Of course, He Mulan is not a geographic genius. She knows where coal is produced because her colleague is from Shanxi, and coal is produced in her hometown.
After working with him for a long time, I didn't have to joke about "Shanxi Coal Boss", and He Mulan also knew that there were coal mines in those places in Shanxi.
Gaoche people's ability to identify "tinder" is unparalleled in the world, and they are the main body of directly using coal mines. They dig out coal, which is more convincing and easier for the DPRK and China to pay attention to.
He Mulan gave Di Yefei a rich game because he was not good at this, and he really wanted to find an ally for himself.
Di Yefei's foundation is also weak, and his personal strength is not strong, but then again, how many people in this world can have such an adventure as her, can you live three lives and three lives? Di Yefei's growth has been very, very fast among his peers.
But He Mulan was still dissatisfied, she hoped that Luo Hun, Di Yefei, and several others could grow up quickly enough to be able to independently assist Tuoba Tao.
Di Yefei went back like a sleepwalker, thinking that within a few months, the Gaoche people will move. When she returns to Pingcheng again, it will be the time when Gaoche is refining steel.
Yuan Fang was busy at home using Chenbu and Chenlianghua, replacing them with new ones, and packing up the goods that were convenient to carry and ready to go to Beiliang for sale with the mission. He was very busy every day.
Hua's father and Hua's mother were very aggrieved living in the mansion. They were thinking about whether to pick up all the abandoned gardens behind to raise vegetables, and to find people to cultivate the fields that might be deserted in Liang County. Military households had to pay taxes on their fields, and it would be a pity to pay taxes for nothing if they did not cultivate.
Yuan Fang couldn't understand why the parents of the Hua family were already living their lives so cautiously, but he was not good at interfering in other people's affairs. He Mulan had already agreed with him on the money he earned. After saving enough money to manage, the more important family members of the Yuan family will be sent to Huafu to do errands.
On the second day, Master Cixin came. He Mulan heard that Master was coming by appointment, and immediately went out to greet him in person.
Cixin still wore the standard attire of monks in this era, with a monk's robe and shoes, and a mink hat on his head. When he saw He Mulan coming out, he put his palms together and smiled: "The donor is very polite."
He Mulan returned the salute and invited him in, only to find Cixin standing still, her brows slightly wrinkled.
"General Hua, has something strange happened in the past few months?" Ci Xin looked at He Mulan in surprise, "I've never seen anyone with such a strong yang..."
He Mulan's heart skipped a beat. Apart from that Kou Yizhi, this was the second person who had attained the Tao to warn her about the problem of excessive yang.
Hu Benjun, she instructed that it was not allowed to spread out. Xue An was not a person with a long tongue, so this matter was still a secret for the time being, but once it happened more and more frequently, it was impossible to hide it from everyone.
Gai Wu, who was standing beside him, hurriedly asked for advice on how to solve the problem. Many Lushuihu people believed in Buddhism, so Gai Wu was also very polite in front of Cixin.
"It should be fine when the general marries a wife." Ci Xin's smile was actually a bit wretched, "The general should know what I mean, right?"
He Mulan couldn't help but sank when she heard this. She is a woman, and there is no way for her to have yin/yang intercourse when she is married, but she will die faster.
Gai Wu's face suddenly darkened. He thought of the "Hua Mulan is inhumane" he heard that day, and instantly understood why He Mulan was so worried.
Such a simple life-saving method is impossible for Master to achieve. It's just that the things that Master is not humane can't be leaked out casually, otherwise it will damage the majesty of Master...
Gai Wu thought about it, intuition that God really likes tossing people, and asked Master Cixin in a low voice: "If Master doesn't want to marry a wife, is there any other way to solve it?"
Ci Xin paused, as if he didn't understand why such a simple solution couldn't work for Mulan, but he still thought about it carefully, and said somewhat uncertainly: "The qi in the human body can be consumed, if you don't use the relationship between husband and wife. The only way is to consume a lot of your physical strength every day to gradually reduce the growth of yang qi. But this is a cure for the symptoms rather than the root cause, because if you consume it like this, the yang qi will be less, but you are likely to die of physical exhaustion. "
He Mulan is overjoyed, because this method is much simpler and safer. It doesn't need to involve anyone, nor does it need to hurt people or money. It just exhausts herself to half death. She is grateful for the guidance of Master Cixin. At this point, a little hope is all good.
Master Cixin and Gai Wu, the two messengers she invited privately, arrived, and He Mulan spent most of the following days in Honglu Temple and the palace. On this mission, she was only the general who accompanied the army to protect the envoy and Prince Beiliang, not the chief envoy, but some etiquette and precautions that should be known should always be clarified in advance.
Tuoba Tao carefully instructed her and Yuan Po Qiang, the two left and right Sima, to find out the topography of Beiliang, including the customs of Beiliang and so on. Tuoba Tao even directly let the stable character He Mu Rando "mischief" a few times to try the depth of Bei Liang, especially the strength of the army.
He Mulan was worried that her yang energy would not be used up, but she agreed readily, which was beyond Tuoba Tao's expectations.
Under the fortune-telling of the officials of Qin Tianjian, He Mulan, along with Li Shun, the envoy of Bei Liang, and a team of envoys who returned to China, led the Hu Ben army together with Yuan Po Qiang and set off in a mighty early morning.
This time, it is estimated that it will take more than three months for the envoy to reach Beiliang. Because it is a wedding party, they also bring a lot of wedding gifts, all of which are precious gifts.
In addition, there are many deserts and insurmountable dangers on the road to Beiliang, and it is necessary to detour to arrive safely, which will take longer.
She-ren Zheng Zong, who had always made He Mulan uneasy, also became her attendant. Every time He Mulan saw him, the shadow in her heart lingered, and she was already thinking of finding a way to kill him on the way. Thanks to his success in this mission, he climbed back to Tuoba Tao's side.
The army set off, and the team was endless. Di Yefei and other colleagues and friends came to send them off, and the flower father and the flower mother were even more uneasy.
He Mulan and his party traveled long distances, including crossing the desert. It's early summer now, and it's definitely hot when it's near the desert, and it's more likely to reveal your identity. Even if the identity is not exposed, it is not a good or bad thing to be roasted under the scorching sun.
Juqu Muqian and other Beiliang envoys' clothing and skin can tell that the environment around Beiliang and Beiliang is really not good.
***
a month later.
From Pingcheng to Beiliang, from the map, it seems that it is only a straight line, as long as it goes all the way west. But in fact, they had to go south straight down to Bingzhou, then turn back to the west, cross the Yellow River, and cross the desert to reach Xiliang.
During this month, He Mulan and others were marching in the Wei realm, and after passing through Bingzhou and entering the summer realm, they could cross the river.
The hardships of this journey were beyond He Mulan's imagination. She even wished she could fight like before, rushing to the place to rest overnight and start the attack. like being tortured.
"General Hua, that..." Bai Guangping, the deputy envoy of Beiliang, who suddenly rushed to He Mulan's horse, rubbed his hands embarrassedly, "Our third prince..."
"I feel sick again, do you want to rest?"
Yuan Po Qiang next to He Mulan sneered, and sneered angrily: "A big man, he will be exhausted if he can't travel much every day, how many times have he been sick along the way? He has been riding for a long time. He will fall down! Sitting in the carriage will be tiring now, could it be impossible for General Hua to carry him away?"
Bai Guangping's face turned red and white, Wei Ren's attitude was quite polite before, and he rested when he heard that Juqumu was unwell, but this happened too many times along the way, no matter how polite he was, he became impatient.
If Juqu Mujian was the princess they welcomed from Beiliang, it would be fine, but she was a tall and sturdy prince who fell ill every three days and every one of them. Anyone who changed it would think it was deliberately making things difficult.
In addition, He Mulan had had a holiday with Juqu Mujian before, and even the Huwei General's mansion was obtained by Tuoba Tao who extorted a huge sum of money from the people of Beiliang, it was normal for Juqu Mujian to want to make things difficult for He Mulan all the way.
Is it any good to offend this Hu Ben Zuo Sima
Bei Liang envoy Bai Guangping looked pitiful, Yuan Po Qiang sneered and ridiculed, but He Mulan could only bring the ball to the main envoy Li Shun.
The envoy, Li Shun, had been dispatched to Liangzhou four times before, and he had a very good personal relationship with this prince, and I was afraid that Bei Liang had given the envoy a lot of benefits, so no matter how much Juqu Mujian dawdled along the way, it was time to stop. time stopped. He Mulan's Hu Ben army was just a team of escorts. Apart from safety matters, he could not decide how to arrange the itinerary. Bai Guangping would come to discuss with her, just to take care of her face.
Sure enough, after a while, the leader of the team, Li Shun, asked the entire army to rest on the spot.
"It's really stopped. After all this dawdling, when will I be able to reach Beiliang! It's been a month, and it's only Bingzhou!"
Chen Jie scratched his ears and scratched his cheeks, looked at the rising sun, and took a sip to the ground.
"Bah! People who are hot at noon can lose a layer of skin. They don't take advantage of this time to travel. When it is hot, there is no shade and no rest. Isn't it tossing our tiger army?"
Li Shun is a son of an aristocratic family, and there are dozens of servants when he goes out, and the others are riding on horses.
Zheng Zong, who followed He Mulan, was very thief. Seeing that the team had stopped, he immediately went to the rear to investigate. He used to be an official of Honglu Temple, and he was very familiar with the process of dispatching.
"His Royal Highness is vomiting outside the car!" Zheng Zong's expression was also very strange, "He even threw up when he was in the car, how did he ride a horse? And looking at his face, I'm afraid he was vomiting all the way, and he finally couldn't help it when he got here. Now. I think if I don't rest again, I will get sick and won't be able to go on the road."
"Fuck!"
Man Gu burst out with a foul language, turned over and dismounted.
"That's a fart! Rest! Rest!"
"Master Cixin, what's wrong with Prince Juqu Mujian?" No matter how good-hearted He Mulan was, he couldn't help it. As a monk proficient in medicine, Master Cixin was once invited to see Juqu Mujian once. Now that this has happened three times in a row, she can only ask compassion.
"The Third Highness of Beiliang is not sick, but simply weak. Anyone who is weak is sensitive to the outside world's hot and cold climate and is prone to get sick. In addition to the bumpy road, he didn't rest well, and he would vomit, fearing that he committed a crime. Dizziness…”
Compassion is also puzzled.
"It's rare to see a man of his physique so weak."
He looked at He Mulan again.
It is rare to see such a strong man with a physique like Hua Mulan.
Isn't it interesting that he has seen all the strange things in the world
If it's a disease that can be cured, it's not even a disease. He Mulan thought about it and couldn't help but rein in her horse and came to Li Shun's side.
Li Shun also seemed to be devastated by Juqu Muqian, and sat on the blanket with pursed lips without saying a word. He Mulan found Li Shun and said straight to the point: "Juqu Mujian is too slow for us, can we leave some people to take care of him and let him slowly return to China at the back, let's set off first? I can't make it back home!"
Before Tuoba Tao left, he explained that Li Shun wanted to discuss everything with He Mulan. He was an important member of the court, and He Mulan was only a junior, so he was not very happy at first. Hearing He Mulan's suggestion at this time, his face became even more serious. is ugly.
"Prince Juqu Muqian's mission to our country is to conclude a friendly alliance between the two countries. Now that he is unwell, we have to treat him with the attitude of a big country. How can we leave him halfway? One, then both of us will be punished."
"Although the marching speed is a bit slower now, at least nothing happened to the whole team..."
"Li Shijun, we have too much rest, and we don't have enough water!" A small official came over in a panic, "Every time we rest, the horse will drink a lot of water, and our water will be given to the horse to drink. If this goes on, tomorrow You must enter the city to supply supplies, or you will not even have water for cooking!"
Li Shun just said that the whole team was not affected, and the little official came out to slap the face naked/naked/naked. Li Shun's face turned black, and the little official ran away inexplicably. When he looked at He Mulan again Just a little embarrassing.
"Li Shijun..." He Mulan sighed, and her tone was not polite. "Although we are going to Beiliang this time to welcome our relatives, you and I both know what the real purpose is. Juqu Mengxun is seriously ill, and the situation between Liang and Wei will change at any time. It's not good, what do you think?"
"I'll go back after this break. If His Highness Juqu Mujian still can't leave, I'll go and tell them in person." Li Shun's heart was horrified by He Mulan's forcing eyes, so he nodded.
"It's just that if he can persist, it's best not to leave him halfway. This will damage the friendship between the two countries."
He Mulan was forcing Li Shun to express an attitude. Since the other party was willing to consider it, she didn't say much and returned to the Tiger Ben army.
Yuan Po Qiang asked her with hopeful eyes, and she nodded in exchange, and immediately showed her tiger teeth with a smile: "That's great, I'm fed up with this guy who is holding me back!"
Yuan Po Qiang was the extinct prince of Nanliang. There was a long-cherished wish between Nanliang and Beiliang. After the collapse of Nanliang, many of his father's old ministries and ministers did not want to go to the Northern Wei Dynasty. That's why Tuoba Tao sent Yuan Po Qiang and He Mulan to accompany the army this time.
Yuan Poqiang had a prejudice against Bei Liang, so he couldn't be too friendly to Prince Juqu Muqian. In addition, Juqu Muqian dragged him several times along the way. gloat.
After procrastinating for a while, the entire army continued on the road, but after just over an hour, Bai Guangping came to Wei's team with an apologetic expression and went straight to Li Shun.
Judging from his expression, it seemed that Bei Liang himself couldn't stand Juqu Muqian anymore.
The team stopped, and there was a sudden booing, and many people looked at Juqu Muqian's carriage and showed indignant expressions. Li Shun and Bai Guangping didn't know what they were arguing about. Li Shun suddenly pointed in the direction of He Mulan and shouted at Bai Guangping:
"Go and talk to him! It's easy for you to say a word, and we are exhausted!"
Bai Guangping's face was dripping with sweat, and while wiping his forehead, he approached He Mulan resignedly. Everyone looked at He Mulan nervously, not knowing how He Mulan would treat him.
"Deputy Ambassador Bai, it's really not good. I'll leave some people behind to escort the noble prince slowly forward. If he is really unwell, I can also find a famous doctor for him in the next town, and catch up with us when he recovers. …”
He Mulan stopped Bai Guangping from speaking before he could speak.
"I know we did delay a lot of time." Bai Guangping gritted his teeth, "But..."
He Mulan looked at him with a half-smile but not a smile, while everyone behind him glared angrily, Bai Guangping felt guilty, he couldn't say anything about the friendship between the two countries, so he could only go back in despair.
When he entered the city that evening, he heard that Juqu Mujian was being carried down, and then Li Shun asked the local magistrate to properly arrange Juqu Mujian, and then invited a famous doctor, thinking that he had finally gotten rid of this burden.
Unexpectedly, the next day, the brigade was preparing to go on the road, but they found that Juqu Mujian, who was ill before, actually forced him to ride alone, and asked the attendants and guards to tie him on the horse to prevent him from falling off the horse halfway. .
Being tied up while riding a horse is really uncomfortable. If he really fainted halfway, it would be like being tied up and walking. This is tantamount to torture.
The prince showed such perseverance at this time, which made He Mulan and others admire him with admiration. He thought that if he didn't procrastinate before, the whole mission would not hate him so much now.
Unexpectedly, not long after they sighed, Li Shun and Wang Liang, Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, came together immediately, and the first words to He Mulan were:
"General Hua, please speed up the march! There is news from Beiliang that King Beiliang is seriously ill."