Novoland: Eagle Flag Chapter 1: Gun Eight

March of the eighth year of Emperor Xi.

The guardian envoy of Tianqi City, Li Guogong Ying Wuyi wrote a proposal, and the emperor passed on the vermilion lacquer edict to restore the "Eleven Tax Laws" formulated by Emperor Wu. The feudal princes and princes above the marquis of the Eastern Lu have to pay 10% of the 10% of the silk grain they collect every year, excluding the tax of the imperial capital, as the special clan tax.

The princes were shaken, and the memorials flew to the imperial capital like snowflakes, while the red armored cavalry from the country held up the banner of the imperial capital's Shao Fuqing, and forced the princes to collect royal taxes. Ao Taiquan, the Duke of Chun, had a fierce personality, and he led 30,000 wind and tiger cavalry to defend Dangyang Valley, resisting the envoys who left the country to collect taxes.

In April, 3,000 Qingqi men from the Duke of Li went north, beheaded Ao Taiquan in a night battle, and surrendered Chun to the Principality. Ao Taiquan's youngest son was sent to Tianqi to be imprisoned, and his ten-year-old nephew Ao Zhirun came to the throne. The government and the public lamented that the princes who were loyal and diligent to the king went to another family.

The taxes and taxes flowed continuously into the hands of Li Guogong Ying Wuyi, and Yuezhou was famined.

This year, King Xie Yulie was fourteen years old.

Nanhuai City is located in Wanzhou in the south, with a long spring and autumn, warm and pleasant.

Himeno lay in the garden with his back against the rockery, and turned a page under the shade of a tree. He is reading. Although Ji Qianzheng didn't say it directly, the study room was only for Chang Ye. So Ji Ye didn't step in for half a step.

Ji Qian was wearing a loose robe, passed behind the flower stand, and looked at the eldest son in confusion through the lattice full of vines. He always felt that the eldest son had a lonely personality, and he was always unwilling to teach him to read, and he didn't even want him to practice too high in martial arts. But recently my son is not as diligent in practicing guns as before, but he likes to read books. Every time he goes out quietly, he always brings some books back from the bookstore.

At first, Ji Qianzheng thought that he was just envious of his younger brother's study. Since he didn't want to teach, he didn't mind his eldest son learning by himself, thinking that if he tried to learn that he couldn't learn without a teacher, he would quit in the face of difficulties. But as soon as Ji Ye picked up the book, he held it for half a year. He didn't talk to people very much, except for playing wild outside, when he was at home he was either practicing guns or reading books, as if he was left literate and right martial arts. It's a pity that Ji Ye doesn't read such classics as "Jiuyuan General" and "Commentary to Five Classics". Ji Qianzheng occasionally flips through his pile of books, and they are full of "Roses", "The History of the Battle of the Four Governors", "The Shocking Unofficial history anecdotes such as "The Complete Legend of the Dragon". Facing these books, Ji Qianzheng almost wanted to cover his eyes, feeling that his eyes would be dirty just by looking at them.

"Eldest son, have breakfast."

The maid shouted from a distance, turned around and left. No one in the house was a little afraid of this indifferent eldest son, not to mention that no one knew that the eldest son could not be favored, and the servants treated him casually.

Jimo has long been used to it, his eyebrows do not move, and he reads the book without listening.

Ji Qianzheng frowned, and the fire in his heart flared up again. But he didn't have time to reprimand Ji Ye, the lord of the country wanted to recruit soldiers recently, and Ji Qian was rushing to visit Gongqing while he was hunting in the morning. If he could get a letter of recommendation, it would be easy for Chang Ye to become an official. The revival of the Ji family that Ji Qian had been waiting for was no longer a dream.

He snorted heavily, turned his head and went out.

It wasn't until he finished turning over the remaining pages that Ji Ye tucked the book into his arms and walked into the front hall without a word. Chang Ye crossed his legs and was drinking tea leisurely in front of the table. There were only leftovers in the dishes on the table.

Before Ji Ye sat down, Chang Ye suddenly waved his hand: "Withdraw."

"The eldest son hasn't..." The maid hesitated.

"The sage taught, every move, every thread, there are rules. When to eat and when to withdraw, there are rules. Our Ji family is a gentry, so we have the rules of the gentry," Chang Ye tried his best to put on a solemn expression. Look, "Is it time to eat?"

The maid tidied up her hands and feet briskly, and Ji Ye stood at the door, looking at them without a word. When the maid picked up the plates and turned back, she met his eyes, couldn't help shaking her hands, and Siri's plates shattered to the ground.

"What did you do? You clumsy thing!" Chang Ye shouted loudly and jumped up from the table, his silk trousers were full of leftover soup and water.

Jimo looked at the bouncing Chang Ye and the frightened maid, turned around quietly and went out, looked up and saw the sky was all blue, and in the white clouds, a kite as bright as fire was flying high with two long tails.

He watched quietly, then suddenly started to run, quickly crossing the stone pier by the door. Chang Ye squinted his eyes and saw his brother's back flashed by a half-open wall and disappeared.

Aren't you stupid! Don't use brute force, pull it with brute force and it will fall down! "

The girl was wearing a light blue skirt, sitting on a branch with swaying legs, slender like a sparrow with blue feathers. She pursed her mouth and yelled at the children who were pulling the strings of the kite, raising her eyebrows in a look of anger.

On a piece of grass-green flat ground, the three children tried their best to pull, but the huge kite was not easy to maneuver. A slight change in the wind direction in the sky would make it tremble and fall downside down. The three children competed to pull it, but no one would let the other.

"Stupid!" Yu Ran finally couldn't help but jumped down.

She landed lightly on the ground, and went up to grab the kite string in her hands: "Idiot, idiot, idiot, I don't know how to fly it yet."

The three boys surrounded her, watching her raise her hands high, trot with the kite, and lightly flicker left and right on the grass. Yuren is like the son of the wind, no matter how the wind direction changes, the kite will fly steadily higher and higher in Yuran's hands. The string in Yuran's hand was almost finished, and the strong wind in the sky blew on the big kite, making her so light that she seemed to be flying into the air.

"I'll pull you," a chubby boy hesitated for a long time, wiped his hands on the lapel, and stretched out to pull Yuran.

"Don't pull!" Yu Ran knocked off his hand with a "slap", she rolled her eyes, "Squat down."

The boy crouched down. Yu Ran suddenly jumped up and lightly stepped on his shoulder. When the wind picked up, Yu Ran was drawn up lightly, and everyone's eyes followed her blue skirt in the sky. She stood almost a foot high, so high that she surpassed the top of the wall of Ji's mansion.

"Himeno! Himeno! Come out to fly a kite!" Her voice was crisp and clear, as if echoing between heaven and earth.

Responding to her words, Ji Ye darted out from the top of the wall like an eagle, and ran over without a sound. The boys seemed a little afraid of him, and backed away involuntarily, and Ji Ye took the line from Yu Ran. He galloped across the grass, and the children ran after him.

Himino finished putting out the last thread, and there was only one end of thread left in his hand. He tied the end of the thread to a stone and threw it there. He flattened himself and lay on a tree branch, staring at the blue sky. The red kite was up and down in the sky, and his eyes were chasing the kite.

"Jiye," Yuran called him from under the tree, "go to the Confucian Temple? Let's go to the Confucian Temple today. The shop over there is selling a lot of small things, all of which are shipped from Heluo by the chamber of commerce. Are you sure? Unexpected."

"I don't want to go, we don't have the money to buy anyway," Ji Ye shook his head, "I heard that He Luo can't make a few things in his life, bring them here? Did the warriors from the Chamber of Commerce **** them?"

"It's not about robbing you, nor are we going to rob you," Yu Ran pursed her lips. It was inconvenient for her to climb the tree wearing a skirt, and she couldn't reach Ji Ye, so she picked up the next year's pine cones from under the tree and threw him.

Himino doesn’t care about the pine cones that hit him: “I still want to learn to read~IndoMTL.com~read books, we have read books for many days. I have read books with you for so many days, you should always accompany me I'm going to play," Yuran said angrily.

Jimo hesitated for a moment, then pointed to the other three boys: "I don't want to go to the Confucian Temple, let them go with you."

Yu Ran turned his eyes to the sky and said, "I don't bring idiots."

"Who's the idiot?" a boy muttered.

Yu Ran's eyes widened viciously: "You can't even fly a kite, are you an idiot?"

The kite is down! ’ cried another boy.

Yu Ran jumped up, grabbed her skirt and ran over, the children chased after her. Ji Ye hesitated for a moment, but still followed.

The string of the firebird kite was pulled in the hands of the airy young man. He squinted at the angry Yuran and the three boys, and said in a lazy tone: "My family bought all of this place. Come down, don't go in and out casually if you have nothing to do."

"Is it okay to fly a kite?" A boy was also angry.

His family is a merchant, although it is not such a wealthy family, but there are also a few joint stores, which are usually very arrogant. But he knew the second son of the Ji family, and he heard his father talk about this big family that was originally an imperial capital. Chang Ye's aura of nobility, which was different from that of a businessman, made him a little ashamed, and he couldn't raise his voice.

"Do you know the name of this house?" Chang Ye pointed to the house behind him, "It's called 'Du Yi Dong', and it's a place to study quietly. If you make such a fuss, how can others read the book of sages?" Books? Flying a kite is still a small matter.”

Yu Ran suddenly took a step and pushed him on the shoulder: "Hey! Are you looking for trouble? You still talk about studying. How is your appearance different from that of the street blocking the road to collect money? It's amazing to buy Huh?"

Several boys suddenly became energetic and surrounded Chang Yeban: "What do you want?"

Chang Ye suddenly felt embarrassed, he really had never seen the arrogance of this kind of street kid, nor did he expect that this feathered girl who was like edelweiss when she first came to Nanhuai could become aggressive.

"I asked them to fly kites here, how about it?" Ji Ye's deep voice suddenly sounded from behind, "I don't like reading, I like flying kites!"

"I knew you would jump out a long time ago! Father said that he was not allowed to associate with their family!" Chang Ye pointed at his brother's nose.

"What do you do if you come and go? Now let's talk about flying a kite."

"I told you about the kite!"

"Hey! So domineering? You belong to this family, and he also belongs to this family, so what you say counts?" Yu Ran moved closer to Chang Ye, her skin was milky white under the sun , there was a faint woody fragrance, and Chang Ye's face was a little red. He came out to make trouble, mostly because he saw this **** the wall.

"This is our family matter," Chang Ye was very upset that she was helping Hime Ye, and he stepped forward to push Yu Ran aside.

Yu Ran showed a guarded look, and knocked Chang Ye off. Except for people she knew very well, the thing she hated the most was being touched by others.

Ji Ye stepped in front of her, stopped Yu Ran behind her, and grabbed Chang Ye's hand: "Do you dare to touch her?"

"Hmph!" Yu Ran lay behind Ji Ye and made a face at Chang Ye.

Chang Ye's hand seemed to be clamped, he became ashamed and angry, and pointed at Ji Ye's face: "Why do you protect her, what are you with her? Shameless, do you think others value you more? ?”

Himino was stunned and took a step back.

"You dare to come out and talk when you are secretly dealing with the traitor's family? Everything in this place, this house, and here is not yours, but your father's. What ability do you have to speak for her? I hope that people will appreciate your affection, and you will return in the future. Marry our young master Ji?" Chang Ye was proud of his hidden viciousness.

"She..." Ji Ye's expression suddenly changed, he held Yu Ran's hand tightly, and took a step back, "She is mine! So what?"

Everyone was stunned, Yu Ran was grabbed by him, blood was flushing on her face, the eyes of the boys all fell on her face, she finally couldn't bear this kind of scene, and hit her hard Luo Jiye's hand: "Who is yours?"

She turned around and ran away without looking back. Several boys also chased after them.

"Hahahahahaha," Chang Ye burst into laughter after being stunned for a while, and ran away stumbling while laughing.

Himino stood there, silently looking at his hand that was knocked down.

Ji Qianzheng finally asked to use the bamboo whip passed down from his family.

He is not a father who likes to use force, but after hearing Chang Ye's report, the reverence for the old man that had subsided began to trouble the Patriarch of the Ji family again. He felt that the eldest son was simply an ominous person.

The bamboo whip beat Ji Ye's back again and again, accompanied by Ji Qianzheng's scolding: "Do you know who they are? It is a misfortune for my Ji family to raise you! In the future, if we Ji Ye It must be the fault of you, a wicked son, that you died after me..."

Himino leaned against the table motionless, staring at his father quietly. His gaze didn't look like resentment or fear, but more like disdain, cold and emotionless.

The furious Ji Qian fought for an hour, and ordered everyone to leave, leaving only Ji Ye in the front hall.

The cold moon, the breeze, the silence, just like that night a long time ago, Ji Ye sat quietly on the roof with his legs crossed.

"Himino, Himeno..." There seemed to be someone calling him behind his back.

After hesitating for a long time, Ji Ye still looked back, and those deep rose red eyes were really behind him again.

"Someone... beat you..." Yu Ran was surprised to see the bloodstains on Ji Ye's face drawn by the bamboo whip.

"It's okay," Ji Ye pushed away Yu Ran's hand touching his face, "It will be fine in a few days, why are you here?"

"I... just came out to play," Yu Ran said shyly that she ran out to see Ji Ye. It was exactly as she guessed, Himeno was sitting on the roof when they met for the first time. She moved her chest, wondering if she should sit closer to Ji Ye, but Ji Ye didn't move at all, and she was embarrassed, so she puffed her cheeks and sulked.

"I'm sorry, it's my fault."

Yu Ran froze for a moment.

"Don't talk to me anymore, I'm not what you think, I'm actually useless... I know I have nothing, Chang Ye is right," Ji Ye said in a low voice, "Chang Ye Ye is right, I can read and write, and you taught me."

"What did you say?" Yu Ran became annoyed, this was the first time she felt that Ji Ye would be such a mother-in-law sometimes.

Hesitating for a while, Ji Ye whispered: "I'm sorry... I didn't mean to say that... I just said it accidentally..."

"It's nothing," Yu Ran said, "You and I can go to the lake to see the colorful boats."

"It's late at night, and the colorful boats have no lights."

"It's okay to look at the lake."

"It's a bit cold at night," Himeno said, "You'd better go back to sleep early."

"I don't feel cold."

"But... I'm a little sleepy, I want to go to bed," Himeno stood up.

Yu Ran's patience finally ran out. The little girl jumped up angrily, pointed at Ji Ye's nose and said, "Why are you so stingy? I just ran away and you ignored me. I sneaked out at night to see you!"

Jimo looked at Yuran with his dark and deep eyes and pouted.

Finally, Yu Ran gave in under Ji Ye's gaze, she took Ra Ji Ye's hand and said: "Okay, I'm yours, it's alright, it's yours."

Jimo stared blankly at Yuran, as if he didn't respond at all.

"Is this even okay?" Yu Ran became anxious, "What are you going to do?"

"I'm yours now, what else do you want? You are the stupidest, the meanest, the most rude, and you humiliate me in public, you trampled my butterfly kite, and you lost it The hairpin I like, you ate all the dates we stole by yourself...you...but I still ran out to see you in the middle of the night, if my grandpa found out, I would be scolded! You are like this To me?" Yu Ran felt wronged, "You are a fool, a donkey, a thick and stupid firewood!"

Waving her arms, she jumped up on the roof and fell, almost crushing the tiles.

But no matter how she made noise, shouted, or waved her arms, Ji Ye didn't speak. The child looked at her quietly, starlight reflected in his dark eyes.

Yu Ran also calmed down in the end, the two faced each other silently, for some reason, looking at him, Yu Ran had the urge to cry.

Himeno didn't mention that embarrassment again, and the next twenty years passed like a flash of water.

Until the sixth year of Daxie Shenwu, King Yulie sat at a banquet in the wind of Taiqing Pavilion and told this story to Taifu Xie, one of the "Eight Pillar Kingdoms of Xiechu".

The emperor held the cup and looked into the distance: "It was the first time in my life that I knew that in this vast world, there could be something that only belonged to me and not Chang Ye. I didn't sleep that night. So, when the sun rose, I made up my mind. I don’t want to be my brother’s lieutenant general, I have to do my own thing. If Yuran will stand with me, then all the gods in the sky may not only favor Chang Ye, I If there are more and more things that belong to me in this world, I will never follow other people's horses. I will never follow others' horses!"

The Tai Tuo pondered for a long time, and said with a wry smile: "Can this word be passed down?"

The emperor smiled: "What does Taifu think?"

The Tai Tuo thought for a long time: "It's just a character. It's respectable and awesome, and it's horrible."

King Yulie nodded: "Since it is such a rare and hateful statement, then the Taifu will record it for me and pass it down in Qingshi."

When Taifu Xie passed away, this transcript was made public. The official historian entered the "Notes on the Daily Life of Emperor Yulie".

At that time, Emperor Jingde Ji Changye was in power. The emperor was furious after reading the manuscript, and beheaded seventeen historians within three months. However, the 18th chief historian still included this passage in the "Notes on the Daily Life of Emperor Yulie" and submitted it.

"Isn't Aiqing afraid of death?" King Jingde asked Chang Shi.

"It's fair to say, the official historian only takes the truth and records it," Chang Shi said, "the late emperor and your majesty are brothers, and your majesty knows better than his officials what kind of person the late emperor was. Your majesty has no doubts about the truth of this passage I know, how long can I live? But for generations, historians have written like gold and iron, without leaking or lying, and the family tradition of generations cannot be destroyed in the hands of the minister. If the minister does not change, your majesty will kill the minister."

Emperor Jingde was silent for a long time, stretched out his hand in the shape of a knife, slashed the historian's neck falsely, and then left with his hands behind his back. The last passage was printed together with other manuscripts of King Yulie, and it was openly displayed on the bookshelf of the Ancient Mirror Palace.

"His residual power is very strong!" Many years later, Emperor Jingde said to the official historian, "You are not wrong. He told me this on purpose. He has been like this since he was very young. Angry and unreconciled, cold-eyed towards others, but who would know that such a person can eventually rule the world?"

No one will know, because he always lowers his head, so no one can see the loneliness in his eyes.

At this moment, on the distant Zhongzhou plateau, the silent cavalry marched forward under the banner of leopards.

A full moon loomed between the banners, and the ten-year-old boy lifted the leather curtain on the car to keep out the wind and watched the moonlight silently. The old female slave rushed up and closed the curtain: "Your Majesty, the weather is still cold and you are not in good health, so don't be caught by the cold."

"No way," the young man smiled, his face pale, "So the moon in East Lu is the same as that in our grassland. It's really the same."

The female slave laughed and said, "Oh, how could the moon be different? Pantar God only created one moon for us."

"Just the same," the young man said in a low voice, "this way, we can see the same moon forever."

The creaking sound of the wheels crushing the ground swallowed his words, the post road is dusty, the third person in destiny is walking a long road of thousands of miles, from the country of grasslands to Nanhuai city in Xiatang.