Chapter 4: The Sword
Jingguo Tianxia is divided into thirteen states, each of which has its own state pastor. But some of them were the fiefs of the prince, and the territory of Jingguo stretched from Youzhou in the north to Yuezhou in the south, from Qingzhou in the east to Liangzhou in the west. The Great Liang Land is vast and sparsely populated, it is the spear of Jingguo against Xirong, about Xirong, there is a great sage who said, "Xirong's nature, brave and profitable, or the city, or the wilderness, the rice and grain are less, the gold is more, the old people fight bravely, and it is difficult to be defeated." From the west of the moraine, Zhu Rong is multiplying, the land is wide and dangerous, and the vulgar burden is very strong, so there are many people who are not subordinate, and when they are waiting for external provocation, they can be broken if they serve the internal strife. "Sijon is a nomadic people, fierce and brave. Its leaders are all selected from the strongest among the various tribes, and the tall and mighty people of Jingguo are not as strong as their backs. Good at riding, so it has bred the local unique excellent horse breed 'Xibo horse', tall and mighty, traveling hundreds of miles a day. Among them, horses of noble blood are said to be able to exchange for three months' food for a tribe. Food is more expensive than gold for these tribes, every autumn harvest, the day of the cold winter is about to be the time when the enemy raises troops, for the enemy generals this is called to fight to feed the war. But anyone with a discerning eye knows that it was King Rong who wanted to cut the population.
The commander of Liangzhou is Jing Yashi, the king of Liang, and he is the younger brother of the current saint. What does not match his name is his body and appearance, he is a big man with a height of nine feet, angry eyebrows and eyes like gods, and he does not suffer compared to the body of the Xijon people. Since the founding of the country, he has been stationed in Liangzhou, and he has not returned to Kyoto six years ago. The operation of this place has become an iron plate, hundreds of thousands of Western Liang horses, 100,000 Liang family troops let the enemy discourage, it is said that Jing Yashi is also a cultivator, and his force can also be ranked in the top ten on the 'Tianzhi' list. It can be said that it is very powerful, and in Liangzhou, he Jing Yashi's words are much better than that of Emperor Laozi. Those cabinet ministers had a lot of complaints about King Liang's deeds, but no one dared to talk about it in the open. Secretly saying that it is just slander, but on the surface, it is a slap in the face and a provocation. As for the big change six years ago, the king of Liangzhou did not return to Beijing, but just brought a sentence "Rong Di has violated the realm, I hope that Your Majesty's dragon body is Gui'an!". Emperor Jing just smiled and didn't speak, but some of the powerful ministers below were arguing. Although there were endless arguments in the court, after retiring from the court, they were all silent, and some dared to secretly scold a sentence of 'recklessness', sarcastically mocking him for being indecent, but he could not be on the cards. Someone with a heart called him a 'traitor', everyone knows that the change of Yinping will happen in the cold winter, and the spring opportunity is coming, when the enemy is too late to resist the cold winter, how can there be the strength to go east.
As for the 'God Know' mentioned earlier, this is an intelligence organization that infiltrates the entire Jingguo and even the entire continent, the person behind the scenes is unknown, he has a high reputation in the rivers and lakes, and is known for his accurate information, his sources are down to the pawns to the heads of the rivers and lakes, and it is said that even the temple has its intelligence officers, and this force has been operating for hundreds of years. When Jingguo was first established, Emperor Jingyan of Wusheng once took it as a threat and thought about eradicating it, but he didn't know what happened, and he couldn't do it later.
There is also a mechanism in this organization that anyone who brings information can exchange it for a certain amount of silver taels as long as it is true, which is estimated according to the value of your intelligence. Of course, the staff inside will investigate the authenticity of this information afterwards. It is precisely because of this mechanism that the organization of 'God Know' has penetrated into every corner of the world. It can be said that as long as there are people, there are 'God knows' spies. Although God knows that his power is huge, he simply does not participate in any organization or political affairs. In other words, 'they don't produce intelligence, they're just porters of intelligence.'" If you don't have your own military power, you can say that you don't have anyone to protect you, but if you underestimate it, then you will suffer a lot. Once upon a time, there was an elder of a small sect who relied on his power to forcibly buy the information of 'God Knows', and the next day, that sect was wiped out. There were thirty-seven people, and there was not one left. After that, no one dared to fight the idea of 'God knows'.
'Tianzhi''s fame in the rivers and lakes is not only in his intelligence, but also in the list of 'heaven, earth and people' that makes those people in the rivers and lakes crazy. The list includes all young heroes under the age of 20, taking the top seventy-two, the 'earth list' is a total of thirty-six masters under the age of 60 who can be on the list, and the 'heavenly list' is no age limit, and the number of people on this list is at least only twelve. Everyone is proud to be on this list. Some even made a statement of 'not on the list, or rather die!'. As soon as this list came out, the style of martial arts in the rivers and lakes prevailed, and Jingguo was also a fierce people. And the authenticity of this list is also undoubted, and many hidden names appear on the list, which makes them puzzled.
On the fifteenth day of the first month of the tenth year of Jingguo, Yangzhou City is brightly lit, appreciating the lanterns and poems, enjoying the moon on a cruise, 'the fire trees and silver flowers are combined, and the iron lock of the star bridge is opened. The dark dust goes with the horse, and the bright moon comes one by one.
The prostitutes are all farmers and plums, and the songs are all plums. Jin Wu can't help the night, and the jade leak is not urging. 'Chivalrous drinking, scholars writing poems, the sound of beauty coming out of the Qinglou, accompanied by the smell of wine, drunk the whole Yangzhou City.
Everyone was drunk, but some were awake, ragged and floating, walking in the crowd, with oily hair and filthy faces, but with a mouthful of white teeth. is six or seven years old, but he has no corresponding figure, lonely but weak. Walking through the streets, no one would approach the young man, with contempt, and some would even kick him. The young man was just laughing, and he didn't mean to be angry. The others said that it was a fool, but the young man kept going. At this moment, a group of gorgeously dressed people came on the opposite side, and several young men in fancy clothes were talking and laughing among them, surrounded by five or six guards who looked like family members. A group of people came menacingly, and the people around them seemed to be unable to dodge, but this young man stood motionless in the middle of the road, as if he was scared stupid. The people next to him cast pitying eyes, and this little guy is afraid that he is about to lose a layer of skin.
A few young people in Chinese costumes enjoy this feeling very much, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, Yangzhou is my strongest momentum, I am the feeling of the boss when I walk on the street, and from time to time I throw flattering eyes like a few beautiful women around, and most of them respond to their delicate little red faces. Just when they were full of ambition, several of the family members who were opening the road in front of them suddenly stopped, and the young man in Chinese clothes led by him couldn't help but bump into a full embrace. So he was furious, and he gave the guy a slap in the face. I saw that the housekeeper's face was red and purple, but he didn't say anything.
Bypassing the family, he saw that there was a little beggar standing in front of him, and his ragged clothes could see that his facial features were still very delicate. Put away his domineering appearance and walked to the child, squatted down lightly, looked at the young man with a smile and said, "Do you want to die?" and then waved his hand to the young man's face, and a trace of anger flashed in the young man's eyes, but he was well restrained. Fortunately, the young man in gorgeous clothes was hollowed out by wine, and this slap only made the young man take a small step back.
The young man still looked at the young man in gorgeous clothes with a smile, as if he were looking at a dead man. He pretended to be frightened and took a step back, and 'just happened' to bump into the table behind him where the lantern was placed. Coincidentally, the pillar shook a few times under the impact of the young man and fell. The light mixed with oil and water instantly produced a fire, and the people who were standing behind the lampstand screamed and fled in all directions. The scene was chaotic, and this commotion lasted for half a pillar of incense, and when the people quieted down, they were shocked to find that the young man in gorgeous clothes had fallen in a pool of blood, and died of exhaustion. The people did not notice the disappeared little beggar, but an old man in the crowd who was watching coldly saw the young man pull out the blade of the sword from his sleeve, cut the throat of the young man in fine clothes, and then retracted the sleeve of the sword, like a cloud of water. Then he slowly left the scene of the crime, and couldn't help but say yes to himself. Then he wrote 'Tianyi, superior!' on the booklet.
This was the first mission, and the governor gave each child an assassination target, from dignitaries to traffickers and pawns. There are also Jiangyang thieves, as well as lone rangers, although many of them are invincible to this group of young people, just like a few people dressed as family members under Tianyi's assassination target. They are all people who have practiced foreign exercises to the extreme, and ordinary swords can't hurt them at all. So he thought of such a method, and it has to be said that the right time and place are indispensable. The risks are not significant.
Back in the courtyard outside Yangzhou City, there was no one empty, because this mission was for everyone, and many young people were no longer local missions, so it would be very idle for a while. The first time he killed someone outside, he was neither nervous nor excited, for him there was no difference between killing people and killing rats, but killing people can be exchanged for food, and if you don't kill people, you will die. At the moment when the sword was unsheathed, it was no longer possible to return to the sheath, and the hand that occupied the blood was afraid that Yama would not accept it. From then on, he was the Shura who walked in the world, and he did everything to satisfy his desires, that sword was no longer innocent, that sword was stained with the blood of innocent people, and that sword, even if he tried all kinds of justifications in his heart, he eventually harmed people and shed blood.
On the surface, he seems to be fine, but his heart is full of waves, because he is alive, how many blood stains his hands will be stained. After all, one day he will die under his own sword, and the murderer will always kill him, which will be his own destiny and salvation.
Looking at the plum blossoms in his arms that have withered and decayed, the carmine that used to be was more gorgeous than blood. That sword still can't be recovered after all.