Entrepreneurship in the Late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 26 Yi Er (Thanks to Alliance Leader Park Sanzhi_Sanren)

After that, time flew by, and the team followed the Luodai River into the territory of Maozhou, then turned southeast and meandered through the mountain gap.

Along the way, the Nanzhao army did not pursue Song Jian, but Zhao Huaian could still see the knights in the team going out for scouts every day. Every time they came back, there were heads wrapped in their bags, but he didn't know whose they belonged to.

Because the threat from Nanzhao was gone, Zhao Huaian finally found time to teach his disciples martial arts.

At the beginning, Zhao Huaian planned to teach German long sword, after all, it can form combat effectiveness in a short time.

When he was learning this, he studied for three months and felt that with a sword in his hand, he could easily defeat ten unarmored targets.

But unfortunately, Zhao Huaian went around these days and didn't find any similar long swords in the army.

Currently, the Tang army has only two types of actual combat weapons, one is the horizontal sword and the other is the Mo Dao. The difference between the two is the length, one side has a blade and the other side is not. However, most of the German sword moves require the use of double blades, so Zhao Huaian cannot teach this now.

However, Zhao Huaian does not intend to give up on this. After all, he knows too well about brand differentiation. In the future, this two-handed sword will be his own brand, so that it can be spread widely.

In addition to this aspect, the German sword is also very suitable for actual combat. It is known as the best practical weapon in old Europe. If you teach it to your disciples, they will be able to fight on the battlefield.

So Zhao Huaian decided to ask someone to make a batch of them and give them to his disciples when he returned to Qiongzhou or Chengdu, as a benefit for joining the society.

Because he couldn't teach long sword, Zhao Huaian taught Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu these days, especially wrestling.

There is no way. Wrestling is a martial art that is too suitable for the military. The others can be said to be fancy moves, but this one is definitely a killing skill.

In a large formation, not only can volleys of guns and crossbows kill you, but simply being thrown to the ground can also kill you, especially for armored warriors. Once they fall, they are not far from death.

So when Zhao Huaian taught this, the disciples responded very strongly and learned it attentively. In fact, what Zhao Huaian taught was too clever, as if he could throw someone away just by grabbing a spot.

When Zhao Huaian was teaching this, Li Shitai of the Zhongwu Army came again. He did not come to cause trouble, but to apologize respectfully, especially when he heard that Zhao Huaian was willing to teach.

He specially gave Zhao Huaian a set of iron armor so that he could learn the "Tang Hand" that knocked him out.

It was obvious that Li Shitai didn't want to join any righteous society, so he decided to pay a tuition fee in exchange for martial arts. But he didn't know that this would really put Sun Chuanxiu in a difficult position.

The Baoyi Army is really poor. Learning a martial art requires a set of iron armor, which they can't afford.

But they all knew that Zhao Huaian's martial arts was definitely more valuable than iron armor, so Sun Chuanxiu and others were worried. In the end, Zhao Huaian told them that if they wanted to learn, they should pay the tuition first.

In other words, these righteous soldiers really wanted to learn. Otherwise, given their honest and gentlemanly character, they really wouldn't dare to owe money, mainly because they were afraid they wouldn't be able to pay it back.

In addition to these, Ren Tong and Song Yuan also came to learn. They had learned a little with Zhao Huaian before, and were deeply impressed by the exquisiteness of Baju, so they also decided to teach it, but they could only give it to Zhao Huaian after they got to Chengdu.

This doesn’t matter. Zhao Huaian just didn’t expect that Ren Tong and Song Yuan were also quite wealthy.

During this period, Zhao Huaian also learned a lot about the prices of things. Unlike at the beginning when he did not regard money as money, he now has a good understanding of purchasing power. For example, the fine armor that Li Shitai gave him, if it could be sold on the market, one piece would be worth at least eighty strings of cash.

How much money is eighty strings of cash? Let's put it this way: if you only buy rice, you can buy four hundred dan (approximately 100 dan) of rice. If one person eats it, that would last for eleven years. Just do the math.

If the money is used to buy a house, an ordinary two-story house in Chengdu is about 200 strings of cash. In other words, to learn a martial art from Zhao Huaian, you have to pay half the tuition for the house.

Is this something that ordinary people can afford to learn?
But since Ren Tong and Song Yuan wanted to teach him, he couldn't refuse. After all, they were old brothers, so he had to teach them carefully.

In addition to these disciples, Zhao Huaian cares most about his core disciples. After all, these people are his hardcore base. Whether he can make it in the future depends on whether they can fight.

Among them, Yang Mao and Niu Li are the most talented in learning Brazilian Jiu-Jia. Maybe it has something to do with their small stature. They can cling to people and run around like monkeys.

It was precisely because of this misunderstanding that Zhao Huaian initially thought that Zhao Wenzhong, Zhao Wenying, Zhao Wenhui and Zhao Wenxun could also learn well.

Oh, these four people are the five-inch guys who came to pay homage to me with He Wenqin before.

Originally, Zhao Huaian looked down on these four little guys, but he didn't expect that in the ambush on the Nanzhao people, these four fought so hard and didn't care about their lives at all.

Zhao Huaian decided to train them well. Later, when he asked about their ages, they were basically twelve or thirteen years old, which made Zhao Huaian feel quite embarrassed.

At this age, you are allowed to kill Nanzhao people by yourself. What a bad life!

After hearing that these four people were orphans from their respective villages, Zhao Huaian decided to adopt them as his sons and they would take his surname Zhao from then on.

However, although these four were not very good at BJJ, they were good at boxing, especially Zhao Wenzhong, who was very talented and had flexible steps.

Apart from these, Sun Tai, Zhao Hu, Wang Li, and He Wenqin can only be said to be average, perhaps with some talent in military skills.

In addition, he also learned from the new recruits from the Baoyi Army. They were all good, but there were only three who were particularly outstanding.

One was Han Da, also known as Han Tong, a native of Qiongzhou, though his family had long since disappeared. He was a skilled warrior, a renowned warrior among the Baoyi Army, adept with the bow and arrow, and also skilled with the spear. With him were two other strong men, each with names that echoed the times: Qian Tiefo and Wei Jingang.

Zhao Huaian discovered that the ancestors of the Tang Dynasty particularly loved to take these Buddhist-related names. He had become familiar with the people from the Zhongwu Army these days and met many people named Vajra.

Qian Tiefo and Wei Jingang are both a bit silly. They don't like to learn any Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or boxing, and only like to use iron maces.

For this purpose, Zhao Huaian also got two iron maces from Li Shitai, and then let the two of them figure it out on their own.

But what really surprised Zhao Huaian were the thirty captured Tang soldiers sent by Envoy Song. They were really skilled in martial arts, and the four most outstanding of them were former guards.

One was Lu Zhongyuan from the Dingbian Army, skilled in wielding a horizontal sword. The Dingbian Army was a frontier army in western Sichuan, and had been the main force against the Nanzhao people. Their military calls were even louder than those of the Lizhou Army that Zhao Huaian had previously commanded.

But four years ago, the Dingbian Army was badly damaged in the battle with the Nanzhao Army, and this Lu Zhongyuan was leaked out during that time.

There was another man who was good at using the Mo Dao. He was from the Yanhai Army and his name was Zhou Dexing. He was a genuine Shandong man. Zhao Huaian was from northern Jiangsu in his previous life, so he felt familiar with his accent.

In addition to these two, there is another one from the Shen Ce Army, named Chen Fahai. He used to be a captain of the Shen Ce Army, but four years ago he was whipped out of the camp for offending his superiors and had to stay in Chengdu to work hard.

Some time ago, Chengdu recruited local residents to support Qiongzhou. Chen Fahai returned to the army at that time, but unfortunately he was captured by the Nanzhao people again.

The above three people all have their own strengths, but the one that really surprised Zhao Huaian was the fourth one. His name was Guo Congyun, and this person actually claimed to be able to use a horse lance.

He was from the Boye Army. Four years ago, he followed the army from Fengxiang to Sichuan to participate in the Battle of Chengdu. He has been stationed in Chengdu since then and was captured a few days ago.

If what this person said is true, then he is definitely a high-end talent in Zhao Huaian's team.

In Zhao Huaian's team, only He Wenqin can ride a horse. There is a grassland on the top of a mountain not far from their village, and he has been riding since he was a child.

But He Wenqin didn't know how to use a lance. In fact, not only he didn't know how to use it, but even among the elite generals of Chengdu, not many knew how to use a horse lance.

So logically, even if Guo Congyun lost his commander and violated military law, with his ability, he would be wanted wherever he went. I don't know how he was assigned to Zhao Huaian.

This can be considered as picking up a small loophole.

Originally, Zhao Huaian was quite happy, but once when he was drinking with Li Shitai and the Zhongwu Army guards, he was laughed at again.

So, in the Zhongwu Army, isn't just having a hand to wield a horse lance enough? Yes, the professional warriors of the most powerful vassal state in the Central Plains are just that awesome.

Moreover, people also said that their Huaixi cavalry was unrivaled in the Central Plains and was not inferior to the three armies in the north.

This surprised Zhao Huaian. Is there still a place to raise horses in Huaixi?
Of course, despite his doubts, Zhao Huaian finally pulled Li Shitai over and gave him a beating to teach them what it means to respect teachers.

But no matter what, these four guards are all elite warriors. Although they come from different vassal states, they all participated in the Chengdu battle four years ago.

To be frank, apart from teaching some boxing and kicking, Zhao Huaian still needs to learn everything else from these four people.

Not only the bow, horse, and spear, but also the formation of battle flags and drums, all of which Zhao Huaian knew nothing about. Without understanding these, how could he be a qualified arrogant warrior?

So Zhao Huaian pulled these four people out and appointed them as coaches to teach himself and his disciples.

In this way, they marched all the way, teaching martial arts whenever they rested, and in the process, they became familiar with each other.

By this time, Zhao Huaian's team had some cohesion, but not much.

Along the way, Xian Yu Yue often came to Zhao Huaian, but the frequency was obviously less and less. This made Zhao Huaian sigh. How come their friendship had faded so quickly after they became sworn brothers?

Of course, this was just Zhao Huaian's pretentiousness, because Xian Yu Yue had made rapid progress during this period and had become Song Shijun's number one aide, managing all matters of the team.

Under such circumstances, he still came to see Zhao Huaian so many times, which means he really values ​​this brotherhood.

In addition, Zhao Huaian's benefactor, Song Jian, was almost recovered. He condescended to visit Zhao Huaian once. Seeing that Zhao Huaian was practicing martial arts diligently, he praised him for being "very energetic" and then left.

This made Zhao Huaian even more uncertain. Sometimes, when he received gifts that were too expensive, he would feel really anxious.

After that, Song Jian sent another cart of rice to Zhao Huaian, and never contacted him again.

In this way, Zhao Huaian spent November of the first year of Qianfu in learning and doubt.

It was not until the second day of December that their troops finally arrived at the front line of Qiongzhou, and then it began to snow heavily.

This is the first heavy snow in western Sichuan.

(End of this chapter)