In the 11th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, Gaoyang County was directly under the jurisdiction of the north.
Yuelai Tavern in the north of the city is full of friends and bustling. The reason is that Gaoyang has just received the imperial palace newspaper.
Under the command of the governor Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting and others, the imperial army completely occupied the battlefield initiative. Under the encirclement and suppression of the army on all sides, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other rebel armies had no chance to breathe, suffered heavy casualties, and their soldiers and supplies were not supplemented. In order to avoid the pursuit of the Ming army, they had to run for their lives and hide in Tibet.
In those days, the 13 powerful 72 battalions of the army all died. Zhang Xianzhong, the Eight Kings, and Luo Rucai, known as Cao Cao, all gave up and accepted the imperial court's offer.
Li Zicheng, the thief leader who inherited Gao Yingxiang's position, also ran into Shangluo Mountain under the siege of the imperial army.
A scholar son raised his glass and said, "Dear brothers, today we are going to congratulate the saint, the Daming, and the gentlemen." Then he drank the wine from the cup.
The rest of the taxi drivers were also similar, and they raised their glasses to drink together.
The scholar laughed when he saw that all the people had empty glasses. He saluted a group of diners in the restaurant with a wreath and said, "Today, I suddenly heard the good news. The country will be safe at home, so I will pay for the wine today."
"Good... good! Young Master Sun deserves to be the old grandson of Sun Ge, and he is indeed heroic!"
"Well, Mr. Sun is very cheerful. I'll give you a toast."
The diners in the tavern were all overjoyed and flattered Young Master Sun.
At this time, a careless voice sounded: "Has Mr. Sun covered all the wine money today?"
When people looked back, it was Li Xingzhi, the son of Li Chengxin's family in Beicheng, who entered the restaurant with several ruffians and rascals. All of them looked contemptuous, but no one dared to say more. The reason was that Li Xingzhi had studied martial arts for the past two years, and a few men could not get close to him at leisure.
The Li honest family relied on the ancestral brewing technology in Gaoyang, but they had a little spare money at home. The couple also set up 20 mu of land outside the city. However, in the ninth year of Chongzhen's reign, Jiannu invaded the capital. Maybe it was God's will that the couple happened to meet Jiannu's sentry horses and both died outside the city, leaving only one only son, Li Xingzhi.
Although both parents are dead, there is a lot of money left at home. In addition, the farmland outside the city can also be rent collected. As long as Li Xingzhi'an keeps his own share, this life can go on.
However, Li Xingzhi is clamouring to avenge his parents. He actually worships Wang Zhong, the head of the martial arts school in the city, as a teacher, and spends all day in the martial arts school. As the saying goes, he is poor in literature and rich in martial arts, and he has no one to make a living. He has spent all the rest of his family's money. Even the land he bought from his parents has been sold out by him. A few days ago, he sold his ancestral shop.
So Li Xingzhi's reputation soon spread all over Gaoyang City. Even people outside the city knew that there was a black sheep Li Xingzhi in Gaoyang.
Li Xingzhi doesn't care what these people think of him at all, because he knows that Jiannu in Liaodong will come to the pass again in August this year, when the people in Gaoyang County and the whole city will be captured by Jiannu outside the pass, and the grandson of Sun Ge will die for the Ming Dynasty in Gaoyang City.
As an orphan, he was also an orphan in his previous life. Li Xingzhi, who grew up in an orphanage, has never received the care of his parents, and certainly has no money to marry a wife. His only hobby after work is reading novels. In fact, he can only read novels, and can only read pirated novels.
In the face of the numerous pop-up windows of pirated novels, Li Xingzhi had to keep turning off those hateful advertisements with his old mouse. What he did not know was that the power cord of his eight year old computer had been burned red and was still making noises.
"Well, the cannons will blow his mother, so we must deal with these traitors and lackeys." Seeing the excitement, Li Xingzhi suddenly slapped the table.
"Bang!"
A dull explosion sounded, and the quilt close to the computer desk ignited instantly. Li Xingzhi, stunned by the sudden explosion, had no time to respond and was drowned in the raging fire.
Li Xingzhi passed through Li Xingzhi who had just died because of his parents' tragic death. Through the memory of his unfortunate predecessor, Li Xingzhi soon clarified the background of this era.
In the ninth year of Chongzhen's reign, there was a severe drought in Guanzhong, Henan and other places, and the wandering bandits plundered the Central Plains. Hungry people were everywhere, and the people could not make a living. There was no crowing of chickens for thousands of miles, and bones were everywhere. Manchurians in eastern Liaoning were also constantly poisoning the capital and its surrounding areas. The Ming Dynasty had indeed reached the critical age of survival.
He clearly knew that in seven years' time, those crazy braid soldiers would enter the Central Plains, making China sink into darkness. They drove the traitors to enslave the people of all ethnic groups in the Central Plains with butcher knives, and in two hundred years' time, they would sign thousands of traitor treaties with the foreign powers. The ugly woman even said, "Better give friends than domestic slaves." Such a shameless famous saying.
Li Xingzhi, who grew up under the red flag, naturally did not want to keep his disgusting pig tail and accept the slavery of Manchurians.
Throw Ming into the army to fight against Manchurians. Hehe, according to the current fighting capacity of the Ming army, I'm afraid I'm not unhappy about my death; Go to cast Li Zicheng as a roving bandit. As a newcomer to the camp, he will certainly become the cannon fodder for the army to attack the city. Li Xingzhi doesn't think he can become a lucky boy alive under countless rolling logs and stones.
Neither Touming nor Toushun can do that. It is also a way out to sell your property and escape overseas. But can these bandits and soldiers go out of the capital?
After denying many assumptions, Li Xingzhi decided to go it alone. In the worst case, the army of the Ming Dynasty came to rob the army of the Ming Dynasty, and the slaves of the Jian Dynasty came to rob the slaves of the Ming Dynasty. In a word, this Gaoyang City cannot stay.
So after burying his cheap father and mother, Li Xingzhi decided to go to the martial arts school in the south of the city to practice martial arts, so as to lay the foundation for becoming a bandit in the future.
Wang Zhong was originally a monk working in Shaolin Temple. Because he didn't obey the rules of the temple, he harmed the daughter of a farmer at the foot of the mountain. The father of the daughter found them once when they were drilling in a small forest. Wang Zhong had to take the woman back to his hometown in Gaoyang secretly. He had no skills to earn money, but he opened a martial arts school in the south of the city.
Although Wang Zhong only learned a little material, Li Xingzhi was very happy to learn it. Every day, he followed Wang Zhong to beat his body, practice his fists and feet, and practice the Black Tiger Fist and the Plum Blossom Knife very well.
It's not easy to be a bandit. You should at least have someone. Ordinary people will not follow you to the mountain. So after Li Xingzhi's martial arts practice, he and Hua Monk Wang Zhong collected a dozen high sun ruffians and scoundrels by force, so there was a beginning scene.
As the direct grandson of Sun Chengzong, Young Master Sun will not be afraid of Li Xingzhi and the local ruffians and hooligans he brought. But he has said what he said, and how can he take it back? He said with a smile, "I believe what I said. Of course, everyone's wine money is all inclusive."
"Good! That's a pain!" Li Xingzhi slapped his hand heavily on the table: "The shop will bring me all the best wine and vegetables."
The boss, Wang Fugui, listened to Li Xingzhi's words and looked hesitantly at Sun Gongzi.
"Go ahead, put it on my account!" With a heavy stamp of anger, Sun Gongzi scolded in secret: "It's disappointing!" He hurried away with several scholars, and the other diners also went out one by one, scolding in secret.
"Drink today and get drunk today! Come on, brothers, let's go." Li Xingzhi didn't care either. He greeted the local ruffians and rascals around him to drink wine and borrowed other people's money to win over his subordinates. Li Xingzhi was naturally very happy.
