Chapter 25 Outside the Star Tower

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It has been two full months since the Grand Canal was dug, but fortunately, the king of Beilai gave an astonishing temptation, and such a trivial matter as entering the army of Beilai was as difficult as the hereditary replacement of princes and nobles in the eyes of ordinary people. The www.biquge.info originally thought that the 250,000 laborers who had been digging the Grand Canal would be possible, but who knew that a full 300,000 people with criminal convictions flocked to the places along the territory of the Grand Canal to participate in the excavation of the Grand Canal, and among these 300,000 people, most of them were young and middle-aged, and the death row prisoners could dig the Grand Canal to atone for their crimes, and the rest of the people were exempted from prison as appropriate, The old wandering bachelor who had nothing to do in the street heard that he could go to the kiln for free and drink flower wine and cheered up, and the young man who had committed a criminal record was rushing to march into the army to make meritorious contributions.

Zhou Chuang and his little minions have been coming to the neighboring Feng County from Teng County for two and a half months, Feng County is the place where the Grand Canal must pass, and many sections of the Grand Canal are being constructed at the same time, so a pavilion chief needs to be selected for every ten miles and a section.

Some time ago, Zhou Chuang eliminated an incident of labor almost rushing and was particularly valued by a centurion, and finally climbed the big branch, Zhou Chuang did the work to share the effort, not only serving the centurion comfortably, but also doing everything without leakage, Zhou Chuang did not have much book ink in his stomach, but he had a clever mouth that did not fall behind in the market and scolded the shrew, originally plain as water, one thing can make him say flowers, it is with his own good tongue, Zhou Chuang feels that as long as he persists for a year, the day the Grand Canal is dug is the day he turns over, and now he holds the position of pavilion chief firmly in the palm of his hand。

"His grandmother's, little cub, hurry up and get to work. ”

The centurion behind him who was covered with muscular bumps saw Zhou Chuang stunned and scolded with a smile.

"Master, let's go. ”

Zhou Chuang's so-called work is nothing more than making tea and pouring water for the centurion, hammering his legs and pinching his back, etc., anyway, it is not tiring work, Zhou Chuang can be said to be useless except for his kung fu, if it is true, it is to beat people and start black, if it is not for the fight, Zhou Chuang will not go to prison.

Zhou Chuangren is handsome, although he does not have a white face, but that face is angular, full of masculinity, and a face that is not the kind of little lady who dies at first sight, but the more you look at it, the more charming it becomes.

The centurion held the celadon tea bowl at this time, looking at Zhou Chuang's back, the young man can do things and his mouth is even more ingenious, he knows how to be sleek and sophisticated, where he puts it will shine, and it is fake to cherish money like his fate, but the centurion wants to promote a henchman he can trust, but he has not found a suitable candidate, until he saw Zhou Chuang, this kid, the centurion who was originally old enough to almost retire from the army decided to give it a try, it is not difficult to enter the Beilai army, but it is just a matter of recommending a trustworthy person, the centurion can naturally recommend Zhou Chuang, but I am afraid that this kid is not right, and when the time comes, he will lose face and enter the barracks, but the reputation he has saved for half his life has been ruined, and the second is that he is afraid that he will not be greedy enough to swallow elephants, and once the little person walks out of the deep well that is complacent, he will get carried away, and he will not be able to recognize that the world that belongs to him is the most terrible place.

'It's going to have to be polished.' The centurion said in his heart, the most unbearable thing for young people is to be anxious, Zhou Chuang is no exception, so happy, it can be seen from the fact that he loves to be in the limelight, and he has not yet become the pavilion chief, and he began to his tail and flutter and do not know the north and south, but it can be known that the most taboo in the officialdom and the army is to be anxious for quick success.

"Old man, I heard that you have a girl in your family, how old is she?"

Zhou Chuang asked with a steaming roasted sweet potato that had just been picked out of the peat.

"Little cub, don't ask me how old my daughter is, even if I tell you, it's none of your business, my daughter only marries a captain of a thousand commanders, if you want to marry her, you have to make a thousand commanders majestic!"

The centurion held the piping hot yellow roasted sweet potato and squinted at Zhou Chuang.

"Master, don't look down on me, although I Zhou Chuang has no ambition, but he is not a bad seed, and he also knows the reason of the grace of dripping water, don't look at me now, I have nothing now, who is very clear about my heart, to put it badly, I will remember the old man, if one day I step on the big shit and become a thousand-mile, you are also my benefactor. ”

The centurion peeled off the charred skin of the sweet potato, snorted, and said: "It's useless to grind your lips now, if you really do, I'll throw you into the army after the Grand Canal is finished, and see if you dare to say that! The one who went to the army didn't want to make meritorious contributions and glorify your ancestors? ”

Zhou Chuang was stupid, he didn't seem to have the housekeeping skills to take action except for his sharp mouth.

"Old man, just wait and see. I, Zhou Chuang, am not a person who is full of style. ”

The centurion got up, kicked Zhou Chuang's buttocks, kicked him into a vicious dog to eat shit, and scolded with a smile: "Hurry up, don't be an eyesore here, now get the pavilion chief in your hands first." ”

Zhou Chuang turned over and walked in the dirt, not annoyed, he smiled: "Don't you have to beg the old man for this?"

The route of the Grand Canal is drawn out by the Yulindao, the Yulindao is proficient in the art of Kanyu, and the territory of the Zhou Dynasty was completed on foot before entering the Xinglou and self-contained, Jiang Yangsheng even knew that the old Taoist had been to the territory of the dog Rong, so when the start of the construction of the Grand Canal, the design of the Yulindao was the first to bear the brunt, the mountains were opened, the valleys were filled, and more than 100 counties were passed, the Grand Canal is expected to be 20 zhang wide and three zhang deep, so it is destined to be amazingly large, more than 100 counties are constructed at the same time, end to end, and finally connected to the big river in the capital before it is completed。

Beilai has never said Caoyun, just because the waterways in Beilai are not passable, these years relying on self-sufficiency can make the people full, the army is tight on grain and grass is a headache, but once Beilai and Gyeonggi Cao Yun is opened, the southern grain and rice can be transported to Beilai, to alleviate the food shortage in Beilai, and to strengthen the soldiers and horses.

It's really not easy to be the pavilion chief, and these laborers are all half-baked Jianghu people, although they are all people who don't have much physical ability to start running the rivers and lakes, but to put it bluntly, they are much stronger than him Zhou Chuang, this is half a small Jianghu, walking the rivers and lakes is righteousness and wrist, and it is rumored that Bai Shoucai in the Red Emperor City is only a second-grade martial artist, but he can manipulate the huge Red Emperor City, which shows the importance of righteousness and wrist.

In a few months, Zhou Chuang took out the ability to pinch the group of minions under his hands in Tengxian County, and soon gathered a group of gangs of hundreds of people under his hands, in Zhou Chuang's view, the little brother is nothing more than a combination of grace and power, both soft and hard, to put it bluntly, it is to slap the face first and then give the dates to eat, Zhou Chuang tried and failed, and faintly became one of the most important people in Fengxian County, the position of pavilion chief, easy to come.

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Yu Qiu said that before practicing the sword, you must first store the sword intent, Jiang Yangsheng didn't know what the sword intent was, and then went to ask Yu Lindao, the old Taoist said a lot of heavenly words that Jiang Yangsheng didn't understand, and finally Jiang Yangsheng summarized it broadly, the so-called sword intent is nothing more than the comprehension of the sword, which is the difference between the slave sword and the sword, what kind of sword intent you comprehend is destined to what kind of swordsman road you yourself have embarked on.

Jiang Yangsheng took the "Dripping Water Sutra" as the foundation, and mixed with all kinds of swordsmanship of the hundreds of schools of thought as feathers, gradually plumped up his sword intent, and accumulated sword momentum, he took the road of raising swords.

In the cold winter of this year, three months have passed since the autumn when Jiang Yangsheng walked into the Star Picking Tower, and the ancient and simple Green Sparrow Sword was planted on the land in front of the Star Picking Tower as a flower and grass, and the wind and rain were blowing.

The heavy snow flew down like goose feathers, and soon there was a plain white between heaven and earth, looking up at the dim sky, like a goose feather pillow torn from above, the white flowers and big snow flakes splashed down, the stars were covered in silver on the upstairs, the dwarf snowflakes were attached to the branches of the plane trees, and only the sparrows fluttered their wings in the sky and flew quietly, and then returned to the silence, and the waves of the seaside in the distance were endlessly beating on the shore, and they were endless.

Jiang Yangsheng was dressed in a fiery red mink fur and walked down the Star Picking Tower, behind him was a sickly white maid Ah Shi, a silver-white fox fur and the snowflakes all over the world, the two walked out of the Star Picking Building one after the other, looking at each other without saying a word.

Jiang Yangsheng stretched out his hand and grabbed the goose feather snow that fell from in front of him, the snow curtain obscured his vision, and at this time, the courtyard was full of knee-deep snow pits, and the Qingque Sword was buried in the snowdrift, revealing only a bronze sword hilt.

Yu Qiu said that a good sword chooses the master and follows it, and if it is not recognized by the Qingque Sword for a day, it will not be able to hold the Qingque Sword for a day.

In fact, Jiang Yangsheng was noncommittal about this, after all, he didn't have a heart to fight the sword in the rivers and lakes, and he also knew that it was a difficult thing for the Qingque Sword to recognize the master, so he didn't expect to be recognized, but Lao Kong gave the sword in the hope that he would let the Qingque reappear in the rivers and lakes, after all, it used to be the peerless sword ranked third in the sword spectrum on the rivers and lakes, and it was really unladylike in the hands of a notorious son like himself who had no strategy for a lifetime.

Jiang Yangsheng didn't pull out the Qingque Sword, but turned around and left.

Randomly took out a Qingfeng long sword from the Beilai Mansion Treasury, this time it was the first time Jiang Yangsheng held a long sword since he learned the sword, and he used to be disdainful of people who practiced martial arts, largely because of his identity as the second son of the king of Beilai, and thought that there was no need to practice martial arts at all.

The Son of Heaven is angry and bleeding thousands of miles, and the anger of the husband is nothing more than five steps of blood, but it can make the world wear linen and filial piety!

Many people say that the king of Beilai is reckless, but who can know that there are unspeakable hardships in this, the military armor stationed outside the Wufu city in Beilai City is nothing more than trying to imprison the turbulent rivers and lakes in Qilu Prefecture, and Zhou Tianzi's Jinyi Guard is also like this.

"Wudang Swordsmanship", this is the seventh floor Yu Lindao screened out from the dazzling books on the seventh floor, the most suitable for Jiang Yangsheng's current sword practice.

As the name suggests, this book comes from Wudang Mountain, one of the leaders of Taoism at present, when Wudang, Qingcheng, Dragon and Tiger, Shushan, the current Four Great Daoist Ancestral Garden, the four Taoist ancestors of the world, each enshrines the Zhenwu Emperor, Daode Tianzun, Demon Protector Tianzun, Guangyuan Pudu Tianzun, and the Taoist magic has its own merits.

After the heavy snowfall, in the reeds of the seashore, Jiang Yangsheng stood in the reeds with one person and one sword, the long wind was inspiring, and the reeds were flying.

"Pumping" is divided into two methods: upper and lower pumping. The style is to hold the sword, with the palm down, the back of the hand upward, and the tip of the sword forward. Aim at the top or bottom of the opponent's wrist and pull to the right.

"Belt" is divided into two methods: straight belt and flat belt. The straight belt is the sword wielder's palm facing inward, and the sword is leaning back with the back, and it is brought back with the trend. The flat belt is the sword wielder's palm up, the back of the hand down, and the tip of the sword pulled flat to the left.

"Mention" is divided into two methods: premise and posterior. The sword is held in the form of the sword hand rotated inward into the palm outward, the tip of the sword obliquely forward and downward, and the wrist raised. When the center of gravity is moved forward (or progressive), it is the premise, and the center of gravity is moved backward (or retreated) is the posterior. "Grid", divided into two methods. The lower grid is the palm of the sword-wielding hand facing inward, and the sword is diagonally diagonally up to the enemy's wrist. The flip grid is when the enemy is close to dodge its edge, and the sword-wielding hand rotates inward from the palm of the hand to the palm outward, so that the sword turns from the bottom to the enemy's wrist.

"Strike" is divided into two methods: positive attack and counterattack. The forward strike is a stab with the sword-wielder's palm facing upwards and the blade parallel to the ground. A counterattack is a blow that focuses on the outside of the tip of the sword.

"Thorn" is divided into two methods: side stabbing and flat stabbing. A side stab is a stab in which the palm of the sword-wielding hand is turned inward, and the sword face is straight forward. A flat stab is a stab in which the sword-wielding hand has his palm facing upwards and the sword face is flat and straight forward.

"Point", the sword wielder's palm is inward, the sword face is straight, the body and arms are not moving, and the tip of the sword is clicked on the enemy from top to bottom with wrist strength.

"Collapse" is divided into two methods: positive collapse and reverse collapse. Zhengbang is the sword wielder's palm inward, the body and arm do not move, and the wrist force makes the tip of the sword from the bottom to the top to pick the enemy's wrist. The reverse collapse is when the sword-wielding hand rotates inwards into the palm of the hand outward, does not move the body and arms, and uses the wrist strength to make the tip of the sword from the bottom to the top to pick the opponent's wrist. "Split", the palm of the sword-wielding hand is inward, and the sword is slashed straight from top to bottom.

"Interception" is divided into four types: flat interception, left interception, right interception, and reverse interception. The sword-wielding hand has the palm facing inward, and the front of the sword is cut off from the enemy's wrist forward, and the sword is cut to the left, and vice versa, and the sword-wielding hand is rotated inward into the palm of the hand outward, and the sword is cut off from the bottom to the top.

"Stirring", divided into two methods: horizontal stirring and straight stirring. The twisting style uses the tip of the sword to circle around the wrist, and your wrist should avoid the tip of the opponent's sword. The side twist is the horizontal agitation, and the front twist is the direct agitation.

"Press", the sword wielder's palm is downward, so that the sword body is pressed straight down against the enemy sword.

"Wash", the sword-wielding hand rotates outwards into the palm of the hand, and the sword face is vertically struck from the bottom to the top

Every time Jiang Yangsheng swung his sword, thousands of reeds would fly out of the white floc, and for a while, this coastal land was like a million white butterflies flying into the sky, so it was not spectacular, and the fiery red sable Qiu was like a lonely fire fox jumping in the reeds.

In the current world, most of the people in the Yanya wear swords, just as Jiang Yangsheng's 16,000-mile journey was also equipped with a fancy long sword to fill the façade, which is roughly similar, but every second ancestor of the Emperor does not have the decisive heart to practice swords, so he can only use fancy swords.

The sun rises, the lights go out, Jiang Yangsheng stayed in the reeds for more than a month, New Year's Day is approaching in a blink of an eye, farewell to the old and welcome the new, the eyebrows of the pedestrians in Beilai City have a trace of joy, and unconsciously the new peach charm was quietly posted in the palace of the king of Beilai, and the maids and servants are happy to please each other when they meet, catering to the New Year.

Jiang Yangsheng did not go out of the reeds, but ordered someone to build a thatched house on the seashore and settled here.

No one in the big and small Beilai Palaces dared to disobey him, and no one dared to disturb the second prince if he didn't walk out of the grass house by himself, even if Jiang Loan was the same.

During this period, Jiang Huan, Jiang Loan, and Zhou Yan all quietly went to visit with different expressions, but they all stopped in the distance and looked forward to it, and then sighed silently or wiped their tears and turned back.

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