Zhao Bohu's objection is also very reasonable: "When it is cold and snowy, the light car is simple and travels thousands of miles, and the danger during this is really unpredictable. ”

But the young Son of Heaven said: "The north is uneasy, there are not enough war horses, and the Great Zhou is safe in the world!" What's more, Ji Hu is also a knight, what is the danger? ”

Zhao Bohu was very uneasy, seeing that Ji Hu had made up his mind, he had to propose to accompany him personally, who thought that Ji Hu only said: "Young father has all the opportunities, how can he leave the center of Hojing?" Lonely has not yet been in power, he is an idler, not to mention accompanied by Wei Hou, what is there to worry about? If the young father is really not at ease, he can let Wang Cheng Sima escort him. ”

After many years of getting along, Zhao Bohu didn't know how his student's strength and decisiveness, so he had no choice but to repeatedly tell Duoyou to guard carefully, and if there was an emergency, he would definitely fly and send a letter.

In this way, Ji Duoyou took a team of 100 escort horses including twenty flying messengers, and escorted the carriage of the Son of Heaven and the Marquis of Wei to patrol the west.

In the Qishan and Fengho camps of the Western Sixth Division, things went quite smoothly. When Qin Jun heard that the Son of Heaven was on patrol, he personally went to Qishan and set up a military order: before the beginning of spring, two thousand war horses were transported into the two camps. He also authorized the Western Sixth Division to exchange markets with the Hu people, and raised their own grain, grass, and cloth to trade with the Hu people to buy horses.

In a row of shogunate tents baked hot in a row of big furnaces, the generals of the Western Sixth Division slapped their chests one by one: "If the lynx comes again, they will definitely come back!" ”

By the time the Son of Heaven left Qishan and was about to return, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Sixth Division of the West were already shouting for everyone to fight.

However, on the way back, something happened.

The escort horses that followed Jihu were always rotated with two horses each. Rao is like this, or he can't keep up with the hurricane-like Earth pony king car. Everywhere they went, there were always a few knights who left behind their tired horses and replaced them with fresh horses. @*~~ But the six horses that pulled the king's car were famous horses that had been tempered and cooperated with each other seamlessly, and there was no exchange, so they could only gallop every day.

Although Mite's driving skills were extremely high, he had to be very attentive, and whenever he had a spare time, he carefully served the six horses, resting less than anyone else. In the past ten days, Mide has become a monkey. Ji Hu also knew that there was no substitute for the king's chariot and earth horse, and when he returned, he ordered to travel only 300 miles a day, and the rest of the time he would stay on the horse.

The normal march of the Western Zhou army was: a large army of mixed infantry and cavalry, traveling 80 to 100 miles a day; Ride alone for 200 to 300 miles a day. For this elite horse team of less than 100 people, as long as the terrain is not abnormal, it is the norm to travel five or six hundred miles a day, and now it is really easy to travel three hundred miles a day.

After three or five days of going forward, going south to the north of Guanzhong, a goose feather snow fluttered down one after another.

Heavy snow in winter, which means "Ruixue Trillion Year", the whole chariot and horse team is so happy that they dance hand in hand, and shout long live the king. However, the snow was vast and the world was chaotic, and the mountain roads were smoothed out without a single pothole, and the march was greatly difficult. Mide was too frightened to go on the road, and urged the snow to stop and go again.

Ji Hu laughed: "Go!" At most, fall into the snow nest, what are you afraid of? ”

Duoyou knew that he could not convince the Son of Heaven, so he personally led ten capable knights to explore the road in front, and used dry branches to insert signs on both sides, and the middle of the branches was considered a feasible lane. If you do this for a day, you will be safe. On the road the next day, as it was concocted.

But no one could have expected that at noon, the bronze king's chariot that was traveling safely suddenly reversed, the carriage and horse sank violently, and Zhou Li, Wang Jihu, who was taking a nap with his eyes closed, was suddenly turned out of the car and fell heavily on the snow-covered rock. Mide screamed, and quickly grabbed the frightened and neighing horse, and a pool of urine had already flowed to his feet.

Hearing this, Duoyou flew over, and was about to help the Son of Heaven up, when Ji Hu, who was covered in blood, had already staggered to his feet. Wei He hurriedly jumped out of a carriage behind him and hurriedly came to inspect Ji Hu's wounds, but Ji Hu pushed him away: "Look at what, a little skin trauma, it's not in the way!" Hurry up and pack up the carts and horses. ”

The knights, who were extremely stunned, came to their senses, except for the accompanying physician who treated the wounds of the Son of Heaven, all dismounted and rushed over to rescue the king's famous horse. When the snow cleared, all the knights gasped! It turned out that this was a mountain road that was washed away by a stream, and the two sides were impressive, but in the middle was a bottomless forest cave. If it weren't for the fact that this king car is particularly long, the body is cast in bronze as a whole, and the tail of the wheel is just stuck on the four sides of the big hole, the entire king car has undoubtedly been.

The hole was engulfed.

"God bless my king!"

"Long live the King!"

The knights of the horse team shouted with tears in their eyes, and knelt in front of Ji Hu.

The young man walked over, looked at the road hole where the wind and snow were whistling and flying, and smiled teasingly: "Heaven too, if you don't want to teach me Ji Hu to die, why bother to be scary?" Is! ”

"King!" The shrunken Mitsu finally cried out.

"Lonely and don't blame you, what are you crying for? Get up and hit the road. ”

"King, the horse has been resting for three days, and he can't go."

Wei He also came to persuade him: "The king is injured, and he can't move forward without taking a carriage!" ”

Ji Hu's face sank: "Who is the royal master and knight who will not be injured in battle, and he can't walk if he is injured like this?" ”

Ji Duoyou knelt on the ground and said bitterly: "King, the king's famous horse is frightened, and he really needs to rest before he can move forward." What's more, the king's injuries also need to be recuperated a little, and there is nothing to do at the moment, so it is better to find a private house to rest for a while. It's never too late to hit the road tomorrow! At the end, he added: "The last general is responsible for guarding, and this matter has to be asked to summon the public!" ”

Ji Hu was stunned: "Okay, then rest for one night." Error-free update @ This place is deserted, all on foot! ”

Wei He was still stunned, Ji Hu had already picked up a dead branch inserted in the snow, and strode away along the snow path.

The winter is bitterly cold, and from the afternoon until the sunset, I can see the outline of a mountain villa looming in the snow in the distance. I saw the dark gate of the grange looming in sight, and there were dotted torches lit. When I got closer, I saw a short and dark man standing in front of the village, followed by a group of people.

The horse team leading the horse forward arrived at the gate of the village, and the short black man immediately knelt down and said loudly: "The little Wang Zhuang steward Wu Laofu, please say hello to the Son of Heaven." The king has worked hard all the way, and all the houses are ready, just waiting for the king to stay! ”

It turned out that this was a manor under the name of the Zhou royal family, Ji Hu glanced at Wei He with disgust, and the latter pursed his lips and smiled: "Don't blame me, I ordered the preparation before the summoning of the prime minister to go on patrol, and the king of Guanzhong all the way must take care of it." Thou hast been wounded, and shall I not preach a word? ”

Ji Hu was helpless.

The main house in the village has long been brightly lit, and all the furniture such as tables and tables have been wiped clean, and the utensils are neatly and generously placed. A sheep's horn palace lamp is placed on the small table at the head of the bed, and a complete set of jade tea sets are placed on the pear blossom wood round table, and the mouth of the pot is still slightly bubbling with the fragrance of tea.

The old lady doctor came in and gave Ji Hu a careful diagnosis and treatment, and concluded that the trauma was fine, and the blood in the body accumulated due to the violent collision needed to be relieved slowly. If it weren't for the thick snow wrapped around the rocks, the crash would have had to break the ribs.

Although there was no major danger, Ji Hu was still closely guarded by the left and right, and had to lie on the couch for two days in a row. On the evening of the second day, Ji Hu ordered him to take a bath, and soaked in a large wooden barrel for half an hour, until his muscles and bones were softened. Suddenly, I felt a tingling of conscience, thinking that it was easy for me to come to Wangzhuang, but there was no grace or reward, which was quite unreasonable.

The so-called Wang Zhuang is a manor and field directly belonging to the Zhou royal family, and its rental income is directly assigned to the inner mansion belonging to the royal family. The Zhou royal family has nearly 100 large and small Wangzhuang in the Wangji region, all of which are managed by officials directly sent by the inner government, but if there is no accident, most of the Wangzhuang stewards will never see the king of Zhou in their lives. If anyone is lucky enough to have the King of Zhou coming, he can show off his descendants.

Knowing that King Zhou had summoned him, Wu Laofu hurriedly brought a group of people in charge and the head of the village to ask for peace, with a smile on his face and a cart of flattering words. Who knew that Ji Hu listened to it for a long time, and only asked lightly: "Is the grain depot on the village full?" ”

Wu Laofu was puzzled, and replied truthfully: "Your lord, the past few years have been considered a good year, the warehouses are full, and the corn is in surplus. ”

"Okay." Ji Hu instructed: "It's easy to come back and forth, the farmers have worked hard for many years, and the lonely can't be without expression." In this way, let them come to receive the reward according to the list of the households, and send the villagers to the grain depot to transfer grain, and all the tenants registered in the village will be rewarded with five catties of corn per person according to the head. ”

"This ------" Wu Laofu faintly felt that it was not good, but he couldn't say anything for a while, so he had to do it.

At night, the main house of the manor is brightly lit. Wei He took the roster handed in by Wu Laofu and read it slowly. In the middle of the courtyard were piled up with grain bags several people high, each of which was tied tightly with red rope, and contained five catties of corn. The characteristic aroma of grain.

Fill the room.

Wei He said loudly: "At the end of this year, everyone has worked hard. As soon as the king returned, he had nothing to grow, and he appreciated a little food, which also made everyone happy. ”

Before the stewards could react, the chamberlain had already chanted his name in a loud voice, and when a tenant came in, he sent a bag of corn, and then asked if there were any old people in the house over sixty years old, and if there was one, he would give one more bag. After each one, the attendant ticked off a name. The tenant farmer left the hall with his heavy sack of grain in his arms, as if in the clouds.

When the first few tenants came in, they were still weak or trembling, but after five or six were distributed, the tenants who were waiting behind heard the news and learned that there was a good thing of getting food for nothing today, and this time it was like salt sprinkled into a hot oil pot, and the courtyard was in an uproar. They came in with a red face, and when they went out, they were beaming with joy and good words of thanks. @*~~

The head stewards of the village looked at each other, they didn't understand their meaning, some seemed to be a little indignant, and some loudly flattered the good deeds of King Zhou, and the only Wu Laofu gradually saw beads of sweat on his forehead.