Passing through Zhongtiao Mountain to the north, he saw a small city. Hun Weiming said to Jiang Shuo, "Young Master, don't underestimate this small city. This place is called the City of King Yu. According to legend, the Xia Dynasty established by Yu the Great was based here."
Hedong Road and Henan Road are not bounded by the river, but by Zhongtiao Mountain. Therefore, the flat land where they crossed the river before and landed still belongs to the boundary of Shaanxi County, Henan Road. After crossing Zhongtiao Mountain, they enter Xia County, Jiangjun County, Hedong Road. , King Yucheng is the seat of Xia County.
There was a post road to the north of King Yu's city. Hun Weiming pointed to the northeast and said, "Going north along the road is Wenxi County."
Jiang Shuo said, "Oh, is that General Pei Min's hometown, Wenxi?"
Hun Wei said clearly, "Yes, but we won't go north this time, as we won't be able to reach General Pei's hometown." He pointed to the west and said, "To the west, we will leave Jiang County and enter Puzhou Hedong County."
They all went west and arrived at Anyi. Hun Weiming said again: "The original name of the Xia capital is Anyi, but the Anyi city here is the new Anyi city built by the Wei State later, so the Xia capital was renamed King Yu's city."
This Anyi is indeed a larger and more prosperous town. Hun Weiming is very wealthy and buys horses for everyone here. This trip to the west is thousands of miles away. It is impossible to fly there by relying solely on light skills, let alone everyone. To avoid the poison of bright salt, it is better to use less internal energy. Everyone in Shaolin and Maoshan no longer refused, and continued westward on the horse bought by Hun Weiming.
Hun Weiming pointed to the south of the road and said: "The long strip of lake in the south is Jiechi. The Jiechi is also the salt pond in the east of the river. Its water is several times saltier than sea water. Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor killed Chiyou in Zhongji. Chiyou was dismembered and his body In a different place on the head, the blood turns into bittern. This means "solving the pool", which means "dissolving the corpse". "
Jiang Shuo thought to himself: Xiang'er likes to hear such anecdotes the most, but she doesn't know where she is at the moment, and she doesn't know if Dugu asked her grandfather if he would tell her these allusions, and Ye Qing, who had been chatting and laughing with him before, Yao Ye deliberately kept a distance from him, and Bu Zi no longer took the initiative to speak. Jiang Shuo felt that it was boring and couldn't help but feel sad.
Fortunately, Hun Weiming was quite familiar with the towns along the way, and he was not too deserted to point out the towns along the way. Jiang Shuo couldn't help but ask him, "Brother Hun, why are you so familiar with the situation in Hedong County?"
Hun Weiming said with a smile: "Twenty-three-tenths of the world's salt comes from Jiechi, and the salt profit accounts for one-tenth of the world's taxes. All the salt eaten in the two capitals comes from Jiechi. How can we, who are running water transport, not be familiar with it?"
After traveling in this way for only two hundred miles, they arrived at a large city. Hun Weiming said that this was the city of Puzhou. Puzhou was called Puban in ancient times and was the place where Yu and Shun established their capital. Looking up at the city, it turned out to be a huge fortress city. Hun Weiming said: "Puzhou is an important place in the world. It not only guards the salt ponds that are responsible for the livelihood of the two capitals, but also faces Tongguan across the river. It is the first year of the Northern Wei Dynasty. , began to expand Puzhou City, and now the city wall is more than three feet and eight feet high, which is higher than the outer outlines of the two capitals. It is the first key to the Hedong and Hebei land routes entering Guanzhong."
Everyone walked around the city and marveled at the majestic city walls and towering archery towers. Puzhou City is close to the river bank. Looking towards the water bank, there is an arched trapezoidal stone embankment with dense rows of stones under the embankment base. The vertically nailed cypress wood piles are filled with iron juice between the stone strips, and the gaps are glued with rice slurry white mortar, making them very strong.
There are four iron bulls, four iron men, two iron mountains, three iron piers and a group of seven-star pillars arranged on the embankment. The thick iron cables were pulled and the floating boats were strung across the bridge and extended to the other side of the river. I think it's Kamazu Floating Bridge.
There is actually a tall building with four eaves and three floors on the high point of the southwest river. It looks towering from a distance, and there are countless huge water birds living on the upper floor.
Jiangshuo saw some water birds that were as big as a swan, with long necks and red beaks, white bodies and black tails and wings. He asked Hun Weiming, "What kind of water bird is this? Is it so huge?"
Hun Wei said clearly: "This is a stork. This building is named after storks often perch on it."
Jiang Shuo said in surprise, "This is the Stork Tower."
Hun Wei said clearly: "Yes, young master, does he also know about Stork Tower?"
Jiang Shuo asked, "How come you don't know?" He chanted casually, "
As the day fades behind the mountains, the Yellow River flows into the sea.
If you want to see a thousand miles away, go to the next level. "
Hun Weiming praised: "Ah... the young master is really versatile in both civil and military affairs. He speaks well and is even better than Cao Zijian of the Eastern Han Dynasty."
Jiang Shuo said shyly, "What did I do?"
, this was written by Jiling, King of Jinyang, Zhihuan. "
Hun Weiming smiled and said, "We rough guys don't know much about poetry. Since Young Master Jiang has such a taste, why don't we go upstairs to take a look?"
Jiang Shuo really wanted to climb the tower and experience the feeling of the poet's arrival, but he thought that he had other things to do at the moment, so it seemed that he shouldn't add extraneous matters.
Shenhui could see Jiang Shuo's thoughts and said with a smile: "There is no rush to go. At this moment, we have walked two hundred miles and are tired. It is better to go up to the tower and look far away, and rest before going."
After hearing this, everyone applauded and walked towards the Stork Tower.
When we got downstairs, we found a sergeant guarding the gate. The sergeant saw a group of monks, Taoists and a few people dressed as lay merchants. They held down the handles of their swords and the leader shouted: "Stop! What are you going to do?" ? Get out of the way!"
It turns out that the Stork Tower was built by Yu Wenhu, the great general of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, as a military garrison. Civilians were not allowed to enter. The famous towers in the south of the Yangtze River, such as the Yellow Crane Tower and the Yueyang Tower, were originally garrison towers on the city wall. However, the city wall was later changed and changed to After building an observation tower, civilians can climb the tower.
Not to mention Jiang Shuo, even Hun Weiming didn't understand the reason. He smiled and crossed his hands and said, "We are just merchants coming and going. My young master admires the height of this building. If he wants to go up to remember the past, I would like to ask the military master to make it convenient." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to squeeze the long hand. He put his hand in his sleeve and secretly clasped a Persian silver coin. As he held his hand, he slipped the silver coin into the long palm without anyone noticing.
This can be said to be another kind of "knowing everything in one's sleeves" skill. When Hun Weiming walked along the docks, he would often encounter officials asking for bribes. Copper coins were not valuable, and the cloth was too big to conceal, so he paid bribes with Persian silver coins.
This Persian coin is a small disc made of pure silver, die-cast as a whole. On the front is the right bust of an unknown Persian king. The king is wearing a feather crown, with the name of the king in Brahma script on both sides, and around the king's statue. The outer frame has a couplet pattern, and there is a crescent moon and star pattern outside the frame, which is very exquisitely made.
Persian silver coins are pure silver, so of course they are valuable. They can also be used to buy exotic goods in Persian mansions, the shops opened by Persian merchants from various places. Therefore, they are very popular among corrupt officials.
Unexpectedly, the chief broke away from Hun Weiming's hand, turned over his palm, held the silver coin, smiled coldly, threw the silver coin back to Hun Weiming and said: "Who wants your dirty money? You treat this place of military aircraft as a restaurant. A tea shop? Get out of here, get out of here!"
Hun Weiming was sulky in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face. He still smiled and reached out to grab the hand of She Chang. She Chang immediately pulled away his hand to prevent him from catching it. However, how could his kung fu be on par with Hun Weiming's? He couldn't dodge and was grabbed by Hun Weiming. He smiled and said: "It's convenient for you, Jun. We are not doing it carefully. Just take a look and leave." This time, he stuffed the silver coin into the long palm and held it from the outside at the same time. , using his inner strength secretly, he squeezed the man's bones so hard that they made a rattling sound. This was a combination of kindness and power.
Unexpectedly, Na Shichang was very stubborn. Not only did he refuse to submit, he shouted loudly: "Brothers, there are thieves coming to harm you. Come and capture these thieves!" The sergeants guarding the tower all drew their swords and slashed at Hun Weiming. Come.
Hun Weiming said confusedly: "What sir? Why should I harm what sir?"
Jiang Shuo stepped forward and pulled away Hun Weiming's hand, crossed his arms and said to Na Shichang: "Master Jun misunderstood, we don't understand the rules, we thought we were going up the stairs to look far away, but didn't want to..." Before he could finish his words, Na Shichang He struck early with a knife and said, "Little thief, who wants to listen to your nonsense? Just accept your fate."
He slashed with the knife, but Jiang Shuo didn't look at it. He grabbed it casually, avoiding the edge of the knife. He pinched the back of his knife and pressed it down. The chief felt that the horizontal knife in his hand was cast into a mountain of iron. You can't retreat, you can't chop, you can't draw.
The chief couldn't help being shocked. He held the handle of the knife with both hands and said, "What kind of magic did the boy do? Give me the knife back quickly!"
Jiang Shuo didn't let go and just said: "Master, don't be upset. What I'm doing is not a magic trick. Please listen to my explanation..."
The man was not willing to listen and shouted: "Let go! Let go! Let go quickly!"
Jiang Shuo had no choice but to let go. The man was pulling out the sword with all his strength. Jiang Shuo suddenly released his strength. He couldn't react in time and flew backwards like a kite with its string broken. It hit the pillar with a loud noise and the whole tall building was shaken. It seemed to be shaking.
Jiang Shuo didn't expect this person to be so pusy, and said, "Ah... no... I didn't mean it."
Na Shichang regained his freedom and rushed towards Jiang Shuo with his sword, calling to his companions: "This little thief knows magic, kill him first!"
Seeing everyone's eyes turning red and rushing towards us, Jiang Shuo and Hun Weiming felt strange that we were not allowed to go up the stairs, that's all. Why did they react so violently? Do you have to see life and death immediately?
When the conflict was about to break out, I heard the sound of someone running downstairs in the building. The man couldn't get down to the ground floor, so he opened the window on the second floor and said breathlessly: "Yao Shichang, stop it! Mr. Yan has something to say." , these are all friends, please come upstairs!"
Yao Shichang was stunned and said: "These people are businessmen, monks and Taoists. They don't look like good people. How could Yan Yushi be in danger?"
The man wiped the sweat off his face and said, "Yan Yushi said that he recognized all these people. The monks are the eminent monks headed by Master Shenhui of Heze Temple in Luoyang, and the Taoists are Taoist Master Wei Jingzhao of the Maoshan Sect and his disciples. . But they are all from decent families." Seeing that the sergeants guarding the gate downstairs had stopped and were no longer eager to attack, he took two more deep breaths and said, "The name of this young hero is even more impressive. He is a member of Jianghu Alliance and Going back to the young leader of the Cao Gang, Jiang Shuo, these lay disciples are naturally good friends led by the leader of the Zhenze Gang, Hun Weiming, Suo Suo."
Nash Chang heard the man upstairs give a list of names of people in the world, which he had never heard of before, and couldn't help but be stunned.
The man upstairs said anxiously: "Yan Yushi invites them to go upstairs for a talk, please let them go quickly!"
The chief then reluctantly returned the sword to its sheath, waved away the crowd, and crossed his arms to Jiang Shuo angrily, saying "please".
Jiang Shuo looked back at Shenhui, Wei Jingzhao and Ruixi. The three of them were confused. They nodded first, then shook their heads. Shenhui said: "Shuo'er, since the master upstairs has invited us, we will go upstairs to take a look. so what?"
Shenhui, Wei Jingzhao, and Ruixi accompanied Jiang Shuo, Hun Weiming, and Ye Qingyao into the building. The other congregants were waiting outside. They were loose inside and tight outside, as if they were resting and chatting, but in fact they were all secretly paying attention to the entrance of Yellow Crane Tower. door.
Jiang Shuo and others entered the building and walked around to the roof of the third floor. They saw several sergeants standing in every corner of the building, standing facing outwards, seemingly for protection. Look at the handsome scribe standing in the central station. It was Yan Zhenqing, a famous scholar who Jiang Shuo met in Luoyang and went all the way north to Fanyang. He was the captain of Liquan County at that time!
