At dusk, Chen Jing went out of the city.

The carriage driven by Sun Xiong was full of goods for running horses, mostly tea bricks, as well as all kinds of rice and vegetable seeds, and even some fragile porcelain.

On this trip to the border of Wuzhou, Chen Jing's plan is to at least earn a lot of money for recruitment. Of course, the Horse Racing Gang is just a façade on the surface, and when the time comes, such as the glass beads made, they will be bought from Wuzhou and then sold to the wealthy families in Dengfeng City.

"Dongjia, when are you going to Wuzhou?"

"Don't worry, prepare again."

In fact, in the bottom of Chen Jing's heart, he was still worried about one thing. On the Wuhu County side, after Wu Xiu died, until now, Lin Tang has not been promoted.

The current Lin Tang is considered good in the relationship between the two factions. As soon as there is a shortage of government in Wuhu County, when the time comes, whether it is the people of the reform faction or the conservative faction, the people of the two factions will want to install candidates, but in the same way, the people of the two factions will obstruct each other.

Only Lin Tang, the factor of being close to the water, and having previous achievements, this little governor who is good friends on both sides will slowly enter the eyes of these people.

Chen Jing exhaled.

These six southern states seem to be stable now, but in fact, it only takes a collapse, and those turbulent currents underneath will turn into catastrophes.

Only self-protection and continuous strengthening.

"Owner, someone is in the way!"

Just as Chen Jing was thinking, Sun Xiong, who was driving, suddenly shouted.

Thinking that it was a path cutting thief, Xing Xiaojiu immediately drew his knife and jumped off the horse. But he only ran a few steps in the dark, and the whole person turned back in a daze.

"The owner, it's a little boy."

Little boy?

Chen Jing frowned and looked up, and found that in the dim darkness in front of the official road, a young man dressed in a big coat was alone with a lantern, waiting quietly on the side of the road.

It was clear that they didn't know each other, and the little boy looked up in the wind and showed a faint smile.

"But Chen Jing? Lord Chen? ”

……

"My surname is Sima, and my name is Sima Zhuo. Maybe in Huaizhou, you have heard my name. The young man laid down the mat, did not invite Chen Jing, and sat down slowly alone.

"I haven't heard of it." Chen Jing shook his head. I only felt that something was wrong in my heart, why did this southern Sima clan's sister-in-law come to look for him. I heard that this person is still Xu Wuzun's most valued old friend. At the beginning in Manshan, the forces behind the rebels vaguely heard Li Guang say that it was this Sima Zhuo who single-handedly laid it out.

"Don't worry, Xu Wuzhu didn't come." Sima Zhuo was still smiling, "I came to look for you this time because I was curious." ”

"Young Master Sima, what are you curious about?"

"You are a little scholar with a broken household, in just a few months, you have no background and no fame, but you have been able to come this far. The counterinsurgency of the fourth battalion of Manshan, tsk, you also took the first credit. ”

"Luck." Chen Jing was silent and would speak. This Sima Gongzi gave him a very uncomfortable feeling, like a cunning old wolf, hungry in front of you.

"Your name is Chen Jing, when Xu Wuzhu entered the south, you were the one who killed him. But later, Yang Qibao protected you. Sima Zhuo's voice was still unhurried.

"Sima Gongzi, the night is dark and the wind is cold, and I have been unwell for the past two days-"

Chen Jing turned around directly, but he didn't think that Sima Zhuo, who was sitting, said another sentence.

"Don't worry, I didn't mean to kill you."

"How?" Chen Jing stopped, "Isn't it trying to win over?" ”

Sima Zhuo was stunned and laughed out loud in the night, "Chen Jing, you think a little too highly of yourself. With your county countdom, in my eyes, it may not be enough. As I said, I'm here to be a little curious. You must think that you are messing with my affairs in the wild mountains, and I will be angry? ”

"Not really. If you are a smart person, you will also know that the brothers of the Zhu family are like abandoned children, but they just abandon early and late abandonment. ”

"Sit down and talk to me."

Chen Jing lowered his gaze and quickly glanced at Sima Zhuo's side, a jade-inlaid sword.

Sima Zhuo saw it, grabbed the sword, threw it straight back, and with a "bang", the sword sank into an old tree, leaving only half of the sword body, which was exposed.

Chen Jing was shocked, and Xing Xiaojiu next to him was even more like a big enemy.

"Did Yuan Siqiao say that I was taught by the same teacher as him. Of course, he didn't recognize me as a junior brother. ”

"Sima Gongzi, I don't know what you're talking about."

"I dare say this, I must have found out. But don't worry, I won't touch you for the time being. ”

"Because of Yang Qibao, a native of Wuzhou?"

Sima Zhuo smiled and did not answer.

"The plan of the vanity in the barbarian mountain, but you came up with it?"

"No, I told you, it was luck, that's why I made the first contribution."

Sima Zhuo was silent for a while, "I'll say it again, I don't mean to kill you now, you don't need to be like this." ”

"Thank you, Master Sima." Chen Jing's complexion remained unchanged. has already made up his mind, no matter what Sima Zhuo wants to do, he will not talk about it.

A little boring, Sima Zhuo hesitated and sighed.

"That's it, don't ask you about these old things, you're also a loach left and right."

Chen Jing was about to rejoice, but unexpectedly, Sima Zhuo suddenly spoke again, "Chen Jing, let me ask one more question, what do you think of this Daran Dynasty's current law change?" ”

"I'm a small citizen, where do I understand this."

"You know."

Chen Jing shook his head, "I really don't understand, Sima Gongzi also knows, I'm a rough man, running horses to make money." ”

Sima Zhuo looked up a little angrily, "I'm really ...... I want to give you a beating, it's rare that I'm so interested today. If it was someone else, I was afraid that it would have come to the stammer. ”

Chen Jinggan laughed. He was still calculating in his head, trying to guess Sima Zhuo's purpose. What he didn't expect was that Sima Zhuo, who was sitting on the ground, slowly spoke after being silent for a while.

"In this world, only greedy people will want to fight for more. What kind of change and what kind of reform is nothing more than the expansion of ambition and the exploitation of the selfish desires of the people. ”

"They will teach the people why we should farm, why we should toil all our lives to feed the moths of those dynasties."

Sima Zhuo raised his head and faced the evening breeze.

"But in the middle of this world, where can there be absolute fairness? They only see the posterity enjoying the blessings, but they forget many things. The Great Ran Dynasty established the country with martial arts, and my Sima clan, Shangguan clan, and Tuoba clan all followed the Ran Dynasty Gaozu to fight the country. The children of the clan who died in the battle, the spirit cards were all over the temple. ”

"Or, they will only feel that the family is in charge and the gate valves are numerous, which makes the people miserable." Sima Zhuo squinted his eyes, "They will scold, scold us for being moths of the dynasty, but don't forget, only when a piece of wood is rotten, will moths appear." In other words, if the wood is so hard, how can the moth survive? ”

"Let me take a step back and say, even if there will be moths, but these more than 300 years of dynasties, there have been prosperity and heavenly might, don't you count? As soon as the wind and rain are shaken, these unbearable causes will be planted on our heads. ”

"The family auxiliary country was originally the way of the ages. Mr. Big can't just wipe everything out with a single word. ”

Sima Zhuo's eyes became brighter and brighter in the dimness.

"I also understand that the dynasty is the carriage, and the family is the wheel, and once the car is unstable, anyone will go to see the wheel first. But many people forget that you don't have to carry a horse-drawn cart to roll up on its own and roll in the direction you want to go. ”

Chen Jing, who was on the side, only heard the back half, and his face was shocked.

He could hear that the Sima Gongzi sitting on the ground in front of him seemed to be even more dissatisfied with the Da Ran Dynasty, and he was vaguely resentful.