Chapter 30 first quarter

On December 12th, the fifteenth year of Wanli, it rained for half a day, and the spring in the old city of Nanjing was still far away. The news of Qi Jiguang's death brought into the capital. The Ming Dynasty established a complete and strict system of civil servants. In order to prevent the recurrence of the local military chaos in the Tang Dynasty, military officials have been suppressed all the time.The establishment of an army to wipe out Japanese pirates along the eastern coast, and the establishment of a feudal clan to deter Mongolian tribes gave Qi Ji control over nearly 400,000 troops and became the only military officer in the dynasty capable of rebellion. After he was demoted to a commoner, he died of old age in a hurry.That day, Emperor Shenzong was wearing a black dragon robe inlaid with dark red embroidered patterns. He learned of his death in the Wenhua Hall of his study and did not give any instructions.

Fifteen days later, the official newspaper of the local officials was submitted to the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Rites routinely wrote a 15-line eulogy and distributed it to Qi Jiguang's family, without mentioning his life's achievements.These fifteen lines of plain words and sentences were widely circulated in Fujian and Zhejiang, which made Qi Jiguang's old department sigh. In winter in Nanjing, there are only spiders and ants. After the spring thunder of the Awakening of Insects, wriggling flesh worms crawled out of the soil.Outside the city gate of Nanjing, a young man carrying a long stick stopped when a wasp flew towards him.The wasp's red and black belly is like the dragon robe of Emperor Shenzong.

There is a small triangular scar at the corner of the young man's left eye, which should be a remnant of sword fighting when he was young.This bit of trauma changed the shape of his eyelids, and no matter how sharp his gaze, the left eye remained dull.The approaching wasp curled up its bright red stinger.He stared blankly, and suddenly a bright light flashed from the stick in his hand. The wasp's green and black belly was cut in half. What the young man holds is a long, narrow, cold iron, which is far from the official lancet shape, more like the Japanese sword used by the Japanese pirates who caused troubles in the sea fifteen years ago.This kind of knife is more than twice as long as the knife equipped in the barracks of the Ming Dynasty. In conjunction with the amazing jumping ability of the Japanese pirates, it once created a miracle in 1555 before Qi Jiguang was transferred to Zhejiang.

A group of 70 Japanese pirates landed from Hangzhou and rushed into Wuhu, Anhui. They robbed 40 women along the way and loaded 16 carts with gold and jewelry. Their team became cumbersome, but they still rushed to Nanjing greedily. .At that time, there were 120,000 troops in the Nanjing garrison. After two days of fierce fighting, 4,000 people were killed in the Nanjing garrison, and the number of wounded was not counted in detail. After examining the corpses of the Japanese pirates, it was found that four people still escaped and pushed away a cart of jewels covered in bruises.Of course, there is another way of saying that the seventy Japanese pirates were all killed, and that the cartload of jewels was embezzled by the commander of the garrison.

Although the speed at which the young man inserted the long knife back into the wooden stick was only in the blink of an eye, it still disturbed the nearby teahouses.As the youth stepped into the city gate with dull eyes, there were rumors of "Japanese pirates entering the city" in Nanjing. The news was reported to the "Haidao Defense" Yamen of the Garrison Department, and the investigation task was assigned to Liu Kai, the ten-man commander.During the eradication of Japanese pirates many years ago, the Nanjing Garrison sent a group of soldiers to the Qi Jiguang Barracks in Zhejiang Province for training, including Liu Kai.He now leads ten people, plus one cook. The training he received back then was "Mandarin Duck Formation", that is, a group of five, three of them covered with rattan cards, and two of them attacked with spears, in order to deal with the weird sword skills of the Japanese pirates. Quite miraculous.

After learning this technique that year, Liu Kai was transferred back to Nanjing and never had the chance to use it.Thinking that his ten people just form two mandarin duck formations, the chances of winning are quite high. In order to prevent mutiny, the army of the Ming Dynasty was subordinated to the localities, controlled by the governors of the provinces, and the military equipment was also in charge of the civil servants. The army had been treated harshly for two hundred years, not only lost the ability to rebel, but even failed to develop normally.The military equipment is jaw-droppingly poor. There are only a handful of low-quality iron pieces on the soldiers' armor, most of which are made of hard paper pulp.Liu Kai has worn pulp armor for twelve years, and his greatest wish in this life is to get a real armor. When accepting the task, the Haidao Defense official told him with a smile: "If you can catch that Japanese pirate, I will grant you a complete set." Iron, guaranteed to be the same as the guards in the capital, thin and bright."

Dreaming of wearing a real suit of armor, which could produce an intoxicating sound quality when tapped, the Ten Commander Liu Kai took action and took two mandarin ducks to the street, causing a sensation immediately. Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the dilapidated dignitaries in the north have taken Nanjing as their place of refuge, and their whole clans have moved here.For the safety of long-distance travel, each family maintains a samurai group. These samurai multiply in Nanjing and serve their masters from generation to generation. The samurai group, like real estate, is the legacy left by the ancestors.Accumulated for thousands of years, the number of martial arts masters in Nanjing is the first in the country.

When the news of the Japanese pirates entering the city came, the samurai of the major families in Nanjing gathered to discuss, they had gone through too long a peaceful time, in order to return the honor of killing the Japanese pirates to the family.After a heated discussion, the leaders decided to select the best one to compete with the Japanese pirate.They set up a ring in Bird Clothes Lane. After three days of fierce fighting, more than half of the warrior regiments were injured. All major families have masters who cultivated in the deep mountains. For the sake of family honor, they rushed back one after another.From then on, the wounded and sick were often brought in on stretchers at the gate of Nanjing, and occasionally coffins arrived.

The city of Nanjing was in chaos, but the young man who was suspected of being a Japanese pirate was nowhere to be seen.