Chapter 324: Qingqing
Lu Yunzhou was a little surprised, Wei Jun, as the king of a country, would be so cautious and humble, even a group of passing envoys like him had to hold a banquet in person with great fanfare.
Linked to the tragic situation that can be seen everywhere in the country, only one city is left to survive and support the national lineage for more than a hundred years, Lu Yunzhou is even more sure of the judgment in his heart, there is no good monarch among these generations of Wei Jun, but they are definitely extremely smart people!
Lu Yunzhou arched his hand and said: "In this way, there is General Lao Fu! It just so happens that this envoy has also prepared a gift and wants to bring it to Wei Jun!"
Saying that, he beckoned, and in Fu Lisheng's surprised gaze, Lai Peng stood behind Lu Yunzhou with three strong men tied up with five flowers.
These three strong men were the same assassins who had scuttled the ship last time.
Fu Lisheng was taken aback, and he couldn't figure out Lu Yunzhou's way, but he didn't dare to slack off in the face of the envoy of the kingdom, and still warmly entertained everyone.
Lu Yunzhou asked Meng Fu to stay on the ship, and Fu Zisheng was responsible for contacting the Bai family in the city and arranging porridge outside the city. He took Han Fei and Han Quan, two Korean princes, Xiao Yuetan, a strategist, Cheng Song, Tian Dan, a deputy sent to supervise him, as well as Qin Qing, a guest, and ten personal guards entered Puyang City with Fu Lisheng.
Fu Lisheng was originally a little panicked when he saw Lu Yunzhou taking three strong men tied up with five flowers, but when he saw that Lu Yunzhou had brought ten personal guards, he breathed a sigh of relief and put his heart back in his stomach.
It's just that Fu Lisheng didn't know that Lu Yunzhou's ten personal guards were all martial arts masters one by one, who could fly eaves and walk walls, and they were veritable heavenly soldiers and generals in this era!
The envoy group sat in two carriages, Qin Qing and the accompanying maidservants were alone, Han Fei and Xiao Yuetan were alone, Lu Yunzhou, Han Jian and Cheng Song were riding side by side on the horses, ten personal guards rode aside, escorting three prisoners, and a team of men and horses brought out by Fu Lisheng was on the side, and a group of more than 100 people slowly drove towards Puyang City with great momentum.
When entering Puyang City, Lu Yunzhou observed that this thousand-year-old city was very dilapidated, with many damaged holes on the city wall, and the light could even pass through the holes in the city wall and shine on people's faces.
It was still daylight, and the city guards on the city walls looked drowsy and listless, and the armor of the city guards was very rudimentary, and some of the soldiers did not even wear armor.
Lu Yunzhou shook his head secretly in his heart, thinking that the country of defending the country, even the army in the capital was useless, but he was afraid that he had completely given up armed defense, and only relied on diplomatic means to survive until the end of the Warring States Period, this is also a magical country!
Defending the country is a very uncompetitive country, and since a hundred years ago, the rulers of the Patriotic Republic have adopted the strategy of Yelang since childhood. Originally, the title was duke, but in the sixteenth year of Wei Chenghou, because the country was weak, Wei Guo was automatically demoted to a marquis, and when Wei Heijun was five years old, he was further degraded to Jun.
This kind of self-harm practice of not treating me as a human being does ensure the longevity of the patriotic lineage. Over the years, he has been mixing in the rivers and lakes, and the degree of consciousness of defending the country is quite amazing. Say yes more, cause less trouble, more waist, and get angry less. The astonishing implementation of this principle over the years has paid off in an astonishing way.
As the saying goes: always floating in the rivers and lakes, how can you not be stabbed. But Weiguo is not, it has been floating on the rivers and lakes of the Warring States for a long time, and it has been floating in history until the period of Qin II. Even when Qin Shi Huang unified the world, he regarded the defense of the country as transparent and excluded it from the unification process.
The last Wei Jun even lasted longer than Qin Shi Huang's life, and Qin Shi Huang was boiled to death, until Qin II, when people remembered it, abolished the title of Jun, demoted the title to Shuren, and completely cut off the sacrifice.
Maybe when a country is so lowly that it can't even be as good as grass. Others won't be interested in flattening you.
After passing through the dilapidated city gate and coming to Puyang City, I saw that there were not a few pedestrians on the street, but most of them were in tattered clothes and had vegetables on their faces. Beggars can be seen everywhere on both sides of the street. There are not a few rich people and horses coming and going on the streets, although they are close at hand, they seem to be clearly distinguishing from the grizzled poor people, and they are not in the same world at all.
The houses lining the streets also present a striking contrast, often next to the dilapidated thatched houses next to the high-gate compounds, which seem strangely harmonious.
Fu Lisheng rode up and introduced on the side: "Your Excellency, don't look at the ruins of Puyang City, but this is a rare pure land, and there will be almost no wars, so every time there is a war in other countries, many rich families from other countries will move to Puyang City to settle down. ”
Lu Yunzhou smiled dumbly, he didn't expect that such a patriotic country would become an alternative "paradise"!
It's a pity that such a "paradise" has nothing to do with the poor people who are about to starve to death!
But from this point of view, the income in the treasury of Weijun is mainly commercial taxes, and the prosperity of commerce has become, to a certain extent, the main reason why this peculiar country can continue forever!
When Lu Yunzhou was looking all the way, there were a few immature calls in front of him--
"Qingqing, Qingqing, come down quickly, a good man came to Puyang City today, and he is putting grain and soup outside the city, everyone is gone, if you go late, the porridge will be finished!"
Lu Yunzhou turned his head to look, only to see several yellow-faced and thin-skinny children in front of him gathered in the middle of the road, shouting at the roof of a thatched house on the side of the road.
On the roof, a teenager lay lazily in the thatch basking in the sun with his hands behind his head, a stick of grass in his mouth, and two legs on his legs.
The boy looked to be twelve or thirteen years old, with a rusty sword at his waist, a patched gray linen shirt, and bare feet, the soles of which were covered in thick calluses and black dirt.
After hearing the call of the little friend below, the young man named Qingqing turned over and sat up, extremely flexible.
The moment the young man turned over and sat up, his eyes met Lu Yunzhou, and Lu Yunzhou found that the young man's eyes were black and white, his eyes were smart, and his demeanor was calm and calm, and he was not as impetuous as a child of his age, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised in his heart.
The young man glanced at Lu Yunzhou without any waves, then looked away, spit out the grass in his mouth, jumped off the roof with a jump, and swaggered to his little friend's side.
The children shouted for joy and ran to the city gate.
Seeing that they were in the middle of the road, Fu Lisheng raised his horsewhip and was about to pull it down, and scolded in his mouth: "Little ghost, don't be a fool, get out!"
Qingqing's face sank, and he quickly grasped the hilt of the rusty sword at his waist, and in the blink of an eye, he pulled out the rusty sword and crossed it above.