As of the Dragon Boat Festival, they have accepted a total of eighteen apprentices with good basic conditions.

Concentrated apprenticeship, known as the Eighteen Tigers. There will be one more than the seventeen sellers collected by the three vendors of Chaoge that year. Of course, the five masters are also in order, known as the Five Tiger Masters.

Among the five masters, the master Gu Liang Guang is the Ming Jing and the first, the county order, both civil and military, the eldest brother of the white horse Wuyi, good at using various weapons, but focusing on plain guns.

The second master Fan, born as a trader, is one of the twenty-four golden sandalwoods, and is good at making three-pointed two-edged knives, also known as two-edged copper knives.

The third master is looking for a pass, a trader, one of the twenty-four golden sandalwoods, and a good use of the dragon bronze stick.

The fourth master, Yuyun, was born in Chang'an Kabuki, and the third brother of the White Horse Wuyi. First of all, Gu Liang Guang's concubine, presided over by Xue Ping, became Gu Liang Guang's wife, the royal gift of song immortals, good at making cold iron bamboo guns and Song Yin Jian, the famous swordsman.

The fifth master, Xue Tao, was born in Bai Ding, the younger brother of Gu Liangguang's ex-wife Xue Yan, a famous general of the Yicheng Army, and a good messenger of bright silver guns.

Strictly speaking, a three-pointed two-edged knife is also a type of gun. So five masters, four guns, one stick. After three years of training, the children focused on 10 who learned to shoot guns, 5 who liked iron rods, and 3 who liked swordsmanship and short weapons. Six years later, among the eighteen tigers, ten guns, five sticks and three musketeers were formed.

The three young swordsmen are naturally passed down by the song fairy Yunyun, and they are also called the three sons of Xianmen.

The five practicing sticks naturally returned to Wangzhun Tong to give careful guidance, and when they came out of the school, they were called the five demons of the dragon.

Of course, the ten gun practitioners were jointly taught by Gu Liangguang, Fan Zhi, and Xue Tao. The four with Gu Liangguang, Fan Zhi, and Xue Tao each brought three disciples. At the time of leaving the school, they were also called the four tigers of Guliang, the three evils of Fanmen, and the three guns of the rush. Xue Tao, the word runs, so it is three shots.

Before these eighteen apprentices left the school, the five masters cross-assessed and cross-corrected, and the martial arts they learned were all on a par with the five masters.

Six years have passed, and when they leave the army, they all reached the age of 20 years old to join the army. Only five remained in the Yicheng Army, and the other thirteen were recommended by the masters to serve in other military towns.

Wang Lingtong is too familiar with this Yan Qingfu, he first went through the master, Wang Lingtong's second brother Wang Zhuntong, and through Jiehuang and Song Qiaobaoju, he invested in Heyang Jiedu. After that, he traveled to Xichuan Jiedu, Fengxiang Jiedu, and Beiya Internal Guard, and served as the Luzhou Assassin with General Zuo Shenwu.

Just as he was about to return to Beijing to resume his life and change his ministry, he encountered a large-scale attack on Chengdu by the Southern Zhao State. At this time, Lu Ziyan, the Xichuan Jiedu, urgently summoned Wu Yi, the assassin of Pengzhou, as the acting staff officer, and ordered him to guard with Yan Qingfu, the former assassin of Luzhou.

Wu Yi, whose name is Lu, was forty-seven years old at this time, joined the army at the age of twenty, and followed his father's third brother and jade-faced immortal Wu Diao for twenty years.

Later, Wu Diao did the history of assassination, and served the Son of Heaven with his eldest son Wu Yi. Three years ago, Wu Diao served as his second son Wu Jue, and Wu Yi served as the right Longwu general as the Pengzhou Assassin History. The people of the time called it a two-thorn history.

Yan Qingfu was one of the five demons of the Panlong in the eighteen tigers in the early years, and he was a sixty-three-year-old veteran at this time. According to the seniority, he is naturally a generation higher than Wu Yi, and the age is also there, not to mention the qualifications, so Wu Yi is commensurate with him as an uncle.

The uncle and nephew accepted Lu Ziyan's instructions, cooperated with tacit understanding, built weapons and defensive equipment, recruited soldiers, and selected 3,000 warriors as "generals". The generals of the Nanzhao invasion did not dare to pass through the Yanbo and Wuyi defense areas, and went around to attack other places.

How could Dou Peng not know how many catties and taels each of the veterans were, and as the second generation of Jin Tan Biao of the Yicheng Army, he was too familiar with the five demons of Panlong, but the selection standards for the disciples of the five tiger masters were high, and at that time, countless apprentices in Hebei and Henan only chose these eighteen, so they were all tigers.

When Changyang Hou Wenlie scolded him and asked him to recommend the commander, of course there was a question of respect between heroes, and he recommended Yan Qingfu without hesitation. Wang Lingtong was very satisfied with his recommendation, and immediately invited the Son of Heaven.

Four days later, Fan Ming, the general of Zuo Weiwei, came to the central government, and as the minister of the Qincha, he canonized Yan Bo.

Fan Ming, whose name is Bizheng, is Fan Zhi, the second master of the Five Tiger Divisions, and one of the Jin Tan Hussar generals of the Yicheng Army.

Fan Zhi, Fan Ming father and son later followed Wanglingtong to fight against Luomenchuan, Fan Zhi was awarded the title of Marquis of the Yangtze River for his military exploits, and the fief of Changjiang County was in Fuzhou. Later, Wang Lingtong was transferred to Fuzhou Assassin History, and several families were together for many years. There are also the later Fuling Six Heroes, which will be discussed later.

At this time, Fan Ming was no longer a young general, but a sixty-five-year-old veteran, with General Zuo Weiwei, the Duke of Shouchun County, as the guard of the Southern Ya. The fiefdom of Shouchun County is another name for Shouzhou, Huainan Province.

He, the general, actually doesn't do anything, it's a kind of tablet-like position. As the saying goes, what you want is his brand, and the Son of Heaven will bring such veterans out to take a position and scare those thieves who dare to make trouble. But there is something going on in the local area, and once these veterans come out, they often have a strong deterrent effect.

In addition to canonizing Yan Qingfu, he also had a task to observe and dispose of the Chengdu frontline, to report directly to the imperial court at any time on the affairs of the Chengdu front, and to deal with general military affairs at any time. This is a temporary position, and it will be abolished when the war is over.

The imperial court's arrangement for Fan Ming is right, Wang Lingtong and the others have to go to Nanzhao, and Fan Ming is here to watch, which is more secure. Wang Dajin and Sha Dazhou were too familiar with this veteran, so they hurriedly came over to meet their uncle.

After Fan Ming's decree was completed, Wang Wanglingtong of Linhai County, Changyang Hou Wenlie, and Pingchang Hou Lacquer Carving met with him one after another. Fan Ming visited his uncle, fourth grandfather, and fifth grandfather one by one. Qidiao left two more letters to Fan Ming, one was handed over by Fan Ming to Lu Ziyan, the envoy of Xichuan Jiedu, and the other was handed over to his son Qidiaogu.

After settling here, Pearl Hou Jieke and the group fishmonger Xian Lingmian also came over to talk. Jieke briefly told Fan Ming about this trip to Nanzhao, who knew that Fan Ming immediately made a very shocking reaction?

What is the matter? It's nothing else, his sister Fan Bao's youngest daughter Zhang Tao is the Jieyu that Xuanzong gave to Shilong back then, and now she is Shilong's concubine, the fourth concubine of Guishu and Dexian, ranking third.

It turned out that when the youngest daughter of Fan Zhi was sixteen years old, she was matched by Xue Yan and Mu Yu in Qingzhou, and married Zhang Zhen, the son of Zhang Chuang, the Tiansha Demon Stick of the Pinglu Army, in the second year of Wenzong Taihe (828). Zhang Chuang's father and son traveled to various places to fight, and also successively ascended to the history of assassination, Zhang Tao was sent to the palace as a hostage and was named Jieyu.

Less than three years after arriving in the palace, at the age of eighteen, he was given to Shilong, who went to Chang'an at the age of fourteen to pay tribute. This is great news, now that Zhang Tao has become one of the four concubines in Nanzhao Kingdom, Concubine Zhang Defei is very important to Jieke.

Shilong went to Chang'an to pay tribute exactly ten years ago, according to age, Concubine Zhang Defei is now twenty-eight years old, in order of generation, Fan Ming is Concubine Zhang Defei's maternal uncle, and he is also the brother and sister of Jieke's generation.

Fan Ming immediately repaired a book for Concubine Zhang De, and then repaired a book for Shilong alone. Jiefeng, Jieke, Wangjun, and Wangdajin can completely act openly and secretly at the same time to complete the divestment.

Having said this, Jie Ke carried the two letters of Shouchun Gong Fan Ming, and his heart was infinitely warm. King Linhai led everyone, said goodbye to Shouchun Gong with tears, took the chariot and treasure, and went all the way to Nanzhaoguo.

Early in the morning of the twenty-third day of the first month, we set out from Hanzhou, passing through many passes along the way, although there are also Nanzhao guards, but after all, this large group of people is to send treasures to Nanzhao, as well as the edict of Tang Tianzi, plus Jieke is accustomed to bribery, there is no major obstacle.

After nine days of day and night, running all the way, in the early morning of the first day of the second lunar month, Pearl Hou Jieke and his party arrived in Yang Tho City.

Wang Lingtong, the king of Linhai, took Chaohou Jiefeng and Hou Wangjun to lead two hundred internal guards to guard twelve carriages of gold and jewelry, and waited at the edge of a village ten miles outside the Dongguan of Yangtho City.

This village is called Wangjiawan, and it happens to be across a mountain to see Yang Tho Baa City. The mountain outside the village is called Dalang Mountain, and there are many mountain cols. Everywhere the col is ancient trees towering to the sky, vines and mans are entangled, and they turn around arbitrarily and drill into a mountain col, and no one can be seen from a few steps away.

They are stationed here and cook their own fires. Occasionally, a villager came to ask, and no one dared to continue to ask.

Pearl Hou Jieke took the two royal gift sellers Wenlie, lacquer carving and Zhushan Bo Muyu, group fishmonger Xian Ling Milling, Nanping Bowang Dajin, and the six of them went straight to Xiang Chong's house in the city.

Xiang Chong, the second brother of Nanzhao Sixiang, and his wife Xiang Yu, when they saw that the eldest brother was coming, they also brought two ninety marquis, two earls, and the group fishmonger Xian Ling Mill also came, and the couple hurriedly caught it. Regardless of the fact that it was still early, the banquet was immediately set up and the hospitality was gracious.

During the banquet, Pearl Hou Jieke said his plan without reservation, and then analyzed for him: "Even if the foolish brother doesn't do this, the soldiers of Nanzhao will definitely not be able to break through Chengdu." At that time, Nanzhao will inevitably ask the Tang court for peace again, and you will only maintain business in Nanzhao, and you will always be just a businessman. Why don't you take this opportunity to win the reward of Tang Tianzi? You have also become a peddler of this generation, and when you start a business, are you still afraid of losing money?"

Xiang Chong has always acted vigorously and resolutely, and immediately called his brother-in-law, the current general of the Yang Tho Bacheng army.

Endorsed in the book, Xiang Chong's Yuezhang Yuanmei Pavilion is now one of the six Qing Ping officials, commonly known as the Six Phases.

The six phases are divided into internal and external officials, all of which are three. He was one of the two deputy internal reckoners, and together with the internal reckoners, he was in charge of the top secrets of the Zhao King and the Southern Zhao, and was extremely authoritative in the judgment and disposal of documents on behalf of the Zhao Wang.

The specific duties of the foreign arithmetic officer are six Cao, the soldier household guest criminal work warehouse, and the three foreign arithmetic officers are not divided into principal and deputy, the names are Tan Xuan, Bu Xie, and Jiuzan, each in charge of two Cao, of which the guest Cao is equivalent to the Ministry of Rites of the Tang Dynasty, and Cang Cao is in charge of warehousing materials.

Corresponding to the Tang Dynasty's six departments of officials and soldiers, and one ministry of officials sent by the Southern Zhao, this right was directly controlled by the king of Zhao. It was just a little different, but it made the authority of King Nanzhao very different from that of the emperor.

Perhaps this is the real reason why Nanzhao and the Dachanghe Kingdom, the Great Tianxing Kingdom, the Dayining Kingdom, the Dali Kingdom and other countries that set up dynasties in their place have been isolated from the Central Plains Dynasty and attached to the Central Plains Dynasty.

From the Taideng County King Pi Luo Ge imploring Tang Xuanzong to unify the six edicts and obtain permission, relying on the Tang Dynasty to establish the state in the 26th year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty (738), until Kublai Khan destroyed the Dali Kingdom in the first year of the Southern Song Dynasty Baoyou (1253), the internal political cycle continued for 515 years, which is rare on the map of China since the Han Dynasty.

Of course, there are reasons such as complex ethnic composition, diverse terrain, and difficult to adapt to the climate, but in fact, it is an indisputable fact that their internal management system is stable and effective. It was not until the middle and late Qing Dynasty completely changed their internal institutional system that they truly integrated into Greater China.

Yang Tho Bacheng army general Fei Fei, his position is called a general, the Tang Dynasty is called a general, and the Tang Dynasty is awkward.

After Fei Fei came, Xiang Chong said: "This is the eldest brother of the four elephants of Nanzhao who is righteous, the pearl Hou Jieke, today the pearl trafficking to my house, specially brought some gold jewelry shells to the eldest brother, the main purpose is two, one is to meet a few wealthy businessmen to Annan, Lingnan seaside to buy pearls and corals in large quantities, the second is the ninth princess Shi Huangyao, Duan Tanqiu, the head of the five counties Duan Slender wants to follow them to the beach to play, when the time comes to go out of the city, the team is estimated to be very large, and I hope that the eldest brother will be convenient." This is a list of gifts from Brother Jie. ”

After saying that, he gave the list that Jieke had already made to Fei Fei. In fact, this list was originally given to Xiang Chong's father-in-law, Yuanmei Pavilion, but now that the army of Yang Tho Bacheng will change the son of Yuanmei Pavilion, the gift is naturally Feifei.

In addition to his outstanding martial arts, he is worthy of a great task, but he spends a lot of money for women, and often makes the mansion overstretched.

At this time, I looked at the list behind the other people's backs, how could gold, silver, pearls, and ginseng be worth 10,000 yuan, right?

immediately accepted the gift list, greeted Jieke, and laughed heartily: "Since Xiang Chong is a righteous brother, it is also a brother of Benjiang, what is the thing you are talking about, isn't it just that there are many people who dump goods out of the city, and wrap it on me." When the time comes, I'll think about it at any time. ”

The capital guards were solved, and Jieke and everyone who came were overjoyed, and the next step was to solve the affairs of several wealthy merchants, the nine princesses, and the five county lords. This is the main event, will it go smoothly?

According to Fei Fei, the Chengdu side is still under attack. I don't dare to slack off here, the faster the better, and I have to be stable and accurate, how can these people do these two things well in the hearts of others?