Humane Yongchang

Chapter 310 Hexi Corridor
On the second floor of the empty Youyu Restaurant, there was only one table of guests.

Chen Sheng saw Jing Ke at a glance.

He was wearing a gray gebu bunt, sitting cross-legged on the mat, with a bamboo hat hanging on his back and a long sword in front of his knees. Dry steamed cakes, a bowl of water.

When Jing Ke saw Chen Sheng, he greeted him from a distance.

Chen Sheng just glanced at the plate of steamed cakes on the lower table, left a sentence "wait for me for a moment", turned around and went straight downstairs again.

Jing Ke: ? ? ?
After about two quarters of an hour, Chen Sheng, who had changed into a pair of linen clothes and a hairpin, rolled up his sleeves and personally carried three bowls of oily and hot meat dishes on a tray, and walked up the stairs.

Jing Ke was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly got up to greet him: "How dare you work and enter the kitchen yourself!"

He did not call Chen Sheng a king.

However, he also felt that it was too outrageous to entertain him with the honor of King Chen Shenghan himself.

Chen Sheng let him take the tray from his hand, and chuckled lightly: "It's a pleasure to have a friend from afar!"

After speaking, he shook his head regretfully and said: "Unfortunately, I don't use the cooking utensils well here, and the spices and seasonings are too poor, so I can't make some of my specialty dishes... It's not a good thing for you, Otherwise, I will teach you to eat it once, and want to eat it a second time!"

"You still say it!"

Jing Ke didn't think there was anything to be honored with, and complained with a bitter face: "If I knew that you were going to get food, I wouldn't let you go. If it spreads out, what will the people of Kyushu think of you, His Royal Highness the King of Han? ?"

"Ah……"

Chen Sheng sneered disdainfully: "If I, Chen Sheng, care about how others view me, I will not be able to get to where I am today!"

Jing Ke shook his head, chattering endlessly: "That's different, three people become tigers, and everyone's mouth is full of gold..."

"Okay, do you really think I'm a weak, rich boy?"

Chen Sheng laughed and joked, but he felt very comfortable in his heart: "Three people become tigers? How many tigers? Is there my 30 red-clothed army tigers? Many mouths make money? How many people? Is there my Hanting sixty-seven million Han?" people?"

Jing Ke was speechless, with a strange expression like constipation.

Chen Sheng laughed when he saw this, and his laughter was very happy and hearty.

Han Fei and Jing Ke are very few people Chen Sheng can call friends in this world.

Maybe it's because both of them are idealistic.

Or maybe it's because both of them are pure-minded people.

Or maybe it's because these two people are firm idealists who still choose to practice their ideals after seeing the truth of the world...

People are always willing to make friends with people who are the exact opposite of themselves.

It is true that Chen Sheng is an idealist, but his idealism is neither firm nor pure.

What he believes in is that if one road doesn't work, then change it. If one safety rope is not stable, then add four or five or six safety ropes.

For example, although he has always spared no effort to develop Chen County, every time a crisis that is likely to affect Chen County is approaching, he has prepared a "strategic transfer" plan in advance, and will live and die with Chen County. There is no stubbornness!
If he were an overlord, he would never kill himself in Wujiang, and would definitely flee back to Jiangdong in a hurry. The idea of ​​racking his brains would disgust Liu Bang, and the villain would take revenge all day long...

Maybe that's why, he'll never be a king!
……

"Come, come and taste my cooking!"

After the two were seated, Chen Sheng enthusiastically took out two pairs of chopsticks and handed a pair to Jing Ke: "I am in short supply of food in the Han court, and there is a ban on alcohol in the people. There can only be a grievance of meat and no wine."

Jing Ke also glanced at him mockingly, meaning: 'You still have the face to ask me about wine? '

Every time he met with Chen Sheng before, he was drunk by Chen Sheng.

But Chen Sheng didn't drink alcohol himself, so he kept persuading him to drink it.

cheap or not...

When Chen Shengquan didn't see the contempt in his eyes, he picked up a piece of transparent waxed pork head that was cut into fat and thin, and put it into his mouth along with the tender green garlic sprouts of the fried meat, chewing it "crackly". ring.

The rich smoky and salty aroma, fresh garlic aroma, matched with the non-greasy texture of the waxed pork head, he couldn't help but nod his head after eating it. Although the seasonings were not uniform, it was better than the raw materials. The quality is high enough, and the taste is not bad when fried.

In his previous life, where would he go to find this kind of local black pork that his ancestors had never eaten a grain of feed and raised for two or three years?

"Tell me, where have you been running these days? I haven't heard from you for more than a month!"

Chen Sheng leaned on one leg, leaning lazily on the fence facing the street, and asked while eating.

At the beginning of February, he learned from Chen Feng that last year's cold wave had caused the demons to become poisonous, and there was a risk of losing control, so he decided to set up the Demon Slayer Division. At that time, he thought of letting Jing Ke be the guard of the Demon Slayer Division. After getting home, he privately asked Ah Yu to release the news that he invited Jing Ke to Chen County through their Wu Mo information channel.

Originally, I thought that the short one was three to five days, and the long one was ten days and a half months. Jing Ke should come to Chen County.

But I don't want to, this wait has been waiting for more than a month.

Today, I saw Jing Ke's dusty, disheveled beard and hair again, and even forgot to take off his hat after sitting for so long.

How could Chen Sheng not guess that he was on a long trip?
Jing Ke tasted Chen Sheng's cooking skills carefully, his eyes were slightly closed, and there seemed to be tears in the corners of his eyes: "It's a long story!"

He replied that his voice was normal when he was chatting with Chen Sheng just now, but when he said these four words, his voice suddenly became hoarse.

Seeing this, Chen Sheng was refreshed, got up and crossed his legs and did a good job: "It doesn't matter, I will say it slowly. I have time and mood, so I can listen slowly!"

Jing Ke opened one eye and glanced at him, and replied bitterly, "But I'm not in the mood to talk about it!"

Chen Sheng regretted that his body was crooked, and propped up his left leg again: "That would be a pity..."

Listening to his undisguised schadenfreude, Jing Ke was so angry that he bit the bacon into a "creaky" sound, as if he was not biting pork, but Chen Sheng's meat!

That is to say, he knows very well that he can't beat Chen Sheng, otherwise...

After eating half a bowl of pork head meat, Jing Ke finally opened his mouth and said, "After leaving Yingchuan last year, I led three hundred fellows to Yongzhou, and today... I am the only one left!"

"Yongzhou?"

Chen Sheng raised his eyebrows in surprise and said in surprise, "Then didn't you cross the entire Kyushu diagonally?"

Yongzhou is located in the northwest corner of Kyushu.

The base camp of Wu Mo, Yangzhou, is located in the southeast corner of Kyushu.

Jing Ke took three hundred calligraphers from Yangzhou to Yongzhou, didn't they cross the entire Kyushu obliquely?
This is not the future generations of high-speed rail and high-speed railways, and traveling thousands of miles a day is a matter of sleeping.

At present, communication relies on roaring and traffic relies on walking. If you want to cross Kyushu diagonally, even if you don’t care about horsepower and travel day and night, you have to travel on the road for at least more than a month before you can hope to reach your destination!

However, after Jing Ke only said that sentence, he ignored him, just lowered his head, holding steamed cakes in one hand and chopsticks in the other, and concentrated on dealing with the three large plates of meat and vegetables in front of him.

Chopstick after chopstick.

One bite of meat and one bite of pie.

Eating is not messy, but it seems that I don't know what it means to be full!
Three plates of meat dishes, Chen Sheng moved his chopsticks, and he ate all the rest!
It's really clean, not some exaggerated adjective!
Even the grease at the bottom of the bowl was wiped clean by him with steamed cakes. The pottery bowl was so bright that it was cleaner than washing it with water...

How could this look like a scene of the reincarnation of a starving ghost, it fell into Chen Sheng's eyes, but he only felt unspeakably sad.

Although Jing Ke did not say much.

But his attitude, coupled with what he said just now, is linked to the unprecedented cold winter that just passed.

Chen Sheng had already vaguely guessed what Jing Ke had experienced in the past seven or eight months...

'Yongzhou...'

He murmured the place name, and the map precision in his mind zoomed step by step, from Chenjun to Yanzhou, from Yanzhou to Twelve Prefectures, and then from Twelve Prefectures to the entire Asian continent...

When Jing Ke put down his chopsticks and hiccupped with satisfaction, Chen Shengcai suddenly asked, "You went to Yongzhou for the sake of the Quanrong people?"

Jing Ke raised his head and glanced at him, but he just nodded lightly: "So you know about it."

He didn't seem surprised at all that Chen Sheng would know about it.

Chen Sheng shook his head: "I also just thought of it, a big business that requires three hundred Mosman to come out, obviously won't be an infighting within the family, but if it is a big conspiracy at the county level and the state level, it will come all the way to Yangzhou. Please, wait for you to travel thousands of miles to the northwest, the time will be too long, and Kyushu is not only the organization of your Wu Mo family doing dirty work!"

"After thinking about it, it seems that the only people who can make you send three hundred Mozhe to the northwest, and can make you end up in a miserable situation where you are the only one who retreats completely..."

He really just thought that there is a rather fatal loophole in the external defense system of Kyushu: the Hexi Corridor!
The nomadic peoples in the north have been the confidants of the descendants of Yan and Huang since ancient times.

And these northern nomads have only two ways to invade the land of Kyushu since ancient times: the Hexi Corridor and the Hetao Plain.

The Hetao Plain is where the Great Wall is defended, and where the Youzhou Army is now stationed.

The Hexi Corridor is an excellent military route that is more than 1000 kilometers long, with insurmountable mountains on both sides, and an excellent military route formed by an oasis connecting desert wasteland in the middle.

The western end of this military route connects the Western Regions and the Quanrong on the other.

The east end is directly connected to the hinterland of Yongzhou...

In terms of overall strategic significance to the Quanrong people, the Hexi Corridor should be inferior to the Hetao Plain.

Because the Hetao Plain is a horizontal line, Quanrong attacked Kyushu from the Hetao Plain, which is not only convenient for arranging troops, but also gathering heavy troops to break the surface.

The Hexi Corridor is a vertical line, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. If you want to invade Kyushu from the Hexi Corridor, you must first make a big circle on the grassland, and the logistics supply is too heavy.

The original Kyushu Great Array undoubtedly further widened the gap between the two strategic locations: 'You can't even beat the Hetao Plain, so do you still want to challenge the more difficult Hexi Corridor?How many dishes do you drink like this? '

But now, a whole year has passed since the collapse of the Kyushu Great Array.

And the Quan Rong people were still blocked from Kyushu by the Youzhou Army!
I am afraid that the Quan Rong people have gradually come to their senses recently. It turned out that the Youzhou Army, which was not assisted by the Kyushu Great Array, was still the Youzhou Army!
In this way, it is naturally normal for the Hexi Corridor, where the Youzhou Army is not stationed, to enter the field of vision of the Quanrong people...

……

When Jing Ke heard Chen Sheng's analysis, he was both surprised and saddened.

I was surprised, because Chen Sheng was able to infer the truth with such a little clue, secretly thinking that the King of Han was indeed not the King of Han!
I feel sad, but it is the three hundred of them who sacrificed their lives and practiced the Way. In order to protect the family and the country and protect the children of Kyushu, they fought fiercely in the ice and snow, and buried themselves in the mouths of foreign blood, but no one knew that there were them in this world. Pass……

"You guessed right, indeed!"

Jing Ke hid his fists a few times short, his knuckles turning white, but he just nodded with no joy and no sorrow, and still didn't mean to talk about it.

Chen Sheng frowned and looked at him, and after pondering for a few breaths, he still asked, "Look at your appearance, is there something else in this matter?"

"Is there anything obvious?"

Jing Ke smiled lightly and looked up at him.

"A man protects his family, defends his country, and perishes on the battlefield. This is a matter of honoring his ancestors!"

Chen Sheng said sternly: "My Red Army also spontaneously went to Jingzhou to fight against Baiyue!"

"I regard every brother Paoze in my Red Army as brothers and sisters. If there is a civil war, even if only one person is killed in battle, my heart aches!"

"But if they die because they fought against aliens and defended their homeland, I'd be proud of them while I'm sad!"

"You obviously only feel pain..."

Jing Ke was silent for a long time before opening his mouth and forcibly squeezed out a smile that was uglier than crying: "Of course I am proud of them...if they hadn't died under a conspiracy!"

Chen Sheng frowned: "Why?"

Jing Ke let out a long sigh, but still didn't want to talk about it more: "I'll talk about this later when I have time, or talk about you, why are you looking for me in such a hurry?"

Chen Sheng looked at him, pursed his lips, and said reluctantly: "After the cold wave last year, I, Han Ting, ruled the demons everywhere and poisoned the people. I want to set up the Demon Slayer Division to clean up and cure the demons. I thought about it. , Among the people I know, there is no one who is more suitable for this position than you... But now, you should not accept this appointment again, right?"

Jing Ke still frowned and looked at him. After struggling for a long time, he asked, "Why is there no one more suitable than me? Do you also want to take advantage of my fellow Mo family?"

After thinking about it, Chen Sheng nodded and said: "I am the King of Han, and I want to plan for the Han court and the people of the Han people. If you want to appoint you as the guard of the Demon Slayer Division, there is absolutely no intention to invite you to enter the urn. It is not realistic, nor is it realistic. I, the King of Han, have neglected my duty!"

"But I can assure you that I just want to invite you to come and use your strengths as an ink artist to pacify the evil spirits, and to lead you as an ink artist into my Han court to check and balance Confucianism and Taoism... Note, only It's you, the ink artist, not your martial arts!"

"To put it mildly, those rotten tomato rotten bird eggs that occupy the majority of your martial arts, just took the initiative to come to the door and want to work for me. I also think that they are pickling and dirtying my land in Hanting!"

"As for why you..."

"I believe in your character!"

"I believe in your character more!"

(End of this chapter)