Chapter 66 Liaodong Jiang Family

"Tianhao, don't talk nonsense!"

Jiang Tianhao, who claimed to be the general of the Dragon and Tiger, was picked up from the wooden horse by a sturdy middle-aged man who came out of the house before he could be majestic for a while.

The children around saw that Jiang Tianhao was being held by the man with one hand, and let him do his best, and he couldn't break free, so they made a grimace at him, and then laughed and shouted and ran away.

"Haha, Tianhao is going to be beaten again."

In this late autumn season, the man was actually wearing a sleeveless short cloth shirt, and the lower body was a pair of coarse linen shorts that had been worn out and could not be seen, and the torn clothes barely concealed his strong wheat-colored muscles.

Seeing the two brothers and sisters An Yi in front of the door, his big palm, which had been raised high and was about to be slapped on the buttocks of the "Dragon and Tiger General", slowly put it down, protected Jiang Tianhao on his legs, arched his hand towards An Yi, and said, "Jiang Shang, haven't you asked the two yet?" ”

"Comfort under it! This is my sister An Xin, who happened to hear the laughter of a child, so she came in curiously to take a look. An Yi smiled and bowed back to him, then looked the man up and down, and then said: "I heard that there are people in the threshing floor in the village today who are looking for a villager to go up the mountain to pick up stones, why don't you go and earn some tea money?" ”

Jiang Shang also looked up and down with his eyes, stroked Jiang Tianhao's head with his hand, and responded: "Tianhao is alone at home, he loves to get into trouble, so he can't rest assured." ”

Jiang Tianhao broke his head away from his big hand to protest against this statement.

"Or, sit in the room."

Jiang Shang watched An Xin, who was beside An Yi, stomped his feet by the autumn wind, and beckoned them into the stone house at the back of the courtyard.

The exterior of this stone house is made of rough granite and is brushed with a layer of lime powder. An Xin, who was thinking of entering the house without being disturbed by the autumn wind, fell into the air now, and the cold wind poured through the gaps between the walls and poured into her collar unscrupulously.

Jiang Tianhao was quite sensible and moved two small chairs and sat down for the two Anyi brothers and sisters. An Yi looked around the room, and the small place was full of necessities of life, from the bed to the pots and pans.

On the floor in the corner of the room, there was a tablet, in front of which was a small saucer containing an apple, but from its blackened appearance, it was not very edible.

"Who is this tablet?" An Yi asked

"Dad said, it's my grandfather's tablet."

Jiang Tianhao replied.

An Yi stepped forward and carefully looked at the words on the tablet:

Jiang Gong, the chief military officer of Liaodong, is the spiritual seat of the monarch of Yuanyu Mansion

"Your grandfather is the general soldier of Liaodong?"

An Yi looked at the small words written in gold powder on this tablet and asked Jiang Tianhao.

Before Jiang Tianhao could speak, Jiang Shang took out two steaming porcelain bowls from the inner room and handed them to the Anyi brothers and sisters, "It's cold, let's have a cup of hot tea." ”

An Yi took the evening tea, looked at the two tea stalks floating in it, raised his eyebrows, but drank two sips without making a sound.

"The two of you are extraordinary, don't you think you're from Jiangning Village?"

Jiang Shang looked at the Shu brocade silk of the Anyi brother and sister, and knew that they were not ordinary villagers.

"Dad, this uncle just said that he is from what regiment in Huayang County.... What does the regiment make. Jiang Tianhao on the side interjected,

An Yi looked at this innocent and lively young man, and said to Jiang Shang with a smile: "I can't hide it, I am comfortable in the regimental training in Xiahuayang County, and I have something to do in your village today." ”

"But that Songling Village's regimental training makes it comfortable?"

An Yi listened to what he meant, and wanted to know himself, but he couldn't remember seeing this person in his impression, so he asked suspiciously, "What?" Brother Jiang knows you? ”

Jiang Shang shook his head and replied: "It's not that I know each other, a few days ago, the kid contracted some wind and cold, and took him to Chengdu to grab medicine.

An Yi hurriedly smiled and waved his hand: "Eat the imperial court, do things for the people, why worry about it." ”

Then he pointed to the tablet in the corner of the house and asked Jiang Shangdao: "I saw that the tablet was dedicated to Jiang Yuanyu, the general soldier of Liaodong, but Brother Jiang was behind the gate?" ”

Jiang Shang took the small wooden chair handed over by his son, sat on the opposite side of comfort, he pinched his big garlic-like nose with his hand, and said with a sneer: "Yes, my father is the general soldier of Liaodong in the forty-sixth year of Tianqi and ordered by the emperor. Later, because of the death of the first emperor, as an old minister of the former emperor, his father was gradually snubbed by the officialdom. In the eighteenth year of Chongzheng, the Liaojin War broke out, my father was reactivated, and I was also appointed as a guerrilla general. Our father and son fought from Shanhaiguan to Jianzhou, and recovered Shenyang, beating the Jurchens into the white mountains and black waters again, and there was no trace of them.

However, because of the distribution of benefits after the war, I offended Li Jin, the chief eunuch of the master of ceremonies, and my father was an old man around the emperor, and they didn't like it, so they found a reason, saying that my father's performance offended the emperor's taboo and went to prison, and I was only twelve years old at the time, and I was also exiled to the northwest. Later, it was just in time for Concubine Hui's birthday, the emperor granted amnesty to the world, I escaped with my life, and came to this Jiangning village to survive, but my father had died in prison. ”

The northeastern part of the Great Xia Dynasty, mainly north of Shenyang, was governed by the Haixi Jurchens, the Jianzhou Jurchens, and the Savage Jurchens. The Jurchen tribes received the edict from the Bactria court and nominally obeyed the dispatch of the Bactria court.

Among them, the Haixi Jurchen is one of the three major alliances with a better development and a higher degree of civilization, and there are also the largest number of clansmen in the interior, accepting the official position of the highest commander of the imperial court. The most remote and backward savage Jurchens only stayed in the primitive society of fishing and hunting.

In fact, the Great Xia Dynasty played the role of a "suzerain" between the two major Jurchen alliances of Haixi and Jianzhou, which one became bigger, it would punch it, and whichever one was bullied, it would pull it up, in short, to ensure the split of the Jurchens outside the Guanxi and prevent one from becoming dominant.

However, this delicate balance, which had been maintained for hundreds of years, was broken by the Jianzhou Jurchens in the sixteenth year of Chongzheng. Their rapid rise on the vast northeast plain, with lightning speed, swept through the Jurchen tribes of Haixi, encroaching on the land of the savage Jurchens. Then tens of thousands of people, with the aftermath of victory, successively conquered Hetuala, Shenyang, and Jinzhou of the Great Xia Dynasty, and fought until the Shanhai Pass.

Jiang Shang's father, it was at this time that he was ordered to take the remnants of the Jurchens outside the Guanwai who had been frightened by the Jurchens, and it took three years to reorganize the mountains and rivers of Liaodi.

For now, this is more than 40 years ago, and the people of the north still remember this wise and brave general soldier, but the southwestern provinces did not receive the impact of the war in Liaodong at that time, so they were not too impressed.

An Yi and An Xin, two siblings, also heard a few words about this war from the mouths of their grandfather and father. However, for the name of Jiang Zongbing, who became famous because of that battle, they are still like thunder.

"It turns out that Your Excellency is the descendant of General Jiang's soldiers who swept through Liaodong back then, and he is disrespectful and disrespectful." An Yi hurriedly bowed his hand to Jiang Shang and said respectfully,

Jiang Shang held down An Yi's hand a little indifferently and said, "You don't have to be like this, I think it was all decades ago." ”

An Yi looked at Jiang Shang's ragged appearance, and it was not too much to describe it as unclothed.

"Looking at Brother Jiang's muscles and bones, why don't you go to the army to find an official position to support your family?" An Yi looked at Jiang Shang's powerful physique and asked him,

Jiang Shang listened to Anyi's words, but shook his head with a wry smile, "A person like me who is lucky enough to be exempted from sin, even if he goes to join the army, it is just a chore for a big soldier." I don't care about it, it's just that this sword has no eyes, and if I die on the battlefield one day, Tianhao will be orphaned again. ”

Jiang Shang spoke, and then stroked his son's head very fondly.

However, An Yi seemed to hear the clue from his words.

Why did you become an orphan again? Isn't Jiang Tianhao Jiang Shang's son? He asked Jiang Shang suspiciously.

"It's also a thing of the past, this kid's father was originally a comrade with me, but later died on the battlefield under the sword of the Jurchens, and the only thing he couldn't worry about before he died was his four-year-old son. Later, firstly, it was for his wish, and secondly, I did not marry because I was exiled, so I simply changed Tianhao's surname to Jiang and raised him as his own flesh and blood. ”

It is rare that Jiang Tianhao experienced the pain of losing his father at a young age, and followed Jiang Shang to exile in the northwest, and he can still maintain today's liveliness and cheerfulness.

An Yi just asked Jiang Shang why he didn't go to join the army, which was to attract him, but if he recruited him directly, he was afraid that he would refuse under the pretext, and it would not end well at that time, so he thought in his heart about starting with his son Jiang Tianhao.

"Brother Jiang, I don't know if Tianhao has ever studied now?"

Jiang Shang shook his head and said silently: "I'm ashamed, I can't afford to pay for the private school, and I'm a person in the army, so I don't know how to do these kung fu on paper, so I let him be idle at home." ”

An Yi listened to his words, and a trace of cunning flashed in his eyes, "I think Tianhao, this kid is very clever, and he has already reached the age of studying, so if he is so wasted, won't he bury a talent?" ”

Jiang Shang sighed heavily after hearing this, but he was shy in his pocket, even if he had a strategy in his chest, he could make the Jurchen Jiancheng useless, but he couldn't knock on the wooden door of Mr. Private School.

"I don't think it's as good as this, there is a friend who happens to be in my camp, he is a Xiucai, and he also participated in the township test in Chengdu this year. And although he is a scholar, he has hidden ambitions in his chest, I think it is better to let Xiao Tianhao learn some scriptures and classics from him, and when the time comes, Brother Jiang is also worthy of the Paoze brothers under Jiuquan, right? ”

Jiang Shang was indeed moved by An Yi's words, because after all, his ability is limited, Jiang Tianhao has a reason to have a gentleman to take care of the age, and he can't keep letting it go like this.

Before he could speak, Jiang Tianhao spoke, "The friend you said, can he teach me how to become a Dragon and Tiger General?" ”

An Yi pinched Jiang Tianhao's still pink little face, and said with a smile: "As long as you learn well, when the time comes, I will give you a real horse and make you the general of the Dragon and Tiger!" ”

"Really?"

Jiang Tianhao almost jumped up with excitement, but he was very unexpectedly not like other children, went to Jiang Shang to be coquettish, shaking his father's arm and kept saying that I want to go, I want to go.

But after the child was happy, he sat back in his small chair silently, but the smart little eyes kept sneaking a glance at Jiang Shang, as if they were looking forward to his opening.

How could Jiang Tianhao's small actions hide from Jiang Shang's eyes as a father? He lowered his head, was silent for a while, and then gritted his teeth, as if he had made an extremely difficult decision,

"Lord An, since this is the case, I won't pretend to excuse myself, so that Tianhao, this kid, can be adjusted. Teaching is also my greatest wish. But I, Jiang Shang, am by no means the kind of person who doesn't know proportion, I think about it, or I'll go to the adult's camp to be a soldier, let the adult dispatch, I don't want to pay silver, just pay Tianhao for books, I don't know what the adult wants? ”

What do you think? It's just a comfortable heart, but on the surface, he didn't show any joy in his heart, so he pretended to be disapproving: "Brother Jiang, what are you talking about, since we can sit under the same roof, it's fate!" Don't worry, I won't be less than the money I should give, and I won't let him read less of Tianhao's child's book. ”

Jiang Shang listened to this comfortable words, and was very grateful in his heart, so he took Jiang Tianhao to stand up, wanting Xiao Tianhao to give An Yixing this kneeling gift.

"Brother Jiang, don't worry......

An Yi hurriedly helped Jiang Tianhao up with a smile on his face, and said to Jiang Shang: "I can talk about it first, you can't just be a soldier in my camp." ”

Jiang Shang listened to Anyi's meaning, and eighty percent of the people should let him do some individual strength work in addition to the soldiers. However, it doesn't matter to him to be able to guide Tianhao well, and it doesn't matter to him what to do, so he nodded and said: "Although the lord commanded, since he agreed to go to the adult's camp, how to arrange Jiang Shang is a word from the adult." ”

An Yi looked at the seven-foot-tall faithful man in front of him, cherished it very much, and said with a smile: "I also want you to go and give me a battalion of soldiers and horses and be a general!" ”