Golden State, Wharf.

Zhu Guoxiang, Shen Yourong, Zhang Gen, Huang, Zheng Yuanyi and others, as well as many officials, scholars and ordinary people, all came to the Han River to see Zhu Ming off.

Zheng Yuanyi still has to raise a baby in Jinzhou for a month or two, and her father-in-law and mother-in-law are also here anyway.

"Cherish Xianggong!" Zheng Yuanyi bent down and saluted.

Zhu Ming hurriedly helped: "Don't move, rest well." ”

"Yes." Zheng Yuanyi squeezed out a smile.

Zhang Gen and Huang are also saying goodbye to their daughter and saying some precautions for husband and wife harmony.

Generally speaking, the dowry is collected by the bride, but Zhu Ming is a cheeky person, and he actually asked for an item by name.

He asked the Zhang family to send some lead to make a dowry......

Verbally said that it was going to be shipped to Yangzhou to make lead movable type, but in fact, some of it would be intercepted to make lead bullets.

Huang said to his daughter: "I have already asked, that Zheng's acquaintance was successful in Weimo, and they have followed it in the past few years, so they must be very affectionate." Now that she is pregnant again, she will be even more pampered in the future. When you get along with her, you must master a degree, so that your wife and concubine can be harmonious. ”

"My daughter saves." Zhang Jinping said.

Huang also said: "The eldest woman must have a mind and measure, and she must also have internal means, can you remember what I taught you before?" ”

Zhang Jinping said: "My daughter remembers. ”

Mother and daughter talk about it, and the ship is about to depart.

Zhang Jinping walked up to Zheng Yuanyi, took her hand and said, "Sister, take care of your body, pay more attention to your body." ”

Zheng Yuanyi hurriedly saluted: "Sister, take care of yourself." ”

The day after the wedding, after Zhang Jinping went to visit his aunt, he had officially met Zheng Yuanyi. The wife and concubine also gave each other meeting gifts, Zhang Jinping gave a golden step, and Zheng Yuanyi gave a golden hairpin.

Zhu Ming said goodbye to his relatives and friends one by one, and bowed his hand to everyone: "Take care, gentlemen!" ”

"Congratulations to Taishou!" The officials and gentry and businessmen of Jinzhou saw them off together.

Even the grain merchants came to say goodbye, although during the famine, Zhu Ming was not allowed to increase the price at will, and every time the price increase was raised, he had to hold a meeting to discuss. But compared with the practice of directly requisitioning grain for disaster relief, Zhu Ming is already very face-saving.

If they were other officials, they would lose even more, after all, there were no big grain merchants in Golden State. Even if you hoard Juqi, you can't make a few money, but you are very likely to be blackmailed by officials.

The businessmen were reluctant to let Zhu Ming go, because after Zhu Taishou left, the counties and towns would definitely rebuild their private columns, and the future business would be even more difficult.

Juming boarded the boat and waved to the shore.

Suddenly, the people knelt down, and immediately they knelt together.

Some people threw letters to the public opinion box, and Zhu Ming ordered the Judicial Yuan to avenge them. Some people received relief from the government during the drought and made a special trip from the suburbs to bid farewell to the Taishou.

There are also many people who simply think that Zhu Taishou is very good, and the famine season has suppressed the price of grain to make them feel better.

Zhang Jinping looked at the kneeling crowd, and then turned his head to look at her husband, with a proud smile on his face.

When the boat sailed to Daming Village, Zhu Ming stayed for a day and took Zhang Jinping to meet Mrs. Yan. When he arrived in Yangzhou City, he stayed at Zheng's house for another day and talked about Zheng Yuanyi's pregnancy.

After passing through Xingyuan Mansion, I traveled all the way through the mountains and mountains.

Many times he could only walk, and Zhang Jinping walked so that his legs and feet were weak, until the hearts of his feet were blistered, and finally he stopped insisting and hired local mountain people to carry a sliding pole to walk.

In individual plank road areas, the sliding pole does not sit, and can only walk by yourself with the courage to go.

Arriving in Lizhou City, Zhu Ming went to visit Li Youwen in Zhizhou, and all the entourage rested collectively for five days.

Li Youwen said: "I see that you still have more than ten horses, and it is best for the horses to go to the Jialing River." The northern slope of Jianmen Pass is too difficult to walk, and horses who are not good at climbing the mountain are very likely to run out of physical strength in the middle of the slope. ”

"Please also ask Li Taishou to send a guide." Zhu Ming said.

Li Youwen smiled and said, "This matter is easy to hear." ”

So the team was divided into two, Zhu Ming wanted to personally appreciate the danger of the Sword Gate, and Bai Sheng and Li Bao took the horses and supplies to the Reward River.

The crowd is separated in Jubaijin in Zhaohua County, and you can take a boat to the south, or you can go along the Jialing River. Walk halfway and then turn to the west, go over the mountains and mountains to bypass the Jianmen Pass, this is the path to Su after the Northern Song Dynasty destroyed Shu.

Zhang Jinping followed Zhu Ming, although the path to Su can be detoured, but in fact, the distance is not easy.

Before and after two lifetimes, Zhu Ming went to Jianmen Pass for the first time.

Standing at the bottom of the north slope and looking up at Xiongguan in front of him, Zhu Ming finally knew what it meant to be "a man should be a pass", and finally knew why Li Youwen said that horses were not easy to walk.

This is a special uphill road, close to a 90-degree right angle!

Not to mention organizing an army to attack Guancheng, if you don't have good physical strength, your legs will be weak halfway up.

It is impossible to storm head-on.

Since the day the construction of the Sword Gate Pass was completed, it has not been breached head-on, not once.

After the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed, Shu had to bypass, and the People's Liberation Army had to go around Sichuan. The Laisu trail that can be detoured is also lined with walled fort checkpoints, and it also needs to go over the mountains and mountains, and it must go around a large circle along the mountains and rivers.

Zhang Bo was speechless and said: "Today I know what the danger is!" ”

"Let's get through." Zhu Ming said with a smile.

Zhang Jinping had already taken off his wide robe and big sleeves and was wearing a short dozen clothes. After crawling for a while, she felt panting, feeling her left hand being held, she turned her head and smiled sweetly at Zhu Ming.

After tossing for a long time, before coming to the gate, most of the entourage was already tired and paralyzed.

After the Jianmen Pass, two more days, although still have to go over the mountains and mountains, but the scenery along the way becomes extremely pleasing to the eye.

This section is called the Cuiyun Corridor, and the two sides of the ancient road are planted with cypress trees, covering the sky and the sun like a green corridor.

Everyone waited in Qingqiang's store for twelve days, and Bai Sheng and Li Bao finally came around to converge.

Bai Sheng complained when he met: "The road is not easy to walk, and I have encountered thieves." ”

"Are there any casualties?" Zhu Ming asked.

Bai Sheng said: "I injured a few people, but there is no big problem. There were a lot of smugglers who came to Su Trail, and there were also patrol soldiers who openly extorted money, and I took out the official documents of the government before I was released. ”

After half a day, the scenery is more beautiful.

Zhu Ming smiled: "Rest for a while and replenish your strength." ”

Zhang Jinping has completely disregarded her manners, and sat directly on the horse stop stone next to the road, she looked at the green corridor like a tunnel, and said with a smile: "Although I have worked hard all the way here, I am in a happy mood." ”

"The enjoyment after hard work is always more rare." Zhu Ming took out bean cake and salt water to replenish his strength to the cornucopia.

Wei Yingshi and Zeng Xiaoduan, two scholars, were taking off their shoes to observe the soles of their feet, and the blisters had already broken and formed a layer of cocoons.

"Oh, it's dangerous......" Wei Yingshi suddenly began to recite poetry, and he was also very happy at this time, as if he had conquered Shu Dao.

A group of servants carrying tea passed here, and there were officials before and after escorting them.

The entourage from Yangzhou immediately put away his smile and looked at the servant with pity. These living people will be able to come back half of them next year, even if they are lucky.

When the tea team passed, Zhu Ming said: "They are forcibly conscripted servants, and they transport Sichuan tea to Hehuang to change horses, and the dead are often more than fifty percent." ”

Wei Yingshi exclaimed: "Half dead? ”

Zhu Ming said: "It may also be sixty percent. ”

Zhang Bo was incredulous: "Don't they know how to escape?" ”

Zhu Ming said: "These people have families, and there are sergeants to escort them along the way. How to escape? Even if they escape, what will happen to their families? Carrying tea honestly, maybe you can go home alive. ”

Li Bao asked: "No matter how difficult the road is, it is impossible to die sixty percent?" ”

Zhu Ming said: "Those who died of exhaustion, those who died of illness, those who fell to death, and those who were beaten to death. The closer they get to Hehuang, the cheaper their lives become, and they can save some food if they die on the way. In the past, they all let the Xiang army transport tea, and the officials who held the tea dared to torture the Xiang army to death. Recruit a group of soldiers to transport tea, and they will die and escape in two years, and in the end they can only forcibly recruit people. ”

"The court doesn't care?" Zeng Xiaoduan asked.

Zhang Bo said: "The Son of Heaven will be deceived by traitors." ”

Zhu Ming shook his head: "The emperor knows, at least, the first emperor who agreed to let the people take tea must know." ”

Li Bao said angrily: "I really don't treat the people as human beings!" ”

Zhu Ming said: "If you can exchange human lives for war horses, then that's it." But many tea servants die every year, but the war horses of the border army have not increased much, and the oil and water have been fished out by the officials of the Duda Tea and Horse Division. ”

Zhang Bo was silent, he thought of his hometown in Puzhou, although the way of cruelting the people was different, but the court was the same mediocrity.

Take a break and continue on your way.

Through Jianzhou (Pu'an Town), Wulian, Zitong, Mianzhou (Mianyang) ...... The road has finally eased and you can hire a horse-drawn carriage to move forward.

When he stopped in Xiaoquan Town, Zhu Ming met a group of businessmen and asked casually: "Has business been good in recent years?" ”

The merchant bowed his hand and said, "The business is fine, but the tax has risen." ”

Zhu Ming asked again: "Since Lunan was razed and pacified, what kind of chaos is there in this Chengdu Fu Road?" ”

Shang Jia shook his head again and again: "The guests are from other places, and they don't know the number of roads here. Today, the Son of Heaven likes martial arts, and the civil and military generals who pacified the Lunanyi Rebellion have all been promoted exceptionally. Since then, the officials of Shuzhong have wanted to follow suit, and they deliberately exploited and provoked the rebellion of the Yi people, and those merchants who collected the Yi goods could suffer. ”

"Is it a big mess?" Zhu Ming asked.

Shang Jia said: "There is not much trouble, but there is trouble everywhere, and the leaders of various tribes have robbed and killed Han people to take revenge." Last year, the imperial court set up a Shiquan Army. ”

The military is an administrative unit at the state capital level, and the Zhijun is similar to the Zhizhou.

It seems that the Sichuan officials succeeded in deliberately provoking ethnic contradictions, deliberately provoking the Yi people to rebel, and then sending troops to suppress the "opening up of the territory and expanding the territory", and even added a military-level yamen.

Last year, two counties were carved out of Mianzhou (Mianzhu) and one county was carved out of Maozhou (Maowen). The three counties joined together to form the Shiquan Army, and the military administration was located in Shiquan County (northwest of Beichuan County), and there were many Qiang people in the jurisdiction.

Zhu Ming continued to inquire, and learned that in the whole of Sichuan, most of the local officials were doing this, and they were afraid that the ethnic minorities would not make trouble.

If it is Shengyi, the expansion of territory is naturally worthy of recognition.

But how dare the magistrate provoke the trouble?

They bully Shuyi, and many Shuyi speak Chinese every day, except for the difference in customs and clothing, they are no different from Han people.

These acquaintances have been successfully indoctrinated, but the officials have no choice but to provoke incidents and suppress them by force.

A bunch of bugs!

"Familiar ......" Zhu Ming decided to save these familiar Yi in the future.

(End of chapter)