Chapter 25 POV: Xu Jingen Rumors are flying
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The early morning of autumn is already quite cold, especially when the sun will not rise and the yang energy will not rise, it will be even more cold, making people want to hide in the bed and lie down for a while. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info Xu Jingen adjusted the clothes on his body, tightened the ties on his feet, and walked onto the city wall. Although the south has been peaceful for a long time, although there are a few thieves, they are just robbing and killing past merchants, and they definitely do not dare to attack the county seat, and most of the soldiers guarding the city gate are not in good armor and are not vigilant.
However, Xu Jingen has never regarded himself as one of them, even if the south is too peaceful, he still wears a mountain armor neatly, and the four bright helmets on his head are also polished, so that people can know at a glance that he is a person who is extremely responsible for his duties.
Xu Jingen is almost thirty years old this year, he looks quite handsome, sharp eyebrows like blades like knives, a pair of sharp eyes that look straight ahead, a high nose, large ears and square faces, especially the hard and square chin, silently telling everyone that this is a firm soldier who is as hard as a stone and as immobile as a mountain. However, even the beauty of Allure can't withstand the washing of time, Rao is Xu Jingen polishes his strength all day long, and his body is full of essence and blood, and he has no choice but to leave some traces on his face by the years. If you look closely, you will find that his forehead, the corners of his eyes, and the corners of his mouth have helplessly revealed some wrinkles, although these wrinkles seem to others to be more vicissitudes and mature, but they are the biggest pain for Xu Jingen.
"Haha, my Xu Jingen's achievements have not been achieved but wrinkles are born early, the Tartars have not been eliminated and the heroes grow old first, how sad and unfair this is!" After a day of defending the city, Xu Jingen often went to the small shop to sell half a catty of turbid wine, and after the wine was sad, he often sighed loudly, and from time to time he knocked on the table with chopsticks, and chanted loudly: "The national revenge has not been avenged by the strong man, and the sword in the box has the sound of the night." How to be a triumphant banquet soldier, three more snow pressure Flying Fox City! Woohoo, woohoo, how to be a triumphant banquet soldier, three more snow pressure Flying Fox City! ”
Xu Jingen stepped on the Jiading city wall, this city wall is quite well repaired, about three zhang high, the arrow tower is lined up, the female wall is complete, it can indeed be called a strong city.
"It's a pity, it's a pity, no matter how strong the city wall is, it must be guarded by elite soldiers, otherwise it will just be dry bones in the mound, and destruction will only be within the palm of your hand." Xu Jingen didn't need to look at it to know what kind of scene was on the wall: a group of soldiers standing crookedly, they were thin and incomplete, some lacked helmets, some had no armor, and some had a set of leather armor, but they had no weapons, these people almost never experienced battles, and the drill was just to cope with errands.
"I think when I founded the country at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers went north to the Central Plains, first broke its shield in Shandong, then broke its wings in Henan, and then according to its household threshold in Henan, three battles and three victories, the rest of the battle, and then according to the world's shape to win, and finally entered the Beijing Division, competing for its full merit, this is how the mighty soldiers! Then there was Chengzu's northern expedition to Mobei, fierce battles and fishing in the sea, where the army went, and the thieves fled, what a majesty! Now look at these remnants of the defeated generals, the armor is incomplete, and the combat skills are not familiar, even a few Japanese can completely annihilate them! ”
Xu Jingen recalled with a little sentimentality the invincible military might when the country was founded at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and compared the miscellaneous soldiers in front of him who called them an insult to the army, and the resentment in his heart became more and more serious.
"If you give me 3,000 elite soldiers, I will carefully practice, educate, and condition, and I will definitely be able to establish an immortal career like Qi Nantang, and when the time comes, I will also let those people who look down on people look at it with dogs' eyes, even if my Xu family is not recognized by Wei Guogong, it is not impossible to become a general!"
Thinking like this, he compared it with the bleak reality, not only did he not have three thousand elite soldiers, but he also had no opportunity to practice education, he was just a hundred janitors, and this depression was even deeper.
"Alas, I, Xu Jingen, see that I am about to reach the age of standing, but I can't see any chance to get ahead, a boy was born in the world, if he can't leave a name and surname for future generations, what is the difference between not living and not living!"
The words of his subordinates interrupted the self-pity of this hundred households surnamed Xu, who had never met him: "My lord, the 100 defenders at the head of the city have been prepared, please review it!" ”
Xu Jingen raised his eyes and looked at the soldiers in front of him, he counted roughly, but there were more than thirty people, how could there be a hundred.
"It's been a rare day." Xu Jingen looked at the round face of Wang Zongqi who was talking to him, and said lightly. This Wang Zongqi's name is Wang Zhong, although he was born with a pampered round face, white and tender like a son, but he is a marksman who can shoot a three-stone bow.
"My lord Mingjian, this Zou Qianhu wants to repair the house, and he wants to go to twenty soldiers from our south city gate, and his subordinates saw that it was late yesterday, so they didn't bother the adults again."
"Oh, I see." Xu Jingen clenched his fists fiercely and didn't say anything more. He already knew the shortcomings of this army, Taizu established the military household in the army, saying that it was to raise millions of soldiers, but it did not cost the people a grain of rice, but he didn't know that this descendant regarded the soldiers as the private property of the generals, and it was common to use them to farm and build, but he couldn't shoot a bow and shoot arrows, and he wouldn't let go of the gun!
It's just that he is just a small hundred households, and he is not recognized by the Wei Guogong family, and he does not have his own name on the genealogy, how can he have the capital to fight against Zou Qianhu, and use the ability to fight against the decadence and depravity of the Ming Dynasty!
"Seeing the slack of armaments in the south of the Yangtze River, I know the decline of the Ming military, no wonder the north has been defeated in successive battles, and is afraid of Jiannu like a tiger! Where is this Ming losing to Jiannu, no matter how powerful Jiannu is, he can only carry a mouth on his shoulders, can he ride more than Meng Yuantie? It's just that this soldier has no soldiers, he will have no fighting spirit, and he will be a nest of bears! Xu Jingen secretly criticized the armament of the Ming Dynasty again, and said: "Then so be it, you guard the city with your heart, and you must not let in a thief!" ”
Hmph, where are the thieves? He, Xu Jingen, wished that a few thieves would let him kill him, he had long been fed up with this peaceful life like water.
As a general, but not allowed to fight, just in the city gate all day long with traveling merchants, hawkers, ruffians, scoundrels, this is simply the greatest torture in the world!
"You all go down to defend the city, if anyone dares to be lazy and slippery, they will be dealt with by military law!" After Wang Zhong said this sentence, which he also knew was impossible, he dispersed everyone and came to Xu Jingen: "My lord, there is an important matter to report to you. ”
"What's the matter?" Xu Jingen was a little interested, maybe his peaceful life like a pool of stagnant water would be a little turbulent after all.
"I heard that a group of scholars in Songjiang are patrolling the south of the Yangtze River to oppose the eunuchs, and the biggest wave of them is about to arrive in our Jiading Mansion, a few days ago I heard that they have two or three hundred scholars, thousands of farmers, and now I don't know how many there are!"
Xu Jingen has also heard of this, after all, in the past few days, many teenagers have posted various big-character posters in the streets and alleys of the city, scolding the eunuchs with blood, and the content is also half-true, such as Wei Zhongxian's fornication with the Hakka family, Wei Zhongxian's assassin and the emperor's stand-in are ready to play a "tanuki for the prince", and Wei Zhongxian colluded with Jiannu to sell the Ningyuan defense line to Jiannu, and he received 200,000 taels of gold......
The content of these big-character posters is vulgar, the plot is bizarre, and the absurdity is absurd, and there are also stories of Wei Zhongxian sending people everywhere to collect boys and girls to renew their lives, so detailed that even Wei Zhongxian established the Seven Star Bagua Array, sacrificed 999 virgins and girls, and invited the sect to intercept the demon fairy to give him a longevity golden pill.
Xu Jingen didn't believe in these stories at all, after all, Wei Zhongxian was 9,900 years old in the Ming Dynasty, and the death of the Ming Dynasty would not benefit him at all, and he would have long been rich and rival the country, so why bother to sell the Ningyuan defense line?
It's just that there are too many citizens in Jiangnan, and there is no pastime on weekdays, so now I finally have a topic, and even the storyline is intimately made up for everyone, how can it not be talked about by the citizens?
For a time, the old and young masters of the entire Jiading City were talking about Wei Zhongxian's betrayal of the country to seek glory, and the storyteller in the teahouse also specially arranged the story based on these big-character posters, and even told the story with a head and an eye, as if they had seen it in person, and some tea customers were even red-faced and even fist-and-foot because Wei Zhongxian sold 200,000 gold or 300,000 gold on the Ningyuan defense line -- in Xu Jingen's view, this disagreement was mostly due to the fact that the person who copied the big-character poster accidentally copied the wrong one.
As for the various nursery rhymes and rumors in the streets and alleys, it is even more amazing, some say that Wei Zhongxian is the incarnation of a dog demon, and he is sent out by Chi You Yu, who wants to corrupt this Ming Dynasty and flowers, and the heavenly Qu Xing has descended to the earth, and the speaker also said conclusively that this person's surname is Liu Mingxu Boyang, a person from Songjiang Mansion, who was admitted to the examination at a young age, and now he is patrolling Jiangnan with the soldiers who are loyal to the country in Jiangnan, and he wants to cramp and peel Wei Zhongxian, and completely break the spell of Chi You Yu.
Some people say that this Liu Xu Liu Gongzi is extraordinary, a few days ago in Qingpu Restaurant made a song "Mulan Ci", sad and stubborn, deep feelings, is the reincarnation of Liu Yongliu three changes, the previous life failed to be reused by the Northern Song Dynasty officials, and ended with regrets, this life must be to save the world and complete the last wish of the previous life.
Some people even said that the scholars were originally afraid of the power of the eunuch party and did not dare to join, but this Liu Gongzi Xiao was righteous and responsible for loyalty and filial piety, and moved hundreds of scholars to cry bitterly, and they regretted that they were greedy for life and afraid of death, and did not dare to support the right path, so everyone partnered to form a "Jimin Society", determined to support the establishment of discipline and relieve the people.
Anyway, all kinds of rumors and rumors are flying all over the sky, attracting more attention than the Son of Heaven ascending the throne a few days ago, after all, the Son of Heaven is far away in Beijing, and most of them have nothing to do with him, but this Jiangnan scholar worked together to oppose the eunuch party at his doorstep, and the eunuch party also committed a lot of blood debts in Jiangnan a few years ago, and it was when everyone shouted and beaten.
Xu Jingen keenly felt an aura of conspiracy in this rumor, if it was just word of mouth, it would be impossible to spread so quickly, how could it be that the rumors were flying all over there just out of Qingpu, not to mention that those big-character reports were conclusive, the evidence was sufficient, the plot was vivid, and it was exciting, obviously carefully choreographed.