Chapter 100: Nanjing! Nanking!
The carriage started, and Zhang Li gently lifted the curtains and looked at the scenery outside the window in a daze.
Originally, coming out of Penglai County, Zhang Zhang deliberately did not look at the scene outside the car along the way, because Zhang Zhang knew that after the plague, Dengzhou Mansion really couldn't see it, with white bones everywhere, barren land, and dilapidated houses.
Now that we are about to sail out of Shandong and enter Nanzhili, I guess the situation will be better, right?
However, what he saw made Zhang Li's heart congested......
The fields beside the road were left in large swaths, and only occasionally I saw a few unclothed farmers working with their heads down, and these farmers were all shivering in the cold wind......
The accumulation of white bones on the side of the road is still uncleaned, a pile in the east and a piece in the west, which can be seen everywhere.
Zhang Zhang couldn't help but groan softly: "...... The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles. The people are left behind, and the thought breaks people's intestines. ”
The onlookers who did not know the truth in later generations were brainwashed by the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and they all thought that Cao Mengde was a generation of traitors, and Liu Daer was loyal and benevolent......
But what about the facts?
Cao Gong, who can write the poem "One of the hundred relics of the people, and the reading of it breaks people's intestines", how can he not have a compassionate heart? !
It's a pity that he didn't cross into the son of a military general with heavy troops, nor did he cross into the son and brother of a powerful Donglin minister, so he couldn't open the invincible plug-in......
However, the road I want to take is a road to heaven, first to heal people and then to heal the country, and now it is only the first step of a long march of thousands of miles......
For a moment, Zhang Li's thoughts drifted a little farther away.
After a long time, Zhang Li reined in his thoughts and looked out the car window in a daze.
I saw that the carriage drove through a small village, and the houses were also collapsed and sparsely populated.
Only vultures hovered low altitudes, and wild dogs roamed the streets.
These scrawny wild dogs are obviously able to survive in this world by virtue of their ferocity and cleverness......
When the wild dogs saw the carriage approaching, and knew that it was not their food, they retreated to the dilapidated houses and barked.
So he alarmed the homeless people who were hiding under the ruins, and one by one they showed their knotted hair and swollen heads, and looked at the carriage from afar......
Zhang Zhang couldn't help but tense up, and immediately pulled down the car curtain!
Gao Yuanliang knew what Zhang Zhang saw, sighed, and said: "Shandong is okay now, I heard that in Shaanxi and Henan, Yizi eats ......."
Zhang Zhang shook his head, and felt sad in his heart: the Ming Dynasty has been declining, and the whole country has eroded to this point, I am afraid that it is weak to return to the sky! If the destiny is in me, I must work hard and make a bright future in China! And I will not let the thousands of years old Han family clothes be replaced by the disgusting money rat tail!
For a moment, Zhang Li's thoughts drifted a little farther away......
Everyone traveled all the way south, and within a day, they left Dengzhou Mansion and entered the boundary of Huai'an Mansion in Nanzhili.
The driver said that he would soon arrive in Haizhou, Huai'an Province.
In the Ming Dynasty, Huai'an Prefecture had jurisdiction over six counties and two prefectures, which were under the jurisdiction of Nanzhili.
This Haizhou is one of the two states of Huai'an Prefecture, that is, Ganyu County in Jiangsu Province in later generations.
In the past few days, I have been sleeping in the open air, and I only practiced the "Supreme True Solution of the Divine Doctor Dao Xuantian Xuanyuan Taigu Cave Xuanfa" a little when I was resting and opening the wind. If you enter the state city, you must practice hard in the inn.
After everyone entered the city, they found an inn to rest, and Zhang Zhang deliberately chose a clean guest room.
After meditating cross-legged in the guest room, Zhang Li took out the "Divine Doctor Dao Xuantian Xuanyuan Taigu Cave Xuanfa Supreme True Solution" and studied it carefully.
It turns out that the cultivation of this Heavenly Eye Technique is not simple, and it is divided into three layers.
The first level of this Heavenly Eye Technique is called the "Extreme Eye". After practice, you can see objects a mile away, which is probably a bit farsighted. This layer does not require the caster's own power.
And the second level of the Heavenly Eye Technique is "Wide Eye". After practice, anything shakes in front of your eyes, and your eyes don't blink; A fly flew in front of me, and it looked like it was the size of a cow. This layer needs to be infused with the caster's own power before it can be opened.
Zhang Zhang couldn't help but sigh with emotion, this "wide eye" has really been practiced in historical records - but not to practice the art of the eye of the sky, but to practice the skill of divine shooting!
There is a fable recorded in the chapter of "Liezi Tangwen", called Ji Chang Xueji.
It's about a man named Ji Chang who learned archery from the archer Feiwei.
Finally practiced until the tip of the awl pierced his eye socket, and he did not blink an eye. And look at a small lice, as big as a wheel, to be considered a teacher!
However, Ji Chang is a mortal, and it has taken many years to practice to this extent. The technique of the Heavenly Eye is to cooperate with the Taoist method of practicing qi, and the time to practice will be greatly shortened.
The last layer of the Heavenly Eye Technique is the "Open Heavenly Eye". This layer also requires the caster's own skills to open, and after practice, you can see through the blood and veins of the human body, and easily find the location of the lesion!
Zhang Zhang secretly became excited:, if this "opening the eyes of the sky" is practiced, wouldn't it be even better than a CT scan!
However, soon the tension slid into the heart again, and it was necessary to start practicing from the first layer of "Polar Eyes".
Zhang Li practiced in the room for a full hour, and when he felt hunger in his stomach, he got up and went out to eat with everyone.
Everyone waited in the lobby of the inn for a long time, but Zhang Zhang himself was unaware of it, and sat down at the table with a grin.
Seeing that Zhang Zhang was coming, the shopkeeper served wine and food.
Everyone was also hungry, especially Gao Yuanliang, who ate and drank the sea for a good meal!
After eating, Zhang Zhang chatted with everyone for a few words, and asked everyone to rest early and hurry tomorrow.
Zhang Zhang was about to turn around and leave, Anzi said cautiously: "Young master, Anzi, I don't know if I should ask something?" ”
Zhang Zhang looked puzzled, and then smiled again: "If you have something to say, you can say it, if you have a fart, what are you doing twisting and pinching?" ”
Liu Ru chuckled and said to Zhang Li: "You are just not serious, hum!" ”
Zhang Li didn't care either, and looked at Anzi.
Anzi said mysteriously: "Young master, recently, you have been chattering every day, and you are carrying a big guy on your back......"
Zhang Zhang was stunned for a moment, immediately understood, and said loudly: "My teacher is 'Penglai Medical Immortal', and he passed on some of my practice methods before. However, he had been busy dealing with the plague before, but he had wasted his practice. In the future, I will have to practice diligently every day, otherwise you think that this young master's medical skills are like gods, how did you get it? ”
As soon as they heard this, everyone's faces showed awe, and they nodded their heads again and again.
Zhang Zhang didn't care about them, and went back to his room to rest.
Nothing was said all night.
The next day, everyone got up early in the morning and set off quickly, leaving Huai'an Mansion and heading for Yangzhou Mansion.
According to the plan, in Gaoyou County, Yangzhou Prefecture, Zhang Li and his entourage will abandon their horses and change boats, and go directly to Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, by waterway!
After a short day, Zhang Zhang and others finally came to Gaoyou County.
Zhang Li didn't want to stay too long, and after settling the commission for carriages and horses, he hired a big ship at the wharf northwest of Gaoyou City.
After all the people in the group boarded the boat, the big ship slowly sailed south and sailed towards the destination Nanjing City!
There are four cabins on the ship, one for Liu Ru, one for Zhang Li, one for Li Fuzi and his wife, and the last remaining one is for Kang Xingan and Gao Yuanliang to live together.
This inland river navigation is much smoother than the previous tension on a sea boat from Lushun to Penglai.
The river is not wide, and when two boats that are a little larger meet, one of them has to pull over and give way.
I have to say that this makes Zhang Li very unhappy, because his ship is a hired civilian ship, and he basically lets the boat when he sees it along the way.
Many of the passenger boats on the opposite side of the river are owned by high-ranking families and dignitaries, and there are all kinds of fonts hanging on the flags.
Some of these ships had the master's surname written on them, some of them the official position of the master, and some of them were the official ships of the imperial court - with such and such a ministry written on them......
The man who supported the boat obviously knew the names of these high-ranking dignitaries, and when he stopped the boat to avoid it, he kept telling Zhang Li about the prominence of the owners of these ships, only to hear Zhang Li's heart even more unhappy!
Fuck, when the young master just got his driver's license, he didn't let Maserati open an Alto, there is a kind of turtle grandson to hit Lao Tzu, see whose responsibility the police uncle delineates! This Ming Dynasty is really a cannibalistic hierarchical society, decaying and declining......
If you are not happy, you will not be happy, and you still have to let what you should give!
Just let it go all the way, walked for three or five days, and finally gradually saw the shadow of Nanjing City!
Zhang Li's heart was a little excited, and Li Taibai wrote in his poem in the past: "The land embraces Jinling, and the city flows back to the river." ”
As far as I can see, this Nanjing city is surrounded by rivers!
The ship pulled into the dock and docked at a corner.
The entire good part of the wharf is full of dignitaries' ships, and the kind of civilian ships hired by Zhang Li can only eat other people's exhaust.
Looking at the rows of towering and tall building ships, and even hundreds of Dafu boats, the tension sighed!
These turtle grandsons are really rich, and none of them are small yachts, they are a Titanic!
, the court is so poor that it can't afford to pay soldiers, and there is no money for disaster relief, so it turns out that the silver of the Ming Dynasty is here!
After Zhang Li asked Anzi to pay for the boat, he took everyone ashore from the dock.
Anzi was a little dumbfounded and asked, "Young Master, these big ships are really amazing!" Each one is taller than a building! ”
Liu Ru said with a smile: "You haven't seen the Thousand Ingredients Great Fortune Boat that went to sea, it is as high as a four- or five-story pagoda!" ”
Zhang Li laughed, hiding his poor and sour expression, and said, "If the girl has seen a big ship?" ”
Liu Ru was stunned, her little face turned red, and she said angrily: "Although Nanjing City is backed by the Yangtze River, it is not near the sea!" I've just heard that there are a lot of maritime merchants in Fujian and Guangdong in Jinling City! ”
Zhang Zhang thought for a while and asked, "If it's a girl, do you go back to find Xu Foxu's mother, or ......?"
Liu Ru's eyes turned red, and she said, "Grandpa told me that night to let me follow you...... But you don't have much money......"
Zhang Zhang knew in his heart that the belongings he brought from Penglai County were only a few thousand taels, and most of them were "Shun" from the killer last time, and it was estimated that this money was not enough for Miss Liu to redeem herself......