Jincheng is now Lanzhou, pre-Qin, Jincheng is just a small town, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the second year of Yuanjia, Huo went to the disease to conquer the Xiongnu, he once garrisoned Jincheng, because Jincheng is an important place connecting the four counties of Longxi, so Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty set up Jincheng County. []

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the political corruption, the Qiang people of Liangzhou could not bear the cruel exploitation and oppression of the local officials of the Han Dynasty, and repeatedly rebelled by cavalry, and Jincheng became the gateway to the west of Yongzhou.

Jincheng is very close to the Qiang land, so there are also many Qiang people in Jincheng County, and the Han people and Qiang people in Jincheng live together, and there are many people who intermarry with each other. Walking on the streets of Jincheng City, the pedestrians on both sides are dressed in a variety of ways, some wear Qiang costumes, some wear Han costumes, and some Qiang costumes and Han costumes are mixed together.

At the city gate, more than a dozen soldiers of the Shu army were carefully checking the pedestrians. The merchants traveling in and out of the city were also accustomed to this kind of check, and the queue appeared very orderly.

"Stomping and ......" the sound of horses' hooves came, and more than a dozen knights came in the distance. In the blink of an eye, I came to the city gate.

Zhang Wei stopped his horse and looked at the city gatehouse. On the two big characters "Jincheng", he breathed a sigh of relief slightly, and then shouted at the defenders in front of the door: "I am Zhang Wei, the general of Furong, take me to see your Taishou." ”

Today's Jincheng Taishou is called Fa Miao, but . The son of Fa Zheng, after Fa Zheng's death, Fa Miao was named the Marquis of Guannei and the Lieutenant of Fengche by Liu Bei.

When it comes to strategy, Fa Miao is far inferior to Fa Zheng, but. It is Fa Miao who has a characteristic, that is, he is cautious and very cautious, and Fa Miao's character is very appreciated by Zhuge Liang. In addition, Fa Miao himself is a person who helps the wind, so Zhuge Liang ordered Fa Miao to be the Taishou of Jincheng.

Zhang Wei was taken to the Taishou Mansion, and Fa Miao came to the door early. Greet.

Fa Miao and Zhang Wei knew each other when they were in Chengdu, and the two were old acquaintances.

"Lord Fa, can Your Majesty be in your mansion?" Zhang Wei quietly leaned over to Fa Miao'er. Bian asked.

Fa Miao shook his head: "Your Majesty left Jincheng at noon today. ”

"Oops! Fa-sama, you. Why don't you stop it! When Zhang Wei heard that Adou had left, he immediately became impatient.

"General Zhang, Your Majesty wants to leave, how dare we as courtiers stop you!" Fa Miao said with a bitter face.

A few days ago, Zhu Ling was defeated and died, and at that time, Cao Zhen and Zhuge Liang were holding each other, and at the same time waiting for Zhu Ling's good news, but after waiting for a few days, Cao Zhen only waited until the Shu army sent a messenger to send Zhu Ling's coffin. Cao Zhen knew that Zhu Ling was defeated and it was hopeless to attack Chang'an, so he retreated to Tongguan.

After the siege of Chang'an was resolved, Adou ordered Jincheng Jiang Wei to immediately support Wuwei Ma, and at the same time mobilized 30,000 troops in Chang'an, with Wei Yan as the commander, ready to support Liangzhou.

Although Cao Jun retreated to Tongguan, Adou was even busier, raising food, disaster relief, preventing epidemics, and the big and small affairs of Yongzhou and Yizhou were all pressed on Adou, and Adou's daily review was enough to fill several tables.

After all, Adou was born as a martial artist, and it was difficult to get used to this kind of life for a while, and he stayed in the Weiyang Palace every day to face the twists and turns as high as a hill, looking at Zhuge Liang Pang Tong and a few other familiar old faces, which made Adou very depressed. So Adou took this opportunity to come to a royal expedition and pushed all the political affairs to Zhuge Liang's prime minister's mansion.

Of course, the Chinese military officials of the DPRK strongly opposed such a major event, but their arms could not reach their thighs, and Adou insisted, and the Chinese military officials had to agree to come down, but there was an additional condition, that is, Chen Zhi would personally bring a thousand white-eared elite soldiers to follow to protect Adou's safety. So Adou went to Liangzhou with Wei Yan's army.

Adou is used to being a ranger, and now there are tens of thousands of people around to protect him, which makes Adou feel uncomfortable. Adou simply found an excuse, said that he went out hunting, and then ran away secretly.

Adou wanted to run, but no one could catch up, Zhang Wei, who went out hunting with Adou, watched Adou run farther and farther, and finally slowly disappeared, but he couldn't catch up. Fortunately, Zhang Wei has followed Adou for many years and understands Adou, so Zhang Wei ordered people to go back to report to Wei Yan and Chen Dao, so that they could continue to march with Adou's emperor's honor guard, while he led more than a dozen white-eared elite soldiers to chase forward.

Now Zhang Wei finally caught up with Jincheng and had news of Adou, but he was still a step too late. Zhang Wei stomped his feet a little helplessly, hugged his fist at Fa Miao, and said, "Master Fa, please prepare dry food and water for us immediately, and we will continue to chase Your Majesty." ”

"General Zhang, don't worry, although Your Majesty left Jincheng, he left a holy decree for the general." Fa Miao smiled, made a gesture of "please", and continued: "General Zhang will go to the hall to rest first, and then I will go to ask His Majesty's holy decree." ”

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"General Zhang, please receive the decree...... Fa Miao finished reading the decree, closed the decree, and handed it to Zhang Wei.

Zhang Wei took the holy decree with a hesitant face, and was hesitating in his heart, whether to do what the holy decree said.

"General Zhang, Your Majesty also asked me to bring a word to the general." Next to him, Fa Miao said.

"What?"

"Your Majesty said that this matter is very important, if it is done, there will be no major trouble in Qiang Land within twenty years, and if this matter is not successful, you are asking for the general."

"Hey......" Zhang Wei sighed helplessly, Zhang Wei could already imagine Adou's demeanor when he said this.

Following Adou for so many years, Zhang Wei actually understands very well that the majesty he serves is very stubborn, as long as he decides many things, it is difficult for others to change, and Jingzhou saved Guan Yu like that at the beginning.

Zhang Wei also knows that Adou is resolute in doing things, and he is the best at using the chain plan when he uses it, one ring is linked to another, if it is because of his own mistake in this ring, and Adou's major event is ruined, the sentence "For the general, you are asking" I am afraid that it will really fall on Zhang Wei's own head.

"That's it, it was okay for His Majesty to break into Cao Ying alone back then, and there should be no problem now, if it is bad, it will not be good if His Majesty's big thing is bad...... Lord Fa, this time I will go to General Wei Yan and do what His Majesty says.

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The land of Liangzhou is flat, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and you often can't see half a figure after walking hundreds of miles.

Because there are few people in Liangzhou and the demand for materials is relatively small, there are two main types of merchants walking on the official road in Liangzhou, one is the merchants who come and go to the Qiang land, these people mainly do business with the Qiang people and the Di people, the scale is relatively small, and the materials transported are also necessities; The caravans that traveled to and from the Silk Road were relatively large, and they were all guarded by many samurai, and the materials they also transported were more valuable items such as silk, blue-glazed porcelain, and tea.

Of course, there will inevitably be robbers on the road where businessmen come and go, and the robbers in Liangzhou are not ordinary fierce, unlike ordinary robbers, Liangzhou is vast and sparsely populated, so the robbers in Liangzhou are all horse thieves who are rogue crimes. And in order to cover up their whereabouts, these horse thieves never left a living after the robbery.

For these horse thieves, the Qiang people and the Di people near Liangzhou are also deeply hated, these horse thieves not only rob the merchants, but also rob the cattle and sheep of the Qiang people and the villages of the Di people, so once the horse thieves gang appears, the Qiang people will send troops to exterminate them, which makes the horse thieves even more afraid to expose their whereabouts, so that the horse thieves will not stay alive after committing the crime.

The Silk Road started from Chang'an, passed through Gansu, Xinjiang and other places, went to Central Asia, West Asia, and finally connected to the Mediterranean.

Since Zhang Qian's second mission to the Western Regions, the Han Dynasty established the Western Regions Protectorate in the Western Regions, and the merchants have since found a way to make money, that is, to sell goods to the Western Regions. For ordinary people, if they can successfully go to the Western Regions, the profits they get are enough to make a family worry about food and clothing for most of their lives.

High profits also mean high risks, the road to the Western Regions is long, and there are horse thieves on the way, so only some brave merchants dare to walk on this Silk Road.

At this time, Adou walked on the ancient Silk Road.

The so-called following the local customs, now Adou is also dressed as a Qiang person, wrapped in sheepskin, but his red lips and white teeth make it easy to tell at a glance that Adou is a Han person.

At noon, the sun hangs high in the sky, the grass and trees on the ground have shown a tendency to turn yellow, and under the sunshine, the grass on the roadside that has gradually lost its moisture is consuming its last vitality of the year.

Adou vigorously ripped off the sheepskin shoulders of his upper body, and then looked at the sun in the sky.

In the morning, Adou didn't feel too hot, but at noon, the temperature seemed to rise suddenly. Although Adou's internal strength has been practiced to the point that the cold and heat are not invasive, but holding it on the shoulders of the sheepskin kan is uncomfortable after all, at least he will get prickly heat.

After tearing off the sheepskin shoulder, Adou felt much more comfortable. Adou, who was cooler, finally began to enjoy the scenery around him.

The Western Regions of the Three Kingdoms era are different from now, even in the era of Adou, Dunhuang, Jiuquan and other areas of the Western Regions have also become a Gobi Desert, but before the Ming Dynasty, the Western Regions were still covered by a piece of green. In the later generations of Yumen Pass to the west, it can be said that there are green trees, fragrant grass, rivers, lakes, wetlands, forests, everything.

Adou had been to Ili in his previous life, and when he passed through this piece of the Silk Road, he saw the Gobi Desert in addition to the desert, and now, Adou looked at the Silk Road and saw that the Silk Road was full of greenery.

However, what made Adou more depressed was that he walked for a long time and didn't meet half a figure.

Along the way, Adou also encountered several caravans, and most of the caravans saw that Adou was just a person, and they just looked at it vigilantly. And the farther west you go, the fewer caravans you will encounter.

Adou involuntarily quickened his pace, but when it was dark, there was no sign of the existing people.

"Woo ......" In the darkness far away, the wolf howl came, and then, farther away, another wolf howl echoed.

"Damn, don't meet ......the wolves," Adou sighed lightly, it was autumn, and the animals had begun to store fat for the winter, so this season was really the season when the beasts foraged most intensively.

Adou was already going to find a place to rest nearby, but these wolf howls dispelled Adou's plans, and Adou felt that it was better to go further.

The darkness of the night did not reduce Adou's degree, and under the bright moonlight, Adou still maintained a very high degree of progress.

Suddenly, Adou stopped, looked around, and then slightly snorted and took a deep breath.

There is a hint of charcoal in the air, this charcoal smell is extremely light, ordinary people can't smell it at all, even Adou needs to be carefully captured.

Adou was slightly happy in his heart, and he could smell the charcoal and asked, which means that there is wood burned, and in this wilderness, there are only people who can light fire and burn wood!

"Finally met someone!" Adou was slightly happy in his heart, and then carefully distinguished the direction from which the charcoal smell came.

"It's over there!" Adou found the right direction and immediately rushed over.

After only walking for a moment, Adou saw a fire dancing in front of him.

"There is fire, and sure enough, there are people!" Adou took a step and was about to get ready to step forward.

"Hey, that's not right!" Adou stopped abruptly, because Adou smelled that there was a faint smell of blood in the air.

"How does this smell like human blood!" Adou frowned slightly.

The taste of animal blood is different, for example, some animal blood is more fishy, and some have a foul smell. The fresher the blood, the more it smells different. In ancient times, there were some tricks, and you could tell if it was human blood just by smelling, and this was not very difficult for Adou.

Adou retracted his steps and looked around carefully.

"There's no one around." Adou breathed a sigh of relief, and then put all his attention on the place where the firelight came from in front of him.

Adou slowed down his pace and gently touched forward, like a ghost, without making a sound.

When Adou walked in, he finally saw five or six fires on the opposite side, and seven or eight people were sitting around each fire. There were a few trees next to it that weren't too thick, and there was a person tied to each tree, and Adou counted them carefully, and there were a total of eight people tied to the trees.

Seven of the eight had their chests torn open, and they could no longer die, blood rolling down the wounds in their chests, running down their bodies to the ground, seeping into the dirt, while the other had his head bowed, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.

"So the smell of blood came from here." Adou swept his gaze to the side again, only to see that not far away, dozens of horses were tied to him, and there were more than a dozen sheepskin bags on the ground, all bulging, looking like food.

Looking further around the fire, the people sitting around the fire were all men, dressed in different ways, but they all had one thing in common, that is, they all had very vicious faces, and each of them had a sword on his body. Many of them were still wearing bandages and looked like they were injured.

"These people didn't bring goods, they definitely weren't merchants, they were armed with weapons, they should be horse thieves!" Adou instantly confirmed the identities of these people.

"Go, wake up the rest of the splash, it's his turn to enjoy!" A strong man pointed to the man who had not yet been disemboweled, tied to a tree, and spoke.

"Boss, I'll go!" A sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked man next to him immediately stood up, took the water bag with one hand, and picked up a sharp knife from the ground next to him with the other hand.

The thief came to the tree, opened the water bag, and poured the water on the head of the man who was tied to the tree, and a gust of wind blew, and the tied man slowly woke up.

The man looked up, and the first thing he saw was the smiling horse thief, and Adou could see clearly that the person tied up was a young man in his early twenties.

"What are you going to do?" When the young man saw the horse thief, his face suddenly changed.

"Hehehe, what am I going to do? Look over there! The horse thief pointed to the corpse in the tree next to him.

"Brother Xiong! Gui'er! The young man shouted sadly, and tears rolled down his eyes involuntarily.

"You horse thieves, sooner or later you will be punished!" The young man shouted at the horse thief in front of him.

"Smack!" The horse thief slapped him, and then said viciously: "Retribution? Today, Lao Tzu will repay you first! It's all you damned Di people, who went to the Qiang people to report our whereabouts, and let us die hundreds of brothers in vain! ”

"Well deserved!" The young man snorted coldly: "You horse thieves, you deserve to die!" The harvest of the people in our village who worked hard for a year was originally going to pay taxes to the Qiang people, but they were all robbed by you, and you just robbed them, and killed people! Fortunately, the sky has eyes, and someone was lucky enough to escape back......"

In the distance, Adou finally understood what was going on.

This young man is a Di person, and because the Qiang people are powerful in this Liangzhou area, many Di villages have to pay a large part of the harvest to the Qiang people every year as a "protection fee".

The young man's village was going to transport grain to the Qiang people, but he was robbed by this gang of horse thieves on the way, and the horse thieves also killed people. However, the gang of horse thieves did not clean up, and was escaped by a man.

The food of the Di people was robbed, and there was no protection money to be handed over to the Qiang people, and they were afraid of being punished by the Qiang people, so they told the Qiang people that the grain was robbed by horse thieves, and also revealed the whereabouts of this group of horse thieves.

As you can imagine, this group of horse thieves was exterminated by the Qiang people, and they also lost more than 100 people, and now the horse thieves have captured these Di people and disemboweled them in retaliation.

"Don't give him nonsense, solve him for me!" The strong man who spoke just now said.

"Boss, don't worry, I'll leave it to me!" The monkey-cheeked horse thief walked over with a sinister smile.

"You horse thieves, God will give you retribution, and you will not die well sooner or later!" Instead of begging for mercy, the young man cried out loudly as if he were dead.

"It's a man!" Adou sighed softly, and then grabbed a palm-sized stone from the ground.

"Lao Tzu, dig out your guts, and see how bold you are with a hard mouth!" The horse thief roared viciously, and the sharp knife in his hand reached out to the abdomen of the young man.

......A dark shadow flashed and hit the thief on the head, and the thief fell to the ground before he could even scream. The horse thief next to him immediately focused his gaze, and now the black shadow was a palm-sized stone.

"What people!" The strong man immediately jumped up and looked in the direction of Adou, and at this time, Adou also walked out of the darkness.