Huan Rong

The Yanting guard climbed over the courtyard wall and landed firmly with his knees slightly bent.

Several Xianbei Hu merchants tied their hands behind their backs and hung them into the courtyard with thick ropes around their waists. Then they were thrown heavily to the ground, and their screams changed in tone.

I didn't feel it when I ran away, but now I'm lying on the ground, unable to move my hands and feet. Only a few people realized that the injury on the face was minor, and it was really fatal after being bumped by the elk a few times before.Especially for those whose backs were pushed against, a few bones may have been broken.

"Get up, don't pretend to be dead!"

The guard stepped forward and saw that Hu Shang was not moving, so he raised his foot twice, just in time to kick Xianbeihu's wound.

"Ow—"

Hu Shang screamed again, with cold sweat pouring out of his forehead, soaking into the wound continuously, and the pain was so painful that he wished he could just hit his head against the wall and finish it off.

Seeing that Hu Shang was indeed unable to move, the guards snorted coldly, bent down and grabbed Hu Shang's arm, and dragged him directly to the front hall.As for whether it will cause second-degree damage... If you can't die, it will be fine.

At this moment, Hu Shang brought back by Goshawk was already kneeling under the hall.

The county government office has been in disrepair for a long time. After two months of repairs, it has changed a lot compared to before, but it is not as good as the houses in Dongcheng, let alone Huanfu.Especially the front hall, which is almost ventilated on all sides, is fine in summer and autumn, but in winter, it is definitely a place to test one's will.

Huan Rong was a little afraid of the cold, so he added an extra cloak over his long robe, but he still sneezed from the cold.When the servant brought the brazier to warm and dispel the damp and cold, Huan Rong breathed a sigh of relief and felt much better.

"Ah!"

Huan Rong sneezed again, covered his nose with his long sleeves, tried his best to maintain the majesty of a county order, sat upright with a serious expression.

"Your Majesty, all the people have been brought here."

The guards dragged Hu Shang to the hall, saw that Hu Shang didn't move, didn't waste his saliva, and kicked him hard.With several screams, Hu Shang didn't dare to continue pretending to be dead, and struggled to get up on his knees to avoid being kicked a few more times.

On the day of Yuanzheng, none of the newly elected civil servants were in the yamen, so Huan Rong could only roll out the paper himself and record the confessions made by the Hu merchants.

"Who are you, and what is the purpose of spying on Yanting?"

Perhaps due to the New Year's food, Huan Rong was particularly impatient today.After drinking two bowls of peach soup, there is still a bit of bitter and spicy taste left in my mouth. Thinking of the bad things since time travel, it is even more unpleasant to look at a few Xianbei Hu.

"If you confess honestly, you can still save your life. If not, this is your memorial day next year!"

Before he finished speaking, several ring-headed knives came out of his body with a clang, and were placed on Hu Shang's neck.

If it were any other militant Xianbeihu, he wouldn't take such a threat seriously.However, Hu Shang has left the battlefield for a long time, left his tribal status, and has been dealing with gold and silver all year round. All he wants to do is to keep his family's wealth and status, and his bones have already softened.

With the knife resting on his neck, he could feel a chill.

Frightened, a Hu merchant finally said: "We are Murong Xianbei, under the tent of Murong Chui, King of Wu in Yan Kingdom..."

Now that the hole is opened, it will naturally be torn apart.

Even if someone wanted to persevere, and even risked his life, his companion had already spoken, and persistence became meaningless.In the end, even if he lost his life in vain, King Wu might not let his family go.

After figuring it out, several Hu merchants scrambled to confess, not only revealing the purpose of their trip to Yandu, but even revealing their spying in Jiankang.

"Do you still have accomplices in the city?"

"Yes." Hu Shang didn't hesitate at all.If you can't protect yourself, what's the use of protecting those Han people.

Huan Rong didn't believe everything they said.It was the first time I came into contact with Murong Xianbei, and I couldn't figure out the details of the other party, so it was hard to guarantee that the other party would not cheat and give him wrong information.

"How many people are there, and where are they now?"

"The three of them are all in the east of the city."

Huan Rong immediately pointed out several guards and ordered them to go to the east of the city to fetch people.

"If this statement is true, let it go, if you dare to lie to me..."

In the middle of the conversation, Huan Rong didn't continue to speak, and several Xianbei Hu Qi shivered, wishing they could just lie on the ground, not daring to look at Huan Rong at all.

Everyone felt strange, the Han county magistrate in front of him was not very old, why was he so majestic?

Huan Rong looked down at the few people, pouted in his heart, wouldn't he know how to learn if he didn't have this ability?The scum dad is the best example, you don't need to copy them all, you can learn a little or two, put on an appearance, and use it to "intimidate" these barbarians who are frightened by the goshawks are more than enough.

The guards went to the east of the city to fetch people, but Huan Rong didn't continue to interrogate them, but hung the Hu merchants in the hall, flipped through the papers recording the confessions page by page, and began to think seriously about how to resolve this sudden trouble.

The foundation I have laid hard, the territory I have circled, I want to pick the fruits so easily, it is too good to think!

Hu merchants knelt on the cold ground, the cold pouring from their legs into their limbs.The bloodstains on his face had solidified, and his face was tense, painful and itchy.The broken bone was not healed, and it was so painful that it was a little numb.

Sweat poured out one after another, and after being dried by the wind, it took away the heat from the body's surface. Hu Shang was shivering from the cold, but he didn't dare to move easily.The knife was still on his neck, and if he accidentally cut it, his blood would splatter on the spot.

The front hall was quiet, and no one made a sound for a long time.

There was a sudden sound of footsteps outside the door. It turned out that Xiao Tong Ji hung Huan Rong's daily "meals", specially bringing peach soup, grain cakes, and a whole plate of roasted mutton.

Knowing Huan Rong's habits, the boy specially asked the cook to roll out the grain cakes thinly, stick them in the oven and bake them, sprinkle sesame seeds on them, and put them on the lacquer plate, still steaming.

Huan Rong passed his hand, picked up a piece of grain cake, it was crispy in the mouth, after a few mouthfuls, he picked up the second piece.

The guards of Huan Rong's appetite knew it well, so they were not surprised.The Hu merchants were quite surprised. Seeing more than 20 grain cakes disappear in the blink of an eye, their eyeballs rolled all over the ground, and they couldn't even pick them up.

About half an hour later, the guards came back over the wall again, and the three Han people confessed by Hu merchants were all tied up and thrown into the hall.

The three of them are all ordinary in stature and appearance, and they belong to the characters who are thrown into the crowd and disappear in a blink of an eye.The eyes are too active, as if calculating something all the time, which makes people very uncomfortable.

"Your Majesty, the servants searched for this item from his hiding place!"

The guard took a few steps forward and presented a bundle of plain thin silk to Huan Rong.

"When the servant arrived, these three people were packing up and saluting. They hid two pieces of gold and three bolts of silk, and wanted to escape from the city."

Seeing the guard handing over the silk cloth, Hu Shang didn't feel anything.Hearing that the three men were hiding gold, they immediately jumped into a rage. Regardless of the pain on their bodies, they rushed to the three men and shouted angrily, "Dare the thief!"

Hu Shang gritted his teeth with hatred, he was still hesitant to be held down by the guards, and almost rushed forward to bite him.

It turned out that the three of them were private slaves of Hu merchants in Xianbei. Because they could write and draw, they gradually gained the trust of Hu merchants, and they had to take them with them every time they went south.Unexpectedly, these three people took advantage of the unpreparedness of Hu merchants and secretly hid gold and silver!

This makes Hu Shang how not to be angry.

Compared to Hu Shang's anger, the three of them were much calmer.They have no loyalty to the Hu people, and they are willing to be driven by gold and silver.Now that the Hu people have fallen into the hands of the Jin officials, they are likely to die soon.You should find another way out for yourself, at least to save your life.

Hu Shang has been cursing angrily, and suffered several kicks for this.The three knelt on the ground, exchanged glances in secret, and let him scold, but they had made up their minds.

Huan Rong didn't understand this farce, and unfolded the silk cloth little by little. Seeing the mountains, rivers, topography and landforms on the map, he couldn't help but gasp.

The detail of this map is far beyond imagination, especially the road from Sheyang to Yandu, which is marked in great detail, and it must have been walked more than once.

"Is this picture drawn by you?"

Seeing Huan Rong's question, the three of them nodded at the same time without hesitation, and said, "It's the three of us working together."

"Oh." Huan Rong stood up, walked up to the three of them, looked down at the expressions of the three of them, and frowned slightly, "Where is your ancestral home? How can you be with the barbarians?"

"Mr. Huifu, servants and others were originally from Pengcheng, and their ancestors were small officials in the county. When the Hu people invaded the south, the whole family became private slaves of the Hu people. In order to protect the whole family, they had to fight against the Hu people..."

After the three of them talked about it, they seemed to have poor backgrounds and deserved sympathy.But considering what they did in the past, the credibility of their words will be compromised.

Sure enough, before the three of them finished speaking, Hu Shang immediately shouted: "You are lying! You voluntarily joined my father's account, swore to be driven by my father, and in order to gain my father's trust, you even killed two Promoted officer!"

Huan Rong raised his eyebrows, watching Hu Shang scolding furiously, the three of them shouted for grievances in unison, but did not make a sound to stop them.

"I can swear to my ancestors that they took refuge voluntarily! Not to mention their fathers and grandfathers, these three, not long ago, conspired to intercept a Han merchant ship, killed the entire ship, and snatched several boxes of pearls, gold and silver!"

"The gold they hid was snatched from merchant ships!"

"If you don't believe me, you can search them, there must be pearls!"

Huan Rong's gaze was cold, and he took two steps back, ordering the guards to go forward and search carefully, and sure enough, two pearls the size of a finger belly were found in one person's boots.

"You don't think it's a kick!" Hu Shang sneered triumphantly.

Huan Rong just glanced at it, and waved his hands casually, he has a lot of pearls, so he just bought wine for the guards in the mansion.

"Thank you, Lord!"

The guard was overjoyed, wrapped the pearls and tucked them into his belt, watching the expressions of the three with increasing disdain.

After the Eight Kings Rebellion, the north was occupied by Hu people, and there were not a few Han people who stayed in the north.Many people were caught as private slaves, and those who were thrown into the accounts of Hu people were not alone.However, these three families took the initiative to seek refuge with the barbarians, and raised their butcher knives against their former colleagues, and even wanted to plunder and kill the people of the Han family.

"Fu Jun, these three people should be killed!"

Huan Rong didn't nod or shake his head, first let the guards take Hu Shang down, and send him to the saltworks seven days later.

"I will not die."

Since they have tried everything possible to spy on the salt farms and thought of looting the salt farms, they will be made salt slaves directly as they wish.Being guarded by guards and salt workers, these people would never fly away even if they grew wings.

Hu Shang begged for mercy loudly, angrily scolded Huan Rong for being dishonest, and was immediately gagged by the guards, who dragged him out of the front hall.

"Why doesn't Fu Jun believe it?" A guard said, "Didn't you keep your heads? If you don't want to, just say it. I'm not afraid of taking responsibility. I'll send you on your way right now!"

Hu Shang trembled twice, and finally did not dare to continue earning money.

In the hall, Huan Rong looked down at the three of them, and said coldly: "If you can draw a map of the southern land, you must be able to draw the northern land as well?"

The three of them didn't reply immediately, but when they saw Huan Rong's impatient face, someone boldly said: "Mr. Huifu, servants can map the land of Yan, Pengcheng to Yingchuan is the most detailed."

"Okay." Huan Rong smiled suddenly, and said, "I'll give you seven days to draw a map. If I'm satisfied, I can spare your life and send it to the saltworks together with the barbarians. If not, So they beheaded you and killed your corpse, and hung them on the gate outside the city, so that the world will know how you have forgotten your ancestors and betrayed your ancestors!"

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the three of them turned ashen and terrified.

"Your Majesty, the servants are aware of their mistakes, please spare your lives!"

"If you want to save your life, draw a map." Huan Rong didn't soften his heart, "Take it down!"

After the order was issued, the three were dragged away by the guards on the spot and detained separately.

The reason why each person has a map is not because Huan Rong is deliberately looking for trouble, but because he doesn't trust the three of them.Who really has evil intentions, draws mistakes on purpose, puts the three together, compares the memories in his mind, not to mention correcting them immediately, he will always find the problem.

Remembering that the letter was not yet finished, Huan Rong tightened his cloak and planned to return to the back hall.

Walking down the corridor, a satiated goshawk flew from the slant, flapped its wings twice, and landed on Huan Rong's shoulder.

"I'll trouble you tomorrow." Huan Rong tilted his head and chuckled, brushed his fingers over the goshawk's belly feathers, and said, "I don't know how long it will take to fly north from here, five days or ten days?"

Goshawk tilted his head, and opened his mouth to bite Huan Rong's lock of hair, not too hard, it was more like a warning than an attack.After letting go of his mouth, he chirped, as if saying to Huan Rong: Do you dare to question Lao Tzu's flying ability? !

"Well, I know I shouldn't worry."

The Gejin had already been torn apart by the goshawk, and two strands of black hair were scattered on the sideburns.Huan Rong simply untied all of them, letting his black hair hang over his shoulders, with the tail dancing in the wind.

Under the ancient wooden corridor, a handsome young man strolls in the garden, with a black-brown goshawk on his shoulder, with the cold wind blowing and the winter rain falling, it is printed into the picture scroll and engraved into the long river of history.

In Xihe County, Qin Clan's Wubao, Qin Ce specially summoned his confidantes to make a detailed description of the map brought back by Qin Jing, and invited people familiar with the southern land to make up for possible omissions in the map.If there is any dispute over a river in a county or county, it must be confirmed by five or six people before it can be settled.

Murong Liang was very "trustworthy", and began to collect people when he returned to Yandi. Three hundred households have been sent to Luozhou, and another five hundred households are already on the way.Upon receiving the news from Qin Yu, Qin Jing immediately took out two gold beads, packed them in a silk bag, attached a short letter to the bag, and put them on a golden carving neck.

Ah Hei was raised by Qin Jing himself, and he is born with spirituality.The other raptors in the castle can't be said to be bad, and they are always a little worse than Ah Hei.

The slender fingers brushed against Feiyu, and Qin Jing let go of the eagle rope.

The golden eagle fluttered its wings and flew to the direction of Luozhou after circling the city for two weeks.

In Jiankang City, the Yuan Dynasty is the day, and a court meeting is held in the palace to celebrate.

Colored lanterns were lit on both sides of the royal road and the palace road, and wooden piles were set up in the courtyard, and a red fire was lit.

The heart of the flame is slightly blue, and sometimes there is a crackling sound.

The musicians plucked the strings, and the singing girl's voice was crisp and clear, sometimes elongating the tune, singing the ancient rhyme handed down from the Qin and Han Dynasties.The dancing girl whirls around the bonfire, with her dancing sleeves folded at her waist, as if fused with the flames.

The ministers entered the palace to congratulate, and offered wine one after another at the banquet. The emperor let go of the booze, and was already drunk in the middle of the court meeting.

In the harem, neither Empress Dowager Chu nor Empress Yu was happy at all.

Empress Yu was worried about her natal family and her own destiny, and she couldn't be happy at all.Empress Dowager Chu frowned when she thought of the words of the sorcerer Hu Qian, and her mood was disturbed.

Not as a last resort, Empress Dowager Chu will not take advantage of Yuan Zheng's day to summon magicians to make a fortune.

Princess Nankang's warning is still in her ears, and Huan Wen's threat is approaching day by day. She doesn't dare to trust Sima Huan's promise anymore, but she can't ask the court for help immediately. She can only ask God for divination, at least for peace of mind.

The results of the hexagrams are both happy and worrying.

After Hu Qian left, the Empress Dowager Chu stared at the three-legged lamp in a trance, turning six words over and over in her mind: Jin's family is stable, and the emperor is easy.