The Book of Heaven

Chapter 87 Tianshui City

There are five elders in the Fort Jia under the charge of Ma Daoming, that is to say, with Ma Daoming as the owner of the castle, there are at least six people in the Fort Jia who are innate.

A congenital warrior is by no means a cabbage. Nanduotuo, the city lord of Home City, just relied on his status as a congenital warrior to get the throne of the city lord in the hands of King Dayuezhi. the importance of speaking.

The reason why the Dayue Clan almost fell out with the Dumi people directly in Blue Moon City, apart from Home City, the real important reason was Nanduotuo's death.

Regardless of whether the truth is as advertised by the people of Dumi, the legend of Dumi that Puro killed Nanduotuo and eliminated the opponent's innate realm masters by any means. This kind of precedent cannot be easily opened, otherwise the world will fall into chaos.

Shan Yu's surname is not Ma, but he has served as an elder in Jiazibao for more than 40 years, and Ma Zheng judged by visual inspection that Elder Shan is only about 50 years old.

"The old man is ninety-three this year. He broke through his innate ability 50 years ago and was invited to enter Majiabao shortly after. Unfortunately, after more than [-] years of cultivation, it is still difficult to make progress. It is Ma Zheng, it is said that it took half a year. It's amazing to step from a layman to a third-rate level."

"The elder was joking, I'm only at the third-rate level, and I don't know what level I can reach in the future."

While laughing at himself, Ma Zheng carefully gathered his clothes, for fear that Shan Yu would accidentally see some black dots between his chest and abdomen that hadn't been forced out.

In fact, these positions are difficult for outsiders to see. Ma Zheng is also guilty of guilt, and once he forces out all the black dots under his skin, it means that he has truly stepped into the realm of a second-rate warrior.Of course, this is by no means an easy task, especially in the end, it will be more difficult.

"Young people should have confidence in themselves. I think it took me three years to step into the realm of third-rate warriors from the beginning. You children of aristocratic families are inherently stronger than ordinary people, and your future prospects will be even worse. It's limited."

In Shan Yu's words, there is clearly a deep sense of envy. As long as the children of the aristocratic family start to practice martial arts, they must be high-level martial arts like the Shocking Mind. than ordinary warriors.

"Actually, I'm not a child of a family. I'm afraid the elder doesn't know. After my mother passed away, I used to collect firewood for a living in the castle. I almost didn't freeze to death in the shack in winter."

Ma Zheng didn't intend to hide these things. After all, there were many people in Baozhong who knew about his past. Instead of hiding it, it's better to say it yourself, which can increase some credibility.

"Oh?"

It seems that Shan Yu didn't know about Ma Zheng's past, or that he was really as he himself said, with the title of Ma's patriarch. In fact, most of the time he was busy cleaning up, trying to break through another level before he was a hundred years old. And then enter the hall, so that you can break through the life limit, and enjoy the world for decades.

Hearing that Ma Zheng almost froze to death, Shan Yu was surprised and said, "Is this impossible?"

"Isn't it true? Forget it. I don't need to mention these old things. I don't know how many times the elder has participated in martial arts competitions. The foster father raised some children and said that the elder must not be let go. He must dig out some experience from the elder. , was able to achieve good results in the Martial Arts Competition just now!"

The exaggerated expression on Ma Zheng's face caused Shan Yu to laugh out loud.This elder who doesn't hear anything outside the window really doesn't know the subtle relationship between Ma Zheng and Ma Daoming, so he naturally thinks that Ma Daoming's confession to Ma Zheng is because he values ​​his single reputation.

In addition, Ma Zheng is eloquent and can often make Shan Yu laugh out loud. Along the way, Shan Yu knows everything he can say, not only telling the key points of many martial arts competitions, but also asking Ma Zheng some questions about martial arts practice. , Shan Yu hardly kept his secrets, but Ma Heng benefited a lot.

Because of the speculation between the two of them, even though there was an age gap of almost 80 years, after two days passed, they became a pair of year-end friends.

"This is Tianshui City!"

"This is Tianshui City!"

Ma Zheng poked his head out from the carriage and tried his best to raise his chin, so that he could barely see the flags fluttering on the city wall.

"This city wall is probably ten feet high?"

Passing the inspection of the city gate guards, the carriage drove into the city gate hole, and the sight suddenly became dark.

"You have good eyesight. It's exactly ten feet high. The imperial city is built, the border fortress wall is ten feet high, the Taoist city wall is six feet high, the imperial city is fifteen feet high, and the accompanying capital is twelve feet high."

"Elder, have you been to all these places?"

As Ma Zheng said that, he looked out again, just because the two of them said these words, but the carriage could not pass through the city gate, which not only made Ma Zheng marvel at the city wall of Tianshui City, it was really thick.

"I have been, I have been, the ancients said, read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles. In fact, we martial arts practitioners are the same. We cannot travel all over the world to make friends with martial arts. It is extremely difficult to break through in martial arts practice. Don't envy Ma Zheng. If You can stand out in this martial arts competition, and according to the Ma family's practice, the next step is for you to enter the rivers and lakes and accept the big waves washing the sand."

At this time, he had already left the city gate, the surrounding light gradually brightened, and the noise from both sides of the street rushed into the carriage. Ma Zheng squinted his eyes, but saw that the main street was wide and straight, and the avenue was big enough for three carriages to run in parallel. The small road was crowded with pedestrians and carriages, but no one dared to compete with the Ma's convoy and stepped onto the central avenue.

"Why don't they go in the middle?"

Ma Zheng couldn't help asking.

"I rule that civilians are not allowed to privately use officialdom, and those who violate it will be beheaded."

After Shan Yu's reminder, Ma Zheng remembered that there seems to be such a rule.

The reason why the imperial court made such a regulation was that they did not want the opportunity to be delayed due to blocked roads when there was an emergency military situation. After all, the Han Dynasty was still a dynasty that valued military exploits.

No wonder the territory of the Han Dynasty has been slowly expanding over the past 800 years, even if it is only a little bit a year, but after 800 years of accumulation, quantitative changes will eventually lead to qualitative changes.

Compared with the Han Dynasty that Ma Zheng knew, even in the most glorious period, the territory of the current Han Dynasty is more than twice as large.

Originally, Tianshui City could barely be regarded as a Taoist residence, and the city wall requirement was only six feet, but because Tianshui was the border to the northwest, Tianshui City occupied another border fortress, and the city wall and tunnel were raised to ten feet.

Shan Yu explained that the imperial court did not make this rule arbitrarily.

A city wall of six feet is enough to make a third-rate warrior helpless, while a city wall of ten feet can block a second-rate realm, and fifteen feet is the limit of a first-rate. It can also be regarded as a kind of adaptation to local conditions, which is quite targeted.

There are at most bandits among the Taoist mansions, and among these bandits and bandits, there are very few people in the third-rate realm, so the six-foot city wall is enough to ensure that the city will not be lost.

At the border forts, when the two countries are fighting, the majority of the wars are sentinels, that is, the second-rate level, and the ten-foot city wall is enough to stop them. Even if there are some first-rate masters, even if they can rush up the city wall, they can be resisted by their own masters.

The fifteen feet of the imperial city is to guard against those warriors who have reached the first-class level but engage in indecent activities, and even assassinate court officials.

(End of this chapter)