C865 proglacial aversion (1/2)
”I remember that year, I was still an ordinary mountain villager in the mountains of Yanqing County. Although my name was Xiang Jia Village's Villa Master and the County Magistrate had acknowledged me as a Retention, I was still a commoner …”
”Life in the Qing Dynasty is not as extravagant as you think. What you see is only the rich and prosperous lands of Jiangnan. In the rural areas of the Qing Dynasty, the poverty is not much better than Japan …”
Almost everyone in the Xiang Jia Village cultivates martial arts, and there are more than 400 disciples in total. Among them, there are at least 200 people who can fight in the battlefield like you guys, with skills that are not inferior to you Japanese warriors. I also do not know what standard a stronghold like this is in your Japan.
”Formidable, he is definitely going to advance to a famous rank one …” The Sister Wu said, ”The two hundred of you are actually two hundred armored warriors. With them as bones, we can easily control a large number of villages. Collecting farmhands would allow us to train a total of two thousand elite warriors.”
”If we were in the Warring States Period, with this kind of strength, if we bribed the Public official a bit more, please grant us a noble surname, a small name would be enough …”
”If you have another set of methods to train your troops, after a few rounds of victories, your stronghold would be promoted to Gucheng. If your luck is better, you would be able to lie low for ten years. Your future potential is unimaginable … However, that is all a matter of the Warring States Period, and there is no chance for that now … ”
Dragon Lord sighed, ”That's right, at that time I also felt that I was pretty powerful. The road to the Hot River and Mongolia were controlled by me, and at that time, the caravans were not allowed to give me protection fees, and if there were any cases that could not be solved by the county, if there were any disputes over the Green Forest Road, I would have to step in!”
”Is he awesome?” A county in the Great Qing Province is almost at the level of a country like this Fu Sang. The county magistrate is known as Marquis of Hundred Miles, what am I? Baili Hu? ”
”But let me tell you the truth, the most respected person in my family isn't me, it's actually my nephew Xiang Ying …”
”Xiang Ying has been smart since he was young, and the mister likes him the most. In the Xiang Jia Village, Xiang Ying never did farm work for a day, and I don't need to learn martial arts from other monkey children either. I only taught him a set of Eight Trigrams for health care since a young age … ”
”Xiang Ying is still young, if he still has some achievements when he's old, he would definitely be number one in the village. My position would definitely be below his … At that time, as long as Xiang Ying started to recite the words, the loudest person in the Villa would have to shut up. Whoever dares not to keep their mouth shut will get a smelly beating! ”
”As I walk in the manor, there is also my eldest disciple who is shamelessly playing a joke on me. But when Xiang Ying walks in the manor, everyone's eyes are filled with reverence … Truly, I am not lying to you. You don't know how respected scholars are in our Qing Dynasty.
Sister Wu took out a bottle of wine from her luggage and handed it over to Dragon Lord. Dragon Lord raised his head and took a big mouthful of wine, ”Later on, I met a man who gave me a mission to hire me to kill! I wanted to beat him up then. My Dragon Lord is a renowned tyrant of the north, he's not some scumbag kidnapper.
”But before my fist could fall, that person had already reported his master's name. I broke out in a cold sweat the moment I heard that, that's right, you should know who that person is, and that person is Weng Tonghe, the mighty Imperial Advisor …”
”Hahaha …” They didn't want to give me any money at all! They knew that my Xiang Jia Village had always believed in herself as the descendant of the overlord of Western Chu, Xiang Yu, and they also knew that we were trying our best to nurture a scholar, so Weng Tonghe had only casually given me two promises … ”