Volume II: Marching to Jiankang 116. Power is omnipotent
"It's so good to go along. Wang Chebai hurriedly responded after hearing this.
The young man in front of him is not an ordinary layman, if he can return to Jiankang with him, he will no longer have to fear being hunted down and killed along the way.
"There are many ways to get to Jiankang, you and I are not the same, and I don't want to walk with you. Sima asked and refused directly.
The path is different, and one person can compromise and choose to walk the same way. As long as you can get to Jiankang, there is not much difference.
But there was a deep meaning in his words.
If the road is not passable, you can do it, and you cannot conspire with different roads.
Wang Chebai shot ruthlessly, killing many people in a few breaths. Even if these are bad people, they should be tried by the government, and they should not be careless about people's lives, because he is too vicious in doing so.
What's more, he had guessed that this person's original intention in inviting him to accompany him was to use him as a personal guard.
"Looking at the little brother's appearance, it seems that this is the first time to go to Jiankang?" Wang Chebai expected to be rejected, and had already thought of his words, and then asked.
"I had lived there before, but I moved to Yizhou with my family a few years ago. Sima asked to deny it.
"That's it. ”
Wang Chebai seemed to suddenly realize, and then opened his mouth to explain.
"Today's Jiankang City has long been different from the past. Not to mention that the people in the city have changed many times because of the change of dynasty, and the city defense has also changed a lot compared with before. If there is no one to vouch for, the little brother can only go to the city at most. ”
"Is that really the case?" Sima asked, without full faith, and asked rhetorically.
Back then, he followed Master Yu out of the city secretly, and when he entered the city again, he only needed to search his body for inspection. If it was a white man, the guards would have let him go automatically, and he had not heard of the guarantee.
"After the change of dynasty, the world is not stable, and this approach is not excessive. Che Bai did not respond positively.
These words really worked, and Sima Wenzhi's heart began to shake after hearing it.
If it is really like what he said, he went through hardships to return to Jiankang City, but he couldn't enter because there was no one to guarantee him, it was really too wrong.
Although he could also find others to help him, Sima Wenzhi didn't want more people to know about his existence.
Moreover, when you look for someone else, you can't discern that person's character. Although this person is ruthless, his character is quite pure, and he is not a villain.
"This place is still more than 2,000 miles away from Jiankang, if it is according to the little brother's footsteps, it is estimated that he will not be able to enter the Yangzhou boundary after a month. If you go together, I promise that within ten days, you and I will definitely appear under Jiankang City. ”
Seeing that Sima asked a little moved, Wang Chebai spoke again and tried to persuade.
"That's it. Sima asked to make a choice.
Maybe it's not that others are too vicious, it's that you are too kind. When he heard this, he changed his mind and decided to go with him.
Step by step, step by step. Go straight to the core. After a few words, the city in his heart was also captured.
"Besides, the little brother still has this brute with him, and it is inconvenient when he enters the city, and Jianzhi can also find someone to dredge it" Without waiting for Sima Wenzhi to make a decision, Wang Chebai said another reason for his peers.
"Wang, Wang!" Langya on the side understood the words in his mouth, and barked again and again.
The she-wolf suddenly spoke, and Che Bai was defenseless and frightened. Then he retreated again and again, stumbling and almost falling.
"Walking all the way, you have to rely on Brother Wang's support. Seeing this, Sima Wenzhi was relieved, and after a few breaths, he opened his mouth to answer the matter of his peers.
"In addition, this is the little sister Langya. He spoke again, justifying Langya's name.
Later, the two had a lot of verbal exchanges, and Sima Wenzhi gradually learned what happened.
Wang Chebai is a native of Jiankang, and this time he was ordered to go to Yiliang Erzhou to investigate the secret matter. When he returned, he was targeted by the minions sent by his opponent, escaped many times and was chased many times, and experienced danger several times.
"Brother Wang is a yamen official?" After listening to the narration, Sima asked asked.
"I don't have an official position, but I am driven by the adults in the DPRK and China. After the news was delivered, they were scattered and did not owe each other. Wang Chebai responded after a little thought.
It's not a member of the imperial court.
Sima asked what he had to do after arriving in Jiankang, but he could be exterminated by the Nine Clans, and he couldn't leak the slightest rumor.
In order to prevent any further changes, after a short rest, the two and a wolf continued on the road. Before leaving, the two of them did not dispose of the corpses on the road.
Although it is not an official road, it will be visited by people from the world after dawn. When others find out, they will report to the government, and the government will send someone to carry them away and bury them.
Previously, it was all on foot, but when he got on the road again, Sima Wenzhi changed to cycling. He chose the tallest of the horses, the mount of the man in the gang just now.
The Sima clan established the Jin State by military force after the Gao Pingling Revolution deposed Cao Shuang. The ancestors of Gaozu Shizong Taizu were all famous generals who fought on the battlefield.
However, most of the descendants of the Sima family were indulged in pleasure, and they had long forgotten the years of the sword, and they had also lost the pride of the mountains and rivers.
Sima asked the ancestors in front of him, who were no longer able to hold the reins. In his generation, there is no experience of riding a horse and whipping.
Therefore, when they first hit the road, the horses did not listen to him. There were several strong drives, and the horses were frightened and furious, and there were many dangers.
After Wang Chebai saw it on the side, he suggested that the two of them ride on the same horse, but he sternly refused.
However, Sima asked him not to be reckless, and took the initiative to ask Che Bai for advice on horse control. Che Bai did not reserve it, and gave everything he knew.
At first, Sima Wenzhi was not proficient in learning, and although the horses obeyed orders, sometimes there was a lot of resistance. Then he became more skilled, and the two of them walked much faster.
When the two rode their horses and whipped, Langya followed at a gallop in the rear. She is a wolf and is good at galloping, especially good at trekking, and she doesn't have to stop for miles.
Sima Wen felt pity in his heart, and every half hour he would stop and carry her to the horse.
All kinds of horse-riding skills in the world are not as good as Langya lying on horseback. The horses smelled the scent of the she-wolf on their backs, and their resistance suddenly dissipated and they became unusually docile.
When Wang Chebai saw it, he was amazed.
Before walking, Sima Wenzhi and Langya could travel fifty or sixty miles a day. After riding, the footsteps became much faster, and an hour was longer than the usual one-day foot.
There is another benefit to horseback riding.
When riding a horse, everything around you is skimmed one by one, and it will not be contaminated, unlike when you were on foot before.
Before the hour came, the two men traveled two hundred miles and arrived at the foot of a city.
After entering the city, Wang Chebai found the post station in the city and handed over the official document. Soon after, a post officer came out to greet him.
In the post house, everything is complete with food, clothing, housing and transportation, and the two are on the road again after a short rest.
Since then, every few hundred miles, or at the post station or the official residence or private residence in the city, with an official document, someone will greet them with a smile, change horses, and provide food and lodging.
After this matter happened many times, Sima Wenzhi finally understood the matter.
Why throughout the ages, whether it is a prince or a general, or a pawn of a peddler, they all want to get on the throne. Why is it that no matter how many official residences there are, the incumbents are all greeted left and right, sharpening their heads and drilling upwards.
Because of one point, power can transform everything in the world, almost omnipotent.