Since Chen Lin came out of Bashan last time and appointed Liu Hua to preside over the affairs of the mutual market, Chen Lin returned to Nanzheng. Although Chen Lin is now a county Taishou and manages ten counties in Hanzhong County, Chen Lin seems to be leisurely, Chen Lin said to Jia Xu: "Wenhe, now everyone in Hanzhong County is busy, but you and I have nothing to do." "Now Chen Lin and Jia Xu only deal with important documents in the morning every day, and they can finish it in an hour or two.

Jia Xu put down the tea set and said with a smile: "The lord is meritocracy, and everyone under him performs his duties, so the little Hanzhong County is naturally difficult to defeat the lord." As soon as Jia Xu finished speaking, there was a report outside the door, and an official came in with a bamboo book, saying that it was a letter from Lord Shi. Jia Xu smiled: "Lord, I just said that I was idle, look, isn't this coming." ”

Chen Lin took it and took a look, Yizhou Thorn Shi Xuan Jian Jiezhi is the Yizhou Thorn History who took office a year ago, but this time the letter was sent to ask Chen Lin to go to Mianzhu County, Guanghan County to visit, Yizhou Thorn History Mansion is now located in Mianzhu. Just a few words about the bamboo slips, after Chen Lin read them, he handed the bamboo slips to Jia Xu and said: "I heard that this Yizhou Thorn Shi is harsh in politics and amasses people's wealth, if it weren't for the rice thieves in Hanzhong County before, I'm afraid that this Thorn Shi Lord has already remembered it, and now he wants to go for no reason, so he must want some benefits." ”

There was really nothing to see about the bamboo slips, Jia Xu glanced at it and closed it, and said with a smile: "Lord, the official has an order, but he can't help but go, but the lord doesn't have to worry about it." If the lord first plays the crime of the assassin to the court, even if the court ignores it, in the future, the assassin will write a book to say that the lord is not, but it makes the court feel that the assassin is a grudge and revenge, so that the lord does not have to beg this assassin too much. "Jia Xu is bad, isn't Chen Lin afraid of offending the assassin history, worried that the assassin history will be written to the imperial court, then Chen Lin will first play the court and say that Xuan Jian is not, if Xuan Jian really wants to slander Chen Lin in the future, it is not so easy, after all, preconceived ideas have been formed in the hearts of everyone in the court.

Chen Lin laughed, so a letter exposing Yizhou's thorn Shi Xuan's thrifty and tyrannical accumulation of people's wealth and harsh politics was sent to the imperial court, and at the same time, Chen Lin also set off to Guanghan County to meet the thorn Shi who had never met before, and he had five thousand taels of gold on his body, and eighty horsemen and guards went on the road like this.

After a short time, Chen Lin and the others entered the Yinping Trail, Chen Lin looked at it, and saw that this trail was several times steeper and more difficult than the original Shangyong to Nanzheng Gorge Road, Zhou Cang exclaimed: "Is this the Shu Road, it is really difficult." Jia Xu smiled and said: "I'm afraid Commander Zhou is going to be disappointed, this is a Yinping Trail, which is divided into two roads dozens of miles ahead, one through Fucheng to Mianzhu, and the other through the Sword Pavilion to go to Jiameng Pass." These two roads are the real Shu Road, and I don't know how much steeper it is than this. ”

When everyone heard it, this is not Shu Dao, Shu Dao is not much more precipitous than this, then, everyone shouted bitterness in their hearts. Sure enough, after traveling dozens of miles, I saw that the passage in front of me was divided into two, one along the south and the other to the west. Presumably, the road to the west is from the Tuojiang plank road to Fucheng, and the front river is the Leijiang plank road. These two Shu roads are the plank road leading to Shu, along the way to set up a pass, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the most majestic is just said four passes: Fucheng, Mianzhu, Sword Pavilion, Jiameng Pass. The plank road is dangerous, and you can only walk alone against the cliff, and if you are not careful, you will fall off the cliff.

The unique natural danger in Shu makes the land of Shu almost isolated from the world, and often major events occur in Shu, and sometimes the imperial court may not know about it for three or four months. However, Yizhou has 1.5 million households, and it is an indispensable state of the Han Dynasty. Chen Lin turned back to Jia Xu and said: "Wenhe, although this land in Shu is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it also isolates Shuzhong from the world because of this, outsiders can't attack it, and Shuzhong can't get out." ”

Jia Xu, as a military strategist, is also thinking about this problem at this time, the Shu Road stretches for hundreds of miles, it is steep and difficult to travel, and the march and battle are based on grain and grass, which is really difficult to transport grain in and out of Shu, so it is inconvenient to go in and out of the war. At this time, when I heard Chen Lin say, I also felt this way, but Jia Xu was worthy of being a scheming person, and in a blink of an eye, he could find a way that was not a way, and said: "Lord, when the lord saw that the Zhengxia Road in the south of Shangyong was difficult, he sent prisoners to repair it, and this Shu Road was also dug by the ancestors. "The reason why Jia Xu thinks is that the way is here, and if it is not easy to walk, it will be repaired, but in these hundreds of miles of Shu Road, there are not tens of thousands of people who spend three or four years not thinking about making a difference.

Chen Lin laughed after hearing this, and said: "Wenhe is chic, but in this way, it will not cost the people and money, and I am afraid that it will make the people of Yizhou resentful." Just as Chen Lin and the others were struggling to move forward, they suddenly saw a few people resting on the bluestone in a relatively open place ahead, including men and women, old and young, who seemed to be a family, all dressed as ordinary people. When those people saw Chen Lin and the others, wearing armor and holding swords and leading war horses, suddenly the family became panicked, and the old one of them seemed to be the head of the family, and he had the courage to pull his family behind him and retreat in the corner.

Seeing this, Chen Lin crossed the guard who opened the road in front of him, and asked kindly, "Where is this coming from, old man?" The old man swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looked a little scared, and said, "The official, the grass people, the grass people are from Fucheng, go to Hanzhong to visit relatives, and ask the official to let him go." Chen Lin looked at it, how could there be such a way to visit relatives, it was obviously a home relocation, presumably the old man was afraid, so he said this.

Chen Lin took out a few pieces of dry food from the guard's bag and handed it to the old man, the old man didn't dare to take it, Chen Lin stepped forward and stuffed it in the old man's hand, and said with a smile: "Don't panic, don't panic, some dry food, the old man will give it to the children to eat, the road is far away, and it will take a long time to get out." After Chen Lin finished speaking, the old man's eyes were moist, and he immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Chen Lin, and the family behind him was too, only to hear the old man crying and saying, "My lord is really a good official." ”

Chen Lin hurriedly helped him up, sat down and chatted with the old man, and let everyone rest in place. It turned out that this old man was going to Hanzhong County to make a living, originally there were still some fields in Fucheng, but the corrupt officials bullied him, the old man heard that Hanzhong County was too diligent and loved the people, as long as the displaced people took refuge in the fields, the taxes were still very low, so the desperate old man took a family on the road. I have never left Fucheng, and I never imagined that this Shu road is so difficult, the family has been walking and stopping, it has been a month, and it is still not finished, the family cannot advance or retreat, at this time the food is empty, and the child is hungry and uncomfortable.

When Chen Lin heard this, his eyes couldn't help but moisten a little, and he called a guard, took the whole bag of dry food, and sent it to the old man, saying: "Don't hide it, this official is the Taishou of Hanzhong, the old man's family walks slowly, and he can go out in the next seven or eight days, the official takes a letter to the old man to take out, and the official of Hanzhong County arranges for the old man, don't worry, Hanzhong County will be your new home in the future." After speaking, Jia Xu wrote a letter on the brocade cloth, stamped it with Chen Lin's big seal, and handed it to the old man. The old man's hands trembled and he took the bag and letter handed over by Chen Lin, and he was speechless.

Chen Lin didn't stay long, stood up and shouted, "It's on the road." Walking straight forward, a group of guards hurriedly pulled their horses to follow, and Zhou Cang walked up quickly to protect Chen Lin. Chen Lin walked away, and the old man's family watched him go, and the old man suddenly knelt down, kowtowed a few times to Chen Lin's back, and burst into tears.

The old Han family dragged their families to walk the Shu Road for more than a month, and Chen Lin and others also walked for more than half a month to end this thrilling journey, especially the four horses that fell to death, so that the guards who led the horses were so frightened that their eyes were blank for two days. Ahead is a relatively open Guanghan territory, although it is still the same steep, but it is finally inhabited, because Fucheng is already far away.

Fucheng County is on an open plain behind Fucheng Pass, and Fucheng Pass is also an open place in front of Fucheng Pass, slightly going to the mountains, and there is a county, called Zitong. Zitong County is in a mountain col, surrounded by mountains on three sides, there is only one exit, and it is Fuchengguan when it comes out. Chen Lin exclaimed, the Fucheng Pass in front of him was narrow and towering, one side of the mountain was facing the water, the mountain was steep and unclimbable, and the water was turbulent. Chen Lin couldn't help but sigh:

Wow! The stakes are high! The difficulty of Shu Road is difficult to go to the blue sky.

Silkworms and fish, how dazed is the founding of the country! Erlai is 47,000 years old, and he is not populated with Qinsai.

There is a bird road in Xidang Taibai, which can cross the top of Emei.

The earth collapsed and the mountain destroyed the strong man to death, and then the ladder stone stacks were hooked together.

There is a high standard of six dragons returning to the sun, and there is a return to the river with a wave and a reversal.

The flight of the yellow crane is not yet passable, and the ape wants to spend his sorrow and climb.

What a plate of green mud! Hundreds of steps and nine folds linger on the rocks.

He sat on his back and sighed with his hands.

Ask when you will return to the west, and you can't climb the rocks.

But when I saw the ancient trees of the Sad Bird, the male and the female flew around the forest.

I also heard Zigui crying the night moon, and I was sad about the empty mountain. The difficulty of Shu Road is difficult to go to the blue sky! Let people listen to this.

Even the peaks go to the sky and do not exceed the feet, and the dead pines hang upside down against the cliffs.

The flying turbulent waterfall is noisy, and the cliff turns to the stone and thunder.

The same is true of the danger, why do people who come from afar?

Fucheng Pass is grand and Cui Wei, one husband is the pass, and ten thousand people are not open.

Guards or bandits, turned into wolves and jackals. Avoid tigers in the morning and long snakes in the evening.

Grinding teeth and sucking blood, killing people like numbness.

Although Shuzhong is fertile, it is better to return home early.

The difficulty of the Shu Road is difficult to go to the blue sky, and the side looks west and sighs

Chen Lin sang with feelings, it was the book of poems left by Grandpa back then, and others naturally didn't know. Jia Xu: "I have heard the poems of the lord for a long time, I have only heard of it, and I am familiar with what the lord wrote, but now it is the first time that I have heard the lord sing, fortunately." After Jia Xu praised Chen Lin, he was worried again, just because Chen Lin said, "Although Shuzhong is fertile, it is better to return home early." Jia Xu was afraid that Chen Lin would cut off the idea of entering Shu from now on, but Jia Xu always remembered what Chen Lin's grandfather said: "The granary in the south and the male army in the north".

Just when Jia Xu was worried, Chen Lin suddenly said again: "If I am the lord of Yizhou, I must first repair the plank road." Let Jia Xu breathe a sigh of relief. After a few days, everyone arrived in Mianzhu, Chen Lin looked back at the hardships along the way, laughed with everyone, and strode into Mianzhu City.