Chapter 6: The Tiger Stands on the Dragon Plate (I)

"Bang!Bang!" The long sword in the hand of the blue moon hit the iron shield of the shield-holding warrior in front of him three times in a blink of an eye, and it was as heavy as a while, the shield-holding warrior finally couldn't resist it, and fell to the ground with a bang, the blue moon was about to break out of the encirclement, and the warrior iron spear behind him stabbed to the back, at the same time, the warrior on the right shouted loudly, and the mountain axe came with the momentum of Mount Tai's pressure, the blue moon bee waist was slightly twisted like a snake, and the iron gun could be crossed by the waist, and the left hand held the gun shaft, and a silk spiral suddenly issued out, extremely fierce, and at the same time, the long sword in the right hand slapped the axe surface flatly, drawing a semicircle, making a "discharge" The offensive of the opening axe all fell short at once.

The iron-speared warrior felt the spiral force coming from the barrel of the gun like a flood, and if he didn't let go, his wrist would be broken, so he had to abandon the gun. When the axe warrior was violently empty, and he didn't know what to do, the barrel of the blue moon's spear had arrived, so that the axe warrior was knocked out.

The blue moon spun non-stop, and his left leg swept into the crook of the spear-wielding samurai's leg, and the spear-wielding samurai also fell to the ground with a bang.

In less than half a cup of tea, Blue Moon had already broken the "King Kong Three Talents Array" of the three ironclad warriors, and the military field of the five military camps and schools was full of applause. Lan Yue easily patted the dust on her body, and seemingly casually brushed out the long sword in her hand, the long sword arced in mid-air, and inserted it into the scabbard on the weapon rack eight zhang away impartially. This hand made him extremely handsome, and there was even more enthusiastic applause and cheers on the entire school military field.

Lan Yue bent down to help the warriors who were still on the ground one by one, and after saluting each other, he walked towards the Dianjiangtai.

Blue Moon, the cousin Yixian, is the brother of Lan Yu, the Duke of Liangguo. This year is just eighteen, the face is like a crown of jade, the nose is straight and the mouth is square, the sword eyebrows are bright, the bee waist ape arms, the figure is tall but not bloated, the demeanor is graceful, the expression is cold and arrogant, and sometimes it reveals a childlike innocent smile, which makes countless women in the capital obsessed.

Lan Yue has been by the side of her eldest brother Lan Yu since she was a child, learning literature at the age of four and practicing martial arts at the age of five. Blue Moon is quite talented in martial arts, because he often mixes in the military camp, everyone teaches a move in the east and a style in the west, all kinds of weapons in the army can be used skillfully, and he is also proficient in horseback archery, and when he was ten years old, ordinary soldiers were no longer his opponents. Six years ago, that is, in the twentieth year of Hongwu, under Lan Yue's repeated requests, Lan Yue was finally able to accompany her eldest brother Lan Yu to fight in Mobei. In the arduous years of conquest, although Blue Moon is not very old, she is witty and brave in battle, and dares to fight. In the twenty-first year of Hongwu, Lanyue once again followed Lan Yu as the commander of the expedition, after arduous marching and fighting, finally broke the Northern Yuan army in the "Fishing Sea", completely annihilated the armed forces of the Yuan Dynasty, captured 3,000 princes and princesses and nobles, 70,000 soldiers, more than 100,000 cattle and sheep, and the Northern Yuan Emperor Timur escaped alone, and was later killed by the rebel general Sudieer.

The news of the victory reached the capital, the Manchu Dynasty was a sensation, the emperor was overjoyed, and then rewarded the three armies and sealed the meritorious heroes. Among them, Lan Yu was named the Duke of Liangguo, and Lan Yue was named the Marquis of Jinghai. That year, Blue Moon was only thirteen years old.

Seeing Lan Yue coming to the stage, Du Zhijiang, the commander of the Fifth Military Battalion, General Wu Yi, smiled and took Lan Yue's hand and pressed it to the seat next to him, and General Wu Luo Lu Tao offered the brewed fragrant tea with both hands, Du Zhijiang praised: "It's only been a few days, the little marquis is handsome again!

During the Hongwu period in the early Ming Dynasty, the three major battalions of the forbidden army in the capital were the five military battalions, the three thousand battalions and the Shenji battalion. The five military battalions are the middle army, the left sentry, the right sentry, the left sentry and the right outpost, and a number of sub-battalions are placed below.

Lan Yue usually annoys others to call him "Little Hou Ye", but there is no way to take these old men in the army, Du Zhijiang and Lu Tao These old people are Lan Yu's old subordinates, who have followed Lan Yu to fight in the south and north for many years, Lan Yue has taken Lan Yue when he was a child in the military camp, and he often jokes about Lan Yue when he meets, and Lan Yue can only bear it. Especially in the past two years, when Lan Yuexian's body was itchy, he came to the military camp to compete, and he was more familiar with them.

At this time, a soldier presented a sweat towel, Lan Yue thanked him, wiped his face, took a sip of tea, and praised: "It's so fragrant!"

Du Zhijiang saw that Lan Yue was sitting firmly and drinking tea leisurely, so he turned around and sighed to Lu Tao: "Alas! Lu Tao hurriedly asked, "What's the matter with the eldest brother?"

"You said that with a character like our little marquis, whose daughter can match it?"

"I heard that the daughter of Lord Wu of the Inspectorate Zuodu Yushi Wu has a gorgeous appearance and a moon appearance, can you match it?"

"The girl is definitely right, but if there is such an old man who looks like a bad person, who will bear it?"

"How so?"

"Do you know the name of Lord Wu?"

"Of course, Lord Wu Renzheng Wu of the Left Capital Imperial History!"

"Wu Renzheng, no one is right, look at everyone has a problem!"

"What about the daughter of the Ministry of Justice, Zhan Hui, and Lord Zhan's family? Lord Zhan always treats people with a smile on his face?"

"Too poor!"

"Lord Wang's daughter?"

"Uneducated. ”

"Master Mei of the Hanlin Academy?"

"He's too thin! He's both skinny, and he must be mean. ”

"This ••••••"

Lan Yue didn't want to deal with them, but seeing that the more these two brothers talked, the more they didn't talk, so she put down the teacup and said with a smile: "The two old brothers are so eloquent, it's a pity not to go outside to talk about books and show arts." Speaking of this, he took another sip of tea, and then remembered something, and then said: "When it comes to storytelling, I have recently learned to make up a review, do you two want to hear it?"

"Little Hou Ye can still make up jokes, of course I want to hear it!"

Lan Yue saw that they had aroused their appetites, so she said slowly: "This is a real story based on the two eldest brothers, telling the story of the two eldest brothers and the two red sisters of Tianxianglou a few days ago," Lan Yue took a sip of tea, and then said: "I have thought about the topic, it is called "Wind and Dust Female Love Trapping Righteous Brothers, Fake Forsythia vs. Tianxianglou", I don't know if I made it up well or not, I will ask my two sisters-in-law to listen to it first, taste it, and give me an opinion, so I can continue to work hard." ”

Du Zhijiang Lu Tao saw that this joke was big, Lan Yue, the little demon king, is not necessarily, if he really let his own tigress listen, his life will be in danger, one is busy with a smiling face, saying that it is a joke, and he will drink in the drunken fairy building at night to make amends, and the other will come up to pinch Lan Yue's shoulders and rub his back, and he is very busy, and the three of them laughed for a while.

While talking and laughing, Lan Zhong, the housekeeper of the Lan Mansion, hurriedly came, and after passing through Du Lu and the two, he said to Lan Yue: "Master Hou, the master asked me to find you back, I have something to discuss, I guess you are here." ”

When Du Lu and the others heard that Lan Yu was looking for someone, they didn't dare to stay together, so they got up to see each other, and at the same time revealed that they hadn't seen Lan Yu for a long time, and they really wanted to see each other, Lan Yue said: "The eldest brother has lived in a simple house in recent years, and he has closed his door to thank the guests, and I will definitely bring the two brothers' hearts, and if there is a chance, I will invite the two of them to have a small gathering at the home of old friends in the army." With that, he got up and took Lan Zhong out of the barracks.

Lan Yue rode her horse, walked past the barracks, and suddenly stopped at the door of a small tea shop not far from the barracks, and threw the reins of the horse to Lan Zhong. There are several tables at the entrance of the tea shop, probably because the weather is still cold, and there are only two people drinking tea at one table. The two of them were looking around, but when they saw Lan Yue coming, they chatted.

Lan Yue walked to the tabletop, stepped on the empty bench with one foot, pulled out the short knife at her waist with one hand, and gently knocked the knife on the table with the handle of "da, da, da", and didn't speak.

The two tea guests were fat and thin, and the thin man was young and looked fierce and wanted to have a seizure, but was stopped by the fat elder with his eyes.

The fat elder got up and arched his hand: "This master, I don't know what to do?"

Lan Yue glanced at him coldly, and then said, "Do you know who I am?"

The fat man said with a smile on his face: "This master, you are extraordinary, you must be very human, but it is the first time we have met." ”

"First meeting?" The knife flashed, and he felt that Lan Yue's hand just shook slightly, "Let's go", one ear fell to the ground, and after about a while, the thin man felt the pain, knowing that it was his own ear, he just wanted to take out the hidden weapon to commit murder, and as soon as he looked up and touched Lan Yue's eyes, a chill went straight to the bottom of his heart, and he hurriedly changed his face, as if he was infinitely wronged: "How can you hurt people for no reason?"

"The first time we met, hurting people for no reason?" Lan Yue said: "Yesterday dangled in front of my mansion, dangling for a day. Today, I followed me from my house all the way here, and I couldn't get into the barracks, so I blocked it here. Forget it, let's change clothes too?" Lan Yue took out a snow-white silk scarf to wipe the blood stains on the knife, put the knife into the sheath, threw away the silk scarf casually, and coldly threw down a sentence: "Next time, it will be the two of you who will be cut off." Then he walked away.

Lan Zhong saw all this from afar and didn't dare to say much. After waiting for Lan Yue to get on the horse, he couldn't help but mutter: "Master Hou, do you know who they are? Fortunately, nothing serious happened, Amitabha!"

"Who else can there be if it's not Jinyiwei's school inspectors? I'm already merciful to my subordinates, otherwise these two would have died a few times ago! Humanity is not afraid of shadows, my Lan family is an iron-blooded man, and he is loyal to Daming, when have you ever been afraid of these means of despicable villains with dark hearts?"

Lan Zhong knew Lan Yue's temper, so he didn't say anything anymore, just sighed lightly, and followed Lan Yue back to the house.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Jingshi was located in Yingtianfu, and the tiger was on the dragon plate, which was very imperial. In addition to the unique geographical advantages and excellent feng shui, the long history is even more praised: during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Yue Xiang Fan Li built the "Yue City" on the bank of the Qinhuai River. Later, King Chuwei built the city on the stone mountain and placed Jinlingyi. When the first emperor of the ancient Qin Shi Huang, the Jinling was changed to the Moling. During the Three Kingdoms, Sun Quan, the lord of Wu, built the capital here, and the name was Jianye. The Western Jin Dynasty destroyed Wu, and the reconstruction industry was Jianye. Later, because of the avoidance of the Jin Emperor Sima Ye, he changed his name to Jiankang. Sima Rui ascended the throne as Emperor Yuan of the Jin Dynasty, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty was formally established, and the capital was Jiankang.

After that, during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the four dynasties of the Southern Dynasties, Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen all took Jiankang as their capital.

Later, the Yuan soldiers went south and rebuilt Kang as Jiqing.

In the sixteenth year of Yuan Zhizheng, Zhu Yuanzhang conquered Jiqing and changed Jiqing Road to Yingtianfu, as a base, Zhu Yuanzhang called himself Wu Guogong. So far twelve years later, Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed emperor in Yingtian, "the mountains and rivers are dying of China, and the sun and the moon reopen the Great Song Dynasty", so the country was named Ming.

At that time, Jingshi Ying Tianfu was the political, economic and cultural center of our country, with a total population of about 700,000 in the early Ming Dynasty, plus other floating population of nearly one million, it was the largest and most populous city in China at that time, and it was also the largest city in the world.

Jingshi should be built by the mountains and rivers in Tianfu, the rolling Yangtze River stretches out its arms like a giant to protect the city, the river turns a big bend from south to north and then flows eastward, Zhongshan Mountain, Lion Mountain, Qingliang Mountain are like a few ironclad warriors guarding tightly.

The building of the whole city from the inside to the outside is the palace city, the imperial city, the capital and the outer Guo, the palace city, commonly known as the "Forbidden City", is the core of the capital, located in the east corner of the capital of Nanjing, surrounded by the imperial river, this is the location of the palace city personally surveyed by Liu Bowen and others, because this area is the lake body of the former lake (Yanque Lake), the terrain is very low-lying, Zhu Yuanzhang had to mobilize hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, move the three mountains in the south of Nanjing to fill the lake. Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai Shiyun: The three mountains are half outside the blue sky, and they are talking about these three mountains. On the periphery of the imperial city, there are also two city walls built to strengthen the defense, namely the capital city wall and the outer Guo city wall, the famous "inside thirteen outside eighteen" refers to the number of gates of these two city walls. The four-fold city wall is the impregnable shield of the capital. The army of the whole country is under the command of the highest military organization, the five military governors, the central army is located in the west of the royal street outside the Chengtianmen, so from north to south is the left army governor's office, the right army governor's office, the former army capital governor's office and the rear army governor's office. The Beijing division was tightly guarded, with a total of 42 guards and guards: including 12 guards of the pro-army such as Jinyi Guard, Bannerman Guard, and Jinwu Qianwei, as well as 30 guards such as Cewei, Leopard Taowei, and Yingyang Guard.

The five military camps that Lan Yue went to were stationed in the area of Lion Mountain and Miaoer Mountain in the southwest corner of Beijing, and Lan Yu's Liangguo Mansion was in the Taiping Lane of Shiyong Street in the city.

Because Lan Yu was not very old when he was the marquis, and he had always been used to living with his eldest brother Lan Yu, he did not have his own Hou Mansion. Of course, once Blue Moon gets married, she will move into her own mansion. Lan Yu and Lan Yue are nearly twenty years apart, although the two are half-brothers, but Lan Yue was brought up by Lan Yu since childhood, and the two have a very good relationship. Lan Yu has only one daughter under his knees, and he is married to Zhu Chun, the king of Shu in Sichuan, and has no heirs. Lan Yu has not only brotherly love for Lan Yue, but also close to the love of father and son, Lan Yue has been smart and clever since she was a child, talented, and handsome, so she is very doted on by her eldest brother Lan Yu. Since she was a child, Lan Yue wanted to give whatever she wanted, and even went out to fight, Lan Yue wanted to go, and Lan Yu also found a way, begging the emperor to give special permission to bring her little brother, so that Lan Yue could also participate in the battle of conquering Mongolia at a young age, and make meritorious contributions in the fishing sea.

It was already afternoon, the street was very lively, people came and went, Lan Yue and Lan Zhong came out of the barracks on horseback, and it was already Shen Shi when they arrived at the Liangguo Mansion, and they walked for nearly an hour. Back at the mansion, there were servants who signed horses to serve, Lan Yue asked her family, and learned that Fu Youde, the Duke of Yingguo, was visiting, and the eldest brother was meeting guests in the study, so she walked through the hall of the middle hall and went straight to the study in the backyard.

When passing through the corridor connecting the atrium and the backyard, I happened to meet the little maid Xiqing who was serving me and was carrying tea and tea sets to the study. Xiqing is a little girl who has just been twelve, it is the age of budding, although it seems to be thin, but it is not small, the two big black eyes seem to contain the unique Zhong Ling delicate spirit in Jiangnan, especially love to laugh, there are two sweet dimples on the face when she laughs, and she flies around the house like a little magpie all day long, and the whole house likes her very much. At this moment, she saw that Lan Yue was about to say hello to Ann with her characteristic sweet and crunchy voice, but Lan Yue stopped her with a silent gesture. Lan Yue asked her if she was going to the study to serve the eldest brother and Fu Youde, so she offered to do it for her, and Xiqing handed over everything in her hand to him with a smile.

Lan Yue walked into the backyard with light steps, and when she was still some distance away from the study, she stopped, put down the teacup, and made a fortune in her ears, and suddenly heard the conversation between Fu Youde and the eldest brother in her ears.

"As the saying goes, 'all the birds are flying, and the good bow is hidden', brother Xian, now that the world has been decided, you and I are now out of place for an old man like you to fight the world, recently someone said in front of the saint that you are arrogant and lawless, and you have to keep a low profile in the army!" Fu Youde's deep voice came into Lan Yue's ears.

"Slap", it should be Lan Yu patted the coffee table, obviously angry, and then his high-pitched voice came: "Appointment of private individuals? My subordinates were born and died for the Ming Dynasty, and they were covered in injuries, but in the end, they still didn't have a half-official position, and the money they earned was not enough to spend on themselves, let alone their wives and children? What they say makes them say okay, it doesn't matter to me. I have a clear conscience!"

"Brother Xian, why are you still the same temper in the army?" Fu Youde said slightly. Fu Youde's relationship with Lan Yu was extraordinary, he was not only Lan Yu's big brother and comrade-in-arms, but also Lan Yu's superior commander during the pacification of Yunnan and the early expedition to the Northern Yuan. Then he said: "It's useless for you to have a clear conscience, it doesn't matter if what others say about you is true or not, the important thing is whether these words are what you want to hear!"