Chapter 242: Emperor Wulin
On the official road from Ganzhou to Liangzhou, a group of fast horses are galloping.
On the fast horse, there sat a man dressed in blue clothes, and next to this galloping horse, a man with a black gauze with a hat of more than two meters was extremely tall, and he ran quickly with the fast horse.
This is Su Peng, and the bronze corpse.
After coming out of Lu'an City, Su Peng did not continue to pass by the other cities of the Five Cities Alliance, but followed one of the two official roads, quickly hurried away, and galloped away in the direction of Liangzhou.
All the way on the official road of Ganliang, you can occasionally see merchants and caravans from Ganzhou to Liangzhou.
Ganzhou is rich in minerals, producing all kinds of ores, and exporting cattle, sheep, livestock and leather goods, while the ore resources produced by Liangzhou itself are only barely maintained in a state, and sometimes there are some deficiencies, so the Ganliang line is often a fixed trade route for some leather merchants and iron merchants who traffick.
As for the bulk of iron resource transactions, it is monopolized by large chambers of commerce and various powerful organizations, and there will be no less than two or three hundred people in caravanserai at ordinary times.
The official road between Ganzhou and Liangzhou is about 360 miles, which is a relatively long distance, mainly because the terrain of Ganzhou belongs to the narrow type, and Liangzhou and Suzhou are just the two ends of the narrow terrain.
Su Peng's horses are good, running at full speed, about sixty or seventy miles per hour, but after running for nearly an hour, the horsepower has been consumed terribly, his mane is full of sweat, and his nose has begun to spew white gas.
When Su Peng saw the appearance of the yellow horse, he gradually slowed down his speed, allowing the horse to maintain a speed of one hour and twenty or thirty miles.
At this time, the place where Su Peng came, on both sides of the official road, was a wasteland, and the population was relatively sparse.
Su Peng slowed down his horse, and estimated in his heart: "I didn't care about horsepower today. I ran at full speed for a while, and I was almost one hundred and forty or fifty miles away from Takiyasu, and I thought that if the enemy pursued him from behind, he would not be much faster than me. ”
Then he touched the wet hair of the yellow horse, and said in his heart: "The horse is almost exhausted, and if it runs down again, it may be exhausting to death, and the copper corpse has been running for so long, and if it runs again, there may be problems." ”
Bronze corpses are not perpetual motion machines, except for the need to drink the blood of living creatures once every seven days. It is also necessary to pay attention to maintenance and use, otherwise the intensity of use is too large, and there will be problems.
"Then slow down, it's okay to walk one or twenty miles an hour, and leave Taki'an quickly, because I'm afraid that they will send too many masters to besiege at once, and now that they are so far away, they will either pursue or arrange manpower in advance." It won't be much. ”
Su Peng thought in his heart, and gradually slowed down.
The horse returned to the speed of the trot, and the speed of the bronze corpse also slowed down, and one man, one horse, and one corpse were not fast or slow at this speed. Move forward.
But just after walking for a while, Su Peng suddenly realized that something was wrong.
He looked up at his slightly gloomy sky, above the moorland sky. There is a black dot that is constantly circling.
"Is it a harrier eagle?"
Su Peng looked at the black dot in the air and frowned.
He felt something was wrong.
This part of Ganzhou is mostly wasteland and hills. There are not too many animals, birds of prey flying in the sky, Su Peng had seen vultures on the mountains near Suzhou before passing through Lu'an City, but after entering Lu'an, he had never seen anything like it.
And the harrier eagle flying above his head is the first time he has seen it since he left Taki'an.
"Most of the areas where the harrier eagle lives, there are water swamps, or small forests, and they generally nest in a certain area and do not fly too far, but this is a wasteland, not a place where the harrier eagle usually lives...... Could it be that this harrier eagle in the sky is raised by man? ”
Su Peng looked at the black spots on his head and thought to himself, and at the same time paid more attention.
After looking at it for a while, Su Peng suddenly found that the harrier eagle flew with some regularity, and this harrier eagle, every once in a while, flew in the air with a special trajectory, as if it was expressing some signal.
Su Peng looked at it, his brows furrowed, and now he was sure that this harrier eagle should have been raised by people to track or monitor.
"Look at the direction in which the harrier eagle flies, maybe the people sent by the Wind Yang Society or Jin Mantang are in front of ......"
The harrier eagle in the air flew not far in front of Su Peng, and Su Peng judged that the eagle was flying in front of him according to his memory, rather than chasing from behind.
"It seems that those people have left the city overnight last night and intercepted them in various key areas where I may go, and the owner of the harrier eagle in front may be waiting for me."
Su Peng glanced at the sky, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"The road ahead is the way I must pass, and I must not bypass it, come if you want to, and see if these people can stop me!"
Thinking of this, Su Peng was angry, sped up some horses, and rushed forward.
Su Peng and the bronze corpse walked for another thirty or forty minutes, only to see a figure suddenly appear in front of them.
Frowning slightly, Su Peng looked, but found that in front of him, there was a medium-sized caravan, about fifty or sixty people, and more than thirty carriages, all loaded with goods.
"Looks like it's a caravan coming and going."
Su Peng looked at it and thought to himself.
Su Peng didn't think that the other party would send a full fifty or sixty people to disguise themselves as a caravan, this caravan looked normal from all sides, and it should not be an enemy.
However, I don't know what the road is for, the carriages of this caravan are all stopped in front of them.
"What's going on?"
Su Peng saw it, did not relax his vigilance, and rushed over on horseback and with the bronze corpse.
Walking to the place where the caravan stopped, Su Peng found that there were a total of seven people in front of him, who seemed to be among the six doors, holding weapons and blocking the road ahead.
In front of the catcher, there were two caravan people, who were explaining something to the catcher.
It just seemed that the people of the caravan seemed and eager.
Su Peng rode his horse and passed by the caravan, and the people in the caravan showed a little vigilant look, but when they saw that Su Peng was only 'two people', they felt a little relieved and let Su Peng pass.
It wasn't until Su Peng walked up to the seven catchers that a catcher with a knife stood in front of Su Peng's horse, raised his hand and shouted, "Stop!" ”
Su Peng saw it, stopped the horse, looked at the catcher, and said, "What's the matter with this errand officer?" ”
The catcher was wearing a black shirt with a dark red vest on the outside, and the vest was on it. Embroidered with six silver spinning single knives.
Su Peng looked at this sign and immediately knew his identity.
This catcher is the master of the six doors.
In the game of Death Reincarnation, there are many princes and there is no unified administrative system.
Everyone respects the royal family on the surface, but in fact, the royal family here can only control one or two states, and outside that territory, it has no influence at all.
So, the so-called officials. It's just that the central government has sent a nominal puppet, and the real influence is still the local tyrants.
The government affairs system exists in name only.
However, this regime, with a few departments, is an exception.
For example, the system of government servants and fast catchers.
That is...... The man of the six doors.
The six doors are not like in the martial arts novels of Su Pengshi's world. A general term for the catch of fast in the official gate.
In this world, there are six doors...... It's really a door.
It is a true martial arts sect.
It's just that this sect is a bit special, and since its inception, it has been combined with the regime.
The reason for this is a long story.
It is said that six or seven hundred years ago. There was still a unified regime in the world of death reincarnation, but at that time, there was an undercurrent surging, and at that time, the imperial court was fighting with the martial arts. Make a game.
At that time, the imperial court was powerful, and although it could not control the entire territory, its influence was stronger than now, and I don't know how many times the power of the court. All the princes, nominally and substantially, were still somewhat influenced by the imperial court.
However, at that time, there was an emperor.
This emperor, although the reputation in the history books is not too good, is actually a Ming monarch.
Under his notice, the power of the imperial court reached a small climax in this world...... Centralization has strengthened a lot.
It's just that this emperor has lofty ambitions in his heart, and he feels that the existence of martial arts and the existence of sects are influencing the influence of the imperial court and a cancer of the imperial court.
So, he planned a war, a war against martial arts, a vigorous campaign to exterminate martial arts.
The emperor's level of government affairs was very high, and the ministers of that dynasty also produced many outstanding people, and his military appearance was even more powerful, which almost made the emperor successful.
It's a pity that this world is different from Su Peng's world world, the strength of martial arts far exceeds the expectations of the imperial court, and the foundation of the sect is not comparable to Su Peng's world world, and there are countless far-sighted people.
A figure similar to the leader of the martial arts alliance, in the imperial court's martial arts extermination campaign, stood up, he originally had a very high prestige in the rivers and lakes, raised his arms, and the followers gathered, and various sects also secretly supported.
Although the army of the imperial court occupies the advantage of the frontal battlefield, there are too many masters in the martial arts, and these martial arts people do not fight head-on at all, but constantly send high-end combat forces to assassinate important people in the imperial court.
In less than three years, the high-ranking officials in the imperial court who presided over the extermination campaign have been gone.
At this time, there was already a panic in the court, because too many people had died, the government affairs were chaotic, and many courtiers had been reconciled.
And the emperor himself was difficult to ride a tiger, and his army also killed a lot of martial arts people, offending the martial arts people too much.
Words have already been released in the martial arts, and only when the emperor abdicates, and then Chan concedes to the martial arts alliance leader, will the assassination be stopped.
This was unacceptable to the emperor.
The war lasted for another year, and although the emperor's army was invincible on the frontal battlefield, the ministers who could be used in his dynasty were almost killed by the martial arts people, and the remaining ministers were all mediocre people, and many of them stood on the side of the martial arts people.
The whole country's decree was not passed, and it was killed and collapsed by the assassination of Wulin, and after the last, because the logistics were not smooth, the chaos also rose, and the emperor's army gradually fell apart, and even some generals supported their own troops, or befriended martial arts people, and the entire empire almost collapsed.
The emperor's power retreated to the last few states centered on the imperial city, and the leader of the martial arts alliance, on the grounds that he could not bear the suffering of the people, invited several peerless masters in the martial arts.
These masters, more than 100 people, all of whom were outstanding in martial arts, insisted on killing the palace in the army and slaughtering the emperor.
After that, the leader of the martial arts alliance was elected as the emperor by the martial arts figures, and he deterred the ministers with personal force and ascended the throne as the emperor.
Then, the first martial arts emperor in history.
It's just that the martial arts and the imperial court are already too suspicious, and the emperor's position is very embarrassing.
In order to balance, Emperor Wulin canonized a total of thirty-one sects in the world, gave them political rights, and allowed them to recruit disciples in Tuntian.
And some sects directly broke away from the identity of martial arts people and went to the imperial court to be officials.
The other part continues to return to the local area and be their own hero.
Many of the former leading generals divided their own territories, occupied places, and established the power of the city, which was called Haoqiang.
Wulin and the imperial court have entered a fragile balance, even if the Wulin Emperor ascends the throne, except for a few central states, there is no matter of recovering other places occupied by the princes.
Because it would stimulate the sensitive nerves of the martial arts, the martial arts emperor was not sure, and if he did that, the martial arts people would rebel again and kill themselves, the emperor they elected.
As a result, the situation in the world has entered a delicate balance with the martial arts sect, the local heroes, and the imperial court, which is five or six hundred years at a time.
In the past five or six hundred years, it is not that there have been amazing geniuses on all sides, but in this situation of mutual containment, there has never been any unification.
It's just that nominally, everyone is still under the rule of the imperial court and the martial arts royal family.
In Su Peng's mind, he recalled these materials, because the situation in this world is too complicated, so there are no prohibitions that should be there, and these histories are clearly recorded in the books, and Su Peng happens to have seen them.
And the people in those six doors were the same sect that broke away from the martial arts back then.
The Wulin Emperor, since he ascended the throne, has not forgotten his origin, and his power cannot be compared with the feudal emperors on the earth, so his suspicion is not so heavy, so he let a certain sect that supports him completely control the criminal department.
Gradually, this sect developed, and it was famous for hunting down robbers, and the martial arts of the people in the sect were not bad.
In the past few hundred years in the world of reincarnation of death, although the local heroes are also concerned about the imperial court, they are very welcome to take up their posts in their own places, because these fast catchers are indeed very high, and they can maintain local law and order very well.
In this way, the master of the six doors is more likely to be employed than the magistrate.
And because most of them are from the same family, and they occupy important positions in the local search and arrest, because they have incense and are taught by the sect, they try their best to create convenience for the senior brothers and younger brothers in the six doors to handle cases, resulting in the disunity of the world, but the arrest of the world is a situation where the case can be handled in a unified manner.
As early as before, when Su Peng saw the second senior brother in Jiangning Junluoxiafeng, there was a disciple of the Six Doors on that occasion, but Su Peng didn't pay attention at that time.
At this time, in front of Su Peng's eyes, he was also such a master among the six doors.
The master of the six doors glanced at Su Peng and said: "The six doors are investigating the case, we have received information, the jackal thief Luo Mountain who committed a big crime in the rivers and lakes is going to pass through here, I suspect that one of you is a jackal thief Luo Mountain!" (To be continued......)
PS: There is some history of the world of death and reincarnation in this chapter, and I felt that the history of this world should be revealed there, so I added it.