From Jicheng, the seat of Youzhou to Xiangping, the seat of Liaodong County, the road is as long as 2,000 miles. In the meantime, it is necessary to wade through ten large and small rivers such as Bashui, Gushui, Baoqiushui, Gengshui, Fengdashui, Weishui, Xihe, Yushui, Daliaoshui, Xiaoliaoshui, etc., and need to pass through ten large and small cities such as Yongnu, Tuyin, Haiyang, Guzhucheng, Linyu, Xihe, Binxi, Fuli, Wuxi, and Danger.

If he had a choice, Xian Yuyin would rather go to Chang'an again than take Han Heng to Xiangping.

It's not that Han Heng hates this person, but this scribe's body and bones are really incomparable to Tian Chou, who is both civil and military, and basically can't survive in the cold and biting wilderness, so Xian Yuyin must accompany him along the road to go in and repair one city after another, and slowly march eastward.

If this trip was replaced by Tian Chou and Xian Yuyin, he could have picked up some slightly dangerous but time-saving shortcuts, so that the time delayed on the road could be minimized.

Xian Yuyin left Jicheng in mid-December of the second year of Chuping, and he and Han Heng made full preparations when they went on the road, not only with enough warm clothes, dry food, and silver money to buy the "little ghosts" guarding the gates of the cities along the road, but also the identification documents issued by the government to cover up their true identities.

In addition to Han Heng, there were forty retinues who traveled east with Xian Yuyin, half of these entourages were Han slaves selected by Xian Yuyin on the Jicheng People Collection, and half were soldiers who were good at hand-to-hand combat, and now they were all dressed as servants. The role of the slave entourage is to transport and salute, and then there is to cover up the true identities of Xian Yuyin and Han Heng, if they encounter bandits blocking the road and robbing on the road, they are also the first to be sacrificed.

Since the Han Dynasty, the act of human trafficking has been mentioned together with major crimes such as group theft, theft and killing of people, and theft of graves, and the punishment of 磔 (pronounced "Zhe"). The so-called punishment of the prisoner is to behead the prisoner and divide the body, which can be described as very harsh.

However, since the tragedy of "Hanoi women and husbands, Henan people and women eat women" began to appear during the period of Emperor Ling, human trafficking is no longer a cover-up behavior, and many homeless people who have no food to eat stick grass on their heads and sell themselves, just to be bought back by rich and powerful families to be slaves and maids, so that they can still have a way to live.

When Xian Yuyin went east from Yongnu, he entered the territory controlled by Gongsun Zhan, so from time to time there were patrolling soldiers on the road to stop them and check the identities of Xian Yuyin and Han Heng, and at the same time, they would deliberately make things difficult, knock on a bamboo pole, and make a small fortune.

Whenever such a situation occurred, Han Heng would take the trouble to take out the documents issued by the Youzhou government and the "letter of introduction" written by Lu Zhi himself, and patiently explain to the soldiers that he was a student of Lu Shangshu, the mentor of Gongsun Zhan, a general of Fenwu. After Han Heng finished speaking, Xian Yuyin would immediately send a small amount of hard money to the officers and soldiers with a smile on his face.

I have to say that Lu Zhi's name is too loud, and the fact that Gongsun Chan is Lu Zhi's student is not a secret, as long as it is a soldier under Gongsun Chan, almost no one knows the truth. Just imagine, if you had a famous Confucian teacher, and this teacher was once a prominent member of the imperial court, would you hide it and not show it to others?

The "handwritten letter" of Lu Zhi in Han Heng's hand is, of course, fake, the problem is that Gongsun Chan is not in Youbeiping but has gone to Nanpi now, so even if Gongsun Fan and Shan Jing, who stayed in the nest, stopped Han Heng, they couldn't tell the truth of Lu Zhi's letter!

Because he held such a "pass" and was willing to give a small amount of money to buy peace, the team's journey from Yongnu to Tuyuan was relatively smooth, and there were almost no obstacles. After passing the mound, Xian Yuyin made a detour to Haiyang to the south, deliberately avoiding the sensitive area of Lingzhi, Gongsun Zhan's lair, but as a result, people were not as good as heaven, and he actually ran headlong into Shan Jing, who was training recruits in the Haiyang area.

Shan Jing is a subordinate who has followed Gongsun Chan for a long time, and together with Yan Gang and Tian Kai, he is the most reliable and relied on general with a different surname under Gongsun Zhan. Historically, when Gongsun Zhan was expanding his territory the most, he privately appointed Yan Gang as the pastor of Jizhou, Tian Kai as the pastor of Qingzhou, and Shan Jing as the pastor of Yanzhou.

Shan Jing was very suspicious of the identity of Lu Zhi's student who suddenly appeared near Haiyang, and he felt that according to the master-apprentice relationship between Lu Zhi and Gongsun Zhan, when Lu Zhi's student came to Gongsun Zhan's territory, he must have generously gone to Lingzhi, where the Gongsun family was rooted, instead of making a big turn and coming to Haiyang to the south of Lingzhi.

Shan Jing, who was suspicious in his heart, politely welcomed Han Heng, who was known as "Liu Pei", into the barracks, asked for some news about Lu Zhi in a roundabout way, and deliberately tested Han Heng's knowledge, but Liu Pei easily coped with it.

Before Han Heng went on the road, he did his homework, specifically asked the children of the family who had followed Xu Miao into Jundu Mountain to visit Lu Zhi, and carefully sorted out Lu Zhi's past experience, especially the content related to Gongsun Zhan, which made him seem calm and calm when facing Shan Jing's inquiry.

Shan Jing can be regarded as a person who has read some books, otherwise Gongsun Zhan would not have sent him to serve in such an important position as Yanzhou Mu, but compared with Han Heng's knowledge, there is obviously a bit of a gap, so he was quickly bypassed by Han Heng.

Han Heng flickered about the single scripture, saying that he came out this time to uphold the meaning of his teacher Lu Zhi, observe the customs of Youzhou all the way, and travel all the way to the east, which can be regarded as a study tour. This reason was quite sufficient, and it directly dispelled Shan Jing's doubts, so he entertained Han Heng, and then sent a team of soldiers to send Han Heng to Liaodong.

After coming out of Haiyang, Han Heng did not continue to go east to Guzhu City, but went north to Lingzhi, and then generously handed over the name card and visited Gongsun Zhan, the younger brother of Gongsun Zhan, who stayed in Lingzhi.

Han Heng's cautious approach won Shan Jing's complete belief, and as for the mediocre Gongsun Fan, he treated him as a guest, and kindly entertained and retained him for a few days, and then let Mr. "Liu Pei" continue to go east.

After leaving the Lingzhi, because there were hundreds of soldiers sent by the Gongsun family to escort them, Han Heng and Xian Yuyin passed through Guzhu City and Linyu very smoothly, and then crossed the Great Wall and marched to the northeast, until they came to the junction of Gongsun Zhan and Gongsun Du.

The soldiers in charge of escorting them turned around and returned, while the patrol rangers under Gongsun Du blocked Han Heng and Xian Yuyin head-on.

As mentioned earlier, this Gongsun Du has no kinship with Gongsun Zhan, and it is not a family. Therefore, Gongsun Zhan's teacher Lu Zhi's signboard is not easy to use on the territory controlled by Gongsun Du.

Still, it doesn't matter. This time, Han Heng took out Wang Lie's handwritten letter again, claiming that he was Wang Lie's classmate and friend, and this time he was invited by Wang Lie to give a lecture in Liaodong!

Han Heng didn't lie this time, revealing his true identity.

Wang Lie has been famous for a long time, and when he came to Liaodong to avoid trouble, he once caused a sensation, and now it is the long history of Gongsun Dufu. Xian Yuyin, who pretended to be a guard, sent the money in time, so the road to Xiangping became unimpeded.

After nearly two months of tossing and turning, in mid-February, Han Heng and Xian Yuyin finally arrived in Xiangping, the seat of Liaodong County.

The location of Xiangping is Liaoyang, Liaoning in later generations. The north of this place is Daliang water, the east is the muro pseudo water, the west is the small Liao water, and the south is the vast and boundless sea, and the geographical location is very superior.

Liaodong Taishou Gongsun Du, the word Shengji, over forty years old, it is the prime of life, there are two sons under the knees, the eldest son Gongsun Kang, the second son Gongsun Gong. When Gongsun Du was young, he moved to Xuansu County with his father Gongsun Yan, and at first served as a small official in Xuansu County, and then slowly promoted to Shang Shulang and Jizhou Assassin History, and then was dismissed by the imperial court for a time.

At that time, the power of the state assassin was not as great as that of the current state pastor, but he was just an official who inspected the state, and his rank and power were not as good as those of the counties.

In the sixth year of Zhongping, that is, four years ago, Gongsun Du was recommended by his fellow villager Xu Rong and was appointed by Dong Zhuo as the Taishou of Liaodong. After Gongsun Du took office, he strictly punished and killed Gongsun Zhao in Xiangping City, and killed more than 100 wealthy families in the county, so that the government ordered the administration to pass through, and the people got a rare opportunity to recuperate.

The year before last, the princes of the Eighteenth Route and Dong Zhuo fought in the Central Plains, and the warlords from all over the country had no time to look eastward, so Gongsun Du took the opportunity to establish himself as the Marquis of Liaodong and the pastor of Pingzhou. Then, Gongsun Du commanded troops to attack Goguryeo in the east, Wuhuan in the west, Liaodong Peninsula in the south, and even sent troops across Hainan into Donglai County in the north of the Jiaodong Peninsula, occupying Dongmu and Muping Counties.

While Gongsun Du continued to expand externally, he recruited talents internally, set up a museum to open a school, and recruited displaced people, as if he was the king of Liaodong. Last summer, Guan Ning, Bing Yuan, Wang Lie and other celebrities came to Gongsun Du one after another, which made his reputation even higher.

When Gongsun Du learned that Wang Lie's classmate had come to visit a friend to give a lecture, he immediately sent his henchman Liu Yi out of the city to greet him, and sent Han Heng to Wang Lie's residence.

Wang Lie, who was giving a lecture in the opening class, suddenly heard that his old friend Han Heng was visiting, and was very happy, so he hastily ended the lecture of the day, and then went out to welcome Han Heng.

Among Professor Wang Lie's students, there are two special identities, namely Gongsun Kang and Gongsun Gong, who are the two sons of Gongsun Du. When they heard that the teacher's friend was coming, they followed behind Wang Lie and came to the door to greet Han Heng.

After the two classmates met, they had to exchange red tape and greetings.

Subsequently, Wang Lie introduced Gongsun Kang and Gongsun Gong to Han Heng, which made Han Heng's eyes light up, and he looked at the brothers carefully, but he didn't know what was in his heart.

Xian Yuyin, who had been following behind Han Heng, was also attentive at this time, looking around at Wang Lie's academy, wanting to discover the other two famous powers.