- A ray of light at dawn, like a sword held by a god, tears through the dark night scene that envelops the heavens and the earth before dawn. Light dispels darkness, sometimes it seems difficult, sometimes the power to break and drive is so swift and unstoppable.

The clouds broke through the sunrise, the extreme edge of the East China Sea, and the light of the rising sun came firmly and straight on the waves, first illuminating the wall fortress that had been slaughtered for half a night in the east of the imperial capital, and then illuminating the rich and colorful outline of the entire imperial capital from east to west at a speed of less than one minute, which was no different from the past thousands of years.

On the streets and stone platforms on the inner side of the Wolf's Tooth Siege, no matter what will the two sides of the battle last night upheld, they have been flattened by the word victory and defeat, although there were a few small accidents and episodes in the process, but it did not affect the ending of the Nanzhao Imperial Court as the ending of the few times in previous years.

The victory is set, and the plan before the incident is of course not affected, and this morning's cleaning of the palace is the fifth time since the founding of Nanzhao that it has been temporarily handed over to the Yulin soldiers, and it is still carried out in two steps.

The Yulin Army and the guards are not as good at and like to do the work of wiping the table and sweeping the floor as the palace maids in the palace, but this morning's cleaning work is to wipe the blood stains on the ground, and to clean up the corpses of a group of killers who don't know where they come from.

However, although the more than 1,000 military guards of the Yulin Army put down their cold blades and held up the withered blades, it seemed that they were doing work that was not in line with their duties and abilities, but this kind of work of wiping blood and removing corpses seemed to be of a special nature. It really takes a group of people to show the execution and discipline of the soldiers, so that after the slaughter is finished on the eve of dawn, the cleanup can be finished before dawn.

Long before the sky was clear, half of the guards of Kyoto Prefecture were dropped. They brought the water trucks that are usually used when there is a fire in the houses in the city, and the garbage trucks that are used to clean the streets, and more than 300 people and vehicles entered the Wolf's Tooth Siege to participate in the cleaning work.

The waterwheel is a white cart that goes in and a cart that is red that comes out. The sewage used to clean the blood stain on the ground was poured directly into the unnamed lake in the south of the city, which was rumored to be inhabited by evil ghosts, and the blue water of the lake swallowed up the blood-colored sewage without any suspense, but it did not change the strange water color of the lake at all.

The garbage truck, which was supposed to transport the dregs of life, was also used this morning, and the corpses were hauled in the body, and they were not transported to the filth pile like a hill in the south of the city, as they did with household garbage, but when they were about to reach the garbage mountain. The convoy on the street to which it used to walk suddenly turned into another secluded alley. Enter the Commander's Palace, which has a calm and majestic architectural style and occupies a very large area.

One place doesn't seem to open on a regular basis. However, the courtyard was quite spacious, and the courtyard door was finally opened at the moment before the corpse truck arrived. A wide canvas sets up the canopy. While obscuring the light that spreads from the sky, it also makes the lights under the tent more concentrated. The corpses were neatly spread out under the large canvas canopy, and several young men wearing compact smocks and masks seemed to be making a fool of themselves, walking back and forth between the corpses to examine, and there seemed to be occasional findings, and the corpses were sorted according to this finding.

When the darkness of dawn was dispelled by the dawn light, in the densely populated areas of the imperial capital, the chimneys on the kitchen roofs of many houses began to rise with firewood. The smoke of the cooking is very faint, like the spirit of people who wake up in the morning is not very sober. There are also women who are skilled, and they pound the firewood and grass in the stove so that the fire is extinguished for a while, and the firewood smoke in the chimney comes out for a while. Presumably, the breakfast that this family eats will also be a raw and cooked one, right?

But this is the early morning of the imperial capital, the life of mankind. It seems that this boring and ordinary pace of life has more standardized steps than the law, and it is difficult to change.

Everyone has to eat, three full meals a day, but today there are many guests from afar who arrived in the prosperous imperial city of Nanzhao last night, and they lost the qualification to eat the next morning's breakfast after only one night's work. The first thing a group of foreign strongmen did when they arrived in the capital of a country was to make the head of the empire unable to eat breakfast the next day.

As the surrounding houses gradually smoked from the cooking smoke, smoke also rose from the sky above the Commander's Palace. A tube of black smoke with a rich atmosphere like splashing ink and swaying rapidly, with a thick and powerful stroke, directly expresses the sky, as if to give a little color to this clear sky spread out with light.

But the smoke didn't rise from the big kitchen. On the side of the armory room, the fire in the hearth was blazing, but the molten iron cauldron on the stove had been removed. The fire was high and warm, but it was burning in the air, not because the craftsmen in the iron-melting room did not know how to save fuel, but because the flame from the corpse always seemed to be a little worse than charcoal.

In the iron-making furnace room, the slightly dark face of a swordsmith apprentice showed two healthy flushes, and the hand holding the soup bowl trembled slightly, but it was not because he saw the burning corpse in the hearth that was gradually twisting and terrified - in fact, his hand was held as solid as iron on the edge of the hot porcelain bowl, and it was not until he could see the man who walked slowly through the door that he began to show signs of instability, which had nothing to do with the things burning in the stove.

He blushed because the temperature in the furnace room was too high, and because he was too excited, because this morning was the second time he had seen his nominal master in the four years since he had been working in the refining room.

Unlike the last time, this time Iron Maniac walked out of the dark room where he had been confined for more than ten years, and he was holding the same soup bowl in his hand. He seemed to have regained his former normal state, no longer looking sluggish and indifferent as he had been a few days ago, as if he had gone mad, always thinking of climbing over the wall and climbing to a high place.

And the swordsmith apprentice soon realized a new thought: does the fact that Iron Maniac can walk out of that room mean that the deed of sale he signed with the court representative of the Commander's Mansion has expired?

If this is the case, then there will be two paths in front of the Iron Maniac: either leave the Command and return to his former free and free seclusion; Either he had regained the freedom of the region relative to the Commander's Palace, and he still couldn't leave the majestic Imperial Force's core mansion, but he didn't have to stay in that small dark room as before. All day long, I am accompanied by some inexplicable small parts with strange shapes and unknown functions.

Obviously, the swordsmith apprentice was looking forward to the latter situation the most. If the latter idea comes true, it means that he will have the opportunity to officially learn the art of refining from Iron Maniac in the future. Instead of continuing to hang on to the title of an honorary master in name only.

After being stunned for a moment, the sword-forging apprentice came back to his senses, and his first thought instinctively related to respecting the teacher. But when he looked around for a chair, he found that this morning's work was special and he needed to speed up his work, so all the other items in the furnace room were moved outside the house, except for the big stove.

There was embarrassment and a slight nervousness on his face, and the swordsmith apprentice was hesitating whether to go outside and bring a chair in, but he heard the iron maniac who had already walked in front of the stove suddenly said: Look at the fire.

Although Iron Maniac is only a nominal master of many apprentices in the armory room, he has been engaged in refining work in the Commander's Mansion for more than ten years. No apprentice has really been taught a bit of real skill yet. But the swordsmith apprentice still didn't dare to snub him. I didn't dare to slack off every word he said. The apprentices have such self-discipline, not only because of the orders of the commander, but also because of the refining skills of the iron maniac. It is indeed worthy of the respect of those who travel with him.

Working in the same room with such a legendary figure in the refining world, even if he is only a miscellaneous person at best, this kind of work experience can already make him famous in the industry. And if you take this opportunity to learn a little skill from the iron maniac, you must be able to use it for life. For those who love to be obsessed with this industry, this kind of harvest is heavier than mountains and more expensive than gold.

The sudden arrival of the iron madness surprised and excited the sword-forging apprentice, and at the same time, he was a little at a loss, not knowing how to communicate with this refining master, and he couldn't even pick the right first sentence. Just when there was some unusual silence in the furnace room. Outside the house, two more palace guards came in with carts to carry the corpses. A guard carried the body from the cart into the house and threw it into the hearth, where the blazing flames were pressed slightly lower.

The sword-forging apprentice who was standing aside and seeing this scene suddenly thought of the three words that Tie Mad had just said, and hurriedly moved his hand, the soup bowl he was holding in both hands moved to the left hand side, and his right hand reached into a cloth bag on his shoulder, felt out a grain, and threw it into the hearth.

There was a slight explosion, and a cloud of smoke and dust burst out in the furnace, turning into a fireball, enveloping the body that had just been thrown in, and the fire in the furnace was strong again.

Watching this scene in silence, he noticed that the fire suddenly flourished because the apprentice had thrown something into it, and his iron-like eyebrows were slightly raised, but he still did not speak.

After concentrating on the errand at hand, the two guards who were transporting the corpse noticed the somewhat familiar face of Tie Mad and quickly recognized him, the two guards hurriedly bowed slightly and bowed their hands in salute: Iron Master.

The guards' thick and respectful voices were in their ears, and the swordsmith apprentice realized that he had been in the furnace room for so long, and he was so clumsy, and he hadn't spoken a word to him, and the nervous and embarrassed look on his face reappeared.

Iron Maniac didn't notice this, perhaps because he had been locked up in a dark room for so long, and the etiquette that he had to pay attention to when dealing with each other had become trivial and inconsequential things to him. However, although he has not been exposed to such things bordering on reputation and status for a long time, the feeling of being respected will not make the respected person feel too bad.

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In the northern suburbs of Kyoto, the three carriages that departed from Shifu stopped at the Dengfu Inn for about half an hour, and finally set off and continued westward.

It was less than two hours before dark, and in the meantime, they had to rush to Hongdu, west of Kyoto, and plan to stay overnight in the inner city of Hongdu.

Along the way, the carriages traveled at a high speed on the official road that extended from the north gate of Kyoto.

Because of the special construction process of this official road, even if the carriage travels at a fast speed, the people sitting in the carriage will not feel much bumps. Such road conditions, in addition to ensuring the quality of transportation of the merchant fleet, travelers can also benefit a lot.

However, when the carriage approached Hongdu, and there was still an hour before it reached the Hongdu City Gate, the carriage traveled on the official road built by Hongdu, and the body gradually became unstable.

Kyoto is nearly 300 miles away from Hongdu, but between the two capitals, the trade route that the military craft participated in the construction of was not completely connected.

Drivers who often walk in all directions may have realized that the military official road extends from Kyoto. However, it is obviously built in the south, followed by the west, and the shortest in the north.

The 'eccentricity' of road construction in the dynasty has been speculated about because of this. This may be due to Emperor Nanzhao's intention to guard against the northern kingdom.

Such a strong and durable road may be able to transport all kinds of materials to Nanzhao in all directions in peacetime, but if the war starts, it is very likely to become a double-edged sword, slashing on the land of the country, hurting others or hurting oneself, it all depends on the weight of the 'hand' of the person using this sword.

Emperor Nanzhao was a soldier, and when he was young, he was a military officer in the northern frontier to guard the border, although during his tenure, the Southern Zhou court at that time did not really have a major war with the Northern Yan Dynasty. But on the border. Small battles caused by border troops harassing the people and looting are common.

With the experience of these young Jin Ge Iron Horses. As well as the battle process smeared with the blood of the soldiers, the current Emperor Nanzhao has a clearer idea of the military strength of the northern country.

The Daye Empire is the predecessor of the Southern Zhou Dynasty. Now that the Southern Zhou Dynasty has also been overthrown, but for the grandparents of the current Southern Zhao, the military strength of the Daye Empire is geometric, although those initial documents have lost a lot after the baptism of hundreds of years, but the military records that can be found about the Daye Empire, the scenes described in their content are all surprising and shocking to think about it.

And rooted in the north, there has been no big move, but it has not stopped harassing the southern border. It is the country that is the only country that has completely inherited the functions of the Emperor of the Great Cause.

No one can have the confidence and evidence to deduce the truth of this statement, which has been widely and continuously disseminated among the people. Including the current monarch of Nanzhao, pondering this matter, he is also three points of faith and seven points of doubt in his heart.

When Emperor Nanzhao was in the northern frontier, although he fought several small and medium-sized battles with the generals of the Northern Yan Dynasty, the depth of his estimate of the military strength of the Northern Yan Kingdom was only obtained from the periphery.

He has been in Beidi for more than ten years, and in addition to occasionally leading troops to conduct unfriendly exchanges with the Beiyan military, he has also thought about a problem in his spare time. However, it can't be hard to break through, and the infiltration meter is applied with a needle in the cotton, and there has been no result. After several years of hard work, although the spy team he set up successfully infiltrated the Beiyan Imperial Court, when it wanted to touch the Beiyan military structure, it was like a sharp blade hitting an iron plate and was completely blocked outside the military cordon.

And the Northern Wild Goose Kingdom has never sent their legendary army to inherit the strength of the Great Cause Emperor to wage war. If the folk saying is true, then the Beiyan troops who have been harassing the national territory line can only be regarded as some embellishments of the Beiyan military in terms of strength.

The Southern Zhou Dynasty was founded for more than 300 years, and it was only in the first few years of the founding of the Northern Yan that the army was sent to the north, and the result was roughly a draw. Next to these wars were the events of the Son of Heaven and the crown prince's enthronement in Nanzhao.

After a few years of turmoil at home, the dragon chair of the newly enthroned Southern Zhou Emperor was not yet hot, so he naturally had no intention of continuing to care about the Northern Expedition.

The confrontation between the two ** soldiers, after several consecutive battles, the weapons in the hands of the soldiers seemed to be hot, but the Southern Zhou Dynasty withdrew at this pass, which was regarded as giving the Beiyan Imperial Court, which had just been founded at that time, a chance to recuperate. However, after the Northern Wild Goose eased up, he did not take the initiative to send troops towards Southern Zhou.

Since then, the two sides have been facing each other like this, and in an atmosphere full of suspicions, they have temporarily lived together in 'peace'.

If it is said that the two countries in the north and south could not hold each other because of the total military strength, but no one made the first move, this statement is unjustifiable in the years when the two countries fought for the first time, because at that time Beiyan was only a new country, and the disparity in strength was still obvious.

And after more than 100 years, the national brain of the Southern Zhou court frequently had problems, and the northern wild goose still did not make a big move. The Beiyan military still only often does some things to loot people's property on the border, and like the rogues, there are more suspicious points here.

More than 10 years ago, the Southern Zhou Mansion was about to collapse, and the extreme corruption of the bureaucracy corroded the operation and decision-making ability of the country's brain, which in turn weakened the overall national strength of the Southern Zhou Dynasty. But at this time, the Northern Wild Goose was still calm and did not make a move to take advantage of the situation - could it be that the internal body of the Northern Wild Goose Imperial Court also had a similar malfunction as the brain of the Southern Zhou Dynasty?

Later, the general whose duty was to guard the border of the northern kingdom also reversed, and with almost all the troops that the Wang family could raise, they were divided into two roads, and the butt was facing north and south, and the hometown of Emperor Nanzhou was gone.

Nan Zhou set aside such a big empty door, if anyone wants to invade at this time. It seems that all it takes is one step to lift one's feet. But Beiyan still didn't make the slightest movement - could it be that the name of the so-called successor of the Beiyan military's so-called 'King Master of the Great Cause Empire' was just a piece of tiger skin in paper paste?

The Northern Wild Goose Kingdom's disregard for these two best opportunities to expand southward can be regarded as the military anecdotes that the northern people who fled to the south a few years ago to prepare for military disasters and now gradually return to the north to establish a business and run a family.

But. Although the appearance of the Northern Wild Goose over the years is like a good cat that does not want to hunt and store food when it is full, and it seems to be of great benefit to the recuperation and recovery of the national strength of the big country in the south, the current Southern Zhao Emperor has not relaxed his military vigilance against the Northern Wild Goose in the slightest.

However, judging from the current situation in the southern country, it is not very beneficial for oneself to take the initiative to seek peace through war. The livelihood of the people in the south of the country, which had been plagued by the previous dynasty for decades, has not yet recovered, and at this time, if the two sides fight hard, the damage to the people's livelihood may be destroyed to the foundation. It is the national strength that is bruised.

So. Since the northern goose still has no action for the time being. Nanzhao was also not radical, and adopted a paralyzing strategy of superficial peace, strengthening the country first and then fighting.

However, such a national policy was implemented. It gradually made the local style of Nanzhao divide the north and south again.

In the territory south of the Southern Zhao Dynasty, agricultural and water conservancy products were quickly restored and constructively transformed, and the land burned by the war more than ten years ago was quickly restored to its vitality as if after a spring breeze and sweet rain, and entered the road of prosperity earlier than the north of the Zhao Kingdom.

After more than ten years of recuperation, the northern territories have barely recovered to the pre-war level of people's livelihood. Nowadays, the people in the north can eat enough and wear warm clothes, but they are still far from the living standard of storing surplus grain and hoarding chickens.

In addition to the situation of the people in their own homes, the road construction is reflected.

In some places, there were no roads. When there are more people walking, there will naturally be roads.

However, the distribution of inhabitants in the territory north of Nanzhao is too loose compared to the south of the country.

In addition to the need to expand the residential area, the imperial court did not seem to have a reason to build in a no-man's land, and this practice made the windy and thin north have few roads. After the baptism of war more than ten years ago, many roads and facilities in the northern territory were damaged, which added to the difficulty of road construction in the northern region.

There are few people, there are few roads, and the imperial court has not shifted the focus of construction to the north at present, which indirectly makes the barren and backward north in contrast with the south, and compared with Huyang, the second largest commercial capital in the country in Nanzhao, that is, the imperial capital, it is even more different.

Perhaps there is also a possibility: this barren land was originally a battlefield prepared by Emperor Nanzhao for the future expedition to the north?

If this is the case, it seems reasonable to plan that no matter how well it is built today, it will be destroyed with your own hands in the near future, so it seems reasonable not to worry about this part now......

In short, no matter where the speculation and assumption will go, the three carriages that departed from Shi Jing's house and ran west after leaving Kyoto gradually slowed down when they passed the last section of the Kyoto Beiguan Road, and at the same time, they also turned out of the suburbs of Imperial Capital and entered the Hongdu territory.

The suburban boundary of Dijing is also the end of the wide, flat and solid official road extending to the north, and the joint is the official road extended by Hongdu.

Under the governance of the same dynasty, the quality standards for road construction in different capitals should be generally the same.

Like the Kyoto Shodo, the Koto Official Road has a solid roadbed, but there are some different places in it. Gao Qian, who was slowly driving the car, like the other drivers in the two cars, couldn't help but wonder when he saw the potholes and toad-like official roads in Hongdu.

This was something they hadn't expected before they set off. It's not that they live in the imperial capital and can't understand the difficulties of the different parts of the country and the prosperous capital counties of the city, but because they chose the official road of Hongdu as the first way to the west after leaving Kyoto, that is, they took a fancy to the easy road of Hongdu.

But what's going on right now?

If the scene in front of you is to reflect the local characteristics, it is even more difficult to say.

In the official road of the whole territory of Nanzhao, even if the official road of Hongdu is not as good as the Kyoto business road, the road casting process is improved to the extreme of contemporary times, it can also take the second place in the country. If this road is broken like this, the court will not fail to receive information, and Xiangye will not let his own group borrow the road from Hongdu.

Less than half an hour after walking on Hongdu Official Road, the middle-aged Lang Zhong who was loaded in the carriage at the end couldn't help but get out of the car and vomit for the second time.

looked at the middle-aged Lang Zhong who had a layer of fine wet sweat on his forehead and his face became a little unhealthy. Returning to the car with vague steps, the driver couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart: he is still a doctor, why is his health so bad? It's unbearable for a moment!

Seeing this scene, Gao Qian, who was sitting in the carriage in the middle and was in charge of driving the car, couldn't help but lift the curtain behind him. glanced at Cen Chi who was sitting in the car with some concern.

Fortunately, although the middle-aged man seemed to be difficult to withstand the bumps on the road, Cen Chi, whose body was being violated by the slow poison, didn't seem to feel anything about the bumps.

Sensing a sudden light at the car door, Cen Chi, who was sitting in the car with his eyes closed, opened his eyes and just saw the worried gaze that Gao Qian threw into his face. A trace of doubt appeared in Cen Chi's eyes, but he didn't say anything.

Gao Qian saw the tiredness in Cen Chi's eyes, and couldn't help but ask softly: As he got farther away from Beijing, the road gradually became rougher. After being bumpy for so long, does the gentleman feel uncomfortable in any way? Would you like us to stop and wait for you to rest for a while?

The man in the back carriage got out of the car and vomited twice. Naturally, the group paused twice. This is not a good situation. Cen Chi didn't even ask out loud. You can feel it, too.

Hearing Gao Qian's concerned voice, Cen Chi didn't immediately reply to anything, he just shook his head slightly. After taking a deep breath, slowly move yourself to the car door.

When Gao Qian saw this scene, he thought that he was also about to vomit from the carriage, his heart sank slightly, and he was about to call the coachman on the side to take care of it, but he saw Cen Chi lying at the door of the car just observing the road conditions under the wheels.

Seeing a thoughtful look on Cen Chi's face, Gao Qian hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help asking: Did Mr. find anything?

Cen Chi withdrew his gaze on the road and leaned against the car door, with a puzzle on his face. said indifferently: The official road is quite strange.

In today's world, although there are no major battles, a large caravan can also have a large number of horses, and it needs to move around frequently, so it will leave a trail of horses along the way. However, looking at the damage to the official road surface of Hongdu, it is not simply the result of a caravan passing by.

Unless thousands of riders, this is not a disaster. On such a hard roadbed, if you want to walk the horse, the horse's foot must be nailed to the iron palm, otherwise the horse's foot force will be extremely damaged. If it is a horse farm owner who raises horses for a living and drives his horses through this place, he should not choose to take the official road, unless it is a military horse that is well-equipped in all aspects......

Thinking of this, Gao Qian couldn't help but be surprised: This place is not far from Beijing, and it is impossible for the military people to move around this territory, right?

Bailubo also has people from the military. After Cen Chi finished saying this, he began to slowly move into the car. Leaning on the soft silk pillow in the car, he took a deep breath and said: These few days are almost on their agenda to return north, maybe they happened to be in front of us.

As soon as he finished speaking, before the syllable of the last word fell, he suddenly heard a call from outside the car: Boss Gao, it's raining!

The call came suddenly, and Gao Qian subconsciously turned his head towards the place where the sound came from, but he quickly turned his head back.

He originally had his own opinion on what Cen Chi said just now, but considering that the sky had suddenly changed, he had to focus on dealing with things outside the car, so he only said to Cen Chi in the car: Mr. rest in peace, and take care of other things below.

Cen Chi only nodded when he heard this, and didn't say anything more.

Because Gao Qian had just stopped the carriage he was driving, the two carriages in front and behind also stopped. Gao Qian got up and jumped out of the car, and saw that the drivers of the two cars in front and behind also got out of the car, shaking off a piece of oilcloth and covering the roof of the carriage.

Considering the long distance of this trip, when setting off, Xiangye ordered the servants to equip the carriage with some emergency tools. Each of the three carriages had a compartment at the back of the carriage, and in addition to two water-repellent tarpaulins, there were other tools such as knives and daggers.

After Gao Qian jumped out of the car, he didn't go to get the spare tarpaulin in the mezzanine of his carriage like the other two coachmen, he just raised his eyes to look at the sky.

The sun was still there, so that although the rain was falling, he did not notice it in advance. When he looked up, he saw a gloomy rain cloud roughly overhead.

This rain cloud did not stretch across the entire sky, so the weather became half sunny and half rainy. The raindrops seemed to have thinned out as a result, falling on some of the ground, and some of the raindrops could not reach the surface, and were steamed away by the sunlight in the air.

Gao Qian hesitated for a moment, and then he walked to the front. Climbed into the carriage at the head. Seeing that the coachman had covered the roof with a tarpaulin, he motioned for the driver to go to the middle, and the two of them had changed parking spaces.

The driver of the first car began to cover the second carriage where Cen Chi was located, and Gao Qian, who was in the first car, took out an envelope from the inside of his shirt.

The envelope is made of paper soaked in tung oil. Excellent water resistance. Gao Qian took out a piece of paper with several folds from the envelope, and unfolded the paper, with vertical and horizontal lines on it, only a few small characters, scattered and dotted.

This piece of paper is really a map.

In today's society, whether it is Nanzhao or Beiyan, the control of maps is very strict. Among the scholars, there are few who dare to delve into the geography of the country in a high-profile manner.

However, there are very few people who have a demand for tourism in the private sector. Even if there are people like zài. I'm probably used to asking for directions while walking. The demand for maps is generally not high. Coupled with the restrictions of the imperial court, you can have a reliable map in hand, if you don't have the heart of rebellion. That indirectly indicates that the identity of the holder is special.

The map that Gao Qian spread out in his hand was very delicately drawn, but it was not a bargain from the prime minister, which was obtained from the military, but was carefully drawn by a person named Lu She among the many guests in the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Ordinary people can't do this kind of thing, and they will often have scruples about this matter because of some systems of the country. There are many strange people raised by the Prime Minister's Mansion, and Lu She is a very inconspicuous one of them. But the Prime Minister has always been good to Lu She, because the Prime Minister knows that he has this ability that needs to be hidden very carefully in ordinary times.

Lu She's ability cannot be revealed, otherwise it will be unfavorable to him and the Prime Minister's Mansion. Lu She himself is also very aware of this problem, so he has always been very forbearing, and it seems that he has eaten idle meals in the Prime Minister's Mansion for many years.

A few days ago, Xiangye had a separate talk with Lu She, and finally wanted to use his specialty, so that Cen Chixi went to seek medicine. At the same time, Xiang Ye also revealed a desire to try to bring the famous poison doctor back to Kyoto if it was possible in the future.

With this mission, Lu She felt that his opportunity to serve Xiangye had come, so he took out the geographical handwriting he had collected for many years and drew a map as best he could.

This map is drawn in detail and meticulously, and even the prime minister, who has seen the military map, was secretly frightened after seeing the map drawn by Lu She.

If it weren't for the fact that this map was too detailed, if it went out, it would bring disaster, and this time Cen Chi traveled west, Xiang Ye would not have sent Gao Qian, who was his most trusted and the strongest of the ten generals, to accompany him.

On the eve of departure, Xiangye summoned Gao Qian, and in addition to telling him to pay attention to some trivial things that he might encounter along the way, he also gave a side order to destroy this map after Gao Di arrived at his destination.

Scanning the map unfolded in his hand, Xiangye's order quickly passed through Gao Qian's mind.

Gao Qian didn't know how much mental and mental power it would take to draw a map, he only knew that he had to strictly follow the orders entrusted to him by Xiangye before leaving. Although he soon felt that the map was so detailed that the land was almost full of mappers' eyes, he didn't think he would feel sorry for it when he had to destroy it.

Xiang Ye's order weighs more than one qiē!

After a few moments, Gao Qian folded the map and retracted it, and he had a clear idea of the route he was going to take next.

At this time, the rain precautions for the first two carriages were complete, and the rain seemed to be a little heavier, so Gao Qian took out the hat hanging on the inner wall of the car and put it on his head, and then raised the whip in his hand, and the three carts set off again.

The unexpected potholes on the official road and the sudden rain showers in the sky have caused a lot of impact on the speed of driving. Gao Qian's estimation was that his group could not reach Hongdu at the scheduled time, so he found a halfway stop on the map.

After continuing to walk on the official road of Hongdu for half an hour, Gao Qian took the lead and led the carriage into a fork on the right, preparing to spend the night in Tutuo Town, which is adjacent to the southeast corner of Hongdu.

After turning around and turning the road to Tutuo Town, Gao Qian thought it was strange because the road surface had become much smoother again.

Strictly speaking, this fork in the road also belongs to the ranks of official roads, but the difference lies in the auxiliary roads of official roads. The traffic rate of auxiliary roads is not as frequent as that of the main official roads, so the probability of official maintenance is also reduced, but in comparison, the quality of the auxiliary roads is much better than that of the main roads.

The road became better, and Gao Qian's worries about Cen Chi were able to let go a little, and he was able to think about other problems with his energy.

Thinking of the words that Cen Chi had just said briefly, the doubt in Gao Qian's heart that he was about to discuss with Cen Chi just now naturally popped up again.

The Hongdu official road and the Kyoto official road are connected to each other, which is the main path connecting the two cities, could it be that the potholes on the road are really the result of the relocation of the Bailubo horse training farm, as Cen Chi speculated? -