At night, in a tall and simple but elegant room, an old man with a tall figure and dressed in civilian clothes smoked dry tobacco one by one, the old man had an elegant temperament, and there was three points of majesty between his hands and feet, and his face was full of ravines left by the years, but he could not hide the look in his eyes. The old man of the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info is a product of the dynasty, a famous general of the Great Song Dynasty, and Cao Bin Cao Guohua, who is known for not killing indiscriminately.

"My lord, the squire of the military department, Wang Hu, is here. Someone outside the door said softly.

"Please!" the old man hurriedly said, it turned out that he was waiting for the Lord Wang, the squire of the military department.

"Lu Guogong has always been good?" The person who came in from outside the door was also an old man, but he was wearing a second-grade official uniform, similar in age to Cao Bin, and his body was slightly rickety, as soon as he entered the house, he smelled the smell of smoke all over the room, smiled slightly, and said: "Lord Cao is swallowing clouds and spitting fog again, he is in the clouds and mist, happy like a fairy, Lu Guogong is so uncomfortable!"

Cao Bin smiled and said: "Uncle Jing, don't laugh at me, when Chao Ruo says that he smokes dry tobacco, you recognize the second, no one dares to recognize the first, come, show you the baby." As he spoke, he took out a one-foot-long brocade box from under the desk, opened the box, took out a cigarette stick, and said: "This is brought to me by the general manager of Hangzhou Road, the authentic Jiangnan handiwork, you see." ”

The prodigal son loves beauty, the swordsman loves the famous sword, this smoker naturally likes smoking utensils, as soon as he saw this cigarette stick, Wang Jingshu's eyes suddenly released a bright light, carefully took it, approached the light and watched carefully, the cigarette stick is made of Hangzhou purple bamboo, without a trace of flaws, finely engraved with the dark flowers of Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum, the oil is shiny, exuding a jade-like luster, the smoke pot and cigarette holder are made of white jade, carved with a symbol of longevity turtle and crane age pattern, the workmanship is extremely fine, at a glance you know that it is not ordinary. Uncle Wang Jing weighed it, sank his hands slightly, and asked, "Look at this size, there shouldn't be this weight, is there another mystery in this cigarette stick?"

"The old smoker is different!" Cao Bin said with a smile: "I won't tell you, there are twenty olive pits in this cigarette stick, and I don't know how to knock it in, which can not only reduce the bitterness of the tobacco, but also make it cooler to smoke. ”

Uncle Wang Jing praised: "It's really a good baby, congratulations to Lu Guogong." ”

"You said congratulations, but you already wanted to take a sip in your heart. Cao Bin smiled and said: "Don't be polite with me, this thing belongs to you, come and have a pot, I have good tobacco here." ”

Uncle Wang Jing hurriedly said: "How can this make the gentleman not win the love of others, and besides, it is useless, Lu Guogong called me late at night, there must be something important, as long as I can do it, even if I am told, this baby can't afford it." ”

Cao Bin said: "You and I are both people who have fought with Emperor Taizu, and have been ministers in the same hall for many years, what are you polite to me, I said that what you receive is what you receive, you don't have to be polite, it seems to be angry, just let you go over the house tonight, there are indeed some important things to say." ”

Uncle Wang Jing knew that he was getting to the point, so he didn't interject, found a chair and sat down, hugged his fists and said, "Lu Guogong, please speak." ”

Cao Bin took a sip of tea and said: "Emperor Taizu no longer trusts the generals since the Chenqiao Mutiny, and you know what happened later, and I won't repeat it. Kaibao over the years, the imperial court has been adhering to the emphasis on literature and light on martial arts, and later Emperor Taizong succeeded to the throne, bent on recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun that Emperor Taizu did not recover, but we old guys can't even carry the knife, it is really more than enough and not enough, fortunately, the Son of Heaven is wise, and came up with the way to use the martial arts conference to select the generals, and the selected talents are directly used by your military department, guarding the border passes, crusading against thieves, Uncle Jing, the operation of this martial arts conference falls on you, and your burden is not light!"

When Uncle Wang Jing heard what was in this, he asked, "What is Lu Guogong's concern?"

"This martial arts tournament is the first time that my dynasty has held, when today's son is thirsty for talent, it is decreed that all the young people in the world, regardless of their origins, regardless of sect, can participate, so far do you know that there are many people who come to participate in the competition?" Cao Bin had the heart to test this old man.

Uncle Wang Jing immediately replied: "The three hundred invitations sent out two years ago have now returned two hundred and sixty-three, which means that a total of two hundred and sixty-three people participated in this competition. ”

"Lord Wang is really attentive. Cao Bin said: "There are so many people who participate in the competition alone, plus the people who cheer and watch the excitement, there will be nearly a thousand more people in the capital at once, these people have a heavy atmosphere of the rivers and lakes, and they will draw knives and cut people if they don't say a word. ”

Uncle Wang Jing hugged his fists and said: "Although this matter fell on our military department, but there is the emperor's holy purpose, the criminal department, the official department and the six doors of the adults have already supported it, the criminal department General Wan has recalled the eastern sword god of the Kanto region to sit in this competition, and the law enforcement sangyong of the six doors has also returned to Beijing, although the official department has not been out, but secretly gave a lot of news, as soon as there is a wind and grass, we can know immediately, and please rest assured Lu Guogong." ”

"Don't worry, how can I rest assured!" Cao Bin sighed: "What you said is all things on the surface, and everyone has to give face to the Criminal Department and the six doors on the surface, but what about the things in secret?" No matter how powerful the Oriental Sword God and Law Enforcement Shuanglong are, they can't take care of so many things, you have to know that the selected young man is likely to be the general guarding the border in the future, the pillar of the country, once there is a second heart, a large area of land at the border pass will be handed over to others, the most terrible thing is not this, the last competition is to fight in front of the Son of Heaven, if one of the two sides of this competition has a bad intention, how can the safety of the Son of Heaven be guaranteed, have you ever thought of these?"

Hearing these words, Uncle Wang Jing sweated profusely, and hurriedly said: "The lower officials are not thoughtful, please ask Lu Guogong for advice!"

Cao Bin said with a smile: "Uncle Jing, you and I are both people who have experienced strong winds and waves, when we were young, we followed Emperor Taizu to attack the city, and I didn't see you afraid of being like this, you are really far away!" Even if these teenagers can be selected by the military department in the competition, it will take at least ten years of tempering to become a general who can stand alone, you just need to arrange someone to monitor what they usually do, this is not difficult, the difficulty is the latter matter, how to ensure that the two teenagers in the final Golden Palace competition have absolutely no intention of killing the Son of Heaven. ”

"I also ask Lu Guogong to show the way for the lower officials. Uncle Wang Jing stood up, made a deep gesture, and said: "This matter is not trivial, the lives of the Xiaguan family are still secondary, but if the Son of Heaven makes the slightest mistake, Xiaguan will become a sinner through the ages, Guohua, for the sake of many years of friendship, you can help the old brother." "Life is at stake, Uncle Wang Jing no longer calls Cao Bin "Lu Guogong", but calls him "Guohua", just to get the guidance of this famous general of the Great Song Dynasty.

Cao Bin held up Uncle Wang Jing and said: "I think about this matter, there is only one way, I have asked someone to read the information of more than 200 teenagers, the seventh son of General Wan's family in the Criminal Department, Wan Jinglei, no one in the world can stand out, there must be him at the last stop, I have been friends with Wan Chongtian for many years, I know the roots, I also hugged his son-in-law when he was a child, naturally there is absolutely no problem, this key point falls on another teenager." ”

"What does Lu Guogong mean?" After all, Uncle Wang Jing has been in the officialdom for many years, and he has already faintly sensed what Cao Bin meant.

Cao Bin nodded and said, "Even if it's a cheat, we have to arrange for a young master of our own to participate in the competition, and use some means to let him avoid those teenagers who are in the limelight, and just send him into the final battle, so that there will be no problem." ”

"However, the teenagers participating in the competition are all elites of various sects, even if we can make this teenager avoid other top masters, how can we guarantee that the teenager we recommend will definitely be able to defeat other junior masters?" asked Uncle Wang Jing.

"You're absolutely right. Cao Bin said: "I had this kind of consideration a year ago, the people of the bounty gate for me to find such a young master, the hard work paid off, they recommended a teenager, this boy in the bounty gate to take on the tasks are all special tasks, that is to say, the tasks he received are extremely difficult tasks, but none of the tasks are failures, no matter how difficult things are, no matter how difficult people to deal with, within a month will be completed beautifully, the bounty gate called him 'unparalleled in the world', this teenager is my candidate." ”

"Unparalleled in the world!" Uncle Wang Jing said: "The subordinates of the Bounty Gate have also heard a little, and the fees have always been expensive, so Lu Guogong must have spent a lot of silver taels, right?"

"What is the amount of silver compared to the safety of the Son of Heaven?" Cao Bin said: "It's just that this young man put forward a strange condition, he wants to take his younger brother to participate in the competition, and he wants twenty steamed buns a day, don't you think it's a bit strange?"

"II...... Twenty steamed buns?" Uncle Wang Jing said in his heart: "Don't talk about this young man's martial arts, this amount of food is really 'unparalleled in the world'!"

(Ding Ning's words: Book friends, don't spray me!) First of all, the earliest record of the art of dry tobacco is indeed in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, but it is only a record, and it can't be said that there was no one before, right? Besides, this is not an archaeological novel, everyone is happy to read it, don't call me real!)

In addition, I am not a professional writer, and I don't rely on this to eat, but I like to write, and I don't need to send an email to scold me if I occasionally break a watch, right?

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