Eight hundred miles of Qinchuan in Guanzhong, east from Hangu, west to Sanguan, north of Xiaoguan, south of Wuguan, mountains and rivers are dangerous, the people are rich and the country is rich, since ancient times it is the place where soldiers must fight, and Qin has won the world because of it.

When Han Gaozu called the emperor the capital, the left and right ministers were all Kwantung people, and they persuaded the capital to be Yang, and Zhang Liang, the marquis, believed that Guanzhong had the left Kunhan, the right Longshu, the fertile field for thousands of miles, the south had the Rao of Bashu, and the north had the benefits of Hu Yuan. At the same time, it can also go down the river from Chang'an and transport soldiers and horses, which can be described as a golden city for thousands of miles, a country of abundance! So Emperor Gao drove on the same day, and the western capital was Guanzhong.

The former Han Dynasty set the capital of Chang'an, Guanzhong was extremely prosperous for a while, the famous family, the wealthy businessmen can be seen everywhere, the later Han Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang, it has lasted 170 years, the transfer of the political center, accompanied by the Qiang chaos in the northwest for 100 years, so that today's Guanzhong has long been prosperous and dispersed, except for a few old families, most of the families have disappeared.

After Dong Zhuo moved the capital from Luoyang to Chang'an, he first built a large number of buildings to restore the Chang'an Imperial Palace, and then mobilized 250,000 people to build a dock for himself, forcibly selected 800 young people and girls to enter the dock, and plundered the rich households, looting countless gold and jade, colored silks, pearls and grain, which made the people of Guanzhong even worse and hated it.

Now there is a large-scale conscription, which is a waste of agricultural labor, which will inevitably cause a large number of fields to be barren and uncultivated. In a disaster year, if there is no grain relief in the granary, Guanzhong will suffer from a large-scale famine.

Ji Ping has always believed that personnel can make up for natural disasters, and most natural disasters stem from man-made disasters.

In the early morning of the eleventh day of the first lunar month, after the gate of Huayin County opened, the Xinyue Fox quietly left.

Ji Ping found a reason to cover up the past, and after having breakfast with Cai Yan and his party, he left Huayin County. When he left the city, there was only one carriage and ten horsemen to escort him.

Ji Ping is running around, always riding a horse or walking. The most is not used to riding in a carriage, so when going out of the city. He abandoned his carriage and sat in the parking space in front of Cai Yan's carriage, temporarily acting as a coachman.

Cai Yan strongly opposed this, but he couldn't beat Ji Ping.

Ji Ping was injured, and he was still a little reluctant to ride a horse, so he could only take a car, but he thought that the two carriages were too slow to travel together, so he acted as the driver of Cai Yan's car, which was also convenient for protection. Now Zhang Xiu is gone. The one left behind was a Qianghu soldier, who didn't understand the dialect very well, and once he met first, Ji Ping was not so relieved about them.

Fortunately, his injuries were not serious, mainly because he was poisoned, and Xinyue Fox dealt with it in a timely and proper manner, after the toxins disappeared and dissipated, he drove the carriage, blowing cold wind all the way, and looked at the snow scene on all sides. It's another spirit.

Although it is a bit embarrassing to drive as a person, Ji Ping doesn't care too much about this, not to mention that his cheap father Liu Hong was still driving a donkey cart in the palace, and he is always much better than him.

The carriage follows Gucci Road all the way west. It is true that one wagon can travel much faster than two wagons in tandem.

The Gucci Road is wide enough to accommodate five or six horse-drawn carriages running in parallel, and the carriages are running fast. After the sun rises. The snow on the road began to melt, but the carriage got stuck in the ruts of the gallop road. There is no risk of slipping.

This Gucci Road, known as the Oriental Road, is one of the nine Chi Roads ordered by Qin Shi Huang after the unification of the Six Kingdoms. From Xianyang at that time all the way to the east, the letter Guguan was sent to Henan, Hebei and Shandong. When it was built 400 years ago, the project was very huge, the gallop road was 50 steps wide, the road was three zhang and the tree, the thick outside was built, the golden vertebrae were hidden, the tree was green pine, the middle was the way for the emperor to go out to patrol the car, and the two sides could be used for the army to travel freely.

The track is similar to the track of later generations, but the two rails are concave grooves, and the grooves are paved with smooth solid wood, and the first emperor implemented the same track for the car, so that the wheels can just be stuck in the grooves, and the line is fast and stable.

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Chi Road was seriously damaged in the war, and at the beginning of the Han Dynasty, there was no rule for a long time, and the Chi Road was not rebuilt, and the Qin Chi Road was too wide, covering a lot of land, and later many parts were reclaimed as cultivated land, or narrowed, or disappeared. Four hundred years is enough to change a lot of things.

Ji Ping didn't lament the vicissitudes of time, and many scenes encountered along the way also ruined his good mood. He once again understood what Zhang Xiu said, "You must be cautious in Guanzhong", and only thirty miles away, he saw seven or eight chaotic scenes.

Most of the townships beside the road are closed, and there are few pedestrians on the road, but from time to time there are Hu soldiers who break into the door, or forcibly recruit soldiers, or grab grain, and there is a raid on the house, the reason is disloyalty and unfilial piety. There was even a fort dock that was directly attacked!

On the way, there was a group of people who didn't know whether they were soldiers or bandits, and they wanted to intercept the carriage of Ji Ping and his party on the road, but they were cut down by the accompanying Qianghu sergeants, and the group of soldiers and bandits had to retreat.

The situation in Guanzhong has been eroded to this point!

Dong Zhuo wanted to be a famous minister of the Zhongxing Han Dynasty, but after his ideals were shattered, he fell to this point!

Ji Ping didn't know what to say for a while. Human nature is changeable, but think about it, those who can laugh to the end in troubled times in history are all those with tenacious and indomitable personalities, and Dong Zhuo is too bad.

For these looting Qianghu soldiers, he was extremely disgusted in his heart, but he had to endure it, Guanzhong is not the time to say anything, and he is still protecting Cai Yan, so it is not appropriate to do much. The top priority is to send Cai Yan back to Chang'an Cai Mansion first.

Traveling all the way, by noon, it had already entered the territory of Zheng County in the east of Jingzhaoyin.

Jing Zhao Yin is one of the three auxiliaries in Guanzhong, and the left Feng Yi, the right Fufeng is the inverted product word column, Jing Zhao Yin is the prefix of the product in the southeast, close to Huayin County. The left Feng Yi is located in the northeast, and the right Fufeng is located in the northwest, guarding Chang'an.

Jing Zhaoyin, Zuo Fengyi, and Right Fufeng are not only the names of the three places, but also the names of the officials in charge of the three regions, which can be described as the unity of man and land. In terms of division, the west of Weicheng belongs to the right Fufeng, the east of Chang'an belongs to Jingzhaoyin, and the north of Changling belongs to the left Feng Yi, which is called the three auxiliaries.

After entering Jingzhao Zheng County, the carriage kept moving along the junction line of Jingzhao Yin and Zuo Fengyi, and rushed to the county seat of Zheng County.

From the border of Zheng County to the county seat of Zheng County, it is more than 40 miles, and when I have not yet arrived in Zheng County, the sky is already getting dark.

A Qianghu guard spoke in a thick dialect, Ji Ping understood that the soldiers and bandits in Guanzhong were rampant, and it was more dangerous outside after dark, and there were pavilion chiefs and wanderers sweeping everywhere, which was very unsafe. Therefore, it is recommended that they find a place to rest for the night and then travel again tomorrow morning.

Ji Ping frowned and asked about the situation, and asked a Qianghu soldier to go nearby to inquire about the situation.

Soon the Qiang Hu soldiers came back and said that there was a settlement about a mile away from the right of the road, called Anju, and they could go and spend the night.

After Huayin, all parts of Guanzhong looked extremely chaotic, and it must be difficult to walk at night, Ji Ping groaned, told Cai Yan about the situation, and decided to gather here to spend the night. (To be continued.) )