The five hundred black-armored knights of the Royal Guard were responsible for the escort mission.
Their leader was a cavalry captain under Huo Huaijin, named Xue Pinggui, who was in his thirties and was born in Qizhou. He had no connection with the Xue family in Shangjing.
He arranged three hundred black-armored knights in front of the team and two hundred in the back, and then came to the Ninth Princess's carriage. Of course, he had heard about the relationship between Fu Xiaoguan and the Ninth Princess, but he also felt that it was really against the rules for Fu Xiaoguan to hide in the princess's carriage so blatantly.
But he still clearly remembers what General Huo said to him: When you go to Wu Dynasty, you will only be responsible for Fu Xiaoguan in all matters, especially his safety, and there must not be any problems!
So what exactly was this Fu Xiaoguan doing in the princess's sedan chair... Of course, this was not something he could ask.
He rode his warhorse alongside the sedan chair and whispered to Fu Xiaoguan, "I am Xue Pinggui. I wonder what plans Master Fu has for this trip?"
Fu Xiaoguan was eating grapes that Yu Wenyun had peeled for him and casually said, "General Xue, just give me a map to look at later. As for where to stop for lunch...it's up to you."
This is a master who is easier to serve!
"I obey your command!"
He reached out and took out a map from his sleeve pocket and handed it in. After Fu Xiaoguan took it, he rode his horse in front of the team.
But what he was thinking about was the young man Fu Xiaoguan - when he first heard his name, he was in a bloody battle in the streets. The courage of this scholar spread to the army, and these soldiers really admired him.
If it were them, would they dare to take action when faced with Prince Comet's son doing something so evil?
General Huo Huaijin once raised this question to all the imperial guards. However, when all the soldiers asked themselves, few dared to answer loudly.
Facing power without bowing down is something that not everyone can do!
But Fu Xiaoguan did it, and did it well, so he naturally won the respect of all the soldiers, even though they had never met before.
Xue Pinggui also respected Fu Xiaoguan and thought that he must be extra careful on this trip to ensure that Master Fu arrived safely in Guanyun City of Wu Dynasty.
Fu Xiaoguan in the carriage spread the map on the table, opened his mouth and ate another grape. It tasted a bit sour. He waved his hand and looked at the map carefully.
The journey is approximately 3,200 miles long. According to the plan, it will take 40 days, and they will arrive at Guanyun City, the capital of the Wu Dynasty, on March 15th.
The Cold Food Festival is one hundred and five days after the winter solstice. This year's Cold Food Festival is on March 25th.
If everything goes well, they will be able to rest in Guanyun City for ten days.
Fu Xiaoguan's hand moved along the red line marked on the map and stopped at the border between the Yu Dynasty and the Wu Dynasty - Qishan Pass!
The Qishan Mountains stretch for thousands of miles. Crossing the Qishan Pass is the famous Qishan Corridor. This corridor... Fu Xiaoguan's finger kept pointing forward. It's so damn long!
Then his finger moved back and landed on this border town in Qishan. Its name was quite descriptive, called Border Town.
He pulled out a stack of information from his sleeve pocket, flipped through it, and took out a page.
This was the information he had asked Xiyulou to inquire about along the way.
Looking at the map, he realized that the border town was not small.
There are 30,000 soldiers stationed in the border town to guard the pass, and there are also many civilians in the border town. There are as many as 50,000 permanent residents here!
According to the information from Xiyu Tower, the border town is a place where good and bad people mix together.
Biancheng is only 400 miles away from Cangtong, the largest town in the south of Dayu, and the base camp of the southern border army is on the Cangxi Plain between Cangtong and Biancheng.
Fu Xiaoguan thought about it carefully and decided that if someone wanted to attack him, the best place would be the Qishan Corridor.
There are either high mountains or deep valleys on both sides. There is not even a post station in the Qishan Corridor, which is more than a hundred miles long. The team must spend the night in the Qishan Corridor because the mountain roads are difficult to travel and the team cannot move fast at all.
As for a place to stay overnight...
His finger landed deep in the corridor, where the name of the location was marked on the map - Valley.
According to the information from Xiyu Tower, this is a rather wide valley, where merchants traveling between the two countries must stop.
Just because the trade between the two countries is not prosperous, there are no fixed buildings in this valley.
Even the intelligence from Xiyu Tower mentioned that there was once a group of bandits running rampant in these mountains, but they seemed to have been unable to make any money in recent years, and no news about them was heard from them again.
He stopped here for the time being and put away all his things.
"Are you worried about this place?" Dong Shulan, who was also watching, asked.
"I'm not too worried. We have five hundred black-armored knights, so the bandits certainly won't dare come. The document of our departure has already been handed over to the Wu Dynasty's envoys in Shangjing, and I believe they have also passed it back to the Wu Dynasty. Logically, as long as we leave the Qishan Corridor and reach the border of the Wu Dynasty, the Wu Dynasty will send border troops to welcome us."
After all, Dayu was invited by Wu Chao. As the host, Wu Chao should do this, not to mention that the name of the Ninth Princess was also in the document.
The Ninth Princess naturally represented the royal family of the Yu Dynasty, so the treatment she received was much higher than that of the original group of literati.
The day before leaving, the Fourth Prince said that there were many bandits in the Qishan area, so you must take care of yourself - he remembered these words because they concerned his life!
However, he had three awesome disciples from the Taoist academy by his side, so he wasn't worried about getting into trouble.
As the carriage swayed, the noisy sounds outside gradually faded away. Fu Xiaoguan opened the window and looked out. The convoy had already left Jinling City.
Yu Wenjun spoke at this time, with a smile on his face, "Before the Queen Mother left, she gave me the Nanshan Villa."
Fu Xiaoguan had never heard of this Nanshan Villa, so he didn't feel anything. But Dong Shulan opened her mouth in surprise:
"No way! That's the royal villa! The Queen Mother gave it to you... What if His Majesty wants to go hunting in Nanshan?"
Yu Wenjun chuckled like a little mouse that had stolen oil. "I don't care about my father, the emperor, the queen, and the others. That place is mine anyway... I say, after we return from Wu Chao, shall we go take a look together? Also, the queen mother has a condition. Before she died, she said there were many fields outside the villa. She wants you to plant the rice that yielded 500 to 600 kilograms per mu. She wants to watch over it!"
Fu Xiaoguan touched his nose and wondered if it would be too scary if she watched.
But if he really had land, that would certainly be good. In essence, he was still a small landlord in Linjiang.
"Of course there is no problem with this, but it won't work this year. This year, we can only cultivate the second generation of Fu. Let's wait until next year. Next year, I will let Wang Qiang bring the seeds to the capital and go to the Nanshan Villa to tend to those fields."
Fu Xiaoguan didn’t know how many fields there were outside the Nanshan Villa. That was a royal farm!
Thousands of meters in radius! Thousands of hectares of fertile land can be cultivated!
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