Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

On both sides of the Bian River, willows sway in the humid wind, the clear water sets off the beautiful pavilions, and the two sides are bustling with traffic.

The newly-promoted Commander of the Huben Army was congratulated by several friends, and he was a little elated. He patted his chest and said: "Today, my brother will take you to taste the good taste!"

Several men immediately laughed teasingly, and one said: "How good is General Wang, we don't know yet?"

Commander Wang said: "It's different today. Brother pays for the tender taste of Qin Jinghong, the number one in Zuihonglou!"

"Okay, okay!" Everyone echoed.

Immediately, a group of people rushed straight to the drunk red building by the Bianshui. As soon as they entered the front hall, several people were dressed in Futou robes, but the bustard recognized Commander Wang at a glance, and stepped forward to greet him warmly with a smile.

The brother next to him joked: "Brother Wang is indeed a frequent visitor!"

Commander Wang smiled and asked Bustard: "Is Lady Qin here?"

Bustard was stunned: "You mean Mrs. Jinghong? Oh, unfortunately, she happened to be unwell these two days, I'm afraid it's..."

Commander Wang said: "Several of us just ask her to pour wine, sing songs, and nothing else."

Bustard said in a low voice: "General Wang, why don't you choose someone with a good voice...it's unlucky."

Commander Wang hesitated when he heard this.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, when Commander Wang raised his head, he saw a graceful lady following a man out of the small door. Commander Wang's expression changed immediately, and he pointed to the front and said, "That guy doesn't think it's unlucky?"

Bustard looked ugly, "This, this..."

Wang commanded: "Who is that guy and what does he do?"

The bustard said: "I don't know very well. I heard Mrs. Jinghong said that she is an official in Kaifeng Mansion. Her surname is Tao. She is generous. She is willing to accompany her. Mr. Tao Lang comes first..."

"Damn it! You woman still wants to fool me!" Commander Wang was furious, "My five hundred brothers got annoyed and brought in and smashed your entire building!"

"No, no." The bustard waved her hands quickly, "You have to understand my difficulties, we are all guests, and no one can afford to offend."

Commander Wang greeted several people, "Go! Go and have a look."

"Ouch!" The bustard stomped her feet and was about to cry, "Something is going to happen!"

A tortoise next to him said: "I'm going to call the servant here!"

The bustard said: "What's the use? How dare you let the servants beat him? He is a warrior of the Imperial Army. A warrior is not afraid of heaven and earth. Who can provoke us people? Hurry up and report to the officials!"

Commander Wang led a few people out aggressively through the door. Once inside, there was a spacious yard with a pond in the middle. Lotus roots are planted in the pond and fish are raised. There are many painted boats floating in the water, silk and bamboo orchestras, and women's singing are floating on the water, creating a happy scene. In the boat with carved windows, the guests are drinking wine while watching the girl singing, or whispering to the girl, which is very elegant.

Commander Wang was furious, and looked over one by one, and finally found Qin Jinghong, who was talking to the man opposite with a smile. Commander Wang immediately jumped onto the deck from the shore.

The bow of the boat rippled violently. The men and women inside were taken aback, and the woman frowned at him.

The man opened his mouth and said: "Who is the hero outside the ship, what do you want us to do? How about I be the host today, come in and have a glass of wine?"

The fellow spoke politely, and his tone was calm. Commander Wang couldn't get angry anymore, and he walked into the cabin, only to see the beauty's disgusted expression. And that man is also very pretentious, pretending to be elegant.

"I see you pretending!" Commander Wang suddenly became furious, and grabbed the man by the collar.

The guy was anxious: "Is there anything that can't be said well? I have no grievances or enmities with my brother..."

The woman asked anxiously: "Where did the rough man come from!?"

"Bang!" Commander Wang punched him, and the fellow screamed. Commander Wang grabbed his hand and lifted it back, and the fellow screamed like a pig being killed, unable to fight back. There were also screams and noises outside. That Qin Jinghong was startled and scared, he huddled in the corner of the cabin.

"Scream dad, I'll let you go." Commander Wang laughed.

The fellow screamed angrily, "If you want to kill, kill it! A soldier can be killed but not humiliated... Ah!"

"This guy's bones are still hard!" Commander Wang scolded, twisted him like a chicken, pressed his head again, forcibly kowtowed himself three times, and then lifted him up and threw him away. With a "bang", the man's head hit a big hole in the thin paper-pasted carved window, and he flew out.

There was a "plop" sound outside, and the fellow fell into the water and jumped up.

Commander Wang jumped onto the deck, pointed at the water and laughed "haha", then turned to Qin Jinghong and said, "Come out and watch the dogs in the water!"

Several men on the table clapped their hands and laughed, "Brother Wang is a hero!"

Commander Wang said in a loud voice: "It's not that I'm fighting with my head up in Hebei, you've already been captured by the Khitan people! You're still pretending to be a bird!"

Commander Wang returned to the cabin, wrung the girl out, and supported her waist with one hand. Hearing a scream, he jumped onto the shore.

Finally a brother asked: "Let's make this happen, will it be all right?"

Commander Wang laughed and said: "No one was killed, there is something wrong. That guy came out to have fun, he didn't even have a follower, and he didn't know how big an official is. Who dares to touch the commander of the Forbidden Army? The worst is to pay some money."

"General Wang is right, you are already the commander."

Commander Wang dragged the young lady, and went into a room by the pool with a few others, sat down at a round table, got up and took a pipa and stuffed it in her hand, and said, "Sing a song to calm the minds of the brothers."

That Qin Jinghong's face was pale, trembling with fright, how could he sing while holding the pipa?

Conductor Wang said angrily: "Sing!"

Qin Jinghong's body trembled, and he quickly opened his mouth to sing: "The thin shirt is golden...the seams of gold and mud, the waist is slender and timid...the clothes are heavy..." The sound of the pipa was then played in a mess, two lines of tears had slid down his face, and the sound was inaudible.

Not long after, hurried footsteps sounded outside the door. "Bang!" The wooden plank was kicked away, and a group of soldiers in solid clothes rushed in from outside.

Commander Wang sat calmly.

Qin Jinghong glanced at the crowd at the door, then at Commander Wang, and continued playing and singing.

Amidst the sound of pipas, more men in armor came in. Then a green-robed civil servant strode in and unfolded a piece of paper: "Look clearly, Tang Zun personally signed the cinnabar card ticket! Come here, take them all, and those who disobey will commit the crime above and kill!"

"Haha!" Commander Wang stood up and made a chop on his neck, "Come on, chop here! I want you to kill me!"

Suddenly a cherry gun stabbed towards him, Commander Wang felt a pain in his thigh, and his robe was already soaked in blood. He didn't care about the soldiers who stabbed him, but looked at the green-robed civil servant behind him with disbelieving eyes. Judging from the color of the civil servant's clothes, his rank may not be higher than his... But the signer of the cinnabar card is indeed a senior official.

Commander Wang suffered from pain and could not support one leg and knelt down on one knee.

Seeing this, the other warriors honestly did not resist, waiting to be tied up.

At this time, the sentimental words of the brothel woman were still echoing in the room. .

... This was what alarmed Li Dazhu, the commander of the First Army of the Huben Army under Commander Wang. Li Dazhu went to the Kaifeng mansion to ask for someone, but the Kaifeng mansion wanted the signed documents of the other three people in the military department. Li Dazhu couldn't get this thing, because the other three people were civil servants from the Ministry of War, the Privy Council, and the Military Weapons Supervision.

At this time, Li Dazhu belonged to the Metropolitan Government, and he could neither transfer personnel nor troops; he only had half of the commanding power, and the other half was in the hands of the officials of the Ministry of War.

Li Dazhu was familiar with the commander Wang, and he didn't want to sit idly by, so he went to look for Li Chuyun at the front of the palace.

The Dianqian Division no longer works, and Li Chuyun and others are cleaning up the files in the yamen, and depositing them in the Privy Council, the Ministry of War and other yamen.

Li Chuyun was very surprised at the moment: "The Kaifeng government can use swords to injure the commander of the imperial army?"

Shi Yanchao looked sideways after hearing this.

Li Dazhu said: "I was shot in the leg, and I was directly tied up in Kaifeng Mansion Prison."

All the generals present at the front of the palace were silent.

After listening to Li Dazhu's report, Li Chuyun said angrily: "At the foot of the Emperor of Tokyo, this guy is a commander, what are you doing so arrogantly?"

Li Dazhu said: "Brothers are not used to being domineering, but before, he was just making trouble..."

"Don't worry about him." Li Chuyun said, "The Kaifeng government has no right to torture generals of the imperial army, they will take the initiative to hand over people to the military commander."

Li Dazhu kept pleading. He is a veteran of the Huben Army, and Li Chuyun couldn't get rid of his feelings. He pondered for a moment and said: "I can't take care of their affairs now... Write a letter to Kaifeng Fu Shao Yin, but there is no guarantee that it will be useful."

"It must be useful, it must be useful!" Li Dazhu hurriedly thanked him.

Shi Yanchao said coldly: "The name of a general seems to be useless, but General Li is a nobleman of the royal family, so the young governor of Kaifeng will still give face."

Yuan Yan on the side said: "People in the world are snobbish. Once they lose power, it will be different immediately. From now on, our status will be even lower."

But Li Chuyun said kindly: "It's not like what General Yuan said."

"Oh?" Yuan Yan said.

Li Chuyun said: "If you want to fight, you and I will use it. If there is no war, what is the use of people like us holding military power in Tokyo for nothing? If we have military power for nothing, we can mobilize the elite soldiers of the forbidden army. How can the country be stable?"

Yuan Yan was thoughtful.

Shi Yanchao said: "Youzhou has been restored, if you don't take over the Liao Kingdom, how can you use a sledgehammer to kill chickens in other places?"

Li Chuyun pondered and said: "When your Majesty destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty, he planted a tree called the 'Empire Tree'." He paused and said meaningfully, "When I talked with the officials, I heard what the officials said. The empire is called an empire when it expands and conquers a large area."

After hearing this, everyone pondered endlessly, and felt that what Li Chuyun said was very meaningful.

Yang Biao said: "The official can do whatever he likes, and he didn't treat us badly."

Yuan Yan persuaded: "General Yang's words are wrong. If we are useless, won't the civil servants bully you? It's fine to bear with it, but if we have nothing to say, can the civil servants really think for us? From now on, we must at least be treated by the court to discuss government affairs, otherwise there will definitely be aggrieved things!"