Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2704 The Capital (61)

The hot iron sand sprayed into the big man's eyes, nose, and mouth. The strong man let out a scream, threw his gun away, covered his face with his hands, and even supported his body, and retreated.

Zhao Liangjian succeeded in the surprise attack, leaped forward quickly, rushed forward to chase and beat, swung the steel whip with all his strength, and smashed head-on.

There was a muffled click, and the steel whip hit the strong man's frontal bone squarely. Under the heavy blow, the frontal bone was sunken visible to the naked eye. The violent concussion caused by the impact made the big man lose all his thoughts and ideas. ability to respond.

Zhao Liangjian hit the whip, stopped chasing, retreated back into the escort formation.

The two wrestlers holding the rattan cards took a step forward, clamped left and right, closed the horizontal formation, and covered Zhao Liangjian behind him.

The strong man was still standing there dumbfounded at this time, the dense capillaries on his head burst one after another, and streaks of blood dyed the big man's head into a blood gourd in an instant.

Due to intracranial hemorrhage, two streams of black blood flowed from the man's nostrils. The man wiped it with his hand, but all was in vain, and more blood flowed out of his nose immediately.

Zhao Liangjian on the opposite side had already thrown away the steel whip at this time, and changed into a simple knife in his hand. He laughed loudly and said, "How? This is a special skill of a certain family.

The big man stood still, coughed, and said with difficulty: "Cough, cough, pickle old dog, don't talk about... Wude."

After finishing speaking, he rolled his eyes and fell hard to the ground.

In a hurry, all the thieves were stunned. Wu Yanluo was the first to wake up, and became angry from embarrassment. Wu Lei jumped into a rage, and shouted: "All the gang, kill them all, and leave no one behind!"

A thief in Wu Yanluo's team immediately blew a long whistle.

Wu Yanluo turned his head to look at the side of the road, only waiting for the ambush accomplices to come out.

Zhao Liangjian and Liu Chang heard the culprit whistle and knew that the culprit was calling for an ambush, their hearts tightened at the same time, and they also turned their heads to look at the forest on the right.

Amidst the whistling sound, a clucking pheasant suddenly flew up in the woods beside the road, followed by a muffled sound and a cloud of white smoke came out from the woods.

The lingering sound of the whistle dissipated, there was no ambush that Wu Yanluo expected, and there was no continuous shooting of Liao Sanniang that Zhao Liangjian expected,

No, nothing, the scene fell into an embarrassing and weird short silence.

The people on both sides looked at each other and looked at each other. No one knew what happened, and they felt a little nervous. Liu Chang nervously said to Zhao Liangjian: "Senior brother Zhao, what happened?"

Zhao Liangjian also shook his head blankly.

After a while, everyone suddenly remembered their own jobs, bodyguards and robbers.

Everyone yelled at the same time as if they had just woken up from a dream, raised their swords and guns, and rushed together in a chaotic manner.

Zhao Liangjian shouted outside the forest, the sound of yelling aroused thoughts, and instantly recalled ten years of swords and swords, thought of Lingao, and thought of the Escort Bureau.

The branch on the opposite tree shook, and a broken leaf swayed down silently. Watching the broken leaf fall, Liao Sanniang was a little crazy.

At the moment of life and death, one should not be distracted, but the mind is shaken, and the mood is like a river breaking through a dike, and one cannot control oneself.

Living in Guangli, Liao Sanniang went to Lingao in the first seven years, and saw the train for the first time, the telegram for the first time, the post office for the first time, and the bank for the first time.

She knew that day that the Escort had come to an end.

One wagon of the small train can support several teams of escort cars, and the mule team can't match it.

Bank deposits and withdrawals, remittance to the world.

Post office logistics delivery, network distribution.

The telegraph is breathable, and a thousand miles is like facing each other.

Liao Sanniang has a keen insight. Although it is difficult to fully understand what she saw during her trip to Lingao, she was deeply shocked.

What eliminated the Escorts was not muskets, but transportation and communications.

Song people used steel and sleepers to pave roads, and the amount of engineering was almost the same as digging canals, which exhausted the power of the country and the people. This was done by Emperor Sui Yang, and it was an act of subjugation.

The people of the Song Dynasty were miraculous, money was born from money, and iron was born from iron. The more you spend, the more you earn. The stations are built in series and become nodes to revitalize the place. Silver water flows along the railway to moisten the square. In terms of water and soil, slogans are plastered on the walls of every village: If you want to get rich, build roads first.

At the women's meeting, the heads of the Song people were impassioned, blushing, spraying saliva visible to the naked eye, and loudly looking forward to the dawn of the industrial age. They said: The iron road, paved all over Lingao, will eventually be paved all over the country .

The Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, changed dynasties, social stability brought about population growth, market expansion promoted commercial development, the rise of Shanxi merchant bank, and a large amount of cash circulation made Shaanxi a financial center in the Qing Dynasty.

Relying on the ticket number, Escort still has a good time of more than 200 years.

The arrival of the Song people changed everything and accelerated the demise of the Escort Bureau and many traditional industries.

In the original history, after the demise of the Escort, some practitioners switched to running big car shops and survived for decades.

Qiwei in Guangdong is also working hard to adapt to the new situation. It has reorganized into a security company and concurrently operates a car dealership and chain hotel. It coincides with the big car shop of the old historical bodyguard bureau.

In the next 20 years, it will not be a change of dynasty, but a compound change of system replacement, technological leap, and ideological innovation.

Small workshop-style enterprises and traditional business models in feudal society will be replaced by new forms of industries. Many old industries represented by bodyguards will become victims of this earth-shaking revolution. After a short existence, they will become a grain of sand in the sea of ​​history.

Zhao Liangjian shouted in vernacular.

Escorts can compete with the bandits in the green forest, and talk to the bandits.

Escort's words work, because there are knives on the back.

Escorts are people's business, reputation is the foundation of one's life, fame is earned by skill, and what is sold is art.

In case of robbery or throwing a dart, it is necessary to retrieve it with real swords and guns.

The reputation is loud, someone knows it, and there is a favor, which is precipitation.

Every time they go to a place, the bodyguard masters will worship the mountains, and send invitations and gifts to the local tycoons to show respect.

There is no need to pay attention to etiquette, one or two snack boxes, a few bottles of Song Dynasty wine, and when you leave, you will show your unique skills and attract everyone's admiration. The Taoist reputation is well-deserved, this is the glory of a warrior.

Since then, the bodyguards and bandits have met each other once. See you next time, we will be friends.

The robbers in the stronghold and the tyrants in the ground are friends. A friend is water, and a bodyguard is a fish. Without water, fish will die.

Whether it's a thief or a bodyguard, when it comes to jargon, laymen are at a loss, which allows the speaker to be satisfied as an insider. Being in the arena, he unconsciously reveals professional self-esteem and pride.

Things are different in troubled times, everything is changing at a fast pace, and the banner of the king changes at the head of the city. Today's king may be the leader of the order on the top of the pole tomorrow.

Troubled times can't be settled, everyone is flying sand that is coerced and hurricane, and the false name of the warrior is blown away like fog, no one remembers.

Calling darts is for insiders. In troubled times, there are only troops, rebels, and refugees. There are no insiders. Shouting darts can only be done in vernacular. There is no knife behind the words, and no one will listen to them.

Rogues are locusts, they will gnaw bodyguards and caravans into skeletons, not to describe them, they are real skeletons with blood and tendons.

There are more thieves than martial arts, they are more than people, people come in like a flood, outnumbered, so the transportation fails, the escort routes are cut off, and the escort agency goes out of business.

Before leaving the city, Li Rufeng went to various escort agencies to borrow people. The escort agencies had no business for a long time, and everyone was enthusiastic.

Director Li of Heliansheng has money and food, which is a good job, but it is a pity that he wants too few people.

Before the arrival of the train and the telegram, the troubled times had already buried the bodyguard business first.

When Liao Sanniang saw those down-and-out bodyguards, she felt sad. It was a sunset in the industry, and she felt that there would be no more bodyguards in the world.

Liao Sanniang blinked, suddenly woke up, the leaf on the opposite side had just left the branch, only a trace of its whereabouts, time hardly flowed.

It is said that before a person dies, his life will be condensed in a moment. I didn't believe it before, but just now when I heard Zhao Liangjian shouting the way, my thoughts were concrete, and the scenes flashed back like a movie, as if I witnessed it with my own eyes.

The past and the future are all in a flash.

It turned out that the legend was actually true.

Warriors are superstitious, and it is unknown for the living to understand the state of death.

Liao Sanniang pulled out the pistol with her right hand, her mind was as calm as a mirror, she was extremely awake, she could see the details of the enemy's movements.

Through the scale-like gaps between the leaves, Zhao Liangjian and the man can be vaguely seen facing each other outside the forest.

Zhao Liangjian had courage before the age of 30. He used a thirteen-section tiger-tail whip made of red sandalwood. Each section has twelve ridges, which are as hard as steel.According to the height of the whip, the weight of the whip is about three catties, it is extremely heavy in the whip, no matter how heavy the wrist can't bear it.

The thinnest metal whip also weighs more than ten catties, and it cannot be used by human beings. It can only be used for martial arts, not actual combat.

Zhao Liangjian had a waist injury, so he stopped using a whip a year ago and switched to using a simple knife.

The Leihuo Whip is made of metal and weighs more than ten kilograms. It moves around with its feet, and when it is released, both hands are clasped together.

The Senate had a disposable hand-held spray gun many years ago, the effect is almost the same, but the weight is much lighter.But Zhao Liangjian did not choose.

Thunder Fire Whip is his remembrance of the past years. When using it, he relies on clever means to blind his eyes, and then sneak attack. It is not martial arts, but close to magic tricks.

However, in the arena, life and death are divided by action, and Leiluo can't save his life.

After a few breaths, a gunshot, the two decided the winner, a sharp whistle sounded outside the forest, ten ambush soldiers in front of them bowed their waists at the same time, ready to rush out, all the thieves turned their backs to Liao Sanniang, as if inviting.

Liao Sanniang plugged her ears with cotton in advance. The gunfire was very loud. Although it would not damage the ears if she heard it directly, it would definitely affect her hearing within a day or two.

Liao Sanniang leaned out from behind the tree, opened the head of the pistol, took a step forward, and aimed with her right arm raised. Her arm is so strong that she can shoot with one hand.

Fluttering, a pheasant flew up from under Liao Sanniang's feet without any warning. The robbers who were ambushing were startled by the sudden movement behind them, trembled, and looked back at the same time.

People are old and treacherous, horses are old and slippery, the longer an animal lives, the stronger its ability to adapt to the environment.

Standing still is the natural self-preservation instinct of many animals.

When hunters or beasts approach, the old pheasants and hares will not flee immediately, but will hide and observe quietly, waiting for the predators to leave on their own.

(End of this chapter)