The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 88 History, Strikingly Similar!

In the end, Fatty didn't see that extremely disturbing scene.

The silent protests of the military families and their act of leaving the bodies in front of the gatehouse finally forced the highest-ranking officer at the checkpoint to show up.

The crowd crowded at the window of the post station.

Just look at the expression on the centurion's face, from the initial gentle words of comfort to the gradual loss of control over his expression.

It seems they had to spend a lot of money to barely appease the unruly military families.

These people agreed to take their loved ones' bodies back and bury them on a chosen date.

Logically, this matter has nothing to do with the exiled troops.

Who knew that the centurion would soon transfer the blood he had shed to these expendable lambs?

When the leader surnamed Mao returned from inquiring about customs procedures, he had a long face.
"They say that this is a very special time when refugees are causing trouble, and all the checkpoints have received orders from the higher authorities not to let anyone leave the pass!"
Our cases are treated as special cases, and they have to bear enormous risks. Therefore, everyone, including us, has to pay a deposit of two taels of silver.

"A deposit of two taels of silver per person?! Are they even human?"

The leader surnamed Huang lost his temper and couldn't help but start cursing.

They were doing official business!

This is outrageous! It's the most ridiculous thing in the world!
He barely suppressed his urge to vomit blood, and after inquiring about the selling price at the neighboring grain store, he became even more distraught.

Old grains are now five times more expensive than new grains before the flood!
According to the shop owner, there is still room for the price to rise, as their grain store's inventory is running low.

The borrowed public funds have visibly shrunk by half.

This didn't even last until they left the Central Plains Provincial Administration Office!

The escorting officers have all paid bail!
What right do the exiled prisoners have to refuse them?
Zuo Chixia was very proud as everyone was paying.

Previously, while working at the Qianhu Office in Tianshui County, he earned five taels of silver by teaching people how to weave.

Now, he can contribute to his and his mother's little family.

Mrs. She once again expressed her gratitude to Gan Minglan and her husband.

After all, no one in the entire Zuo clan was poorer than the mother and son.

If it weren't for her son finding a good mentor, she would be in debt again.

We stayed in the town for another two days.

The She family and others borrowed a large cooking stove from the post station and finally prepared their provisions for the journey along the ancient road.

It was called dry food, but it was actually just a bunch of old grains that had been roasted and then ground into powder with a stone mill.

The finished product is similar in color to black sesame paste.

When eating, simply add some hot water and a small amount of salt, then stir it together.

They knew the ancient road was treacherous and difficult to traverse.

The two leaders set the following food allowances for the exiled group:

A young adult takes four ounces of powder a day.

The elderly and children under ten years old only received two ounces.

The officials were not responsible for transporting the grain.

After the grains were ground, they were weighed directly at the post station.

According to the population ratio and number of each household, fifteen days' worth of grain were distributed in one go.

They repeatedly stated that they would not be responsible for any food supplies once they were sold.

Gan Minglan weighed the bag she was carrying; the whole family of four had only eighteen jin of mixed grain flour.

If you want to eat as much as you want, you could probably make it shine for a week.

but it does not matter!

She has a cheat device.

The barley she cultivated in the Divine Tree Space weighed no less than ten thousand jin. And that was the result of her cultivating it only once every few days.

The main thing is that the barley grown using wood-based superpowers produces flour that is snow-white.

Compared to the unsifted flour sold in the Bei State market, this is on a completely different level of whiteness.

It's very eye-catching.

Gan Minglan had already cooked over a hundred kilograms of flour in the wooden house kitchen.

The stir-fried flour turned slightly yellow and had a slightly burnt aroma.

She plans to mix the cooked flour with the mixed grain flour in the future to supplement her family's nutrition.

Ideally, this pitiful 18 pounds of mixed grain flour should give you the feeling of being 88 pounds full!

We've finally set off.

A group of people lined up and passed through the gate tower.

Gan Minglan was very curious and wanted to know if this Hangu Pass was the same as the one in her previous life.

The name Bei sounds like it's from a fictional country.

What about the history before the State of Bei?
Is there any overlap between China's five thousand years of history and that of the Chinese people?

Perhaps it was the deposit paid by these "leeks" (a derogatory term for inexperienced investors) that alleviated the centurion's current predicament, as he even sent a soldier to guide them.

The little soldier had a cheerful, round face. As he walked, he introduced the ancient city sites, both inside and outside, to everyone.

Unfortunately, the ancient city built with rammed earth has long since weathered away, leaving only some walls behind.

After walking a few hundred meters more, we came to a river.

"After crossing the Jian River, the Han Pass Ancient Road is on the left side of the river! Although this ancient road has long been abandoned, people used to occasionally travel through this pass to Tokyo. It is about four hundred li long."

Upon hearing that people still used this road, everyone felt reassured.

Four hundred li is really not far!
The round-faced soldier clearly knew quite a bit about this ancient road.

Seeing everyone looking at him with admiration, he became even more proud and began to show off his knowledge to everyone.

"Actually, there are three sections of the ancient Hangu Pass! Today you are walking through the Han Hangu Pass."

The earliest section was built during the pre-Qin period. At that time, Hangu Pass was bordered by the Zhuohe River and cliffs to the north, and the Qinling Mountains and forests to the south.

Only a very narrow crack in the middle of the loess plateau allows passage. Because this crack is as deep and treacherous as a box, it is called Hangu Pass.

Because of its strategic location, it was easy to defend and difficult to attack. The six states formed an allied army to attack the pre-Qin state on several occasions, but were all blocked outside Hangu Pass.

During the unification of the Western Han Dynasty, Hangu Pass became the dividing line between east and west. Inside the pass was Guanzhong, and outside the pass was the area east of Guanzhong.

Back then, everyone was proud to be from Guanzhong.

General Yang Pu, who commanded naval fleets at the time, had a distinguished military record, and his hometown, Anxin County, happened to be located east of Guanzhong.

General Yang wrote to Emperor Wu, hoping that Anxin would also become part of Guanzhong, and the emperor agreed.

So General Yang spent his own money to move the Qin Hangu Pass eastward to Anxin County in Nanhe Prefecture, 300 li away.

General Yang thus became a legitimate Guanzhong native.

During the Three Kingdoms period, the Qin Hangu Pass was submerged due to the flooding of the Zhuo River.

When Cao Cao was attacking Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, he ordered Xu Chu to build the Wei Hangu Pass ten miles to the left of the Qin Hangu Pass, so that it could be used to transport food and supplies for the army.

However, due to its narrow and difficult-to-traverse roads, Wei Hangu Pass was soon abandoned by later generations.

By the time of the Tang Dynasty, the water level of the Zhuohe River had dropped, revealing a flat passageway.

The people of the Tang Dynasty no longer needed to pass through the Han Hangu Pass to reach Guanzhong.

Afterwards, Tongguan, a strategic pass at the junction of the three provincial administrations of Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Central China, was gradually discovered.

Because it was more precipitous than the former Han Hangu Pass, possessing the imposing aura of "one man can hold the pass against ten thousand," it completely replaced the Han Hangu Pass's position.

(End of this chapter)