Zhang Xuan undoubtedly has the talent to learn martial arts, he can understand martial arts more deeply than ordinary people, the so-called sword technique, what he wants to learn is not moves, but strength, which is also the basis of countless fierce generals.

Forget the moves, learn the essence of the knife in the knife, the knife, the defense, all changes are inseparable, you must know that the knife is dead, but people are alive, the battle is ever-changing, as long as the essence of the knife is mastered, it can also be ever-changing.

But no matter how the moves change, no power is a tree without roots and water without a source, Zhang Xuan has realized that if he really wants to become a fierce general like Yuwen Chengdu, Gu Wu is a hurdle that he can't get around.

Otherwise, he's just a big-headed soldier or a slightly more powerful martial artist.

He has already completed the foundation building, and he wants to practice Yi Jin again but has no way to start, let alone a deeper layer of marrow washing.

However, the top priority is that the money bag in his waist is deflating day by day, and the eldest husband can be without power for a day, but he can't be without money for a day, he must find something to do.

He can set up a small stall and do some small business, just like the deceased grandmother, the stall that has been set up for twenty years will pull him up.

But Zhang Xuan really didn't want to do business, Shinong Industry and Commerce, and he didn't come to the Sui Dynasty to be a soldier and make meritorious deeds, but he thought about the lowest-ranking businessmen in the land, and he was still setting up a stall.

Grandma knows in the spirit of the sky, you have to pump him with the soles of your shoes, a guy who has no interest.

Go to Li Yuan and hug Li Shimin's thigh?

This is a good decision, but it is said that a group of generals who followed Li Yuanyuan to raise troops did not become the founding heroes, but became the founding martyrs, and in the end, the ones who mixed well were basically Li Shimin's opponents who surrendered to the past, such as Wei Chigong, Qin Qiong and the like.

In fact, Zhang Xuan doesn't know what he can do, there is no such person as Zhang Xuan in history, and it seems that Li Yuan's subordinates do not have a strategist or general named Zhang Xuan.

is either a little-known little general, or a tyrant from a rich family, in fact, it is not bad to be a rich man, with thousands of acres of fertile land and a group of wives and concubines, that was once his dream.

Thinking of the group of wives and concubines, a gentle smile always appeared on the corner of Zhang Xuan's mouth, I wonder what his future wife will be like, is it as well-behaved and cute as his former little sister?

Zhang Xuan thought about it these days, and finally decided to join the Sui army first to mix an official and a half-position, and then find a way to defect to him after becoming Li Shimin's opponent, he was originally a soldier, and it was a matter of course to join the army of the Great Sui Dynasty.

What's more important is that it is now ten years of great cause, and there are only three years left before the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, if he wants to live in the troubled times, or even live better, then there is not much time left for him.

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Two days passed, and at noon on this day, Zhang Xuan returned from practicing knives in the woods outside the city as usual, and since he successfully built the foundation, his scope of activities was no longer limited to the neighborhood, but expanded to the outside of the city, and he went to the woods outside the west city every day to practice knives and train speed and reaction.

Today is the third day of the first lunar month, the bazaar outside the city is open, the civilians who come out of the city to buy vegetables are endless, the official road is full of all kinds of fish and shrimp stalls on both sides, groups of women are clustered in front of the stalls to bargain, the city gate is very lively around, the road is also trampled on by the melting snow, everyone is cautious, lest they fall in the mud.

As the days passed, Zhang Xuan gradually got used to the life of the Sui Dynasty, and the novelty of just entering the Sui Dynasty gradually faded, he still remembered the excitement of visiting the bazaar for the first time, and now he thinks about it, it was indeed a bit ridiculous to ask questions at that time.

He bought a watery red heart radish for two pennies, and walked leisurely towards the city gate while nibbling on it, and when he reached the city gate, he couldn't help but stop his footsteps and look at the reward notice posted on the stone tablet.

It was a reward notice for the arrest of Yang Xuangan, and Zhang Xuan saw it when he first came to Luoyang, offering a reward of 5,000 taels of gold for Yang Xuangan's head, or an official promotion of three levels.

However, the last time the notice was damaged by the rain, and today a new notice was posted, the content of which remained the same, although it was a new bottle of old wine, but it still attracted a group of people to gather in front of the notice and talk loudly.

"Why can't this Yang Xuangan be caught? It's been two months! ”

"It's not just two months, it's been three and a half months, I remember clearly, my son happened to be born on the day of Yang Xuangan's defeat, and now my son is three and a half months old.

"I heard that Yang Su has a huge treasure vault, Yang Xuangan was defeated because he didn't find the treasure vault, I don't know where the treasure vault is, let's look for it!"

"The treasure trove of fart, there is really a treasure trove, and it is your turn, the emperor has already dug it up."

"It's really strange, where does Yang Xuan feel that he is hiding?"

Zhang Xuan didn't think it was strange, Yang Xuangan's fate was in the hands of Yuwenshu, Yuwenshu wanted to use him to get the greatest benefits, how could he easily kill Yang Xuangan, but three and a half months have passed, and Yuwenshu still hasn't done it, which is enough to show that he is greedy.

At this time, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and I heard a large cavalry rushing towards the city gate on the official road in the distance.

"Folks, please let go, the emperor and grandson have returned to Beijing, everyone help!"

The soldiers who opened the road in front were still more polite, and everyone flashed to both sides of the official road, and Zhang Xuan saw that the soldiers defending the city no longer let people into the city, so he took a few steps back to the side of the road and crowded into the crowd.

Zhang Xuan was a little curious in his heart, who was the emperor and grandson that the soldier was talking about, and he asked an old man next to him, "May I ask the old man, who is the emperor and grandson?" ”

The old man looked him up and down as if he was looking at a rare animal, "Young man, you are not from the Great Sui, right?" Don't know about the emperor's grandson? Let me tell you, it is the three sons of the original prince, Yan Wangqi, Yue Wang Dong, and Dai Wang Yu, and our Great Sui Emperor will be born among them in the future, remember? The acting king is still in Chang'an, and it should be the return of King Yan and King Yue. ”

"Oh! Thank you, sir. ”

In a moment, the cavalry of the brigade surrounded two young men and galloped on horseback, they were only teenagers, dressed in purple robes, with jade belts around their waists, gold crowns on their heads, red lips and white teeth, and they were exceptionally handsome, but they didn't know which was Yang Qi and which was Yang Tong?

Two teenagers held the reins in front of the city gate, and one of them pointed to the bounty notice on the stone tablet with a horsewhip and smiled: "Big brother, why don't we go and catch Yang Xuangan!" Didn't the emperor's grandfather say that he was allowed to hide in Hongnong County? ”

Another teenager said hatefully: "Three and a half months have passed, Yuwenshu still can't catch Yang Xuangan, is he really dedicated?" Or is there something else going on? ”

"Brother Huang, there are a lot of people here, don't talk nonsense."

The young man was silent, and after a moment he sighed again, "Hey! I really want to personally arrest him and solve problems for the emperor's grandfather, but unfortunately I was born a few years late. ”

He shook his head, whipped his horse, and ran towards the city gate.

"Big brother, wait for me!"

Another teenager hurriedly chased after him, and the cavalry quickly rushed across the drawbridge and escorted the two imperial grandsons into Luoyang City.

This kind of powerful people often enter the city, everyone has long been accustomed to it, the cavalry disappeared, the official road returned to the previous liveliness, shouting and selling again and again.

Jang Hyun stood on the side of the road and did not move, he stared at the notice on the stone tablet with thoughtful eyes.

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The layout of Luoyang is a checkerboard shape, the high wall divides the urban area into countless neighborhoods, at the same time, a Luoshui divides Luoyang into two, there are 55 squares in the north of Luoyang, and there are 57 squares in the south of Luoyang.

Although there are small shops selling daily necessities, firewood, rice, oil, and salt in every neighborhood, special items that are not everyday can only be bought at specialized markets.

There are three big markets in Luoyang, commonly known as the South City, the North City and the West Market, of which the South City is also called Fengdu, which is the largest market in the world of the Great Sui.

The circumference of the market is eight miles, the market gate is twelve, the city is subdivided into one hundred and twenty rows, there are more than 3,000 plus shops, rare treasures are piled up, merchants from all over the world gather here.

The market is full of Sogdian merchants with caravans of camels and laden with various goods, dark-skinned and short-skinned Japanese merchants, and Silla and Baekje merchants with high hats and expressionless faces.

Today is the third day of the Lunar New Year, and Zhang Xuan thought that Fengdu would be deserted and the shops would be closed, but to his surprise, the market was still very lively, with crowds surging, and the shouts and shouts in front of the shops came and went.

Zhang Xuan had come to Fengdu a month ago, and at that time he had no idea of buying a knife, just wandering around, but because he was a martial arts practitioner, he still remembered the location of the weapon shop.

The Great Sui Dynasty, like all previous dynasties, had strict restrictions on civilian weapons, crossbows, long weapons and military horizontal knives were not allowed to be sold, only swords and ordinary bows and arrows were allowed to be sold.

But as in previous dynasties, this kind of regulation only works superficially, especially for the Sui Dynasty, which is full of smoke.

Perhaps because of the troubled times, the business of the armory store is particularly hot, and several relatively large stores are crowded with customers.

Jang Hyun was still wearing the pale cyan muslin gown, with a blanket on his shoulders, and inside was all his wealth, ten yuan of money.

This is also the inconvenience of the Sui Dynasty, if you buy valuables, either use an ox cart to pull a cart of money to the market, or use gold, although gold is not legal tender, but generally stores will collect, after all, gold in troubled times will only become more and more valuable.

There is no ox cart and no gold, so you can only be like Zhang Xuan, carrying dozens of catties of five baht to buy things.

He came to the easternmost armory shop, where a large plaque hung on the eaves, and the word 'Wude' was written on the eaves of the house.

It is this shop, Zhang Xuan heard Wang Bodang say that the shopkeeper Liu of the Wude Weapons Shop in Fengdu City is a very well-informed person, not only selling prohibited weapons privately, but also inquiring about some important news.

When I walked into the store, I saw that the walls were covered with all kinds of swords and bows, and in the middle of a bracket were piled up with hundreds of cheap swords for anyone to choose from, and next to him stood a man holding a copper rod, watching everyone's movements coldly.

The other guy who sold the swords on the wall was much more enthusiastic, and it was clear that the swords hanging on the wall were more profitable.

The shopkeeper put his hands in his sleeves and looked at the customer with a smile, he was a middle-aged man in his forties, surnamed Liu, who was round and chubby, and often said a colloquial saying, 'Do you know how to write martial characters?' Stop fighting! As if to atone for his sin of selling murderous weapons.

A group of scholars are gathering around the bracket to select a long sword, as the saying goes, 'Wenjian Wudao', men's swords are the tradition of the Great Sui Dynasty, especially scholars, everyone will wear a long sword, or gorgeous or simple, from a long sword can be seen the family background of the swordsman.

For real warriors, they rarely buy flashy long swords, and most of them buy knives that can be stabbed, especially the horizontal swords of the army are the most popular.

Zhang Xuan came directly to the manager, and said with a smile: "May I ask if it is the shopkeeper Liu?" ”

"It's exactly under it!"

The shopkeeper said with a smile on his face: "Childe is here to buy a knife, right?" ”

His eyes were very poisonous, and he could see at a glance that Zhang Xuan was not a scholar of swords, and Zhang Xuan smiled and said, "A few knives over there seem to be too light, I want to buy a heavier knife." ”

"Heavier, come with me!"

The shopkeeper took Zhang Xuan to the counter on the other side, took out a few knives, and said with a smile: "The knife is not like a sword with different weights, it has a fixed system, generally three catties, five catties, eight catties and ten catties. ”

The shopkeeper took out all the eight-catty knives and ten-catty knives, Zhang Xuan took out a few knives and looked at them, although the weight of the ten-catty knives was relatively handy, but the quality of these knives was obviously not high, and there were even bubbles on the back of the knives, which was too far from the knife that Wang Bodang gave him.

He untied the knife from his waist and asked with a smile, "Is there such a thing?" ”

The shopkeeper glanced at the knife in Zhang Xuan's hand, and immediately understood, it turned out that he was going to buy a high-grade saber, so he nodded, "Please follow me!" ”

They walked into the inner room, which was piled up with all kinds of swords, and the shopkeeper took out five or six horizontal knives from the box, and said in a low voice: "Childe's knife is a military horizontal knife, and it is not allowed to be sold publicly, I have six high-grade heavy knives here, and Childe can pick one." ”

Zhang Xuan picked up a horizontal knife casually and gently pulled it out of the sheath, only to feel that it was cold and unusually sharp, and it was really different from the knife in front of him.

He picked out a different horizontal knife, weighing about ten catties, very handy, the style is simple and smooth, Zhang Xuan pulled out the knife, a cold air hit his face, he gently stroked the cold blade, felt the sharpness that can be broken, he waved it a few times, and a knife shadow suddenly flashed in the room, it was really a good knife, so he couldn't put it down.

The shopkeeper gave a thumbs up, squinted his eyes and smiled: "Childe has a good eye!" This is one of the three thousand thousand knives made by the ordnance supervisor in the fifteenth year of the emperor's reign, made of iron, used for palace guards, and I only have this one that I can't buy on the market. ”

Zhang Xuan said lightly: "It means that this knife is very expensive?" ”

"Look at what Childe said."

The shopkeeper snorted, "I only sell this knife to people who know the goods, and it was originally sold for eighty yuan, but if the son is sincere and wants to buy it, fifty yuan will be paid." ”

Zhang Xuan put down the knife and smiled: "Actually, I came to inquire about something?" ”

When the shopkeeper heard that he was not here to buy a knife, he couldn't help but show disappointment on his face, and asked unhappily, "What do you want to inquire?" ”

Zhang Xuan whispered a few words to him, and the shopkeeper glanced at him vigilantly, pondered for a moment, and said, "Since Gongzi found me, he should also know that I have some rules here." ”

Zhang Xuan took out the five guan money and put it on the table, the shopkeeper shook his head, and Zhang Xuan put the last five guan money on the table again, "I only have so much?" ”

The shopkeeper lowered his voice and said, "In Anye Fang, there is a ......."