The Book of Heaven

Chapter 50 Zhanlan City

Zhan Lancheng is a Han Chinese.

There has never been a shortage of Han people in the city of Home. In fact, the Han people have been established for 800 years. The territory is vast and the country is peaceful and peaceful. The imperial court encouraged the Han people to give birth. swell.

The huge population base also allowed many Han people to leave the empire and make a living everywhere.

In a sense, the Han Empire was a pure Han country, but the small countries around the Han Empire were no longer pure.Not only can the Han people live in these small countries at will, often, they can even enter the courts of these small countries and hold high positions.

It seems helpless, but it is also helpless. After all, the Han people have hundreds of years of culture and wisdom ahead of neighboring countries. If they want to compete with the Han Empire, simple barbarism is no longer competent.

Not only literati, but also warriors.

Zhan Lancheng came to Home City almost ten years ago. He was born in the hinterland of the Han Empire and studied as a teacher in a small sect. However, he was displaced because of the struggle in the rivers and lakes. In the end, he brought his junior brother Bai Yiliang to Home City together, and was cornered by Doye Sha bought and became a thug under Doyesha's command.

They wore military uniforms but did not have the official identity of Home City soldiers. They were just Doyesha's private soldiers, responsible for some invisible jobs.

For example, if Doyesha wants to make Lan Libo look bad this time, his brother Zhan Lancheng can only do this kind of thing. After all, the people under Doyesha's Da Yue clan are really loyal to Nanduotuo.Although most of the Dayue people are uneducated, the more simple-minded they tend to be, the more stubborn they are. If Doyesha asks his own people to deal with Lan Libo, this matter will spread to Nan Duo Tuo in the ears.

After accepting Doyesha's order, Zhan Lancheng and Bai Yiliang went out of the city to act in secret. They followed Ma Zheng almost all the time, and when Lin Sheng was in crisis, Zhan Lancheng also took action and rescued Lin Sheng.

Although everyone is Han Chinese, Zhan Lancheng actually has more feelings for Lin Sheng, who has almost the same fate as himself.

When reporting to Doyesha, Zhan Lancheng expressed regret for Lin Sheng's departure, but in fact, there was a kind of envy in his heart. He envied that Lin Sheng could get out of the current life, and envied that Lin Sheng had no burden from now on.

Few people know that Zhan Lancheng can open a three-stone bow.

Only his younger brother Bai Yiliang knew that Zhan Lancheng was an art teacher and practiced martial arts under Bai Yiliang's father, but in fact he had learned a kind of archery himself, but he seldom showed it in front of others until his master was destroyed by his enemies. When Bai Yiliang was escaping, he only showed it a few times, and it really shocked Bai Yiliang into a celestial being. He even felt that Zhan Lancheng's accomplishments in archery were actually the most exquisite.

But Zhan Lancheng never mentioned the origin of his bow skills to others, even in front of Bai Yiliang, he kept his mouth shut. If it wasn't because he didn't want to expose his identity prematurely, Zhan Lancheng would not have shot that arrow yesterday.

Because Lan Libo and Ma Zheng were too far apart, Zhan Lancheng and Bai Yiliang had to separate their actions. Zhan Lancheng, who was more skilled in martial arts and superb in archery, supported and stared at Lan Libo, while Bai Yiliang followed Ma Zheng. .

Maybe it's because he was taken care of by senior brother Zhan Lancheng so much that even though Bai Yiliang was old, he had made very little achievements in martial arts. In terms of martial arts, he was far inferior to Zhan Lancheng. He also proposed to Zhan Lancheng to learn archery, but Zhan Lancheng did not hesitate. He refused, saying that it would only bring Bai Yiliang an innocent disaster.

Bai Yiliang couldn't figure out this matter. Archery seems to be different from martial arts. Many nomadic warriors are best at this kind of archery?
Zhan Lancheng scoffed at Bai Yiliang's argument, saying that "riding and archery" is a skill, while "archery" is an advanced martial art.

In the entire Han Empire, there are very few people who know this martial art.

It's a pity that Zhan Lancheng can only explain to this extent, and then won't say another word, which makes Bai Yiliang very helpless, and even dissatisfied for a while.

The Great Han Dynasty has been established for more than 800 years, but there are almost no real archery schools.

After all, bows and arrows are not suitable weapons in Jianghu. First of all, they will be restricted by the court. They will be interrogated when they enter the city with bows and arrows. Unless they are hunters, they will be thrown into prison without justification, or even beheaded .

But there is only one aristocratic family, and all the children can travel with bows and crossbows on their backs.

This family, surnamed Huang.

The Huang family and the Tianshui Ma family rose up almost at the same time. The ancestor Huang Hansheng originated in Nanyang, conquered east and west for the empire, made great contributions, and was finally granted the title of Marquis of Guannei and the fiefdom in Huaiyang.

The descendants of the Huang family have been developing slowly based on Huaiyang. Although they are not as branched as the Ma family, at least the torch has been passed down from generation to generation and has never been cut off.

It's just that like the Ma family, the Huang family's archery has never been passed on to outsiders, and there are occasional rumors, but most of them are superficial skills, and often need to test the character and morality of the trainees.

If he learns the Huang family's bow skills, he will be a member of the Huang family's children for life. Once he betrays the Huang family, he will be chased and killed by the Huang family's children. As a crime, at least the Huang family's bow skills will be withdrawn, or he will be killed.

At first glance, the Huang family is too domineering, but this is also the imperial court's request to the Huang family. Bow skills are too dangerous, far better than swords.

Although the imperial family is high and powerful, and there will be conflicts with each other for the sake of interests, but the rules set by the ancestors will never be violated.

Among them, although there are traditional factors, they do not account for the main ones.

The Guannei Hou Huang family is the same as the Ma family. Some of the descendants went to the frontier battlefields to kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds. They would also choose some to walk in the rivers and lakes.

The one who walks the rivers and lakes of this generation is Huang Mingnan. This person is handsome and skilled in archery. His only shortcoming is his broken mouth. It has been more than three years since he left the Huang family at the age of 21. Few people know his real name and know his nickname. There are many people with the name "yellow talk".

The Huang family's archery is divided into internal and external. The outer archery is passed on by disciples, but the inner art is only passed down to the direct line. Like the Ma family, the non-direct line is not authentic.

Although it is only an outsider's bow technique, but because the bow and arrow itself is powerful and far-reaching, it is restricted by the imperial court. Therefore, every generation of Huangmen who walks the rivers and lakes shoulders a secret mission-to clean up the sect.

Huang Che could not enter the imperial court, so his reputation was only spread in the Jianghu, not to mention Ma Zheng, even Nan Duotuo, the lord of Home City, had never heard of Huang Che's name.

Not to mention Bai Yiliang, Ma Zheng and others.

Ma Zheng's mind is actually pure. On the one hand, he wants to avenge Lin Shiba, and on the other hand, he wants to complete the mission and return to Zhuangziying.

The imperial army has always been strict. Even if the Zhuangzi battalion is considered to be Ma's private army, but the formation is the imperial frontier army. Ma Zheng's unauthorized departure from the camp violated military law and caused serious consequences. , Ma Zheng still knew this.

Therefore, committing crimes and performing meritorious service is often a common method used by frontier soldiers who make mistakes. Anyway, the imperial court mainly looks at the heads of alien races, and more meritorious deeds are less erroneous.

Ma Detu would never violate his principles for Ma Zheng, just as he had said bluntly to Ma Zheng back then, no matter who came to greet him, as long as he was in Zhuangziying, everything had to be done according to the rules.

Ma Zheng didn't complain about this. If a man can't even do this, he doesn't deserve to be called a man.

(End of this chapter)