It's quiet on the ridge. It was so quiet that you could hear the chicks cooing in the grass nest in the distance. A refreshing cool breeze crept up the hillside, and the leaves of several dense jujube trees made a brushing sound. The wind didn't know where it came from, and the girl's crisp voice echoed among the mountain beams

"In April, the peach blossoms are red,

Apricot blossoms bloom in May,

Greet my good brother,

When are you coming,

Greet my good brother,

When are you coming......

Shang Cheng stood by the remnants of the Great Wall of Yanguo, quietly listening to the minor tune of one chant and three sighs, and couldn't help but recall his lotus mother again. She has been away from herself for two years. But she never seemed to leave him, and whenever he thought of her, she would immediately appear before him, blushing, and gazing at him affectionately with those talking eyes, asking him everything with warmth and concern, listening to him confide in his thoughts and melancholy, rejoicing for him, and worrying for him...... At this moment, in the lingering singing, he felt in a trance that she was standing beside him, snuggling up to him affectionately, leaning on him......

Several guards scattered around, silently and alertly observing the wind and grass around them. Li Shen sat on a lying stone, with a cold and polite smile on his face, and two faint blue eyes hidden behind his slightly drooping eyelids, carefully examining his young boss. The sunset is slanting in the west, the golden red sunset is sprinkled all over the hill, Shang Cheng stands majestically against the sunset like a stone carved statue, in the glow of the sky, the long back is as tall and deep as this Dayan Mountain that spans 800 miles......

The corners of Li Shen's mouth twitched.

In an instant, there was a panic in his heart, and he even felt at a loss, and he couldn't even breathe smoothly.

This is the young man he promoted from the chaos? This is the villager who was sent by his brothers to the border army to spend time? When did this become like this in this later life?

He quietly took a deep breath and regrouped his shaky mind. Creation makes people! He couldn't help but lament the elusive fate. He and his clan brother thought that if they kicked Shang Cheng into the border army, this guy would never turn over, who knew that in the blink of an eye, this horse-driven packer would climb on his head! If he had known that there would be today, he should not have ...... in the first place Alas, it's all luck!

He lowered his head and thought nonsense, completely oblivious to the movement around him, until Shang Cheng spoke to him, he was shocked to find that he didn't know when Shang Cheng had walked back and sat down opposite him.

“…… I've been to Duanzhou twice before, but I don't know that this ridge is the Great Wall of Yanguo. I remember that there is also such an earthen wall on the east side of Beizheng City, which is also the Great Wall of Yan? ”

"Hmm. No. Li Shen nodded indiscriminately, and immediately shook his head. He had a ghost in his heart, and he felt a lot, so he didn't dare to raise his head and look at Shang Cheng, so he pulled a handful of grass and pretended to use grass blades to wipe the soil on the top of his boots, so as to hide his crampedness. "The section of Guangpingyi to the east of Beizheng is the Great Wall of Qin. After Qin swept Liuhe, in order to guard against the Xiongnu and Donghu, the Great Wall in the north of the three kingdoms of Qin, Zhao and Yan during the Warring States Period was connected together, and in some places the terrain was dangerous, so the new pass city wall was built. The section of Gongqian Pass in Yixian County is the Great Wall of Yan......" He said a few words upside down, then calmed down, raised his head and looked at Shang Cheng and said, "This matter is recorded in the "Water Jing Note", it seems that it is the fourth year of King Yan or the eighth year of King Zhao, and the two countries of Yan and Zhao exchanged land, and King Yan ordered to build a city in this area. At this time, he was surprised to find that Shang Cheng's eyes were a little red, and his face was unusually pale. He paused, took his eyes off Shang Cheng's face, frowned and thought for a moment, pointed to the "line" that was hidden in the mountains to the west, which was obviously much darker than the surroundings, and said, "I remember that it is stated in the "Historical Records of the Xiongnu Liebiography", 'King Yanzhao has a virtuous and virtuous Qin Kai, and he has stayed in Hu for more than ten years as a hostage, and Hu believes in it. returned to attack Donghu, but Donghu was more than a thousand miles. Yan also built the Great Wall, from Geshui Yue to Xiangping, 1,500 miles, placed on the valley, Yuyang, right Beiping, Liaoxi, Liaodong five counties to reject Hu. 'One by one, Geshui is today's Yanshui. The Geping town in the northeast of Yanzhou, near the Yanshui River, is the Geping Pass of the Great Wall of Yanguo. ”

Shang Cheng's eyelids twitched slightly, and his gaze staring in the direction of Li Shen's finger also suddenly froze. When he was studying, he went to the ancient Yan Great Wall in the summer vacation one year, and also went to Huailai County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, which is said to be the "Yang", and was idle and bored when he was a graduate student, and also found a lot of materials and papers to verify the history of the Yan Great Wall...... Yan also built the Great Wall, from Yang to Xiangping, up to more than 1,000 miles", not "1,500 miles", not to mention anything "Ge Shui" and "Yan Shui"!

A question immediately arose in his mind: Was Li Shen misremembering, or was the "Historical Records" he had read flawed? Or is it a mistake on your own?

The last doubt was immediately dismissed by him. It seems that Li Shen can't be mistaken. If it is said that the "Historical Records" is incomplete and omitted because of different versions, it seems unlikely that so many scholars and experts throughout the ages will not all be able to use the same version of the "Historical Records" to argue the Yan Great Wall, right? As long as we compare with each other, we can immediately notice the differences in the historical records, and because of this, we will retrospectively verify the historical materials, and will also leave a lot of documentary materials for this. But he had never seen an article on this, and no one even mentioned that "from Geshui Yue to Xiangping 1,500 miles". Could it be ...... That's why he always felt that something was wrong when he watched "Three Kingdoms"? Has the history of this world ever deviated in a subtle segment?

He was immediately sensitive to the fact that perhaps it was not a deviation, but a series of deviations that eventually led to a difference between the world in front of him and the world he had known before. He also remembered looking at a scientific hypothesis about physics or astronomy. He can't remember the details of the hypothesis, but the truth is still a little impressive, and he remembers that the core of the hypothesis is that the universe is not single, but countless worlds coexist at the same time, just like two mirrors placed opposite each other, and the mirror images reflected in each mirror are infinitely extended, which means that there are countless mirrors, and the world is also infinite......

“…… The local chronicles of Yanzhou in the former Tang Dynasty also recorded, 'Yansai is in Geshuidong. In the fourth year of Zhenguan, Jing broke the Turks, Yi Geshui was Yan, placed the county and county, and ruled in Yancheng. Li Shen didn't notice Shang Cheng's distraction, and talked to himself, "But at that time, Yancheng was very small, with less than 2,000 households and less than 10,000 people, and the county was near the Paiyi Station, which is not the same thing as Yanzhou now." ”

Shang Cheng said with a smile: "The vicissitudes of history are mostly like this. It's like the book says, 'Yansai is in Geshui East', but isn't Geping Town in Yanshui West now? As the so-called thirty years in the east of the river and thirty years in the west of the river. ”

The business cost came to be moved, but Li Shen felt that he was beating himself with obscure words, blushed and laughed dryly, and did not say anything, he picked his eyes to see the red sun that was about to go down the mountains in the west, and secretly hated in his heart: he originally wanted to get closer to the relationship between the two by talking about the past and the present, but who knew that he was not interesting, and he was talking nonsense about "thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi"; There was nothing more humiliating for him than this unbridled warning!

Hum! I don't know what to advance or retreat!

Shang Cheng didn't notice Li Shen's unnatural face, and continued: "Speaking of Ge Ping, I have one thing in mind. When leaving Yanzhou, the Geping garrison reported that Deng Laojiu, a bandit water rat north of Yanshui, had surrendered. At present, in addition to a few habitual bandits, the small bandits in Yanzhou and Fangzhou have put down their swords and guns and are willing to serve hard labor, but the bandits in Duanzhou have not made much progress......" He smacked his mouth and asked sincerely, "Gong Li, is there any difficulty here in Duanzhou?" Or what kind of problem did you encounter? Tell me about it, let's discuss it together, and solve any problems on the spot, don't delay. ”

Shang Cheng felt that he had said it so tactfully, Li Shen should not have too much resistance, and at most he could enter the topic with two nonsensical complaints. But who knew that Li Shen didn't appreciate it at all, as soon as his words fell, Li Shen stubbornly pushed back: "I want to suppress the bandits, but the soldiers can't even eat, where do they have the strength to suppress them?" ”

Shang Cheng rubbed his hands and didn't know what to say. Can't get enough food for the soldiers in Duanzhou? Where does this begin? is afraid that Zhang Shao and Li Shen will have personal grievances, and the Wei Mansion will make a fuss about the rations of the right army, so he personally asked about the military supplies of the right army.

He smiled bitterly and said: "Gong Li, suppressing bandits is an urgent official business, we can't be righteous, Zhang Youqi is also impartial, and there is no selfishness." ”

"Who is angry? You say me? One by one, what a word! Li Shen didn't leave any affection, pouted and said, "How can I be as knowledgeable as Zhang Shao, and I can't even tell the difference between good and bad?" Besides, I didn't say that Zhang Shao was bad. ”

Shang Cheng was stunned and hurriedly asked, "Then who are you talking about?" "Except for Zhang Shao who can use his power to do a little trick, who else in Yan Shanwei can wear small shoes for Li Shen at the moment? Not to mention those civil officials, even himself, the fake commander, whether it is the rank or the position, is above Li Shen, and he can only comfort General Li with warm words. Who ate the liver of a bear-hearted leopard and dared to come to him to break ground?

"Who else? It's those people in Duanzhou City! ”

Shang Cheng was silent for a moment, and then said: "Gong Li, I know that there is a conflict between you and the local government in Duanzhou on the handling of official business, and everyone can't talk about it. I also have the idea of mediating this matter when I came this time. I have repeatedly reiterated the position of the Health Department with local officials, and in this matter, the Health Department is resolutely on your side, and the first thing to do at present is to suppress bandits, no matter who they are, no matter how good the reason, they must first put aside their differences and ideas and fully cooperate with the crackdown on bandits. It is necessary not only to cooperate with the guards to solve the problem of bandits in Yanshan in a clean and thorough manner, but also to get a good grasp of the implementation of all detailed tasks related to military affairs, including road transport and migrant workers. ”

Li Shen grinned, as if he had a toothache, inhaled a cool breath and said, "What do they say? ”

"What else can they say? Yes, of course. This is not just a matter for our guards. ”

Li Shen sneered and said, "I think it's like only the Governor is on fire, right?" He immediately realized that this speech was obviously making the contradiction between the two people public, and hurriedly added, "Those civilian officials don't care how hard and tired our guards are." I said that I wanted cattle and sheep to reward the soldiers, and they pushed and shoved for more than half a month, and now less than half of the livestock has been sent. ”

"They have promised, and the rest will be delivered within ten months." Shang Cheng said, "However, the government wants to provide large livestock for farmers to plough the fields, and the cattle are not enough for the tribe. ”

"If you don't need it, just fold it......" Li Shen suddenly stopped his words and changed his words, "If it is done, it will be folded into a sheep." But live sheep. You know, the right army is stationed all over Yandong, and if it is all dead things, I am afraid that it will stink if it is not delivered. Especially Qian Laosan and Fan Quan, they are farther away, and the military affairs are heavy, so I think I should give them an extra share. ”

Shang Cheng nodded and agreed: "Okay, I'll go back and tell the local people who handle this matter and let them collect live sheep." If they can't collect it, they will be converted into money at the market price and handed over to the Yamen, the commander of the right army. He said to Li Shen, "I think it's better to have fewer live sheep and more cash." A few nearby military villages will give sheep, and farther places will give them money to improve their own food. What do you think? ”

Li Shen pretended to hesitate for a moment, and then said cautiously: "That's ...... It's good. ”

Shang Cheng didn't know what to say about this rich old superior. Even if it's a play, you should do it seriously, since you want to discount it, why don't you let the local government even discount labor costs and transportation costs? Could it be that the Duanzhou Mansion sent you live sheep, and you really have to rush to deliver them to one village and one city by yourself? Besides, those civil officials in Duanzhou Mansion are not stupid, they don't do anything by themselves, and they really send all the money to buy sheep to you? Forget it, don't talk about him, as long as he gets things done, go back and talk to the locality, you don't even have to buy live sheep, and the money will be sent to him to pull it down.

On the way down the mountain, Li Shen brought up another matter. In order to facilitate the transfer, his two brigades helped the local government to rectify several official roads, should this also be counted as money? According to the example of the official, the people are paid 18 wen a day for work, and they have to take care of two meals, so the guards work and take care of the food themselves, such a large expenditure, there should always be a place to write it off, right?

Shang Cheng was amused by his serious appearance and smiled bitterly, and finally said, "I'll talk to the locality." If it really doesn't work, I'll ask the Department of Health to find an expenditure account for you to check. ”

When they returned to the barracks, they talked for a long time. Shang Cheng persuaded Li Shen in a roundabout way, hoping that he would not meddle in local affairs casually. Because Shang Cheng had just promised to "reimburse" two expenses for himself, Li Shen finally agreed to this.

That night, the two of them rested in the barracks. Early the next morning, they returned to Duanzhou City.