Chapter 1: The ruins of Dixian have disappeared, and there are still legends in the rivers and lakes
The Qiantang River tide is vast and flows backward from the mouth of Yanguan Town into the sea, accompanied by a rumbling sound, which vibrates for several miles. It was August, and the cypress leaves were red. The aftermath of the tide was still there, but it was far less powerful than the nearby Haining tide.
Although Lin'an was not the Zhengdu of the Song Dynasty, it was also chosen as the emperor because it was adjacent to Shanghai and was widely used at home and abroad.
The Emperor of the Song Dynasty has always lived in this palace since the Jingkang year. Instead, it was the palace in the capital of Bianliang. It was rarely used except for the dynasty of the first lunar month every year.
Since the opening of the Song Dynasty in the Yuanfu year, the overseas colonial status has been prominent, and the Shanghai Port has a superior position, gradually surpassing Quanzhou and Guangzhou, becoming the largest port in the Song Dynasty. The railway from Shanghai, Lin'an to Bianliang has also become the transportation artery like the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou. The trains passing by are like weaving, and Niujiacun Station is a small station in front of Lin'an Station.
Lin'an has been expanded three times, and the city has become vast and the traffic inside the city is congested, which is not as convenient as in the suburbs outside the city. Niujia Village is located next to the Qiantang River, but it is not as harmful to Haining Yanguan, so the waterways are also open. The railway and waterways meet here, gradually becoming a north-south freight yard.
Niujia Village has thus become a freight hub in the Song Dynasty.
Although it is called a village, it actually has tens of thousands of migrant populations and dozens of cargo yards and factories, which is like a small city.
As a whistle rang through the sky, a line of white smoke rolled in the distance, and soon the deafening sound of the railway tracks vibrated. The train of the agency began to enter the station. The man sitting on both sides outside the railway station began to stand up and trot into the station. A man in his twenties put a cotton towel on his shoulder and walked slowly into the station.
A handsome man stood in the station, scanning everyone.
He smiled slightly on his face and looked at people with some slight eyes. When there were about dozens of men coming, he raised his hand and said, "There are enough people! This trip is made of porcelain shipped to Fusang Prefecture, which is very expensive. If you miss it, you will smash it! One foot... it starts from a thousand words... This is not a 77-7-year-old."
The man in his twenties walked up to him, wiped his hands, then put the towel on his shoulder and said, "Add me one!"
The strong man smiled unevenly: "Oh! It's my brother Guo, please hurry up!"
The man named Guo stood in the crowd, and everyone was accustomed to it. He even vaguely led him and surrounded him, standing bravely behind the man surnamed Guo, bargaining at the sarcastic and powerful man, "Since you are moving such a expensive thing, should the wages rise? Brothers should be more attentive, right?"
The crowd was noisy: "Yes!"
"It's a little bit higher! If you're not careful, it will be in vain in a month! What are my family's snacks?"
"What's the name!" Several other men in the same black clothes stood up and spit out cigarettes and said, "They are all insatiable, without our Haisha Gang... what do you eat? The goods from Niujia Village are all our territory, and let you come to beg for food, which is the mercy of the gang."
"If you don't do it, some people will do it!" The thug pointed at the man behind Guo Dahan.
The thug's fingers were black like iron cast. He raised his hand and pinched his fingers into claws, landed on the crate beside him, and pinched three fingers... He pulled out two nails from the crate made of Nanyang hardwood, and then in full view of everyone, he pressed the nails back with his finger force.
"I have earned my current status for ten years of iron sand eagle claws."
"If you envy me for eating and drinking for free and smoking your water every day. Then practice the martial arts of hundreds of schools. If you can practice the Jiuniu and Two Tigers until the heat of my Eagle Claw Hand, the Haisha Gang will wait for the empty position, and you will lead the small leader of ten people when you go in. It is not better to earn a hundred times the hard work here every day?"
As he said that, the thug looked at the man surnamed Guo who did not say a word, and he knew what he meant without asking.
Everyone also looked at their elder brother Guo. It would be great if Brother Guo joined the Haisha Gang, and they would have a backer in the gang that controls local freight.
But the man surnamed Guo still didn't say a word, as if he didn't hear it.
The Yinjiu man laughed twice and said, "It seems that Brother Guo looks down on our Haisha Gang! But we will give Brother Guo a face. The salary this time has increased by half. Just treat it as giving Brother Guo a child in his woman's belly to replenish his body!"
These hidden threat words were still unheard in the ears of the man surnamed Guo. He just changed the towel and put it on his right shoulder, and said, "It's time to work!"
A group of porters responded, scattered, heading towards different cars in groups, and soon carried boxes of all sizes and transported them.
The thug who was practicing eagle claw skills looked at Guo Dahan's back, spitted on the ground, and whispered: "I don't know what's wrong! Isn't it just a strength, something!"
He stepped forward and said to the Yinjiu man, "Brother, Guo Xiaotian is ungrateful, why do you give him face? Even if you don't increase your money today, what can those poor people do?"
"They just talk about it. The Niujia Village Water and Railways are all the territory of our Haisha Gang. Why do you have to let outsiders take advantage? Save two, and we brothers will have the money for drinking at night?"
"The achievements of nine oxes and two tigers are not ordinary. It is one of the hundreds of martial arts recorded in the "Master of Song Dynasty" in the past."
"Hundreds of martial arts are famous, but they only increase their strength when practicing. How can I be more powerful than my iron sand eagle claw skills?" The thug master proudly used several grasping techniques, but he was also skillful. He could make sounds of breaking through the air from time to time, and looked quite powerful.
But his elder brother scolded, "You know nothing!"
"A hundred martial arts are easy to learn but difficult to master. Ordinary people will gain more strength and train their muscles and bones after practicing. The Nine Ox and Two Tigers are specially created for transporting, carrying loads, strength, and strength. They are a horizontal practice skill from the inside out. This martial art comes from the Forbidden Martial Arts Hall, which is the highest place in the Song Dynasty. Even if it is a major product in the world, it is not comparable to the iron sand eagle claw function of your three-legged cat."
"It can be considered an authentic Xuanmen. You can practice it to a high level and practice your muscles and bones. You are like a man who is struggling with iron. Even if you fight for a day and a night, you will not be exhausted. It is widely circulated in the army. And what is the most powerful thing about Xuanmen’s authentic martial arts? Do you know?"
The eagle clawed man was confused and said, "What is it?"
"It's one way to one thing..." The big man sneered: "If someone practices your iron sand eagle claw skills, you can withstand ten years of hard work in three months. Any external skills can be quickly achieved by him. If Guo Xiaotian is willing to join the gang, his status will definitely be above you and me within three months... It's a pity that he doesn't know how to politely." As he said that, a hint of cruelty appeared on the man's face.
The big thug saw the big brother's eyes and whispered: "Brother wants to..." He made a horizontal gesture with his hand.
"That's why I gave him a face. This time I just numb him. He repeatedly refused to recruit our Haisha Gang, and the superiors were already impatient. Today is the last chance for him... This man has great skills, mixed with those poor men and women, and his reputation is growing. The superiors are also worried that he will win people's hearts and develop great troubles."
"You mean he refuses to recruit us, is he trying to set up his own business?"
"If he really wins over a large number of porters, he might be able to create a small gang."
"Don't!" The man sneered: "If he wants to set up his own business, how could he not establish a good relationship with our Haisha Gang? If there is no leader or elder in the gang, what will he take to make a living on our territory? The above are worried that this person will be affected by the Fusang Prefecture and will set up a trade union in our territory!"
"In this way, we can't stay!"
"The gang has already lined up a few good players, and I'll send his whole family to the road tonight!"
After Guo Xiaotian finished his work, he went straight to a small hotel at the entrance of the village. The shop was opened next to the railway station and not far from Guo Xiaotian's family. After the railway was opened in Niujia Village, the number of foreign people gradually increased, and most of them made a living by relying on railways. Therefore, a village gradually formed outside the original Niujia Village site. There was no pastoral scenery here, but the local area was cramped, and the houses built were densely packed together, a bit messy.
Nagqujia Hotel is opened on this mixed village.
The owner of the hotel is a crutch. He relies on selling some braised wine and simmering water to give the porters a tooth sacrifice. However, the crutch Qu San has a strange temper and will lose his temper with tooth when there are too many customers.
Guo Xiaotian sat at Zhang's dinner table, let Qu San burn two pots of yellow wine, put two plates of braised water, a plate of broad beans, a plate of salted peanuts, and a plate of tofu dried out. Soon another man with a white skin came over and looked at Guo Xiaotian and smiled: "My brother came early... I wanted to make some wild game for me, but I didn't expect that after the train was opened, the wild animals in all the villages were scared away. The fish in Qiantang River were less than in previous years."
After saying that, he poured wine for Guo Xiaotian, poured a glass for himself, and said in one sip: "I only had an organic fire boat when I was a child, and now there are organic trains. It is said that there are countless overseas products. All the heroes of the world are running to Fusang Prefecture, Nanyang. The Jiangnan is noisy and not as quiet as Shandong! I originally said that I went out to sea with my brother, but I got into this love debt of your sister-in-law in Jiangnan. I let you accompany me to fall in this Niujia Village. I can't go back to my hometown. It's August 15th again, so I came out to inspire it to relieve my homesickness!"
Guo Xiaotian said: "Brother Yang, what are your brothers doing when they say this?"
"That disaster was not just caused by you."
Yang Tiexin smiled bitterly and said, "It's not the Jingkang Incident. The Emperor Taoist Emperor is determined to live forever, be a god, search for the world, and find the immortal elixirs left by the immortals of the Forbidden Martial Arts Hall. Tong Guan, a great traitor, was accomplice. He obeyed Tong Guan's bewitching and established the East Factory and the West Factory. The Forbidden Martial Arts Hall was also controlled by Tong Guan. These two factories and one church will collect the world's treasures and martial arts, as well as the relics of the immortals."
"In the end, it caused resentment from heaven and earth. Fusangzhou was forced to rebel, and the people in the world had been suffering and harsh government for a long time!"
"In the end, all the ministers of the Zhengshi Hall were advised by the imperial guards in the capital to carry out constitutional government and wanted to carry out constitutional government and empty kings. In the Jingkang Incident, Bianliang was shocked. The foolish monarch relied on two factories and one hall to guard the palace. At that time, the constitutional government and republic ideas of the world were not yet popular. The imperial guards were full of doubts. The Zhengshi Hall took into account the world's affairs and failed to decisively. Although Huang Shang, Luneng and other old commanders of the Forbidden Martial Arts Hall helped, what could it be..."
Guo Xiaotian was also worried: "Tong Guan is invincible in the world!"
"Tong Guan killed the righteous men in the reform, suppressed the mutiny of the imperial guards, and even assassinated the prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall. He almost strangled the reform and summoned the Eighth Route Army to the capital, all of which were foreign barbarians. When Zhezong ordered him to wipe out the four barbarians, he took the opportunity to subdue many barbarians. The female Naoren Wanyan family who made great contributions in the battle to destroy Liao, the Liang family of the Western Xia surrendered army, the Xiao family of the Dali Duan family, the Goryeo family of the Wagen, the Goryeo family of the Annan Chen family, and the old general of the Imperial Army of Shatuo, known as the Eight Banners of Jin, Wood, Earth, Fire, Water, Wind, Thunder, and Mountain, entered the capital to suppress the reform."
"Fortunately, the Eight Banners soldiers were brutal. Even if they entered the capital under the will of the tyrant emperor, they would have been burning, killing and torture along the way, which eventually made the world angry and supported the reform. Wang Chongyang, Bianliang, joined forces with several reformers to protect the political affairs hall and resist Tong Guan's peerless power. In addition, Yue Peng raised his magic gun to sweep thousands of troops, defeated the Eight Banners, and promoted the divine power of our Song Dynasty and the alien races in all directions."
"The Reform was finally achieved. Xujun republic and Emperor Daojun lived in seclusion in the deep palace. Unfortunately, Tong Guan's martial arts skills were like gods. Even if the general situation was in the hands of the Reformer, he finally forced the Political Affairs Hall to make concessions with his invincible martial arts, which made the Reformation not do its best."
"Now the emperor is empty in Lin'an, and the power of the prime minister is real, but he can still control two factories and one church. With the help of internal eunuchs, he has the Eight Banners as minions outside. If it weren't for Fusang, many colonies from other provinces in Southeast Asia would have strong support, the Political Affairs Hall would have been unstable long ago."
"The eunuchs will ruin the country!" Yang Tiexin sighed to the sky and drank a sip of muffled wine.
"Flower Stone Gang, the relics of the Immortals, the Eternal Golden Pill, and the rumor that Prajna morality, one can be invincible to the world. The other can be broken into the void and immortal." Guo Xiaotian also shook his head and said, "The Emperor Daojun believes in such a ridiculous rumor, and even harmed the country. Do you think that the great governor of the Forbidden Martial Arts Hall has really become an immortal?"
"I don't know whether he becomes an immortal or not. I only know that what he left behind is really a disaster. Chongyang Zhenren was originally a country-savior, but he actually believed in this trick. He became a monk to refine the Wuji immortal golden elixir..."
"And Qin Hui, as the minister of the Political Affairs Hall, did not hesitate to do anything against the enemy in order to fight for power and profit, and with the help of two factories and one church, the results of the reform were almost destroyed. Fortunately, Han Xiang is now cleaning up the rest of the party, and the world is gradually settled, and the two factories and one church is unable to come out to do anything."
"That's because the emperor is still dreaming of immortality!" Yang Tiexin sneered: "Those eunuchs have gone to collect the relics of Luo Dixian, and they have been levied and slaughtered and monitored them, but they have also let those eunuchs come?"
The three of them just talked about the old Jingkang incident and the reform. The lame man brought a plate of broad beans and a plate of peanuts. He heard the three of them scolding him happily, and suddenly he sneered. Yang Tiexin said, "Qu San, what's wrong? Could you be a loyal emperor, can't you say some rampant words?" The lame man Qu San said, "Well, you scold the dog emperor, I just feel happy."
"It's just that the rumors about the relics of the immortals and moral Prajna are absurd, but they are not entirely true."
"The great governor of the Forbidden Martial Arts Hall... has really broken the void and left! Among the relics he left behind, there is indeed a medicine for immortality, called "Eternal Blood Orchid". It is filled with a glass bottle, and the liquid is as red as blood. The Chongyang Zhenren obtained it in the past year and refined the Wuji Golden Pill for ten years. It also caused four masters with extremely high martial arts skills in the world to seize the pills of Quanzhen Sect."
"In the end, it became the reputation of Chongyang real person as the world's best!"
"In the past, Tong Guan wanted to seize the golden elixir, but he could only return empty-handed from Zhongnan Mountain. Some people say that the real person in Chongyang is no less than Tong Guan, but there are very few witnesses to this incident, so it is just a rumor in the world."
"I have many guests here, I have heard of two ears!"
Yang Tiexin and Guo Xiaotian looked at each other, with a little indescribable expression.
After returning from the excitement, Yang Tiexing took the braised water and went back to Guo Xiaotian's doorstep. Guo Xiaotian's wife Li Ping was driving the chicken into the cage. Seeing this, she smiled and said, "Brothers and I have a full drink again. Uncle Yang, come to my house with my sister-in-law for dinner. Let's slaughter a chicken." Yang Tiexin smiled and said, "Okay, I'll disturb my brother and sister again tonight. The one who I have is very gluttonous, and the few chickens I raise at home are not enough for her to eat."
Li Ping said: "My sister-in-law is heroic, unlike the daughter of an ordinary family!"
Guo Xiaotian pulled Yang Tiexin into the inner room and said, "Brother, this time you asked me to test Qu San. He is indeed an extraordinary person. Is it true that the two of us brothers have happened?"
"It looks like people from the East and West Factory, Brother Guo Xian, our two families fled from Shandong to avoid disaster, but they asked me to meet the devil star in my life, missed the itinerary, and implicated my brother and sister. I will go to test Naqu Sanyi tonight. If something is wrong, we will go to sea overnight, go to the senior official first, and then transfer to Fusang Prefecture!"
"It's just that my brother and sister are pregnant... I'm going to work hard on the way!"
Guo Xiaotian said: "She is in good health, nothing is wrong."
"I will go with my elder brother tonight and I will take care of you."
Chapter completed!