Chapter 73 News
Chapter 73 News
Crossing the Gobi rocky beach and walking through the wild jungle, the official roads are getting more and more dilapidated. There are a few sections of the road where the rammed earth of the roadbed is almost invisible, and only a few deep ruts are left to expose the wind and frost of the years.
The convoy and the people followed Mr. Li for a few more days, and on the evening of the third day, they finally saw a dilapidated military post beside the official road in the distance.
The postman was a skinny old soldier with half of his arm broken, and he brought a half-sized boy who was so dirty that he couldn't tell his face to work. Seeing Master Li huddled in front of him and surrounded by thousands of younger brothers, how could he dare to show his slickness and laziness? ?He just put up his energy and sent that kid around, while he fawned on a few noblemen's entourage and served him attentively.
As for the noble master, it's not his turn to be served by a little postman like him.
While he was busy making tea and serving water, arranging carriages and horses, and directing the kitchen stove, he suddenly heard the sound of galloping horseshoes outside, and a hoarse noise shouted at the throat: "Dragon Yu Bintian, The world is pure! The new emperor is enthroned, and the reign name is Yuanhe! Vega is added to the sea, and the barbarians are scattered!"
After a while of neighing horses, a knight staggered in.
He was dusty, stubbled, and extremely tired.A white scarf was wrapped around his head, and he was wearing the dirty and old gray jacket of the Dayan army uniform. A small flag was planted on his back, and the four sides of the top were wrapped in blue and silk. The original white background had been stained gray and yellow by the dust. On it, a few words that he chanted are being written in thick ink.
This seemingly exhausted cavalryman barged in, impatiently shouting for the postmen to change their horses and prepare meals, but he couldn't help but bump into a nobleman in extraordinary clothes with a group of servants, and then recalled the scene he saw just now outside the posthouse. There were a lot of people camping, his body froze, he saluted, and stood still with hands tied.
"Longyu Bintian, Lubu...success?!" Li Xian looked at the knight's nondescript attire and Lubu, and then thought about the notice on the cloth, his expression was inevitably a little weird.
Lubu is a piece of cloth with a brief order written on it, so that soldiers and men can ride four cloths and announce it to the world.
In the former Han Dynasty, the amnesty and redemption orders were all in the lower states and counties. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Lubu was mostly used for victory in wartime. The cavalry sent the Lubu flag on their shoulders and shouted all the way to announce the good news to the people.In this dynasty, it is mostly used for military success reports, but amnesty decrees that are related to the world and need to be announced to the public are occasionally announced in this way.
The old emperor is dead, his head is wrapped in a white scarf, and the world is normal, but after that, the new emperor will be enthroned, and it will be "Vega at home". Take it on your head without humility? !
Is using Lubu a funeral or a victory? !Really neither fish nor fowl, laughable and generous.
Well, while yelling that my father is dead, everyone is going to be sad, while bragging that I am in the top position, and scaring away Man Hu Quan... This kind of upright and shameless act is quite the style of his back then, except for his cheap brother-in-law, It is estimated that no one can do it.
It was probably because Zhong Er hadn't received it, and Zhou Dun couldn't hang on to himself the magic pen of General Zhong's Assassin King, so it was a helpless move, right?
The knight was a little embarrassed, and he stammered to explain: "Well, the red cloth and blue borders were supposed to be used for the victory of Lu Bu, but this is not the ascension of the previous emperor, er, that day, the new emperor ordered the world to be destroyed. Lubu can't be considered a success, yes, yes... that's right! The announcement is coming."
He didn't know a single word, and he was only memorized when passing orders in the Japanese army. If he had to explain the ins and outs in a slick and sour manner, it would kill him.
Li Xian nodded, took off the crown slowly, knelt down facing east, and shouted with a desolate expression: "The dragon controls the sky, the world is pure!"
The expression was miserable and desolate, like a dead father plus eighteen generations of ancestors, it is really commendable for their loyalty.
Lord Li lowered his head and squeezed his eyes quietly, but he couldn't squeeze any tears, so he covered his face and wept, regretting in his heart, if he had known such a thing, he should have hidden a piece of spicy ginger in his sleeve!
Everyone knelt down following the loyal Lord Li, and the postman and the knight quickly followed suit.
Several young servants sent orders to the left and right in unison, and the voice of grief spread from the inside to the outside of the post station, and the sound of weeping and mourning came faintly.
Although most of the people don't know the name of the reigning emperor, let alone who was replaced by them, but the barbarians invaded the country and the country was in turmoil, but the countrymen also felt it personally. It was not necessarily the emperor who was crying, but more Feeling sad and worried about the unknown future.
Master Li raised his voice and roared again: "The new emperor ascends the throne, and the reign name is Yuanhe! Vega will be added to the sea, and the barbarians will be scattered!"
After this sentence was spread to the outside world, the crying became much quieter, and the whispering voices increased. No one cared who the new emperor who was thousands of miles away from them was, and everyone quietly asked in pleasant surprise. Writer: Did the barbarians really retreat?The emperor will never lie, right?Can I go back to my hometown? !
Lord Li wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and with the support of the strong and heroic servants beside him, he stood up staggeringly, "wiping away the tears" while sobbing and rewarding: "Shi Ping, show this soldier a reward. It's really rare to do anything."
Turning around, he said to the postman again: "Bring me good meat and vegetables, and put them all on my account. Reward this soldier well."
The cavalry commander beamed with joy, and bowed to thank: "Thank you, my lord, but I don't know your surname is Gao, how should you call me?"
This noble son is dressed in the robes of a seventh-rank military officer, and the left and right servants are capable, and the servants outside, who don't know if they are the master's servants, are afraid of no less than two to three thousand people, which is really scary. Although he doesn't know who the noble is, he looks like an official. Although it is not too big, but this posture——
His little ant-like riding order, no matter what, he dared not neglect it in the slightest.
What's more, this extravagant lord has a big hand, and you can know the reward seal as soon as you pinch it. It's hard and heavy. I'm afraid there are two or two silver collars inside?
"Well, my surname is Li. I'm the new Lieutenant of Xiwu, and I'm going to Pinglu. It's still ten months before I leave the capital. Halfway through, I encountered barbarians and bandits. It's really thrilling. Now the news of the capital has been cut off for a long time. I don't know..." Mr. Li sighed, and asked about the recent affairs of the cavalry commander in the capital, anyway, he couldn't ride a horse at night, so it's better to give some news in detail.
He bowed to the riding order, even for the sake of the silver collar, he would like to explain it to the nobleman with all his heart.
At the beginning, he was still a little restrained, Shiping Silu asked questions curiously, Yan Qing brought a cup of hot tea with a smile, and just glanced at the flabbergasted man, almost scalding his mouth in shock.This cavalry order is a braggart and talkative person, after this warm hospitality, while eating and drinking, he suddenly poured out all the big and small things in the capital that he knew in his stomach, in every detail.
Li Xianchu still listened attentively, but later on he heard the cavalry order was upside down, and it was nothing more than those things, so he stopped listening carefully. Compared with his previous life, he saw the situation in Beijing almost as if he were observing his own palm prints. .
According to Qi Lingkou, the days in the capital city this past month have been turbulent and continuous, with twists and turns and desperate escapes.
At the beginning, hundreds of thousands of barbarian troops rushed into the city and besieged the city. They were brutal and murderous, and the peasants and peasants who had no time to escape were either hacked or taken into slavery. Life would be worse than death.
"...The land in the suburbs of Beijing is black and red, and I don't know how many people's blood has been soaked." Qi Ling said at this time, his face was still pale, and his fingers trembled slightly, "Manhu are all beasts! Surrounded for a few days, there is always plenty of grain in the capital, but outside the countryside, where there is not much grain in the village farmer's house, the gang of beasts seized the elderly, children, and delicate girls as "two-legged sheep" and threw them away. Go to the stone mill... After the savages have retreated, the stone mills of many families in the suburbs of Beijing still have severed limbs and flesh..."
When he said this, his face turned blue, and he took a sip of the fried tea in front of him with trembling hands, looked at the generous Lord Li uneasily, and said apologetically, "I don't know the importance, I talk nonsense and disturb the nobleman." Listen clearly. It's true, it's true, the people are too miserable..."
Li Xian's expression gradually became serious, and his heart seemed to be clogged with thick black blood.
The person beside him was breathing heavily, his hands clenched into fists, and trembling.
Li Xian took his hand gently and quietly, and slowly pulled away the fist that was tightly gripped and bloody on the palm of his hand.
He tilted his head slightly, and said in a low voice: "It's not your fault....There is always a chance that these beasts will pay with their blood."
What the cavalry order said later basically corresponded to what he had heard in his previous life.
The general guarding the city was afraid of the enemy like a tiger and dared not go out to fight. He only guarded the ten gates with the forbidden army. The city was shocked three times a day and became a mess.On the second day of No. 20 of the besieged city, the food stored in the homes of the poor had already been exhausted, and all the grain stores and shops were closed. I don't know how many people were killed by starvation.
The stench in the city was overwhelming, and there were bleak cries everywhere. Everyone was terrified, just fearing that one day the fortified city would not be able to withstand it, and barbarians would come in. It would be a place where everyone would die without a burial.
There was a commotion in the Tudi barbarian army, and the barbarians broke into chaos by themselves, fighting each other, and then retreated inexplicably.
Hundreds of thousands of people in the city wept with joy, rejoicing for God's blessing, and escaped from birth, but the old emperor died in surprise and joy, and the capital was in chaos again, fighting for the high chair.
Later, when the capital was in turmoil, King Hejian, who had been in the feudal clan since the beginning of the year, unexpectedly led his troops to kill him, and King Qin escorted him...
"The prince, bah bah! The little one said it wrong, it was the waste prince who was given the national surname and confined in the Jingjiao village, and the fifth prince was sent to the court prison..." Qi Ling lowered his voice and cast his eyes. Glancing around, he whispered: "In a few days, people 'disappeared'. Today's emperor is the original emperor's seventh son, King Hejian, and now Emperor Yuanhe."
"I see." Master Li nodded, and the man beside him had also calmed down, quietly holding Master Wei Liang's hand under the table.
Yan Qing took the teapot and filled it up for the cavalry order again, so that the cavalry order hurriedly stood up, thanking the little brother repeatedly.
Seeing the displeasure on the nobleman's face, he racked his brains to think of a strange news, at this moment he could make the nobleman smile.
"Lord Li, speaking of the breaking of the siege of the capital city, although the emperor announced to the world, 'Weijiahai, Manhu retreat! There are also many legends."
"Oh?" Master Li responded casually, holding those big hands behind his back.
Well, I can probably hear the good news today.
The horseman lifted his spirits up, but suppressed himself, looked around, and whispered: "Master Li, you are a nobleman, you must have heard the name of my Yan frontier fortress Beiwei, Tianshui Guanzhong, the great general? , Said that he was defeated, collaborating with the enemy and treason, let the first emperor confiscate his family, those of the three clans were imprisoned, those of the exile were exiled, and his descendants were not servants of the general Zhongsu Zhong."
"I know." Lord Li nodded, and held the hand of someone whose whole body was starting to stiffen.
Qi Ling leaned over his head, his haggard and tired eyes suddenly glowed under the oil lamp, he suppressed his joy, and said in a low voice: "It is said that General Zhong is not dead, nor has he surrendered to the enemy. This time the barbarian army will retreat. , because General Zhong slaughtered the barbarian leader in Mandi, and Manhu fought among himself in order to fight for the position, and hurried back to Mandi to grab the throne of that leader!"
There was a loud bang, but the man next to Mr. Li rushed forward and kicked over the bearded chair beside him.
He stared, grabbed the lapel of the riding order, and asked in a trembling voice: "You, you, are you serious?!"
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