serious man in the red chamber

Chapter 1
The biting cold wind swept across the entire Liaohe Plain, rolling up a cloud of dust, and the place where the line of sight passed was barren.

When the first ray of sunshine appeared in Liaodong in September of the first year of Jianwu, a caravan appeared on the banks of the Liuzhou River. Going northeast, due to the ban on business by the new emperor, the Great Zhou Dynasty closed the horse market opened on the border, and the various materials needed by the Manchu nobles could only rely on smuggling by merchants.

In order to make huge profits, merchants in the Great Zhou Dynasty would bribe pass guards, but such large-scale caravans are still very rare.

After crossing the front guards of Guangning, they didn't see any people. Except for a few frontier garrison forts, the former villages have become desolate. This is the front line of the battle between Dazhou and Manchu. The local people died To die, to escape, to leave only ruins, giving people a feeling of desolation.

After passing the High Tower, everyone became nervous. They were afraid of being involved in the battlefield. When they left the gate, the guard specially reminded them that two caravans were accidentally involved in the battlefield last month and were affected by the war. Fortunately, It was Zhou Jun who won in the end, and they were able to return to the pass with their goods and corpses.

Most of the cages on horseback contained tea, silk, and porcelain, which were extremely sought-after goods in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and some of them were luxury items such as jewels, emerald jade, antique calligraphy and paintings that the Manchu nobles needed.

The guards of the caravan seemed to be in their twenties, and most of them were tall and strong. At this moment, one of the guards looked around for a while: "Uncle Li, you mentioned Liuzhou River, would the Manchus understand?" Confiscated our goods?"

"No, at most I'll ask for more money for drinks." The middle-aged man driving the horse smiled bitterly and said, "I'm afraid of meeting the frontier soldiers. The conflicts, especially in the Hetao area, are tens of thousands of battles, Liaodong is okay, but the hatred between the two sides is too deep."

But the more they worried, the things would come true. As soon as the words fell, there was a rush of horseshoes in the distance, and a group of cavalry was rushing towards this side along the river.

"There is an army!"

The caravan suddenly went into chaos, and the guards drew out their sabers one after another. The shopkeeper of the caravan shouted: "Don't move around, put away the saber, it's the frontiers of Gaotaibao."

After a while, more than a hundred Dazhou cavalry came galloping like lightning. They all wore armor, swords on their waists, and bows and arrows in their hands. They lined up and blocked the caravan's way.

A cavalryman rushed forward and shouted: "Everyone put down their weapons, and those who act recklessly will be shot to death!"

The guards complained, but no one dared to refuse. The captain of the guard took the lead to take off the waist knife, and then was driven by a team of cavalry to squat by the river.

An officer rushed out from the team and shouted sharply: "Which caravan are you from? Don't you know the ban on business?"

The shopkeeper stepped forward, handed over a bag full of silver ingots, and said with a smile: "This is the wine money for the military men, please help the military men!"

The officer's face sank, and he said coldly: "I ask which caravan you belong to?!"

The shopkeeper was stunned. He knew better than anyone else what this sentence meant, and there was a wry smile on his face. It seemed that he couldn't hide it.

Thinking of this, I looked up at the leading officer, and saw that he was about seventeen or eighteen years old, tall and tall, with dark skin, sword eyebrows and a high nose. , Calm and sharp, those eyes seem to see through themselves.

Suddenly his eyes flashed, isn't this young man from the Jia family!

Last year, a major incident happened in Shenjing. Jia Zhen, the current third-rank Weilie general in the Ningguo Mansion, was beaten into a "stubborn", and the murderer was his younger brother Jia Hu. Although the Jia family tried their best to conceal it, many people still Knowing the truth of the matter, while spurning Jia Zhen's shamelessness, she felt sorry for this poor young man. He thought he had died on the battlefield, but unexpectedly he survived and became the leader of the frontier army.

Things really are impermanent!

Since it is the Jia family, it is easy to handle, after all, they are all their own people.

He took a step forward, clasped his hands and said: "I pay my respects to Second Young Master, this is my master's name card." He took out a name card from his pocket and offered it with both hands.

The officer looked at Jia Hu, Jia Hu didn't answer, just nodded.

The officer got off his horse and took the name card, then turned around and handed it to Jia Hu.

Jia Hu took the name card and glanced at it. It turned out that it was Bo Niu Jizong, the left servant of the Ministry of War and the first-class current successor of the Zhen Guogong's mansion.

"It's been almost a year since I came to this world, time flies so fast."

Jia Hu thought silently in his heart.

Yes, Jia Hu is a time traveler, his body belongs to the original owner, but his soul comes from a veteran in later generations, commonly known as soul wear.

The process is very inexplicable. After retiring from the army in the previous life, I wanted to embrace nature and enjoy the leisure time, so I came to Mount Tai alone to play. Unexpectedly, when I was enjoying the "Carved Stones of Mount Tai", lightning suddenly fell from the sky in the clear sky, and then I opened my eyes. In this world, people beat him with a stick before he could recover from it. This made the violent Jia Hu bear it, and he didn't care too much. After getting up, he dodged the swinging stick and kicked him Even though the strength of this body is very weak, the kick kicked out by Jia Hu with hatred made the opponent stagger a few steps before he stood still, and then a vase fell on his incredulous gaze. On the spot, he fell to the ground.

Although the word "crossing" is already a rotten word, he never thought it would happen to him. Jia Hu didn't gradually accept this fact until he was released from the prison of the clan's mansion more than a month later.

I actually traveled to the world of Dream of Red Mansions, the timeline is a little messed up, the previous dynasty was the Zhu Ming Dynasty, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty also invaded the Central Plains, but, in the later period of the "San Francisco Rebellion", history changed, and the "beautiful woman in anger" Five months later, the emperor Wu Sangui died as promised, and the main forces of the Manchu and Qing forces invaded Huguang. After going, Kang Laosan led the Manchu royal family out of Shanhaiguan.

After five years of war, the remnants of the Qing Dynasty and other forces in the pass were finally cleared. Wu Shifan paid homage to the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum and paid homage to the Ming Taizu, expressing the expulsion of the Tartars and the restoration of the Han regime.

The two ancestors of the Jia family, Jia Yan and Jia Yuan brothers, were canonized as Ning Guogong and Rong Guogong respectively. The body he owns is the third grandson of Jia Yan, the concubine son of Jia Jing, the concubine brother of Jia Zhen, and the concubine of Jia Zhen. Xichun's concubine elder brother, a person who does not exist in the original novel, a cowardly 15-year-old boy.

Maybe there was, but he died under Jia Zhen's stick.

In the prison, he not only inherited all the memories of the original owner, but also figured out why he was beaten. It was all because of Qin Keqing who had just married into the Ningguo Mansion. The original owner ruined Jia Zhen’s good deeds and made Qin Keqing escape. Zhen then vented all her anger on the original owner, killing the original owner at the expense of Jia Hu, and was beaten backhand by Jia Hu into a vegetative state.

Under the operation of the cheap father who has never masked himself, he went to the army outside the Guan to make atonement. If he had not had the memory of his previous life, he would have died under the knife of the Manchus. After nearly a year of fighting, he not only got rid of the crime The body is even more powerful.

The Great Zhou Dynasty followed the Ming system: 12 people formed a team, and each team had a captain; 1 teams formed a banner, and each banner had a total of 3 people, and the whole banner had 1 people; 37 banners formed a bureau, and each bureau had a hundred chief Zhengbapin) 3 person, 1 officers and soldiers; 112 bureaus are one division, each division has a general (Zhengqipin) and 4 officers and soldiers; 449 divisions are one department, each division has a thousand general (Zhengliupin) and 2 officers and soldiers 899 divisions constitute a battalion, with one general (guerrilla general—cong Sanpin), one central army officer, one firearms officer, plus 3 officers and soldiers below, for a total of 2697 people in the battalion. 2700 battalions make up a town.

Last year, the old emperor abdicated due to illness, and the new emperor Wu Rui ascended the throne and changed his reign name to Jianwu, intending to unify China by force.

The two days were hanging in the air, and the court was in chaos.

There is God’s will in the dark. After the Manchus withdrew from Shanhaiguan, Kang Laosan still lived to be 68 years old and survived the three emperors of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Then the capital was set in Beijing.

Today's emperor is Gan Xiaosi.

The shopkeeper said, "Second Young Master?"

Jia Hu came back to his senses: "Yeah." Then he glanced at the caravan behind him, and ordered, still expressionless: "Open the box, we need a routine inspection."

The shopkeeper was stunned!

The officer waved his hand, and more than a dozen cavalry rode forward to check. A moment later, a cavalry galloped over, cupped his fists and said, "I report to Mr. Bai, there are no prohibited items."

Jia Hu nodded, then turned to look at the shopkeeper: "The rules have changed, from May onwards, two taels of silver per person."

"it is good!"

The shopkeeper turned around and ran back to the caravan. After a while, he handed a money bag to Jia Hu, and said with a smile, "This is 300 taels of silver. If there is too much, let the second son drink."

"Thank you."

Jia Hu took the money bag and threw it into the saddle bag, thought for a while, "Don't stop on the road, go directly to Shengjing or Shangjing." After speaking, he returned the name card to him.

Shopkeeper: "Thank you, Second Young Master!"

Someone shouted: "Wolf smoke!"

Jia Hu followed the prestige, it was a garrison fortress, and saw the straight and thick wolf smoke rising into the sky, the Tartars are coming!

(End of this chapter)