"King, it's getting dark, let's go to Yiguan first. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The Assassins have not yet been identified, but they have been sent to the chariot to be hung out of the gates, and the Assassins are to be found out. ”

Standing outside the carriage, Wang Cuo bowed and replied.

"Just as Lord Sima said." Ning Yue, who was not at ease and got into the carriage, replied politely for Zhou Bian.

The team soon started again, the speed was the same as before, and it was obvious that the Wei army did not have the slightest panic because of this incident.

Lifting the curtain and looking out, I saw that the outermost torch was ten people away from the center of the team. Because it was still at the end of the road, and the road was not wide, the outermost soldiers with torches might be in the mountains or in the woods. And in this dark night, even if you hold a torch in your hand, you will inevitably fall or kick yourself, and it is conceivable that the Wei army will pay the price of attrition.

And the royal family's own personal guards have also strengthened their vigilance, Zhou Bian can clearly see that his carriage is crowded with his own personal guards, and the shields are all raised in his hands, these well-trained personal guards, when prepared, can definitely block any enemy who attacks at the first time. Of course, the cost is to be vigilant for a long time, which is easy to fatigue, and even some hallucinations that cause inappropriate behavior.

However, the city is not far away, and Zhou Bian doesn't want any more accidents on the road, although he has not heard of a series of assassinations in this era, but it is always a big mistake to be careful. And Zhou Bian knew that not only Ning Yue was guarding in the carriage, but even Fan Yu was sitting next to the coachman in front of the carriage with a sword.

The whole team cautiously walked forward, but they didn't go far when they suddenly heard a loud shout from ahead, "Who is it?" Don't get close! ”

Frightened, the royal guards were nervous, and Fan Yu also drew his sword and stood up.

But after listening to the whispers of the people in front of them, the team began to move forward normally, and after a while, the news came, it turned out that it was Captain Yiguan and the former army general who arrived first Seeing that Wei Hou's carriage had not arrived so late, they went out of the pass to find it.

There was nothing to say all the way, it didn't take long, the big team arrived at Yiguan City, and then assigned a room after entering the customs, the night was already deep, and Qiao Nu also woke up at this time, struggling to serve and sleep, but was persuaded by Zhou Bian.

The next day, it was a rare slept because the Wei army had to rest in Yiguan, waking up all the way, Yiguan was a relatively large city, and most importantly, as a military location, Wei couldn't help but have grain and grass equipment here, and there were a large number of empty rooms for soldiers to rest, so it was very necessary to choose to rest here after the fatigue of the road.

And a more important reason is that the border to the west is the border of South Korea. Wei Hou's route back to Korea this time is to pass through the Korean border, although the envoy has been sent to negotiate, although Wei Hou has just defeated Korea, but Wei Hou must ensure that he has enough ability to deal with possible changes, so more than 1,000 Wei troops in front of him have been waiting here, Wei Hou has to wait for the 2,000 Wei troops following behind, after the 5,000 army is rested, it will be in the best state, to go through the Korean border at full speed.

According to the tradition of this period, under normal circumstances, if a monarch wants to cross the territory of a country, if he wants to go to another country that is not adjacent, he will generally take the border between countries, but obviously there are some exceptions, such as the passage of a large army in order to save distance, such as being in a hurry, and the current situation of Wei Hou obviously belongs to the latter.

But the monarch borrowed the way to return to China, after all, it is not a trivial matter, and he must get the permission of another country, and General Wei Xiangxiang, who was one step ahead, naturally had already informed the nobles of the land of Hebei in South Korea, and Korea had just been defeated by Wei, so it was obvious that he would not disagree at this time.

However, Wei Hou still waited cautiously for two more days, the next day the army arrived, gathered 5,000 soldiers, and on the third day the whole army rested, and Zhou Bian had nothing to do in the past two days, and walked around the city of Yiguan.

This pass is not big, but it is a military place, this pass is built in the westernmost end of the road, the city is high and strong, the city walls are built with earth and stone, not all are rammed earth, the city walls and city towers are very complete, there are a large number of barracks and granaries and equipment warehouses in the city, even if the people and horses of the Marquis of Wei are here even if they rest for a whole winter, there will be no pressure.

At the same time, Zhou Bian also noticed that the corpses of those assassins were hung at the east and west gates, but Zhou Bian thought that it would not have any effect, because the assassins were so well prepared, how could they leave traces in Yiguan City? The Assassins must have come from somewhere else. If you can make the search area larger, such as all the villages and hunters around the road, you may be able to find out where these Assassins came from, and then touch forward, you may be able to find some traces.

But Zhou Bian believes that Wei Hou will not be so aggressive, and Zhou Bian also believes that even if Wei Hou does this, he will not find any results, because this era is not a unified country, Wei Hou followed the check, this assassin must be from another country, in this country There is no customs between countries, there is no passport, you can't accuse Wei of easily putting in assassins, and you can't go to transnational criminals, you must rely on the strength of other countries, otherwise it will be a big war between countries.

So Zhou Bian didn't take the initiative to ask Wei Hou how the investigation was.

However, on the third day of entering the city, in the temporary camp, Zhou Bian saw the dusty Luoyang envoy, Wang Ping.

This time only a carriage came, a coachman and two pawns escorted Wang Ping all the way forward, and when Wang Ping, who was haggard, saw the royal family, he said, "Fortunately, I am not dishonored!" ”

It turned out that Wang Ping sent a letter from Luoyang this time, first arrived at Daliang, inquired that the king went to Puyang with the Wei army, just walked not far and encountered heavy snow, had to return to Daliang, and after the snow stopped, this was carefully bypassing the battlefield, and when he arrived in Puyang, he heard that the king went to Anyi with the Marquis of Wei, and in the case of not knowing the route of the Wei army, Wang Ping resolutely decided to take the road across Korea, anyway, this is the vehicle of the Zhou room, from which country you can go.

So in Yiguan, Wang Ping was lucky to join the king.

No wonder this letter has been waiting for so long, it turned out to be so tortuous.

After comforting Wang Ping, Zhou Bian couldn't wait to read the letter from Luoyang.

At the end of October, South Korea handed over Siyi as promised, but as Ning Yue expected, South Korea confiscated all the grain in these Siyi, including those that had just been harvested in the field and those stored in the farmers' homes, which meant that South Korea gave Zhou Room tens of thousands of hungry mouths.

However, what South Korea did not do was that it did not take away all the young and strong men in these four towns, but only evacuated all its own agency personnel.

At the same time, the first indemnity in Korea also arrived, but there was still no food, only coins and silk cloth, Taishi and Bai Xiang according to Zhou Bian's meaning, the silk cloth was rewarded to the nobles and meritorious generals in the city, and then the coins were divided into three parts, one was issued to the salary and reward of ordinary soldiers, one was issued to nobles and meritorious generals, and one remained in the royal family, after all, all the royal family industries want to restart, or need a sum of money.

Then fortunately, the Heluo area ushered in a bumper harvest this year, and the grain harvest was not only able to meet Luoyang's needs, but also to borrow money to help the people of Siyi survive this winter.

In the end, Luoyang's ironmaking and winemaking were the first to begin to recover, after all, these two industries are the most profitable, and the iron-smelting industry has also received a deposit in advance, so it is necessary to rush to produce, anyway, there is no farm work in winter, there is a lot of labor to use, and the previously destroyed factory in Chengzhou City has been rebuilt under the leadership of Shen Bufa, and the scale is even larger than before.

These are the recent conditions in Luoyang, everything is developing benignly.

In addition, Wang Ping arrived with a large bag of clothes, opened to see, but they were all leather clothes sent by the Queen Mother, and suddenly a warm maternal love filled the small earthen house in a foreign country.

On the fourth day of arriving at Yiguan, the Wei army began to move again, and 5,000 men escorted Wei Hou and Zhou Tianzi to the west.

Not far to the west is Korean territory.

As soon as I entered South Korea, I saw that hundreds of people were already waiting in front of me, it turned out that South Korea had sent someone to receive and guide the way, but the first person was an acquaintance that Zhou Bian also knew, Gongzi Wu.

With the special company of the Koreans, the next journey was much easier and simpler, all the way to the plains and small hills, all the way to the city to rest, it only took four days to pass through Korea from the shortest point in the gourd-shaped middle of the Korean territory. When Han Wu sent Wei Hou out of Wusui City, the last stop, he saluted and left.

Along the way, Gongzi Wudu just accompanied Wei Hou, but he didn't even say hello to the royal family, and even looked at this group of people with hatred from a distance, but Zhou Bian could feel that Han Wu should be more hostile to Su Rui, so along the way, it was indispensable to persuade Su Rui, who had returned to his homeland.

At the same time, Zhou Bian also learned from the mouth of the Wei people that this Han Gongziwu was driven away from the center of Korea because of his poor performance in the attack on Luoyang this year, and was sent to Hebei north of the Great River, where he served as a magistrate in this barren land.

After bidding farewell to Gongzi Wu's company all the way, the army of the Marquis of Wei went all the way to the west, and soon crossed the border between the two countries, and set foot on the territory of Wei, and on the border line, there were already thousands of people waiting in a neat line, and among the ministers who greeted him, the leader was a middle-aged man with a long beard and a white robe who did not smile, about fifty years old. Through the introduction of others, it was learned that this person was the first person among the ministers of Wei, Gongsun Acne.

Looking from afar, I saw Gongsun Xuan standing under the car and respectfully invited Wei Hou to get out of the car, accompanied him into the marching tent that had already been set up on the side, and walked out again after a meal.

Then, after the two came out of the marching tent, Gongsun Acne got on the frame of Wei Hou's carriage, and thousands of troops gathered together and immediately set off. In short, Gongsun Yan was quite respectful to the Marquis of Wei, but he simply turned a blind eye to the royal family in the team, except for glancing at this side from a distance before drilling the military tent, he did not say anything about the so-called co-owner of the world, Zhou Tianzi.

In this fertile land that gave birth to the Jin and Wei kingdoms, a team of thousands of people stepped on the ice and snow, rushed westward quickly, traveled for two days, and finally on the third day when Gongsun Acne received the Marquis of Wei, a huge city appeared in front of everyone.

Until this time, Gongsun Acne has not taken the initiative to have any contact with the royal family. And just when Zhou Bian was still hesitating whether to send someone to take the initiative to contact Gongsun Acne, Anyi, a huge city that suddenly appeared on the eye level, had completely attracted his attention.

The city can definitely be called huge, standing on a small hill in the distance and looking down, densely packed with black pressure is full of houses, there are high city walls around the outside of the city, and this city is the same as many ancient cities are long from north to south and short from east to west, and then take a closer look, you can also see that there are city walls in the city, in the middle is a small square, from the tall halls in it should be the palace city, there is a slightly larger square in the south, and there is an east-west city wall in the north, The whole city of Anyi was divided into two parts.

From the point of view of perception, the area of this city has exceeded that of the royal capital Luoyang, but Zhou Bian has already learned that Linzi, the capital of Qi State, is the largest city in this era, and Daliang City should be larger than this Anyi, but it is still empty.

The team did not stop at all, even when they saw the destination, these Wei soldiers did not rejoice at all, which made Zhou Bian feel very surprised, but he didn't know how harsh the training of the Wei army was, so that even some normal human flavor was gone.

Along the way, along the way, the erudite Ning Yue and the well-informed Wang Sunman also went all the way to Zhou Bian to tell the history of this Anyi, it turned out that this Anyi was the capital of the Xia Dynasty, and King Wu gave this land to his younger brother Bi Gonggao when he established the country, and established the Bi country, and because this land is called Wei land, it is also called Wei State. This Wei State died at the hands of Jin Xiangong, and then Jin Xiangong gave Anyi to his doctor, and he was also the descendant of Bi Gonggao, Bi Wan.

At this time, Anyi was only the size of the small square in the city.

Bi Wan's descendants are also called Wei after the name of the place, and they have also been serving in the Jin State. When he arrived at Chong'er by the time of Duke Wen of Jin, Wei Wuzi followed Chong'er and made great achievements, so he expanded Anyi City, which was a slightly larger square to the south of that small square. To Wei Jiang, the grandson of Wei Wuzi, the strength of the Wei family was further expanded, and it was listed as one of the six Qings, and Wei Jiang expanded the southern city of today's Anyi outside the original two squares.

After the three families were divided, Wei Wenhou built the northern city again, which formed today's Anyi City, which is long in the north and south, of course, many city walls have been repaired, but not all of them were left before. At the same time, considering the hundreds of years of operation of the Wei clan, the city of Anyi was crowded, and Wei Wenhou once moved the center of the state to Hengshuiyi, which was not far away, but eventually moved back to Anyi.

At the same time, the earliest Anyi, the small square in the middle, is no longer inhabited by civilians, and all of them are Wei Palace.

The team soon entered Anyi City, sure enough, the street was narrow, the crowd was dense, and after observing for a while, Zhou Bian came back to his senses and noticed that Wei Hou returned to the court this time, and he did not set up a reliance, only relying on the soldiers to clear the road, all the way through several city gates, and then slowly walked into the Wei Palace.

This is not the style of the Marquis of Wei, the history of this King Wei Hui is so happy, he likes to put on a big show, how can this defeat the Three Kingdoms and return to the dynasty in victory, why is there no mezzanine welcome, and there is no prince to lead the ministers out to kneel and pick it up?

"Your Majesty thinks that the Marquis of Wei must have a deep meaning." After expressing his doubts, Ning Yue said after a deep sigh.

"Look at it again, Wei Hou is by no means a low-key person."

Saying this, the royal family followed the frame of the Marquis of Wei and entered the Wei Palace, and when they arrived here, the carriage no longer gave way, and after General Baning invited Zhou Bian to get off the car, he took care of arranging Zhou Bian's three hundred followers. And Zhou Bian followed Baning's words, took a few close courtiers and guards, and chased after Wei Hou.

"King, this is the widow's palace, please!" Wei Hou stretched out his hand slightly, nodded and then walked inward first, Gongsun Xuan and Wang Cuo hurriedly caught up, and when they heard that Wei Hou was invited, Zhou Bian had no choice but to lift his skirt and hang behind him.