"Marquis, if you are tired from riding, you can hire a small boat to ride, and we will walk slowly on the road. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Lu Fang whispered beside Xu Ping.

Xu Ping looked at the small boat moving slowly in the Bianhe River next to him, and shook his head: "No need, there are no big boats in the Bianhe River now, so we still ride forward together." ”

There are not many boats from the capital to Biankou, and now it has not reached the peak of water, the Yellow River has not yet begun, and there are only scattered boats on the river. And this section is going against the current, even if there is a wind, the speed is very slow, Xu Ping is afraid that it will affect the speed of progress, and the other can't stand the slow rhythm of the boat like a snail.

broke up with Wang Yan in Zhongmu County, Xu Ping didn't bother to listen to him anymore, so he took someone on the road and went to Heyin County along the Bianhe waterway. Wang Yan only followed the convoy of the three divisions to Gong County.

In the evening, we rested in Wansheng Town, which is the largest sales area of Xu's liquor, and naturally there are merchants who distribute his liquor. Zhao Zi, the little military attache he knew back then, has been transferred to the northwest, and now he is a white cloud dog with some fresh faces, which makes Xu Ping sigh very much.

Early the next morning, he left Wansheng Town, where the forbidden army was stationed, and continued along the bank of the Bianhe River.

It was just the beginning of summer, and it was still cool in the morning and evening, and the sun was hot and dry as soon as it came out. The Bianhe River is covered with large willows and elms, which provide a lot of shade on the road.

Xu Ping walked in the shade, facing the wind blowing on the river, all the way to the northwest.

Not far behind is an ox cart hired from Zhongmu County, and Sun Fengnian's family of three is on the ox cart. Xu Ping and them can be regarded as a guide, so as not to know no one in the place and be at the mercy of local officials. And he has promised to find a way out for the Sun family, and it is always safe to arrange it himself.

After a day's travel, I arrived at Yangqiao Town in the evening, and I rested in the town.

Yangqiao belongs to the former Wu County under the rule of Zhengzhou, and it is also the location of the former Wu Ma Jian under the Qun Mu Division, and the horses transferred from the Hebei Ma Jian are the main ones, and the number has been getting smaller and smaller in recent years.

From here, he left Kaifeng Mansion and entered Zhengzhou. Tomorrow through Xingze County, the day after tomorrow you will be able to Heyin County. These counties have suffered greatly from the flooding of the Yellow River, and they are full of salt, with little arable land and sparse population.

On the third day, he left Yingze County, and walked for just over an hour, Lu Fang pointed to the mountains in front of him and said: "Look at the county marquis, there is Guangwu Mountain in front, and as soon as you pass the foot of the mountain, you will arrive at Heyin County." ”

Yingze was originally a large swamp formed by the flooding of the Yellow River, which was renovated over the generations and gradually became a land. Xingze County and Heyin County are very close to each other, less than 30 miles between them, and they can be reached in half a day.

The south bank of the Yellow River is persecuted by Guangwu Mountain, and the north bank is flooded, and the waterways of the Yellow River are uncertain, often in a few decades. In fact, it is from here that the ancient course of the Yellow River has changed many times in history, at this time the original Wu County is still dozens of miles away from the south bank of the Yellow River, but Xu Ping's previous life has been dozens of miles to the north bank of the Yellow River, and how much history is buried under this rolling yellow sand.

Xu Ping's entourage quickly whipped up their horses and ran to Heyin County first, informing the county's officials to go out of the county to greet them.

After walking for another half an hour, Guangwu Mountain on the left was already close in front of him, and a small city not far away also showed a vague figure. The town is small, with only a slight wall, which looks like a mound of earth from a distance.

The Bianhe River stretches northwest along the eastern foot of Guangwu Mountain, and the further you go, the closer you get to the mountain.

When I arrived not far from the county seat of Heyin, I saw a huge crack that divided Guangwu Mountain into two, as if a knife and axe were chopping, and it was shocking at a glance.

Xu Ping reined in his horse, looked at this deep stream, and after a while, said to Lu Fang beside him: "At the end of Qin, the world competed for power, and the overlord Xiang Yu and the Han king Liu Bang faced each other here in the stream. The big stream in front of us is the chasm of the year. The area around this Guangwu Mountain was the main road from Heluo in Guanzhong to Kanto, and many major wars took place here in history. Today, only a stretch of beach reeds remains. ”

Lu Fang turned his head to look at the soil stream in front of him, looked at it for a while, and scratched his head: "Is this the chasm?" Speaking of such a big name, I heard people say it in the tick column from time to time. It seems that this is just the case, when I was in Yongzhou, Lingnan, I don't know how many such ravines there are in a county. ”

Xu Ping laughed when he heard it: "The geography of the world is different, this is the Central Plains, a place where the Pingchuan River is a horse, from Kaifeng Mansion down, you have to walk thousands of miles to see the mountain." Such a mountain and such a ditch are naturally not uncommon in the mountains, but in the Central Plains, it is already a rare landscape, and it is also a fortress that the army has to defend. ”

After speaking, he looked up at the not tall Guangwu Mountain, and the Yellow River in the north of the mountain. Thousands of years ago, it was an ancient battlefield where large armies competed for power, especially when the army needed to transport supplies along the Yellow River, and the area around Heyin, which was backed by mountains and rivers, was a strategic place. Advance can compete for power in the Central Plains, retreat can defend the danger of Chenggao, how many wars have happened here.

After a thousand years, there are several avenues south of Songshan in the Luoyang Valley, the water of Xingze has long dried up, and it is no longer the only way between the east and the west, if it is not for the Biankou of the Yellow River, this era has been forgotten.

In the distance, the door of Heyin County opened and a crowd of people came out vaguely.

Xu Ping flicked his horse's head: "Let's go, let's enter Heyin County!" ”

After speaking, he walked first and galloped towards the small county town not far away.

It didn't take long for them to arrive outside the county seat, a hundred and ten steps away from welcoming the crowd, Xu Ping stopped his horses.

A sturdy man of forty or fifty years old, dressed in red, walked briskly to greet him, followed by various public officials, and there were twenty or thirty people in a miscellaneous manner.

Ten steps away from Xu Ping's horse, the sturdy man stopped and saluted: "Xiaguan Heyin County ordered Yao Zeguang and his subordinates to be controlled!" ”

Xu Ping looked at Yao Zeguang, a person of medium stature, black hair on his chin, and a shrewd and capable person. is wearing a red official robe, that is because he is a candidate, has been an official for many years, and changes the color of his uniform, which is called a scarlet. It's not the same thing as Xu Ping's purple official robe, it's just a color.

Behind him, more than 20 officials and servants all looked spiritless, and their official uniforms were all shabby. In front of these men, there was also a man in a purple official robe, who had a gray beard and could not walk.

Panting and walking behind Yao Zeguang, the white beard saluted: "Xiaguan Heyin Master Book Zhong has seen it to be made!" ”

The county order is scarlet, the main book is purple, and the two officials in this river county are also interesting. (To be continued.) )