On January 13, the weather around Chang'an was clear.

It's just a little warmer than yesterday, and Liu Zhang and the others took a hot air balloon with disaster relief materials to Shu County.

The people near Chang'an were stunned when they saw a hot air balloon floating in the sky.

Hot air balloons have always been kept secret, and flight tests are usually conducted in areas with few people.

This time the situation is urgent, and it doesn't matter if it is seen by the people.

Liu Zhang: They sat on a hot air balloon, and the hot air balloon did not fly fast.

But faster than horseback riding, the stretch from Chang'an to Shu County was affected by snowstorms and earthquakes.

Passage is extremely inconvenient, and hot air balloons play to their advantage.

Li Kang, Liu Zhang, Xu Zhang, and Zhao Ci's humanoid robots ride in a hot air balloon together, and they overlook the ground.

"With a hot air balloon, travel is much faster, you're a real genius."

Li Dare praised Liu Zhang, if there was no hot air balloon, it would take a lot of time to go to Shu County.

"It's a credit to everyone in the rats above, and there is a certain risk associated with a hot air balloon ride."

Liu Zhang pointed to the ground for Li Dare to see, the objects on the ground were as small as ants.

If you fall by accident, it will definitely be dead or alive.

People who are afraid of heights dare not look down, and Liu Zhang is also a little afraid of heights.

He looked at the ground for a moment, then turned around.

If you're sitting in an airplane, you just don't want to look at the heights.

He will not feel afraid of heights, and this time he carries a parachute with him.

Of course, he didn't want the hot air balloon to have an accident, if he wasn't in a hurry to rush to Shu County.

He still wanted to go on horseback, and there were very few surprises on horseback.

"Are you afraid of heights, do you feel a little uncomfortable?"

Li Dang, like most people, is also a little afraid of heights.

He didn't dare to look at the ground anymore, he just sat in the balloon basket.

At this flight speed, it will be possible to reach Chengdu County, Shu County in three days.

The hot air balloon passed through some places and felt the different weather.

Some places are sunny, some places are rainy, and some places are windy and snowy.

On January 16, they successfully arrived in Shu County, and the hot air balloon slowly landed.

In some places in Shu County, after the earthquake, various buildings were damaged to varying degrees.

Many people did not have houses to live in, and the local government did everything they could to help them with food and shelter.

It is also to avoid chaos among the people, and for fear of being held accountable by the court.

Disaster relief has already begun, and the local government hopes that the imperial court will bring relief materials.

Liu Zhang and the others came to Chengdu County, Shu County, and saw that there were several collapses in the county seat.

Taishou summoned the people to repair the city wall, and Liu Zhang met with the Taishou of Shu County and conveyed the edict of the imperial court.

The Taishou of Shu County arranged a guide for Liu Zhang and them, so that they would not get lost or clash with the locals in the next disaster relief process.

This guide is called Zheng Xun, he is of the Shu nationality, and he is a descendant of the ancient Shu royal family.

Zheng Xun is tall and thin, and his skin is a little dark.

He knows the entire Shu County well, so it's right to let him be a guide.

There are more than 30 ethnic groups in Shu County, and the relationship between these ethnic groups is complicated.

Among them, the relationship between the Shu and the Ba is not very good, and a little thing may be fought.

The grievances between the two peoples have lasted for thousands of years, although Shu and Ba were destroyed by Qin.

But it did not eliminate their hatred, and Liu Zhang asked to go to Zheng Xun's house to see it

See if you can add some help to them, Zheng Xun is not easy to refuse.

Taishou has specially explained, as long as the people sent by the imperial court make reasonable requests.

I tried my best to be satisfied, and I also had to cooperate with the people sent by the imperial court.

Liu Zhang took Zhao Ci, Xu Xuan, and Li Dang to Zheng Xun's house, and Gongsun Du stayed in Chengdu County to discuss business with Taishou.

And handed over some materials to Taishou, and Li Dang was responsible for protecting Liu Zhang's safety.

Zheng Xun took them to the bamboo building of his house, where he had a daughter.

His parents and wife died of illness many years ago, and a plague broke out in Shu County ten years ago.

He and his daughter were lucky to survive. His two sons were seriously wounded in a fight with the Ba tribe and died.

This hit Zheng Xun hard, and his daughter's name was Zheng Nan.

is very beautiful and cute, Zheng Xun is really a little worried that his daughter will be bullied by outsiders.

Zheng Xun didn't ask too much about his family, not that he didn't care about Zheng Xun's family.

It's just that he didn't want to touch Zheng Xun's sadness, so Taishou whispered to Liu Zhang.

Zheng Xun only has their father and daughter in the family, and he can marry another wife under his current conditions.

Zheng Xun just wants to wait for his daughter to marry a good family before thinking about his own affairs.

Liu Zhang looked at Zheng Xun's home, which was relatively simple.

They live in a bamboo building on stilts, and Zheng Nan has not come back from going out to hunt pigweed.

The earthquake some time ago, their family was also affected a little.

"You have seen the situation in our family. During this time, I will be your guide, and you will have to listen to me in some things. ”

Since it was the task assigned by Taishou, he naturally did not dare to slack off.

"Then can you tell me about the situation of the surrounding tribes, we just came here and are not familiar with the situation here."

"Since you asked, there are more than 30 ethnic groups in Chengdu County. There are friendly and unfriendly people among all ethnic groups, and the relationship between our Shu and Ba people has always been bad. ”

Zheng Xun explained to them the origin of the grievances between the Ba and Shu people, and most of the Ba people are descendants of the Ba royal family.

The Shu people are the descendants of the Shu royal family, and the two major clans were constantly at war during the Shang Dynasty.

At that time, Ba was a vassal state of the Shang Dynasty and paid tribute to the Shang Dynasty every year.

And the defeated Shu people became the human sacrifice of the Shang Dynasty, and the Shu people hated the Ba people.

The war between the two countries lasted for more than a thousand years, and both sides won and lost each other.

When the Shang Dynasty existed, Pakistan received strong support from the Shang Dynasty.

The survival of Shu was difficult, they were strong and unyielding, and later the two countries followed King Wu of Zhou to fight.

These two countries continue to exist, but the contradictions between the two countries have not been resolved.

"Shu and Ba were destroyed by Qin successively, which is now Shu County and Ba County. There are also some Ba people living in Shu County, and the Shu and Ba people often have conflicts. ”

The Shu and Ba tribes lived on both sides of the Dujiang River, and Zheng Xun often told his family to avoid the Ba people as much as possible.

The imperial court and the local government knew that the two clans had grievances, but they still arranged them in Shu County.

This made the local ethnic groups somewhat dissatisfied, and they were powerless to resist the imperial court and the local government.

"You are here for disaster relief this time, and I will not stop you from going to the village where the Ba people live. I hope you don't take sides, and leave after completing the relief. ”

"Husband, I'm back."

Liu Zhang and the others heard a woman's voice outside the house, and they could judge the woman's age to be about twenty years old.

I saw a girl in red dressed in national costume coming back with a pigweed bamboo basket on her back, and the girl put the bamboo basket under the corridor.

She walked into the house and saw some guests inside.

"Husband, who are they?" The girl asked.

The girl calls Zhengxun as her husband, which is the name of the father in some places.

The husband also has an honorific title for the old man in this era, and a title for the eunuch hundreds of years later.

"Nannan, this is an envoy sent by the imperial court, responsible for this disaster relief."

Zheng Nan glanced at Liu Zhang and them, and he saw that a teenager was younger than himself.

"You are the envoy sent by the imperial court, how old are you?"

"I'm fifteen, what about you?" Liu Zhang asked Zheng Nan.

"I'm sixteen, you can also call me sister." Zheng Nan smiled playfully.

She saw that Liu Zhang was quite handsome, but she didn't expect to be a year younger than herself.

"Nannan, don't make trouble, he's here to get down to business."

Zheng Xun's words were a little harsh, his daughter was usually so innocent and playful.

Don't do this to your guests at this time, don't make a bad impression on them.

Zheng Xun saw that his daughter's clothes were a little messy, and there must have been an accident.

"Why are your clothes a little torn? It also got a lot of dirt. ”

"On my way back from hunting pigweed, I met a few Ba people. They provoked me first, and I beat them up. ”

Zheng Nan felt that it was natural to beat them, and she didn't take the initiative to provoke the other party.

A few young men on the other side teased her, and she beat each other up unceremoniously.

"If you encounter this kind of thing in the future, run away as soon as possible, in case you can't beat them. It's you who suffers, don't be so reckless in the future. ”

Zheng Xun didn't reprimand her harshly, he felt that this kind of thing was normal.

The grievances with the Ba people could not be resolved, and the young men crossed the territory drawn by both sides.

The Ba people are at fault first, and they shouldn't have brought someone over to ask for their guilt.

"If they suffer a loss, they will definitely call the elders of the upper clan to come over. If they dare to come, we will fight them. ”

Zheng Nan rolled up her sleeves and made a posture to fight.

Liu Zhang felt that Zheng Nan was too strong, and the sixteen-year-old girl seemed to be not afraid of heaven and earth.

As people often say, life and death are downlooked, and if you don't accept it, you will do it.

Some ethnic groups are fierce and warlike, no wonder Gongsun Hong repeatedly told him not to provoke the local ethnic groups.

"Are you really not afraid of him? You're still young. ”

Xu Mian also admired her courage, but he was worried that she would die in the conflict with other ethnic groups.

The Ba and Shu have always been at odds, and if they really fight, they will fight desperately.