Chapter 16: Xiangyang Gathering Dragons (2)
"Hehe, this matter is not in a hurry, take your time, go to Julong Mountain first, and then talk about it, right? Yun'er. Zhu Wenyu turned around and asked Tang Yun.
"How do I know? Anyway, grandma asked me to follow you, and I will go wherever you go. Tang Yun pretended to be disdainful and pouted, but there was a mischievous smile on his face.
"Hehe, that's okay, then let's go to Julong Mountain, go to Xiangyang first, Uncle Zhou also wants you to be tight, often chatter, I heard that you are injured and I am very worried." Desert laughed.
"Then it happened that Minjiang would help those brothers go back to Sichuan as soon as possible. By the way, Eagle, I'm afraid I have to trouble your beggars to bring two boxes to the capital for me, I won't take them to Xiangyang, and I'll hand them over to me when I get to the capital. Zhu Wenyu suddenly remembered the two boxes under the rudder deck.
"This is not difficult, just hand it over to Helan Feng, put it in the rudder of the capital, when you arrive in the capital, when you go to the capital, you can go to the 'Iron Snake' Qian Yuanli Qian Rudder to get it."
"By the way, Eagle, what position are you in the Beggar Gang now?" Zhu Wenyu asked with interest.
"I'm just a four-bag disciple, and I don't have any job, but because of the master, the brothers of the beggar gang will give the younger brother some face." Desert said with a little embarrassment.
"Hehe, yes, yes, do a good job, eagle, the future is bright, maybe when you will be the leader of the world's largest gang." Zhu Wenyu jokingly patted the desert on the shoulder.
"I haven't thought about it, I don't want to be a helper, Senior Brother Yan is bold and calm, extremely capable, he is much more suitable than me to be a helper, I actually don't want to be a helper, I still follow Brother Zhu to run around and be free." For some reason, Tang Yun listened to the desert next to him and said this, and there seemed to be a slight sadness in his tone.
"Hehe, that's good, our brothers travel all over the world together, and we are at ease." Zhu Wenyu didn't realize it, and still patted the desert on the shoulder and smiled.
Sure enough, on the second day, Zhu Tang and the desert took a few beggars from Jingzhou to return to the Yishuiguan wharf, Chen Lian and others were still waiting on the passenger ship, some of the boatmen fell asleep in the cabin, and a few sat on the stone steps of the wharf to chat and talk to people, but Chen Lian put a few stacks of side dishes on the deck, and drank there alone, enjoying himself. Chen Lian saw Zhu Tang and the others coming, and hurriedly stood up and said, "Childe, Miss, don't play?" ”
"Brother Chen, the two of us have other important matters, we won't take a boat to the capital, so you can go back to Sichuan." Zhu Wenyu said.
"Childe is no longer on the boat? Is it that the little ones did not serve well and made the prince angry? Son, you just have to tell me, the little ones will do it, and send Miss Childe to the capital smoothly. ”
"Brother Chen misunderstood, the two of us do have other important matters, so I won't trouble you brothers, and you brothers should return to Sichuan as soon as possible and return to the Lu Gang Master." Zhu Wenyu explained.
"Oh, it's really not the little ones who make the prince angry?" Chen Lian was still not at ease, and the boatmen also came around.
"It's really not, thank you brothers for taking care of me all the way, and my grandfather, I still don't know if I'm alive or dead, so I really don't want Zhu to go. After Brother Chen returned to Sichuan, he inquired more in Chongqing to see if his grandfather had been killed. This time, thousands of miles of waterway, hard work brothers, here are thirty taels of gold, talk about a certain point of Zhu's heart. Zhu Wenyu took out a cloth bag from his arms.
"How does this work? We waited for the order of the helper to send the son to the east, not only did I return without sending it to the capital, but I also had to receive such a generous gift, doesn't this hurt the little ones? Childe quickly take it back. Chen Lian hurriedly excused himself. These thirty taels of gold are almost four or five hundred taels of silver, which is already a huge amount of money, and these boatmen such as Chen Lian may not be able to earn ten taels of gold in their lifetime, how dare they collect it? Zhu Wenyu must be asked to take it back.
"Brothers, listen to me, this time to send Zhu to the east, thousands of miles away, many risks, this way can be regarded as a common tribulation, if the brothers can afford me Zhu, please accept, of which fifteen taels will be handed over to the grandfather's father, thank the ancestors for their life-saving grace for Zhu, and the remaining fifteen taels of brothers will share it, which is considered Zhu to drink for the brothers." Zhu Wenyu held the cloth bag and refused to put it down.
Seeing that Zhu Wenyu was so persistent, Chen Lian exchanged glances with each other, and Chen Lian said: "Since this is the case, the little ones are ashamed, and they can only thank the son, thank you Miss." Next time, if the prince goes to Leshan again, the little ones will serve the prince well. ”
"Hehe, that's nature, if you go to Leshan again, you must go to the brothers to drink. By the way, Brother Chen, I still have two small boxes in the cabin, I have to take them and ask someone to take them to the capital. ”
"Then why don't you let the little ones send it to the capital?" Chen Lian was surprised.
"I have a friend who is from the beggar gang, and I asked the brothers of the beggar gang to send it for me, so I won't trouble you, and the brothers have been away from home for more than a month, so go home early." Zhu Wenyu said as he instructed Helan Feng and others to enter the cabin to move the boxes.
"Thank you for your compassion, since this is the case, we will turn back to Leshan today, Son, take care, there will be a period later."
"Brothers, there will be a period later, by the way, Brother Chen, when I go back, I would like to ask Brother Chen to bring a message to your Lu Gang Master." Zhu Wenyu suddenly remembered something.
"Son, please command."
"Please Brother Chen tell Gang Master Lu that I Zhu did what he ordered Brother Zu to do, let him rest assured."
"Yes, yes, Son." Chen Lian bowed respectfully.
After arranging for the beggars to help Helan Feng, the deputy helmsman of the Jingzhou branch rudder, deliver two wooden boxes, Zhu Wenyu bought two fast horses, and rushed towards Xiangyang with the desert. The desert now belongs to the Beggar Gang, and it is the four-bag disciple of the Beggar Gang, and the apprentice of the Beggar Gang leader "Iron Hand Tianlong" Xie Fei. According to the rules of the beggar gang, the children of the gang are not allowed to ride horses unless they are in an emergency, and with the consent of the elders of the gang with more than eight bags, they can only walk on foot. However, this time because of the news from Zhu Wenyu, the desert was ecstatic, and with the consent of Zhou Yuan, the deputy leader of the beggar gang and the uncle "Iron Beggars Shenlong", he rode from Xiangyang to Yiling, and naturally rode back at this time.
The three of them rode all the way to the north of Yiling Mansion and went straight to Xiangyang.
This Xiangyang is an important town in the Central Plains, in the upper reaches of the Han River. During the Warring States Period, Chu placed Beijin Xu, and it was a military and political powerhouse. Han Shizhi County, "Hanshu • Geographical Chronicles" said: "Xiangyang is located in the Yang of Xiangshui, hence the name." "It has jurisdiction over the areas south of Hanshui, east of Zhonglu County, and north of the county. Wang Mang once changed its name to "Xiangyang", and when Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty restored its original name, it still belonged to the southern county of Jingzhou. In the thirteenth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao controlled the northern part of Nanjun and placed Xiangyang County, and the county was governed in Xiangyang City. At the time of Cao Wei and the Western Jin Dynasty, it still belonged to Xiangyang County, Jingzhou. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, because the Yongzhou people took refuge and flowed into Xiangyang and other places, in order to settle the displaced people, Emperor Xiaowu took Xiangyang as the center in the 14th year of Taiyuan to settle in Yongzhou. Since then, it has been the seat of state, county, and government. "Jingzhou Chronicle" contains: In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Xiangyang had a prosperous economy and developed culture, and the area in the south of the city was known as "Crown Geli". In the first year of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, Liu Biao was the assassin of Jingzhou, and moved the state from Hanshou to Xiangyang, which was the political, economic, military and cultural center of the ****. In the twenty-ninth year of the Yuan Dynasty, it belonged to Xiangyang Road, Jiangbei Henan Province.
Xiangyang is a majestic ancient city, the mountains and rivers are magnificent, there have been a lot of people who write poems and songs, Wang Wei in the Tang Dynasty once had a poem "Hanjiang Linfan" said: "Chusai three Hunan connection, Jingmen nine factions; Outside the world of rivers, the mountains are in the middle of nothing. The county is floating in front of the pool, and the waves are moving far into the sky; On a good windy day in Xiangyang, stay drunk and mountainous. Tang Xu Zhen'an has a poem "Xiangyang Map": "Xiangyang County is painted, and I still see the past tour; Looking at the mountains and thinking about the horses, the Han River recalls the return boat. Dan gully often contains a mist of clouds, and the green forest does not change autumn; The picture is empty, and the meaning is long. More than 20 miles west of Xiangyang is Longzhong, Shu Han Wuhou Zhuge Kongming has lived in seclusion here for up to ten years, a "Longzhong pair", across the world, pointing to the country, flowing for a hundred generations, "bow to the end, and then die" eight characters make the descendants sigh, Longzhong once had a memorial arch, a pair of couplets on the book, said: "Three visits to the world, two dynasties to open the heart of the old ministers. "Famous all over the world, a model for all generations.
Xiangyang City is famous all over the world, there are many records in the classics, Zhu Wenyu has also read a lot of books, and knows some of them, but what impressed him the most was neither Longzhong Wollongong nor Xiangyang Wang Weiju, but some old martial arts things that Nangong Lei talked to him about back then.
According to Nangong Lei Dao, there was a hero Guo Jing who led the people of the city to resist the Mongolian army with a lonely city in Xiangyang, and guarded Xiangyang for decades, so that the Mongolian iron cavalry city stopped and could not sweep the Central Plains, and was admired by all generations. That hero Guo Jing grew up in the Mongolian Genghis Khan Temujin army since he was a child, and was also named a golden sword attached to the horse by Genghis Khan, and Genghis Khan's fourth son Tuo Lei Yi married Jinlan, and even the later Mongolian Khan Kublai Khan had to be honored to call him an uncle, but Guo Jing saw that the Mongolian army was going to invade the Great Song Dynasty, so he led the people of Xiangyang to defend Xiangyang, and trained soldiers with the method of Yue Wumu to govern the army. But then the Mongolian army invaded south again, Xiangyang City was outnumbered, and finally the city was broken, Guo Jing Daxia and his wife Huang Rong, who had been the leader of the beggar gang, died in battle, and a son and a daughter were not spared, only one daughter Guo Xiang was saved because of wandering abroad, and later created the Emei faction, and the heroes of the world all sighed when the news came. That Guo Jing not only because of the Wu Mu testament, deep understanding of the art of war, with soldiers like a god, several times to win more with less, and martial arts world-over, one hand "dragon eighteen palms" fierce and unbeatable, invincible in the world, the descendants of the world called the world martial arts "East evil West mad South monk North Hero in the naughty boy" of the five unique "North Hero" is him, just because Guo Jing resisted Mongolia alone for decades, so that the people of the Southern Song Dynasty were spared from war, the people in the martial arts gave him a "chivalrous" word, he often said "for the country and the people, the great man of chivalry", the eight characters praised the world, which really made those who heard this awe.