Qin State, Xianyang

In the dead of night, the stars twinkle in the sky, and the breeze blows the streets of Xianyang.

It's just that, unlike the loud voices of people during the day, Xianyang City at night is as quiet as a dead city except for a few chicken and dog sounds.

Unlike Xinzheng, which is still lively and bustling late at night, there is a curfew at night in the Qin State.

"Zhou Li, Autumn Lawsuit Si Kou" once recorded the position of "Si Kou", "when the night is in charge, the night is divided by the stars, the night is forbidden by the edict of the night warrior, the morning walker, the night walker, and the night traveler", which is the earliest record of curfew in Chinese history.

The curfew was originally intended to allow people to adapt to the traditional Chinese way of farming, "working at sunrise and resting at dusk".

It was only later that the etiquette collapsed, and the countries did not implement the curfew system, even during the war, and even during the reign of King Xiang of Wei, "the people of Wei were numerous, there were many chariots and horses, and they traveled day and night."

However, the Qin State was different, since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, a curfew system was implemented, prohibiting the people from traveling at night, and violators were arrested and subjected to hard labor.

It is forbidden to travel at night, so the people can often only choose to live at home, and they can only sleep peacefully except for the efforts to contribute to the new population of the Qin State.

Therefore, there will never be anyone on the streets of Xianyang City at night.

Unless......

The silence was broken by the sound of horses' hooves, coming from far and near!

Hearing the sound of horses' hooves, people who were already asleep were awakened, and from time to time someone poked their heads out to see which idiot not only violated the curfew, but also dared to ride a horse late at night.

Suddenly, someone noticed that the sound of the horse's hooves seemed to be coming from outside the city, and the sound of the horse's hooves was getting louder and louder, and it was obviously not a movement caused by a horse.

The old Qin people who had experience in joining the army copied the weapons they could find at home, and they had everything they could find, knives, guns and spears. And some of the families who had no weapons at home took the ploughs that were ploughed the fields, drew the latches of the latches, and brought the butcher's knives for slaughtering meat.

Even a group of Qin soldiers who had returned home from leave had already put on their armor and picked up weapons, ignoring the curfew and taking to the streets.

The sound of horses' hooves of this magnitude was clearly a cavalry army.

When I came to Xianyang City late at night, either the enemy army attacked the city, or there was an emergency military situation, so the people of the entire Xianyang City were nervous by this movement.

After a while, I don't know what the people at the head of the city communicated with the cavalry outside the city, and it seemed that someone went up from the hanging basket to the head of the city to communicate with the city gate guards. Immediately, the gates creaked, and the heavy gates slowly opened.

Someone pointed to the fire dragon rushing in the dark night, and shouted, attracting everyone's attention.

I saw that a cavalry team, like a rolling dragon, drove into Xianyang City and galloped over.

"Urgent military situation on the front line, everyone get out of the way!"

One of the leading knights shouted, waving his hand, signaling everyone on the street to stay away.

At this moment, in addition to the defenders of Xianyang, who can walk on the streets, they are those Qin soldiers who are wearing armor and holding swords, and they naturally know that there is an urgent military situation on the front line that cannot be delayed, so they retreat to both sides of the street very cooperatively.

It's just that everyone is curious, what kind of emergency military situation would march in the middle of the night like this?

The cavalry team split into two teams at an intersection, one went straight to the palace of the king of Qin, and the other went straight to Zhang Ji's mansion.

Zhang Ji, who was still fighting with Flame Lingji and Tian Mi, was also alarmed by the sound of horses' hooves parked in front of the mansion, and hurriedly got up and put on his clothes and prepared to go out to check the situation.

Looking at the Flame Spirit Ji who was already full and lying down to rest, Tian Mi couldn't help complaining a little in her heart about the sound of horses' hooves outside the door, but she still honestly served Zhang Ji and got dressed.

Before Zhang Ji could get dressed, a quick knock on the door came to his ears.

"Chief, there is an urgent secret report from the branch of the Chu State of Luowang!"

Zhang Ji frowned slightly, but it was not disgusted by the snare killer who knocked on the door, but the seriousness of the matter.

Who in the net doesn't know that Zhang Ji likes to run at night, and there is no urgent matter, and it is impossible to disturb Zhang Ji at such a time.

Moreover, he could sense that the snare killer who knocked on the door was a first-class master, but the dignified killer did this kind of knocking work......

With the last coat in his hand, Zhang Ji pushed the door and walked out, looking at the killer with the red demon mask.

"Where's the tip?"

The killer with a tired face that could not be concealed hurriedly took out a black scroll from his arms and handed it to Zhang Ji.

"Black Dragon Scroll!"

This is the second time Zhang Ji has seen such a thing.

Last time, he got the Black Dragon Scroll from the startled salamander and sent it back to Qin, but this time it was he who received the Black Dragon Scroll as the leader of the net.

Zhang Ji took out the Qianji copper plate he carried with him, personally unlocked the six armor locks, took out the black dragon file, and converted the encrypted text content into normal language and text in his brain, and couldn't help but change his complexion.

Before Zhang Ji could say anything, there was a muffled snort and a snoring sound from the side.

This killer and the guards who returned to Qin with him all rushed back from the Chu capital Shouchun without changing people, which is really thousands of miles away, from Shouchun to Xianyang, the road is at least more than 2,500 miles.

(Shouchun to Xi'an is about 1,000 kilometers, and one mile is about 415 meters in the Zhou and Qin periods)

These killers traveled more than 200 miles a day, day and night. After passing through the post stations all over the way, changing horses without changing people, changing horses with dry food and water and leaving, galloping for more than ten days without rest, even the masters of the first-class realm can not support such an intensity of consumption, these people can come to him all rely on one breath to support.

And now that the black dragon scroll was delivered to Zhang Ji's hands, and seeing the black dragon scroll being untied in Zhang Ji's hands, these killers of the net-killing level all fainted.

"Let people be sent to the guest room to rest, and then go to the doctor to treat them, and don't spare money."

Zhang Ji commanded the tide that came later, although the tide and the salamander have the same status in the family, but Zhang Ji's mansion is also a big business, and there must be a trustworthy and capable person to manage the income and expenditure of the mansion, so this task fell on the tide, the head of the tide family, and the former lady Mingzhu.

Of course, the tide alone is naturally more than enough but not enough, so he brought Mrs. Hu and Hu Meiren, the former had been in charge of some of the family wealth in Liu Yi's mansion, and the latter was also a "beauty" who was only inferior to the tide after all, so they naturally knew how to deal with these affairs.

"Lang Jun go, we have our own control in the house."

The tide looked calm, and his eyes were deep, as if he had changed back into the resourceful and decisive tide banshee. And there are still startling salamanders in the house, no matter what happens in the house, Zhang Ji can rest assured that he will hand it over to them.

Nodding slightly at the tide and the startled salamander, Zhang Ji immediately took the horses pulled by the two Mo family god swordsmen, and galloped towards the Qin Palace with the deciphered black dragon dossier.

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