Chapter 68: Ten Masters of Kanto?
From Biayang to Nanyang, go northwest along the Southeast Avenue, and you can reach it in one day.
This road is an ancient road with a military significance and is well maintained. At least in Jiang Feng's opinion, the car Ju Zi and the others would not be too bumpy.
Jiang Feng found that he also liked to look at problems from the perspective of later generations.
Important post roads like this have good road conditions. If a four-wheeled carriage can be developed, it will undoubtedly increase its transportation capacity and speed a lot.
Especially when magic and magic are booming and the technology of iron smelting and casting has greatly improved, if there is another breakthrough in creativity, it will undoubtedly have a really unimaginable driving effect on the development of this era.
If this driving effect is applied to one side, it will increase its strength much faster than other vassal forces.
Jiang Feng also felt that it was necessary to communicate some opinions with the Daozang Institute in this regard, and guide them to explore some related magic research, such as magic smelting, casting and forging, and some improvements to the plant system in wood-based magic to see if there is any possibility of some unexpected gains in this time and space.
For example, some attempts and breakthroughs in water system magic can be seen to see if it can be helpful to production in hydraulic transportation and hydraulic kinetic energy. Although these are somewhat inconsistent with our original time and space situation, they are still interoperable in many principles, and even similar in work.
Both Cy Tie and Ju Li discovered the strangeness of Jiang Feng when he was on the road this day.
Jiang Feng spoke a lot along the way, especially watching the scenery and commenting on the customs and customs along the way, like a child who was full of curiosity and never left the house. However, on the journey from Biyang to Nanyang, Jiang Feng seemed to be very worried and often distracted.
When Jiang Feng and his party arrived in Nanyang, Su Tie quickly found Chu Qi who had been waiting here. After several months of separation, Chu Qi, Su Tie, Jiang Feng and even Ju Qi were a little excited.
At this time, Jiang Feng and the others realized that Nanyang was really different from the last time they came. Even though it was already dark when they entered the city, there were no signs of the city gates in Nanyang City, and there were still many people and business trips coming and going.
If Chu Qi had not come to Nanyang a few days in advance to rent a lodging place, Jiang Feng and his group would have been unable to find a lodging place they like.
This time, Jiang Feng and the others could not stay in Ying Guesthouse again. They had to cover up their identities and hide their travels, so they also chose a small courtyard in the west of the city with good conditions but slightly off-site location.
It is also of irrelevant intention to rent this courtyard. According to Wuwentang’s intelligence network planning, Nanyang will also be a business focus. This courtyard can be used as a contact and contact reception desk for future scouts, or as an intelligence exchange station, and everything depends on future needs.
Jiang Feng looked at Chu Qi with excitement and felt a little moved. He looked up and down at Chu Qi before nodding. Su Tie even slapped Chu Qi to see if they had any changes.
The four personal guards selected by Jiang Feng, Zhang Wanshan and Su Tie, were slightly older, two or three years older than Chu Qi and Chen Shi. However, Chen Shi was the most outgoing person in terms of personality and had the closest relationship with Zhang Wanshan. Both Su Tie and Chu Qi had the kind of calm and down-to-earth personality, so the two were more like each other.
These four people were not very good at martial arts at the beginning, but after becoming Jiang Feng's personal guard, Jiang Feng also knew that the four people would become the most important line of defense around him in the future, so he spared no effort to teach the four people the most beneficial skills of the Tiger and Bear Squatting in the Five Animals.
But the four people also have a slight difference in talent. For example, Chu Qi and Su Tie have the best talent in martial arts practice, Chen Shizhi and Zhang Wanshan are the second.
Since Cypress has been by Jiang Feng's side, it has entered the country the fastest, and it started slightly higher than others. Now Cypress has entered the marrow cleaning stage.
Although Chu Qi's basic foundation was slightly inferior to that of Cyprus, after the attack on Bianliang, he stayed in Bianliang, focusing on hard work, and with Chang Kun's guidance, he made his progress faster and was already a warrior in the marrow cleaning stage.
In contrast, Zhang Wanshan, who had the best foundation, fell behind a lot in the entry because of his complicated affairs and his interest in the use of magic weapons.
"Chu Qi, your recovery is good, how about Chen Shi?" Jiang Feng also took his pulse to check Chu Qi's qi and blood condition, nodded. Chu Qi's martial arts practice did not fall, and he entered the country very quickly.
"Chen Shi is very good. He has been familiar with the situation in Bianliang with Lord Chang. He told the public that he is a disciple of Lord Chang and is now very familiar with the local snakes in Bianliang City." Chu Qi replied.
Chen Shi's personality is naturally suitable for foreign communication, especially when he was young, he traveled around the world. After seeing it many times, he is very capable of getting along with others in terms of temperament.
"His martial arts skills have not fallen?" Jiang Feng saw that Chu Qi did not mention this aspect, and probably this guy Chen Shi must not be as good as Chu Qi.
"Well, he still works very hard, but because Lord Chang urged him very tightly and often took him around, it might be a little bit worse." Chu Qi quickly answered, and he didn't dare to hide it from Jiang Feng in this regard.
"Hmph, it's not a little bit worse, I'm afraid it's a lot worse?" Jiang Feng shook his head.
Everyone has their own luck, and Chen Shi himself has to be more impetuous. If the outside world is more tempted, it will not be easy to calm down and practice martial arts. However, this is also related to the tasks he assigned to him and Chang Kun. In the future, Bianliang will be an aid to the side of Xuzhou. There are many times when dealing with it. You need to grasp the changes in the situation in Bianliang at any time, so you can't blame him.
Chu Qi was not easy to answer Jiang Feng's question, so he could only remain silent.
Jiang Feng did not go into it in depth. Everyone has limited energy. It is not realistic to expect everyone to become an all-round strong man. For example, Zhang Wanshan has already devoted more energy to how to expand the Wuwen Hall. If you ask him to spend too much energy on martial arts practice, it will be impossible.
Among these four personal guards, it is estimated that only Chu Qi and Su Tie can achieve some attainments in martial arts practice, and Su Tie may not necessarily be in the future. Only Chu Qi has a relatively simple mind and may have the deepest attainments.
"Dalang, come to Nanyang for a few days first. What is the situation in Nanyang?" Su Tie also intended to change the topic.
"Just report to the lord." Chu Qi said seriously: "This wine-making hero will be much larger than the previous sessions, and the scope will be much larger. It should be the first fire burned by Liu Han after taking office as the prefect of Nanyang. It is said that he has also received the approval of Liu Tong. He is preparing to reselect the new four sons of Guandong, and expand the four sons into the ten heroes of Guandong, and it must be divided into ten heroes of Wen and ten martial artists. According to the city rules, the children of the ten heroes of the vassal family are not allowed to be selected. The children of the gentry and prominent families can only account for at most half. The candidates for the ten heroes can be selected at will. Nanyang, Huaibei, Wu and Yue can be selected as the four families as long as they enter the top 50, which also aroused enthusiastic response from the people."
The previous selection of the Four Kanto sons was to have both literary and martial arts, so many literati and martial artists were difficult to be selected. Although they focused more on martial arts, at least you should have a certain literary talent. This is actually a disguised tilt towards the children of the clan. After all, ordinary martial artists can only specialize in one subject, and it is unlikely that they can practice two at the same time.
"Oh? The four sons have become ten heroes? They also need to provide opportunities specifically for the common people. How many families can choose to become officials?" Jiang Feng was surprised: "Is this proposed by Nanyang?"
Whose idea is this? It’s quite clever. Nanyang is a place where gentry and gentry gathered. It has always discriminated against common people. How could it be so open?
"This is said to be discussed internally by the Four Sons of Guandong themselves, but it is unclear who came up with it and how to operate it. However, it is said that this news had been circulated in the Central Plains Heshuo, Jingchu, Jianghuai and Wuyue at least three months ago, and even in Guanlong and Sichuan. I have walked around inquire about it in the past few days. The data of the applicants said that there were more than a thousand people, from all over the place, and the farthest from the Western Regions, Mobei, and Khitan."
Chu Qi obviously put in some effort, and it was not easy to achieve this in just a few days.
"In other words, it may not be Nanyang, but it may have been proposed by several other places?" Jiang Feng nodded slightly.
The Nanyang clan's powerful clan has a strong force, and rashly changing the rules, which will lead to a rebound in the clan's clan's forces. It will only be more than worth the loss. Liu Tong may not dare to take this risk easily, unless it was Liu Xuan's intention, but how could Liu Han shook the flag and shout for Liu Han?
In the other three places, the Shi family is now overwhelmed by ant thieves, and I'm afraid there is not much intention to do this gimmick. It's hard to say about Wu and Yue, the situation is unclear and it is impossible to judge.
"I don't know yet, but the news is indeed a quarrel everywhere, especially the common people are very excited and very enthusiastic." Chu Qi pondered for a moment, "I have asked roughly in the past few days. The most people came were in Heshuo, followed by Daliang, and there were also many in Longxi and Liangchuan."
Jiang Feng frowned. Heshuo was the most common, which shows that the situation in Heshuo was not good. Heshuo has always been a big helper for Daliang. However, the three towns of Heshuo have always been a dog biting a dog's mouth. Once it starts, it will not stop until the dog's brain is irritated. Even Daliang cannot interfere. In recent years, Heshuo has either floods or drought plagues. The situation is very bad, so it is normal for many people to come out of these places.
"Dalang, didn't you say that you can participate in the same magic method?" Su Tie asked Jiang Feng's most concerned issue.
Chapter completed!