Chapter 271: Since I know that it is difficult to say goodbye, fortunately, I don't say goodbye (ask for a full order)
Chapter 271: Since I know that it is difficult to say goodbye, fortunately, I don't say goodbye (ask for a full order)
Soldiers have a natural sensitivity and yearning for weapons and armor, even if he is a general who is too old to lift a knife, Zhang Tang has already betrayed his intentions when he looks at the glowing eyes of the weapons of the Lone Bamboo Country.
"The country of Guzhu lacks people, food, and animal husbandry, but there is no shortage of soldiers." Wang Xu shook his head, "If you really don't want to go with me, then stay here to farm and graze, and then come to exchange for the blade and equipment of Lone Bamboo." β
"The old man thanked the emperor for the favor of Xiangping." Zhang Tang's eyes lit up, and he bowed down and said, "But after Yan is destroyed, King Qin will inevitably send a county guard to take over Yan Land." β
"I'll take care of that." Wang Xu waved his hand, pointed to the map and said, "However, Xiangping wants to open up a road with Guzhu Yindu." β
"I don't know where Yin is?" Zhang Tang was stunned.
"You have to go five or six hundred miles south." Wang Xu estimated it and said softly.
"Uh." The corners of Zhang Tang's mouth twitched, "The south should be the territory of Fuyu and Wofu, although these barbarians drink blood, but they have survived in this bitter cold land for thousands of years, the point is as cunning as entering a cement loach, if it is a road between the two places, it will definitely be harassed often, and it will come and go for five or six hundred miles, and it will take ten days at the earliest, and the gains outweigh the losses." β
"It doesn't take that long to build a straight road, six days is enough to go back and forth, and I'm going to set up post stations along the way, if there are enough livestock and horses, the time will be shorter, of course, it may take some time to build a road." Wang Xu smiled, "As for Wo Fu and Fuyu, if they don't come to us, we will also go to him, otherwise, who will help us build roads." β
"Does the emperor want to use barbarian slaves to build roads?" Zhang Tang frowned and shook his head, "This matter is estimated to not work, those barbarian slaves are barbaric by nature and cannot be domesticated, even if they can be caught, they will find a way to escape, and they need a large number of people to take care of them, so it is better to attract refugees from the Central Plains." β
"Got a way?" Wang Xu frowned and became vigilant, could it be that this old guy Zhang Tang still has a connection with the Central Plains.
"The old man doesn't know much for the time being." Zhang Tang shook his head, and seemed to be a little melancholy, "However, according to the old man's deduction for many years, although Great Qin now unifies the six countries, it is difficult to convince the public after all, and there are still secret hands left by the six royal families, and the most important thing is that in the past twenty years, there have been constant wars and no one has cultivated, once the war is over, food will become a big problem, and it is destined that a large number of displaced people will flee or be expelled by the Qin State." β
Wang Xu squinted his eyes and pondered for a moment, looked at Zhang Tang and asked, "What do you need to do?" β
"The old man wants to repair a book and go to Jixia Academy." Zhang Tang said.
"The Qi State is about to surrender soon, and the scholars of the Jixia School Palace should all be brought to the Qin State." Wang Xu shook his head.
"Don't worry, as long as the Jixia School Palace is still there, there will be a gatekeeper." Zhang Tang smiled slightly.
Gatekeepers? Sounds as scary as a sweeping monk.
Wang Xu frowned and glanced at the Zhu family.
The Zhu family bowed slightly.
"Yes." Wang Xu nodded in agreement.
"Sir, please write it, and I'll send it over myself when the time comes." Wang Li walked over and said.
"Okay." Zhang Tang arched his hand to Wang Xu and went to the back hall to write a letter.
"Why don't you go back and tell Ah Weng that Xiangping City is already an empty city." Wang Xu said with a smile.
"Zhang Tang is still alive, and this matter is already higher than Xiangping City." Wang Li shook his head and said.
"Are you worried that the Wang family will end up with the same fate as Zhang Tang?" Wang Xu asked with a smile.
"It's not a worry, it's a must." Wang Li frowned, "What I promised you before may be ....."
"Lone Bamboo doesn't need anyone's help anymore." The corners of Wang Xu's mouth rose and he smiled.
Wang Li was slightly stunned, looked at Yu Chun, who was eating with a wooden barrel, and nodded with a smile, "That's what I said." β
"Guzhu will always have a small city of the Wang family." Wang Xu chuckled softly.
"Of course, the Wang family is ready to make the capital their ancestral land." Wang Li grinned.
"It's still a little close." Wang Xu frowned slightly, "Get out of the pass, I'll build you another city at the pass." β
"No, the Wang family is in the pass." Wang Li shook his head, "If you get out of the customs, it will cause you trouble." β
"Jing Ke, they should have arrived in Xianyang by now." Wang Xu smiled, "I guess that countless Red Dog Guards should be sticking out their tongues and rushing towards Liaodong." β
"Chaoge is dangerous." Wang Li frowned.
"The world is unified, the King of Qin has to prepare to repair the ancestral shrine, and to appease the remnants of the six countries, and has to re-establish the system, the documents in the court are estimated to be piled up outside the palace, even if he finds Chaoge, he has no energy to care, and when he is idle, Chaoge can already close the mountain, unless another 600,000 troops are sent to besiege the city, otherwise, he can only look at the song and sigh." Wang Xu smiled and shook his head.
"That's right." Wang Li smiled, "Since that's the case, why don't you give me this credit." β
"Yes." Wang Xu nodded.
"I will tell the king, and the Wang family will help the king keep an eye on Chaoge City." Wang Li grinned.
"It's too risky." Wang Xu was slightly stunned, frowned and shook his head.
Wang Li did this, according to Yingzheng's suspicious character, he would definitely think more, and no matter what the facts were, Yingzheng would think that the Wang family was colluded with Guzhu.
However, Wang Li did this to show his attitude to Wang Xu.
"It's better to be honest than to be secretive." Wang Li grinned and said, "You taught me." β
"That's the truth of the lonely bamboo, and it may not work in Daqin." Wang Xu shook his head.
"Anyway, that's fine." Wang Li also smiled,
Wang Xu looked at Wang Li's face, which had gradually faded away, and patted him on the shoulder, "If you are not happy in Xianyang, let someone send me a message, and I will find a way to take you out." β
Wang Li's pupils shrank, pursed his lips, patted Wang Xu's hand away, and said with a smile: "Yes, how can you not be happy in Xianyang?" The prosperity of Xianyang is far from being comparable to the bleakness of a lonely bamboo. β
Wang Xu smiled: "The next time you go back to Guzhu, you will see a more prosperous world than Xianyang." β
"We'll see." Wang Li grinned and smacked his lips again, "It's a pity that the field chicken is still not eaten." β
"I can't eat the field chickens of the lonely bamboo, but there should still be barking clams in the mountains." Wang Xu smiled, "Zhu family, go catch a few barking clams, you want to be fat." β
The Zhu family raised his eyebrows slightly, and left in response.
"Actually, you write me the method, and I can go back and study it myself." Wang Li touched the back of his head and smiled a little shyly.
Wang Xu was slightly stunned, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he scolded with a smile: "Chicken thief!" β
"After all, you can't just make a fortune like tofu." Wang Li said with a smile.
Wang Xu shook his head helplessly, ready to write him a few fried dishes, the method of frying should have been developed from the Western Han Dynasty at the earliest, because the early China lacked raw materials for oil extraction, so the development of technology may be delayed, Zhang Qian brought back flax and oil extraction technology from the Western Regions, and the amount of oil extraction slowly increased before it developed to the kitchen.
Therefore, the fatty oil before the Western Han Dynasty was usually used as lamp oil, and this fatty oil could not be used on the table of the nobles, so fried food must be a rare thing.
Outside the city of Xiangping is the forest, and there are many branches of rivers outside the city, and even inside the city there is a river that runs through the whole city for irrigation and food in Xiangping City.
Where there are many water sources, it means that the groundwater resources are abundant, and it is easy to form small lakes or ponds, so there are naturally a lot of frogs and mosquitoes, and summer happens to be the time when there are the most frogs, and the Zhu family grabbed a large bucket back after a while, of course, it is mixed with frogs and toads.
The people of Xiangping City don't eat frogs very much, because the ancients put frogs and toads together, and toads are poisonous, although not fatal, but they can also be poisoned, so the word of mouth says that frogs are things that cannot be eaten, unless it is a time of famine, hunger does not choose to eat, otherwise Yan people will not eat this animal.
Although Wang Xu knew that the poison of the toad could be done as long as the skin and internal organs were dealt with, he did not dare to be suspicious, and after throwing the toads away, the rest were frogs.
The frog species in the Northeast are basically black spotted frogs, which are common wild frogs, with delicious flesh, but the black spotted frog Wang Xu is still the first time to see it, I have to say that the ancient animals, the size is much larger than imagined, hares, pheasants and wild frogs are all big and scary.
The flour of Yanguo, the soybean oil of Guzhu, the wild frogs of Xiangping, and the only cumin left by Wang Xu.
When the deep-fried field chicken is fried until golden brown, the fragrance of the nearly 400-square-meter palace is overflowing, which makes the mouth relish.
Wang Li didn't have time to taste and comment, so he held this pot of fried field chicken and rushed back to Liaoyang City with the first batch of grain and grass.
Wang Xu didn't say goodbye to him such as 'take care' and 'there will be a period later', but only told him to eat slowly, otherwise it would not be easy to get wind and diarrhea.
Wang Li just smiled and patted his stomach, saying that he was an iron-beaten stomach, so don't worry.
Although both of them know that this farewell, they don't know when they will see each other again.
When Wang Xu used to study literature and history, he heard Old Man Bai say that the ancients parted, why did it seem hypocritical and make a big fuss, at that time, Old Man Bai said.
'The parting of the ancients is the abbreviation of parting from life and death. β
Because the ancients parted, the cost of seeing each other again was too high, and communication was difficult.
The cost of the parting of civilians is time and money.
And the parting between Wang Li and Wang Xu may cost countless lives.
Since you know that it is difficult to say goodbye, fortunately, don't say goodbye.
Wang Xu didn't go to the city wall to say goodbye this time, when he said goodbye to Tu Tan last time, he had already made up his mind, whoever left in the future would not go to see it off, and parting was too uncomfortable for him.
Especially these people who mean so much to him.
Wang Li's departure made Wang Xu even more uncomfortable than Tu Tan's betrayal.
Because Wang Xu has always felt that Wang Li is a friend of the same disease after he came to this world.
Wang Li's existence gave Wang Xu a little comfort when he was most confused.
Although it is a bit inauthentic, but it is true that in Wang Li, an unlucky child, Wang Xu found confidence and comfort, which became one of his initial motivations, and also the person who helped him the most.
And Wang Li, a naΓ―ve nobleman, made Wang Xu find the feeling of being an elder brother again.
Orphan Jia Zaohui has been a little emotionally closed since Wang Xu was sensible, especially in terms of family affectionEvery time he looks at Wang Li, Wang Xu will think of his younger brother Gouzi who grew up with him since he was a child, but he didn't seem to be so good to dogs when he was a child.
When a person travels here alone, in the dead of night, he often regrets his youthful indifference.
So in Wang Li, Wang Xu also poured out his childhood regrets for family affection.
Although it seems that they have only been getting along for more than a year, in fact, Wang Li has the sustenance of Wang Xu and his two lives.
Now, that sustenance is broken.
Wang Xu also felt that the road he was going forward seemed to have been broken, as if he had deviated from his original purpose.
This made Wang Xu start to be confused again.