Chapter 6 Tai Chi Master
The ancient Great Wall in the distance lies along the winding ridge like a dragon lying on the high mountains and ridges. After more than two thousand years, the Great Wall has lost its original function. It is like a wordless monument, carrying the vicissitudes of the Chinese nation, silently telling the glory of the past. Looking closely, you can find that the Great Wall has been raised a lot. This height is very simple, just digging out the earth and stones at the foot of the Great Wall and piled it on the city wall. Liu Ji was a little puzzled at first, but later searching in his mind that these projects were built by Dorgon to prevent people from leaving the pass.
Seeing that the Great Wall was getting closer and closer, the dragon carriage that the sixteen people were carrying suddenly stopped amid the sound of the trumpets. Liu Ji leaned his head and saw a group of people fighting with the officers and soldiers in front of him. These people were wearing braids on their heads and wearing coarse blue clothes. Among them, there was a young man with a thin upper body, who seemed thin but especially fierce. He could beat the officers and soldiers surrounding him without any fist. Soon, he had already knocked down more than a dozen on the ground.
Before Liu Ji could speak, Da Yintai, who had already changed into the third-rank military officer uniform today, reported: "Your Majesty, those people in front are unlucky people who have passed the pass. They drove away more than a dozen soldiers guarding the pass and wanted to get out of the pass."
Liu Jijiang put away the short fire system, thinking and asked, "If these people want to go out of seclusion, why do they have to have conflicts with the guards? It's not good to find a place to go secretly."
Da Yintai replied: "The emperor is wise, these people were caught by the people guarding the gate and started fighting. The man with a Hebei accent is the most unruly man. He joined the battlefield and drove away the brothers guarding the gate. These unruly people did not expect to be met by our pioneer brothers, and they just surrounded them. They just wanted to capture these people alive and injured more than a dozen brothers by the unruly people."
Liu Ji looked at the battle group ahead. Although the thin man was fierce, he couldn't resist the number of guards. Liu Ji turned around and said to Da Yintai, "Go and tell them to bring the thin man over, so that he won't hurt him."
The team of thousands of people stopped like this, and before long Da Yintai had already brought the person over. Liu Ji stepped on Eunuch Cao's back from the sedan chair. He saw that the thin man was tied like a rice dumpling, and when he saw Liu Ji turned his head elsewhere and opened his anger.
Liu Ji ordered Da Yintai, "Relax."
Da Yintai hesitated for a moment and stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, you must not. Just now, more than a dozen brothers with high martial arts skills in our guard office surrounded him and captured him. Your Majesty is a disaster for the tiger."
The thin man sneered and Liu Jiyi laughed. This man seemed to be brave and would be good if he could take it for himself. Thinking of this, Liu Ji said again: "Let the strong man loosen his ties."
Da Yintai dared not hesitate any more, and immediately stepped forward to untie the thin man's rope. The seven or eight guards around him were facing a great enemy and surrounded Liu Jie. Da Yintai also brought people to surround the thin man. Liu Jie secretly held the short musket and pushed the guard away indifferently and said, "I want to ask this hero, let's get out of here."
After walking out of the crowd, Liu Ji asked Jin Chang, the Minister of the Inner Guards of Zhenghuang Banner who was following him: "Where are the other people who have passed the barrier?"
Jin Chang replied: "Report to the emperor, these people are all detained in another place."
Liu Jie ordered: "Send someone to bring these people here."
This man was a little confused by Liu Ji's method. He didn't know what Liu Ji's gourd sold.
I saw Liu Ji say to the thin man: "Dare you ask about the hero's name?"
Seeing the emperor treating him so politely, the man knelt down and said, "Caomin Yang Fukui said that his name is Luchan. Your Majesty is kind and does not care about the Caomin. Please punish him."
When Liu Ji heard the word Lu Chan, he felt familiar. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly remembered the movie "Stealing Fist". Isn't Yang Lu Chan the founder of Yang Style Tai Chi? Liu Ji was as happy as if he had found a treasure, thinking in his heart that no wonder this man's martial arts skills are so strong.
Liu Ji walked to Yang Fukui with a smile on his face, and regardless of the worrying eyes of the guards and ministers around him, he pulled Yang Fukui up and asked, "The heroes practice Tai Chi on a daily basis."
Yang Fukui raised his head and looked at Liu Ji in surprise, nodded and said, "How does Your Majesty know?"
Of course, Liu Ji couldn't say that he had watched the movie "Stealing Fist". He smiled and said, "No one in the world knows that Tai Chi is famous, I'm about to learn it from you."
Yang Fukui lowered his head embarrassedly and said, "Caomin is ashamed. He just learned art from his master and went home. If he hadn't learned art well, he wouldn't have been caught by the guards just now."
Liu Ji laughed and said, "Fukui, it is natural to be good at having high martial arts skills, but no matter how strong a person's martial arts skills are, they are limited. Nowadays, foreigners' muskets and cannons are no match for you no matter how good your martial arts skills are. So just say that this martial arts can strengthen your body. Don't think about using it for fighting. Even if ten people and a hundred people can't take you, can't you still be able to take you?"
Liu Ji's words made Yang Fukui tilt his neck and twist his head to halfway. Liu Ji laughed again. This guy was a stubborn guy. While smiling, he pulled out the short fire system he found in the house last night. Liu Ji had already poured the gunpowder and projectiles in. At this time, he said to Yang Fukui towards a tree: "Luchan, look at the fire system in my hand." After that, Liu Ji aimed at the big tree in front of him and buckled the machine. After a loud noise, the smoke filled the smoke. Liu Ji took Yang Luchan's hand and walked under the tree, and saw a big hole in the old tree's branch as thick as a wrist.
Yang Luchan looked at the fire system in Liu Ji's hand in surprise. It was obviously a relatively advanced flintlock fissure, but Yang Luchan didn't know it. He was puzzled that this seemingly simple weapon could burst out such a powerful force, and his love for martial arts was greatly impacted. Yang Luchan understood that his body could not resist such an attack. It was not only Yang Luchan who was impacted. Many of the things present at the scene derogated from foreigners as ministers with strange skills and tricks, and their hearts also trembled. The foreigners' firearms were indeed powerful. People with more thoughts were thinking secretly, what would happen if the foreigners used these things to hit in.
Seeing Yang Luchan lowering his head, Liu Ji smiled and patted Yang Luchan's shoulder and said, "We not only need to practice martial arts and strengthen our body, but also learn to make foreign guns. We must learn to make this thing. After creating our army, we must also learn to use it. In the future, this thing will sweep the world. Bows and arrows and swords can only be abandoned. If we do not learn to make foreign guns, foreign guns, I, everyone present, and all the people of the Qing Empire will become a person who can bully them.
The humiliating inferior citizens. Don’t think that I am exaggerating, look at the opium flowing into China and the foreign ships anchored in Guangzhou. Those ships can travel through the vast and boundless oceans to the great China. Are they here to visit? No, they are here to plunder our wealth. They are trying their best to calculate us. Our great empire must awaken and arm itself, otherwise suffering will await us."
Cao Zhenyong was a little confused. Is this the Daoguang he was familiar with? He couldn't believe his ears. This was what Daoguang said, but it was really said from Daoguang's mouth. Cao Zhenyong decided to re-study what "Daoguang" was thinking, and he must not understand the mistake of not being able to keep the same as the emperor without understanding the superior intention.
The second thing that was wondering was Xien. He was also thinking about how this "Daoguang" became so enlightened and said he wanted to learn the strange skills of foreigners. However, Xien was not opposed to learning to build foreign guns. However, the current national treasury was no longer the time when Emperor Qianlong held a banquet for the thousand-year-old. Even when Emperor Jiaqing copied He Kun, he could not catch up. Do you have the money to build this?
Yang Luchan is not as complicated as these "adults". He feels that he has met a good emperor. Today, he is taught by the emperor and feels enlightened. It seems that practicing martial arts really cannot be strong and show off. As long as he can strengthen his body and exercise his will.
At this time, everyone who passed the passers-by brought them over. Without even asking, Liu Ji ordered them to be released, each of whom was given five taels of silver as travel expenses, and he could go wherever they could go.
When Liu Ji saw that Yang Luchan was not with these people, he stepped forward and called Yang Luchan over to ask. Only then did he know that these people were not the same as Yang Luchan. Yang Luchan returned home from his mentor Chen Changxing, and happened to meet these people who had passed the barrier on the way. He helped these people because he saw unfairness on the road. Liu Ji asked in his heart: "Why can Luchan not come by my side? It will not be difficult to honor the ancestors and be appointed as generals in the future."
Seeing that the emperor seemed different everywhere, Yang Luchan also had this thought. He said to Liu Jie: "Your Majesty, Rong Caomin came to follow the emperor after he went home to meet his parents."
Liu Ji knew that this emperor was not easily seen by ordinary people in the deep palace courtyard. Yang Luchan and a grass-roots man, it was very difficult to see him again after he went back. Thinking of these, Liu Ji said, "Luchan, come with me first. When I arrive in Beijing, I will send someone to bring your parents to Beijing."
Seeing that the emperor was so kind, Yang Luchan couldn't refuse and immediately followed Liu Ji on the way.
Chapter completed!