Chapter Seventy-Nine: Antecedents and Consequences
The battle caused by the victory of the Dihuafang on the fifteenth day of the lunar month has been passed on as a wonderful talk in the Jinling literary circle, Zhao Xian and the head of the Dihuafang Hua Dan talked until late at night, which attracted the envy of countless pig brothers, after all, what else can the lonely man and widow do in the Qinglou, and for a time everyone envied Zhao Xian's Yanfu.
Zhao Xian is not a gentleman, of course he is happy to accept this kind of scandal, he still deals with trivial things in the army during the day, and at night he and Yijun come and go to learn martial arts. Zhao Xian's physical fitness is very good since she was a child, and even Yijun has praised her again and again, but unfortunately she didn't have the slightest hint of softness when she started, and she was still the same as before, which made Zhao Xian miserable.
The New Year is getting deeper and deeper, every household is hanging lanterns at the door to paste New Year's pictures, many cars and horses from the countryside outside the city are purchasing this New Year's goods in large quantities, and even Zhao Xian also went to buy a new set of clothes and common utensils. In the past, these things were done in Huayu, but now it has suddenly become a person Zhao Xian is quite unaccustomed to it, and he can't wait to pat his ass and go back to Changzhou to continue to live his own little life, but it is obviously impossible to go back if the crime is not gone, and in desperation, Zhao Xian can only climb the city wall and look at the north to see if the Northern Qi has come.
The Northern Qi and Daliang seem to be accustomed to fighting, and even ordinary residents know what comes and when they leave every year, and the people look very plain about the war, and they still live their own lives.
The reason why this is the case, after Zhao Xian consulted the classics, he also understood a few points. In the last years of the Han Dynasty, this place was unified by a country with the name of Chu, and after hundreds of years of dynastic changes, it reached a dynasty with the name of Liang.
The next thing is similar to the decline of many dynasties, Emperor Liang is mediocre and rejoicing, and the public anger caused by the failure of the Northern Expedition to Tatar is in turmoil all over the world, and at this time Emperor Liang's only son happened to hang, and the huge empire has no heir, and for a time the ambitious power and clan moved together, ready to force Emperor Liang to abdicate and set up another prince as emperor. Emperor Liang had already lost the hearts and prestige of the people, and was easily taken over by his younger brother.
And Emperor Liang once had a princess, married to the king of Qi with a different surname who was guarding the north at that time, and when he saw that his father was seized the throne, he immediately used the banner of 'eliminating rebels and supporting orthodoxy' to support his young son as the emperor, and the country name was Qi, and led the army to the south.
And the new Emperor Liang as the younger brother of the previous emperor, although the means of usurping the throne are a little despicable, but the bloodline is much purer than the son of a princess, he was originally supported by the orthodox scholars of the Great Liang, and the Northern Qi in the eyes of the scholars, naturally became a rebellious minister and thief, and he easily stood on the moral high ground and called on the whole country to resist the Northern Qi.
It's a pity that Daliang and Northern Qi fought for orthodox identity, although Daliang has the backing of the world's scholars, but his mouth can't be used as a knife after all. The Northern Qi perennial in the border against the Tatar training of the elite soldiers, the destruction of the withered and decayed on the half of the country, forced the Liang Emperor to move the capital to Tianluo, that is, Changsha retreated to the south of the Yangtze River, but because of the Tatar worries, the Northern Qi easily did not dare to go south and had to retreat.
During this time, the beam was fully prepared, and the building and repair of the city were guarded according to the natural danger of the Yangtze River, which became a firm line of defense, and when the Northern Qi Dynasty was ready to go south to pacify the world in one fell swoop, it was found that there was no more chance.
Then the two countries began to consume, you came and I fought hard for several generations, according to the time and now it is the era of the early Ming Dynasty, the ordinary people of the two countries are almost used to it, when there is no war, there are even people who sit on merchant ships to do business, and the Northern Qi and Daliang both think that they are the orthodoxy of the world, and the people of the other party are his people, as long as it is not a fine and war preparation materials, these things are not very strict, such a strange situation has directly led to the deformed scene of the wind and the moon in the city and the war outside the city.
Zhao Xian was quite speechless after learning about the beginning and end of the war between the two countries, to put it bluntly, his uncle and nephew fought for family property, and pushed the people to the battlefield to die in order to justify the emperor, Zhao Xian had no feelings for Daliang and Northern Qi, and he couldn't talk about respecting that side and hating that side, he just wanted Northern Qi to come over and disturb it, and then he made a small contribution and patted his ass and left, but unfortunately during this time, the north of Northern Qi is estimated to be uneasy, plus both countries are in the New Year, there is no time to disturb, and if you want to mix up some military achievements, you can only wait until the spring of next year.
Zhao Xian is limited every time he goes out, and the rest of the time can only stay in the Black Tiger Camp honestly, and by chance he suddenly found that there are blacksmiths in the army, specializing in the maintenance of knives, guns, swords, halberds, armor and other equipment, as well as horseshoes, etc., this is his own industry, thinking that it will be very dangerous to go to the battlefield in the future, so he used the reason to help, and found a place to make grenades, mines and other weapons of kill.
It's a pity that he didn't have Nobel's spirit of playing with life after all, and he didn't dare to put gunpowder into it when he got an empty shell, for fear that he would accidentally lose arms and legs and see God, and in the end he could only continue to improve his semi-finished gun, and wanted to debug it more stable, which was the biggest reliance on his military exploits, and then the dumb fire would not be as simple as a joke.
Yijun no longer goes to Dihuafang to make a cameo appearance, it's not that she doesn't want to go, but Honggu doesn't let her go, who lets her run around all day long, and if she doesn't see people when she comes to listen to music, it will affect her business. Fortunately, Yijun has shared a lot of money in the past few days, and he doesn't have to worry about food and housing, so he abuses Zhao Xian for fun in the name of teaching Zhao Xian martial arts all day long.
As the saying goes, people are forced out, Zhao Xian was tortured enough by Yijun's sticky teaching methods, but the progress over the past few days is also very obvious, at least he will not be beaten one-sidedly, and occasionally he can seize the opportunity to fight back.
As for Huang Tiantian, she is much more pitiful, she is a girl who can't stay still, she is bored in her grandmother's house every day, she has nothing to do except eat and sleep, and there are no entertainment tools such as TV, although most of the women are like this at this time, but from Zhao Xian's point of view, Huang Tiantian will be locked up and confined in general.
Every day, only the moment when Zhao Xian came out to look for her, her face would show a happy look, and she dragged Zhao around the world fiercely, as if she had endless words, and she could talk about any little thing with relish for a long time, she used to know at least a sister in Changzhou, when the head catcher went to catch the thief or something, now she doesn't know anyone except her grandmother, and the look in her eyes is getting darker and darker, and she wants to go back to Changzhou but is reluctant.
Zhao Xian couldn't bear to look at it, and he had too little time in his private life, so he simply got her a man's clothes to wear, and then drove to the army every day to deliver vegetables and food, Zhao Xian was in charge of these things, and there was still the right to change people.
Tomorrow is the Chinese New Year's Eve, Jinling City is slowly falling heavy snow, the sky and the earth are white, even the ancient Jinling City has been dyed white, far and near has been the sound of crackers, perhaps because Zhao Xian is in a good mood, obviously the street is still wet and cold weather, but walking on the street does not feel as cold as usual.
There were very few things in the army in the past two days, and Zhao Xian was called out by Yijun after dealing with it, saying that he was going to accompany her for a walk. At this time, every household has hung red lanterns at the door, even if they are usually reluctant to be so extravagant, they have hung up lanterns early today and lit candles.
"Miss Yijun, you called me out, is there something wrong?" Zhao Xian tightened his robe, walked on the shore of Xuanwu Lake and said with a smile.
Yijun is still wearing a red long skirt, a snow-white shawl on her shoulders, a snow-white face on the green silk high-plate, and she is very good-looking, holding a paper umbrella with fine workmanship in her hand to help herself and Zhao Xian cover the snowflakes in the sky, but unfortunately Zhao Xian can only cover half of his body It is too awkward and has no appreciation.
Yijun leaned the flower umbrella on the snow-white shawl, looked up at the snowflakes slowly falling in the sky, there was a trace of resentment in his eyes, and said softly: "Tomorrow is the New Year, don't you miss home?" ”
Homesick? Zhao Xian smiled lightly, his expression was also a little dull, in the past, he should have hung lanterns outside the small courtyard with Huayu, but now he couldn't even see each other when he was far away, and he naturally missed it tightly in his heart. Seeing Yijun's gloomy expression, Zhao Xian said: "If you miss home, go back and have a look, and come to me after a while, anyway, I don't have anything to do in the army." ”
"Go back and see..."Yijun's beautiful eyes raised slightly, looked at the north for a moment, seemed to be recalling something, and then shook his head again, and said with a smile: "Sister, I promised to wait for you to regain your freedom before leaving, how can I go back early, you can't go home now, I stayed to accompany you." ”
Zhao Xian and her slowly walked to a small pavilion by the lake, leaned on the pillar and looked at the fluttering snowflakes, and laughed: "Miss Yijun, you are so good to me, how can I repay it, I am afraid there is no other way to continue like this except to promise each other." ”
"Who is rare, you promise it with your body." Yijun saw that Zhao Xian began to talk again after two sentences, her face was slightly red, and when she heard Zhao Xian mention the matter of repayment, her eyes moved slightly, and she coughed lightly: "Zhao Xian, do you remember what I told you last time?" ”
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