casket of old days

Chapter 40

"A member of the Wu family." Qiao Zhi said with a chuckle: "Wu Siqi, a scholar of the cabinet at the time, was also a fierce man with martial arts skills. His hometown is in Qingyang County. All the children of the Wu family in Qingyang County I invited a powerful master to learn martial arts at home, so I don’t come to the Yinglue Hall at all.”

Chu Qiguang knew that the cabinet of the Han Dynasty was the center of the operation of the court, and could even check and balance the imperial power to a certain extent.There are as few as two or three cabinet masters, and as many as six or seven. They determine various policies of the country.

Chu Qiguang: "Wu Siqi? He can also learn martial arts, what a fierce man."

Unexpectedly, Qiao Zhi broke out another shocking news: "The key point is that although Wu Siqi is only a cabinet bachelor now, the current cabinet chief assistant will return to his hometown in two months. Ding You, Wu Siqi will become the new cabinet chief assistant."

Chu Qiguang knew that the feudal dynasty of the Han Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, and if the parents of officials died, they would have to go home for three years.

The chief minister of the cabinet is the number one minister in the cabinet, who presides over the affairs of the cabinet and coerces the six ministries of the court. It is equivalent to the prime minister of a dynasty.

Hearing that Wu Siqi would become the new chief minister of the cabinet in two months, Chu Qiguang's eyes lit up instantly: "Then I will go to the Wu family when I find a chance, and get to know the people in the Wu family."

Qiao Zhi pouted: "You want to hug your thigh?"

Chu Qiguang said: "It doesn't matter if you have thighs or not, the main reason is that I like to make friends with people surnamed Wu."

Chu Qiguang thought in his mind again: "The governor of Hao's right capital, Dianzhou, is equivalent to the commander of the military region of Dianzhou, right?"

He said to Qiao Zhi: "A governor, a minister of the Ministry of war, and now there is a cabinet minister. What kind of place is Qingyang County with outstanding people?"

Qiao Zhi hehe said: "The feng shui in Qingyang County is indeed very good. Since the founding of the country, there have been frequent high-ranking officials, and until now, there have been fairy seeds like you and me. Can you not be amazing?"

Chu Qiguang nodded his head when he heard the words, and said deeply: "Qingyang County has a baby like a dragon and a phoenix like us, the world is blessed."

Qiao Zhi asked suspiciously, "What is Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Young?"

Chu Qiguang sighed. Although Master Qiao is already very powerful, he is still a world behind him.

Suddenly Chu Qiguang's eyes narrowed, and he thought of another thing.

"The new county magistrate from Qingyang County wants to recover the tax owed, and I heard that he also needs to measure the acres of land. But since Qingyang County is the hometown of Wu Siqi, who dares to come and do things like this? Could it be that this move is aimed at this elder Wu Ge? here?"

"Is this the struggle at the center of the imperial court involved in the local area?"

In an instant, Chu Qiguang felt that there seemed to be a terrifying undercurrent surging under the calm surface of Qingyang County.

At this moment, Chu Qiguang also understood why the Wang family still dared to hide the fields and did not cooperate with the magistrate. This obviously felt that the Wu family could withstand the actions of the new magistrate.

Wang Cailiang who was on the side suddenly came over, pulled Chu Qiguang and squeezed into the crowd, saying: "Brother Chu, let me introduce someone to you. He is a good brother I know in the county. He protects us. You can walk sideways in this county in the future."

"He has broken through the fourth level of martial arts this year, and he is even stronger than the masters in the hall. It is said that this year he can not only be admitted as a martial arts student, but also directly admitted as a martial arts examiner. He comes to the Yinglue Hall every day to order a Let's go, let's hurry up and see him."

After all, Wang Cailiang brought Chu Qiguang up to Ding Daoxiao, and said humbly, "Brother Ding."

"Are you...?" Ding Daoxiao froze for a moment, then frowned and said, "...a new student in the hall?"

Wang Cailiang said with some embarrassment: "Brother Ding, you don't remember me? I'm Xiao Wang. We had dinner together at Sixitang."

"Xiao Wang?" Ding Daoxiao blinked his eyes, and said in the next instant, "Oh~~ Xiao Wang, long time no see, how is your father's cloth shop doing?"

Wang Cailiang lowered his head in embarrassment, and whispered, "Not bad."

Ding Daoxiao glanced at Chu Qiguang again.Although Chu Qiguang was wearing his newly bought silk gown today, in Ding Daoxiao's eyes, the clothes worth one or two taels were no different from wearing any clothes, representing the identity of the other party's civilians.

Ding Daoxiao smiled and said: "This is also a new student, right? He is indeed a good-looking talent. When you come to the library, you will study literature and martial arts hard, and you will serve the court together in the future. If you encounter any troubles in this county, you can come to me , I still have something to do, so I will go first."

After speaking, he patted the shoulders of the two encouragingly, and left with a smile.

Wang Cailiang was embarrassed at the moment, and he didn't know what to say to Chu Qiguang, but Chu Qiguang beside him looked indifferent, and there was nothing strange on his face.

Then everyone entered the martial arts academy in batches to learn martial arts. When it was time to practice martial arts, all the students changed their relaxed expressions and became serious and serious.

And because Chu Qiguang and Wang Cailiang were only at the first level of martial arts, they were naturally assigned to the outer courtyard.

The outer court has the largest number of people among the three courts, with nearly 30 people, most of them are rich peasants from the countryside like Wang Cailiang, and there are also some businessmen's children.

Chu Qiguang and Wang Cailiang followed the crowd to the outer courtyard, and the first thing they saw was a large training ground.

There are also various weapons training equipment such as knives, guns, sticks, stone locks and stone piers on the training ground. There are wing rooms, study rooms and ring corridors on both sides.

Once everyone entered the training ground, they stopped talking and started to practice seriously. The huge training ground was completely silent, only the sounds of breaking through the air, footsteps, and impacts remained.

Even the scumbags from the outer court can be regarded as serious about practicing martial arts, otherwise they wouldn't be sent in by their families.

Wang Cailiang looked at the people in the training ground and sighed, "Brother Chu, we will spend the next two or three years here."

Chu Qiguang shook his head, and said directly: "I will stay here for a month at most, and I will enter the inner courtyard after one month."

At this moment, there was a coughing sound behind the two of them, and a teacher from the outer court came over, looked at Chu Qiguang and said with a straight face: "Practicing martial arts, the most taboo is complacency. You have just entered the Yinglue Hall, first of all The task is to lay a good foundation, and we must not aim too high."

Chu Qiguang also knew that these words were for the benefit of the students, so he nodded immediately to be taught.

"Are you newcomers Wang Cailiang and Chu Qiguang?" Mr. Training said, "What kind of martial arts have you practiced? Show me all of them."

Chu Qiguang heard Wang Cailiang's introduction before, and knew that he should be Lin Yao, the teacher and teacher of the outer court.

Now he is performing martial arts with Wang Cailiang, but the Yesha Wangquan he practiced is a martial art in the army, and it is a bit troublesome to perform, so he only demonstrated a set of Tianling Exercise Boxing.

After demonstrating martial arts, Lin Yao asked them some questions, all about age, time of practicing martial arts, and family background. After hearing that Chu Qiguang had practiced martial arts for three years and his family was just a farmer in Wangjiazhuang, his attitude suddenly became cold a lot.

After all, Chu Qiguang's identity is not even considered a poor family, he is a poor man among the poor. In Lin Yao's view, it is impossible for him to have the conditions and qualifications to take the martial arts exam in the future.

On the contrary, Wang Cailiang is more or less a local rich man, so he is more worthy of investment.

(End of this chapter)