Legend of the Knight

Chapter 125 Potential Ye, Luck Ye

It only took seventeen days for the caravan to reach Chang'an City.

After finding an open space outside the city and setting up camp, each team replenished supplies according to the loss along the way.And Huang Xiaoshi went to Chang'an City with a letter written by Mr. Yang.

It is really troublesome to travel far in this era. You have to take a letter from where you are starting from and why do you want to go elsewhere, and then get the government to stamp it for confirmation along the way.

Without such procedures, they will be regarded as refugees.

Don't look at the fact that refugees are everywhere, in fact they are not protected by the government.Not to mention personal property, even if he was wounded and killed, it would be a death in vain.

This is one of the reasons why most of the refugees are beggars. Even if you are not a beggar when you flee, you will automatically become a beggar when you escape halfway.

Therefore, those who have a relationship and can think of a way, try to find a relative to turn around and find a relative.

Don't care if you can take refuge in this, at least keep your status as a "good citizen".

However, there are several types of people who can avoid this procedure.

The first type of people are scholars.

As long as one has fame and fame, even a scholar can use "study tour" as an excuse to wander around without restriction.

That's why many people like to wear a scholar's clothes to go around. Whether they have any fame or not is another matter. As long as they look decent, they can save a lot of trouble along the way.

The second type of people are monks and Taoists.As long as you have a degree, you can travel all over the world.But getting a degree is much more difficult than getting a road.

The last category of people is the Wulin Jianghu people.

Don't get me wrong, people in the martial arts world don't have any privileges.It's just that everyone in the martial arts world has kung fu, and they belong to the kind that the imperial court doesn't want to control, and they can't control it if they want to.

Besides, people in the martial arts world do not need the imperial court to protect themselves.Everyone is out to fight for justice, and they don't even have the ability to protect themselves, so what else can they do?
The above three categories, Shennong Baicaomen can't be counted, no matter how powerful Huang Xiaoshi is, he has to obediently go to the city to go through the formalities.

Sending a letter or road note does not refer to a certain yamen, as long as it can clearly explain the ins and outs.Therefore, Huang Xiaoshi needed to go to Arsenal.

Every time he enters and exits Shuzhong, he has to pass through Chang'an City. Huang Xiaoshi is very familiar with Chang'an.

However, when he entered the city, Huang Xiaoshi was taken aback.

"Why is it so messy?"

It's no wonder Huang Xiaoshi made such a fuss, if the streets of Luoyang are full of beggars, then Chang'an is a den of beggars.

On Chang'an Avenue, wherever the sun is sheltered from the wind, there are several layers of beggars sitting slumped.It seems that Luoyang is only affected by the spillover effect of Chang'an, and Chang'an is the hardest hit area.

The gate of Arsenal.

Compared with Luoyang's gates, Luoyang's Wukusi gate is really full of people coming and going, and the soldiers guarding the gate don't check the people who come in and out.

This saved Huang Xiaoshi's trouble, he followed the others and walked straight into the Arsenal.

After entering the Arsenal, Huang Xiaoshi didn't know the way. He just followed his predecessors, but he didn't know how many doors he passed until Huang Xiaoshi was stopped.

This is the experience (pseudo) summed up by Huang Xiaoshi.

"Hey, who are you, you came here unexpectedly." A person who looked like a book office opened his mouth and scolded Huang Xiaoshi when he saw Huang Xiaoshi, "Quickly back away, or I will kill you!" The crime of trespassing on a forbidden place.”

"Brother, I came from Luoyang. This is a letter from Mr. Yang of Luoyang." Huang Xiaoshi nodded and bowed to the book office.

The book office was dubious, but the letter in Huang Xiaoshi's hand could be seen at a glance after opening it. After seeing the official seal of the Luoyang Arsenal, the book office called "Follow me" to Huang Xiaoshi, and then took Huang Xiaoshi with him. Xiaoshi went through several doors and courtyards, and came outside a hall.

"Just wait here." After the secretary finished speaking to Huang Xiaoshi, he turned around and took the letter to the hall.

Alas, it is really "difficult to enter, ugly to look at, and difficult to handle".

This is still Huang Xiaoshi taking advantage of the loopholes and directly skipping the outermost floors.If you start chatting from Mending, you can't finish this matter in a whole day.

Just as Huang Xiaoshi stood outside the hall, after researching for a long time the green shoots that had just sprouted from the two big trees, he finally came up with the book.

The book office handed the letter to Huang Xiaoshi. Huang Xiaoshi saw that besides the big seal of Chang'an at the end of the letter, there was also the word "quickly go".

This thing is done.

However, Huang Xiaoshi didn't know what the "go quickly" at the end of the letter meant, so he asked the book office with a flattering smile on his face: "Brother, please ask again. The 'quick go' Go to 'Why?"

Upon hearing this, the secretary said a few words hastily to Huang Xiaoshi, then turned around and left.

"Big brother, big brother, ask again, where did you get out from!" When Huang Xiaoshi came back to his senses, the book office had already gone a long way, as if he had practiced light kung fu.

Oops, such a bad habit.

Huang Xiaoshi couldn't chase him, so he had to ask someone for directions several times before he walked out of this maze-like Arsenal.

Standing at the gate of Arsenal, Huang Xiaoshi recalled the two sentences that the book office said.

"Go quickly is to tell you to go faster. Don't you know the latest military order? The imperial army has just subdued Wuwei and is marching towards Ganzhou.

Master Wu is very satisfied with the speed with which you came from Luoyang. This is the word 'go quickly' written by him. "

Oh, and such good things.

With the words "go quickly" written by Mr. Chang'an Wu himself, Huang Xiaoshi can go directly to Ganzhou without any delay on the way.

But, is it necessary to go to Ganzhou now?

According to the speed of information transmission in this era, the news about the battle report received here was at least half a month ago.

Taking this time difference into account, plus the time it took for the caravan to reach Ganzhou, needless to say, the court's military line has definitely pushed through Ganzhou, and it may have already occupied Jiayu.

There is a saying that the army is defeated like a mountain.

In the confrontation stage, it often lasts for a long time, but once the winner is determined, it will be destroyed in an instant.

The Nomadic Ministry, or Tianlong Sect, is doomed.

Oh well, give me medicine for a hammer, you don't need it any more.

Huang Xiaoshi still doesn't know how to tell Ji Wushuang the news.

Alas, the Dragon King was still playing slowly after all, and only found out that there was not enough supplies when the battle was at its most strenuous, no matter how fast he rushed, he couldn't win.

Of course, this shipment still has to go, after all, there are still a thousand pieces of goods from the imperial court to be delivered, which cannot be denied, and there are so many private goods brought by myself, the brothers are all waiting for the money.

After returning to the caravan, Huang Xiaoshi didn't hide anything from Ji Wushuang, he directly told Ji Wushuang the new news about the war ahead.

Sure enough, Ji Wushuang, who was waiting for Huang Xiaoshi to come back from work and took her to visit Chang'an City, immediately lost his expression after hearing such news, and naturally he had no interest in going shopping.

"Husband, if you count the victor without a battle, you must count it as more; if you count it as invincible without a battle, you must count it as a small number; if you count it as victory, if you count it as less, you must count it as less."

These few words have made the importance of pre-war planning clear.

Some people often joke that "scholars who rebel will fail in three years."In fact, there is a half sentence behind this sentence, "success must be fruitful".

As for the battle in the Western Regions, it was all about bullying more than counting.

For this battle, the imperial court has been planning for many years.Regardless of the tribes of the Western Regions or the Heavenly Dragon Sect, they could not understand the various actions of the imperial court at all, and even thought that the imperial court was extremely weak and better to be bullied, so they frantically expanded towards the southeast.

Now, the dividends received from the expansion in the past have to be spit out with interest at this time.

Not to mention the tribes of the Western Regions. After losing a large number of troops, they were also driven out of the Hexi Corridor by the imperial army.In the past, we threshed corn and hay every year, and the threshing went deeper and deeper into the Central Plains. When we escaped this time, the way to escape from the Central Plains became farther.

After being chased and beaten by the imperial army for a while, many tribes either disappeared directly or surrendered to the imperial court.Some of the remaining tribes, not because they refused to surrender, but because they wanted to surrender to the imperial court.

After all, it's a job of deceiving the real and the fake, once you do it once, you can't do it a second time.

The Heavenly Dragon Cult, which expanded together with the tribes in the Western Regions, also suffered a major blow this time.

Originally, the Heavenly Dragon Sect was actually just a sect. If it wasn't like this, it suffered from its rapid expansion at the beginning.

When the situation was good at the beginning, the tentacles of the Tianlong religion expanded from the nomadic tribes to the Han villages. However, compared with the tribes that were almost blank in religion, the religion of the Han people has been developed and passed down for thousands of years, and has been highly developed. .

When Tianlongjiao was preaching, it was greatly resisted.

Originally, the Tianlong Sect used the method of slowly infiltrating to develop believers in the Han villages bit by bit, but seeing that the nomads were almost running to the edge of Lanzhou with the deepening of the threshing grass, so the Dragon King couldn't bear it. up.

Next, the Tianlong Cult adopted the most radical choice of "my brother or the enemy". Sure enough, they took down all the villages that could not be pushed away.

The Dragon King also knew that the rapid expansion of this kind of power would definitely bring some problems, but he thought that these small conflicts were not too big and could be suppressed.

Indeed, these small conflicts can indeed be suppressed by the forces of the Tianlong Cult.

But this has a premise that the nomadic tribe penetrated into the northwest, posing a great threat to the survival of Han villages.

Youdao is a person under the eaves and has to bow his head. It is not a big deal to convert to a Protestant religion.

However, when the imperial army subdued the Western Regions and the nomadic tribe retreated completely, these believers who joined the Tianlong Cult under coercion were completely reversed in one fell swoop.

All kinds of evil deeds of the Tianlong Sect were uncovered, and the number one crime was "disrespect".

The villagers cried to An Minguan, saying that the people of Tianlong Sect disrespected the heaven and the earth.

To be fair, although the Heavenly Dragon Cult was more aggressive when it joined the sect, it gave a lot of preferential treatment to the people of the Central Plains.However, sometimes, just like the problem Gong Guangjie encountered, many things in this world are really not purely about interests.

Whether it is the habit of life or the inertia of thinking, these are not things that can be solved by interests.

There is a saying that when a drum is broken, thousands of people beat it, and when a wall falls, everyone pushes it.

With the defeat of the Nomadic Ministry, the Tianlong Cult lost a lot of strength, and all the newly opened territories over the years were gone.

Many believers who developed locally, as well as some who voluntarily stayed, were subjected to extremely harsh liquidation, and even their roots were dug out.

The most direct consequence of this is that the connection between Tianlongjiao and the Central Plains has been severed for a long time.

Therefore, what Ji Wushuang didn't know at all was that the order to transport the medicine she received was issued three months ago, and it had already expired when she received it.

The imperial court has prepared for this battle for many years, taking all aspects into consideration.

From the day the imperial court cut off the commercial roads, these tribes who have been supported by the Central Plains for decades, and whose population has swelled to the point where nomads cannot support themselves, their defeat is a foregone conclusion.

In the final analysis, war depends on logistics, material production and storage capabilities.

The Nomadic Ministry, which seems to be extremely powerful over the years, has become more and more drifting over the years, just like the Tianlong Cult.

Perhaps, this is a difficult dilemma for the Nomadic Ministry.

I often hear some tribes proudly say: "XX is less than ten thousand, and more than ten thousand is invincible."

In fact, the defeat of these tribes came after population expansion.

Nomads have a very low population cap and are highly affected by weather.

If you want rapid population growth, you need the support of farming.

But once they accepted farming, they would no longer be called nomads. Even if they were half-agricultural and half-pastoral, they would lose their greatest advantage—mobility.

For the Central Plains court, an unsolvable dilemma is that once a certain nomadic tribe is expelled from the Central Plains, they will gradually become stronger, and one day they will accumulate enough strength to break through again and bring more big damage.

Nomadism and farming, mobility and self-sufficiency, this irreconcilable contradiction will always exist for a long time, until the war mode changes, the cavalry loses the advantage of controlling the field, and the see-saw confrontation between nomadism and farming will be completely broken.

Now, it is the turn of the Central Plains court to be strong.

It is true that the situation is stronger than the people, and this Northern Expedition initiated by the emperor can be said to be a one-shot breakthrough.

The Northern Expedition not only expelled the nomads, but also stopped the Tianlong Cult from penetrating into the Central Plains. More importantly, Bai Jiuchi had planned a plan for King Cheng for several years, and was cut off by the emperor with a single thigh.

As long as the imperial court re-occupied Jiayu, it doesn't matter what ideas and plans you have, you can only eat sand and drink northwest wind outside the pass.

What a drudgery, even Huang Xiaoshi couldn't help applauding the emperor.It's not to applaud others, but this fighter is too accurate.

But why did Huang Xiaoshi vaguely feel that the original "history" didn't seem to be like this.

In the end, which "pre-plots" have changed, resulting in a tug-of-war that should have been fought until a few years later when the nomadic department sent Princess Wei Ni as an apology, and the Northern Expedition, which ceased the war after asking the emperor to reverse the marriage, ended in less than two years. Blow up the nomadic department.

What Huang Xiaoshi didn't know was that King Cheng's thigh was actually cut off with his help.

What Huang Xiaoshi didn't know was that King Cheng's second leg was also cut off by his own people.

The one who made the knife this time was Gong Guangjie.

　On the last day of the holiday, I was dragged by a friend to see Manjianghong.

　　After reading it, I cried, really.

　　Very, very uncomfortable, really.

　　It took me more than three fucking hours, isn't my code word good!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)