"Master Hu, please allow me to be bold, little old man. I will give you a bowl of wine tonight."
When Hu Biao heard such words in his ears, the guy quickly stopped talking to a man next to him who had a small banner official position and was boasting.
What are you bragging about? Of course it was during the night raid of his brother Hu Biao a few days ago.
He rushed forward first and shot each one, and in a blink of an eye he killed five Tatars in a row.
Let me explain, when he was bragging two days ago, he was still a bit cool, saying that he had killed two people in a row. But these days, he couldn't stop bragging. He added one more every day, and now there are five people.
It is foreseeable that this number will continue to rise at the wine table tomorrow.
Hu Biao turned around and saw that it was the commoner named Old Man Jiang, walking towards him with a bowl of wine.
Good guy! It seems that this dry little old man has been drinking a lot. Even the tip of his nose is red now. It must be because of this reason that he has the courage to come over and propose a toast.
Take Hu Biao as a modern man and his concept of how to behave in the world.
Seeing an elder who is almost twice his age and not the modern type who lies on the ground at all times coming to propose a toast, there was no way he could refuse.
Immediately, he filled the wine bowl in front of him with a bowl of about 20 taels of muddy wine with about 15 degrees Celsius. After signaling to the old man Jiang, he drank it all in one gulp.
At least half of it was on the front of the clothes.
Fortunately, there was already some superior old man Jiang who didn't care about Hu Biao's behavior of stealing chicken while drinking. He also picked up the wine bowl in his hand and drank all the muddy wine in the bowl.
Not to mention that none of it was spilled, but it was just a normal amount.
After drinking another bowl of wine, the dry little old man became even more drunk.
It's just that the old man didn't know why. Even though he was so drunk after drinking that he couldn't stand still, he still saluted Hu Biao solemnly.
He said: "Thank you Master Hu for your warm hospitality.
Since Wanli, more than 20 years ago, this is the first time for me, little old man, to drink wine and eat meat so happily, and my heart is so happy; even if I die tomorrow, I won't have much regret in my heart."
Upon hearing this, Yang Dongli, who was holding Xu Feng's shoulders and drinking wine next to him, immediately became excited.
For a modern person, the Ming Dynasty can be said to be full of regrets and speechlessness.
Ever since the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang expelled the Tartars and restored our Yanhuang attire, we have achieved great success in the country, which can be said to be unparalleled in all dynasties.
The sentence "The emperor guards the country, the king dies in the country" and his attitude of never getting married are also admired by future generations.
Zhang Juzheng, Wang Mingyang, Yu Qian, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Qi Jiguang, Hai Rui, Lu Xiangsheng and other famous civil servants and military generals are famous even in the modern dimension.
However, the "Tumu Fort" incident experienced during this period was the result of Japanese pirates invading the coast for many years.
Especially during the late Ming Dynasty, the internal turmoil, the entry of the Tatars, and the eventual collapse of such a huge dynasty brought the so-called Daqing a century of humiliation in modern times.
All of these things make people sigh with sadness just thinking about them.
Thinking whether he could get some insights into the true situation of this dynasty from the mouths of the natives of this era, Lao Yang let Xu Feng go, who had an average drinker.
Let Xu Feng and AT, these two novices, start pecking each other.
He asked in agreement: "What? Did everyone have a good life during the Wanli period?"
"Of course." After hearing this, Old Man Jiang fell into some memories and looked at the slightly raised corners of his mouth.
And probably in his mind, it was a very beautiful and profound memory in his life.
The drunken old man looked up at the stars in the sky, and some scenes that seemed to be deep in his memory came out in his mouth that smelled of alcohol:
"In the 20th year of Wanli's reign, I, old man Jiang, was born to a well-known young man from all over the Loess Fort.
The matchmakers who come to your door to talk about matchmaking almost break the threshold.
It is not said that the weather was smooth in those years, but there were more severe droughts every year than now. Every year, after paying the rent for the harvest in the fields and the government's tax, the remaining grain can be used to harvest the next year's new grain.
During the slack season, there are many temporary jobs and jobs everywhere, and you can always find a job to earn twenty or thirty feet in a day.
Mr. Huang, don't laugh. Twenty or thirty cents back then was worth much more than it is now. You can buy more things than one hundred cents now.
In those days, the prices of chicken, duck, fish, cloth, salt, and grain were all extremely cheap.
Whenever the New Year comes, if you are generous and spend twenty or three yuan of silver, you can buy a lot of wine and meat, which is more than the whole family can eat in one day.
Even in ordinary times when there are no holidays or festivals, we, the common people, live a comfortable life.
I remember that my grandpa would always buy some meat every now and then, add some wine, and give the whole family some meat.
After our brothers and sisters had eaten enough, my grandma sewed new clothes for us under the oil lamp. My grandpa drank little by little while dipping his fingers in the wine to teach the brothers and us how to read.
I, old man Jiang, can recognize one or two hundred words, and I learned them all at that time. It feels so comfortable to think about those days."
After saying that, the old man actually had the guts to grab Hu Biao, leaving half a jar of muddy wine, and drank it in big gulps.
It seems that he wants to use this method to get himself drunk as quickly as possible.
Then he slept to death, sleeping in the most beautiful memory of his life; even in the era of Hu Biao and others, such so-called beautiful memories were so cheap...
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Old Jiang, a dry little old man, soon became drunk.
With his poor drinking capacity, which he could not drink for many years, he soon became drunk and fell to the ground; but after falling to the ground, his face showed a relaxed smile that was definitely not there on weekdays.
Later, when old man Jiang was carried away by his youngest son.
Not long ago, Hu Biao and the others were laughing and joking, but in such a corner, the atmosphere became inexplicably gloomy.
Mainly due to the current real life, everyone is inexplicably depressed.
Even the rude and seemingly heartless soldiers who called "Brother Hu Biao" and came to eat and drink stopped shouting at each other.
Finally, Lao Yang drank himself a sip of wine that seemed to be particularly bitter.
He cursed: "What the hell! How come Ming Dynasty has become so bad in just a few decades?"
The voice just fell, and a man named He Kui cursed in his mouth: "It's not the fault of those Tatars, they enter the border and plunder at every turn.
It is strange to say that despite being hit by so many Liaoxiangs in a year, the Tatars not only survived, but also became stronger and stronger.
Has the imperial army strengthened its troops? Has it become as strong as Grandpa Qi's men? In the Battle of Hunhe, the Tatars had to kill several times as many of the three thousand soldiers under Grandpa Qi to defeat them.
Now? There are only one or two thousand Tatar cavalry. Not to mention our Loess Fort, even General Wang of Datong Town dare not leave the city.
If Shangguan has the courage to lead us into battle, there will be no shortage of monthly rations. I dare not tell others, but I, He Kui, will definitely fight to the death.
But I'm not afraid of Brother Hu Biao's jokes. I haven't received any food or salary for more than half a year. I have a whole family waiting to be fed. How can I dare to risk my life and fight to the death?
I'm afraid that if I shoot three arrows in the middle of battle, I will be worthy of the imperial court and the current emperor."
He Kui, Hu Biao and others do know a little bit about such an issue.
For example: the so-called Liao pay, ranging from the Gong Gong princes in the imperial court to the warlords in Liaodong, countless people lie on it and suck blood.
The fact that the Tatars were able to grow bigger was closely related to their deliberate laissez-faire in the early stage.
However, there is a saying called "Raising tigers will lead to danger". In the past, the Tatar leader Boar Skin, who was just a running dog under Li Chengliang, has finally become so big that his tail cannot fall off.
I also had bad luck and happened to be caught in the Little Ice Age.
Crop yields have been reduced or lost due to various natural disasters, but due to the deformed tax policy that does not allow officials and businessmen to take advantage of the situation, the entire burden has fallen on ordinary farmers.
Even those people would take the opportunity to make money off civilians without caring about their life or death.
It can be said that Ming Dynasty sought death by himself.
If the adults in the court were capable and selfless, everything would still be able to survive.
However, the party struggle with almost no bottom line is afraid that if famous ministers such as Wang Mingyang and Zhang Juzheng come back to life, there will be no way to save this decadent dynasty, and it is destined to come to an end, right?
