Chapter 868 The Lord and the minister were heartbroken, and Xu Fengnian went to Wudang again
The rain was the most painful during the Qingming Festival.
On the Beiliangyi Road in the drizzle, there were constantly brigades of Youzhou cavalry rushing to outside Liangzhou Pass. In addition, the cavalry in Liangzhou who had previously rushed to assist Qingcang City had not returned to their base. This means that almost all the main forces in the field battle in Beiliang, especially the cavalry forces, have surfaced and become the absolute main forces of the next Liangmang battle, and will evolve from an offensive and defensive battle into an unprecedented large-scale cavalry battle. In the fierce collision between the nomadic civilization in the north and the agricultural civilization in the Central Plains, there is a clear difference between every movement and the other static. The former relies on the advantage of the number of war horses to gallop, while the latter relies on the city bow and crossbow to defend and defend. In history, countless cities outside the frontier and near borders were submerged in the tide of cavalry. In the sound of horse hooves in the north, the words “lonely city” and “slaughter of the city” follow like shadows. So for twenty years, countless civil officials would secretly “dreams” in the court, thinking about what a magnificent scenery it would be if the two elite cavalry of Liyang, tens of thousands of Northern Liang cavalry and nearly 100,000 Liao border cavalry could work together to fight the enemy and compete with the Beimang barbarians on horseback.
In Yanzhi County, bordering the two states of Youliang, two cavalry stayed at the fork on a mud-wrapped road to give way to a convoy of merchants. The young man was wearing a blue shirt, a cool knife on his waist, and his mount was one of the few war horses with the character “Armor” in the Youzhou army. The woman in white carries a long cloth bag with a knife hanging around her waist. The young man had a big horse’s sword, stopped giving way, and the women of the same age were so beautiful, which made the guard leader in the caravan tremble. He quickly asked his subordinates to send horses to the arrogant guys in the convoy behind him who were used to dirty words. Don’t cause trouble from the mouth. You should not rely on your own connections with the Beiliang border army and be unscrupulous. A seed who dared to openly and openly hang a new sword openly at a young age is definitely not something that they, the second and third-rate figures of the Yulong Gang, can be provoked by them. Perhaps the leader reminded him in advance that although the business guards had a hot look, no one teased or whistled the woman.
The business and horse team slowly went forward, and suddenly a horse turned around and galloped. The handsome young knight stopped a few dozen steps away from the men and women. His face was bright and smiling. He clasped his fists at the woman in white who surprised him and said, “I’m Chen Jianzhai, I dare to ask the girl’s name. I have no evil thoughts. I just can’t resist the instigation of my friends in the gang. They bet with me that I will definitely not be able to find out the girl’s name. If they lose, I will treat me to half a year of green ant wine.”
The young Junyan of the gang grinned and said understandingly, “Miss, if you are inconvenient to tell Fangming, just say one.”
It’s a pity that even though Chen Jianzhai gave in, the woman was still indifferent. Her eyes looked at him were very calm, neither the ordinary lady from the Central Plains faced the anger of the Dengtuzi, nor the glare of the Beiliang Xiaoniang to the slutty of the foreign land.
In the drizzle, the headChen Jianzhai, who was slightly wet, had a smile on his face and had no intention of retreating.
The young man with a sword who was deliberately ignored by Chen Jianzhai smiled and said, “Her name is Jiang Baicai, Da Baicai’s cabbage.”
The beautiful woman named “Baicai” by the man with him stared at her and said angrily, “Your name is Xu Zhenzi, a persimmon with rotten persimmon!”
Chen Jianzhai, who is famous in the Yulong Gang, is a little hurt. I think that the seemingly competitive jokes of the two of you are really more than flirting with each other in the eyes of a bachelor dog like me.
The young man who was scolded as a “rotten persimmon” asked with a smile: “I heard that the leader of the gang, Liu Nirong, wanted to give way to others.”
Chen Jianzhai’s face suddenly became a little solemn, and he finally faced the guy who dared to hang his sword without authorization. The Yulong Gang Yulong Gang is really far-sighted in the name. The mixed nature of fish and dragons is better than all the other nine sects in Liyang, and has gathered nearly 20,000 gangs in the world. The Yulong Gang knew that such a huge figure is beyond the reach of the number of people. If the Yulong Gang was not a puppet supported by a big figure in Beiliang, it would never have expanded to this point today. However, the veterans of the Yulong Gang who followed the old leader to fight the country have already washed their hands, and the subsequent leaders have changed a lot, so the inside story of the Yulong Gang is the Five Eighth Sect. It is said that the former governor of Lingzhou Xu Beizhi helped Yulong help the originally unknown little maid to be the prime minister of the Northern Liang Wulin. It is also said that the local emperor of Lingzhou and the premiere Huaihua General Zhong Hongwu tried to collude with the forces of the martial arts and dragon gang, but Liu Nirong, the leader of the Yulong Gang, stepped on Qingliang Mountain, and used the old general’s head to make a name for himself. Now there are private rumors that Liu Nirong is actually a private favorite of Wutongyuan. The implication is that Liu Nirong is not qualified to preside over the future of 20,000 people. A big gang can be close to the government, but she must not marry into a high school and become a concubine. Therefore, undercurrents surging, and the incident of Liu Nirong resigning as the leader of the gang was spread in this context.
As a rising star who generally belongs to the fourth group of Yulong Gang, Chen Jianzhai is in a complicated mood about this matter. Deep down, he admires the leader Liu Nirong’s treatment of people, but he also does not want the Yulong Gang to have too much relationship with the government and the border troops. The world is the world, and the people in the world do things in the world. Otherwise, in the second Liangmang War, if the war outside the pass is in urgent need, more than 20,000 people from their Yulong Gang would have to fight outside the pass and fight to the death. That was something that the small gang did when they had no territory and money. Now the Yulong Gang is deeply rooted in Beiliang, and has a faint momentum of separatist rule in the vassal states. It is also in Lingzhou, which is relatively weak away from the border garrison. Chen Jianzhai believes that a huge Yulong Gang with mixed fish and dragons will definitely have many people’s minds to live.
Chen Jianzhai’s long silence made the man with a sword laugh and no longer have the patience to continue waiting. He turned to the woman and said let’s go, then clamped the horse’s belly, and the two rode by Chen Jianzhai. ListJian Zhai did not stop them from leaving, slowly turned his horse’s head and stared at the two backs that were heading far away to Liangzhou.
The two cavalrymen were Xu Fengnian and Jiang Ni who entered Youzhou from outside Jibei Pass.
Jiang Ni glanced at Xu Fengnian without saying a word. The emergence of the Yulong Gang in the Central Plains also has many versions of secrets. She knew that his trip to the Northern Mang seemed to be traveling with the Yulong Gang.
Xu Fengnian, who guessed what she thought, smiled and said, “When she was young, she had no worries about life and death. When she was younger, she often listened to my mother’s advice, saying that women in the world were cute and pitiful, and they should be more pity. So at that time, I always thought that such a good woman was so good. Why didn’t I like the rare copybooks of ancient people? For example, I had a lot of money to collect all the four-season copybooks of “Ten Miles of Spring Breeze Posts”, “High Rain Watering Summer Posts”, “High Branches and Autumn Cicada Posts” and “Quick Snow Qing Qing Posts”, and even the twenty-four solar terms posts, including “Frost Descent Posts”, were only three. At that time, I was only concerned about like the women I like, and I must like me. I hope that they are all in my Wutong Courtyard, like those precious orphans, and the copybooks can be preserved well, without wind, rain or insects, and the women can live without worries and not wander.”
Jiang Ni said, “I think Gu Jiantang wanted to help you become the emperor at that time. In fact, you are secretly happy. If you become the emperor, you can be legitimately three palaces and six courtyards. The ministers cried and shouted to help find concubines, and then they said it was inappropriate, and they accepted it quickly. What are the posts for the four seasons and twenty-four solar terms, and there are fewer one hundred posts.”
Xu Fengnian rarely did not confront her. She looked up and squinted her eyes, as if she was feeling the coolness of the drizzle. She said to herself: “Later, I found that all the lovely and cute women in the world don’t have to be self-indulgent, but I can live a good life without even being passionate about me. Maybe I can live a better life. No matter how chaotic the world outside Wutong Courtyard is, it may not be worse than the small courtyard with walls on all sides without wind and rain. How could women be those dead copybooks? How could they be bound to the upper shelf in Wutong Courtyard or Qing Dynasty? Liangshan Tingchao Lake is very big, but the rivers and lakes are even bigger. I also found out later that if I could have started over the years, I would probably like them in my heart, but I would definitely not tease them again. For example, Xuanyuan Qingfeng from Daxueping lived a very free life, and Yu Youwei was a gentleman in Shangyin Academy, and I must be very comfortable. However, I don’t regret some people, just like taking Chen Yu to Beiliang and saving Zhao Fengya from Tai’an City. I have no bad thoughts about them, but I just hope that they can live for themselves.”