Chapter 104 Calculation

When Qian Yuchuan sent someone to find Master Kang Sheng, the latter was squinting at a painting in fascination.

"Crane Picture"!

The author of this painting is no small thing - it turned out to be an emperor. Well, it is the Song Huizong who "can do everything, but cannot be the king", Zhao Ji.

The second year of Zhenghe (Shangyuan Festival is the Lantern Festival. The next night is the next day, the sixteenth day of the first month), Zhao Ji feasted the ministers in Yanfu Palace. The monarch was feasting and drinking, and a group of cranes flew from the northwest, hovering over the palace. Huizong was excited to see this, and thought that the arrival of fairy birds during the festival was clearly an omen of auspiciousness in the Great Song Dynasty. The saint was happy, and the ministers naturally joined in with the excitement, so Zhao Ji, who was overjoyed, took advantage of the opportunity to paint this "Crane Picture".

However...... Just more than ten years later, the Jin soldiers marched south, Zhao Ji first gave the throne to his son Qinzong Zhao Huan, and then, the father and son were both taken captive, and the Northern Song Dynasty came to an end.

"Rui Crane Picture" was copied from the Luo family, and it is said that it was the dowry of the young grandmother of Luofu. Master Kang is a big expert in goods, and he recognized the unusual thin gold body of the inscription poem at a glance, and Master Kang knew that the maiden home of the young grandmother of Luofu was the Qi house of Song County, and the ancestors had done it in the fat shortage of Lianghuai Yanzheng! Therefore, without saying a word, I took it upon myself and carefully retrieved the painting. The surname of the lord is Qian, and the person is like his surname, and he likes gold, silver and jewelry the most, so most of the calligraphy and paintings that have not been copied in recent years have returned to Master Kang.

Among all the calligraphy and paintings, Master Kang loves this "Crane Picture" the most. It is rare to have a master's handwriting, but the true handwriting of the emperor of the previous dynasty is by no means ordinary. Therefore, as long as you are free, you will look at it obsessively and revel in it. After looking at it for a long time, I seemed to realize something: there were eighteen cranes soaring in the sky - there were a total of eighteen emperors in the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, nine cranes looked to the left, and nine cranes looked forward to the right - the eighteen emperors accounted for half of them in the north and south, and after the cranes in the air flew away, two of them stood on the owl (pronounced "eat") kiss* and left the crane flock - the second emperor of Huiqin was taken captive by the Jin people, and the ending was completely different from that of other emperors. Generally speaking, the Southern Song Dynasty was even more turbulent than the Northern Song Dynasty...... In the dark, there seems to be some mystery.

Kang Sheng was thinking in a daze, and when he heard that Qian Fuzun sent someone to invite, he hurried over.

From the people who escaped from Shiqiao Bao, Qian Yuchuan certainly knew the news that Guan Shengyun's army was about to arrive a few days earlier. However, in his heart, although he was also a little worried, he was not as worried as other local officials before. Governor Qian knew very well in his heart that he really had some capital that he could rely on.

The first is poverty. If you are a thief, you always have to rob it. The entire Nanyang Mansion has been scraped to pieces by himself, and there is really nothing to grab, which Lord Qian knows better than anyone else. Generally speaking, although the capital city is rich, under normal circumstances, the most needed food, grass, utensils and other bulk goods of the thieves still rely mainly on plundering the countryside. Now the countryside is full of holes, nothing can be added, and sending a search team is also a waste of food and grass. Of course, Qian Yuchuan didn't know that Guan Shengyun's department was now very rich, and he didn't plan to go to the countryside to rob anything at all - well, not only Qian Yuchuan, I'm afraid that no one in the whole Ming Dynasty knew how rich Guan Shengyun was at this time, including the Shaanxi Third Division, which sent them a large number of supplies! Secondly, there is nothing else inside and outside the city, but there are hundreds of thousands of extremely vicious homeless people! Don't look at these people who are obedient to the government, but they are ruthless to others, and Lord Qian will be secretly stunned when they see those methods. These are usable people! In this regard, Mr. Qian is very confident and has also made arrangements: that is to fight! Some are outlaws who are so poor that they have nothing to love, and they fill in their brains and let the thieves kill them. No matter how much money you die, adults won't blink! At best, there are only tens of thousands of thieves, and hundreds of thousands of red-eyed guys are rushing with a roar, can you kill them? When the thief kills out of strength, colds, and can't lift a knife, then there is no place to die! Lord Qian is not afraid of a sea of corpses and blood, that is the best, just report a three-year exemption! I'm worried about how to loot in the coming year to exceed the task. Seeing that in addition to pulling out a handful of pockets and dredging the movement to move a place quickly, the thief came to commit it, which really helped a lot! If you win the war, you can be exempted from taxes in the name of justice...... In case the enemy can't be defeated, it's a big deal to give the thieves a sum of money to let them go directly to Huguang. If the thieves who blocked the city gate and were greatly injured at that time, it would be impossible for them to be interested in climbing the wall and gnawing the city bricks, right? As soon as the thief leaves, he will report a great victory!

The officials sent out reported one after another, except for the people of several townships such as Lihe Daguzun (now Hanzun Township) in the east, who were blocked by the thieves in the water, and the people from the north, west, and south townships and villages were gathering to the city, and at this moment there were forty or fifty thousand people, and there were more people who were running on the way to the city with great anger! Qian Yuchuan was even more confident when he heard this, and asked someone to invite Master Kang to discuss the method of breaking the thief together.

Not long after Master Kang entered the second hall to talk, Chen Bowen (Zicong), the elder history of the Tang Dynasty, also broke in a hurry, and before he entered the house, he heard him shouting: "Qian Fuzun, Lord Qian, the prince is very worried when he hears that a large number of thieves are coming." Is there such a thing? ”

The Tang Dynasty was vassal in Nanyang Mansion. If Luoyang's Shouwang Chitose only likes to eat, then this vassal king has one word on weekdays: play. Anything bizarre, whether it's an object or a person, has to go to great lengths to get it. But Chitose doesn't have a long sex, no matter what he gets, he will be happy for a few days and then put it aside and ignore it. Many years ago, the saint gave a Western jewel, the prince couldn't put it down and played for a month, and then lost interest, and accidentally heard that there was a horse guard surnamed Guan in Shouwangfu, and on a whim he wanted to use the jewel to exchange for a small horseman...... Of course I didn't change it. This is undoubtedly a fortunate thing for Guan Peizhong, the prince said it casually on a whim, otherwise he would really be replaced, at most he would watch horseback juggling for a few days, and he would naturally forget it when he got tired of watching it - just like that jewel, it has long been lost now, and no one knows where it is.

Earlier, there were also many gentlemen who came to the palace one after another to ask for all kinds of unbearable things in the Qian Governor's Mansion. The prince didn't care, and at first he pressed his temperament to let people say "the ancestral vassal king doesn't manage things" and sent him away, but later the guys who didn't have long eyes gathered more and more, and even knelt outside the palace and cried vigorously during the day regardless of the day, which made the prince not in the mood to play anything. So let the guards beat them with sticks, and the Qian Governor's Mansion also sent officials to arrest them, and finally no one dared to defeat the interest of the prince - the prince is a golden branch and jade leaf, and the grandfather laid down the flowers and rivers of the Ming Dynasty, and it is right for the children and grandchildren to enjoy a good life as a matter of course. Magistrates, the place is well managed, the prince is always the prince, and if he is not well managed, the court will naturally change one, and the prince is still the prince! Not to mention that Qian Yuchuan Qian Governor's Mansion, from time to time he sent some rare things that were very pleasing to the prince!

In fact, there were thieves coming from outside the city, and King Tang didn't go to his heart at all, but Chen Changshi was a little uneasy. After all, the prince is just playing, and he has no memory, almost everything is handed over to himself, and he has dealt with the prefect's yamen the most over the years, and he has reaped a lot of benefits, but he doesn't want any accidents, so he rushed over in a hurry under the banner of King Tang.

Master Kang hurriedly stepped forward: "Haha, don't worry about Brother Zicong!" Lord Qian has already had a plan to break the thief, let's talk slowly. "Obviously, Master Kang and Chen Changshi have a very personal relationship, otherwise, a curtain guest of the fourth-grade prefect would never dare to directly commensurate the chief of the five-rank royal mansion with the words in the official office.

After entering the second hall and sitting down, listening to Qian Yuchuan's heartfelt speech, Chen Bowen was a little relieved, picked up the teacup and said, "Lord Qian's clever plan is certainly reasonable, but the lower officials are still a little worried. There are no outsiders here, let's open the skylight and say something. The thieves searched the suburbs and found nothing, and after a little pondering, they should think that although they could not find food in the great famine for many years, the gold and silver things could not be eaten as food, where would they fall? I think with my toes that I know it's all in Fucheng! I can't guarantee that I won't be embarrassed and angry......"

Qian Yuchuan laughed: "Brother Zicong puts a hundred hearts!" At present, 40,000 or 50,000 people have gathered outside the west gate and the north gate, and many more are on the way. By tomorrow, I estimate that there will be at least 70,000 or 80,000 more! The thieves had just set up camp ten miles away, and they were going to attack the city, and no matter how fast it was, it would take a day or two, so they had to make ladders or something. Tomorrow we will attack and kill the thief! ”

Chen Bowen was taken aback: "Attack tomorrow?" Can Mr. Qian be sure? Those are ordinary people who have never fought before! Besides, what kind of virtue do these people have, Lord Qian should know it, all of them are yellow and thin, and they are all standing on the wall to deter the thieves, but they are barely making do, and they are let out to slash the thieves with knives and guns? Aren't you going to die? ”

didn't wait for Qian Yuchuan to look at it, although there were only these three people in the room, Master Kang still looked left and right, and whispered: "Brother Zicong is right, Lord Fuzun's plan was to let them go out and send them to death!" ”

Without waiting for Chen Bowen to express his shock, Master Kang continued: "These people were originally scattered in the countryside on weekdays to fend for themselves. After all these years, the fear of the government is engraved in his bones, and he will never make any trouble. Even if someone has any rebellious thoughts, in the blink of an eye, they will be sold by the people around them for mixed dough cakes and eaten! That's a lot. But when the thieves kill, the situation is different, and suddenly they are useful, aren't they? Then all of a sudden, hundreds of thousands of people, but hundreds of thousands of mouths! How much food do you have to eat each day? Not to mention that there are so many people gathered in every inch of land at once, in case there is some kind of instigation to change the elbows and armpits, and at best there are only 30,000 thieves, where can there be more than 100,000 or 200,000 desperate guys rushing forward one after another? Beat the thieves away, and they'll all come back for a reward! Brother Zicong, where did we get a lot of grain and a lot of silver? You say, do you want the prince to pay for it, or do you want Lord Qian to pay it? Or are you and I out of pocket? ”

Chen Bowen was dumbfounded when he heard this, and Master Kang continued: "Yesterday, Lord Qian and the district made up their minds. Let's send out a batch, and each person will send out two mixed breads! Of course, the first to go up is the first to die, but we have it! Brother Chang Zicong is the thief opposite, kill a batch and come again, a steady stream, when is it a leader? No matter how sharp you are, the steel knife will have to break the blade! Who doesn't fear it every day? The thief is doing us a great favor! Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if you fail to kill the thief in the end, you must be a big injury to your head and blood! At the end of the strong crossbow, it is not possible to wear Lu Min, not to mention the high city walls of Nanyang Mansion! Let's take advantage of the fisherman, how to play the court later, don't need to say more, right? Hahaha. ”

Chen Bo suddenly opened his mouth, and raised his big fingers with both hands: "High!" Lord Qian is tall, Brother Lu Zheng is tall! Chen admires! The lower official was relieved, and then went back to the prince Chitose. ”

Qian Yuchuan took over the conversation: "Brother Zicong, don't be in a hurry to leave. Since you are here, can you go with the lower officials to cheer up the people? Those guys, if they see the subordinate officials of the royal palace and the subordinate officials jointly and generously state their righteousness, I am afraid that they will rush out even more impatiently! Hahahaha......"

* Kiss: The ornaments at both ends of the ridge of palaces and other buildings, made of pottery or glaze, play the role of fixing roof tiles. Legend has it that Owl Kiss is one of the nine sons of the dragon and is able to spray waves and rain, so it is made in this shape to avoid fire. In fact, this legend is very unreliable, and it has gone through a long time of various folk chisel attachments.

The earliest spine beast is actually a worm, which is a legendary sea beast that can spread rain by flicking its tail, so it is used to avoid fire in buildings. Some say that the shape of its tail resembles a fish, and some say it resembles a bird, so there are various shapes of fish tails and bird tails. After the late Tang Dynasty, some people thought that it was not good to have a tail without a head, so they changed their shape and simply gave the tail a head. Later, some people remembered that there was a guy named Kiss in the Nine Sons of Longsheng, who liked to climb high and go to danger, and could swallow fire - well, in fact, it not only swallowed fire, but swallowed everything it saw, so it simply made a few in one.

The totem of the dragon has also undergone thousands of years of evolution: the earliest interpretation of the dragon by the people of the Yellow River Valley came from the pig (hehe, can't you think of it?). There are many artifacts in the shape of a pig-headed dragon; The coastal tribes worship fish, so the tail has to be like a fish; Some mountain tribes feel that being bitten by a snake is very unpleasant, so the things they are afraid of must have scales on them; There are also tribes that worship birds, and the dragon's claws take the bird's claws...... Several tribes merged, and everyone contributed ideas, and finally came up with the shape of a dragon.

After all, the father of the owl kiss is a dragon - and the dragon is the result of collective efforts, so the owl kiss can naturally absorb all kinds of supernatural powers and one: climbing the heights to warn, sowing waves and rain, and the fire that cannot be extinguished by the rain can swallow this little thing......

Some people also remembered that this guy who looks like a dragon but has no horns, has a big belly and can hold a lot of water - water can extinguish fires...... Anyway, the pronunciation of the two words is the same, it seems that maybe these two are the same thing, simply, the owl kiss is also called the kiss......

Don't take it too seriously, the golden mean is the king.

BTW, there is a saying in the northern dialect "five spines and six beasts", which describes the discomfort of a person's idleness. Interested book friends may wish to take a look at the original meaning, and what they are talking about is also such things ^_^