Chapter 138: Arrows on the strings have to be fired

In the Tianzhu of Dali Temple in Chang'an, General Li Anyan, the left guard of the prison guard, covered his nose and walked into the corridor of the cell.

On the screen wall of the corridor, a candle as thick as a child's arm was burned on the wall, illuminating the corridor.

It’s not that Li Anyan couldn’t stand the smell of blood in the prison, but he really couldn’t stand the smell of smell in it. He held the handkerchief and forced his disgust to the prison guards around him, “Go to the torture room directly!”

In the torture room, Wang Renbiao's arms were hung on the wall by two iron chains. He was wearing a mid-lane, his hair was loose, his body was covered in bruises, and his beard was dirty and messy. He was already thin and had his body peeled off, but his eyes were shining and blood was shining inside.

Li Anyan covered his nose and walked in front of Wang Ren's surface. The two criminal officials from Dali Temple held their breath and stood behind him with their heads down.

The two jailers were holding whips and panting slightly.

Li Anyan asked in a long tone: "Ask you again, what do you mean? Who is the mastermind?"

Wang Renbiao said with a "pah", spit out a bloody spit, and smiled hoarsely: "The world of eternal powers, heroes are found, Sun Zhongmou is in the place. The dance pavilions and singing stages are always blown away by the wind. The setting sun is grass and trees, ordinary alleys, and human beings say that the slaves once lived. I remember that in those days, the golden swords and iron horses were so angry that they were like tigers...

The muscles on Li Anyan's face twitched slightly, and he leaned closer to Tan Shen's face, sneered: "I'm not afraid of death. Come and tell me who is Sun Zhongmou? Who is Liu Jinu?"

He straightened up, wiped his nose gently with a towel, and his face remained unchanged: "Stop calling!"

"Smack it..."

A crisp sound of whips rang out.

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The sound of the whip whipping the flesh echoed in the air.

The whip reaches the flesh, and the whip shows blood, which makes Wang Ren's buttocks and his thighs blurred blood.

Ang Lee was unmoved.

Suddenly, the prison guard who was sentenced to death raised his whip and did not continue to hit him.

Wang Renbiao's head was tilted to the side and was already unconscious.

The prison guard who was executing the execution was hesitant to pull down again, and turned around and saw Li Anyan with a glance.

Li Anyan said coldly: "Switch on!"

The jailer said timidly: "If you beat me again, you will die."

Li Anyan said without a doubt: "Switch on..."

...

Outside the west gate of Chang'an City, there were endless people entering and leaving the city gate, and several soldiers were guarding the city gate with spears in their hands.

The captain of the city guard looked at the sky and shouted: "The time is here, please keep the door closed!"

As a creaking sound rang out, the city gate slowly closed.

However, at this moment, a rapid sound of horse hooves sounded.

The city guard looked in the sound and saw a postman riding a fast horse riding on a dusty horse.

With hundreds of steps away from Kaiyuanmen, he raised the five-color inverted pennant in his hand and shouted: "Urgent military information!"

The captain's face changed and raised his hand and said, "Open the door!"

The postman rushed into Kaiyuan Gate.

...

In the provincial government affairs hall, outside the government affairs hall, a group of imperial guards stood with their swords and looked straight without looking sideways.

A hall official walked into the Political Affairs Hall with his footsteps like the wind.

The deputy governor Dai Zhou yawned and beat his sore waist.

With the sound of drums coming from afar, the time for the time to get down. It seemed like a thousand years later, Dai Zhou, who had originally weak limbs, recovered his strength and stood up and said, "Get down, drop the lock!"

However, at this moment, a government official walked up to Dai Zhou with the post station newspaper.

Dai Zhou took the Tang newspaper and saw that his face changed drastically, and he said anxiously: "Come here!"

A minister from the hall came in, bowed to Dai Zhou and said, "Da Shen."

Dai Zhou said: "Go and ask, which regular attendant is on duty today in Taiji Hall?"

The hall official looked at him in shock.

Dai Zhou's cold face had no smile at all, and he said coldly: "I want to meet the saint."

...

The Tai Chi Hall is brightly lit.

Dai Zhou was dressed in uniform and stood solemnly under the Danbao.

On the Danban, Li Jiancheng was wearing a regular dress, standing in front of the desk, with an unconcealed anger on his face, and asked in a low voice: "What do you say about this?"

Dai Zhou replied respectfully: "Your Majesty, I think this is nonsense."

In Dai Zhou's eyes, the 800-mile fast riding is actually the fastest speed for the court to convey messages. To travel these 800-mile journey, you need to prepare nearly thirty post stations along the way, and you need to transfer to more than thirty post horses.

Usually, the troops march at best, at best, 300 miles a day, which is amazing as the Anxi Army. Each cavalry carried three war horses and galloped in rotation, but they only traveled for 400 miles a day.

Whether it is a postman or a cavalry, they must advance lightly, otherwise they will not be able to achieve such a fast speed at all. Even if they can barely achieve this speed, it will be a great torture for the knights on the horse.

However, Chen Ying was able to travel more than 1,000 miles a day, which was faster than 800 miles a day. He arrived at Yumen Pass in five days and Lanzhou in six days.

This is simply impossible. Even though the Anxi Army is an elite soldier, Chen Ying is surrounded by Li Ruoxi, who is less than three years old and Chen Qian, seven or eight years old. These children cannot withstand the tossing.

Li Jiancheng said angrily: "The Case Information Pond is a military post station, which is 800 miles in a hurry, and it is not stopped day and night. Within twelve days, he arrives at the capital. He is a regular memorial, and he is a government post station, which takes 27 days to arrive at the capital. How could I not know that they are so ridiculous..."

Li Jiancheng laughed furiously and said, "You are really brave. Do you still take the court seriously? Do you still take me seriously?"

Dai Zhou bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I think this matter is horrifying! We should investigate strictly. The Ministry of War Department should issue an edict to intimidate the slut and warn the world."

Li Jiancheng's face was as deep as water, and he asked casually: "Where has Chen Ying been?"

Dai Zhou was stunned and said, "Report to Your Majesty, if you report to the pond, you may have arrived at Chencang Pass at this time!"

Li Jiancheng said angrily: "The Political Affairs Hall plans to build the Ministry of Rites and starts to meet the matter by placing the arrangement!"

In fact, at this moment, Li Jiancheng still didn't believe that Chen Ying could arrive in Guanzhong in just eight days.

You should know that from Anxi Shule City to Chang'an, it is more than 10,000 miles, and I am afraid I can't fly in eight days.

Dai Zhou hesitated for a moment, suppressed the urge to speak, and lowered his head and responded: "I am following the imperial edict."

...

Until this time, Li Xiuning still felt that he was dreaming. The climate in Anxi was completely different from that in Guanzhong, especially when he felt the water mist in the air, the wind with water vapor was like an invisible hand touching his face, with indescribable pleasure.

Although Li Xiuning was extremely tired, she still said excitedly: "Chen Lang, tell me, I'm not dreaming!"

Chen Ying looked at Li Xiuning and said seriously: "Sanniang, you are not dreaming, we have arrived in Guanzhong!"

In fact, this speed is already considered a snail for later generations. In later generations, if you take a plane, the distance from Anxi to Chang'an will take about three and a half hours. If you take a high-speed rail, it will only take about sixteen hours (there is no high-speed rail so far). Even the slowest slow train is less than two days.

Moreover, the Bison train deserves its reputation. Although it is not slow, it has a very big vibration, which makes Chen Ying almost feel deaf in his ears.

In eight days, Chen Ying felt almost broken.

Chen Ying looked at Li Xiuning and smiled and said, "If the Tang Dynasty wants to rule the world, it must increase its speed. Now with the steam engine train, everything is possible!"

In ancient times, it was always called unification, but in fact it was just a literal unification. Remote areas were still in autonomy. The court could not control it at all.

It is not because of insufficient officials, nor because of extremely poor officials' abilities, but because of distance. For example, from Chang'an to Fanyu, Lingnan, the walking speed of this era is still the same, so it will be useless and will take at least three months. If it is due to weather, the time will be longer.

If a rebellion breaks out in Lingnan, children will have time to have a child.

For example, in the Battle of Talas in history, Gao Xianzhi was defeated, and the court immediately removed Gao Xianzhi from his position as Anxi Massacre Protector and appointed Feng Changqing as Anxi Massacre Protector. This time has passed for a full year, five months and twenty-three days.

Remember, this was just appointing the governors of the four towns of Anxi. As for the troops lost by the Anxi Protectorate, there was no time to increase the number of troops. By the time Feng Changqing led Anxi to attack the Dabolu Kingdom (now Palestinian, Kashmir). When he entered the city of Bosarao (now the central area of ​​Kashmir), it was December 11, the 12th year of Tianbao, and it had been more than two years and four months since the Battle of Talas.

If there were trains at that time, the army and supplies could be transported at any time, the outcome of the Battle of Talas would definitely be rewritten, and the Tang army would definitely be able to fight the cannibals and call them dad.

Li Xiuning, who was a leading general, naturally saw this.

With the train, the Tang Dynasty responded quickly at any time, quickly knew about accidents in remote areas, and could also quickly quell civil strife or support foreign invasions.

Li Xiuning hugged Chen Ying affectionately and said, "Thank you Chen Lang..."

"Why should we be so polite to each other!" Chen Ying hugged Li Xiuning and looked at the night sky and said, "This is exactly the prosperous Tang Dynasty I want to see!"

...

Inside Zheng Rentai's manor outside Luoyang City, Zheng Rentai woke up and opened his eyes to look at the blue light coming through the window, and the fog was heavy.

The two warm bodies that were so hard that his bones were almost disintegrating at night were slippery as if they were nephrotic, pressing his chest left and right, and sleeping soundly, with slightly exposed shoulders as white as snow.

Zheng Rentai's hand touched the woman's fat and slippery butt under the quilt. The woman squirmed in her sleep. The two big pieces of meat on her chest made Zheng Rentai feel comfortable under her ribs, and her slender legs also made Zheng Rentai's hairy thighs tighter.

Zheng Rentai was in high spirits and hugged his fingers to dig into the woman's plump buttocks. At this time, the sound of horse hooves "de..." broke through the silence of the morning.

The major event is ongoing, and Zheng Rentai has been unable to sleep or eat for several days. Hearing the sound of horse hooves like drumming in the early morning, the sex that Zheng Rentai had just aroused was like the first snow poured with hot water, and it melted away. He turned over and sat up, looked at the window alertly and confusedly, not knowing what happened again.

The two pretty concubines were also awakened, and the quilt was poked out from their heads, and looked at Zheng Rentai in confusion and said, "What happened?"

The people in the guard room outside were also shocked by the sound of horse hooves, and someone shouted from afar: "Master, something is wrong, Wang Renbiao has something wrong!"

"What happened to Wang Ren's words?" Zheng Rentai climbed out of bed, stood barefoot on the bed pedal, and ordered: "Get clothes quickly."

Seeing that Zheng Rentai looked serious and did not dare to neglect, the two concubines hurriedly got out of bed to help him get his robes. They were naked and had no time to wear clothes, so they served Zheng Rentai first.

Zheng Rentai couldn't wait to tie his clothes, so he went to the outer room with an open robe. Only then did the two concubines dress calmly.

Everyone outside spoke in a voice. After a while, there was a "clang" sound. I don't know who smashed the teacup on the brick floor and smashed it to pieces. The two concubines were shocked and their eyebrows were tilted. Then they heard Zheng Rentai so gloomy that people were just shivering and scolding: "Waste, waste, no one to live, no corpse to die - which military intelligence are you looking for? They are all fucking shit! Check me, who robbed people..."

At this time, a blue-shirted aide murmured: "Master, the Wang family in Taiyuan is not a small family, who dares to touch their people?"

"You mean..."

Zheng Rentai hesitated and said, "You mean... the left supervisor's guard?"

"It's very likely!" the staff analyzed: "The Wang family in Taiyuan is the world's reputation. An ordinary robber, who dares to offend the Wang family in Taiyuan?"

Zheng Rentai is not a fool. The Wang family in Taiyuan lost Wang Renbiao, which is definitely impossible to be an ordinary kidnapping case.

Zheng Rentai pondered and said, "I know the matter here in my heart. It is very likely that the news has been leaked. Now... I will notify other companies quickly. The arrow is on the string and I have to send them to prepare their men and equipment and wait for an opportunity to move!"

Speaking of this, Zheng Rentai hurriedly ordered his subordinates to settle their wives and children first, and it is best to send them to Chang'an, the farther away from Chang'an, the better!

The originally calm Zheng instantly poured a basin of water into the boiling oil and boiled.

The room was suddenly pushed open, and Zheng Rentai strode in, and went to get the sword on the desk. He looked at the concubine sitting at the dressing table, looking at him in panic, hesitated for a while, and said, "You guys quickly clean up and ignore those useless things... and live with me in the military camp!"

The two concubines were even more panicked after hearing Zheng Rentai's words: "What exactly happened?"

However, they dared not ask Zheng Rentai again.
Chapter completed!