Dawn of the Empire

Chapter 439 83 Temperance is not Huanwen-1

"Mr. Zhao raised the banner of rebellion, and strong men from all directions came to vote. This will sweep the southeast, expel the northern captives, and welcome back the important task of the Holy Majesty, so it will fall on Mr. Zhao." Standing beside Zhao Xingde, Sima Xiang praised with "tsk tsk".His cheeks were slender, his eyes smiled like crescent moons, and his pupils were like fireflies, with a flash of divine light shaking, making people unable to see through his joy and anger.

"Where is there, Jingxiang is a land of outstanding people, Zhao is lucky to know such a person as Jingnan Sima." Zhao Xingde laughed.Outside the door of Juyitang, Liu Heng came over with a few men holding bows and blades. He made a confession and hurried over to meet them.It was early spring at this time, and the spring breeze was still chilly. Sima Xiang waved a folding fan, watched Zhao Xingde's back, and looked a bit like Zhuge Wolong.Several men with chests and bellies stood behind him.Sima Xiang can also be called a powerful party in Nanjing.He respects his identity and will not go up to meet these unknown reckless people.

Zhao Xingde walked over, at the beginning there were only a few people talking, but later there was an endless stream of high-ranking people, all of them gathered around Zhao Xingde, dozens of men spoke "messy" dialects, the entrance of Juyi Hall seemed like a busy market generally.Liu Heng and Xia Mao'er were also squeezed to the outside, Liu Heng said with a wry smile: "I'm afraid that in a few more days, there will be more people serving Mr. Zhao than our Thirteenth Chain Village." Xia Mao'er nodded, saying no in his heart What's the matter.The sudden influx of thousands of outsiders, many of whom were not kind, made the old man Ma of Shisanlian Village feel a little panicked. These days, he told the women in the house not to show their heads if they had nothing to do, so as not to cause trouble.If it weren't for Lu Mingyu's words first, asking all the brothers to follow Zhao Xingde wholeheartedly, I'm afraid someone would have blamed him for taking the lead.

Today was also a coincidence, several groups of defectors were attracted in one after another, more and more people gathered, those who came later all scrambled to talk to Zhao Xingde, those who came before refused to leave.The entrance of the Juyi Hall in the Thirteenth Lianhuanzhai is quite spacious, but it is impossible to get in for a while.People in Jianghu don't have so many etiquette rules.A voice from behind said: "I am Zhu Sheng, the Tiger of Yanshan in Yingzhou, please let me go to the front and meet Mr. Zhao." Someone else said impatiently: "Tiger fart, don't squeeze, come first before you come." I see you." The voices of these reckless heroes were so loud that even the people standing in front of Zhao Xingde had to speak at the top of their voices in order to hear clearly.Zhao Xingde was also infected, first he was smiling, then he was big and small, first he spoke in a deep voice, and later he had to speak loudly with gestures and pictures.Later, as long as he was facing the person standing opposite him, he felt that "Mr. Zhao was talking to me".

Du Chuijiao and other soldiers were accidentally pushed outside by the crowd, but it was not easy to squeeze back, so they could only stretch their necks and stand on tiptoes to look in anxiously.The entrance of Juyi Hall was as crowded as the center of the battlefield.After squeezing it a few times, Liu Zheng was so angry that he put his hand on the handle of the knife, and wanted to pull it out to chop and kill randomly, cursing, "Grandma, there are so many people today Get evil?"

"How high is General Zhao's reputation?" Du Chuijiao spat, his face seemed to be smashed into the ground angrily, and he shook his head in disbelief, "Is it just the temper of the Kanto people? "

Among the sergeants, Du Chuijiao had followed Zhao Xingde the longest. Even in the glorious moment when Nanshan City defeated the Liao army, the Han army officers and soldiers were not so enthusiastic.There is a saying in the Xia Kingdom that "the cold baby in Guanzhong" means that when some people are silent, they are really like clay sculptures and wood carvings.No matter how much the sergeants respected their generals, they were just ordinary on the surface. When they really went to the battlefield, they followed orders and prohibited them, and they never looked back.Even if the emperor arrives, everyone will just line up and cheer. It is impossible for the Kanto people to forget all the rules when they are so happy.Being pushed to the side, Du Chuijiao was a little bit grouchy. As for Zhao De's name in Kanto, Zhao Xingde, with straight cursive characters, he had no other ideas.Some of the people who cross the river in the Kanto region do so to avoid causing trouble to their families, some take one temporarily without a name at all, some do so to avoid debts once and for all, and some just follow other people’s names indiscriminately. Chaos 'report.It is also impossible for the screening office to check with the government of Song Dynasty, and the names are too many to be true.

"Aren't these people out of their minds?" Liu Zheng muttered dissatisfied.

"They're just sober, and talking to General Zhao now will be enough to brag about them for years." Shi Jingkui looked at these Guanxi fellows speechlessly, and sighed: "The name of a person is the shadow of a tree. This is just ordinary people in the city, and when Mr. Zhao goes to the academy in the state capital to give lectures, the scene will be much more lively than it is now." The three soldiers in the middle of Sichuan looked at each other with incredulous expressions on their faces.The style of the Chinese language in Shu is prosperous, and it has the same voice as the Kanto.When Cai Jing suppressed the Yuanyou party members, many literati from the Kanto region went to Sichuan to avoid disaster.Even a sergeant like Shi Jingkui was well aware of Zhao Xingde's reputation in the Song Kingdom.But the three of them never expected that Zhao Xingdeyin actually threw himself into the army, fought all these years, and accumulated meritorious deeds to reach the position of general of the school lieutenant system.

"The commander of the marching army must have known about it a long time ago," Shi Jingkui thought to himself, "just now he sent General Zhao to contact Chen Dong. The people in Kansai and the people in Kanto don't like each other. They thought there was little hope. Now it seems that there is a lot of difference. chance of success."

Deng Yuanjue stood on a rockery outside Juyi Hall, with his hands in his sleeves, frowning thoughtfully, but he was actually observing Zhao Xingde all the time.Beside Deng Yuanjue, there were several other scribes who had arrived in Thirteen Lianhuanzhai early. Someone shook his folding fan and sighed: "Mr. Yuanzhi has been raised for ten years before he has such people's expectations. Such a short-cut to the south, he just abandoned it like a penny. To restore the country's power, not to hesitate to defile yourself, to hand over to these Jianghu warriors, to act like this is really ashamed of the world's pretending to be a noble person." Several other people also nodded in agreement.The reckless heroes who came to the alliance this time were mixed with dragons and snakes. Of course, there were those who feared the country with fear, but there were also people who "fished" in troubled waters.Even some bandits from Jingxiang didn't come to the alliance at all, but under the banner of Zhao Xingde's rebel army, they took advantage of the chaos to blackmail the village and rob houses.

"The building of the world is about to fall, and I should be like Mr. Zhao," Zhou Chongyi sighed, "Save the world, save my hometown, and not be afraid of being smashed to pieces. What is this little reputation?" Several people next to him nodded in agreement.These few people were all self-proclaimed literati, after hearing that Zhao Xingde summoned heroes from Jingxiang to fight against the Liao army in the bandit village in Yuezhou, they also made a lot of determination, so they invited each other to the meeting.

When Deng Yuanjue heard this, his heart moved slightly. He sighed and looked at Zhao Xingde who was surrounded by the crowd in the distance, his eyes couldn't help but become complicated.At this moment, his eyes suddenly narrowed, and he said in a deep voice, "Not good!" With his eyesight, he found a black-faced middle-aged man who had been slowly pushing towards Zhao Xingde. It was a gratified expression, but with a chill on his face, his eyes were fixed on Zhao Xingde, giving Deng Yuanjue the feeling that he was like an assassin.

Those crowded around Zhao Xingde were careless people from the rivers and lakes, but no one had ever been wary of such a poisonous snake that swam quietly.When Deng Yuanjue saw it, he was only one person away from Zhao Xingde.It was too late to say it, but the man hesitated for a moment, then pushed aside the person in front of him, facing Zhao Xingde's back.The person who was pushed away was still cursing unhappily, and suddenly saw the assassin take out a short dagger from his pocket in horror.

"Be careful—" "Mr. Zhao!"

"There are assassins!"

"what--"

Several people shouted out almost simultaneously.

Zhao Xingde was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't realize what was going on, when he suddenly felt a hard bump on the back of his shoulder, and his blood flowed profusely.The assassin was aiming at the back of his heart, but he was knocked sideways by a tycoon next to him, and before he got up and stabbed a few more times, the surrounding gangsters had already pulled out all kinds of shiny weapons and long swords, Short sword, nine-ring ghost head knife, snowflake goose feather knife, and water-dividing thorn.Someone shouted: "Kill this kid!" "He's an assassin!" Several others scratched the people around them in desperation.The assassin was very good at himself, but he still couldn't defeat the enemies in all directions. He swung his dagger and stabbed him a few times, his right leg was kicked at the knee, and he knelt on the ground immediately.Almost in a moment, he was hacked a few more times, knowing that he was going to die, he stabbed wildly around like a cornered beast.

Someone shouted: "Keep alive!"

The assassin had suffered several wounds, but he was still extremely fierce.At this time, it is not easy for the high rollers in the rivers and lakes to be cruel.Everyone retreated a few steps and surrounded the assassin.He dared to assassinate Zhao Xingde, clearly he didn't take the hero from the southeast seriously, everyone hated him so much, they just waited to capture this person, they would use their own methods, even if he was an iron-clad arhat, he would have to be tortured to ashes to relieve their hatred.Someone even said loudly: "How is Mr. Zhao's injury?" Then everyone turned to look at Zhao Xingde who was accidentally stabbed by the assassin.

"That's good!" Zhao Xingde said loudly, "Thank you everyone!"

Although half of his clothes were stained red with blood on his back, he moved his right arm lightly, feeling that no muscles or bones were injured, he separated from the crowd, walked to the front, stared at the assassin and said, "You and I don't know each other, who instigated you?" ?” At this time, Du Chuijiao and other sergeants rushed over anxiously, helping Zhao Xingde check the wound on his back with a pale face, while staring at the assassin viciously.

The assassin's complexion was slightly dark, his eyes did not look like a human, but like a wild beast that was 'forced' to a desperate situation, he looked at Zhao Xingde flickeringly, when he saw that Zhao Xingde was safe and sound, not only did he not show disappointment on his face , but grinned grimly: "It's good? The famous Zhao Yuanzhi died at the hands of a certain person. It's worth it for a life!" After speaking, he stabbed himself in the chest with a backhand knife.

"Not good!" All the heroes didn't expect this person to be so cruel to them, and they all rushed forward. Someone kicked the assassin's dagger away, but it was already too late. He quickly lost his spirit, but still had a sneer on his face, as if he was watching Zhao Xingde follow him to hell.The heroes didn't understand, "Ah! Ah!—" Someone yelled in horror: "His dagger is poisonous!"