Chapter 10: The Blood Alliance III
The appearance of "Chi Jin Yue" made Yu Shao feel that there must be a battle tonight, this ghost axe is rarely rumored in the rivers and lakes, not many people know it, but at the martial arts conference to show such a blade, those martial arts masters are not blind, compared to the position of the leader of the alliance This ghost axe may be more attractive, after all, the Southern Boxing Alliance is a gang alliance in the south of the Yangtze River, if you want to compete with the Central Plains martial arts, you can't just form an alliance, the emergence of a big sect will never be overnight, it must be after a long period of accumulation, In the bloody wind and rain can only have a place in the rivers and lakes after a thousand tempers, it is even more difficult to be the leader of the group, although Shaolin Wudang is the Taishan Beidou of the martial arts, but also can not command the heroes, Liu Yefei wants to dominate the rivers and lakes is a little too ambitious. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
It's still early to go to the Aojiang Alliance, and Liu Yefei has to put on a high posture, since things have been arranged, there is no need to appear at the venue too early, but Yu Shao is anxious to leave, lest Shen Bing is still on the way to Pingyang at night. But the willow leaves don't fly, and the feathers are few, and they are only in a hurry.
Liu Yemei is also the first time to see the eldest brother take out the treasure, and he didn't know that Liuzhuang still had such a heavy weapon, and he didn't hear his parents mention it, it seems that although he is the pearl of his parents, but the eldest brother is the real successor of Liuzhuang White Crane Boxing, and his father just told the eldest brother some important secrets. Liu Yemei does not have a grudge against this, and also understands that only the eldest brother can support the big things of Liuzhuang, and the relationship between himself and the eldest brother is also so deep, by no means a person who blushes when he sees the treasure, but feels that the eldest brother with the 'red gold Yue' is even more majestic, and he is proud of the little sister who came to congratulate him in this venue. But he was also curious about the origin of 'Chijin Yue', and stared at Liu Yefei, waiting for his explanation.
After Liu Yefei was full of wine and food, he told Yu Shao and his little sister about the predecessor of this 'Red Gold Yue'.
Ou Yezi was born in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, when the countries were strife, and when he was a teenager, he learned metallurgical techniques from his maternal uncle, and began to smelt bronze swords, iron hoes, iron axes and other tools. He's incredibly smart. with extraordinary intelligence; Strong and able to work hard. He discovered the difference between the properties of copper and iron, and smelted and cast the first iron sword: "Longyuan", which created a precedent and was the originator of sword casting, and the famous sword was the best in China. At the same time, Ou Yezi is the father-in-law of another sword-forging master in history, and Mo Ye is Ou Yezi's daughter.
Gou Jian's father, Yue Wang Yun, often ordered Ou Yezi to cast a sword. Ou Yezi went to the famous mountains and rivers in Fujian and Zhejiang to find suitable places to cast swords. When he saw that Zhanlu Mountain was quiet and lush, charcoal was easy to obtain, and mineral deposits were abundant. The mountain spring is clear and cold, suitable for quenching the sword, so it is settled here to cast the sword. After three years of hard work, the sword of Zhanlu was finally cast. At that time, the five famous swords in the world were: Zhan Lu, Juque, Shengxie, Fish Intestine, and Chunjun, all of which came from him. The first place is Zhan Lu, this sword can make the hair and the edge disappear, the iron is close to the blade like mud, unparalleled in the world, the first sword in the world. But these are all bronze swords.
The king of Chu ordered Fenghu to go to Yuedi. Find Ou Yezi and ask him to make a sword. So Ou Yezi traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, looking for places where Tieying, cold springs and bright stones could be produced, and only these three things were available. to forge a sword. Finally, he came to the Qinxi Mountain in Longquan and found that there were seven wells under the two thousand-year-old pine trees, arranged like a Beidou, clear and clear like glass. The cold is deep into the bone marrow, and it is really a high-quality cold spring, so it digs a pond to store water. Instant sword pool.
Ou Yezi quarried iron at the foot of Ci Mountain, used it to smelt iron and cast swords, quenched with the water in this pool, and cast it into a sword blank, but there was no good bright stone to sharpen the sword, Ou Yezi climbed the mountain and crossed the water, searched for it, and finally found a bright stone pit in a mountain near Qinxi Mountain. I found that there was a slight chill in the pit, and it was eerie, and I knew that there must be a foreign object in it. So he burned incense and bathed in vegetarian food for three days, then jumped into the pit, took out a sharp bright stone, and used the water here to slowly sharpen the sword.
After two years, three swords were finally cast: the first one was called "Longyuan", the second one was called "Taia", and the third one was called "Gongbu". These swords were bent around their waists like belts, and when they were loosened, they bounced open and straightened. If you throw a handkerchief into the air and slowly fall from the edge of the sword, the handkerchief will be divided into two. Chopping copper and chopping iron is like cutting mud and removing soil, and it is all because of taking this iron to smelt iron and cast swords, taking this pool of water to quench fire, and taking this mountain stone to sharpen swords.
The king of Chu was overjoyed to see the sword, and gave this treasure land as "Jianchi Lake", in the second year of Tang Qianyuan, the county was named after the first sword, called "Longyuan County", because of the avoidance of the name of Tang Gaozu "Yuan", it was renamed "Longquan", and it has been called until today. In order to commemorate Ou Yezi, the originator of Longquan Sword, the descendants built the "Jianchi Pavilion" and the "Ou Yezi General Temple" in Jianchi Lake, which became a historic site.
Ou Yezi is the king of sword casting, and everyone knows it, but he doesn't know that in addition to swords, he is also proficient in other instruments. Ou Yezi is also in the "Longyuan", "Tai'a", "Gongbu" three swords, with the rest of the material cast an axe, carry it with him to cut thorns, looking for the best casting materials, Ou Yezi dedicated the sword to the king of Chu, left the axe in the "Jianchi Lake", the cadre Mo Ye later cast the sword to rely on it to kill the demon and subdue the demon, Mo Ye jumped into the furnace and got the Mo evil male and female sword, the axe Yue also went with the body into the indissolve, the cadre will hide the axe in the casting mountain, with the male and female sword out of the mountain and never returned. The axe is originally the material of the sword, and it has the essence of the sun and the moon in the deep mountains, and it does not rot for thousands of years, and no one knows the poor howl day and night. I know that at the end of the Tang Dynasty, there was a swordsmith who intended to find the method of casting the sword of the cadre Mo Xie, and went into the mountains to hear the sound of Jin Ge's iron horse, which made the axe of heaven and earth reappear in the world, and brought it into the north, and dedicated it to the heroic stone Jingjiao at that time. Shi Jingjiao was very happy to see this tacit understanding of the gods and ghosts, indicating that God arranged for him to rule the Central Plains and replace the Later Tang Dynasty as the emperor. Shi Jingjiao bathed and changed clothes, held the precepts, prayed to heaven for the blessing of God, and matched the axe with gold and gemstones, named "Red Gold Yue", rich and powerful.
Shi Jingjiao was simple and steady when he was young, he was silent and smiling, he liked the book of soldiers, and he valued the actions of Li Mu and Zhou Yafu, and was under the account of Li Keyong's righteous son Li Siyuan. At that time, Liang Taizu Zhu Wen and Li Keyong, Li Cunmiao father and son competed for power, and Shi Jingjiao charged into battle and made outstanding achievements. In the fourth year of Tang Tongguang, Xiaojie commanded Zhao Zaili to mutiny in Weizhou. Li Cunqiao ordered Li Siyuan to lead the army to quell the rebellion, and Shi Jingjiao also went out with him. Under the city of Weizhou, Li Siyuan's troops also mutinied, and joined forces with the rebels of Weizhou to support Li Siyuan. Li Siyuan wanted to return to the court to plead guilty, but Shi Jingjiao persuaded him to seize Kaifeng in order to achieve great things. Li Siyuan had no choice but to accept this opinion. Thereupon. Shi Jingjiao volunteered, personally commanded 300 horsemen as the vanguard, seized Kaifeng, and returned to cross the river to take Luoyang. Tang Zhuangzong Li Cunmiao was killed by the rebels, and Li Siyuan entered Luoyang to claim the emperor, that is, Tang Mingzong. Because Shi Jingjiao made great contributions in this military coup, Tang Mingzong appointed him as the envoy of the Baoyi Army, and gave him the title of "Dedicated Hero of Loyalty and Rejuvenation and Recovery" and deputy envoy of the Sixth Army. At that time, many officials and generals did not obey the law. Shi Jingjiao is famous for his honest government and is quite praised by Li Siyuan of Mingzong. Since then, Shi Jingjiao has been promoted year by year as a horse and a meritorious hero, and has successively served as the commander of the guards and horses, the envoy of the Hedong Jiedu, and the chief of the Han and Mabu armies of Datong, Zhangguo, Zhenwu, Weisai and other military domains, responsible for resisting the southward movement of the Khitan, and later awarded the title of "Yaozhong Kuangding Baojie Meritorious Hero". With the growth of position and power. Shi Jingjiao began to support his troops and gain self-respect, and he had the potential to take the Tang Dynasty and become self-reliant.
Soon, Li Congke killed Emperor Tang and changed to Yuan Qingtai. He established himself as the emperor, that is, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Emperor Tang was very suspicious of Shi Jingjiao, and Shi Jingjiao was also suspicious, and the contradiction between the two became increasingly acute. In order to test the Tang Emperor. Shi Jingjiao, who had been premeditated for a long time, begged for military power in April of the third year of Tang Qingtai, with his weak body. Transferred to another town. This is in line with the intention of the Tang Dynasty to abolish the emperor, so he followed Shi Jingjiao's request and moved him to be the envoy of the balance festival. When the ministers learned that they were looking at each other, they all felt that chaos was coming. Shi Jingjiao thinks that I don't stir up chaos, the court sends it, and An can tie his hands to the road? So he decided to rebel. General Liu Zhiyuan and secretary Sang Weihan also have this intention. As a result, Shi Jingjiao accused Emperor Tang of being the adopted son of Mingzong and should not be enshrined, and asked to give way to Li Congyi, the king of Xu. Emperor Tang Dynasty tore his surface, cut his officials, and made Zhang Jingda to fight on all sides with Jianxiong Festival, and Liu Zhiyuan built a long siege with 30,000 soldiers to attack Taiyuan. On the one hand, Shi Jingjiao engaged in rebellion activities within the imperial court, and on the other hand, the secretary in charge, Sang Weihan, drafted a chapter and asked the Khitan for help: please call the minister, use your father to serve the Khitan, and after the appointment is successful, cut off Lulong and the states north of Yanmen Pass and the Khitan. Regarding this kind of behavior of recognizing a thief as a father and betraying the country to seek glory, even his cronies Liu Zhiyuan also objected, saying: It is okay to be a minister, but he can be too much of a father, bribe him with gold and silk, and be self-sufficient to join the army, and there is no need to allow him to have land, for fear that the future will be a great disaster for China, and he will regret it. However, Shi Jingjiao did not obey and still insisted on going his own way. The Khitan lord Yelu Deguang was overjoyed, and with the help of soldiers, he defeated Tang Zhang Jingda. In November of the same year, the Khitan lord made a book to seal Shi Jingjiao as the emperor, changed the Yuan Tianfu, the country name Dajin, and the Khitan lord gave him his own clothes. Shi Jingjiao was then located in Liulin for the Jin Gaozu.
After the Jin Gaozu Shi Jingjiao was called the emperor, he kept his "credit" very much, cut the sixteen states of Yanyun to the Khitan, and promised to give 300,000 horses of Khitan cloth every year. And send the treasure 'Red Gold Yue', Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures are the natural barrier in the north, so far the Central Plains is completely exposed to the Khitan iron hooves, and the 'Red Gold Yue' has since disappeared in the Central Plains, after a long time, few people in the Central Plains know about this magic weapon.
Until the Mongolian army entered the Central Plains and established the Great Yuan Dynasty, the 'Chijin Yue' suddenly appeared in the rivers and lakes, and the Mongols did not hesitate to put the 'Chijin Yue' into the rivers and lakes in order to let the Central Plains warriors kill each other, and let the martial arts masters compete for each other.
Yu Shao asked, "Is this person the Black Widow?" ”
"It's her, the great enemy who killed my father." Liu Yefei also gritted his teeth when he mentioned the Black Widow.
"It is rumored that the black widow's martial arts are in the realm of attractance, when she grabbed the 'Chijin Yue', she must have reached the peak of her martial arts, this female devil is talking about the tiger's color change in the rivers and lakes, everyone is in danger, and no one has the courage to grab it when she gets the 'Chijin Yue'." Yu Shao said: "But 'Chi Jin Yue' is so in your Liuzhuang? ”
"After my father disappeared in Jinling, the black widow also disappeared on the rivers and lakes, it is said that this black widow is the first beauty in the martial arts, and will appear in the Central Plains once every few years.
"I've heard your mother talk about your father, but I haven't mentioned the 'Red Gold Yue'."
"I also heard my sister talk about it a few days ago, I have a bit of a gap with my mother, I have never talked about Black Widow, but I heard her rumors outside. That day my father was skinny and returned to Liuzhuang, all day without saying a word, in Liuzhuang in a lot of strange flowers and plants, sometimes in the middle of the night three watches will suddenly go crazy, I asked my father, he still did not say a word, the nerves have been deranged, on the day before death, my father handed over this 'red gold Yue' to me, and told me a few words, I did not think so, did not expect that day my father committed suicide. After I took care of my father's funeral, I opened the object that my father gave me, that is, 'Red Gold Yue', I walked around the rivers and lakes, and I also heard the rumors of 'Red Gold Yue', but when I really saw the ancient artifact with golden light and cold light, my heart was also excited, I looked at it and thought that it was the legendary 'Red Gold Yue', and I took a sword to try, and it was really sharpened iron like mud to be silent. ”
"It is not easy for your father to escape from the clutches of the Black Widow, and his martial arts and wisdom should also be outstanding."
"Of course, my father is a beautiful man, and his martial arts strategy is also first-class, and the head of the Nangong family, Nangong Geler, is also called the 'Second Prince of Jiangnan', my father is actually not a romantic person, and he is also very good to my mother, he must have been led astray by the charm of the Black Widow, and was tortured and dying like a ghost, and he was also controlled by the mysterious drug of the Black Widow and lost the sanity of ordinary people, so he did something despicable."
"Well, the owner of Liu Zhuang must have another purpose when he took out the 'Red Gold Yue' this time."
"Yu Shao is really careful, I brought the" Chi Jin Yue ", as if my father was by my side, my father died nowhere to be, how could I let my father down, he was also wholeheartedly running Liuzhuang during his lifetime, and also had the ambition of dominating the rivers and lakes, his father went through life and death to obtain the 'Chi Jin Yue', which must be his most important belonging. If you can use the 'Red Gold Yue' as a token of the alliance leader at this conference, my father will also see it in the sky, and maybe he can find out the whereabouts of the Black Widow, this person is not a common person, and he is also a public enemy of martial arts, everyone will be punished, I am not as good as her martial arts, but if the powerful Southern Fist will confront her, even if she has three heads and six arms, it is difficult to defeat the siege of many masters. ”
"Well, the lord of Liuzhuang can still have grand ambitions with a deep hatred of blood, he is really a generation of heroes."
Yu Shao wanted to remind Liu Yefei to take out the treasure 'Red Gold Yue' will make the scene chaotic, maybe there will be a fatality, many of the people who came tonight are people they don't know, maybe there are peerless masters with bad intentions, and even the people of the local gang are also yang and yin to Liu Yefei, I wish Liu Yefei had an accident, even if the people who want to meet the alliance, what they want in their hearts is not necessarily to let Liu Yefei ascend to the position of the leader of the alliance, and they don't want the Liuzhuang White Crane Fist family to dominate, and some "respectable" people also covet the position of the leader of the alliance. thinks that he is more qualified than Liu Yefei to command the southern heroes. But seeing Liu Yefei's smug appearance, it's not good to say some unfortunate words, Liu Yefei is so stubborn and self-serving, maybe he will turn his face when he touches the moldy head, so it's better to be careful secretly.
The Liu Yefei brothers and sisters and Yu Shao drank tea all afternoon, and also talked about martial arts anecdotes for an afternoon, which nourished their spirits. The whole of Liuzhuang is also high-spirited, and the team of people and horses are waiting outside the gate of Liuzhuang to be ready to leave at any time, and the Dongying Ronin group that Liu Yefei said has also been swordsman, waiting for Liu Yefei's order.
Liu Yemei also changed into civilian clothes, tied a gold belt around his waist, and wore a sword, pulled out a tall horse, and stood on the edge of the pond in Liuzhuang, with a heroic posture.
Dusk is approaching, the sky is also blood-red, the sunset is like a colorful brocade in the sunset, unusually dazzling, the sun pierces through the clouds and pierces the earth, stabbing people's eyes. In the beautiful picture, Yu Shao drove the carriage to accompany Liuzhuang up and down to the Aojiang River. (To be continued.) )