After Guo Jia went back, Zeng Yu had no interest in continuing to sit idle, and threw himself on the bed after habitually tidying up the house. There was nothing to do all night, and the next day everyone woke up on time at the end of the day, and after washing, Zeng Yu asked the soldiers to inform everyone to pack up their things, and everyone set off after breakfast.

Their next stop was Qi County, which was only a small county town, not far from the seat of this plain county, less than forty kilometers. In line with the purpose of this trip, which is both to play and step on the spot, they did not travel all the way, but they also arrived at the county on the morning of the third day.

Considering that there is a certain grudge with the Qinghe Cui family, the first family of Qinghe County, Zeng Yu and they did not stay too much, but just entered the county seat and had a Chinese meal, and left the county directly to their next stop, Wuqiao County, which was also the last county seat they passed through in Pingyuan County.

They entered Wuqiao in the afternoon, Guo Jia was relatively weak, riding a horse for a long time, the bumps were a little uncomfortable, Zeng Yu decided that everyone would rest here for a few days, and also make a summary of what they saw and heard in Pingyuan County, the so-called glimpse and know the whole leopard, so that you can infer the real truth of the entire Jizhou.

There is nothing special about the county seat of Wuqiao, because it is not a military place in terms of geographical location, so the city wall is also very low. But there is one thing that has attracted the attention of Zeng Yu and Guo Jia, that is, in Wuqiao County, you can see all kinds of people with yellow scarves everywhere.

Zeng Yu and Guo Jia glanced at each other, and they both sighed in their hearts about the power of the Yellow Turban Dao, but they didn't expect that the county town is now full of Yellow Turban Dao people. You must know that the Yellow Turban Dao was originally to heal the people and treat the sick to expand its influence, and Jizhou is a pure land that can barely let the people survive in today's Han Dynasty, but the Yellow Turban Taoist congregation in Jizhou has such a large number, so it is conceivable how much power it will have in the entire Han Dynasty, does it dare to shout the slogan "The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand", which not only comes from the current Han from top to bottom, but also from the strength brought by the huge sect of the Yellow Turban Dao itself.

"Let's stay here for the next few days, I think this inn should be ranked first, even if it is not the best in Wuqiao."

When going out, Zeng Yu pays attention to eating and sleeping well, and only in this way can they ensure abundant energy, so every time they enter a county, they will be the first to find the best local inn to live in. They came to Wuqiao, where there was no particularly good inn, and they could only find a place to stay that looked good.

"Okay, the location here is not bad, just at the intersection of two streets, which is convenient for observation and information." Guo Jia looked around and nodded in response.

"Little Er, do you still have a guest room here?" After Zeng Yu and Guo Jia both nodded in confirmation, Zhao Yi walked into the inn and shouted.

At this time, a shopkeeper in the inn was standing behind the counter, dozing off with his head propped up with his hands, and several juniors were also bored sitting on the stools in the hall. Hearing someone shouting and asking about the guest room, the shopkeeper was startled, immediately woke up, wiped his mouth with his hand and shouted, "There are guest rooms, I don't know how many rooms are needed objectively, how long to stay?" Then wake up the inn and let them greet the guests.

Zhao Yi looked around and saw that the inn was not particularly big, so he asked the shopkeeper, "How many rooms do you have here?" ”

"Back to the guest officer, although the small shop is not the best in the county, the number of guest rooms is not a lot, there are a total of twenty different guest rooms, I don't know how many people will stay in the guest officer." The shopkeeper returns.

"Okay, shopkeeper wait."

Zhao Yi came out and told Zeng Yu about the situation of the inn, such as the number of rooms and the scene where they were resting when they saw the shopkeeper when they first entered.

After listening to this, Zeng Yu took the lead and walked into the inn, and he said to the shopkeeper, "We are going to charter this inn for ten days, and the shopkeeper has no problem." ”

The innkeeper heard it, and his heart was overjoyed, Wuqiao County usually has a small number of people from other places, so the inn business has been sluggish, and it has never been full, if it is not really unbearable to sell it, it is estimated that the shopkeeper would have sold him to make another living. And Zeng Yu opened his mouth to wrap the entire inn, and one pack is ten days, it is like a pie falling from the sky, making the shopkeeper feel a kind of happiness of being smashed.

He hurriedly said, "No problem, you can rest assured if you are objective, and if you have any requirements, you can just ask." ”

"This is a deposit, you can help us lead the horse to the backyard and take care of it, and then prepare some food." Under Zeng Yu's signal, Zhao Yi took out a gold ingot and put it in the shopkeeper's hand, and at the same time instructed the shopkeeper.

"Yes, thank you, guest." The shopkeeper took the gold and said happily.

"Hurry up, look at what, don't go and help the guests bring the horses in. Cook ~ Cook ~, hurry up to someone to wake up Cook and tell him to prepare wine and food, and there are big customers. The shopkeeper said to the guy next to him.

Zeng Yu and the others watched the guys go out and bring everyone's horses in, as for the salute, they all carried them with them, but they didn't need the guys to help bring them in. After Zeng Yu and the other war horses were brought in, he said to the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, where is our guest room?" ”

"Guest officer, please!" The shopkeeper bent down and said to Zeng Yu, and at the same time pointed to the side with his palm.

Signaling the head of the shopkeeper to lead the way, Zeng Yu and the others followed together to the upstairs guest room. Zeng Yu chose the central room on the top floor, which was also the best room in the inn, and the people living next to him were Zhu Wen and Guo Jia, as well as Zhao Yi and Xu Yang. The other pro-soldiers lived on the second and third floors, and the inn room was also sufficient, and each pro-soldier was one person.

After putting down the salute, Guo Jia and Zhao Yi came to Zeng Yu's room one after another. Guo Jia came the earliest, he didn't have much to salute, but he brought a few clothes with him, less than Zeng Yu carried, Zeng Yu also said that he was too lazy, but Guo Jia said that the clothes were enough to wear, so that Zeng Yu had nothing to say.

"The meal should be ready, let's go down and have a good meal first, Fengxiao, you can't drink today, take a good rest for a few days." Zeng Yu said.

Zeng Yu asked Xu Yang to call all the soldiers down together, at this time the hall on the first floor of the inn had already set up the meal, from the heat they were bubbling it could be seen that it should have just been made, after they sat down, Zeng Yu in addition to feeling the efficiency of the kitchen, but also had to say that the meal at this time was really simple. For example, meat is a large piece of meat that is cut a few times, cooked and served with a little salt, in addition to making people full, it has nothing to do with food. But all the pro-soldiers, including Zhu Wen and others, ate very happily, after all, meat is not available at every meal.

Zeng Yu could only follow the local customs, sandwiched a piece that looked less fat and ate it, although it was not delicious, but everyone's combat effectiveness was still good, and in less than half an hour, the food on the table was swept away.

Seeing that everyone was full of wine and food, Zeng Yu said, "Everyone has been working hard this month, so let's rest for a few days, and after ten days, we will continue to set off." ”

"Thank you, lord!" All the pro-soldiers cheered.

After the soldiers returned to the room, Zeng Yu handed over Guo Jia, Zhao Yi and Zhu Wen to his room, Xu Yang originally wanted to be responsible for guarding the door, but Zeng Yu told him that there was nothing wrong, let him go back and read more military books, and he went back to his room.

"In the past half a month, we have passed through the entire Plains County, I want to ask you how you feel?" Zeng Yu was the first to speak.

"It's not our Anping County." Zhu Wen replied most directly and in the simplest words.

"Haha, Chengyong, you are simple enough. However, it is true that neither Chiping County nor Pingyuan County, nor Wuqiao County, where we are now, are inferior to our Anping County, which makes me believe that as long as we continue to implement our policies, we will be able to build a better society. Zeng Yu said with a smile.

"That's right, but this also shows that most of the officials in the Han Dynasty today are corpses and vegetarians, occupying important positions for nothing, but not for the benefit of the people. Even a Legalist scholar like Uncle Cui can only govern a county by copying the concept of Legalism, barely allowing the people to live in peace, but there is still a certain distance from our ultimate goal. Zhao Yi also nodded and said.

"What about Bonghyo, what do you think?" Zeng Yu looked at Guo Jia and asked him.

"Jizhou can be said to be the blessed land of the family, and almost all the counties are governed by the children of the family. If the lord takes over Jizhou in the future, if he wants to really take charge of it, he must have enough strength to deal with these families, otherwise he may be checked and balanced by them everywhere, and it will be difficult to play the role of Jizhou as a grain-producing area, let alone make full use of Jizhou's population of nearly five million. Guo Jia said that he regards every place as a potential target, so he is also thinking about how to control these places.

"I know this, and I already have a better plan in mind, but now our forces are still relatively small, and we can't carry out specific operations." Zeng Yu said to Guo Jia.

"There's one more thing that I think we need to pay attention to, and that's Yellow Turban Road. Now that the Yellow Turban Dao has expanded more than I've seen before, they have begun to spread beyond the villages, but have begun to spread to the county seats, and as long as there is a lever to use it, such as a drought, locust plague, or a heavy snowfall, I think they will cause trouble. Guo Jia said something that Zeng Yu was looking forward to and worried about.

The expectation is because only with the help of the Yellow Turban Dao can he attack the prestige established by the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, and only in this way can he fish in troubled waters and strengthen himself. The worry is that the Yellow Turban Road incident will inevitably need to rely on natural disasters, which will definitely cause countless victims, and in the next war, there will also be countless young people and even women and children who will die, but this matter is like an arrow that has been wound, and it has to be sent.

He said slowly, "Now that the strength of Anping County has been basically formed, whether it is the unclothed army or the three thousand cavalry under the command of Bo Yu, when we return from Jizhou, we should already have a higher combat effectiveness." Therefore, once the Yellow Turban Road has an incident, it will be our opportunity and an opportunity for us to enter Youzhou. ”