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Chapter 35: Blocking the Road to Deliver Food

"Dare you ask if there is a horse in front of you?" Li Yu brought another person to Zhao Kuo. Zhao Kuo hurriedly turned over and dismounted. The visitor was dressed in luxurious clothes, with his head held high and his chest held high. Zhao Kuo hurriedly paid a visit to him and said, "I am, I don't know what you have to give?"

The man pointed to the four carriages not far away and said, "I heard that you need food. I borrowed 800,000 stones of grain from Pingyuanjun. Pingyuanjun dispersed all his family property and only raised 300,000 stones. I still have 20,000 stones of corn here. Please take it away!" Zhao Kuo looked at this fat guy with a smile. The more he looked, the more he liked it. He said, "Thank you for your help. Pingyuanjun's friends are indeed all loyal people who are as loyal as him!"

"I don't know your name yet?" Zhao Kuo asked respectfully.

The fat man waved his hand and said, "I am just a friend of Pingyuan Jun. Don't ask more, come here! Bring the carriage here!" He shouted, and the carriages in the distance quickly came to his side. Zhao Kuo saw that there were still several sheep behind the carriage. The fat man ordered them: "You must respect Ma Fuzi as you respect me, and you must obey Ma Fuzi's orders! When Ma Fuzi asks you to come back, you will come back!"

"I understand! Dong Chengzi!!" They almost yelled out the name. Zhao Kuo was stunned and said with a smile: "It turns out to be the descendant of General Dong Shu." There was a general in Zhao State called Dong Shu. He helped Wei conquer Song and received Heyang from Wei State as reward. Therefore, he received Chengzicheng as a reward. Fortunately, Zhao Kuo read enough books, otherwise he would not be able to remember these things.

When the fat man learned that he had told his family background, he was also very happy, but pretended to be unhappy to scold the drivers, "Didn't you tell you not to mention my surname?"

"No, no, please don't blame them." Zhao Kuo quickly found a step for him. The fat man went down the step, and then said with a smile: "If you come to visit Pingyuan Jun again in the future, please rest at my house for a few days. I really want to hold a banquet to entertain you."

"It will definitely be like this."

After saying goodbye to the fat man, Zhao Kuo continued to rush forward. This person was already the sixth. Pingyuan Jun was indeed a person who was greedy for fame. The matter of his funding for Zhao Kuo spread in a short period of time. Then his friends blocked the way to deliver food, saying that they wanted to collect enough food for Pingyuan Jun. Of course, Zhao Kuo refused everyone. The SLR was such a person. He treated them very politely, then accepted their food and remembered their names.

Zhao Kuo rode a horse and looked at the team of carriages that were invisible, with a smile on his face. Li Yu was opposite him. He had never seen Zhao Kuo so happy since he joined Zhao Kuo. He had always been frowning, as if something was pressing him, making him breathless. Now, he smiled like a child who got a toy. However, when his young master smiled, he became even more handsome.

The matter between Zhao Kuo and Ping Yuanjun spread quickly. On all roads, not only would people come to deliver food, but even officials along the road would send people to escort food and grass. However, the speed was very slow. Due to the terrain, carriages were not very useful in many places. People often needed to push them behind the carriage to prevent the food from falling. Zhao Kuo personally pushed the carriage, but Li Yu begged to get on the horse.

According to Li Yu's words, if the head of his family does this, then those who are disciples can commit suicide in shame.

Seeing these carriages driving very slowly on these paths, a trace of inspiration suddenly flashed in Zhao Kuo's mind. He hurriedly drove his horse to the front. Here, Ge was scolding the young people who were pushing carts behind him, "Now the young people can't even push a cart! Can your bodies still live to my age? Or you just drive, I'll push it?!" The young people sent by Zhao Sheng were shy and red in their faces, gritting their teeth and pushing the cart.

Zhao Kuo came to his side and asked: "I want to ask you something."

Ge raised his head and stared at Zhao Kuo.

Zhao Kuo then asked, "I wonder if you have seen a car with only one wheel?"

"A car with a wheel?? I wonder if you have ever seen a three-legged horse?"

"This..." Zhao Kuo already understood what he meant, but he became excited immediately because he thought of the small cart on the construction site. He still remembered that when his home was renovating, he had seen workers use this kind of wheelbarrow, which could be pushed at will on all kinds of terrain. It would not be as heavy and clumsy as a carriage in the complex mountain road. Although Zhao Kuo could not do it, there should be no problem asking craftsmen to make a wheelbarrow... right?

Although he could not create it in a short time, since he had this idea, he might be able to solve the problem of transporting grain in Shangdang County in the future. Zhao Kuo thought happily in his heart.

On this journey, Zhao Kuo seemed a little redundant. He didn't have to command anything. All these carriages knew where they were going. Zhao Kuo's original idea was to ask them to send food to horse suits and then transport them from horse suits to Shangdang. However, he found that if there were no such people, he would not have so many carriages and people to transport food and grass. So he hurriedly sent someone to ride a horse back to Dongwu, and told Zhao Sheng that he would borrow these guests and carriages for him to have a longer time.

Zhao Sheng did not object and let him use it, fearing that he would not be able to control these visitors, so he also wrote another letter to a leading knight. The knight was silent all the way and never talked to anyone. Even when facing Zhao Kuo, he didn't speak. However, Zhao Kuo had seen him talk to Ge, and it seemed that he and Ge knew each other. Although Zhao Kuo was curious, he did not go to Ge to find out about this person's identity.

The roads of Zhao State are very difficult to walk. Zhao State did not build traffic as much as Qin State. This led to the fact that there were not only no posts on the roads of Zhao State that allow passers-by to rest, but even many roads needed to cross mountains and forests. In these places, there were no roads at all. This shows how excellent Zhao State is compared to Qin State. The roads of Zhao State can be whatever you want. Zhao State is so free, and it will not restrict you from taking any roads. It does not need to be as restricted as the Qin people.

The people of Handan often joked that the Qin people would definitely not destroy the Zhao State because there was no way to march in many places in Zhao State. This is the wisdom of Shangjun. In order to prevent attacks from other countries, they directly cut off their way forward and left them with no way out.

It is worth mentioning that there are people in Handan who specialize in creating jokes, telling jokes with nobles, and making them happy. However, the talent who created this joke was killed by the angry King Zhao.

Zhao Kuo and his group stopped again to rest. Zhao Kuo sat with the drivers. At first, when he did this, everyone was still a little frightened, and now they are familiar with it. These drivers all like this approachable horse couzi very much, and they have a good relationship with him. The knights sent by Zhao Sheng, except for the leader, the other people also have a very good relationship with Zhao Kuo.

They sat on the table and talked happily.

On a hillside in the distance, the two people dressed by farmers were lying in the soil and quietly looking at the convoy.

"Didn't you agree to conduct assassination in Tobu City? Why did it mean to burn food and grass again?"

"The assassination cannot be carried out at all by Pingyuanjun."

"What about now? We even gathered everyone nearby, only two or three hundred people. We don't have suitable weapons, and there are no chariots and horses. How can we burn these food and grass? Look at the Zhao man in the head, he arranged people to patrol around at any time, and the officials of Zhao State were also escorting him. What should we do?"

"Then go find helpers. The thing Zhao State lacks the least is the desperate people. These scums can still play some role in this time."

............

In the palace of Zhao Kingdom, Yu Qing rushed in angrily and sat in front of Zhao King. He looked very angry. Zhao King looked at him in confusion. Yu Qing rarely got so angry. Who angered him? Zhao King smiled gently and asked, "I wonder why you came to find me because of this?"

Yu Qing said angrily: "I came this time to ask you to kill someone."

"Oh? Who to kill?"

"Please kill Zhao Kuo!"

"Ah?! Why is this?"

Yu Qing said angrily: "I thought he was a gentleman, but I didn't expect that when he made such a villain's move, he actually went to harm the royal family of Zhao..." He took Zhao Kuo to find Zhao Sheng and forced him to swallow his anger. He said it in anger and added fuel to the fire of handing over the food, accusing Zhao Kuo of bullying Pingyuan Jun. King Zhao listened carefully. The more Yu Qing said, the more smiles he had on his face.

"He actually bullied the royal family so much, please kill him!"

"Hahaha, what a great sin this is, I'm going to kill him? I know that you have a good relationship with Pingyuan Jun, but you can't kill Zhao Kuo just because he's willing?"

"But Mr. Pingyuan was not willing!" Yu Qing defended.

"Okay, please don't say anything more. If Pingyuan Jun comes to complain to me, I will definitely help him. You can go back." King Zhao waved his hand and asked Yu Qing to leave. Yu Qing walked out of the palace with a look of reluctance. As soon as he walked out, he heard the generous laughter of King Zhao coming from behind. Yu Qing smiled indifferently.
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