After dinner, the sun was about to set. Yang Congyi and Tang Xun went to the martial arts arena to practice martial arts for an hour, and it was already dark when they returned to the house.

The remaining three people in the same house were all there, chatting together with candles, and when they saw Yang Congyi and Tang Xun coming back, one of them smiled and said: "Brother Tang Yang, do you really expect to be able to restore the Central Plains after a few studies here, become a great Song Dynasty hero, and be famous for a thousand years?" Don't be funny, let's rest! ”

This person is from Jiangyin, his name is Chen Hui, and he already knew him yesterday.

Without waiting for Tang Xun to speak, Yang Congyi smiled and said: "Brother Chen's words are different, it is true that you can't restore the Central Plains after learning here for a few moments, but since you are here, you can learn as much as you can, otherwise why come." Besides, learning something is also for your own use, not for others to learn, the court pays for us to learn for free, why not do it. ”

Chen Hui said: "Where can I use this thing?" What are you doing after you go out of martial arts, Brother Yang, you don't know, right? ”

Yang Congyi said with a smile: "Please ask Brother Chen for advice, I would like to hear the details." "Isn't it a general to go out to learn martial arts, can you do other things?

Chen Hui said: "Since the beginning of the martial arts school, hundreds of martial arts students have become generals after they go out?" Not really. Where have they gone? They are all standing guard at the imperial camp. How comfortable it is to stay in the capital, eat, drink and have fun, what you want, who will go to the frontier to drink wind and eat land. The restoration of the Central Plains is just talking, and there are few martial arts students who will enter the barracks in the future, and most of them will be mixed up and put on a name. You guys go out early and return late, do you really take the restoration of the Central Plains seriously? ”

When Yang Congyi heard this, he couldn't help but scold, this martial arts is a pit, spend a few years, what's the use of staying in the capital after completing your studies, you will definitely not be promoted to an official if you have no military merits, you can't grind your time and mess around, I don't know if you can apply to go to the frontier? Forget it, let's talk about it later. After thinking about it for a few times, he smiled and said, "Thank you Brother Chen for your advice, I really didn't know before." Even if the Central Plains is restored, it is good to be able to stand guard in the capital with all the troops. I don't know what you plan to do in the future? ”

Chen Hui said with a smile: "I don't have such ambitions as Brother Yang, I will go back to Jiangyin to live a good life in a few days, come a few days a month, put on a name, mix the identity of a martial arts student, and become a county lieutenant in the future." ”

The children of official eunuchs are different, and if you mix the identity of a martial arts student, you can become an official. Yang Congyi was in a complicated mood, but said with a smile: "Are you all ready to go home?" ”

The other two also said that martial arts was boring, it wasn't for their father to let them come, they didn't want to come, and they would come for two days at the end of each month when they took the exam, and the student status would still be there.

Tang Xun didn't speak, didn't join their conversation, and lay down to rest directly after washing.

Chen Hui suddenly smiled and said, "Brother Yang, do you want to go out and have fun together at night?" When the moon is in the sky, the painting boat swims in the lake, but it is a beautiful scenery. ”

Yang Congyi said with a smile: "You guys, I won't go, I'm a little tired from practicing just now, rest and rest." ”

The other three didn't say much, and hurried out of the house while it was dark.

Today, he suffered a lot of setbacks and was not in a good mood, so Yang Congyi also washed down a little and lay down to rest.

If you want to climb to a high position and still be safe, you must transfer to a civilian official, and if you want to transfer to a promising civil official, the military attache must go above the control level, and then go straight to the governor of the state capital, and only then will there be a slight possibility of entering the court as a prime minister. It's a long road, where is the head.

Yue Fei was thirty years old and built a festival, he met a good time, Song Jin fought for more than ten years, the world was uneasy, now Song Jin has not been able to negotiate peace for a few years, and it will be more than ten years later to start the war, when he is nearly forty years old, even if he can win fame on the battlefield, and want to transfer to a civilian official after being promoted, it is not possible to achieve it in a moment and a half, and it may not be able to earn fame on the battlefield, more likely, he can't join the army at all, and he is really left to stand guard in the imperial city, and this life will be wasted.

"Brother Yang, have you slept?" Tang Xun asked suddenly.

"Nope." Yang Congyi's thoughts were messy and tumbling, how could he fall asleep.

"After you finish your studies, do you really plan to stay in the capital?"

"There is no future in staying in the capital, maybe I will go to the frontier. I'm different from you, I have no backer, no background, and if I want to get ahead, I have to fight. The opportunity to enter the martial arts is also earned desperately, how to stay in the capital and fight with those with deep backgrounds, go to the frontier to work hard, if you are lucky, you may be able to earn fame. ”

"My father spent a lot of money to buy me this opportunity, and he also wanted me to learn something and earn some fame, so that I would have an official and a half-job in the future, and I would have the confidence to be a squire. Entering the imperial camp in the capital, although it is also considered a glory, but if you want to earn fame, you can't go to the frontier. But now the world is peaceful, and there is no war on the frontier. ”

"If you just want to get a half-job, you don't need to go to the frontier. Isn't there a martial arts, study for a few years, participate in the martial arts examination to be a martial champion, and you can also be awarded an official. ”

"If you can get the top prize, it's the best. What about you, why do you want to go to the frontier, you can stay in the capital to take the top prize. ”

"Wuju is held once every three years, if you don't win in three years, and it will take another three years, I don't have so much time, maybe I can only go to the frontier to see. Now there is no war in the frontier, Song Jin has been making peace for several years, but who can say that it will be peaceful forever, let's find a chance to go to the frontier first, and when the war is in the future, a lot of opportunities will come. "More than ten years later, the Jin people came over again, if they didn't have a certain military position, I am afraid they would not be able to earn much military merit. How to quickly obtain a military position and accumulate military merits? What Yang Congyi really thinks in his heart, it is inconvenient for him to tell Tang Xun, after all, no one will believe it.

"If that's the case, I'm afraid Brother Yang will have to work harder, and strive to get the opportunity to leave martial arts as soon as possible. I'm not in a hurry, I will participate in the imperial examination first, and I can get an official and a half-job and go back. ”

Yang Congyi didn't speak again, what he was going to do in the future, he still didn't know what to do, and he needed to think about it.

Jin is very diligent in changing the emperor, if I remember correctly, in a few years there will be a Wan Yan Liang who is about the same age as him will kill the emperor and call the emperor, now the capital of the Jin State is in the Heilongjiang area, very far away from the Central Plains, after Yan Liang kills the king, the capital will be moved to Beijing, and in a few years it will be time to move the country south and start a war. Calculated that he did not have much time, he left martial arts in three years, obtained a low-level military position, won a place where there was a battle, and then promoted to the command system through military merits within five years, and was able to lead the army alone.

The crux of the matter is how to obtain enough military merit to be promoted to the command after obtaining a low-level military position. Before Jin Ren went south, the only way to obtain military merit was to suppress the rebellion, and now he understands more and more that he county captain, General Liu and Gao Tongzhi and others, why they must kill bandits and force Tianzhu Mountain, He County Lieutenant may be for the captured money, but General Liu and Gao Tongzhi may need more military merits, and if the military general wants to be promoted in peacetime, he can only slowly boil up his qualifications, and the counterinsurgency must be a great opportunity to be promoted and make a fortune, the key is that there will be no one else to grab the merit, and there is not much risk.

He has a certain understanding of the power of the bandits in Tianzhu Mountain, there are not more than 20,000 bandits, but more than 10,000 people, and there should be no less than 4,000 people who really have combat power. It's not easy to fight in the mountains, and it's possible to fight for a year and a half. If there is a chance to participate in the battle of the Anqing army's encirclement and suppression of Tianzhu Mountain, then he should grasp it tightly, or detonate the battle of Tianzhu Mountain at the right time, after all, the Loyalty League is a quick existence for any official, but the premise of all this is that he can participate in this counterinsurgency battle, otherwise this opportunity should be kept.

Or directly apply to carry out a base area behind enemy lines? When the time comes, thousands or even tens of thousands of horses will be pulled, and the imperial court will not be promoted to the command immediately? When there are more people and horses, it is no problem to be directly promoted to the capital system, after all, the imperial court can get tens of thousands of horses without effort, and it will not cost much money to give an official who is under the control of the capital. If the imperial court has the heart to prepare for war, this may be a way, but I am afraid that the Lord and the faction are too strong, what do you mean by going to the base area behind the enemy and deliberately destroying the peace of Song and Jin? Immediately he had to be dismissed from the army and even put in prison. It's too risky, the idea is too risky.

It seems that it is somewhat difficult to earn military merits by participating in counterinsurgency and developing base areas behind enemy lines, and they all need opportunities, but how can opportunities be so good? Yang Congyi fell into deep thought, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

Before dawn, Yang Congyi woke up on time and called Tang Xun to practice together.

Yang Congyi had something on his mind, and he was a little absent-minded in his practice.

Tang Xun found that he was not in the right state, so he said, "Brother Yang, are you still thinking about yesterday's problem?" That's all in the next few years, so why bother with that energy now, let's take one step at a time, and do what we should do at the moment first. ”

As soon as Yang Congyi was reminded, he suddenly woke up, yes, no matter how anxious he is, it will be three or five years later, and it is time to practice his skills now, otherwise when the opportunity comes, he can't grasp it, isn't it in vain? immediately smiled and said, "Thank you, Brother Tang, for waking me up with a word." ”

Tang Xun smiled and didn't speak, and continued to practice his swordsmanship.

When Yang Congyi dispelled the distracting thoughts in his heart, his spear skills became more and more fluent, and he was vigorous.

The next day, I continued to study the beginning of "The Art of War", and as soon as the class started, I read aloud what I learned yesterday, and after reading aloud, Huang Chen, a doctor of martial arts, asked everyone to recite it one by one from the beginning to the back.

The first one was Tang Xun, who he memorized very quickly and very smoothly. The second is Yang Congyi, who also recited it fluently.

After the two of them, the rest of the people recited more and more stumbling, and from time to time someone reminded them.

didn't carry a few people, someone wanted to go to the toilet, Huang Chen could only let them go, as soon as the opening was opened, more and more people wanted to go to the toilet, and in the end, there were as many as half.

Since you choose to go to the toilet, of course you won't come back so soon.

It wasn't until more than half an hour later that the gentleman began to talk about the new content, and the people who went out came back one after another.

After a while, someone wanted to go to the toilet again, and the gentleman didn't bother to care, so he went with them, all of them were in the ya, as long as they didn't make trouble in class.

Yang Congyi listened carefully to Mr.'s lecture, and although it was boring, he could learn something.

Watching the others go in and out, I vaguely hoped that they had all hurry home, there were fewer people, and the gentleman might speed up the pace of the lecture, so that he could save time, learn the knowledge of the art of war faster, and find a way out.