After dinner, Chen Wen went to the threshing floor early, and only a few people in the village were preparing to sell food and wine. Soon, those who had become accustomed to coming to listen to the ancient lectures every day also rushed over in groups.

It wasn't until Chen Wen started to speak on weekdays that Wu Dengke and others also arrived with weapons, and when they saw that they nodded to Chen Wen, there was nothing more, so they waited quietly in the front row.

Seeing Wu Dengke and the others coming with weapons, a lot of people hurriedly hid, and most of them just moved out of the way slightly, they knew that Chen Wen would listen to it even if it was noisy in ancient times, and they wouldn't do anything here.

However, Chen Wen knew very well that those who came with weapons were his basic plates, and the people who gathered around these soldiers were reserves, and the others could only be regarded as onlookers who did not know the truth.

After a while, seeing that people were almost here, Chen Wen coughed, and after signaling everyone to be quiet, he began today's talk about the ancients.

"What I want to talk about today is not a record in the history books, but a story that I heard my father tell me repeatedly when I was a child, and my father told me at that time that this story was told to him by his father, that is, his grandfather."

Seeing that everyone's interest had been aroused, Chen Wen began to tell the story.

"In the eighteenth year of Yuan Zhizheng, the Yuan general Yang Wanzhi led a large army to attack Huizhou, Yang Wanzhi was a Miao person, his father rebelled against the violent Yuan uprising, and then accepted Zhao'an, after Emperor Gao conquered Nanjing, he led the troops to garrison Hangzhou."

"To get back to the point, Huizhou at that time was already the occupied area of our Ming Dynasty, seeing Yang Wanzhi coming to attack, the garrison of Huizhou garrisoned by Li Wenzhong, the king of Qiyang, Deng Yu, the king of Ninghe, and Hu Dahai, the prince of Yueguo, were in battle under the city, and the Yuan army was defeated and fled."

So, the king of Qiyang, the king of Ninghe and the Duke of Yue led the army out of Yuling Pass, defeated Yang Wanzhi's army again, collected 30,000 troops, and drove south to occupy Yanzhou, Zhuji, Jinhua, Chuzhou and other places. At this time, Zhang Shicheng occupied Hangzhou and was eyeing the occupied areas of our Ming Dynasty, so the King of Qiyang erected a banner to recruit troops, and a man named Chen Sansi relied on his martial arts and courage to join the army of the King of Qiyang, and he is the protagonist of today's story. ”

Chen Sansi is a native of Hangzhou New Town, burly, brave, burning charcoal in the mountains on weekdays for a living, because the family is extremely poor, and no one is willing to marry his daughter to him, so he is disdained by his neighbors. After the King of Qiyang recruited troops, Chen Sansi joined the command of the King of Qiyang in order to be able to eat enough and to be able to marry a daughter-in-law. ”

In ancient times, the people who burned charcoal in the mountains for a living were poor and destitute, and they were always ashamed, because farmers could become rich peasants or landlords through hard work, and the little two of shops and restaurants also had the opportunity to become bookkeepers or shopkeepers through hard work, but the poor man who burned charcoal would always be a poor man as long as he did not change his career, and he had never heard of burning charcoal and could get rich.

"Some people may ask, since Chen Sansi is from Hangzhou, why didn't he join Zhang Shicheng's army, which has already occupied Hangzhou?"

Perhaps it was Chen Wen's question that aroused everyone's thoughts, and many people showed doubtful eyes.

"Actually, the reason is very simple, because at that time, Zhang Shicheng had already surrendered to Tyrant Yuan and became the captain of Tyrant Yuan. Chen Sansi is the son of the Han family, even if he plans to be a soldier and eat food, why do he have to go to be a slave for the Tartars. ”

"Good!" Chen Wen's voice fell, and someone immediately shouted. Originally, Chen Wen thought that it would be the members of the basic plate or the reserve team, but when he saw it, the political component of the man who took the lead in shouting turned out to be the onlookers who did not know the truth.

Well, this one might be able to develop.

After becoming a sergeant under the command of the King of Qiyang, Chen Sansi became the personal soldier of the King of Qiyang by virtue of his martial arts and hardships. During that time, Chen Sansi practiced martial arts desperately, and would guard the side of King Qiyang every time he fought, and would never allow anyone to hurt the commander of the army. With this loyalty, he began to gradually gain the attention of the King of Qiyang. ”

In the twenty-second year of Zhizheng, Jiang Ying and others, Yang Wanzhi's general, rebelled in Jinhua and killed Hu Dahai, the prince of Yueguo. At the same time, Li You, the general of Yang Wanzhi, who was in charge of garrisoning Chuzhou, and others also launched a rebellion and killed Geng Zaicheng, the prince of Siguo. For a time, the situation in Zhejiang was very bad. ”

"At that time, there was Zhang Shicheng on the outside and rebels on the inside. The king of Qiyang immediately sent an army to quell the Jinhua rebellion, pacify his people, and invade Jinyun in Chuzhou to prevent the rebels from attacking Jinhua. ”

"In the same year, Zhang Shicheng attacked Zhuji with an army of 100,000, and the king of Qiyang was divided into many places at that time, unable to resist the enemy, so he sent Chen Sansi and others to create rumors near Zhuji, falsely claiming that Pingzhang Shao Rong, who went south to pacify the rebellion in Chuzhou, was about to meet Zhang Shicheng with Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, and Zhang Shicheng's troops were shocked when they heard the news, and they were ready to retreat overnight.

"After this battle, Chen Sansi became a junior officer in the army of King Qiyang, and it was precisely because of his performance that King Qiyang began to teach him some tips for military training, hoping that he would become a general in his own right in the future."

In the twenty-third year of Zheng, Xie Zaixing surrendered to Zhang Shicheng and led troops to attack Dongyang County. Seeing this, the king of Qiyang led his troops to meet the battle in Yiwu, and the handsome thousand cavalry swept through the enemy formation, defeated Xie Zaixing, and recovered Zhuji. At that time, Chen Sansi was guarding the side, beheading five levels, and the soldiers he led were beheaded at twelve levels. ”

In the twenty-fifth year of Zheng, Zhang Shicheng sent the general Li Bosheng to lead an army of 200,000 to attack the new city, and the king of Qiyang led the troops to come to the aid and stationed ten miles outside the city, which was a horn with the city. The next day, when the fog was thick and the sky was dark, the king of Qiyang swore in front of the army: The affairs of the country are in this move, and I dare not die in the three armies for greed, and the morale of the three armies was greatly boosted when I heard the words. and the battle, the king of Qiyang led the Chinese army, rushed to kill in front, the enemy army then besieged it with fine cavalry, and the king of Qiyang was unmoved and fought by himself. At this time, the reinforcements from Chuzhou arrived, and the two sides worked together, Zhang Shicheng's army was defeated, beheading tens of thousands, and the coach Li Bosheng was only spared. ”

"In this battle, Chen Sansi led dozens of elite cavalry wings on the side of the King of Qiyang, when the King of Qiyang was besieged by the enemy, Chen Sansi guarded the commander while trying to lead his subordinates to kill the enemy, fought bloodily, and fought to the death with thirteen wounds on his back, and finally helped the King of Qiyang to achieve a complete victory."

After the war, Chen Sansi was appointed as a hundred households and led the first part of the Qiyang Wangzhong Army. It was also in this year that he married the sister of a colleague, and the next year, he had the only son in his life. ”

The story is told to the present, a poor charcoal seller, with loyalty, wit and martial arts, step by step promotion, finally became a middle and lower-level officer, and also has a wife and the eldest son who inherits the surname, and this is also the most typical inspirational story in the hearts of many military families or low-level people in the Ming Dynasty.

And his story is obviously not over yet, at least the people in the threshing floor who listen to Chen Wen's ancient story still hope that the man in the story will continue to be promoted, because the protagonist of this story is very different from many heroes Chen Wen has told before, and his poor background gives these people at the bottom of the society a stronger sense of substitution.

In the twenty-sixth year of Zhizheng, Emperor Gao crusaded against Zhang Shicheng, and King Qiyang was ordered to attack Hangzhou as a containment. After the king of Qiyang entered the city of Hangzhou, he ordered: those who trespassed into the people's houses died, and Chen Sansi of the hundred households was pacified to supervise military discipline. When a soldier borrowed the people's cooking utensils, Chen Sansi immediately tied him, went to the downtown of the city, beheaded the public, and the people of Hangzhou were safe. After that, the king of Qiyang received 30,000 troops and 200,000 grains, mostly thanks to Chen Sansi's beheading of troops and the people. ”

"In the second year of Hongwu, the king of Qiyang from the king of Kaiping often met the spring out of the fortress to defeat Emperor Yuan Shun, and when he returned to Liuhechuan in victory, the king of Kaiping fell ill and died violently in the army, and the king of Qiyang took charge of the whole army. When he arrived in Taiyuan, he heard that Datong was in a hurry, and led his troops out of Yanmen Pass and stationed at Baiyang Gate. The Yuan soldiers took advantage of the night to steal the camp, and the king of Qiyang did not move. At dawn, the Yuan soldiers were so large that the king of Qiyang lured the enemy to attack with two battalions of soldiers led by Chen Sansi and other generals, and when the enemy army was exhausted, he killed from the left and right, broke the enemy army, and captured more than 10,000 people. After the war, Chen Sansi accumulated merit and rose to 1,000 households. ”

"In the third year of Hongwu, the king of Qiyang was ordered to go on a northern expedition, and when he reached the halfway point, he heard that Emperor Yuan Shun had died, and his crown prince was newly established, so he led the army and went to Yingchang. When the puppet prince heard the news and fled, the king of Qiyang captured his eldest son and concubines, palace maids, kings, and hundreds of generals, and chased them to Bukyeongju with fine horses. In the following battles, more than 50,000 Yuan troops were captured. After this battle, Chen Sansi was promoted to the commander of the guard. ”

"In the fifth year of Hongwu, the king of Qiyang was ordered to go on a northern expedition again, and the Tartars fled when they heard the wind. The king of Qiyang ordered Han Zheng to guard the baggage, personally led the army, and each carried twenty days of grain and grass to pursue the Yuan soldiers. To the Tula River, he finally caught up with the Yuan Taishi barbarian Harazhang. Seeing that the king had arrived, the Tartars hurriedly retreated to the Aruhun River. ”

"When the king of Qiyang led his troops to the Aruhun River, the number of Tartars increased sharply. The king of Qiyang is not chaotic, the handsome army launched an attack, in the fierce battle, the king of Qiyang was shot in the horse, after falling off the horse, he still held a sword and fought with the enemy, after the king of Qiyang regained the war horse, it was a desperate battle, and finally defeated the enemy army, captured tens of thousands of people. ”

"It's just that after the fall of the King of Qiyang, the commander Chen Sansi led the troops back to help, and in order to protect the King of Qiyang, he finally died in battle by the side of the commander he followed all his life."

Speaking of this, the protagonist of the story finally did not escape the fate of the warrior horse leather shroud, and this loyal and brave man also became deeply rooted in the hearts of the people with the story, and after learning the end of his death, everyone in the threshing floor showed a look of regret.

Seeing this, Chen Wen then said: "In the battle of the Arushun River, in addition to the commander Chen Sansi, the Marquis of Xuanning, Cao Liangchen, and the commander Zhou Xian, Chang Rong, and Zhang Yao were all killed in battle, so Emperor Gao did not reward him. ”

After King Qiyang returned to the dynasty, Emperor Gao learned the story of Chen Sansi, a loyal and brave man, and made a special order: to give Chen Youdi, the son of Chen Sansi, the commander of the command, as the captain of Zhaoxin, and serve as the left guard of Qingzhou, and the hereditary replacement! In the second year of Yongle, Emperor Chengzu moved the left guard of Qingzhou to the right guard of Tianjin, and this position was changed to the right guard of Tianjin. ”

"As for the commander Chen Sansi in the story, he is the ancestor of the next generation, and this is how my family's hereditary military position of one hundred households was obtained."

Heroes will eventually get good results, and this is what everyone is happy to see. But after Chen Wen said the last sentence, everyone's eyes widened, and they were shocked beyond measure, they couldn't have imagined that the hero of the original story was actually Chen Wen, who came to talk about the ancient times every day, and in their eyes, Bo Gu Tong was now a civil official.

This story was fabricated by Chen Wen in Li Wenzhong's chronology based on the experience of Qi Jiguang's sixth ancestor Qi Xiang, and it was a killer feature he created in order to three-dimensional his own image and his hereditary identity of a hundred households, and at the same time, he could also use it to achieve some of the goals he needed to achieve, which can be described as killing multiple birds with one stone. Of course, except for the shameless loss, which he had forcibly ignored, he was still very satisfied.

However, the surplus value of this story has not been effectively used up to this point.

"Growing up, my father told me this over and over again, just as his father, my grandfather, told him this when he was a child, and my grandfather listened to his father tell him this way."

Chen Wen remembered that in his family, there was a cousin who was not out of five suits, who died heroically in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in the early days of the founding of the Republic. He remembered that the cousin who did not marry and did not leave an heir, the moment he crossed the Yalu River, he had become the glory of the whole family, and even his sacrifice only deepened the nostalgia of the clansmen for him.

Because everyone knows that he died for the future of China, he died in battle so that the Chinese would no longer be looked down upon by outsiders, and he died heroically to wash away the humiliation that China has endured since the ** war.

As an adult, whenever Chen Wen recalls when his grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, and uncle told him the story of this cousin when he was young, he would think of a cartoon he once read. In that comic, it is said that every rabbit has a dream of a great country in his heart!

Since he came to this era, he has truly realized that in his heart, there is really such a dream of a great country. And he is willing to do his best to end the rule of the Manchus for this dream, so as to rewrite the history of blood and tears full of humiliation of the Chinese nation in advance.

"From the day I went south, I told this story to myself every night before I went to bed. And what I hope most is that in my hundred years, my son will also tell my grandson the heroic deeds I did in order to drive out the Tartars and save the people in the last days of China, and so on. ”

"Today, I, Chen Wen, stand with my head held high on the land of Zhejiang for which my ancestors once fought, and swear to the heavens: the sky and the earth are the proof, and the ancestors are on top, from today, from the beginning of Zhejiang, I Chen Wen vows to drive out the Tartars, restore the old land of China, and rebuild the peaceful world. If this oath is violated, the heavens and the earth will be destroyed, the bones will be gone, and the three souls and seven spirits will be reduced to nothingness; If this oath is violated, the ancestors' mausoleums will not be able to sleep peacefully, and future generations, men will be thieves, and women will be prostitutes! ”

Since the mountain breeze blew all night in the threshing floor last night, Chen Wen finally figured out why he wanted to go to Fujian in the first place.

Arriving in an unfamiliar environment triggered a deep fear in him, which in turn affected his judgment.

At that time, out of fear of the rolling torrent of history, out of fear of the Manchu Iron Cavalry slaughtering the land of China, and even more out of fear of the daily infighting of various departments of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he wanted to go to Fujian, under the wing of Zheng Chenggong, little by little to develop and grow, and then decide the victory in a battle. In this way, even if it fails, at least in his lifetime, there will be Taiwan and Nanyang as shelters.

However, after a night of thinking, he finally understood that this kind of thought should not be there.

Since that taxi took him to Zhejiang in this era, there must be a reason for him. The Zhejiang Han people of this era did not lack heroes who dared to fight to the end with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but they lacked a correct ideological guidance and a real idol to follow, and they should not be led by one after another loyal or ill-intentioned leaders to the end, but should play a greater role in this battle against the catastrophe of the end times.

And since Chen Wen, as a traverser, has come to Zhejiang in this era, there is no reason not to stand up and lead the Han family sons and daughters in Zhejiang to recover the lost territory, so that those barbarians and traitors who fight for tigers under the wings of barbarians will be punished as they deserve. This is his mission to come to this era, not to hide under the wing of Zheng Chenggong and do those things that steal chickens and dogs.

The most important thing is that if he aspires to become a hero like Qi Jiguang, he should fight like a man. Even if you fail, you should die on the battlefield, not hide in Taiwan or Nanyang as a public servant.

As for Shi Lang, Chen Wen believes that his decision today is just to let that guy live for a few more years, and when he really has the strength to fight to the death with the Manchu Qing, isn't a traitor who can only fight naval battles just a small character who can be captured?

At this moment, it seemed that in response to Chen Wen's oath, Hu Er, dressed in the uniform of an official, walked towards Chen Wen with a solemn face holding the letter of appointment written on white linen paper, and behind him, two brightly dressed servants led Chen Wen's white horse, and the other followed Hu Er step by step with a tray holding mountain armor and a sword.

Hu Er walked closer, and saw that Chen Wen immediately turned his back to everyone and fell to the ground, so he opened the white linen paper and read aloud as he had been at Sun's house at noon today.

"Today, the hereditary hundred households of Tianjin Right Guard, Chen Wen, has meritorious advice, and his people have traveled thousands of miles to serve the king, aiming to break the captivity. His heart can be expressed, his ambition is commendable, and he is specially awarded the post of guerrilla general of the old battalion in Dalanshan, and he is allowed to organize and train the new battalion at his request. I hope that his people will not forget the deep kindness of the country and fight bravely to kill the enemy, so that on the day of success, the court will not hesitate to reward the marquis. ”

The inscription is: the Ming Dynasty is slightly straight to Zhejiang military affairs, the left waiter of the military department and the left deputy capital of the imperial history king; July 20 of the fifth year of the prison state.

That is, today.

Everyone in the threshing floor listened to all this dumbfounded, in the eyes of the ancients, the oath made by the ancestors in the mausoleum and the descendants are the most poisonous oaths, and many people would rather die than break them. Because once you break your oath, you can't rest even after death.

And Hu Er's appearance and Wang Yi's letter of appointment brought this impact to the extreme, and everyone never thought that a guerrilla general would be so freshly baked under their witness.

At this moment, even Wu Dengke did not have time to think about Chen Wen's current learning and application, but was surprised that all this in the plan had come so violently with those township party members who had already pledged their allegiance to Chen Wen.

Under the gaze of everyone, who was afraid of missing something even in the blink of an eye, Chen Wen, with the help of Hu Er's two servants, changed into Shanwen armor and a sword. When Chen Wen turned around, the once erudite scholar turned into a heroic general in front of everyone's eyes.

I did half a day of preparations, and I did a night show, just for the next moment. Seeing that everyone was still immersed in shock, Chen Wen took a step forward without hesitation and said loudly: "Wang Jingluo has already ordered that a new battalion will be built by this general. All the gentlemen are good men in Zhejiang, but are there any people who are willing to follow the general to rebuild the Qi family's army, drive out the Tartars, and recover the lost land? ”

Hearing this, Wu Dengke immediately woke up from his dream-like state, only to see him come out of the crowd and say loudly: "Everyone knows that my Wu Dengke's great-grandfather and General Wu Weizhong, the general under Qi Shaobao, are brothers of the same clan. Decades ago, General Wu Weizhong followed Qi Shaobao to sweep away the Japanese invaders. Today, I, Wu Dengke, am willing to follow the command of General Chen, drive out the Tartars, recover the lost territory, and win a chance to seal the shadow of his wife and honor his ancestors. As he spoke, Wu Dengke held his right hand on the ground with a spear and knelt down on one knee in front of Chen Wen.

At this time, a man from Yiwu said loudly: "Yiwu is where Qi Shaobao recruited and trained soldiers back then, and the original Qi family army was mostly my Yiwu children." We are the good men of Yiwu County who will not be willing to be left behind in the matter of rebuilding the Qi army, so please General Chen accept us and rebuild the Qi army! As he spoke, the Yiwu man knelt down with him.

This scene frightened Chen Wen, because this man was not a member of the basic plate who had sworn allegiance in the Sun family's courtyard during the day, but a reserve team, which made him realize that he actually underestimated how lethal the rebuilding of the Qi family army was to the people of Jinhua Mansion.

At this moment, Yin Ergou, who had always been unwilling, also fell to his knees. "I, a man from the Han family from Dongyang County, is willing to follow General Chen, go to the soup and fight the fire, and do not give up." At the same time, Yin Ergou's township party also knelt on his knees and fell to the ground.

Chen Wen estimated that there were more than 20 people, which was not much less than the men from Yiwu County.

"I, the men of Jinhua Mansion, swear to follow General Chen to the death, drive out the Tartars, and restore our hometown!"

"We, the people of Zhuji, are also willing to follow General Chen to the death and never give up."

"Folks in Taizhou Mansion, what are you waiting for? Follow General Chen and rebuild peace! ”

“……”

Gradually, the agitated emotions gradually spread, and after a while, two or three hundred people fell to their knees. The rest of the people stood there restlessly, with complicated expressions.

I prepared so much in the early stage, just for the presentation of this scene. However, Chen Wen knows very well that it is one thing to be impulsive, and it is another thing to really be a soldier and eat food, and he is only doing everything to gather a group of real righteous people.

Seeing this, Chen Wen said loudly: "Gentlemen, joining the army is a major matter related to the family, and at this moment, I will not record the lives of all the monarchs, and go back at night to discuss with the elders in the family." Early tomorrow morning, still here, the righteous men who are willing to follow the general will go to the old camp with me to serve as soldiers and eat food! ”

With that, Chen Wen turned over and stepped onto the white horse, and gradually disappeared from everyone's field of vision with the small broken steps of the white horse.

From the moment he heard that Chen Wen had been appointed as a guerrilla general, the storyteller who had come to steal from the teacher and learn the art opened his mouth wide, as if his jaw was about to fall and hit the surface of his feet in the next moment. It wasn't until Chen Wen left that he wiped off the hara that had been flowing out of his mouth for a long time, and muttered to himself: "I didn't expect that the storyteller could become a general." ”

Soon, Chen Wen returned to the gate of Sun's small courtyard, he stroked the neck of the white horse, and got off the horse's back with the help of Sun Yu.

The fresh vegetables this afternoon were really not fed in vain, and this white horse gave himself enough face. If it tosses itself to the ground in a threshing floor, it will be a big deal.