Chapter 2598: The changes in the south, Kunming, southern capital
Chapter 2595: The changes in the south, Kunming, southern capital
Since the Qin Dynasty and the Southern Barbarians are not bordered by each other, there are only two ways to go to the Southern Barbarians.
First, when taking the water route, you need to go from Luoyang to the Beihai Army, then take a boat from Beihai Port, and go around the five prefectures of Qing, Xu, Yang, Guang and Jiao. After arriving at Qingmei Port in Annan, you can then go to Nanman by land.
Although waterways are a safe road, they have made a big circle. After getting ashore, they still have to take land, which will take at least one and a half months, which is too long.
The diplomatic relations between the country are fought for every second, not to mention that Li Jing’s 100,000 troops are still waiting in front of Yangping Pass, so it is naturally impossible for Zhang Yi to walk slowly for a month and a half.
Therefore, Zhang Yi chose the second one when he was on the Southern Barbarians this time, and took the land route.
To take the land, you have to pass through Chu and Shu, and these two countries are still hostile countries of the Qin Dynasty, so the risk is still very high.
Once discovered by the people of Shu and Chu, if Zhang Yi, who was trapped in the enemy''s territory, cannot ask for pursuit and escape in time, it will be like a meat bun to beat the dog but never return.
But even so, Zhang Yi decided to take the land route. After all, Shu and Chu are not small. As long as you carefully avoid crowded areas and do not delay too much, it is basically unlikely to be discovered.
Ying Hao didn''t want Zhang Yi to go but never return, so he not only sent the new seven swords on the surface, but also sent the entire seven masters to protect Zhang Yi''s safety, but also secretly sent Ying Gou to protect his group.
Under the protection of the seven masters of the new Seven Swords, Zhang Yi did not encounter any twists and turns in the early stage of his trip. He set out from Luoyang and rushed all the way. In just ten days, he passed through the six counties of Nanyang, Xiangyang, Jiangling, Changsha, Wuling and Jinghua.
However, after entering Yizhou County, Zhang Yi and his group encountered someone.
Liu Yu was left to the Five Poisons Sect for Liu Bian''s death. Although the Five Poisons Sect has been wiped out by Wang Yue, it has been rooted in Nanzhong for a hundred years, and there are still many affiliated forces and closely related people.
These people naturally need to be solved, so during this period, a large number of spies gathered in southern Yizhou and southern central areas, just to eliminate the remains of the Five Poisons Cult.
Zhang Yi and his group naturally don’t want to cause trouble, but they can’t stand the big guy, so why should they take the initiative to cause trouble for them?
When Dashe was chasing the remnant of the Five Poison Sect, he happened to meet Zhang Yi and his group who were on the Southern Barbarians'' mission. Naturally, he checked them according to the convention.
If Zhang Yi and others ask anyone to check, they will definitely expose their identity, and not letting go means not to ask for it.
However, considering that they are currently in Yizhou County, they are not too far from the Southern Barbarians. As long as they enter the Southern Barbarians, it will naturally be safe, and if they go back, they can take the water route.
After considering this, Zhang Yi was not overly worried and directly winked at the seven people.
The seven masters immediately drew their swords after understanding and killed all the fifty big men they met in just two seconds.
The direct consequence of doing so is that it has attracted hundreds of people to pursue and encircle and intercept thousands of troops.
After all, there are fifty people in the world. This is a very strong force. It can even wipe out some small sects, but they all died in their own territory. This is not a trivial matter in any country, so Liu Yu in Chengdu was quickly alarmed.
Although Liu Yu didn''t know who did it, at the moment when he was about to be emperor, someone committed such a major case in Shu, which was a silent provocation in his eyes.
Liu Yu immediately ordered the local garrison to block the major roads and also sent Wang Yue to investigate, just to find out the thief who was brave enough to provoke him before he ascended the throne.
However, because Zhang Yi and others were transferred in time and did not leave any movement trajectory, by the time Wang Yue brought his men to Yizhou County, they had already entered Yongchang County.
"Master, the thief has cleared all traces, and now I don''t know where to go."
Shi Meng said in a deep voice that he was Shi''s younger brother, but he did not defect to Cao Wei with his brother, but followed his master Wang Yue to serve Shu Han.
"It seems we''re late." Tian Hu, a farmer, sighed.
"It''s not too late, it''s not too late at all."
Wang Yue stared at the broken corpses on the ground and said in a deep voice: "Only these three corpses were found, but no other corpses were found. It seems that they were dispossed by the water of dissolving corpses.
There is no second wound on these three corpses, and the wound is flat and smooth, which means that they are all killed by a sword. Moreover, it has been so long, but there is still a sword intent left at the wound.
This shows that those who take action are all masters, the weakest is also a master-level swordsman, and may even be a master.
However, judging from the sword scar and sword intent, there should be more than one person who took action, and the number of opponents should be around four or five, otherwise even one would not be able to escape.
The total number of masters and swordsmen from various sects in Yizhou is probably not enough to gather so many. It seems that they are all outsiders.
The only one who can bring together so many masters and swordsmen in the world is probably the only one who can bring together Daqin. ”
After saying that, Wang Yue closed his eyes, pressed his fingers on the wound, calmed down to feel the sword intent, and then said, "On these three corpses, I felt flame, ice, thunder and lightning, three completely different sword intents, and the Seven Swords of the Great Qin happen to have these three sword intents."
"So is it the Qi Sword of the Great Qin?" Shi Meng asked.
"Hmph, this is not obvious."
Tian Hu snorted coldly and asked, "Sir, what should I do now?"
Wang Yue did not answer. What he cares about now is not why the Qi Jian of the Qin Dynasty committed a crime in Yizhou County, but why the Qi Jian appeared in Yizhou County.
As the trump card of the Black Ice Platform, Wang Yue, as the leader of the Great, naturally deals with them a lot. If only five people are there, Wang Yue can beat him, and six can draw with him. If the seven swords are used together, even the great master Wang Yue will have to go around.
If you can send four or five people to Seven Swords, or even all the staff, you must be someone with a very high status or extremely important status, and you need the protection of Seven Swords.
Why did Daqin send such a person to sneak into Yinan at this time? The answer is self-evident, and it is very likely that I came to contact the Southern Barbarians.
"not good."
Wang Yue''s eyes suddenly stared at the boss, and a bad premonition arose in his heart. He quickly wrote a letter to Shi Meng to return to Chengdu, reminding Liu Yu that Daqin might join forces with the Southern Man.
As for Wang Yue himself, he was alone in Nanzhong and chased at full speed. After all, he had already guessed this. Even if there was only a slight possibility, it would be impossible for Qin to go to Nanzhong.
But Wang Yue also knew that if all the seven swords were there, he would not be able to beat him even if he caught up, so he was going to call some helpers.
Liu Yu was also worried that when he was emperor, the masters of the Qin Dynasty would come to make trouble. After all, the ten great masters of the Qin Dynasty made a big fuss in Chang''an shocked all the kings in the world, so he invited all the great masters of the anti-Qin factions such as Taoism, Buddhism, agriculture, Mo, and Confucianism to come to Yizhou.
At this time, hundreds of great masters including Zhuang Zhou, Yin Xi, Shakyamuni, Manjushri, Yuliusun, Mo Zhai, Huang Chengyan, Meng Ke, Xu Xing were all in Chengdu, and Hou Qing, the guardian of the great Han, who was on par with Zhulong, was there to ensure that the throne ceremony was not destroyed.
Of course, Wang Yue couldn''t call the great masters of Chengdu, and it was too late. However, as far as he knew, Lu Chunyang from the Taiqing Sect and Jiang Ming from the Shushan Sect were all in southern Yizhou, so if they were urgently sent to them, they should be able to catch up.
After leaving Yongchang County and entering Nanzhong, Zhang Yi and others thought that the trip was safe and sound, but they did not expect that the three great masters Wang Yue, Lu Chunyang and Jiang Ming would chase into Nanzhong.
Relying on the new seven swords alone, even if the seven swords are combined, it is not the opponent of the three great masters.
At a critical moment, Ying Gou, who had broken through to the peak of the Grandmaster, appeared in time. He blocked the joint efforts of the three Grandmasters by his own strength, and also allowed Zhang Yi and others to take the opportunity to escape into the hinterland of Nanzhong.
Wang Yue saw that Zhang Yi and others had already fled far away, and if he continued to go deeper, he was afraid that the masters of the Southern Barbarians would be alarmed. Moreover, the three of them could not win Ying Gou together, so he had to take the initiative to retreat to Shu Kingdom.
Ying Gou did not stop the three of them. After all, he was in the enemy country and didn''t know how many helpers the other party had. If he really forced the other party to burn his internal strength, he would not be able to get it.
After Zhang Yi and others entered the hinterland of Nanzhong, they immediately announced their identity to the Nanman officials and received warm welcome from local officials and the people. Then they were escorted to the Nanman capital, Kunming by the army.
This is Zhang Yi''s first time to come to the Southern Barbarians. He has no intuitive feeling about the changes in the Southern Barbarians, but among the new Seven Swords as a escort, some members have been here before.
"Is this really a Southern Barbarian?"
Gao Jianli and Ye Gucheng were both shocked. They had been to the Southern Barbarians many years ago, and the Southern Barbarians were still very primitive at that time.
Most people make a living by hunting, and there is a shortage of food. Most people cannot eat, have pale faces, and are thin and have no clothes to cover themselves. A few people who can wear clothes are basically dressed in animal skins.
But now farming has become the main way of survival for the people of the Southern Barbarians. The people have rosy faces and strong bodies, not as if they are hungry, and most of them have clothes to wear.
In addition, the Southern Barbarians used to have no cities at all. The people were all tribes and lived in villages, but now they have built cities around the mountains and rivers.
Zhang Yi and his group went through three counties, Yuanmou, Wuding and Fumin.
Although these cities are not large in scale and the city walls are very thin, they cannot withstand the impact of the city hammers. They are basically at the same level as Wubao''s defense, but this is already a great improvement for the Southern Barbarians.
Zhang Yi and others looked at each other, all surprised by the changes in the Southern Barbarians, but what shocked them even more was that they saw many Han people in Nanzhong.
It is said that the Southern Barbarians and Shu Han are as deep as the sea of ??enemies and will never stop until death, but the Southern Barbarians do not hate the Han people in their territory, but they still respect them very much.
Zhang Yi and others learned that the Han people in Nanzhong came from all over the Central Plains, including Wu, Chu, Qin, Wei and Song, etc., but they were all hired by the Southern Barbarian King Chiyou to help the Southern Barbarian development.
These people may not have outstanding abilities, but they all have skills and are depressed in their own country. When they come to the Southern Barbarians, they only have money, status, and women, so most people naturally don’t want to go back.
It is precisely with the help of these Han people and the strong support of the Qin Dynasty in the past two years that the Southern Barbarians have undergone such great changes.
After learning about this, both Seven Swords and Zhang Yi felt deeply admired the Southern Barbarian King whom he had never met. After all, this really benefited and changed the entire race with his own strength.
"Be careful after arriving in Kunming. Don''t call it from the Southern Barbarians. It sounds bad. They are called Nanguo now."
Zhang Yi gave a little worried reminder, and the seven people naturally nodded in agreement.
After arriving in Kunming, the eight people all showed shock.
If the county towns I encountered along the way were only at the Wubao level, then this southern capital would have the level of Zhongyuan County, which is enough to show how much effort the southerners have devoted to this Kunming city.
Before Zhang Yi and others entered the city, they found that there was someone greeting the city gate, and the leader was the Southern Barbarian King, Chi You.
Chi You opened his heart and hugged him, saying with a smile: "Friends from Daqin who have come from afar, the South Country welcomes you."
Seeing this, Zhang Yi quickly dismounted and bowed, "Zhang Yi, the Minister of Rites of the Great Qin Dynasty, met His Highness the King of Southern."
"The noble envoy does not need to be too polite. The Qin Dynasty is the most noble friend of the southern country. Speaking of which, the name Kunming was obtained by His Majesty the Emperor of the Qin Dynasty."
Zhang Yi and others were shocked. The capital of the Southern Kingdom was actually named by His Majesty. The Southern King Chi You even adopted it. Is the relationship between Qin and Nan really so good?
(This chapter ends)