Chapter 14: Hu Bing, the Prisoner of the Dust Road (Part II)

"That is, to sprinkle the family, and someone else will not work so hard." Wang Sunchen took out a chicken bone from his mouth, looked at it twice, and then threw it back into his mouth and chewed it rattling, "He is a bird." The Sprinkle family has been watching Chen Ju unwell for a long time, Han Xiucai, you made him suffer a big loss, and the Sprinkle family looked very happy. In the armory case, did anyone tell Xiucai how much money Chen Ju spent to close the case before the return of the prime minister? ”

Han Gang nodded, "More than eight thousand!" After a pause, he emphasized: "Copper coins!" ”

The copper coins of the Northern Song Dynasty were insufficient, and the price of copper was expensive, and it was mostly produced in the southeast. It is very inconvenient to travel thousands of miles to Shaanxi and Shuzhong, so many times, the two places are general iron money. The value of iron coins is far less than that of copper coins, and the official price is sometimes one to two, and the blacker ones are ten to twelve, but in the people, it takes more than three or four iron coins to exchange for a copper coin of equal size.

"Eight thousand copper coins!" Wang Sunchen shook his head and sighed, "Chen Ju's house, just to buy the officials in the state, it took more than 8,000 copper coins, and it took more than 10,000 yuan to replenish the shortage of the arsenal, and it was a lot of money to settle Huang Dama's family. Han Xiucai, the three arrows you shot at Dexian Fang made Chen Ju not bleed, but a large piece of cut meat......"

Han Gang smiled bitterly and nodded, this was also because Chen Ju regarded him as a mortal enemy, and he would never expect to reach an understanding and compromise with Chen Ju. However, Chen Ju took out twenty or thirty thousand yuan in money at one time, and spread his family money in the sun, even Wang Sunchen knew it clearly, there were so many officials in Qinzhou, Han Gang didn't believe that no one would be tempted by this. It's just that it is difficult for them to make moves in the near future, and Han Gang can't wait for the day when Chen Ju is uprooted in Qinzhou.

Not wanting to mention Chen Ju's matter again, Han Gang asked instead, "I don't know where the army general is?" ”

Wang Sunchen replied cheerfully: "The Sprinkle family is from Yanzhou. All generations have eaten military rations, and they are no more glorious than you scholars. ”

Han Gangqi said: "Since the military general was born in Yanzhou and did not join the army locally, how did he come to Qin Feng?" ”

Wang Sunchen was silent, his expression changed in the beating firelight, and he suddenly raised his neck and poured a sip of wine, turning the wine into a sigh of regret: "If it hadn't been for the crime, the Sprinkle family should be in Suide City now......"

Suide ......

Han Gang still remembers that there is a saying in northern Shaanxi that is called 'the mother-in-law of rice fat, the Han of Suide, and the charcoal of the slate tile kiln of Qingjian'. But at this time, Wayao Fort had not yet been built, the rice fat was in the hands of the Western Xia people, and Qingjian City was controlled by the Song people. And Suide has always been the control area of the party people, until three years ago, the famous general of the Western Army, Chong Ge, forced the local guard Wei Mingshan to occupy Suide.

Suide City, located on the edge of the Wuding River and deep in the Hengshan Mountains, is the core of the control of the Wuding River Basin and the nearby Baili Hengshan Mountains. The seizure of Suide by Chong'e was like driving a nail into Hengshan, allowing the Song army's control area to expand into the hinterland of Western Xia.

"If it wasn't for the crime, why did the Sprinkle family avoid coming to Qinzhou? If there is Gorou to take care of it, he should also be promoted to the palace attendant in two years, and when he makes some contributions, what is the matter with being promoted to the third class [Note 1]? …… The old man of the Sprinkle family once walked under the tent of the old lady, guarded the Qingjian village, and built the thin waist city, but the Sprinkler family was born late and failed to see the majesty of the old lady. Wang Sunchen talked about the old lieutenant who his father had followed, and the look of longing and admiration flashed on his face, which was really rare to see in him.

"The old lady that the general said is a kind of Gong Shiheng?"

"How can there be a second kind of captain in this world?! Now Goro, who has laid down Suide, can't afford to be a captain. ”

Han Gang was suddenly surprised: "It turned out to be a member of the Yan Yan family, no wonder the spirit is like this." ’

The old Taiwei that Wang Sunchen said was the famous Kansai general Chong Shiheng who died more than ten years ago. He is also the former head of the current Yan Yan Jiangmen family. Kind of Shiheng is the nephew of the famous hermit of the Zhenzong Dynasty - since it is famous, the so-called seclusion is actually just a show, the idiom of the shortcut to the south is not only Han Gang, people at this time are also familiar with it, being a hermit in the south of the mountain can only be an official - but at that time, the seed of the world-known Yinjun won the favor of Emperor Zhenzong, and his reputation was quite high.

After the death of Chongfang, because he had no children, the nephew of Chong Shiheng received the favor and joined the army. When Fan Zhongyan recommended Shaanxi generals to the court, he listed Chong Shiheng in second place, and the first was Di Qing. Ouyang Xiu also wrote in a book, 'Since the rise of the army, the border generals who have been obtained, but Di Qing and Chong Shiheng' are regarded as generals of the same level.

It's just that the official fortune of Chong Shiheng is far inferior to Di Qing, who became a privy envoy after the most Lu Dynasty. Although his reputation is famous, his reputation is not very high. Although he is known as an old captain in Kansai, he is only a seventh-grade East Dyeing Envoy, seven or eight levels away from a high-level general like Hengban, and even more than 108,000 miles away from the title of a real captain. It is a custom in the world to call Hengban a captain, just like calling the folk envoy a little bit more than a prince. Yang Wenguang can be called a lieutenant, because he was the deputy head of the soldiers and horses of Qin Fenglu, and Chong Shiheng is far from qualified in terms of grade or dispatch.

Han Gang's predecessor was a scholar, and he had a natural sensitivity to the different titles brought about by his high and low ranks, and in his memory, he never called Shiheng in the name of Taiwei, and he was already very respectful when he called Shiheng. But now it is to talk to Wang Sunchen, who worships Shiheng to the Five Bodies, and it is natural to call him 'Taiwei'.

"Later, the old lieutenant died, and Da Lang went to Beijing to sue the emperor and committed another crime, and the father of the Sprinkle family followed Goro, but he died of illness two years ago. The Sprinkle family is the seventeenth brother who has followed Wulang's son since he was a child, but at the beginning of this year, he was drunk and hated a bird official's ya, which forced the Sprinkle family to lose their foothold in Yanzhou and had to go to Qinzhou to avoid the limelight. Wu Jieju once supervised the liquor tax in Yanzhou, and became friendly with Wulang, so the Sprinkle family voted for him. ”

Han Gang didn't know the ranking within the clan, but since Wang Sunsin said that Tangoro was now stationed in Suide City, he must be the most famous seed among the sons of Chongshiheng. Wang Sunchen has a lot of ties with the breeder, and if he can get a good relationship, he will have one more way out in the future. At least Han Gang can be sure that until the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the breeder was still one of the famous martial arts families in Kansai - because there was a famous breeder Tao that has been famous for thousands of years.

Han Gang poured wine for Wang Sunchen: "Ling Zun has been with the old lieutenant for a long time, and his merits should not be few, didn't he leave a shadow for the generals?" ”

Wang Sunchen poured down the wine again and said indignantly: "The bird shade is mending, and the turn is not the turn of the son who commands the head, and the father of the Sprinkle family died in bed, how can there be that life!" ”

A commander, if it is the commander of the upper four armies in the forbidden army - Tianwu, Zhusun, Longwei, and Shenwei, it is better to be an ambassador from the eighth grade. But if it is the commander of the forbidden army, I am afraid that he will not even have a grade. But if you want to be an official, the commanders of the four armies are not qualified, please be promoted to the sixth rank first! Of course, there is another way, that is, to die on the battlefield, as a pension, the court will also hire one or two sons. Wang Sunchen's Lao Tzu has both, and of course the shade can't make up for it.

Han Gang persuaded with a smile: "Forget it, with the talent of a military general, it is only a matter of time before you become an official." ”

Wang Sunchen snorted, "You guys are good at talking." There is no sincerity at all. ”

Han Gang smiled, not at all dissatisfied. It's just that there is something strange in his heart, Chong Shiheng died twenty-four years ago in the fifth year of Renzong's Qingli [1045], and Wang Sunchen said that he was not born at that time. Is he in his early twenties now? Han Gang looked at Wang Sunchen's side face with some surprise, that hairy bearded face, looking horizontally and vertically, there were thirty or forty!

Wang Sunchen lowered his head and shook his wine, and suddenly sighed: "It's better to find a good root." Xiucai, you follow Mr. Hengqu, no matter what, you can take the Jinshi exam, no better than us fighting Han, and you may not be able to mix with an official body if you work hard. ”

"Said to be a disciple, Han has only been under Mr. for two years, and it is rare for Mr. to teach." Han Gang also sighed: "If you really want to talk about the roots, Han is just from the irrigation garden. If not, how could he be bullied by Chen Ju and Huang Dama? ”

Wang Sunchen scratched his head, "It doesn't matter if his days are short, he learns for a day." Isn't there a saying that he dies in the ......?"

Han Gang said with a smile: "But, 'Chaowen said, it is okay to die at night.'" ’”

"That's right! Right! That's it. Brother Nineteen said that he couldn't remember the Sprinkle family a few times. "Wang Sunchen doesn't know how many times he sighed today, "Back then, the old Shangshu's article was even liked by Emperor Zhenzong, but when he reached the old lady, he was much weaker, and now it has been passed on to the fourth generation, and the nineteenth brother of the Qilang family can be regarded as both literate and martial." The seventeenth brother who followed the Sprinkle family was still a little worse in terms of literature. ”

Lao Shangshu said that the hidden monarch was planted, and the official position he posthumously sealed after his death was the Ministry of Industry Shangshu. He is the first generation, the second generation of Shiheng, and now there are three famous in the Kansai army - the kind of shy, the kind of sage, and the kind of diagnosis, that is, the big lang and the five lang that Wang Sunchen just said, and there is a kind of Erlang who was not mentioned, which is the third generation; And now the seventeenth and nineteenth brothers that Wang Sunchen said are the fourth generation. But what generation is the Seed Master? Maybe it's the fifth generation, Han Gang guessed that if he could find out the whereabouts of this future famous general, he would have the opportunity to be closer and closer.

"I don't know what the name of the nineteenth brother said by the general? If it is the talent of the hidden monarch, a jinshi should be a treasure in the future. Han Gang asked.

"Hey, don't you know Xiucai? Brother Nineteen is under Mr. Hengqu, and you should be classmates with Xiucai! Wang Sunchen's eyes, which had become a little dazed by the drink, suddenly sharpened, "Han Xiucai, since you are also a disciple of Mr. Hengqu, you shouldn't know each other?!" ”

Han Gang's breathing stagnated for a moment, this Wang Sunchen was really not simple, his mind was so meticulous that it was completely opposite to his appearance. The words twisted and turned, and they turned out to be probing his bottom...... Fortunately, he still inherited the memory of the previous master, and that Han Gang was indeed a disciple of Mr. Hengqu Zhang Zai.

"Is it also under the sir's door? Seed...... Seed ......" Han Gang read softly, an unfamiliar name jumped out of the water from the deep memory, his eyes lit up, "Seed Jianzhong!" The nineteenth brother that the general said is a kind of Uncle Yi in Jianzhong?! ”

Note 1: Military generals, palace attendants, and third classes all refer to the class of military officials in the Song Dynasty, which is equivalent to modern military ranks. These ranks belong to low-ranking military attachΓ©s with no rank. From high to low: three classes of borrowing, three classes of messengers, palace attendants, generals, righteous generals, and guarded generals. Wang Sunsin's current rank is a righteous general.

PS: A historical celebrity has finally come to the fore, although it will be a while before he officially appears. Can you guess who this is? As a word of caution, his current name is not his future name. In fact, Baidu can know the Tao at a glance.

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