Chapter 366: The Worst Peace Is Better Than the Best War
I was amazed in my heart, and said, "It's you!"
These two people are not outsiders, they are the jade Ruyi Han Honglian and her brother Han Rulong of the Baidaomen of Jinan Prefecture, who escorted Xu Kaishan to the south last year. It's just that the falling flowers are intentional, the flowing water is ruthless, Xu Kaishan finally rejected Han Honglian, and the matter is over.
The Hundred Knife Gate is just a third- or fourth-rate sect in the rivers and lakes, and there is not much news about them in the past year, it seems that the door owner Han Tianyi was injured in a competition with people last year, and finally failed to survive last winter, and his life was whimpered, and the Hundred Knife Gate industry was taken away.
Unexpectedly, this time I met Han Honglian and Han Rulong in Erlong Mountain, and now the two of them have lost their childishness, and they have the meaning of reckless heroes, and when they met last year, they are already very different.
Han Rulong shouted, jumped over, turned over from the air and came to me, and as soon as his feet landed, there was a loud bang, and the bluestone under his feet was shattered. slapped me on the shoulder and said, Brother Su!
Bang!
I resisted this thunderous blow with my shoulder, only to feel that my body was overturned, the blood was fluctuating, and a mouthful of old blood almost couldn't help spurting out, and I grinned in pain. Xu Kaishan said that this kid was born with the power of a dragon elephant, like a piece of jade, if he can practice well, he will be a good material for practicing martial arts.
Han Rulong said, Brother Su, how are you?
I coughed dryly twice, which was fine, but you made me feel bad now.
Han Honglian said deliberately annoyed, how many times have I told you, you have to control your strength, fortunately, it is Brother Su, if you are an ordinary person, your slap will not hurt others!
Han Rulong said, now Brother Su is a master in the rivers and lakes, I heard that not long ago, he killed a lot of people in Moming Lake.
I coughed twice and sighed, it's really a good thing not to go out, but a bad thing to spread thousands of miles. I glanced at Han Honglian and said, I worshiped the mountain late at night and came to disturb me, please forgive me. Immediately, I introduced Zhang Youqian, Lin Hongyi and Xu Ruonan to them one by one.
When we entered the hall, someone came up for tea and talked about old things together. I asked, you were originally in Jinan Mansion, how did you come here?
Han Honglian's childish face was gone, and she sighed and said, after her father passed away last year, her family fell into the middle of the road, and because of the land deed and land, she offended a local magnate. In desperation, we sold our land and fled to Erlongshan, where we were king and did some business of robbing houses.
Han Honglian was afraid that I would misunderstand, and said, we only do things to rich businessmen who are not benevolent to the rich, and ordinary people will never harass them.
I sighed in my heart, what difference does this make? Holding on to injustice, robbing the rich and helping the poor, is just an excuse for the robbers to justify themselves in logic and thus make themselves feel at ease, and of course they have not been broken. In today's world, if it is not a last resort, who will leave the family property alone and come out to be a rogue?
Everyone ate tea and chatted for a while before I explained my intentions to Han Honglian.
Now King Jing and King Yong's soldiers are facing each other on the riverbank, and a few days ago, they destroyed the pontoon bridge on the Yellow River, and now they can only rely on boats to cross the river. When Han Honglian learned of her intention, she hesitated, and I asked, is Miss Han inconvenient?
Han Honglian sighed, of course there was no problem before, but recently the world has been a little chaotic, and the soldiers and horses of King Yong and King Jing have suddenly become stricter, and they have detained our two night boats in the past few days. They stuck at the ferry, as if they were searching for someone?
My first reaction was that Wu Saburo was also trapped south of the Yellow River. I thought about it, although Wu Saburo and Li Muge left a day earlier than us, but we have martial arts, and we are non-stop, starry and night, and we should almost catch up with them along the way.
Lin Hongyi said, these princes led their troops and horses to fight chaotically, is there no one in the imperial court to take care of them? Our imperial court claims to have 1.8 million soldiers and horses, and we are afraid that these princes' palace soldiers will not succeed? Why did those people in the military department eat it?
I smiled bitterly and said, you only know one thing but you don't know the other two. Our Ming court, there are six major corps such as the Western Army, the Dingbei Army, and the Pingnan Army, as well as the Daming Water Division, the Heavy Cavalry Army and other special regiments, and the military has the Metropolitan Governor and the Generalissimo of Soldiers and Horses, but they are loyal to the imperial court, and now the old emperor is dead, and the new emperor has not yet been established, who do they listen to? Who knows which one will become your master tomorrow, so the wise thing to do is to preserve the strength and wait and see what happens.
This is also the reason why the five kings now lead their troops into the capital to pay their filial piety, but no one stops them. After all, this is a family matter of the Zhu family, and if you are a generalissimo with a foreign surname, if you rashly get involved, if you liquidate it in the future, I am afraid that the gains will outweigh the losses. However, it is unknown whether these military personnel secretly financed soldiers and horses to do some speculative trading.
Let's talk about the dispute between King Yong and King Jing, according to the system, the number of soldiers in the palace of the vassal king shall not exceed 3,000, but these vassal kings have too many ways to break through this restriction, such as one person and one horse, the horse needs to be taken care of by a groom, and it must be matched with a man, etc., and a establishment can be expanded to five or six people. In this way, even if there are 3,000 establishments, there are nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses for a vassal king.
However, only 3,000 of these people were paid, and the remaining 10,000 people had to find a way to chew the fruit from elsewhere. Now that the war has started, the soldiers and horses have to pay military salaries when they fight, and they must have food and grass supplies, and the court does not provide supplies, so these people can only rob them, so in this way, it is the people who suffer in the end.
Even the worst and worst peace is better than the best war. As soon as the war broke out between the vassal kings, these government soldiers were not stricter than the military law of the imperial court, so they went all the way down, saying that they were borrowing, but in fact they were robbing.
So when Han Honglian expressed her refusal, I didn't blame her. Now she is the master of the cottage, acting in the style of a woman, and she is no longer the willful girl who competed in the Thousand Buddha Mountains to recruit relatives, and sometimes, the growth of people is just an overnight thing.
I expressed my understanding and was about to think of other ways, when suddenly Han Rulong said, eldest sister, it's better to do this, let's take a night boat and let them cross the river by themselves, how about it?
Han Honglian frowned, we only have three ships now, if we are detained again......
Zhang Youqian smiled and said, It's okay, Miss Han, I'll buy this boat.
As he spoke, he took out five hundred taels of silver from his bosom and handed it to her. This kind of small boat, usually only fifty or sixty two, considering the current dangerous situation, it would not hurt to give a tenfold premium.
Han Rulong said loudly, We are the sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes, how can we still ask you for money when we see injustice? Brother Su, are you looking down on us when you do this?
Han Honglian said, like a dragon, Hugh has to talk nonsense! Saying that, she smiled at us, the younger brother is young, Brother Su and Zhang Daxia should not be surprised! It stands to reason that everyone is a son and daughter of the rivers and lakes, and Brother Su also has a relationship with us, we should not have taken your money, but now the world is not peaceful, and the cottage expenses are large......
didn't wait for Han Honglian to finish speaking, I said, I understand, I understand, Miss Han is a heroine among women, and she presides over the overall situation of the cottage, and we should make some additions.
In order to avoid many dreams at night, we decided to cross the Yellow River overnight, and Han Honglian sent a boatman to lead the way, came to an extremely hidden place, and lifted the shield, only to reveal a flat boat two and a half zhang long and about one zhang wide.
Before leaving, Han Honglian deliberately called me to stop, Brother Su, can you take a step to speak? I saw that her face was flushed, which was very different from her previous appearance, and said with a smile, but it was okay to speak. Han Honglian just said, Xu, Brother Xu, how is he doing?
I was stunned when I heard this, could it be that this Han Honglian still can't forget Xu Kaishan? In the past two years, what Xu Kaishan has experienced can be written as "The Legend of Xu Kaishan", the battle of the Heavenly Sword God, the battle of Fengyun Island, and the battle of Taoshan, all of which are thrilling, but how can I tell her?
I have to say, now that he is going to the East China Sea to do a big business, I may not have seen him for a long time. Han Honglian exclaimed, Stygian Mountain?
I'm a little surprised, Miss Han actually knows about the Stygian Mountain?
Han Honglian sneered again and again, and said, Su Daxia is inevitably too contemptuous of people, although my Hundred Knife Sect is not a wealthy family on the rivers and lakes, but I am not ignorant of the affairs of the rivers and lakes, and in the battle of the Underworld Mountain back then, our ancestors of the Han family participated in it.
I knew that Fang Cai's words were a little too much, so I hurriedly apologized to Han Honglian, but fortunately, Han Honglian is also a child of the rivers and lakes, and this matter will pass as soon as I say it.
I asked again, I don't know who Miss Han's ancestor is?
Han Honglian said, my grandfather Han Yidao used to be a husband in the East China Sea for a period of time, and he had experienced the battle of the Stygian Mountain with his own eyes, and after he came back, he often mentioned the matter of the Stygian Mountain to our sisters and brothers. Han Honglian briefly told the story of her grandfather, although there are similarities with the stories we heard, but the details are very different.
One world, one rivers and lakes. In the eyes of chivalry, it is one thing, and in the eyes of the chef, it is another.
I can't say which one is wrong, it's just that the process of everyone observing this river and lake is itself a reshaping of this river and lake, and more subjective factors must be added to it.
Just the matter of the Underworld, from Xu Kaishan, Feng Wanli, Jian Wushuang, Jing Yurou and even Zhong Luming's mouth, the versions are different. And while I received this information, I mixed this information together, and unconsciously sketched a story of the Stygian Mountain, only the perspective is different, there is no right or wrong.
Bidding farewell to Han Honglian, a group of four of us, plus a boatman, got on the night boat.
Today is the first day of the first month of August, it is the first day, there is no moon in the sky, after nightfall, there is heavy fog in the night, the visibility is extremely low, it is the best time to smuggle the Yellow River.
King Yong and King Jing's soldiers and horses confronted each other in the north and south of the Yellow River, and although there were patrols on the bank, they could not fully cover it. Just to cross the river, we lost the carriage at Erlong Mountain and replaced it with three horses for foot.
The boat had been walking for more than ten feet, and suddenly I heard a sound from the bow of the boat: Ah!
We were startled, and went to the sound, but we saw a white-clothed monk sitting cross-legged on the bow of the boat, I don't know when he came, and I don't know how long he sat there, and he merged with the whole ship, even Zhang Youqian and I didn't notice this person.
PS: I would like to report to you that the Sanguan family has added a man, and now there is a daughter and a son, which can be regarded as both children and daughters. I think that when I was writing darts, my daughter was born, and now the seven doors are about to end, and my son is born again. Life is wonderful!