Chapter0078 Yanmen Pass

The heavy gate closed behind him, making a dull sound, as if to isolate Zhuo extraordinary from the world behind him.

With the Holy Edict, extraordinary people can naturally get in and out freely.

Ten miles outside the city, there is also a place to rest. This is a ten-mile shop specially set up for missing the opening time of the city gate. Here, you can greatly reduce rest and rent carriages and horses and so on. Horses are more expensive than people. Ordinary horses can't afford to rent, because the rent is higher than the price of the horse itself. If you return, you can get it. Part of the return, after all, this is the ancient times when transportation and communication are not convenient. Who knows if you can come back and return the horse? Most of them are still much cheaper to rent a carriage than to rent a horse.

Zhuo Fan and his party stayed for a night. The next morning, he bought three horses before the gate opened. How to chase people in Zuo Xiangfu had to wait for the gate to open.

Out of the ten-mile shop and went straight to the west. The original plan to go south has naturally changed. According to the information provided by Princess Changping, this year's tribute should soon arrive at Yanmen Pass, a journey of thousands of miles, and you have to get to Yanmen Pass as soon as possible.

The matter of Fu Wancheng made Zhuo Bufan a little unhappy. She still had a good feeling about this rare woman. Otherwise, she would not have wanted to take her to elope, but at this point, she must be married as a woman, but she didn't know if she had gone to the city gate to wait for herself.

Horseshoe kicks, can't travel fast on long distances, Zhuo extraordinary and his line is not slow, all the way out of Hebei through Baoding straight to Taiyuan, and then prepare to turn north in Taiyuan and go straight to Yanmen Pass.

This is the general path of Guanwai Suigong. There are obvious post roads along the road. Although the post station has long been abolished, the operation of this post station is still there, just turning it into private use. After all, if there is demand, there will be sales.

The extraordinary mobile phone and charger were left in the prime minister's house. Because the charger was really eye-catching and extremely heavy, he even left the mobile phone at home. After all, it is still relatively safe there now. However, if Zhuo Fan knew the release of Jinyiwei, he would definitely find a way to bring it out. Under the emperor's feet, although the powerful ministers are heavier and heavier, there are no realistic soldiers and horses in his hand, and it is still very fragile at the critical moment. Of course, the emperor is the only one who can pose such a threat.

When I entered Hebei, I began to see disaster victims one after another. Now it has been a famine for years. These disaster victims are also camping in relatively rich places, choosing places to live and eating. After a day, with the extraordinary westward journey, this kind of scene is becoming more and more and later they have become accustomed. If the problem of famine cannot be fundamentally solved, these exiles will inevitably be the biggest destabilizing factor.

You can see this by yourself, doesn't the emperor know? Zhuo Fan suddenly felt that things might not be as simple as he originally thought. Judging from Princess Changping's behavior this time, Emperor Chongzhen was not so stupid and incompetent, but he actually turned a blind eye to such a serious famine in front of him. Moreover, it was still in Hebei, close to the capital. If Chongzhen knows the seriousness of the present, why is there no corresponding measure? Can Dahua's officials really deceive Sheng to hear this?

All the way safely, the three of them passed through Taiyuan, and it took nearly half a month to finally come to the Yanmen Gate.

The towering Hengshan Mountains stretch along the northern border of Dai County. The inner Great Wall winding on the top of the mountain is like a jade belt, connecting Yanmen Mountain, Mantou Mountain and Caodu Mountain into one. It is located on the Yanbei Plateau in the north and the Xinding Basin in the south. The famous Yanmen ancient fortress is built on the steep Yanmen ridge. Yanmen Mountain, known as Gouzhu Mountain in ancient times. The peaks here are straight and the terrain is dangerous. After the construction of the Yanmen Pass, there is a trend of "one man is the gate, and ten thousand men can't open it". It "strongs the vassal guard outside, solidifies the key of Taiyuan inside, the root reaches the three gates, and the throat is all Jin". It is said that every spring, the southern geese fly north, hold the reed leaves, and fly to the geese gate for a long time until the leaves fall. Therefore, there is a saying that "the wild goose fly out of the mountain of Yanmen Mountain".

This Yanmen Pass, a border gate that has been used to fight against nomadic invasion in the north since ancient times, was built in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, in order to resist the invasion of the Turks in the north, a checkpoint was set up on it with iron-clad wooden doors to resist foreign enemies. After five dynasties and ten kingdoms, more than 400 years of Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan, and hundreds of years of Dahua, it can be said that it is the throat of the northern gate of Dahua. Once this majestic pass is broken, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains are in front of you, and naturally there are heavy soldiers guarding.

However, it is also an extremely busy north-south trade pass, with an endless stream of caravans going from south to north. Although it has been slightly reduced due to the lack of peace outside this year, many caravans still pass through here every day.

The three extraordinary people believed in the horse's reings, and it was inevitable that people would be tired after many days of running around. On this day, after the county seat of Dai County, they looked up and saw the wonders of Yanmen Mountain, and couldn't help but stop and watch. Ordinary people only sigh at the grandeur of Yanmen Pass, and those who know its melodious years will be shocked by its weight.

"The Yanmen is closed, the mountains are there, the clouds are flying, the two mountains are facing each other, and their shape is like a door, and the flying geese are out of it, what a magnificent dragon gate." Suddenly, someone beside Zhuo extraordinary sighed that he was young, riding an old donkey, but his words seemed to be full of wind and frost, and the extraordinary elegant temperament suddenly attracted Extraordinary attention.

"Oh? This gentleman is very interested. He is very popular in the capital. He has a lot of emotions. I don't know what is the allusion of this Yanmen Pass?" Zhuo Bofan has been in a hurry these days and wants to finish the matter as soon as possible. Today, he suddenly met an interesting literati and immediately became interested.

The man heard Zhuo's extraordinary words and said politely, and now he also bowed his hand and said, "I am Gu Yanwu, traveling around the world. Today, I can't help but think of the ancient events of the Tang and Song Dynasties, which makes the Zhuo brothers laugh."

"Oh? Is there still a story in this Xiongguan? If you have nothing to do, why don't we walk forward? The gentleman said carefully and let me open my eyes." Zhuo said with great interest. At the same time, he asked Zhou Tong to take out some seasonal fresh fruit portable water wine purchased in Daixian County and enjoy it.

Gu Yanwu is simple, and his family background must be average. He does not bring much water, and the literati talk about the scenery. If he can be accompanied by wine and fresh fruits, it will be a pleasant enjoyment. In this way, they are no longer polite, and the four of us are lazy and talkatively.

With the explanation of Gu Yanwu, a knowledgeable scholar, Zhuo Bufan and his party knew that the story of Yanmenguan was more charming than this majestic scenery. And Gu Yanwu's proper embellished explanation also made the story more fascinating.