Kong Sheng and his entourage crossed the river to the north, the stars were dotted, the cold wind was sweeping under the night, and on the official road from Jiangning to Runzhou, four fast horses were as fast as meteors, galloping past, stirring up a cloud of smoke and dust.
The safest way to go from Jiangnan to Suiyang, Henan Province is of course to bypass Shannan, and choose a road to enter Henan Province from the junction of Shannan Province, Huainan Province and Henan Province, so as to avoid the strongholds and spheres of influence of the An Lushan rebels.
But although this road is safe, it has to detour for more than a thousand miles, which is time-consuming and laborious, and at the speed of fast horses, even if Kong Sheng and his party do not sleep endlessly, it will take nearly a month to arrive.
Kong Sheng thought about it again, or chose to go straight into Huainan Road, bypass Runzhou, enter Henan Road through Shouzhou, and then stop at the end.
Yingzhou, Caizhou, Xuzhou, these three directions can be connected to Suiyang, as for which direction to choose, it depends on the situation in Henan Province.
The reason why he temporarily decided to leave without saying goodbye and hurried overnight was mainly to avoid some unnecessary and cumbersome farewell ceremonies.
Many scholars in the city have proposed to go to the post for him to practice, and the disposal of the yamen, the county guard yamen will even send special officials as representatives, if you add the merchants and people in the city, there should be a lot of people to see him off.
And hurried overnight, crossed the river and went straight to the periphery of Runzhou, which also obtained Mu Changfeng's opinion.
Mu Changfeng is a chivalrous man in the rivers and lakes, this kind of nocturnal raid is commonplace, so naturally he will not object, as for Wu Xianwu and the two of them, they have no chance to express their opinions at all.
In the eyes of others, they are majestic palace guards, but in Kong Sheng's eyes, they are just two ordinary servants, if they don't listen to the greeting, everyone will go their own way and scatter.
Before leaving, Kong Sheng also said the ugly words to his face: if the two were unwilling to obey, he would not be reluctant and let the two leave.
But if the two agree to accompany each other, then along the way and during the trip, they will have to accept Kong Sheng's orders and arrangements.
This trip, Kong Sheng estimated, there are about 1,2300 miles of road, if it is a modern society can arrive by plane on the same day, the car high-speed rail will take up to two days.
But in these years, he rode on a horse, and with the speed and endurance of the horse, he died for more than 100 miles a day.
In other words, it will take at least ten days and a half months to reach Suiyang smoothly.
Kong Sheng was so anxious that he couldn't wait to fly to Suiyang immediately.
But the means of transportation were not powerful, and he had no choice but to try to shorten the time for rest and eating, and try his best to hurry.
It's the end of November, and he must rush to Suiyang to take up his post before An Lushan was killed by his son An Qingxu, otherwise, as soon as An Lushan dies in the next year, An Qingxu's army will frantically besiege and attack the front line of Suiyang.
Time is running out for him.
In fact, at this moment, An Lushan, who was far away in Luoyang, was not having a good time, his eyes were gradually blind, and his body was covered with poisonous sores.
This is still secondary, and the most important thing is that his son An Qingxu is eyeing the throne of the Great Yan Kingdom, and he may commit an act of killing his father and usurping the throne at any time.
In Kong Sheng's view, Luoyang's claim to be emperor is An Lushan's biggest failure.
In the final analysis, although An Lushan is shrewd, he is a villain after all, and his ambition is rampant.
He does not have the bearing and vision of Zhu Yuanzhang to "build a high wall, accumulate grain, and slowly become king", as soon as he achieves some achievements, he is complacent, jumping up and down to become the emperor.
Throughout the ages, such people have not been able to succeed.
Because they lack the courage and long-term vision necessary to achieve great things.
An Lushan would have had a chance to win the world.
After capturing Luoyang, if he did not make any stops, he immediately gathered the main force of the rebels to take Tongguan, and then drove straight into Guanzhong, leveled Chang'an, and then set Jiannan, Shannan and Jiangnan Zhudao.
At that time, the border armies of the Tang Empire had not yet arrived, and An Lushan could be said to be a sure winner.
If he really had to do this, then the history books would have to be rewritten, and naturally there would be nothing to do with Kong Sheng.
The moon stars are scarce, the cold wind is howling, Mu Changfeng and Kong Sheng walked forward side by side, he laughed loudly: "Childe, this is waiting for the moon to hurry, and the night is quiet and sparse, but even if we can survive it, the horse under this crotch and the two behind me may not be able to bear it." ” Leaving from Jiangning City, it has been running non-stop for three hours, running nearly 100 miles, and now it is the early morning of the next day, and it is about to enter the boundary of Runzhou.
Kong Sheng's chasing the wind is still stable, and the wind is under his feet, and the waves are not alarmed.
But after all, not all of their mounts are divine horses, Mu Changfeng's jujube red horse is better, and the two ordinary black horses ridden by Wuxian Wujie and the two of them have long been uneven, unable to hold on, and are far behind.
Kong Sheng smiled, then pulled the reins of chasing the wind, chasing the wind understood, slowly slowed down, and stopped on the side of the road with inertia at a slow trot.
Kong Sheng couldn't help but glance down at Chasing the Wind, the love in his eyes became more and more intense, this horse is really popular and very supernatural, and he actually knows that he doesn't need brute force to conform to inertia.
Kong Sheng looked around and saw that both sides of the official road were dark wilderness, but there was a quaint and dilapidated temple not far from the left side of the road.
Kong Sheng pointed to the ruined temple not far away, and said with a light smile: "Brother Mu, I see that there is a ruined temple over there, why don't we go there for a while and rest for a while, and it's not too late to hurry when it's dawn." ” Mu Changfeng snorted: "It's good."
Childe, in fact, you don't have to be too anxious, according to the situation we are in a hurry now, we can arrive in Suiyang in about ten days, and Mu has been to that place, and it is also prosperous and rich.
However, now that An Lushan has rebelled and the Yan army has captured most of Henan Province, who knows what the chaos will be now."
"Yes, Suiyang is at the forefront of the rebel attack, and the situation is not optimistic."
Kong Sheng sighed lightly: "But the court is ordered, and I can't disobey, otherwise I will leave a reputation for greed for life and fear of death, which I can't afford to referend." ” Mu Changfeng looked at Kong Sheng deeply, and nodded slowly: "That's right, the eldest husband has something to do and something not to do, and he can't retreat because of the war, in Mu's opinion, the son still has to go, and then he will stop after he takes office, if there is something to do, if he can't do it, he can't die in vain, don't you say?"
Kong Sheng smiled: "What Brother Mu said is very true. ” What Mu Changfeng said is not wrong at all, he went to Suiyang to do his best, if there is something to do, if he exhausts his personal strength, he can't change the overall situation of the times, if Suiyang continues to be wiped out by the rebels according to the trend of history, he will not be pedantic to the extent of being martyred for a city and a place for a while.
Of course, by that time, his future and prospects will be bleak.
Everything needs to be re-planned, designed and arranged, and fate will once again fall into a trough and a desperate situation. oshow7 t1706231537: