Chapter 60: Wang Lao's New Song

Zhang Xuan walked over to the place where the voice came, but saw an old man dressed in tatters on the ground, pulling an erhu, where to sing with this voice. The thick Yu sound made Zhang Xuan feel a little unreal.

"Since entering the palace, the world has been sealed in several provinces, the food and goods of the five directions are convenient, and the clothes of the four seas are covered with crowns. Hearing Xiao drums day and night in the palace, I remember the new music mansion of King Xian, secretly comparing the jade ruler to the coral, and teaching the parrot to the golden cage. Aoshan city knot Danqiu, step with the Xuande Building, three thousand beads track the high gate, the twelfth floor of the railing is thick. ---”

"It's a word for Yuefu." Zhang Zhen said: "There are still people who can sing, this person must not be an ordinary person." ”

Zhang Xuan suddenly felt that this style was very familiar, which reminded him of the "Song of Long Hatred" he read when he was a child.

"It's a pity that there are many popular Kunqu operas in the world nowadays, and there are many people who write Yuefu, so there are not many people who can sing them." Zhang Zhen said, he is still very familiar with this Yuefu, and said: "Most of the Yuefu in the world do not take off the fence of Bai Lotian, and he said that the magnificence before Kaifeng should be a change." ”

Sure enough, as Zhang Zhen said.

As soon as the sound of the erhu turned, the music suddenly turned sad, and the musical instrument of the second word can especially express sad emotions, even Zhang Xuan only listened to this sound, and felt as if he had a pain in his heart.

"Xin Si broke into the thief and wanted to be thin, and the blood was splashed in the six-day battle of Xicheng. ---”

As soon as these words came out, Zhou Fuchen said: "Bold. "As he spoke, he stepped forward to stop him.

"Slow." Zhang Xuan stopped Zhou Fuchen and said: "The mouth is in other people's mouths, don't you want people to say it?" ”

"Yes." Zhou Fuchen is Zhang Xuan's personal guard, and he only has the most basic respect for King Chuang, and when he sees that Zhang Xuan doesn't care, he naturally won't meddle in things.

Between these two sentences, a few sentences were missed, and I only heard the old man continue to sing: "Next year, the comeback will crush Dongcheng, and the pheasant will be a hundred miles high." The ladders are chaotic, the stars are chaotic, and the iron cannons are roaring in the wind and rain. This time in January with fire, the collapse of the remaining three editions, the three editions of January inviolable, two hundred years to see the hearts of the people. ”

At this point, there is still an impassioned meaning, but after a few sentences, the erhu turned, and the voice was a little lower, like crying and complaining, and the grief and indignation were irrepressible.

"Mai Qing came to wait for Mai Huang, and sat on the city and looked at each other. The rich family's provident fund does not accumulate grain, and the warehouse is full of empty houses. The dead have been born and then have their wombs, but the living will not have flesh and bones. The government ordered to search for grain, draw a knife and control the arrow into the human room, and the search was useless and said to help, and the pearl and jade also carried an empty bag of corn. A cup of silver filled with a cup of rice, Haoqiang sneaked into the veteran. The veteran has more rice and meat, and he privately slaughters people and sells cattle ,---"

Singing this, the mourning was everywhere, and I didn't know how many weepings I heard, and even the crying overpowered the voice of the old man singing.

Zhang Xuan also couldn't help it.

He knew that the city was very miserable, but he did not expect that the city had reached this point, openly selling human flesh.

Zhang Xuan didn't have the heart to listen anymore

went.

Zhang Zhen said to Zhang Xuan: "The general's heart is available." These people all escaped from the dead city of Kaifeng, and they have seen a lot of shameless faces of the officials and soldiers, and even some family members have been eaten, and they hate the officials and soldiers to the core. ”

When Zhang Xuan heard this, his heart moved.

Indeed, before the fleet of the imperial court was before the raft of the rebel army, it was said that these people were all given up by the government, and whether these people were not looked down upon by the officials and soldiers, or whether the ship was full and could not be taken away, in short, they all had resentment against the government.

There are many people who ask for a bite to eat to become soldiers, but there are not many people who dare to fight the battlefield.

Ordinary hungry people can't fight any big tents at all, and they will collapse as soon as they fight, and unless they are forced by the warlords, it is impossible to fight to the death.

And it takes time to train hungry people into warriors.

But there is a kind of person who can omit some time, that is, the kind of person who has a deep blood feud with the officials and soldiers and wants to die with them.

Hatred is also a force.

"If you cry, you know how to cry, what's the use of crying?" Zhang Xuan strode in and said, "Can you take revenge by crying?" There are still two eggs under the silent self, which is not a man. ”

"What are you talking about, you thieves, it's not a good thing." I don't know who said it in the crowd.

"Yes." Zhang Xuan said: "We are not good things either. But are we the ones who killed your parents and your family? We are the ones who break the river. ”

"Why didn't you break the river?"

"Think about it with your brains, we are all going to take Kaifeng City, everything in the city is ours, can we break the river and release water? You have a grudge with the officials and the army, among our righteous army, there are many brothers who have a grudge against the officials and the army, I only say one person, his name is Huang Xu, at that time I went to the countryside to collect grain, met his Huang family, and robbed him of the Huang family's food. As a result, the old lady of the Huang family went to report to the official, and as soon as the officers and soldiers arrived, they raided his entire family. Murder and plunder. Brother Huang joined the rebels, fought with me, and killed those dog officers and soldiers. And just a few days earlier, he had been swept into the Yellow River. If we were to get the river, would we have so many of us washed away? ”

"I don't ask anything but are you men? Dare to take revenge, dare to take revenge to join the rebels, there is a chance to take revenge, if you don't want to, I won't be reluctant, it's okay to be a civilian in the army. Zhang Xuan glanced at him contemptuously.

"I joined the army. I want revenge. A big man stood up, looking very strong, but very thin, almost like a skeleton of bones.

"What's your name?" Zhang Xuan said.

"My name is Geda." Ge Da gritted his teeth and said, "I want to avenge my family." ”

With Ge Da as an example, after a while, more than 1,000 people will join the rebel army. Zhang Xuan will be Ge Da Ti

was promoted to the general general, and Zhou Fuchen was made a general, and the surplus strong men were added to other armies, which was regarded as the completion of the expansion of the army, and Zhang Xuan's troops also reached 5,000 people.

Zhang Xuan has a lot of subordinates, and he also feels that it is not very convenient.

Zhang Xuan is under direct jurisdiction over seven or eight generals, and there are a lot of people, if there are 1,000 households, there are only two generals under a thousand households, and there are some few, Zhang Xuan thought about it and decided to wait for the expansion to set up a battalion of 3,000 people, and one battalion officer has jurisdiction over five generals. There is also a pro-soldier corps of 500 people.

If it is further developed in the future, there will be regiments above the battalion level, and an army above the regiment. However, it's just that the name is the same, and the specific compilation is definitely different from modern times, but Zhang Xuan left a thought for himself.

Anyway, this battalion, regiment, corps, guard, division, command, box, sentry. These words were used in army formation in ancient times, and Zhang Xuan's use of these words was not out of line.

After Zhang Xuan arranged these, he invited the old man separately and asked, "The old man's surname is your surname." ”

"The old man's surname is Wang." The old man said in a respectful and detached manner.

"Elder Wang." Zhang Xuan said: "This is the first Yuefu, but Wang Lao is like it? ”

"It's just not a talent." Wang Lao said.

Zhang Xuan's heart moved, he knew music and rhythm, he knew how to compose poetry, he could be regarded as a high-level talent, Zhang Xuan was even more respectful, and said: "Is Elder Wang willing to serve under my account?" ”

Wang Lao pondered for a while and said, "If I don't agree, will the general kill me?" ”

"How is that possible?" Zhang Xuan said: "If you agree, you will stay, if you don't agree, if you don't want to go, I can give money to send Wang Lao out of the camp." ”

"Forget it, I'm just an old man, and I walk in the wilderness with gold and silver, and it costs my life. My family is also buried in Kaifeng City, and I am the only one left. If the general does not give up, the old man is willing to stay. Wang Lao said.

Zhang Xuan was overjoyed, and had a detailed discussion with this Wang Lao, only to find out that this Wang Lao was a showman, named Wang Zishou. The family lives in Kaifeng, which is quite solid, and he also had children and daughters at the beginning. It's just that what is the whereabouts of the children, Wang Lao didn't say, and Zhang Xuan didn't ask.

Zhang Xuan thought about it, and the new position was created to house Wang Lao, which was the main room. Take charge of all clerical files.

Zhang Xuan thought that after all, Wang Lao was old, and let him be busy with general affairs, I am afraid that he would not be able to bear it. And he was in charge of the clerical archives, which Zheng Lian was in charge of before.

No, it should be said that everything Zhang Xuan writes is under Zheng Lian's control, with the expansion of Zhang Xuan's army, there are more documents in the camp, and Zhang Xuan has to set up an archive room to be in charge of archives, such as rosters and the like, otherwise he can talk to himself below, wouldn't he be able to do anything.

And this matter is not onerous, and it is considered noble in the eyes of literati.

After all, for Zhang Xuan, every reader is precious.

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