The author said: This is a section to explain the historical background, and this book is indispensable to slowly describe an overturned dynasty. The author will not have any perfunctory words.

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Gyeongju is on the map, and it borders the region where the capital Luoyang is located, but the boundary is the Qinling Mountains, and the difficulty of traveling is not under the Shu Road, and it has been regarded as a daunting road by business travelers since ancient times. Therefore, Qiu Yizhi and his entourage made some detours to the south, turned into the border of Linzhou, and then entered through Tongguan.

This Linju, like Gyeongju, is also across the Yellow River from Youyan Road. However, there is no ferry across the Yellow River like Anhazhen in Linju, so it is a little deserted compared to Gyeongju, and there are few large market towns along the official road, and there are sorghum fields that cannot be seen at a glance.

It was July, and the sorghum had already set ears, and the millet grains were plump, like a string of pearls, bending the tall sorghum stalks. This year's monsoon is strong, and the wind has sent a large number of rain clouds and abundant rain all the way over the towering Taihang Mountain, and on the side of Henan Road, which is full of drought and starvation, is Guannei Road, where grains are abundant.

China is a vast country, from the extremely cold mountains of Saibei to the scorching rainforests of Lingnan, from the humid coast of the East China Sea to the dry Loess Plateau, where there are either floods or droughts, either good yields here or poor harvests there, and either rich or barren here. The small countries in the Western Regions and the Southern Barbarian region were tormented by a disaster and wiped out many of them, but only the history of China has not been cut off for thousands of years.

Zhong Li Kuang once said to several disciples: Middle Earth is based on agriculture, and the climate records are extremely detailed, and the years when the wind and rain in the country have been smooth and there have been no disasters in the past 2,000 years have only been more than 60 years in the past 2,000 years, and there are both prosperous and turbulent times. Although there are warnings in all dynasties that "it is difficult to start a business, and it is even more difficult to keep a business", as long as the emperor works hard and the civil and military officials work together, it is not difficult to create the next generation to govern the world. If you want to say that it is difficult, it is only difficult to rely on the eight words "faint monarch misleading the country, Wen Tian and martial arts". Now the emperor ignores government affairs, the court is in charge, and the state road is full of corrupt officials, fortunately, the scale of Taizu's entrepreneurship is still there, and the Xianzong reform has eliminated some drawbacks, and there are some loyal ministers and good generals in the court today who are struggling to support, otherwise they have already entered the troubled times. Maybe this rebellion of the Tianzun Sect has spread from Henan, and even Tongguan, the throat of the Beijing Division, is already in danger.

Tongguan is about 500 miles away from Anhe Town. If Qiu Yizhi rode his own sweaty horse, he would have been able to arrive in half a day, but he did not move as quickly as he accompanied the carriage, so he walked for five days before he reached Tongguan.

This Tongguan is the east gate of Luoyang, and it is the only way for officials, candidates, and businessmen from Youyan, Henan, Shandong, Huguang, Jiangnan, and Lingnan to enter Beijing. The three provinces of Shanxi, Bashu and Yunnan and Guizhou are west of Luoyang, so they take Hanguguan into Beijing. Therefore, in troubled times, Tongguan is a place where soldiers must fight, and the surrounding area is often full of corpses and poor reputation; In the rule of the world, it is crowded with traffic and business travelers.

Although the Han Dynasty has constant internal and external troubles, after all, Chengping has been more than two hundred years, and a huge trading city has slowly formed outside this Tongguan, which is full of fur and ginseng in the north, seafood and aquatic products in the east, silk tea in the south, and occasionally there are Turkic and Bohai merchants who drive camel caravans to bring rare foreign goods. In short, as long as you are willing to spend money, there is nothing that you can't buy here.

A few years ago, he spent a huge amount of money to choose a feng shui treasure land, and built a restaurant on the north side of Tongguanmen that is two or three times larger than the Qinggui Building in Anhe Town-Yunguan Building.

Although this restaurant is big, before Tongguan, it is not the tallest building, He Jiugong led the team around for a long time before living in the restaurant. As soon as the group sat down in the restaurant, Zhao Chengxiao, who rushed to Guangyang to deliver the letter, also inquired about the location of Yunguan Building, and brought a letter from Zheng Rong, the king of Youyan, and another messenger to meet with Qiuyi.

Qiu Yizhi received the letter from his father-in-law thousands of miles away, and he didn't even have time to eat, so he locked himself in his room and read it carefully. In this letter, several dry ink blots glue the paper together, so that Qiu Yizhi wasted a lot of effort to extend it, and it is obvious that it was written immediately, and before the pen and ink have dried, it was folded and encapsulated, and it was sent here immediately.

At the beginning of the letter, it was written: After this Wei Chi family is loyal and good, Zheng Rong tried to recruit when he was first crowned the prince of Youyan, but Wei Chi Chenghao, who was in charge at that time, resolutely refused to come out to be an official, so he had to give up. Qiu Yizhi can be married as a brother with the son of Yu Chi Chenghao today, which can be regarded as fulfilling his father-in-law's original wish. It's just that the worship of Chi Lianghong is limited to the morality of the rivers and lakes, and has nothing to do with Zheng Rong and Zheng Xin, so he can't be called brothers. Zheng Rong also mentioned that today is the time for Youyan Wangfu to employ people, as long as they are not traitors and evildoers, it is not a bad thing that those strange people with unique skills can attract some.

Qiu Yizhi was actually afraid that his father-in-law would accuse him of making his own decisions in the past few days, but instead of reproaching, he had a sense of approval, so he put his mind down and continued to read.

Since Qiu Yizhi left Guangyang, the Youyan Palace's palace has taken a multi-pronged approach, mobilizing forces from all sides and using various means to deal with the impeachment of hundreds of officials in the imperial court.

First of all, Zheng Rong personally wrote a defense note, stamped it with a private seal, and sent it to 600 li urgently, in the name of brotherly correspondence, bypassing the Sixth Ministry, Zhongshu Province and other institutions, and sending it directly to Emperor Zheng Yong to make his heart clear. The second is to use the prestige of Zheng Xin and Zheng Miao's father-in-law Qin Guangyuan in the literary world to create public opinion, and publicize the merits and virtues of King Youyan in the Shilin, so that the imperial historian cannot talk and rumor without scruples. In the end, he informed Dali Khan, the king of Bohai Zhongshun, and asked him to station troops on the border to demonstrate, so that the imperial court could understand that if Zheng Rong did not defend the Han Dynasty, disputes would inevitably break out again in northern Xinjiang.

Through the above-mentioned means, the voices of impeachment in the DPRK and China have ceased a lot. The impeachment note published in the Imperial Court Newspaper attached to Zheng Rong's letter was two-thirds less than before, and the situation had greatly improved.

Seeing Qiu Yizhi, his mood was very soothing, and then read it carefully: After Zheng Rong wants to enter Luoyang by himself, he must first visit the old prime minister Yang Yuanzhi, and after indicating the purpose of his actions, everything can be arranged by the old minister. He also repeatedly instructed Qiu Yizhi that the current situation has eased, and he only needs to be cautious and meticulous, not to act resolutely, and to handle this matter carefully and carefully, whether the Youyan King and his family can keep the peace for a few more generations is all on him.

After reading, Qiu Yizhi closed his eyes and sorted out his thoughts, and re-read the letter, then he wrote a reply letter, dried the ink slightly, and then sealed it himself, and asked the messenger who came here with Zhao Chengxiao to send it back to Guangyang.

After finishing this important event, Qiu Yizhi finally relaxed, and asked the shopkeeper of the restaurant to deliver the food to the room, and only talked to Zhao Chengxiao and the two.

According to Qiu Yizhi's calculations, it takes three days for Zhao Chengxiao to set off from Anhe Town to Guangyang, and it takes at least four days to get from Guangyang to Tongguan.

Zhao Chengxiao has been non-stop all the way for a few days, going back and forth to Youyan in the Guannei, obviously not having a full meal or sleeping well. Although the dishes served by Yunguanlou are not perfunctory, they are not a delicacy. However, in Zhao Chengxiao's view, it is a rare delicacy, and he was busy with chopsticks and forgot to send it in his throat, listening to Qiu Yizhi's question, he hurriedly poured a large glass of wine and swallowed the food in his mouth, and replied: "Your Highness...... Oh, did Childe see the military commander who came with me? He was originally responsible for delivering military intelligence reports to the imperial court, and he was old on the road from Guangyang to Tongguan. I thought it was too slow to return the same way, so I asked him if there was a path to copy. ”

As he spoke, Zhao Chengxiao sandwiched another meatball, stirred the meat residue in his mouth, and continued: "He said that he could save a day's journey by going straight through Gyeongju, but there were too many robbers cutting paths on both sides of the mountain road, and if there were no dozen cavalry acting together on weekdays, he would never dare to take this road." I told him not to be afraid, we rode all the sweaty and bloody horses specially approved by the prince, traveling thousands of miles a day, all the way fast, where can the robbers catch up? He refused at first, but in the end he couldn't resist me, and after crossing the Yellow River, he went straight south through the mountains. ”

Qiu Yizhi poured a full bottle of wine for Zhao Chengxiao and asked, "Brother Zhao came so fast, it must be that he didn't encounter bandits and bandits along the way, right?" ”

Zhao Chengxiao raised his wine glass and drank it all: "Didn't meet it? No less encounters! At first, I counted them, but then I couldn't count them, and the bandits I encountered were twenty shares, to say the least. It's a pity that the horses of these people are too slow, and compared with the sweaty horse of Gongzi, it is not much different from the stones on the side of the road. As long as I clamped the horse's belly, the group did not know where they were thrown to, and they did not even touch a single horsehair. ”

Hearing this, Qiu Yizhi had already fallen into deep thought: the infantry against the cavalry, whether it is the speed of strategic detour or the power of tactical charges, is far beyond the reach, so it is as strong as the Youyan army, and it has to take a defensive position in the face of the Turkic tribes. However, the disparity between the different horse breeds is also very obvious - the Bohai horse has more strength than the Turkic horse, but lacks stamina; Central Plains horses are unmatched in speed, strength and endurance; And the sweaty and bloody horses are above ordinary horses everywhere - no wonder after the battle of Mantou Mountain annihilated the main force of Biximi, the father-in-law didn't ask for anything, but brought back 2,000 war horses, including the sweat and blood horses. If he is fortunate enough to be able to reorganize the army in the future, he must try his best to get fine war horses from the grassland to enrich the army.

Zhao Chengxiao saw that Qiu Yizhi was silent and didn't eat, so he said: "Son, please also eat, don't look at me as rude and presumptuous when eating, you don't want to compete with me for food!" When I was a bandit, I thought that it would be okay if there was no one who could read and write in the cottage, so I invited a fortune teller to go up the mountain and join the gang. But the fortune teller didn't stay for even ten days and clamored to go home, and when he asked, he found out that he was so hungry that he couldn't stand it before he went down the mountain. It turned out that we coarse people were devouring all meals, and no matter how much food we had, this gentleman couldn't rob us, and there was no time when he wasn't hungry, of course he couldn't stand it. ”

Qiu Yizhi listened, so he used chopsticks to pick a piece of fine meat among the greasy pork, put it in his mouth, and said while chewing: "There is such a thing? ”

"Of course, I'm Zhao Heizi......" Zhao Chengxiao remembered that he was no longer the Zhao Heizi who was forced to go to Liangshan, and hurriedly changed his words, "Zhao Chengxiao can't lie to anyone who deceives you!" This scholar pays attention to Sven, but after all, the army relies on strength, if you can't eat or sleep, you will drag yourself down, what else to talk about...... That's called strategizing, huh? ”

Qiu Yizhi then remembered that his master Zhong Likuang seemed to have a stomach ache, and when he got sick, he complained that he was angry with a few stubborn apprentices, but in fact, it was a heavy stomach accumulated after a long time in the army. Thinking of this, Qiu Yizhi hurriedly grabbed a large piece of the stomach of an animal that he didn't know what it was, and swallowed it into his stomach without chewing.