"May I ask if the person in front of you is wearing a horse uniform?" Li Yu brought another person in front of Zhao Kuo. Zhao Kuo quickly got off his horse. The man was luxuriously dressed and held his head high. Zhao Kuo hurriedly greeted him and said, "I
I just don’t know what your instructions are.”
The man pointed to the four carriages not far away and said: "I heard that you need food, so I asked Lord Pingyuan to borrow 800,000 dan of food. Lord Pingyuan dispersed all his property and only raised 300,000 dan. I still have some here.
Twenty thousand stones of corn, please take it away!" Zhao Kuo looked at this fat guy with a smile. The more he looked at him, the more he liked him. He said: "Thank you for your help. Lord Pingyuan's friends are all with me as expected.
He is a man of faith like him!"
"I don't know your name yet?" Zhao Kuo asked respectfully.
The fat man waved his hand and said, "I'm just a friend of Mr. Pingyuan. No need to ask any more questions. Come here! Bring the carriage!" He shouted, and the carriages in the distance quickly came to his side. Zhao Kuo
Seeing a few sheep being led behind the carriage, the fat man ordered them: "You must respect Ma Fuzi as much as you respect me, and you must obey Ma Fuzi's orders! When Ma Fuzi asks you to come back,
Come back again!"
"Got it! Dong Chengzi!!" They almost yelled out the name. Zhao Kuo was stunned for a moment and then said with a smile: "It turns out he is the heir of General Dong Shu." There was a general in Zhao State called Uncle Dong.
, he once helped the Wei State conquer the Song State, and received Heyang from the Wei State as a reward, so he received Chengzicheng as a reward. Fortunately, Zhao Kuo had read enough books, otherwise he would not have been able to remember these.
The fat man was also very happy to learn that he had revealed his family background, but he pretended to be unhappy and reprimanded the drivers, "Didn't I tell you not to mention my last name?"
"No problem, no problem, please don't blame them." Zhao Kuo quickly found a step for him. The fat man stepped down and then said with a smile: "If you come to visit Mr. Pingyuan again in the future, please come to my home.
After a few days' rest, I would like to host a banquet for you."
"It will definitely be like this."
After bidding farewell to the fat man, Zhao Kuo continued on his way. This was already the sixth one. Lord Pingyuan was indeed a man who coveted fame. The fact that he funded Zhao Kuo spread unexpectedly in a short period of time.
It was his friends who blocked the road to deliver food, saying that they wanted to raise enough food for Lord Pingyuan. Of course, Zhao Kuo would not refuse anyone who came. SLR was such a person, he would pay homage to them very politely, and then
Collect their food and remember their names.
Zhao Kuo rode a horse and looked at the endless carriage team with a smile on his face. Li Yu was opposite. He had never seen Zhao Kuo look so happy since he surrendered to Zhao Kuo. All this time, he
His brows were furrowed, as if something was pressing on him, making him unable to breathe. Now, he was smiling like a child who got a toy. However, when his young master smiled, it was even harder.
So handsome.
The incident between Zhao Kuo and Lord Pingyuan spread quickly. On various roads, not only would people come to deliver food, but officials along the road would also send people to escort the food and grass. However, the speed was very slow because of the terrain.
The reason is that in many places, carriages are not very useful. Someone often needs to be pushed behind the carriage to prevent the grain from falling. Zhao Kuo went to push the carriage himself, but Li Yu begged him to get on the horse.
According to Li Yu, if the head of the family is allowed to do such a thing, then they, the disciples, can commit suicide in shame.
Seeing these carriages driving extremely slowly on these trails, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in Zhao Kuo's mind. He hurriedly rode to the front. Here, Ge was scolding several young people pushing carts behind him, "Now These young people can’t even push a carriage! How can you live to my age with your body? Why don’t you just drive the car and I’ll push it?!” Those young people sent by Zhao Sheng were ashamed. With a red face, he gritted his teeth and pushed the carriage.
Zhao Kuo rode up to him and asked, "I want to ask you something."
Ge raised his head and stared at Zhao Kuo.
Zhao Kuo then asked, "Have you ever seen a car with only one wheel?"
"A cart with one wheel? Have you ever seen a horse with three legs?"
"This..." Zhao Kuo already understood what he meant, but he immediately became excited because he thought of the small cart on the construction site and remembered that he had seen the workers when he was renovating his home. They can use this kind of wheelbarrow to push it freely on all kinds of terrain. It will not be heavy and clumsy like a horse-drawn carriage on complicated mountain roads. Although Zhao Kuo doesn't know how to make it, but asking the craftsmen to make a wheeled cart, it should be There's nothing wrong with it...right?
Although he couldn't create it in a short time, now that he had this idea, he might be able to solve Shangdang County's grain transportation problem in the future, Zhao Kuo thought happily in his heart.
On this journey, Zhao Kuo seemed a little redundant. He didn't have to direct anything. These carriages all knew where they were going. Zhao Kuo's original idea was to have them deliver the grain to the horse service, and then transport it from the horse service himself. When he arrived at Shangdang, he found that without these people, he would not have so many carriages and manpower to transport grain and grass. So, he hurriedly sent people to ride back to Dongwu to talk to Zhao Sheng and give these retainers and carriages to him. It's a matter of borrowing it for a while.
Zhao Sheng did not object and let him use it. He was afraid that he would not be able to control these retainers, so he also wrote another letter to a leading knight. This knight was silent along the way and never talked to anyone. Zhao Kuo didn't speak either, but Zhao Kuo had seen him talking to Ge. It seemed that he and Ge knew each other. Although Zhao Kuo was curious, he did not go to Ge to find out the identity of this person.
The roads in Zhao State are very difficult to travel. Zhao State did not go all out to build transportation like Qin State. This resulted in that not only did Zhao State’s roads have no rest stations for passers-by, but many roads even needed to pass through mountains and forests. There are no roads at all in these places. This shows how superior the State of Zhao is compared to the State of Qin. You can follow the roads of the State of Zhao however you want. Our State of Zhao is so free and will not restrict you. There is no need to be as restrictive as the people of Qin about any kind of road.
Handan people often joke that the Qin people will never be able to destroy Zhao State, because there are no roads for them to advance in many places of Zhao State. This is the wisdom of the Lord. In order to prevent other countries from attacking, he directly cut off their way forward. , leaving them with nowhere to go.
It is worth mentioning that there were people in Handan who specialized in creating jokes, telling jokes to the nobles, and making them happy. However, the talent who created this joke was killed by the angry King Zhao.
Zhao Kuo and his party stopped to rest again. Zhao Kuo sat with the drivers. At first, when he did this, everyone was still a little scared, but now they are all familiar with it. These drivers all like this approachable person. The knights sent by Zhao Sheng, except for the leader, also have a very good relationship with Zhao Kuo.
They sat at the table and talked happily.
On a hillside in the distance, two people dressed as farmers were lying in the dirt, quietly looking at the convoy.
"Didn't we agree to carry out an assassination in Tobu City? Why did it change to burning the food and grass?"
"There is no way to assassinate Mr. Pingyuan."
"What about now? Even if we gather everyone nearby, there are only two or three hundred people. We don't have suitable weapons, chariots or horses. How can we burn all this food and grass? Look at the leader of Zhao, he can do it at any time Arrange people to patrol around, and Zhao officials are also escorting us, what should we do?"
"Then go find helpers. The most indispensable thing here in Zhao State is desperadoes. These scum can still play some role at times like this."
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In the palace of King Zhao, Yu Qing broke in angrily and sat in front of King Zhao. He looked very angry. King Zhao looked at him doubtfully. Yu Qing rarely got so angry. Who could make him angry? Did you kill him? King Zhao smiled gently and asked, "I wonder why you came to see me?"
Yu Qing said angrily: "I came here this time to ask you to kill someone."
"Oh? Who to kill?"
"Please kill Zhao Kuo!"
"Ah?! Why is this?"
Yu Qing said angrily: "I thought he was a gentleman at first, but I didn't expect that he would do such a villainous thing. He actually went to harm the Zhao royal family..." He sent Zhao Kuo to Zhao Sheng to Zhao Sheng was forced to use his reputation to force him, so Zhao Sheng had to swallow his anger. He talked about handing over the grain with more embarrassment, and accused Zhao Kuo of bullying Lord Pingyuan. King Zhao listened carefully, and the more Yu Qing said, , there were actually more smiles on his face.
"He bullies the clan like this, please kill him!"
"Hahaha, how big a crime can this be to kill him? I know that you have a good relationship with Lord Pingyuan, but you can't just kill Zhao Kuo just because he is willing to do it?"
"But Mr. Pingyuan is not willing!" Yu Qing defended.
"Okay, please stop talking. If Mr. Pingyuan comes to complain to me, I will definitely help him. Just go back." King Zhao waved his hand and asked Yu Qing to leave. Yu Qing walked out of the palace with a look of unwillingness. As soon as he walked out, he heard King Zhao's generous laughter coming from behind, and Yu Qing smiled calmly.
