Hanhou

After buying the remaining silk cloth and loading the traded grain and salt sauce into the cart, Zhao Jia ordered Ji Bao to take Qing Zhuang out of the city first, and he and Ji Xiong went to the iron shop in the east of the city to buy the farm tools needed for the livestock farm. Meet outside the city gate.

It was still early before dark, and the military market was still lively.

It really took a lot of effort for Ji Bao and Qing Zhuang to drive the fully loaded cart to leave the long street.

Zhao Jia and Ji Xiong only carried copper coins, but they were faster. They crossed two streets and alleys, met patrolling soldiers, showed their wooden cards, confirmed their identities, and were quickly let go.

There is a strict order in the city that barbarians are not allowed to enter the east of the city. If they dare to break in, they will be arrested and sent to prison.Whether you can come out alive, you can only resign yourself to fate.

There have been several bloody lessons. Even the spies hiding in the caravan and trying to infiltrate the city to find out the news did not dare to leave the north of the city easily.In case of being caught and imprisoned, with Zhou Jue Cao's method, copper skin and iron bones can also be smashed.Unless you bite off your tongue, you have to confess sooner or later.

Compared with the people coming and going in the north of the city, the east of the city is obviously much deserted.

Zhao Jia and Ji Xiong trotted all the way to find the iron shop.

There was a stove burning inside the shop, and the heat was overwhelming.

Even in the cold winter, the blacksmiths are still shirtless.With each swing of the heavy hammer, the muscles on the shoulders, back and arms swelled, sweating, and the strong body seemed to be covered with a layer of tung oil.

"Zhao Langjun." A craftsman with a red face and a short beard under his jaw put down his tools, grabbed a short cloth to wipe his sweat, and turned to greet Zhao Jia.

After a brief greeting, Zhao Jia explained the farm tools needed this time.The craftsman wrote it down carefully, asked the eldest son to fetch the wooden deed, divided it into two halves, and set the price and pick-up date.

"So, I'll pick it up in half a month."

After collecting the wooden deed, Zhao Jia left the iron shop, and returned along the same way as Ji Xiong.

Surprisingly, when the two rushed outside the city gate, Ji Bao and the others were nowhere to be seen.After waiting for a full quarter of an hour, they saw the young and strong men coming in big carts, some of them had their leather jackets ripped off, and their faces were still full of anger.

"What's going on?" Zhao Jia asked with a frown.

"Meet a group of unreasonable people." Ji Bao put down the rope, and said in a deep voice, "The caravan from other counties, obviously they came to hit us, insisting that we hurt their people, so they insisted on detaining a cart , otherwise it will be compensated with fur, and it also specifically asks for wolf and fox skins."

"What?" Zhao Jia's eyes widened, more stunned than angry.

Is this the Western Han version of Porcelain?

After eating the heart of a bear and the guts of a leopard, if you do this in Yunzhong City, without mentioning the strict orders of the prefect's mansion, are you really not afraid of being beaten to death on the spot?

"Do it?" Ji Xiong asked curiously, looking at him twice.

"Nearly." Ji Bao clenched his jaw and clenched his fists loudly, "The army patrolling the city came too fast. The one in the lead was yelling about Guan Shi, and before he could continue talking, he was tied up and dragged away. Walk."

Guan Shi?

Zhao Jia paused.

The Guan family, who can be called famous in the border county... Could it be related to Guan Fu, the prime minister of the country?

"Lang Jun?"

"It's okay." Zhao Jia coughed lightly.

No matter how you say it, as long as your own people don't suffer, other matters can be discussed again.These people were arrested and brought into the official temple, and the method of killing Cao Cao, their identities, and the purpose of making troubles in the city could be found out very quickly.

If you want to know the follow-up, you can visit the prefect's mansion next time you enter the city.

"When people are arrested, things will be explained sooner or later. It's getting late, so go back to the livestock farm first."

"promise!"

Zhao Jia gave an order, and everyone mounted their horses, and those who drove the carts drove, carrying the grain and salt and sauce exchanged in the market, and speeding up to the livestock farm.

In the official temple, the army handed over the captured businessmen to the prison guards.After learning about the situation, the latter ordered the jailers to detain them separately, and then went to report to Cao Cao for execution.

"Guan Shi?"

Zhou Juecao put down the bamboo slips, pondered for a moment, got up and said, "I will go to the trial myself."

"promise!"

It took less than half an hour from when Zhou Juecao entered the execution room to when the jailer took out five or six bamboo slips.

The bamboo slips were stained with blood, which could not be wiped off.The businessman who was interrogated was no longer as arrogant and domineering as before. He was dragged out of the execution room by the jailer and thrown back into the cell. One by one, their faces turned pale, and they shook like leaves falling in the wind.

"According to his confession, he is indeed a member of the country's prime minister, and this matter should be reported to the envoy." Zhou Jue Cao threw away the fine cloth for wiping his hands, and asked the jailer to put the bamboo slips recording the confession into a wooden box, and went with him to see Wei Taishou.

Wei Shang was discussing with the chief secretary about building a fortress in Hushi and deploying garrison troops. He was a little surprised when he heard that the family boy reported to Zhou Jue that Cao would see him.

"Caught the Huns' spies?" Wei Shang asked when he saw the bamboo slips recording the confession.

"It's not a spy of the Huns, it's about the prime minister of the country." Zhou Juecao sat down with Wei Shang, opened his confession, and explained the matter in detail.

These merchants are indeed of the same family as Guanfu, but their blood relationship is very distant.In fact, their surname is not Guan at all, but Zhang.Previously, he used the name of Guanfu to run amok in Yingchuan.Because he gave tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of money to Guan Fu every year, and got shelter, he acted more and more unscrupulously, oppressed the villagers, and even killed them, becoming a powerful family.

After winter, the furs in the county became more expensive, and they were jealous of the profits. The clan wanted to get a share of the pie, and forced the fur merchants in the city to ruin their families. Later, they organized caravans to go north.

The leader of the team is used to domineering in the countryside, and he doesn't know how to restrain himself when he comes to Yunzhong County.Seeing that Zhao Jia and the others had fine furs in their hands, they became suspicious.Knowing that it can't be robbed, he simply resorted to rogue methods, not wanting to steal the chicken without losing money, not getting the benefits, and being caught by the army and thrown into prison.

Yingchuan is far away from the frontier fortress, and has never been iron-heeled by the Huns.These people think they are capable, but they don't know that it is a joke in Border County, where everyone can fight the Xiongnu.

If the army hadn't captured them, Ji Bao Ji Xiong would have killed half of them on the spot with more than a dozen young men.If they can't be killed, they can be maimed. After the beating, they are thrown out of the city, and they are lucky not to be eaten by wild wolves.

However, if they were not beaten up by the young and strong, their fate would not be so good.When he was brought into the punishment room and met Cao Jue of Zhou, no matter what he could say or not, he spoke clearly like beans poured out of a bamboo tube.

After Zhou Juecao finished speaking, Wei Shang let out a sneer.

"Guan Zhongru loves money very much. He condoned the lawlessness of his clansmen and received millions of dollars. After becoming the Prime Minister of the country, the mansion raised diners and gathered a dozen rangers. There have been rumors in the court, but he has never changed. Sooner or later, He will kill himself without anyone else doing it."

"My lord, is this going to Chang'an?"

Wei Shang shook his head and said, "Earlier when the Xiongnu went south, Guan Fu led the soldiers on behalf of the country to stop the enemy and killed two leaders of the Hu tribe. The emperor still uses him."

Even if it was reported to Chang'an, as long as Guan Fu insisted that he didn't know, and the clansmen took all the responsibility, it still wouldn't hurt him at all.

If you want to take down Guan Fu, you must have solid evidence and be convicted of a serious crime.At that time, many people in the court would be happy to give Guan Fu a ride, given that Guan Fu had offended others.Cheng Bushi, who led troops to aid the border counties before, but was insulted by him at the top of the city, was one of them.

"How should the detainees be dealt with?"

"According to the law. The native place is Yingchuan, and you should keep the documents with Yingchuan. Make another copy of the confession and order it to be sent as soon as possible." Wei Shangdao.

From Wei Shang's point of view, a prefect can't bear to be under the rule of a tyrannical force.The prefect of Yingchuan may not have wanted to punish him, but it was always hard to do it because of Guan Fu.Now he is arresting people in Yunzhong City, and handing over the crimes to the other party, making it clear that he will help to deal with the accident, but anyone with a brain will not give up such a god-given opportunity.

No one can find out the reason for eradicating the powerful under the rule and eliminating harm for the people.If Guan Fu dared to investigate, he would jump into the scene of the fire and stick out his neck to seek death!

Comprehending Wei Shang's intention, Zhou Jue Cao personally wrote a document, attached a confession, and sent someone to Yingchuan County.After that, all the arrested people were punished as Chengdan for the crime of "group robbery and robbery", and the leader was punished with two hundred lashes.

Not to mention everything in the city, when Zhao Jia and his party arrived at the livestock farm, the sun had already set in the west. Uncle Hu and Uncle Xiong each led a team of young men, armed with torches, carrying bows and arrows, and with short knives at their waists, patrolling along the border of the livestock farm. Strictly prevent wild wolves and foxes from jumping into the livestock farm.

As for those gazelles that jumped into the fence after nightfall and mixed with the flock, the crowd couldn't drive them away after several times, so they just turned a blind eye and let them go.

Seeing the procession coming from a distance, Huber ordered everyone to stand still and shook the torches in his hands.After getting a response, they confirmed that it was Zhao Jia and his party, and immediately opened the wooden fence to help drive the cart into the livestock farm.

"There's rice in the car, and five cans of sauce. Let Mrs. Sun put it in the warehouse alone." Zhao Jia got off the horse and patted the bay red horse's neck.The latter snorted, and returned to the stable with Ji Bao and the others' mounts.

"Rice?" Hu Bo asked in amazement, "Is Lang Jun selling rice?"

"Yes." Zhao Jia nodded, "Half a car away."

When all the carts entered the farm, Qing Zhuang immediately closed the fence, then opened the bowstring, and fired several arrows in a row, forcing back the faint green light hovering in the distance.

"A pack of wolves?" Zhao Jia turned around and took a look.

"There are probably more than ten of them. The servant has arranged manpower to prevent them from approaching the livestock farm." Hu Bo said.

Zhao Jia nodded, and was about to ask again, when Zhao Puonu suddenly ran over, and when he got close, he didn't have time to catch his breath, he grabbed Hu Bo's sleeve, and said anxiously: "Elder, go and have a look, Ah Bai is afraid wrong!"

A Bai is a Xiongnu horse raised in the livestock farm, and has been taken care of by the teenagers.When she was pregnant with a foal last year, the teenagers almost stared at her. Some people would sleep in the stables at night, fearing that something might happen.

"Come on!"

Knowing that the situation was urgent, Zhao Jia was going to rush to the stable with Uncle Hu.

When Zhao Ponu saw Zhao Jia, he thought that he lost his composure just now, and was about to speak, but was slapped on the back by Zhao Jia: "I'll talk about it later, go see Ah Bai first!"

The three of them came to the stable quickly and found torches everywhere, Zhao Xin and Gongsun Ao stood by, the white horse fell to the ground, its belly swollen, neighing continuously in pain, as Zhao Puonu said, the situation was very wrong.

Hu Bo walked forward quickly, and squatted beside the white horse, while comforting him, he tested the white horse's reaction with his hands.After a while, he turned to the boy and said, "Go to Uncle Xiong, this is about to give birth to a foal!"

The teenagers didn't dare to delay, they quickly turned around and ran away.Zhao Jia stepped forward, trying to help Hu Bo calm the white horse.

"Lang Jun, be careful!"

At the same time as Uncle Hu reminded him, Zhao Jia's sleeve was bitten by the white horse, and with great difficulty he broke free, and the outer layer of the leather jacket was almost bitten through.

"It's a lot of strength, good thing!" After confirming that Zhao Jia was fine, Huber smiled and patted the white horse.

Holding up the sleeve that was bitten just now, Zhao Jia didn't know what to say for a while.

Soon, the teenagers arrived surrounded by Uncle Xiong, followed by five or six young and healthy women.

Seeing the situation in front of him, Xiong Bo frowned when he asked how long the white horse had been down, he was not as optimistic as Hu Bo.He touched the white horse's abdomen, rolled up his sleeves without saying a word, and helped the white horse give birth.

The whole process does not seem to be long, but it seems to have lasted for an entire century.

It wasn't until the pony fell to the ground and struggled to stand up, and the teenagers cheered excitedly, that Zhao Jia suddenly realized that he was holding his breath unconsciously, suddenly relaxed, there seemed to be buzzing in his ears, and a burning pain in his throat.

The white horse regained some strength and licked the foal carefully.

The teenagers brought forage-fed bean cakes and a bucket of clean water, and then stood guard in front of the stables one by one, looking at the newborn foals without blinking.

The foal was very small, as white as its mother, except for a streak of black on its forehead.

Uncle Xiong and Uncle Tiger both know horses, and said to Zhao Jia with a smile that as long as the foal can grow up, its size and speed will definitely be no less than Zhao Jia's bay red horse.

The night was getting dark, but Zhao Jia didn't feel sleepy.The birth of a new life is always exciting.The teenagers stood guard in front of the stable and refused to leave. It seemed that they were clearly planning to sleep here.

Seeing this, Zhao Jia stood up, smiled and stopped Uncle Hu who was about to kick him out, and said, "Let them go."

"Lang Jun pampers them too much." Uncle Hu obviously disagreed.

"It's not conniving." Zhao Jia stretched his waist and smiled, "It's rare to have a happy event. Everyone is happy. It's okay to relax."

After leaving the stable, Zhao Jia went straight back to the wooden house.

There was a hearth burning in the room, and Wei Qing and Ah Zhi were sleeping soundly wrapped in their furs.But A Tao didn't sleep, he was guarding by the hearth, holding a wooden tablet in his hand, when he saw Zhao Jia walk in, he immediately got up to greet him.

"Lang Jun!"

"Why don't you sleep?"

"Lang Jun, my elder sister asked someone to send a letter, saying that she is going to Yanmen County!" A Tao was very excited, and handed the wooden slip to Zhao Jia.

Zhao Jia was about to add firewood to the hearth, when he heard this, he was surprised.Wei Yue told him before that the imperial court had cut off the marriage, why did the family members who entered the palace come to Bianjun?

Throwing the firewood into the fire, Zhao Jia took the wooden tablet from Atao's hand, from the beginning to the end, the handwriting was sonorous and powerful, unlike ordinary people who could write. Words such as "Leaving Linjiang Palace, leaving Jiangling City, and entering Chang'an" came into view, and his expression was even more tense.Continue to look down, even more surprised.

If he remembered correctly, the Linjiang King in history was sent to the Lieutenant's Mansion for a crime, and finally committed suicide in prison.Dou Ying and Zhidu were involved, and in the end, Zhidu died under the wrath of Queen Dowager Dou.

The situation today is quite different.

Liu Rong was demoted to a commoner by the seizure of the country, and went to Yanmen to guard the border. The throne and the state were gone, but his life was safe.As the wife of Liu Rong, Yunmei went north with him, accompanied by more than 20 healthy servants, and silk, gold and jade rewarded by the Queen Mother.

Putting down the wooden tablet, Zhao Jia fell into deep thought.

What exactly changed history?

What will such a change bring?

Really couldn't figure it out, Zhao Jia could only press the corner of his forehead and return the wooden tablet to A Tao.According to historical records, Liu Rong was extremely loved by the people in Fengguo.It shouldn't be a bad thing for such a person to go to Yanmen County to guard the border.

It was stated on the wooden tablet that Yunmei hoped to see her family, and since it was uncertain whether Liu Rong could leave Yanmen County, it was the best choice for the Yun family to move to Yanmen.

"A Tao, how is your family settled?" Zhao Jia asked.

"Ah Weng discussed with Aunt, and he will visit Auntie when Sister arrives." A Tao said.

"Aren't you going?"

Atao shook his head.

He really wanted to see sister, but Ah Weng said that he couldn't do it for the time being, so he could only obey.

"When your family leaves, you stay at the farm." Zhao Jia patted A Tao on the head, "Since your elder sister has arrived in Border County, we will see you sooner or later."

Atao nodded vigorously, let go of his thoughts, and yawned involuntarily.

Zhao Jia shook his head and laughed, and placed him next to Wei Qing, wrapped him tightly with animal skins, made sure that the hearth would not go out, and that there were gaps in the doors and windows, then he got up and walked into the compartment, folded his clothes on the couch, and wrapped him in a piece of skin Been, fell into a deep sleep.