please make me king

Chapter 435
It turned out that there happened to be a Xiangsheng named Xu Quan in this Niuzhai village, who was having a banquet at home for four friends who came to visit him.All five of them are Xiangsheng, that is to say, scholars in later generations.

The state schools and county schools in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were called "Yi Xiang", so the students in them were called "Yi Xiang students", or "Xiang students" for short, commonly known as scholars or maocai.For example, Chen Jingzhi, who joined the rebel army, was originally a Xiangsheng in Meng County.

It's just that Ming's scholars are different from the powerless scholars in many people's impressions. In addition to studying imperial examination subjects, they generally also study martial arts.

When Zhu Yuanzhang first established the Ming Dynasty, he learned from the Song Dynasty's lesson of emphasizing literature over military affairs, and required scholars to master martial arts skills and the art of war.In his spare time, Xiang Sheng also studied martial arts such as archery.

During the Ming Dynasty, these martial arts and military arts were not subjects of the civil servants' imperial examinations, and they were often not taken seriously.But there are always exceptions to everything, and there are also those who study the art of war and martial arts seriously while studying.

For example, Xiong Tingbi, who is both civil and military, and Lu Xiangsheng, who can wield a [-]-jin sword, are such leaders, and the more common ones are Li Xin, who has a long history of family education.

That Xu Quan was born in the west of Henan, where the folk customs are tough, so he is naturally a bit wild.He has liked horseback riding and archery since he was a child, and he is good at riding and archery.The few people he made friends with naturally also liked to wield knives and guns, bend bows and shoot arrows.

Since Xu Quan could afford a fine horse and play riding and archery, he naturally had a wealthy family.The Xu family mansion is also quite famous in this small Niuzhai village. Although it is not comparable to those big families with thousands of hectares of fertile land and hundreds of beautiful houses, there is still a house with more than ten rooms.

As soon as Tang Jiuzhou entered this Niuzhai Village, he saw Xu Quan's house from a distance.Although it can't be called carved beams and painted buildings, it is still spacious and bright.Therefore, Tang Jiuzhou simply led the soldiers to stay overnight.

Although Xu Quan knew that this guy was not a good person, but the situation was stronger than him, so he didn't stand out.He just secretly asked his four classmates, friends and servants to prepare weapons just in case, while welcoming Na Tang Kyushu into the house.

Everyone assigned the host and guest, and they ate and drank a lot under Xu Quan's hospitality.After all, Tang Jiuzhou was born as a warrior, and he traveled back and forth along the way, so he had a good appetite.He ate and drank a lot like a starved ghost reincarnated.

On the wine table, the two parties must be courteous and inquire about each other.Only then did Tang Jiuzhou know that the master's family was a scholar and had some fame, but he didn't care much.It wasn't until he was full of wine and food that Tang Jiuzhou took his personal guards to the guest room to rest.

It's just that I don't know if Tang Kyushu is extremely sleepy, or if he is full of warmth and thinking about it.In short, after he lay down, he tossed and turned repeatedly, but could not sleep.

Tang Jiuzhou has been tossing and tossing for a long time, and his soldiers can't sleep peacefully, so he complained to him: "The chief soldier is very energetic, if you have such leisure, why don't you call the wife and concubine of Master Xu to make a fuss? Why do you make things difficult for me, a big man? I think that Master Xu is only twenty-four or twenty-five years old, and he is young and rich, and his wife and concubine are probably quite attractive!"

Tang Jiuzhou felt itchy when he heard the words, but the other party was famous after all, so he was a bit worried, and said, "I don't think so? But he is a scholar. If he has a brother and a high position, then he will join I have one, but much ado about nothing!"

The soldier sneered and said: "In the past, you did a lot of evil, and I didn't see you having any scruples. Today, I met a sour scholar, but I was discouraged. Let me tell you, we killed a lot of people today anyway, not many more than him, He’s missing a lot. Give him a charge of colluding with thieves and slash him with a knife. As long as no one sees him, will the dead still complain about their grievances?”

Tang Jiuzhou was stunned, but he felt that what this guy said made some sense.So, he pulled up his trousers, grabbed a knife, and called a few soldiers to touch Xu Quan's house together.

It was a sunny night, the crescent moon was in the sky, and the shadows of the trees in the yard were mottled, like a net.In the dead of night, everyone had already gone to rest.There was no noise in the yard, only the buzzing of insects in the corner and the faint cry of frogs coming from the Yishui River not far away.

Tang Jiuzhou tiptoed to the door of Xu's house, leaned on the door, and leaned one ear forward.He listened for a while, but didn't hear any movement, so he waved his hand to signal the soldiers under his command.

These people are all good at sneaking around. Seeing that the soldier gently pulled out his knife, he stabbed it into the crack of the door, and then he fiddled with it for a long time and still stood there.

Tang Jiuzhou was anxious, so he approached him and cursed in a low voice: "What tricks are you doing, quickly open the door latch for me!"

But the soldier turned his head around and argued with a flushed face, "Chief soldier, the door of his house is carefully made, and the cracks in the door are too narrow, so the knife is stuck and he can't move!"

Tang Jiuzhou almost scolded him as a "wretch". How could he be caught with a knife if he picked a door latch?He pushed the stupid soldier aside, stretched out his hand to grab the handle and twitched, but the good guy didn't twitch either.

Tang Jiuzhou couldn't bear it anymore, and cursed angrily: "I've reached the door anyway, are you afraid that he won't fly? Open the door for me and kill him in!"

It doesn't matter if Tang Jiuzhou drinks it, he wakes up the people in the house.I only heard Xu Quan's trembling voice shouting: "Is Mr. Tang outside? I don't know what's going on in the middle of the night?"

Tang Jiuzhou grinned and said: "I miss your mother-in-law so much in the middle of the night, so I came here uninvited! When you get to the underworld, don't sue me!"

"You, you, you!" Xu Quan seemed to be frightened, and asked stutteringly: "Are you an official or a bandit? In broad daylight, you are so shameless and rampant? Are you not afraid that I will sue the official!"

"Hahaha!" Tang Jiuzhou smiled happily, "Pedantic people! Not to mention that the world is as black as crows, even the county magistrate of Song County dared to take care of him by borrowing a certificate, and he was able to interrogate me from among my thousands of elites. ?”

"Besides, let's wait until you can survive tomorrow before thinking about these things!"

After finishing his speech, Tang Jiuzhou and his soldiers collided with each other, finally broke the door latch and rushed in.

It's just that Tang Jiuzhou and others just stepped on the threshold, only to hear the sound of the bowstring, and a few flying arrows flew over.

Tang Jiuzhou flashed subconsciously, only felt a pain in his neck, he turned over and fell down, and several other soldiers were also shot over.

The rest of the soldiers wanted to take advantage of the chaos and rush in. They never thought that a few guns would be stretched out in the dark, and they would stab down a few more soldiers.

It's no wonder that Tang Jiuzhou and a few of their soldiers suffered losses.It turned out that these birdmen came here to do evil on a whim, but they were still wearing the commoner clothes they slept in, and they never put on their armor.As a result, he was beaten and attacked, and several lives were injured at once.

(End of this chapter)