Beijing is a lazy city in early spring. Although there is a little bit of greenery in the late spring cold wind, the dusty weather that always arrives every spring kills this spring feeling.
The children of the Eight Banners who are not engaged in production wander around the streets with nothing to do, wasting their youth in teahouses and taverns. Many children aged 17 or 18 have already been infected with the bad habits of the Eight Banners. They carry bird cages to raise big yellow dogs for the winter. The Grasshopper listened to the sound, and the high-ranking teahouse man had a bowl of it. Three or five people sat together and started bragging for a long time.
No one thinks that they are wasting their youth, because all the Eight Banners disciples live like this. How many Eight Banners men can work? It is their business if the Han people are willing to work like dogs. The Manchus eat hard-core crops. , the identity of a bannerman is thousands of hectares of fertile land.
"Oh, third brother, you are so lucky...Sixth brother Duoluo, you are energetic...Oh, isn't that the second master of Ma Qun and the Ma family? Come, come, let's do it together..."
The three brothers, Sanbao, Duoluo, and Ma Qun, met again in a familiar teahouse. After a standard set of greeting etiquette from the Eight Banners, they each had a bowl of high rice noodles and ordered three bowls of rotten pork noodles for breakfast.
Originally this was a common scene in Sijiu City, but when applied to these three children who were only seventeen or eighteen years old, it was nothing short of nondescript.
The stubborn leaders in the Eight Banners are all old copper peas that cannot be cooked or cracked. When they get older, there is no hope of promotion, so they focus all their energy on playing. Many things in Sijiu City are provided by these idlers. Hold it up.
Fighting crickets, starlings and thrushes, playing with walnuts, small gourds... those who boil eagles, those who play kites, those who draw snuff bottles... It can be said that the Eight Banners class provided many gadgets that people in later generations would love to hear and talk about.
But it’s really rare for children of seventeen or eighteen years old to imitate adults in making teahouses and get up so early and gather together as soon as dawn.
Aren't such a big Eight Banner kid at the right age to visit the Bada Hutongs? Even if he doesn't have two dollars in his pocket, there are still very few half-open doors in the Forty-Nine City. Aren't those women who work part-time just love to be pretty? This group of good guys can just throw away three melons and two dates and sleep for a night. If you really have no money, it's not impossible to pay for it.
How could he imitate the sullen attitude of the old waiters at such a young age? The shopkeeper couldn't understand and didn't bother to ask.
High tea and rotten pork noodles, the three brothers ate them in a daze. No one in the teahouse knew that these three brothers would go up to the city wall for several miles every day before dawn, and then practice kung fu several times. They were really Eight Banners There is a rare progressive inside.
After a bowl of noodles, the three of them started chatting.
"Brothers, I heard that Prince Gong has started to train our new Manchu army. He said that he hired a British coach. All the foreign guns and cannons he will use will be foreign guns and artillery. My fourth uncle also accompanied the Prime Minister. The yamen sent me a letter to go to the northern suburbs to see the camp..."
"Come on, Guiziliu is training his troops. What kind of strong soldiers can he train with his two swords? Even Marshal Zeng said that foreign soldiers are difficult to train. In this world, except for Prime Minister Xiao of Donghai, who is Asian? Can you figure out what the New Army is like..."
"Hey... when I mention Prime Minister Xiao of the East China Sea, I feel uneasy. If I have to say I admire you, I'm really impressed. A scholar can actually mount a horse and bring out an iron army, beating the foreigners everywhere. Isn't this? They are not born from the stars and descend to earth.”
"But looking at the losses we Manchus suffered at his hands, I felt indescribably panicked... Guangqumen's family was captured with a single charge by hundreds of people. The military parade in the Hall of Supreme Harmony was... You really don’t give us much face..."
"Brother is right. There are also all those half-disabled men on the street. I really can't bear it..."
The so-called half-disabled uncle is a term that became popular in Sijiu City two years ago. They are the defeated Eight Banners soldiers who returned from the war with Mailer. It can be said that they are the last bit of strength of the Bannermen in Sijiu City.
Their dejected hands were wrapped in white cloth. The family members were all dumbfounded when they saw it. Anyone who returned to Sijiu City alive had their thumbs chopped off.
The entire capital was wailing, and everyone in the banner family was scolding Xiao Letian for his wickedness. However, those who witnessed the battlefield remained silent and did not dare to say a word against Xiao Letian.
"Don't scold me at home. Just drop two fingers. You have never seen how Xiao Letian's sky fire burned people. The flames burned directly into the bones and almost melted them. ...No matter how heavy the rain comes, it can't extinguish the fire from the sky. There are some elderly people in the team, guess what."
"People say that those who were burned to death by this heavenly fire will have their souls burned away. They will not be able to enter the six realms of reincarnation at all, and they will not be able to reincarnate even if they die... My ancestor, it is not easy for me to take this life back."
Many women were so frightened that they broke out in cold sweats, thinking that losing two fingers was not a big deal. After all, the big parts of their body were not lost. They could just use the kang at night.
But time proved Xiao Letian's insidiousness. Gradually, the wounded soldiers in Forty-Nine City felt that something was wrong. They used to think that their thumbs were useless and losing two fingers was not a serious disability. However, they never expected that there was no such thing. I can't do many movements with my thumb's support, and the remaining four fingers are all wasted.
I can't hold things, and I can't clamp things. The little thumb turns out to be the most important organ that cooperates with the other fingers. It doesn't matter if the little finger is lost, but the thumb cannot be lost.
Losing one's thumb means that one has abolished one's martial arts skills. All one's civil and military skills are in vain. The family has a useless person who doesn't look like a useless person. There are cries everywhere in the house of the Eight Banners people.
From that day on, there was a group of people in Sijiu City. Everyone called them half-disabled uncles. These uncles were all bannermen. They had hard-core crops to eat at home. Now they are very unhappy because they lost their fingers. They love to cause trouble most during this time.
Everyone shouted that they were disabled because of the imperial court, and the imperial court had to provide them with pensions. Groups of people gathered outside the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prime Minister's Office to cry. If he said that, he would hit the wall and seek death, which would make the court miserable.
In the past, when the New Army was in the city, they were so scared that they huddled at home like mice and did not dare to come forward. But after the New Army withdrew from Beijing, this group of rats began to join forces to cause trouble.
Facts have proven that when a person despairs of the future, his moral level will plummet. There are groups of these half-disabled men who are looking for trouble all day long, and they are all extremely scoundrels.
If you don't pay for eating and drinking, if you dare to chase after you, he will knock you to death on the counter. If you look at him while walking, he will rush up to you and cause trouble. There is a saying that suddenly became popular in Sijiu City.
"What are you looking at...what are you looking at...look at you again and try...just try..."
A good Forty-Nine City, the capital that was kept open at night by Xiao Letian, was ruined by these half-disabled men.
Doro and his three brothers sighed, "Yes, I feel sorry for these old men too. They are all members of the Eight Banners who broke their bones and connected their tendons... But the troubles they have caused in the past few months have been so outrageous, and the court has not Tell me to take care of it..."
At this moment, something happened to them. Unknown to the three of them, two so-called semi-disabled men were drinking tea in the corner. They did not see the look the shopkeeper gave the three brothers just now.
"Little boy, what are you talking about? You still want to drink tea and eat noodles here without us fighting in front. I was injured for the imperial court, not because you, the younger generation, have enough to eat. How dare you come here? I said bad things about us behind our backs, so your grandma... give me your name..."
The so-called newborn calves are not afraid of tigers refers to young people like Duoluo and the others. The Sanbao slapped the table and said, "Don't give me a name to scare people. I am afraid of scaring you to death if I mention the name of my ancestors. I will put a yellow flag on it." Which flag do you belong to?"
"Third brother, stop talking nonsense with them. Wen is a litigious fighter. What do you want to do? I will take over..."
The two half-disabled old men sneered, "Haha, you really have a few shadows of us from the past. If you are beaten, I will bully you. Just sign up and come out, and I will negotiate with your parents..."
The shopkeeper was well-informed and well-informed, so he quickly came over to break up the fight. "Gentlemen, this shop can't stand a single finger of yours. This meal is all mine, so calm down..."
The shopkeeper came to the side of San Bao and whispered, "Three gentlemen, please calm down. Don't make trouble for the family. These gentlemen are all in a gang, and what they do is extremely despicable. They throw excrement and spread rot." Medicine... The Nancheng family provoked them before, and the little girl fell into the well..."
"They don't care about the king's law at all. They are crazy and the court feels that it owes them, so it always turns a blind eye. The Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Nine Admirals, and the Shuntian Mansion are too lazy to take care of it... As soon as they are taken care of, they will gather together to cause trouble and cause harm. The remaining money..."
Listening to the words of the teahouse owner, the three of them were filled with anger: "Is there any more royal law? You care about heaven and earth, but do you still care about what we say?"
"Oh, Wang Fa... Hahaha, the emperor is not in the Forbidden City anymore, what more Wang Fa is needed? I don't dare to claim my family anymore. How brave was I just now?"
"If you want the king's law, wait until the emperor returns to the capital. The current Sijiu City is a place without the king's law. What can you do to me?"
At this moment, a voice that sounded neither yin nor yang came from outside the teahouse, "Who is so brave? If the emperor is not in the capital, there will be no royal law. This is disrespectful..."
A group of people walked in from the door of the teahouse. The leader was the housekeeper of the three young people's home, followed by a group of eunuchs surrounded by guards with swords.
"Young Master, this is Eunuch Manshun who is here to deliver an edict. The emperor has an edict for the three young masters. Please kneel down and receive the edict."
This sentence frightened everyone in the teahouse to kneel down, even the two half-cripples knelt down and stopped moving. It doesn't matter if you say a few harsh words behind your back, but if you talk nonsense in front of the noble, you are asking for trouble. .
"By God's blessing, the emperor issued an edict: I heard that the Three Treasures, Duoluo, and Ma Qun were young but ambitious, humble but loyal and patriotic... I was specially summoned to be given the post of guard with a sword, and I immediately went to Tanggu to gather to protect His Majesty... …”
The imperial edict was not long, with only a few dozen words. When Manshun finished reciting it, the entire teahouse was completely silent. His Majesty actually delivered the edict to the country from overseas, and His Majesty actually began to reward the guards.
The two half-disabled people couldn't believe their ears and whispered, "Is the emperor personally in charge of the government? He will be able to give guards, is it true or false..."
"Bold, you actually dare to question the emperor's will, someone come and get it for me." This book was first published from, read the original content first!
