Li Hanhui was about fifty years old. He was the brother-in-law of the rebel general Zhou Guangzhi and also his first confidant. When Zhou Guangzhi rebelled, he followed Zhou Guangzhi to massacre thousands of civilians in Shaanzhou. Later, Zhou Guangzhi was wiped out by Guo Ziyi. Li Hanhui knew that he was guilty of serious crimes.
, he fled south to Funiu Mountain with a hundred soldiers, and Luo Cao on Fangcheng Mountain became a bandit.
After six or seven years, his tribe gradually grew stronger.
Being a grass bandit all his life was not an option. In the past two years, Li Hanhui began to consider surrendering to a certain vassal town, such as Liang Chongyi in Jingxiang, Li Zhongchen in Huaixi vassal town, etc. Especially Liang Chongyi, who had been spying on Dengzhou for a long time, and took Dengzhou as a meeting gift.
But Li Hanhui was afraid that after he captured Dengzhou, Liang Chongyi would find an excuse to march into Dengzhou and use his own head in exchange for his control of Dengzhou. This was definitely possible, which made Li Hanhui worry about gains and losses and could not make up his mind.
At two o'clock in the morning, Li Hanhui was suddenly awakened by a cry. He stood up and asked, "What happened?"
A security guard outside said anxiously: "It seems like there was a fire outside. More than a dozen houses were burned down."
Li Hanhui was shocked. His village was most afraid of fires. The houses were too dense and made of wood. In addition, the mountain wind was strong, and a fire would quickly form. Therefore, he was extra careful about fires and cooked in the cave.
, and they were not allowed to light the lamp, but unexpectedly it still went on fire.
"These idiots!"
Li Hanhui cursed angrily, put on his outer robe and walked outside.
There was already a sea of fire outside. More than a dozen houses to the east were burned and connected together. They were quickly spreading to the west under the raging mountain wind.
The gangsters in the cottage were in a mess, some stood there shouting in despair, while others were scurrying around like headless flies.
"What are you doing standing there in a daze? Come and put out the fire!" Li Hanhui waved his arms and shouted loudly.
Little did he know that in a dark corner fifty steps away, a cold, sharp arrow was already aimed at him.
As soon as the string was loosened, a wolf-fang arrow shot out like lightning. It was extremely powerful, as if there was no difference in time and space. The bowstring bounced back, and the arrow had already reached Li Hanhui's eyes. He didn't even have a chance to react.
'puff!'
The sharp arrow shot into his right temple, and instantly shot out from the left temple with flesh and blood. The sharp arrow actually shot through his head and flew into the darkness.
Li Hanhui fell down the steps and died tragically on the spot.
At the same time as the arrow was shot, Guo Song had disappeared from the darkness. He climbed up the cliff at an extremely fast speed and climbed up quickly.
When the soldiers discovered that their lord was dead, Guo Song was already thirty feet away from the ground, hiding in a stone crevice, looking coldly at the fire below.
"The lord is dead!"
"Someone is shooting arrows in the dark, catch the assassin!"
There were shouts and dozens of people rushed towards the shooting place, but found nothing.
But the fire got bigger and bigger, half of the houses were burned, the entire village turned into a sea of flames, and the gangsters fled outside the village.
The gate of the village was opened, and the minions swarmed out. However, they heard a bang and a volley of arrows, and the minions fell to the ground one after another.
When Liang Wu and his party were still a hundred steps away from the village, they discovered that the village was in flames and the fire was raging. He immediately guessed that Guo Song had changed his plan and burned the village.
Liang Wu made a decisive decision and gave up his plan to send salt to trick the village gate into opening. He led nearly a thousand soldiers to surround the gate of the village. Once the enemy troops rushed out, they would immediately shoot them dead.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the fire engulfed the entire cottage. The fire was so fierce and the smoke was billowing that even Guo Song, who was above, could not bear the heat wave and left quickly.
More than two thousand Shanzhai minions crowded around the camp fence. They couldn't stand the fire and smoke. Officers and soldiers intercepted them outside the gate. The minions overturned the camp fence one after another, climbed over and fled into the mountains and forests. Although the Tang army intercepted them from all sides.
, but the area was too large, with deep grass and dense forests, so many people still escaped...
By noon the next day, the fire was finally extinguished. The stronghold had been burned to ashes, and more than 1,500 people were burned to death. However, 700 to 800 people still escaped. Li Hanhui was dead.
The troops suddenly dispersed, each looking for a way out.
The Tang army rested for a long time, then went down the mountain and embarked on the road north. Two days later, Yu Hui, the governor of Dengzhou, led more than a thousand state soldiers up the mountain. They found the cottage burned to the ground. During the interrogation by the convection bandits, Yu Hui learned that Li Hanhui had
He was overjoyed to die and immediately reported his merits to the court, annihilated the bandit Li Hanhui and killed thousands of thieves. Li Hanhui burned down the stronghold and died in desperation.
........
Not long after Guo Song left Chang'an, more than 20 people from the Xue family rented five carriages and left Chang'an to take office in Jianzhou, Bashu.
Prince Li Shi thought more carefully and sent ten soldiers to escort them south.
Xue Xun has a good job. His long history is equivalent to a prefecture-level city mayor and a department-level cadre. Moreover, Jianzhou is close to Yizhou and located in the Chengdu Plain. It has a large population, fertile land, abundant water sources, and pleasant climate. It is a prosperous land of fish and rice.
, serving as a long-term historian there, because he has sufficient financial resources and is easy to achieve political achievements, is considered a fat job in the eyes of many people.
Xue Xun did not have such good luck at first. He repeatedly criticized Chang Gun for increasing or decreasing officials' salaries at will, thus offending Chang Gun.
Chang Gun originally wanted to demote him to Songzhou Biejia, where he would stay in Songzhou with poor conditions, without any power and unable to enjoy the prosperity of Chengdu. However, because Prince Li Shi was dissatisfied with Chang Gun's appointment, under his interference
, the Ministry of Civil Affairs changed Xue Xun to the position of Governor of Jian.
Xue Xun was very satisfied with this position. He was bored working in the East Palace and had long wanted to do something somewhere. When he was forty years old, he finally got this opportunity.
Historically, Xue Xun was indeed demoted to Bashu for offending the powerful prime minister, and was bullied by local officials, who sent him to southern Xinjiang where conditions were harsh. He died of illness in less than a year. He was an honest official and his family had no money left. Xue Tao's mother
The girl soon fell into poverty, and Xue Tao was eventually forced to sell herself as a geisha.
But because of the appearance of Guo Song, Xue Xun's fate was changed, and the fate of his wife and daughter also changed.
Going from Chang'an to Bashu mainly crosses two major mountain ranges. One is Zhongnan Mountain, which is also the Qinling Mountains. They took the Ziwu Valley, which is 600 miles long. This road was relatively easy to walk in the Tang Dynasty. Its other name is Lychee Road.
Transporting fresh lychees from Bashu to Chang'an won the imperial concubine's smile.
In fact, this road was repaired many times during the Sui Dynasty, and was paved evenly during the Tang Dynasty. The messenger cavalry could run fast through the valley and out of the Ziwu Valley in a day and night, making it the main road from Chang'an to Hanzhong.
Xue Tao looked up at the cliffs hundreds of feet high on both sides and exclaimed: "How on earth was this valley formed?"
Xue Tao's carriage is very long, divided into two parts. The front part is the carriage, and the back part is a small carriage, which is the bathroom. This is the case for long-distance carriages. There are three people sitting in the carriage, except for Xue Tao and the maid Xiao'e.
Then there is the little fish lady sent by Guo Song to protect Xue Tao personally.
Xiaoyu Niang is actually very skilled in martial arts, with fierce swordsmanship and excellent light skills. Coupled with the flying knife skills taught to her by Guo Song, she became the leader of the third generation of Hidden Sword Pavilion. If Guo Song hadn't come to ask questions by accident.
When Mrs. Gongsun wants someone, she will enter the palace as a palace maid and protect the princess personally.
The guilt and gloom in Xiaoyu Niang's heart have gradually faded away. She is the same age as Xiao'e and they have known each other since they were in Luoyang. The few girls are together and chatting non-stop all day long. Xiaoyu Niang has returned to her Fengzhou days.
of cheerfulness.
"I think tens of thousands of years ago, a divine man split the Qinling Mountains with a big axe, forming this valley. Otherwise, how could the cliffs be so straight?"
"nonsense!"
Xiao'e retorted: "Immortals don't use axes at all, they use immortal swords. Only sword immortals have such great power."
"How do you know that gods don't use axes? Some gods use swords, and some gods use axes. Maybe they don't use weapons at all. The gods recite the magic formula and point their fingers, and this valley path appears."
Xue Tao rolled her eyes when she heard this. She smiled and asked Kang Baodao, who was walking outside: "Uncle Kang, how do you think this valley road was formed?"
Kang Bao was a step general. His body was too heavy, and with the 100 kilograms of wrought copper rods, ordinary war horses couldn't carry him. He simply walked. His legs were long and his strides were long. He could keep up with the team. His main purpose was to follow.
Near Xue Tao's carriage, he just walked all the way, turning a deaf ear to their conversations, and rarely spoke.
When he saw his mistress asking himself, he scratched his head a little embarrassedly, "I heard Mr. Guo say that such valleys hundreds of miles long are usually cracked by earthquakes. They were created when the mountains were formed, and later passed by rivers.
It took tens of thousands of years of erosion to make both sides so smooth and flat."
Xue Tao's beautiful eyes lit up. This statement was very new. It was the first time she heard it. She quickly asked: "Is this what your young master said?"
"Yes! When we went south from Fengzhou, he told us about the formation of the canyon like this."
"How does he know so much?"
Xue Tao muttered to herself, holding her fragrant cheeks in her hands, and she was mesmerized for a moment.
Behind her, Xiaoyu Niang and Xiao'e stuck out their tongues, covered their mouths and laughed secretly.
........
The team walked for more than thirty miles, and it gradually became dark. Xue Xun ordered to spend the night on the spot. The carriages were gathered together, the soldiers stood guard outside, and the family members and servants were all sleeping on the carriages.
Five years ago, a war broke out in Bashu between Guo Yingyi and Cui Yun, resulting in the death of tens of thousands of people. Countless soldiers became bandits and bandits, wreaking havoc in various places. Bandits were also rampant on official roads, openly extorting money.
Even Xue Xun's wife Han knew that the public security in Bashu was not good. In fact, in the entire Tang Dynasty, except for Chang'an, which showed abnormal prosperity, people everywhere were in great poverty, and there were so many bandits who robbed their homes.
Not long after Xue Xun's motorcade entered Ziwu Road, they were stared at by a group of more than 20 bandits.
In particular, Xue Xun had a lot of books and brought dozens of large boxes with him, which were filled into two large carts. The thieves misunderstood that they were filled with gold and silver treasures and silk and satin, which made them murderous.
Kang Baobao sat on the wheel of Xue Tao's carriage, half-squinting his eyes, and felt an ominous omen.