Chapter 612: My Brothers and Sisters (Part II)
After waking up the next day, Bolu's head was still a little painful, and he couldn't remember what happened last night, but he only remembered that he promised that he was willing to serve Zhao Wuxian as his heir. As soon as the words were spoken, there was no room for reversal, and Beru did not regret it, but he was slightly embarrassed when he saw Zhao Wuxian again.
But as soon as he went out, he met a smiling shirtless man standing in the courtyard, and he was surrounded by two horses with bright coats.
"It's ......"
Wuxian said: "Brother came just in time, how about coming to see these two horses?" ”
Zhao is a generation of horse experts, from the beginning of Boyi to the present, about one or two thousand years old, the people in the clan do not love horses, more or less know a little about the art of horses, Bolu is no exception. He looked around, and saw that the two horses were both dragon-headed, protruding-eyed, blue-eyed, green-maned, curly and red-striped, shoulder-high six feet high, flat ridges and large bellies, and strong tendons. When I got closer to the broken teeth, the teeth were like the edge of a sword.
Beru couldn't help but praise: "Good horse! Even if it is not the legendary Maxima, at least it is a good horse of 500 miles, even if it is rare in the Jin Dynasty, where did Wuxian come from? ”
The horse-producing land in the world is nothing more than the following: Daiguo, Xianyu, Jin, Yan and Qin, among which Daima is introduced from the Daibei grassland, the most good at running, and the Jin horse endurance is amazing, Qin Ma is tough, Yan Ma is tall, Xianyu Ma is long in the mountains.
With the exception of these foreign countries, the horses of the rest of the princes were either short and weak, or they had to be purchased from foreign countries, which was not worth mentioning.
There are exceptions, though.
Wuxian patted the two horses on the back and said with a smile: "This is what I bought from the son of the dead country of the Tang Kingdom." ”
Bo Lu changed color: "Could it be that the Chu State ordered Yin Zichang to detain Tang Chenghou and wanted the treasure of the Tang State that he wanted?" ”
"However, it is the Tang State horse. and the southern treasure of the same name as Hou Zhu, although it grows in Jianghan Wanye. But it is not inferior to the good horses of the north, and I have made a total of four. One horse was given to Guangde, one horse wanted to be kept for his father, and there were two horses left, uncle, should you and I each pick one horse? ”
"This ...... It's so valuable, I ......."
Zhao Wuxian was also not polite, his face was slightly serious: "Uncle, do you and I need to be so polite?" ”
Bruw didn't dare to refuse, and he chose the mare with white spots on his forehead. Equipped with a saddle and stirrups - although Zhao Wuxian's habit of riding a horse alone was not accepted by most Jin nobles, under Zhao Ying's personal practice, the Zhao family and retainers already regarded riding horses as the norm.
After that, the convoy set off again, slowly driving west to Wenxian.
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This is a familiar road, a few years ago, after Zhao Wuxian's bloody case in Yangjiban, he stepped on the snow in late winter and walked down step by step from Taihang.
Now. He's got out of the way!
But the return journey is still long, the Jin Kingdom is very large, and this "land of Nanyang" is also very vast, and it is divided by the Jin Qings. The group had to walk on this road for three more days, two of which were on Fan's territory......
It's also funny to say, after the princes of Sishang realized the abolition of tariffs. The industrial and commercial products of Ludu Qufu frantically poured into Yi, Teng, and Xue, and the merchants of Lu and Cao no longer had to be blocked out of the checkpoints. At least in terms of convenient transportation, the countries of Sishang are the same country.
The Jin kingdom can be nominally unified. However, there are six currency areas and six mu systems of different sizes, and the territories of the Qing clan are also like national borders, and the merchants and travelers who cross the border will be strictly checked, which is simply a divided six countries.
However, although Jin has six points, even the weakest Han clan has nine counties, and the army that can levy "nine hundred times" is not much different from the Lu State in the Sanhuan era.
The rest of the five Qings are all at the level of 1,000 times and 1,500 times! It can levy thirty or forty thousand soldiers.
The strong enemy was on the side, so Zhao Wuxian was cautious about this, plus the people sent by Zhao Ying to meet him, the team was close to the first division, the cavalry was strong, and the protected convoy was also very close, preventing the enemy who might launch a surprise attack at any time. Moreover, on the path, he deliberately bypassed the Gonggong and Fan Yi, which hung the Fan's imperial dragon flag.
However, just like Zhao Wuxian said to the prince of Weiguo, he is far from being a concubine of the Zhao family now, and attacking him is to rise to the level of attacking foreign leaders! Unless Fan and Zhongxing are crazy, they are never willing to bear the responsibility of destroying the Jinlu Alliance.
So there was no danger along the way, but Zhao Wuxian was also frightened all the way.
A few years ago, he passed through this place, and he wanted to cross the river south to complete the mission of the Song Kingdom, so he didn't observe much, but now his vision and insight are far beyond the past, and he has come back all the way to see the strength of the Fan family.
The land of Fan, Gong, and Yong counties is extremely rich, with many people, and the cities are one after another, not to mention the Chaoge and Qiao further north, all of which have been developed since the Yin Shang era!
After Qi seized Yiyi, Xian Yu counterattacked, Fan Ying died a year early, and the loss of prestige, Fan and Bank of China are far less powerful than in history, but in terms of the population they control and the number of apprentices they can levy, they still rank first among the six Qings!
If the comprehensive strength of the secretaries of the Jin State is ranked in order, it is still the first in the Bank of China and the second in Fan's, if Handan is added, Xizhao can be equal with the two families, if there is no Handan, but it can only be ranked third. The second is the Zhi family, but because it controls the power of governance and occupies the name of righteousness and etiquette, the strength of this family should not be underestimated. Wei's and Han's, as rising stars, can naturally only be at the bottom.
It is no wonder that in history, Fan and Bank of China were able to beat Zhao in the early stage, and by the way, Zhi, Wei, and Han were abused back to the west of Taihang. It wasn't until the two families attacked Xintian Jinhou for a while that they provoked the Chinese people to counterattack, and they lost their advantage.
But now it's different, because of Zhao Wuxian's "Three Holes of the Cunning Rabbit", the Zhao family has an additional sub-base that is stronger than his own family......
The state of Lu, which is firmly controlled by Eastern Zhao, combined with Song and Cao, can overwhelm Fan and the second secretary of the Bank of China!
What's more, Zhao Wuxian had already learned the secret news from the prince of Weiguo, and it was no longer a day since Fan, Zhongxing, Qi and Wei's eyebrows came and went......
If the Zhao family operates properly, it may be said that the actions of Fan and Bank of China can be said to be treason and surrender to Qi, if it is said that the Marquis of Jin will let Zhao Wei and Han attack him, and Song Lu will attack him, at that time. The situation will completely turn to the east and west!
Now the Handan clan is much more honest than in history, and Handan Wu will also come to attend this wedding. And the Han clan was firmly pulled into the camp of the Zhao clan. When passing through Han's prefecture and county, the county doctor went out of the city for several miles to greet him. treats Zhao Wuxian as his own gentleman. And Wei Ju, the son of the Wei family, also has an eye-to-eye with Zhao Wuxian, and there has been a large salt trade in the past few years, but the Zhi family is the only one......
The old fox knows that it is probably the biggest variable at present.
Speaking of Zhi's family, Zhao Wuxian couldn't help but think of his biggest hit nemesis in history.
Zhiyao ......
He had already learned the news from Bolu that this son had destroyed the enemy and faintly surrounded the east side of the Zhao clan's Jinyang.
From the dictation of Han Hu and Zhao Bolu, Wuxian can roughly outline the image of the proud young man who is a genius.
That's right, this Zhiyao can indeed be called a genius. In history, it was completely beaten by Zhao Xiangzi, so that Zhao Xiangzi hated it so much that after his death, he made his head into a wine vessel to vent his anger.
Today's Zhao Wuxian is not a genius, he was just an ordinary ordinary person in his previous life.
But two thousand years of seeing and hearing, and the eyes that penetrate the trajectory of history, give him the strength to compete with the geniuses of this era!
Let's see, who will kill the deer!
Unconsciously, three days passed in a flash, and Wen County arrived.
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Early in the morning on March 6, Ji Ying was waiting on the city.
Waiting is no stranger to her. In the early years, her father always made her wait.
"With your mother, wait for me to return." Every time her father Zhao Ying went to court, hunted or went to the battlefield, he always said this to her. She is also obedient. Patiently holding his mother's hand, he stood on the battlements of the lower palace and watched the Fenshui and Hushui rushing by.
Zhao Ying's words must be believed. However, after years on the battlefield, he never came back on time. So Ji Huan and her mother also watched on the city wall all day long, looking out through the pheasant moat and arrow holes. Until he finally caught a glimpse of Zhao Qing driving a horse chariot, along the bank of the Hushui River, and running briskly towards the lower palace.
"But tired of waiting?" When Zhao Ying hugged her mother, lowered her head and touched Ji Huan's head, to see how tall she had grown, she would definitely ask this.
That was when she was happiest when she was a child.
But the last time, Ji Huan's mother didn't wait for Zhao Ying's return, so she left......
After that, her father was busy with government affairs, and the number of times he came back became less and less, and the object she was waiting for gradually became Zhao Wuxian. She has no mother, and he is the same, Ji Huan unknowingly played the role of waiting for him to grow up.
The role of the eldest sister is also the role of "mother".
When he was terminally ill that time, Ji Huan cried so fast that he almost died together.
She couldn't enter the ancestral temple of the Zhao family, so she could only pray to the god of Haotian and the ghosts and gods of the mountains and rivers in the ancestral hall!
She prayed that even if she took her own life, she would let Wuxian escape this catastrophe, let him live past the age of sixteen, twenty, and fifty, make him as tall as his father Zhao Ying, and give him the opportunity to hold his son in his arms......
Please, please, please!
Her prayer was fulfilled.
On the day of the coming-of-age ceremony, Wushirt, who seemed to be different from before, patted his chest and swore to her: "Sister, I will be an adult after today." ”
"Wuxian swears here, I will swear to protect my sister to the death, the mountains have no tombs, the rivers are exhausted, the winter thunder and earthquakes, the summer rain and snow, the heaven and the earth are together, and I dare to be with the woman!"
Ji Huan smiled with satisfaction, but flashed his arms, stood on tiptoe, stretched out his hand and pulled his ears, and said No matter how long it is, you are still my brother.
But soon, he was gone.
When Wuxian left, he said, "Sister, my trip won't be too long. He once solemnly sworn, "A few months at the earliest, half a year at the latest, when I return." ”
It's exactly the same thing my father said......
However......
Spring goes to autumn, year after year passes. The mulberry has not fallen, and its Ye Woruo. The fall of the mulberry is yellow.
He's been gone for five years!
Take advantage of the other wall, in the hope of recovering the customs. I didn't see the resumption, and I was crying and rippling. Seeing the resumption of customs, laughing and talking.
Ji Ying used to be worthless for the woman in "Hooligans", but now, she suddenly understands the mood in the poem.
Sure enough, it's a woman's shyness, and you can't take it off...... I don't know if after standing here for a few months, she will turn into a stone man like the Tu Shan clan.
But now, he's finally back after all the hardships!
……
The wind swept the deep clothes, making her like a pennant standing at the head of the city, so that Zhao Wuxian could see it from afar.
Although he was already a father, although he had returned with his bride and wife to complete the marriage, although when they passed through the city, when they looked at each other from a distance, they were both surprised by the great change in each other's appearance.
In the past, holding hands in the lower palace, the two young girls and teenagers who had no guesses had already grown up.
Although she is still dressed in red, her eyebrows and eyes have long been opened, and her plump body has lost a little weight because of lovesickness, but she is becoming more and more beautiful and mature.
Like a brilliant flower, it became a ripe fruit.
She likes to wear no makeup, and she has a little makeup on the corners of her slender eyes - just for him.
And Ji Huan looked at the tall young man in front of him with a new beard, riding a fat horse, and flying sword eyebrows, but what she saw in her eyes was the little brother who was stupid and ran with her all over the palace. Looking at the younger brother who was thinking about her for a long time, getting closer and closer, her snort gradually became heavy, and she had the urge to jump off with her red hand on the wall......
But in the end, she just looked down at him under the city in the posture of an eldest sister, revealing a faint smile.
Shirtless has been riding on a horse, keeping her head up, she is the beacon that shows him his way back and keeps him from getting lost in this era.
But......
Wenxian County is in the spring of March, and the city is full of spring scenery, why is she as unreachable as the green willows in the palace wall?
"Shirtless, back?" She asked.
"Well, sister, I'm back." Zhao Wuxian replied.
The voice was quiet, the other calm, it seemed that everything was plain, it seemed that he had not been gone for five years, and she had not waited for more than a thousand days and nights.
It's just that when she went down the city tower, she walked too quickly and didn't feel that her teeth were broken......
It's just that when he entered the city gate and stepped on the stirrup and dismounted, he didn't belong to his mind and went in the wrong direction...... (To be continued.) )