For the ancients, traveling to long distances, whether on foot, on horseback, in a carriage, or even in a sedan chair, was a very painful experience.
Walking is the most risky. You have to count the time. You have to sleep in the wilderness before arriving in town after dark. In ancient times, there were many wild animals. It was not impossible to wake up and find that you had no waist. In some places, there were robbers and bandits. Robbery of wealth, robbery of sex, robbery of life, robbery of life and then robbery of sex, all kinds of things can happen.
Riding a horse is also uncomfortable. The saddle wears away, and the saddle becomes smaller and smaller. A long period of jolting can break a person's crotch.
The sedan chair is uncomfortable, too slow, and it is not as fast as walking. It is physically comfortable but psychologically tortured. If you take the sedan chair, Han You will set out at the end of the new year. When he arrives, he will be celebrating the third New Year.
In comparison, the most cost-effective option is definitely riding a horse-drawn carriage.
But this requires a good driver. If it's an idiot like Jiang Zhui who wants to drift while driving, he might as well let the horse run as he pleases.
"Cheap, are you mean? I'm asking you, are your hands mean?"
Han You opened the curtain of the carriage and cursed: "What the hell, your partner is going to live in the countryside for two days, don't you dare to drift on this road?"
The carriage had just made a sharp turn, and the carriage almost flew out. It was still going down the winding mountain road, and the whole carriage was spinning like Thomas. Han You almost vomited.
Jiang Zhui shouted without looking back: "Commander Lu Baichuan always rides a horse to surpass me!"
"Get out of here, Brother Hai will drive."
Wang Hai bent down and pulled Jiang Zhui aside. Brother Hai was quite frightened just now.
Lu Baichuan acted as if he was sick. He kept teasing Jiang Zhui while riding on his horse, and even scolded him. After scolding him, he raised his whip and ran away. He still couldn't hear anyone. Jiang Zhui was so angry that he kept speeding up his horse, and he was very angry. The carriage drifted.
These two things plus Wang Hai are the three brothers who kill Matt, kill Qianmo, and kill with a thousand swords. If Wang Hai is not included, they are brainless and unhappy.
There were three carriages in total. In addition to Han You riding in one, Pei Qi and Old Master Duan also rode in a separate carriage. It was also a carriage driven by two miscellaneous soldiers, which was much smoother than Jiang Zhui.
Since leaving Yongcheng, he passed by the second city of Jiuxian County, but Han You did not stop.
Ten miscellaneous soldiers went ahead and stopped at the next city to inquire about the customs, local officialdom, etc. If there were no special circumstances, the convoy did not need to leave the official road.
Han You's mood became worse and worse after leaving Yongcheng.
Sure enough, officials like You Mingtang are too rare.
The county and state capitals along the way did not "surprise" him. Some of the officials were good and some were bad.
Okay, it's the kind of person who wants to do things for the people, but has no ability or ideas. He just acts as an official, just like that, and acts as an official according to what is written in the Four Books and Five Classics.
If one day a natural disaster or a man-made disaster strikes and the people starve and die, they will hang themselves or throw themselves into a well as a last resort, thinking that their name will go down in history and they will have a clear conscience.
The bad ones join forces with the local gentry, or are themselves gentry, occupy the people's land, and allow well-dressed bullies to run rampant in the countryside.
Han You had no control over these matters, and could only record them all and report them to the court in the future. The problem was not at all with the local officialdom, but in the capital.
Han You hopes to encounter a city like Yongcheng again.
Yongcheng is like an old aunt. As long as the money is in place, the aunt becomes a hottie. She has money and ideas, and she will glow with amazing vitality.
Unfortunately, Han You only saw one Yong city and a beggar magistrate. None of the other cities were even interested in letting him stay for a while.
There are dozens of towns, large and small, along the way. It is impossible to stop at every place, but there are three places where you must stop.
One is Nanguan, where he not only wants to inspect the border troops on behalf of the emperor, but also wants to see how the daughter of the Sikong family is doing.
The other one is Qiongzhou. The top priority is to capture Zhou Tianfeng.
In addition to these two "official affairs", there is also the city of Yizhou, which is a "private affair", the emperor's private affair.
Yizhou is not far from the border, ten days and a half month's journey away. Yizhou is also the fiefdom of the eldest prince Zhou Xiao.
Among the nine princes, except King You and King Chu, all had fiefs. Among the seven princes who had fiefs, Laizhou was the fiefdom farthest from the capital and the most important one.
The reason why the location is the most important is because it is very close to Nanguan.
When the emperor asked Han You to go to Yizhou, the scene at that time was vividly remembered by the latter.
When Lao Ba talked about Yizhou and the eldest prince Zhou Xiao, his micro-expression was very complicated.
Han You knew Lao Ba too well, and this look represented worry.
In all dynasties and generations, soon after the new emperor ascends the throne, he usually appoints a prince.
The eldest prince Zhou Xiao, as Lao Ba's first child, can be said to be the most outstanding and outstanding male.
They all understand that the first litter is raised according to the book, the second litter is raised as a pig, and the third and fourth litters are raised directly as free range.
Lao Ba was only nineteen years old when she had her first male child. It can be said that countless efforts were put into cultivating the first child in a comprehensive way, both morally, intellectually, physically and aesthetically.
But now that Lao Ba has ascended the throne and become the emperor, not only did he not establish a prince, he even refused to allow other princes except King You to return to the capital. Even the eldest prince was sent so far away.
The meaning is not enough to explain to outsiders.
Han You thought that it was not the eldest prince who had any problem. If there was, it would not be possible for him to stay in Yizhou, which is so close to Nanguan.
He didn't know what was going on. Maybe Lao Ba didn't want to establish the crown prince so early, or he felt that Zhou Xiao didn't have enough experience, or maybe it was for other reasons.
Han You only knew one thing, and that was that when Lao Ba told him about this matter, he tried his best to hide his worry.
It can be seen from what Lao Ba said that Han You was asked not to reveal his identity when he arrived in Yizhou, but to go into the city first and find out what the eldest prince had done this year before making a decision.
This "determination" is very interesting. What to decide and what to seize, Lao Ba did not make it clear at all.
Han You didn't like this feeling. He hoped that Lao Ba wouldn't be suspicious of his son. This was not good.
Unfortunately, this is the curse of the royal family. From ancient times to the present, in all dynasties and generations, except for Zhu Youtang and Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao, it is rare to find cases where the father and son of the Tian family do not suspect each other.
More often than not, it is the father who kills his son and the son who kills his brother.
There are very few so-called princes who successfully ascend the throne. More often than not, once you become a prince, you will suffer from open and covert attacks. I don't know how many so-called "princes" have died unexpectedly.
There is some conspiracy behind every death of a prince.
Of course, there is no conspiracy in replacing the previous dynasty. As Lao Ba said, there is no conspiracy, it all depends on strength.
Now that the eighth prince has come to power, he has not established a crown prince for a long time, and even asked Han You to "secretly" investigate the eldest prince. Han You was helpless about this matter.
"Dachuan'er."
Han You shouted outside and asked Lu Baichuan to get on the carriage. He had something to ask.
Lu Baichuan jumped over on horseback, eliciting bursts of cheers. This guy still stood on the carriage and turned around to bow his hands to the soldiers, happily.
Han You suddenly felt envious of this guy. He met Lao Ba, met himself, and then lived happily until one day he died happily. This kind of life is actually quite interesting. As a human being, the most important thing is happy.
Just like Uncle Ba, listening to music, drinking red wine, being a happy person, and enjoying food happily.
Han You found that as he became more powerful, he seemed to be becoming more and more unhappy.
While he was thinking wildly, Lu Baichuan was already sitting across from him and sniffed: "What's wrong?"
"Ask you something."
"say."
"You should read less when you have nothing to do in the future. When you don't read, everyone will think you are a rough person. When you read the book, everyone will think you are a rough person who pretends to be fake."
"What does hitting the wall mean?"
"Seriously." Han You winked. After Wang Hai closed the carriage curtain, the former asked in a low voice: "Tell me about the eldest prince Zhou Xiao."
Lu Baichuan blurted out and asked: "His Majesty asked you to go to Yizhou?"
"good."
Lu Baichuan's expression changed again and again, he stood up and got out, shouting: "His Royal Highness King Chu, the commander has something to ask you, come in quickly."
After finishing speaking, Dachuan'er jumped off the carriage and disappeared.
Han You couldn't laugh or cry. Whoever treats Lu Baichuan as a fool is the real fool.
