Chapter 15: Unpredictable Hearts
Dangshan Pavilion is actually not far from Dangxian.
The straight-line distance will not exceed fifty miles, but because the Dangshan Pavilion is located in the hilly area on the edge of the mountain range of Mangdang Mountain, the road is more difficult.
After Xue Zhong, the magistrate of Dangjun, got the news of the birth of the White Emperor, he set off with a thousand elite soldiers on the second day.
In addition to Guo Ming, the head of Dangxian County of the Guo family, and Guo Bei, who was separated, there was also a big man.
And this big man is the Dangjun Supervisor Yushi.
The so-called superintendent of the imperial history, subordinate to the imperial historian, is the deputy official of the imperial historian, and his duty is to supervise the officials of a county.
Including the county magistrate, he is within the scope of supervision of the Imperial History.
It can be said that this position is also very high.
In the period of the first emperor, the appointment of the imperial history was dignified, but unfortunately, after Zhao Gao Qin II gained power, most of the positions of the imperial history were hastily replaced by Zhao Gao's people, that is, eunuchs.
On this trip, along the way, this eunuch Yushi has been questioning Xue Zhong.
The content of the question is nothing more than two points.
One point is that this thief army is already so powerful, why didn't Xue Zhong order the counties and counties of Dangjun to gather troops to encircle and suppress again.
The second point is that this eunuch doesn't believe that there is a so-called White Emperor, even if he has seen the immortal fade, he has always insisted on it.
Why didn't he believe it? Or even want to thwart the trip?
Xue Zhong naturally had a plan in his heart.
It's just that now in the court of the Qin Dynasty, the battle between Zhao Gao and Li Si has entered a white-hot stage.
And Xue Zhong and this eunuch Yushi naturally did not deal with each other.
But even if he didn't deal with it, Dangjun Magistrate Xue Zhong couldn't bypass this Dangshan Pavilion without any reason.
For this reason, he had to call this eunuch Yushi up.
It's a pity that this eunuch Yushi is even more stupid than Xue Zhong imagined.
There is only party strife in my head.
"Humph! A eunuch is a eunuch, and he doesn't know what the overall situation is! If the situation is so rotten today, he is still so unrelenting. ”
"If I knew this was the case, I should have found a reason to let him die at the hands of the thief army!"
Xue Zhong's face turned red, and after a quarrel with the eunuch Yushi, he rode to the front of the soldiers.
Seeing this, the chief official Guo Ming was not silent, but directly put his position firmly with Xue Zhong.
"This matter is too easy to handle, county magistrate, if today is a time of chaos, as long as you say a word, you only need to leave this matter to me, and I will not let this eunuch see the morning light of tomorrow."
Guo Ming lowered his voice, and a fierce light appeared in his eyes.
Just because Guo Ming can't see the eunuch imperial history, he has only been in office for a year, and he has accepted bribes in Dangjun, and even created a lot of incidents.
At the beginning, an elder of his Guo family suffered a big loss at the hands of this eunuch.
"Don't talk nonsense, this matter is over, Master Guo, don't make your own opinions."
Not everyone in this Dangjun has the same heart as him Xue Zhong Li Si, if he goes out to kill the prison imperial history, the iron paper can't contain the fire.
Although the Guo family has a little power in Dangxian, it is absolutely impossible to be foolproof.
What's more, Dangjun has only suffered a big defeat, if he dies in a prison for no reason, Xue Zhong will definitely be hated by Zhao Gao, and losing his official position is just a trivial matter.
Therefore, Xue Zhong glanced at the bold Guo Ming blamefully, and then felt a headache.
However, thinking of this Dangshan immortal thing, his brows quickly stretched again, and then asked:
"Master Guo, how long is this way from Dangshan Pavilion?"
Guo Ming is the son of the main lineage of the Guo family, how did he come to such a poor country?
So when he heard this, he immediately glanced at Guo Bei beside him, and then Guo Bei immediately said to Xue Zhong:
"If you go back to the county chief, this place is less than half an hour away from Dangshan Pavilion, if you are tired, you can go back to the carriage to rest first~"
"Half an hour?"
Xue Zhong waved his hand when he heard this: "Then let's go together, don't look at my age, I think I also went out with the army of the First Emperor back then, what is this mountain and forest journey?" ”
Xue Zhong's insistence on refusing to get into the carriage was actually justified.
After all, this is a mountain road, and there is almost no difference between riding a horse and riding a carriage, and it is safer to ride on a horse than to ride a car.
Moreover, now that the thieves are everywhere, if he encounters the thieves in the carriage, he will not be able to react immediately.
In addition, Xue Zhong, the magistrate of this Dang County, has been so excited that he can't sleep all night since he got the immortal fade yesterday.
Who doesn't want immortality?
Who doesn't want to see immortals?
What's more, this immortal also has such a special connection with the legends of the Qin Dynasty.
In the face of the current chaos in the world, if this White Emperor Immortal, who has a body of more than one hundred and fifty feet in the body of an immortal snake, is willing to help, this so-called chaos will definitely subside soon.
How can mortals be the opponents of immortals?
The white emperor's giant tail swept away, and no matter if you were tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, the army might be turned to ashes by its divine power in an instant.
This is not an exaggeration.
After all, Xue Zhong listened to Guo Bei's words, this immortal is the son of Shaohao Haotian?
What's more, Guo Bei, the head of this Dangshan Pavilion, also said that this White Emperor also brought his own immortals to the earth.
Therefore, he didn't sleep all night last night, and Xue Zhong's mind was full of imagining the magical scene of seeing the immortals of the White Emperor of the Immortal Mountain today.
Speaking of which, this Dangjun magistrate is still quite imaginative, and he is also a very firm believer in seeking immortals.
That's why he's so excited.
So much so that he can't wait to see the so-called immortal mountain shrouded in immortal mist for the first time.
Of course, instead of seeing the Immortal Mountain, he wanted to directly witness the so-called White Emperor and White Snake Immortals.
If the immortals are not easy to see, just watch from a distance or take a breath of immortal breath.
Now that there are rebels everywhere, it is not easy to spread the news to Xianyang.
Although he may do something a little beyond the Xianyang court in the future, who made the situation chaotic and special?
The so-called Passover.
In fact, Xue Zhong planned that if it was confirmed that the true existence of the Dangshan True Immortal White Emperor was confirmed, then when he took advantage of the first year of the wax sacrifice, he would immediately raise an altar sacrifice to this White Emperor.
You know, it's late September 209 BC, and it's less than eight days before the Qin Dynasty set October as the first year of the year, that is, the New Year.
For this reason, no matter what, even if Xianyang gets the news and makes up his mind to come to the royal conquest, it will definitely not be able to come to Dangshan to worship and invite immortals at this time.
Since this is the case, the matter of the first year of the wax sacrifice naturally made him Xue Zhong do it on behalf of the imperial court!
I have to say that this Xue Zhong has already thought about committing a big taboo for the sake of the so-called immortal fate.
But if it is a true immortal, then it is worth it for Xue Zhong to consciously commit a crime.
After all, now that Chen Sheng's thief army is in full swing, why not wait for Xianyang's reaction to wait until the Year of the Monkey?
And as long as he can become the person in charge of the first sacrifice of this true immortal descending into the world, and even if he can even invite the immortal out of the mountain, no matter whether he gets the immortal fate in the end or not, he Xue Zhong will definitely leave a strong mark in history! And not just an ordinary county magistrate like now.
Thinking of the wonderful, this Xue Zhong didn't even consciously put a smile on his face.
It can be seen that Guo Ming and Guo Bei are also suddenly a little unclear.
However, no matter what everyone thought at this time, Xue Zhong and his party with their soldiers continued to move towards Dangshan at a rapid pace.
After a while, finally, the Dangshan Pavilion boundary has arrived!