At noon, Qingxu County.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, most of the shops on the street are closed to go home for the New Year, and there are only sporadic hawkers pushing carts on the street, selling candy and toys, followed by more than half of the children chattering.

Qingxu County is a small county seat, although it is located on the north-south artery, but the terrain is too open and a flat river, it can be bypassed from outside the county seat, there is no strategic significance, and the border army only put 200 people to stand guard here.

Those who served as soldiers on the first day of the Lunar New Year also missed their wives and children on the hot kang, but after all, they were border troops, and their military appearance was neat, which was very different from the strawberry soldiers in Jiangnan.

The reason for the gap is not that there is too much gap in the quality of soldiers, but that the concept of raising soldiers is different.

Since the Spring and Autumn Period after the turmoil of the Spring and Autumn Period, the world has been unified, and the Central Plains Dynasty has opened the country with martial arts, without exception, the capital is Chang'an, and the princes of the world are suppressed with Qin soldiers.

The reason why the Qin soldiers are strong, in addition to the fierce folk customs, is the greater reason for the 'military merit system', cutting a knighthood, so that soldiers can exchange their military merits for titles and change their social status.

Before that, the aristocratic class 'Shiqing Shilu' would always be a general, a soldier would be a soldier, and the social status would be solidified, and it would always be a war for the landlord, not for himself.

Cutting off a human head on the battlefield can be exchanged for titles, slaves, fields, houses, and women, and the temptation can be imagined, and the martial atmosphere has also been cultivated since then.

Later, after various changes, in order to raise the world's top elite soldiers, the imperial court divided a large number of fields to specifically store Qin soldiers, and all military families were exempt from tax, relying on taxes from other rich regions to support these soldiers and horses, and the soldiers only had to fight.

Today's major generals are basically accumulated from generation to generation of military merits and have risen step by step. Soldiers have fields at home, and they rely on slaves, women and children obtained during the war to cultivate the land, and men can train the killing skills full-time, in order to obtain more rewards in the fighting, and the combat effectiveness will naturally be greatly improved.

Of course, there are also restrictions in the imperial court, military merit titles are reduced on behalf of each generation, and if there is no war for several generations, they will become desperate people at the bottom.

Dayue and Northern Qi have been truces for 60 years, and there have been no major wars, but small-scale conflicts have continued, because both sides have implemented the military merit system, and those who do not fight as soldiers will find ways to provoke trouble.

There is no doubt about the benefits of this system, the Guanzhong Army and the Xiliang Army were both raised in this way, and they were all professional soldiers, not government soldiers who fought wars and farmed in wartime, and their combat effectiveness was much higher.

And the disadvantage of this system is that it burns too much silver, and the twelve states of Xiliang do not need to pay the imperial court an annual tax, because they have to raise 200,000 troops. In addition to the Chinese army, Song Ji also had the army of the Liaoxi Protectorate to support, and most of the taxes collected from all over the country every year were used here.

The other vassal kings, except for the King of Wei in Duzhen and South Vietnam, raised troops in this way, and the rest were all government soldiers who served as soldiers in wartime and farmed in their spare time, and their combat effectiveness naturally disparity.

This is also the reason why the Seven Kings obeyed Chang'an City, they couldn't beat the emperor simply, and even King Su could only break through the Chinese army, and when the Liaoxi Protectorate and the Six Kings army came to kill, they couldn't hold it at all.

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The winter sun rose in mid-air, and Xu Buling, under the leadership of Zhu Manzhi, came to the suburbs outside Qingxu County.

Song Yufu didn't know how to ride a horse, but girls of the same age all went out to play, so they couldn't leave her on the boat as a wangfu stone, so they still followed, sitting on Chu Chu's horse, holding Chu Chu's waist, looking east and west.

Ning Qingye's hometown was destroyed by the imperial court, and he had no hometown, and he was very interested in Manzhi's hometown, and he had been walking beside Manzhi, listening to Manzhi's patient explanation as a tour guide:

"I didn't see that big rock, I used to sit on it with my dad to fish, don't look at my dad as a sword master, the fishing skills are poor, you can catch anything, but you can't catch fish......"

The small river flows through the woods and farmhouses, and although the countryside is not beautiful in winter, the snow scene of the plains is still refreshing.

Xu Buling took the nightingale, walking at the back, wearing a snow-white robe newly sewn by Lu Hongluan, cold and extraordinary, only looking at the beautiful scenery and not looking at the beauty, obviously still in the time of the sage, and did not recover from yesterday's 'New Year's gift'.

Speaking of last night, Xu Buling was a little speechless.

The day before yesterday, he was squeezed by three hungry daughters-in-law, and he didn't even let him slow down, and last night he gave him a 'New Year', and he was comfortable, but it was really fatal.

They are all their own daughters-in-law, and they can't patronize their own enjoyment, their own experience is secondary, and the main thing is to serve the daughters-in-law comfortably.

I want to serve four young women who are just the right age and are more conservative, but the big job, from technology to eloquence, is indispensable, and I can't take care of one or the other, do cows and horses, work hard and complain, and give the toss to the heart of the haggard almost poor words, if you can still think about ** in the morning, even if it is a pervert reincarnated.

But men, they always have to be a little responsible, and sometimes they should resist everything alone, and they can't blame anyone!

Speaking of which, although I was a little tired last night, it was obviously quite interesting.

Xiao Qi's 'Qiqi is the most well-behaved' is still there, that is called a person who would rather die than give in, is exposed, and also makes the appearance of a big sister, whoever dares to laugh will be trained, and it is unspeakably fun.

Aunt Lu, who was watching the play next to her, reacted needless to say, at first she was at a loss, then her eyes were shocked, and then she was embarrassed and embarrassed, and she was not allowed to go by the baby, so she could only cover her eyes with her hands.

Cover it, just cover it, and can't help but peek, and after looking at it for a while, it starts to be sour.

After all, it is not pleasant to witness the baby bump that I cherish the most, being spoiled by other women, but I can't eat it.

Then Aunt Lu started, ran over and kept training a few girls to be light or heavy, her tone was sour, and she also served tea, wiped sweat or something, and didn't want to be distressed.

Xu Buling thinks about it now, and can't help but sigh secretly: It's better to be an aunt.

If it weren't for Aunt Lu pulling it last night, he wouldn't have gone out today, and it would not be easy to even get up.

Walking along the road, the group came to a small osmanthus forest on the riverside under the leadership of Zhu Manzhi.

The osmanthus forest is the place where Zhu Liu lives in seclusion, and the scenery is very good, but the fields have been deserted, and the path is full of weeds and fallen leaves, and even the road can not be seen clearly.

Zhu Manzhi jumped off the horse, walked in front happily, and came to the osmanthus with many sisters, pointing to a small farm yard in front:

"This is the former residence of the Sword Master, huh...... There's nothing to say......"

Xu Buling walked to him, glanced left and right, the grass was growing in the yard, the gate was locked, obviously no one had come for a long time, there was really nothing to see.

Zhongli Chuchu blinked, obviously he didn't expect to come from afar, and it was over.

Song Yufu glanced at it a few times and said:

"Why don't we clean up this place?"

Although Zhu Manzhi grew up here, his heart is no longer here, and even if his father and mother live in seclusion in the future, they will definitely change places and will not come back. She glanced left and right with nostalgia in her eyes, then waved her hand and said:

"No need to clean up, so be it. Take you to the county seat to eat a whole fish feast, I know a shop, better than the dishes of Longyin Pavilion in Chang'an City, and it has been opened in Qingxu County for decades......"

Ning Qingye looked at the sky: "Today, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, is there still a restaurant open?" ”

"No, but you have to see who eats, the shop back then, but I covered it, not to mention the first day of the new year, even if it is the third watch in the middle of the night, it will be opened, this is called a row of noodles ......"

"Cut~"

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During the chat, Xu Buling followed Manzhi to the county seat not far away, and rarely accompanied the girls out to relax, so he was naturally not in a hurry.

Song Yufu is not a woman in the rivers and lakes, and she doesn't have much in common with the four little heroines in the rivers and lakes, so she can't interject all the time, Xu Buling doesn't forget to walk in front of her, and chat with her about some poetry and songs, so as not to make Song Yufu feel bored.

The group came to the gate of Qingxu County, Manzhi wanted to greet the military service guarding the city, but at a glance, the soldiers and horses guarding the city were rotated, and they no longer knew each other, and then took out the 'ID card' that had been prepared long ago from his arms.

Xu Buling ran all over the place without fanfare as the prince of the vassal king, and was about to use a fake identity to enter the county seat in a low-key manner, but he heard a voice in the squad room outside the city gate: "Eh! Xu ......".

Xu Buling frowned, put his hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist, and turned his head to look at the wooden house where he was resting on duty, but saw a small soldier in armor standing up, looking towards this side with surprise and joy on his face.

The little soldier is quite strong on his side, holding a side-military standard red tassel gun, looking at the captain who is dressed as the captain of this team of city gate guards, his appearance is quite rough, and his expression and demeanor are a little Jianghu atmosphere, Xu Buling thought about it, but he didn't remember such a person.

Hearing the word 'Xu', several girls also became alert and frowned at Wu Chang.

The Wu Chang opened his mouth, as if he remembered something, and hurriedly ran over and raised his hand:

"Get out of the way, this is the friend my brother met on the rivers and lakes back then, fourth, you help me carry it, if the Overseer comes over, you will say that I peed, and I will come back immediately......"

Wu Chang walked with a slight lameness in his legs, and he may have suffered old injuries in previous years, although it did not affect his movements, but it was obvious that he could see it.

When Xu Buling saw this, he suddenly realized that he remembered who this little captain was.

After pushing the baby last year, I went to Yufeng Mountain to pay respects, and a Jianghu guest with a bad brain was used, and he ran over with a stick to beat him, but he was beaten half to death.

At that time, he met the old lady who stayed in the town under the mountain, and he didn't kill it, and he never thought that he would meet it here again, and he remembered to call it 'Lei Gong Stick Kou Meng'......