Chapter 517: Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival (48)
Jiang Hu is tall and mighty, and he has been practicing martial arts from famous teachers since he was a child, and he is skilled in bows and horses, and his martial arts are good. ( ) After entering the forbidden army, some people took a fancy to him and wanted him to be a housekeeper.
It's just that Jiang Hu was young and vigorous at the time, and he was arrogant, and he wanted to revitalize his family with the martial arts in his hands, where would he be the lackey of the nobles?
It's just that the ideal is plump, and the reality is skinny.
Not long after his father's death, his mother died with him. Two major illnesses and funerals in a row made this family, which was originally barely able to survive in Bianliang City, fall into crisis in an instant.
The income of those who served as soldiers in the Song Dynasty was originally not high, and their status was also very low. Coupled with the layers of deductions from generals at all levels on weekdays, there are very few Yulu in their hands. On weekdays, he was enslaved by the generals to do all kinds of chores.
Most of the sergeants in Bianliang City would go out to work in order to support their families. There are people from all walks of life, but no one goes to war.
Jiang Hu is young and vigorous, and he is unwilling to do miscellaneous work. However, his income is meagre, which is not enough to support his family, and there is a minor brother in the family who needs him to support. In desperation, I had no choice but to sell my property.
However, how much property can an ordinary family have to sell? In less than two years, it was already impossible to resist.
At that time, Song Huizong wanted to go north to Yanyun, so he recruited a large number of brave soldiers in the forbidden army. Jiang Hu, who was forced to be anxious, was full of joy, and he was bent on using the knife and gun in his hand to create a world for himself. In addition, the opening fee was very large, and Jiang Human thought that it was time for him to operate.
Unfortunately, reality is always cruel.
It seems that after a lot of opening costs have been deducted layer by layer, less than one-third of them have fallen into Jiang Hu's hands! And it's still seven money three! It's still two years ago!
Angry, Jiang Hu was powerless to change all this, so he had to leave the money to his younger brother. He followed the Northern Expedition of the army, wanting to use his life to kill a fortune.
As a result, the entire Metropolitan Gate Forbidden Army didn't even dare to pass Baigou!
Jiang Hu, who couldn't even go up to the battlefield, returned to Bianliang City with sadness. Angry, furious, feeling that he has a full body of martial arts but no one can appreciate it! A lot of stress in life comes with it.
The next thing is that those people of insight in the Song Dynasty saw the weakness of their army through that Northern Expedition, and also saw the great threat of the Jurchens! They are ready to select a group of daring warriors from among the rotten Dumen Forbidden Army. A new army is being formed to counter the threat that will soon follow.
Jiang Hu signed up again with encouragement. But this time he lost even worse!
How could those nobles in Bianliang City who had been lying on the body of the Dumen Forbidden Army for more than a hundred years suck blood allow an army that was no longer in their hands and had good combat power to appear? Besides, it's also an excellent way to make money. Everyone colluded up and down to turn a big event related to the fortunes of the country into a farce of sharing spoils!
The new army, which has been trained with countless sums of money, has become a completely empty shelf! Of the 80,000 recruits on the books, only more than 3,000 sergeants with various connections remained, and the rest were all kicked out of the barracks after being registered!
Their names are still on the books of the New Army, and they receive a penny of money every month. But it has nothing to do with those of them who have been kicked out!
They have all become people with no identity, and they can't find a way to sue if they want to! A whole force is intertwined with Xungui Group, which has been operating painstakingly for more than 100 years. The entire city of Bianliang is their sphere of influence. Not to mention suing Kaifeng Mansion, it's useless to go straight to the palace to sue the emperor! It is impossible for Song Huizong to offend an entire Xungui group for the sake of these little sergeants!
When he was unconvinced, and the people who took the lead in making trouble were brutally killed, Jiang Hu was silent. The sheer pressure of real life silenced the arrogant young man.
He had no other choice but to sell his physical strength to earn money to support his younger brother. And the girl next door who has been a childhood sweetheart has been waiting for him, but he doesn't have the face to propose marriage at all!
Without him, without money! The girl's parents disagreed, and Jiang Hu himself didn't want to. I can't delay people.
After that, the Jin army went south to besiege the city, and then went south to besiege the city! Cao Yun was cut off. Jiang Hu had no source of livelihood and suddenly fell into a crisis. On weekdays, he can only rely on his father's old knowledge to help him and his younger brother struggle.
That's not all. The Jin army besieged the city, and Song Huizong wanted the soldiers to defend the city desperately, how could it be possible without paying? Where do the bounties come from? Song Huizong himself will not pay. The treasury is so dry that even the rats have to carry the package and touch their tears to escape the famine, and it is even more impossible for the noble ministers to dig their own pockets.
The only way to do that is to raise taxes! Grab money from the people of the city! After snatching it, the powerful ministers can still get a good share! That's a good thing.
This is how Jiang Hu was driven to a dead end.
The house is surrounded by walls, and there is nothing left to sell. The tax collectors came to him every day and threatened him to arrest his brother for hard labor if he didn't pay him any more. The luck is cut off. Not to mention that he has no source of income, there is no grain to transport into the city, and the price of grain in the entire Bianliang City has skyrocketed. His father's old acquaintances couldn't help him anymore.
The young brother was starved and yellow-skinned, and he held his hand every day to eat. Even if he Jiang Hu doesn't eat it, he will give it to his younger brother, but the problem is that he doesn't!
And what made him even more desperate was that his childhood sweetheart, who had been waiting for him and was nineteen years old this year, was forced by his parents to marry a rich and noble family to be a concubine! The reason is simple, the family has food and money!
All of this has pushed Jiang Hu, a young and promising young man, to a dead end step by step. One step behind you is the abyss!
This morning, after pawning the heirlooms left by his parents in the pawnshop, Jiang Hu took his younger brother to Wangjiang Tower to have a final meal.
"Alas~~~" Jiang Hu, who was full of sadness, put down the wine glass in his hand heavily. Looking up at the young brother in front of him, who was gobbling up his mouth, full of oil, and choked several times. Jiang Hu's tiger eyes were filled with tears!
The boy has tears and doesn't flick, but he hasn't reached the sad place!
Jiang Hu, who has boasted of being a big husband since he was a child, finally shed men's tears full of grief and indignation!
Stretched out his hand to wipe the corners of his eyes with his sleeves, tidied up the placket, and subconsciously clenched the family heirloom knife at his waist!
Jiang Hu's eyes were full of dead intent. Since you can't survive, let's go and work hard, you can't waste your martial arts in vain!
He knew the guy who was going to marry his childhood sweetheart. That guy is a low-status businessman who has been bullying people since he was a child, relying on his family's money to bully people, Jiang Hu often beat him when he was a child, and stood up for the people he bullied.
That guy found Jiang Hu last night and told Jiang Hu plainly that he married Jiang Hu's childhood sweetheart as a concubine to get revenge on him! After being tortured and tired of him, he will sell Jiang Hu's childhood sweetheart to the Qing Building!
Jiang Hu, who was completely desperate for this world, made up his mind to kill that bastard's entire family! You must not let your childhood sweetheart fall into the fire pit because of herself!
As for the younger brother, he couldn't bear to let him struggle alone in this world and wait for death, Jiang Hu was ready to commit suicide with his younger brother after eating this last meal and killing the bastard's entire family!
There is nothing more painful in the world than this. People who love each other can't be together, they can't protect their relatives, they are obviously full of martial arts, but they don't have any room to play.
When one evil thing after another pushed Jiang Hu into the abyss. A former colleague who was driven out of the New Army like him and became a person with no identity, who could only live on the dock all day long by fighting against the contract and selling his strength, rushed to the Linjiang Tower, and rushed forward after seeing Jiang Hu, grabbed his arm, his face was full of eagerness, and he roared excitedly, "Brother Huzi, go with my brother!" Fast! ”
"Third brother, what is this doing? What's wrong? Jiang Hu, who was immersed in sadness, didn't react, he looked at the third child of the Wang family in front of him stupidly, let go of the hand holding the waist knife, and asked out loud.
This middle-aged man who came to him in the dust is called Wang Peng, the third in the family, and everyone calls him Wang San on weekdays. Wang Peng's father and Jiang Hu's father are colleagues and world friends. In the past, when Jiang Hu was down, the Wang family helped him a lot.
"Good brother." Wang San's face was full of excitement, and the corner of his eye glanced at the sumptuous dishes on the table, and immediately smiled and reached out to grab a piece of big meat and put it in his mouth, chewed it hard a few times and swallowed his stomach, and then grabbed the wine jug and poured it hard.
After putting down the flask, he looked at the child with his mouth full of oil next to the table, laughed and shouted, "Little leopard, your brother is about to die!" You can wait for a good life in the future! ”
"Third brother." Jiang Hu frowned deeply and said in a deep voice, "What the hell is going on?" There was already a hint of irritation in his tone.
It's not that he's unkind. Not to mention that the two families have been friends for generations, just because the Wang family helped him when he Jiang Hu was down, it shouldn't be so relative. It's just that Jiang Hu is preparing to kill and avenge at the moment, and he doesn't want to involve Wang San, and wants to let him leave as soon as possible.
Wang San, who was obviously still excited, didn't notice Jiang Hu's expression and tone at all. happily said to him, "Good brother, you are really going to turn over this time." I heard my brother say that the victorious army that defeated the golden dog will recruit people again! ”
"Victorious Army?!" Jiang Hu's eyes widened violently!
The prestige of the Changsheng Army is known even to ordinary people who are far away in Bianliang City! I don't know how many terrifying Jurchen armies have been defeated in a series of bloody battles! Yesterday afternoon, there was a bloody battle outside the city, and it was called a heartbreak!
When the army entered the city, the scene of the captive head in front of the horse and the hulu behind the horse made all the people in Bianliang City frightened! Envy!
Such a strong army is about to be recruited? For a military man, how can such a good thing be let go!
Jiang Hu was stunned, his face was full of confusion, he didn't know what he should do now! Fate played a big joke on him, and at the saddest moment, the goddess of fate lifted the corners of his skirt on him. (To be continued.) )