Chapter 33: Murder I
In the fifth year of Zhongping, the second half of the first month.
The cold winter weather has gradually passed, although it is not yet spring, but the weather has begun to warm up, everything has begun to rejuvenate, the withered grass has begun to spring, and the spring atmosphere between heaven and earth is in this patch.
Wuyin County.
Jingping Village on the outskirts of the city.
The houses in the village have begun to be built completely, and they have been built very quickly, and in less than two months, hundreds of houses have been built, one is because the whole village has done it, regardless of men and women, and the other is willing to spend money, in order to cultivate this village, at least more than 200 gold, that is, more than 2 million five-baht money, which is a huge amount of money.
This is a new village, the length of the village is not very long, but the back is just a nameless mountain (this was originally just a nameless mountain, but the original village was named Jingping Village, this mountain is naturally known as Jingping Mountain), there is a small river about five zhang wide on the left, the terrain is not flat, faintly steep, the houses are mainly in the center of the martyr's hall, forming a hollow shape, like a fortress.
When building, a situation was not very peaceful, so the stones used in their periphery were all built from the mountains, and once the soldiers and horses were arranged to defend themselves, all the men, women and children in the village went into battle, even if more than a thousand elite soldiers and horses could not attack it.
This is the base camp of the remnants of the Yellow Turban who walked down from their mushroom mountain.
The most important point is that the surrounding land has been granted to Jingping Village by the county government, and Jingping Village can be completely self-sufficient even if the door is closed.
Finally, when the day came to settle down, the old people, women and children in the village were overjoyed, and they were preparing for spring plowing after the beginning of spring......
In addition to Zhang Gu becoming the Li Zheng (village head) of Jingping Village, Zhao Ping, Cheng Luo, and Lei Gong all entered the county government with Mushan, commanding more than 1,000 county soldiers under their command, seizing the time to train soldiers, and often not at home, after all, these more than 1,000 soldiers and horses are the foundation of their foothold, without these, how many people will turn their faces against them.
And Mu Jing is not only seizing the time to practice martial arts these days, but also practicing his horseback riding and bow and arrow.
In this era, cavalry is the most powerful type of troops.
And the bow and arrow are the most lethal weapons.
Riding a horse looks like a simple thing, but it is not so easy, in addition to the fact that there is no so-called saddle stirrup at all in this era, it is impossible to fix the body, and it will fall off the horse's back if you shake it.
He's had a lot of hard time.
"How do you feel today?" Lei Hu took the reins of the horse and let the somewhat docile green horse walk on the path with Mu Jing.
"Xiaoqing doesn't seem to accept me too much!"
Mu Jing smiled bitterly, silently crotched the head of the war horse, Xiaoqing is the name of this horse, this is a war horse, but some are too old, and they are eliminated, so their personalities are relatively docile and suitable for novices, he sighed and said, "It seems that I still need to cultivate more feelings with him!" ”
Horseback riding can be a technical job.
Between his two strands, he has already worn off layers of skin, and he wanted to give up several times, but in the end he gritted his teeth and persevered, and now he can barely be considered to be able to ride a horse, but if he wants to ride a horse to fight you, he is still far away.
"Don't be in charge, why don't you talk to my father and let me follow my father into the county army?" Lei Hu has been talking about this thing for the past few days.
"Brother Huzi, why do you have to enter the county soldiers!"
Mu Jing rode slowly on the horseback under the reins of the horse led by Lei Hu, and asked with some sighs.
This problem is not just a problem with Thunder Tiger.
It's the problem of the whole Jingping Village.
There is a world in the village, and many old people, women and children want men to farm and get food, but young and strong can only be soldiers, after all, the county soldiers are the foundation of their foothold, and without the county soldiers, the stability here will soon be swept away.
Then the matter of working in the fields was naturally handed over to the Youth League, and you must know that in addition to the young men in their early 300s who can fight well, there is also a group of reserve troops, that is, young men who are about ten to fifteen years old.
This group of teenagers followed Mu Jing into the Zhu family's mansion and slaughtered the Zhu family in the battle of Wuyin that day.
"I don't want to work here, I'm a manly man, I want to go to the battlefield, and I want to get off the horse with a knife in my hand and make contributions to the big boss and the young master!" Lei Hu was ambitious, and his voice was burning.
"But you're only fifteen!"
"I know, but even if my martial arts are among the county soldiers, they are considered first-class!" Lei Hu said: "Among the county soldiers, there are a few who can beat me, why can they enter the county soldiers, I can't!" ”
"Brother Huzi, do you know what is the most important thing in a battlefield battle, in addition to martial arts?"
"Riding?"
Lei Hu's huge head thought for a while, and said: "My riding skills are not bad, even if I can't compare to the big boss and my father, I am one of the best in the village!" ”
This guy has good talents, and his martial arts and riding skills are outstanding.
"Wrong!"
Mu Jing said categorically: "It's the art of war!" ”
He said righteously: "On the battlefield, if you will only charge into battle, and will not set up a formation to lure the enemy, it is just a horseman, do you want him to go to the battlefield and become a horseman that everyone shouts at?" ”
"This ......" Lei Hu hesitated for a moment.
"So from today onwards, you have to study the military books, and only when you study the military books, you have the art of war in your chest, and you can strategize when you go to the battlefield......
Mu Jing originally just wanted Lei Hu'an to settle down, but as he spoke, a thought suddenly ignited in his heart.
Why don't you build a military school?
He knows better than anyone else what kind of chaos will be next, the world is in flames, wars are frequent, only to stop the war with war, if you want to stop the war with war, you must have a strong army, if you want to have a strong army, you must have a group of elite officers.
There are a batch of good seedlings right now.
At the beginning, with the extermination of the Zhu family, the young people are the best seedlings, if this batch of seedlings can be trained, if they want to build an army in the future, it will be easy.
The more he thought about it, the more excited he became.
"Less in charge!"
At this time, in the direction of the head of the village, Tan Zong rode a small donkey and walked over from a distance, and walked some out of breath.
"Looks like I'm going to have an eyebrow on the errand!"
Mu Jing's gaze interrupted his musings, and he jumped off the horse, a smile on his face.
"Young master, these are the household registration information you want, I begged Uncle Chengluo for a long time before he was willing to let me take it out of the county office, but he ordered me to move back to the county office within three days!"
Tan Zong handed over a roll of bamboo slips in his hand.
"Go to the Martyr's Hall!"
Mu Jing led the horse and walked in front.
"No!" Tan Zong and Lei Hu nodded and followed.
The Loyal Martyrs' Hall is the core of Jingping Village, there are many houses in it, and there is a small school field, the school field is arranged with some stone mortars, swords, guns, swords and sticks, for martial arts training, the middle is the lobby, it is also the meeting hall, and the left and right are the east and west houses.
The west house is a warehouse in Jingping Village, stacking some food and weapons, and the east house is where Mushan and their office are, but Mushan rarely comes back, only Zhang Gu is here to sit, and Mujing also occupies a wing room for the library.
This book pavilion is very large, it can be said that the entire martyr's hall in addition to the middle hall, the largest wing, this wing room is very suppressed, a huge bookshelf stands, there are a lot of books piled up inside, all the books in Jingping Village are basically here.
In the past, Mushroom Mountain also collected more than ten or twenty books, even if you wanted to study, there were not many books at all, but now there are many books in Jingping Village.
When I copied the Zhu family, I took the sheep and brought out the Zhu family's scholar inheritance books, a scholar family, the foundation of inheritance is books, there is no movable type printing in these years, and books are very precious.
There are more than 4,000 books of the Zhu family, which is already very rich in today's era, including bamboo books, cloth books, paper books, everything.
Before walking to the desk, Mu Jing sat down.
He sat in the Taishi chair.
He is really not familiar with the kneeling etiquette of the Han Dynasty, which will remind him of a very annoying nation, and he has no choice but to pretend in front of outsiders, but he doesn't want to pretend to be in his own acre and thirds of land, so he asked a few carpenters in the village to make a high desk table and a few Taishi chairs, and put them in the library.
"Don't be in charge, the household registration you want is already here!" Tan Zong put the volumes of household registration files on the desk.
"There are quite a few!"
Mu Jing flipped through it gently.
The household registration he flipped through was the household registration of the entire Wuyin County merchants.