Chapter 742: A Scholar Joins the Army

In terms of identity, Mi Fu is the emperor Zhao Xu's uncle, of course, not pro, but milk.

Why?

Mi Fu's mother Yan is the nurse of Emperor Shenzong, so Mi Fu is Emperor Shenzong's milk brother, he is the emperor Zhao Xu's milk uncle in terms of generation. Although Emperor Shenzong did not take too much care of Mi Fu. When Shenzong ascended the throne, he gave him the official position of school secretary, but later he didn't continue to promote him for some reason.

But it is not a disadvantage to Mi Fu, after all, the school secretary is a pavilion official. An official born as a jinshi in the Great Song Dynasty, if he wants to be a school scholar, a nine-grade official, he still needs to go through a three-year term and pass the entrance examination before he is eligible to participate in the pavilion examination. After passing the exam, you can enter the secretary's direct secretary cabinet as a school scrivener.

At the beginning, Zhao Tingzhi was several years after winning the Jinshi before he was eligible to participate in the pavilion exam.

It stands to reason that Mi Fu's starting point is very high, but the strange thing is that Mi Fu is in the hands of Shenzong, and he has not been promoted. On the contrary, the official position became lower and lower, and he was later sent by Shenzong to become a county lieutenant. It may be that he was implicated by Su Shi, after all, Mi Fu's admiration for Su Shi is a well-known thing in the grass court.

Although he is not a serious imperial uncle, he can't help but treat his elders as people, right?

Mi Fu with a stomach of grievances, embarked on the journey to the north to resist Liao. The first stop, of course, was not to Taiyuan, but to the town's blacksmith shop to buy a suitable blade.

Met the owner of the blacksmith shop to see Mi Fu's good face, felt that he was a good customer, and immediately explained to Mi Fu the treasure in his shop.

"This official, are you going to travel through the mountains and rivers, or do you want to wear it with you to the banquet?"

Mi Fu raised his head and felt offended, did he look like a boy? Couldn't he go into battle to kill the enemy and serve the country?

Mi Fu melodiously dragged and sang: "In the army!" ”

The owner of the blacksmith shop was stunned for a while, thinking that he had heard it wrong, and said with a smile: "Official, you are laughing, why are you in the army like this, who are you going to kill?" ”

A gratuitous pride stirred up from Mi Fu's chest: "Loyal to the country, kill Liao dog!" ”

At this time, Mi Fu, really a bit of the Mi family descendants. It is like the ancestors of the Mi family who fought with the Liao people on the battlefield of Hejian and Zhending, and they are proud and move forward bravely. It's a pity that this is also his hallucination, and others can't see it. The blacksmith shook his head with a smile, took a few sharp breaths in the air with a red nose, and did not smell the smell of Mi Fu's wine, and hesitated: "Really? ”

"It's true, but it can also be fake?"

Mi Fu thought that the blacksmith was a little talkative, and said unhappily: "Blacksmith, you recommend one or two weapons to the official to fight on the battlefield, if you make it easy, the official will take care of your business, and buy it now." ”

Blacksmith who cares if Mi Fu is true or false, since Mi Fu wants to buy, he naturally has no reason to block. Besides, the money is in hand, Mi Fu wants to regret it, and there is no chance.

"Official, please look at this phoenix mouth knife, don't look at it is only thirty-five catties, but with the war horse, killing a Liao dog is as easy as chopping melons and vegetables, as long as you are a hundred times."

"It's ugly!"

Mi Fu said the reason that the blacksmith was a little out of breath, too ugly? What kind of fairy reason is this? Don't you always go to kill Liao dogs? What does it matter if you're ugly or not, as long as you can kill people, won't it be?

The blacksmith was a little suspicious of Mi Fu's character, pointing to another weapon and said: "The big iron gun, can stab, can pick, can poke, is the general's most convenient weapon, only thirty pounds heavy, as long as you receive sixty times." ”

Mi Fu's laborious hands took the weapon handed over by the blacksmith, and made a stabbing action with the iron gun, and said with a wry smile: "Too heavy!" ”

Seeing that the blacksmith's face was not very good, Mi Fu explained: "This official needs a weapon that is not heavy and sharp, and it can easily kill the enemy without blowing away." ”

"The Qingyu sword, weighing three catties and six taels, is three feet and two inches long, and is made of high-quality stainless steel and wrought iron. Only one hundred and twenty. ”

"Why are weapons lighter, but more expensive?"

Mi Fu felt that the blacksmith was deliberately shoddy, and he was slaughtered as a fat sheep, and he was a complete profiteer. But the problem is that he has grown so big that he has never held a blade, and he can't tell what blades are good and what are not good, and he seems to be a bit of a rush to make people coax.

"Official, look at this blade, this sword body, this pattern like flowing water, is there a kind of pleasing to the eye? Can this be a normal product? Besides, you speak by weight, but can the price of vegetables be the same as the price of meat? ”

The blacksmith felt that Mi Fu came to deliberately make trouble and spoil his business. Although the Qingyu Sword is not Changshan Zhao Zilong's saber, the materials are not easy to obtain, and with the enthusiasm he has poured into it, one hundred and twenty is not expensive.

Besides, you need a good-looking sword with fine skin and tender flesh, not a sharp weapon that really allows you to go into battle to kill the enemy.

Da Song will not let Mi Fu go to the battlefield like this, not to this extent. Of course, the blacksmith also has a concern, if he becomes a general, his subordinates are such soldiers as Mi Fu, he seems to have only two ways to go, surrender, killed. It's all a dead end, despair with the sorrow of suona, the kind of desolation and misery that can cry bitterly.

Mi Fu hesitated, the reason for his hesitation was that the money was not enough. Mi Fu obsessed with calligraphy, a little money to go to the Tao to change the copy, Wang Xianzhi's "Mid-Autumn Festival", Li Yong's "hot to Ge powder post", Yan Zhenqing, Chu Suiliang, Ouyang Xun, as long as he likes the copy, always do everything possible to buy, never ask the price.

These expenses are not a few small dollars that can be spent, so Mi Fu is often shy in his pocket, and there is not much money on his body.

Qing Jian definitely couldn't afford it, so he could only retreat to the next best, and said with a dry smile: "Is there anything cheap?" ”

"Paper cutter, as long as five hangs, this is cheap enough, do you want it?"

"Can you stab someone to death?"

The blacksmith said that he didn't believe that Mi Fu would go into battle to kill the enemy, and he was clearly a nerd. If the paper cutter can go into battle to kill the enemy, what do you need a mace for? Met a scholar who didn't know how to trade, but wanted to do ordnance trading, the blacksmith also had a feeling that the business was too difficult to do recently, rolled his eyes and thought to simply coax this nerd: "Find the right place, go to the place where the stomach is soft, don't look at the paper cutter is small, strength, speed, eyesight and wrist, as long as the knife is in the realm, one knife at a time, it is very easy." ”

"I see, the key depends on the person who uses it, right?"

"Master Mingjian!"

The blacksmith did not pierce it, and said with Mi Fu's words: "But the paper knife is not as good as the kitchen knife after all......"

Mi Fu thinks that the blacksmith is hostile to him, if he goes to the battlefield with a kitchen knife, is this like words?

Mi Fu selected the paper knife, and then thought about going to the army, if there is no stuttering food, isn't it uncomfortable? Simply, I went to the butcher shop and bought two bacon, and I went to the pickle shop to buy an urn of pickles. Then he hired a carriage to buy all the way to the capital. On the way, I thought of him as a southerner, and I was afraid that I couldn't stand the cold in the north, so I bought two robes.

Judging from the equipment he carried, he didn't look like he was going to go to war, but a bit like he was going to flee. Or the appearance of conscription.

Anyway, I have never seen a master who fought in the army and went with pickles.

When he came to the capital, he was surprised to find an acquaintance.

Uncle Clan, Mi Yun. On the other side, there was a young and handsome young man standing on the side, who reported to his home and said, "In Xia Huarong." ”

They are waiting for Mi Fu to come to the capital, and they have delayed a day's trip. Seeing Mi Fu's big bags and small bags, as if to flee. Mi Yun said unhappily: "Yuanzhang, what are you doing?" ”

"With clothes, pickles and the like, I estimate that the army must be hard, and in case there is a shortage of food and clothing, I will also be prepared."

Mi Fu took it for granted that he bought the baby all the way to Mi Yun to see. The latter covered his face, and really regretted why he had to talk to Mi Fu before. Does this guy think that going to war is a playhouse? The Mi family is a family of Jiangmen, how did such a pedantic thing come out?

Hua Rong thoughtfully asked people to take a sword and handed it to Mi Fu: "Sir, please take this sword with you for self-defense." ”

Mi Fu breathed a sigh of relief, he finally avoided the dilemma of killing the enemy with a paper cutter. As long as he carried the three-foot Qingfeng, it seemed that the courage in his chest also rose.

He still doesn't understand, why was he suddenly pulled down to the front line while he was doing a good job as a transport envoy?

Hua Rong is not easy to say, Mi Yun is reluctant to say it.

However, with the marching team, Mi Fu can suffer a lot.

Hua Rong escorted weapons and ammunition, and the time was already very tight, so he naturally didn't dare to slack off. When everyone arrived, they set off immediately.

And Mi Fu is not good at riding, and it is quite difficult to follow the team. Especially when he couldn't do it on foot, he could only grit his teeth and follow the escort team.

Half a month has passed, the team has been in Taiyuan for several days, and even Hua Rong has repeatedly assured that Fanzhi is in front of him, so that Mi Fu did not discourage halfway.

"Who's ahead!"

"Escort supplies, the former captain of the palace, Hua Rong."

"It turned out to be Captain Hua, the marshal said, you come and go to the city immediately."

In Fanzhi City, Li Kui and Gao Yu were arguing about the expedition, but Gao Yu was worried that Li Kui's troops were insufficient, so Li Kui took more soldiers. And what about Li Kui? Worried about the lack of garrison in the rear, he left the 7,000 men and horses of the 10,000 infantry of the Feilian Army in Fanzhi. It's not that this army doesn't have to fight, but Li Kui considered that the endurance of the infantry was obviously not as good as that of the cavalry, and the equipment was heavier, so it needed more pack horses.

However, on the northern front, the pack horses that could be used on the Hedong Road were all allocated by Li Kui to the Praetorian Guard.

It is no longer able to supply enough pack horses for the heavy infantry, and the heavy infantry of the Great Song Dynasty weighs more than sixty pounds in foot armor, plus equipped with weapons, it is impossible for the soldiers themselves to carry the march. It's not impossible, if it's close, ten miles and eight miles, it can be done. The result of consuming a lot of soldiers' physical strength is that on the battlefield, the heavy infantry can only paddle.

It's not as good as a knife and axe hand with a shield. With the rapid breakthrough of the Great Song Dynasty's iron smelting technology, the use of steel knives greatly reduced the burden on the Great Song Light Infantry, and the single lethality was even more than before. It's also very easy to use.

"Report!"

"Commander Qiqi, General Hua is back."

"Don't come soon."

The captain on duty was Wu Song, and he was not excited to put on the captain's armor. The armor made him shine with fine sand, and reflected the silver-white light in the sun, like a great general. It's a pity that like Ruda at the beginning, he can't ride a horse and is a foot soldier.

It's not that it won't be at all, but it's too hard for him to fight on horseback.

Wu Song knelt on one knee and said, "Marshal, General Hua brought two people, I heard that they were generals sent by the capital, but according to the last general, it doesn't seem to be a general. ”

Li Kui touched his chin and doubted, "Could it be a eunuch?" ”

Gao Yu nodded in agreement: "Very likely." Ninghua Army's affairs, I am afraid that the Metropolitan Hall and the Privy Council will have something to do with you and me, for fear that Your Majesty will be bewitched by the villain, and send the eunuch in front of the palace to come. ”

What villain?

Gao Yu also dared to say, didn't he mean that the chief officials of the Privy Council and the Metropolitan Hall gave them eye medicine?

There are just two people, one Li Qingchen and one Zhang Dian.

He was a small commander, and he dared to pour dirty water on the body of a first-class member of the imperial court, not to mention anything else, just this courage was enough to be cited by Li Kui as a confidant.

Li Kui was also David and said angrily: "These people eat people and don't do personnel." ”

Outside the camp, Mi Fu carried a burden under his arm, a strong swing, knocked his teeth and asked his uncle Mi Yun: "Wu Degong, who is our lord?" Will you give us little shoes to wear? ”

Mi Yunzi martial arts, he is a disciple of the general, he attaches great importance to the honor of the general, and at the same time he also cultivates martial arts, knows the art of war, and has a strong desire for military merits. Unlike Mi Fu, it doesn't look like a disciple of the gate. Now after a long-distance attack, it is more like a fleeing account room, and there is a greasy frustration in the eyebrows.

Mi Yun snorted coldly: "Yuanzhang, you are a child of my Mi family, so unbearable, how can I reassure the ancestor of the Mi family?" ”

The Mi family has declined, but it is not too declining. At least Mi Yun is also the chief general in charge of the first army. Although he is the newly promoted chief general of the Ninghua Army, he only had a chance after Chen Yi's rebellion, but the generals who can command the first army can be regarded as top-notch generals in the Great Song Forbidden Army. With such a talent to support the faΓ§ade, the Mi family said that nothing was a decline.

It's a pity that the children of the Mi family won't talk about it.

Mi Yun looked down on Mi Fu horizontally, for more than half a month along the way, until he was about to see the boss, he remembered to ask.

What have you been doing for the past half month?

Mi Fu also has a hard time, sighed and said: "Wu Degong, you always don't know!" On this way, not to mention sleeping in the open air, it is tired, and the boy's body is unbearable to whip, and he is already miserable. ”

This is not a lie, Mi Fu is indeed very the road.

Basically, every day, I went on the road with my eyes half-open and half-closed, and when I arrived at the campsite, I could only eat with my eyes closed, and often halfway through eating, my head was burdened, and I snored.

In this almost confused state, he still has the heart to ask who the Lord is? Mi Fu complained: "Wu Degong, you also know that your grandson gritted his teeth along the way, so he kept up with the team, and it has long been the end of the crossbow, where is the strength to think about the main general?" ”

"You are living too comfortably, and you don't want to think about it, the foundation of your ancestors was laid down on horseback, and who will inherit it in the future." Seeing this, Mi Yun could only sigh.

He snorted coldly, and there was nothing he could do about his ancestor. Mi Fu grew up with Emperor Shenzong in his early years, Emperor Shenzong had, he did not necessarily have, but there will definitely be no less food and clothing. His mother Yan is the confidant of the Empress Dowager Gao, Mi Fu's childhood, youth, and even youth are very happy. It's a pity that Mi Fu didn't have the talent to be an official, and Su Shi and other thorns were too close, and later Emperor Shenzong didn't like it, which was less reused.

As for Mi Fu in history is Huizong's close minister, kneeling and licking Huizong Zhao Ji spineless. That's definitely slander, what kind of person is Mi Fu! Bookworm, if Emperor Shenzong's words have the level of Song Huizong Zhao Ji, Mi Fu has long licked Emperor Shenzong refreshed, as a confidant. It's a pity that Emperor Shenzong's words are not in the flow, at least in the eyes of Mi Fu, ingenuity, dull, where is the incense of Master Su.

During this period, Mi Fu did not expect that Master Su wrote poems every day to mock Emperor Shenzong and Wang Anshi, for Mi Fu's 'rebellion', I am afraid that the most hurt is Shenzong. He watched Mi Fu rush towards Su Shi, and then jumped and cheered beside Su Shi. This dog thing, I just don't want to get better.

Besides, Mi Yun glanced at Mi Fu. After all, it is the ancestor and grandson, and if he broke the bones and tendons, Mi Yun would not really kick Mi Fu away, and said: "Yuan Zhang, you are not too close to Master Su, don't you know that there is now a text and a martial arts in Master Su's house, two big people." ”

When Mi Fu heard this, he immediately laughed: "Wu Degong, you won't mean Sumen lackey Gao Yu and Sumen Mo Qilin Li Kui, right?" ”

Mi Fu spoke in the face of Mi Yun, naturally with his back to the camp, and Mi Yun was so frightened that he hurriedly covered Mi Fu's broken mouth, how to say anything. Su Shi's writing didn't learn, but Su Shi's broken mouth made him learn a lot.

What's even worse is that Li Kui and Gao Yu stared at Mi Fu's back with gloomy faces. Ink unicorn, unicorn is a good word, why add ink? Are you saying that my heart is black? Or is it a black face?

Mi Fu guy still didn't know, open his mouth, showing his back molars and smiling, that called a happy ......