"A thousand cups of wine is too little to meet a close friend, and half a sentence is too much to say no to speculation." This statement is only half true when applied to Ma Hanshan and Meng Lianggon. Although they drank a lot, Ma Hanshan would definitely not treat Meng Liang, who he had just met,
Gong is considered a confidant. However, they do have many common topics, which is why they talk so much.
When the wine was almost finished, Ma Hanshan glanced at Qin Nanyue who was accompanying him. The Qin Nanyue man understood and refilled his and Meng Lianggon's wine glasses.
"Young General, I also admire General Meng very much. I also want to toast General Meng. If he is not here, you can take it on your behalf." Qi Nanyue picked up the wine glass and said.
"You...who are you...oh...forgive me, I...I neglected you, brother...Thank you for your help and fighting side by side with me on Snake Mountain. This cup...this cup should be my toast to brother...to you..." Meng
Liang Gong was almost drunk. He hugged Qi Nanyue and kept thanking his brother who fought side by side with him.
"Don't dare...don't dare...you are the queen of the generals, you are the major general, and I am just a commoner..." Qi Nanyue smiled and drank a drink with Meng Lianggon, and said while refilling the drink, "Major general, what you just said
General Meng is leaving Beijing again. Is there another war somewhere? Do you want General Meng to take command and go out?"
The look in Ma Hanshan's eyes just now told Qi Nanyue to ask Meng Lianggon where he was transferred now. If the official was old enough, he would make some efforts to build a good relationship with him. If the official was not old enough, then they would go their separate ways after sobering up.
never mind.
"Tch, there are so many wars. You may not know. In fact, the Donghu people are now at the end of the war, and the national power is empty. The northern Mongolia is harassing from time to time, and there are rebels everywhere. Not only do we praise the people for rebellion, but there are also people from the Donghu people who rebel.
, last winter, Yelu Ge became the king in the northeastern den of the Hu people. Now that the Donghu are resisting the harassment of the Northern Mongols, preventing the Northern Mongols from moving south, and also going to suppress the rebel armies in various places, how can they still have the strength to pay tribute to me in the south? " Meng said.
Although Liang Gong said that he was not good at writing or martial arts, he analyzed the politics and wars of various countries very well. His analysis of the situation in Donghu actually coincided with that of Ma Hanshan.
You must know that he analyzed it without any information...or without the support of real-time information, while Ma Hanshan came to this conclusion based on the analysis of information provided by Ruyi Warehouse, Reconnaissance Company, Si Xingfang, Cai Qingtu and others.
Ma Hanshan shook his head, as if to shake off some drunkenness. He was really surprised that Meng Lianggon, who claimed to have accomplished nothing, had such ability, and he couldn't help but become more interested in making friends.
Even if you don't have strong personal connections, as long as you are good enough, you will be a good friend of Ma Hanshan.
"Since he is not going on an expedition, where will the imperial court send General Meng? A general has been on the battlefield for most of his life, so why can't he be kept as an official in Beijing? Oh, I know, it must be another traitorous official in the imperial court who got him there. It's really unreasonable.
"Qi Nanyue slapped the table and cursed.
"Haha, brother...well, brother, please give me your name...this time...this time, brother, you guessed wrong. This time it was not the traitor who sent my father to a remote place. In fact, it was arranged by the emperor himself. The emperor arranged it.
My father served as the military envoy of the Zhongzheng Army, stationed in Shouchun Mansion, and controlled all the military states along the Huainan West Road." Meng Lianggon stammered.
"Then, has General Meng been promoted or demoted?" Dasong's official rank is really confusing. Although Ma Hanshan knew that Jiedushi was a high-ranking official, he didn't know how big it was, let alone Meng Lianggon's.
Dad is rising or falling.
"Promoted... promoted... My father used to be General Zuo Wuwei, and now he is Jied... Jiedushi... Of course he was promoted..." Meng Lianggon said, smelling of alcohol.
"Young Master, General Zuo Wuwei is promoted to the third rank, Jiedushi is promoted to the second rank or the second rank, and if General Meng is the second rank, he will be promoted to the third rank in a row." Shen Hua, who was waiting next to him, had been living in Beijing since he was a child, and had contact with everyone. She was a second-generation official and was very familiar with official ranks. Seeing that Ma Hanshan didn't understand and Meng Lianggon was drunk again, she interrupted to explain. She continued, "However, there was no Jiedushi envoy in the west of Huainan, and the Huainan Jiedu envoy was stationed in Guangling. , now there is an additional Jiedushi envoy in the west of Huainan...does the emperor have any deeper meaning?"
Jiedu envoys oversee the military affairs of one or more roads and supervise the administration of one or several bureaus. They have very powerful powers. Generally speaking, it is impossible to seal a Jiedushi envoy if they are not nobles or clan members. Moreover, Dasong emphasizes literature over literature. Wu, other military governors were all civilian officials, but now the military commander of Huainan West Zhongzheng Army was appointed to a military attache, and he was not from a noble clan, and even the title was that of a military attaché who had just been awarded the title. It is really intriguing.
Ma Hanshan didn't have time to care about why the emperor did this and what his deep meaning was. As long as the power in the hands of Meng Lianggon's father was strong enough, he would get close to this guy.
A second-level official with real power in the local area is definitely a prince. What's more, Huainan West Road borders South Jingxi Road, both on the south side of the Guogai Mountains. If he has anything to do with Meng Jiedushi , then Wagang Village is no longer afraid of wild dogs and thieves...haha...okay...
Ma Hanshan was overjoyed. It was like a sister Lin fell from the sky...a Jiedu envoy fell from the sky.
"Brother Meng...Brother Meng...Come on...I'll give you another drink..." Ma Hanshan called Meng Lianggon twice, but the guy was already drunk and dizzy.
"Major General...Major General, are you drunk? Then I will arrange for the young general to rest..." Qi Nanyue shook Meng Lianggon and said.
"Who...who said I was drunk...come...let's do it..." Meng Lianggon picked up the wine glass in a daze, and actually drank another glass with Qi Nanyue, and then with a bang, he was completely drunk.
When you want to drink but are too embarrassed to drink alone, the best way is to pretend to be drunk. Drinkers, like martial arts practitioners, want to put others on the line to show that they are strong. If you are obviously still sober, but say you are drunk, you will definitely attract the attention of the whole table. The purpose of getting people drunk and tricking them into drinking has been achieved. If you are obviously drunk, but you have to say that you are not drunk, no one will get you drunk again.
Therefore, when you don't want to drink at the wine table, the best way is to pretend to be drunk, but say that you are not drunk. In this way, no one will persuade you to drink. No one is interested in teasing a drunk cat.
Meng Lianggon was really drunk. Fortunately, Ma Hanshan lived not far from the place where he drank. Ma Hanshan asked Qi Nanyue to put him on the donkey cart and directly took him to the inn to stay.
After a day of hard work, Ma Hanshan was also tired, so he washed up and went to sleep.
There was nothing to say all night, but Ma Hanshan woke up early the next day. Being bored for a while, he went to the yard to do a few martial arts boxing in his memory, and also pretended to throw a few Western boxing punches.
Western boxing is actually boxing in the boxing ring. The reason why Ma Hanshan practices it is purely as a gymnastics. As for boxing, he still believes more in the world-famous military boxing.
"Master Ma Zhai, what kind of boxing did you do just now? It's very unfamiliar." After Ma Hanshan "played" with the Western boxing skills, Lai Wenjin suddenly walked out of the side room and said.
"Haha, this is not a boxing technique, this is a trick used by Westerners to compete with fists." Ma Hanshan never regarded boxing, which is purely about speed and strength, as martial arts.
"Oh, Western tricks...Master Mazhai, where is Western?" Even if he is as smart as Lai Wenjin, he still doesn't know where Western is.
"Haha, it's very far. If you go by water, after passing Singapore, Johor is the Borneo Ocean...continue to the west through Madagascar...South Africa...well, it seems that there is a country called Batu...and further west is the Western Ocean." Mahan Shan explained.
, Ma Hanshan was particularly patient with this great master of Dasong...er...the best master of Yixue in Dasong.
"Isn't that very far?" Lai Wenjin said.
"It's not that far, maybe thirty or forty thousand miles," Ma Hanshan said with a smile.
"Oh my god, isn't that the end of the world?" Lai Wenjin exclaimed.
"I heard that the "Book of Changes" also contains astronomical content. You study the "Book of Changes". Didn't it tell you that the sky has no sides? The earth is a sphere, and the sky has no sides... Moreover,
If you drive a boat from the South China Sea to the west or east, eventually the boat will return to the place where it started." He said while sitting on a stone bench in the pavilion in the Mahanshan Mansion.
"Ah! The sky is boundless? The earth is round? Master Mazhai, you are heresy, tell me it's okay, don't tell others outside, they will arrest you as a lunatic." Lai Wenjin's face changed drastically.
"Oh, I really can't communicate... let's have breakfast... Huahua... where's breakfast?" Ma Hanshan shook his head and said helplessly.
"Don't scream... don't scream... It's so early and no one has gotten up yet. Let's go to the breakfast shop outside the inn and call. I'll treat the owner of Mazhai to eat the most delicious hot dry noodles here, which are the favorite noodles of Ezhou people.
Oh." Lai Wenjin said with a smile.
"Haha, let's go, I'll treat Mr. Lai to dinner...Mr. Lai...can you please stop calling me Ma Village Master? Others thought bandits were coming when they heard this." Ma Hanshan said with a smile.
"Haha, ok, let's call you... let's call you Master like they do... Master Ma, you can call me Lao Lai..." Lai Wenjin really followed the rules.
"Lao Lai?" Ma Hanshan wanted to laugh. In his previous life, no matter how old a person named Lai was, he would never let others call him Lao Lai. Lao Lai would be blacklisted.
"Yes... call me Lao Lai..." Lai Wenjin said with a smile.
"I'll call you Mr. Lai, just like I call you Mr. Qi." Ma Hanshan respects people with real abilities more than anyone else. Since Lai Wenjin is a great master of Yixue, he probably has some real talent.
"Haha, then... that old man must be ashamed..." Lai Wenjin was actually a little bit coy... This uncle was really different. Not only did he drive to earn money for drinks, he also knew how to be coy.
Opposite the inn, there is a breakfast shop, and as expected, the most popular food is hot dry noodles. As soon as he approached, Ma Hanshan was attracted by the aroma.
The two found a seat and sat down. The shopkeeper placed an order. Lai Wenjin said to Ma Hanshan: "Master Ma, you have to treat me to a drink."
"What are you drinking so early in the morning? Although I agreed to treat you to a month of drinking, you don't have to drink wine all the time for breakfast." Ma Hanshan said with a smile.
"Haha, because Master Ma has a happy event today, I asked for a drink in advance." Lai Wenjin said with narrowed eyes.
"Um, I didn't hear the magpies chirping, what's the reason to be happy?" Ma Hanshan said disapprovingly.
"The joy of sworn friendship." Lai Wenjin said with certainty.