Caizhou Wengcheng

Xu Cun, a native of Ruyang; Since childhood, he has been asked to be a reader, just like his father.

His father, Xu Tiance, was full of poetry and books, rich in learning, upright but old-fashioned, intelligent and pedantic.

Xu Tiance is also considered to be a young man, only 20 years old was raised as a "township tribute", participated in the Ming Jing scientific examination, in the examination whether it is "Tijing" or "Moyi", are almost blameless, no waves of high school Ming Jing subject, is a famous young man in Ruyang City. It's a pity that creation makes people, and since then, Xu Tiance has participated in the Jinshi scientific examination and the "selection test" of the Ministry of Officials more than ten times, but he has not advanced an inch.

Xu Tiance has been repeatedly frustrated, but he has become more and more courageous, and he has become a young scholar with a lofty spirit, and he can be admitted to become a pale old Confucian, but he has never changed his mind.

In fact, it is normal, there has always been a saying in the Tang Dynasty that "thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young Jinshi", which shows the difficulty of Jinshi and the first, and the "Five Ways of Current Affairs" that must be tested in the Jinshi scientific examination has stopped countless nerds who read dead books.

In fact, you can also be an official in the Ming Jing, or go to various feudal towns to be a staff, but unfortunately Xu Tiance, who has a mediocre family background, has no money to make the official eunuchs in power to "recommend" him, nor has he a way to put himself in the curtain of the local bigwigs.

The career is bumpy, but life has to go on. Thinking about it, a scholar who can't pick his shoulders and can't mention it, in order to survive, he can only run a private school like many scholars, guarding the two acres of thin fields at home.

Fortunately, the Tang Dynasty has always respected teachers, and Mr. Private School's life is still passable, and the quiet life of competing with the world is also quite interesting to live in seclusion, so he is also very satisfied with this life, after all, farming and reading are also a good family style that has been passed down from generation to generation. Xu Tiance is rigorous in his studies, his teacher is very good, and he is willing to send his children to his private school to enlighten him, although his wife unfortunately died early, but he can barely worry about food and clothing with an only son.

Until the first year of Guangming, Ruyang City made a disturbance of the Huangchao Army. In the face of the great rebels, Xu Tiance, who was worried about the country and the people, was filled with righteous indignation, and was determined to put down the Confucian shelf, bravely go to the national disaster, educate these traitors for the imperial court, and question them face to face.

So, when the neighbors were afraid of being robbed and hid in Tibet, only the door of Xu's house was open. After the scriptures and rings were ready, Mr. Xu sat in front of the desk with his long hair on his head, calmly waiting for the tongue to fight the group of Confucians.

didn't think about it, but this gang of Diao people had no heart to be taught, broke into the house, didn't say a word, snatched the ring ruler with his hand, and plundered all the shackles of Mr. and then walked away, not even letting go of the string of salted fish that had just been cooled and dried at the window. Mr. Xu almost wanted to speak, but he was rudely pushed by the thugs, it was really a show to meet the soldiers, and it was unreasonable to say! After this catastrophe, Mr. Xu Tiance, a scholar, surged with blood and sighed: "The world is going down, and the people's hearts are not ancient!" "He died in a fit of rage.

Xu Cun, who has been stubborn since he was a child, has been filial piety to his father for three years, and after the expiration of the period, he plans to put pen to paper. At that time, Qin Zongquan was still a general in Xuzhou, and Xu Cun, who was ignorant of the world, joined his command nearby, and later realized that he had gone astray.

The old Qin Rong horse is half a life, and there are two characteristics; The first is to see the wind and make the rudder; In the Huangchao Rebellion, Qin Zongquan fought against thieves at the beginning and took advantage of the chaos to occupy Caizhou City. Later, when Huang Chao was forced to withdraw from Chang'an, he hit Caizhou, and Qin Zong's power was defeated, so he simply surrendered to the righteous army and began to fight the officers and soldiers. After the defeat of the Huang Chao army, he took the opportunity to erect the banner of "Great Qi", recruited the remnants of the Huang Chao army, and went around to kill and expand the territory, and in just a few years, the hinterland of the Central Plains has been occupied by him eight or nine times out of ten.

then there is brutal killing; This is also the most criticized place in the world. The place where Qin Zongquan's army passed must be "fish rotten and birds scattered, and people will be cut off", treating human life as a mustard, and the world will all be shocked when it comes to vegetable thieves.

When Xu Cun first came to the army, his boss saw that he was a talented person, and he wanted to be entrusted with important tasks several times, but Xu Cun insisted on refusing to accept it, so that he is now a school captain.

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Xu Cun's military camp is in the urn city of Caizhou City. A few shacks were erected according to the city wall, leaking wind and rain, and it was the garrison of Caizhou. A slip of adobe was erected in the house, and some thatch was haphazardly laid on it, which was the shelter of the soldiers who defended the city.

At this time, in the military village, several men were surrounding the two naked men, commenting with relish, one was Xu Cun with a bare buttocks, and the other was Lu Ben with a naked body.

Meng Hu, who was as stupid and rough as an iron tower, said angrily: "I think it's still the boss who is whiter!" The thin and withered Hu Si shook his head in disagreement, and retorted sharply: "Boss's ass, that's pale from being beaten, look at Brother Lu, the whole body is white!" ......" Meng Hu was not convinced, and argued: "No, no, Brother Lu'er is a white ...... that was made of green salt."

Xu Cun, who was lying on the thatch and grinning his teeth, finally couldn't hold back the anger in his chest, raised his head, and scolded viciously: "Get out!" Get out of here......"

The barracks finally quieted down, Lu Ben struggled to give Xu Cun a salute, Xu Cun waved his hand to say that he didn't have to, and the weak Lu Ben didn't insist, just moved to Xu Cun's side, and the two bare-chested men got together and began to talk;

"Ben'er, why did you come up with such a name?"

"Aya has always felt that the general's horse is majestic!"

"Oh, good name, very ...... Chic! ”

"Once you've taken care of your body, where are you going?"

"Follow you!"

"I have to go to Bianzhou to fight, and I may die at some point."

"It's not easy to live anywhere in this world!"

"Yes...... Let's go. ”

"Don't go, I'm your meat sheep!"

"Huh! Don't talk about meat sheep, it's disgusting to listen to! ”

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A few days later, Lu Ben was already alive and well, although his body was still thin and thin, but with a man who could eat, he quickly recovered some of his vitality. The captain of the patrol camp once came, pointed to Lu Ben and asked who it was, Xu Cun said that he was recruiting a new Ding, and he would take it to Bianzhou in a few days. The captain of the patrol camp thought that it was a strong man he had captured, and he was also happy to have a more life-threatening man who went to die, so he no longer asked in detail, beat the deer on the chest, and routinely praised twice: "Good man, good man!" He was admitted to the army, and when he left, he threw him a rusty and toothless horizontal knife.

Lu Ben, who got the war knife for the first time, looked at the freshness and went to sharpen the knife with great interest, but it could be sharpened for an hour, but the rust spots were not sharpened, but the knife was broken in the middle. Lu Ben came back with a drooping face, stuck half of the knife into the scabbard and hung it on his waist, silently annoyed. Xu Cunbai, who was still recuperating from his injuries, was bored, and couldn't help but quip: "Ben'er's waist Pei sharp blade is silent, and he is a ruthless character at first glance!" ”

Lu Ben saw Xu Cun teasing him, his eyes immediately turned red, and he was angry, just like a wronged child who finally saw the head of the family, he took off his waist knife and walked closer, and said angrily: "It's not a knife, it's hanging on the waist, it looks like it, it's a knife, it's only half a cut when it is pulled out, and it takes a long time to get such a Raushzi." Xu Cun listened interestingly, grinned, took the knife in his hand and looked at it carefully.

Datang has always attached great importance to the quality of all kinds of ordnance, especially all kinds of sabers. In the "Six Classics of the Tang Dynasty" compiled by Zhang Shuo, Zhang Jiuling and others in the Kaiyuan period, the "Arsenal Order" under the "Weiwei Zongzheng Temple" in Volume 16 says: The arsenal order is in charge of the world's military equipment, and its name is identified for national use; Cheng is the second. …… There are four systems of knives: one is called the Yi knife, the second is the knife, the third is the horizontal knife, and the fourth is the Mo knife......

Datang not only has a clear specification for the shape of the knife, but also has detailed requirements for the material strength and even the quenching process of the standard knife.

In the past few years, the major feudal towns in the Central Plains have all been exhausted in the army, and in the chaotic world, farmers do not plough the fields and craftsmen do not smelt iron, and grain and iron tools are the most lacking.

"There is no knife in his hand to be bullied, and raising a knife to kill is harmful, in fact, half a knife is just right!"

Xu Cun muttered thoughtfully, if there is this kind of half-cut knife in the world, maybe it is a blessing for the people in the world!

There was no beginning or end to the sentence, but Lu Ben understood the meaning strangely, looked at Xu Cun lying on the kang and asked tentatively: "Big brother, will we always follow Qin Zongquan?" ”

This question is important to Shikaben! Now that he has no relatives in this world, he is already alone, Xu Cun is the person closest to him, and this life-saving benefactor's attitude towards Cai Zhoujun is naturally related to his choice of future. did not shy away from calling Qin Zongquan by his name, in fact, he had already expressed his intentions.

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Lu Ben, a native of Caizhou; In the past, Caizhou Mansion was a famous and wealthy place in the Central Plains, and Lu Ben's parents were honest farmers. There are a few acres of thin fields and an old cow at home, although it is very hard to dig food in the soil facing the loess with its back to the sky, but it can barely make the family make a living. Sister Lu Rouer fell in love with Li Aqi, who was honest and honest in the next village, and the three media and six certificates were posted, and the two families also begged for a marriage book. The husband's aunt is a calculating, and she doesn't want her daughter-in-law to come to the door for half a year in winter, so she talks about getting married after the New Year.

If it weren't for the family's life and death, he would have run away with the general Wang Jian in the spring of that year, for this, his father and mother planned to give his son Zhang Luo's daughter-in-law after his sister's marriage, and people said that the daughter-in-law could tie the man's wild nature. The thank you gifts were paid in advance to the Feng matchmaker in the east of the village, and she went to the second girl of the Feng family in Houya Village, the second girl's buttocks were big, and it was rare for the mother to look at it.

Since Qin Zongquan drove away the assassin Shi and occupied Caizhou Mansion, the peaceful days of the Lu family have come to an end. The year before last, the agricultural endowment was still five out of ten, but last year it became seven out of ten, and the peasant households were busy for a year, and they could not even collect the seed money after the autumn. In the winter, I had to go to labor when I was hungry, and I began to starve to death in ten miles and eight villages, and there were many dead, and the plague followed, and my father and mother were worried that the children would be sick, so they built a shack on the barren mountain outside the village, so that the sisters and brothers were not allowed to go home, and then ......

"Heaven and earth are unkind and all things are dogs, and saints are unkind and people are dogs!"

The life of a farmer's family is like grass on the ground, if you say no, it will be gone! The two sisters and brothers left home after hastily burying their parents, first going to Lu Rou'er's mother-in-law's house, where the village was full of people, and even the livestock were dead. Since then, the sister and brother have been looking around for food like wild dogs, but the elder sister died on the road before she reached the edge of Caizhou City, and the eldest girl was thin like a ghost when she died......

If the resentment in Lu Ben's heart could turn into insignificant gravel, it would be enough to bury Caizhou City of Qin Zongquan!

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"Follow the Qin thief to seek death?" When it came to Qin Zongquan, Xu Cun was full of ridicule and said unabashedly; If it weren't for the inability to get out, who would be willing to commit himself to the infamous Cai thief army.

Lu Ben was clear about Xu Cun's attitude, and immediately relieved his heart, leaned over and looked at the wound that was slowly scabbing with concern, and said with shame: "The eldest brother has suffered for the younger brother, can the scab be stung?" Why don't you let Ben'er scratch your ass?"

"Get out! ......" Xu Cun laughed and scolded;