"Is the weapon that General Cheng is holding a mountain axe?"

On the way to Cheng Biting Jin's mansion, Li Xiao and Xue Wu walked side by side. The streets of Chang'an are very wide, the widest is Suzaku Street, which is as wide as 50 zhang and as long as 10 miles, and it is majestic and magnificent. In addition to this Tianjie Royal Road, there are six streets in Chang'an, which are the six central avenues of Chang'an City.

However, the longer the avenue, the more dare not go fast.

There have been several trips to and from Chang'an, and Li Xiao's biggest impression of Chang'an is the strictness here.

The entire imperial capital is like a huge military fortress, with many square walls, inner walls, and countless square doors, dividing the huge Chang'an City into small cities, as if the watertight compartment at the bottom of the sea ship.

When Yu Wenkai, the architect at the time of design, designed Chang'an City, it was based on the idea that once the imperial capital encountered an enemy, this giant city would be able to resist step by step.

Sturdy is sturdy, but it always feels too cold and lacks a bit of excitement.

There are no shops, no vendors, let alone pedestrians shopping and shopping, and the streets are lined with high walls, and the streets are like a sluice to a reservoir.

Only the powerful are qualified to open doors and windows to the streets, and ordinary people are not qualified to do so.

As for opening a shop and setting up a stall to do business, you have to operate in a special east and west city.

The streets of Chang'an are for pedestrians, not for shopping.

"Kaishan axe? How could I have heard of it, how could it be. Xue Wu couldn't help laughing at Li Xiao's question, how could a famous founding general use an axe as a weapon?

"General Cheng Lao is amazing, when Emperor Taizong was still the palace of King Qin, General Cheng Lao was already the commander of Taizong's horse army, and General Qin Shubao can be described as the general of the horse army on the left and the right of His Majesty. In terms of kung fu on horseback, General Cheng's ability is extraordinary, and a horse lance is superb. ”

Since the Wei and Jin dynasties, all famous fierce generals and generals are basically generals immediately, and no one says that they are famous for foot combat. And riding and shooting on a horse, riding and shooting are only the basic skills, so that the horse lance is the place to show the real kung fu.

What general doesn't have a good lance?

The horse lance is the place to really show the general's ability, a horse lance is extremely difficult to make, the cycle is long, the quality is good, it takes more than three years to make it well, and the cost is extremely expensive. Such a good horse lance is like another arm for a general.

Those disciples of the generals, when they become adults, can get a good horse lance as a gift for adulthood.

"All the generals make the horse lance, and those who don't use the horse lance are generally not from the generals or big families. For example, in the previous dynasty, the Sui Dynasty came to protect his son, and later he was awarded the title of Duke Rongguo, and his achievements were brilliant, but he was known as the iron spear general, just because he was good at using an iron gun. It is precisely because he is good at using an iron gun, so you can see the origin of Hu'er, to Hu'er is not a general, not a famous family, although the ancestor is also a famous general in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but his family has long been poor when he was a child, and later killed the enemy and fled to the Jiangbei to join the Sui army, serving in the army, and later soaring all the way to the national prince with military merits, but he is still used to using an iron gun. ”

Cheng Biting Jin Zushang is an official of the Northern Qi Dynasty, his family is a small scholar, and he is also a local powerful landlord, his family is rich, and his family is from Shandong, and the people there are fierce and martial, so Cheng Biting Jin learned to use a horse lance when he was young.

Later, the Sui rebellion, Cheng Yanjin recruited strong men in the local area, pulled up a team to defend the township, and finally saw that the Great Sui was hopeless, so he led the team to go to Wagang Mountain to vote for Li Mi, and succeeded in a hundred battles, and finally became the general of the Tang Dynasty.

"Didn't you say last time that he almost cut down the pillar of your house after drinking at your house?"

"That's after drinking, besides, who went to another house and wore armor and carried a horse lance? Cheng Gong snatched the axe used by my family to chop wood that day. ”

Li Xiao sighed, it seems that there are still many places in Romance that cannot be believed.

In the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Cheng Biting Jin is a rather scoundrel demon king of the world, while Qin Qiong is a loyal and unparalleled filial son. In the romance, it is said that Lao Cheng was a gangster in his early years, living by selling illegal salt, but according to Li Xiao's understanding, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, he actually did not prohibit private salt.

To put it simply, in fact, from the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty to the present, in fact, the imperial court did not implement such a policy as salt monopoly and salt tax. Without monopoly and heavy taxes, there would naturally be no windfall profits from illicit salt, so there would be no smuggler salt dealers.

In history, the smuggling salt dealers of the Tang Dynasty were most famous in the late Tang Dynasty, when Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi were anti-kings, and that was also because after the Middle Tang Dynasty, the imperial court began to monopolize salt and the heavy tax of ten times the price of salt.

Cheng Yanjin has never sold illegal salt, and his family has never been poor, and his family is a local tycoon and a big landlord.

Now Cheng Yanjin is Lu Guogong, or the general of the Left Guard, and he also inspects the soldiers and horses of the school camp.

What do these two official positions mean, the general of the Left Guard, is naturally the commander-in-chief of the Left Guard Army, one of the twelve guards, and the soldiers and horses of the inspection school cantonment camp are even more incredible, and the soldiers and horses of the cantonment camp of Gaine today are the Royal Forest Army that the emperor is preparing to reorganize into the Yulin Army.

Xue Wu stayed in the flying cavalry of this camp, and Cheng Yanjin personally commanded this imperial forest army, which shows that the emperor relied on him.

When Taizong died, Cheng Yanjin led the flying cavalry army from Cuiwei Palace to escort the crown prince Li Zhi to return to the throne, and stayed outside Zuo Yanming Gate for three months.

Among the founding generals, Li Ji is now the prime minister and is in the center, but in fact he is equivalent to handing over military power, but he is only asking about the military.

Wei Cheng bites the gold, that is the commander of the Gyeonggi Imperial Forest Army.

The Cheng family and the Xue family live a little far apart, the Cheng family's mansion is in the east city of Chang'an, Chang'an is rich in the east and west, and Cheng Biting Jin lives in the upper half of the east city, known as the place where the nobles gather.

I didn't dare to go fast all the way on the horse, and I rode slowly for half an hour before I finally arrived.

"Cheng Mansion is so magnificent!"

"But no, monopolizing a quarter of the land, the first emperor and His Majesty loved each other, and rewarded the adjacent land several times, so the Cheng Mansion began to have the scale it has today."

As a few hills of the Tang military, Cheng Yanjin enjoys extremely high treatment.

The right leader Wei Zhonglang brought Xue Rengui to the door, and they all immediately dismounted, and sent their entourage to ask for a meeting.

Cheng Fuzhong.

Sixty-five-year-old Cheng Biting Jin drank at home during the day, but since he drank a burning knife that day, Lao Cheng felt dull and tasteless when he drank other wines, and he was as dull as drinking water.

What three syrup, sweet and sour, what wine, the same is sour.

"Grandpa, General Xue Rengui asks to see you."

"Xiao Xue, I don't see it." Cheng Yanjin waved his hand impatiently.

The housekeeper seemed to have expected Cheng Yanjin to say this, "General Xue said that he specially brought a bottle of burning knives today, and also brought the person who brewed the burning knives. ”

"Oh, then hurry up and invite someone in!"