Nanhai, Guangzhou City

The lion dance competition was in full swing, and more than 200 lion dance teams from Guangzhou City gathered on Haizhu Island.

This year's Lion Dance Contest is unprecedentedly large.

Not only nearly 1,000 lion dancing teams from Guangzhou, Zhongshan, Foshan and other old lion dancing places participated, but also teams from Ganzhou, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and other places participated.

Therefore, the qualifiers in just one place are already very intense.

And this time, the final prize of the Awakening Teacher Contest is also rare and precious in history.

Hitting the head of a phoenix lion with a flowing gold color is just one of the rewards for the champion of this awakening competition.

In addition, there are the governors of Guangdong, the governors of southern Jiangxi, and the governors of Fujian, and the champions will be rewarded by the governments of these three places.

It is said that you can even be rewarded with top-notch exercises.

Or a top-notch weapon at the imperial level.

The Guangdong Governor's Awakening Contest is actually an alternative martial arts competition among the people.

Lion dancing not only pays attention to skills, but also has extremely high requirements for personal cultivation.

Bifeng Mansion, the top force in the South China Sea, is determined to win the championship of the lion dance competition this time.

Originally, this year's annual lion dancing competition, Bifeng Mansion has never been absent.

It's just that in previous years, it was a small fight among the disciples of the outer sect of Bifeng Mansion.

Therefore, in the lion dance competition in previous years, although the results obtained by Bifeng Mansion have always been among the best, it has only won the championship a few times.

Because the awakening teacher competition is mainly aimed at the people.

There are countless similar events in the rivers and lakes.

It's just that there are only a very few events such as the Lion Dance Competition.

Almost the entire 11 cities of Guangdong will pay attention to the results of the lion dance competition.

In Ganzhou, an ordinary school captain Feng Ziling was practicing lion dancing skills with his brothers at this time.

This time, the awakening competition not only attracted people in the rivers and lakes, but also ordinary people.

These people in the army at the bottom were also attracted and practiced overnight.

The technique of lion awakening is actually no different from the cultivation exercises.

Practitioners like them, as long as they practice a little, they can basically have a certain level in a short period of time.

Not only the final winners, but even all the teams that entered the finals will be rewarded by the three provincial governments.

And people like them in the military can get the opportunity to be promoted!

In the entire South China Sea region, the status of soldiers is very low, and they are basically born into military families.

Although the imperial court allocated land, these lands belonged to the officers.

And like Feng Ziling, although it sounds good, he is a school captain.

But in fact, he is only the most senior military officer in the hands of the most senior military leader.

Although you don't have to farm, you don't have to cultivate, you don't have to do some menial work. But in any case, it's just a military household. Feng Ziling is not from Ganzhou. He was sent to his adoptive father's house since he was a child, and he heard his adoptive father say that his biological parents used to be military households, but they couldn't bear the hardships of this military household, so they escaped.

Before leaving, he was given to his adoptive father to raise.

It's not that his parents don't want him, it's that the situation at the time made it even more dangerous to take one more person away.

And his biological father has two sons who are twins, he is the younger brother, and the older brother is two years older than him.

Before leaving, his biological parents drew lots and decided who to take with them.

And with this decision, the person who was taken away is likely to suffer.

After all, his adoptive father followed him, his adoptive father had no children under his knees, and he was not one of those in the military who needed to sell coolies, but a man who had studied and joined the army.

can barely be regarded as a low-level official, at least in terms of status, identity is enough to support a child.

Later, it was true that his adoptive father blessed Feng Ziling to grow up, and compared with his peers in many people, Feng Ziling's early life was still relatively happy.

This also led to Feng Ziling never hating his parents,

Because he has seen with his own eyes how those who are at the bottom of the military household here are ruthlessly destroyed by life, and finally their families are ruined.

And the destruction of their family may not be the butcher's knife, but hunger, cold and persecution!

In this land in the south, although it is known as the granary of the entire imperial court, countless people still starve to death here every year.

The so-called land of fish and rice is not much different from hell on earth for Feng Ziling and others.

Without a household registration, you are nothing in this land.

And even if you have a household registration, you have to watch the sky to eat in this land, and everything depends on luck to survive!

What a wow!

And I heard that if this lion dance competition can win a good ranking for the army, maybe it will be able to break away from the identity of the military household.

It is the dream of every military household to have a household registration of ordinary people.

Feng Ziling also has such a dream.

At that time, he will be able to bring his eldest brother back.

Feng Ziling had infinite longing in his heart, even though he was already the highest-ranking one among the military households.

is also highly used by the generals above, after all, he went out to practice martial arts with the support of his adoptive father since he was a child, and he was even more valued, and became an outer disciple of Emperor Wu City.

Moreover, among the disciples of the same level, his cultivation is also extremely good.

In peacetime, because of a pure white mount, he is called the White Horse General by the people in the army here.

In fact, there are not many fighters in the entire South China Sea region.

The role of the military households in Tuntian is more to farm, and some soldiers have protected the land for a lifetime, and have never taken out a sword.

In contrast, Feng Ziling's experience is actually very good.

"Brothers, work hard, this time we must get a good ranking in the lion dance competition!

Although there is not much possibility of winning the top spot, we have to show our abilities!

At the very least, it can also allow adults to lose some of our tuntian indicators.

As long as I get good grades, I'll go back and talk to the adults in person! ”

"Thank you, Boss!"

"The boss is mighty!"

When the brothers below heard Feng Ziling's promise, they thanked them one after another, and they trained harder.

It's time for the day of the lion dance competition.

More than 200 teams in the entire city of Guangzhou appeared in the streets of Guangzhou at the same time.

The Guangzhou City Awakening Teacher Contest is an annual event, and countless people will put down their work on this day and come to the streets and alleys to cheer and cheer for their favorite team!

In fact, the more than 200 teams are not from different forces, and many forces will even dispatch two or more lion dancing teams.

Feng Ziling's brothers also came up with two awakening lions.

It's not that they don't have the manpower.

In fact, these people like Feng Ziling's men are all good hands, and the lion dance is not too difficult for them.

The most basic thing in the army is pile work.

If ordinary people want to practice a good physique and become the mainstay on the battlefield, they can only rely on practicing pile skills.

Martial artists practice martial arts, and when they are young, they actually have to practice pile gong.

It's just that they have better basic exercises to temper their bodies, and with pile exercises, they can get twice the result with half the effort.

Naturally, it is impossible for the army to provide exercises to everyone.

After all, the cultivation of the exercises must be coordinated with the corresponding resources.

Without resources, you can't practice even if you have top-notch exercises.

The exercises are like a strong medicine, without good physical fitness, without the right symptoms, it may become poison.

However, even if the military only cultivates pile skills, the practice of this year can still greatly improve people's physical fitness.

However, the food in the army is not good, and the sequelae of the pile work are not small.

After all, without enough supplements, cultivating pile gong is using one's own body foundation to make up for the shortfall.

Therefore, everyone in the army survives until he is discharged. Not many veterans are still able to have enough combat power.

It is precisely because of this characteristic that the imperial court will popularize pile work.

And the set age of retirement in the army is also about the same time when the damage to the human body begins to appear.

It's simply the best tool for limiting for those on top.

However, after Emperor Xuyang ascended to the throne, he began to study new training methods.

At least on the northern frontier, some legions have begun to use other methods to keep their bodies alive.

And it was Qin Guogong who promoted this work.

Although the North has begun to improve, the South is still following the same rules.

Therefore, some of these big-headed soldiers under Feng Ziling have been practicing pile skills for more than ten years, and their physical fitness can even be compared to some small realm martial artists.

In addition, their real combat effectiveness is not much worse than that of Xiaocheng realm martial artists.

If it is a group battle, these elite soldiers may be even more combative.

Under such conditions, in fact, these soldiers under Feng Ziling are completely able to organize more teams.

And the reason they couldn't do this was that they didn't have the extra money to buy a lion's head.

There is no way to participate in the lion dance competition without a lion head.

The existing two were also bought by Feng Ziling with the silver he borrowed by relying on his own face.

For the sake of these two lion heads, Feng Ziling was saddled with debts for several years.

And he also wants to take advantage of this, if he can get a good name in this awakening competition, get an official reward, if he can get out of the military household registration.

All the effort is considered to be enough in return.

In fact, Feng Ziling can borrow money from his brother who has just recognized his relatives.

Although the brother's profession is not very good, he has no shortage of money in his hand.

At least much richer than he is.

Unexpectedly, his father and mother separated them and sent Feng Ziling to his adoptive father with a higher status.

More than 20 years later, the day is reversed.

Feng Ziling took his brother onto the street, surrounded by people cheering for them.

There are also some little babies running around their awakening lions.

Seeing this scene, Feng Ziling's heart was also slightly hot.

Such a scene is also extremely rare in the entire South China Sea Guangzhou City.

The city of Guangzhou was the provincial capital of the governor of Guangdong.

It's already the first good.

But Feng Ziling can still see those ordinary people who are hungry and freezing to death on the streets.

And those poor people who still have to use their own hands to get rid of the land that can be planted in the hard land even in the cold winter.

Those dock workers who wear only a short dozen in spring, summer, autumn and winter, regardless of heat or winter, and load and unload goods on the dock.

These poor people, Feng Ziling has really seen too much.

The military households are suffering, but they are still not as bitter as the people.

Obviously, the entire land of the South China Sea is known as the land of fish and rice.

But why is it that so much land, so much food, so much output, still can't feed the vast majority of the people on this land?

Feng Ziling couldn't figure it out, although he had gone to a private school and studied, he still couldn't figure it out.

Although natural disasters have continued in recent years, after all, they are concentrated in the north, or the Central Plains, and there are no major events in the entire South China Sea.

But to Feng Ziling's feeling, the current South China Sea region is far less than it was back then.

This is also what Feng Ziling can't understand the most.

Of course, he also knows that the population of the entire South China Sea region is increasing, but as far as he knows, the number of household registrations in the South China Sea has dropped by half compared to 20 years ago.

With these messy things in his head, he moved forward a little slowly.

"Head, what's wrong with you? We're all far behind them. ”

Feng Ziling was reminded by his brother, and immediately came back to his senses, danced the lion's head vigorously, and then his feet became faster, and he quickly caught up with the other lion who had been waking up.

This time, the qualifiers for the lion dance competition in Guangzhou City were set up on Haizhu Island.

Haizhu Island is located at the end of the Pearl River in the city of Guangzhou, and further before that is the estuary.

Haizhu Island is a wharf port.

Passing through here were countless ships from the north and south, some of them from the small islands and small countries further south of Zhengyang, carrying spices, pearls and other precious goods mined from their own country to the north.

Zhengyang, on the other hand, transported some fabrics, porcelain and tea south to several large cities of the governor of Guangdong.

Countless trades took place within the city of Guangzhou.

And on Haizhu Island, it is densely packed with ships.

This time, the Guangzhou qualifiers for the Awakening Teacher Competition were set up here.

After passing through the strike alleys in the city of Guangzhou, they went out of the city and came all the way to the vicinity of Haizhu Island, where all the lion dance teams stopped, waiting for the sergeant's order.

As soon as the appointed hour arrived, a herald in the army began to gallop on his horse, shouting out the rules of the qualifiers as he ran.

"Half an hour only! Pass the bridge within half an hour and reach the designated location on Haizhu Island to advance to the next round! ”

The herald shouted this three times, and he was already riding his horse from beginning to end.

Then, after the drum began to beat from the end of the run to the end, and the drum began to sound from the bottom of the three, it was time for them to set off.

Knock knock!

As soldiers, Feng Ziling and others are naturally very familiar with these three-way drums.

At this time, all the lion dance teams began to move, and there was a group of soldiers guarding there at the front, which was the starting point at the very beginning.

And all the lion dancing teams have already started to compete at this moment.

Feng Ziling could feel that the lions on both sides of him began to squeeze forward.

And as the range of pushing and shoving became larger and larger, there seemed to be a fire burning in everyone's hearts.

Knock knock!

The second drum sounded.

At this moment, more than 200 lion dance teams have compressed a large distance forward.

Feng Ziling didn't move, he was already at the end at this time, and some of the lion dancing teams who didn't want to go up and compete like them slowly leaned up, but there were only about twenty or thirty teams left behind.

More teams crowded to the front, and shoving and beating began.

There were many lion dancing teams who stretched out their black feet and kicked on the legs of the members of the lion dancing team on the side, and these people were extremely ruthless. From afar, Feng Ziling could hear the dense sound of bones breaking in front of him.

Feng Ziling's brows furrowed fiercely.

It was his first time participating in the Awakening Teacher Competition, and he was just a novice in this regard.

Although I have consulted some of the previous contestants of the lion dance competition, such people are everywhere in the city of Guangzhou.

Feng Ziling took advantage of the time to repair the wood and consulted a few old people, although he also heard from them that the lion dance competition is often very intense, and there is also some risk of injury.

The Lion Dance Contest is actually an alternative martial arts competition, but it adds some skills and watchability on the basis of ordinary martial arts.

But at that time, Feng Ziling was already fully prepared, but he didn't expect that when the actual competition officially began, the battle would be so intense.

Maybe it's because the standard of this lion dance conference is a bit high.

Knock knock, knock knock!

The third drum sounded.

It means that the lion dance competition has officially begun.

After the three-way drum was over, there was no team that could rush out quickly, because the teams crowded in front of them were beating together at the first time after the three-way drum was over.

Of course, it is not a fight between people, but a fight between lions and lions.

There are constantly lion heads colliding together.

There are not many restrictions on participating in the lion dance competition, but at least there are restrictions, one of which is that you can't use any weapons.

Even all weapons, including some wooden sticks, kitchen knives and the like are not allowed to be used, and participating in the lion dance competition can only rely on their own physical fitness and leg skills.

Because the lion dance competition is also not hands-on, you can only grab your lion head with your hands.

The second person, who is a lion, can only wrap his hand around the waist of the person in front of him.

Therefore, Feng Ziling saw a chaotic chaos in front of him through the gap between the lion's heads.

At first, it may have just been a collision between the lion's heads, but as everyone continued to be angry, some people had begun to come out of their legs.

And before, there were already many people who secretly poked and poked their feet, and broke a lot of legs of other lion dance teams.

Such a team with little black feet is actually also seen by other participating teams, so if you don't provoke me, forget it, if you provoke me......

All of a sudden, many of the previous black-footed lion dancing teams suffered retaliation.

Because they don't know what it means to take what it means to see it.

In fact, in previous years, there were only 50 or 60 teams participating in the Guangzhou City Competition.

This year, it has nearly tripled.