Chapter 1119 Jin Temple
On the tenth day of April, the convoy just passed Jinyang and the rain suddenly arrived.
A small earthen city with a military town appeared in front of me. I don’t know if it was the garrison of a certain Longxiang Mansion.
When the drizzle first fell, a yellow-brown water glow appeared on the earthen wall.
The garrison brought reed mats to cover the wall one by one. The raindrops meander down along the grid of ramie ropes, forming water curtains.
The soldiers had already put on straw raincoats, and the armor under them was shining with a cold light. They were leisurely in their minds, leaning on various weapons such as spears, spears, and halberds, and quietly looking into the distance.
The valleys of all sizes in the distance turned into ink balls of varying depths in the rain, and the pine willows drew a blue-gray arc in the wind. Sheep and horses neighed in the mountains, and the shepherd nervously drove away the livestock, looking for a shelter from the rain.
The rain is getting heavier and heavier, gradually becoming a surging force.
The water diversion canals on both sides of the post road began to rush and turbid currents, mud and water wrapped in fallen leaves and grass chips flooded through the wooden gates and continued to wash forward.
"Moo..." The wheels of the ox cart were deeply trapped in the softened loess and could not be pulled no matter how hard it was. The driver in the straw raincoat was furious and was about to urge him, but he was stopped by Wu Qiu Lu.
He called someone and said, "The Longxiang Mansion in Jinci is ahead. You go and negotiate, and then ask Duke Dai and Madam Tai to go to the city for a while. Let me explain it to the people in the military mansion that there are noble people in the convoy."
"Yes." This person understood and quickly disappeared into the rain.
Not long after, a chief of the clan of the Longxiang Mansion of Jinci sent a minister to receive it. "Where is the governor of the army?" asked Lu Qiu Lu. "I'm going to Luoyang to go to the market." The chief of staff replied.
"The chief minister went in person?"
"It's a turn." The chief waved his hand and called out more than ten government soldiers, led the convoy into the military city, and said, "The chief supervisor, the chief general, the deputy chief general and even me must take turns to lead the team."
Jiuqiu Lu nodded.
After the convoy entered the city, the caravan drivers, grooms, guards and even the brigade of Xianbei cavalry could only live in a somewhat dilapidated wooden camp outside. I heard that they lived temporarily before the military city was built, and they were almost abandoned, and now they were full of miscellaneous things.
Qiuqiu Lu personally came to the two most gorgeous carriages, looked at Duke Tuoba Shiyijian and Mrs. Wang who got off the car one after another, and said, "The rain is quite heavy, Duke Dai and Mrs. Dai can take a break here tonight."
The twelve-year-old Tuoba Shiyijian is quite tall, with a faint fluff on his mouth, and looks like a young man who is about to grow up. When he heard the words of Qiqiu Lu, he did not answer, but asked in a rough voice, "Where to live?"
The chief of the cemetery watched coldly, and stepped forward after hearing this, saying, "Duke Dai, please follow me."
Tuoba Shiyijian followed directly with a straight face, with more than ten young men surrounding him. "Madam..." Wu Qiu Lu said again. "Live here." Mrs. Wang nodded and walked forward.
The Central Constable Xuan Huai followed closely with palace servants and eunuchs. Some of them hold umbrellas, some hold daily necessities, and some hold two children, one older and one younger.
The older one was a girl, who looked five or six years old, with her small braids that were common on the grassland, and her little face was blushing and very cute.
The younger one is a boy, about two or three years old, wearing a high felt hat on his head, which looks a bit funny. At this moment, he is constantly looking at the surroundings with his big eyes open, obviously very curious.
The entire convoy, including Dai Gong, Mrs. Wang and the Xianbei nobles who were escorted by troops, were not as important as these two children, at least in the eyes of Wuqiu Lu.
Mrs. Wang and her group lived in an independent courtyard. It is said that it is the daily office of officials of Longxiang Mansion in Jin Temple. It also serves as a palace, which stores military records, account books, hay, grain and other things. It has dozens of large and small houses. In fact, this military city is not big, and the streets can be seen at a glance. Most of the soldiers living in the countryside outside the city.
Mrs. Wang lived in the innermost room and entered, and was only separated by a street from the city wall. There was even a loft built in the middle of the courtyard wall, called "Baifenlou" - in fact, there was no Baifen at all.
Baifen Tower is a typical military-purpose building.
You can climb high to see the enemy situation, suppress enemy crossbows, or use as a high platform for command. At this time, a large flag with the character "liang" hanging on it, which has wet the rain and is tightly wrapped around the flagpole.
Wang stepped on the creaking wooden railings and climbed up the steps.
Maids, eunuchs, and guards followed behind, not daring to ask more questions. This woman cleans up another group of officials in February, and her power is beyond the reach of ordinary people.
The rain was still falling, but it was a little lighter.
The garrison soldiers on the hundred-foot floor had already withdrawn. Wang stood on it, blew the south wind full of moisture, his clothes fluttered, and he was a little lonely in the coldness.
There are green fields in the distance.
Irrigation canals are densely packed, introduced from the Fen River and its tributaries, repeatedly nourishing the fertile land.
There are farmers working in the fields. They waved their hoes and spread a large hole in the ridge of the field, and the turbid mud and water poured out and poured into the irrigation canal.
Fenshui seems to have a little temper. The water was vigorous and rustling, repeatedly hitting the embankment.
The Stone Beast of Zhenshui looked at the surging waves coldly, as if as long as it was here, Fenshui would not be angry and could only serve others obediently.
The confusing rain and fog gradually rose in the pine forest, sometimes mixed with clamor.
The post road winds forward from the edge of the forest, and a group of soldiers wearing straw raincoats and mansions hang their steel knives on their waists, as if they have just returned from another place.
Behind them, a Ma Yi team, led a tired pack horse, donkey and mule.
The pack beast was almost overwhelmed because it had not only food, equipment, armor on its back, but also other things, such as spoils. The soldiers in the palace were very excited, and almost all the jokes could be heard from the military palace.
As approaching, a group of young men held umbrellas and rushed towards their father and brother, talking and laughing, and being intimate.
The soldiers who had just gone to commit the murder of the house suddenly became gentle.
Someone took the cheese from the horse's back and handed it to the child, laughing at them as they were satisfied.
Someone took out a piece of colorful silk from the box, the child took it, and then rushed to a house outside the military city and shouted loudly. When the woman who was picking vegetables saw her, her eyes lit up and she looked at her husband with a shy look.
Another people picked up a set of leather armor covered with blood and gun holes and put it on the spot. The son's face was childish, but he was almost as tall as his father's shoulders. Their lives have reached a new level compared to their parents, and they are destined to grow taller and stronger than their parents.
The young man wearing leather armor begged his father to lend him a knife, then threw the umbrella, and slashed it a few times in the rain, looking straight and looking pretty, obviously he had practiced it.
After a moment, he ran to his own team and took over a heavy wooden shield.
The shield surface is full of crisscrossing scratches. The young man raised the shield with his left hand, protected his chest with his knife with his right hand, slanted across his forehead, and stepped heavily on the ground. When he moved forward, mud and water splashed everywhere, full of momentum.
When the soldiers saw this, they burst into laughter and joked that he would practice for a few more years.
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Yes, how can a soldier train be that simple?
Some people say that Ding Zhuang is recruiting and fighting constantly. After a few battles, those who survive will be qualified soldiers. But if you have a choice, are you willing to recruit tshuai or are these teenagers who have practiced various skills since childhood for at least ten years?
Is the effect really the same when they fight?
Wang retreated his gaze and looked into the city.
There are only two "streets" in the north and south military city, and more than ten stores are scattered.
Someone hurriedly ran into a certain residence with a piece of rain cloth. After talking to the owner, I took a small string of copper coins, then took the empty bamboo basket and left in the rain.
A woman was holding an umbrella and whispering outside the residence. After a while, the shop owner carefully counted twenty chickens and put them into the basket at the woman's feet.
The woman did not leave, but continued to say something. This time the sound was a little loud, and words such as "expensive" were faintly heard.
The shop said patiently that his father was sick again, and he had to hunt for a few days after entering the mountain. Finally, he finally agreed to put a large piece of smoked meat into another basket of women.
After the woman left, the store had no business for a while, so she sat in the corridor to organize the bird feathers.
Not long after, a strong warrior walked over, and after a conversation, he bought Tooba all.
There are also grain shops, oil mills, cloth shops, etc. in the city, and people come to buy various things from time to time.
A small military city has everything, and it seems that there is a fixed group of people who buy food, meat, eggs, cloth, firewood and other essential things.
From this point of view, the system of government soldiers established by the man seemed to be working very well, at least the government soldiers did not make a living because they often went to war. They can still live for the time being, and they can even be said to be doing well.
It was at this time that Wang knew who had bought the bird feathers, animal tendons, skins, honey, medicinal materials, horses and even slaves in Mayi and Yunzhong counties.
She remembered that the nobles in the grassland fought and often recruited men above the wheel to bring their own weapons and horses to go to war. But can such a chaotic team really fight?
Perhaps, there is no need for so many soldiers to fight. If a group of warriors can afford meat, armor and equipment, have slaves to help with their work, and use official titles and wealth to motivate them, they can defeat more than several times the mob.
Mrs. Wang sighed softly.
A small Jin Temple Longxiang Mansion can recruit more than a thousand elite soldiers, and there are several times the number of reserve soldiers. Although these people are not elite, they are not comparable to those temporarily recruited peasant soldiers.
How many such Longxiang Mansions are there in this world? Mrs. Wang didn't dare to think about it anymore.
She knew very well the purpose of the man calling her past, that is, to beat and scold her.
The attack on Tuoba Yihuai has not passed.
Man supports and helps her, but also restricts her. The relationship between the two is really difficult for outsiders to figure out how complicated the relationship is.
If there were any punishments for blame, beating, scolding, or even other embarrassing punishments this time, she would have to bear it.
The rain gradually stopped, and a ox cart drove past the street and stopped in the yard.
A man jumped out of the car, took out a thick thread-bound book from his bag, and shouted: "The books sent by Taiyuan Bookstore are one of Longxiang Mansions, come and take them away."
A moment later, the chief of the subordinate who had previously led them appeared in the courtyard, negotiated with the visitor, and signed and sealed the letter. "In a while, there may be Meng Yangshu and Yunshu. It's time for you, Longxiang Mansion, to invite someone to teach you to study." The person who came smiled.
"This is not easy to find." The chief of the department, smiled bitterly, "If you don't let Taiyuan Martial Arts send someone over." "The emperor nodded." The person who came smiled and said, "Let's go." The chief of the department, sent him to the door and returned for a long time.
Mr. Wang went downstairs and stopped looking.
She has come to Zhongyuan many times and pays attention to the people's sentiments, but now she is a little confused...
(This chapter ends)