Chapter 2312 The eyeliner left behind, the latest information
Move your eyes to Hanzhong.
Nanzheng.
South City Gate.
Although Hanzhong rebelled, the people still had to live.
For most of the people, they still don''t know what happened, but subconsciously feel that the situation seems a little strange and tense, and there seem to be more soldiers around.
People always have to eat and drink, and these things will not grow in the city of Nanzheng. Of course, they still need people to buy, sell and transport, especially some relatively high-end commodities. Items with a "good" attitude cannot and are not allowed to be in short supply, so there are still some scattered caravans.
But today is different, Nanzheng''s south gate garrison commander received an order in the morning to close the gate, and mobilized all the people to guard the gate. Although he himself was surprised by this inexplicable order, but the military order was like a mountain, he still carried it out to the letter. Since the morning, there have been several waves of people begging him to be accommodating and let people go out. There are all kinds of reasons, but there is only one ending, that is, there is no room for refusal. It''s a resignation.
The Chief of the South City Gate didn''t know what happened, and he didn''t want to know what it was. For him, the daily duty was just to earn a bite of food for his family. As for other things, he didn''t have time to think about it.
Seeing that the sun is rising, the time of mental tension cannot be maintained for a long time, as if there is a risk of prostatitis if it is hard for a long time, the gate guard leaned against the city wall, and then yawned for a long time. The people who had been warned all hid in their homes, the streets were empty, and there was no one in front of the city gate.
The sound of gurgling came over, and then a bullock cart appeared at the corner of the street.
The cattle that pull the cart look pretty good, with shiny fur and a bit of fat on their stomachs, unlike some cattle that are so thin that even their ribs are very obvious.
The goods on the bullock cart are covered with felt blankets, so it is not clear what it is...
『Stop! 』
The head of the gate garrison shouted: "The city is closed today!" No one can come in or out! 』
The bullock cart came to a sudden stop, a middle-aged man jumped out from behind the cart, and with a smile on his face, he approached Chief Menshu and said, "Sir...this is a small cart..."
Men Shuchang, well, in the eyes of real officials, he is just a fart, but in the eyes of ordinary people, he is still a "chief".
『Oh, it’s you...』The head guard knows a middle-aged man who often travels here. He is the owner of a grocery store in the south of the city. He often goes out of the city to buy goods. He is basically familiar with the guards. 『What are you doing? You can''t leave the city today, don''t you know? 』
"Hey, this..." The owner of the grocery store came up and secretly stuffed a money bag into Menshuchang, "Hey, I ordered a batch of goods a few days ago, and I have to pick it up when the time comes, otherwise the broken ones will be all gone." Count it on me, I have to die? Commander, help me... open the side door and let me go out...』
The gate guard shook the money bag and stuffed it back again. "Not today..."
"Accommodating..." The grocery store owner said in a low voice again, trying to be soft-spoken.
『No way, no way...really no way...』Although the head of the gate garrison is dawdling every day, he knows in his heart that this time is not unusual. If before, stealing the gate of the city would be a punishment at most, but now he might lose his head, so of course he will not let go easily.
While the two were entangled, an official walked past the city wall with two or three guards, and when he heard a voice from the gate below the city, he stretched out his head and asked, "What''s going on?" 』
『Shangguan, the small one is from Chengnan Grocery Store. I had an appointment today to go to buy goods...but I couldn’t go out of the city..」The owner of the grocery store nodded and said, "I don’t know Shangguan..."
"roll! ’ The officials on the top of the city shouted, ‘There is an order today! No one is allowed out of town! 』
The grocery shopkeeper had no choice but to turn back with the bullock cart.
The officials on the top of the city stared at the shopkeeper of the grocery store and left, frowned and thought for a while, then gestured to his side, and then one of them nodded, walked down from the city wall, and followed the shopkeeper from a distance. Behind the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper of the grocery store wobbled back to his shop, and helplessly asked the assistant to unload the truck again. The boy accidentally broke a jar when he was unloading the car, and the shopkeeper of the grocery store immediately scolded him angrily.
The shopkeeper might also be depressed. He took advantage of the topic to scold for nearly a stick of incense, and watched the guy who was hiding behind him for a long time.
After seeing the person leaving, the shopkeeper and the buddy seemed to have finished cursing, so they stopped their voices and continued to unload the car. Then the shopkeeper called out a few more people from the shop, and in a blink of an eye they finished moving the things on the car.
Under the cover of the felt cloth, a person climbed out of the car, and then moved something like a buddy into the grocery store. Anyway, the clerks in the grocery store came in and out. If they hadn''t been staring, no one would have noticed that there was an extra person.
The shopkeeper looked around, then entered the house, turned around the front hall, and sat down in the backyard, and said to the man who was hiding in the car earlier: "It seems that I can''t get out today..."
The man in the car said: "No, you must leave the city!" Otherwise, the search and inspection in the city will really make it impossible to escape! 』
The shopkeeper sighed: "This is troublesome, Zhang''s people have already started searching in the east and north of the city, and will soon trace to the south of the city..."
Nanzheng City can also be regarded as a big city, and the water meridian is infused with the cloud, "Twelve miles on Thursday, there is a small city in the city, with the stream in the south, the ring pheasant in the north, and the lacquer well of Jin Yong, all built by the Han Dynasty"...
The man who was hiding in the car before was a secretary named Cheng Hang in Zhang Ze''s government office. Like the shopkeeper of the grocery store, he belonged to Fei Qian''s eyeliner in Hanzhong.
Chenghang has sent a lot of news to Chang''an with the convenience of the secretary regarding the overall situation in Hanzhong, the economy, and the military system during this period of time...
In Cheng Hang''s view, there are many problems here in Hanzhong.
Because Hanzhong was relatively stable even during the two huge political events of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Western Qiang Rebellion and the Yellow Turban Rebellion. In addition, although the five buckets of rice road in Hanzhong was broken by Fei Qian, the atmosphere of Taoism was still very strong. In the eyes of outsiders, this kind of aggressive thinking makes the local aborigines in Hanzhong evolve a very strange thinking mode in the eyes of outsiders.
On the one hand, these Hanzhong natives are very proud, and to some extent they can also be called arrogant. From Zhang Ze to the most basic ordinary soldiers, they all think that Hussars are unimaginable for large-scale military operations in Hanzhong...
『Hussars can’t get in! last time? Last time it was a fluke! 』
『Yes, was it our fault last time? It''s Zhang Lu, that kid is useless! 』
Their ideas have their historical origins. Ever since Liu Yan entered Sichuan, the Eastern Han government was at a loss what to do with the Hanzhong area. Later, even though Fei Qian conquered Hanzhong, many people said that it was the cooperation of Zhang Ze and others that made Fei Qian go smoothly. Take Hanzhong.
Now that Fei Qian has turned his back on this policy and changed that plan, is it not Fei Qian''s fault and whose fault is it?
Now the people of Hanzhong can’t survive, and they rebelled, who can be blamed?
The Qinling Mountains are a natural partition, which has a very profound influence on the Hanzhong people both geographically and psychologically.
To put it simply, because of the surrounding of Qinling Mountains and Bashan Mountains, Hanzhong people are like worms kept in a cup. They are not very sensitive to changes in the outside world, which makes these people very satisfied with the status quo.
What they see is what is in front of them, and what they care about is only what is in front of them.
On the other hand, this kind of "satisfaction" in a closed form makes these people have a kind of obstacle in their development. Even this rebellion, for Zhang Ze and others, was not for the purpose of attacking Guanzhong, or When it comes to fighting for the world, their most important goal is still to separate. They lack a big strategic concept, and only have countless short-term goals that may change at any time and affect each other...
For this problem, the people of Hanzhong also vaguely feel it, so the lack of self-confidence caused by the lack of strategy makes these rebels in Hanzhong feel that they must pull in more allies and more supporters in order to be successful. Prove the correctness and security of its behavior.
Therefore, during this rebellion, Zhang Ze was almost busy pulling the alliance around, just like the gang leader of the later generations standing on the street shaking people with a phone. Later on, he started to get more and more outrageous, and he didn''t even care much about it, so that the thing that was only a horoscope was said smoothly.
After saying it, I realized that something was wrong, so I immediately issued a password ban...
The result is self-defeating.
If it wasn’t for the cover-up behavior of Zhang Ze and others, they would have ignored it as general intelligence if it was impossible to make a flight. As a result, if the password was banned, at least they should know what is forbidden to say?
Cheng Hang immediately realized that this matter was more or less true, and it was very likely that Zhang Ze was so abnormal at a critical time. With the idea that he would rather believe it, Cheng Hang stole Zhang Ze''s documents on this matter, and was discovered in the end.
But now Cheng Hang is facing a very troublesome problem, that is, he has to go out of the city to find another line, that is, people who take the "Sichuan-Shu Line". By the way, if there is no real evidence, the other party will definitely not believe it.
Normally speaking, the Chang''an Line and the Sichuan-Shukou Line do not communicate with each other, because this would bring high risks, but in the current situation, the only way to activate the emergency contact mode...
Because this important document is about Sichuan and Shu, if it is said to wait until it is sent back to Guanzhong and then let Guanzhong pass it to Sichuan and Shu, I am afraid it will inevitably be a step too late, and it may cause people to suffer!
『No, I must leave the city today! ”Cheng Hang emphasized.
『The gate of the city is sealed, you can’t get out! ’ said the shopkeeper of the grocery store, ‘Why don’t you hide in the cellar first, and then go out after the lockdown is lifted? 』
Cheng Hang thought about it for a while, then shook his head, "No, if Zhang''s people didn''t catch me, they definitely wouldn''t be able to unblock me...and even if I could escape, I''m afraid things will be delayed..."
『This matter...really...very important? ’ the shopkeeper of the grocery store asked.
Cheng Hang nodded, "It''s very important, but you''d better not know what it is. 』
At this moment, a guy outside the door whispered: "The shopkeeper! There is movement! The soldiers in the city are coming towards the south of the city! 』
When the shopkeeper and Cheng Hang heard about it, they both stood up together.
"The only way..." The shopkeeper said hurriedly, "It is to go to the Jinliu, to the Han River...but the water gate must be closed, so we can only dive in..."
『I’m pretty good at water, give me some oiled paper... 』Cheng Hang said, 『These square soldiers, you have to help me lead them away...』
The two hurriedly discussed and decided, and then they split up.
When Cheng Hang walked out of the back door of the grocery store, he heard the sound of some earthen pots breaking from Qianmen Street, and then the sound of noisy disputes rang out, which immediately attracted the attention of many people in the back alley. , One after another went to Qian Street.
Cheng Hang lowered his head and hurried to the Fangmen.
Cheng Hang did not wear the robes of scribes, but wore a coarse linen garment worn by ordinary people, and according to the habits of ordinary people, he unbuttoned his chest a little, because when he was working, it was too tight, not only could he not breathe well, but also Sweat is not easy to dry, and the long gown is also tied around the waist with a cloth belt, wearing a pair of straw sandals, hunched over, and walking close to the street.
There are three square gates in the southern area of ??Nanzheng City. If you want to escape by taking the Han River, you must first go to the inland river in the city, find a place to enter the water, and then sneak into the ditch until it gets dark, and then go out...
But Cheng Hang didn''t walk out for a long time, and felt something was wrong behind him. Two rascals stood up from under the old tree at the corner of the street, and followed Cheng Hang.
Cheng Hang didn''t know if his attire was flawed, or were these two rascals planning to have some fun?
Actually, the problem with Cheng Hang is not the attire, but because Cheng Hang subconsciously covers the information tightly wrapped in oiled paper, so the two rascals thought that Cheng Hang had some valuables on him...
It''s not a big risk to be a country bumpkin, maybe you can earn money for two days of wine and meat!
Cheng Hang walked unhurriedly along the road, there were still some pedestrians and traders and passing carriages and horses on the street, and the two stalkers were still not far behind, turning their heads every time as Cheng Hang, They immediately turned their faces and pretended to look at the shops on both sides.
Really keep up...
『Very clumsy. 』Cheng Hang commented secretly, and at the same time felt a little impatient, and decided to get rid of these two annoying guys. So he quickened his pace, which made the stalkers a little surprised, and they couldn''t help but followed closely, which completely exposed their stalking behavior.
Chenghang disappeared at the entrance of an alley.
The two rascals hurried to go to the alley, but they met a group of gentry children who were traveling, laughing and laughing as if preparing to go to a banquet, each wearing brocade robes, swaying forward accompanied by guards on both sides Walk. Today, the four cities are closed and no one is allowed to go out, nor is it allowed to go shopping or drink alcohol, so these few gentry children don''t care much, and still live the life they are used to.
Wait for the two rascals who didn’t dare to bump into the gentry kids in this line, and wait until the dozen or so people have passed by, then rush to the alley, and Cheng Hang has long since disappeared...
While the two rascals were looking at each other, a group of soldiers in charge of patrol came over, frowned and asked, "You two! What are you doing? ! 』
The prodigal son was startled, he groaned for a moment, and then suddenly said: "I...we, we found a suspicious person! Yes, we found someone suspicious! 』
『Where is it? ! Fang Bing came in a hurry.
『This...a bounty...』 The libertine stretched out his paw.
『Reward your paralysis! The leader of Fang Bing was not polite to these sluts, he opened his mouth and cursed, "You will only be rewarded if you catch it, you want a fart reward now!" What about people? Where? 』
『I saw him running over there...Brother, it will be fine if you give me a few coppers first...』
"roll! Only when you catch it! quick! Come on! 』
This group of people rushed into the alley in disorder, searching for the footprints of Cheng Hang.
Nanzheng is close to the Hanshui River, so there are naturally many ships transferring goods back and forth. When Chenghang arrived at the inland river, he found that this place was also sealed off. Many ships were stuck on the pier. Some laborers who made a living loading and unloading cargo squatted in the corner with sad faces. The boats could not enter and exit, so naturally they disappeared. work.
Cheng Hang''s eyeballs moved, and while no one else was paying attention, he walked down a few steps, squatted down on the edge of the inland river ditch, and then pretended to wash his hands with water, while looking at it The surrounding situation, while observing the small sampans moored by the side of the river...
There is an iron fence at the water gate. But the grocery shopkeeper said that he had found a chance to cut off most of it, leaving only a little bit, so as long as it can last until dark, it is not a big problem to get out.
The problem now is how to stay in the dark without being noticed...
The team of soldiers and prodigal sons who followed Cheng Hang appeared and shouted, and immediately attracted the attention of almost everyone. Seeing this, Cheng Hang took the opportunity to slip under the water, reached the ditch without splashing much water, and then swam towards the small sampan he had observed before.
Captain Fang Ding walked around here for a whole circle, and then caught the coolies who were squatting in the corner of the ditch waiting for work one by one for comparison, and sent people to board the small sampan, opened the deck to search...
Of course, nothing was gained,
『What about people? ’ Captain Fang Ding looked around, but he couldn’t find any place to hide people. Hearing Fang Ding’s reports one by one, he couldn’t help but grabbed the collar of the prodigal son angrily. What about the suspicious person? 』
The prodigal son looked around with a sad face, "This, this... I don''t know..."
『You bastard! Is it okay to entertain someone? 』Captain Fang Ding held down the prodigal son, beat him up, and then angrily led him away.
Water waves swayed, Cheng Hang showed his head in the gap under the small sampan, and took a long breath...
(end of this chapter)