is "Second Master Guan" again, and "Brother Xiucai", this bandit boy is afraid that he will make "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin".

Wang Yuan couldn't help but laugh and asked, "What's your name?" Where is it from? How can you be a bandit? ”

The young bandit was articulate and quickly replied:

"The villain's name is Zhou Chong, originally from Anning, Yunnan. Because he borrowed money from his mother for treatment, his father was unable to repay it, and the Yang family took the opportunity to occupy the ancestral land, and his father and eldest brother also became tenant farmers of the Yang family. When the villain was ten years old, there was a severe drought in Yunnan and he was unable to pay the tenant rent, so his father and eldest brother fled with the villain. His father starved to death that year, the eldest brother worked as a helper in Kunming, and the villain also worked as an apprentice in the dyeing workshop. ”

"When the villain was twelve years old, the eldest brother was beaten to death. The dyeing workshop was afraid of getting into trouble, so he also expelled the villain. The villain entered the Chunhua class to learn singing again, but within two years, the troupe also dispersed. The villain formed a small class with four or five masters and uncles to travel around the countryside and sing about the happy events of the farmer. Last year, the master and the uncle did not share the money evenly, and they broke up after a fight. The villain made a living with the master all the way, and the master also fell ill and died, so the villain went up the mountain and threw the bandits into the grass. ”

This unlucky, it's a disaster, whoever you follow will not end well.

His experience is not very clean, his eldest brother is a helper, but he is actually a street gangster. The dyeing workshop can accept him as an apprentice, but it is also for the sake of the gangsters, otherwise it will never be possible to accept a homeless person without household registration as an apprentice.

Wang Yuan asked casually: "The Yang family, who occupies your ancestral field, is the local hero?" ”

Zhou Chong replied: "That's the clansmen of Yang Yiqing, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu. The Yang family came out with a governor, and they suddenly became majestic, and nearly half of the land in the villain village was occupied by the Yang family. ”

Yang Yiqing became the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, which was several years ago. Two years ago, he was squeezed out by Liu Jin, Yang Yiqing was forced to resign, and then he was sent to prison, and his life was saved by Li Dongyang's rescue. This year, because of the rebellion of King Anhua, Yang Yiqing returned to lead the troops, and he was soon able to design and kill Liu Jin.

Humans are complex animals.

In terms of merits, Yang Yiqing has reformed the maladministration of the tea and horse trade, and has also calmed down internal and external troubles several times, and even the first major contributor to the elimination of Liu Jin.

Yang Yiqing's cultural and martial arts, throughout the entire Ming Dynasty, there are few who can compare with him (the founding ministers are not counted).

However, Yang Yiqing's clansmen are indeed in the township!

Zhang Yu, who is in charge of the Yunnan Township Test this year, will take Yang Yiqing's son. Zhang Yu not only severely punished his son, but also reported Yang Yiqing's murder, and these two became rivals.

Later, Zhang Yu was promoted to Guangdong as a scholar, and Yang Yiqing made an obstacle and transferred Zhang Yu to Baoding as the prefect. There are many nobles and nobles in that place, and being a prefect is equivalent to being a grandson, Zhang Yu went to Baoding alone, and he pressed many nobles to make trouble in three months.

In terms of character, Zhang Yu is really honest and selfless.

When his father died, Zhang Yu had already become a county magistrate, and the four hundred and forty taels of silver owed by three generations of his family for studying had been an official for 30 years, and he was unable to pay off the official to the second grade. When Zhang Yu was seventy years old, the three sons split up, and the three sons not only did not get a share of the family property, but each received an ancestral debt.

Every time Zhang Yu and his second brother were transferred, they couldn't afford to hire a car or boat, so the third brother drove the donkey to carry the luggage and walked to the place where they were to perform.

Zhang Yu's second brother Zhang Chong is also a Qing official, because of the crackdown on the local heroes, he has no flaws, and the local heroes have nothing to do, so they can only scrape together money to buy officials for Zhang Chong, hoping that this person will be promoted and transferred away quickly. After Zhang Chong learned the truth, he thought it was an insult to himself, and he was so angry that he resigned and returned to his hometown.

Wang Yuan's luck was very good, he actually met Zhang Yu in the township examination.

By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the chief examiners of the township examination were all hired externally. For example, Wang Yangming once recovered from illness and returned to the north, and when he went to Shandong, he was invited to preside over the Shandong Township Test.

However, the examiner is only the moderator of the exam, not the person in charge.

The patrol is the real person in charge, and it was decentralized in the early days, and it has been single-handedly taken care of during the Hongzhi period. Let's put it this way, if you want to play tricks according to the imperial history, you can even secretly change the ink and draft papers of the township test before copying the Zhu scroll, and it is inevitable that the township test in all provinces will be tired.

And with Zhang Yu's character, it is absolutely impossible to cheat for personal gain, Wang Yuan can get the first place, he will definitely be able to get the first place!

……

After Zhou Chong finished telling his life experience, he knelt on the ground and looked at Wang Yuan.

Li Ying smiled and said: "Take it, this guy is very interesting, it's like watching a play." ”

Zhou Chong immediately kowtowed to Li Ying: "Thank you for your kind words!" ”

Wang Yuan asked again: "You have already escaped, why did you come back to join again?" ”

Zhou Chong said: "When the villain learns to sing, he respects those heroes, especially Guan Erye. Brother Xiucai is very skilled, riding a horse and killing people is like picking up things, it is simply the reincarnation of Guan Erye! The villain can't be the second master, he just thinks about being Zhou Cang. As long as Brother Xiucai accepts the villain, the villain will be loyal like Zhou Cang. If one day Xiucai's brother dies...... Well, the villain is not the brother of Ju Xiucai. If...... In that way, the villain also learned from General Zhou Cang, picked up a knife and followed his brother to the underworld to be happy! If Brother Xiucai dies, I don't commit suicide to follow, I will be called to the sky to thunder, and future generations will not be able to die well! ”

Wang Yuan was very speechless when he heard this, and stopped: "Don't call me brother, it sounds like a bandit in the green forest, are you too much drama in "Water Margin"?" Also, don't call yourself a villain! ”

"Then what should I call Xiucai...... Huh, sir? Zhou Chong asked.

Wang Yuan thought for a while and said, "Call the second brother." ”

"Eh, thank you second brother for taking it in!" Zhou Chong knocked his head a few times, stood up and said, "I'll lead the horse and get a knife for the second brother." ”

"It's okay to lead a horse, just take a knife." Wang Yuan won't let the weapon go away, there is still half the way to go.

What really made Wang Yuan let down his guard was the question he asked casually.

Although Wang Yuan is a historical idiot, he has met many big officials with Wang Yangming, and he also knows some things about the court, and he has heard a little about important ministers like Yang Yiqing.

The Ming Dynasty had a system of being an official in different places, and Yang Yiqing could not be an official in Yunnan. This week, Chong can open his mouth to say that Yang Yiqing must be a person from Yang Yiqing's hometown, and his life experience should also be true.

The team marched again, and Wang Yuan had one more servant.

Fugitive farmers like Zhou Chong belong to the homeless people who do not have household registration. Fortunately, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the road guide inventory was not very strict, otherwise he would not even be able to enter the county seat.

Wang Yuan can help Zhou Chong get married, but he must be a lowly, and his identity belongs to a slave.

What kind of advocacy, employment, and companionship, these are all lowly people. Legally inferior, children and grandchildren cannot participate in the imperial examination. Moreover, when committing a crime, if the victim is of good origin, the perpetrator of the lowly nationality will be guilty of one more degree.

The more special ones are hired hands and tenant farmers.

Short-term workers and short-term tenants are good names, but if they become long-term workers and tenants, the owner has to take care of food and drink, and then they will be included in the lowly status. Even if these people become rich, such as if they suddenly inherit a relative's inheritance, which is protected by law, they still cannot be free. Even if the master is willing to give them a naturalization, they have to be approved by the government.

These are the dross left by Meng Yuan, which was inherited by Zhu Yuanzhang.

can't blame Zhu Yuanzhang, when he was in power, he actually made a lot of reforms. A large number of untouchables in the Yuan Dynasty regained their freedom, and the rights and interests of untouchables were also protected by law, but the changes were not thorough enough.

Zhou Chong held the reins, couldn't help touching his mane, and exclaimed: "Second brother, this horse is really a divine horse." I could see it very well on the slope, jumping up from a big rock at least a foot above the ground, and the leg would have been broken in the form of an ordinary horse. ”

"Well, remember to take care of it in the future, brush and feed it every day," Wang Yuan happened to pick up a coolie for nothing, and instructed, "This horse has a bad mouth, and the staple food is tartary buckwheat, supplemented by bean cake and forage, and ginger and salt should be added when drinking water." ”

Zhou Chong was amazed: "Eat better than people." ”

You really can't raise horses without money, especially this kind of high-class god horse.

Wang Yuan attacked the rebel baggage team at night, and the hundreds of taels of silver obtained from the distribution of the stolen goods were more than ten taels on the horse.

Now, if you sell it, it's not a matter of five hundred taels at all, but at least more than one thousand taels - over there, the ordinary galloping horse used for riding can be bought for only seven or eight taels of silver.

If you use a car as an analogy, Wang Yuan's horse is equivalent to a Rolls-Royce, and the daily maintenance fee can make the working class poor.

Otherwise, how do you think that in the previous battle, Wang Yuan single-handedly killed the bandits? If you change to a bad horse, you don't want to carry people up a steep slope at all.

The most famous Shuixi horse recorded in history is the horse that Ming Sheng (the son of Ming Yuzhen) dedicated to Zhu Yuanzhang, and was given the name "Feiyue Peak", which means that it can fly over the peak. There is a poem that praises: "The electric clouds are not returned, and the fog and smoke lock the Longshan." One from flying over the stable, the lonely world is twelve idle. ”

This horse came from Yanglongkeng, which was the territory of the Cai family that wanted to marry Song Ling'er, and it was still nominally under the jurisdiction of the Song family.

This horse is really too scary, if according to historical records, its head is about 2.9 meters high, and the body height is estimated to be more than two meters. The body height of ordinary Shuixi horses is only about one meter two or one meter three, and you can know the gap by comparison.

"Flying Over Peak" belongs to a different species, and Wang Yuan's horse is much shorter.

He was still a young pony when he first borrowed it, and after two years of breeding, he has grown to five feet and one inch, which is about 1.63 meters, which is about to catch up with the average height of a British thoroughbred.

……

The next part of the journey is relatively easy to walk, and it is all the kind of terrain that is encountered when encountering bandits.

There are hillsides on both sides, and there is a valley in the middle, and the official road is built along the valley floor.

This kind of terrain is particularly suitable for ambushes, ten years ago, the thief woman Miru, who ambushed the officials and troops here, and blocked the officials and troops in the valley and killed the whole army.

Guizhou's Pingyi Thousand Households are stationed in Pingguan. If there are rebels in Yunnan, you only need to release a few hundred people to the pass, and it will be tens of thousands of Yunnan rebels, and don't want to enter Guizhou easily.

The Pingyi Wei in Yunnan is on the other side of the valley.

After advancing about seven or eight miles, Wang Yuan and the others came to Pingyiwei.

The officers and soldiers defending the city were originally a little lazy, but when they saw the horses carrying more than a dozen heads, they suddenly became extremely cautious. They all picked up their weapons and asked Qin Wu, "Qin Wu, what are you doing here?" ”

Qin Jiaotou has been walking this road all the year round, and he has long been familiar with the officers and soldiers guarding the city, and said with a smile: "They are all bandits, subordinates of Zhen Sanshan." ”

"You wait outside the city first, and I'll report to the king's command!" The officers and soldiers defending the city did not dare to slack off, and one of them quickly ran towards the city.

(PS: Regarding Feiyue Peak, there is a record in "Ming Taizu Hongwu Record", which is produced in Shuidong Yanglongkeng, which is Zhu Yuanzhang's favorite horse, and asked the court painter to paint a portrait of Feiyue Peak.) According to Song Lian's "Dragon Horse Zan", the head of the horse flying over the peak is about 2.9 meters high, and the body of the horse is about 3.5 meters long. ）