Chapter 047 – Sitting by the Field in Front of Home
Lu Yun Chang was greatly disappointed with this trip to Long Qing County, the Divine Master had merely dallied with that woman and chatted about something or other, not even a hint of flirtation, not to mention the killing spree against the shrimp soldiers of that what’s-her-name Fish and Dragon Gang. Before leaving the country, Lu Yun Chang had been rambling there, saying that the mistress of the world’s tenth largest gang had a mediocre appearance and mediocre cultivation. All in all, he was fighting for the Divine Master, and the implication was that in his place, he wouldn’t waste his essence with such a woman. Xu Fengnian, who had never been very happy to talk nonsense with Lu Yunchang, unprecedentedly said something from his heart, saying that he was not looking for a daughter-in-law, and that it did not matter whether Liu Nirong was good-looking or not, and that as for how qualified Liu Nirong was in martial arts, it did not affect whether or not she was the warrior woman in his heart. When Lu Yunchang heard this, he stared wide-eyed and said that Liu Nirong is also worthy of being a heroine? Xu Fengyen rewarded the teenager with a four-word comment on the cow.
Next the master and disciple three ran to Liangzhou, along the way, Xu Fengyen successively taught Wang Sheng more than ten rough embryos of the sword, nine swords of old Huang, two swords of the old man of the sheepskin fur, as well as one sword of Wen Hua. She was allowed to not ask for more, but just to comprehend the meaning. Nor did he ever deliberately favor Wang Sheng, and the sword strokes taught to Lu Yunchang were all of the highest quality, and even Gu Jiantang’s Fangcun Lei was not hidden. This pair of young boys and girls are able to bear hardships and stand hard work, and secretly competing, lest they lag behind each other, practicing martial arts up are very obsessed with madness, but it is obvious that Lu Yunchang’s realm of climbing speed to be far faster than Wang Sheng on a chip, his rolling knife drag sword has been extremely familiar with the vaguely a few points of the master style, and even occasionally listening to Xu Fengyen to Wang Sheng to explain the subtleties of the sword moves, touching on the same kind of understanding, are able to say that some of the heart of a unique! See the bottom, but it is Wang Sheng recognized Xu Fengyen as a master, I do not know why, more and more introverted temperament, silent, no longer as naive as in the beginning, especially perhaps Lv Yunchang revealed martial arts talent, the girl gave birth to a lot of speechless pressure. Xu Fengyen is well aware of this, but did not therefore go to the heart of this heavy depression.
Close to Liangzhou, Xu Fengyen seldom take the post road official road, only choose those sparsely populated path, let Wang Sheng and Lu Yunchang take turns to fight, to do their best to hold weapons and bully into the two people, compared to Lu Yunchang, natural more momentum, the big frost long knife in the hand, will dare to fight, the king of heaven and the old man also do not recognize the immortal master, never hide, are a drum to kill and on. And Wang Sheng is going to be much inferior, every time the goose yellow sheath, even if the moves have been six or seven similar to the shape, the God’s intention is only two or three, exactly the opposite of Xu Fengyen’s expectations of her, over time, Wang Sheng himself also realized that this crux of the problem, this is a dark and coarse face, the expression is getting more and more stiff, every time you look at the calm Xu Fengyen, want to speak, guilt and uneasiness.
After the Huanghua Pass and then a dozen miles, is Liangzhou, North Liang Road territory is now set up fourteen lieutenants, stationed guarding the fourteen passes, from point to line, is the situation of the originator of the theory of Gu Dazu put forward five miles a flint, ten miles a pier, thirty miles a fort, a city of one hundred miles, in the past, North Liang is not no flint pier and fort, on the contrary, the number of not shabby, but most of the chaotic and disordered, once a real beacon, may not be able to quickly echo each other, now the number is slightly streamlined, but the number of the North Liang, the number of the North Liang is not a flint pier and fort, instead of shabby, just most of the chaos, once a real beacon, may not be able to quickly echo each other. Now the number is slightly streamlined, but the situation in Northern Liang is then clear. Huanghua Pass is one of the fourteen passes, led by a veteran lieutenant Li Maozhen, who is a veteran of the old Liang King’s trust and reliance, otherwise Xu Snap wouldn’t have entrusted the eastern gate of Liangzhou to him to guard.
The Huaiyuan Gate of this gate is the favorite of border poets of all times, and this gate means that the imperial court will be soft and far-reaching, and the bottom will be fixed in the western frontier. The two flanks of the city pass extend out of the dark blue wall, like a dragon crossing the desert wall, the dragon’s head has been to the north connected to the red mountain shot wild goose mountain, the head of the mountain with “the world’s first flint” reputation of locking the yin flint. Huanghua Pass in previous years does not exclude the people market, especially on the first fifteen days of the year, people come and go, exceptionally prosperous. But after becoming one of the fourteen passes, Huanghuaguan has become much cooler, and the trade teams traveling in the northwestern part of the dynasty can only take a detour, which can be said to be full of grievances, so much so that Li Maozhen, the weak-stringed lieutenant, sent a special folding to Qingliang Mountain, asking for the reopening of the city gates and the military cantonment, so that the 3,000 elite soldiers could not need to be distributed by Liangzhou to distribute the salaries, and even to feed the border troops. At that time Xu Fengyen was not in the Royal Palace, Wutong courtyard that several batch of red Hanlin there was a dispute over this, the last is to replace the green ants into the Wutong courtyard Lu Chenyan a hammer, dismissed the old lieutenant Li Maozhen’s folding, I heard that the old strong lieutenant almost resigned from his position and retired, and blatantly scolded the Wutong courtyard those who have long hair and short-sightedness of the mother-in-law when the family does not know the price of firewood and rice, sooner or later, will be hollowed out of the Royal Palace of the family’s bottom, the old Lieutenant and even a young vassal king also did not spare, said a mouth hairless work is not firm.
There are six or seven elite cavalry from the Huanghuaguan gate galloped out, surrounded by a white-haired old man in civilian clothes, the old man in a cantonment outside of the city, squatting at the edge of the ground long pouting and sighing, although the North Liang Road imitation of the court Ministry of Public Works set up new cantonment divisions responsible for the territory of all the military cantonment of the fields, but in the old man familiar with the rules of the officialdom, this is just that the new king of Liang resettlement of foreign scholars of a helpless initiative, the essence of the military cantonment is in the The essence of the military cantonment lies in the word “Wuken”, and once it is handed over to outsiders, it will only be reduced to a tool for raking in oil and scraping the land. But the old man is, after all, the Northern Liang subjects, how can really go with the Northern Liang Royal House of the wrists, the good thing is that the top of the Tuentian Division of the young readers with the hat of the officer, the hands and feet for the time being has not stretched too far, for the Tuentian affairs, although amateur, but that the group of men are still able to work hard and dedicated, from the Northern Liang Road, the fourth state of the flow of the state of the new Tuentian people migrated from the state, but also honestly quiet, the old man only pinched his nose and admitted it, or else he can really make it to the troops to be Otherwise, he would really be able to bring troops to deport the people’s bold behavior.
The old man to this cantonment not long, soon there are a few young civil officials heard of the news to come, which the head of the young man embroidered with the eighth-grade oriole official patch, behind the two are nine quail, rank is not high, but all hands on the real power. That eighth grade official is one of the six members of the northern Liang Road Tuentian Division, called Liu Gongren, the rest of the five colleagues are at the border, only he is responsible for the LiangYue two states of Tuentian matters, it is said that this is still because the Tuentian Division is afraid of LiMaoZhen this cone in the bag of the reason, LiuGongRen was implicated, had to stay within the territory, and can’t go to the border on the exhibition of ambitions. Liu Gongren arrived here, in addition to surveying the field, but also had several times to pay a visit to the guerrilla general’s house, but unfortunately, there is a miscellaneous number of generals in the evening of the real power of the lieutenant Li Maozhen simply do not give this postgraduate half a bit of face, time and time again have eaten a closed door. After the surfacing of the fourteen lieutenants of Beiliang Road, just like the clans and towns, most of them are new faces. The arrogant old man squatting at the edge of the field with his buttocks facing Liu Gongren is the backbone of Huanghuaguan, and the weak-stringed lieutenant Li Maozhen.
The old man ignored Liu Gongren’s official courtesy, snorted coldly, did not raise his head, sneered: “Lord Liu really have the leisure to run to get close to this general, are not afraid of delaying the two states of the great cause of cantonment? Or do you think that familiarizing yourself with a weak-stringed lieutenant will be conducive to climbing the official ladder in the future?”
Two with the main officer as young as the eighth grade officers, auxiliary officers heard this, are righteous indignation, are about to speak out, dry mouth and tongue Liu Gongren waved his hand, a few steps forward, about to walk to the side of the old man, the result is that to the robust escort holding a sword to block the way, Liu Gongren smiled, the guards and escorts in the heart of the weighing, probably feel that this seventh grade civil official eyes clear, hate not up, hesitation, move a step, let Liu Gongren! Walked to the edge of the field, sat down on his butt next to the old man, carrying the collar of the official uniform shook, it turned out that the officer was sweating, but the fingernail crevices are dirt and grime, even the official patch is also stained with dust, Li Maozhen, how fiery eyes, just glanced diagonally at a glance, and then grabbed the handle, slurping: “Liu Taoren, a handful of good officials na, wearing the official uniforms down to the ground to work, who would still feel that you are not diligent in four bodies and five grains. Four bodies are not hard work and five grains are not divided, or is it afraid that others will not recognize you as a seventh grade official?”
Liu Gongren laughed flatly, “Wearing official clothes to do work, not cool not to mention, but also cumbersome, just if you don’t wear official clothes, you will be driven out of the cantonment by those tigers and wolves of your old general.”
Li Maozhen frowned and did not make a sound.
At this moment, following Li Maozhen out of the city several escorts are a little vigilant, the field side of the path slowly walking through the odd three people, the two sides are separated by three feet away, the empty-handed young gentleman smiled and asked: “But Li Maozhen?”
Being called by name Li Maozhen turned his head to look at that vaguely familiar face, the heart of the waves, but some are not sure, Li Maozhen is a member of the Beiliang veteran generals, naturally remembered when the Beiliang Wu Wangfei’s stunning style, but how can the old man believe that the young man in front of him will be the same him?
The two young men standing beside him carrying swords and knives smiled and said, “Li Maozhen, standing in front of your eyes, instead of cursing?”
Hearing this flirtation, Li Maozhen where not able to recognize this person’s identity, fiercely got up, and then was about to perform a kneeling ceremony. But that young man who looks like a scholar did not know when to Li Maozhen side, and the staff of Liu Gongren one left and one right to sit next to the old man, Li Maozhen that a few light cavalry escorts were startled, was about to escort the driver, was Li Maozhen commanded to retreat back to the city first.
Liu Gongren and two auxiliary officers who have been standing in Tuantian Division, are a little confused.
Li Maozhen look excited, actually do not know what to say, the old man is not really stupid, the King of Northern Liang really sitting on their side, to give him ten bear heart and leopard gall that would not dare to swear ah, not to mention that he was then refused, but just said a few words of anger, and afterwards there are regrets, in fact, if it was a young king of the clan pen instructions, rather than the Wutong yard that bunch of pussy manipulation, then do not say that is a refutation, that is, the King of Northern Liang face to face! Li Maozhen scolded him bloody head, he this weak string lieutenant will not talk back. Li Maozhen, who has a lot of power, recognizes two things more than many people, one is Beiliang and the other is the Xu family. No matter if you are a kitten or a puppy is the lord of the Xu family after the great general Xu Snapdragon, as long as he sits in the position of the co-owner of Northern Liang, he, Li Maozhen, will serve and die for it.
The visitor was naturally Xu Fengnian, he leaned over and looked around Li Maozhen at Liu Gongren who was an eighth rank official replacement and laughed, “It should be Lord Liu, the member who once studied at the Shangyin Palace of Learning, you guys continue to talk about yourselves, I’ll just listen.”
Liu Gongren mistakenly thought that this is a even old general Li also want to be afraid of the snake, is the Liangzhou is a very important general seed children, but both come to peace, will take the opportunity to explain to the old lieutenant of the Northern Liang Road why “snake” set up the Tuentian Division, just do not wait for the young officer to open their mouths, Li Maozhen twisted his head and glared hard at him, “The king is sitting next to you, and you’ve got to be able to talk to him,” he said. “The king sits beside you, personally give you backing, you still talk to the old man a fart of reasoning, in the future I will strictly restrain those who intentionally make things difficult for the troops of the department, you this member of the foreign minister, if you have any more difficulties, you can directly into the guerrilla general’s residence in the pass.”
Liu Gongren and the two young scholar-officials behind him were shocked and dumbfounded, Xu Fengyen raised his head and beckoned, smiling, “All sit down and talk.”
Several people sat side by side on the edge of the field, except for Li Maozhen who was still able to keep his face calm, several people including Liu Gongren were fidgety, and there was uncontrollable excitement in their chests.
Public cultivation, a product after a product, the threshold of one after another, there is almost no end to speak of, those court pillar of the six ministers, not to mention the field officials, even if you can participate in the court of the Beijing officials, there may still be a lot of officials or even a lifetime can not get together in front of those big names, not to mention to say a few words. But in addition to the chief minister Zhang Julu and Gu Jiantang, the feudal lords who sealed the borders and split the land are undoubtedly even more rare than the famous officials and ministers who are the pillars of these dynasties. These few scholars who went to Liang had long heard of the various deeds of the new Liang King, and unlike the infamous ones in the past, the rumors that were growing were mostly about the feats of the young feudal king. But even if Xu Fengyen is an embroidered pillow that can’t be helped, as long as he is the master of Northern Liang, then behind him is destined to stand Chu Lushan, Yuan Zuozong, Yan Wenluan, including a large number of famous heroes in the sand.
Seeing that they all refused to speak, Xu Fengyen could only ask with a smile, “Lord Liu, how many roads have you traveled after serving as a member?”
Liu Gongren said respectfully, “My humble post has been serving as a member of the Tuentian Division for more than two months, I don’t know how many roads I’ve traveled, but I’ve already changed my boots for four pairs.”
Li Maozhen said softly: “Liu Gongren, this eighth grade official, is not quite the same as the previous assholes in Northern Liang, I have checked the details, since he took office, he has not purchased a private residence, nor has he ever stored maidservants. But also does not exclude not yet familiar with the official veins, did not dare to prematurely into the water to miss the cause of the future.”
Liu Gongren cried and laughed, muffled: “Elder General Li, is this a good word or a bad word?”
Xu Fengyen said, “As far as Li Maozhen’s foul temper is concerned, generally speaking, if he didn’t directly say something bad about you, then it’s all considered good words.”
Li Maozhen smiled gently and nodded, looking somewhat self-satisfied.
Xu Fengyen suddenly addressed Old General Li and asked, “Liu Gongren, these foreign scholars who are new officials to the office, are they not quite satisfactory?”
Li Maozhen gave a hmmm and said, “At the very least, within three or four years, all of them can be considered clean officials, as to whether or not they can be called capable officials, comparing to the previous guys who squatted in the latrine and didn’t shit, they are definitely too much better.”
Xu Fengnian said to himself, “This is enough.”
Li Maozhen suddenly asked cautiously, “Your Highness, if we do not change our position, I would not dare to sit in the center of the main seat, always feel that Your Highness is not the first courtesy, to take off the official hat of the last general?”
Xu Fengnian joked, “Xu Snapdragon said that you, Li Maozhen, have a big addiction to officialdom, which is why he made an exception and asked the Liyang court to help you get a quota of four guerrilla generals, and now it seems to be the case.”
Li Maozhen laughed, “How can I lead an army to war if I am not a big official, the last general just knows his own weight, otherwise I would have thought of asking the king for a great commander’s post.”
Xu Fengnian said softly, “There is a fight to come.”
Li Maozhen froze for a moment, then laughed heartily and said, “According to our old rules, whenever there is a big battle, the Xu family’s iron cavalry will set up two battalions of vanguards and traps in the temporary system, should we not count Li Maozhen as one? Anyway, the general promised the end of the general, the title of the guerrilla general can be hereditary, the old man did not have any wish. The family’s first son Li Hou Shi, leading troops is not worse than me as the old man, Huang Hua Pass to him, the king can put a hundred hearts.”
Xu Fengnian smiled and said, “Xu Snapdragon died of old age on his bed, you Li Maozhen already have four generations in the same family, what’s the point of going to the border to join in the fun.”
Li Maozhen said in a deep voice: “Then consider this as a final trip to the border for the Great General. Military Master Li Yishan said something, always let that gang of northern barbarians always remember one thing, where the Xu family’s doorstep is, is where Liyang’s national gate is!”