Han Dao world

Chapter 397
Leaving Yangqu County and entering Yuanping County is equivalent to leaving Taiyuan County and entering Yanmen County.

The relevant officials of Yanmen Taishou's Mansion received the news and rushed to the county to greet him.

Seeing those civil servants with dark complexions and strong martial arts, Zang Hong once again understood why Gao You called him a martial artist.

Yanmen is a border county, and the main function of the prefect is to guard the border. He is a veritable county general.

If you cross the Great Wall on Juzhu Mountain, you are considered to be out of the fortress.

In fact, the counties north of Juzhu Mountain have been abandoned and left unmanaged.At the beginning of the year, the Son of Heaven defeated Xianbei, and the people of Xianbei fled away after hearing the news. Only then did Yanmen County regain some vitality. As the magistrates of various counties took office one after another, the jurisdiction of Yanmen County also recovered.

It was summer, and the vegetation on Juzhu Mountain was deep and deep, which made Zang Hong's anxious mood gradually calm down.

After meeting the officials, Zang Hong didn't stop much, and went straight to Meiji.

In early July, Zang Hong arrived at Hequ.

Standing at Jinkou, seeing Dahe goodbye, Chen Rong was very excited.It was here that he met Chen Gong, and then returned to Jizhou with Chen Gong.

There are several boats on the river, which are turning from the big river to the Nanshui.The boatmen chanted chant, worked together, and went upstream.

"Is that the grain sent to Meiji?" Zang Hong asked curiously.

The boatman on the ferry held the penny, squatted on the bow of the boat, gnawed on the dry food, and said, "Not only food, but also vegetables and cloth, which come from the east of the river. I get used to it every few days. "

"From east?" Zang Hong frowned. "It's a waste of manpower and material resources to go upstream for thousands of miles."

Shaogong turned his head and glanced at Zang Hong, and laughed out loud. "The gentleman is from Kanto, right?"

Zang Hong cupped his hands. "I'm from Guangling, Xuzhou."

"Xuzhou?" The boatman was a little dazed, obviously not sure where Xuzhou was, let alone how far Guangling was.But he quickly got back to business. "Since you're from Kanto, it's no surprise. Do you really think those people are in business at a loss?"

"Is not it?"

"Of course not." The boatman licked the crumbs off his hands, stood up, picked up the penny, and punted the boat into the river. "It's really not cost-effective if we only count the goods they transport. If we count the return journey, it will be different. A ship of vegetables is exchanged for a ship of leather goods, and the price will increase several times when transported to the east of the river. If it is transported cloth, Then it will be more valuable, and this business can last for a year."

"Is the cloth so valuable?"

"Of course, especially in this summer, it's so hot to wear a leather jacket." The boatman laughed and pulled the half-worn cloth shirt on his body. "Last time, a nobleman from the Huns took a ferry here. He took a fancy to my cloth shirt and insisted on exchanging it with me for a small leather jacket. Hehe, I thought he was pitiful, so I exchanged the cloth shirt I wore just once last year. He died. The little leather jacket was brought to the east of the river by someone, and the family of three has all the clothes for the New Year."

Zang Hong is dubious. "To tell you the truth, I just came from Hedong, but I haven't heard that there are so many businesses."

"Then I don't know." Shaogong said with a chuckle, "I haven't been to Hedong either. In a few years, when I have saved enough coffin books, I can hand this boat over to my youngest son. Maybe I can follow the boat to Hedong. Take a look. After all, it’s also the emperor’s capital, isn’t it?”

Zang Hong and Chen Rong exchanged a look and laughed silently.

What kind of capital city is Hedong?

After crossing the river, Zang Hong remounted his horse and went up along the Nanshui River Valley.Along the way, he saw ships coming and going, all loaded with cargo.The grasslands on both sides of the bank are shaded, but you can’t see too many cattle and sheep. On the contrary, you can often see groups of cattle and sheep on the hillside in the distance.

Zang Hong was curious, so he asked passers-by who came across him when he was resting on the side of the road.

Passers-by listened and looked at Zang Hong with disdain.

"Are you from Kanto?"

After hearing this, Zang Hong couldn't help being puzzled.He had heard similar words more than once, and the people here seemed to have a natural hostility towards the Kanto people.

"Why do you say that?"

"Only Kanto people would ask such a question." A passer-by pointed. "The local people know that grazing in summer has to go to the mountains and return to the plains in winter, so that the livestock can have grass to eat all year round. If you are greedy for convenience, the grass here will be eaten up in summer, and there will be no forage in winter, and the livestock will die." Going to starve to death."

Zang Hong was stunned.

The passer-by got up and shook his head. "These Kanto people don't know anything, and they don't know what they're doing here. Are they wasting food?"

Zang Hong and Chen Rong looked at each other.

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After traveling up the Nanshui River for two days, Zang Hong arrived at the Imperial Camp of the Son of Heaven.

Looking at the dozens of sparse tents in front of him, Zang Hong wondered if he had been fooled and went the wrong way.

With just such a few people, will it be where the emperor's imperial camp is located?
His questions were quickly answered.

A young knight riding a tall horse, holding a bow in his left hand and an arrow in his right hand, galloped towards him, and shot an arrow into the river.A girl rode her horse into the river, and the horse's hooves kicked up the snow-white spray.The girl did not get off the horse, but bent over and stretched her arms on the horse's back, and picked up the arrow. On the arrow, there was a big fish flicking its tail vigorously, and water droplets splashed everywhere.

"Your Majesty is good at archery, hit with one arrow." The young knight rode back to the shore and said with a big laugh.

Zang Hong was startled, the young knight in front of him was actually the emperor?
Liu Xie also saw Zang Hong, turned his horse's head, and walked over slowly.

Zang Hong and Chen Rong quickly stepped forward to salute and reported their names.

Liu Xie looked at Zang Hong and nodded. "Have you seen the history of Yanmen County?"

"I have seen."

"Have you been to the Prefect's Mansion?"

"Not yet." Zang Hong said.

Yanmen Taishou's Mansion is in Yinguan County in the northeast of Jushan. He didn't go there, but went west to Hequ directly.

"Then there's no need to go, I plan to transfer Yanmen County to Pingcheng." Liu Xie got off his horse, glanced at Zang Hong, and said with a smile: "As expected of a general, very powerful, but I don't know how good martial arts are."

When he was sitting on horseback, he could look down at Zang Hong from a height.After getting off the horse, it was Zang Hong who was half his head tall.

Zang Hong frowned.He didn't like the name Jiang Menzi.

"Your Majesty, in governing the country, virtue should be the second priority, followed by punishment."

Liu Xieyang raised his eyebrows, and just as he was about to speak, Ma Yunlu came over, just hearing Zang Hong's words, and couldn't help chuckling with a little disdain.

Zang Hong frowned even tighter.

The emperor has no dignity, and the people around the emperor have no rules.

Liu Xie saw it clearly, but didn't say anything, and said indifferently: "Do you know why I moved Yanmen County to Pingcheng?"

"I'm stupid."

"Back then, Emperor Gao was besieging the Xiongnu when he was besieged in Pingcheng by Maodun. I moved Yanmen County to Pingcheng to not forget the shame of our ancestors and to take revenge." He paused, and then said: "Just as I appointed you The prefect of Yanmen wants to give you a chance to avenge your father."

Zang Hong suddenly felt blood rushing up, and his face was flushed.

His father Zang Min sent troops from Yanmen when he attacked Xianbei, but he lost badly that time, almost completely annihilated.Zang Min himself was imprisoned because of this, so that he would not be a commoner, and his official career was interrupted.

"Is it lack of revenge, or lack of strength?" Liu Xie looked at Zang Hong quietly. "If it is forced, I can change someone."

(End of this chapter)