Horse on the World

Chapter 654
"Luoyang accent?" Both Zheng Zhiyuan and Zhong Jing had strange expressions on their faces. "Are you sure you heard correctly? Not one person, a few people, but hundreds of people have this accent?"

Zhong Jing looked at her husband with puzzled eyes.

"Can I hear this wrong?" Tang Hu was a little dissatisfied, "I may not understand the accents in other places, but I will definitely not hear the Luoyang accent wrong. When I beat Xiao Tianci in the capital, the soldiers he led After fighting with us, they shouted exactly the same as the other party today, even the curse words are almost the same."

Seeing Tang Hu's expression, Zhong Jing smiled and stroked her husband's shoulders lightly, "Okay, I know you heard right, I'm just confused, General Zheng, what do you think?"

Zheng Zhiyuan nodded, "This place is thousands of miles away from Dachu and even further away from Luoyang. How could there be so many people with Luoyang accent gathered here?"

Several people were discussing, Zheng Zhiqiang walked into the cabin with a strange face, looking at his appearance, everyone knew that maybe he already had the answer.

"What do those prisoners say?" Zheng Zhiyuan stood up and asked.

"I really saw a ghost." Zheng Zhiqiang said: "This group of prisoners said in unison that they belonged to the people of the Great Zhou. They have always lived on this island and never left."

"Then what's the matter with their accents?" Zhong Jing asked, "The pronunciation is different for three miles, and the customs are different for ten miles. This place is thousands of miles away from Luoyang. How come the accents are so similar? We have encountered all kinds of strange dialects along the way. "

"They said that they have always talked like this, and their parents and grandparents also talked like this." Zheng Zhiqiang said, "There are even weirder ones!"

"What else?"

"Didn't this group of captives say that they were citizens of the Great Zhou? It turns out that this small island is still a country called Da Zhou. Do you know the name of the capital of the Great Zhou?"

"Could it be called Luoyang?" Tang Hu laughed.Zheng Zhiyuan and Zhong Jing also laughed, "Don't interrupt, Hu Zi!"

"It's called Luoyang!" Zheng Zhiqiang also had a strange expression on his face.

"What?" Everyone was dumbfounded.

"These dozens of captives come from different places. Some say they are from Youyan, some say they are from Yizhou. There are also those from Minzhou. The most ridiculous thing is that there is one who claims to be from Dingzhou." Zheng Zhiqiang said It was ridiculous, but there was no smile on his face at all.

Tang Hu was overjoyed, he was out of breath from laughing, and while pounding on the table, he said: "I'm dying of laughter, I'm dying of laughter, this place with a big butt is called such a name, it's still in Dingzhou Well, the territory of a county in Dingzhou is not much smaller than him."

Zheng Zhiyuan and Zhong Jing couldn't laugh anymore. While listening to Zheng Zhiqiang's detailed account of the results of the interrogation, they were shocked. Although the sparrow here is small, it has all internal organs. It is similar to the current administrative system of Dachu. The divisions are also roughly the same. Most of the 56 prefectures of Chu Chu have them here, but they have become a smaller version. A prefecture often has only one town or village.If they were not very familiar with the Great Chu area, it would be difficult to do such a thing. Not only the names are the same, but even the general location is generally the same.

"Da Zhou, Da Zhou?" Zheng Zhiyuan muttered in his mouth, and suddenly remembered the records in the history books he had read, his face turned a little pale, and he turned to look at Zhong Jing, who was also looking over.

"Da Zhou!" When the two of them met, they could see the surprise in each other's eyes.

"What charades are you two playing?" Tang Hu knocked on the table, "Is it worth your effort to wait for a jumping clown? We have already landed, rest for a night, and tomorrow we will mobilize all the soldiers of the Marine Corps to fight over there. I would like to see if their so-called Luoyang has a tall and strong city wall like Dachu Luoyang?"

"Huzi, things are a bit unusual." Zhong Jing whispered: "The dynasty before the founding of the Great Chu was called the Great Zhou. It was the Great Zhou regime that was overthrown by Emperor Yingwu of the Great Chu."

"Ah!" Tang Hu exclaimed in surprise, looking at the two of them, "Could it be, could it be that they..."

Zhong Jing nodded, "Back then, Emperor Yingwu of Great Chu destroyed the Great Zhou, captured Luoyang, and captured the last emperor of the Great Zhou, but the crown prince at that time was nowhere to be found. What's more, the one who disappeared with the crown prince is our Central Plains heritage that has been passed down for thousands of years. The Jade Seal of Chuanguo. If there is no Jade Seal of Chuanguo, it would be a dishonorable name!"

Zheng Zhiqiang said from the side: "You mean that the current Great Chu Dynasty didn't pass on the jade seal at all, but, but..."

Zheng Zhiyuan nodded, "That's right, the jade seal used by the Great Chu Emperor was imitated later. Although the appearance is similar, it is not the original."

"After Emperor Yingwu ascended the Great Treasure, he searched all over the world, but he could not find the whereabouts of the crown prince and the Jade Seal of Chuanguo. Later, Emperor Yingwu had no choice but to imitate a deceiving world. In order not to attract attention, Emperor Yingwu revealed it The government no longer pursued the Chuanguo Yuxi, and announced to the outside world that the crown prince had been executed, and the Chuanguo Yuxi had returned to the court, but secretly they did not relax their search. The Zhifangsi was born at that time. The establishment of the Zhifangsi had only one purpose , is to look for the crown prince and the Jade Seal of Chuanguo. It’s just that the foundation of the Great Chu has become stronger and stronger, and the country’s power has grown day by day. However, the official secretary has been ineffective for a long time. The spy agency of later generations. After hundreds of years, there are very few people who know this secret." Zhong Jing said.

"How do you know?" Tang Hu stared at Zhong Jing with one eye.

Zhong Jing smiled and said: "Some things can be seen from the history books. If you don't read, Huzi, you naturally don't know. Others are the secret files of our investigation department, and few people outside know about them."

Zheng Zhiyuan looked solemn, and said to Zhong Jing: "If our analysis is not wrong, then the crown prince must have taken a large number of people on a boat when the Great Zhou was about to collapse, and settled down after arriving at this place. They are survivors of the previous dynasty. The Jade Seal of Chuan Kingdom must also be here."

Except for Tang Hu, the other three people in the room were all excited. They knew very well what Chuanguo Yuxi meant. It is the rebellion of the great Chu, but the name is justified, and the opposite is taken.

"We must get him, and we must get the Chuanguo Jade Seal at any cost." Zheng Zhiyuan clenched his fists and swung them violently in the air.

"Then why are you hesitating?" Tang Hu said in a loud voice, "Assemble the team immediately, let's kill Luoyang, who is fishing for nothing, and destroy that bullshit Dazhou. Isn't this jade seal ours?"

Zhong Jing gave her husband a white look, "Is it so simple? Hu Zi, you personally participated in today's battle. These people are very different from pirates. They are organized and disciplined, and it is very difficult to fight. And now we are here The eyes are darkened, I don’t know anything, what is the terrain here, how many troops the opponent has, what kind of difficulties we will encounter, how can we take this place at the lowest cost, etc. If we advance blindly, once we fail, We are far from home, and the consequences are dire."

"You guys are the ones who are in trouble!" Tang Hu said dissatisfiedly: "I don't believe that this group of remnants and defeated generals can stop our world-renowned Dingzhou Army."

"If you don't think about victory, think about defeat first. General Hu and General Zhong are right. We've been through all the storms and waves, so we can't capsize in this small gutter. Besides, we have to report such a big thing to the commander-in-chief. Ah, during this period, we need to establish a firm foothold here first, inquire about the specific situation, and be absolutely sure. As you know, we only have [-] marines, plus sailors, and there are only more than [-] people. Only the marines are going ashore to fight, and we are at a disadvantage in terms of strength, just look at today's battle at the port, there are more than a thousand enemy troops here, I'm afraid there are quite a few enemy troops on this island."

"That's right, Huzi. On the other side of the island, there are mostly endless mountains. If the opponent escapes into the mountains in a hurry, what should we do? Go into the mountains? I'm afraid it's a needle in a haystack. Besides, what if the other party wants to kill and destroy the Jade Seal of Chuanguo? Aren’t we going to fight like chickens and eggs, and I’m afraid the commander-in-chief will blame us for our ineffectiveness.”

"Is it so important to get a jade seal? Da Chu doesn't have this thing, and he has been sitting in the world for hundreds of years. Does our commander need him? We can carve one at home, and it will do the same!" Tang Hu sneered, "In this world, as long as our fists are hard enough and our knives are fast enough, if we are afraid of a bird, after the commander-in-chief sits in the world, whoever dares to have his teeth will be chopped off with a single knife."

"Tiger!" Zhong Jing gave him a reproachful look, "If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense. Don't you know that the Qingliu scholars in Dachu now regard the general as an enemy, resulting in a serious shortage of talents in our Dingzhou. When the world is settled, these high-minded guys may not be convinced by the commander-in-chief. They are not like ordinary people, who have something to eat, a place to live, and they are satisfied when they live a nourishing life. What they say is an orthodox Inheritance. If the commander-in-chief obtains the real Jade Seal of Chuanguo, it means that Dachu's rule over the past few hundred years was not granted by heaven at all, but usurped by rebellious officials and thieves. People have nothing to say, and there is a superficial reason for serving as the commander-in-chief. This is not a small matter. Winning the world is easy, but ruling the world is difficult. Winning the world can rely on a strong general like you to rule the world, can you do it? Give you a state, within a year, it is estimated that the people will be in dire straits."

"Okay, okay!" Tang Hu stood up helplessly: "Anyway, I've never been able to speak out against you, so you can do whatever you say, as long as I have a battle, I'll be fine. I'll go to bed first, what are you talking about?" time to sleep?"

One sentence from Tang Hu made Zhong Jing blush, and he glanced at Tang Hu angrily, Zheng Zhiqiang on the side laughed out loud, and quickly covered his mouth, Zheng Zhiyuan coughed a few times, and said: "Okay, today's This is the end of the discussion, General Zhong, you guys go to rest first, I have to draft a report to the commander-in-chief immediately, and I will show it to you in the morning, if there is no problem, we will send it out."

Zhong Jing responded, and walked out of the cabin with Tang Hu with a flushed face. Behind him, Zheng Zhiyuan finally couldn't help laughing.

"Master Tiger, you are so fierce!" Zheng Zhiqiang said with emotion.

(End of this chapter)