to fight them. As long as they trapped them, they would have to run out of food soon. As long as they guarded the military camps, cities, and rivers, these people could not break out at all.

Zheng Zhilong is now sure to win and is already pursuing the greatest victory with the smallest loss.

The good news came to Beijing and was presented to the emperor of the Summer Palace. It was soon known to everyone in the Summer Palace.

Zheng Zhilong achieved such a victory in Central and South China. As long as the Dongyu army surrounded by Malay City was forced to collapse and surrender, it would be difficult for the entire Dongyu to have any resistance force at that time. It would be natural for Zheng Zhilong to destroy the entire Dongyu Kingdom.

Now there is news in the palace that I heard that the emperor wanted to promote Liu Chenggong to the title of Count, and to promote him to the Left Military Academy and to the commander of the guards' personal army.

Everyone thinks that Liu Chenggong was promoted with his father's military achievements.

"Congratulations to brothers, I will be promoted to the Count of Zhongnan. I will be promoted to the title of the Left Military Academy in less than 20. My brothers will definitely be the youngest and shining star in the Han military at that time. Before the age of 30, I will definitely be promoted to general. Maybe I can become the commander of the war zone at the age of 40 and become the Privy Councilor at fifty."

The compliments from colleagues did not make Liu Chenggong happy, but instead made him feel a chuckle.

"Please come in and report it."

Liu Chenggong sometimes hates these colleagues. No matter how hard he works, they will only regard his promotion as his good background. He has been on the battlefield many times and even killed the enemy, but these colleagues seem to never see it. Gradually, he has become accustomed to these comments, but he cannot recognize them.

Therefore, when he heard that the emperor wanted to promote him to the earl and promote him, he was not happy, but only had a sense of unreasonable anger.

As the emperor's guards, the guards were the best soldiers selected from the entire army. Moreover, the officers in the guards, especially those middle and lower-level officers, basically came from those noble families. Everyone has more or less backgrounds, either the sons and nephews of a general, or the sons and nephews of a minister or governor.

They have good backgrounds and are both relatively excellent, but they are good-born and cannot get in the guards' personal army without ability. However, a large group of such excellent noble children are always inseparable from comparative competition. Among these outstanding people, Liu Chenggong, who also seems extremely excellent, is undoubtedly a little difficult to societe.

After a moment, the young officer walked back.

"Your Majesty let you in."

Liu Chenggong raised his left wrist and glanced at the watch. At this time, the emperor was usually reading books. He put down his wrist and raised his feet and walked inward.

After several posts, Liu Chenggong saw the young emperor sitting there drinking tea while reading newspapers. The pomegranate tree was blooming with fiery red flowers, and the bright sunlight blocked most of the pomegranate flowers and branches and leaves, leaving only the golden sunlight on the emperor.

The emperor leaned on the rattan chair with a pair of pallets on a footstool in front of him. He did not wear a crown, revealing his short hair that was only behind his ears. The emperor's hair became shorter and shorter in recent years. It turned out that it was still a shawl with shoulders, but now it was only behind his ears. If the emperor cut his hair like a slate one day, he would not be surprised.

In fact, he himself has been following the emperor's pace. Now he has even walked to the front of the emperor, leaving behind the head a common slap in the army.

The emperor heard his footsteps, and even became familiar with him, he could tell that it was him who could only hear the footsteps. However, the emperor still looked at the newspaper in his hand with relish, without even raising his head.

Liu Chenggong took off the big block and held it in his hand, then saluted the emperor with his legs and reported loudly.

After reading a page, Liu Jun looked through the newspaper and glanced at the page. He found that there was nothing interesting to him, so he put the newspaper on the coffee table, and then slowly picked up the hot and cold tea, which had just been warm and warm, and took two sips.

"I knew you would definitely come. Now that you are really here, I really don't know how to sigh that I guess correctly, or admire your stubbornness."

Liu Chenggong, who was just nineteen years old this year, grew very tall. His military training for several years has allowed his scholar Lang Wenru to be fully qualified. A heroic aura is reflected in his every move.

"Your Majesty, I request to transfer the guards' personal army."

"Hmph." Liu Jun chuckled.

"You have been with me for several years. You shouldn't be so naive. If you only care about other people's opinions in everything, don't you feel tired of living?"

"Your Majesty, I may not care about other people's gazes and discussions, but I want to go to the front line, go to the front line of battle, I want to go to the battlefield, want a vigorous battle, I hope to be able to command the army to fight and win fame with my own hands!"

"You are still too young, but you have a good idea of ​​this. You have the motivation and persistence of a young man. It seems that you are unwilling to follow me all day long, that's fine." Liu Jun nodded. Thinking about when he was in Macheng, didn't he always want to find a title of marquis thousands of miles away? Even if he started from a village group, he was very willing. From Liu Chenggong, Liu Jun saw the shadow of himself in the past.

"I ask Your Majesty to allow me to restore my original surname and reuse my original name."

Liu Jun could only shake his head and said, "Do you still want to start from scratch and start with a soldier?"

"If your Majesty can allow it, I hope to start with the lowest level of officer, the right sergeant."

"I thought you wanted to start with a small soldier, hahaha." Liu Jun couldn't help laughing, "Okay, from today on, you can restore your original name to Zheng Sen. Of course, you can also call you Liu Chenggong. Even if you change your name back to your real name, you are still my adopted son. It's okay if you want to go to the grassroots to experience it, and you don't have to start with the right sergeant commander. That's it, you start with an army company commander, and your military rank is the right lieutenant. However, your current military rank is reserved. By the way, I have signed the order to increase the title and promotion for you. You are now the infantry commander of the founding Count Guard's Left Army Academy."

"From now on, I will be the commander of the infantry company of the Right Commander." Zheng Sen replied.

Liu Jun stood up, reached out and patted Zheng Sen's shoulder a few times, "You can choose from each military town, which town do you want to go to?"

"I requested to go to Annan, where it is fighting against the Southern Barbarian rebels. I hope to be able to go to the front line and take the lead in the vanguard."

"Don't you go to Dongxu? That's your father's army."

"Don't go." Zheng Sen answered without hesitation.

"I want to go to Annan, but now Annan's army is not the regular army of the Empire. Since you are going, then go to the Seventh Fleet of the Royal Navy to report, join the Marine Corps, and become a Marine Corps company commander!"

"Yes!" (To be continued.)
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