The sky is clear and there is no cloud above my head.

Under the scorching sun, the trees on Siming Mountain were wilted.

It's so hot.

The black dog's narrow conical head was already weak, and its bloody red tongue stretched out, and it kept gasping for heat, lying on the ground and moving without thinking about moving.

Qin Lang also felt hot. He had tried his best to put on a cool shirt, but he still felt that his whole body was soaked with sweat. It was stuffy and there was no wind at all. All the sweaty clothes were stuck to his body, which was extremely uncomfortable.

This damn weather.

Although he was an authentic southerner in later generations and had seen various fire cities, he had been unable to adapt to such heat after living in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty for three years.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, we set out from Chang'an to Changsha for more than a thousand miles. Changsha arrived at Yuechengling, which was at the junction of Hunan and Guangxi. We walked around the road for more than a month. At this time, we arrived in Siming Mountain. It was already mid-June, and it was the hottest time.

Looking back, the "knights" and "samurai" from Guanzhong were all as wilted as those Guanzhong dogs, listless.

In fact, it's only morning, but everyone can't walk anymore.

All the way from Changsha, I mainly took a boat on the Xiangjiang River. It was quite easy, but when it arrived at the border of Hunan and Guangxi, it was difficult to walk on the water and even more difficult to walk on the mountain road.

These days, there have been many knights from Wu'an Prefecture. The warriors regret it. How great is Chang'an? Why did Qianli run to this damn wilderness in Guanzhong?

Many people miss the happy days of being a wanderer in Chang'an. The girls in Pingkangfang are so gentle and gentle, the wine in Zuixianlou is so fragrant, and the Persian Huqi who sells wine in Xishi is also full of charm. Even the quash pancakes in Chang'an morning are tempting. If you take a bite, you will be full of fragrance and oily mouth.

Damn, now I have to travel through the wilderness, and my hot thighs are almost rotten.

"Wild, this is the real wilderness!"

Qin Lang held a fan and fanned the wind, looking at the vast mountains.

"We are still in Yongzhou on the west road of Jiangnan. We have not even crossed the five ridges yet. What are you talking about? The real wilderness is still far away." He shook his head. These guys disappointed him a little. The further south, the slower the team was moving. In addition, Qin Lang was the emperor's emperor's imperial envoy to serve as a submission to the south. Therefore, after crossing the Yangtze River, when Fengzhou passed through the county, local officials and powerful people came to welcome him, and Qin Lang could not ignore it.

He had to be close to these people on behalf of the prince, and also inspect the place for the emperor, declare the majesty of His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and also investigate the situation in the place, find some business opportunities, and cooperate.

"Yuechengling, Qincheng!"

Qin Lang looked south from a distance, and a white jade belt among the mountains winding among them, finally crossing the mountains and connecting the two places. That is the Lingtu that Qin Shihuang specially built to conquer Baiyue in order to conquer Baiyue in the south. The Lingtu connects the Xiangjiang River to the south and the Lijiang River to the north, greatly solving the problem of food, grass and material transportation, and laying the foundation for the later pacification of Baiyue.

The Yuechengling Ridge where Qin Lang is now located is the southeast end of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the northwest branch of the Wuling Mountains, spanning the eastern part of Guilin, Guangxi, southern Shaoyang, and northern Yongzhou.

The total length is five hundred miles, with continuous ups and downs, and countless southern barbarians gathered.

Standing on Babu Ridge in Siming Mountain, you can see the Lingqu at the foot of the mountain. When Qin Shihuang destroyed the six kingdoms and the world, he then decided to explore Lingnan. He ordered Tu Sui to lead an army of 500,000 to fight south and launch it into five armies, each with 100,000 troops, each occupying a pass in Lingnan. At that time, the army on Zhaochengling was blocked by the barbarians and could not enter, and it was difficult to transfer military pay and it was difficult to break through in three years.

Later, the Qin army built the Ling Canal and dug an artificial canal of more than 70 miles between the Xiangjiang River and the Li River, opening up a watershed, making both sides a smooth road. It took six years to build this Ling Canal.

After six years of construction, I realized that the construction of this spiritual canal was difficult.

However, the importance of Lingqu has been the most important passage and canal between the Central Plains and Lingnan for more than 800 years after its construction.

During the Han Dynasty, the nine true sects of Jiaozhi were attacked, and the two sisters of Zheng raised an army to rebel. Ma Yuan led the Han army to Lingnan from then on.

Although there are five ridge passes in Lingnan, the most important pass from Qin to Tang Dynasty is the pass of Yuechengling.

During the reign of Yang Guang, the army from Lingnan was sent to Linyi State. At that time, the generals of the court also arrived in Guizhou from Lingqu and summoned Feng Ang, Ning Changzhen, Chen Shiluo and other local kings in Lingnan to gather troops to fight south.

Digging a mountain and connecting two water systems with different directions from north to south is still the Qin State eight hundred years ago. Qin Lang had to sigh at the greatness of this project.

Lingqu is not just digging a trench, but many of its engineering techniques are still great after two thousand years.

The Xiangjiang River goes north and the Lijiang River goes south, and walks against each other.

Eight hundred years ago, the craftsmen of the Qin Dynasty connected them together.

The Lingqu Canal is called a canal. It is indeed very small and cannot match the vastness of the canal, but its greatness is no less than the Grand Canal. Qin Lang, a person from more than a thousand years later, would sigh when standing here.

At that time, the Qin people built dams and divided waters at the two rivers of Hunan and Li. The water flow here was gentle, which was conducive to breaking the current and building dams. It was located in the upper reaches of the Xiang River, and the water level was relatively high. After building dams to block water, the water level was further increased. Then the canal was opened to divert water directly into the Shi'an River tributary of the Li River.

Lingqu canal is also divided into north-south canals, and the south canals are dug to solve the problem of inducing Hunan into Li, and then dig the northern canals to smooth the water flow and allow ships traveling from south to north to navigate smoothly.

The northern canal winds from the dividing pond to the north, winds across the plain on the right bank of the Xiangjiang River and then enters the Xiangjiang River. Standing at Siming Mountain, you can see that if the northern canal is excavated in a straight line, it will be only three or four miles. However, in order to smooth the slope, the northern canal turns two large bends, forming two large S-shaped shapes, extending the channel of six or seven miles, making the slope drop slower and the river surface wider to three to five meters wide.

However, during the dry season, the Lingqu actually has the problem of insufficient water. It requires regular dredging, and it also requires fibre drawing. It even needs to be adjusted through steep gates to allow the ship to pass smoothly. There are thirty-six steep gates in the Lingqu channel.

But now, this great canal has been destroyed.

The channels were already silted due to the Sui Dynasty, but now they were deliberately blocked by the barbarians with wood and stone, and the steep gate was also destroyed.

The Ling Canal collapsed and the boat could not move.

Along the Lingqu Canal, there used to be a fertile field watered by Lingqu water. Now the water culvert has been destroyed, and the canal water has destroyed the embankment and destroyed the fertile field. The nearby area was originally a pastoral scenery full of villages, but now it is full of sores and weeds.

Many villages can still see that they have been destroyed for not long.

The vitality of the past when chickens and dogs were heard is now replaced by ruins.

"I didn't expect that as soon as Li Xizhi left, the barbarians of Yuechengling would dare to be so arrogant and bold!" Qin Yong, who was walking with him, frowned, "a group of bastards."

As planned, Qin Lang's trip to the south should be relatively smooth. The plan was to go from Chang'an to Changsha, then to Guilin, then go to Guangzhou, then to Qinzhou and Jiaozhou southwest, and finally manage the fief Wu'anzhou and arrange it before returning to the court.

But who expected that it took me a month to reach Yuechengling and before I could enter Lingnan, I encountered a roadblock.

The five hundred miles of Yuechengling Mountains in Hunan and Guizhou rebelled, destroyed the spiritual canals, blocked the narrow roads, plundered the villages, and attacked prefectures and counties.

Although Yuechengling was hundreds of miles long and countless li and barbarians lived there, because the Lingqu was opened during the Qin Dynasty, it has been an important passage for the Central Plains to the south of Lingnan for 800 years, and has been operating this place with great care throughout the dynasties.

Guilin to the south is the most solid bridgehead operated by the Central Plains court in Lingnan, so there are many barbarians in this mountainous area between Guizhou and Yongzhou.

However, over the past few hundred years, the Han people have moved south and settled in large numbers, and even continued to expand. In fact, the Yuechengling area between Hunan and Guangxi, the mountainous areas, and the plains at the foot of the mountain have basically been occupied by the Han people. Those barbarian tribes, either migrated south and retreated to the backward deep mountains, or lived on the top of the mountain.

Generally speaking, the barbarians on the mountains are not completely barbaric. In the eyes of the court officials, there is actually a big difference between these barbarians and the barbarians in Lingnan. These people are actually called familiar barbarians.

They completely accept the rule of the imperial government and have transactions with the Han people. Although most barbarians do not become naturalized or pay taxes, in the eyes of the imperial government, as long as these barbarians do not act chaotic, the court will not over-attachedly care about them. Anyway, these people are so poor that they have nothing to control.

But who would have expected that this time, these Yuecheng barbarians would join forces to kill them down the mountain.

What exactly is the cause?

As soon as Qin Lang led his team to Yongzhou, he heard that there was a turmoil here. At first, the Yongzhou officials refused to report it truthfully, only saying it was a small conflict, and Qin Lang really believed it.

Unexpectedly, after arriving in Xiangyuan County, I found that the county town was actually captured by the barbarians and looted, leaving behind a broken dead city.

Qin Lang did not retreat to Lingling in Yongzhou, but took the initiative to follow his footsteps.

I chased him all the way to Siming Mountain.

"Is it related to Feng Ang?"

"Impossible. Feng Ang would say that he is the strongest in Lingnan, but the Feng family is located in the southeast of Lingnan, which is the northwest of Lingnan." Qin Lang shook his head.

"But Feng Ang didn't get sick early or late, but he got sick when he arrived in Hengzhou. Is this a problem?" Qin Yong raised his doubts.

秦琅觉得秦用还是很敏锐的,当时冯盎在路过衡阳时突然病倒,随行大夫说他要停下治疗休养,秦琅也没多想,现在再回头想想,或许冯盎当时已经知晓了这边的蛮乱,可这家伙并没有跟秦琅说,只是找理由自己留下,让秦琅单独南下.

This is suspected of killing people with a knife, and it is not ruled out that Feng Ang took the opportunity to see Qin Lang's strength, or wanted to borrow Yuechengman to give Qin Lang a warning.

"Maybe, but so what if I know? The problem is still these mountain barbarians. We can't be blocked by them in Lingbei, right?" Qin Lang smiled.

"Maybe it has something to do with Li Xizhi. The court summoned him into the court. This guy left Guizhou, and the Yuecheng Man was in chaos."

"No matter who he is, maybe Feng Ang, maybe Li Xizhi, more likely it is Tandian or Ning family. There must be someone in Lingnan who doesn't welcome me to go south. They are afraid and worried, so I don't know how to stir up the Yuecheng City to make trouble, but I, Qin Lang, were not scared!"

Qin used his silver hammer to hit his palm, a little irritated, "But now we don't have many people and we are alone and we are not familiar with the terrain of the mountains, and we are not sure whether the situation of the rebellious barbarians will be dangerous. Maybe we can withdraw for the time being, report to the court, or recruit troops from nearby and then come to suppress these barbarians!"

His proposal was relatively stable. No matter how chaotic the mountain man, it would not be a climate, but Qin Lang just shook his head.
Chapter completed!