Chapter 1 The Troubled Times at the End of the Ming Dynasty
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In the cool autumn of September, the grass in the north is declining, and there is a group of people and horses, along the border of Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces, the Daba Mountains, letting the horses go west. In front of him were several majestic warriors, in the middle of an open-top mule cart, sitting a gentleman of nearly sixty years old, with a leather jacket and cape, a graceful attitude, riding a tall horse, beside the mule cart, immediately sat a sword-eyed young man, the sword was ringing.
The gentleman in this caravan is the outgoing governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, named Zhuo Zhonglian, who is as his name, although he has served as a big official, he is still honest. But as the saying goes: "In three years of the Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver." "Moreover, he is a governor. He doesn't have to be corrupt, the money and food are folded, and the gifts from his subordinates are also a lot. So when I stepped down and returned to my hometown, I also invited a few famous dart masters to escort me.
The sword-eyed young man is not a dart master, and his entourage has another origin. It turned out that Zhuo Zhonglian was originally from northern Shaanxi. He only has one son and one grandson, his son's name is Zhuo Jixian, he is an official in Beijing, and he has achieved the position of a household waiter, and his grandson is named Zhuo Yihang, who went to Beijing with his father when he was young, and he should be eighteen or nineteen years old this year. Zhuo Yihang has been smart since he was a child, and his grandfather misses him very much. Unexpectedly, the grandson did not come, but Geng Shaonan came with his son's letter, which said that the grandson was studying hard for the exam and could not return immediately. This Geng Shaonan is a classmate of his grandson, who knows martial arts quite well, and he has something to do in Shaanxi. Please take him with you, both are convenient. Zhuo Zhonglian chatted with him, and found that he didn't understand much about books and poems, and thought to himself, scholars learn swords, and their martial arts are limited. also secretly laughed that he was an ordinary boy who couldn't study and couldn't learn swords, but unexpectedly, several famous darts invited were very respectful to him, but Zhuo Zhonglian couldn't help but be surprised.
At this time, it was the forty-third year of Wanli, at this time, the Ming Dynasty's Liaodong barrier - Ningyuan Bo Li Chengliang was dead, and Liaodong Jianyu was eyeing the tiger, and it was rumored that the Jianzhou Jurchen leader who was commonly known as the wild boar skin - Nurhachi, had already built the capital in Hetuala, preparing to call himself the Mandate of Heaven Khan.
S. Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty did not go to court for decades, and the ministers of the court and the central government were all forming parties for personal gain, and the fight was inextricable, and no one took into account the situation in Liaodong. Therefore, although the people at the bottom are all afraid of the outbreak of the next vicious war, they are still so drunk and dreaming of death in the officialdom, and Zhuo Zhonglian has also behaved like an old genius who has wandered the world in this round. He did not notice the situation in Shaanxi at all.
The group walked in the territory of Shaanxi, and now it has been 20 years since the Bobai Rebellion, one of the three major expeditions of Wanli, ended. But the situation in Shaanxi is still tense, green forests are swarming, thieves are everywhere, although no one has rebelled, but there is absolutely no talk of national peace and security. Along the way, Zhuo Zhonglian is a great deal. Constantly chanting poetry against him, he simply turns a blind eye to the situation in front of him.
"What an old nerd who dies reading!" The sword-eyed young man on the mule cart saw Zhuo Zhonglian's appearance of not seeing this like today's chaos at all, and shook his head secretly in his heart.
Geng Shaonan, or Gu Xiao, has traveled all the way, looking at this Shaanxi has long been turbulent, it is like a huge powder keg. As long as you fall into the situation that even the slightest spark can explode at any time, I instinctively feel a little shocking.
In this life, he didn't expect that he would be reborn as the legendary villain in the legend of the white-haired witch - Geng Shaonan, the number one villain who prevented the female protagonist from practicing Nishang and the male protagonist Zhuo Yihang, and it also led to the number one executioner and direct fuse that the two protagonists have never been able to combine on the road of love.
Anyone who has read the original book knows that it is precisely because the heroine Jade Rakshasa Lian Nishang cut off the fingers of the five Wudang disciples led by Geng Shaonan that it led to the enmity between the Wudang faction and the Jade Rakshasa . Later, in the fierce battle between the four elders of Wudang and Lian Nishang, Geng Shaonan instigated Zhuo Yihang to help in the battle.
In the end, it led to the ending of Lian Nishang's red face and white hair.
It is no exaggeration to say that at least half of the responsibility for the tragedy of Lian Nishang and Zhuo Yihang's love lies with this Geng Shaonan. Because of this, countless people in later generations shouted that Geng Shaonan was a big bastard and a big villain who ruined people's beautiful marriages!
It's just that if you put yourself on Geng Shaonan's body, you will find that Geng Shaonan is not a good person, but he is definitely not a bad person.
Don't forget, the reason why Geng Shaonan's fingers were cut off by Lian Nishang was because he wanted to send Zhuo Yihang's grandfather Zhuo Zhonglian back to his hometown. From the very beginning, Geng Shaonan was as innocent as Lian Nishang, but because of such an incident, he was cut off two fingers by Lian Nishang.
After that, the love between Zhuo Yihang and Lian Nishang spread that the entire martial arts was boiling, and I didn't see Geng Shaonan do anything, saying that he wanted to find the Jade Rakshasa for revenge and let Zhuo Yihang give him an explanation or something, but he maintained a blind attitude and chose to stay out of the matter and not let Zhuo Yihang be embarrassed.
It's just that for Zhuo Yihang and Lian Nishang getting better, I believe that Geng Shaonan must have a little resentment in his heart! He must have thought, okay! I, Geng Shaonan, broke two fingers in order to send your Zhuo Yihang's grandfather back to his hometown, and you Zhuo Yihang are now on good terms with Lian Nishang.
Then have you considered the feelings of me and the other four senior brothers!
Could it be that the fingers of our five senior brothers were broken in vain, and it should be used as a stepping stone for your beautiful marriage with Zhuo Yihang?
It was precisely because of such a psychology that he must have instigated Zhuo Yihang to launch a bomb to help the battle when he practiced Nishang and went straight to Wudang Mountain. From his point of view, you can't say that he did something wrong. After all, he has no relationship with Lian Nishang, and there is still hatred, he is doing this to help his elders, of course what he did was wrong, but it doesn't mean that he did something wrong!
Of course, this was just Gu Xiao's own thoughts after becoming Geng Shaonan, and he wouldn't be stupid enough to say it.
This time, his master, Daoist Ziyang, asked him, who was in Shaanxi, to help him escort Zhuo Zhonglian back to his hometown, and out of a bigger plan, he agreed.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty has shown a kind of afterglow of the sunset, and there is still a period of time before the tragedy more than 30 years later. As a person who has experienced the Later Qing Dynasty, Gu Xiao instinctively has a sincere disgust for the so-called prosperous Qing Dynasty!
He didn't care how great and brilliant the Manchu Qing was in the end!
Gu Xiao said that he only knew that under the Manchu Qing policy of ignoring the people and weakening the people, after 300 years, when the artillery of the Western powers broke the dream of the so-called Celestial Empire, China became a public colony wantonly invaded by Western white ghosts, and the Chinese became an inferior nation from then on.
I only know that when the bloody light of the three massacres in Yangzhou on the ten days of Jiading buried the beautiful scenery of West Lake, the backbone of the Chinese was broken by the barbarians' swords and guns!
I only know that the population of 160 million at the end of the Ming Dynasty is only 16 million after the end of this troubled era!
Otherwise, there would not be such a sentence in later generations that wear a clear and do not rebel, and the chrysanthemum set of electric drills!
Therefore, as a person who once had a little bit of resentment, after finally coming to the last period of this troubled era that was about to begin, even though the sense of identity for his original identity in his heart had long been consumed in the passage of time, Gu Xiao still felt that he should do something!
Although he knew very well what kind of hat he would be labeled if the history of this absurd era was not rewritten, he still wanted to give it a try. After all, although he himself can't figure out how old he should be now, since he is a young man, he naturally has a little bit of blood and impulsiveness that a young man should have!
Just when Gu Xiao was thinking truthfully, two fast horses suddenly galloped on the post road on the side of the mountain, and several dart masters who were moving forward all changed color!
Seeing this scene, Gu Xiao immediately knew what he was about to face. The corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a sneer, he couldn't get used to this kind of so-called strongman fighting on the green forest road, these people didn't do anything noble one by one, basically they could do everything by burning, killing and looting.
But they all think that they are doing the right thing for heaven, and some people even think that they are serving the country!
If you really want to serve the country, then why don't you go to the battlefield against the alien race, where you fools are most needed! After all, it's not just a bunch of fools! Don't expect these people to do anything good except to wreak havoc and make a mess of what was supposed to be good! (To be continued.) )