The happy life of the devil and the devil

Niu Erzhuang followed the Xuanjia Army's cavalry, feeling uneasy.

It is said that he is also a dignified man of the Tie Le tribe. His grandfather used to fight with Emperor Taizu. Now the ancestral tablet at home still has the horsewhip that Taizu rewarded him back then.After winning the world, Emperor Tai. Zu rewarded him for his meritorious deeds. Although grandfather was only a small soldier, he was rewarded with two hundred mu of land and a cow, but the land was too far away, in Qingzhou... Emperor Tai. Zu said, this The world belongs to our Tiele people, you Tiele men, you want to occupy the place for me!So my grandpa hitched up a ox cart and dragged my grandma, riding a horse and driving the flock of sheep, and moved here for thousands of miles, and took root in this place where the wind is full of salt.

I heard from grandma that the life of the elders is not difficult.At that time, the fields were being plowed, the women in the family were sitting and collecting rent, and the men were sharpening their knives and shooting arrows. After a few years, the superiors would greet them, and the men would mount their horses, carry bows and arrows and go out to fight.Some men stayed on the battlefield with their lives, and some men returned home with bags of gold and silver belongings. Immediately, the family built a big house with servants—the big house at the east end of the village was that.From generation to generation, some members of the same clan married each other, and some intermarried with local people. Even the surname was changed from the crooked Tie Le name to the surname Niu.

The luck of Niu Erzhuang's family is neither the best nor the worst.In the previous generations, there were men who brought some things home—not all of them. Every time there was a war, some of the men in the family would die. After deducting the funeral money, the money saved would be enough to last until the second war. , the family’s [-] mu of land has been passed down from generation to generation.

Later, his grandfather went to the battlefield and never came back.

Grandma shed tears day and night, collapsed, and sold half of the family land.

Later, my father also went to the battlefield. Although he came back alive, he had a broken arm, and the things he brought back were not enough to treat the wound.It was empty to sit and eat, and when Niu Erzhuang grew up, their family had only [-] mu of land left, but they had to support Niu Erzhuang's disabled father, a frail mother, a younger brother, a younger sister and a A skinny horse - his father firmly forbade him to sell the horse, saying, if we have a horse, we can go to the battlefield with the emperor, and our family can stand up on the battlefield!

Niu Erzhuang's father could not wait for the day when the family turned around.

The family only had [-] mu of land. Niu Erzhuang went to the city to carry labor for others every day. His parents and younger brother planted their own [-] mu of land and the [-] mu of Mr. Zhao’s family in the east of the village. The remaining rations left by the renter were just enough to feed the whole family, and the younger sister drove the horses to graze on the wasteland by the river beach.Occasionally, when the year is good, I can still have a few extra money to dress my younger brother, tie a red ribbon for my younger sister, and so on.

In spring, when my younger sister came back from the river beach with a horse, rich man Zhao's son saw him and insisted that the horse had gnawed his family's young crops and dragged his younger sister into the house to pay off the debt.When Niu Erzhuang rushed back from the city, his 11-year-old sister was dying, and his father was bleeding from his head on the kang, having swallowed his last breath.

Niu Erzhuang had been working in the city for more than a year, and he already knew that there was such a thing as "law of the king" in the world, so he rushed to the biggest yamen and beat the drum.Then he was beaten severely and thrown into prison.In the severe pain of dizzying, rich man Zhao's second butler sneered at him with his oily and fat face.

The dark cell became hotter day by day, and colder day by day.The torn jacket worn in the spring was wrapped back on the body again, and when the wind in the morning and evening made people tremble slightly, a black-clothed soldier who had never seen one before opened the cell door with a cold face: "According to the military order of your lord, clear the accumulated cases." !Which one of you is wronged, tell yourself quickly!"

Niu Erzhuang roared out loudly.

On July 29th of the tenth year of Tiantong, Emperor Tiantong of Beiliang issued a decree, bestowing Qingzhou as Queen Tang Muyi, and the officers and men of his troops named Xuanjiawei.

The queen's army who got a new name left [-] personal guards, and the rest were divided into two groups. The cavalry traveled day and night to Qingzhou, and the infantry escorted the personnel brought from Dayu to move slowly.The vanguard arrived in Qingzhou just in time for the autumn harvest, pulled out the field booklet and watched the local officials finish collecting the taxes, and immediately started to complete the second task Ling Yucheng ordered - to raise some prisons.

The adults ordered like this: "You watch the magistrate do it. If he is right, don't interfere; if it is obvious that he is corrupt and broke the law, immediately lock him up and take over. Remember, people can only be locked up, not killed. , let alone let him die! When overturning the injustice case, make as much noise as possible for me!"

Headed by Xia Bai, who is in charge of intelligence, Xi Jun mobilized [-] elite sergeants as guards, and all the soldiers from the Military Intelligence Division were divided into ten groups, and went to various counties to raise prisons and clear up the accumulated cases.In just half a month, the Xuanjia Army Division investigated and dealt with more than [-] unjust, false and wrongly decided cases in [-] counties in Qingzhou, saving more than [-] people's lives.Afterwards, the public was allowed to sue for their grievances, and dozens of local injustices that had been accumulated for a long time were cleared up.Five corrupt officials were sent out of Qingzhou and taken directly to the capital together with their case files.

The people rejoice.

When Ling Yucheng led the army into Qingzhou, where the black flag of the Xuanjia army went, the local people had already lowered their heads respectfully and avoided the side of the road.After that, the Xuanjia army arranged for the local people to build water conservancy projects and dredge ditches, while recruiting troops locally.

After half a year in the prison, Niu Erzhuang, who managed to climb out, was recruited into the new barracks of the Xuanjia Army just because he could shoot a rabbit with a bow and ride a horse for two laps without falling off.He was recruited together with [-] local young adults, half of whom were Xia people, and half were young people from the Tie Le tribe whose ancestors moved here.

Unlike the ancestors who brought their own horses and dry food for generations, they didn't have to count on money from the hair, and the things they grabbed were their own rules. This time, when they joined the army, they would have money for their families.It is said that as long as they can stay for half a year, there will be a salary every month thereafter—the salary is not much, and it is enough to feed my younger brother.It’s just that the training is so hard. Wearing full armor and carrying a knife and gun on your back, you run around in circles. After running, you have to shout chant and stab with wooden knives and wooden guns. Bricks are hung on your arms and you can’t even raise your bow...

One day, I practiced from the sun not showing up until it was dark, and I was so tired that I fell on the bed like a dead dog. In the middle of the night, someone beat gongs and drums to call you up.But there is no way, those veterans can open two stone bows one by one, and can hit hearts with arrows on horseback. Compared with these two strokes, three bundles together are not enough for one person to shoot.

In the words of those veterans: "A few years ago, with your country style, you wanted to enter the adult's guard? If you can't cut off ten or eight heads after a battle, let's practice!"

Niu Erzhuang was very depressed, and Xiao Liang from the same team was even more depressed than him.This thin-skinned monkey known as "Xiucai" is also newly recruited. It has thin skin, white flesh and thin bones. It is said that it is from the Xia Dynasty and can read and write-but it is nothing in the team. Who can't read a few words above the captain? .

Xiao Liang's nickname of "Scholar" is not a lie, he really has the reputation of a scholar, although this fame is of no use in Beiliang, except for the exemption of taxes on two hundred acres of land, and by the way, his family does not have to pay corvee. You even have to kowtow when you meet the county magistrate, but it's an identity after all, isn't it?There are only a dozen scholars in the county who are full of talents. If they catch up with luck, they can still become officials.

Before Xiao Liang could use his brains to become an official, an imperial decree spread throughout Qingzhou.

Give Qingzhou the Queen Tang Muyi.

Oh... from today we are all queen's people.

queen.

Queen...

Queen? !

Everyone hurriedly inquired about the queen's resume, yes, he was still a man...

It’s not a nameless person, Ling Yucheng, who doesn’t know, back then he raised [-] troops to march into my Great Liang, and the way he marched was filled with blood and blood for thousands of miles... Seeing a city slaughtered by a city, it is said that his army The place I passed by has not grown a blade of grass for ten years...

"Father, why did Xuanjiawei recruit me? I'm not your son?" Xiao Liang asked his father sadly and angrily.

"What do you know! Now we are begging for a living under that man! Tang Muyi, do you know what Tang Muyi is! That is a fiefdom! That is to say, he disliked our family and peeled off our whole family. No one dared to say Not a single word!"

"That's not enough to send me away! What about the queen? If it is abolished after a few years, our family will be unlucky as well? What's more, it's a man! Who wants to follow that kind of servant man?" Bah!" Thinking of it makes me sick.

"Bastard thing!" A crutch fell on the head. "Do you know which cloud has rain? Back then, the King of Chu belonged to the Empress Dowager..." He clenched his fist with his left hand, and poked his right index finger into the hole, "Don't you still live well? Even the servants of the King of Chu's family dared to rob a good woman in the street As the saying goes, it’s better to be in charge of the county magistrate now, and now he is the master, and we are in his hands! —— Put away your little thoughts for me! Don’t forget that you are a killer!"

That's right... Xiao Liang, a classmate whose fame as a scholar has not been warmed up, took a burden and went to join the army.For the sake of fame and fame, Xiao Liang, who had never held a knife or pulled a bow, and who would not fall off while riding a horse, was assigned to the cavalry team. "Practice well," the team leader ordered.

Practice, practice to death.Because he is a rare scholar, the chief officer specially approved him not to wear armor when running, and not to tie bricks to his arms when he raised his bow. Xiao Liang was also the one who fainted the most times in the team.

No matter how hard you practice, there is nothing to complain about.The corporal wears armor and runs in front of the team. The team is wearing heavier armor and keeps urging them outside the team. He runs at least a mile and a half when others run for a mile. Looking at the map, lighting candles in the middle of the night to inspect the barracks one by one, and stuffing the arms of the soldiers outside the quilt.The battalion is also wearing armor, running from the head of the battalion to the tail, and then from the tail to the head. They are the ones who beat the hardest during training during the day, and they are the ones who give medicine to the soldiers one by one at night...

Undressing clothes, pushing food to eat, that's it.Xiao Liang, who had a few taels of ink in his stomach, said silently to himself.Although he knew that this was a drama that had been written countless times in the history books, but when the battalion in charge of them squatted down in front of him and bandaged his blood-bubbled feet with medicine, he I still feel my nose is a little sore.

Hell... how could I be moved by such a nonsense joke...

In mid-November, Xiao Liang saw the legendary Xuanjia guard general... er... that... queen.

When he saw the person for the first time, Xiao Liang's thought was: I heard that he was killed in Great Liang so much that blood flowed like a river, it really is true.Fortunately, I listened to my father's words and joined the army, otherwise, my family...

Looking at it seriously for the second time, another thought popped up: No wonder she can be a queen, this face... Bah bah, my father told me not to think about anything, it would be bad if I got out of the gang.

The third eye...there is no third eye.Shouted "See you!" with the veterans around, lined up, packed up, and ran.The lord and his bodyguards were wearing a full set of armor, carrying bows, arrows, knives and guns, and they were also in the long-distance running queue, both sweaty and dusty.After running, chopping, stabbing, shooting, riding and shooting... all of them are unstoppable, and they are more ruthless than others.During the break between the two events, the soldiers sat on the ground and watched as the adults called the team to go over. One by one, they took turns pointing out the riding and shooting skills, and taught the moves hand in hand. There is no time to rest from morning till night.

After dinner, a group of big-headed soldiers staggered and collapsed on the bunk, the team rushed in and pulled Xiao Liang away.Xiao Liang had just popped a blister, hurriedly put on his shoes, staggered as he walked closer and closer to the brightly lit main tent, and finally stopped nervously: "Do...what to do?" It couldn't be Those words I slandered during the day were heard, and now I have to settle the score, right?

"Let's go! My lord is teaching the art of war. Originally, only those above the team can listen to it. I specially mentioned you to the above..." Xiao Liang was pulled to the last row and sat down. Stand up quickly: "See you, my lord!"

"Sit." A pair of clear eyes swept around, Xiao Liang shivered instinctively, and quickly sat upright.As soon as the pen and paper were put away, the lecture had already started, Xiao Liang lowered his head to take notes, and forgot all the slander and complaints.

My lord stayed in their camp for five days. After five days, Xiao Liang and Niu Erzhuang were selected to accompany eight other recruits because of their outstanding performance in training.Then came the next camp, drills, lectures on martial arts, and selection of new recruits... After 30 days, the whole team returned to Beijing. Ling Yucheng's personal guards changed from 850 elite cavalry brought from Dayu to 150 Dayu cavalry. And [-] local recruits from Qingzhou.

And when Xiao Liang thought of the chief general of Xuanjiawei, the first word that popped up was no longer "...Queen..." when he had not yet joined the army, but stood up instinctively like the veterans, clasped his right hand on his chest and called out: "grown ups!"

The author has something to say: Ancient maps are really cheating!