Because of what I saw that night, that night, the fourteen-year-old boy had bizarre dreams. The scene in the dream is red-faced, and it is real.
When he woke up the next morning, he was embarrassed. From a medical point of view, he naturally understood that this was a sign of good health, but the still ignorant young man felt ashamed. He had killed countless enemies on the battlefield, and now he was tempted by a yellow-haired girl who knew that he was an enemy. . Women are a curse, that's right.
Fortunately, I live alone now, and no one will find anything embarrassing. When I woke up, it was still before dawn, so I hurried to wash my trousers by the deserted river—to hide my eyes and ears—after a long time of washing, I thought that my martial arts skills were too low. After practicing for a few more years, the internal strength will be high, and the essence and blood will not be wasted like this. Well, you really have to practice hard.
Thinking like this, his subordinates tore through the clothes they were washing. This dress is made by my mother, and I have to find someone to mend it when I go back.
When I feel agitated, I can't control my strength. It is also a low-level performance of martial arts. After practicing for a few years, it will not be like this... Cultivating hard, practicing hard...
After washing the clothes with this kind of thought, I went back to the courtyard to do morning exercises at the beginning of the day, inner strength, boxing, swords and guns... The ancient city of Chengdu gradually woke up in such darkness, the thin mist floating in the sky, not long after dawn , there was a cart that sold steamed buns to call outside the hospital. Ning Ji went out to greet the boss halfway through his practice, and bought twenty steamed buns—he bought them every day, and he was already familiar with the boss, who would stay outside for a while every morning.
At this time, steamed buns, also known as cage cakes, are filled with stuffing, which is actually equivalent to the steamed buns of later generations. Twenty steamed buns are filled with a cloth pocket, which is equivalent to the amount of food for three or five people. Ning Ji bought breakfast and ate two at random before going back to continue exercising. After exercising, the morning sun had already risen in the sky of the city. He rinsed a little and changed into new clothes. Then he put on the cloth bag and left the yard while eating breakfast.
It was still early. Considering the situation last night, he went all the way to Yingbin Road in Mahachi, intending to catch an acquaintance of the intelligence department and secretly ask him for news about Duke Shan.
At this time, the Huaxia Army has occupied Chengdu, and it may be operated as the core of power in the future. Speaking of the intelligence department, it has already encircled the designated office space. But Ning Ji didn't plan to go over there to show off.
After the war, the Huaxia Army was understaffed, and the rear has been reorganizing and training the surrendered Han Army and placing prisoners of the Jin Army. Chengdu is currently in a state of opening to the outside world. Here, many forces are in a new period of trial and wrestling, either explicitly or implicitly. The Huaxia Army is monitoring the enemy in Chengdu, and various enemies may also be watching at the gates of various departments. With the Huaxia Army. Before the Huaxia Army has completely digested the results of this war, it is not surprising that there will be games, frictions, and even strife in Chengdu.
This is also an exercise for the Huaxia Army - the sphere of influence has expanded from one million to ten million, and the policy has to be opened to the outside world. This test will also be experienced in the future. Of course, it is also for this reason that although the conference is scheduled to be held in Chengdu, the only people the Ning family can stay in Chengdu at this time are their father, Aunt Gua, brother and themselves. Internal security, lest there will be any stunned young blood rushing up, desperately taking risks, and running over to find trouble.
Of course, on the other hand, Ning Ji doesn't want to let the Intelligence Department get involved too much in this matter at the moment - it's a slow affair, a weak woman with a ghost, a few silly old schoolboys, You can do it yourself anytime. If I really find a big shady story, I can still pull my brother and the first sister into the water, and then the brothers will work together to break the gold, so that they can't turn the sky.
Thinking like this, he came to the vicinity of Maha Pond while eating steamed buns, watching the crowds coming and going from Yingbin Road. There are many young people in the inner-level personnel of the Huaxia Military Intelligence Department, and Ning Ji knows a lot of them - this is also determined by the situation of the army in the past, but most of those who are capable of fighting have to be pulled into the battlefield, and those who stay in the rear include the elderly, children and women. , The trustworthy young people started to help pass the news, and later gradually became skilled insiders.
Hou Yuanyong trotted out from Yingbin Road at three o'clock in the morning, looked at the nearby pedestrians a little, and after figuring out a few suspicious figures, he also saw a young man walking through the crowd and making a concealed gesture. He walked towards the road on the side and walked a few streets before meeting each other in an alley.
Ning Ji was stuffing the steamed buns in his mouth into his mouth, and then handed him one: "The last one."
"I've eaten." Hou Yuanyong looked at the cloth bag that had been completely smothered by his side, and smiled, "Xiaoji, why don't you go in?"
"There are people watching outside, and I have nothing very important to do. Forget it. I came here this time to find you, Brother Yong."
"Um?"
"I want to check someone."
"Xiaoji, say it."
"An old man called 'Shan Gong' or 'Haoran Gong', a scholar, with a long face and a goatee, probably in his fifties..."
Ning Ji described the characteristics of the other party to Hou Yuanyong, Hou Yuanyong nodded while remembering, and when Ning Ji finished speaking, he frowned slightly: "Why investigate him, is there anything? If there is anything suspicious, I can make a report first. "
"No need now. If it's a big deal, I won't come here to block people."
"Well, good." Hou Yuanyong nodded. He naturally understood that although his identity was hidden after the war, the young man in front of him always had a way to communicate with the top of the Huaxia Army. people, apparently for confidentiality reasons. In fact, as soon as he listened to the information about the Shan Gong, he had an outline, but he still had to ask before he could answer.
"...If 'Shan Gong' and 'Haoran' were added to the title, it would be Guan Shanhai who entered the city at the end of May. I heard that he was an old Confucian scholar. I have published three articles in the newspapers here, and I heard that the morality article is very powerful, so it is indeed on the list of recent attention."
"A moral article..." Ning Ji was expressionless, scratching his cheek with his fingers, "I heard that he 'executes all the bulls' ears'..."
"The bull's ear can't reach him." Hou Yuanyong laughed, "But probably in the first few places, what's the matter... If someone brags about him like this, most of them want to ask him to do something."
"Did the Intelligence Department follow him?"
"There is no stalking. After all, it requires a lot of manpower. Unless it is determined that he may cause trouble, it will not be arranged. However, some basic situations should be recorded. Xiaoji, if you determine a direction, I can go back and ask. He has a big problem, you have to let me report it."
Ning Ji thought for a while: "I want to know who he usually interacts with, who are his helpers, and who will he go to if he wants to inquire about news."
"Understood." Hou Yuanyong nodded, "Make an appointment and try to give you news tonight."
After some discussion, the two agreed on a time and place to part ways.
At this time, the morning sun has become bright, and the streets and alleys of the city look peaceful. Ning Ji finished eating the steamed buns and sat on the side of the road to watch it for a while. The clanging carriages and horses accompany the stench of muddy water in the marketplace, the talking scholars walk through the simple crowd, the happy children hold the hands of their parents, and the martial artist on the other side of the street begins to shout... There is no bad guy anywhere. Come. But Ningji knew the real reason why her mother, aunt, and younger siblings could not come to Chengdu.
After the Southwest War, his mother took him to visit the widows of some comrades-in-arms who died in the war. The Huaxia Army has endured hardships for more than ten years. Seeing that the first great victory is imminent, these people sacrificed before the victory. The cry of their parents, wives, and children in their families is moving. After that, Ning Ji's mood went down, and others thought it was this visit that affected him.
But it's not just that. For thirteen- or fourteen-year-olds, fighting with the enemy on the battlefield, getting injured or even dying, all feels generous. When the heroes who were able to stand up and fight died, their families would feel sad and even hopeless. Of course, such emotions would infect him, but treating these family members as his own, there would always be a way to repay them.
But they then talked about the celebration in Chengdu.
Ning Ji originally thought that after defeating the Jurchen, it would be an open sky, but in fact it was not. Aunt Hongti, who is the most powerful in martial arts, wanted to stay in Zhang Village to protect her family. His mother and several other aunties came to persuade him not to go to Chengdu for the time being. Even his elder brother said the same thing to him. Ask why, because in the next Chengdu, there will be a more complicated struggle.
People in the world who neglected the power of the Huaxia Army in the past will come to test the strength of the Huaxia Army. Such and such Confucian scholars will come to oppose the rise of the Huaxia Army like Dai Mengwei and others. Those guys who are powerless in front of the murderous Jurchen will Tentatively trying to beat the autumn wind on the Huaxia army, and even want to come over and tear a piece of meat from the Huaxia army - and this difference is only because the Jurchen will kill them all, but the Huaxia army is the same as them. Han Chinese.
And countless civilians will choose to wait and see, waiting to win over.
This is what makes Ningji confused and angry.
why
They were beaten like pigs and dogs in front of the Jurchens, the Central Plains fell, the country was robbed, and the people were slaughtered. Isn't this because of their cowardice and incompetence
It was the Huaxia Army who defeated the Jurchens for them. Why do they still have the face to be hostile to the Huaxia Army
Their defeat was so obvious, so was the victory of the Huaxia Army. Why do losers keep their eyes open and talk nonsense
Isn't right and wrong clear
Why do those so-called gentlemen who are full of poetry and books, those scholars who are constantly called "Great Confucianism", can't distinguish the most basic right from wrong
Are they intentional? But at the age of fourteen, he could imagine that if he opened his eyes to someone and told nonsense, he would be flushed and embarrassed. I also read myself, the teachers said these things from the beginning, why do people become like that when they are forty, fifty, and sixty years old
"The Huaxia Army won, but he will lose in 50 years." Why is it that someone who has never won a game said such a thing? In the end what is it
Such thinking made him angry.
It was these things that made him understand that the heroes who fell in the war were only considered heroes in the Huaxia Army. There are millions of people in this world who do not understand, do not understand, and do not understand. Acknowledging their sacrifice and value, they will even fight against their side for the rest of the time.
The Huaxia Army is only a million people right now, but they have to fight against tens of millions or even tens of thousands of people. According to the elder brother and others, they must slowly change them and "request" them to understand their own thoughts. Then the war with the Jurchens will continue, the awakened ones will rush ahead, the awakened ones will die first, but those who have not awakened, they fail, complain, and wait for others to pull them.
Such a world is not right... In such a world, wouldn't it always be that the right people have to give more and more things, and the weak and incompetent people have no responsibility at all? The Huaxia Army made countless efforts and sacrifices to defeat the Jurchens. In the end, the Huaxia Army had to change them and save them. The Huaxia Army wanted to "beg" their "understanding", and in the end, there might be a good result. But in this way, doesn't it mean that the latecomers don't give anything, and everything is on the shoulders of the first givers
The awakened get good results, and the weak and filthy die. A fair world should be like this. Those people only twisted their hearts when they read books, and they became officials for selfishness and interests. They were too weak in the face of the enemy and couldn't work hard after being massacred. When others defeated the powerful enemy, they were still secretly thinking about it... these People, all deserve to die... Maybe many people will still live like this and still don't want to repent, but at least, it's not a pity for anyone to die.
For a 14-year-old boy, this feeling of "death and guilt" is of course "incompetent rage" that he cannot understand or change the other party's thinking. But it has indeed become the main theme of his thinking since this period of time. He gave up showing up and looked at the outsiders in the corner, just like looking at clowns.
These people have distorted minds, dirty minds, and meaningless lives. He doesn't care about them. It's just for the opinion of his father, brother, and family that he didn't kill them. He ran every night to monitor Wen Shoubin and Qu Longjun in the small yard, and naturally he had the same mentality.
Let's see what kind of twisted drama they're going to put on before they're found, and if they're found out, or the drama starts to get out of hand, kill them, they deserve to be killed anyway—he's so happy.
After watching it on the street for a while, Ning Ji set off to go to work at the martial arts conference.
At the same moment, Yan Daolun led Yu Hezhong to the Qunying Guild Hall at the south end of Yingbin Road and handed in the invitation. This place was used by the Huaxia Army to accommodate foreign guests. Now many people have lived in it, and the envoys sent from Liu Guangshi's side are also living here at this time.
"Wen Shuai" Liu Guangshi was very thoughtful, and the seasonal team he sent was bright and dark. On the bright side, he was the first force to make changes among the factions of the original Wu Dynasty. If the Huaxia Army wants to show sincerity There must be preferential treatment. However, considering the poor impression he had before, he also chose various dark lines, and the power in the dark was controlled by Yan Daolun.
A few days ago, Yan Daolun visited Li Shishi for the first time under the leadership of Hezhong. Yan Daolun was quite measured. After this kind of invitation was rejected, he found Yu Hezhong again and brought him to join the mission team on the bright side.
"The heroes of the southwest are now gathering, and the first batch of people from all walks of life have been placed here."
This Qunying Hall occupies a large area. All the way in, the road is spacious and the leaves are dense. It seems to be a bit better than the scenery in the north. In the gardens and flowers, people can be seen gathering in twos and threes with different costumes, or casually chatting, or looking at each other, with probing and caution between their eyebrows. Yan Daolun led Yu Hezhong in and introduced him to him.
"The one who was placed in the north and occupied the main seat was the team from Jindi, the female prime minister Lou Shuwan and the subordinates of the chaos teacher Wang Juyun. With a straight face, it's not easy to mess with. This time they will take the big head... Dongshou placed the Zuo family, Zuo Gong Zuo Xiuquan, Zuo Jiyun's right-hand man, they can be regarded as the Zuo's big housekeeper, they leaned on the left end You's Fuze has always been a peacemaker between the Huaxia Army and the Wu Dynasty. This matter of murdering the monarch cannot be reconciled. In the past, I had an old relationship with the Huaxia Army, so it's our turn next..."
"In today's Chengdu city, there are nothing more than three forces standing on the bright side. The Huaxia Army is the landlord and occupies one side. Like these, those who can still have a relationship with the Huaxia Army and get some benefits are the second. Fang. The Huaxia Army said that it wants to open the door, and to put it bluntly, it wants to win us over, so the first one to stand up will take some advantage in the following discussions, but the specific advantage depends on the way of talking. Brother, you went out for this matter..."
Yu Hezhong thought, "It really is." With a calm mind, he tentatively asked: "I don't know what the benefits of the Huaxia Army will be, what exactly will it be..."
"Technology." Yan Daolun lowered his voice, "Huaxia Army summoned all parties to come, and he secretly revealed some clues. At this Chengdu conference, Mr. Ning will not only sell things, but also sell some manufacturing techniques for things. You know, this is the hen that lays eggs..."
Yu Hezhong frowned: "This is a conspiracy. As a result, the people outside are divided, and the Huaxia Army can just do it."
"Brother Yu is thorough, I can see it." Yan Daolun smiled and said, "This is the case in the world, the Huaxia army has the upper hand, and he is willing to take out the benefits, everyone will go their own way and get what they need. Such as Dai Mengwei, Wu Qimei, etc. Those who were at odds with the Huaxia army earlier, although they sent people to destroy the conference, who knows who they sent to pretend to be traders to take advantage? General Liu is more likely to get benefits from the Huaxia Army."
He smiled and paused: "Looking at ancient and modern history, the game of the Three Kingdoms is the most interesting. The strong can be weak, and the weak can be strong. It is precisely because of the chaos that it happens that your son and I have made achievements and won some merits. This is what Yan said from the bottom of his heart, and he made a contract with his brother Yu, so he said it, whether it is reasonable or not, please ask your brother, and do not spread it."
Yu Hezhong nodded solemnly. The other party's words were also in his heart. If it weren't for the current situation, if it weren't for the karma that he and the teacher happened to forge, how many connections could he have with the world in Hezhong? Woolen cloth? Now that the Huaxia Army wants to win over outsiders, Liu Guangshi wants to stand up first and ask for some benefits. He is in the middle, and it happens that both sides are helping. All in all its beauty.
Thinking of this, the leader of the embassy has already greeted him from the other side of the hall. This is a high-ranking official under Liu Guangshi's command. Afterwards, the group went in and introduced many celebrities under Liu Guangshi's command to Yu Hezhong. These big figures in the past gave Hezhong a compliment, and then they all summed up and said the envoy's expectations for this mission: gun technology, iron smelting technology, gunpowder technology... If the situation is ideal, of course what is it? All of them, at worst, I hope I can buy back a few important technologies.
Yu Hezhong, who was originally held in high spirits, just fell from the cloud and thought to himself, aren't you bluffing me? Hope I get so much back through my teacher-teacher relationship? Are you crazy or is Ning Yi crazy? Thinking like this, in the discussion of the crowd, his heart became more and more uneasy. He knew that after talking here, he must bring a few important people to visit the teacher. If Shishi knew about this and closed the door for him, it would be difficult for him to be an ordinary person when he returned home...
"Actually... The younger brother and the teacher girl are just some childhood affections, and they can say a few words. Regarding these things, the younger brother dared to ask the teacher girl to pass on a message and think of a way, but... After all, it is family. It's hard to say whether the teacher girl has such a position in the Huaxia army now... Therefore, I can only give it a try... I try my best... "
After everyone discussed it for a while, Yu Hezhong finally couldn't help it. He opened his mouth and said these words. All the big figures in the clubhouse smiled, looked at each other, and looked at Yu Hezhong's eyes, all of them kind and close.
“Natural nature…”
"Just do your best..."
"Brother Yu worked hard..."
"There's no need to be burdened, whether it happens or not..."
Everyone said a lot of righteous words, and then two representatives were selected, and they followed Yu Hezhong and visited the teacher girl in the past.
While handing in the famous post and waiting for a reply, Yu Hezhong's entire shirt was soaked through...