Fenghou

Chapter 27 Sharp Gun
The Arrow House is located in the north of the city, covering an area of ​​about three acres. There is a long and narrow archery field. Although the Song Dynasty generally emphasized civility over martial arts for a hundred years, after Jingkang, the mountain of national ruin and family destruction was on everyone's head. the choice of each family.

Don't talk about defending your home and country, just want to keep your own life, and even run faster than others when danger comes, just want to have a little bit of strength to protect your family in troubled times, and no longer be reduced to golden soldiers or thieves. of pigs and sheep.

Various martial arts gyms, sword and gun gyms, and archery halls have sprung up rapidly in major cities north of the Yangtze River, and Xu's Archery Hall was also born in the bloody wind.

Chen Qing met Xu Ning, the owner of the museum, a middle-aged man in his fifties. He spoke slowly and his tone was gentle and elegant. Only then did he realize that his life has already been filled with vicissitudes.

"I know you!"

Xu Ning's gaze was extremely penetrating, as if he had seen through all of Chen Qing's secrets.

"Your head is worth one hundred thousand guan, and you can be called the number one head in the world."

Chen Qing sneered, "Do you think the golden man will honor it?"

"Then you are wrong. The Jurchens have always kept their promises. This is better than the Han people. They will honor them. At least they will reward you with a piece of land worth [-] guan."

"So Your Excellency has seen a way to get rich?"

Xu Ning shook his head, "I don't need so much money. I'm satisfied with two bowls of rice and a pot of tea every day to feed my crippled body."

Xu Ning slowly rolled up his sleeves, and his left hand was broken at the wrist.

Chen Qing's eyes froze, "This is."

"Thanks to the Jurchens!"

Xu Ning let out a long sigh, "In the Jingkang incident, I escorted the crown prince and the queen to the north. As soon as I left the city, the golden men came to snatch them. I held on to the shaft of the chariot and was cut off by the Jurchens. When I woke up, I found that I was killed Throwing it among the dead, the prince has long since disappeared, and then I fled back to my hometown and opened this martial arts gym to make ends meet!"

Speaking of this, Xu Ning's eyes were filled with tears, he wiped away the tears and continued: "I only hate myself for being too weak at the time, why didn't I snatch a horse and run away with the prince, I only hate myself for being bloodless and not daring to resist, The dignified chief instructor of the golden gun class was cut to crippled by a Jurchen soldier."

At the end, Xu Ning's chest rose and fell violently, and he was speechless.

Chen Qing looked at him silently. He understood Xu Ning's pain. He spent the past few years in self-blame. He was only in his forties and his hair was already gray.

"Actually, you still have a chance!"

"Chance?"

Xu Ning looked back at Chen Qing, "I am a disabled person, what chance do I have?"

Chen Qing said lightly: "Since you can open a martial arts gym, you can be the instructor of my army, teach my soldiers martial arts, help us drive out the Tartars, restore the rivers and mountains of the Song Dynasty, use your afterglow to burn it, you Will die without regret."

Xu Ning's cloudy eyes gradually became brighter, he laughed, pulled out a short spear from the weapon rack and threw it to Chen Qing, and pulled out one himself.

"I know you killed Wanyan Loushi, let me see your marksmanship, you can use all your martial arts, don't worry! You can't hurt me."

"Then I will be disrespectful!"

Chen Qing let out a low growl, swung his short spear, and stabbed at Xu Ning like a storm. Xu Ning stepped back and swung the short spear with one arm like flowing water, breaking Chen Qing's tricks one by one.

Xu Ning smiled and said, "Since you are unwilling to use your full strength, then don't blame me for being rude."

He drew a circular arc with his short spear, stabbing towards the outside of Chen Qing's right leg as fast as lightning, and the stabbing place was exactly where Chen Qing was injured by the arrow before.

Chen Qing yelled secretly, his eyes were vicious, and he had to use all his strength, "Dang! With a loud noise, Xu Ning couldn't hold his short spear firmly and was sent flying.

"Sorry, too much force!"

Xu Ning smiled slightly, threw the short spear to his apprentice, waved his hand and said, "Please sit down!"

The two sat down as guest and host, and a little maid served hot tea for them.

Xu Ning smiled and said, "I found out that you don't know marksmanship, you're right!"

Chen Qing couldn't help but admire Xu Ning's gaze. He really didn't know how to use marksmanship. He used the epee technique, which was mixed into marksmanship, so it was a bit nondescript.

"I have never practiced marksmanship, only swordsmanship!"

Xu Ning stared at Chen Qing and said, "Your swordsmanship is actually very simple, as fast as a gust of wind, and fatal with one strike, but in order to cover up, you added a lot of fancy moves. Think about it, you killed Wanyan Loushi. Rely on these tricks?"

Chen Qing nodded, "You're right, against Wanyan Lou Shi, there is no chance to use these moves, life and death are within one move, of course there are tricks, I asked him to kill the horse, but a spear Pierce him through the throat and win quickly."

"So you throw away those fancy moves, there is no need at all, swords and guns are killing weapons, as long as they are fast, it is enough, the way is simple, any martial arts, strength and speed are king."

Seeing that Chen Qing was still hesitant, Xu Ning understood his thoughts, and smiled again: "I know more than a hundred sets of marksmanship, but in fact it's just to make a living. I don’t understand, but on the battlefield, either you die or I live, the Jurchens will not play tricks with you, any invincible guns are shit, the Jurchens are enough to kill you, do you understand?”

Chen Qing nodded, he fully understood, before he was a little worried that others would ridicule him for not being able to shoot, Xu Ning's words completely dispelled his worries.

Seeing that he understood very quickly, Xu Ning secretly praised the child for teaching.

"Tomorrow morning I will go to your barracks to report. As for the remuneration, it is enough for me to take care of two meals a day. I will eat whatever the soldiers eat, and there is no need to add extra meals for me!"

"Thank you for your generosity, sir. In addition, I personally have an unfeeling request!"

"You don't need me to teach you martial arts."

Chen Qing shook his head, "I don't mean marksmanship, but riding and shooting. I have never practiced riding and shooting. I only know how to shoot crossbows."

Xu Ning laughed, "You are the commander, it is enough to practice the crossbow to the extreme, you don't have to be able to ride and shoot."

Chen Qing smiled wryly and said: "Wanyan Huonu and I have a sworn feud, we will meet on the battlefield sooner or later, if I don't know how to ride and shoot, I will die under his arrow."

"It's true. It's really dangerous to fight Jurchens without knowing how to ride and shoot. Get your bows and horses ready. I'll come over and teach you tomorrow. To practice riding and shooting, you must start with step bows."

Chen Qing thought of one thing, and asked with a smile: "Is the owner of the pavilion Xu related to Shuibo Liangshan?"

"You're talking about thirty-six people including Song Jiang who rebelled in Liangshan during the Xuanhe period!"

"It's them. Does Master Xu have friendship with them?"

Xu Ning smiled slightly, "I can't talk about friendship, but I did deal with them. In the third year of Xuanhe, I followed the governor Zhang Shuye to train troops in Haizhou. In Haizhou, Governor Zhang and I wiped out Song Jiang and others. .”

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Chen Qing returned to the barracks. Their barracks were still in the Temple of the God of God, and they were still the forty tents of the Jin Bing. The tent of the chief general of Chen Qing was not big, it was the smallest tent, and it was also the command center of the whole army.

Zheng Ping, the head of the capital, and Wei Qing, the county magistrate, were waiting for him in the tent.

"The raid is over?"

When Chen Qing saw these two, he knew that there must be a result of ransacking the house.

"Report to the commander, we caught a huge rat!" Zheng Ping couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart.

“Not only was it good, it was amazing!”

Zheng Ping put a search list on the table, and explained: "Li Huailiang's house is still normal. Seven hundred shi of grain, [-] guan coins, [-] taels of silver, [-] taels of gold, and cloth were found in the confiscation. Two thousand bolts of silk and satin, and a few boxes of gold and jade jewelry. The key is the manor. We dug up three cellar warehouses and [-] shi of grain, including the grain he embezzled a few days ago, and copper coins. We dug out [-] Eight thousand guan, it is simply too shocking."

Twenty-eight thousand guan!Chen Qing was also really shocked. He looked at the list and turned to Wei Qing, "Magistrate Wei should know the reason!"

Wei Qing nodded, "I have checked the county government records for the past two years. From the second year of Jingkang to the third year of Jianyan, the county government collected taxes normally for four years, but they did not pay them. Whether it is Song Dynasty or Jin Dynasty I didn’t even see the handover records, so I asked the county magistrate again, and the county magistrate said that at the beginning of the year, a gold soldier robbed them, transported a full [-] carts of money, and burned the money bank. many."

"Be specific!"

"General taxation has money, but more of it is cloth and grain. What the Jin soldiers robbed was only money, and almost all of it was iron money, because the people in Shaanxi didn't have much copper money, but the [-] guan dug out this time All the money is copper coins, which means that the cloth and grain part of the tax was sold privately by Li Boliang. He only needs copper coins, and the money he sells is hidden in the farm. If the commander needs it, the humble officer can thoroughly investigate the matter! "

Chen Qing nodded, "We really need to find out, but not necessarily now. The most urgent thing now is to rent a house and resettle all the refugees sleeping on the streets before dark. I don't want another tragedy where nearly a hundred people freeze to death."

(End of this chapter)