One person above Qing Huang Ting

Chapter 114
"Ugh,"

In the small shop in Xiaofangpancheng, Chen Duo and Hu Xiuwu sat opposite each other on a small table. You can only sit on the couch by meditating.

Chen Duo ate his portion of food quietly, while Hu Xiuwu sighed, and there was a pile of roast lamb still steaming in the plate.

There are a dozen steamed cakes on the table, a roast lamb full of spices, a plate of pickles, a pot of turbid wine,
At this time, there was no iron pot, so the only cooking methods for meat were steaming, stewing and roasting, and the fresh fruits and vegetables in Xiaofangpancheng were even poorer and more expensive than meat.

This meal is already the best in this restaurant. If they hadn't found a lot of money from the horse bandits, they might not be able to eat this meal.

Hu Xiuwu said indignantly: "How can roast mutton be without cumin! This is an evil way, an evil way."

Originally, after eating jerky for so many days, Hu Xiuwu was still thinking of having a good meal in Xiaofangpancheng, but he didn't expect to eat such a nondescript meal of barbecued meat, which made him very uncomfortable and tangled.

The diners around looked at Hu Xiuwu with strange eyes, not understanding what the cumin in his mouth was.

Hu Xiuwu took a bite of the roasted mutton, feeling the mutton smell of the mutton in his mouth and the spicy and astringent taste of the dogwood. He sighed and said:

"Even if it's to take you to taste the hot pot from the fourth brother's house, I have to take you back."

The fourth brother in Hu Xiuwu's mouth is the hot pot restaurant that Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan often go to. They go to a lot with Hu Bayi, and Hu Xiuwu also gets to know the owner. Sometimes Hu Xiuwu also leads Wang Kaixuan. Also, Xiaotian they went to cheer.

Chen Duo slowly ate the steamed cake in his hand, indifferent to Hu Xiuwu's words.

Without getting a response, Hu Xiuwu had to continue to deal with the barbecue and steamed cakes in his hands with a tangled face.

There was a commotion at the door of the restaurant, and the idlers at the door were dispersed. Sha Zhu and Xu Yuanjin followed behind a tall, handsome young man in his twenties. It was obvious that the leading young man had a much higher identity. to both of them.

After entering the restaurant, Sha Zhu looked around and saw Hu Xiuwu and Chen Duo, his eyes fixed on Hu Xiuwu's direction, and he whispered to the young man.

The young man looked at the location of Hu Xiuwu and Chen Duo, and looked at Hu Xiuwu and Chen Duo's handsome looks that were far beyond ordinary people. There was a flash of surprise in his eyes, and then he was a little surprised, and he felt it was a matter of course.

The young man whispered to Sha Zhu and Xu Yuanjin: "You go out first, I want to talk to these two alone."

"Here."

Xu Yuanjin was a little worried that Hu Xiuwu and Chen Duo would be bad for this young man, but in the end he was defeated under the eyes of the young man, and nodded and said that he would lead the others to retire.

A group of people came in hula-la, including the local county captain and magistrate. The diners who had just chatted and ate in the restaurant had already sneaked away with interest.

The young man's demeanor was respectful and courteous, and his attitude was not condescending. He first saluted Hu Xiuwu and Chen Duo, and then sat beside Hu Xiuwu and Chen Duo like a textbook, with a straight waist.

The young man was the first to speak:

"The Han envoys Zhang Qian and Zhang Ziwen have met two of them."

After salute, Zhang Qian looked at Hu Xiuwu and Chen Duo's faces and praised: "It is rumored that Marquis Liu is handsome, and seeing it today really deserves its reputation."

The Liuhou he is talking about now is naturally the first Liuhou Zhang Liang who was planning to win the battle thousands of miles away.Historical records record that Zhang Liang was handsome, as beautiful as a woman.

Zhang Liang's eldest son, Zhang Budo, was just an ordinary person who did not inherit Zhang Liang's spells, while his second son, Zhang Bijiang, disappeared from Chang'an in order to avoid the Lu clan's rebellion and disappeared without a trace.

Therefore, Hu Xiuwu planned to pretend to be a descendant of Liuhou. It just so happened that he also knew the golden light spell, the unique skill of Tianshifu, and the first-generation Tianshi of Tianshifu in Longhu Mountain was a descendant of Liuhou, and it was rumored that Liuhou There will also be a golden light.

Therefore, there has always been speculation among Yiren that the Golden Light Mantra was improved by the first generation of Celestial Masters from the methods handed down by Liuhou.

And the natural handsome appearance gave Hu Xiuwu the conditions to pretend to be a descendant of Liuhou.

Hu Xiuwu chuckled lightly: "You have recognized the wrong person,"

Zhang Qian pretended to be puzzled: "Oh, isn't that golden escaping light not Liuhou's unique method?"

"Besides, the two of you deliberately used golden light at the city gate, isn't it to lure me over?"

Hu Xiuwu looked at Zhang Qian, who was flourishing in front of him. Zhang Qian once served as the attendant of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of Han was a handsome party. He would not allow someone who was not good-looking to be his attendant and dangled in front of him. .

Hu Xiuwu sighed, "I heard that Zhang Qian was smart and brave, but why did he do something stupid?"

"You two just call me Ziwen."

Zhang Qian said with a smile, and then laughed at himself:

"No one in Chang'an said I was smart, and everyone called me stupid. If it wasn't for an insane idiot, how could I have taken on this task of challenging the authority of other people in the world."

Before Zhang Qian decided to send Da Yuezhi as an ambassador, Dong Zhongshu, a Confucian scholar, spoke to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who had just ascended the throne.

When the monarch and ministers were correct, Dong Zhongshu first affirmed the orthodox status of the Liu family with the theory of the unity of heaven and man, and then compared Emperor Wu of Han to the Big Dipper guarded by the stars, making Emperor Wu of Han very comfortable to lick.

Then he took the opportunity to propose to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that he should dismiss all schools of thought and respect Confucianism.

This is not only to hope that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty can recognize the Confucian classics, but also hope that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty can depose those aliens who occupy high positions just because of their high cultivation, and who are ignorant of the art of national governance. one opportunity.

Use the methods of everyone to replace the techniques of the minority, and no longer select scholars based on cultivation, but select talents based on talent and character.

At the same time, Dong Zhongshu also proposed to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that ordinary people could have better control than those outsiders. After all, compared with outsiders, their weak bodies couldn't do anything like a man's anger and the world's ignorance.

When Emperor Wu of Han ascended the throne at a young age, he was full of vigor and determination, and was quite moved by his proposal. However, Emperor Wu of Han was still influenced by traditional concepts, and he had some concerns and some murmurs in his heart.

Can ordinary people govern a country well?

So he came up with a test,

Travel [-] miles, cross the desert, cross the Gobi, endure the test of wind, snow, and cold, and send Da Yuezhi as an ambassador!

As long as someone can do all this as an ordinary person, he recognizes that ordinary people are also qualified to rise to the top.

When Zhang Qian, who was still working as an attendant, heard about this, he recommended himself to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Mao Sui, hoping to serve as the envoy of the mission. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty agreed to his request and gave Zhang Qian a festival to set up a mission for him.

However, unlike the past, all the soldiers in the mission this time were ordinary soldiers, and there were no foreigners under the commander Sili to participate. Only Zhang Qian's father, because he was worried about his son's safety, found a foreigner, a foreigner, to protect him. comprehensive.

Before leaving, Zhang Qian wanted to visit his old friends, but he didn't see a single person, so they all stayed behind closed doors. Some loyal friends wanted to come to see him, but they were locked at home by the elders at home.

The people in Chang'an were all waiting to see his jokes, thinking that he was beyond his own power. It would be difficult for even an alien to accomplish this, let alone an ordinary person.

But Zhang Qian took up this mission without hesitation.
On this [-]-mile journey, he will not only pierce the Western Regions, but also pierce the prejudice in the hearts of the world.

Let the world understand that ordinary people can also achieve a career.

Zhang Qian looked at Hu Xiuwu and Chen Duo and said coldly, "Are you two here to stop me?"

Hu Xiuwu changed his attitude just now and solemnly bowed to Zhang Qian and said:
"No, this time down the mountain, the master asked us two things. The first thing is to order the two of us to join the mission to help you on your mission to Da Yuezhi."

"The tutor thinks that what you are doing is a major event in the world, and it is correct."

Zhang Qian raised his brows slightly and was a little surprised. What he did was to snatch power from the aliens. The reason why Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not make trouble was the reason why Emperor Wu of Han was protecting him. Now there are still aliens who recognized him and sent disciples to help him.

He was a little moved, but Zhang Qian gave a solemn salute to express his gratitude, and then rejected Hu Xiuwu's self-examination:

"Thank you for your kindness, but please allow me to refuse."

"what?"

(End of this chapter)