On the lush official roads on both sides, a small black carriage was moving southward without hurry. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The black carriage has an unpretentious arch shape, but the lower wheels are extremely slender and seem to be unusually tough, if anyone looks closely, they will be surprised to find that both wheels are actually made of fine iron, and on the central axle of the wheels, there are five layers of curved iron plates on both sides to support the body, which is surprising at the same time, but also wonders what the use is.

The black carriage was almost hermetically sealed, and the back of the carriage was not a curtain, but a locked iron door!

No one can see how thick the iron gate is, but it is definitely not a pull, it should be a heavy treasure!

At the back of the carriage, there was also a small cart dragged, and outsiders could see that it was just a chicken coop with two wheels, which was very simple, and at this moment there were seven or eight live chickens making a low cooing sound.

In addition, the two horses in front of the car and the two horses behind the car followed, although the size of these four horses is not large, as long as people who are really familiar with northern horses can know at a glance that this is a Mobei grassland horse with extremely strong endurance!

Ordinary people can't imagine that it will cost hundreds of taels of silver to complete the set? But it is not difficult to see that the owner is really rich!

Along the way, I don't know how many bad people want to pay attention to this car, especially for the two grassland horses that follow behind the car, as long as the reins are untied, they will change hands for dozens of taels, how not to tempt people?

There are too many thieves, but there are very few who really dare to start, because next to the carriage, followed by a yellow-maned horse, immediately dressed in a strange costume, a handsome woman with a heroic spirit hanging a sword at her waist, and her eyes coldly glanced at the onlookers all the way.

"Aren't you tired?" In front of the carriage, Dong Ce leaned on the driver's platform, holding his head in one hand and holding a book in the other hand and looking listlessly.

"Not tired." After Fang Shuwei finished stubbornly, she blinked her dry eyes and continued to stare vigilantly at passers-by.

Dong Ce was helpless about this, so he let her go.

It's not that Fang Shuwei has nothing to do, it's really that there are too many people with thieves in these years, especially in a remote area, even if you are on the official road, they still dare to steal and rob.

The most important thing is that there are only two of them, but they have five horses and a car, and the carriage is tightly locked.

At the beginning, they almost suffered a big loss, although they had the rearview mirror of the carriage to observe, but the other party was too fast, and as soon as they made a move, they took away Fang Shuwei's Xiaohuang!

If it weren't for the fact that the grassland horse was also good at running, and Fang Shuwei learned riding skills in the horse farm, I am afraid that the villains would really succeed!

After this incident, Dong Ce also had to pay attention to it, and the things were not allowed to be carried by the two horses behind, so he got some materials and modified a chicken coop cart by himself, and put the rest of the food in front of the cart together, and added a horse-drawn cart.

Steppe horses have grown up in horse herds since childhood, and they were castrated after being sold to the Central Plains, and they will not fight anyway, otherwise they will be replaced by southwestern pack horses without castration, and if you let them get together, it is indispensable to fight or mate!

This is also the disadvantage of raising horses in the Central Plains, castration at every turn, especially war horses, both male and female have been castrated, and they are also indiscriminately bred, and I don't know if Dong Ce's horse farm can be improved, otherwise I don't know how many good horses will be lost!

"Phew!" Dong Ce suddenly pulled the reins of the horse, sat up straight, put down the book, and asked an old man who came on a donkey: "Uncle, how far is it to Yingzhou?" ”

When the old man heard this, he pulled the reins and stopped the donkey, then pointed to the rear and said, "Ten miles ahead is the Yingzhou checkpoint." After speaking, the old man subconsciously looked at Dong Ce's carriage and horses, couldn't help frowning, and after finally glancing at Fang Shuwei, he immediately said to Dong Ce: "I said son, you two carry so many valuables, but be careful!" ”

"Thank you for the reminder." Dong Ce arched his hand and said casually: "But this broad daylight, and it is almost to the boundary of Yingzhou, there should be no small people." ”

"Alas, young!" The old man shook his head and sighed, and said: "It's not the same as before, since the Wuchang Mansion ordered Lord Wang to resign and return to his hometown, Yingzhou has become more and more chaotic in the past two years, and three months ago, the Taiping Dao poisoned the people with Fu Cha Dan Pill was exposed, causing all the Taiping Taoist temples in Yingzhou and nearby state capitals to be smashed, and Fu Cha Dan Pill was also robbed, and it was sold and stolen privately, and it was all messed up!" ”

The old man sighed, waved goodbye to Dong Ce, and rode north on a donkey.

"Cerang, that old man can't be true, right?" Fang Shuwei worried.

"What he said is still light, the truth is many times more serious than this, let's go." Dong Ce flicked the reins of the horse, and the carriage continued south.

Yingzhou, that is, Jiangxia County, Jingzhou, was later Wuhan.

Dong Ce took this road naturally for safety, he couldn't go to Ningzhou, there were too many people who knew him, so he could only go down the river from here and turn to Gusu.

Liu Su expressed her feelings to Dong Ce, and few people still know about it, so Dong Ce doesn't have to worry about her being caught and blackmailing herself.

As for whether Liu Su is willing to go with him, Dong Ce doesn't care, he will only respect the other party's choice, even if he sees the other party's duplicity, he will leave mercilessly, because he hates being restrained, and he hates the people around him being restrained, so he looks more uncomfortable than the other party, so it is better to break it when he is decided.

A line of ten miles, the level is in sight, there is no chaos in the old man's narration, it seems, everything is normal, but who can know how dark it is behind the white.

"Stop, what's in there?" The checkpoint guards stopped Dong Ce's carriage.

Dong Ce didn't say a word, and threw out a token with a shake of his hand.

A guard who stepped forward to investigate was stunned at first when he saw the token flying, and after taking the token, he just glanced at it, and his face turned pale with surprise, and he immediately arched his body to Dong Ce, and after saying a little wait, he ran back to the checkpoint with the token, and after a while, a man wearing bright light armor walked out quickly, hurriedly handed the token back to Dong Ce, and hugged his fists and said: "Niu Ao, the governor of Wuchang Mansion in Yingzhou, didn't know that the dethroned envoy arrived, and he hoped that the deposed envoy should not be blamed for being neglected!" ”

It is very coincidental that this deposed envoy has appeared in the previous dynasty of Daning, and his duties are the same as those of the deposed envoy of the Tang Dynasty known to Dong Ce, to inspect local officials, who should be promoted and demoted, and the power is not insignificant.

However, there is a little difference from the Tang Dynasty, the officials of the Ning Dynasty's dethroned envoys are all from poor families, who let the place be controlled by the scholars, if you want to say a few words to remove the officials placed by the local scholars, the consequences are likely to be a violent corpse wilderness!

Of course, no one is stupid enough to do this unless it is absolutely necessary, especially if the local scholars want the clansmen to be transferred to Beijing as officials, they will compete with each other, and who can be the dethroned envoy is not an old fritter, fine, mostly casually walked around and went home with a cart of gold, silver and jade.

During this period, in order to return to the court and prove to the court that he did not go to play, but did practical things, he naturally had to promote officials with a lot of money, and then find a few unlucky people to carry the black pot and degrade them directly.

Therefore, the dethroned envoy is still very popular, and no one in the local area wants to offend easily.

Dong Ce took the token and put it away, and said casually: "You are duty, how can you be guilty, by the way, I met a scholar when I came, saying that this Yingzhou is chaotic, but there is something wrong?" ”

Niu Ao immediately hugged his fists and said: "Don't dare to hide from the envoy, there is indeed such a thing!" ”

"Huh?" Dong Ce saw that the other party didn't hide it, and he was also quite surprised: "What do you say?" ”

"That's the case, in March this year, Taiping Dao suddenly became chaotic, fortunately, the government order and the general counterattacked quickly enough, otherwise something big would happen!" Niu Ao shook his head and sighed, and continued: "Since then, our Yingzhou has not been peaceful, the Taoist priest fanned the people everywhere to cause trouble, the government guards and the torture room are arrested everywhere, especially the Taoist priest, not at all, the master is good, there is something I want to ask you for a favor, that is, the lowly brother, he is a disciple of Wuwei Dao, but now he is arrested as a Taiping Dao, and please ask the deposed envoy to remind the master of the government order, after finding out, let go of my brother, and the lowly position is here to kneel down to the deposed envoy!" After Niu Ao finished speaking, he really clenched his fists and knelt down on one knee.

Dong Ce's eyes narrowed, he looked at Niu Ao carefully, and saw that he had a resolute face, big shoulders and a round waist, and he didn't seem to like a person who likes to play scheming, so he nodded and said, "I don't know what your brother's name is?" ”

"Oh, the lowly brother is called Niu Bing, because of his frailty and illness, he was sent to Wuwei Mountain to practice with Yuci Zhenren since he was a child, and now he learned that the Taiping Dao is chaotic, he was ordered by Yuci Zhenren to go down the mountain to relieve the suffering, but he was arrested as a disciple of the Taiping Dao, and the lowly duty is not allowed to leave this place because of his duty, and several letters have been fruitless, so he wants to ......."

Dong Ce interrupted him and said, "I remember this matter, you can search it, it's getting dark, and the official is still busy on the road." ”

"This ......" Niu Ao was stunned for a moment, and when he saw that Dong Ce's expression didn't seem to be joking, he nodded and asked people to check the carriage.

However, this inspection was only on the surface, just let a guard circle around the carriage and finish the matter, and did not dare to glance into the carriage at all, who knows if the family members of the deposed envoy were sitting inside, in case the wife of the deposed envoy was alarmed, this is not good!

Seeing that they were so casual, Dong Ce didn't bother to care, so he passed through the checkpoint with a flick of the reins, and naturally rode Xiao Huang through with Fang Shuwei, who was passing through with him.

"Du Wei, this dethroned envoy is so young, the deposed envoys in previous years are mostly old, and in groups, beating gongs and drums, for fear that others will not know that the dethroned envoy is coming, and this one, actually with an entourage, and the small discovery, the entourage seems to be a woman, will this be a fake ......?"

Niu Ao shook his head and said: "I don't think it like, the temperament of this deposed envoy is definitely not something ordinary people can have, in addition, being young does not mean that there is no strength, thinking that the new national teacher, is he only in his early twenties now, but he is showing his strength in the central capital, the imperial examination he mentioned, the establishment of the country's security, is beneficial to the people everywhere, alas, I really don't know, our Ying'an Mansion can be built well, with the Ying'an Mansion, I am worried that I can't deal with these chaotic ministers and thieves!" ”

"I heard that most of the government orders and generals do not support the construction of Ying'an Mansion, how can one government be managed by two governments at the same time, if you want to set it up, you can only set up a police booth!"

"What did you hear? How did I not know? Niu Ao frowned and looked at his subordinates.

The guard smiled bitterly and said in a low voice: "My cousin who works in the government office accidentally heard it, don't spread it!" ”

"How dare I talk nonsense about this, and you don't want to mention it again in the future." Niu Ao waved his hand, and after sending the guards away, he snorted coldly in his heart: "Only set up a police booth, hmph, it seems that they want to even serve as the security envoy of Yingzhou, it's really a big appetite, even if you succeed, what about the Judicial Yuan and the Inspectorate?" Do you want to get involved? These warriors really dare to do anything for hegemony! ”