Chapter Ninety-Nine: Taiping County, Lotus County

"I miss my grandfather, I can't even remember how the sugar paintings made by my grandfather tasted......"

It's hard to imagine that a strong man wiped tears in front of him. When the old man is here, visit more often, don't leave regrets, but don't wait for the old man to leave empty tears.

"I'll give you these two jade pendants, and they will be returned to their original owners."

Hu Xiu stepped forward and handed the pair of jade pendants to Tang Guang, they finally got together and didn't need to be separated anymore.

"Are you going to be a ranger in the future?"

"I don't know."

"Why don't you join the emperor and army?" Hu Xiu looked at him, his eyes lit up, he had been hungry for him for a long time, if he was allowed to enter the Emperor's Army, how big a stride would his combat power be.

With his physique, if a person practices the movements on the "Eighteen Horizontal Exercises of Iron Cloth Shirt", no one can know how much strength he can increase, I am afraid that he can kill everything with his strength.

This kind of person is put on the battlefield, it is a mobile meat grinder, and it can completely crush everything.

"I don't know, but I'm the head of the Gao family, my father said it, because he is too, then I agree with it. But my grandfather died, and I don't have anything to go back to now... I think about it a lot, I just want to go to the battlefield now, and I only kill the people of the martial arts now. ”

Hu Xiu glanced at him, this person is quite straightforward, but such a person is also more pure, and he is a fierce general on the battlefield.

suddenly remembered something, and rolled his eyes, "If the eldest daughter of the Gao family gives you an order and asks you to follow, will you listen?" ”

"The eldest daughter? What's that? ”

"It's Gao Changgong's eldest daughter."

"The daughter of the tall general? Uh-huh, listen. Tang Guang nodded again and again.

That's right, it's best to stay.

"But, my hammer." Tang Guang scratched his head.

Hu Xiu immediately understood what he meant, but his face was a little unpleasant. Oh~ Heartache, I finally captured a very handy treasure, and I was about to return it to its original owner, and suddenly it was a little uncomfortable.

"Give the weapon back to you immediately, the eldest daughter of the Gao family is here, she is sleepy now, sleeping, when he wakes up, she will summon you."

In order to keep this strong general, Hu Xiu did everything he could. Even if he was reluctant to give up the pair of hammers, he would return them, and it was estimated that when Gao Chenghui woke up, he would have to go to her and beg her to do something.

Thinking about the appearance of Gao Chenghui at that time, I felt tired, and life still forced him into a look he didn't like.

There was nothing to do in the afternoon, for several days, he even fell behind in the kung fu of "Eighteen Horizontal Exercises in the Iron Cloth Shirt", there is no way, there is no time and conditions to practice in the past few days, and he has not practiced today, which is also a matter of no way.

Take out the silk book map, not far away, there is a county seat, this is the first county seat that Hu Xiu passed through when he left Ping'an City, and it is not the last county seat.

This distance is not far or close, but it is also about 150 kilometers, that is, 300 miles. And the carriage can travel about sixty miles in an hour.

It is estimated that it will take five hours, which is ten hours to travel! If you want to leave in advance, you can only get to the county seat when you arrive. And Shen, it is between 3 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon.

And in the first two days, Hu Xiu put his mind on how to catch Xiao Cui, who is now the pigtail of Ji Xiangzi Akai, and the speed of the march was deliberately slowed down, and he walked for a total of six or seven hours in two days, and the speed of the carriage was not fast.

After a night without words, Hu Xiu, Bai Sha and the old eunuch slept in the lobby of the post station with the quilt in their arms. Hu Xiu didn't tell anyone about this incident to the emperor and army, otherwise the group of wounded would not be able to sleep peacefully.

The matter of leaving early tomorrow has already been told to them, and it is not easy, they have been slightly or seriously injured, and they have to get up so early.

Hu Xiu also tried to ask them if they wanted to go in two days or one day, and they all said hard, one day! Forget it, it's definitely this answer, in front of the boss, you must show yourself to be more competitive.

So I'm not hurt, I'm alive, what's wrong with sleeping in the lobby, you look at Grandmother Gao, I think it's okay. He doted on Hu Xiu, but he didn't spoil his great-grandson to the point that he couldn't suffer a little bit as he deserved.

Wang Mazi woke up, and he woke up in the afternoon, and he realized that the humiliation he had received today was even greater. He met a man who was going up the mountain with a hammer, who looked younger than him, and had just gone up to stop him, and was seriously injured by the beatings.

There was nothing more humiliating than this, but he also had to obey the young man with the hammer, and with just two hammers, he was sent flying and unconscious.

The incomparable force pressed on him, pressing him out of breath, and his brute force was extremely small in front of him.

But he always found a way to stand up, but his injuries were still too serious to exercise vigorously.

As for the other so-called serious injuries and minor injuries, they were really scared at the time, covered in blood, but their knife skills paid attention to the ultimate speed, ignoring the damage, and the knife edge was not deep.

Therefore, the wound was sprinkled with notoginseng powder, coupled with the strong self-healing ability of his body, and the good ones were almost all right, and they could be put on the horse.

On March 9th, the next day, Hu Xiu was woken up by Bai Xue ruthlessly, he didn't sleep much in order to keep an eye on Akai Jikako in the past two days, but he slept comfortably tonight.

"It's time, it's time to go." White Shah

Hu Xiu patted his half-asleep face plate, got out of the bed, and wore new clothes, he took a shower last night, and slept with his clothes, the sky was still cloudy, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

went up to the second floor, but saw that the soldiers in the post house were no longer in the house, Hu Xiu probably guessed that they had already seen the scene of Hu Xiu lying in the lobby.

How did they forget this stubble, they must have woken up early when they were going to leave on the second day.

Knocked on the room where the two girls lived, "Get up!" It's time to go! "On weekdays, he lives a comfortable life every day in Ping'an City, and he can't do it without so many concepts of time, including Hu Xiu.

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On the official road, the people and horses of the emperor and the army have been assembled, Wang Mazi is lying on the cart, this kind of cart is usually used to pull goods, and now the rope is tied to a horse, and the person holding the horse, he is very familiar.

Yesterday, the two hammers seriously injured him, and I don't know what method the captain used, so he was taken under his command.

Tang Guanghui smiled at him, but he didn't accept it, he kept a straight face, didn't look at him, didn't look at him, he wouldn't be angry, don't think that if you take the initiative to show favor, I will forgive you, hum!

Today's Wang Mazi is very eye-catching, to be able to accompany His Royal Highness the prince of the carriage, it is an incomparable glory, all eyes are on, but it is also embarrassing, his person who hammered him to a serious injury is setting up a car for him.

Tang Guangdu didn't think there was anything, he was a ranger, he naturally knew how to ride a horse, and he didn't feel that it was inappropriate for his defeated subordinates to drive horses.

He can be so obedient, or because Gao Chenghui woke up yesterday, Hu Xiu was very attentive, she fulfilled her promise, and then Tang Guang listened to the instructions.

It's not convenient to say more about the specific details, and it's all tears to say more.

Since then, the team has continued to go south along the official road, and there is no one from the Celestial Empire to stop it, no worries, and the journey on the road is much faster.

During the march, they did not stop to make food, because there was no time, five hours, and they had to travel three hundred miles, and they could not hurry as before.

You have to get to the county seat before dark, so you have to rush there.

Time is like a white horse passing through a gap, about the end of this time, the sun has just sunk not long ago, Hu Xiu stood on the horse board, and saw a tall city wall not far away.

"Speed up, it's almost time to the county seat."

A little closer, I saw a group of small black dots, and the official road was dusty, and the speed was obviously much faster.

Taiping County, Lotus County, can be regarded as a large county seat, with a population of more than one million. The various families in the city are entrenched, but they maintain a balance with the official family, if you don't offend me, I won't offend you.

This has to say that the disadvantage of the world where power is supreme is that it is too easy to appear in a family, this is a power that the royal family is afraid of, and there is something beyond the control of the royal family, which is a very uncomfortable thing.

Today, the families of Taiping County are much calmer, and many children of the families are strictly forbidden to go out. Because according to the news from the post station in front, the patrol envoy is coming, one-on-one, when the family faces the royal family, as long as the family dares to resist, it can only be crushed to death.

A number of large and small officials, such as the magistrate, the county magistrate, the chief officer, and the county lieutenant, as well as a group of family patriarchs who accompanied them, have been standing since noon until now, waiting for Hu Xiu.

The family is more afraid of the royal family after all.

The emperor and the army approached little by little, and also slowly lowered their speed until they came to a complete stop, and the army array neatly separated a road, and a golden carriage drove over, with three white-scaled horses in front of them, holding their heads high.

On the carriage frame, a withered old man was sitting cross-legged, a cold young man was setting up the carriage, and a richly dressed man stood tall, and his mind began to move.

I guess this is the Inspector.

"Xiaguan, Zhang Songwen, the magistrate of Hehua County, has seen the inspector on behalf of the officials in the city." At this time, all the officials were in the front, and a middle-aged man with a yellow face and black beard stepped forward and saluted.

Hear clearly, it is the officials in the city, and sometimes, the identity gap is large, and in big occasions, they don't even have the right to interject.

"It's okay, I don't care about those false courtesies, we are all people who serve the people, and only when the people are rich can the motherland be truly rich."

Hu Xiu got out of the carriage very close to the people, smiled very kindly, and grabbed one of Zhang Songwen's hands, except that one hand patted his hand again.

Zhang Songwen is also the first time to greet the inspection envoy, and he doesn't have so much experience in the end. However, when the patrol envoy wants to enter the city, the patrol envoy gets off the carriage and walks into the city, which is not a loss of identity.

And he grabbed me, what do we mean? Although what he said was not wrong, it always felt like it was not too much.

"Uh... Yes, everything must be done for the people! ”

"The children can be taught." Hu Xiu smiled and nodded.

"So, the patrol envoy, enter the city~" Zhang Songwen asked cautiously when entering the city.

"Entering the city, your lotus county, I have also heard that it is a good county, and the happiness index of the people is quite high, I have to take a closer look."

Hu Xiu said with a glance, in fact, there was no truth, he only read the silk book map yesterday, only to know that there is a place called Lotus County, where did he come from?

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PS: Han cities are divided into three levels: state, county, and county. Here is a change, from the largest to the smallest: boundary, county, county three levels.

Taishou: The chief executive of a county.

Zhixian: The magistrate, equivalent to the county magistrate.

(Historically, local positions were much more troublesome and cumbersome, first, for fear that I would be confused, and second, you were tired of watching, and it would be much more simplified later.) )

However, in the ancient society of our country, the area of the county seat was not large, basically about 2 square kilometers, and the population ranged from a few thousand to tens of thousands.

There is a reason why the population is so small: in ancient society, there were basically only three kinds of people living in the county seat, first, the small officials and officials who worked in the county government. Second, businessmen who own shops in the county seat, after all, the county seat belongs to the county's commercial flow center. Third, the real estate of the squires in the county seat was changed here to a family. In ancient times, the county town was guarded by city walls and official soldiers.

[The world in the text is, alternate history, my world is my decision, don't compare the real world with the alternate world, that's very stupid.] 〕

The speed of the carriage, I have calculated, in chapter 90 is the average speed, which is approximate and approximate, estimated, not an accurate number, and when there is a deviation, the greatest possibility is that it is artificially caused.