Chapter 88 Going out to explore
Zhang Liang is now very hateful to Chen Sheng. Eight
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CoM Since Chen Sheng destroyed his good deeds and rescued Ling Suyun from the boat, Zhang Liang wished he could eat Chen Sheng and sleep with his skin.
Ling Suyun reported the collusion between Zhang Liang and Ling Fengdu. The head of the Ling family was extremely furious and immediately wiped out the Ling Fengdu family and ordered the Ling family major merchants across the country to report the family and government immediately whenever Zhang Liang and Ling Fengdu appeared. There were many rewards! The Ling family was powerful. After escaping that night, Zhang Liang did not dare to move within the sphere of influence of the empire, so he had to sneak into Dongou quietly. Fortunately, he was cunning and weird by nature, and transported all the grain and grass he bought into Dongou to properly store it. He also made a large number of suspicious soldiers in Jiujiang County, which attracted the attention of Meng Yi and others. He thought that he had transported the grain to Jiujiang County. In fact, he went straight to Kuaiji and transported the grain and grass to Kuaiji, and then quietly transported the grain and grass to the mountains of Dongou to store it in order to make trouble in the future.
That night, Chen Sheng and Ling Suyun instigated the hard-working men to cause trouble, but Xiang Liang was not aware of it. After the guards attacked, he blew oil on his feet and escaped. He didn't know Chen Sheng's destructive power. Seeing Chen Sheng's appearance, he just smiled faintly and didn't care.
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After walking around, Chen Sheng didn't say anything else and took everyone back to the camp. When he returned to the camp, he was surprised to find that Zhao Tuo had issued an order, and tens of thousands of troops dug up the soil in the hidden places and loaded them into sacks.
The Qin army was of great quality. The places where the soil was dug were surrounded by curtains to prevent the barbarian army from appearing. In this way, unless the Qin army officially launched an attack, the barbarian army would not know that the Qin army would use such a vicious trick to treat their dangerous and dangerous obstacles.
Zhao Tuo was satisfied with his plan to siege the city. However, the guards' surprise attack tactics seemed to be helpless. The guards who sent maps were sent back were far from enough for Chen Sheng to use. So Chen Sheng decided to go and inquire about it himself to see if the guards could use their knowledge in the past few days.
Chen Sheng knew better than these guards how to find useful information. That night, Chen Sheng summoned Sima in the army and carefully asked some information about the near Wuyi Pass. The next morning, Chen Sheng disguised himself and asked Zhao Tuo to send a guide to take him around the villages in the surrounding area.
Dongou is vast and sparsely populated, with people living in scattered places, and there are few cities, even villages and towns. They are all two villages scattered in the mountains. A village with a large population can actually be regarded as a small indigenous kingdom, but it is mainly dominated by the Dongou king Zuozhu in name.
Chen Sheng's destination was to find out from the residents living around Wuyi Pass whether there were any secret paths or other places that could be provided to the guards for assault.
However, Zhao Tuo did not want Chen Sheng to take risks. The local indigenous people were very resistant to the imperial army and often had cases of single soldiers being killed by natives. He was very worried about Chen Sheng's safety.
Chen Sheng didn't care. But in the end he couldn't argue with Zhao Tuo Mengyi and others, so he brought a guard. Chen Sheng politely declined the recommended commander Han Dali, but brought Fan Zhi, the big guy.
Seeing Fan Zhi's bear-like body, Han Dali stopped talking. Fan Zhi was easy to raise, and he was very satisfied with eating meat every day. However, Fan Zhi was not something that ordinary families could afford. He could eat a whole sheep and a ten-pound cake a day. Chen Sheng believed that Fan Zhi was in Fan Kuai's house in Pei County before, so he shouldn't have enough food.
Chen Sheng disguised himself as a traitor. According to the customs of the Yue people, he draped his head and stepped on a pair of straw sandals. He even painted a few tattoos with paint on his body, which looked similar to an indigenous resident. In fact, Chen Sheng knew that many Yue people were actually not used to wearing shoes.
Fan Zhi was carrying Chen Sheng's medicine box on his back, holding a bamboo pole in one hand, carrying a rag on the bamboo pole. On the rag was written in the words of Chu State, four large characters with some traces of "The Holy Hand Rejuvenation" were written. He held a lamb leg in the other hand, and chewed in big mouths while walking.
The guide turned out to be from the Poyang people of Chu, named Wei Qi. He used to be a peddler who traveled to various places in Minyue from Chu to exchange for fur and medicinal delicacies, and then sold them back to Chu. He made a lot of money, but they were all hard-working money. After the destruction of Chu, Wei Qi still returned to his old career. Anyway, such a big event had nothing to do with him. Until the imperial army marched south, he needed to be familiar with southern geography and recruited from the people. Wei Qi was moved by the rich profit of thirty gold a month, so he abandoned his identity as a fallen master, joined the army as a leader, and advanced towards his former parents of food and clothing.
Along the way, Wei Qi told Chen Sheng a lot of customs about the Minyue area. The people's wisdom is not yet open and morality is not yet determined. In some places, if the father dies, the son will abandon his mother, saying that he cannot live with the ghost's wife. When the eldest brother dies, the younger brother can marry his sister-in-law. The family's misfortune is also used to it, not to be contrary to the family... And I heard that some places in the mountains are popular to eat people. Chen Sheng frowned loudly, but Fan Zhi smiled and didn't care. There was only a bone left in the lamb leg in his hand.
Seeing Fan Zhi's appearance, Chen Sheng could only smile faintly. After spending some time with Fan Zhi, he also knew that Fan Zhi's intelligence should be only a child about ten years old. There was no way to talk about him, so he picked a few leaves and asked Fan Zhi to wipe the greasy on his mouth. He asked Wei Qi to continue talking.
Wei Qi picked up a lot of interesting and detailed what he saw and heard as a peddler along the way. From Wei Qi's words, Chen Sheng also knew that there were about twenty villages around Wuyi Pass. Most of these villages were born by hunting and fishing in the river. Some villagers also planted Fujian tea in the mountains. These teas were used to be specially provided for the Chu royal family. However, after the fall of the Chu State, these teas were sold to passers-by merchants, and most of these merchants sold tea to Xianyang, the imperial capital of Qin.
Chen Sheng nodded secretly. He had drunk a lot of tea from Wuyi Mountain in later generations. Although Chen Sheng was not a gentleman, as a Chinese, how could he not drink tea?
"Oh, Doctor Chen, there is a village in front of you. This village should not be approached by outsiders. Be careful in a while." Wei Qi pointed to a foothill in front and suddenly said.
Chen Sheng nodded. He dared not be careless in these places. He was accidentally caught by these uncivilized barbarians and ate them alive. Wouldn't that be tragic?
"Bang! Bang! Bang..." Less than two miles away from the village, Chen Sheng suddenly heard a drum sound coming from the village. The drum sound was fast and orderly, and I don't know what kind of signal it was conveying.
"What's going on?" Chen Sheng narrowed his eyes and looked at the village in front of him, and asked in confusion.
Chapter completed!