Chapter 27: The Number of Eastern Wu Qi
Zhou Cheng flew the sword, and two days later, he had reached the realm of Yu Khan. This imperial sword flew fast enough, nearly a hundred times faster than him walking on foot, and this was still Zhou Cheng's casual flight, and he didn't go all out.
Outside Yu Khan City, Zhou Cheng put away the sword pill and walked straight to the city, naturally to return to the county office.
"Mr. Makoto, you can count it back. Zhou County's order was no longer in Yu Khan, and he was transferred to Jianye, the national capital, by the imperial court. Before Zhou Cheng entered the county office, the county lieutenant Wang An had already hurriedly walked out of the county office.
When Zhou Cheng entered the city, Wang An had already received news from his subordinates, and he seemed to have been waiting for Zhou Cheng.
"When did it happen?" Zhou Cheng was not surprised when he heard this, all this had been expected by Zhou Cheng.
"It's been almost two months. Now it is Zhao County who has been promoted to the county order. Wang An immediately replied.
"County Lieutenant Wang, but what else is there to hide from me?" Suddenly, Zhou Cheng stared at Wang An and said in a somewhat serious tone.
Although Zhou was not in charge of Yuhan County for a long time, they were also bandits, and they were reclaiming land, and their prestige was so high that even if they raised the flag to rebel, they would follow like a cloud.
Even if Yu Khan left everywhere, Wang An shouldn't have been in such a hurry to find himself.
"The subordinates don't dare, there are indeed some things that Mr. Cheng should know. Wang An bowed and said with his head down.
Wang An is the only person who has seen Zhou Cheng's magical powers up close, and he respects Zhou Cheng like a heavenly man in his heart.
"Tell me about it. "Zhou Cheng is not familiar with many people in Yu Khan, and this Wang An is indeed one.
Wang An raised his head slightly, took two steps forward and whispered: "The county monarch was transferred back to the national capital, and now he is serving as Dongguan Zuocheng, which is really a bright rise and a secret fall." Moreover, Guangzhou Assassin Shi Tengxiu has now returned to the national capital and has taken up the position of Sikong. ”
"I know, I'll go to Jianye. Zhou Cheng's face was expressionless when he heard this, he just said a word and turned away.
Dongguan was built in imitation of the Dongguan Book Building of the Han Dynasty, mainly for the purpose of collecting books, as well as collecting edict documents and printing books. After all, it is the National Archives, and Dongguan Zuocheng is just a middle-level administrator among them.
And Teng Xiu is the younger brother of the queen's family, who was already the assassin of Guangzhou, and the party with heavy troops was a feudal official. Now he is directly in Jianye, which is a real important minister with Jiuqing, and an important position in charge of water conservancy construction.
As for the rift between Zhou and Teng Xiu, it is no secret in Wu Kingdom!
One is a heavy minister of Eastern Wu, and the other is a small Dongguan Zuocheng, both of whom are in Jianye, and anyone can think that the current situation around them will not be too good.
Yu Khan was not far from Jianye, Zhou Cheng once again made a sword move, and arrived outside Jianye City early the next morning.
After all, this is the capital of Wu State, and there is a powerful existence like Lu Ji and Lu Yun, Zhou Cheng doesn't know how many of them exist in this Jianye City, he dropped the flying sword from a distance and did not fly directly into the city.
This is the second time Zhou Cheng has been to Jianye, and the last time he came in a hurry with Zhou, he was still relatively unfamiliar with the streets and lanes of Jianye, and finally he found out where Zhouzhi is now.
It's just that when Zhou Cheng saw this low-rise house in the slum area of Jianye, with a bamboo fence of a low-pitched dwarf house, he couldn't believe that Zhou and his wife would live in such a place.
Zhou Cheng's heart tightened slightly, and he casually pushed away the bamboo fence, and when he walked into the small courtyard, he heard the sound of a machine from the low house, and there were only three low houses, and the sound of the machine was coming from the leftmost room.
The door was hidden, and before he got closer, Zhou Cheng had already seen the scene inside the house.
I saw a loom in the room, and a woman in a thorn hairpin cloth skirt in front of the loom was fiddling with the loom, and the sound of the loom came from here.
Seeing this plainly dressed woman, Zhou Cheng stepped forward quickly, pushed open the door heavily, and looked at the people in the room with a worried face.
"Ah..... Brother Cheng is back, you are so surprised, but you are scared of your sister-in-law!" The woman in front of the loom was Qiao Yuwei, she was first taken aback by Zhou Cheng, and after seeing that it was Zhou Cheng, her face showed joy again.
"What's going on, but what kind of means did Teng Xiu use?" Zhou Cheng asked without seeing him for months, with anger in his eyes.
Zhou Cheng exterminated the cottage in the aftermath of sweat, and the money he got was not a little, although the Zhou family was not a top gatekeeper, but it was not a small family, even if Zhou was still an official of Eastern Wu, it was impossible to live in such a remote and low house, and even a pampered person like Qiao Yuwei began to weave cloth by hand, which is definitely not a normal thing.
"Brother Cheng, don't panic, the matter is not as serious as you think, sit down and tell you slowly. Qiao Yuwei smiled, and there was no sadness, although the jinghai cloth skirt still could not hide the peerless elegance.
Seeing that Qiao Yuwei was still the same as a few months ago, Zhou Cheng's heart relaxed slightly, so he sat down on the side and listened to Qiao Yuwei talk about the events of the past few months.
It turned out that when Zhou received the order, he dismissed the domestic servants and asked Zhang Danian to take the money and those slaves, along with the two black donkeys, to Luoying Village, and he and Qiao Yuwei came to Jianye alone.
"In the past two months, although life has been hard, it is also quiet and content, which I have never experienced in the past. Qiao Yuwei smiled, but it was not as twists and turns as Zhou Cheng imagined.
"Teng Xiu has never embarrassed his brother and sister-in-law?" Zhou Cheng asked in disbelief.
At first, Zhou Cheng thought that all this in front of him was caused by Teng Xiu. Now it seems that Teng Xiu, who he was most worried about, has never appeared from beginning to end.
"I heard your brother say a month ago that he had met Teng Xiu once in the distance, and he didn't think Teng Xiu was the kind of person with a small belly, maybe Teng Xiu had forgotten the past!" Qiao Yuwei still said flatly.
Originally, she and Zhou were also worried about Teng Xiu, so they dismissed the servants and others, but now it seems that it is a bit redundant.
"It's the best, it's been a bitter sister-in-law in the past few months!" Zhou Cheng finally put his mind at ease, and when he saw Qiao Yuwei's current outfit, he felt a little self-reproachful.
"There are some things that I don't understand, so I'd better wait for your brother to come back and talk to you in detail. Tell my sister-in-law what you've seen and heard in the past few months. Qiao Yuwei didn't feel that she was having a hard time, but she was very curious about Zhou Cheng's experience in the past few months.
Then Zhou Cheng started from arriving at Luluo Mountain, and told Qiao Yuwei in detail about what he saw in the blessed land, and he did not hide those secrets of heaven and earth, as well as his acquaintance with Gai Liniang, and all the things he saw and heard in Taoyuan Village.
Zhou Cheng's experience in the past few months has been extremely rich and exciting, and he has not completely finished speaking, and Zhou Cheng has finally returned home.
"Gai Liniang, I didn't expect there to be such a strange woman in the world, if I have the opportunity, I can introduce my sister-in-law. It's Brother Cheng who should take advantage of the opportunity, there aren't many women like this!" Qiao Yuwei was just curious about those secrets of heaven and earth, but she was particularly interested in Gai Liniang.
"Hehe, my sister-in-law laughed! Liniang and I are just sealing the Tao, and there is no love between men and women. Zhou Cheng smiled slightly and quickly explained.
"You.... Li Niang Liniang, how easy is the call?You men are not married to women, what are you embarrassed about?" Qiao Yuwei glared at Zhou Cheng, and said with some hatred.
Although Qiao Yuwei had never seen Gai Liniang, with her woman's intuition, she felt that this Gai Liniang should be interested in Zhou Cheng.
Zhou Cheng's face was slightly red, he really didn't have any thoughts about Gai Liniang, he had always treated him as a simple Taoist friend, but now he was teased by Qiao Yuwei like this, even Zhou Cheng didn't know if he was interested in Gai Liniang in his heart?
"By the way, brother, what is Teng Xiu's character?" Zhou Cheng felt a little embarrassed, and hurriedly asked Zhou on the side.
Zhou Chu didn't seem to care much about the so-called secrets of heaven and earth, but when Zhou Cheng said that the Xuan Immortal of Taoyuan Village was dressed, Zhou Chu was a little distracted.
From beginning to end, it was Zhou Cheng and Qiao Yuwei, who said everything you said to me, and Zhou was listening absentmindedly on the side.
"Teng Xiu is a handsome man in the world, if this person can be reused today, the national fortune of Wu may be extended for another twenty years. It's a pity...."Zhou said with a sigh.
As a courtier of Wu State, Zhou's words were already extremely inappropriate.
"Isn't it already reused? Directly promoted from the Guangzhou Thorn History to the position of commonplace, is there any hidden meaning in this?" Zhou Cheng asked puzzled.
"Haha.... Do you know why Teng Xiu is used as a commonplace today? Just because Teng Xiu is a relative of the queen, and now he plans to build a new Zhaoming Palace, so this talent has been recruited to build a place of pleasure, and it is really due to the number of heavenly destiny....." Zhou suddenly laughed, but the laughter was full of helplessness.
Sikong is a high honor, but he is in charge of construction and construction, and the position of Sikong is naturally important in the prosperous era. But in this troubled world, it is indeed not as good as a Guangzhou Thorn History who guards one side, and can play the role of Teng Xiu more.
"This.... Isn't there anyone to dissuade it? The world has been fighting for years and years, where is the money to build a palace?" Zhou Cheng just knew as an ordinary person that Sun Hao was still building a palace on a large scale at this time, just accelerating the demise of the Wu Kingdom.
It is not only a matter of money, but more importantly, the construction of the palace will requisition a large number of laborers, and these laborers are originally engaged in production or reserve soldiers, which is self-evident!
"How can you persuade the general? The general wrote a letter again and again, but he was left behind, and now the general simply doesn't care, just takes care of the front line. And as soon as Teng Xiu leaves, I am afraid that there will be a rebellion in the Jiaozhi area of Guangzhou. The general Shou Yuan is about to die, I'm afraid this is also the last breath of Wu State....."
Zhou Chu continued to say helplessly, his words were the same as what Lu Yun said that day, and he concluded that Lu would not be long in disobedience.