The world is impermanent, and the world is unpredictable.

Presumably, Huang Xiao didn't expect that he could become a real person who protected the country of the Song Kingdom because of a fellow disciple and because of an enemy.

Turn west and hit the road again.

Sima Wenzhi no longer deliberately thought about this matter, the emotion and loss in his heart gradually dissipated, and his mood became stable.

But he hadn't gone far yet, and he felt a sense of loss in his heart.

When he asked the roadside old man before, he learned that this place is called Gaoping County. Although he felt familiar in his heart at the time, he didn't delve into it because he was still thinking about other things.

At this moment, take the road to the west, and then turn north, and the place to go is Fangyu County, which belongs to the same county as Gaoping County. After the word "Gao Ping" came into his mind again, he finally remembered where the familiar feeling came from.

In the last years of Cao Wei, Sima Wenzhi's ancestors Sima Yiyi, Sima Zhishi, and Sima Zhizhao "Three Horses Eat Cao", launched the Gaopingling Rebellion, seized real power from the Wei general Cao Shuang, and opened the fortune of the Jin Kingdom.

And at this moment, as a royal family of the Jin family, he survived the bloodline in the world, and fled to the Wei State through Gaoping County.

Even if this Gaoping is not the other Gaoping, but the homophone and the same word, he will inevitably implicate the two.

But although it is lost, it is not sad.

Something like this has happened to him many times before. After going through some things many times, a person's heart will become resilient.

After a few more walks, the feeling of loss is gone. He quickened his pace and walked towards Fang Yu County.

While Sima Wenzhi was marching towards Fang Yu County, in the city of Wei Duping, thousands of miles away in the north, two men had a fierce dispute.

The reason for the dispute is related to the attack on Emperor Song's car a few days ago.

"Senior brother, according to your words, not long after we left, those babies and children were disposed of one by one?" The person who opened the question was the younger of the two.

His face was the same young man who asked questions after the Assassins gathered that night.

In the news that Song Guoying just handed over, he was extremely sure of this matter, and there must be no mistakes. The other man responded.

If an Assassin was present that night, he would recognize him as the leader of the day.

"Why is this happening?" the young man asked, his tone rising abruptly.

"You told me that attacking Liu Che'er Luan was just to startle the snake. Why do you still implicate innocent people after losing so many manpower?" After questioning, the young man did not wait for a response, and then said that he was puzzled.

"Do you really think these babies are innocent?" the man asked back.

"Where did their sins come from?" the young man asked again, in a bad tone.

"Although you and I are both from martial arts backgrounds, in the past two years, we have also dabbled in all kinds of spiritual matters. What do you think of the raining of the colorful / golden phoenix in Jinling County of the Song Kingdom a few days ago?" Seeing that the young man's mood was becoming more and more fluctuating, the man was not annoyed, and asked calmly.

"The golden phoenix is galloping, and the emperor star is born. The boy didn't think about it and responded directly.

"Do you want to ask, what does the Song Kingdom have to do with the Emperor Star descending on us?" the man asked again after hearing the response. At the same time of questioning, he looked at the young man's face and did not look away.

This time, the young man did not speak, but the change in the expression on his face did not escape the man's detection, and he had already guessed by default in his heart.

"Tuoba Tao is interested in conquering the Song Kingdom in the south and pacifying the world. However, the Song state was too powerful to be achieved overnight, so they could only hope that something would go wrong in their rear. One country does not tolerate two masters, if the emperor star can grow, the day of the Song Dynasty's civil strife is the time when the southern expedition dominates the world. ”

"As for those babies and children, the Emperor Star will be blessed by pseudo-stars when they come into the world. If the adults expected it to be correct, the babies and children that Emperor Song disposed of, Emperor Xing was not among them. After seeing the young man's expression, the man told the reason.

"But this is only speculation after all, and it has not been confirmed, is it inappropriate for adults to act like this?" the young man heard the reason, and his fluctuating mood gradually calmed down.

But he still couldn't bear it in his heart, and could only hope that the man would give other reasons to make it easy for him to accept.

"It will take tens of thousands of dry bones to succeed, not to mention the change of imperial power. Don't forget what you and I are carrying, but if there is a glimmer of hope, you and I must do our best. ”

The man understood, and spoke again to convince him.

Sure enough, when the boy heard the reminder, his eyes showed determination.

No more questioning, no more talking.

When the man and the boy were arguing quietly, Sima Wenzhi was almost at the eastern end of Fangyu County.

It is also the end of the county, compared with Gaoping County, Fang Yu is much more desolate, and there are not many pedestrians on the road.

This is exactly what he wants, both crowded and not noisy.

However, after following the pedestrians for a while, he gradually noticed the abnormality. The anomaly was that most of the people he saw had withered faces.

When he entered from Gaoping, he had seen the people in the western part of Gaoping County, and their faces and clothes were relatively rich. It's only a few miles away, and even if there is a difference in people's feelings, it won't be so bad.

Thinking of this, Sima Wenzhi became curious and wanted to find someone to ask the reason.

"If that's the case, leave quickly, don't waste wasted time. Before he could find a candidate, someone behind him stopped looking at him and took the initiative to ask.

"Grandma auspicious. Sima Wenzhi heard the voice, turned around and saw an elderly woman, and hurriedly said hello.

"The trail is just passing by, and I see that compared with Gaoping County, which is not far away, people's looks are much worse, I don't know why. After saying hello, he expressed his doubts.

The old woman sighed and then told why.

When the first emperor of the Qin State, there was a square in the county. Subsequently, the Han Kingdom was attacked, and there was not much change.

In the early years of the Jin Dynasty, Emperor Sima of the Jin Dynasty sealed the chariot cavalry general Chen Qian as the Duke of Gaoping, and there was a Gaoping Kingdom. Changyi, the capital of Gaoping State, ruled seven counties, and Fang was one of the seven counties.

Subsequently, the Jin State was replaced by the Song Dynasty, and the Gaoping State was changed to Gaoping County, and the county under its rule did not change.

The land in the territory is flat and low-lying, and there are many water sources around, which are rich in rice and millet. Therefore, since ancient times, whether it was under the rule of the Qin State or the Jin State and the Song State, it has the reputation of "the land of fish and rice in Jiangbei".

However, this situation has changed since the autumn harvest of the previous year.

At first, it was a few tenants who planted rice, but they noticed that the grain they were about to harvest was gradually withering and the rice was turning black. The tenant panicked and hurriedly reported the matter to the master's family.

At the end of the Jin Dynasty and the beginning of the Song Dynasty, most of the national land was in the hands of the scholar family, except for the public land. Even if it is public land, most of them are entrusted to the nobles, and the state and county yamen are only responsible for taxation.

At this time, the head of most of the tenants in the county was the same person, who was surnamed Hu Ming, and it was said that he was a branch of Hu Tian under the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty.

When he first heard about this, Hu Jushi didn't care. I just thought it was a few lazy tenants, and they deliberately made up reasons to avoid taxation.

However, he still sent people to follow the tenants to the fields to check on them.