Chapter Twenty-Five: A Human Head
There is also a large river connection from Jiangzhou City to Fuguan.
However, under the current conditions, Zhang Yuan does not have the ability to make the wooden boat swim upstream on the Yangtze River.
Early the next morning after arriving in Jiangzhou City, he set off for Fuguan with more than ten officials of the mission and all the guards.
All the way you see is high mountains and mountains, and the road is just a winding path, which Tang Meng has just repaired, and if you are not careful along the road, you are very likely to fall into the turbulent waves of the Yangtze River.
This river has swallowed thousands of lives.
The fast horse galloped for half a day, Zhang Yuan slowed down and walked for three days, although the scenery was extremely beautiful, but he was terrified.
"This road needs to be at least three times widened to safely transport those iron ores and the materials of Yelang Country out in large quantities, Tang Meng wants to develop this kind of place, and he can't get the corresponding harvest at all."
Although Huo Zhong had sent more than ten envoys to the vassal states, even in Chu he saw only forests, not steep mountains and forests.
"If the Southwest Yi is thoroughly developed, countless people in my Han Dynasty can reap the benefits, but it should not be the people of our Han Dynasty who build the road, if it is replaced by those people in Yelang Country, then we don't have to bear these costs."
Zhang Yuan said indifferently, and the people around him also felt that their trip was meaningful. As for guilt or something, it hasn't been born in this day and age.
If a sharp sword was handed over to the most compassionate Confucian scholars, they would also rush to fight frantically when they saw the aliens, and the Han had never gained any benefit from the aliens for more than sixty years.
Even if these countries pay tribute, they only send things that are useless to them to the Han Dynasty in exchange for the most precious silk silk, and the essence of tribute is a process of trade exchange between countries.
Just one or two envoys can reap huge wealth by kneeling down, and Zhang Yuan will also maintain a subordinate relationship with such an emperor who wants to satisfy his vanity.
"Pedestrian order, we're almost there, and there's Fu Pass ahead."
A city wall between the two high mountains appeared in front of Zhang Yuan, this was the first time Zhang Yuan saw the Guancheng of the Han Frontier, but he didn't expect that this city wall was only as high as his own two people.
But thinking that those Yelang people were probably still stuck in using wooden weapons and bronze weapons at most, Zhang Yuan felt that the city wall was still a little high.
To deal with these aliens in Baiyue, if he didn't care about being too cruel or something, Zhang Yuan could have dozens of ways to deal with them without hurting the soldiers on his side.
The messenger who informed Tang Meng had already been sent out, but when Zhang Yuan and his party stood outside the city wall, no one came out to greet them, and even the city gate was tightly closed.
Huo Zhong shouted loudly at the top of the city wall.
"The envoy of the Son of Heaven came to Fuguan in person, why didn't Lieutenant General Tang Meng open the city gate to greet him?"
The soldiers on the city wall saw Zhang Yuan holding the talisman in his hand, as well as the hundred soldiers holding high the black dragon flag symbolizing the Chang'an Palace, and hurriedly shouted.
"Please also ask the messenger of the Son of Heaven to wait here, and the last general will report to Zhonglang."
Zhang Yuan is here to solve the problem, scolding Tang Meng is just the most important thing, just read Liu Che's will again. At the moment, Tang Meng didn't know what nerves he had, and he was embarrassed by himself.
After being hung by the people in the Fu Pass for half an hour, the wooden door in front of Zhang Yuan and the others slowly opened.
The leader was a middle-aged man, holding a wooden box in his hand, and knelt in front of Zhang Yuanma with an army of nearly a thousand people.
"It is the fault of the sin general Tang Meng to meet the messenger of the Son of Heaven, and it is the fault of the sin general to let the messenger of the Son of Heaven wait here, and the sin general offers this gift to the messenger of the Son of Heaven."
Zhang Yuan didn't speak, and the second egg on the side immediately stepped forward and brought the wooden box over. 52 Literature
"Open."
Giving gifts in front of so many people, Zhang Yuan didn't think that Tang Meng was a fool to do such a thing.
Erdan immediately opened the wooden box, a strong fishy smell came out, Zhang Yuan looked sideways, and found that there was a human head inside the wooden box, Erdan was so frightened that he almost threw the box out.
"Lieutenant General Lang, what do you mean by this?"
The bloodied human head could no longer calm Zhang Yuan, biting the tip of his tongue and trying to keep himself calm.
"Honorable envoy, this head is the head of the previous Dao Commander who supervised the repair of the road, and his ineffective handling of affairs has made His Majesty worry that it is already a capital crime.
If the envoy comes here, if the sin general does not sacrifice the head of this person, he is afraid that he will be slandered by the villain when it reaches Chang'an. ”
This Yandao order must be killed, and the people's anger can only be quelled with blood, whether it is Naba County's Taishou Zhang Lu, or the Yandao order, and now Tang Meng gave Zhang Yuan the answer.
"Send someone to send this head back to Jiangzhou City, and the rest of the people will follow me into the customs."
The essence of the rune is to defend against foreign invasions, not to inhabit people.
There are no brick and stone houses in the pass, all of them are white military tents and wooden carts.
If only those military tents were not there, but with so many wooden carts, it would not be like a military camp.
"What are these wooden carts for?"
Zhang Yuan had already dismounted his horse and inspected the barracks accompanied by Tang Meng.
"Returning to the envoy, these wooden carts are for building roads, and there will be a lot of stones when digging through the mountain road, and it is not a pity to abandon them, so they will be pulled back to Fuguan to be used to strengthen the city wall."
Seeing that Tang Meng was deceiving himself by talking nonsense with his eyes open, Zhang Yuan didn't have a seizure, knowing that this matter was actually manipulated by Liu Che behind his back, he warned himself countless times not to make trouble.
After turning around casually, Tang Meng took Zhang Yuan into the military tent, and Zhang Yuan read Liu Che's will to Tang Meng.
Tang Meng did not have the slightest change in his expression from beginning to end, indicating that he had long known the content of this will.
"Sin will take over."
"Since Lieutenant General Lang knows what to do to save all this, he will recall those people, and I will take them back to Ba County."
A look of embarrassment suddenly appeared on Tang Meng's face.
"Honorable envoy, I'm afraid it won't work for a few days."
Zhang Yuan didn't think that there would be any resistance from the Yelang Kingdom, Tang Meng had a thousand soldiers and one Yelang Country was nothing, I was afraid that these people were not going to build roads, but were mining for the Huang family.
"If Lieutenant General Lang has any difficulties, it's better to say it now, don't wait until later."
"This night Langguo Mountain is high and the road is dangerous, and those people who built the road may not be able to return for a while, and the envoy will give the sin general three days, and the sin will definitely let those people return to Fuguan."
Zhang Yuan can still afford to wait for three days, although life in the frontier is difficult, it is better than returning to Chang'an to bear the sin of incompetence.
"Just do as you say."