Destiny Only Han

Chapter 54
About sixty or seventy miles northeast of Xingyang is a place called Guangwu Mountain.

This place is adjacent to the surging Yellow River in the north, overlooking the majestic Songyue Mountain in the south, with criss-cross gullies and alternating valley tops. According to legend, Suiren, Fuxi, and Shennong were here in ancient times to grow grain and collect herbs for the people, so this place is also called Sanhuang Mountain. .

After the Qin State unified the six kingdoms, the first emperor took a fancy to the terrain where Guanzhong and Shandong were at the center, so he set up warehouses and grains in the mountains to deal with possible wars at any time.

Because the granary is close to a mountain named Ao, the granary was named Ao Cang.

In the early morning, billowing dark clouds came from the west, and almost in the blink of an eye, there were lightning, thunder and torrential rain.

Thunderbolts followed one after another, as if the god of thunder in the sky was venting his anger.

On the galloping road outside Xingyang City, more than ten riders came in the rain. This is Zhao Ben and his party who came back from inspecting Ao Cang.

After the defeat in the corpse city that day, Zhao Ben gathered the defeated army and bravely fought back. It happened that Liu Bang was defeated by the Qin army from Hangu Pass. The armor and weapons left by the army, and the courage to carry food and supplies are still there, and they are very large!

Relying on the merits this time, coupled with the bribery of the censor, the streak of consecutive defeats turned into a streak of defeats, and finally won.

Therefore, instead of being punished, Zhao Ben was promoted to a noble rank and became the governor of Sanchuan County, controlling the Qin army south of the river.

It was a coincidence that when Zhao Ben and his party arrived at the foot of Xingyang City, the rainstorm stopped abruptly, and the rain clouds continued to roll away to the west.

It's just that Zhao Ben didn't enter the city right away, because the city gate was blocked by many horse-drawn carriages that had squeezed in due to the heavy rain.

Although the carriage was covered with a thick layer of oilcloth, it could still be seen that there were bags of grain piled up on it.

Zhao Ben twirled his beard and frowned.

He is too familiar with the grain bags on the carriage, from the standard to the stamp, they are exactly the same as the official grain in the Ao granary.

In other words, the grain on the carriage was transported from the official warehouse.

Zhao Ben was a little puzzled. With the complete fall of Hanoi County, all the crossings north of the river have been captured by rebels.

So where is the food here going?

From Xingyang City to the south is Yingchuan County, which is controlled by the traitor Han Cheng, so this is ruled out first.

Then transport it northward to Zhang Han's army?

Is it different from a sheep entering a tiger's mouth?

Then it can only be transported westward to Guanzhong.

But the food is shipped out from there, and now it is shipped back, what is the plan?
Zhao Ben looked around, and found that there were only coachmen and guards in the convoy, and there was no one in charge, so he called the captain guarding the city gate and asked, "Where are the grains here going?"

This lieutenant was Zhao Ben's colleague when he served in the Jiuyuan Army. His name was Ji Bi, and he was good at riding and fighting. However, because he didn't get along with Wang Li, he was sent to Xingyang by the other party as a lieutenant at the city gate. Instead, he escaped the army. The tragedy of defeating Julu.

Ji Bi walked over slowly: "It is said to be shipped to Nanyang County."

"Nanyang County?" Zhao Ben suddenly laughed angrily: "If it was transported to Nanyang County, how could it come out from here? And there is no war there, and there is no hoarding of heavy troops. What is the purpose of transporting food?"

Ji Bi smiled disdainfully: "Someone is just a captain of the city gate. If you ask me, who am I going to ask? Does the county guard not know where to go south from this gate?"

Zhao Ben sighed slightly, how could he not know, he just didn't want to believe it, so that he subconsciously ruled it out from the beginning.

From here to the south, a road leads straight to Yangdi.

There was a place occupied by thieves for a long time.

If the food is transported over, what else is possible other than being a resource to the enemy?

Even though Zhao Ben knew it well, he was helpless.

Without him, the owner of this convoy is none other than the disciples of Prime Minister Zhao Gao.

Ji Bi on the side looked indifferent, since he was pushed out here to be the captain of the city gate, he has completely lay flat.

As the original Great Wall Legion, Meng Tian's trilogy, as long as Zhao Gao's line is still in power in the court, a person with his experience will never have a bright future.

Ji Bi looked at Zhao Ben, whose face was cloudy and uncertain, and said consolingly, "If you want to open it, at least it's wheat, and I heard that the price is twice as high as ours!"

He paused for a moment, with a bit of teasing in his tone: "It's so pitiful, I have been reduced to the point where I desperately need this kind of food that only the untouchables eat!"

Zhao Ben echoed with a wry smile, as the governor of Sanchuan in charge of Aocang, he knew a little more than Ji Bi.

The food here is almost free and given to Zhao Gao's followers.

The reason is simple. The old grain in the granary needs to be cleaned out regularly and replaced with new grain collected from the current year.

It's just that the Central Plains has been fighting repeatedly, and all the grain in the Ao Cang is last year's grain, which is far from the time to weed out the old and bring forth the new.

But what Zhao Gaomenke was holding was a warrant written by Zhi Su Neishi, one of the nine ministers, so he couldn't help but not execute it.

Zhao Ben shook his head, and remained silent for a long time. How could he save Daqin who was in danger when he was with an insect like Zhao Gao?
He secretly vowed that as long as there is a suitable time, he must kill this house for Daqin!

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Yangdi, the palace of the King of Han, a courtyard with mugwort planted in flower beds.

Liu Ying woke up again according to her own biological clock, and it was Lu Zhi who was sitting in front of the bronze mirror and combing her hair.

Last night Liu Bang didn't come home, and Lu Zhi slept between him and Liu Le again, temporarily canceling the routine bedtime brawl every night.

Liu Ying jumped out of bed, went to the bronze mirror and pinched her chin: "Well, it seems a little more handsome than yesterday!"

He grinned, showing seven white teeth.

Lu Zhi picked up the comb and combed his hair for him, and said with a look of disgust: "I don't know whether he is handsome or not, but the thickness of his skin is almost as thick as your father's!"

Someone is upset, I won't say who it is... Liu Ying deliberately didn't answer her words. His hair has grown a lot these days, and finally he doesn't have to braid it anymore.

Lu Zhi kept a stern face and didn't speak. He just combed his hair behind his head and tied it into a small braid with a hair tie. It may be out of the idea of ​​paying off his father's debt. The braid was tightly tied, and Liu Ying's round shape The eyes have turned into hanging eyes.

"Relax, mother, Lao Liu provoked you, and you are going to take it out on me? Am I not mother's cutie?"

"Old Liu? Big or small, he should be beaten!" Lu Zhi chuckled, but immediately pretended to be angry with a straight face.

Liu Ying pretended to be nonchalant and said, "Why don't you take her over and live with her?"

Lu Zhi snorted, "No answer."

Although they didn't say who they were, they both... understood.

Liu Ying didn't say any more, just picked up the toothbrush and walked out of the room, and saw Liu Bang who came back from the outside, pretending to be calm, but with a nervous brow.

"You smell of her makeup, it's my nose's fault..." Liu Ying hummed an out-of-key song with her tone-deaf voice, and ran past Liu Bang as if nothing had happened.

(End of this chapter)