Eastern Jin Dynasty: My powerful father

Chapter 130 Huan Xi’s patrol

Jiangling, ferry.

Xie Daoyun reluctantly said goodbye to his parents, but Xie Yi and Huan Wen never met.

The Huan and Xie families should have been closer. No one knew with the current momentum of the Huan family, whether Xie Yi would regret leaving the Huan Wen shogunate and delaying Huan Xi's wedding.

Celebrities all have their own pride, and it is impossible for Xie Yi to look back.

As for the future of the Xie family, Aman's blood is flowing with the Xie family after all. This is not what Xie Yi has to worry about.

Xie Yi had already boarded the ship, leaving only his wife and children to say goodbye at the ferry.

Xie Xuan was quite reluctant to give up. The relationship between siblings from the same mother is always deeper than that of other brothers and sisters.

Like a strict mother, Xie Daoyun gave him thousands of warnings and instructions. Finally, she said:

"Your brother-in-law has a very good saying, learning is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat; your heart is like a horse running on the plain, it is easy to let go but hard to take back.

"Jie'er should keep this in mind and always alert himself."

Xie Xuan asked curiously:

"My brother-in-law is in charge of the three states. He must be very busy with official duties. Is it possible that he still studies hard every day?"

Xie Daoyun did not cover up for Huan Xi:

"With the assistance of the military advisor and general, he doesn't need to work too hard. Your brother-in-law's calligraphy skills are poor. In his spare time, he will occasionally take out calligraphy and copy it in order to improve."

Saying that, Xie Daoyun said helplessly:

"I just don't know whose handwriting I'm copying. Anyway, he won't show it to me. Maybe he's afraid that I'll make fun of him."

While the two siblings were talking, Xie's mother Ruan Rong saw that it was getting late and urged:

"Ling Jiang, Jie'er, if you have anything to say, please leave it for the next time we meet. Don't keep your father waiting on the boat for too long."

Xie Daoyun then saluted his mother and said goodbye:

"I hope my mother is in good health."

Mother Xie said with emotion:

"You also need to take good care of your health, and don't worry too much about family matters."

Saying that, Xie's mother pushed Xie Xuan away and said softly:

"When your father heard that Xi'er had surrendered to the Huns, he was overjoyed. He just wanted to save face and was unwilling to surrender. After you return to Chang'an, talk to Xi'er and ask Xi'er not to keep thinking about what happened back then. In my heart.”

Whether Xie Yi was happy that Huan Xi surrendered to the Huns, only he and Xie's mother knew.

Xie Daoyun smiled and comforted:

"Don't worry, mother. My husband is not a narrow-minded person. How can he resent my father for this?"

This is true. For the sake of Xie Daoyun and Xie Xuan, Huan Xi did not hold a grudge because of some things in the past.

Xie's mother finally felt relieved after hearing this. She said goodbye to Xie Daoyun, reached out and touched Aman in her arms, and then took Xie Xuan on board the ship.

Watching the ship getting further and further away, and the figures of the family members on the deck gradually blurring, Xie Daoyun's tears that she had been holding back for a long time finally fell.

Following Huan Wen's order, the guards who came to escort him also breathed a sigh of relief. Huan Wen was afraid that his daughter-in-law's brain would get hot, so he followed the boat with his grandson in his arms, and they would have to block the river to save Aman.

The old slave has been hurt by female sex recently and is very haggard.

Of course, this is understandable. Sima Xingnan was forty years old and had lived in Chang'an for half a year. Now that he was back, how could he let him go.

Huan Wen looked at himself and felt sorry for himself, lamenting that he had prematurely lost his hair. However, Huan Wen's nemesis Yin Hao was also in a bad mood recently.

Logically speaking, Xie Shang was unable to appease Zhang Yu before, but now he can be honest with Yao Xiang, which should be something worth celebrating.

But Yin Hao no longer believed in the Hu people after seeing the example of Fu Jian's rebellion against Jin and self-reliance.

Don't look at Yao Yizhong's last words, asking Yao Xiang to be loyal to the Jin Dynasty and not to have second thoughts.

But this is because the Yao family now occupies Xuzhou as its foundation.

Xuzhou has always been a battleground for military strategists. It is known as the key to the North and the gateway to the South. Such a geographical location is a plain terrain and there is no danger to defend. The Yao family can only rely on the Jin Dynasty.

If the Yao family occupied any of the three places of Guanzhong, Hedong, and Hebei, Yao Yizhong would definitely have left another last word.

Yin Hao distrusted Yao Xiang from the bottom of his heart. After hearing the news about Shouyang, Yin Hao secretly said angrily:

"I just regret that Xie Shang missed the opportunity. If we can take the opportunity to imprison Yao Xiang and unite his tribe, the Northern Kingdom of Central Plains will be just around the corner." ’

He did not believe that Yao Xiang would really risk his life and let his younger brother lead his troops to join the Murong clan.

Yin Hao felt sorry for Xie Shang's missed opportunity. He felt that he should do something.

Although Yao Xiang did not have a solid foundation, he had strong soldiers and horses. If he wanted to get rid of him, he could only use some underhanded methods, such as sending assassins.

Assassins do not depend on their martial arts skills, but on whether they can gain the trust of the other party and get closer to the target.

Yin Hao and Yao Xiang had never met, and they were strangers to each other. They wanted to send assassins to kill Yao Xiang. Yin Hao thought about it and thought that he should find a way from the five brothers Yao Xiang sent to Jiangnan as hostages.

Presumably, they also resented Yao Xiang for sending them as hostages.

Just when Yin Hao deliberately got close to Yao Xiang's five younger brothers, Xie Daoyun finally took Aman and Luo Niang and left Jiangling.

During this period, Huan Wen was accustomed to a life of entertaining his grandchildren. After Aman left, he couldn't eat anything and was depressed all day long. He even refused to marry Sima Xingnan because of this.

It's just that this kind of thing is not something that the old slave can refuse if he wants to.

Just as Xie Daoyun was on his way home, Huan Xi also left Chang'an by car. On the seventeenth day of the second lunar month in the eighth year of Yonghe (AD 352), when spring was in full bloom, Huan Xi began his inspection tour under the escort of five thousand fine cavalry.

He has never been back to Liangzhou since he captured Guanzhong, and he has never visited Qinzhou since he captured Longyou.

Of course, going to Liangzhou was just a pretense, Huan Xi's real purpose was still in Qinzhou.

There is no doubt that Liangzhou will bear the brunt of Huan Xi's next plan.

Without taking Liangzhou, we can't talk about going eastward with all our strength to fight for the world.

Otherwise, when he was fighting fiercely in the Central Plains and Zhang from Liangzhou took the opportunity to attack Longyou, he would probably be in trouble.

Huan Xi would not rely on Guan Long's safety on a peace treaty.

The reason why Zhang Chonghua has been hiding in Liangzhou in recent years is because he is afraid of being beaten by himself, and he himself is depressed and has no intention of making progress.

Once the leader of Liangzhou changes, Huan Xi is not sure that the other party can sit back and watch Guanlong empty.

After all, signing a peace treaty is sometimes about preparing to tear it up in the future.

Huan Xi planned to seize Liangzhou not only because of its own threat, but also because he wanted to use Liangzhou's elite cavalry for his own use.

Therefore, Huan Xi must personally inspect Qinzhou so that he can use Qinzhou as a forward base for attacking Liangzhou in the future.

But just a trip to Qinzhou will definitely arouse Zhang's vigilance, so we made an arrangement to go to Liangzhou first and then Qinzhou.

Of course, during this tour, Huan Xi will also take the opportunity to select 5,000 strong and daring warriors from various prefecture and county soldiers and organize them into combat troops.

The news of army expansion has long been released, and soldiers from various states and counties are all happy and encouraged. After all, with the treatment soldiers enjoy, no one wants to be among them and become one of them.

If it weren't for the busy farming season, they would still practice on their own even if they didn't need to be recruited by the government.

This time when he returned to Hanzhong, Huan Xi did not take the Ziwu Road. The mountain road was really difficult to walk. Instead, he took the relatively flat Chencang Road.

But it is only relatively flat, certainly not as good as the official roads around Chang'an.

The carriage was bumpy along the way, causing Li Yuan and Han Yan who were riding in the same carriage with Huan Xi to be shaken.

Huan Xi hugged the two of them and thought to himself:

‘There are some official roads that need to be straightened out. ’

Whether you are riding a two-wheeled carriage or a four-wheeled carriage, you will have to suffer bumps if the road is uneven.

This year's labor and corvee expeditions will have to focus on road construction.

In particular, the five routes from Chang'an to Tongguan, Puban, Tianshui, Hanzhong and Nanyang must be renovated.

Huan Xi has always ridden in four-wheeled carriages instead of the more popular two-wheeled carriages.

Four-wheeled carriages have existed since ancient times, and later archeology found two bronze four-wheeled carriages in the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum.

But the current four-wheeled carriages are only vehicles that can be used by princes and nobles. The reason lies in the road conditions and the shortcomings of the existing four-wheeled carriages.

Today's four-wheeled carriages, in the final analysis, are just two more wheels added to the two-wheeled carriages. Although there are many advantages, the disadvantages are also significant: the two front wheels cannot rotate left and right.

The four-wheeled carriage can drive well on straight roads, but as long as it encounters turns, its shortcomings in flexibility will be exposed.

Considering that four-wheeled carriages are safer, more comfortable, carry more weight, travel farther, and are faster than two-wheeled carriages, Huan Xi has ordered the craftsmen of Jiqiaoyuan to start developing a vehicle whose front wheels can follow the rotation of livestock. Four-wheeled vehicle.

Every year, Huan Xi allocates a large amount of funds to Jiqiaoyuan to support so many craftsmen, but he does not really care for them in their old age.

Huan Xi just handed over the task. No matter what method the craftsmen used, he had to present the finished product to himself when he returned to Chang'an.

This inspection will take less than half a year, and I am afraid that I will not be able to return to Chang'an, so there is enough time for the craftsmen.

As long as the steering problem is solved and four-wheeled carriages are promoted in the future, whether they are traveling by themselves or transporting troops and food, they will have considerable advantages over the past.

Of course, the improved four-wheeled carriage is not made by pouring steel.

Huan Xi has set the steel filling method as highly confidential, and the surrounding area of ​​the iron smelting plant has also been designated as a restricted area. Soldiers have been dispatched to guard it, and irrelevant personnel are strictly prohibited from approaching.

For the craftsmen involved in forging steel, he also sternly warned the consequences of leaking secrets and issued additional confidentiality subsidies.

Therefore, the steel filling method will not be easily learned by people like the technology of plowing and plowing.

Huan Xi did not even share the steel filling method with Huan Wen because he was worried that he would not be able to keep the confidentiality work in Jiangling properly.

Although Huan Wen had held Jingzhou for a longer time, in terms of control, it was not as good as Huan Xi's control of Guanzhong.

As for the improved four-wheeled carriage, it was also an item that was promoted on a large scale and was difficult to keep secret.

As long as the other party gets a finished product, they can know its principle.

Unlike the steel pouring method, even if you get an armor made by the steel pouring method, it is impossible to deduce the process from it.

　Next chapter at 6 p.m.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)