Chapter 410: The Rootless Honor of Arms
In Jiang Qingzhi's opinion, martial arts must complete the task of recruiting new members before the generals all over the world complain.
For this purpose, he also brought Wang Yiqi in.
Wang Yiqi was too busy, so he threw Wu Hua out as a shield.
"Speed is of the essence in war. The first batch of students will be selected from the military in the Gyeonggi area," said Jiang Qingzhi.
"In this way, we can make it a fact before the generals get excited. Chang Wei Bo is smart!" Wu Hua transformed himself into the number one Jiang fan, full of energy.
"Who will teach the students?" The Taoist asked someone to ask Jiang Qingzhi.
"Ma Fang can take over as professor temporarily. In addition, a group of generals who are not from military families can be transferred from the nine borders, and Qin Yuan can be one of them." Jiang Qingzhi had already made plans.
"Who is Ma Fang?"
……
Ma Fang, the left guard of the Huben Army, was silently tidying up his bedding.
"Ma Xiaoqi."
A sergeant appeared outside the door and said, "The commander wants you to come over."
Ma Fang went to the lobby.
Yan Xu was talking to someone and pointed to the side, signaling Ma Fang to wait.
The man glanced at Ma Fang, and Yan Xu said, "To be honest, I don't want to let him go, but since the Lord has spoken, there is no room for negotiation. Ma Fang, come here."
Ma Fang stepped forward and saluted. The civil servant looked at him carefully and asked, "Just a small flag?"
"That's right." Yan Xu smiled and said, "Don't underestimate him. If not... that's all. If I say these, it will be just bragging in your eyes. Just wait and see."
The civil servant nodded, "Ma Xiaoqi."
"Yes." Ma Fang stood up.
"I'm Yang Haiqing, the head of the martial arts school. The Ministry of War would like to transfer you to the martial arts school to take over the position of professor temporarily. Are you willing?" Yang Haiqing looked carefully at the young flag officer in front of him, thinking that anyone would be overjoyed at such a good thing.
Ma Fang said calmly, "Yes."
No ecstasy, not even any emotion.
Tsk!
Yang Haiqing was a little surprised. "Then you will follow me to learn martial arts."
After the two of them left, Yan Xu asked in confusion, "According to reason, Ma Fang should have been promoted a long time ago, but Master Bo told me to suppress him. Why?"
Wu Hua's efficiency was astonishing. In just five days, the first batch of students arrived in the capital.
Before I was exhausted from all the fatigue, the opening ceremony began.
More than a hundred students standing on the training ground looked quite inconspicuous.
"We will select a group from the nine borders later. The first batch of students will be around four hundred people." Jiang Qingzhi introduced the situation to the Taoist priest.
"Four hundred men, thrown into various garrisons, is too few." Emperor Jiajing said, "Be bolder."
Jiang Qingzhi felt that the Taoist priest was becoming more and more unrestrained. He smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, the sirs are not enough. Moreover, if the first batch is too large, it will make the generals feel uneasy. It is better to do it step by step."
"Remember, be braver, and braver!"
"Yes." Jiang Qingzhi glanced at Emperor Jiajing from time to time and felt that his cousin seemed to have been replaced.
"Your Majesty, the time has come."
Someone came to report.
The Taoist priest looked at the time himself, no, he calculated it himself, and said that it was the right time and auspicious for killing.
Emperor Jiajing walked to the front and looked at the dozens of students, thinking about the past...
The honeymoon period between him and Yang Tinghe was very short. After it ended, the relationship between the monarch and his subject became almost mortal enemies.
Time passed quickly, the grass on Yang Tinghe's grave had grown three feet high, and Emperor Jiajing walked out of the West Garden.
Mr. Yang, are you disappointed?
Emperor Jiajing said, "War is a major issue for a country. It is a matter of life and death, a matter of survival and destruction. We must pay close attention to it..."
Dozens of students were very excited as they did not expect that they could receive instruction from the emperor.
After some words, mostly encouraging, Jiang Qingzhi stepped forward.
"You are considered half disciples of the emperor."
These words made the students blush, and Jiang Qingzhi estimated that many people's blood pressure was close to bursting.
"Why does His Majesty favor you? It's because the Ming Dynasty has no land to plant."
Jiang Qingzhi said: "There are more and more refugees in the Ming Dynasty. Where should they go? What should we fight for with the long swords in our hands?"
He knew that the more he spoke, the less effect it would have, so he pointed to the distance and said, "Who is willing to be the long sword in your majesty's hand, to fight for the Ming Dynasty and defeat the rebels for your majesty?"
"We are willing to die for Your Majesty!" More than a hundred people shouted in unison.
"Who is willing to be the long sword in your majesty's hand, to be the plow of the Ming Dynasty, to find the land of the Ming Dynasty?"
"I am willing to die for Your Majesty!"
Jiang Qingzhi shouted. "Who wants to leave a good reputation in history books a hundred years later as someone who was fearless and brave enough to shed blood for the Ming Dynasty?"
The faces of the students turned red as blood.
Arms raised high.
"I am willing to die for Your Majesty!"
Jiang Qingzhi turned around and said, "Your Majesty, this is Daming and your Tiger Guards!"
Emperor Jiajing walked over, looked at those pairs of fanatical eyes, and stopped.
"This road is destined to be full of storms, but I will not stop. Who is willing to follow me?"
One by one, the students knelt down.
Just like the wind blowing through the rice fields.
……
"The first batch consisted of only a hundred people. After Jiang Qingzhi's encouragement, they were called disciples of the emperor..."
Qiu Luan was drinking, and several old brothers with military honors were complaining.
"According to reason, the reconstruction of the capital's guards should be a place for us to use our skills. If not the commander, we should be able to be the deputy commander, right? But His Majesty has ignored it and would rather use those unknown idiots."
"This is Jiang Qingzhi's instigation."
"Drink, drink."
"What the hell, if we keep going like this, we'll be broke." A military hero smashed his wine glass, his face red, maybe because he was drunk or angry, "In the past, we could still rely on our connections in the army to continue our wealth, but now that we've started learning martial arts, those students have nothing to do with us anymore.
Five years later, ten years later, we have replaced the generals in the army with these people. How can we be rich and powerful? How can our children and grandchildren be rich and powerful? "The military heroes were silent. Qiu Luan sneered, "This is all Jiang Qingzhi's instigation." He slammed his chopsticks on the table, "Do you remember our days before this man came to Beijing?"
A military hero sighed, "At that time, we only needed to get along well. You helped me, I helped you, and we joined hands to make each other rich and prosperous for generations. Now..."
"That bastard Jiang Qingzhi!"
It then turned into a meeting to denounce Jiang Qingzhi.
knock knock!
A military hero has arrived. Qiu Luan sneered when he saw him, "Didn't you, Chen Su, go to the Ministry of War to recommend yourself and prepare to teach martial arts? What, you have succeeded and are here to show off to us brothers?"
Everyone looked at this person with a sneer.
Chen Su's face was as red as a date. After sitting down, he drank several glasses of wine, then grabbed the edge of the table with both hands and prepared to exert force.
"I haven't had enough to drink yet, why don't you try to overturn the table?" A military hero rolled up his sleeves.
"That bastard Wang Yiqi!" Chen Su let go of his hand and cursed, "I went to the Ministry of War to recommend myself, and this bastard said that all the professors were recruited. I believed it, but in the blink of an eye, I saw a small flag officer following those so-called professors in. I pretended to leave, and after I went out, I heard Wang Yiqi encouraging those professors inside..."
"Wait!" Qiu Luan stopped him, "Are you saying that there is a small flag officer who is also a professor?"
"That's right." Chen Su cursed, "My family has been in the army for generations, and we have a lot of experience in fighting. How could we be worse than a small flag officer? Damn it, it's obvious that they are deliberately leaving us behind!"
"Haha!" Qiu Luan suddenly laughed, "This is starting a new business. The generals, the generals..."
Qiu Luan's eyes were filled with depression, which gradually turned into fear. "Letting martial arts replace our generals is an open conspiracy. Once successful, the generals of the garrisons in various places will inevitably be replaced. Then what about our children and grandchildren?"
Everyone was silent.
"Where are our children and grandchildren?" Qiu Luan's voice was filled with great anger. "We should have been rich and powerful for generations, but now that martial arts have been learned, where will our children and grandchildren go? They are just empty-handed marquises, not even as good as petty officials!"
It is an exaggeration to say that he is not even as good as a petty official, but a marquis without real power is indeed not even as good as a head of one of the six ministries.
"Once all our connections in the army are replaced and we no longer have any influence on the army, it will only take ten years for us to become the parasites in Jiang Qingzhi's eyes. Everyone, don't forget how His Majesty dealt with those foreign relatives back then." Qiu Luan said in a deep voice.
"Cancel the hereditary system." Chen Su murmured, "I have seven sons. In less than ten years, they will all be living off their wealth. This is going to cut off my roots! Cut off the roots of the Chen family!"
Chen Su raised her eyes, "We can't just sit there and wait for death!"
He looked at Qiu Luan, "Marquis Xianning, aren't you panicking?"
Qiu Luan sneered, "What can you do if you panic? Can you still kill Jiang Qingzhi? I warn you here, don't have this idea."
"If we kill him, the matter of martial arts will naturally disappear." Chen Su's eyes turned red when he thought of his sons at home.
"If you have such thoughts, I will sever all ties with you!" Qiu Luan said coldly.
"Marquis Xianning, where is the courage you had back then?" Chen Su asked sarcastically.
"If we fail, do you know Jiang Qingzhi's temper? He will frantically look for the person behind this and then uproot that person." Qiu Luan thought of the several battles between him and Jiang Qingzhi, and couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine. "Even if we succeed, His Majesty will be furious, and the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang will be mobilized in full force. Once that person is found, he may be executed along with his entire clan."
The whole clan will be exterminated!
This bloody word made everyone shudder.
An entire family was wiped out by you.
The atmosphere became dull and everyone dispersed immediately.
Someone was waiting for Qiu Luan to come out and said, "It seems that Chen Su is unwilling to accept this."
"I will stay in my villa outside the city for a while. Whatever he wants to do has nothing to do with me!" Qiu Luan went home and told the steward to pack up.
"My lord, it's raining today and it's not easy to walk! How about we go tomorrow?" the steward kindly advised.
"If you delay any longer, you'll be implicated." Qiu Luan said coldly, "That idiot Chen Su... If there's any news about martial arts in the next few days, report it to me immediately."
"Yes."
"Remember, if someone dies... whoever from Chen Su's family comes to visit, just tell them that I'm missing."
"Yes."
……
“Is this our professor?”
When Ma Fang walked up to the podium and introduced herself, the students were stunned.
"The lowest rank here is a deputy centurion, and we have a small flag officer teaching us. This is fucking ridiculous..."
Ma Fang heard these discussions, but ignored them and said, "Let's start the class."
He turned around and wrote a few big words on the blackboard.
"An army of souls!"
"The soul of an army..."
Time passed and a class ended. A few students seemed to be lost in thought, but most of them were quite dissatisfied and even absent-minded in class.
Ma Fang packed up his things and went out to learn martial arts.
Jiang Qingzhi asked him to live in the Bo Mansion, but Ma Fang declined.
He knew that his roots were in the Huben Zuowei Army, and the position of martial arts professor was just a temporary one.
One cannot forget one’s roots!
We must not aim too high.
Ma Fang bought two big steamed buns, walked into an alley, and ate as she walked.
A dog in front of him was staring at the steamed bun in his hand, whimpering threateningly...
The sound of footsteps came.
Ma Fang stopped.
Footsteps approached behind me.
"Ma Fang!"
Ma Fang swallowed the steamed bun in her mouth and put the rest in her arms, "It's me."
Choking!
The sound of a long sword being unsheathed was heard.
The dog ran with its tail between its legs, but three people appeared in front of it.
Before and after.
The road is blocked!
……
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