The archery hall is located in the north of the city, covering an area of about three acres, and has a long and narrow archery range. Although the Song Dynasty generally emphasized culture over martial arts for a hundred years, after Jingkang, the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed.
A choice for every family.
Not to mention protecting the family and the country, I just want to save my own life, and even run faster than others when danger comes. I just want to have a little bit of power to protect my family in troubled times, and no longer fall prey to the swords of golden soldiers or thieves.
of pigs and sheep.
Various martial arts, sword and gun halls and archery halls quickly emerged in major cities north of the Yangtze River, and Xu's Archery Hall was also born in the bloody storm.
Chen Qing met Xu Ning, the owner of the museum, a middle-aged man about fifty years old. He spoke slowly and had a gentle tone. If he didn't see his face, he would be a gentle scholar, but when he saw his face and his gray hair,
Only then did he realize that his life was already filled with vicissitudes of life.
"I know you!"
Xu Ning's gaze was extremely penetrating, as if he had seen through all Chen Qing's secrets.
"Your head is worth a hundred thousand guan, and it can be called the best head in the world."
Chen Qing sneered, "Do you think the Golden Man will honor it?"
"Then you are wrong. The Jurchens always keep their promises, which is better than the Han people. They will honor their promises and at least reward you with a piece of land worth one hundred thousand guan."
"So you see a way to make a fortune?"
Xu Ning shook his head, "I don't need so much money. I am satisfied with two bowls of rice and a pot of tea every day to feed my disabled body."
Xu Ning slowly rolled up his sleeves, and his left hand was broken at the wrist.
Chen Qing's eyes froze, "This is..."
"Thanks to the Jurchens!"
Xu Ning sighed, "In the Jingkang Incident, I escorted the prince and the queen to the north. As soon as they left the city, the Jin came to rob them. I held on to the shaft of the carriage tightly, but the Jurchen cut off my left hand with a knife. When I woke up, I found that I had been killed.
Thrown in the pile of dead people, the prince has long disappeared... Later, I fled back to my hometown, opened this martial arts gym to make a living, and ended my life!"
At this point, tears welled up in the corners of Xu Ning's eyes. He wiped away his tears and continued: "I only hate that I was too weak at that time. Why didn't I grab a horse and escape with the prince? I only hate that I have no blood and dare not resist.
The dignified chief instructor of the Golden Spear Class was actually beheaded to death by a Jurchen soldier..."
At the end of the sentence, Xu Ning's chest rose and fell violently, and she was speechless and choked.
Chen Qing looked at him silently. He understood Xu Ning's pain. He had spent the past few years in self-blame. He was only in his forties and his hair was already gray.
"Actually, you still have a chance!"
"Chance?"
Xu Ning looked back at Chen Qing, "As a disabled person, what chance will I have?"
Chen Qing said lightly: "Since you can open a martial arts school, you can be the instructor of my army, teach my soldiers martial arts, help us drive away the Tartars, recover the Song Dynasty, and use your afterglow to burn it, you
I will die without regrets.”
Xu Ning's cloudy eyes gradually became brighter. He laughed, pulled out a short spear from the weapon rack and threw it to Chen Qing. He also took out one himself.
"I know you killed Wanyan Loushi. Let me see your shooting skills. You can use all your martial arts. Don't worry! You can't hurt me."
"Then I will be disrespectful!"
Chen Qing let out a low roar and swung his short spear, stabbing Xu Ning like a storm. Xu Ning stepped back and swung the short spear with one arm, like flowing clouds and flowing water, breaking Chen Qing's moves one by one.
Xu Ning smiled and said: "Since you are unwilling to use your full strength, then don't blame me for being rude."
His short spear drew an arc and stabbed at the outside of Chen Qing's right leg as fast as lightning. The place where it was stabbed was exactly where Chen Qing had been injured by an arrow before.
Chen Qing secretly screamed with vicious eyes, and he had to use all his strength, "Dang!" There was a loud noise, and Xu Ning's short spear could not be held firmly and was knocked away.
"Sorry, I used too much force!"
Xu Ning smiled slightly, threw the short spear to his apprentice, waved his hand and said: "Please sit down!"
The two were seated separately as guest and host, and a little maid served them hot tea.
Xu Ning smiled and said: "I found out that you don't know how to shoot. You're right!"
Chen Qing had to admire Xu Ning's vision. He really didn't know how to shoot. He used the technique of epee and turned it into marksmanship, so it was a bit nondescript.
"I have never practiced marksmanship, only swordsmanship!"
Xu Ning looked at Chen Qingdao: "Your swordsmanship is actually very simple. It is as fast as the wind and one sword is deadly. But in order to cover up, you added a lot of fancy moves. Think about it, you killed Wanyan Loushi.
Do you rely on these moves?"
Chen Qing nodded, "You are right. Against Wanyan Loushi, there is no chance to use these moves. Life and death are within one move. Of course, there is a strategy. I asked him to kill the war horse, but with one spear
Pierce his throat and win with speed."
"So throw away all those fancy moves. It's not necessary at all. Swords and guns are both weapons for killing people. As long as they are fast, it is enough. From the simplest of principles, any martial arts, strength and speed are king."
Seeing that Chen Qing was still hesitant, Xu Ning understood his thoughts and said with a smile: "I know more than a hundred sets of marksmanship, but actually it's just to make a living. In the officialdom, I can only let others see what I am doing."
You can’t tell me, but on the battlefield, either you die or I live. The Jurchens will not play tricks with you. All talk about being invincible is bullshit. One Jurchen sword is enough to kill you, do you understand?"
Chen Qing nodded. He completely understood. Before, he was a little worried that others would ridicule him for not being able to shoot. Xu Ning's words completely dispelled his worries.
Seeing that he understood very quickly, Xu Ning secretly praised the boy for being teachable.
"I will go to your military camp to report early tomorrow morning. As for the reward, it is enough for you to provide me with two meals a day. I will eat whatever the soldiers eat. There is no need to add extra meals for me!"
"Thank you sir for your generous help. In addition, I have a personal request!"
"I don't need to teach you martial arts anymore."
Chen Qing shook his head, "I don't mean marksmanship, but mounted shooting. I have never practiced mounted shooting. I only know how to shoot crossbows."
Xu Ning laughed and said, "You are the commander. It is enough to practice the crossbow to the extreme. You don't have to be able to ride and shoot."
Chen Qing smiled bitterly and said: "Wanyan Huonu and I have an sworn hatred. Sooner or later we will meet on the battlefield. If I don't know how to ride and shoot, I will die under his arrows."
"That's true. It's really dangerous to fight against the Jurchens if you don't know how to ride and shoot. Prepare your bows and horses. I'll come over tomorrow to teach you. To practice riding and archery, you must start with the foot bow."
Chen Qing thought of something and asked with a smile: "Does Master Xu have something to do with Shuibo Liangshan?"
"You are talking about the thirty-six people including Song Jiang who rebelled in Liangshan during the Xuanhe period!"
"It's them. Does Master Xu have any friendship with them?"
Xu Ning smiled slightly and said, "We can't be friends, but we did have dealings with them. In the third year of Xuanhe, I trained with the governor Zhang Shuye in Haizhou. It was in Haizhou that Zhang Shuye and I wiped out Song Jiang and others.
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Chen Qing returned to the military camp. Their military camp was still in the City God's Temple, and it was still the forty tents of the Jin soldiers. Chen Qing's general's tent was not big, it was the smallest tent, and it was also the command center of the entire army.
Dutou Zheng Ping and county magistrate Wei Qing were waiting for him in the tent.
"Is the search over?"
When Chen Qing saw these two people, he knew that there must be results from the house raid.
"Reporting to the commander, we caught a huge rat!" Zheng Ping said unable to hold back his excitement.
“Not only is it great, it’s amazing!”
Zheng Ping put a search list on the table and explained: "Li Huailiang's house is quite normal. Seven hundred shi of grain, 4,600 guan of money, 1,200 taels of silver, 300 taels of gold, and cloth were found.
Two thousand pieces of silk and satin, and several boxes of gold and jade jewelry. The key is the manor. We dug up three cellars and warehouses, 3,300 dan of grain, including the grain he embezzled a few days ago, and 20,000 dan of copper coins.
Eight thousand strings is simply shocking."
Twenty-eight thousand guan! Chen Qing was really shocked. He looked at the list and turned to Wei Qing, "County Magistrate Wei should know the reason!"
Wei Qing nodded, "I checked the county government records for the past two years. From the second year of Jingkang to the third year of Jianyan, the county collected the taxes normally for four years, but did not turn them over, whether it was the Song Dynasty or the Jin Dynasty.
, I didn’t see the record of the handover, so I asked the county official again. The county official said that at the beginning of the year, a group of Jin soldiers took away the money and carried away twenty cartloads of money and burned the treasury. I felt that there was something fishy about this.
many."
"Tell me more specifically!"
"General taxes bring money, but more of it is cloth, silk and grain. What the Jin soldiers robbed was only money, and almost all of it was iron money, because the people in Shaanxi did not have much copper money, but this time they dug out 28,000 copper coins.
All the money was copper coins, which meant that the cloth, silk and grain portion of the tax were sold privately by Li Boliang. He only wanted copper coins, and the money from the sale was hidden in the farm. If the commander needed it, he could thoroughly investigate the matter!
"
Chen Qing nodded, "It is indeed necessary to find out, but not necessarily now. The top priority now is to rent a house and place all the refugees sleeping on the streets before dark. I don't want another tragedy in which nearly a hundred people froze to death."