Chapter 46: Eight hundred years ago when tears fell
Five days after the war ended, the Yanggu army ended its rest and set off to return to Chongqing Prefecture.
As meritorious people in this battle of Fuling City, although Yao Ruoyu and others were not from Yanggu’s army, they were able to mingle in Yanggu’s army and return to Chongqing Prefecture together.
According to Yao Ruoyu's idea, of course he planned to act with everyone, but what he didn't expect was that the day after the departure, Chongqing General Xu Jingmiao sent someone to invite him to come and have a discussion.
To be honest, Yao Ruoyu was still a little confused at that time and didn't understand what the top leader of the Chongqing government called him to go over and do.
When Yao Ruoyu saw the Chongqing general, his first reaction was shocked, because he never expected that the Chongqing general with the sixth realm spiritual cultivation was about the same age as himself. He could have the sixth realm cultivation at the age of twenty-four... Such qualifications were simply a dog!
He was keenly aware of Yao Ruoyu's surprise. Xu Jingmiao just smiled at the time, but did not say much about it. Instead, he directly invited Yao Ruoyu to sit down and taste tea.
After some tasting, Yao Ruoyu had already chatted with Xu Jingmiao for more than ten sentences, and gradually realized that the other party invited her to come, and was just out of appreciation and deliberately making friends.
Since the other party had no other intentions, Yao Ruoyu gave up his concerns and started talking to the other party calmly.
As the chief of Chongqing, Xu Jingmiao is very knowledgeable and has no need to say much, and his eyesight is of course even more extraordinary. In contrast, Yao Ruoyu, who came from later generations, seemed a little bit unfamiliar with knowledge.
Fortunately, although Yao Ruoyu, who has been good at writing since childhood, is not considered a master of poetry, he has read countless online novels of various categories. In addition, he has been in the Student Union for four years, and has his own style in his conversations and has barely gained a foothold.
In the next few days, Yao Ruoyu spent most of his days in Xu Jingmiao's carriage and had a long talk with him.
Ahem...but this action also caused a sarcasm from the fujog girl Wu Xue, creating plots such as stories that must be told between Yao and Xu.
Of course, every time when Wu Xue mysteriously talks about these things with Jiang Siyu, Hou Jingru and others, Yao Ruoyu would smile and freeze the white radish girl into ice, and then throw it into the carriage.
However, as the conversation continued, Yao Ruoyu gradually understood the origin of Xu Jingmiao's cultivation.
It turns out that Xu Jingmiao was a famous local genius in Chongqing. He reached the fourth level at the age of only 21. He was praised by Chu Kuangge as the "Light of the Mountain City", ranked second on the list, and was even more famous on the Song Dynasty. It can be said that he will definitely be among the seven-level powerful men in the Song Dynasty in the future.
But just three years ago, the Jin Dynasty's military commander Wanyan Sei led a 100,000 Jin Iron Cavalry to fight the Song Dynasty in the east and captured countless cities. Fortunately, Chu Kuangge mobilized troops from all cities in the northwest to fight, which blocked the opponent's iron hooves.
In this war, the then Chongqing chief was assassinated by the Jin Dynasty's No. 1 assassin, Wanyan, and Song. Although he was forced to retreat, he was seriously injured and dying.
The situation in Chongqing was extremely dangerous at that time. Tens of thousands of troops besieged Chongqing Prefecture. If this general with the sixth level of cultivation was missing, the power of Chongqing Prefecture's city protection spiritual formation would be weakened by 60%, and it would be difficult to resist the Jin army outside the city.
Therefore, with the consent of Xu Jingmiao, the Chongqing general at that time used the secret method to guide Chongqing's earth veins, combined all his cultivation, and penetrated into Xu Jingmiao's body, forcibly elevated his cultivation to the sixth realm.
However, the price of this secret technique is also extremely high. The general ruler died shortly after he performed the secret technique. The Chongqing earth veins withered and decayed for many years. Xu Jingmiao, who has the talent of heaven, stopped at the sixth realm and completely cut off the hope of breaking through to the seventh realm.
Of course, most of these things were found by Yao Ruoyu from Xu Jingmiao's military servants, but even if it was just such information, it was enough to make Yao Ruoyu express great admiration for this peer.
On this day, everyone had parked the car and used lunch. Yao Ruoyu had just returned to the carriage with Xu Jingmiao and asked with interest: "So, Chu Xuan, Chu Yuan and others have only been joining the army for half a year?"
"Yes, it's only seven months." Xu Jingmiao smiled and nodded.
After a pause, he continued to answer: "The King of Chu has a very strict family education. Several young princes have received various military training since childhood, but they only have seven months to join the army."
Turning his head and looking at the Yang Gu army's appearance outside the car window, Xu Jingmiao sighed: "Although it is only seven months, they have been hailed as the third batch of military Shaojie after the Yang family's Bajian and the Yue family's two heroes."
"Yang Family Bajian? The two heroes of Yue Family?" Yao Ruoyu was slightly stunned when he heard this, but he immediately reacted and laughed, "Is it Yang Ye's eight sons and Yue Fei's two sons?"
He glanced at Yao Ruoyu slightly strangely, and Xu Jingmiao replied: "The two heroes of the Yue family are indeed the two sons of the Yue King, but the top seven Jian of the Yang family's Bajian is the son, while the eighth Jian is a woman."
Yao Ruoyu then realized the suspicion in the other party's eyes before, and immediately smiled bitterly and clasped his fists, saying helplessly: "We all wandered around the world, worrying about eating and drinking, and never paid attention to these things. I have a shallow understanding, so I let the general leader laugh at it."
"How dare," Xu Jingmiao also felt relieved and said with a smile, "What can a background represent? Brother Yao, you guys, although they are ordinary from ordinary backgrounds, have the temperament of their words and conversations as handsome as many aristocratic families. Now that Zhang Ziqiang is already ahead, you will be the leader of my Song Dynasty in less than a few years!"
Yao Ruoyu's eyes flashed when he heard this, but he did not respond. Instead, he smiled and said, "By the way I read the books given by the Chief General a few nights ago. My Song Dynasty court's method of recruiting talents is quite different from that in ancient times!"
"Of course!" When talking about recruiting talents, Xu Jingmiao's eyebrows had a little more flying and joy that had not been seen in the past. "My Song Dynasty governed the country with martial arts, and the selection of talents is mostly linked to cultivation. The second and third realms can be village chiefs and village chiefs. If the fourth realms can be the mayor, the fifth realms can be the lord of a county."
Yao Ruoyu looked at Xu Jingmiao with some understanding and smiled: "If you want to come to the Sixth Realm, you can serve as the general leader?"
"Nothing wrong!" Xu Jingmiao nodded softly and sighed, "My Song Dynasty has vast territory and many talents. The most cultivators are among the four countries, so he can surpass the four countries of China and become the strongest."
Yao Ruoyu smiled and nodded in agreement when he heard this. He had a map he got from the boss. In addition to his conversations with Xu Jingmiao these days, he also roughly understood the regional situation of the four countries of China.
Among them, the Song Dynasty was the most vast, currently occupying Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan and half of Chongqing, followed by Mongolia, with only Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan and Hebei, and the Jin Kingdom ranked third, with Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and half of Chongqing, with the least of the Southern Barbarians, and only Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong and Guizhou.
Because of the largest region, the largest population. With the advantage of population base, the Song Dynasty had practitioners that were among the four Chinese countries. No wonder it could compete with the power of one country against the other three countries.
Thinking about it, Yao Ruoyu heard Xu Jingmiao sigh and said, "It's a pity that although my Song Dynasty has produced many talents, most of them prefer to wander among the people and are unwilling to serve the court. If they can collect all of them, why worry about the immortality of the Jinmeng and the Southern Barbarians' failure to surrender?"
Yao Ruoyu blinked his eyes and suddenly realized that this was Xu Jingmiao's intention to recruit them. He couldn't help but laugh and said, "Master General, although we brothers and sisters are all practitioners, our cultivation is only two or three realms, and we have joined the army. I'm afraid that it's just a sergeant and a senior, and it's too boring!"
Hearing the refusal in his words, Xu Jingmiao sighed regretfully, and then advised without giving up: "I think Brother Yao doesn't look like a powerful person! Besides, you are young and you will be just around the corner to advance to the fifth realm in the future, and the future will be long!"
Yao Ruoyu touched his chin and said curiously: "Even if we are promoted to the fifth realm in the future, we do not read poetry and books, do not know how to march and fight, and we cannot even handle the most basic administrative matters. In this way, can we become the city lord?"
Xu Jingmiao smiled and said, "Brother Yao, don't joke. The greater significance of the position of the city lord is to guard a city with strong cultivation to prevent evil and evil party members from rebelling and chasing the people and harming the people. As for administrative affairs, there are naturally a staff member to deal with them. Why should we worry?"
Speaking of this, Xu Jingmiao saw Yao Ruoyu's expression a little strange, and thought that the other party was thinking about how to surrender to the court, so he smiled and said, "There are talent stations in each prefecture, and there will be special people to guide him, register and introduce him, and arrange subsequent positions."
After coming back to his senses, Yao Ruoyu quickly smiled indifferently and replied: "Thank you, Lord General, for the introduction."
Xu Jingmiao laughed and said, "I heard that you have a lot of accents that taste like me in Chongqing. I think I am from a young man who lives in Chongqing. If you serve the court, it would be better to come to my Chongqing Prefecture. Xu has also felt that his subordinates are becoming increasingly scarce in recent years!"
Because Yao Ruoyu and others were studying in Chongqing, they would speak more or less a little Chongqing-like. Although it has spanned hundreds of years, there must be connections between the accents. No wonder Xu Jingmiao misunderstood that Yao Ruoyu and the others are all from Chongqing.
Unexpectedly, Xu Jingmiao had not given up on the recruitment, Yao Ruoyu smiled bitterly. When he was about to speak to change the topic, Wu Xue's scream suddenly came from outside the carriage, followed by the cheerful cry of the people from the Literature and Art Department.
Yao Ruoyu frowned immediately, quickly lifted the curtains and looked out. His whole body was shocked, and then he did not talk to Xu Jingmiao, and turned around and rushed out of the carriage.
Just in front of the convoy, there were two vast rivers with wide water surfaces. The water flowed rapidly and surging, as if countless water dragons were swaying in it, and the artistic conception was very magnificent.
However, no matter how spectacular or majestic it is, the two rivers are just as steadily guarding the city pass at the intersection like a guard. No matter how fierce the river water is, it dares not invade half an inch of the city pass. Even if the water is vast, it cannot compare to the towering majesty of the city pass.
That is Chaotianmen, one of the more than ten ancient city passes in Chongqing Prefecture!
At this moment, the scenery in front of Yao Ruoyu was no longer Chaotianmen. He seemed to have returned to the era when the mountain city had been submerged eight hundred years later. Countless high-rise buildings bloomed with amazing brilliance at night, the crossroads of Jiefangbei, the secluded alleys at Ciqikou, and the Guanyin Bridge.
All of this seemed to surge out of his memory, replacing the city gate in front of him, allowing him to return to his own world, to the place where he had lived for four years and was about to become his second hometown.
Inexplicably, whether it was Yao Ruoyu, Yang Renjie, Fu Feng, Jiang Siyu, Wu Xue, Li Yilin, Hou Jingru and Chen Meng, they all ignored the people around them, their eyes were filled with tears and sadness.
It is not sad about this familiar mountain city scene, but about...
They really seem to be unable to go back!
Chapter completed!