Chapter 5 Strange Visitors from Carriages and Horses
After getting out of Ninggu Pagoda and confirming that no one was following them, everyone was completely relieved. Deqiu took the opportunity to ask Ge Feihu and others why they were so nervous just now. After learning the reason, he couldn't help but stick out his tongue and secretly
It was a fluke, and I admired the commander's calmness in the face of danger. He secretly thought that if he had been in his place, he might not be as calm as the commander. If he were not careful, even if Guo Mul did not send troops to capture him, the soldiers of Ninggu Pagoda would have been killed early.
Arrest him.【】
Lu Zhaoqiang asked Deqiu about the road guide. Deqiu said that after they first went in and explained their purpose to the road guide official, the other party ignored him and spoke dissatisfiedly, saying that it was not a good time to enter. Later.
Deqiu paid his filial piety as usual, and the official looked better. However, he did not give them the route for approval on the spot. Instead, he asked around, apparently because he thought Deqiu had given him too little money. When Deqiu saw this, he
Need to stuff more.
Don't forget that the official who handles road guides is only an eighth-grade official, but as the saying goes, the king of hell is easy to meet, but the devil is difficult to deal with. The county magistrate is not as good as the current one. Now that people have the power to approve and manage road guides, Deqiu is in his heart.
No matter how dissatisfied he was, there was nothing he could do to the other party. He could only spend money to buy a smooth one. Unexpectedly, when Deqiu was about to hand over the money again, he heard a commotion outside the house, and then saw an official who looked like a subordinate bumping into him.
A potted plant fell and a dog plowed it. The official who handled the road guide was probably familiar with Nazuoling. Upon seeing this, he piled up Deqiu and others and went out to help Nazuoling.
After Na Zuoling was helped up, his face was embarrassed, uneasy, and uncertain. He did not leave immediately, but asked the guide a few questions, and then whispered a few words in the guide's ear,
After that, the road guide returned to the house, and he happily took out a stack of road guides, picked out a few of them, used them, and gave them to Deqiu and the others without any intention of further embarrassment. He was very happy.
Deqiu didn't even ask for the filial piety he paid again, and just asked them to leave quickly and enter the customs as soon as possible to do business. This made Deqiu very confused. He didn't understand why the officials on this road became so easy to talk to, but they were just passing by.
Once the guide was in hand, the matter was settled. Why would Deqiu specifically stay to ask about the other party's changes? He immediately collected the guide and hurried out of the Yamen. Zhao Qiang knew what happened next.
After listening to Deqiu's words, Zhao Qiang was even more sure of his judgment. Guo Mul was treating him like a god. As long as he didn't cause trouble for him, he would never take the initiative to cause trouble for him.
After getting the road guide, they left Ninggu Pagoda again and made a "good friend" like Guo Mul. Zhao Qiang was in a good mood and couldn't help laughing loudly, which attracted the side glances of the guards. Fortunately, there were not many pedestrians on the road.
, even if it’s a little out of shape, it doesn’t matter.
The official road from Ninggu Pagoda to Shengjing is much wider than the official road from Sanxing to Ninggu Pagoda, and there are many villages along the way. There are faint signs of the weather in the pass, or signs of farming. Some areas even
You can also see the wheat fields on the roadside, and the water conservancy embankments and canals are built in the same way as in Guan Nei. The further south you go, the more business travelers there are on the road, and the market towns where you stop are much more lively than in the north. After driving like this for three days, Zhao Qiang and his party
Arrive at Liaoyuan.
Liaoyuan was the Huanglong Prefecture in those days. There is Longshou Mountain in the northeast, which is the remnant of Changbai Mountain. From here to the south, there is a flat river, and then the mountains block it, which is the location of the "Songnen Plain" in later generations. Therefore, this is Aixin.
The royal paddock of the Jueluo family is also known as the "Shengjing paddock". However, in the current Liaoyuan City, the Huanglong Mansion of that year has long been submerged in the black soil, and all remains are intact. Zhao Qiang and the others rested at a horse and carriage shop called "Kaitong"
On his feet, there were twenty or thirty people living in the chariot and horse shop together. Most of them were bannermen visiting relatives, and only a few were businessmen like Zhao Qiang and others.
In this era, carriage houses were more responsible for carriage and horse transportation, and most of the people they received were coolies such as coachmen and laborers. Therefore, most people would not stay at carriage houses when going out, and would mostly choose hotels to rest. However, because of Liaoyuan
It is a paddock exclusively used by the royal family. Ordinary people are not allowed to live here. There is only a town twenty miles southeast of the paddock, and this carriage house is the only place in the town where people can stay and rest. In other words, after passing
Here, you can never hope to find a place to stay before sunset.
The bannermen who lived in the chariot and horse shop were not yellow belts or red belts, but ordinary Eight Banners people. They did not look wealthy in their clothes. If you didn't pay attention to the big coats, you would have thought they were coolies.
Woolen cloth.
No matter which class it is, even the ruling class, it always exists in the form of a pyramid. At the bottom of the pyramid are the poorest and most ordinary people. The Eight Banners are no exception. The Eight Banners of Pure Manchuria now have hundreds of thousands of people.
, but not every Eight Banners disciple is high and enjoys wealth and glory. Many people, like the Han people and other ethnic groups, also need to be self-reliant. They just have more privileges. But outside the customs, this
A few privileges are not of much help to the lives of the bannermen, so Zhao Qiang is not surprised to see these bannermen who dress shabbily and behave like old country men. Those bannermen still have a sense of superiority towards Zhao Qiang and the others.
Although they lived together in the chariot and horse shop and had the same food and clothing, they always consciously showed their identities as bannermen and deliberately kept a distance from them, because to them, these Sauron people were not worthy or worthy of themselves.
Take it seriously. Perhaps, this is the so-called ignorance and arrogance. Some people are born like this, just like the Qing Empire, which was behind the world a hundred years later, always likes to regard itself as a central state and is unwilling to accept that it has declined and has been
The reality of obsolescence.
The bannermen did not pay attention to their own side, so Zhao Qiang would not be stupid enough to take the initiative to seek friendship with them. In addition, those merchants may have been wary of their colleagues and did not come to talk to them, so the carriages and horses appeared in the carriage.
There is such a strange phenomenon: there are so many people crowded together, but no one wants to say a word.
Interestingly, the proprietor and clerk of this carriage and horse shop are Han Chinese, but they are people from the Han Eight Banners. There are three Eight Banners of the Manchu, Mongolian and Han Dynasties, and only people from the Han Eight Banners are not prohibited from doing business.
Buying and selling, and outside the customs, except for the Han prisoners who were distributed as slaves, there are only a few Han Eight Banners who can stay in this Manchu "Longxing Land", so the owner of the Han Eight Banners is here
This horse and carriage shop opened outside the paddock of Liaoyuan. He had a good eye and knew that everyone traveling from north to south must visit Liaoyuan, and this place is still more than a hundred miles away from Shengjing and the nearest post station.
It's more than thirty miles away, so if you want to stay, you can only stay in his open carriage house. But he also knows that when dignitaries go out, they either live in wealthy families or in government offices, and no one will favor his family.
It's a strange carriage and horse shop, so his customers are destined to be shopkeepers who are doing business or ordinary bannermen who are away from home. Therefore, there is no need for the store to be so well decorated, and there is no need for any elegant rooms or anything like that.
As long as it is practical. The proprietor was also very happy about the strange phenomenon that happened in front of him. He was not surprised. He also felt the same way about the contemptuous looks of those bannermen towards the Sauron people, because he himself was often affected by these things.
Banners who don’t have their own money can’t afford it.
It doesn't matter who can afford it, as long as there is money to be made. The proprietor is a real person and a sensible person, and he will not force these people who do not belong to the same class to get together. As usual, he collected the rent and food.
After that, he went to the back room with everyone in the house to warm up, leaving only the waiter to take care of him. Since he had to rush tomorrow, Zhao Qiang asked everyone to finish eating and rest early, and asked Ge Feihu to feed the horses with the waiter.
In order to prevent the horse from eating badly and affecting the journey.
There is no TV or radio these days, so there is nothing to do when it gets dark. People at home can still hug their girls for fun, while those who go out can only go to bed early to refresh themselves. So once it gets dark,
As soon as the waiter lit the oil lamp, most people went into their houses. Except for a few occasional coughs, no sound was heard in Nuoda's yard.
Zhao Qiang was the last one to finish eating, because while eating, he was recalling the places he passed during the day, paying attention to which places would be easy to defend and difficult to attack if troops were stationed there, and which places could be avoided. He just ate and thought about it.
As he ate, the speed naturally slowed down, so when the guards all finished eating and were waiting to take care of the commander to take a rest, Zhao Qiang's rice bowl was still in the bowl. After finally finishing his dinner, Zhao Qiang yawned and signaled to everyone that it was time to eat.
I went to bed, and just as I was about to get up, I heard someone knocking on the courtyard door:
"Shopkeeper, open the door!"
"Who is it? Knocking on the door so late."
The proprietor, who was having sex with his wife in the house, reluctantly poked his head out of his house wearing a cotton-padded jacket and shouted to the waiter: "San'er, go, who is it?"
"Why!"
The guy named Saner hurriedly responded, ran quickly to the yard, unbolted the door bolt and opened the door. As soon as the door opened, he saw several strong men in well-dressed clothes walking in. The leading man had a beard and a fierce look.
San'er was startled by the appearance, and he thought it was an old melon thief who came. However, after two more young people came in, he breathed a sigh of relief and thought that these fierce men were guarding the hospital.
Most of the businessmen who are doing business abroad, if they are rich, hire bodyguards to prevent others from being robbed. So San'er was initially frightened by the fierce looks of those well-dressed men, but when he saw them,
The two young men who came in later felt relieved and realized that these fierce men were their bodyguards.
The two young people are all dressed as scholars. The one in the front is very tall, half a head taller than Zhao Qiang, with very heroic brows and an air of arrogance, while the one in the back is not short, with good looks.
He was slightly inferior to the man in front of him, but he didn't have the free and carefree beard of the former. Instead, he had a white beard, which was very eye-catching. After the two of them entered the courtyard, the men in well-dressed clothes scattered around the two of them, led by the man.
The fierce man glanced at the tall young man, and after the other man nodded, he threw a piece of silver to the man and ordered:
"This money is for you. You should immediately vacate the best room and fetch hot water for washing your feet. You have to be quick!"