Chapter 762

Because Rong Guifei and others didn't want to spend the night in Luming pass, Yan Liqiang had to take the team and try to catch more roads in the first half of the night, and then prepare to find a place to camp and rest in the second half of the night.

Not long after leaving the Luming pass, the sun completely set and the sky slowly and completely darkened. Yan Liqiang and his team skillfully lit their lanterns and continued to travel. Before leaving the Luming pass, everyone was ready to travel all night. Everyone ate East and West, and the horses rested all afternoon. They were fed with water and grass, A group of people hurried along the official road without stopping.

The weather is good these days. It's bright at night. With the horse lights in the team, there's no problem on the way.

In the first three hours after leaving Luming pass, the official road was fairly flat and easy to walk, but three hours after leaving Luming pass, the mountains on both sides of the road became higher and higher, and the terrain became more and more dangerous. When cars and horses entered the mountainous area, the so-called official road became pitted, and there were still a lot of gravel on the road. The whole official road was dug on the mountain wall. There were deep ditches and dangerous gullies under the mountain wall, It is not bottomed out. A turbulent river is close to the official road. It roars like an angry dragon in the mountains, and makes a huge roar at Yan Liqiang's feet, which is frightening.

In such an official way, riding is OK, but the four-wheel carriage can't run too fast on such a road at all. As soon as the four-wheel carriage is fast, the whole carriage will jump up from the road as soon as it passes through any potholes or wheels and rushes to stones. The people sitting inside will bump and feel uncomfortable. Needless to say, the vehicle is also easy to be damaged. If you are not careful, All four wheeled carriages may be damaged by overturning and then rush from the road to the following valleys or surging rivers.

In this case, the speed of the whole team suddenly slowed down and slowly shuttled through the mountains at a speed no faster than pedestrians.

It's late at night, and there are no pedestrians on the road. When walking on such official roads, in addition to the sound of horse hoofs and wheel wheels, the only sound that can be heard from living creatures in the whole mountain is the cry of birds such as owls, forest owls and chestnut beetles that cut through the night sky. Occasionally, there are several shrill cries of tigers, wolves and apes echoing in the valley, Especially scary.

"Why are the official roads in Gaoyi County so potholes and the situation is too bad. How long is there such a road?"

Yan Liqiang thought that this kind of official road was just a short period. Unexpectedly, he walked endlessly for four or five hours and almost finished walking in the first half of the night. The situation on the road is still the same. His team can only slowly linger on such a road. There is not even a post Hotel on the roadside, Some impatient, he couldn't help asking Sima Qingshan next to him.

"The road in the next few days is almost the same!" Sima Qingshan answered.

"Is there no one to repair the official way in Gaoyi County?"

Hearing Yan Liqiang's question, Sima Qingshan suddenly came to his senses and began to say, "adults may not know the situation in Gaoyi County. Gaoyi County is densely forested and sparsely populated. Even the county city population of Gaoyi County is only more than 200000 people. The tax money collected by the whole Gaoyi County in a year is less than one eighth of that of Luquan County, According to the system of the Han Empire, the official road in Gaoyi County is naturally repaired by Gaoyi County to keep the official road unblocked and intact. However, because there is no money in Gaoyi County, the usual repair and maintenance is much worse. In addition, the official road is basically in the mountains in Gaoyi County. Mountain torrents and falling stones occur from time to time, which is easier to be damaged, and the road condition is even worse, In case of bad years, Gaoyi County can't even get enough money to build official roads, and needs to ask the governor of Guzhou to allocate it. If adults in Guzhou see that there are officials and tolerance wearing clothes that will be patched, they must be from Gaoyi County. In Guzhou officialdom, officials of Gaoyi County are often ridiculed and become jokes, It's said that the assassin went to Gaoyi County for an inspection the year before last. As a result, most of the officials who came to meet them, even the officials they were wearing, had patches. As a result, even the assassin couldn't see it. Since the year before last, at the end of each year, he specially asked the assassin's government to allocate a sum of money to the officials of Gaoyi County, which is called Xinfu silver. The whole Guzhou is the only one. "

"Since Guzhou is so poor, how do the people in Guzhou live?"

"Of course, there are many mountains in Guzhou, and there are many medicinal materials in the mountains. Some medicinal materials are rare and expensive. Almost all the people in Guzhou live on the subsidies of medicinal materials in the mountains. During the period from June to winter every year, more people enter the mountains. Many pharmaceutical merchants in Guzhou and Jinzhou will come to Gaoyi County to collect medicine, The main tax silver of the government of Gaoyi County is the customs clearance of these drug merchants! "

"I didn't expect that there would be such a poor county in the Han Empire. It's really unexpected!" Yan Liqiang shook his head and sighed.

Sima Qingshan looked at Yan Liqiang with admiration and his eyes flashed, "Your Excellency's rule of Qiyun county is naturally thousands of times better than that of Gaoyi County. My subordinates heard that the wool monopoly policy of Gulang grassland was created by your excellency. With this policy alone, your excellency can easily earn millions of liang of Silver every year, monopolize most of the wool of the Han Empire, and watch the whole Han Empire, You can't find a second county government that can make money and have money like adults. Even those county governments in the Han Empire that have the benefits of coastal trade are not as good as adults in terms of making money! "

Yan Liqiang just wanted to say something. Suddenly, his heart moved a little, and the alarm was sudden. There was a feeling of being peeped. It flashed away, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Yan Liqiang frowned and looked at the surrounding environment. On the right side of the official road was a steep mountain wall, hundreds of meters high. On the left side of the official road was a deep stream. Below was the turbulent river. Here was a dangerous road. Although it was dark around, there was no human shadow in Yan Liqiang's eyes. The feeling of being peeped was too slight and the time was very short, There is no such kind of constant anxiety and vigilance caused by being hidden in the dark and constantly peeping, which makes Yan Liqiang still wonder in his heart. If it was a person, he would never just look at himself as a target. Was it just a beast hiding in the mountains and forests who wanted to hunt looked at himself, then staggered his eyes and felt by himself, Or some little haircut thief

Seeing Yan Liqiang's face, he suddenly became serious. While observing the surrounding environment, Sima Qingshan was also alert and looked around.

"Are there any thieves in this mountain?" Yan Liqiang asked Sima Qingshan.

"Yes, but not much. At most, it's the kind of gangs of thirty or twenty who rob solo travelers. In the past, several gangs of thieves with a little more number were exterminated by Rangers invited by drug merchants in Guzhou and Jinzhou."

Yan Li nodded strongly. It's estimated that ordinary petty thieves have no time to hide when they see the team they're taking. Where dare they show up.

The feeling of being peeped disappeared for two minutes. When Yan Liqiang thought it would never happen again, suddenly Yan Liqiang was alarmed again - no!

Yan Liqiang tilted his head and looked at the hillside on the right. His eyes flashed. Taking the meteorite gun in his hand, the whole man jumped up from the horse's back chasing the moon. Stepping on the steep and straight mountain wall on the right, the whole man roared, stepped on the steep mountain wall and rushed towards the middle of the team

Seeing Yan Li's powerful roar, he jumped up and rushed towards the back. The whole team was surprised and everyone reacted at once.

Boom

Just as Yan Liqiang had just rushed more than ten feet away, there was a sudden loud noise on the mountain wall. Several boulders with great power rolled down from the highest part of the mountain wall. Below the boulder was the middle position of Yan Liqiang's team, that is, the area where the imperial concubine Rong and her carriage took.

As soon as the people in the team looked up, they saw that several cow sized stones weighing thousands of kilograms rushed and rolled down from the height, and everyone changed his face.

Hearing the noise on the mountain road, the bodyguard who drove the car waved his whip fiercely and wanted to make the horse rush forward. However, Princess Rong's carriage had just rushed a few meters ahead, but the wheel clicked, and suddenly fell into a half foot deep pit on the road. The carriage moved twice, and the wheel was still motionless.

Hearing the sudden noise from outside, empress Rong lifted the curtain inside the carriage and saw that under the light of the lantern, a stone about the size of the carriage rolled down the hillside and was facing her position. The strength and impact of the stone, once it hit the carriage, the carriage and the people in the carriage would definitely be crushed to pieces, and there was no chance

Elder Liu had just jumped up from the carriage and roared and smashed several falling ox head stones in the air. However, facing the largest stone rushing down behind, he saw that the wheels of the carriage were stuck in the pit and a huge stone was rushing towards the carriages and horses of imperial concubine Rong. Liu Changlao also changed his face. At this time, It's too late to let imperial concubine Rong get off

When Rong Guifei saw the boulder, elder Liu, who rushed to the front of the boulder to stop the boulder from rolling down, had a mouthful of blood, and the whole person fell back, but the momentum of the boulder rolling down was not reduced.

Am I going to die? I'm going to die on this mountain road... At this moment, Princess Rong's head was blank, and her whole body was completely stiff. At this moment, time seemed to slow down. The shadow of the falling boulder had covered Princess Rong's cars and horses.

At this time, Yan Liqiang's figure suddenly appeared in front of Rong Guifei and stood in front of the carriage. Looking at the huge stone rolling down with great power, Yan Liqiang roared and stabbed out his long gun.

The spear in Yan Liqiang's hand was not stabbed on the boulder, but on the mountain wall below the boulder. Then Yan Liqiang fiercely picked it with the spear head. The spear pole of the meteorite spear almost bent to 90 degrees at that moment, and then shot fiercely. The falling boulder slipped on Yan Liqiang's Spear tip, and then was picked up with a cry and changed its direction, She rubbed the roof of the carriage that Rong Guifei and her concubine were riding, flew over, rolled down the river below, and made a loud noise, smashing the water spray in the river high

Yan Liqiang grabbed Rong Guifei's carriage and picked up the whole carriage from the pit with only one hand, "elder Liu, escort the empress and Her Highness to go..."

Liu Changlao, with blood on his mouth, leaped over and directly stood on the back of the rhinoceros dragon horse pulling the cart, escorting the vehicle in which Rong Guifei and his wife were sitting to rush forward.

Another boulder rolled down and was picked up by Yan Liqiang with a long gun. Then Yan Liqiang roared again, jumped up, stepped on the steep mountain wall and rushed up directly. His body was like electricity

Yan Liqiang rushed to the top of the mountain wall more than 100 meters high in the blink of an eye. When he looked up, three men in black were holding iron bars and working together to pry a huge stone above. The three people suddenly didn't expect that the people below could rush up so quickly. They were startled and stiff. One of them didn't think about it, and his ferocious face shook, This novel has been translated by www.novelhall.com and if you are reading this somewhere, they have stolen our translation