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The process of rescuing Yang Lihua was very smooth, because the Spring and Autumn Envoy actually works alone and cannot do anything without the various factions of the Xianyin Sect. The same is true for protecting and guarding Yang Lihua.
As for the poison he and Yang Lihua were exposed to, it was a chronic poison that the Spring and Autumn Messenger wanted to threaten and control him for a long time. As long as he did not die immediately, when he returned to Fanyang County, with Nie Xiaoyu's heaven-defying existence, any poison could be resolved.
It's just that the news of killing the Spring and Autumn Envoy in Tianshui Lake was too loud. Wang Junlin knew that it was no longer possible to conceal his whereabouts. Yu Wenji, Dugu Changsu, and even Yang Guang would probably mobilize their troops to attack him after learning that he was no longer in his hometown in Fanyang County.
Carry out the siege yourself.
Therefore, he simply disclosed his whereabouts, and took the black cavalry formed by five thousand insect people, plus three hundred masters as his personal soldiers, and asked everyone from the Xianyin Sect to secretly follow him to Fanyang County.
Just as Dugu Changsu guessed, Wang Junlin planned to take the water route, which was the fastest, and he was accompanied by Yang Lihua, who had been pampered since childhood. Autumn is turning to winter now, and the journey is far away in windy and snowy weather. If he keeps walking by land,
Wang Junlin was worried that Yang Lihua couldn't bear it.
It's just that Yang Lihua's experience means that she is destined to be a very independent and individual person, and she must ride with Wang Junlin on horseback.
But just after leaving Guanzhong and arriving at Hedong County, Yang Lihua's face was already a little pale and her fatigue showed. Wang Junlin couldn't bear to let her continue to suffer and persuaded her to return to the specially made four-wheeled carriage. However, Yang Lihua shook her head and said stubbornly.
: "When I was young, I used to go hunting on horseback. Now I haven't ridden a horse for a long time, and I can't stretch my muscles for a while. I have been trapped in the capital these years, and I have finally been able to travel as much as I want. I don't want to sit in a carriage."
Seeing how brave and stubborn she was, Wang Junlin brought the two horses closer and laughed softly: "I think you want to be by my side all the time!"
Yang Lihua rolled her eyes at him and said: "Look at how beautiful you are. Okay! I'm going back to the carriage. You let that girl Su Mei'er accompany me. This girl is very good at talking and taking care of herself. I'll ask her about her pair of
How do you get your eyes to be watery all the time?"
Wang Junlin smiled and said: "Okay, you go back to the carriage first, and I will ask Su Meier to be your personal maid."
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Wang Junlin asked Yang Lihua to return to the carriage, not only because he didn't want her to be tired, but also because he didn't want her to see too many shocking scenes and make her too sad. After all, this country belongs to his younger brother Yang Guang, and Yang
In fact, the relationship between Guang and Yang Lihua, the siblings, has always been good.
Wang Junlin also walked through this official road back then. He remembered that there were many large villages and small towns with more than a thousand households along the way, but now there are not even any decent villages, let alone towns and markets.
In short, what I saw along the way was no longer half of what it was back then.
What you see along the way gives you a feeling of desolation and desolation.
It is an exaggeration to say that there are starving people all over the place, but every day we encounter at least dozens of corpses lying on the roadside that have died of starvation or disease.
The original crop fields were also covered with weeds, and you couldn’t tell they were crop fields unless you looked carefully. What you can see on both sides of the official road has completely turned into a world of weeds and shrubs. The further away from the official road, all kinds of wild sunflowers grow.
The higher they are, some are already higher than the horse's legs. Adults can walk in with their bodies hunched over and can completely hide in them.
Zhang Tiangang, who led one hundred of his subordinates to lead the way, looked at the scene on the roadside and wondered if he had taken the wrong route, so he quickly took the map from his subordinates.
On the exquisite sheepskin map, the lines representing the official roads are very clearly drawn. From the analysis of the nearby mountains and river marks, the official road at your feet is indeed the one that leads directly to the northernmost ferry of the Grand Canal. It is just a place where villages were once marked on the map.
, it is now inaccessible.
"This damn thing is almost like outside the Great Wall! Yang Guang, an idiot, has managed to do this." Wang Junlin looked at a deserted living area not far away, looking at several charred broken walls and decayed walls.
The doors and windows were broken, and he remembered that this place used to be a rather prosperous town.
Although it cannot be said that Yang Guang is entirely to blame for this situation, Yang Guang is the direct cause or the main cause.
During the two expeditions to Goguryeo, the total number of troops and civilians recruited was nearly ten million. How many people died in foreign lands, their families were broken up, and after every strong man, there was a family.
Then there are bandits, mountain bandits, and rebel bandits running rampant, and some local governments have even adopted ridiculous orders to force people to live in the city. While the officers and soldiers are exterminating and suppressing the rebel bandits, some killing generals like to solve the problem once and for all.
, as long as there are some people in the village who are rebels, they will kill the entire village, so that the property of the entire village can be taken away, and the heads of the villagers can be used as the heads of the rebels to expand the credit.
Therefore, in just over three years, most of the counties in the Sui Dynasty were transformed into a vast wilderness. Creating prosperity is a long process, but destroying it all can be done in a short time.
What he saw along the way made Wang Junlin more and more determined that everything he did was right, and he also understood that he had to seize the time, only in this way can he avoid many deaths.
But he suddenly doubted whether it was right for him to help the court to exterminate the rebels Dou Jiande and Yang Su, because his efforts allowed the Sui Dynasty to survive. However, it was the lingering court that continued to act in perverse ways that forced more people to become rebels.
thief.
The rebels and the imperial court worked together to turn countless once prosperous villages and towns across the country into wilderness, and continued to kill more people.
"Your Majesty, we just caught a spy. He was sent by a large fortress in front of us. He is very obviously hostile to us. How about you humble yourself and lead someone to kill them?" Zhang Tiangang looked like he had itchy hands and wanted to kill someone.
He came to ask Wang Junlin for a fight.
Wang Junlin glared at Zhang Tiangang and sighed: "In this world, it is normal for people to be hostile to us who are passing by. Don't act rashly and let the spy go."
Zhang Tiangang accepted the order with some regret, and not long after, Wang Junlin and his party saw a fortress.
As Zhang Tiangang said, the people in the fortress were full of hostility and vigilance towards them.
The fort is not far from the official road. Wang Junlin took a special look with a telescope. The walls of the fort were covered with men, women and children, holding crude weapons in their hands. Some young men were holding knives and guns, while women, children, old and young were holding sticks. They
I even saw a naughty boy who had learned to go to the house to dig out bird eggs, holding a stone in his hand and looking at them with hatred.
And these people all have two characteristics. First, they all have disheveled faces and ragged clothes. Second, everyone looks at them with vigilance and a look of determination.