Chapter 1800 The end of an era
Passing through Longxi does not mean arriving in Chang''an right away.
Although General Hussars has cleared the entire Guanzhong and even the roads to Longxi, but according to the traffic speed of the Han Dynasty, there is still no way to say that you can go wherever you want, but at least you can see some roads that are completely different from Longxi. Different villages and fields.
A line of people walked slowly, rounded a big bend, passed through a forest, and climbed from one wrinkle to another. Suddenly, a large expanse of cultivated land appeared in front of them. The tiny wheat, with a bit of hopeful relief, stretches from here to the distance...
"This..." Han Guo stared blankly, "This..."
『It’s really the color of a big field...』 Wei Dan glanced sideways at Han Guo who was at the side, rode his horse to look ahead, and said, "The big field is full of crops, so it’s important to plant and be careful, and prepare for it." Take me as Tan Si, and Chu Zai Nanmu. Sowing a hundred valleys, the garden is huge, and the great-grandson is Ruo...』
"what? ’Han Guo was stunned for a moment, and then shouted from behind, ‘Uh, this, what are you talking about? 』
Wei Dan smiled and continued to move forward, but did not answer Han Guo''s question.
The queue continued to move forward, and the soldiers at the front raised the tricolor flag high, and from time to time shook the sentry tower in the distance as agreed, sending a signal of safety.
Although it is said that Guanzhong is generally calm now, it does not mean that it can completely ignore everything. As the location of the entire Northwest Development Corporation, it is naturally impossible to have no security at all. The closer to Guanzhong, the more heavily guarded it is.
For Longxi, which is relatively vast and has a relatively large floating population, it is natural not to pay too much attention to small-scale population movements, but in Sansuke, it is completely different, but the way the number of people in the queue exceeds ten or more, and Those who carry weapons or horses are all under the watchful eye of the sentry towers everywhere, but if there are some outrageous actions, they will immediately light up the fireworks for the alarm, and immediately the patrols scattered in various places in the pass will be dispatched. Basically, within an hour, you will arrive at the alarm point, and judge whether a second alarm is needed based on the situation. Of course, if the second alarm is sent out, the scale of the entire incident will inevitably expand...
This is also the limitation of the era of cold weapons. Although villages and towns don’t have to worry too much about being breached by a team of more than a dozen people, if they are caught by some bandits and Liukou, there is no need to attack villages and towns. Killing some farmers and women in the plowing fields outside, robbing some property, stealing cattle and so on, is enough to cause headaches.
With early warning, there is time to prepare in advance.
Before the Hussar General arrived in Guanzhong, the defeated soldiers, bandits, and some peasants who could not survive, either fought openly, or secretly picked up knives and guns, and did business without capital. It was really chaotic. No one dared to walk alone on the road. It was not until General Hussars established a comprehensive inspection system and introduced a large number of retired soldiers to serve as guards in Sansuke that they completely controlled the chaotic situation in Sansuke.
And all of this is so new to Han Guo, including Wei Dan, who is not very friendly to him, who is also full of curiosity.
Wei Dan met him halfway, and his goal was also to go to Chang''an, so the officials at the post station simply arranged them in the same queue, which saved trouble. Of course, the post station is also responsible for delivering mail and supplies, not just escorting Han Guo and Wei Dan.
This time was no exception. There were two cars behind. I don’t know what was loaded in the car, but there were some guards guarding it anyway.
Han Guo turned his head, compared to the materials in the car, he was more interested in Wei Dan, but unfortunately Wei Dan was not interested in him, um, interested...
Wei Dan seems to only like writing.
According to Han Guo''s observation, it seems that whenever he has free time, Wei Dan will write. Sometimes he writes on the wooden board with water, sometimes he writes on the ground with branches, and sometimes he doesn''t use anything at all, just condenses in the air like that. Write…
Is it interesting to write like this?
Han Guo remembered that he asked Wei Dan this question curiously, and then Wei Dan just smiled as before, without saying anything.
Han Guo pouted.
I thought they were all young men, so they should talk better...
Although Wei Dan had a smile on his face, Han Guo knew at the time that under the smile, it should actually be alienation and contempt.
Han Guo thought of his father, well, strictly speaking, it should be his adoptive father. At that time, his father was sitting on the top of the mountain with a cane, looking at the sunset in the sky, and said that all his life he wanted to let others look up to him and become a respected big man, but he didn''t understand until he was old, weak, sick and disabled. , In fact, it is not very important whether others think highly of it, and it is also not very important whether you are a big shot...
At that time, Han Guo asked his father, what is the most important thing?
His father said, you will understand when the time comes.
Han Guo looked up at the sky, and seemed to understand somewhat, but not completely.
The sun was just right, and the golden light slanted down, covering the slightly undulating Guanzhong land, and even those folds and gullies seemed to be brighter. The Weishui River and the ditch in the distance are like silver bands of light, flowing slowly, extending to the end of the line of sight.
This is a fine weather. Many farmers either use oxen or rough horses, and some even carry plows on their backs and work hard in the fields. Their exposed skin is covered with mud, and their faces are covered with sweat. The dust on the ground washed out grooves, but it couldn''t wash away the satisfied and hopeful smile on the corner of his mouth.
This smile is much prettier than Wei Dan''s.
It is also much prettier than the smiles on the faces of those Qianghu people that Han Guo saw in Longxi...
Wei Dan said it was because of the so-called "rituals", but Han Guo couldn''t understand it.
『Etiquette, regulation, rule, way, reason...』 At the beginning, when Wei Dan was still willing to explain to Han Guo, he said, "Hu people are barbaric, so they are rude..."
Han Guo thought for a long time, then found Wei Dan, and said: "That''s not the case..."
Take meals as an example.
Everyone has to eat, whether they are Han or Hu.
Han people may have the rules of Han banquets, but Hu people also have their own rules.
Generally, Hu people have bowls and small knives for cutting meat, but Hu people’s slaves have neither bowls nor knives;
Those who sit and eat in the tent are all barbarians with certain status. Ordinary barbarians can only sit at the campfire outside the tent and cannot enter the tent. eat and drink before the barbarians;
Hu soldiers can eat two servings of food, while ordinary Hu people can only eat one serving. If they are Hu people who hold some important positions, such as scouts or elite guards, they can eat three or four servings;
As for those barbarians and dignitaries who are in command, they can eat as much as they want;
There is also a place where the barbarian sits. The noble leader or something sits on a fur, while the general barbarian sits on the ground or on a stone, and if it is a slave, there is no place to sit...
All kinds of things.
Then Wei Dan looked at Han Guo as if he was looking at a fool, and after that, he stopped talking to Han Guo...
What did I say wrong?
Han Guo couldn''t figure it out.
On the way to Chang''an, I passed a village, and the owner of the village knew their identities, so he hosted a banquet to entertain them, and then didn''t they follow the same rules?
The first sitting in the hall are the host and the host and guest, then the important accompanying guests on the left and right sides, and the master’s son, and then there are people of various identities, the lower the identities are the outsiders, as for the ordinary handymen The farmer or something is just used as a background...
『Li』, isn’t that what it is?
Han Guo''s thoughts were a little chaotic, until he approached Chang''an, these chaotic things were suppressed by the increasingly prosperous scene...
When Han Guo saw a place with many houses and vehicles coming and going like flowing water, he couldn''t help asking, "Is this Chang''an?" There are so many people...」
"So that Mr. Lang can find out that this is Shili Pavilion... It''s still ten miles away from Chang''an..." The good-tempered postman replied with a smile, and then hurried to the official office to exchange documents, and he was still smiling when he came back Said, "Your lords, from now on it is no longer the duty of an old soldier, someone will come to take over later... You two, um, wait here for a while, don''t wander off..."
Han Guo looked left and right, feeling that there were endless novelties all around.
Not long after, I heard someone shouting "Heart" from a distance, and suddenly some people on the street were like birds and beasts, either turned into the house, or ran away...
『What’s coming? 』
Han Guo turned his head to look, and saw a group of people coming forward slowly, and dismounted at the post station, one of the guards stepped forward, raised his head slightly and shouted, "Where is the man from Longxi?" 』
The old soldier at the post station hurried forward, "The small one is...here is the list of supplies, please check...there are two other people..."
The guards glanced at Han Guo and Wei Dan who were standing aside, then slightly cupped their hands as a gesture, and took the list back to report. After a while, the middle-aged scribe came over, greeted Han Guo and Wei Dan, and said : "Someone is a servant of the general''s mansion, Simpixin George..."
Since Xinpi voted for Feiqian, he got such a position. Although it is not a valuable official position, the important thing is that he can often see Feiqian, and he can be regarded as a direct staff member. For Simpi personally, he is naturally quite satisfied. Because Xinpi understood Feiqian''s thoughts on the management of rangers in Guanzhong, Feiqian simply asked Xinpi to take charge of this aspect, and because Xinpi also wanted to show one or two things, and he was Yingchuan People, who have no friendship with these characters in Guanzhong, are naturally selfless, arresting, killing, and punishing. Although they achieved the effect Fei Qian wanted, Simpi himself was called "heart-hearted". , take its name and read it backwards, the meaning is quite obvious.
Xinpi didn''t care, because he knew that only by doing so could he gain the respect of the Hussar General, otherwise what if he was a good old man?
Xinpi meant to let Han Guo and Wei Dan wash and rest here temporarily, and then enter Chang''an City tomorrow. Naturally, Wei Dan had everything to do, but when Han Guo heard that General Hussars was in Chang''an, and it was only about ten miles away, he said that if possible, he wanted to see Generals Hussars today...
Xin Pi was a little displeased at first, but after seeing what Han Guo brought out, he changed his mind and ordered people to report to the Hussar General''s Mansion first, and then took Han Guo to the General''s Mansion.
Wei Dan looked at the things Han Guo brought out, and his eyes widened. It wasn''t until Xin Pi took Han Guo away for a long time that he realized that he hurriedly sent someone to report to his family first, and then regretted it a little, "I never thought about it. The man is Liehou..."
That’s right, what Han Guo took out was the seal of a lieutenant.
Although it is said that Han Guo’s seal and ribbon system doesn’t have many advanced anti-counterfeiting functions, on the whole, ordinary people dare not fake such things, so Xin Pi also thinks that Han Guo doesn’t have the courage to use fake things to fool him…
It''s just that the seal of this Liehou is Xinfenghou!
Xin Pi watched Han Guo walk into the General''s Mansion, and then Huang Xu''s subordinates took over, suddenly feeling a little emotional, stared blankly for a while, then shook his head, and left.
On the lobby of the General''s Mansion, Fei Qian stroked the seal ribbon, looking at the four seal characters of "Xinfeng Hou Yin" on the bottom of the seal, feeling a little dazed.
『Xin Fenghou...do you have anything to say to someone? ’ Fei Qian asked. The new Marquis Feng mentioned was naturally not Han Guo who worshiped under the hall, but Han Guo''s adoptive father, Han Sui, or Han Yue.
Han Guo kowtowed and said, "Father, he said that his initial idea was just to stand out for the poor people in Xiliang, talk and change the poverty that has always been in Xiliang... But he said, he didn''t think that he would later, Even he himself has forgotten his original wish... He said that in order to obtain this Marquis, he lost his children, relatives, friends, and everything around him, leaving only this one... a dead thing...he said he didn''t want to take this...underground...』
Fei Qian was silent.
Han Yue, who was once famous in Xiliang and Zonghengguan, finally let go of the seal in his hand and the obsession of his life before he died, perhaps with regret, perhaps with sadness, perhaps with relief...
"how about you? do you want this ’ Fei Qian asked.
Han Guo kowtowed again and said, "No...I, I just want to learn some skills from the general... Father said, eat as much food as you want, if you eat what you shouldn''t eat, your belly will burst... Also, father didn''t What I have done, I...I want to do it for him...I implore the general to teach you the way of civil administration...』
Fei Qian nodded slightly, "So, you should stay in the general''s mansion first... Read more, ask more questions..."
Fei Qian watched Han Guo go down the hall and followed the guards to the outer courtyard. He couldn''t help sighing softly: "Handling the yellow birds, stop at the thorns..." Han Yue''s death also seemed to mean that the entire Xiliang era of turmoil was finally coming to an end. It''s a full stop, but it''s just that Dong Zhuo, Han Sui, Li Guo, etc. have paid a lot for the big men who were buried for a generation.
Life is like a journey. When you see something good on the way, you will grab it in your arms, take some from the left, and some from the right. Later, in addition to carrying more and more burdens on your body, maybe even when you first started on the road I have forgotten my original wish...
『Hanwenyue...』 Fei Qian looked at Xinfeng Houyin, 『Are you here to remind me, don’t forget my own original wish...』
(end of this chapter)