The seventieth dream goes back to the Ming Dynasty
Decades of fame, Kaiping from afar.
The cloth cloth was told in the field, and then he built a life.
Eight points of steel gun, bravely breaking through the sky.
Sail to quarry, and be loyal to the country.
In my sleep, the information that came back to me was that this huge city was the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, and I was the commander of the three armies, Chang Yuchun, who was known as the victorious general, and the word Boren, was now leading the troops to attack the core of the Yuan Dynasty's power and the symbol of the centralized Yuan Dynasty - Dadu.
At this time, it was the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and it was another era in Chinese history, and Zhu Yuanzhang became the ultimate victor of this era, and his success was inseparable from the help of an important person, that is, Chang Yuchun, an outstanding general of the Red Turban Army and the founder of the Ming Dynasty.
This victorious general who made great achievements for the founding of the Ming Dynasty is neither a famous family nor a martial arts foundation, he is a grassroots figure through and through.
At that time, I was born in Huaiyuan, Anhui Province, a poor peasant family, when I was young, I often had no food, and my body was yellow and thin, but I still had to support my small body, braving the scorching sun to cultivate in the fields, and so day after day, year after year, this kind of suffering days, as if with this dark world, there is no end in sight.
On this day, I held the tired body, from the field after the work just returned home, I saw a Taoist dressed sloppy Taoist, was talking to my mother, this Taoist saw me come back, then smiled at me, my mother from the house, took out three nest heads to him, the long thanked him, left a few words of proverb "Huanghuang tail Su, overbearing tiger minister, and meet the master, willow return to God." After saying that, he quickly turned around and left.
I didn't understand what he meant by these words at the time, I just thought that this person was dirty and thoughtless, so I didn't take these words to heart, but when I really understood the content of these words, it was many years later.
When I was a teenager, I undoubtedly lived a very hard life, and finally I reached the youth stage, and my body finally began to grow strong, looking at the never-ending villagers who bent over in the field, thinking that I might be like them in the future, working hard but not even filling my stomach, I suddenly had an unprecedented disgust for this kind of life, I want to break this routine of life, so I decided to go out.
However, when I really went out of the house, I found a fact, that is, although the ideal is full, the reality is very skinny, and now I have no strengths, no skills, and I have no ability to stand in the society, so I can only work hard everywhere to do odd jobs, and life is more difficult than before.
The cruelty of society taught me the first lesson, but this did not break me, I know that the world is sinister, and only self-preservation can survive, so I came up with the idea of learning martial arts, relying on the money earned from odd jobs, and learning from teachers everywhere.
At this time, I was not only physically strong, but what I didn't expect was that I seemed to have an innate talent for martial arts, and I knew a little bit about martial arts.
When I was sixteen years old, I heard that there was a good man named Hu Dahai in Xiaoyangzhuang, who practiced a set of Bajiquan, which was an exclusive skill. At that time, there was such a saying in the rivers and lakes: "There are thousands of heroes in the world, and it is difficult to return to Bajiquan." ”
In order to learn Bajiquan, I came to Xiaoyangzhuang with an oil incense basket on my back and went straight to Hu Dahai's house in the east of the village.
At this time, Hu Dahai was walking outside the door, and when he saw me, he waved and said, "Hey! Selling oil incense, what about oil incense? Come two. ”
I looked at the strong man in front of me, and thought: This person may be Hu Dahai, I hurriedly put down the back basket, took an oil incense, shook it in front of Hu Dahai, and said: "It's not soft to eat, you don't take a penny, if you don't dislike it, I'll put it down for you." As he spoke, he followed Hu Dahai into the courtyard.
Hu Dahai looked me up and down and asked me, "Little Housheng, where are you from, why haven't I seen you before?" ”
I hurriedly clenched my fists and replied: "Xiaosheng Cangzhou people have been doing small business here for many years. ”
Hu Dahai nodded and continued: "Then you can put down a few, you can't get any more money." I smiled, put the oil incense basket on the stone table, and said, "Put it all down for you, it doesn't matter if you don't have any money at the moment, you will have it later, and you will give it later." So saying, he sat down on a stone bench beside him.
Hu Dahai looked at me from head to toe and said, "The little offspring is interesting enough, if you don't dislike it, you can come often." ”
As soon as Hu Dahai let go, I immediately said: "I heard that you are good at boxing, can you let me see it?" “
Hu Dahai looked up to the sky and laughed, and said, "Why can't that!" Today, I will let you see and understand! Hu Dahai took a frame and played a baji boxing. But I saw that he raised his arms like wings, and turned sideways like a cat...... I watched his every move carefully, and secretly wrote down the number of Bajiquan paths.
After Hu Dahai finished practicing, I got up and said goodbye, walked to a small forest, and saw that there was no one around, so I practiced according to the path of Bajiquan that I had just written.
After that, I sent a basket of oil incense every ten days, and every time I came, I asked Hu Dahai to practice a set of boxing, and one hundred and eight baskets were given, but I didn't take a penny.
On this day, the "Erde Festival" is coming, I came to Hu Dahai's house again, but I didn't carry the oil incense basket, Hu Dahai beckoned me to sit down and said to me, "The Erde Festival is coming, I will send a basket of oil incense tomorrow, right?" ”
I smiled at Hu Dahai and said, "My lord, the account of this oil and incense basket should be repaid!" Hu Dahai was stunned suddenly, thought for a while, and said: "After eating your oil fragrance, the money is not as good as yours, but there is no cash at the moment." ”
I said, "That's not good, if you eat my one hundred and eight baskets of oil incense, and if you don't pay me back, won't I lose all my money?" ”
Hu Dahai smiled at me and said, "Money is a hard head, where to get it for a while!" After a pause, he said, "That's it, I'll pay you back once in ten days, and pay it off in installments." ”
My face sank and I said, "Pay it off at once, but you can't miss one." ”
When Hu Dahai heard this, he thought: When you give it to you, you don't want it, now you have no money, but you force me to repay the debt, he was in a hurry, his eyebrows were upside down, and he said: "I won't pay you back today, look at you!" ”
I kicked the stone table over and said, "No, I won't let you punch you!" ”
This can anger Hu Damei, but seeing him stretch out his fist and pounce on me, how dare I slack off, raise a fight to return, just like the two of us, you go back and forth, about forty rounds, Hu Dahai is very capable of using nine points, and we haven't divided the highs and lows.
Hu Dahai secretly thought: Without stunts, it is difficult to win. Don't blame my men for being ruthless, young man! I saw him shout, his left palm pushed towards me, saying that it was too late and that it was fast, I saw that things were not good, and I dodged and hidden, who knew that the palm was empty, and his right fist hit my chest like lightning, and I couldn't dodge, "ouch", and rolled on the ground.
Hu Dahai: This is a nudge of pushing, and I will die a long time ago. Hu Dahai shouted: "I'm in a good mood today, so I'll spare you!" I hurriedly got up, kowtowed three times in a row, and said: "The master is above, and I am worshiped by the apprentice, and the master has taught me boxing in the past three years, but this last trick is understood today." ”
Hu Dahai looked at me in surprise, and then he suddenly realized, cocked his thumb, and said: "Learn art with sincerity, and the success will come naturally." However, this is the first time I have learned the art of your life. The last trick, you have learned the hand, then we will worship as brothers! ”
Since then, we have practiced martial arts together, and our boxing skills have become more and more powerful.
At this time, I was already very skilled, and finally, I could make a career in society, but the era I lived in was the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when the Mongols ruled in darkness and corruption, so that this society was not peaceful at all, and there was war and smoke everywhere.
For a while, let alone being able to make a difference, it is very difficult to even save your life. Even a person as athletic as I am is unable to live a normal life, and often starves and freezes.
Eventually, I couldn't bear the physical torture anymore and went astray in a moment of confusion.
Taking advantage of the turmoil, a thief named Liu Ju gathered a group of fox friends and dog friends to hide in the green forest, robbing houses everywhere, taking this as a business, and the power continued to expand, gradually becoming a cancer that is difficult to eliminate.
At first, I did plan to live honestly, but since I couldn't live this life anymore, in order to protect myself, after some inner struggle, I decided to defect to Liu Ju and fall into the grass.
Even though it was only a small local dark force, I also showed extraordinary courage and became Liu Ju's most important subordinate.
Since then, I have never been unable to fill my stomach, but every time I help Liu Ju rob, looking at the victim's frightened expression, I always feel uncomfortable, and no matter how much I get silver, I can't hide the emptiness in my heart.
Is it this dirty means that I am pursuing? How is this different from the Yuan court, which put the people in fire and water? I began to introspect, and slowly, more and more disgusted with this life of chickens and dogs.
I originally expected Liu Ju to take advantage of the opportunity to do something big, like Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, although he was forced to be a thief at the beginning, he accumulated strength and finally fought for the world.
However, I found that Liu Ju obviously did not have this kind of ambition, he just wanted to bully the weak and make profits, he was just a villain, and he could only become more and more depraved by following him, so I began to have the idea of abandoning him.
At that time, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there was a rebel army called the Red Turban Army, his leader was called Guo Zixing, and Guo Zixing's subordinate had a fierce general named Zhu Yuanzhang.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang worked for Guo Zixing, and the results were taken away by him, in the process of fighting everywhere, Zhu Yuanzhang also unexpectedly won a good reputation by virtue of his virtue.
When guarding Hezhou, Zhu Yuanzhang saw the children crying and screaming in the city looking for their parents, and realized the pain brought by the stragglers to the lives of the people.
At this time, I happened to follow Liu Ju to Hezhou to rob property, and I had already heard of Zhu Yuanzhang's prestige in the rebel army.
I disguised myself as a street person, followed Zhu Yuanzhang's team everywhere, secretly observed what he did, and for a few days in a row, I found that he was as sympathetic and courageous as the rumors, and then looked back at Liu Ju, he was simply a bastard villain, and the more he looked at it, the more unpleasant he became.
I found out that Zhu Yuanzhang is the person I have been looking for, and only by following him can I really achieve a great career.
But when I finally made up my mind to come to Zhu Yuanzhang's barracks to apply for a job, I was doubted and ridiculed by Zhu Yuanzhang.
At this time, Hezhou City was well organized under Zhu Yuanzhang's governance, and there was no shortage of manpower, Zhu Yuanzhang saw that I had a big waist and a round waist, and his behavior was rough, and he felt that I just wanted to come to the army to eat, so his attitude towards me was very cold.
I didn't wait for the enthusiasm I imagined, I couldn't help but fight angrily, I scolded Zhu Yuanzhang angrily, and said: "I have never been worried about food in Liu Ju for a day, just because you Zhu Yuanzhang is a person who can do something, I gave up my previous good life to accompany you to suffer and fight the country, you actually doubt me and don't trust me?" ”
Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned by my words, and then asked me with a smile, "Then can you cross the river with me to fight?" ”
When I heard this, I immediately surrendered my hand and said firmly: "On the day of crossing the river, I am willing to be the vanguard, and the general will fight wherever he directs." ”
Actually, this is Zhu Yuanzhang's temptation of me, but judging from the results, Zhu Yuanzhang's vision is really right.
In the fifteenth year of Zhizheng, not long after I followed Zhu Yuanzhang, the team was preparing to cross the river to the south, and launched a fierce water battle with the Yuan army at Quarry Rock.
I rowed a small boat, all the way like a bamboo, very brave, it was really "one husband is the pass, ten thousand people are not open" trend.
Zhu Yuanzhang has never seen such a brave and good fighter, from then on, worship me as a general, accompany me, I can completely win Zhu Yuanzhang's trust, it is in this battle of Quarry Rock.
The first great achievement I made for Zhu Yuanzhang was to capture Quzhou City in the nineteenth year of Zhizheng.
This battle is extremely tragic, I as the vanguard troops, led the cavalry, infantry, water three armies to Quzhou City, good at fighting the Yuan soldiers, the city built a solid soup, since ancient times, the war is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is even more difficult to capture such a city.
With almost no battlefield experience, I was born to be a general, and I knew everything about siege weapons, and ordered people to surround the only six city gates in Quzhou City, and then build siege tools such as Lu Gongcha, cloud ladders, and dragon claws, and prepare to march in one fell swoop.
However, these seemingly complete preparations were only superficial, and at the same time, I ordered another army to quietly dig tunnels under the west city gate, and when the Yuan army focused on the city walls, they were completely unaware that their foundations had been hollowed out.
In this way, I highlighted the surprise soldiers and defeated the Yuan army in one fell swoop.
After taking over the city of Quzhou, I showed excellent political ability, and in order to completely eliminate the power of the Yuan Dynasty in Quzhou, I set up high-level functional institutions such as the Marshal's Office and the Privy Council Judge to replace the original administrative organs.
Zhu Yuanzhang often warned me about Guan Yu's defeat and killing during the Three Kingdoms period, Guan Yu fought all his life, was brave and good at fighting, and was quite proficient in writing and ink, but he was not good at using strategy in battle, so he was finally defeated by Lu Meng, I have always kept it in my heart, and I continue to learn and improve.
Since then, I have followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight in the south and the north, made great achievements, and became one of the most outstanding generals in the early Ming Dynasty, but there is one of the most fatal flaws in my own character, that is, the habit of killing.
One day, in my sleep, I remembered the humiliation I had suffered as a child, so in the haze, I ordered my subordinates to slaughter the city. When I woke up and found that none of the soldiers were in the barracks, I inquired with the attendants, and then I realized that I had issued the order to massacre the city in my sleep.
I was frightened into a cold sweat, and hurriedly called Jin to withdraw my troops, but at this time, the army had slaughtered all the living beings within twenty miles, and the whole city was strewn with corpses......
In the twenty-fourth year, I led my troops to attack Ganzhou, and because the city could not be captured for a long time, I swore to slaughter millions of people in the city on the day of the city's break.
However, because Chen Youliang had slaughtered Ganzhou once six years ago, when the number of people was counted in the capture of the city, the entire city could not find a million people. In order to fulfill my oath, I instructed my subordinates to find an unlucky guy with "million" in his name and kill him.
Another year, the army I led fought to Tanzhou, and after breaking through the city, it carried out a bloody massacre. After this massacre, only the survivors were left with "seven Tanmin households", and the rest of the Tanzhou aborigines became the souls of the butcher's knife.
Zhu Yuanzhang's army, of course, is a righteous army to overthrow the corrupt dynasty and create a new order, but what I did was a real unrighteous act.
Perhaps it is precisely because of my murderous nature in my life that there is also the fulfillment of heavenly retribution in the underworld.
This year I was forty years old, that is, in June of the second year of Hongwu, I led the army to pursue the defeat of the Yuan army, in July from Kaiping to the south, leading the army to return to the south, on the way back, I received a letter, according to the person who sent the letter, it was a Taoist named Zhang Sanfeng who transferred it to me, I opened the letter to see, suddenly shocked, on the book: Huanghuang Weisu, Jiaojiao Huchen, and the Lord of the Encounter, Liu Xia returned to God.
I held the letter in my hand, and my hands trembled a little, and it dawned on me. I remember that when I was young, the person who went to my house was the famous Wudang Sect founder Zhang Sanfeng. However, I did not take the content of this letter to heart, thinking that a Taoist priest was full of nonsense and should not be gullible.
On the second day, I led the army to be stationed at Liuhechuan, and ordered the whole army to rest and recuperate, but when I dismounted, I suddenly felt hot and dry, so I found a place near the wind outlet, took off my clothes and armor, and lay down to rest. A cool breeze blew, and I felt cool and comfortable.
Who knew that it didn't take long for this cool breeze to make my body swollen and painful, and I secretly screamed that it was not good, and hurriedly called the doctor who accompanied the army to diagnose and treat me. The level of Lang Zhong in the army is limited, and I don't know what kind of serious disease I am suffering from.
My temper was short-tempered, and Lang Zhong was afraid that I would hack myself to death in a hurry, so I could only make up a set of disease names improvised - Nail Removal Wind, most of which was taken from the meaning of stroke after removing my nails.
Although the doctor made up the name of this disease in a hurry, there was no way to prescribe a prescription for me, first, my stroke was unusual, and there was no corresponding treatment in the medical book; Second, at this time, the army was being mobilized, and there was no good medicine in the materials that could cure the disease.
There was no medicine left, so I had to go back to the camp to rest. Who knows, after lying in the tent for a long time, my wind evil disease has not only not improved at all, but has become more and more serious.
In my early years, I was hit by an arrow on the battlefield, and the arrow wound had healed over time, but who knows, at the moment when I was hit by the "armor removal wind", the arrow scar that had long been healed actually burst open again, and the pus and blood could not be stopped.
The doctor couldn't diagnose my strange disease, but I knew it wouldn't be cured. I lay in bed and remembered that I had committed countless killings in my life, and my hands were already covered with blood, so I deserved to pay for it.
When I picked up the letter written to me by Zhang Sanfeng again, I suddenly understood everything, the tail sutra, refers to one of the twenty-eight constellations, which means that I am a star descendant, and I will become a tiger general in the future, and I will meet the Ming lord Zhu Yuanzhang in Heyang, and this Liuhechuan is my final destination.
I knew that my time was short, so I summoned Li Wenzhong to the camp and entrusted the lieutenant general with his posthumous affairs.
This day is the seventh day of the seventh month of the beggar festival, that is, the auspicious day of the meeting of the cowherd and the weaver girl, but I died violently in the wilderness.
It is rumored that I was a generation of generals, but I only lived to be 40 years old because of excessive karma. As everyone knows, this forty years old is the algorithm of the folk "virtual age", in fact, I only lived for 39 years, and my life stopped before I was confused, which is embarrassing.
After Zhu Yuanzhang heard about this, he couldn't believe that I, who had always been in good health, died suddenly, and he sat on the throne for a long time without saying a word.
I can be described as a noble person in Zhu Yuanzhang's career, and it is also an excellent help for him to seize the world, thinking of this old brother's immortal exploits for the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang burst into tears, gave me a piece of land under Zhongshan and buried me, and posthumously called me the "King of Kaiping".
My military talent is quite outstanding, I have experienced a hundred battles in my life, I have never been defeated, and I can be called a victorious general in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty.
Before my death, I often told others that I only needed 100,000 soldiers and horses to run rampant in the world, so everyone in the army called me "Chang 100,000". However, even the generals who are often victorious and undefeated on the battlefield cannot escape the arbitration of this heavenly way.
When I woke up from my sleep leisurely, it was already dawn, and some of my thoughts were still immersed in the ups and downs of the Ming Dynasty, I didn't expect that my killing in that life would be so heavy, no wonder my cultivation in this life will have so many ups and downs, it seems that this heavenly cycle, retribution is really unpleasant.
There is still an important thing to do today, which is to go to Mr. Cao's pharmacy to find the remaining medicinal materials and start refining this Zhuyan Pill.
As a Chinese medicine practitioner, I can say that the diagnosis and treatment of diseases are now very handy, and basically there are no diseases that can stump me, but this is the first time for me to prepare pills, and I have no experience yet.
In the morning, I prepared the rest of the herbs for refining pills at the pharmacy, and locked myself in a single room in the pharmacy, which was a room dedicated to making various medicines. So, I started refining with one mind, the pharmacy here has a complete set of tools, I follow the production method of this elixir, I first grind different medicine tools into powder, and then according to different drug ratios, the first preparation.
I didn't use all the ginseng stems, but only selected two or three of them, and collected the others.
After grinding these two and three mustaches into powder, I mixed them with the rest of the drugs in different proportions, and mixed these powders into a total of five small piles, and I carefully packed these mixed drugs into different plastic bags to avoid being blown away by the wind.
After that, it is to go to the decoction room of the pharmacy to steam 2,500 grams of millet rice in a copper pot, until the rice is like a thin puree, divide them into five equal parts, mix them with the five small piles of medicinal noodles and stir evenly, and then use special tools to make pills, these are made into small pills one by one, each small pile has made almost 60 pills, a total of about 300 pills.
The rest of the work was to dry, I put these small pills into a tray and took them to a special place to dry, looking at these small pills the size of a little thumb, my heart was also a little excited.
These small pills lie quietly in the tray, and there is a fragrant smell from the pills, just smelling it, there is a feeling of relaxation, no matter what its medicinal effect is, its smell alone has a refreshing effect, if you take it, the effect must be extraordinary.
It takes time to dry these small pills, and the final result will be known during the day tomorrow, because, it will take a while, so Mr. Cao authorized me to lock the door of the pharmacy room, and I will open it again during the day tomorrow to take out the medicine inside, first, Mr. Cao in order to protect my pills from being taken away by outsiders, and second, Mr. Cao still has no bottom in his heart for the pills I made for the first time, and I am afraid that it will be troublesome to be taken away by unrelated people, I take the key to this pharmaceutical room, and I am looking forward to the results tomorrow.
The next day, I came to the clinic early, and Mr. Cao saw me and said, "Xiaohyun, your pills should be dried overnight, and you can open the door of the pharmacy room in a while to see how it is." ”
I agreed, holding the key in my hand, with a nervous mood, opened the door of the pharmacy room, when I opened, the aroma of the room came into my nostrils, so that my spirit was shocked, and Mr. Cao, who was busy not far from me, also smelled the aroma and walked over quickly.
He sniffed and said in surprise, "It smells so good!" What kind of pill is this, how can this aroma enter the brain, how can it still have the effect of refreshing the mind? ”
I picked up the plate of pills and found that the pills that were originally dark red yesterday had turned purple red in one night? This color is not the same as the color of the Zhuyan Pill given to me by Xiao Shi's predecessors, and I don't know if this pill is successful, so I walked up to Teacher Cao and said: "Teacher, this is the Zhuyan Pill I prepared, but I don't know what the effect is, is it successful?" ”
Teacher Cao took a pill and looked at it carefully, and said, "Judging from the smell emitted from the pill itself and my experience just now, this pill is a success, but judging from the color of this pill, it is difficult to say, because I have never seen a pill of this color." ”
Teacher Cao put the pill down and said, "Anyway, after all, this is the first medicine you have made, you can fill them all up in a bottle in a while, and then study it when you have time." ”
I agreed, found five small bottles and filled them all, and the rest of the work was how to test the medicine, this test medicine can not be done by anyone, if there is a problem with the medicine itself, the person who tested the medicine will have a great risk, I thought about it and thought, and decided that I should try it myself, after all, I am a cultivator, if there is danger, I can also protect myself.
I thought, there are no patients here in the clinic now, and it is boring to be idle, so why don't I try the medicine, and do it, I took out a small medicine bottle containing the medicine from my arms, poured out a pill from it, and put it in my hand to observe. After that, I slowly put it in my mouth, and the elixir melted in my mouth, and then my eyes widened!