When Xiao Jiasui and Cangzhou wharf robbed the Jurchen soldiers, Gu Haotian and his entourage had already arrived in Weizhou, and everyone arrived at the Yongjiqu wharf outside the city, hired a boat and was about to live in the Daimyo's mansion before leaving, and saw that Shi Qian led a person over.

"The personnel in front of the petty officials came to report that Lord Xu had a wind chill, and the ships of the mission stopped in Liyang, and it seems that they will not be able to leave for the next two days."

"Clear?"

Gu Haotian listened to the report of Shi Qian, and asked again with no peace of mind. At this time, the man who followed Shi Qian's side spoke.

"It must be correct, I have been following the side since Lord Xu left, the day before yesterday I saw the ship of the mission leaning on the dock in Liyang County, so I also followed, but I saw that someone in the boat went to the county pharmacy to ask the doctor to catch the medicine, I was curious, and then made the silver, asked the guy who grabbed the medicine, said that it was an old man in the boat who had a cold, I think it must be Lord Xu is correct."

The boss in this mission, there is really only Xu Churen, thinking that this old man must be unable to hold on to it under his anger, Gu Haotian thought, he couldn't help but worry again, I don't know if he can hold it, so he asked:

"Do you know the severity of the disease?"

"That guy doesn't know any of this, but he just said that depending on the amount of medicine, it will take two or three days."

Gu Haotian felt a little relieved when he heard this, if it could be cured in two or three days, it didn't seem to be too serious. He was not in a hurry for a while, because he knew that the old man would not bow his head until the mountains and rivers were exhausted, and it was useless to catch up too early.

Founded in the Sui Dynasty and named after the Spring and Autumn Period Patriotic Homeland, Weizhou is located on the north bank of the Yellow River and is the last line of defense for Tokyo to defend against the southern invasion of the northern enemy, and its strategic location is very important. Its current seat of governance is in Ji County, bordering the canal to the north and the Yellow River to the south, and it is also a prosperous Dayi.

The most prosperous street in Acropolis is the north-south passage connecting the canal and the Yellow River. Gu Haotian and the others turned around from the canal wharf and walked slowly along the street, admiring the style of the state city all the way. But I saw that the streets were full of porter trucks, busy transporting all kinds of goods back and forth.

"This place is an important town in northern Beijing, and most of the materials from Hebei to Beijing pass through here, but it is the throat of the capital leading to Hebei."

Xu Guanzhong, a native of Hebei, knows this place very well, and explained all the way to the side.

Gu Haotian didn't know much about Weizhou, he remembered that in "Water Margin", when Song Jiang conquered Tianhu, Guan Sheng was guarding Weizhou, and later Tang Bin sneaked in alone, and the two sides cooperated to break the pot pass.

The group watched and walked, and unconsciously arrived at the crossroads, which was close to noon, so they entered a nearby restaurant, and chose a window position to sit, but saw a group of people outside talking about something in front of a wall.

Shi Qian was curious to go down and investigate, and came back to say, but it was the government that was arresting a murderer named Tang Bin.

Everyone didn't feel strange when they heard it, there are too many things like this in this world, and those who are worried come over. When Gu Haotian heard this, he had a different feeling, because he was thinking of this person just now, and knew that he was one of the three heroes of Pudong, a figure as famous as Guan Sheng, and it turned out that he also killed people and fell into the grass in Baoqian Mountain, and this time it seems that his incident also happened in advance.

"This world is really chaotic, wicked people are rampant everywhere, and the government is all rice buckets." Han Shizhong listened and said indignantly.

"Brother Shizhong is only half right, the world is not peaceful, but the murderer is not necessarily the wicked, just like this Tang Bin, who knows if he was forced to kill helplessly, or wantonly murder, in my opinion, he still kills more than the former." Gu Haotian said to Han Shizhong with a smile.

"Why do the petty officials say this?" Han Shizhong asked strangely.

"I heard that there are three heroes in Pudong, called Pudong Sanjie, and one of them is called Tang Bin, if this Tang Bin is Tang Bin, he should not be a very vicious person, not to mention that in this world, the case decided by the government is several points of black and white."

"What the little official said is very true, Brother Shizhong, it is what you have just experienced, has the government ever told you any reason."

Xu Guanzhong saw that Han Shizhong was still worried about the government, so he couldn't help but joke with him.

"But I thought badly, and now I still think I'm an official person!"

Han Shizhong thought about what happened to him, and knew that these two people were reasonable, so he said self-deprecatingly.

A few drinks and gossip, talking with great interest, until the middle of the day, only then did they leave the restaurant, go to the inn to pack their luggage, and go to the canal wharf.

Let's say that Gu Haotian and the others spoke in the restaurant in the afternoon, but they were understood by the two men on the side, and the two of them changed their expressions at that time, and then followed Gu Haotian out of the restaurant.

At the beginning of Shen Shi, Gu Haotian and his party arrived at the canal wharf, twenty and thirty people boarded two boats respectively, and were waiting to set sail from the shore, but they saw two men hurrying over on the wharf, only to see them standing on the shore and shouting to the boat:

"Boatman, my brothers and I want to go to live in the Daimyo's Mansion, and there is no boat to sit on for a while, so is it convenient to take a ride?"

Gu Haotian stood on the bow of the boat, and when he heard the sound, he turned to look, but saw that there were two men about twenty-six or seven, although they were ordinary clothes, they couldn't hide their heroic spirit.

"Little official, these two people seem to have been following us for a long time." Shi Qian whispered on the side.

"It's okay, let the boatman call them up." Gu Haotian commanded.

So the boat docked again, and the two of them came on the boat, saying that one was called Tan Bing and the other was Hao Wen. Gu Haotian suddenly felt a little strange when he heard it, and after thinking about it carefully, he thought of something, a smile flashed in his eyes, and he didn't say anything, just let Bian Xiang arrange the guests.

Then the two boats entered the Yongji Canal, which was excavated in the fourth year of the Sui Dynasty, and was also called the Yuhe River in this era, which took the Wei River as the source, and the downstream confluence with the Zhanghe River and the Hutuo River, and was still the shipping artery between the Hebei region and Tokyo.

It was in the evening, when everyone had dinner and stood in the bow of the boat, admiring the beautiful pastoral scenery on both sides of the river, and before they realized that it was getting late, they went to rest.

As the night deepened, two wooden boats quietly marched on the Yongji Canal under the starlight. Gu Haotian was lying on the bed, but he didn't sleep, he was reviewing these days in the capital.

I entered Beijing at the end of the first month and left at the end of April, a full three months. If you want to say that the harvest should be huge, the characters he thought of at the beginning, such as Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen, Xu Ning, Ling Zhen, etc., have all gone up the mountain, and some characters that he didn't expect, such as Han Shizhong, Yang Zaixing, Zhang Jiucheng, and even the head of the line, Li Shishi, who is full of Beijing division, also went up the mountain, and if nothing else, Xu Churen and Zhao Ding will also follow up the mountain. In addition, there are thousands of war horses and many armors, and these gains can be said to have greatly exceeded expectations.

However, there are many things that he did not expect, which made him uneasy, the first of which was the alliance between the Jin State and the Zhou Dynasty, which originally happened more than ten years later in history, but now it has appeared, although he used means to destroy, but he understands that this can only be stopped for a while, and it will never stop the general trend of historical development. There won't be much time left, he suddenly felt a huge pressure in his heart, and after tossing and turning, he simply got up and went outside the cabin.

In late April, it has entered early summer, although the night is deep, but it is not cold, under the starry sky, Gu Haotian stands quietly on the bow of the ship, both sides of the strait are silent Central Plains land, he can't help but feel excited.

It's a land of generosity! She has used her fertility to nurture generations of Yan and Huang descendants, and created a brilliant and prosperous era with her tenacity. But she was also miserable, and the endless plains made her like a weak woman, and whenever the northern barrier was broken, she was always the first to be ravaged; When the civil war broke out, she was the first to be contested.

And in this era, her fate is even more miserable, because the barrier in the north is in the hands of foreign enemies, and soon she will face a new catastrophe, and there is no one in front of her to stop it.

Later generations once commented that there was no China after Yashan, and the source of the disaster of Yashan was the disaster that occurred in this land a few years later.

As a person who has traveled through the millennium, can I take on the heavy responsibility of continuing the millennium glory of the Han nation? Gu Haotian couldn't help but torture himself. However, he had no answer, and he didn't know how far he could go. Do your best! Gu Haotian let out a long sigh.

"The little officials don't sleep late at night, are they worried about Lord Xu?" At this time, Xu Guanzhong's voice suddenly sounded behind him.

"Why didn't Mr. Xu sleep?"

"Lord Xu, they are not far ahead, and they are not in a hurry to travel at night, a little illness should be no big deal, and they will definitely be able to catch up when they arrive at the Daimyo's Mansion, and then they will be able to succeed when they see the opportunity, so they don't need to worry too much."

Xu Guanzhong thought that Gu Haotian was thinking about Xu Churen and them, so he opened his mouth to persuade.

Gu Haotian nodded in thanks, but his deep gaze still stayed on the pitch-black field in the north, and after a while, he asked softly:

"Mr. Xu, you said that this land is so rich, but why is it so miserable? The war of the Three Kingdoms was chaotic, and here "the white bones are exposed in the wilderness, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles"; Wuhu Chaohua, the Han people here are almost extinct; Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, there have been years of scuffle, and lives have been devastated; It's easy to get more than 100 years of peace, but it's about to suffer again. ”

Xu Guanzhong didn't expect Gu Haotian to be thinking about such a question, but he immediately understood that he was worried about the Jurchens. But Xu Guanzhong has no answer to this question, the Central Plains is the land of four wars, the country is strong, the country is chaotic, and it has never escaped this fate for thousands of years, unless there is an eternal empire, but this is obviously impossible.

In fact, Gu Haotian himself has no answer to this question, he also knows the truth that prosperity must decline, but the southern invasion of the Jurchen is not a dynastic dispute between ordinary Han people, it will be related to the survival of the Han people, he feels that he has come to this era, and he has to do something.

"Since the disaster is inevitable, all we can do is to minimize his consequences, but it is easy to say, but it is difficult to succeed, is Mr. Xu willing to go with me to this difficulty?"

Gu Haotian turned to look at Xu Guanzhong and asked seriously.

In an instant, Xu Guanzhongjue's own blood surged, a thirteen-year-old boy of the little official still took the survival of the nation as his responsibility, and he was a seven-foot man who often regarded himself as an elegant man, how could he be left behind. At this moment, he suddenly felt that the trip to Liangshan at the beginning of the year was the wisest decision in his life, if the capital had learned about Gu Haotian's character for several months, it was a glimpse of his heart at this moment, so he lifted his robe and knelt down willingly.

"I am loyal and talented, and I am willing to do my best for the national righteousness with the petty officials, and I will not swerve in this life."

"How can Mr. Xu be like this, how can he behave in the future."

Gu Haotian was startled when he saw this, and hurriedly leaned over and reached out to help.

"If a petty official can't afford it, no one in the world can afford it."

Xu Guanzhong said firmly, and then insisted on finishing the salute before standing up.

After that, the two sat cross-legged on the bow of the boat, talking about the general trend of the world, and before they knew it, it was dawn. The green fields, the early farmers, and the villages near and far are gradually clear in the eyes.

The two of them stood up on the bow of the ship, and suddenly felt proud, and Gu Haotian said heroically:

"There are so many delicate rivers and mountains, how can you let the captives get involved!"