Wuyou 16 states, east from Danzhou, west to Yunzhou, including a total of 16 states, since the Northern Yuan Dynasty was occupied, until the establishment of the dynasty, after more than 200 years, has been controlled by foreign races.

After the establishment of the dynasty, Emperor Taizu Wang Mu personally led the army to conquest, after several years, it was not easy to conquer the two states, but the national strength was limited, and the remnants of the Northern Yuan who resisted were unable to consume, and finally had to regret returning to the dynasty.

The dynasty inherited the old capital of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and would rather spend huge manpower and material resources to repair this dangerous place, rather than find a safe place with beautiful mountains and rivers.

Defending the country is only one of them, and what Emperor Taizu hopes most is that the future generations will one day be able to fight back to the north, regain the remaining fourteen states, and completely keep the Tartars out of the country.

In the past 50 years, none of the monarchs of the Wang family did not want to recover the lost 14 states, or sent envoys to negotiate peace, or raised troops to attack, but they all had little effect.

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Emperor Shun's throne is snatched, the name is not right, although few people in the government and the opposition dare to talk about it, but many people in their hearts regard it as a chaotic minister and thief, Emperor Shun knows this, so these years of hard work, do not dare to slack off for a moment, thinking that one day rely on the fourteen states of Wuyou to correct the name.

In the past ten years, he has been holding back, and has been rectifying the internal governance of officials to develop national strength, thinking that he can wave his troops to the north in the future, not only to seize back the fourteen states, but also to fight all the way to the capital of the Northern Turkistan.

The Central Plains since ancient times emphasized that a division is famous, before Emperor Shun raised troops under the banner of "Qing Jun Side", and the Qing naturally referred to the king's authority. However, that time he was unlucky and kicked the iron plate, and Wang Quanquan in turn shouted "punish the evil spirit" to quell the rebellion, and weaved a lot of false notoriety for him along the way.

Among them, the article "having an affair with a nurse" is the most widely circulated, and even until now there are still people talking about it, whether they are true or false, Emperor Shun's lascivious and absurd reputation cannot be erased.

Once bitten by a snake for ten years afraid of the well rope, since then, Emperor Shun is much more cautious to find a name, even if he wants to deal with some officials, most of them are pretending to use the mouth of the official, and list the crimes committed by those people one by one, and he himself can pick as much clean as he can, in case he is bitten back, when the emperor is on him, it is really a little helpless.

Just when Emperor Shun was trying to find a suitable excuse to raise troops to attack Northern Turkistan, the other party actually sent 300,000 troops to the door, which was in the hands of Emperor Shun, so Kaiping Wei said to the three brothers of the Yan family.

Emperor Shun's abacus sounded, but Beitu did not plan to really go to war, and after the arrival of the king's power, he also took the initiative to hand over the fourteen states of Wuyou, which he had been reluctant to let go for decades, which made a series of backhands he had prepared fall short.

Regardless of the rise and fall of the world, it is the people who suffer, the Central Plains is still Confucian, there is no word aggression in his bones, Emperor Shun thought about it again and again, and finally gave up the plan to continue to raise troops.

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The fourteen states of Wuyou are located in the north, and the king's authority and his son entered from the junction of Youshun, intending to turn from the post road to Yanzhou, through Yanzhou and then north through Ruzhou, and finally the real junction of the two dynasties.

The two of them only led a horse on this trip, and the horse's fur was snow-white, and there was only a cluster of black spots on the waist and abdomen, which was named Sprinkle Ink.

At the beginning, Wang Quanquan took away a thousand-mile good horse "Jade Dragon" from the palace, and the whole body was snow-white and dusty, and he went south and north with him, and later followed him to Zhongzhou.

The jade dragon is tall and powerful, but he has a soft spot for an old and thin mare in the palace, and the king does not point to the horse seller to make a fortune, so he did not interfere, and then the mare gave birth to a foal, which is now sprinkled with ink.

After all, Samo has the bloodline of a thousand horses, and his foot strength is much better than that of ordinary horses, but it can't be compared with the real treasure horse, the two rarely ride along the way, and most of the time they are on their legs, no wonder Wang Qianshan complains so much about him as a father.

The two walked from Zhongzhou to Kaipingwei, it has taken more than a month, and it is estimated that the year of the monkey and the horse will not be able to go home, so Wang Quanquan went out of the city and Yan Shaohai asked for a retired military horse, Wang Quanquan rode and sprinkled ink, and Wang Qianying rode a taller military horse.

The military horse is old, but the majesty is still undiminished, at this moment with the sprinkle ink side by side, but the body is always leaning to the side from time to time, wanting to get close to the other party, the young man pulled the reins and corrected it several times, but the horse under him is still repeatedly taught, so angry that the young man almost wanted to draw his sword gelding.

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At the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, the sun is still hot, especially at ten o'clock in the afternoon, even the people and horses are roasted, the father and son are a little unbearable, just saw a stall selling herbal tea, so they stopped and planned to take a break.

The stall owner was an old man in his sixties, full of gray hair, who was putting the cage drawer on the stove beside him.

In the hundreds of years when the 14 states were ruled by the Northern Yuan, many locals have long forgotten where they are rooted, and they can't remember the scene of the Northern Yuan army entering the city and wantonly slaughtering.

The father and son walked along the official road, and met some people on the way, most of whom wore close-fitting short clothes, long pants and leather boots, and the style was very similar to the Hufu of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which was very different from the wide-sleeved caftan respected in the hinterland of the Central Plains. Fortunately, one of the two was wearing a short shirt, and the other was wearing a strong suit, although it looked a little weird, but it was not much different from the local style, which did not cause unnecessary onlookers.

Glancing at the characteristic clothes on the old man's body, Wang Quanquan stepped forward and accosted:

"This old man, I bothered to inquire about how far I would go to Yanzhou from now on."

The old man stopped, looked at the king's authority curiously, and said:

"You're not from Northern Turks, are you?"

Wang Quanquan nodded, "I came from the Central Plains." ”

Seeing his modest attitude, the old man put down the cage drawer and stretched out his hand to the end of the official road:

"Well, from now on, there is another half a day's journey to the northwest to enter Yanzhou, but you have to be careful, the general in charge of garrisoning Yanzhou is not very good-tempered, and often takes the opportunity to trouble the Central Plains people, and some smooth businessmen have to be beaten severely if they don't say a word, not to mention other ordinary people."

"Old man Xie reminds us, we will be careful." Wang Quanquan replied with a smile, and then pointed to the young man behind him, "My father and son have been on the road for a long time, and they are hungry and thirsty, may I ask if there is anything here to satisfy their stomachs?" ”

"There are more tricks here than in the city, only steamed buns."

"Then please bring two drawers of buns."

The father and son found a nearby table to sit down, the table was made of willow wood, and the table top was very clean, but there were many knife marks and axe marks criss-crossed, both old and new, and it was obviously not formed in a day.

The old man limped over with the tea, saw that the two were looking at the table, and explained:

"The Northern Turks did it, this is the official road, almost every day there are Northern Turks passing by, and some of them don't want to give money after drinking tea, so they take out their swords and throw them on the table."

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