The east is gradually whitening, and a crescent moon slowly rises, hanging in the sky.
The sky is already half bright, and the fog is gradually thickening. The mountains and forests seem to be covered with a layer of gauze, hazy, ethereal, and like a fairyland.
"Keke...zazazaza..."
With a heartbreaking sound, the suspension bridge was lowered bit by bit, and there was another "bang", and a cloud of dust rose into the sky.
Dozens of white-armored guards escorted a carriage out of the city gate and ran westward.
Although the carriage is not wide, it is very long. It is modified from the iron boxcar of Baijia Car Camp. It is no problem for two people to lie flat side by side.
There are also straw mats and quilts on the bottom of the car, which make it less bumpy, so as long as you are not driving in a hurry, riding in a car is still more comfortable than riding a horse.
There was a food box placed between the two of them. Zhang Jing was holding the meat in one hand and a wine gourd in the other, tasting it slowly and methodically.
Li Chengzhi was leaning half against the carriage, nodding his head...actually dozing off.
Seeing how sleepy he was, Zhang Jingzhi thought: Li Chengzhi must have been upset after hearing what he said yesterday, and he probably didn't sleep much all night.
Zhang Jingzhi pondered for a moment and passed the wine gourd forward: "Have a few sips and you can sleep a little deeper."
Li Chengzhi opened his eyes, smiled apologetically, took the wine bottle, and took a few sips.
So exciting...
In a moment of urgency, he forgot that this was distilled soju, and Li Chengzhi was so spicy that his eyes bulged.
It’s also a mistake.
These distilled spirits were purchased when he was still in the imperial court, and then distilled into high-strength alcohol to prepare medicinal wine and bandages.
Who would have thought that after so many battles, not to mention death in battle, not even a few of the white-armored soldiers were injured?
Then this wine will naturally have no use except for drinking.
But even Li Chengzhi didn't drink during the war, let alone the following generals and soldiers, so all the distilled liquor was accumulated.
Li Song took a large part with him when he escaped, and the remaining small part could not be thrown away, so Li Chengzhi hid it, but would not show it to others easily.
Even Li Shixian was lucky enough to taste it the night before yesterday. He exclaimed that it was magical and asked where Li Chengzhi came from.
How could Li Chengzhi tell the truth? He only said that he dug it out of Liu Huiwang's cellar.
The main reason is that he is afraid of violating taboos. For him at this time, knowing too much is really not a good thing.
Secondly, it also means that we should treasure our own things.
Because the process of distilling wine is so simple, one can understand it at a glance: take a large pottery jar to seal the wine, then take a pottery pipe to collect the steam, and connect it to another jar. After the steam condenses, it will be extremely high-density wine.
Distilled liquor.
If you still think the degree is not enough, just steam it a few more times...
The wine steamed in this way is not only spicy, but also has the characteristics of being quick to drink and easy to get drunk. In terms of appearance, it is not comparable to the wines of this era.
Zhang Jingzhi, Guo Cunxin and others usually use words like "bright as goose yellow" and "bright as amber" to describe good wine.
But after seeing Li Chengzhi's wine, he became rich in knowledge and as quick as Guo Cunxin, and he couldn't find a suitable adjective for a while?
So clear!
Is the water in the well as clear as this?
What’s even more outrageous is that it smells so good?
Alcohol is a spice, and fermented wine also contains other aromatic elements, which will not be lost through distillation. Therefore, the higher the degree of distilled wine, the more fragrant the wine will naturally be.
Therefore, in Li Chengzhi's opinion, this wine is almost perfect except that it tastes strong and spicy in the mouth.
But the Northern and Southern Dynasties were in the Little Ice Age, and the weather in the north was even colder. Snowflakes were often seen in May and June, so the disadvantage of being hot in the mouth and warming the whole body after drinking it turned out to be an advantage.
?
Therefore, as long as anyone has drunk this wine, there will be no one who does not like it.
Just like Da Xi: Ever since he had a drink the night before, he has been chasing Li Chengzhi for most of the day yesterday. Now that the knife has been taken back, is it okay to pay him with so many bottles of wine?
Li Chengzhi rolled his eyes after hearing this.
How many more tanks?
Even I don’t have so many, so what sweet dreams do you have?
……
Li Chengzhi stretched out his tongue and breathed, then quickly picked up two pieces of meat and threw them into his mouth to neutralize the spicy taste.
After chewing twice, Li Chengzhi's eyes lit up.
It's salty and mild, the meat tendons are fragrant, and it also has a hint of chives. It's hard to say it suits his taste.
It’s not that he doesn’t like to eat meat, it’s that he doesn’t like to eat meat cooked to suit the tastes of people of this era.
Or just add salt and the smell will be gone. Not to mention the bitterness in your throat, you cooked it well?
Or just put in all the seasonings and cook it into a soup over a high fire. When you eat it, you know it is meat, but you can't taste the aroma of meat at all.
But the current dish gave Li Chengzhi the feeling of eating finger meat dipped in wild leek flowers in future generations?
The more he ate, the more he ate. He stuffed piece after piece into his mouth and asked vaguely: "Who made it?"
Seeing that he was getting more and more delicious as he ate, Zhang Jingzhi took a sip of wine and said slowly: "It's Jingmo... I heard that you were going to accompany me today, so I stayed up all night and cooked it..."
Cooking overnight?
No wonder the jerky is so chewy when eaten, but not dry at all?
Li Chengzhi felt warm in his heart.
I just remember that time when I was alone with her in Chao Na and asked her to make tea. I mentioned a few words while chatting and she actually remembered it?
People's hearts are made of flesh, and it would be a lie to say that they are not moved. A graceful and exquisite figure naturally appeared in Li Chengzhi's mind.
"She is also in the city...when did she come?"
He put down the meat, leaned back slightly, and sighed quietly, "I must be here too, right? When I sent Sima back to his official residence yesterday, I didn't even mention to remind the junior, but didn't pay my respects? How rude...
”
Zhang Jingzhi almost laughed out loud.
Li Chengzhi doesn’t want to visit his father?
It's obviously the young Mu Ai, and she blames herself for not letting him see Jing Mo...
Zhang Jingzhi smiled slightly: "My father is still there and has not come to pick her up. It was my wife who was afraid that Jingmo would miss her father so much that she would become sick from grief, so she brought her back... But Jingmo is still in the period of filial piety, so how can I see her?"
What’s the point of being a foreigner?”
Then how dare you let me see you last time?
Li Chengzhi couldn't stop his face from turning red when his thoughts were revealed. While he was cursing, a deep look of disappointment appeared on his face.
Did you forget that she is still observing filial piety?
And it lasts three years...
By then, I will be twenty years old, and I will be crowned already...
It's not that Li Chengzhi is anxious, but that Li Shixian and Guo Yuzhi can't stand it.
It had only been three or five days since he entered the house, and the two of them had already talked about it in his ears no less than a hundred times.
Guo Yuzhi, in particular, is more worried about whether Li Chengzhi will rebel. He has even begun to give Li Shixian a piece of advice, planning to take Li Chengzhi to visit the Guo Mansion one day and let him meet his cousin... p>
Some of them were eager to let Li Chengzhi get married and maybe settle down.
It is impossible for my cousin, even if I beat her to death.
But for a while, where can he find a well-matched woman for him?
Li Chengzhi is not only the legitimate son of the Li family, but also the future head of the Li family's ancestral home. He is about to be granted an official title and become a legitimate wife. How can he marry someone so casually?
Guo Yuzhi was so anxious that he felt angry. In desperation, he had no choice but to take a step back and gave Li Chengzhi an ultimatum: the first wife could be suspended, but the concubine must accept it, and he also limited the time: as short as three months, and as late as possible.
Half a year...
No need to guess, it must be a loli. Ninety-nine percent of it is twelve or thirteen, and it will be no more than fourteen years old if it dies.
Even if you want to marry an older man, it is impossible, because the laws of the Yuan and Wei dynasties do not allow it: if a woman is 14 years old and does not marry, her family will be punished...
Let’s not talk about whether the appearance and performance are to his liking. With such a young child, it is still a question of whether Li Chengzhi can talk about it.
In this situation, it is difficult for him not to think about Zhang Jingmo...
"It will take another three years?"
Li Chengzhi thought in his mind and actually said it out loud.
Hearing a "pop" sound, Zhang Jingzhi suddenly tilted his head to one side and almost sprayed a mouthful of wine on his face.
Li Chengzhi was so embarrassed that his face turned purple and turned into an eggplant.
Fortunately, there were only two of him and Zhang Jingzhi. If this happened in public, he would not have to dive into the ground.
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter..." Zhang Jingzhi waved his hands repeatedly, "Young people admire you, it's human nature..."
With a calm expression, Zhang Jingzhi said leisurely: "Originally, I was planning to let Jingmo stay for a hundred days and then remove his filial piety..."
A hundred days to eliminate filial piety?
Li Chengzhi thought: "Is it feasible?"
"What's not possible? Even in the Han Dynasty, there were still royal families who married off their daughters!"
Meaning: What’s more, in the Yuan and Wei dynasties where the rules of etiquette were almost collapsed.
Zhang Jingzhi looked at Li Chengzhi: "Although the Zhang and Li families are not a famous family, they are still a family of scholars and Confucianism, and the etiquette and laws that should be observed must still be observed. Therefore, if you want to eliminate filial piety in Beijing, you will not be ridiculed by the nobles.
There has to be a reason..."
Li Chengzhi asked eagerly: "For example?"
Looking at his appearance and hearing the word "for example", Zhang Jingzhi almost stopped.
While he found it funny, he couldn't help feeling pleased: It shows how much Li Chengzhi loves Beijing.
It’s not in vain for me, Zhang Fengzhi, to work so hard and do my best to help you plan...
"For example, just like me, if there is an edict from a superior official to remove filial piety from Beijing and Mo, as a minister, I will naturally lead by example and cannot disobey the order..."
Li Chengzhi suddenly realized.
Zhang Jingzhi is talking about the marriage law of the Wei Dynasty: if a woman is over fourteen years old and remains unmarried, the government will grant her a marriage and her family will be punished...
However, because the Yuan and Wei dynasties had equal emphasis on family law and imperial power, generally no local official would be so serious as to drag a woman who missed her wedding date to marry her due to mourning and observance of filial piety.
Just think about it, how many ordinary people in this era take etiquette seriously?
Those who can abide by the etiquette and observe mourning are 100% nobles, and no one who is blind will try to get into trouble.
But if there is such an edict, no one will obey it.
Just like seeing Zhang Jingmo getting older and older, if he continues to stay in the Zhang family, he will be picked on as a concubine...
Li Chengzhi was overjoyed, rolled his eyes and asked: "Is Xi Zhengshou enough?"
"Why bother guarding Xi...Yang...huh?"
Hearing that Li Chengzhi actually wanted to impress Xi Kangsheng, Zhang Jingzhi suddenly laughed.
He is only Zhang Jingmo's uncle, and his grandfather Zhang Wei is still alive. This edict will naturally be given to his retired father in the court, and Yang Shu, the Longdong County Magistrate, is enough.
But when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back abruptly.
What Li Chengzhi means is that he wants to ask Xi Kangsheng?
How impatient is this?
"I'm determined!" Zhang Jingzhi sighed slightly and pondered for a while before saying, "The reason why I hesitated before was because I was afraid of breaking your spirit. At this time, it seems that I was really right..."
Lost his energy...Zhang Jingzhi is afraid that he will fall into the gentle land and be unable to extricate himself?
My uncle and uncle thought a little too early?
How could I, Li Chengzhi, be such a person?
Besides, with Li Song and others chasing after him, Zhang Jingzhi and Li Shixian might be added in the future, how could he be given such a chance?
Li Chengzhi sighed softly: "Sima is worrying too much..."
After chatting for a few words, the matter was roughly finalized. Perhaps due to the drunkenness, Li Chengzhi fell asleep unknowingly.
This time, I slept until the afternoon. The carriage had already passed Jingyang and was less than ten miles away from Chaona City.
Li Chengzhi stood outside the car, looking at Longshan Mountain stretching thousands of miles in the distance, as if he was suddenly in a dream?
Two months ago, when Suo Siwen and Jiang Rang were executed, how could they have thought that today would happen?
Hearing bursts of shouting from not far away, Li Chengzhi raised his eyes and saw that Li Rui was arguing with a white-armored general.
Looking around again, I don't know when, suddenly there were many white-armored cavalry around the car.
If it weren't for the armor that would flutter in the wind from time to time, Li Chengzhi would have mistakenly thought that Li Song's people had sneaked back.
The extra ones are actually the brigade of armored soldiers and two battalions of auxiliary soldiers that were temporarily stationed outside Chaona City.
He must have bumped into Li Chengzhi's white-armored bodyguard while on patrol, and he guessed that Li Chengzhi must be in the car.
They wanted to see the ceremony, but Li Chengzhi was sleeping, so Li Rui naturally wouldn't let them go.
Li Chengzhi was a little impressed: Although it was no longer wartime and he had no control over him, even though it was an auxiliary camp, the military discipline of the white-armored soldiers did not slacken. They could still strictly abide by the military disciplines set by themselves and sent the scouts twenty miles away.
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Otherwise, the auxiliary battalion commander would not have been able to wait here so early.
The one who is arguing with Li Rui is Zhang Xinyi, Zhang Jingzhi’s cousin. Soon, he will become Li Chengzhi’s cousin...
He sighed softly and waved to the bodyguard beside him: "Tell Zhang Xinyi and let him gather his soldiers... I will wait for him in Sima's Mansion and won't enter the camp..."
You actually passed the camp without entering?
Zhang Jingzhi's lips moved slightly, not knowing what he wanted to say, but when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them again.
He knew very well that Li Chengzhi was avoiding suspicion.
More than just not entering the camp?
The first brigade of white-armored soldiers and the fourth brigade of white-armored auxiliary soldiers almost caused Li Chengzhi to be disbanded...
In order to avoid future troubles, Li Chengzhi kept all those who were from Chaona, Jingyang, or had some relationship with Zhang Jingzhi, Yang Shu, etc., that is, the five brigades that moved to Chaona. p>
As for the four battalions that followed Li Songxun, more than half were prisoners reorganized after Li Chengzhi defeated Li Wenzhong, and the smaller half were rural Zhuang from the Li and Song families, and some monks.
According to Li Chengzhi's idea, from the perspective of stabilizing the people's livelihood in Chaona County, these five brigade soldiers should be disbanded on the spot.
But no one agreed, whether it was Xi Kangsheng, Li Yun or Yang Shu.
Are you kidding?
With such a strong army, do you think it will be disbanded immediately?
You, Li Chengzhi, don’t want it, but others want it.
Li Yun is the governor of Qizhou. Regardless of whether he is disbanded or not, he has nothing to do with it...
Among the remaining few, Xi Kangsheng wants to serve as state soldiers, Yang Shu wants to serve as county soldiers, and Zhang Jingzhi has a headache. There are only so many strong men in Chaona County. If all these two thousand and five hundred soldiers are recruited,
Officers and soldiers, what should we do in Chaona County? Can the land be planted?
In addition, since Li Chengzhi's reward has not yet come down, he may be named a general leading the army. By then, no one will have to compete, and it will naturally fall under Li Chengzhi's control.
Therefore, as soon as these factors were superimposed, the whereabouts of these two thousand and five hundred soldiers were put on hold.
It was Li Chengzhi who went to Xi Kangsheng in person to discuss whether the soldiers were homesick and could they move outside Chaona City.
As long as they don't disband, Xi Kangsheng naturally agreed.
This is why after this battle, Jingzhou's Wu soldiers and young men were reduced by nearly 30%, but Xi Kangsheng still had the confidence to let the Gaoping town army withdraw from Xiaoguan and replace it with Jingzhou state soldiers...
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Ten miles away, we'll be there in the blink of an eye.
Looking at the towering white-armored army formation more than ten feet away, Li Chengzhi felt hot in his heart.
"This bastard Zhang Xinyi said he was gone..."
As he cursed, Li Chengzhi couldn't help but feel agitated in his heart.
These are all...my Li Chengzhi's soldiers...
Li Chengzhi is so tall and looks so outstanding, and he is standing on the shaft of the chariot. How can the white-armored soldiers not recognize him?
They didn't listen to anyone's orders, let alone wave flags. The two thousand five hundred soldiers seemed to be tied together, and their movements were so neat that it was scary.
Just hearing a "boom" sound, the soldiers of the fifth brigade banged their breastplates hard, knelt down in unison, and shouted in unison: "Commander!"
It was clearly a clear sky, but it seemed like there was thunder?
"Commander..."
"Commander..."
"Commander"......
Just like landslides and tsunamis, waves of echoes float in the majestic city and among the mountains for a long time.
For a moment, it seemed that no extra noise could be heard anymore, and even the sound of the flags fluttering in the mountain wind was suppressed.
No matter how calm and reserved he was, Li Chengzhi still couldn't help but get red eyes.
He also knows that today is different from the past. The soldiers of the fifth brigade are already confirmed officers and soldiers, and he, Li Chengzhi, is also a veritable official of the imperial court.
If you call me Marshal again, it will be taboo.
I am no longer your commander-in-chief... I kept thinking this thought over and over again, and the words came to my lips, but it was like being stuck in my throat. Li Chengzhi just couldn't say it out?
Damn the avoidance of suspicion, damn the taboo...
Why can't you see the soldiers that grandpa led single-handedly?
Li Chengzhi jumped out of the carriage and walked towards the military formation.