Chapter 751: Distress
Because Concubine Rong and the others didn't want to spend the night in Luming Pass, Yan Liqiang had to lead the team to hurry as much as possible in the first half of the night, and then prepare to find a place to camp and rest in the second half of the night.
Not long after leaving Luming Pass, the sun completely set, the sky slowly and completely darkened, Yan Liqiang and their team of chariots and horses are skillfully lit on the horse lantern, continue to hurry, before leaving Luming Pass, everyone has been ready to rush overnight, everyone has eaten, the horses rest for an afternoon, the water and grass are fed, but also spirit, a group of people non-stop on the official road galloping.
The weather has been good these days, the sky is bright at night, and with the horse lights in the team, there is no problem in hurrying.
In the first three hours of leaving Luming Pass, the official road is quite flat and easy to walk, but after leaving Luming Pass three hours later, the mountains on both sides of the road are getting higher and higher, the terrain is getting more and more dangerous, the carriages and horses enter the mountainous area, the so-called official road becomes potholes, there are a lot of gravel on the road, the whole official road is dug on the mountain wall, under the mountain wall, the deep ravines are dangerous, the bottom is not visible, a turbulent river is close to the official road, just in the mountains and mountains like an angry dragon roaring and galloping, in Yan Liqiang under their feet made a huge roar, which makes people daunting。
Such an official road, horseback riding is okay, but the four-wheeled carriage has no way to run too fast on such a road, the four-wheeled carriage is fast, once it passes through which potholes or wheels rush to the stones, the whole carriage will be bumped up from the road, the people sitting in it bump and bump uncomfortable, not to mention, the vehicle is also easy to damage, if you are not careful, the four-wheeled carriage may be overturned and damaged and then rushed from the road to the mountain or the rushing river below.
In this case, the speed of the whole team slowed down suddenly, and it slowly shuttled through the mountains at a speed no faster than a pedestrian walking.
It was late at night, and there were no pedestrians on the road at all, and walking on such an official road, except for the sound of horses' hooves and the wheels, the only sounds that could be heard from living creatures in the whole mountain were owls, forest owls, chestnut fish, and other birds that pierced the night sky, and occasionally a few terrible cries of tigers, wolves, and apes echoed in the valley, which was extremely terrifying.
"Why is the official road in Gaoyi County so potholed, the situation is too bad, how long is such a road?"
Originally, Yan Liqiang thought that such an official road was just a short section, but he didn't expect that it would be endless, he walked for four or five hours, and the first half of the night was almost over, and the situation on this road was still the same, and the team he led could only slowly rub on such a road, and there was not even a post house hotel on the side of the road.
"The road in the next few days is almost like this!" Sima Qingyi replied.
"Isn't there anyone to repair the official road in Gaoyi County?"
Hearing Yan Liqiang's question, Sima Qingshan suddenly came to his senses and began to say like a few treasures, " Adults may not know the situation in this Gaoyi County, this Gaoyi County is densely forested and sparsely populated, even the population of Gaoyi County is only more than 200,000 people, and the tax and silver collected by the entire Gaoyi County in a year is less than one-eighth of Luquan County, according to the system of the Han Empire, this official road is in Gaoyi County, and it is naturally repaired by Gaoyi County to keep the official road smooth and intact, but because there is really no money in this Gaoyi County, the usual repair and maintenance is much worse, plus this official road is basically in the mountains in Gaoyi County, mountain floods and rockfalls and the like occur from time to time, and it is easier to damage, and the road condition is even worse, if you encounter a bad yearIn the entire territory of Guzhou, if you see that there are officials and people wearing clothes that will be patched, that person must be from Gaoyi County, in the Guzhou officialdom, the officials of Gaoyi County are often ridiculed, and they have become jokes, I heard that the year before last, the Lord Assassin went to Gaoyi County to inspect it, and it turned out that most of the officials who came to greet him, even including the official mansion worn by their county guard, had patches, and even the Lord Thorn Shi couldn't stand it, starting from the year before last, at the end of each year, he would deliberately let the Assassin Mansion allocate a sum of silver to the officials of Gaoyi County, called Xinfu Silver, the whole Guzhou is unique. ”
"Since Guzhou is so poor, how can the people of Guzhou live?"
"Of course, it is the mountain to eat the mountain and the water to eat the water, Guzhou is mountainous, there are more medicinal materials in the mountains, some medicinal materials are still relatively rare and expensive, the people of Guzhou, almost all rely on the medicinal materials in the mountains to subsidize their lives, every year from June to the period before winter, there are more people who enter the mountain herbs, many pharmacists in Guzhou and Jinzhou will come to Gaoyi County to collect medicines, and the main tax silver of the government of Gaoyi County is the customs clearance of these pharmaceutical merchants!"
"I didn't expect that there would be such a poor county government in the Han Empire, it's really unexpected!" Yan Liqiang shook his head and said with a sigh.
Sima Qingshan looked at Yan Liqiang with admiration, and the light in his eyes flashed, " The situation of Qiyun County under the rule of the Lord is naturally thousands of times stronger than this Gaoyi County, and the subordinates heard that the wool monopoly policy of the Gulang Grassland was created by the adult, only this policy, the Lord can easily make a profit of millions of taels of silver every year, monopolizing most of the wool profits of the Han Empire, looking at the entire Han Empire, such a county government that will make money and be rich, and there is no second one, even if it is the county government of the Han Empire that has the benefits of coastal commerce, if it is the way to make money, it is not as good as the adult!"
Yan Liqiang just wanted to say something, but suddenly his heart moved slightly, and the alarm suddenly appeared, and there was a feeling of being spied on, which disappeared in a flash, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Yan Liqiang frowned, looking at the surrounding environment, the right side of the official road is a steep mountain wall, hundreds of meters high, the left side of the official road is a deep stream, below is the turbulent river, here is the dangerous road, although the surroundings are dark, but in Yan Liqiang's eyes, but there is no figure, just now the feeling of being peeped at is too slight, the time is also very short, there is no such continuous anxiety and vigilance brought by being hidden in the dark and constantly peeping, which makes Yan Liqiang still wonder in his heart, if it is a person, he will never just look at himself as a targetCould it be that there was a fierce beast hidden in the mountains and forests that wanted to hunt just now glanced at him, and then staggered his gaze, and was felt by himself, or was it some kind of small hairy thief cutting the path......
Seeing that Yan Liqiang's face suddenly became serious, observing the surrounding environment without speaking, Sima Qingshan also became alert, and turned his head to look around.
"Are there any thieves in this mountain?" asked Sima Qingshan.
"Yes, but not much, at most it is a group of three or two, robbing solo travelers, there used to be several groups of thieves with a little more than a few people who were exterminated by the rangers invited by Guzhou and Jinju pharmacists."
Yan Liqiang nodded, the average little thief estimated that when he saw the team he was leading, he couldn't hide, where did he dare to show his head.
The feeling of being spied on disappeared for a full two minutes, and just when Yan Liqiang thought that there would never be again, suddenly, Yan Liqiang's heart was alarmed again-no!
Yan Liqiang turned his head, looked at the hillside on the right, his eyes flashed, and with the meteorite iron gun in his hand, the whole person jumped up from the horse of Caiyun chasing the moon at once, stepped on the steep and straight mountain wall on the right, and the whole person roared, stepped on the steep mountain wall with both feet, and rushed towards the middle of the team
Seeing Yan Liqiang roaring and jumping up and rushing towards the back, the entire team was startled, and everyone reacted at once.
Boom......
Just as Yan Liqiang rushed out more than ten zhang away, there was a sudden loud noise on the top of the mountain wall, and several boulders with huge strength rumbled down from the highest part of the mountain wall.
As soon as the people in the team looked up, they saw the stones weighing thousands of pounds of cattle rushing down from the height, and everyone's faces changed.
Hearing the sound on the mountain road, the guard who drove the carriage waved his whip violently, trying to make the horse rush forward, but Rong Guifei's carriage had just rushed forward a few meters, but the wheels clicked, and suddenly fell into a half-foot-deep pothole on the road, the carriage moved twice, and the wheels were still motionless.
Hearing the sudden movement outside, Concubine Rong opened the curtain inside the carriage, and saw that under the light of the horse lamp, a stone about the size of a carriage rolled down the hillside, facing her location......
Elder Liu had already leaped up from the carriage just now, roared angrily, and smashed several stones the size of a bull's head that rolled down in the air, but in the face of the largest stone that rushed down from behind, seeing that the wheels of the carriage were stuck in the pothole, and a boulder was rushing towards Rong Guifei and their carriages, Elder Liu's face also changed, at this time, it was too late to let Rong Guifei and them get off the car......
At the same time that Concubine Rong Guifei saw the boulder, Elder Liu, who rushed in front of the boulder to stop the boulder from rolling down, had already spurted out a mouthful of blood, and the whole person flew backwards, but the momentum of the boulder rolling down did not decrease at all.
Am I going to die, on this mountain road...... At this moment, Concubine Rong's head was blank, her whole body was completely stiff, time seemed to slow down at this moment, and the shadow of the boulder that rolled down had already enveloped Concubine Rong and her carriage and horses.
At this moment, Yan Liqiang's figure suddenly appeared in front of Rong Guifei's eyes, blocking the front of the carriage, looking at the boulder that rolled down with great strength, Yan Liqiang roared angrily, and the spear in his hand stabbed out.
The spear in Yan Liqiang's hand was not pierced on the boulder, but on the mountain wall below the boulder, and then Yan Liqiang picked it up with the head of the spear, and the barrel of the meteoric iron spear was almost bent to ninety degrees at this moment, and then with a fierce flick, the boulder that rolled down slid on the tip of Yan Liqiang's gun, and then was picked up with a snort, changed direction, and flew over the roof of the carriage in which Rong Guifei and the others were riding, and rolled down into the river below, making a loud noise, smashing the water in the river high......
Yan Liqiang grabbed Concubine Rong Guifei and their carriage Che Xuan, and lifted the entire carriage from the pothole with only one hand, "Elder Liu, escort Niangniang and the two Highnesses to leave quickly......
Elder Liu, who had blood on the corner of his mouth, leaped over and stood directly on the back of the rhinosaurus horse pulling the cart, escorting Concubine Rong and the vehicle they were sitting in rushed forward.
Another boulder rolled down, but it was still picked up by Yan Liqiang with a spear, and then Yan Liqiang roared again, his body jumped up, stepped on the steep mountain wall, and rushed up directly, his body was like electricity......
Yan Liqiang, a mountain wall more than 100 meters high, rushed to the top in the blink of an eye, and when he raised his eyes, there were three men in black holding iron rods, and they were working together to pry a boulder on it, and the three people suddenly didn't expect the people below to rush up so quickly, and they were startled, and their movements froze, and one of them didn't think about it, his hideous face trembled, and he smashed the iron rod in his hand towards Yan Liqiang......
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