Chapter 57 The arrow shot at the king

"Worth!" Dong Guoli whispered: "Master, as long as the settlement site is established, these lands will be continuously provided to us with grain production in the future. Moreover, if I, Zhao, can develop Jia, I will not have to worry about a hundred years."

Zhao Wu snorted, as if he agreed.

In this way, in the heavy snow, the Jin army took a break in the "yuan". When they set off again, Xun Ying really carried Zhao Wu away, while Zhao Wu was lying on the stretcher. I don't know if he was really sick or pretended to be sick, but he looked sick anyway.

After passing by the "original" place, Han Qi, who was at home, heard the news of Zhao Wu's disease and quickly came out. As soon as he arrived in front of Zhao Wu's stretcher, he quickly tried the temperature of Zhao Wu's forehead with his hands, and immediately scolded the person: "The quilt is thicker, Wu Zi's forehead is so cold, he must be very sick."

Zhao Wu lay on the stretcher and replied weakly: "Heart disease is just heart disease."

Han Qi said oh, and immediately asked in a low voice: "How are the crossbow soldiers I sent?"

Zhao Wu also whispered: "No, the actual effect is very good."

Han Qi whispered again: "The king asked us to have a map - you also know that my father is an honest man. He presented the map of crossbow making to the king... I heard that the king had given the map of crossbow to the Wei Kingdom."

Zhao Wu nodded reluctantly: "Weiguo is our firm ally, and I will only give it to them. I believe that there will be no secrets within 10 or 20 years, but it will be hard to say after this period of time."

Han Qi walked along the stretcher and said embarrassedly: "Zhi Bo (Xun Ying) just told me that the soldiers were so heartbroken that they were not convenient to stay on the road. I was not good to entertain you in my own manor. If you are really not sick, you might as well speed up your trip. Since you know that this journey is hardship, it is better to end this pain early."

Zhao Wu sat up and shouted, "Take my horse, I'll ride my horse."

Han Qi immediately added: "I have prepared two hundred chariots for you. The roads in the snow are hard to travel. Your car is full of goods. Why not stay in my manor and I will deliver it to you in batches. Don't worry, my Korean land is more than ten times more staff than your Zhao land, so I will not delay your affairs."

Zhao Wu was not polite to Han. He immediately said, "Since that's the case, I will leave the prisoners to you, and we will move forward lightly."

Han Qi laughed and said, "No problem... Remember the ten beautiful girls I promised to give you? I spent a month carefully screening them and keeping them all as beautiful as fairies. If you take them away together, I guess Jiaojiao can't stand it and object."

Han Qi waved his hand, and ten thin-dressed women walked towards here. They barefoot and slashed the snow. In the cold wind, their bodies trembled, but Han Qi looked at their bodies like the wind and asked smugly: "How about it, everyone has good figures, right?"

"You are evil, beauty is used to love, you are evil," Zhao Wu waved to Samurai Kun: "Kun, you choose first, five of them are yours."

Kun had no intention of being polite at all. He reached out to point out five women, and then ordered the servants (servants) to take a few pieces of Zhao Bing's winter clothes, let the women put on them, and then swaggered to occupy three soldiers and ride one by himself, and the rest were used to load his women.

Zhao Wu advised Shi Xiu again: "The teacher will choose a few."

Shi Xiu was an old man, but he was not polite. He picked two of them casually and carried them on his chariot. Finally, Zhao Wu picked one casually, then pointed at the remaining two, and said to Han Qi: "Aqi, Dong Guoli is in the 'place'. These two are for him. Please help send them over."

Han Qi widened his eyes: "I have never seen someone like you... Forget it, I will send it to you."

"So, goodbye!" Zhao Wu bowed.

"Farewell," Han Qi returned the gift, adding: "The war has not been won yet, we will fight next year. Now the nobles and officials are busy preparing for the war. No one will mess with you at this moment... Wu Zi, why bother to be depressed? I will only explain to you one thing: their era has sunset, and our era has just begun."

The soldiers who were eager to return were all very fast. Of course, the cold winter also forced them to speed up so that they could move their bodies to resist the cold. After saying goodbye to Han Qi, the Jin army spent a day passing through Han territory and arrived at Wei territory the next day. At the junction of Wei and Han, you can see the two brothers of Wei and Linghu, the Wei family, standing together in the snow, with a respectful expression.

The army of Jin State did not stop. Wei Xiang, Linghu Jie (Wei Jie), and Wei Jiang all brought Qi's servants to welcome him on the roadside. They first visited Xun Ying in a manner in a proper manner... When it was Zhao Wu's turn, the three brothers knelt down together and gave a grand ceremony to Zhao Wu.

Zhao Wu was originally napping on the chariot. When the three Wei brothers approached, Shi Xiu stabbed him to wake him up. Zhao Wu, who was confused, saw the gift from the three Wei brothers for the first time, jumped off the chariot and avoided him sideways.

Wei Xiang, who was good at speaking and kind, stood up and pressed Zhao Wu's shoulder to ask him to accept the gift from the three brothers. He looked solemn: "Wuzi, our gift is for our father, please do not refuse - I heard from Han Qi that you were crying when your father died.

My father is loyal to the country. Although the four armies are sad, they are sad but not sad. The real innocent child is Xiao Wu! Now, my brother would like to thank you for your kindness on behalf of my father - you give your father the armor and bows and arrows so that your father can complete a happy and brilliant battle before his death. Please accept our solemn thanks."

Zhao Wu sighed, and the face of the Wei family elite soldier who was "quality" appeared in front of him (a paragraph missing in Chapter 51, which has been revised). The man looked so calm when he died. He had no resentment or enthusiasm, as if he had been looking forward to this moment for a long time - he shouldn't have died, just a word from the king. And the price the king paid for this sentence was similar to a drop in the bucket for him.

However, on the other hand, Wei Qi died worthy of his death, and he won respect for the Wei family with his brave battle. More importantly, his willingness to admit defeat, prompting the Wei family to withdraw from the battle immediately. In front of everyone, the Wei family could proudly declare that they had fought and even shot the king of Chu.

However, because the Wei family withdrew from the battle early, their troops were not seriously damaged, and they did not even miss the autumn harvest. Zhao Wu, a great hero who dared to pursue the Chu army alone and "kill the Pan Party" and "captured" the prince, had to fight from spring until the rain and snow.

This is what makes Zhao Wu the most disheartened.

He worked hard and worked hard to be a person in Spring and Autumn, and even did something even better than that in Spring and Autumn, but it seemed that all the unlucky things had entangled him, making him a role model for the unlucky countries.

"Are you still unlucky?" On the march, Zhiying heard Zhao Wu's complaint, and the sarcasm on his face was almost flowing: "Everything is rewarding. You are single and you are pursuing the Chu army and are brave and famous among the nations. So at the meeting, you directly denounced the emperor's favorite ministers in front of the king and his ministers, "You have to take care of it." Go and ask, has there been any bold person who contradicted the king in the past? But after you contradicted the king, the king had to bear it and had to pay a smile to explain to the monarchs of other countries. Can such treatment be considered unlucky?

You think you have concealed the prisoners of Zheng State, but no one else knows - your prisoners swaggeredly crossed the state and escorted them all the way to Zhao. Are everyone else blind? However, the ministers, even the king, would rather pretend to be blind. Why? It was because the king accepted you three thousand prisoners, but did not make any signs of reward. All the nations knew that they could only tolerate your nonsense.

But do you think you are the only one who was swallowed by the king and offered prisoners? Xizhi was still crying and spitting with everyone! Do you know that on the way back to the army, Xizhi even shot the princess of the king, Meng Zhang, a temple man, shot in front of the king's car."

"Oh, Xizhi is so bold? What's going on?" Zhao Wu asked at that time.

"Rumor: On the way, the king organized all his ministers to hunt, and Huo Zhi shot a wild boar, preparing to offer it to the king. He didn't expect that the wild boar was seen by Meng Zhang, a temple man. He immediately snatched it and presented it to the king in his own name. Huo Zhi was furious and shot Meng Zhang with an arrow. It is said that Meng Zhang's blood splattered on the king's clothes. The king wiped the blood on his face and cried angrily: 'This kid bullied me (Ji Zi bullied Yu)!'"

Later, Xun Ying added lightly: "Actually, this arrow was shot for you."

I used to think I was arrogant, but in the end there was a guy who was ten thousand times more arrogant than me - a better person.

Zhao Wu understood and immediately added: "This arrow was shot for the entire (feudal) class of nobles and officials, so everyone present was silent about the offense. This was a warning, a stern warning. Just look at whether the king was enlightened or not!"

The king "blacked" Zhao Wu's "capitalization" and even more the prisoners of all the nobles and officials. He thought that this victory was all his wise leadership and correct command, so others must "dedicate" selflessly - Well, since everyone has "dedicated", he must of course "request" consciously, and he also plans to lead everyone "from one victory to another" in the future...

At that time, Zhao Wu was extremely angry and took action, but Xizhi was actually in anger. However, the king's princess was unaware of it and continued to maintain his habit of robbing people. He even robbed the proud Xizhi again - robbed the wild boar he shot.

Originally, Xizhi was full of evil fire after being beaten by Zhao Wu, so his arrow was warning the king: Don’t do too much!

"Actually everyone understands this principle!" Xun Ying sighed: "No one of the ministers present at that time persuaded him. Shi Bo (Shi Xie) was also present, and he was still silent, while Han Bo bowed his head to rush. It is reported that after Shi Bo returned home, he ordered his own blessings and sects (in charge of sacrifices and prayers) to pray for death for himself.

He said: "Our current monarch is arrogant and full of selfishness, but he is lucky to defeat the enemy. This is God aggravating his illness. In the future, he will become more unscrupulous, and the disaster of our country will come. Today, the monarch is defeated and his selfishness has expanded. If the selfishness of the country is expanded, the country will inevitably suffer disaster. I am afraid that the disaster of this country will cause disaster to Fan.

If you still love me, pray for death for me, so that I can die soon. Before I die in the country, Fan's disaster will be reduced (you have more private interests, and now you will return to victory, and your private interests will be revealed. If you dare to do it, it will be difficult to do it... I am afraid that if my clan wishes, I will pray for death for me, it will be difficult to avoid it).'

Look at the experience of Deputy Marshal Shi Xie. Compared to yourself, are you still unlucky? Also, this time you captured the captives of Cai State. You can send these prisoners back to Zhaodi, but I have to return to the country to offer prisoners to the king. Although you fought from the beginning of spring to the winter snow this year, it was a bit hard. However, although I didn’t catch up with the battle in the beginning of spring, aren’t I still accompanying you in the snow? You call this unlucky, so how can you evaluate me?"

Zhao Wu touched his chin and felt a little embarrassed. In other words, his biggest gain was not the prisoners, but the "second in the world". Zhao Wu knew that his martial arts was not worth a lot. Under the system of military and agricultural integration, people from the Spring and Autumn Period practiced combat skills since childhood. Generally, people of his age have been training for at least twenty years, and he has only been training for one or two years.

On the battlefield, relying on two years of experience and twenty years of experience, it is lucky that Zhao Wu can survive until now.

But with the "No. 2 in the World" as the escort, the situation is different. With this guy around, Zhao Wu only needs to take another crossbow, and he dares to bring Pan Dang to talk to Yang Youji face to face.

This is the change!

Originally, when Zhao Wu saw these two killer gods, the only idea in his heart was to escape... Well, he was thinking now that Yang Youji was also as active as Pan Dang. As long as he intimidated or deceptive, he could get it. If he succeeded, then Yang Youji with his left hand and Pan Dang with his right hand, he would be invincible in the world!

Speaking of this, it seemed as if he had only taken advantage of the situation and did not suffer any losses. The king hacked him into a prisoner of a standardist, but he was careless and gave him the entire undeveloped "Changzhi Basin" - how can such a big gain be considered unlucky?

If this is considered unlucky, I don’t know how many people in the world are looking forward to such "unlucky".

However, you should not be too proud of yourself.

The humble Zhao Wu continued to pretend to be his loss. He made the small and medium-sized aristocrats passing by, and they all sympathized with sympathy. As well, the "domestic hatred" prophesied by Shi Xie also quietly grew, and their actions towards the king became increasingly unbearable.

The long journey finally came to an end, and the Jimen outside the east gate of Jin State has arrived.

The so-called "thorn gate" is a wooden door built with thorns and firewood. Its function is similar to the modern Arc de Triomphe. After passing the thorn gate, the soldiers who go to war will automatically relieve their responsibilities of service - that is, the soldiers passing the thorn gate no longer accept the command of the generals and they can go home.

Usually, there are treasures of the national arsenal in front of the Thorn Gate. Their mission is to confiscate weapons issued from the arsenal. However, nowadays, most of the soldiers who go to fight are noble private soldiers, and there are very few weapons collected from the national arsenal in the queue, so the existence of the arsenal officials did not affect the speed of the march. The entire army quickly advanced towards the Thorn Gate. Even if someone occasionally leaves the queue and handes weapons to the arsenal officials on the side of the road, it does not affect the speed of the queue.

Just when he could see Jimen, Zhao Wu had already shouted for the stretcher team to come forward. He was not afraid that the arsenal officials would see his show, so he jumped off the chariot and lay back on the stretcher. Several Zhao soldiers carried the stretcher, and Zhao Wu's chariot followed behind him and passed through Jimen.

After the soldiers passed the Jimen, the formation was in chaos. The Zhi Family soldiers had already spontaneously combined in groups of three or three, preparing to go to the city to drink, wash away the dust and go home for the winter. Most of the private soldiers of the nobles also disbanded the entire team like the Zhi Family soldiers. However, Zhao Wu's soldiers did not disperse after passing the Jimen. They stood on the other side of the Jimen, with a little confused expression. It was not until Zhao Wu's stretcher passed the Jimen that they returned to normal.

After the stretcher passed the Jimen, Zhao Wu felt very fake and "struggle" to get up from the stretcher, raised the "broken" sword placed beside his pillow, and handed it to the teacher Shi Xiu beside him. Shi Xiu also untied the sword at his waist. Because these weapons were equipped by Zhao's own family, Shi Xiu just performed the sword removal ceremony as usual. He showed the sword in his hand to the arsenal officials on both sides of the road, and then carried his and Zhao Wu's sword in his hand and continued walking through Jimen.

Later, Zhao Wu muttered weakly on the stretcher. Shi Xiu agreed and gestured to Sima, the army beside him. Sima immediately took out a short copper flute (whistle) from his waist, took out a clean cloth and carefully wiped the copper flute, then put the whistle in his mouth, and blew a long whistle.

Hearing this whistle, the Zhao soldiers who had passed the Jimen gathered automatically. They formed a queue with "京" as "正" as "正", and stepped on the spot under the whistle. Then, the Zhao soldiers who passed the Jimen joined the tail one after another. After all the Zhao soldiers passed the Jimen, the whistle sounded again, and became a four-beat step sound that combined the long, short, and short whistle. In the blink of an eye, the Zhao soldiers drove on with the wu as a group. Although the stride under their feet was not as neat as in the military parade, the entire army maintained a complete queue and advanced towards Zhaocheng.

The third minister of Jin State, General Xun, was the General of the Army. He looked at Zhao Bing in surprise and asked Xun Yan, the assistant of the Army: "Zhongxing Bo, what's going on? Don't Zhao Wu know that after passing Jimen, the Golden Drum is not allowed to be sounded? Why are these troops not disbanded after passing Jimen? Do you want to rebel?"

Xun Yan, the boss of the Central Committee, answered disapprovingly: "That's right, after passing Jimen, it is not allowed to use snare drums and Jin Qing to command soldiers, but the bronze flute... I don't seem to remember that there is a ban on playing the bronze flute. This thing seems to have just appeared, and it seems that only Zhao Cheng has.

I heard that these Zhao soldiers used to run around the city every day, and during their running, they used this short copper flute to adjust the queue. In addition, Zhaocheng is popular in the military drama. Sima in the military is not called Sima in the game, but a strange name - the referee.

Zhao Bing was used to hearing Sima's whistle in daily life. After passing Jimen, we did not prohibit them from using whistle. Therefore, after hearing the whistle, those Zhao Bing used to line up in a running queue. This is not surprising. National law does not prohibit it, right? Zhao Dun once said: 'If the law does not prohibit it clearly, it is a practice (the law does not prohibit it clearly, it is permission)', right?"

Xi Qi thought about it and remembered that Xun Yan was also one of Zhao Wu's in-laws. He hoped that Xun Yan would make things difficult for Zhao Wu, just like he would make things difficult for his left hand to make things difficult for his right hand. He suddenly figured it out and said in a slightly mocking tone: "Zhao Bing is so obedient. Even after passing Jimen, with a whistle above, they actually voluntarily lined up in a queue. Even the capital Xintian didn't enter and went straight to home. They were really a group of home-written children."

Xun Yan rolled his eyes, and looked like "I won't tell you" on his face.

He didn't say anything, but to sum it up, it's just one sentence: How can Zhaocheng live in a comfortable life in the country?

In terms of this, how can the country have a comfortable life in Zhaocheng? Zhongxingyan (Xun Yan) just went to Zhaocheng not long ago and understood this truth.

At that time, he just visited his daughter Zhongxingji in court. He had never been to Zhaocheng before, but after a walk around Zhaocheng, he found that although the city walls of Zhaocheng were broken, the urban area was small, and the population was a little smaller, their comfort level was far greater than that of the capital. The most obvious thing was that Zhaocheng's entertainment facilities were far beyond the reach of this era.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, every city had a huge sub-house, occupying a large area of ​​the city, and such sub-houses required a large number of people to monitor. Since Zhaocheng's sub-houses were empty, the original sub-houses were converted into a large military camp. Oh no, in fact, this military camp area is a comprehensive entertainment city with three football fields, six baseball fields, and some ancillary facilities, which can accommodate hundreds of people to play games at the same time.

Zhaocheng does not charge tickets for game competitions, nor does it restrict civilians to watch. In the era of unity of soldiers and farmers, people like this kind of competitive game. When more civilians are watching the competition, some soldiers' families will renovate their houses to open a store, and the wine and meat distributed by soldiers will be sold in the store.

Zhao Bing has always eaten well and dressed well. It is said that Xiao Wu and his retainers had an agreement: because Zhaocheng has a small population, the Zhao family's private soldiers were preparing to take the elite route. The soldiers no longer participated in agricultural labor and focused on training. In order to allow them to have the physical strength to cope with the hard training, Zhao Wu also formulated the so-called "nutrition standards". Each Zhao Bing can give a little meat every day, and there is no fixed standard for the amount of this meat, sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less, but a pot of sour butterfly every day is a must.

In this era, wine was a rare item. Some people like to drink a little, but some people don’t have the sip. So, after a month, the soldiers accumulated a lot of rations that could not be used, which could be handed over to their families and sold in their own stores. When the moon was full every month, that is, when the various teams in Zhaocheng held the monthly finals, the military camps formed by the houses were opened, and the military families also took the opportunity to open a store to do small business, exchanging the rations that soldiers could not use into the materials they needed.

Zhao Cheng implemented Guan Zhong's business-oriented strategy, which was a complete market economy, "there was no limit but no charge, and the market was right but no distribution", that is, commercial taxes were almost no charge, and market operations were rarely intervened, allowing the market to determine the fate of business and allowing competition to determine who is the strong.

Therefore, when Zhaocheng's spontaneous transactions appeared, some soldiers liked to accumulate the ration wine and entrust it to a small shop for sale. Of course, this small shop was in the military camp. They themselves would go to the hotel to drink two cups and consume their own rations when needed. In this way, Zhaocheng had a fixed consumer group seeking nightlife.

The existence of these fixed consumers has also driven the development of other entertainment facilities in Zhaocheng, so that Zhaocheng has basically all entertainment projects in China. Although the overall number of entertainment facilities in Zhaocheng is not as good as that in the capital, Zhaocheng is filled with an atmosphere of relaxation and freedom, not much attention to hierarchy and identity, but it makes people feel very relaxed and comfortable in it...
Chapter completed!