Lao Guo's thinking is quite free, he did not regret that he failed to become famous in the world, but felt that this was very good, as a border general, if he wanted to become famous, there would be a lot of opportunities, there were countless opportunities waiting for him, as long as he was willing, he could continue to make meritorious contributions, and then the official position was raised step by step, just like An Lushan and Ge Shuhan in history, these two people made their fortunes through continuous meritorious service, regardless of the lives of soldiers, by the way, and Gao Xianzhi, actually ran to the distant river to Talas, and buried all the elites of Anxi.

Comparatively speaking, Lao Guo has always been unknown, before the Anshi Rebellion, the entire Tang Dynasty history books, there is almost no record of him, as if this person never existed, and it is precisely because of this that people in later generations do not know what Lao Guo was doing when he was young, what experience he had, what people can know is Lao Guo after the Anshi Rebellion, for the previous Lao Guo, no one knows what kind of person he is, in the film and television dramas of later generations, Lao Guo is also an old man when he appears.

Now that the Anshi Rebellion will not happen, maybe Lao Guo will never have the opportunity to become famous again! His life may not be recorded too much in the history books, and if anything, it can only be a few words.

There is a good saying, heroes are born in troubled times, that is to say, only in the environment of troubled times, it is possible to appear great heroes who save the people from fire and water, and a large number of very talented people will appear.

So, before the upheaval, there were no heroes in the world? This is obviously impossible, the heroes of the troubled times only came forward in the troubled times, before the turmoil, they hibernated silently, just like Lao Guo, honestly as a commander of the army, will not deliberately create trouble for the sake of merit, let alone like An Lushan, to attack the nomads in the north for no reason, in order to flaunt their great merits.

Lao Guo is a great hero dormant in the world, only when the Tang Empire is facing danger, he will stand up without hesitation, and if there is no such crisis, Lao Guo will lie dormant quietly, and will not deliberately create opportunities for success in order to become famous in the world.

Lao Guo's quality is very commendable and worthy of everyone's respect, Ang Lee respects Lao Guo very much, and thinks that Lao Guo is a very great person, and there are too many shining points on his body that make people respect and worship.

"Three meals a day, being able to eat one meal is one meal, how is this like being a monk for a day and hitting a bell for a day, Lao Guo doesn't have a little ambition?"

Ang Lee asked.

"Haha! It's not nothing, the four seas are quiet, and the people live and work in peace and contentment is my ambition, and I don't know if this ambition can be regarded as ambition. ”

Lao Guo said.

"Count, of course, I wish the people of the world to live and work in peace and contentment, this ambition is not high, but it can definitely be realized, and now it seems to be almost realized, after so many years, there is not much war, the people are now living and working in peace and contentment, and Lao Guo's ambition has been realized."

Li An said.

Lao Guo smiled and said, "Hahaha! It seems to be true! As long as the people can live in peace and contentment, this is enough. ”

This time, he went all out to exterminate the horse thieves, in order to let the people live in peace and happiness, which is also part of Lao Guo's ambition.

In a whole day, the team only marched forward for less than thirty miles, and the leader of the horse thieves was very dissatisfied with this, and was also very worried, at this speed, he arrived at Hutu Mountain in Hedong, and he was afraid that it would be enough to choke in a month, which was much slower than he predicted.

After all, he was born as a horse thief, and he has always been able to gallop 200 miles in one night, but after all, he is riding on horseback, and he does not carry a sufficient amount of luggage, which can achieve a higher speed, but now the situation is completely different, in order to carry a large amount of treasure, horse thieves are leading horses to walk, and when they encounter bad roads, they even have to push horses to walk, this speed can be fast There are ghosts, but the leader of the horse thieves obviously has not experienced this situation, so he did not expect to walk so slowly.

"What is the situation in my hometown, are the people who pull the grain here?"

Seeing that one of the spies had returned, the leader of the horse thieves asked.

After setting off, he left a few men and horses in the lair, waiting for the caravan from Xiazhou City to come and pull the goods, so as to pull the grain piled up in the nest to Hutu Mountain in Hedong, because he was worried that the caravan would be interrogated by officers and soldiers, so he was always a little uneasy.

"Chief, everything is going well, the grain in my hometown has been loaded and transported away, the caravan has made a detour, and it has not aroused the suspicion of the officers and soldiers, and there are no officers and soldiers to follow it, everything is going very smoothly, and now, the convoy should be on the official road."

The spy spoke.

"Okay, that's great, by the way, how are the skinny monkeys, are they in trouble?"

The leader of the horse thieves continued to ask.

"Chief, they didn't encounter any trouble, and they traveled eighty miles in one day and entered the jurisdiction of Dejing County, and they should be able to enter Yinzhou tomorrow night, they are walking too fast, and in the future, I am afraid that they will not be able to contact every day."

The spy said.

The leader of the horse thieves nodded, "That's right! They went too fast, and the contact became a problem, but the skinny monkey is a capable person, and I believe he can take care of himself, hey! Then again, we're walking too slowly. ”

"Big brother, we have brought so many treasures, is it normal to be able to walk fast?"

The one-eyed man on the side spoke.

He had always had reservations about the horse thief leader's refusal to spend money to buy roads, and felt that this was a wrong move in spite of the difficulties of reality, but he was powerless to oppose it, but he was not very comfortable.

"You can't go so slow! Tomorrow let the brothers work harder and go faster. ”

The leader of the horse thieves spoke.

One-eyed was very depressed in his heart, the brothers had done their best, with so many salutes, walking thirty miles a day was already good, and it was not realistic to go faster, this speed was a relatively normal speed, and the leader of the horse thieves was still not satisfied, except for discarding part of the treasure, he couldn't think of a way to increase the speed of the team, as for forcing the brothers to go faster, it was difficult to do, although these horse thieves were relatively strong, but they were not professional hard-working personnel, It's not even the hard-working old peasants, who expect them to go as fast as they can, they can't do it at all, they come to be horse thieves for enjoyment, and they actually want to make them suffer a great sin, how can they endure it.

"Big brother, the brothers are already working very hard, if you force it too much, I'm afraid that the brothers will have opinions, and if there is a mutiny, things will be bad."

One-eyed spoke.

The leader of the horse thieves said disappointedly: "I know that the brothers are very hard, but you see, this walk is too slow, and I have rested so many times along the way, if I go a little faster, and I have a few fewer breaks along the way, maybe I can walk forty miles, and it will be good to walk one more mile." ”

Obviously, the leader of the horse thieves was still reluctant to give up his treasure, and at the same time, he did not want to see the team go so slowly, which was a dilemma.

One-eyed said helplessly: "Big brother, I will tell the brothers tomorrow, let them go faster, it's not early, big brother should rest early!" ”

The leader of the horse thieves nodded, and went to the back tent to rest, but it was not so easy to fall asleep, how could he easily fall asleep if he had something on his mind?

There are a lot of people who have something on their minds, and the leader of the horse thieves is just one of them, and in the Thorn History Mansion in Xiazhou City, the Thorn History of Xiazhou is also angry and can't sleep.

Before, I heard that the shopkeeper of the rice shop wanted to apply for legal documents for more than 100 people, and Xiazhou Thorn Shi felt that this was a very rare opportunity to extort bamboo, and after understanding the amount of funds for the sale of the industry by the shopkeeper of the rice shop, they decisively put forward a sky-high license condition, thinking that they could get the opportunity to extort bamboo nine times out of ten.

Unexpectedly, the shopkeeper of the rice shop did not agree to this condition, and soon led more than 100 carriages to leave Xiazhou City and go to the direction of Qiwu Mountain.

When the owner of the rice shop led the convoy away, Sihu Langzhong immediately reported, hearing the news, Xiazhou Thorn Shi was very angry, however, he was a state Thorn Shi, and without legal procedures, he could not send someone to pursue, so he could only let the rice shop shopkeeper leave Xiazhou City.

The boiled duck flew away like this, and in the heart of Xia Zhou Thorn Shi, it was called a gas! If he was not so greedy and gave a more reasonable price, maybe this would have happened, but now, everything is different, the shopkeeper of the rice shop has left, and he has completely lost this golden opportunity.

Although as a state assassin, he has many opportunities to be greedy for money, but the economic conditions of Xia Prefecture are not very good, and the desertification environment has made many people flee here, so there is not much money that can be greedy, and businessmen are very shrewd lords, and it is not easy to be greedy for money from businessmen, it is risky.

Before, when a horse thief was active in Qiwu Mountain, he could secretly contact the horse thief, use the horse thief to rob the merchants, and then, get a piece of the pie himself, but now, the horse thief has run away, he has lost this good opportunity to make a fortune, it is unrealistic to rob directly from the merchants, many of these merchants have backgrounds, maybe they will offend anyone.

"Xiazhou is really not a good place, isn't it time to leave?"

Xiazhou Thorn Shi said to himself.

As a state assassin, he has a lot of power, but Xia Prefecture is a relatively poor state and county, he doesn't like it very much, almost all corrupt officials, they like rich places, they can get a lot of money casually, and it is more difficult to make money in poor places, so no one wants to go to poor places to be officials.

In addition, the poorer the place, the greater the number of Diao people, and the poor mountains and bad waters will come out of Diao people, which will definitely not be an empty word, but a big truth that really exists.

Most of the poor people are relatively simple, but there will always be a few people in each village, which is very difficult.

In addition, for many officials who want to oppress ordinary people, many simple people have also become Diao Min in their eyes, after all, these poor and simple people cannot tolerate others to be bullied, in order not to be bullied by the officials, they can even fight for their own lives, which makes the officials who want to bully the people very afraid, in order to loot a little more money, they actually have to risk the rebellion of the people, and it will not be comfortable on anyone.

And in some wealthy areas, the situation is completely different, the ordinary people in these rich areas have some surplus wealth in their hands, and they are living a good life, when officials loot, they generally will not encounter much resistance, as long as the looting is not large, they will generally pay obediently, after all, it is not worth losing their lives for a little money, they will not be willing to lose their lives? This is also the reason why most officials like to go to wealthy places to become officials, just to be able to make more money.

The history of Xiazhou has a background, if he really wants to leave Xiazhou, it is not impossible, as long as he wants to leave, he will definitely be able to leave smoothly, however, it is not a simple matter for the imperial court to transfer officials, it is necessary to coordinate with various yamen, if such a big official is transferred to another state casually, it is too child's play.

The temptation of food is not small, after telling the soldiers last night that there is a delicious food in the Lushui River Valley, the next morning, all the soldiers got up early in good spirits, and after they ate a delicious breakfast, they set off in batches, in order to be able to reach the river valley quickly.

After all, the smaller the team, the faster the speed of the march, and for the larger team, because it is necessary to maintain the formation, therefore, when marching, the speed will be greatly affected, the soldiers in order to be able to reach the Lushui River Valley more quickly, so they adopted the strategy of dividing the troops, according to the standard of a hundred people for a team of rapid march, as long as there is no delay on the road, it is sure to be able to reach the Lushui River Valley after dark.

Compared with the rapid action of the officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, the horse thieves were too slow, and they walked less than thirty miles on the first day, which was enough to give the leader of the horse thieves a headache, but on the second day, under the urging of the one-eyed, the speed of the team not only did not improve, but became slower.

Because the road on the second day needs to pass through a very difficult mountain road, this mountain road is necessary to avoid the checkpoint, but the road is very difficult to walk, the passage of horses on this mountain road is very reluctant, in many narrow places, can only accommodate a horse-wide object to pass, and the horses are hung on both sides of the box, so it is really impassable, the only way is to unload these boxes from the horse, use the method of manpower to carry through this steep road, after coming to this section, Then tie the box to the sides of the horse's back.

This method can solve the problem very well, you can unload the box, lift the box, and then rehang the box, this process is very hard and cumbersome, not only very tiring, but also very time-consuming.