What Li Hongyun didn't expect was that after he selected the talent skill, he did not start the trial directly, but instead played something similar to a cutscene.
He was originally at the top of Cenqiaoyi's city, but at the moment he started the trial, his vision quickly rose, overlooking the entire city.
He could clearly see that the entire Cenqiao Station seemed to be in chaos!
The number of business travelers who used to come and go incessantly seems to have suddenly dropped sharply, and they have become hurried. These businessmen were originally going north, passing through the two official roads north of Cenqiaoyi, and constantly going to those important towns in the north. Some merchants with connections could even cross the Qi army at the border and do smuggling business with the Kingdom of Jin.
But now, a large number of business travelers have begun to flee south.
Either flee to Daliang City, the capital, or flee directly further south.
At the same time, the soldier who conveyed the urgent military information rode a fast horse to the inn. He had no time to rest, so he continued to ride on another horse and continued to gallop in the direction of the capital.
And even more, it is the panicked people around them.
They are doing all kinds of things like headless flies.
The well-informed people have already begun to pack up their belongings and prepare to flee to the capital. Even if they are refugees in the capital, it is better than waiting to die here;
Some people who were slow to react did not realize why Cenqiaoyi was in such a panic state. Most of them were farmers nearby, and they were still taking care of the nearby farmland as usual. After all, there was something big going on. , farmland cannot be abandoned, because once it is abandoned, it means someone will go hungry;
There are also a large number of people who may have felt the tense atmosphere that the troops are about to sweep the ground, but they have no way of predicting what kind of fate the future will bring, so naturally they cannot make a clear reaction.
In the eyes of most ordinary people, the world is peaceful for a long time, and this is the emperor's feet. So what if there may be war?
There is also the natural danger of the Yellow River in the north. From the Yellow River defense line to the capital, there are many important military towns and a large number of soldiers. Even if there is a fight, the Jin soldiers will not be able to break through the defense line quickly. Perhaps it is better to wait and see. Good choice.
If the Qi army can win, that would be the best; if the Qi army cannot win, then it seems not too late to find a way to escape south after hearing the news of the defeat and seeing the fleeing soldiers.
After all, rashly fleeing south to become a refugee when the news is uncertain is ultimately a decision that is difficult to make.
In ancient times, most ordinary people were attached to the land, and all their belongings and crops in the farmland could not be taken away. If the Jin soldiers did not come, they would become refugees on their way south. The loss would be unbearable for them.
In this way, Cenqiaoyi, an important node that gathers merchants from the north and south, has felt the foreshadowing of the spring river's warming like a duck swimming on the water. There may be only a handful of people who can really figure out what this means.
Li Hongyun's vision rose again.
His vision began to cast towards the entire north of Qi Dynasty.
At this time, Yanyun in the far north had fallen.
The reason why it is called "fall" is because a small part of Yanyun belonged to the Qi Dynasty for a short time before.
When the Jin people founded the country, the Qi Dynasty had a brief cooperation with the Jin people. Because their performance in the cooperative war was too absurd, it was the Jin people who finally defeated Yanyun.
The monarchs and ministers of the Qi Dynasty creatively redeemed Yanyun and spent a lot of money and resources to buy an empty city. After that, people all over the world donated blood to Yanyun, hoping to rebuild this place into a barrier to the north.
However, each step that seemed to be a harmless operation ended up with serious consequences that were simply unacceptable.
Because the army could not defeat him, and it seemed that he had a good relationship with the Jin people, he planned to use redemption to take Yan Yun back;
Because what was bought back was an empty city, in order to rebuild Yanyun into a barrier to the north, it seemed to be the right decision to continue to enrich Yanyun with population, money and various resources;
Moreover, the surrendered general who was guarding Yanyun at that time led an army that was more powerful than all the troops in the Qi Dynasty. Everyone in the Qi Dynasty thought that he might be able to win over him with a high official and a high salary.
However, after the Jin soldiers went south in two groups, the surrendered general guarding Yanyun resisted for a while and then realized that there would be no good results in following the Qi Dynasty, and finally defected and became a slave of the third surname.
As a result, the Qi Dynasty not only gave away a large amount of money to redeem Yan Yun to the Jin people, but also later used various resources that were thrown at Yan Yun, including population, materials, and a combat-effective army.
There were a large number of craftsmen here, which further accelerated the spread of technology from the Central Plains Dynasty to the north, paving the way for the subsequent downfall of the Qi Dynasty.
Li Hongyun's field of vision moved southward with the Jin's troops. After crossing Yanjing, the Jin's army was in a flat plain, and all the Qi troops they encountered collapsed at the first touch.
Or to be more precise, being defeated at the first touch is already a compliment, because there are very few Qi troops who can actually confront the Jin people. Most of them have already broken out into camp roars or mutinies before they can see the shadow of the Jin people. Without a trace.
The Yellow River may have been a natural barrier, but in this ineffective defense, the Jin people could only allow ships to cross the river a few more times.
At that time, if there really was an army with fighting spirit, and there was a figure like Zhao Binfu who commanded the Qi army to defeat the Jin soldiers in Niuzhuji, it was very likely that the Jin soldiers would be blocked north of the Yellow River. The entire Jingping Shame script may change.
But that is ultimately an unattainable extravagance.
Continuing to the south, Li Hongyun's vision once again passed by Cenqiaoyi and came to Daliang City, the capital of the Qi Dynasty at that time.
Daliang City is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. There are no large mountains or passes around it, so it can basically be regarded as having no danger to defend. However, it was the capital of several dynasties after all, and the city walls were thick enough.
In fact, shortly after the establishment of the Qi Dynasty, there were plans to move the capital. For example, Luoyang in Henan Prefecture, Xijing, was one of the key considerations.
But in the end, it failed because Daliang, as the capital, had a very important advantage, that is, developed water transportation.
This is an endless cycle with no solution.
Because there is no Yanyun, in order to fight against the powerful enemies in the north, and in order to absorb a large number of refugees and disaster victims into the army to maintain stability, a large number of troops must be fed throughout the north;
As the capital city, Daliang City had to raise a large number of forbidden troops to maintain the city defense;
Since there is a large number of troops, the supply of military rations has become a big problem. The capital's Daliang City has developed water transportation, which can continuously transport food from the south to support so many soldiers.
But from a historical perspective, the Qi Dynasty's move only proved one thing, that is, the number of troops was not as good as in the elite.
Sometimes, more soldiers become more of a burden, further deteriorating one's combat effectiveness from being vulnerable to defeat without a fight.
In Daliang City, there is also an atmosphere of panic and tension, but the vast majority of people still live as usual.
Those high-ranking officials and dignitaries are still hanging around the brothels and having fun as before.
Only a few important officials in the court were quarreling in the court.
At this time, Emperor Qi Huizong had a headache looking at the quarreling ministers, his eyes were turning, and he was always thinking about how to escape.
When Li Hongyun's vision passed over Cenqiaoyi and Daliang City, he saw two light spots flickering for a moment and then gradually disappearing.
“What does the light spot mean?
"Is it the player's birth point?"
Li Hongyun saw these two light spots appearing in Cenqiaoyi and the palace respectively, and roughly guessed this possibility.
Then his guess was verified, because as his vision moved to the northwest, he saw two more light spots.
The third light spot is on a small village northwest of Daliang City. There is nothing special here. It is not a military location. It is conceivable that as the Jin soldiers move south, this place will be like other small villages. Being mercilessly run over.
Perhaps not long after, it will completely disappear from the map, turning from a village to a ruin, then from a ruin to a ruin, and then back to the wilderness again.
The fourth light spot is a small city in the mountains.
This is the west exit of a towering Taihang road, located at a strategic location. To the west is Taiyuan City, an important town in Hedong, and to the east is Zhending Mansion. Surrounded by mountains and rivers and connected by roads, it is a battleground for military strategists at first sight.
It was a small military fortress planned when the Qi Dynasty attacked Taiyuan City at the beginning of its founding.
Li Hongfeng didn't need to think hard about where it was, because place names similar to Cenqiaoyi and Daliangcheng appeared in his field of vision: Pingding County.
"The four light spots probably correspond to four different initial identities?
"The bright spot in the imperial palace in the capital is mostly composed of scribe players; as for this small city in the mountains, it is said to be a county town, but it is actually a military stronghold. Most of the players here are martial arts players.
"I just don't know whether the players on the Assassin route will be assigned to Cenqiaoyi or this unknown small village?"
After looking at the areas where these identities were located, Li Hongyun's vision quickly dropped again and returned to Cenqiao Station.
Then, he found that he had regained control of his body.
This seems to be a greenwood man staying in an inn.
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At the same time, Chu Ge also officially started his career as a scribe.
He woke up in his mansion.
Although this mansion is not the best in the capital, it is definitely not bad.
The Qi Dynasty's preferential treatment of literati and officials was famous in history, and one of the preferential treatment was money.
Even if officials of the Qi Dynasty did not commit corruption or amass money, they could still live a good life based on their salary. An official like Wang Wenchuan, who is upright and clean, can also have a large house, support some servants, and his wife can save money to buy him a concubine.
As for those famous corrupt officials and traitorous officials, the wealth they possess is even more unimaginable.
Chu Ge got up and walked around his mansion, and quickly figured out his official position.
Censor Zhongcheng!
After figuring this out, Chu Ge was surprised and happy.
Fortunately, this official rank is actually not low, and it can play a certain role.
The censor Zhongcheng of the Qi Dynasty was from the third rank, and he was the highest official of the censorship station of the procuratorate. When playing Wang Wenchuan before, a player wore the body of the then censor Zhongcheng and helped Chu Ge impeach those troublesome old party officials.
The duty of the censor Zhongcheng is to "pick up official evil, correct the rule of law, debate the big issues, and play the imperial court for the small ones."
In other words, his main job is to use his mouth.
When an official is found to have committed any wrongdoing, if it is a major matter, it will be debated directly in the court; if it is a minor matter, he will be impeached privately to the emperor.
Obviously, this is an official position that is very talkative in front of the emperor. Of course, Chu Ge is still a little happy.
But the reason why he was a little surprised was because he knew who the censor Zhongcheng of the Qi Dynasty should be at this time.
It was Qin Huizhi, the most traitorous traitor in history who killed General Han Fuyue.
From a historical point of view, Qin Huizhi was a relatively normal person at this time. In the imperial vote held by the emperor, he voted against whether to cede territory.
But after the disgrace of Jingping, he was captured and sent to the Jin camp and came back, never to return, on the road to becoming a traitor and traitor.
Chu Ge originally thought he was playing Qin Huizhi this time, but after walking around the house, he found that he was not.
He played a person named "Li Hao". Chu Ge searched in his mind and found that this name did not exist among the important officials of the Qi Dynasty. It is concluded that this may be a fictional character appearing in this historical slice.
This may be due to the influence of demons, or it may be due to some special considerations. In short, he did not play the role of Qin Huizhi, but became the censor Zhongcheng of the Qi Dynasty at that time in a new identity.
As for why the identity of this fictional character does not use the player's real name, this may be because they are worried that players can directly confirm each other's identity through their names.
"Judging from the situation map before the official start of the game, at this time the Jin soldiers have captured Yanjing and are heading south, and have also crossed the Yellow River. Maybe they will reach Cenqiaoyi in three or four days, and they will reach Cenqiaoyi in another ten days. After arriving at the outskirts of the capital, it will take up to half a month before the siege will officially begin...
"There should be a quarrel in the court at this time. As the censor Zhongcheng, I may try to exert some influence in this discussion..."
Chu Ge thought about what he would say in the morning meeting tomorrow.
…
In another different historical slice, Zhao Haiping, who chose the military soldier route, did not appear directly in Pingding County, but first appeared in a martial arts field in Zhending Mansion.
Here, recruits gathered from various surrounding states and counties are being tested on their martial arts skills.
The Qi Dynasty implemented a recruitment system. Every time there was a major disaster, troops would be recruited in the disaster-stricken areas. It is conceivable that the quality of the recruited troops would be uneven.
Therefore, after recruiting soldiers, their salary standards must be determined based on the quality of these soldiers.
Zhao Haiping looked around and found that the entire martial arts arena generally adopted two different screening criteria for these recruits.
The first is for those soldiers who have a certain fighting ability. These people may have learned martial arts in their hometown before, or their families are relatively wealthy and can afford to buy bows and arrows, etc.
This type of soldiers is obviously the elite force in the army. After passing the assessment, they can directly serve as low-level officers, allowing them to command the second type of ordinary people who have no combat capabilities.
For these people, the assessment standards are also different.
If you are proficient in swordsmanship and marksmanship, then if you perform a few moves in front of an officer, you can roughly tell your true level from the aspects of whether your steps are frivolous and whether your moves are accurate; or, if you try to shoot an arrow with a hard bow, you can judge the number of stones in the bow. Or the accuracy of archery can also tell how good one is in martial arts.
Of course, there are also more advanced skills, which are mounted shooting.
If these recruits can shoot arrows on the move while riding horses and hit the arrow targets on both sides, then this will definitely become a key training target in the military.
The second type of people are naturally ordinary people who have no fighting ability.
These people may have been farmers before and had nothing to do except farming; or they may simply be refugees, unkempt or even sickly, and they may also be recruited into the army.
The screening method for these people is much simpler and cruder: look at height.
During the Qi Dynasty, height was the main criterion for recruiting troops. For example, the height of the regular army should not be less than five feet five inches, while the height of the local army should not be less than five feet two inches. According to the weights and measures of the Qi Dynasty, the current height is probably over 1.7 meters and about 1.68 meters.
Even after these recruits join the army, their pay is based on their height.
If you are above 5 feet 8 inches, you will get a monthly salary of 1,000 cash; if you are above 5 feet 7 inches, you will only have a monthly salary of 700 cash; if you are above 5 feet 6 inches, you will get a monthly salary of 500 cash; if you are under 5 feet 2 inches, you will have no monthly salary at all. No, just food and accommodation.
In other words, if one person is about two inches taller than another, their monthly salary as a soldier will be twice the difference.
From the perspective of later generations, this is obviously a quite nonsense standard. After all, tall people may not necessarily be strong, and strong people may not be able to fight. To assess combat effectiveness, it is better to use a few stone bows and riding skills. It is more scientific to use it as a standard and how to use spear skills.
However, the emperor of Qi Dynasty always stubbornly believed that height can be directly linked to combat power, and this selection standard has never changed much.
For Zhao Haiping, he was lucky. The height of this body at this time was over five feet eight inches. That is to say, according to ordinary standards, even if he did nothing, he could still get the highest monthly salary of one thousand yuan by virtue of his height advantage.
But Zhao Haiping obviously will not be satisfied with this.
Because he had done his homework in advance, he knew that he had to strive for a special identity: special stabbing effect.
In other words, he should strive for the first assessment method as much as possible.
There are two main reasons for this.
The first is that soldiers of the Qi Dynasty were required to have their faces tattooed. This rule originated from the previous dynasty. Due to the large number of soldiers recruited, many soldiers had no fighting ability and could only do hard labor, so many soldiers escaped. In order to prevent these soldiers from escaping, the emperor at that time slapped his forehead and came up with a very stupid way: tattooing words on his face.
The biggest problem with the military system at this time is that it simultaneously undertakes the two functions of absorbing refugees and expanding the army. If the two functions are mixed together, the final result can only be that it neither improves social welfare nor improves the quality of the army. Except for one The stability-maintaining effect of a little bit can be said to be hard to describe in other words.
Tattooing on the face is a very bad by-product of this military system.
Zhao Haiping certainly does not want to have tattoos on his face, even if it is just to act in a slice of history.
The special tattoo effect means that as an elite member of the army, he can not have tattoos on his face, but tattoos on his arms to indicate the army number to which he belongs.
The second is that the soldiers selected by the special assassination effect are elites. They have the opportunity to become grassroots officers from the beginning, and their starting point is higher than other soldiers.
In this way, it may be able to play a greater role in the entire Jingping Incident.
When Zhao Haiping came to the school grounds, there were junior officers on one side responsible for measuring height, and on the other side there were junior officers responsible for various assessment items.
"I want to take the riding and shooting test!"
Zhao Haiping looked at the war horses beside him, feeling confident.
…
At the same time, Huo Yunying was in a ruined temple outside a small village northwest of Daliang City.
Beside him, there were several strong men dressed in green forest clothes.
"I am Zhu Tuo, who is nicknamed the 'Poisonous Judge' by the Jianghu people. I have seen Duan Tao, Master Duan, who 'cut the river with one sword', and I have met all of you heroes."
"I am Su Hong, who is known as the 'Green Grass Snake' in the world."
"My dear Yuan Zhiyong, people in the world call him 'the iron rope that controls the mountains and rivers'."
In addition, there were four or five others who seemed to have obviously lower status, and they were called by various nicknames.
Huo Yunying looked at these people with a confused expression, and finally came to a conclusion based on their comprehensive judgment based on their stature, weapons, demeanor and other factors.
This... seems to be a group of petty thieves...
Take these three who seem to have a high status as an example. The weapon of Zhu Tuo, the "Poisonous Hand Judge", is a pair of judge pens, but it is obvious that the tips of the pair of judge pens are worn.
If the poisonous hand judge was dressed decently, then 'Grass Snake' Su Hong was quite shabby. He only had a hemp rope tied around his waist, and he looked similar to a rogue on the street.
As for Yuan Zhiyong, although the title of "Iron Rope Controls Mountains and Rivers" sounds quite resounding, in fact this may be because his weapon is a thick chain.
Does any serious person use this kind of thing as a weapon?
As the saying goes, the weirder the weapon, the faster you will die. There are only two situations in which you can use this kind of strange weapon. The first is when you have a similar inheritance, and most of them are secretive masters; the second is when you are purely new and unconventional. A gimmick to scare the enemy.
At present, it seems that this Yuan Zhiyong is mostly the latter.
Soon, everyone announced their names one after another, and everyone said "I have admired my name for a long time."
Huo Yunying's eyes narrowed slightly, and she was very doubtful about whether these people were really "long admirers" or just "courtesy" common in the world.
After all, most of these people's names were chosen by themselves through blind competition. It would be good if people in the same village knew about it. At this time, it clearly looked like they were gathered nearby. They were all unknown people. It was best not to expose each other. More likely scenario.
After everyone introduced themselves, they all looked at Huo Yunying.
"Mr. Duan, this time the Golden Dog went south, the brothers have jointly elected you as the leader of the alliance. I wonder what we should do?"
Huo Yunying blinked in confusion before reacting.
Oh, so I am Duan Tao, who is also known as "Breaking the River with One Sword"...
Looking at these "heroes" who claimed to be Green Foresters, but in fact many of them were just gangsters, Huo Yunying was a little confused for a moment and didn't even know how to answer.
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Cenqiaoyi.
Li Hongyun had also walked out of the inn and came to the interior of this small town.
The Jin people's troops were already moving towards the Qi Dynasty land in the south, and the two armies were pointing at Taiyuan and the capital respectively.
After the loss of Yanjing, the Yellow River defense line collapsed. No one could tell clearly how soon Cenqiaoyi would be involved in the war after receiving the military information about the Jin soldiers' invasion.
Therefore, Cenqiaoyi was in a very chaotic state at this time.
Of course, this is not all due to lack of information. In the capital and the imperial city, where military intelligence was gathered, the situation was actually in chaos.
According to historical records, when he knew that the Jin soldiers were still ten days away from the capital, Qi Huizong issued an edict before abdicating the throne to let the world suppress King Qin.
Li Hongyun was walking in the chaotic streets of Cenqiaoyi, feeling a little confused.
What should I do now?
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