Actually, it's a bit hard not to find out.

From the border of Hebei Province to Quancheng, you can see heavily guarded villages and forts, militia and checkpoints patrolling back and forth at intersections, as well as armed forces in red uniforms and convoys transporting supplies that are constantly moving eastward.

Wang Qinian didn't let Zuo Helin ask what these teams were doing, but everyone was not stupid, where else could the Qi army go east? To the port, of course, to take a boat sail.

Moreover, more than eighty percent are going to Liaodong.

……

Since he could not represent the family (the Zuo family already had a representative come to Quancheng), he could only represent an individual, and after arriving in Quancheng, the Qi State Rite Department did not arrange for him to live in an official guest house, but let them spend their own money to find a guest room in the merchant hall.

Zuo Helin had nothing to do with this, but after he stayed, he immediately wrote a handwritten letter and asked Wang Qinian to forward it to King Qi.

In the letter, Zuo Helin explained to Xu Muhe his previous achievements in the Western Regions and the grasslands, and attached a scimitar in the style of the Western Regions and inlaid with rubies as proof.

Zuo Helin said that this knife was an Uzi steel knife, worth thousands of yuan, from a Pars nobleman who was beheaded by him, and there was once a thousand horses from the Mughal family in exchange, and he was not willing to sell it.

If what he says is true, then it is a very important gift.

Zuo Helin presented the sword with only one purpose: no matter what the Qi army wanted to do next, he asked to lead his men into battle.

……

In the Chamber of Commerce hall, Zhi Keshi asked curiously:

"Do you know what Qi Jun is going to do?"

Zuo Helin replied indifferently:

"I don't know, but eighty percent of them are going to Liaodong."

"I don't know if you dare to go? What if not to Liaodong? Zhi Keshi was surprised and said: "If they want to go overseas, you also want to go with them?" ”

"Why not? It's not bad to go overseas, Fusang, Goryeo, and even Da Zhou, as long as it's a war, let me follow. Zuo Helin smiled and said, "I haven't seen the sea yet, so I'm going to take a look." ”

"Are you crazy? What's in it for you? ”

"Prove to the world what I am capable of." Zuo Helin replied: "At the same time, I also want to see the ability of the Qi State to see if they can become the lord of the world." ”

Zhi Keshi frowned and said, "This is the purpose of your own coming to Qi Country?" ”

"What do you say?"

Zuo Helin sneered:

"I have been traveling from south to north since I was 16 years old, and I have fought Han bandits, Dangxiang people, Mugyu people, Jurchens, Uighurs, Qiang, Gaochang, and Tibetans, and I have also helped them fight the Pars."

"It's been ten years, and you know what is the biggest feeling that I'm fighting everywhere like a madman?"

Zhi Keshi asked curiously: "What is it?" ”

"My feeling is that no matter what I achieve, no matter how much those Tartar magnates value my abilities, they look down on me!"

"Huh? Despise? You? Zhi Keshi asked in surprise: "This is impossible, you know, the Great Xia Emperor once wanted to marry his princess to you!" ”

"What can a woman represent? What's more, he didn't give me the princess in the end. Zuo Helin said disdainfully: "Brother Zhe, I'm not a fool, I can see that they just look down on me." ”

"I once helped the Muguls fight the Dangxiang, and then I went to help the Dangxiang fight the Pars people from the west, why don't the Dangxiang people care that I have killed so many Dangxiang? Why do they dare to use me? ”

"Because I don't have a strong country behind me!"

Speaking of this, Zuo Helin suddenly became a little excited:

"No matter how good I play, I'm just one person! Those tartars just think of me as a knife! The Mughal people think I'm easy to use, and the party members also think they can use me! That's why they dared to hire me to fight the Pars—I'm Han anyway, not the Mugul! ”

"Brother Zhe, I can tell you that I have been looking for a force that can build a great country all these years! A great empire that can reproduce the glory of the Celestial Empire! The empire of the Han Chinese! ”

"I see, that's what you think." Zhi Keshi whispered: "Since you want a country so much, why don't you try to build one yourself?" ”

"I tried, but it didn't work." Speaking of this, Zuo Helin's tone was a little sad: "I can fight very well, I know this." But I don't know much about running a territory, and I don't know how to train troops - I fought for ten years to pull up a team of 600 people, and I expect to train myself to sweep the world, when will I get it? My family doesn't support me, they don't have any ambitions at all. ”

"So you want to see if the Qi country, which has recently gained fame, has the ambition to unify the world?"

"Yes, if they have this mind and this strength, I won't leave, help them here, King Qi will understand my value."

左鹤林 says:

"If they don't, then I'll be a mercenary again, make some money after this battle, recruit some heroes, and wait for the next family with peace of mind, I'm only twenty-six years old, and I have time to wait."

"Okay, don't always talk about me, talk about you, Brother Zhe, what did your family send you to Qi Guo?"

Zuo Helin asked:

"You are a member of the party, your family doesn't even go to the Xia country to be loyal, what are you going to do with the country of the Han people?"

Zhe Keshi looked at him and didn't speak.

After a long time, he sighed and said:

"I'm not like you, I don't care about the country of the Han people, we only care about one thing - whether there is a future or not!"

"Xia Guo has no future, they can't get out of Yinxia, so sooner or later they will be destroyed by others, either the Muguls or the Pars, or some other force that suddenly came out, anyway, they will definitely be finished, and it is impossible for us to wait for death with them."

"From this point of view, our goal is the same, we both want to see how King Qi is, whether he is the lord of the world, or just an ordinary warlord passerby."

……

"Two waves of representatives from Shanshan?"

Xu Shiyang, who had just received Wang Qinian's report, asked in surprise:

"What's going on?"

"The gang is the official representative of the thirteen families, and they should be able to make some decisions on behalf of the family."

Wang Qinian replied:

"Another group of young people who are not very obedient in the five clans, led by a young man named Zuo Helin, they can only represent themselves."

"By the way, the king asked the subordinate to forward Zuo Helin's letter to you, he said that this is a matter of the military department, let your Royal Highness the prince decide."

Xu Shiyang took Zuo Helin's letter and unfolded it.

Wang Qinian said beside him: "By the way, in addition to the sons of the five Shanxi Shihou families, there is also a Shanxi party family that has also sent people to live with Zuo Helin. ”

Xu Shiyang Shanshan also has a party Xiang Shihou family, but he has always distrusted foreigners, and the party is naturally no exception, so this time he forced the Shanxi Shihou family to send someone to the meeting, and he didn't notify the Zhe family at all.

In this way, although Zhi Keshi was an official representative sent by the family, he could not be regarded as an official envoy, so he could only stay in the merchant hall and wait for the notice of Qi State.