036 Southbound
About five or six days after the news of Quan Guanqing was sent, Qiao Feng rushed to Bianliang City. After a series of restructuring and adjustments before and after the Hundred Flowers Fair last year, Qiao Feng no longer had to think about the exhaustion of going to various places in the past, so he had plenty of time. After hearing Zhao Ji's request, he agreed without thinking too much.
After having enough time, coupled with the great progress of his martial arts, Qiao Feng's interest in martial arts increased greatly. He had already heard that the Dali Guo Duan family was a must in the martial arts, and Qiao Feng had always wanted to learn and learn. However, the country of Dali is located in the southern Xinjiang, the road is far away, and Qiao Feng himself has no time to travel to Dali, so he has never had the opportunity to see it in the past. This time I just took this opportunity to go to Dali to have a look.
Zhao Ji is ready here, and the court has also determined the exact time. For the first time in his life, Zhao Ji participated in the court meeting and officially received the imperial order of the envoy, and he really understood the atmosphere of the court. Seeing the confrontation and collision of this group of ministers and scholars who hold the power of the world in the court, there is a refreshing feeling. However, these things can be ignored if you have seen and heard them, and you don't have to think about them much.
In the following period, Zhao Ji had countless banquets to attend every day. Although he has not deliberately managed his contacts since the crossing, he has a lot of old friends in the past. For example, the clan nobles such as Xiao Wang Du Taiwei, as well as some Qing nobles and Hanlin who had made friends in the past, and even Fan Lou, the first in Kyoto, made a special trip to set up a banquet for Duan Wangye, and invited many famous prostitutes and flower queens in Tokyo to perform on stage to perform with great beauty. The excitement of that scene is even more lively than the annual Kazetsuba Oiran Contest, and has become the hottest topic on the streets and alleys in recent times. This gives Zhao Ji the feeling that although his brother is no longer in this circle, the legend remains.
Next, Zhao Ji participated in the family banquet again, and the emperor at the banquet couldn't help but encourage Zhao Ji, while the eyes of the other brothers looking at Zhao Ji couldn't help but be a little complicated, with envy and happiness. Xiang Xiang took Zhao Ji's hand and told him repeatedly, and he talked for a long time, which made Zhao Ji very grateful.
The night before leaving, Zhao Ji called the people around him to give him a careful advice. It will take him at least half a year to go, so he is not in a relaxed mood. Count on your fingers, if the beggar gang will cause chaos, then the root of the bane should be buried during the time he is away from Beijing. If Yiqiē followed the old road show, that Mrs. Ma should have hooked up with Bai Shijing in the Mid-Autumn Festival of this year, harming Ma Dayuan, and then she would hook up with Quan Guanqing again, planning to make it difficult for Qiao Feng.
This is a worst-case scenario, and it is absolutely impossible to happen according to the current situation. Xianma's family is full of eyes and ears arranged by Zhao Ji from the inside out, she has no chance to do anything shady, and secondly, Zhao Ji does not have Mrs. Ma's hatred for Qiao Feng too much because of the Hundred Flowers Conference, and she has no motive to calculate. In addition, that Bai Shijing Bai Elder had just left for Western Xia now, and he had no time to come to Bianliang. And after the Qing Dynasty, Quan Guan finally became a relative under Zhao Ji's master, the Yue family is an extremely solid family in Bianliang City, the newlywed Yan'er, plus there is still a great future in front of him, and he will not be taken lightly.
With all these arrangements, it is impossible for the beggars to go down the old path. The reason why Zhao Ji is still a little worried is mostly because of Mrs. Ma's unusual behavior for most of the past six months, but she is just a little worried, and she doesn't have to worry about this trivial matter.
On the day of departure, the official family gave a banquet and the officials saw them off. Since the "chance encounter" in Taipingguan, Zhao Ji saw Cai Jing again. Although the two reached a tacit understanding on a certain Cheng dù, on such an occasion, they only bowed their knots and did not talk deeply. Although Zhao Ji joined the mission this time, the main envoy was still Cai Jing, and as for Zhao Ji's identity, it was a strange official position with a long name, and even he didn't remember it clearly.
The main task of this envoy must also be completed by Cai Jing, and what Zhao Ji has to do should be to rush to Dali to eat and drink a few times and convey a few words of encouragement from the officials. Although the task was simple, because of the addition of Zhao Ji in the mission, the size of various honor guards had almost doubled. Seeing the long queue of missions, Zhao Ji couldn't help but smack his tongue secretly, there are so many people on this long journey, eating horses and chewing alone is a huge expense, and the ancients' communication methods are really extravagant.
After noon, the mission left the Donghua Gate. Zhao Ji was wearing regular court clothes, riding on a tall horse with a straight face, surrounded by mighty forbidden soldiers in front and behind, and at the same time raising various flags and relying on them, Cai Jing not far away was also about the same.
After the team turned onto Xiaoyu Street, both sides were full of people from Bianliang City, cheering in the middle of the road. Such a high-profile treatment, Zhao Jishang is the first time to experience it, his face can't help but tense even more, but many thoughts surged in his heart, secretly saying that it is no wonder that the Great Song Dynasty is a scholar, and his personal appearance is also an extremely important one. In this case, if you are criticized and judged because of your appearance, it will inevitably damage your prestige. The film and television image of the black-faced Bao Gong in later generations is basically impossible in the Great Song Dynasty. Zhao Ji even specifically asked someone to inquire, that Lord Bao Qingtianbao was not only not a big black face, but a white-faced scholar who was famous for his beautiful appearance.
Just like this, the slow march accepted the onlookers of the people, and more than three hours had passed since the procession left the city from the Nanxun Gate. After pausing for a moment on the gentle slope outside the city gate, those flags were also put away, Zhao Ji and Cai Jing also got off their horses and transferred to the carriage respectively, acting as the forbidden army to return to the camp for the first time, and some elite sergeants who really escorted the mission also came up. Qiao Feng, who had been waiting outside, also took this opportunity to join the team.
After about half an hour of correction, the team continued on the road, Cai Jing and the others went first, and Zhao Ji had an independent honor guard team to follow. This time, they went south to Dali, first through Zhengzhou, and then all the way south through Huguang into southern Yunnan. There aren't many waterways to navigate, so it's hard to see a lot of traffic along the way.
On the first day of the road, the mission only left Bianliang City for more than ten miles, and there was still some time before the sun set, but Cai Jing ordered to settle down and rest. The team of nearly 1,000 people had no post station to arrange, so most of the members of the mission could only camp outside, while Cai Jing and a group of civil officials who served as envoys held a banquet in the post house and invited Zhao Ji to participate. Seeing that these envoys looked good and leisurely, Zhao Ji couldn't help but sigh, sure enough, the ministers of the Great Song Dynasty would not treat themselves badly, and completely regarded this envoy as a publicly-funded tour. Looking at this posture, it is estimated that he is going to go all the way to prostitution. If you record these and make a road movie, although the content is monotonous, it is really the dream of most men.
At the banquet, Cai Jing saw that Zhao Ji was a little nervous, so he smiled and said: "Lord Wang, relax, we are going to Dali this time, aiming to rebuild the state and commend the lord of Dali, there is no need to be very serious, so there is no need to be dignified." ”
Having said that, Zhao Ji still couldn't stand the atmosphere of the song and swallow dance, and left after staying for a while. If you have this time, it is better to listen to Qiao Feng tell you about the anecdotes of the rivers and lakes. Zhao Ji resigned, and the rest of the envoys did not seriously keep it, and their identities were different from each other, and Zhao Ji stayed here, but they couldn't let go.
The next day, the party continued on the road, walking a little longer than the day before, and only set up camp and rested after walking thirty miles. According to this, Zhao Ji estimated that this trip to Dali would only take three and a half years.
However, this situation lasted for a short time, and when it went out of Henan to Hubei, the degree of the mission accelerated. Although the envoys will not wronged themselves, they also understand that they cannot delay their business. However, this good phenomenon did not last long, and although the number of processions accelerated, they often stayed for three or five days after arriving in a large city, and officials visited friends and places of interest.
At this time, Zhao Ji finally confirmed that he had indeed participated in a tourist mission, and some small thoughts in his heart were no longer contained. Directly disguised and separated from the team, took three or five guards, and called Qiao Feng to wander all the way south, but there was really a feeling of wandering the rivers and lakes, the fly in the ointment was that he didn't know martial arts, otherwise he would have kicked the hall all the way south, and it would be exciting to think about it.
And what makes Zhao Ji more curious is that there are not many places they have walked along the way, and there is even no shortage of passing through some very famous sect mountain gates in the martial arts, but there are few people in the martial arts they have seen, not to mention those grandmasters who have been famous for a long time, even if some small shrimps in the rivers and lakes are rare, it really makes Zhao Ji feel very incomprehensible.
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