The Past of the Dragon King of the North Sea - The Dragon Leaping into the Abyss
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Zhao Qingsong was born in a remote mountain village in Yi County, Baoding Prefecture.
A poor family is often an objective condition when a person is born!
But this is not an obstacle that prevents the eagle from spreading its wings and flying!
In the storm, only the eagle is fearless!
Only when the sand blows away does gold appear!
The family's embarrassment made Zhao Qingsong reluctantly attend someone else's private school for two years, and he finally learned some words. Then when he was nine years old, his father signed a deed of sale and sold him to a master who made the nationally famous Yi Shui Inkstone!
Zhao Qingsong is extremely intelligent. Although he is young, he is very mature in his work. He is very popular with his master. It only took him two years to become a master!
The master and his wife had no children, so they really liked this little apprentice, so they adopted Zhao Qingsong as their adopted son.
Unexpectedly, something unexpected happened. A few months later, the master and his wife fell seriously ill at the same time, and the couple died at the same time!
All the master's huge property belongs to Zhao Qingsong.
Eleven-year-old Zhao Qingsong took over his down-to-earth father and idle brother, and started making inkstones while doing business.
Although he only attended private school for two years, he was extremely talented, spoke elegantly, and wrote poems out of his mouth. The Confucian businessmen who came to buy inkstones were all amazed when they saw this little prodigy, and only did inkstone business with him and did not buy other people's. Inkstone!
In less than a year, Zhao Qingsong became famous among the businessmen of Yantai, and his business grew bigger and bigger!
He had heard for a long time that the people in Jiangnan were prosperous and the literati were elegant and unrestrained. Zhao Qingsong packed three large carts full of the best and top-grade Yishui inkstones and went to Jiangnan with the Jiangnan businessmen he was very familiar with!
After this trip, the inkstone business was extremely successful and I made hundreds of thousands of dollars!
But this trip to the south of the Yangtze River also made the smart Zhao Qingsong appreciate the unspeakable bitterness and unpredictable dangers in life for the first time!
It also completely extinguished the flame of the imperial examination in his heart!
Zhao Qingsong keenly discovered that the scholars had already formed cliques before taking the imperial examination, and their differences were clear!
Long before the exam, whether or not you will pass the exam is probably a sure thing!
It is extremely difficult for a northern candidate like him who has no connections to get on the list to get on the list!
Even after passing the exam and becoming an official, the struggle becomes more dangerous every step of the way. If you are not careful, it will be a serious crime of confiscating your family and exterminating your clan!
Therefore, the things that people usually dream about, passing the scientific examination and honoring their ancestors, have now become a trap and unreliable!
And during this trip, Zhao Qingsong had a narrow escape from death. Whether it was the corrupt bureaucrats, shameless clerks, or all kinds of monsters and ghosts who supported him along the way, they almost made him reincarnate on the spot!
Fortunately, he was blessed with great fortune, was young, inconspicuous, and was willing to spend money, so he returned home to Yixian County!
After this battle, Zhao Qingsong decided to abandon literature and join martial arts!
Just do what you say, hesitation is never something smart people do.
Wen Wu is the first, Wu Wu is the second!
Since you are ready to learn martial arts from a master, you have to find the most powerful master to learn martial arts from!
Poor in literature and rich in martial arts.
Without money, there is no need to talk about martial arts training.
Zhao Qingsong's family has so much money that they can hardly afford it, so practicing martial arts has become extremely easy!
After Zhao Qingsong's careful planning, coupled with chance, and after he spent a lot of money to go out, he finally became a disciple of his favorite famous teacher.
A famous ruthless man in the northern martial arts world who never uses a third move to kill people - Wang Lie, the best marksman north of the Yangtze River!
Wang Lie accepted a large amount of money from Zhao Qingsong, and saw that although he was young, he was extremely smart, and he was extremely satisfied with everything he said and did, so he came to teach him in person!
Five years passed by in a flash.
Wang Lie, a ruthless man with a well-known reputation in the world, is actually a skinny old man with a plain appearance.
This skinny little man is ruthless and talks little, but he teaches without any secrets. He believes in the iron rule that as long as you can't practice to death, you must practice to death. He has extremely strict requirements for Zhao Qingsong, and he will be severely punished if he makes any mistakes!
Fortunately, Zhao Qingsong is extremely talented in martial arts training, can endure hardships, is patient, and is willing to work hard. What he does is often better, stronger, and more accurate than what his master requires!
Wang Lie originally planned to train Zhao Qingsong well and let him start training in ten years. However, in the fifth year, he patted Zhao Qingsong on the shoulder with satisfaction and said: "You have my things!"
Gone away!
It only took an astonishing five years for Zhao Qingsong to start his career!
At this time, Zhao Qingsong was seventeen years old, with a tall figure, a face as white as jade, eyebrows as dark as swords, eyes like stars, handsome and unrestrained, unparalleled!
Once his martial arts skills were complete, Zhao Qingsong began to plan his next move.
Learned martial arts and sold them to the emperor's family.
An ordinary citizen, no matter how rich he is, is just a commoner and not worth mentioning. Any official can easily crush you to death!
So it’s not enough to have money, and it’s not enough to have martial arts. You have to have power!
Generally speaking, if you want to become an official, there are two ways to become an official: civil and military!
Study hard, take the imperial examination, win the gold medal, and enter the country's civil service system!
Or join the imperial army to recruit, rely on force, and become famous in the army!
Of course, the literary career is very competitive. You have to have not only talent, but also luck. Otherwise, you will end up just a poor scholar after taking exams for a lifetime.
But no matter what, it is basically not life-threatening!
But it is also not easy to join the army and fight on the border. Let’s not talk about whether you can get a part-time job as an official. It is easy to lose your life for no reason!
Zhao Qingsong was extremely smart and did not want to take either path. He directly relied on money to open the way, relied on his master's reputation to build relationships, and relied on his own excellent martial arts to open the way. He just caught up with a good opportunity. At the age of seventeen, he easily Sneaking into the palace, he became a royal guard Xiaoqi - a sesame official from the seventh rank!
Not long after I became a Jinyiwei, the emperor issued a decree and sent Eunuch Wang to set up the West Factory!
This Eunuch Wang Zhi was very young, just fourteen years old. According to the emperor's imperial decree, he summoned the Imperial Guard to serve as an official. The number of people was more than double that of Dongchang!
Eunuch Wang was very fond of meritorious service when he was young, and he liked young men the most. When he was selecting people, he saw Zhao Qingsong's handsome appearance and liked him very much. He promoted him to two levels on the spot, and became a trial household from the sixth level. The men are doing the work!
However, Zhao Qingsong's good luck seems to have run out.
Eunuch Wang was ordered by the emperor to lead troops out of Beijing to quell the rebellion.
Everyone in the West Factory in Beijing is listening to Wei Ying's command!
Wei Ying was born as a scoundrel, greedy for money, lustful, petty-minded, unyielding, shameless and vicious. She had long been jealous and resentful of Zhao Qingsong, a celebrity in the eyes of Eunuch Wang. When she saw Wang Zhi leaving Beijing, she immediately began to think of a solution. Squeeze out Zhao Qingsong, intending to put him to death!
Wei Ying framed Zhao Qingsong several times, and even almost killed him several times, which also made him fully appreciate the cruelty of officialdom.
If you mess around in the arena, if you can't fight others, you will die on the spot!
If you mess around in the officialdom and can't fight others, not only will you die, but your entire family will also be executed!
Gan Jinyiwei does the dirty work of ransacking homes and arresting people!
After so many properties were confiscated, Zhao Qingsong began to worry about his own family's fortune, which was not too small!
Therefore, no matter what team you are in, there will always be a gangster!
A bastard doesn't always want to be a bastard, sometimes he has no choice but to do so.
Zhao Qingsong knew that he could not defeat Wei Ying, who was currently the right-hand man in the eyes of the emperor and Wang Zhi, but a flower could not bloom like a thousand suns, and a man could not be good for ten years, so it was better to avoid Wei Ying for the time being. Who knew when Wei Ying would be there? What about bad luck?
If there is a chance in the future, I will try other strategies. If there is no chance, in ten or eight years, I will simply escape from the world and live out my life as a small rich man in the small countryside of Yi County. Got it!
Being young and frivolous is always no match for the absurdity of the world!
Full of passion, after all, the warmth cannot penetrate the cold world!
On this day, Wei Ying deliberately caused trouble for Zhao Qingsong, claiming that when Zhao Qingsong copied Master Yang's mansion, he copied an authentic poem written by Su Shi of the Song Dynasty.
Zhao Qingsong smiled bitterly and scratched his head.
His long, energetic eyes narrowed slightly, and he already had a good idea in his mind.
The Jin Yiwei raided the mansion and returned all the stolen goods to the treasury. Who dares to be corrupt?
This matter can be big or small. To put it more seriously, it is a serious crime of deceiving the emperor. Not only will he be beheaded, but his family will be confiscated and his family will be exterminated!
To put it mildly, this was a clerical error registered by the inspector, and this thing was never copied at all!
Moreover, historically speaking, Su Shi's calligraphy and paintings are numerous, and there are only a few of them. How could a pair that no one has heard of appear out of thin air?
"Sir Wei Baihu, the inspector may have made a mistake in writing this matter. I have the certificate written by the inspector to my subordinate here!"
Wei Ying's squinted snake eyes showed a look of surprise, and she secretly wondered: "Did Zhao Qingsong know in advance that I would use this excuse to cause trouble for him? Otherwise, how could he claim to have evidence? This bastard has never been enlightened. , pretending to be a big-tailed wolf, not pulling out a hair, neither fawning over me nor bribing me, relying on Eunuch Wang’s favor, and playing right with me every day! Want to take credit with me in front of Eunuch Wang and the emperor? Hmm, wishful thinking! I I want to see what his so-called credentials are. If he dares to fool me, I will use this as an excuse to kill him!"
Wei Ying's nostrils turned upward and she reached out to take the note handed over by Zhao Qingsong.
As soon as his fingers touched the written documents, he was shocked to find something strange. When he lowered his head and looked down, a strange light suddenly appeared in his small eyes.
"Indeed! It seems that it was indeed a clerical error by the inspector. He remembered it wrong! Wrong writing! There are no calligraphy and paintings by Su Dongpo in the Yang Mansion. This... this Xiao Zhao, it seems that I have misunderstood you. I have misunderstood you. ! Misunderstanding! I must rebuke this prosecutor, why is he so sloppy in his work? I almost wronged a good person!"
While saying this, his short eyebrows trembled rapidly up and down, looking very funny, like a mouse that had just stolen sesame oil!
Zhao Qingsong smiled slightly and said: "Thank you Wei Baihu for keeping Xiaguan clean. I have one more thing I want to ask Mr. Baihu."
Wei Ying sat up straight, put aside the white paper that Zhao Qingsong had just handed over, gently turned the gold leaves wrapped in the white paper, estimated that it was worth fifty taels of silver, and put the gold leaves into her arms with her backhand. He put it in his pocket, picked his teeth with his fingers, and said casually: "Xiao Zhao! Those of us who are on errands cannot do whatever we want. We have to listen to the instructions from above. Whatever the superiors want, we have to do it." , but there can be no half-heartedness, otherwise... otherwise it will be a sin of losing your head!"
