On the sixth day of October, the beginning of winter.

This is both a time of harvest joy and a time of good wind. In the south, it is still the warm autumn of Xiaoyang Spring at this time, but in the Huaihuang outside the Guan, it has long been the cold moon of Mengdong when the water freezes and the earth freezes.

Huang Shi looked back at the barracks of the teaching regiment in Baihutai, his eyes were a little reluctant, a cold wind blew, rolling up the snow on the ground, and the sky was full of white hairy wind. He tightened the fox fur coat on his body, wrapped the bright red brocade robe inside, and his right hand, wearing otter skin gloves, clenched the sword in the palm of his hand. After three months of training by the teaching team, Huangshi officially completed the rotation training today. When he came, he was just a reserve captain, but when he left three months later, he had officially become a team leader. In addition to a certificate of completion stamped with the general's seal, he was also given a long and short sword.

The knife is a long knife, called chopping horse, compared with the horizontal knife issued by ordinary soldiers, it is somewhat similar, but it is longer than the horizontal knife, and it is different from the single-edged straight tip of the horizontal knife, but the chopping horse just got is longer, and it is a single-edged scimitar, the blade part alone is already three feet eight inches long, the handle is one foot two inches long, the total length is five feet, and the weight is five catties. Compared with the horizontal knife of an ordinary soldier, both the weight and the length have increased a lot. This is also the knife used by today's team-level officers, which is thicker and sharper. Especially suitable for holding a knife in both hands, he even saw Yi Shuai use a newly made chopping horse to really cut off the horse's head with one knife.

However, compared to this five-pound horse chopping knife, Huangshi was more precious than the short sword at this time.

His sword was a team-level officer's sword, and the hilt was not a ring, but the head of a beast. That's the head. With just one glance, you can get through this beast head on the handle of the officer's sword. Distinguish the class of the swordsman. Tigers, leopards, bears, and beasts are all fierce beasts. When the Yellow Emperor fought against Chiyou, his army was under the banner of tigers, leopards and bears. The Wuzhou Army now has the No. 43 general, but in fact, it is the fourth grade, the sixteenth grade, the forty-third order, the fourth grade is from the ninth grade to the sixth grade, and the sixteenth grade is that each product has four levels from the top and bottom, so the forty-three general rank is actually the sixteenth level, but some of the first level has two orders or even six or seven orders, which is also to give the officers more room to rise. Histologically, it is necessary.

Four-grade sixteen, six-pint red, seven-fret green, eight-pint blue, nine-pint blue, and each pint corresponds to two colors. The color of the officers' helmets corresponds to their ranks, and they can also be seen at a glance on the battlefield. Even the swords they wore could be marked with grades, sixth-grade tiger heads, seventh-grade leopard heads, and eighth-grade bear heads. Jiupin Zhentou, Huangshi is the new team leader, and the tassels on his felt hat and iron helmet are all the dark blue of Zhengjipin. And the handle of his horse chopping knife is a golden gilded tiger head. Under the nine is a dark blue tassel, and the handle of the knife is a silver tiger. The deputy of the team from the ninth is a light blue tassel. The handle of the knife is a copper tiger, and from the ninth is a light blue tassel with an iron tiger.

Dark blue helmet tassels on the helmet. There is also the golden tiger head on the handle of the horse chopping knife, which clearly shows the identity of Huangshi as a new team leader at this time.

But the short sword at his waist. But not for everyone. This short sword is one foot three long and extremely sharp, but the most important thing is that this short sword was given by Yi Shuai, and not all officers are distributed, but can only be given when the advanced officers of the martial arts hall graduate. On his sword, the hilt of the sword is engraved with the invincible brave - Yi Lingyun, and there is a row of small characters on the other side, the soul of the soldier Sui Wuzhou Wuzhou Martial Arts Teaching Team The first phase of the training officer commemoration.

Because of the words on the hilt, this sword is also called the Lingyun Sword by the trained officers, or the Sword of the Brave, the Sword of the Army Soul. Because it is only available in the officer classes at all levels who are trained in the martial arts hall, it is regarded as a proof of Yi Shuai's cronies. Yellowstone has been very precious since he got it.

He didn't know that Yi Feng was just a whim, imitating an act in later generations. Each trained officer is the elite of the future army, so Yi Feng is also very attached to these officer students, not only personally serving as the Shanzheng of the martial arts hall, but also at the graduation of each class, specially awarded Lingyun short sword, and each gave a 'iron blood' commemorative ring, this is also to improve the prestige of these trained officers after returning to the army after training, so that they can better control the troops, and at the same time, it is also to highlight their relationship with them. The power comes out of the barrel of the gun, the army is the foundation, and Yi Feng is not forgetting these.

Dressed in his officer's boots, Yellowstone looked back one last time, then turned on his horse and headed home. became a military general of the ninth grade, and Huang Shi, like many of his classmates, spent twenty-five yuan to buy a war horse at the special price of an officer. This horse belonged to him, and although he had been promoted to the head of the team, he was going to serve as the head of the longbow in the infantry battalion, and the head of the longbow was not worthy of a horse.

However, the military reward for the Battle of Taoshan has just been issued, and the reward for Lidong has also been issued, plus he has earned some extra money for Yi Shuai as a personal guard during this time, and after calculating several things together, Huangshi got a large reward that surprised everyone. A full 100 silver medals with a face value of one or two are equivalent to a full 165,000 baht of good copper coins. Half a year ago, he couldn't imagine and couldn't imagine that he would be able to have so much money one day. If a full ten catties of silver money are exchanged for copper coins, it will be a pile of more than 600 catties of money, and one person can't carry it.

What's more, there have been a lot of monthly rations and rations in the past few months, and he bought a war horse worth 25,000 yuan without much thought.

However, this is not the most expensive expenditure he spends, yesterday, he directly spent 100,000 yuan in one breath to buy a three-entry courtyard house in Dongcheng. But the money was worth it, and even his father didn't say anything. The day before yesterday, my father took a large family from Huairong's hometown to Huaihuang with a large bag and a small bag, and Huangshi originally planned to wait for the end of the rotation training, so he took a leave to go back to his hometown in person and pick up the family. But he didn't think about it, the last time he sent a letter to his family, telling him that he had already set a fiancée and had become a general, the old father didn't want to wait any longer. Directly led the family as soon as there were young and old people who came straight to come, Lao Huangtou thought simply, his son has become an official, and now he wants to marry a wife, they naturally have to come to their son, and secondly, they also want to personally handle the marriage for their son. Of course, this is also the reason why the two eldest sons urge him all day long at home, and neither of them has much ability. An honest mountain man, who was more than 20 years old and reached the age of marriage. But because of the poverty of the family, he couldn't get a daughter-in-law. The third son went to join the army, and the money brought back by the younger son cured the mother-in-law of the family. Later, his son sent money back, and he used the money to find a family in a nearby ravine for both sons, and they simply handled the door.

Now that the two sons and daughters-in-law heard that the third son had followed a good person outside, they had already become officials, and they were still willing to continue to stay in the ravine, so they were all anxious to go to their brothers, counting on their brothers to give them a hand and live a good life.

The sudden arrival of the family did surprise Huangshi. Originally, it was said that troops would be sent. He was ready to postpone the marriage, but as soon as his parents came, he changed his mind. There were three days to prepare for the expedition, and he planned to simply arrange the marriage in advance, and it happened that his parents were also here. went to Xu's house to inquire, but Xu's father also agreed to get married early.

Originally, Huangshi's current status as an officer could apply for a house to live in, as long as he paid a small amount of rent. However, after the reward was issued, he discussed it with the Xu family and his parents. Just buy a house. After all, with a large family, the house divided by the public is too small to accommodate so many people. And the house is a big deal, and the family will live in the future. It's better to have your own house. bought a big house for 100 yuan, which was also because of his status as an officer, and he took a discounted price. Otherwise, such a three-entry yard. It's not just that.

I bought a house and a horse, and I went one hundred and twenty times at once. Fortunately, the Xu family only accepted the previous ten gifts according to the rules set by the general, but he still bought some gifts to send to the Xu family. Buying some furniture, etc., and measuring a few sets of clothes for each family in the tailor's shop, it was also like a running water, and the large sum of money that was rewarded was almost used up quickly.

Fortunately, he is now a military general of the ninth grade, and now there are ten times a month, in addition to the money for folding grain and cloth, and the salary of the team leader adds up to eight times, in addition, there is a monthly grain of fifteen stones, and there are eighteen yuan and fifteen stones of grain in a month, and even on the surface, it is higher than those Beijing officials in the imperial court. However, he also knows that the salaries of the Wuzhou officers are not low, and there are a lot of rewards in peacetime, and the rewards for military merits are also high, but it is forbidden to eat empty salaries and drink the blood of soldiers, let alone take the risk of embezzling military merits, and at the same time, there is no corresponding public party money, public office field, Yongye field, vocational field and other other incomes corresponding to the imperial court, but the purchase is almost done, and when the wedding is held, after Xu Xiaoniang enters the door, there is not much place to spend, even if there are more than a dozen people in the family in the future, and even have to take care of the father-in-law's side, with his money is completely enough. What's more, there is going to be a war again, Huai Huang is the most important military merit, and the reward for military merit is also the heaviest, and after a battle, whether it is a promotion or a reward, there will be no less.

When riding past the samurai tofu shop on Nanmen Street, Huangshi dismounted, tied his horse next to the store, and entered the store. A few days ago, when he was on duty with Yi Shuai, he followed him to this martial arts shop a few times, and he liked the tofu in this store very much. In the morning, soybean milk, bean brain, bean curd, are extremely fresh and beautiful, in the evening, dried beans, fried tofu, bean cakes, etc., with some drinks or wine, and then get some cooked mutton pork head meat or something, that is a very delicious snack, that is, their bean sprouts, mille-feuille, vegetarian chicken, bean curd, tender tofu, old tofu, etc., buy back that is also a rare fresh dish in winter. After my father ate cabbage boiled tofu once, he was already full of praise, and the younger brother and sister also asked him to buy some more today.

"General Huang, you are here, I heard that the teaching team graduated today, congratulations to the general." The owner of the tofu shop, Takeshiro, smiled and stepped forward to congratulate him. Huang Shi has followed Yi Feng a few times, and he has had a few suppers with his classmates when they are resting, so the martial arts boss is also very familiar. This boss is very good at doing business, and he knows that Huang Shi has already entered the teaching team at a young age, and he will definitely have a bright future in the future, so he speaks very politely.

"Thank you. Wu Dong's tofu is really good, and the family praised it after eating it yesterday, so I want to buy more today. ”

Wu Shilang knew about Huang Shi's big wedding tomorrow, and said with a smile: "Huang Lao has already taken it over, hey, I should have come to visit in person, but unfortunately I have been busy, it's really rude." Tomorrow's general's wedding, Xiao Ke will definitely come to congratulate him. ”

Huang Shi smiled, "Shiro, it's a good thing that your business here is so prosperous." Today, I also have something to ask for, and tomorrow I will get married, and I want to drag Shiro to help find a chef with good skills, and let him help him organize the wedding banquet. Because he suddenly decided to get married early, the time was very tight, and he also heard that although this martial brother opened a tofu shop. But he has a good hand in handling the wedding banquet, and he happens to be an acquaintance. I'm looking for their help.

"That's an honor in the future, I will do my best." Time is tight though. However, Wu Shilang did not refuse, this is a rare opportunity to make friends with Huangshi, usually without this opportunity, how can he miss it.

After a while, the samurai Dalang Wu Shiling had already come over with a food box, which already contained a lot of bean food from the samurai tofu shop, all kinds of things. "Since Mr. Huang likes the tofu in our shop, then by the way, he will also compensate us for the other things, if he likes them. We'll send some every day from now on. ”

Huang Shi wanted to give money, but the martial brothers refused to ask for it, so they pushed it over, and finally Huang Shi was no longer polite, and said something about the banquet, so he left first. Although the marriage is in advance, it is not difficult to find someone to organize the banquet, there are many restaurants in Huaihuang City, and you can find a reservation or even a chef to go to. Both. But he came to find the samurai brothers who opened a tofu shop, in fact, there are some reasons. Just as the martial arts brothers deliberately befriended Huang Shi, they took a fancy to him as a military general, and at the same time, they were also the reason why they had guarded in front of Yi Feng. Huang Shi actually intended to befriend this martial arts brother. Because he knew that Yi Feng was good to this martial arts brother.

This martial brother was originally from Hedong, and his family was similar to his Huang family earlier, with four martial arts brothers. Farming in his hometown in Hedong, and cultivating the fields of tenants. Afterward. Takeshiro began to make tofu and sell it, going from village to village to sell tofu. The four brothers have worked hard for several years and have accumulated some capital. I heard the timber merchants in my hometown talk about the current business opportunities in Huaihuang, so I also pawned my belongings, and wanted to come to Huaihuang Bo to sell some good wine from Huaihuang back to Hedong and even go to Henan to sell. They came to Huaihuang, but the capital was too small to participate in the auction, and later bought some Huaihuang spirits from their fellow villagers at a high price, but when they returned to Hedong, as soon as they entered the customs, they were seized by the patrolling Sui army guards, and they lost all their money. The brothers had no choice but to return to Huaihuang, but when they were down, they actually came and went, and once spoke in front of Yi Shuai. I don't know why, after Yi Shuai heard the martial brothers introduce their situation, he actually took out a hundred yuan to the four brothers, and also helped them open a shop in the city, so that they could re-operate their own business and sell tofu.

The samurai brothers tofu shop that redid the old business is doing very well, especially after Yi Feng personally came to this shop a few times and gave several rich business advice, the business of the samurai shop is becoming more and more prosperous.

Huang Shi didn't know why Yi Shuai cared so much about this martial arts brother, but he didn't bother to think about it, since Yi Shuai cared so much about the martial arts brothers, then he would have a good relationship with the martial arts brothers when he had the opportunity, which was always right.

What Huang Shi never knew was that Yi Feng took such good care of the martial arts brothers only because when he first met the martial arts brothers, he heard Wu Shiro report his name as Takeshi Tong. After Yi Feng talked with the samurai brothers, it had been determined that Wu Shiro was the samurai Tong, the father of the empress Wu Zetian of that generation. But at this time, Wu Shilang was just a young man who sold tofu, in history, Wu Shi Tong first started by selling tofu, and then started a timber business, made a lot of money, and then got acquainted with the great nobleman Li Yuan, and later joined the army as a team leader, and made a lot of efforts for Li Yuan, after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Wu Shi Tong also got a good return, rewarded for meritorious deeds, won the knighthood, and later went all the way to the high positions such as the Duke of Yingguo and the Governor of Lizhou, and also married the daughter of the royal family of the Sui Dynasty as a continuation of the string, and was also a very good businessman. But after this official eunuch, his father had already fallen into the middle of the family, and the warrior Tong who farmed and sold tofu when he was young not only relied on his own ability to go from a peasant to a national prince and marry a clan daughter, but later his daughter was a generation of empresses in history, and the Wu family also established the Wu Zhou regime.

Yi Feng funded the martial brothers, but he didn't have too many other ideas. It's just that I am very amazed by the experience of the father and daughter of the martial arts family in both history. Now I suddenly saw Wu Shilang when he was not yet developing, so he also pulled him by the hand. And Yi Feng also admitted that in history, Wu Zetian was posthumously named Emperor Xiaoming Gao of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and his ability to make tofu is really powerful. He put forward a few points to build his tofu shop, and the samurai Tong immediately improved it, making this tofu shop sound and impressive, and Yi Feng also liked the various bean foods of this samurai shop very much.

Sometimes he sat in the shop and watched the samurai Tong respectfully serve soy milk, and he really felt a sour feeling in his heart.

However, in history, it was more than 20 years before a warrior would marry the daughter of Yang Da, the younger brother of Yang Da, the king of the Sui Dynasty, who was already in his forties at that time, and then give birth to Wu Zetian 26 years later. It is still far away, and now that the trajectory of Wu Shitong's life has changed, I am afraid that he will not have a chance to meet the Yang family, and a generation of empress Wu Zetian may not have a chance to come to this era. He sometimes drank soy milk and suddenly thought that because of himself, the only empress of China might not appear in history.

History, sometimes seems to be easily changed! The eighteenth year of the emperor's reign, Wu Shi Tong, is just a small trader who opened a tofu shop in Huaihuang City to sell tofu, if Yi Feng told him at this time, he will become a rich merchant in the future, will become a national prince, become a state governor similar to his position at this time, and even in the future he can marry the daughter of the current Sui royal family, in the future his daughter will not only become the queen of a country, but even establish a dynasty, ascend the throne and become the emperor, as a generation of empresses, it is estimated that Wu Shi Tong will only think he is crazy! (To be continued......)