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From Huaihuang to Guanzhong Jingshi, the nearest route is to enter the Great Wall from Daning Town, then go southwest through the new Yanzhou of the imperial court, enter Ulzhou through Daizhou through Taiyuan, and go all the way down the Fen River to Puhan Pujin Bridge to cross the Yellow River and enter Chang'an, the whole journey is more than 2,300 miles. Yi Feng chose to pass through Daning Town and enter Yanzhou, then go eastward through the military capital to pass the second Great Wall, enter Hebei and Youzhou all the way south, and finally arrive at Luoyang, and then go west into Daxing, this route is about 3,200 miles, more than 900 miles more than taking Hedong. However, for the sake of safety, Yi Feng finally chose to walk an extra 900 miles rather than take the closer Hedong route.

3,200 miles of road, at this time the road conditions, it is a cold winter, the more convenient waterway has already frozen, the boat is not passable, and the whole journey can only be taken by land. However, at this time, the official road to the south and west was almost blocked by heavy snow, and such a long road was equivalent to going from the northeast corner of the empire to the northwest corner of the empire, across the east and west borders of the empire. If it is easy to ride a light car into Beijing from a horse, according to the speed of the post ride, it will take about half a month. The imperial court set up water and land post stations in various parts of the world, and the official requirement for the speed of land post riding is that the post horse travels 180 miles a day, and the faster one requires 300 miles a day, and the fastest one requires 600 miles a day, and even the fastest 800 miles is expedited, and it has to run 800 miles a day. Emperor Xuan of the Northern Zhou Dynasty once personally drove a stagecoach in Luoyang for 300 miles a day, and later during the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty. An Lushan rebelled in Fanyang, and Tang Xuanzong rebelled in Huaqing Palace, separated by three thousand miles. Six days later, news of the rebellion reached Tang Xuanzong, and the stagecoach reached a speed of five hundred miles a day.

At this time, it was already the fourteenth day of the lunar month, and there was only half a month left before the New Year's Day, and Yi Feng had to walk at least two hundred miles every day to reach Jingshi. But you have to set aside some time on the road just in case, so if Yi Feng wants to miss the deadline, he has to drive three hundred miles a day. In such a cold winter, rainy and snowy weather, such a hurry. It's already tough.

If there is a rotation of horses for 300 miles a day, although it is harder, it can be persistent, but if you bring a large group of people and horses behind, it will be difficult.

After passing the last military town in the south of Huaihuang, Wild Fox Town. In front of it is already the Great Wall Daning Town, which is already in the territory of Yanzhou. Yi Feng proposed that the team should go separately, "I will take people to follow the car lightly and hurry first." so as not to miss the date. The brigade behind followed slowly. ”

Yi Feng brought 800 guards and more than 1,000 soldiers escorting horses and tribute this time, as well as 10,000 war horses, as well as hundreds of carts of various materials, in addition to Chen Wan and Xiao Sumei, two female dependents, and more than a dozen maids who served the two, etc., plus more than a dozen caravans accompanying them, thousands of people and a large number of goods, it was too slow to move. Don't say 300 miles a day, even 200 miles is enough.

"Dashuai's entry into Beijing this time is to gather at the order of the court, which must be rushed to Beijing before the year. Not only do you have to catch up with the big court meeting on New Year's Day next year. Moreover, after entering Beijing, he was also reported to the state government and financial situation by various ministries and accepted assessments. It really can't be delayed. ”

In the beginning, each county in the Han Dynasty had to send officials to Beijing every year to report on the county administration and financial planning, which was called the Shangji Officer. When this system arrived in the present dynasty, it was renamed Chaoji. It is stipulated that every year, the governor of each state, the assassin and the upper san are the representatives of the state and the envoys of the court. The governor of the third rank of the official and the fourth rank of the assassin of the state are all high-ranking officials of the local government, and it is not an exaggeration to call them the feudal officials, and the governor of the state is the governor of the history and the second official of Sima, although these two official positions are relatively low compared to the governor and the assassin history, but they are all important officials in charge of the state capital, in charge of the affairs of the second state government, to discipline the affairs of the people, and to judge Lie Cao.

Originally, according to the system of the Korean assembly, there was a special stipulation on the date of the gathering of the representatives of the imperial assembly in these prefectures, and they were to arrive in the capital before October 25 every year, and they would return one after another by the spring of next year. During his stay in Beijing, the duties of the imperial envoys were to participate in the assessment of local officials, participate in the Yuan-Ri court meeting, and contribute to the imperial court. The envoys of the imperial assembly can be said to have brought together all the important local officials, so the emperor attached great importance to this group of people, and basically every representative would be personally met by the Son of Heaven and questioned in person. There are more than 300 prefectures in the Great Sui, each state has a history of thorns plus two Shangzuo, plus those dozens of governors, a total of nearly 1,000 envoys from the DPRK enter Beijing every year, the scene is grand and very grand, just like the representatives of the two sessions in later generations entered Beijing to participate in the meeting in March, it is a major event in the DPRK and China.

The envoys of the court in Beijing even had to participate in the court meeting once every ten days. The prime ministers also had to take time out every day to meet with the envoys of the court and discuss government affairs together.

At the end of winter every year, the main officials from all over the country gather in Beijing to report on the local government affairs and financial plans and the results of the examination of local officials, and the golden palace worships the emperor during the New Year's Day court, which is an important embodiment of the majesty of the Son of Heaven and the imperial court. This also ensures that it is very difficult for local officials to engage in separatism and separatism, and to support the army and respect themselves. No one dares to visit the annual court gathering, unless there is a heavy disaster in the war. Otherwise, it would be disrespectful.

Yi Feng is the governor of Wuzhou and the history of the assassin, and naturally he is also the representative of the Wuzhou Dynasty, and Changshi and Sima need to be together with the Dynasty, originally Gao Bo and Uncle Zhang should also be the representatives of the Wuzhou Dynasty. In the end, Yi Feng took advantage of the cheap privilege in his hands and directly appointed Wei Zheng, the advisor of the general shogunate, as the governor of Wuzhou, and Xu Deyan, the chief secretary of the shogunate, as the Sima of Wuzhou, while Gao Bo and Uncle Zhang were transferred to Wei Zheng and Xu Deyan and reassigned to the position of the general shogunate. In this way, the two old men no longer have to travel thousands of miles to the Beijing Dynasty, but they can still stay in the shogunate to manage the military and government of Huaihuang.

Originally, Yi Feng needed to arrive in Beijing at the end of October, but Wuzhou was a frontier military state, and Yi Feng was fighting in the north at that time, so like the governors of the military states, he could rush to the capital on the last day before the New Year.

"Then let's separate here." Yi Feng thought for a while, "The eight hundred people of the Guards Regiment will go alone, and I can take the Flag Guards with me." I don't have to play the official flag, just dress up as an ordinary business traveler. Yi Feng felt that the eight hundred cavalry guards were a little too ostentatious, and he had to rush to Luoyang to meet with Yang Guang this time to discuss some arrangements after entering Beijing. met with Yang Guang in Luoyang with great fanfare. This is not a safe move. After all, he is the son of the crown prince, and the prince and Yang Guang have a tense relationship now. Therefore, it is best to conduct this meeting in private, and finally let the eight hundred guards be one step ahead of the brigade. With his banner, he led the banner guards to pretend to be a caravan and rushed to Luoyang with eight hundred cavalry. In this way, everyone thought that he was walking with eight hundred guards, and no one knew about his secret meeting with Yang Guang.

"Wouldn't it be safe?" Wei Zheng asked worriedly.

"Hebei should not have any trouble crossing the river to Luoyang all the way south, not to mention, in terms of speaking, one hundred flag guards is not necessarily worse than eight hundred guards. After all, we're not going to war. Yi Feng said with a smile.

After a brief discussion, everyone finally agreed to Yi Feng's plan. Because Wei Zhengwen was weak, he took eight hundred guards under the banner of Yi Feng. Follow Yi Feng and hurry. Yi Feng took the Banner Guards and Qin Qiong, Lai Cheng, and Wang Bao to accompany them, and Xu Deyan was responsible for commanding the follow-up troops.

Yi Feng divided the Banner Guards into three teams, disguised as caravans of horse-selling caravans, each with thirty or forty people. With more than a hundred war horses. The front and back are separated and not far apart, maintaining a distance that can support each other at any time.

"Dashuai has a smooth journey, we will meet again in Chang'an." Wei Zheng smiled goodbye.

Everyone stands on the road under the Yehu Ridge, which is already the border between Wuzhou and Yanzhou. The town general of Wild Fox City built a large gatehouse at the foot of the mountain, which is both like a city gate building and a large archway. This huge archway has four big characters written on it, "Infinity Gate".

"Finally, I have to return to the Central Plains, and many years have passed, and it is really like the next day, when I came out of the jam from here. There is no gatehouse yet. At that time, I thought that this life would wander around the world. There is no chance of returning to China. Xu Deyan looked at this huge infinite gate and sighed with emotion.

Yi Feng smiled: "After Zhao Xiangzi, the founding monarch of Zhao during the Warring States Period, annexed Daiguo, he advanced his forces to the foot of Yehu Mountain. Facing the endless plateau on the dam, Zhao Xiangzi, the founder of Zhao State, couldn't help but feel that this place had reached the northern frontier of China, so the city was sealed, the city was built, and a military fortress was built here to define the northern frontier of Zhao State, and named the Gate of Infinity. At that time, the Endless Gate was a majestic military fortress, not a gate, but a castle fortress, a military fortress that defined its territory, showed its strength, showed its future generations, and pinned its own lofty ideals. For Zhao Xiangzi in the Warring States Period, the farthest northern frontier that the Huaxia people could reach was here, and further north was already an endless number of Saiwai. Since the Infinity Gate was built, many dynasties have risen and fallen, but basically the power of the Han people has never crossed here. When Yi Feng said this, his heart was full of pride. The northern frontier of the Great Sui was originally also south of the Gate of Infinity, but he Yi Feng came to the era and established a wilderness in the north of the Gate of Infinity, guarding the gate of Infinity, Daning, and Youyun.

"The Gate of Infinity turned out to be a city, but it was actually built by the founding monarch of Zhao during the Warring States Period, oops, I didn't even know it." As the head of Yi Feng Yanyun's eighteen horsemen, Wang Bao said a little embarrassed, this infinite gate with only one gatehouse, in fact, he heard Yi Feng say that there was once an infinite gate under Huai Wild Fox City, and he thought it was an ordinary roadside archway, so once the eldest grandson of Wild Fox City just came to Huaihuang to do business and drink together, he also mentioned it as a bragging capital. Who knew that the eldest grandson who used to be Yi Feng Yanyun's eighteen horsemen had just remembered it, and when he came back, he mentioned it to those businessmen and raised money to build this very majestic infinite gate. It's just that the infinite gate of Zhao is a military fortress, but what the eldest grandson has just built is a real gate, a majestic archway.

Yi Feng waited until then to understand the origin of the infinite gate in front of him, but he couldn't help but smile. However, this Gate of Infinity is indeed very imposing, and it has become the southern gate of Wuzhou today, and countless caravans from the Central Plains pass in and out every day, which impresses everyone, but it turns out that there are very few people who know the Gate of Infinity in Zhao State.

"Zhao Wuxian is a hero, Dashuai does not lose to him, and even has a chance to do better than Zhao Wuxian. At the very least, Zhao Wuxian established the Zhao Tun Dynasty in his life, but he never pushed his power expansion to the north of the Infinite Gate. And Dashuai is now really establishing a thriving and vibrant wilderness in the Infinity Gate. Wei Zheng was full of sincere admiration for his lord.

Zhao Wuxian is also the founder of Zhao State, Zhao Xiangzi, he was born in the late Spring and Autumn Dynasty when the king was dominant. Died in the early Warring States period when the princes annexed, and was the son of Zhao Jianzi, the secretary of the Jin State. As early as when Zhao Xiangzi was a son, he showed Zhao Jianzi his ambition to annex Daiguo in the future. Historical records. Zhao Jianzi once said to his sons, I hid a treasure talisman on Changshan, and I found it first. The princes galloped on the mountain, but they didn't find it. This Changshan is Taihang Mountain, and the sons have no results, but only Zhao Wuxian said that he has found it. Zhao Jianzi asked him for details, and Zhao Wuxian said that he was coming from Changshan. Substitution is desirable. So Zhao Jianzi understood that this son understood his own mind and thought that this son was the most Lianming, so he abolished the prince Bolu. And Zhao Wuxian is the crown prince. Zhao Wuxian's sister was the acting wife of the king at that time, and after Zhao Jianzi's death, Zhao Wuxian succeeded to the throne and has not yet been removed. Zhao Wuxian invited the king to the banquet at home. Then he took the opportunity to kill the king and sent troops to capture the country.

Wei Zheng compared Yi Feng and Zhao Wuxian at this time, of course, not only because of the Infinite Gate. Wei Zheng mentioned Zhao Wuxian because Zhao Wuxian was the founding king of Zhao State, and Zhao Wuxian was not the heir of Zhao Jianzi at first, but because Zhao Wuxian's ambition and insight allowed him to get the crown prince. And after Zhao Wuxian's father's death, regardless of the funeral, he invited his brother-in-law to the banquet on behalf of the king. Then he took the opportunity to kill the king of Dai, and immediately sent troops to seize the kingdom of Dai. So that Zhao finally occupied the very important land for Zhao. Wei Zheng borrowed the character of Zhao Wuxian to implicitly suggest to Yi Feng that as long as Yi Feng was willing, he could also create his own foundation like Zhao Wuxian. Yi Feng is now the emperor's grandson, and Zhao Wuxian was not the crown prince back then, as long as he is ambitious and willing to fight, it is possible. And Zhao Wuxian's means of seizing the country shows that sometimes the eldest husband can use various means to achieve his goals, without being confined to various constraints. Wei Zheng knew the importance of Yi Feng's entry into Beijing this time, and he was also reminding Yi Feng that Yi Feng now actually has a lot of capital in his hands, and he doesn't necessarily have to make wedding clothes for others.

Yi Feng nodded, but did not reply clearly.

Xu Deyan also understood the meaning of Wei Zheng's words, and he had no objection to the obvious outrageous meaning of the new Governor Wu. He was originally an official of Southern Chen, if it weren't for Yi Feng being his adopted son, he wouldn't care about the official position of the Sui Dynasty at all, he would rather wander in the Khitan tribe all the time than return to the Central Plains to be an official for the emperor of the Sui Dynasty who destroyed the Chen Dynasty. He is now the Sima of Wuzhou, just to help Yi Feng. As for the rest, he didn't care. Even if Yi Feng really rebelled, as long as the time was ripe, he would not only not oppose but would approve of it.

Wei Zheng didn't get a response from Yi Feng, he was a little dissatisfied, and his eyes kept looking at Yi Feng. Yi Feng was a little unnatural by him, so he had to reply vaguely, "Zhao Xiangzi annexed the Dai State and created the Zhao State, although he himself has extraordinary knowledge and decisive means, but in the final analysis, if there is no Zhao family for generations as the secretary of the Jin State, operating in Zhao for many years, and accumulating strength, it is impossible for Zhao Xiangzi to create the Zhao State, let alone annex the Dai State." ”

"But if you don't fight for it, even if the water arrives, it may not be a matter of course." Wei Zheng continued.

Yi Feng sighed and said, "Only by following the trend, Zhao Xiangzi was able to swallow Zhao on behalf of Jian, but if the country is strong, in fact, it can also swallow Zhao on behalf of Zhao." After speaking, Yi Feng looked at the Great Wall Road in the distance, "Compared with the Huai Desert Place, there is no danger to defend, but Yanzhou is a good place." It lives between Yanshan, Yinshan and Taihang Mountains, connects Saishang, Hebei and Hedong, and is really the three provinces of Jiming, connecting Mobei in the north, the Western Regions in the west, and the Central Plains in the south. If you get Yanzhou, you can fight for Dai and Zhao to the south, and you can take Yu and Yan to the east. ”

Although it is said that after the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi, and the Western Wei and Northern Zhou and Sui were actually established by the officers of the two military towns in the six towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty. But now the two towns of Huaihuang and Yuyi, where Yi Feng is located, are still too thin, and there is no strategic depth at all. If you can get the Zhangjiakou Basin, where Yanzhou is located today, it will be very different. Being able to obtain the land of Yanzhou, for Yi Feng, is the only way to really have a certain amount of capital to fight for the world. By taking Yanzhou, Yi Feng broke through the first line of defense of the Great Wall and occupied Zhangjiakou, the most important strategic point between the northeast of the Hebei River. At that time, whether it is to the east into the Hebei Plain, or to the southwest into the Datong Basin, it is an excellent choice.

Before that, Huaihuang was just a marginal force on the Saiwai Dam. It's too early to talk about the founding of the country and the struggle for hegemony.

However, Yi Feng's answer made Wei Zheng's heart excited. Yi Feng's words are equivalent to clearly revealing his ambitions, it's not that he doesn't want to fight, but he just doesn't have a chance now.

Do you want to take the state first? Wei Zheng's mind was moved, and he began to focus on how to calculate and take Yanzhou. Well, Fuzhou is still very remote now, but the imperial court seems to have attached great importance to Fuzhou. Otherwise, there was no need to set up Wuzhou at the same time, and at the same time, it maintained Yanzhou, and now the main civil officials and military generals in Yanzhou are all from a lot of backgrounds, the chief stabbing Shi Qu Tutong, the two county commanders Qu Tugai and Fang Qiao, and the children of Li Jing, the general of Daning Town, as well as Yu Wenhua and other powerful people in the court. With these people in Yanzhou, it is almost impossible to buy and win over.

What do you have to think of to control zhì妫州? Wei Zheng was immersed in it all of a sudden. (To be continued......)