Chapter 29: 100,000 Mountains (1)

Confucianism talks about moderation, we must talk about the Tao, the Tao is inseparable from the goal, the goal of the Confucian sage is self-cultivation, family, governance, and peace in the world!

Zhu Shuhao's understanding of the golden mean completely deviates from the original meaning, which is actually equivalent to a set of sleek officialdom philosophy!

He has no responsibility, no position, swaying left and right. Everywhere and mud, please both sides, be a good gentleman. greedy for small profits, without a little righteousness.

Zhu Shuhao's personality and state of mind completely deviated from the track of cultivating righteous qi songs, causing the cultivation effect of the entire Zhu family to become very poor.

The power of the Zhu family seems to be huge, but in fact, it is a combination of interests, and it is easy to separate and analyze.

Due to the inaction of Prime Minister Zhu Shuhao, the Gao family took advantage of the situation, and the situation in Dali entered a storm.

The Zhu family did not have a sense of crisis, on the contrary, they were quite satisfied with this situation, because the Zhu family suddenly became the target of several major families and made a lot of profits from it.

Zhu Shuhao is even more complacent that Dali Guo can't play without me, and he doesn't think about the crisis behind him at all!

The Zhu family originally had no intention of inviting Xia Yun to come over as a guest, but seeing that the other three major families had invited, the Zhu family naturally refused to be left behind.

With Xia Yun's experience in the past few years, how can he not know Zhu Zihua's insincere truth, but since he has visited three houses, this fourth one is the one who will go without being invited, so he will push the boat with the water.

Although the Zhu family is arrogant and a bit small, it is not unscrupulous. Zhu Zihua and his father combined, and really found some cooperation projects with the Xia family.

Xia Yun frowned slightly on the way to "Bo Shi Village", she really didn't have a big interest in the Zhu family, the Zhu family really had trouble finding their own horse gang in the past two years, Duan Yu came forward to settle it, the Zhu family's little abacus, everyone knows very well!

When Xia Yun entered the "Boshi Village", the Zhu family was a little big, and even Zhu Zihua did not go to the gate of the village to greet him, but he saw that the guards of the village were full of majesty!

Xia Yun walked into the lobby and handed over a generous salute. Zhu Shuhao sat on the throne and owed a debt, which was regarded as a greeting.

Zhu Zi'an stood behind his father with a proud face, and unabashedly cast his pervert-like gaze on Xia Yun.

It's no wonder that Zhu Zi'an, although he is pretentious and suave, in the "Five Tai Sui", whether it is appearance or cultivation, it is the existence of the bottom.

Every time the "Five Tai Sui" gathers, his self-confidence is hit. Now that he's back on his home turf, can he still make his family feel confident?

Zhu Shuhao's polite words passed, and Zhu Zi'an talked about the topic on behalf of the Zhu family, it turned out that the Zhu family intended to marry and cooperate with the Xia family in business.

Zhu Zihua shook off his three-inch tongue, talked about how good the prospects of cooperation between the two families were, and spat at the foam, even he felt that it was too reasonable, and the Xia family should agree, unless the Xia family didn't want to do business in Dali!

In the end, he really guessed correctly, with the status of the Xia family in the Great Chu Country, how could he go to Dali Country to hug the thigh of the Zhu family to do business!

That is the Zhu family sees themselves as the masters of Dali and the Xia family as ordinary businessmen, if it is really what they imagined, the cooperation between the two families in Dali is really a good collusion between officials and businessmen!

In that case, the Zhu family does not have to take any risks, does not need to contribute any manpower and material resources, and sits on the ground to share dividends, and it will successfully realize the wishful thinking and empty gloves white wolf cooperation plan formulated by the "Five Tai Sui"!

But it backfired, and the perfect plan that Zhu Zihua made for the first time in his life was doomed to failure.

Although the Xia family secretly participates in the caravan business, it is not for money, but for the war horses, otherwise the Xia family would not have lowered their prices to run this caravan!

Although Xia Yun did not politely refuse the Zhu family's proposal on the spot, she also pushed the responsibility of not hearing from the elders of the family on the grounds that she had little to do and could not make up her mind.

The 100,000 mountains straddle between the Dali Kingdom and the Great Chu Kingdom, which is the natural dividing line between the two countries. In principle, it is bounded by the top of the mountain, but the two countries have built the checkpoint at the foot of the mountain very tacitly, and the 100,000 mountains exist in common with both sides.

100,000 mountains from Qinzhou to Qianzhou in the west, the east and west mountains are more than 300 miles long, nearly 100 miles wide from north to south, and the forest area is nearly 5 million acres.

The 100,000 mountains have become a natural obstacle to traffic from south to north. However, since ancient times, there has been frequent trade of goods on both sides of the mountain, because there are roads that cross this barrier in the mountains.

At the foot of the 100,000 mountains, the pass from Dali to the Great Chu State, under the thick dead leaves, there is a stone road covered with moss, leading to the vast mountains.

This road was noisy with the prosperity of the tea and horse trade road. And this winding stone slab mountain path is an ancient road that crosses 100,000 mountains and connects Dali and Dachu. It is also known as the Tea Horse Merchant Road.

In order to make a living, the horse gang entered and exited the territory of the two countries on this winding and difficult path in the dense forest, accompanied by the sound of gongs and camel bells.

The winding ancient trade road of the 100,000 Mountains has more than 10 major passes. These dangerous passes hovering between the clouds on the mountainside have become the only way for merchants to run between the south and north of the mountain.

In these passes, there are often mountain bandits, and the intertwined mountain paths that extend in all directions provide the convenience of the mountain bandits for a safe retreat, so that the officers and soldiers who are clearing and suppressing them are helpless.

At the same time that the caravan reached the foot of the 100,000 mountain and set up camp, Xia Yun also returned to the caravan with Piaopiao.

Passing through the 100,000 mountains, because the place with the lowest peak and the narrowest mountain range was chosen, the road was not very far, and the total was less than 100 miles.

However, because the mountain roads are rugged and tortuous, and some places are still very steep, people and horses often fall and get injured, not to mention the occasional harassment by mountain bandits. Therefore, it is necessary to repack the packs at the mountain pass and make other necessary preparations.

The weight and volume of the donkeys going up the mountain should not be too large, but empty horses are also unsafe, and the horses have to be burdened with burdens, so that they are willing to walk honestly and not have fun casually.

Early the next morning, Xia Yun's horse gang was the first to arrive at the mountain pass, which was just a routine inspection, and Xia Yun had to give some tea money.

Even if it was a routine inspection, the number of horses and livestock was too large this time, and there were as many as six or seven hundred horses, and it took more than half an hour to pass the customs.

After entering the mountain road, Xia Yun changed the habit of walking in the front on the grassland, but walked with Piao Piao in the back.

It turns out that the caravan is not the same as going over the grassland. On the grassland, Ma Guotou walked ahead to lead the way and found danger because only when no horses walked by, could the clues be found.

Now it is mountaineering, mainly because I am afraid that the horses and goods will roll down the mountain, and the head of the horse pot is at the back, just to rescue and contain it in time.

Over the top of the mountain, Ma Guotou will go to the front again. Anyway, where is the most dangerous, the horse pot head is there!